Skylab 1/4 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription Vol 5 of 7

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TECHNICAL AIR-TO-GROUND
_ VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
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PROGRAM OPERATIONS OFFICE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
003 01 12 22 CC Skylab, AOS Carnavron and Honeysuckle 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. You ready for evening status?
CC Yes, sir, we're ready.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 8.5 - 8.0 heavy, 0.5 light;

SPT, 8.5 - 7.0 heavy, 1.5 light; PLT, 8.5 - 8.5
heavy. Volume: CDR, 2100, 2250, 2250. Water
gun readings: 8044; 3841; 9927. Body mass:
CDR, 6.287, 6.286, 6.285; SPT, 6.350, 6.350,
6.350; PLT, 6.227, 6.227, 6.226. Exercise: CDR,
method Charlie, position Echo, change my stan-
dard to 15 now, 15 repetitions. Other than that,
no change. SPT, no change. PLT, method Alfa,
minus 4 minutes. Medications: none, none, and
none. Clothing: CDR, T-shirt, shorts, and
socks; SPT, T-shirt, shorts, and socks; PLT,
shirt and shorts. Food log: CDR, salt 8.5,
plus one tea, plus one lemonade, plus 3,0 re-
hydration water; SPT, no salt, plus one tea, no
water; PLT, 7.0 salt, plus one grape, no water.
Okay, Flight Plan deviations: S190 prep was
done at 20:00 Zulu. Shopping list accomplish-
ments: All housekeeping was done; PLT did
TO02-1 on stars ll and 15. Inoperable equipment:
The AMF and you have all the data on air-to-
ground, Unscheduled stowage: None. Photos are
next.
CC Okay.
003 01 04 37 CDR Okay. No 16-millimeter today. Nikon 01, Charlie

X-ray 38, 20; number 02, Bravo Victor 26, 31;
number 03 and 05, no change; number 04, Bravo
Echo 09, 01, 70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 52, 141.
ETC, no change. EREP set Tango, no change. Draw_
er A configuration: No change.
CC Okay.
003 01 09 57 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. You're 15 minutes

to Hawaii at 01:25 and that'll be your med confer-
ence.
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CDR Roger, Story.
SPT Story, could you please tell me how much VTR is

available?
CC 29 minutes.
003 01 i0 21 SPT Thank you.
003 01 29 20 CC Skylab, got you through Hawaii for i more minute.

Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, we see a prominence lifting off the east

limb, at 294 at i radius, and we'd like a shop-
ping list item number i, including S052.
PLT Shopping list item i. Roger. Over on the east

limb.
CC And that's Sun centered.
PLT Thank you.
CC And get that at the end of the orbit, when you've

completed the building block you're in, Bill.
PLT Okay, you want that rather than the atmospheric

extinction?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Thank you.
003 01 30 36 CC We're going LOS here. See you over Goldstone in

7 minutes.
003 01 30 44 CDR Roger.
003 01 37 55 CC Skylah, A0S Goldstone, 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jet, Houston.
CDR GO ahead.
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CC Jer, working up a procedure for getting some

shopping list S063 of the comet, those will be
handheld ops. We're thinking of sending up a
3-day shopping list including filters and expo-
sures in order of priority, And you can catch
those as - as catch can. And in the evening
status report, you can tell us how many frames
you took. Now that's what we're working toward
now, the only other possibility is our alternate
pads. Our complete pads are for each day,
00_ "-_ 39 09 CDR I think the sound of the shopping list item sounds
pretty good,
CC Okay, we_ll try it out.
SPT l'm going to try and get a shot of it this night-

side coming up right now, And l'm going to use
what they sent up. I doubt if I'll be able to get
them all in, but have them go ahead and send up a
shopping list; it sounds good.
CC Okay,
Ed.
003 01 42 01 PLT Story_ we're ready to read ATM frame count.
CC Okay, got 50 seconds.
PLT Roger. 14232, 5121, 170, 5439, and 4585.
CC Got it.
003 Ol 42 49 CC Skylab, wetre going LOS here. We're 2 minutes

to Texas.
003 Ol 45 46 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Texas and

Bermuda for 13 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data/voice at Bermuda at 01:46.
CC Bill _ Houston,
003 Ol 46 33 CC Skylab, just handover to Bermuda for i0 minutes.

And Bill, Houston.
PLT Go. Story.
CC We'll be dumping the data/voice here, Bill, we

need a frame count readout on 82B?
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PLT Roger. That's 445, and give me about 30 more

seconds on the recorder before you take it.
CC Okay, you got it.
003 Ol 47 30 PLT Okay, Story, through recording.
CC Okay, Bill, and l've got two updates for your

detail plan tomorrow when you're ready.
PLT Okay, Story_ ready to copy.
CC Okay. At 13:40_ TV-I05, cross out DAC only.

That's - that's a practice only.
PLT You say cross out DAC only?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay_ got it.
CC And at 23:39, make that S183 stow i.
003 Ol 48 29 PLT Roger, S183 Sierra Tango i.
CC Yes, and change that 22:39 to 23:39,
PLT Okay.
CC And your ATM closeout looks good and the EREP

C&D pads for tomorrow's up.
PLT Thank you.
CC And Jerry got all he wanted to get to you when

you interrupted med conference. If there's any-
thing more you want to talk over, we can get you
some more time with him.
CDR No, I think we're fine, Story, Thank you.
003 01 49 12 CC Okay, And wetre planning to make this our last

pass for the evening. If you've got anything for
us, we can offer two wakeup times, one is Tanan-
arive at about 08:57, the other orders Hawaii at
09:38. On the Flight Plan, we show you ought to
get started about 09:20,
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SPT Roger, Story. We'll have something on the VTR

which you may want to dump in about i hour or so.
CC Say again, Ed,
001 01 50 07 CDR Ed says he'll have something on the VTR for you
in about an hour.
CC Okay, you've got 26_i/2 minutes left. And would

you like us to wake you up about 20 minutes early
or 40 minutes late? Make it 20 early or 20 late.
CDR Let's go for the 20 late. It looks like it's

going to be a fairly long day and we'll just
hustle.
CC Okay it'll be Hawaii at 09:38.
CDR Okay, thank you,
003 01 53 57 CC Ed, Houston,
SPT Go ahead,Story.
CC Ed, if you take more than six S063 photos of the

comet tonight, we'll have a note on your pad to-
morrow which will tell you to load with another
cassette. So just be aware that if - if you take
more than six tonight.
SPT Okay, I had taken four Just now, Story, The two
clear and - and Charlie 2, Charlie 4, but l'm
not getting into the others. So I guess we're
okay since it only totals four.
CC Okay, it's no problem to us. We sure don't want

to inhibit your taking pictures.
00R 01 56 22 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We're putting

you to bed here. The next station, if you want
us, is Ascension in 02:05. Jer, you've got a
family comm coming up at Carnarvon at 02:36, and
it's a LEFT for a minute and then RIGHT,
CDR Roger, Story, thanks. Good night,
003 Ol 56 39 CC Night.
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003 09 39 01 (Music: Medley by Peter, Paul, and Mary)
003 09 47 41 CC Skylab, Houston, good morning to you from the bronze

team. We're about a minute from LOS. We'll see
you again at Vanguard at I0 after the hour, and we
plan to dump the recorder there.
003 09 47 52 CDR Good morning, Hank.
(Music)
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003 i0 i0 26 CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard 9-1/2 minutes

and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
CDR Roger, Hank.
003 i0 13 21 CC PLT, Houston. Sometime during this pass, i'd like

to get a couple of words to you in regard to all
your TV coming up here. I hate to bug you this
early but the next pass is Ascension and you'll
be working on the Z-LV maneuver and we won't see
you again for over an hour and you'll be into it.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. Guess things kind of got confused down here

and l'm sure you probably are a little confused
now regarding the changes we sent up on the details.
I think we finally got it sorted out. On the TV-105,
what we'd like you to do is go ahead and do the
first step - seven steps of that, and that's the
voice description part of it. On TV-107, that's
a practice only, and on TV-102, while we didn't
say it, we sent for you to do it, we do want you
to do it but we suggest that you might practice
before you put it on the VTR. Practice wasn't
specified but there is sufficient time in the
schedule for you to do a little practice if you
so desire.
003 i0 14 43 PLT Okay. That's TV-105, the first seven steps, and
that's voice only - Let's see, is that correct -
TV-105, just the voice?
CC That's affirmative. No camera, no TV on those

first seven steps.
PLT Okay. And the TV-107 is a practice only. TV-102

you suggest I practice before I do it.
CC Right. It's up to you. It's your option. There

is time for you to practice if you want to do it.
003 i0 15 14 PLT Okay, Hank. Thank you.

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003 10 ]Q 0] CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 ndmlte from LOS. We'll

see you at Ascension in 7-1/2 minutes at 26.
003 i0 19 12 SPT Thank you, Hank. Talk to you then.
003 l0 26 57 CC Skylab, Houston; through Ascension for 4 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. And we Just went into the Z-LV maneu-
ver.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston. Looks like you're through with the

DAS for a little while. Could we have it to co,_nd
the heaters off on CMG 2?
PLT You got it, Hank.
CC Thank you, sir.
003 l0 29 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Vanguard at 11:47, and that's
an hour and 17 minutes from now.
003 i0 30 09 CDR Roger, Hank.
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003 Ii 47 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for ii minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Hank.
SPT Hank, we finished up the first set of S063. Went

real well, and just about to pick up on the
second set now.
003 i%
_ L8 53 CC Roger. We copy, Ed.
003 ll 57 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. As-

cension coming up at 01, about 3 minutes from now,
and we plan to dump the recorder there.
SPT Roger, Hank. We got a good look at the Falkland

Current again and saw some vegetation over ap-
preciable part of it. We got a good description
of it on tape.
CC Okay. Real good, Ed.
CDR Hey, Hank. How much VTR have we got?
CC Have full recorders available now, Jer.
CDR It just occurred to me, if the opportunity pre-

sents itself, the next pass we make over the
Montevideo area, which should be about an hour
and three-quarters from now, the angle is just
right for the confluence of those two currents,
the Falkland and the South Equatorial. And if
the - the real bright staining is there it might
be a good whack - give us a good whack at TV.
CC Okay. We'll put that in the hopper and try to

have some word for you at Ascension, Jerry.
003 ii 59 09 CDR Okay.

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003 12 01 14 CC Skylab, Houston; back with you through Ascension

for ii minutes, and we'll be dumping the recorder.
SPT Hank, l'm doing S063 at the present time. I

don't know whether they need the time marks or
not.
CC Okay, stand by i.
003 12 02 03 CC SPT, Houston. We'll redesignate the recorders for

you and you'll probably have the winking light
after we do that.
SPT Okay, Hank. Thank you.
CC And - and you were right about the time hacks. We

do need those.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
003 12 02 58 CC Okay, a little word for you on your ATM pass

you've got starting here in a few minutes. NOAA
reports that P-61 has lifted off. It took off
about ll:30. It was out at 0.02 solar radius,
and at ll:40 it was out about 0.06. What we'd
like for you to do is, after you get cranked up
there, is to take a look at the WLC TV and see
if there is a coronal transient in progress. If
you do see one, we'd like for you to do a
JOP 8 Bravo. And if the transient is not in
progress as you see it, we would recommend that
you do a shopping list item number i and then
continue with the scheduled ops.
PLT Roger. I'ii take a look, and if it's looking

good on the coronagraph I do a J0P 8 Bravo. If
not, I do a shopping list i and press on with the
scheduled ops.
CC That's right, Bill. And for the CDR, you have

a GO to get the Falkland Current, if it looks good.
CDR Roger, Hank.

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003 12 ii 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you at Guam at 45. And a couple
of quickies for the PLT if he can listen. The
TV setups or TV demos doesn't call for where you
put the stuff when you get through with it. The
science demo equipment we'd like to put into dome
locker 402. And also the photo setup is - the
photo pad is correct for the hardware and not
the science demos.
003 12 45 41 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 minutes.

And I have one quick thing for the PLT regarding
TV-102 before Bill gives the ATM word.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC We went LOS when I was talking about that, Bill.

l'm sorry to hit you with a couple of more things
here, but in regard to the TV-102, there are
several things we'd like to do different from
what the demo calls out for. First off, it
doesn't tell you where to stow this - the demo
equipment. When you get through, we'd like to
put it in D-402. Secondly, on steps 4 and 6,
we'd like to delete those photographs that are
called out there, TV-102. And for the third
thing on 102, in setup it calls for the K-2,
K-3 adapter. We'd like to use the E-2 adapter
per the photo pad. And that's it.
003 12 46 51 PLT Roger. Stow the stuff in D-402, delete steps 4

and 6 photos, and use the Echo 2 adapter instead
of Kilo 2, Kilo 3.
CC That's it. And Bill's standing by for ATM

conference.
SPT Hello, Bill; go ahead.
003 L2 47 09 MCC Okay, Ed, not much to add on the Sun today, just
the type of thing that you've been seeing the
last few days typified by active region 12 coming
up, getting a little bit active and then it's on
the decline now. That's typical of the Sun that
you're looking at now and what you can expect
over the next few days. We've got old active
region 96 on the limb but we don't expect too
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much out of that. So not really much is coming

back until we get back to the 00 region in about
7 or 8 days. One change on the plan that you
probably have now. We had a J0P 18 Delta sched-
uled tomorrow. That has been moved to the fol-
lowing day because of the conflict with EREP.
We will be concentrating on synoptics and quiet
Sun JOPs, obviously, for the next 5 to 6 days,
inasmuch as we really don't have any other choice.
And let me pause now and take any inputs that
you've got for us here in planning. Over.
003 12 48 13 SPT Okay. Just two, Bill. One is 18D. We have not
done it yet today, of course, but the last time
we took a look at it, 2 days ago, it was fairly
faint. And I think we ought to consider that a
very distinct possibility. We may not see it and
you may want to observe - change the observing
program as a result of it. We can position it,
certainly, well enough without seeing it to do
the work with the coronagraph, but to try to
point to the nucleus without seeing it, I think
we're asking for errors such as compatible with
our ability to move over there which has been
something like 4 to 8 or so in octal unit. And
secondly, the more I look back on the activity
which we did have, and the lack of activity now,
and one of the primary mission objectives for
the ATM is to get the flare rise, I think we all
ought to do a little thinking about now we're
going to approach this when we do get a good active
region back on the disk again. I think we ought
to make every effort over a period of a couple
days, when we do have the active region with a
high flare probability, to be on the console with
a flare Wait program going. _ I think itls a very
important thing to get a flare rise right from
the very point brightening on up, something we
have not done yet in any of the flights. And
I think it's something that the equipment here is
suitably designed to do and we ought to go after
it.
003 12 49 41 MCC Okay, Ed; thanks. That's a very good input and
we will plan on that. The words on the comet
touched on something that I_ras going to mention
here, although you really did answer my questions.
We are aware that we may very well not see it
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today. Or if we see it today, in all likelihood,

that may be the last time we see it. And we've
got a couple of "ifs" written into the program for
the future here depending on whether we see it or
not. The estimating plus or minus 0.4 to - 0.04
to 0.08 pointing errors if we go in the cookbook
maneuver that we've been giving you, very
well - means that we will not be pointing very
well at the nucleus with 82B, so that will
probably have an effect on what we do here.
SPT Okay, the - we figured that by eye we could

probably do about two or so which is maybe a
factor of two or three improvement over what we
could do without the visual sighting.
MCC Okay, well thanks for the numbers, and we'll

make use of those in our thinking. Got a couple
of answers for you that I probably should've
given you yesterday but ran out of time. On
S054, with the new changes that you have, you'd
asked me some questions on the timing. All of
the times that we give you on the 54 long ex-
postures we would like to be accurate to within
plus/minus i minute. So that the timing of
17 minutes isn't very critical as far as to the
nearest second. Plus/minus i minute is good
enough.
003 12 51 14 SPT Okay.
MCC When we ask for 17 minutes we really do want

17 minutes. If - The particular example you
used was if you only had i0 minutes availg01e
did we want that. The answer is negative. The
17 minutes is almost exactly four times the
256 exposures and it forms another part of the
program there, so that if we can't get 17 then
we probably ought to be doing something different.
SPT Okay, that answers the question. Glad to know it.
MCC Okay, the third thing is, let me appologize. We

sent you up a message last night entitled S054
Long Exposure Cue Card and didn't talk about long
exposures. We gave you the smaller film and
grating axis information but the rest of the
message got dropped off, probably due to n_f fault,
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some things that I said. Although I hadn't

intended them to be interpreted that way, I see
how it happened. Unless you tell us not to,
we'll go ahead and send that up again unless
you've kept the old one and just want to hang
on to that.
003 12 52 14 SPT I wish you would send it up again, please.
MCC Okay, good. We'll do that and that's already

in work. Then I've got a couple of words here
from S055. A while - -
SPT Bill?
MCC Yes?
SPT Before we move off 54, I'm still working in the -

the JOP Summary Sheet change and I'm about half-
way through so I think you ought to take that
into account in writing up the schedule, or at
least writing up the pads. Make sure that the
information for those long exposures is still
put in there until I'm able to get that completed.
MCC Okay, fine. We'll incorporate all of those

changes in our schedule sheet. And whenever
you've got it all done just let us know.
SPT Okay.
003 12 52 51 MCC Okay, then on 55, oh , about a week, i0 days ago,

you found a hot spot for us. l've forgotten
the active region, and got us a spectrum on it.
And 55 finds that that was a very interesting
area. The Lyman continuum has a temperature
of on the order of 12,000 to 13,000 degrees Kelvin.
And, as you know, generally the Lyman continuum
you really have to stretch to get up to
i0,000 degrees.
SPT That's right.
MCC So that that was a very hot area and also quite
dense. Density's on the order of ten to the
twelfth. And you had p@aked it in 06 at about
30,000 to 40,000 counts. 55 is not totally
through looking at this and don't totally have
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all their conclusions yet, but they found it very

interesting and, should you ever find yourself
looking at a similar situation, they're most
interested in more spectra.
003 12 53 44 SPT Okay. Did we get much spectra on that one?
MCC Yes, you did.
SPT Okay. Very good. That's what we've tried to do

on those which are - are changing rapidly, is to
give them a truncated MIRROR, AUTO RASTER to see
where they are within a spectra.
MCC Okay. And another thought here. I've got in my

possession right now, but I haven't worked it up
into a change notice, all of the words from 55 on
shopping list 30, which lines to look at for
disk-quiet, disk and prominence, corona, et cetera,
and a potential new mode for operating. I'll
work that up into a change and we'll try to get
that up to you in hard copy in the next day or so.
SPT Okay. One question arises on that, that is, when

I did the last one is do we specify about a minute
or so between each step? And I'm wondering if -
if you're a little short on time, if then we could
shorten that? I would think you'd want to shorten
it closer to line center where the intensity is
greatest and keep the ones in the wings fairly
long. I'm wondering if they concur with that.
003 12 54 41 MCC Okay. We've got 1 minute to LOS. Vanguard's

next in 30 minutes. And the change actually takes
care of that and you can actually go down to
lO-second integration time, but the recommendation
is to operate it in STOP instead of MLS. That
allows you to get 240 samples there for very good
averaging. Although you don't get the MIRROR,
LINE SCAN, it doesn't matter because you're pointed
at what you wanted to look at anyway.
SPT Okay. That's a good point. That'll sure cut down

the time and be able to give them some line profiles
on specific points and perhaps maybe a larger
number of points, more interesting points, rather
than just those randomly distributed along the
line of the close interesting ones.
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MCC Okay, right. And like i say, I'ii be getting that

up to you soon, and apparently we're over the
hill here so I'll see you tomorrow.
003 12 55 30 SPT Thank you, Bill. So long.
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003 13 24 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard at

sea for 10-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And l've got a couple of quick ones for the PLT

and SPT whenever they're handy.
00_ 13 28 14 SPT Houston, SPT, go ahead.
CC Okay Ed, the change that we have for you concerns

your detail pad. And at 20:44 you're showing ATM
JOP 18D pad, we'd like to change that 20:44 to
20:31, that's 20:31 to put you on station 5 minutes
prior to commencing the maneuver. Over.
SPT 20:31, I copy.
CC And that's it for you, Ed.
SPT Would you please tell me what time my comm is

tonight?
CC Oh, I think we can do that if we dig into the

archives here. Stand by a minute.
CC Okay, we have you hooked up through Canary Islands

as 23:35. And that'll be on the RIGHT ANTENNA.
Over.
SPT 23:35, right. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
003 13 32 55 PLT Houston, PLT.
CC Roger, Bill. l've got a couple of quick ones here

for you if you're ready.
PLT Go.
CC Okay, on your S183K pad, the S183 carousel i-I is

in reality located in F-510 Bravo. That's Bravo
as opposed to Hotel as it is shown in the pad.
Over.
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PLT Roger. Thank you.
CC Okay, moving further down that same pad, you'll

find the line that - about the fifth line or
sixth line into the pad that says available
15:bl to 15:b5 field Kohoutek rotation-
ump-de-ump - plate lb. That should be plate 15
since we've already used plate lb. Over.
PLT Roger. Plate 15 instead of plate 14.
003 13 33 52 CC And in the basic Flight Plan for today, at around

23:30 you'll note that we have an S183 stow 1
called out for you. We would like to delete the
stow 1 and do only the carrousel 1-1 ops portion
of the cue card. That is do the film stow by
following the teleprinter change to your cue card
except for the one little paragraph in there that
says, "If 183 stow l, 2, 3 schedule immediately
and proceed to applicable portion of stow option
disregarding SAL pressurization." And we want to
do that because we're leaving S18B in and setup
except for the film overnight. We're going to
run it again tomorrow morning. Over.
PLT Bruce, I didn't have the cue card handy but I

think I understand what you're saying. They just
want to stow the carrousel l-l, put the plate in
position, and all that sort of thing, and leave
the 183 on the AMS for use tomorrow.
003 13 35 04 CC Roger. That's correct. And - and - okay, and

also on your 183 pad, note that the second field
is called out for this morning uses plate 21 and
will require you advancing several frames from 15
to get there. And if you have any questions when
you do get the cue card out, why go ahead and
give us a call, but I think that if you just
remember the intent is to stow the carrousel
Without completely breaking the works down, why
we'll get there. We've got about 15 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact is in 6-1/2 minutes
through Ascension at 13:b2. And could you tell
us whether TV input station 642 was used for the
press conference yesterday or not?
PLT That's affirmative. The one in the experiment

compartment; I'm sure that's 662.
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CDR That's affirmative. Thmt's the one we used.
003 13 36 09 CC Roger. Thank you very much, see you over

Canaries - er - Ascension.
003 13 43 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension, Canary

and Madrid for about ii minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay, we got a problem with lighting - panel

lighting - now on the ATM panel. We just lost
them. I tried the reset procedure of killing
the - the four DISPLAY switch, cycling the
INVERTER LCA switch, and we've got no lighting
whatsoever on either BUS i or BUS 2. We've got on
our ready lights, our alert lights and our - our
meter lights, but we do not have the INTERGRAL
or the NUMERICS.
CC Okay, tell you what, we'll work on it, but just

so that we don't get out of sync here, you hold
off on throwing any more switches until we get
some words up to you?
CDR Right, we've done all we can do now by cycling

those breakers, and that didn't help, so we're
standing by.
CC Okay, we're right with you.
003 13 44 36 CC Calling Houston, I think you're on intercom.
CC You got about a 30 second dropout here. Handing

over at Canary, I'ii talk to you then.
003 13 46 54 CC And, we're sure you're not using the data/voice

tape recorder, so, we're going to press on and do
a data/voice tape recorder dump here at Canary,
if you don't mind.
cDR Okay, Bruce.
CC CDR this is Houston, starting the troubleshooting

procedure with you on the ATM. The configuration
.... we'd like to be in now is with the four DISPLAY
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switches, in BUS i and with the LIGHTING INTEGRAL

and LIGHTING NUMERIC switches both in the FIXED
position and then tell us whether you've got
lighting or not. Over.
CDR That's where I am, and no lighting.
CC Okay, we'll proceed on to step 2. Just for your

own information, we're showing a little higher
than normal temperature on the INVERTER LCA down
here and we'll keep you posted.
CDR Okay.
003 13 48 57 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC SPT, Houston, go ahead.
SPT Okay, I'd like to have you check on a item in that

JOP 18D, coming up on step 18. The pointing
command given if we are not able to find it, we're
supposed to position the nucleus at the center
and then move on out. The magnitude of those do
not agree with the position we're supposed to
put it in the tail. I show those that we'll put
_ in 0.7 degrees out, 0.7_ degrees out and we're
supposed to be 0.25.
CC Okay, we copy that Ed. And give us a minute to

get working on it. And, for the CDR again up on
the ATMpanel, we would like you to verify, but
not change the configuration that all 18 circuit
breakers under CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION are in
the IN position. Over.
CDR That's verified.
003 13 50 i0 CC Okay, thank you.
003 13 52 37 CDR Houston, CDR, is there any Sun centered data that
you might like to have gathered while we're sitting
here?
CC Stand by, we'll check.
CC CDR, this is Houston. For your Sun-centered

operation, we'd like an S056 PATROL and i0 minutes
of CONTINUOUS operation on S052. Over.
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CDR okay, you want PATI{OL, LO_JG on 56?
CC Roger, Jerry. PATROL, LONG and i0 minutes in the

CONTINUOUS mode on 52.
CDR Okay. How about 55? l've got MIRROR, AUTO RASTER
going now; you want to just let it run?
003 13 54 14 CC Okay, just leave it running like it is, Jerry,

and we'll update you.
CDR Okay.
003 13 56 47 CC CDR, Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
003 13 56 56 CC Okay, we've got 2 minutes to LOS here. Your next

station is in 27 minutes, Guam at 14:24. In the
interim we recommend ATM C&D malf procedure
number 4, entitled Loss of Fixed Numeric Lighting
on panel 130, showing up on page 1-14 of the ATM
malls. If you want to wait for us at Guam to
run through it with you, you may, or if you
encounter any questions in your mind as you go
through it, you can hold off and we'll talk to it
at Guam, also. In the meantime, however, on S054,
we'd like to get the X-RAY IMAGE switch to OFF,
please, since, with the probable loss of power
we've got here, we've lost filament power to the
tube down there, and when you complete the
observations this pass, go ahead and power do'_vl
the ATM operations next pass. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. And l've got the malf open to this
page.
003 13 58 00 CC Okay, i minute to LOS and we'll see you over Guam.
003 13 58 05 CDR Roger.
003 13 59 01 CDR Well, Bruce , do you have handy the 400 K time?
CC We'll get it for you.
CDR Thank you.
CC 14:03, Jerry, 14:03 for 400 K.

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003 13 59 14 CDR Thank you.
003 14 24 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.

Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce ; 10ud and clear.
CC Okay, loud and clear. Where are you in the

malf? Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, on page 1-14, did block number 1 and

recovered the NUMERIC LIGHTING, and that leaves
the INTEGRAL switch OFF. So I threw the INTEGRAL
switch ON at that time and it all fell off again.
So I decided my problem was with the INTEGRAL
LIGHTING, and I went over to C&D malf number 2
on page 1-8 and began with that rascal and ended
up in - ended up in block number ll that says
BUS Z integrated, or BUS B6B Delta shorted. And
that seems to be where we stand. I've got
NUMERICS now but no INTEGRAL.
CC Okay, it sounds beautiful, Jerry. Let us t_Ik

around down here a minute. But it sounds like
you pretty well got things isolated and we'll
get right back to you.
003 14 26 18 CDR Bruce, also would like to know how they would
like to work the next ATM pass? Would they like
to try to pick up what we did not get on the
last pass or Just take a giant step past it and
pick up the regular schedule for this one?
CC Okay, Jerry, we'll Just pick up the regular

schedule. And give us a little bit of time to -
to contemplate the situation from the last pass.
And I expect we'll try and work those things in
either later today or tomorrow if we need to.
CDR Okay.
CC And what is your configuration at the time - at

the present time on the panel? I mean do you have
the NUMERIC LIGHTING back, or are you sitting
there at block ll?
CDR No, I've got everything on BUS 1. I've got

NUMERIC LIGHTING back, and the INTEGRAL is OFF.
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CC Okay, so you essentially went on from block ii to

block 15 and you're in the malf 2 block 15
configuration?
003 14 27 19 CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, that sounds good to us. Thank you.
003 14 30 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 14:36. Out.
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003 14 35 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

with 4 minutes. And for the CDR, we recommend that
you put some red tape on the LIGHTING, INTEGRAL
switch just as a caution against reactivating it.
Over.
CDR Roger. That's in work.
CC And also, right now it does not look like loss of

the INTEGRAL LIGHTING bus will compromise your
operation, but we're still checking to make sure
there're not some sneaky items powered from it.
And if we come up with anything out of the ordinary,
Why we'll send you up a detail listing of the items
that you've lost. Over.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC PLT, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go, Bruce.
CC Yes, I've got a quick little procedure that you might

be interested in for S180 AMS mirror retraction
should you lose you way in following the turns clock-
wise and counterclockwise. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
003 14 38 44 CC Okay. Set the TILT on the mirror to zero and then
find discone antenna number 1 by searching in RO-
TATION and looking through whatever set of optics
you happen to have available. You can determine
that it's antenna number 1 instead of number 2 since
it takes 3.5 counterclockwise turns to go from num-
ber 1 to n11mher 2. And the zero ROTATION is only
about 1/10 of a clockwise turn from discone antenna
number 1. Do you want me to read that again? Or -
what, we've got about 30 seconds to LOS. The next
station is Canary at 15:23 in 45 minutes.
PLT Roger. Set TILT, zero zero and find discone number 1
with ROTATION. From number l, go 3.5 counterclock-
wise - oh, it takes 3.5 counterclockwise to go from
nUmber i to number 2. When I'm sure I'm on number i,
1/lO clockwise from discone number 1 for zero ROTATION.
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CC Hey, you got a telephonic memory there. Beautiful,

Bill, and you maybe - might want to write that down
on a piece of paper and tape it on the AMS or some-
thing, or would you like us to send you up a cue
card?
PLT Well, it wouldn't - wouldn't hurt just to send up

a little teleprinter message on that. We'd just
tap_ it right on the AMS.
003 14 40 08 CC Okay. We'll send you a teleprinter decal.
PLT Thank you, sir.
003 14 40 14 CC Roger; out. See you at Canary.
003 15 2_ 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 12-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump commencing now at Canary. And for the SPT, we
have some information on a JOP 18.
SPT Roger, Houston. Go ahead.
CC Okay, on that step 18 which you have questioned,

if it is visible, of course, we want you to do the
first part of 18. If the comet is not visible, per-
form the following fine maneuver to point 82B and 55
at the tail. X, 51105 and that's in decimal - a
minus 0.69 degrees Y, 50105, which is in decimal, a
plus 0.69 degrees and Z, 50000. Read back; over.
003 15 25 56 CC Roger, 51105, 50105, 5000 [sic]. Minus 0.69

plus 0.69 and zero. The objective, though, is from
the first part, was to get 0.25 degrees back. And
now it looks as though we're getting even further
out. I don't understand the - the difference
between the two.
CC Okay, stand by for a minute.
CDR Houston, CDH.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay, I checked the schematics; it looks like it's

okay for the X-RAY IMAGE, ENABLE to be back on again,
so I've turned it on. Also, you might tell the
8082B folks that when I tried to go to LIMB SCAN
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or LIMB POINTING, that the mi_-ror goes unstable,

and it's worse in LIMB POINTING than it is in LIMB
SCAN. It'll go from plus or minus 45 in LIMB POINTING.
So the last building block that I did was done with
it in WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY only, and I Just took the
OFFSET of 12 ARC SECONDS on the H-ALPHA 1.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jerry.
003 15 27 37 PLT Bruce, I have a status report on carrousel l-l, S183.
CC Okay. Send the rest of the good news there, Bill.
PLT Roger. Bad news is that the carrousel was - would

not go in when I tried to put it in. I removed it.
There was a - part of a plate sticking out, and I
pulled the - part of the plate out; I have it. Checked
the alignment drill mark. It was not lined up with
the - with the hatch. I reclocked it and the thing
inserted properly and I'm in the process of
continue [sic] with normal operations. There is not
a number on the pieces of plate that I do have.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
003 15 28 38 CDR Okay, I might add on this S082B mirror situation

that, while it was so wildly unstable in the LIMB
POINTING mode, when I would go back to LIMB SCAN
and then to WHITE LIGHT, it took a little while
for it to settle out. You could see it undulating
back and forth in the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY.
CC Okay, we copy. And for the PLT, was the carrousel - -

We're handing over, I'll talk to you in a minute.
CC And for the PLT, was carrousel 1-1 lined up when

you tried to install it, hut the thing Just Wouldn't
go in, is that the situation?
PLT That's affirmstive. I know - I looked in there,

saw the drill hole wasn't lined up, and I thought,
- well, maybe it's because of the progression of the
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plates. Tried to put it in and it would not -

not go in. So I pulled it back out. And when
I pulled it back out, that's when the pieces of
plate was protruding from the hatch.
003 15 29 41 CC Okay, you say when you started, the drill hole
was or was not lined up?
PLT It was not. When I started to put - put it in

initially, I checked it. Saw that it was about,
oh, lO degrees off as you look at - with the
hatch at 12 o'clock, the drill mark was about
ll o'clock. I pulled it out as soon as I en-
countered resistance, you know, or difficulty.
And when I did, part of the plate was protruding
and I pulled it out.
CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. In the details for

today we've mentioned sync carrousel for car-
rousel 1-1 ops only on the S183 cue card, and
I guess it had been our intent that you should
reset that to zero prior to trying to insert
the 1-1 carrousel.
PLT Yes, I see that Bruce. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston, over.
003 15 35 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston, l-l/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 28 minutes through Car-
narvon at 16:04. And for the SPT, we're continu-
ing to work on the problems of JOP 18 pointing.
If the comet is not visible, let us get back to
you on another station or two; we've still got
a good bit of time before the maneuver's scheduled
to run. Over
SPT Roger. All you've got to do is tell me which

direction the tail is pointing and I can figure
it out from there. Also, on these Kohoutek ob-
servations we're supposed to be making right
now with S063, we established yesterday that
you cannot take them out of the STS window when
we've got a 90-degree ROLL in. And we had set
up to have a pad sent up for taking them on an
optional basis, which I'd just started to do.
However, we have - we did not have any black
and white film. We used that this morning. We
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need a new roll, would you like to insert there.

And the other film has got the E-2 adapter on it
for the TV which Bill is doing.
CC And, CDR, this is Houston. We don't want you to

use LIMB POINTING or LIMB SCAN on 82B until
further notice. Just the WHITE LIGHT. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, I'll put a piece of tape on it with

a notice.
003 15 36 57 CC Okay.
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003 16 03 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarv0n for -

7 minutes. Over. And also Honeysuckle, making a
total of 14-1/2.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
003 16 16 41 CC SPT, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed, you probably wouldn't believe every-

thing that's been going on down here on the film
loads for your S063 optional comet photography,
but our desire is that you load Bravo Victor 27
in NK 02 if you want to do the comet photography.
And our intent had been that we reference
Bravo Victor 27 for use on the S063 ozone ops if
you run low on film. And I guess our intent got
buried down there in that footnote; it's pretty
obtuse. But if you want to do it later on today,
go ahead and use BV27 out of location F-33. Over.
SPT Bravo Victor 27 at F-33. Okay.
003 16 17 47 CC And on NK 03, which is tied up on TV-102, I guess

that's a problem on our part, but if you want to
use it when it's not tied up for photography of
the immiscible liquids, I guess you'd have to re-
move the E-2 ring and reconfigure it for your
work and then give it back to Bill to reconfigure
for TV-102. Over.
SPT Roger. I had thought of doing that and I think

I declined because we had already gotten them some
exposures without filters. And I thought it best
to go ahead and try to get some work with the
filters, so I'll try and pick up some of that
later today. We have it in shop - continuing
shopping list item.
003 16 18 31 CC Roger; we concur. I imagine it sort of caught

you by surprise to have the E2 tube in there.
We're going LOS right now. Our next station con-
tact is in 35 minutes through Bermuda at 16:52.
See you there.
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003 16 18 46 CDR Roger, Bruce. Just to keep the film guys happy,
what's the next IR roll we're going to use for
film?
003 16 18 51 CC We'll have that for you at Bermuda.
003 16 53 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR, first, we'd

like you to stay off the DAS for a couple of mo-
ments while we give you a nu Z update, and reload
the momentum biases consistent with JOP 18 Delta
maneuver as opposed to the corollary maneuvers.
And also, for anybody, we show the EXPERIMENT i
TAPE RECORDER still running since the S183 opera-
tions; I wonder if you're through with it. We
needto dump it this pass. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

8-1/2 minutes. Do you read? Over.
CDR Hello, Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC Roger. Loud and clear, Jerry. How me?
CDR Okay. We got you loud and clear. You're clear

to take the DAS, and you can take the EXPERIMENT
TAPE RECORDER.
003 16 56 32 CC CDR, Houston. We're through with the DAS. It's

yours again. And for the SPT, if you're free,
we've got a comment or two for you on JOP 18.
SPT He's listening, Bruce.
003 16 56 54 CC Okay, Ed. The problem that we've been trying to

resolve here is what you do if the comet is visi-
ble or if it is not visible. Okay. In step 14
of the pad that we sent you, it says the comet,
if visible, should be at a position of minus 100
in X, plus 70 in Y, octal coordinants on the over-
lay with the overlay at minus 6900 ROLL. Okay,
if it is visible, then in step 16 you maneuver to
place the nucleus of the comet at X equal to
minus 60, Y equal to plus 70 on the overlay. If
the comet is not - which may or may not be an
exact maneuver or at exact delta from the position
we gave you in 14 - If the comet is not visible
in step 14, assume that it's at that position. __
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And when you go on to step 16, you enter the delta

maneuvers; that is, a delta from minus i00 in X
to minus 60 in X which is an octal delta of
plus 20, and no delta in Y. Then, since you did
not see it, we have the - the center line of the
ATM instruments pointing on the anti-tail side of
the comet nucleus. And the maneuver that we gave
you for use if the comet is not visible would re-
position the instruments so that the 82B SLIT is
pointed a 1/4 of a degree on the tail side of the
head. That is, you're looking at a change from
one side of the comet, through the nucleus, over
to the other side and into the tail. And the 18 -
step 18 maneuver is a delta from the position in
step 16, which is a delta from the assumed posi-
tion in step 14, all if you can't see the nucleus
of the comet. If you can see the nucleus, I don't
think we've got any problem. In step 16, you put
in whatever commands are necessary to locate it
at X - X equals minus 60 and Y equals plus 70.
And in step 18 you put in whatever maneuvers are
required to point it at 1/4 a degree out in the
tail. Over.
003 16 59 27 SPT Okay, Bruce. I understand what you're saying.

What was confusing, though, in step 18 was the
statement, "If comet is not visible perform fine
maneuver and point 82B at 55 in nucleus. And then
proceed to point at tail." And it gave the maneu-
vers there, which I assume were the ones to point
you out into the tail, and that's what was con-
fusing. Thank you.
003 17 00 ll CC Okay, Ed. A further word on the thing. The ma-

neuver values that we uplinked to you on the tele-
printer when the 18D pad came up last night were
in fact consistent with that statement. They were
the values to point you at the head of the comet,
and you then had to do another maneuver to point
1/4 of a degree out into the tail. The delta, or
the maneuver that we uplinked to you by voice this
morning, was one maneuver to do the whole thing
at once, and was intended as a replacement, not
as a supplement to the teleprinter uplinked
values. Over.
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SPT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. We're sorry for the confusion.
003 17 06 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 min-

utes, with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Over.
003 17 13 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute until LOS.
003 17 13 27 CC Next station contact in 25 minutes through Car-

narvon at 17:40. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
003 17 39 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 15-1/2 minutes. Out.
003 17 53 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute until LOS.

Next station contact in 31 minutes through
Corpus Christi at 18:25. And we're taking over
the VTR at this time to rewind and dump later.
Ove r.
003 17 5h 00 CDR Roger, Bruce.
003 18 25 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for lh-1/2 minutes.
Out.
CDR Houston, CDH. On the last ATM pass, I missed an

82 Alfa, 1-minute exposure. Looks like I'll have
a little time at the end of this pass. Would
they like me to pick it up?
CC We'll check.
CC CDR, this is Houston. That's affirmative. If

you can work it in, we'd like you to pick up
that 82A exposure you missed earlier.
CDR Ok ay.
003 18 29 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. When we get to Bermuda,

we'll be doing the data/voice recorder d_mp. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
003 18 39 18 CC Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through

Madrid at 18:44. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

6-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon.
And for the CDR, I have a quick note here.
SPT He's debriefing on channel A. Can we take it?

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CC Yes. Just tell him that handheld 170-9 optional

has been scrubbed due to bad weather. That was la -
laser sighting at 20:04 over the U.S. next pass.
SPT Okay.
003 18 51 34 CC And see you at Carnarvon 19:19. Out.
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003 19 19 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

4-1/2 minutes. Out.
003 19 23 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 20 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 19:30. Out.

for a minute and a half. Next station contact
will be Corpus Christi at 20:00 Zulu, with a data/
voice tape recorder dump. Out.
003 20 00 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16 minutes and
20 seconds, with a couple of short ones here for
the CDR. First off is a data/voice tape recorder
dump. And the second is at this pass we will be
inhibiting the momentum dump maneuver in prepara-
tion for JOP 18. This didn't make it onto your
schedule pad, but it should have no effect on the
TIME REMAINING clock. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. And somebody is recording right now.

Wait Just a second on that dump.
CC Okay, we'll hold off.
CC And whenever you may have a minute or so free, we

got a REG open circuit voltage AD/t_T. It should
take about 5 seconds.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
003 20 O1 17 CC Okay, BUS 1 POT only, turn 25 degrees counterclock-

wise; that's 25 degrees counterclockwise. Over.
CDR Okay, that's done.
CC Thank you. And it looks to us like the voice

recording has been terminated. Are we GO to dump?
CDR Affirmative.
CC Roger. Out.
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CC A_id I'or" the PLT, no r_opons_' required right now,

but we've got some procedures that will shorten
up the TV-102. I can get back to you later when
you have a free minute.
CDR Roger, Bruce. He copies.
CC And a new pristine J0P 18 Delta pad is on its way

up to you. It's either on board now or will be
in a couple of minutes with all the mods that we
voiced to you in it. Plus one we haven't.
003 20 02 39 SPT Does this denote the ones that've been changed, or
is it necessary to go through the whole pad?
CC It's a brand new pad.
CC The only things that were changed, really, is that

the change maneuver and the wording indicating that,
you know, if the comet is not visible this will
point you at the tail. And then right at the tail
end of it, we have modified the procedure for doing
a nominal H-CAGE in the CMGs. Instead of just
throwing in a nominal H-CAGE, what we're asking
you to do is DAS in to inhibit CMG control, which
puts you over in TACS and the 3, 2, 2 deadband;
then do the nominal H-CAGE. And after the nominal
H-CAGE, reenable CMG control. This is being done
to avoid running the CMGs into gimbal stops when
they take out the attitude deviation following the
nominal H-CAGE. Over.
SPT Roger.
CC Those are the only two changes.
003 20 03 48 CC And the good news is that that's all the hanky-
panky with the APCS for today. The bad news is
that the - as the beta angle gets worse and worse
we're going to become more and more ingenious in
our techniques for managing the APCS and maybe even
the bearing heaters. Out.
SPT Keep on trucking.
CC Tell your friend, CMG number 2, to keep on trucking.

We're with you.
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CC And for the CDR, on building block 28, which we

believe you're running through at the present time,
it looks to us that S054 is being run with the
GRATING, IN. What we would like you to do is go
ahead and complete the sequence that you're in -
GRATING, IN - and then if you would please give us
one more like the others, but with GRATING, OUT.
Over.
CDR Will do it.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
003 20 06 18 SPT Roger. Next time if you do change the 18, it would
be, I think, a lot simpler on everybody if you just
send up the steps which were changed.
CC Okay, we can do that. Our thought was that rather

than Just s_nd up a - a single page - and, of course,
a page to us is - is a segment that gets spliced
into yours without headers or anything like that -
that it would be simpler for us to rerun the whole
thing. Over.
SPT Bruce, I copy it all off onto the JOP Summary Sheet.
And now it just means that I go through each step
and make sure that there are no changes.
CC Okay, we copy that. And, then, for your - your

reference, as far as I know down here, the only
changes were in step 34, which is the last one,
and in - in step 18. Over.
SPT Roger, I copy.
003 21 15 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 20:21. Out.
003 20 21 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Madrid for

9 minutes. Out.
003 20 26 03 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Say again, Bruce.

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CC Roger. The Sun having set, we wonder if we could

get you to replace the paper in the teleprinter in
about 4 minutes, right after LOS? You should have
on board at that time the Flight Plan for tomorrow
and three sets of details. You might take a check,
and if you're missing anything due to paper low
or run out, let us know over Tananarive. And _f
you could replace the paper, we'd appreciate it.
Over.
CDR Okay, will do, Bruce.
003 20 20 <6 CC And I think Bill's probably tied up in PT, but

wonder if we could ask you to relay to him later
with respect to the AMS rotation problem. ATe
gath_r from your <orr_nts yesterday that Bill could
see what appearea <o b_ -'_sprocket tooth floating
around inside the rotation counter. During Lhe
next operation, which is S183 coming up here about
21:45, we'd like him to inspect the lO0's and 10's
belt. In looking at it he'll notice a sprocket
hole between the numbers. And the question we have
is - is there a sprocket tooth engaged in the hole,
and when you turn the rotation crank does the
sprocket turn beneath the belt or does it remain
stationary? Over.
CDR Okay, we'll check it.
CC Roger.
003 20 29 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 14 minutes through Tan_arive
at 20:43. The VTR has been rewound and dumped, is
completely clean, and is yours for use with the
comet later on.
003 20 29 38 CC And we would like to get that teleprinter roll

change LOS here. Out.
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003 20 44 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

7 minutes. Out.
SPT Houston, teleprinter roll is changed. Out.
CC Roger. Thank you, Ed.
CC And, SPT, Houston. Did you get all the Flight

Plans. We sent the big one and then the three
sets of the three details.
SPT Yes, we still had paper left and everything that

came out looked good.
CC Right. Thank you.
003 20 49 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 2 minutes to LOS. We

may lose you a little bit early, though, here at
Tananarive. Next station contact in 18 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek at 21:08.
003 20 49 18 CC I guess the word for today is keep on trucking.
003 21 07 53 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for a couple of minutes.
CDR Hello, Story.
CC Hi.
CC Bill, Houston.
CDR He's on the treadmill, Story. He's listening.
CC Okay. On his TV-102, after the lO-hour photo,

perform step 6; that's a centrifuge and photograph
again. And then that will complete the procedure.
We're going to delete the 24-hour photo. So it's
after the 10-hour photo, perform step 6. That's
the centrifuge and photo again. And then he's
finished.
CDR Okay, he copies. He says he did not take a photo-

graph after the last centrifuge that he did. He
put that on television. And he'll take a photo
this time.
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CC Okay. I wouldn't bother him now, but I know that

10-hour is coming up pretty soon.
003 21 09 42 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

at Goldstone over 21 - at 21:35. That's about
26 minutes.
003 21 09 50 CC We'll be dumping the data/voice there.
003 21 36 31 CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone, Texas; 12 minutes. Dumping

the data/voice here.
CC Jer, Houston.
PLT He's listening, Story.
CC Well, maybe I can talk to you, Bill. It was an

oversight on our part. We didn't tell you on the
pad to do an EREP tape measurement. We wonder if
you did. And if you did, what is it?
PLT Stand by. Hew-rote it down.
003 21 38 28 PLT 2.5 centimeters.
CC 2.5; thank you. And who was the expert on the

Australian fires last night?
PLT We didn't see them, StorM.
CC Okay, you did take a look, the next rev after we

went off, for them?
PLT Yes, we were a little late, and we did not see

them. It's - it's uncertain whether or not just
because we were a little hit late or whether they -
were disappearing.
CC Okay.
003 21 40 27 SPT Hello, Story. How are you today?
CC I'm fine, Ed. How are you?
SPT Just barely able to see a comet. The only way I can
see it is when you get it out to the very edge of
the display and you move it and it Just looks like
moving noise on the scope. I was able to pick it
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up, however, and got it located; and we are doing

the work on the tail right now. I - from the -
all the information I got previously, I conclude
that what I was supposed to do was to go from the
position which I had, which I reaffirmed after the
long exposure from the first building block - that
was minus 60 and plus 70 and enter a 50105, 51105
and about 50000. I had those reversed. I actually
put them in negative in X and positive in Y. I
think it would have been useful to have the loca-
tion in which I was to put the nucleus, and that
might have made it a little more straightforward.
003 21 41 29 CC Okay, thanks Ed. We're real glad to have that

information.
CDR Looks like it's snowed on the Grand Canyon in the

last couple days.
SPT Story, the original pointing put us somewhere

around minus 60 in X and plus 30 in Y. And it
was a little difficult to see. I had to move out -
move it out quite a bit.
CC Okay. And when you get a chance - no hurry -

look over there and see how your teleprinter
messages are coming out after the paper change.
SPT Thank you, Story. Will do.
CDR They all look good, Story.
CC Thanks.
003 21 45 56 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 2 minutes to

Bermuda.
003 21 48 48 CC Skylab, back with you for 6 minutes, through

Bermuda.
SPT Hello, Story. Could you tell us how the audio

came out on TV-81?
CC Will do.
003 21 53 34 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 5 minutes to

Canaries.
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003 21 59 22 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries for 8 minutes. And, Ed, your

audio on TV-81 was excellent.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Story.
PLT Story, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Status report on the AMS rotation indicator.

Earlier question from ground was: does the sprocket
gear driving the 10's and 100's digits move when
you change rotation dirve? Answer, negative. I
just set up for S183 and watched carefully below
the helt; that is, sort of stanalng above the
sprockets or seems to - appears to be, and the
sprocket gear did not turn.
CC Got it, Bill.
PLT And, of course, that's only for the 10's and

lO0's digits. The other two are working, the
units and the one-tenths.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TIiANSCRIPTION
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Question on science demo kit. There is, in the

can containing the items that are used for science
demo kit, a vial containing a colorless liquid.
Is that liquid alcohol?
CC If you'd asked that a few days ago, l'd understand

your intentions.
PLT Yes, I just got a few guffaws here from my

compadres.
CC Got a few more down here.
PLT I wish - if I'd have thought carefully, I would

have worded that question differently. No, I
need to clean some surfaces with alcohol. I used
some - I stole a swab out of the tape recorder
cleaning kit this morning to prepare a surface,
but I ran across this vial and I - I didn't -
it didn't have a label on it or anything. I was
just wondering if I could use it.
003 22 03 46 CC It's okay, Bill
003 22 07 23 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; i0 minutes to

Tananarive.
003 22 21 42 CC Skylab; AOS Tananarive for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. And ED31 prep is complete; it took

an extra 30 minutes. It seems to be more the rule
than not with these ED experiments. Suggest maybe
we have the planners add a little bit more time
to the first runthrough on some of these things.
They seem to be real time eaters.
CC Okay, the FA0 copies that, Jer.
CC And we're 2 minutes to LOS; 20 minutes to Honey-

suckle at 22:43.
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003 22 24 31 CC And for Bill, no need to acknowledge, we know

you're running S183. That colorless liquid is
silver nitrate; we are looking for some alcohol
for you.
003 22 43 25 CC Skylab, A0S Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
003 22 52 15 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; ii minutes to

Hawaii at 23:03.
003 23 03 06 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes. And we

saw you just finish a tweak maneuver, Ed. And at
your convenience, we need the DAS for i minimum
bias.
SPT Okay, could you hold up a minute, Story? l'm just

maneuvering out to get a look at the nucleus and
move it back in.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, Story, the DAS is yoUrs.
CC Thanks, Ed.
003 23 05 37 CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC We're having a little trouble locating some alco-

hol. If you tell us what you're trying to clean,
maybe we can help you out some.
PLT Trying to clean the surface of the spider cage

per the procedures for one of those scientific
demos. I got it clean enough, I think, with one
of the swabs - tape recorder cleaning swabs. I
was thinking of maybe cleaning the larger sUrface.
And I thought maybe since they had specified al-
cohol in the procedure, they had an idea of where
there was some.
003 23 06 41 CC Okay, thanks; we'll keep looking.
CC DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Thank you.

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003 23 ii 44 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 4 minutes to

Goldstone.
003 23 15 19 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Goldstone for

7 minutes.
003 23 20 05 SPT Story, you can go ahead and tell the S054 people
we have all the changes into the J0P Summary Sheet,
so they can send it up just in a nominal fashion
from now on.
CC Okay; thanks, Ed.
003 23 21 40 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you over

Bermuda in 4 minutes.
003 23 26 52 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for 8

minutes.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Did you see the rates build up there in X? I'm

wondering if we had a gimbal positioning problem.
003 23 29 56 CC That's affirm. You got an outer gimbal drive at

that point. You're looking good, Ed.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIFI'ION
003 23 33 46 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 2 minutes,

Canaries. Be dumping the data/voice at Canaries,
and we'll be ready for the evening status report.
CDR Okay, and Ed's getting ready for the fsm_ly call.
CC Okay, we knew he was busy with J0P 18D; so we -

we're going to put it off to Carnarvon at 00:18,
if that's okay.
CDR Well, he's already in there; I'm doing the -

finishing up the 1 - the 18D for him.
CC 0kay, that'll be fine.
003 23 34 20 CDR Okay.
003 23 36 59 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries and

Ascension for 17 minutes; be dumping the data/
voice here.
CDR Okay, ready for evening status?
CC Stand by just 1.
CDR Okay. We'll be coming down with all but the photo
log. We might have to catch that at Canary - at
the next pass. Did you say Canaries?
CC The med conference is coming up at Ascension at

23:44. The next one will be Carnarvon at 00:18.
CDR Okay, we'll - we'll see if we can get it in time.
CC Okay, go ahead on the evening status.
CDR Okay, I'll be stopping once in a while to swing

out and take a look at the rates.
CC Okay.
003 23 37 50 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 4.0, _.0 heavy; SPT, _.5,
3 heavy, 1.5 light; PLT, 5.0, 5.0 heavy. Volumes:
900, 750, 1450. Water gun: 8106, 31 - 3986, and
0033. Body mass is 6.32-7, 6.325, 6.321; SPT, 6.356,
6.358,6.357;PLT, 6.227,6.225,6.230.
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CC Okay; now we can watch the shop while you're giving

us the report, Jer.
CDR Okay. Exercise: CDR, no change; SPT, no Alfa;

PLT, no change. Medication: CDR, Sudafed; SPT,
Dalmane; PLT, none. Those were one Sudafed and
one Dalmane. Okay, the Clothing is none, none,
and none. Flight Plan deviations: ED31 took
30 minutes extra; no M151 was done on M092/171.
Shopping list accomplishments: M487-1A, B, and
C, ll locations and it's on tape at 03:00. CDR
taste test, samples 4 through 6, taped at 16:00 Zulu;
SPT, complete Alfa, Romeo, Tango, on tape at 16:35.
Housekeeping: all the housekeeping for today was -
well it was 7 Delta, that's been done, and 3 Alfa
will be done tonight. Inoperable equipment:
S183 carrousel l-l, during the sinking operation
where you stick your finger in the hole and line
up the - the - the - -
PLT Alignment mark.
003 23 39 53 CDR - - the alignment mark, the little E-clip came out
and allowed the spring to pop out and the E-clip
is broken. We cannot get the spring back in and
we cannot find another E-clip of the proper size.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Food log: salt packs
6.0; deviations, minus 1 coffee with sugar%
rehydration water, plus 1.5. For the SPT, zero,
zero, and zero. For the PLT, 1.5 salt, zero
deviations, and minus 1.0 rehydration water. And
we'll have the photo log for you in a few minutes.
CC Okay, Jer, thanks.
003 23 40 45 CDR Okay, I've got the photo log now.
CC Go.
CDR Okay, 16-millimeter : Uniform Alfa 4 is the -

S183 has 85 percent remaining. 35-millimeters:
Nikons l, Charlie X-ray 39, 48; 2, Bravo Victor 27,
37; 3, Charlie India lll, 58; 4, no change; 5, no
change. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 52, 150.
ETC, no change. EREP: Set Tango, 8918, 8256,
9132, 9125, 2668, 9992. Drawer A configuration:
no change.
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cc Okay.
CC And, Jer, we won't be handing over for the medical

conference until this maneuver is complete, so
we can follow it to completion.
PLT Story, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Yes, would you pass the word along to Rudy Rusnick
that I'm sorry about that. We don't have anything
against that experiment. That was Just a goof on
my part.
CC Okay, got it. And, Jerry, when you're in the

vicinity, we could get the frames remaining on
the ATN.
CDR Okay. 13962, 4977, 167, 430, 5252, and 4506.
CC Okay. And, Jer, I'd like to talk over some

checklistphilosophywith you. We've got a lot of
changes here because we're flying with 82B and
the XUV monitor doors open all the time. And it
would take an awful lot of changes to get both
the checklist and the cue cards updated precisely.
What we're thinking down here is that we probably
only ought to update your cue cards and only those
things where we have switch throwings, as opposed
to updating all the places where the taSkbacks
will be inconsistent with your readings up there.
And we feel that you're - you're well aware of the
position of the doors and with respect to all the
checklists, and all we don't feel like we should
be updating all the talkback changes. If you want
us to, we can.
003 23 43 56 CDR We'd prefer not to. I think let's go the easiest
route we can. That's - all that is is Just bean
counting.
CC Yes, sir, th - that's the way we feel, so we'll

just take a look at Just the cue cards that we
know you're using as opposed to the checklists and
just change the - the ones that actually have
switch operations.
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CDi_ That sounds fine, Story.
CC And how about for other parts of the mission aside

from 82B and XUV monitor, you think that's a good
philosophy to follow?
003 23 44 28 CDR Yes, I do. I don't think we're likely to get

burned doing things like that. XUV MON -
003 23 45 00 CC Jer, we broke up there while we were handing over.
CDR Okay, I said I agree with you. I think it's a

good idea. And XUV mon is another one that's in
the same boat.
CC Yes.
CDR Okay, and do you want this nominal H-CAGE to be

on time or just when the rates are damped out.
They are pretty low right now.
CC Do it right now, Jer.
CDR Okay, I'ii just pick up the procedure and ignore

the times and go right down the line.
CC That'll be fine, Jer.
CC And be sure to zero the strapdowns first.
CDR You want to do it first?
CC Stand by i.
CC Jer, just follow the checklist and you're correct.

Get the CAGE first.
CDR Okay.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger, I did the carrousel l-i ops which is a long

or fairly lengthy procedure we - we're supposed
to go through in taking the carrousel off. And
also there's one step in here where one of the -
I think - it implies at least, one of the plates
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was supposed to be pulled from the carrousel be-

fore I took dis- before I took the carrousel off.
And then afterwards, I was supposed to go through
a procedure which would, I think, eject the plates.
Now I have gone through the procedure down past
three - I'll read three or four steps here so the
people that are listening will know where I - what
I'm talking about. POWER switch, ON. PLATE ADVANCE,
RESET. PLATE ADVANCE, OFF (after plate indicates 01.
POWER switch OFF, and install blank door.) Well,
I did not get a plate pulled from the carrousel,
and I'm not sure if it was supposed to have
occurred prior to this or when. In any event, no
plate came out. And as I - that's what I wanted
to report.
003 23 49 27 CC Okay, Bill.
CC And Rudy says no problem on the M51, we'll schedule

it later.
PLT Roger. Get it next time.
SPT Say, Story, I think I agree with your original

call on doing the strapdown initialization before
this. Wo - won't we have an error comparable to
the TACS deadhand when we finally do initialize
the strapdown?
cC Stand by i.
003 23 50 h4 CC Ed, that's correct, and it'll only be a couple

degrees, and it'd take care of itself once you
get into sunset and the acquisition Sun sensor
take out the errors.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC And, Ed, sorry about the schedule on that phone

call. I - I did that myself. I was working on
three constraints, the Flight Plan and the con-
straints on Julie being home and also the site
passes.
SPT That's all right, Story. I was able to Work

around it. Thank you.
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CC Yes, we tried - we wanted to keep you at the

console throughout the maneuver if we could.
SPT Well, I got Jerry up here and explained to him

where we were; so we picked up, and we didn't
leave anything on the console.
003 23 51 28 CC Yes.
CC And we're ready for you to ENABLE the C_Gs. We

got about 30 seconds to LOS here, the next station
is Carnarvon in 27 minutes. That'll be at 00:18.
That'll be your medical conference, and we plan
to put you to bed over Honeysuckle at 00:23.
CDR I think we're ready for the bed tonight.
CC Okay, it'll be the other way around though. We're

going to be ts]king to you at Carnarvon at 00:18.
The med conference will be 00:23.
SPT Story, it looks as though it might be all right

after all because I'ii let the CMGs take out the
attitude error before I initialize the strapdown
here.
CC That's fine, Ed.
CDR Hey, Story, tell Dr. Hordinsky to brush up on his

lullabies.
003 23 52 51 CC Okay. Will do.
004 O0 18 45 CC Skylab, we're AOS Carnarvon/Honeysuckle for l0 min-

utes. We'll be using the first 5 minutes, and the
surgeon the last 5 for the med conference.
CC And who's near the STS for a REG ADJUST?
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, Bill, PEG ADJUST, BUS 1 clockwise 5 degrees,

BUS 2 counterclockwise 25 degrees. It's BUS 1 - -
PLT It's complete. Take a look at it.
CC Okay, we don't have any data through Carnarvon here;

we hopeto at Honeysuckle.
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004 00 19 51 PLT Roger.
CC And, Bill, there's a little deviation to the film-

thread pad. Nikon 03 is loaded with CI lll instead
of ll2. We expected lll to be depleted today.
PLT Okay, I've got two more pictures to take. I think

you'll still have a little left in it though.
CC Okay, we'll take care of that. The photo pad

will load CIll2 during ED31 tomorrow.
PLT That's fine. I'll take care of it.
004 O0 20 58 CC Ed, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Just like to verify the closeout of the ATM that

S054 is at 256; S055 is in the STOP mode and at
REFERENCE, OPTICAL REFERENCE.
SPT Okay, Story, S054 is configuredproperly, and

for 55 they are in MECHANICAL REF 104. Do they -
where do they want them switched, OPTICAL REF,
or MECHANICAL?
CC Okay, they want OPTICAL REFERENCE on that, Ed.
SPT Okay, we'll get it.
CC Okay, and while I've got you, have you taken any
auroral photos recently?
SPT No we haven't, Story. We - we hope to; we Just

have not had the - the camera and the opportunity
at the same time.
004 O0 22 14 CC Okay, any color photos of the - of the comet with

CX or CI?
SPT No, we have not, Story. We've taken some with

the high-speed black and white with T025 filters
for S063. That's gone on tape.
CC Okay, and could you compare the brightness of the -

of the comet with Jupiter. Jupiter's about minus 1.6.
- Could you relate to the brightnessof the comet
to - to Jupiter?
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004 00 22 53 CC And I guess we better wait for that. We got

about 15 seconds here to the medical conference.
We'll plan to put you to bed here after the med-
ical conference. The next pass is 00:41.
004 00 46 20 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 4 minutes.

Ed, Houston.
004 00 47 27 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for

2-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, Houston.
004 00 D3 49 CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 16 minutes.

And, Ed, l've got three things for you.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, a comment on the JOP 18D. It left us with a

zero maneuver time. We'd like to load in a
13-minute maneuver time. And while you're up
there, S055, just put the switch to OPTICAL REF.
Nothing else needed.
SPT Okay.
CC And could you tell us how many frames, if any,

you've taken of the S063 comet shopping list?
SPT Yes, six frames, two clear and then they're - the
next two were priority, all with Nikon 02. Those
were reported on tape.
CC Okay, thanks.
004 00 58 19 CC Ed, we see a good maneuver time. And could you

make a - a comment now on the relative brightness
of the Jupiter and the comet. We show Jupiter
minus 1.6. Could you relate the comet to Jupiter
in terms of brightness?
SPT Yes, Story. The comet now is quite a bit fainter

than Jupiter. Around 2 to 3 days ago, again just
a rough rec - recollection, they were of compar-
able magnitude.
CC Okay, thanks. And we've worked up a urine/blood

system for you all which we'll get up to you about
mission day 52. It includes taking some 24-hour
collection samples and some other 36-hour ones.
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That'll make up for the - the shortage of sample

bags. We'll get that up to you later.
SPT Thank you.
CC And if you've nothing more for us tonight, this

will be our last pass. And we can offer you
wakeup at Vanguard at ll:04.
SPT Wakeup call sounds pretty good Story. Do you

have any late-evening news.
004 00 59 45 CC We're breaking up as we hand over to MILA. I'll

see you in about 30 seconds.
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00h 01 02 15 CC Skylab, we're back with you through MILA for

i0 minutes.
CC And, Ed, I missed the last things you gave me

after giving you the wakeup call at Vanguard.
SPT Well, after you get the wakeup call, then the
next thing you usually expect to look forward
to is the evening news. Wondering how you stand.
If you don't have any in front of you, Story,
why don't you Just make some up? That might
be better.
00h 01 Oh 12 SPT It's sounding very much like the old ... LOS
trick.
CC No, not quite; we Just broke up. We're back

with you. And, Ed, on the S055, we need the
NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL.
00h 01 Oh 59 CC Ed, we're back with you through Bermuda. Did

_ you get my call on the S055 NIGHT INTERLOCK
switch to NORMAL?
00_ 01 06 02 CC Okay, Ed, the ATM closeout looks good now.

We'll see you in the morning at Vanguard, ll:0h.
Good night.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay, we were wondering if you have any evening

news.
CC Yes, sir; here it comes. Most of our national

and international news concentrated on the
ener_Dr crisis. And in Washington, gasoline
stations are violating price regulations at a
higher rate than any other industry under gov-
ernment price guidelines, an Internal Revenue
Service survey shows. About 20 percent of
service stations checked were selling gasoline
above the legal ceiling price, the agency said.
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The energy shortage will not have the seriously

adverse effect on the economy that some economic
and business leaders are predicting, Roy Ash,
Director of the Office of Management and Budget,
said. One of the nation's leading economic
research organizations said it felt the Nixon
administration was overstating the oil shortage
in the United States by as much as 1.3 million
barrels a day.
004 01 07 2h CC Skylab news on the wires and in the newspapers

concentrated on your TV press conference of yes-
terday and the reoccurring hiccups of the CMGs.
CC And hundreds of Russian science projects are

emerging at Albert Thomas Convention Center in
Houston to form a section of the Soviet Youth
Exhibition which opens January 12. Thirty young
people representing all of the Soviet Union's
15 republics are in Houston to serve as exhibit
guides and to visit school and college groups
for discussions. The guides, most of whom
speak English, will give lectures in Russian
also, the information agent for the group said.
CC The Britains settle down to live with the power

crisis, shopping in candlelit shops and working
in unheated offices, as if born to do it.
004 01 08 32 CC And the Associated Press rankings announced today,

the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame are the national
champions of college football. By defeating
regular-season leader Alabama 24 to 23 in the
Sugar Bowl, Notre Dame vaulted from third place
to first in the final rankings announced today
and thereby captured its first national champion-
ship since 1966. And on the Super Bowl: if
you' re - are from out of town and want to see
this year's Super Bowl game (kickoff's 2 p.m.
Sunday, January 13), you might have to rent a
room for Friday and Saturday too. A poll Wed-
nesday night showed that many Houston area hotels
and motels require payment in advance for the
entire three days in order to reserve a room
for that weekend. And, Skylab, that's about
what l've got for you tonight.
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00_ 01 09 59 CDR Okay, Story_ thanks a lot. Good night.
CC Good night.
SPT Good night, Story.
CC Ed.
PLT Good night, Story.
CC Good night, Bill.
CC Got anybody else up there?
00_ O1 i0 2h PLT We'll never tell.
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00h ll Oh 29 CC (Music)
00h ll 07 38 CC And, Skylab, Houston. As we acquire your space-

craft rising slowly out of the west at Vanguard,
the bronze fellows wish you a pleasant good
morning.
CDR Good morning.
CC (Music)
004 ll 14 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Ascension at 18, and we'll plan to dump
the recorder there.
004 ll 14 24 CDR Okay, Hank.
CC (Music)
004 ll 17 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Ascension for 10-1/2 minutes, and we plan to dump
the recorder here.
PLT Roger, Hank.
00h ll 19 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We need the recorder for a dump.
PLT Okay, Hank. The're not in use now.
004 ll 25 51 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, no response required,

we're through the dump. The recorder is yours.
004 ll 27 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Guam at 12:02; that's 35 minutes
from now. And at that point, if it's convenient,
I'll have one little item for each of you.
SPT Morning, Hank. We'll talk to you then.
004 ii 27 46 CC Okay.
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004 12 02 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.
004 12 05 32 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC Yes, Bill. Yesterday evening, I guess we - we

got a little confused on a statement you made that
you didn't get to TV-105; but we - we're looking
at the video we dumped and it looked like you had
part of it on there. Did we misunderstand you?
PLT Standby.
PLT No, I - I don't remember saying that, Hank. In

fact, the - the Rochelle salt, is sitting in the
locker per con - instructions, covered with wash-
cloths and all that good stuff.
CC Okay. So you did complete the first set of tests.

That's real good. Now, one other question in
regard to the TV. How much more practice time do
you think you'll need for the TV-107?
PLT Why don't you let me - you don't need to schedule

in any today. Let me see what I can do today in
my spare time and give you a report in the morn-
ing or this evening. The thing is that my - the
background, or the setup, has already been pre-
pared. It's sitting over there. And what I need
to do is play with it just a little bit more to
see exactly what sort of exercise I want to put
on the television. I think that I have a fairly
good idea what I want to do, but I want to - to
play with the - with the water droplets and so
forth just a little bit more to gain a little
skill.
CC Okay. And did you plan to do anything with TV-102

today? The narrative part?
004 12 07 34 PLT Stand by.
CC We got your video on that, Bill, and we were just

wondering about the narrative.
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PLT I had not planned to do anything on that. In _-

fact, what I tried to do was to give enough se-
quence there on that. That could be narrated
very - very briefly, and I would like to put some
remarks on tape for the - the PI. And I will put
the remarks on tape for the PI, making suggestions
about the narration.
CC Okay. We copy.
PLT Actually, l'd like to do the narration after I

get back, and I - l'm going to put the - my re-
marks on tape in that respect.
CC Okay. That'll be fine, Bill.
PLT How did that look on television? I - I was not

very confident about using that closeup lens on
that television.
CC It looked real good to us, Bill.
PLT It was in focus, huh?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay, good show.
CC And, CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger; go ahead.
CC Yes, Jer. In - in regard to the - your C&D pad

for the EREP coming up this evening, we've got on
there at 17:38 to get the EREP BUS i, S191 POWER,
ON, and we omitted that on your details. And if
you'd like to, you might make that entry. We
chose the time 17:38 so that you could do it right
between your PT and - and eating and wouldn't have
to interrupt your eat period. The magic number
is 18:03; it has to be ON by then.
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CDR Okay. 17:38is EREPi and 191.
004 12 09 36 CC That's affirmative.
CC And I have one small correction to the ATM pad

for whoever's holding that right now.
CDR Stand by, Hank. Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. It - it's down in daylight and at

15:38 Zulu, the pass beginning there. It - in
the S056 in the building block 28 there, we've
got S frame L, and it should be 1. That probably
would be obvious to you there when you got -
looket at it.
CDR Okay. We have that, Hank.
CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS, Skylab.

We'll see you again at Vanguard at 41, and we plan
to dump the recorder there.
004 12 ll 05 CDR ...
004 12 41 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for ll minutes.

_ And we plan to dumpthe recorderhere.
SPT Hank, would you ask the S054 people if they want
a time exposure here. From the pad that's what
I infer, but I have not seen the change.
CC Oh - -
SPT If I did get the change, it did not get incorpo-

rated somehow.
CC Okay, will do.
SPT That's building block 1-B.
004 12 44 13 CC SPT, Houston; the change that we sent up as -

should have given you a 17-minute exposure there.
It should be, for S054.
SPT Okay, Hank. Apparently there's a bookkeeping

problem then. Could they put up, sometime today,
a list, not a redoal [sic], but just a list of the
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changes of the building blocks, the JOP Summary

Sheets that were changed? And I'ii go through
them and make sure we do have them all.
CC Okay, that's 54 you want that, is that right, Ed?
SPT That's right, Hank. I was convinced we put them

all in there, b_t apparently this - one - got
overlooked, and l'd like to make sure that there's
nothing else in that situation.
004 13 45 03 CC Okay, we'll do it.
004 12 52 ii CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Ascension at 58, and that's
about 6 minutes.
004 12 59 12 CC Good morning, Skylab. The crimson crew is back

with you. A0S through Ascension for
14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC Good morning, gents.
004 13 02 25 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Hey, Crip, this C&D coolant procedure that the

PLT has got, is that strictly - is the purpose of
that to bleed air.
CC That's affirmative, Jet.
CDR l'm just wondering, we're - we're violating Cart's

first law here, and that's letting a good thing -
leaving a good thing alone. We've got a good
C&D loop that's running nice and quiet. I wonder
why we ought to mess with it.
CC Well, we've been seeing the flow-drop continue to

increase, Jer. And I guess that's - that's the
reason. It's dropped down to i00 pounds per hour,
considerably below what it's supposed to be.
That's - we've seen that twice, and I guess we're
just trying to - to get ahead of it before it
actually gets much worse.
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CDR Okay, we didn't ht_ar your first :_entenee. You

dropped out, Crip.
CC Ok:Ly, I was saying that we have seen the flow drop

dow_ t.o 100 pounds per hour twice now, which is
more than half of what it's - less than half of
what it's supposed to be. And we're just trying
to get a jump on it and bleed it out before it
_:onLinues to get much worse.
004 13 03 37 CDR Ok_y, good. We'll go ahead _uldgo it.
004 13 13 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 s,,_:ondsfrom LOS.

Next station contact is Guam in 27 minutes at
13:40, 13:40. And that's set up for the confer-
ence with Bill Lenoir.
CDR Thank you, Ci'ip.
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004 13 40 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston with the ATM conference.
SPT Okay, Bill.
MCC Okay, Ed. I read you kind of garbled there. The

first thing for today is to discuss today's opera-
tions which probably appear somewhat confusing.
So if you've got the ATM schedule pad and some
JOP Summary Sheets, I'ii talk to you about it.
SPT Okay, Bill.
MCC Okay, Ed. Apparently you're on intercom.
SPT Hello, Bill; how now?
MCC Loud and clear.
SPT Very good. Jerry's disconnecting the VTR, and

l'm standing by ready to go ahead with the
discussion.
MCC Okay, good enough. And on the orbit that you're

about to do starting at 14:07 Zulu here, the plan
here - that is the spicule JOP for S055 - and
they don't want a pointing change between the
BB 28's. What they are doing is they're trying
to set up so that a few lines of their mini-
RASTER appear on the disk and the rest are off
the disk. And they just repeatedly run these
mini-RASTERs looking at the spicule changes as
they've done before. On the following orbit,
beginning at 15:38 Zulu, is a conglomerate. The
first part, 15 Bravo - Jop 15 Bravo, building
block 28, is part of a mini-LIMB SCAN for 82B
at the south pole. And this has three parts and
three different orbits, which was really the only
way they would fit. We had a tough time trying
to get our 8 pounds into the 5-pound bag here
today, so it looks somewhat confusing. But
operating it is fairly straightforward other than
the fact that we no longer use the LIMB POINTING
for 82B. So we'll just be pointing off on a
WHITE LIGHT, as it says.
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004 13 42 08 MCC The potentially confusing part is the next one,

at 24 MINUTES R_4AINING, JOP i Delta, building
block special. Essentially what we're doing here
is we're pointing,as in step 1 on i Delta,where
you're going to use H-ALPHA i to point the slit
along a prominent spicule that you can find. Use
the SLIT WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY to get the proper
OFFSET of 5 ARC SECONDS, so that the whole slit
is off of the limb and the near edge of the slit
is 5 arc-seconds away from the limb, and operating
then, as depicted there, which is to set up 82B
and 55 and to start each one. And each minute,
stop and restart for 15 minutes. The 15 minutes
was chosen under the assumption that the spicule
lifetime is on the order of 7 minutes. Bat you'll
be there looking at it so that you can use your
onboard initiative here. If it runs longer than
15 minutes, you've got a few minutes after this to
keep going. Or if it looks like you're not getting
much, you can terminate a little bit early on that.
Do you have any questions on that so far?
004 13 42 21 SPT No, I don't, Bill. 15 minutes is kind of long

because you probably pick one that's at its peak.
That's the easiest one to pick out, and then -
because you couldn't - can't guess which one's
growing and which one's decaying. So 15 minutes
may be a little long. But we'll hold in there as
long as there's something still remaining in the
scope.
MCC Okay, good. And the main thing there is with the
i01 film, 82B can take meaningful 1-minute exposures
and try to get the spicule development and evolution
here. Then, at 17:23 and also at 22:10, we've got
some more 15 Bravo BB37's, which are the remainder
of the 82B mini-LIMB SCAN at the south pole. And
again it's - it's pointing OFFSET with the FINE
SUN SENSOR, not with LIMB POINTING. And that's
about the only funnies here in today's schedule.
If you don't have any more comments we can press
on.
004 13 44 ii SPT No, I don't, Bill. It looks like a reasonable thing

to do, and we'll press on with it. Go ahead.
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- MCC Okay, we discussed your suggestion on flare - flare

rise and planning for the active Sun yesterday for
a bit. Basically what we're doing is we're going
to have a meeting Monday morning, which is mission
day 53, where we will plan out how we are going to
operate during the two-week period that the active
regions are on the front of the Sun. This will
include what we're going to do at east limb passage,
west limb passage, center of the disk; how we're
going to try to get after flares, flare rises, and
so on. And the first conference that we have after
that meeting, I'll pass on to you everything that
we've talked about and hopefully take back some
thoughts from you, talk it again and then home in
on the - our plan of attack for that period.
004 13 44 58 SPT Okay, very good. I'd like to emphasize again that
after working this last time around, I think the
only thing we were lacking was a long enough time
just in the flare wait mode. I think we had the
equipment on board, especially the XUV monitor,
with the persistent image scope, to pick up some-
thing early. It's Just a question of whether the
operator is going to be free and have his eyeball
glued to that thing long enough in order to finally
_ wait for one and get it. So when the flareproba-
bility is high, I think we ought to go into that
mode and stay there. That's if we really want to
get a flare rise.
004 13 45 29 MCC Roger. And we'll be working on that. The one fly -
potential fly in the ointment here is how many ATM
orbits we actually get on a given day, as to whether
we've got significant time to put into that. We'll
just have to see how that goes.
SPT Okay. The people down there know the priorities,

so that's fine.
MCC Okay, we've got about a minute here until LOS.

Honeysuckle is next in 8 minutes from now, which
is 13:53. We have - right now we're working on the
list of the 54 changes by page and building block,
and we'll be teleprintering that up to you shortly.
004 13 46 09 SPT Yes, sorry for that confusion. I thought I had

them all written in there and then I realized as
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I was doing 6 this morning that there was not a

change facing me. And I can't figure out what
the problem was, thinking I meticulously went
through them all. So l'm - l'd just like to
doublecheck and make sure everything is covered.
MCC Right, I almost suggested that yesterday with this

list that - you know, it's kind of hard to do all
that. But I decided not to, and I guess we should
have. So we'll get that up to you today. Let
me - Go ahead.
SPT Just some real quick things for the planning

people. In looking at the _JV monitor, we see
the one bright active region which is around, oh,
120.4 out; and then there's two over on the west
limb, - or on the one at east limb, excuse me,
maybe around 250 and one at 280, just coming
around the corner. Other than that, there's just
a couple of bright points here and there. I don't
see any significant filament channels. South pole
has a very good coronal hole; north pole, only
slightly. Corona shows a fairly pronounced streamer
at 2 o'clock and then a series of - well three
small - relatively smaller ones over at 8:00 to
8:30 and 9:30.
004 13 47 26 MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you for that information. I'ii
see that we take a look at that at planning, and
we'll be talking to you tomorrow.
SPT Okay, one other point I - I mentioned once on the

recorder, is we have not yet seen any coronal
transients on the display. And I'm wondering
where - where the - what's different, because
apparently it has been seen on SL-3 and we're just
now picking them up for some reason. Either they're
not there, or we're not seeing them.
MCC Right; and l've got that. l've been carrying that
answer around with me for 2 days, but I've run out
of time. We'll talk about it tomorrow for sure.
004 13 48 01 SPT Thank you, Bill.
004 13 48 14 CDR Houston, CDR. The VTR's powered up again.
004 13 48 19 MCC Copy.

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004 13 54 12 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Honeysuckle. We have you

for about 2 minutes.
004 13 55 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Vanguard in 25 minutes. That's
14:21, lh:21.
SPT Hello, Crip. Talk to you then.
004 13 55 55 CC Okeydoke.
004 14 20 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard for

6-1/2 minutes.
004 14 25 20 SPT Hello, Crip. Wonder if you could give me some

information about a star near the comet?
CC I'm sorry, Ed. Would you say again?
SPT Crip, how are you reading now?
CC Loud and clear. How me?
SPT A little bit broken, l'd like to get some infor-

mation on a star very close to the comet. As
you're looking at the comet with the head or -
nucleus on the left, tail going to the right,
there is a star which is around 3 degrees back and
2 degrees down. It's the only relatively bright
one in the area. I wonder if you could tell me
what that one is and what its intensity is - what
its brightness is.
CC Okay. We'll check that. There - let's see. We

got a couple of planets, I believe, in the vicinity
of the comet right now, Venus and Jupiter. It's
not one of those?
SPT No, Venus and Jupiter are quite a bit further back.
It would be useful to know what their distance is.
It used to be somewhere around 15 and 18. I think
that's probably changed a little bit now. We see
those quite clearly, but it's not those.
CC Okay. We'll check that out for you. And Skylab,

we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station
contact is over Canary in 13 minutes at 14:40,
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14_hO. He_ll be doing a data/voice recorder dump

there and try to have that information by then,
Ed.
004 14 26 38 SPT Thank you, Crip. Talk to you then.
004 14 39 44 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Canaries for 14 minutes.

Doing a data/voice recorder dump. And, Ed, if
you've got a chance, I believe we can identify
that star for you.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you. What is it?
CC Okay. From your description, we believe it's

Dabih, which is a magnitude of plus 3.2. For
other comparisons, of course, Venus is about
minus 4 and Jupiter is minus 1.6.
SPT Okay, Crip. Copy. The comet looks just about,

in terms of intensity, like Dahih, or in terms
of brightness. It's certainly a little bit larger,
so it's - but its total integrated light looks to
5e aSout the same.
CC Very good. Thank you.
004 lh 40 45 SPT And also, do you know how far back Venus and
Jupiter are now? They're a good comp - good
yardsticks for us to measure the tail length.
CC We_ll get a check on that for you.
CC Ed, in answer to your question, Venus is approxi-

mately 7 degrees back from the comet now.
004 14 43 12 SPT Thank you.
004 14 53 01 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Honeysuckle in 34 minutes at
15:27. And, Ed, for your information, we have
not been able to confirm the brightening that you
mentioned out at 250/1.0 by any ground station
observatory.
SPT Crip, it's there bigger than life on the XUV

monitor display. It's relatively higher in the
atmosphere than the one at around 280; so I
suspect it's just coming around the limb.
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CC Okay, right now we didn't predict anythingcoming

around until active region 97 on mission day 53,
about 3 days away, but we'll take a look at it.
00h lh 54 oh SPT Okay.
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004 15 27 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for

8 minutes.
004 15 28 54 CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient this site,

we'd like to switch pumps on the ATM C&D coolant
loop. That procedure we were in this morning looks
like it worked out real well for pump Charlie, and
we want to switch to Bravo. If - But that's a
non-time-critical item. And if everybody's busy
right now, we can catch it next site.
CDR Okay, Crip. And we got our noise back now. Now
that she's running at full capacity, it's Just as
noisy as it was before.
CC I was afraid of that.
SPT You got Bravo.
CC Copy.
004 15 30 35 CC Skylab, Houston. Just as a matter of information,

the pressures that we're seeing now - correction,
the flow rate on the ATM C&D coolant loop is
comparable with what it was after we ran this
procedure the last time, where we took the - the
gas out of the - out of the loop. We were running
about a little over 280 pounds an hour on the -
on pump Charlie, and we're seeing like 295 pounds
an hour on pump Bravo.
CDR Roger, Crip. And how was the cooling capacity on

the - on the - the pumps before you did this fix?
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get you a - a good

answer to that, Jet. The - I guess what we were
afraid of there was not necessarily the - ca - the
capacity, but the fact that it showed that it was
deteriorating. And - and we were worried about
getting more and more air in the loop.
CDR Yes, cavitation could really get to you.
CC Roger.
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004 15 34 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ] minute from LOS. Next -.

station contact is over Bermuda in _6 minutes at
16:11; that's 16:11. And, Jer, in snsw_r to your
question, what I said earlier was - was o_sically
correct. The reason we wanted to _o ahea_l and
clean the air out was to prevent any cavitation.
The cooling capacity of the system w_s :increased
on the order of about i0 percent, but that was
not the reason that we wanted to g, ohead and do
it. Again it was cavitation, if' Ed is listening,
I can give him a little bit of update on those
planets' distance from the comet. The corrected
distance was about 8.9 degrees for Venus, and
Jupiter's about 13.2 degrees.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you. I thought that Venus

looked a little bit further away than that. 8.9,
that's good.
CC Roger. And Venus will - about 24:00 Zulu is going

to be about 7.7 degrees and Jupiter will be 12.3.
004 16 12 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. And what does our water pump pressure
look like? The peg in here in the waste management
compartment is pegged out.
CC We'll take a look at it for you, Jet. And that

C&D loop now is up to 300 pounds an hour; and if
that's going to be loud like it was before, you
guys've got to go to - to turn - that thing off
at night when you go - go to bed. I guess the
question is since we've been batting it back and
forth down here is - do you need another 482 to
put that on your sleep checklist?
CDR Negative.
CC Okay.
CC Jet, it looks like that meter's hanging up high

again. We're showing 0.008 here.
CDR Thank you, Crip. Looks like neither one of these

meters is worth a hoot.
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CC Copy.
004 16 18 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Canary in 3 minutes at 16:21.
004 16 22 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Madrid. We

have you for about 8 minutes.
004 16 30 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from LOS.

And we'll see you again over Carnarvon in 24 minutes;
that's at 16:56. And we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there.
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004 16 55 56 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Carnarvon for 15-1/2 minutes.

And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
004 17 i0 35 CC We're i minute from LOS. Next station contact is

over Texas in 32 minutes at 14 - correction,
17:42, 17.42. And Ed, the listing that you re-
quested earlier on the S054 changes for the long
exposure is on board along with a checklist
change for how to perform the long exposure.
004 17 ii 01 SPT Thank you, Crip.
004 17 42 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S across the States.

We have you for about 15 minutes. And if you
guys have got a little, little time, the boss,
Deke, would like to talk to you for a minute.
PLT For him we've got the time.
MCC Okay, Jer, guys, good morning, l've got the

honor of congratulating you guys on transitioning
from the first rookiecrew since early Gemini to
the second most veteran crew in the solar system.
I was about to say universe, but I don't think
we could prove that. As of about 3 minutes ago
you guys surpassed Pete Conrad's record in time,
which it took him four flights to accumulate. So
if that doesn't make you veterans, nothing will.
You're about five-eights of the way through the
mission, rough and dirty. And as far as we're
concerned down here, you're doing an outstanding
job all the way. We're really happy with the way
the mission's going. I think we've probably
sandbagged you on a couple of occasions on sched-
ules, which you're aware of. As far as the
future is concerned, Dick gave you a pretty good
rundown on the constraints, et cetera, the other
evening. I won't enlarge on those. I guess it's
my opinion that we will probably have more trouble
keeping you busy in the future than the other way
around. We'll make every effort to ensure that
it doesn't go either way, however.
004 17 43 42 MCC Stand by i.

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004 17 44 09 MCC Okay, we just handed over to MILA. I just have

one closing statement. Just keep up the good
work up there. Stay loose and enjoy it. Think,
if you keep going the way you've been going, why,
it'll be one of the best missions we've ever seen.
CDR Well, Deke, thanks a lot. We sure appreciate

hearing from you. And though things did get a
little rough there at the beginning, we feel
pretty good now. - And look - kind of looks like
we've really smoothed out, and I think that we'll
probably do some real fine work.
MCC You bet you; you've been doing great work. Just
keep it up.
PLT Thanks a lot, Deke. Those were real good words.

It was nice to hear them.
SPT Thanks, Deke, we sure appreciate it. Good hearing

from you.
MCC Okay. I know you're having a lot more fun up

there than we are down here, so stay with it.
CC Roger that.
00h 17 45 08 CDR Hey, Deke, we're going to be making a pass over

Houston. Do you want us to do a little duck -
little duck scouting for you there?
MCC Hey, I'd appreciate that. I also need the time

to take advantage it, however. 1'11 pass it on
to some of my friends if you give us the cue.
CDR Roger.
CDR If those ducks are warm, our IR sensors will find

them.
MCC Roger that. I think they've got ice on their wings

down here today.
CDR One of those kind of days, huh?
MCC Roger.
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004 17 49 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Jer and Bill, would this be a

convenient place to - to give you an idea what
the weather is going to be on the upcoming EREP
pass, or do you want to catch that a little bit -
at a later site?
CDR No, this is fine, Crip.
CC Okay, fine. We got a handover coming up shortly.

I'm going to wait until we get through it, and
then I'll give you a quick rundown. It won't
take but about a minute.
CDR Okay.
004 17 50 22 CC Okeydoke. Starting out the pass coming over

MexicO, it should be clear to - to scattered.
And right around Monterrey you're going to pick
up a low overcast deck that's going to extend
all the way up to, oh, approximately the
Tennessee/Kentucky border. That's all a low
cal - low cloud stratus-type layer. Then you
should break out to around something that's
scattered to broken, about 0.4 to 0.7 coverage,
and - all the way across New England. Now, you've
__ got a jet streamcirrus target through there,
and it's hard for us to confirm here on the ground
whether that cirrus is there, but we - we think
it is. For - if you're interested, the snow line
is going to - starts from about Kentucky all the
way up through the New England States. So most
of the stuff that's - that you're going to be able
to pick up on the ground in that part of the
country is going to have snow on it. Across the
North Atlantic, it's pretty much cloud covered all
the way across, which is what they're after for
some rough seas. Understand it's not good for
the Navy out there today; they got about 35-foot
waves. And there's a front extending down across
the Bay of Biscay with some rain in it. And
that's the cyclone that it talks about in the -
in your message that we're trying to pick up.
So, in general, even though the weather is not
clean and neat, it is practical for the kind of
targets that we're trying to pick up. And it
looks like a good EREP pass.
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004 17 52 00 CDR Okay, Bob, thanks. We'll do our best.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is in about 4-1/2 minutes over
Madrid at 18:01, 18:01. And to clarify something
said earlier in the weather briefing: The cyclone
or - that we were speaking of is not actually the
one that is - has the front through the Bay of
Biscay. It's the cyclone that's located about
20 degrees west. But the frontal system is pro-
ducing some rain that we wanted to cover with
the rad/seat, so we - and we are taking data all
the way through there.
004 17 56 43 CDR Roger, Crip.
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Time: 004:18:00 to 00h:19:30
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00h 18 00 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for 7-1/2 minutes.
004 18 02 ii CC PLT, Houston. For your future planning, we have

your phone call set up this evening for 01:09.
PLT Roger. 01:09. Thank you.
PLT Also, Crip, the TV-77 should be on the VTR. I

hope it is. And the voice will be on the voice
link - voice recorder.
CC We - we show ten - i0 minutes' worth on the VTR

right now.
PLT That should be Just about right.
CC Roger. Thank you.
004 18 06 3_ CC SPT, Houston. Ed, we're showing the shutter

on 56 still open. We need a START and STOP there.
SPT Okay, Crip. Do you need the DOOR OPEN also for
that?
CC No, we do not. That's fine. That's got it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact in Carnarvon in 27 minutes
at 18:35, 18:35. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there.
CDR Roger, Crip. And hey, by the way, I'm sorry we

missed the eggnog party. I hope everybody on the
crimson team behaved themselves.
CC Unfortunately (laughter). No, we all had a good

time. Sorry you couldn't be there with us.
CDR Very good.
004 18 08 33 CC Somehow, I didn't manage to stay awake through

the ball games after that though.
004 18 34 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon

for 5-1/2 minutes. And we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.
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004 18 39 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Next station contact is Honeysuckle in 7 minutes.
And at that time, if we could, we'd like some-
body available at the STS panel to - to do a
REG ADJUST for us.
SPT Roger, Crip.
004 18 40 07 CC Thank you, sir.
004 18 47 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle, and

got you for about a minute and a half.
SPT Standing by the STS, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. On panel 207 we'd like to take BATTERY

CHARGE LOW for 7 and 8 to INHIBIT. And the reason
for that is that we have sent the con_nand to in-
hibit the discharge limit on batteries 7 and 8.
And it will go down below C&W limit because of
the false reading that we're getting on those.
SPT Okay, Crip, that's done. And would you send up

a - another copy of the 54 long exposure cue card
change 02? That one had around four or five
different lines reproduced two or three times,
and it's awfully hard to read.
CC Okeydoke. We'll do that. And also if - l'd like

you to mark the place for the - on panel 206 -
the REG ADJUST pots i and 2, and then move them
30 degrees clockwise.
CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station

contact is 19:17, 19:17.
SPT That's done, Crip.
CC Okay. And we're about to go over the hill. Ed,

can you tell us if you used binoculars on making
your brightness estimate on the comet, comparing
it with Dabih?
SPT No, I did not, Crip. It's very - it's really a

very difficult judgement to make.
CC Copy.
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00h 18 h9 01 CC Copy that. Over the hill.
00h 19 16 27 PLT My nadir swath starts at 25:58.
CDR Okay, about i minute we're going to put the

SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. Start the EREP - -
PLT Land-ho !
CDR - - at 18.
PLT Yes, I see it, Jer; it's coming up.
CDR Good enough.
00h 19 16 46 CC And we're with you across the States here. Got
you about 12 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
PLT ...
CDR i minute to EREP, START.
CDR Okay. At my mark, it's going to be 17:30. And

the SCATFEROMETER is coming on to STANDBY.
CDR Stand by -
00h 19 17 30 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. EREP, START

in about 25 seconds.
CDR On my mark it'll be 18:00.
CDR Stand by -
00h 19 18 00 CDR MARK. EREP, START. On my mark it will be 18:06 -
00_ 19 18 06 CDR MARK. Downlink to position 1. On my mark it will

be 18:12.
00h 18 18 12 CDR MARK. 19h to MANUAL. Okay, Ed, we're going to

want ETC to van - to AUTO from you at 18:56.
PLT GuadalaJ ara.
CDR On my mark I'ii be 18:56. Stand by -

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00h 19 18 56 CDR MARK. ETC,MODE,AUTO.
004 19 19 03 CDR MARK. At 19:03, 190 to AUTO.
004 19 19 09 CDR MARK. At 19:09, 192 MODE to READY.
CDR Got TAPE MOTION, high speed.
PLT Oh! Here cc_e the clouds. Looks like we're

socked in. We get socked in Just before we get
to Monterrey.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 19 :44.
CDR Stand by -
004 19 19 44 CDR MARK. Downlink switch to posit_on 2.
PLT I recognize the area. Solid cloud cow;r from

Mont errey on.
CDH Son of a gun.
PLT Okay. 25:58 is when I start my nadir path.
CDR Okay. On my mark, it will be - we'll have a

S190 READY light out. It should be at 20:20.
004 19 20 22 CDR MARK. READY out at 21.
004 19 20 26 CD}_ MARK. ETC to STANDBY at 20:26.
00h 19 20 33 CDR MARK. 20:32, MO - 190 MODE to STANDBY. Stand by -
OOh 19 20 38 CDR MARK. At 38, 192 MODE to CHECK. 44, S190 FRAMES
to 18. Okay, looking for 56. I'm going to put
the SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
004 19 20 56 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER's ON. RADIO_TER's ON.

21:06, I'll want an AUTO CAL, Bill.
PLT Okay. 21 :06.
CDR Stand by -
004 19 21 06 CDR/PLT MARK.
CDR AUTO CAL.

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- PLT AUTOCAL.
CDR And things got real busy there for a minute.
CDR Let's see. 190's in STANDBY. 192's in CHECK.

We got FRAMES of 18. SCATTEROMETER and RADIOMETER
are ON. Have an AUTO CAL cooking.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR You want to shift over to tape recorder 2, if

we run this one dry? I meant to ask that. It
was in my remarks that tape recorder 1 was going
to be marginal.
CC Jer, there's no need to switch over. And we

shouldn't run out of tape until right near the
end of the pass anyhow.
CDR Okay.
CC You guys are flying this one at a much better

altitude on this North Atlantic portion than AJ is.
He's going to be about 500 feet in the 130 below
you.
PLT Is that right?
CDR I can't say as I really envy AJ.
PLT (Laughter) Waves slmost reach up there and slap

him.
CC Roger that.
004 19 23 01 CDR Okay. At 23:00, we're looking for - 23:h0 is the

next mark.
CDR I bet AJ is wearing his hong-handle underwear too.
CC I certainly hope he is.
PLT A body suit.
CDR Okay, on my mark it'll be 23:h0.

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PLT Always
....
CDR Stand by -
004 19 23 40 CDR MARK. POLARIZATION going to 2. Looking for a

READY on on S191.
004 19 23 46 CDR MARK. READY on _t 46. Going to REFERENCE, 6.
PLT Okay, VTS *** 00. Standing by for 25:58.
CREW (Cough)
CDR Okay, on my mark it'll be 25:10.
CDR Stand by -
004 19 25 i0 CDR MARK. 190 SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW.
CDR On my mark it'll be 25:33.
CDR Stand by -
004 19 25 33 CDR MARK. S190 MODE, AUTO. And on my mark it'll be

40. We want ETC to AUTO -
004 19 25 40 CDR MARK. ETC to AUTO.
CC Jer, can we get somebody to verify TV input

station 133 is on?
SPT Yes, it's on.
PLT Stand by -
SPT Stand by - It's on. The wafer switch is in

TV. Aaaugh !
004 19 25 58 PLT MARK. 25:58, DAC on, VTS ... - -
CDR S192 MODE going to READY. That was 3 seconds

late. 26:16 is next. I got the problem; I'll
get with you in a minute. 26:16, POLARIZATION
going to 4 -
004 19 26 16 CDR MARK. At 16, POLARIZATION, 4. Okay. The problem

is that - Oh, shoot, I can't get away, I'm - -
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PLT Yes, let me - let - -
CDR - - tied to this dang headset.
PLT What do you want me to do?
CDR It's not connected up at the input station.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay. At 26:45 1 put the position in h. It's

up there, Bill, to the left. To the left of it,
to the left of it. Yes, but the - the cable's to
the left of the box. Okay.
00h 19 27 20 CC Coming up on position 6. Have you got it?
CDR Okay, you ought to have it now.
CC Got it.
CDR All right, at 27:30 you're in - at downlink

position 7.
•CC Roger.
CDR Don't ever put yourself on a short umbilical.

You can't go anywhere.
PLT Man, that's just about *** (chuckle).
CDR 27:50, going to 8.
PLT Oh, we got some good ones of that. Well, we

ought - must be running up the Appalachians. Yes.
West side. Okay, standing by for 29:30. Oh, man,
that's -
CDR Coming up on 28:10.
004 19 28 i0 CDR MARK. Downlink, position 9.
CDR Okay, 28:20 and MODE is to STANDBY on 192. Some-

where I missed - I missed a MODE, READY. 28:30
coming up -
004 19 28 30 CDR MARK. 190 READY light went out. 28:36 is next,
Ed, with an ETC to STANDBY -
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004 19 28 36 CDR MARK. STANDBY. Okay 28:49 is next. P
CDR Stand by -
004 19 28 49 CDR MARK. POLARIZATION, 3. 28:54, downlink position

to OFF. Coming up on 29:10.
004 19 29 i0 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
004 19 29 13 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 12. Going to

XTNC, L/R; POLARIZATION, 5. 29:30 is the next one.
004 19 29 30 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON; RADIOMETER is ON.
CDR That was at 29:30 - -
PLT STand by.
CDR - - and 31.
004 19 29 39 PLT MARK. DAC OFF. And nadir, be 3 when - -
004 19 29 45 CDR MARK. At 29:44, S190 MODE to STANDBY. Crip,

you still with us?
CC That's affirm; about 4 more minutes.
CDR Okay. Have you got the word on what was wrong
with the downlink?
004 19 29 59 CC Copy.
004 19 30 00 CDR Okay. We didn't have the cable connected at one

end.
END OF TAPE
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O0h 19 30 03 CDR I lost S192 MODE to READY. And so the S192 between
26 and 28:20 was not to - wwere not taken.
CC Copy.
PLT I can see the St. Lawrence.
PLT Gulf of St. Lawrence.
CDR The what?
PLT Gulf of Saint Lawrence. I think that's what it is.
CDR Any ice?
PLT I 'm looking.
PLT Not sure; I don't think so. *** on DAC. Got a

red light on a DAC. That thing had plenty of film
in it. Okay, let me set this thing up here at
zero zero. I don't need it on the next one. It's
showing -
CDR End of film?
PLT It's showing about 40 percent on it. I'm going

to try something. That's strange.
CDR What?
PLT I get the green light and everything, but I get

a red - -
CDR Must have broken the film.
PLT - - END OF FILM light. I'ii take it off real quick.

Well, wait a minute, I ought to . .. another nadir
swath; ... start it right. A.J.'s down here (laugh-
ter). Ah, poor guy.
CDR Who's riding with him, Crip?
PLT Bet we lost him.
CDR Yes.
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004 19 32 35 CC Yes. No, I'm still with you. I'm not - just --_
checking. I don't know who the co-pilot is.
Lindemann is on as mission manager. We're 1 min-
ute from LOS. Next station contact is over Madrid
in about 5 minutes, at 19:38.
CDR I don't know why we're getting END OF FILM light.

There's nothing wrong with the film.
PLT Let me - let me mark it and see if it'll move film.
CDR Okay.
CDR Got to have leverage to get it in.
PLT I'ii get it.
CDR I got some time here if I can - -
PLT Well, I just need to check mine - -
CDR All right.
PLT Up and down. Yes, we're in good shape.
CC You got us on the nadir swath right at 33.
004 19 33 16 PLT That's affirmative.
CDR Yes, I got a red light again.
PLT Yes.
CDR Let's See if it advanced.
PLT Okay, we're in good shape. Let's see; it goes

to - -
CDR It's advancing. Let's just go ahead - -
PLT - - forty ... - -
CDR - - with it and assume it's good, and ignore the

red light.
PLT No, we don't - we don't need to use it on this one

but -
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CDR Okay.
PLT You know, just for post - postrun information.

And all I'm doing now is just holding this thing
on zero zero. Coming up on a terminator now.
004 19 34 00 CDR Okay, I got a bunch of data to take at 40, here.
004 19 38 04 CDR Now it's ready.
004 19 38 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you again, 8 - about

8-1/2 minutes through Madrid.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CREW ... open again.
PLT 1 minute to go on the nadir swath.
CDR Okay, on my next mark it's going to be 19:40:00.
004 19 40 O0 CDR MARK. REFERENCE going to 2 on S191. And an AUTO

CAL at 41, Bill.
PLT Okay, standing by.
CDR 41:00.
PLT There's really not much to do on a nadir swath.
CDR See that cyclone:
PLT Negative.
CC It was pretty much north of your track.
CDR Okay. 20 seconds, Bill.
PLT Roger. I think it's also pretty dark along in there.
CDR 5 seconds.
PLT Roger. Standing by.
CDR Stand by -
004 19 41 00 CDR/PLT MARK.

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PLT AUTO
CAL.
CDR Okay. The S191 almost READY light is out.
PLT And, Crip, I did get a red light on the DAC - the
VTS. But it appears to be advancing film, so I'm
going to have to troubleshoot it.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, that's it for 191.
CDR Okay. I got another couple of things to do here.

Okay, you got aminute and a quarter to the fine
maneuver.
CDR Well, the old tape recorder hung in there. The

meter says we got about 25 percent left; it's still
running.
CC Very good.
CDR lO seconds, it'lllbe 42:30. Stand by -
004 19 42 30 CDR MARK. SCAT2EROMETER, OFF.
004 19 42 32 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's OFF. 42:40. Stand by -
004 19 42 40 CDR Mark. 194 to MANUAL .... for the sometimes READY
light to come on now.
CDR Okay, coming up on 43:40; looking for S191.
004 19 43 40 CDR MARK. at 39, the almost READY light came on. On
my mark it'll be 46.
004 19 43 46 CDR MARK. EREP, STOP. And that does it.
CDR Well, sorry about that downling on the 192.
CC Yes, sorry - sorry we got you messed up right in

the middle of it.
CDR Well, doggone it, if I'd have checked it out right,

we wouldn't have had the problem.
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004 19 4h 07 CC Yes, we had a data problem here from Goddard or we

would have been able to catch it for you earlier.
CDR Okay, Bravo 7 is reading 33 percent. S192 DOOR

going CLOSEd. S190 going closed.
PLT What are you reading outer gimbal nnmher 3, Crip?
CC Checking.
CC We're going through a little mittle - mental

gymnastics to transfer it over to percent like
you got it.
PLT Wouldn't have bothered you, but it looked Y-rate's

a little bit high. Oh, I guess it's in the ball
park.
004 19 45 39 CC Okay, Bill. We concur; it did look like that Y-rate

went up a little bit high. But it - everything
looks okay right now.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

_ stationcontact is Tananarivein 15 minutes at
20:01. And we are rewinding the VTR, so it's not
available for your use. We're planning on dumping
it over the next CONUS pass.
004 19 h6 15 CDR Okay. We copy.
004 20 01 36 CC Skylab, HOuston. We're AOS for about 5-1/2 minutes

through Tananarive.
SPT Hello, Crip. You can tell Rudy that hels got
22 percent good ETC prep.
CC Ed, I'm sorry; I didn't get all of that. You said

something about 22 percent in ETC?
SPT Yes, our friend Rudy, on MI51, has been struggling

for weeks now to get good ETC prep data, and he
got it.
CC Very good. Okay, I'm sure Rudy'll be glad to hear

that.
004 20 04 26 PLT Houston, Skylab.

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CC Go.
PLT Roger. On this EREP mag, it's the Charlie Lima 04

that I was using. And we went - we haven't we got
an END OF FILM light on it during the part that
requires the DAC during the jet stream cirrus. And
we checked it out; it did move film. A_,d I brought
it down to the film loading station, put it on the
DAC there, and i got an END OF FILM light. And then
I tapped it a couple of times and the red light
went out; it still moves film.
CC Okay, we copy that. Appreciate the information,

Bill. Bill, while I've got you here, I think
Story said something to you last night regarding
the fact that we were going to be sending you up
a new cue card on how to handle urine bags and
so forth, to make up for the fact that we've got
23 short on the urine sample bags. And one of the
things we're going to need to know is how many
collection bags you have loaded the boric acid
tablets into, just to help us with our scheduling.
And so sometime today at your convenience, we
would appreciate getting acount on those.
PLT Okay, I'll get an inventory and give it to you

later.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
PLT Okay, Crip, as you're going over the hill, we have

five left - five urine bags left that have boric
acid tablets in them.
CC Okay, we copy that. We're about to go over the

hill here. And our next station contact is
Honeysuckle in 18 minutes at 20:24.
004 20 06 ii PLT Roger.
004 20 24 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Honeysuckle,

and we have you for a whole minute and a half.
CDR Okay. Let's just talk about the important stuff

then.
CC Okay, I'ii be quiet.

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-- CDR Roger. Crip, we got a problemwith the urine

situation. We're finding it very difficult to
dump the urine bags down the trash airlock. For
some reason, with as few as three bags in the urine
disposal bag, we still get it partially J_ed.
They seem to swell up and are very difficult to
get out the trash airlock. We're considering the
possibility of dumping the bags every day through
the urine dump system. We're wondering if there's
_ any reason why we shouldn't take that course of
action.
CC We'll scratch our heads over that one and try to

give you an answer as soon as possible.
004 20 25 49 CDR Okay. I don't know why it suddenly changed. Up

until a week ago you could put five or six bags
into a urine disposal bag and put it out the trash
airlock Just slick as a whistle. Now, all of a
sudden they're starting to swell up and jam.
CC You guys aren't drinking more are you? We're

about - going LOS here shortly. And Goldstone in
about 27 minutes at 20:24.
CDR Roger.
CC And the answer to the reason the rates jumped

around awhile ago was outer gimbal drive logic.
004 20 26 23 CDR Okay. I'll tell Bill.
004 20 53 01 CC Skylab, A0S stateside for 12 minutes.
CDR Hi, Story.
CC Hi.
CC And we're going to dump the data/voice right now.
CDR Okay.
CC And for Bill: The next time you're near the STS,
we'll get a REG ADJUST from you.
PLT Roger. It'd be about i0 minutes. What do you want?

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CC Okay. We can catch you then. It'll be a REG

ADJUST, both pots, 30 degrees counterclockwise.
PET Roger.
CC That's to the old mark.
PLT Roger; understand.
004 21 O0 02 CC And, Bill, you may be getting a CAUTION and WARNING

due to some desat firings. We don't think that's
any problem. The next dump will take care of that
momentum.
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004 21 00 08 PLT Roger. And while I'm up here I'ii go ahead and
do the BEG ADJUST for your.
CC Thanks.
PLT You might take a look at that if you have time.
CC We're looking.
004 21 03 27 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 2 minutes to

Bermuda.
004 21 05 31 CC We're back with you at Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 5 minutes to

Madrid. Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC No hurry at all, next time you pass by the SPTS,

we'd like 5 more degrees counterclockwise on
REG 2.
00h 21 09 48 PLT Roger.
004 21 15 32 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid and

Canaries for 9 minutes.
004 21 23 17 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 13 minutes

to Tananarive at 21:35.
004 21 36 13 CC Skylab; AOS Tananarive, 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
004 21 42 35 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS here and about

17 minutes to Honeysuckle at 22:00; be dumping
the data/voice there.
004 22 00 25 CC Skylab; AOS through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

And we'll be dumping the data/voice here.
PLT Roger, Story.

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004 22 08 48 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; i0 minutes to

Hawaii.
004 22 20 30 CC Skylah; A0S Hawaii for 9 minutes. - Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jer, sometime in the next hour and a half, l'd

like to pass up three changes to your S019K pad.
CDR Okay, go ahead; I've got it out now.
CC Okay, in the first paragraph, that's the field

KOH_ change your start time 00:20 to 00:19.
CDR Okay; got it.
CC And on the same line - delete the 30 Uniform

exposure.
CDR Okay.
CC In the next paragraph down, the start time 00:25,

change that to 00:26.
CDR Okay, 26.
CC And the last one, the second line down there,

change the 249.1 to 249.9.
CDR Okay, 7 turns clockwise from 249.9.
CC Thanks.
004 22 29 05 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 3 minutes to

Goldstone.
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00h 22 32 15 CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone for

7 minutes.
004 22 38 35 CC We're a minute from LOS; 5 minutes to Bermuda.
004 22 38 41 CDR Roger, Story.
004 22 43 41 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Bermuda for

7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story. Story, what's the chances of getting

about i0 minutes of VTR time this evening?
CC Stand by i.
CC We're in the process of dumping it now. We can

certainly get you i0 minutes. When would you like
it?
PLT Probably in about 2 hours. I want to - I have to

do this TV-107, I think it is, the fluid mechanics,
in two different parts. And l'd like to get one
of them done this evening.
004 22 46 03 CC Bill, we'll need the - the next stateside pass

after this one to finish a dump. But about
00:20 - that's about an hour and - an hour and
half from now - you can have it.
PLT That'd be great.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer.
CDR Roger, Story. The sample that I took of the

fungus off the LCGs and put in the transport
medium has been in the wardroom here for - ever
since EVA number 2. According to the pad I got,
I was going to get the word to put it back in
the chiller. I finally got tired of looking at
it today and put it in the chiller. And there's
a nice little growth of fuzzies in there, l've
tightened down the cap well and put it back in
the chiller with the rest of the transport media.
And do you want a description of it or anything?
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004 22 48 I0 CC Yes, sir; we'd appreciatea description.
CDR Okay, it's a - it's just a fuzzy - got a very

fuzzy appearance. It looks like a mold or a
fungus. It doesn't look like it's anything too
wild. It has done a good deal of growing in this
agar or transport media. I went back and checked
the LCGs again, and they look just the same.
There's been no growth whatsoever on them. But
these particular ones that I put in the little
vial have done a lot of growing at room temperature.
CC Okay.
CDR If they need any more description, I'ii get out

a magnifying glass and look at it a little more.
CC Okay. You gto a couple minutes now, Jer?
CDR Yes. Go ahead.
004 22 48 08 CC An evening question. There's some concern that

the TV input station 642 failure may have been
due to the camera cable tl,at was mated to it.
And do you remember which pin broke on the
TVIS 652?
CDR No, I don't, Story. The pin came out though.

It - We had it in our hands.
CC Okay, that answers the next question. Do you

suspect that the pin failure may have been due to
the mating or demating?
CDR I think so.
CC And could you tell us something about the condition

of the camera cable, the J-3 plug?
CDR It's in real good shape.
CC Okay, and how about plugging into the new,

station? Does that connection go easily?
CDR Yes, we've had no trouble at all.
CC Okay, thanks. That's it.

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CDR Okay.
004 22 50 08 CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS and 3 minutes

to Canaries.
004 22 53 33 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries for

8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC While you're there, what was the color of that

fungus?
CDR It's a light gray.
CC Okay. And that's all for now on that.
004 23 06 37 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about half an

hour to Carnarvon at 23:35.
004 23 35 35 CC Skylab, AOS Canarvon and Honeysuckle, i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
004 23 39 57 CC Jer, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story. He's listening.
CC Okay, we got 5 minutes more of AOS here at

Honeysuckle. We'd like to see the maneuver time
for the S019K maneuver in prior to leaving
Honeysuckle, and it's 23 minutes.
PLT In work, Story.
CC And, Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, we're missing your last center of gravity

data on you. It was done on mission day 31.
And the other two crewmen reported theirs on
mission day 32, and yours was delayed until we -
you got your limb volume; that was on mission
day 37. You might look in the lower right-hand
corner of the page in the Biomedical Experiments
Checklist, that's the 14 - pages, and see if they
got that data on you in there.
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SPT Okay,I surewill,Story.
004 23 42 13 CC Skylab, we're looking at a good maneuver time.
SPT Hello, Story. The number is 21.0.
CC 21.0. Thanks, Ed.
SPI_ You're welcome.
004 23 44 50 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about IB minutes

to Hawaii at 23:57.
004 23 57 44 CC Skylab; AOS Hawaii for i0 minutes. Your

maneuver's looking good.
004 23 57 52 PLT Thank you, Story.
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005 00 06 2B CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 4 minutes to

Goldstone.
005 O0 lO _8 CC Skylab_ AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, are you set up well enough on the SI09 to do

a couple of minutes of talking here?
CDR I think so, Story_ go ahead.
CC Okay. We assume on - this is working the urine

bag ejection problem - we assume you are using
urine disposal bags. We don't think you have any
trash disposal bags left on board. Is that correct?
CDR That' s right, Story.
005 00 12 58 CC Okay, does the restriction seem to be constant

during the ejection cycle, or is there one partic-
ular place where it seems to hang up?
_DR No, it's constant throughout.
CC Okay. Have you got anything else with the urine

disposal bags that - that's being ejected, or are
you doing those by themselves?
CDR No, I've been trying to do those alone.
CC Okay. Have you had any other problems with any

other trash ejections?
CDR No, the trash bags go out just very, very smoothly.
005 O0 13 28 CC Okay. We got that. And one other thing: Could

you verify that the film transport number 3 was
installed during the S201 prep on mission day 48 -
that's a couple of days ago - Just after the AN_
malfunction?
CDR That's affirmative.

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CC Okay. That's it, Jer.
CDR Okay.
005 00 15 06 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to Bermuda.
005 O0 15 12 CDR Roger.
005 00 20 19 CC Skylab; AOS through Bermuda for l0 minutes. And,

Bill, the laser people have got you in sight.
They're tracking you and the weather's good.
PLT Roger, Story. We've got a beautiful view of the

Great Lakes region; snow cover on the ground, all
the cities lighted up. It's beautiful.
CC Okay.
PLT And I've got the laser loud and clear.
CC Be autiful.
PLT Boy, it's the brightest I've ever seen. It's great.
And that's only one watt you say?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Man, it's really bright too. New York City's clear;
almost all - all the way down to Washington. You
can see the - all the mountains in relief here,
Appalachians.
005 00 21 31 PLT And their track is just as steady as can be.
CC Okay, we're giving them a call to see if they want

to reduce the power on it.
CC And, Bill, the VTR is ready for you.
PLT Okay, thank you. And they're still tracking us.
CC Bill, in about 15 seconds, they'll be at 1/3 watt.
PLT Okay, I saw one flash and then lost it.
PLT I'm not seeing anything right now. Got it back now.
CC Okay, that's the third watt.

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PLT Okay, it's sort of flickering.
PLT But you still can't miss it. It's plenty bright
to see. It 's very distinguishable.
005 00 22 53 PLT Okay, and we're coasting out up over Boston. Boy,
it's really beautiful.
PLT Okay, I Just lost it. Got it back.
PLT Still tracking us.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, Just lost it behind spacecraft structure.
CC Okay, Bill. Sounds like a good run.
PLT Oh, yes ; it 's loud and clear. And that whole area
up there looks like - well, it's about the clearest
I've ever seen it. Didn't seem like there was
very much industrial haze around.
005 00 24 44 CC Okay. And if you can work it in sometime tonight,

we'd like you to perform general message 5056 there.
That's remove the liquid gas separator from the
ATM C&D loop.
PLT Okay, I'll go get that right now.
CC Thank you.
PLT And what's the - see, my phone call is going to be

on what antenna?
CC Okay, that's - Carnarvon at 01:09, and stand by

Just 1.
CC That's a LEg"2to RIGHT.
PLT Roger.
CC Bill, let's make that a RIGHT all the way on your

ANTENNA.
PLT Roger. Copy.
005 00 29 27 CC Skylab, we're a minute till LOS; 7 minutes to

Ascension.
h
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005 O0 37 2h CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for

9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. And I didn't get to tell you before

you went over the hill last time; we found Kohoutek
in the SO19 right - right where it should have
been. It's - I think on the frame it's going to
show up a little bit to the left. I found it about
9:30 position, about 0.8 of the way out from the
center of the field of view.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CDR Looks like our Rube Goldberg pointing method is

working.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Story, which ATM COOLANT PUMP would you like first?
CC How about Charlie tonight?
PLT You got it.
005 O0 39 08 CC And, Bill, we want to use pump Charlie until we

tell you otherwise. And if that's too noisy to
sleep with tonight, you can turn it down.
PLT Okay.
CC And sometime along here, I've got about five S183

questions concerning the carrousel for you, Bill.
PLT Fire away.
CC Okay, concerning ops yesterday, using carrousel ll.

Was carrousel ll aligned to the zero position?
In other words, synced prior to stowing, and did
the E-clip break at this time?
PLT Negative. We were in the process of syncing it.

You know, you stop short of getting back to 01.
I think it's on frame 29. And when we did that,
I had Jerry watching me every step of the way.
And I pulled a sort of a dirty trick, I - I said,
"Jerry I've been having to use pliers to turn this
thing and I want to see if - if it's possible to
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turn with a finger. Would you try to turn it with

your finger?" And he took it and turned it, and
as he was turning it that clip popped out.
MCC Okay, copy, FLIGHT.
005 00 40 30 PLT So it was in the process of syncing it that the

little clip came out that holds the spring in
there. And the procedure is that you turn it, if
I remember correctly, counterclockwise back to the
sync position.
CC Okay, Bill. And was the film plate indicator

zero or 29 when carrousel ii was removed?
PLT It was indicating 29. We went right through that

procedure very, very, very slowly and step by step,
and Jerry was watching over my shoulder.
CC Roger. And do you recall the position of the

carrousel alignment mark before you synced it?
PLT Yes, it was somewhere around the - I think around

the i0 o'clock position. Jerry's busy right now,
I can't confirm with him. But I - I remember that
it was going to be almost a full turn the long way
around.
CDR That's affirmative, Bill. l0 o'clock.
PLT Okay, Jerry confirms that. About l0 o'clock -

l0 o'clock and the long way around back to
12 o'clock.
CC Okay.
005 00 41 38 PLT That's what we were in the process of doing when

the little spring clip - retainer clip popped out.
CC Okay, and could you describe the partial plate

• that - that came out at the beginning of the ops?
Was the material a plastic holder or glass?
PLT It was glass. I described it on tape. But first,

when I was installing it, I - I assume that's what
you're referring to?
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CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay, it had a corner on it. And the straight-

edge lengths were about 1 inch, and then it made
a sort of kite shape, and the long sides on the
kite were about 2 inches.
CC Okay, did it have an emulsion on it?
PLT It did, indeed.
CC And, do you remember the color, and - and was the

border free of emulsion?
PLT The border was free of emulsion. The emulsion was

a beige or cream color.
CC Ok - -
PLT Had about, oh, an eighth of an inch, 2 to 3 milli-

meters of the border.
005 00 h2 39 CC Okay, excellent. What was the results of the

spectrograph assembly inspection today?
PLT Okay, it was all synced up. I had no problems at

all; everything worked just fine.
CC And was there a plate inside the spectrograph

assembly?
PLT That's negative. There was no plate in there. I

looked very, very carefUlly before and after, and
there were no pieces. Had the vacuum cleaner
there and everything.
CC Okay. You've spoken about the torque required to

sync. Could you compare the torque required,
ii versus carrousel 22?
005 O0 h3 18 PLT Okay. Now 22, if I remember correctly, I was able

to turn with my middle finger by pushing it down
in there and Just - per the original instructions,
you - you depress the post and twist it with fric-
tion on the end of your finger. And that - I - it
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was possible to do that. I was never able to turn

ii that way. But I did get the pin straightener
pliers and was able to - by very carefully grip-
ping the top end of that - of that post - or stem,
I was able to turn that and sync it that way. And
I had been doing that up until we had the problem.
CC Okay. And finally, any rubbing or grating noises

inside carrousel ll?
PLT Under what circtunstances, Story? I - I - I don't

recall any during the operation, no.
CC When you're syncing it s Bill.
PLT No, when I was syncing it with the pliers, there

were no grating. It was a - it was a smooth
operation; it Just - it was Just stiff.
005 00 hh 20 CC Okay, thanks. Those are great answers, Bill.

They'll help us - help us work this out a lot.
PLT Okay. Hope it works out.
005 00 46 30 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; Carnarvon next in

about 23 minutes at 01:09. Bill, that's your
family call. The ANTENNA is RIGHT.
005 00 h6 43 PLT Roger; 09.
005 01 ll 15 CC Skylab; A0S Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Ed, let me know when you're up at the ATM.
SPT l'm there now, Story.
CC Okay. I got a change to your schedule pad there

starting on orbit at 01:19.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. This is in orbit to evaluate the 82B LIMB

POINTING reference system. At 6 minutes TIME
REMAINING there, the VTR is Sun center. We'd
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like at least 30 seconds of XUV SLIT WHITE LIGHT

DISPLAY. And in order to fully illuminate the
SLIT, I"d like to be at Sun center, POINTING.
005 01 12 09 SPT Okay. How long do they want?
CC Oh, Just 30 seconds of that.
SPT Okay.
SPT How about any time in the orbit I have to be at

Sun center? Will that do?
CC Yes, sir; that'll do.
CC J0P 6, building block l, would be a fine time.
SPT Okay.
005 01 14 49 SPT Story, one additional word on that, and that is,
when I was performing an exposure today using
the AUXILIARY TIMER, panel 127, when it timed
out, it caused the WHITE LIGHT SLIT DISPLAY to
oscillate. And it was not an oscillation of the
total picture, but rather, if you will, wiggles
running up and down, like a wave - a standing
wave running up and down the - or a traveling
wave running up the - the limb, as well as the
fiducial marks. So it was some - that was some-
where in the electronics.
CC Thanks, Ed.
005 01 17 31 SPT Story, for the NOAA people in the backroom, I've
been keeping tru - track of active regions. The
one which I mentioned this morning at around 250
is still there. It appears to be about the same
intensity as the one up at 280. A little further
out on the limb. The one at 270 - or 280 appears
to be slightly rotating onto the limb.
CC Okay, Ed. And have you been putting some ATM

on the V - VTR just the last minute or two?
SPT That's affirm.

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CC Okay. We Just wanted to be sure Bill wasn't putting

on something down below with the - the VIDEO switch
in ATM.
SPT No, Bill's up there having his call right now, and
I was just getting a little ahead on the VTR work.
CC Yes, fine.
005 01 19 22 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to Guam.

Be ready for the evening status report at Guam.
Be dumping the data/voice there. And, Jer, we're
thinking that wiggle you saw may be a closing
of the doors at that time - the shutters.
CDR Was that for Ed?
CC Yes. He was talking about wiggles that he saw

on the - the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY.
005 01 19 55 CDR Roger.
005 01 23 h2 CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for 9 minutes.

Be dumping the dat_/voice here.
CDR Okay, ready to copy the status?
CC Yes, sir: go.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 8;5, 8.0 heavy, 0.5 light;

SPT, 10.0, 9.5 heavy, half light; PLT, 5.0,
2.0 heavy, 3.0 moderate. Volumes: 2100, 2200,
2500. Water gun: 8151, 4069, 0080. Body mass:
CDR, 6.313, 6.308, 6.308; SPT, 6.386, 6.377, 6.379; _
PLT, 6.233, 6.233, 6.23_. Exercise: CDR, no
change; SPT, no Foxtrot; PLT, no Foxtrot. Med-
ications: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, chloral
hydrate last night, Dalmane tonight before bedtime.
Clothing: CDR, shorts and socks; SPT, socks; PLT,
none. Food log: CDR, 5.5 salt, zero deviations,
plus 2.5 water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus 1 tea,
plus 1 tuna, zero water; PLT, 6.0 salt, zero
deviations, zero water. Flight Plan deviations :
none. Shopping list: CDR started TV-103 prep;
have so far invested 30 minutes in it. All
housekeeping is accomplished today. Inoperable
Equipment : none. Unscheduled stowage : none.
Stand by for photo log.
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CC Okay, Jer.
005 01 25 56 CDR Okay, photo log. 16-millimeter: M516-3, Charlie

India 77, 08, Mike Tango 09; Delta Papa 14,
Charlie - Charlie India 127, 41, Charlie India 93.
S183 ops, uniform Alfa 04, 79. MI51/RTC prep,
Charlie India 79, 82, Charlie India 126. EREP
VTS, Charlie Lima 09, 40. MI51, M092, and 171,
Charlie India 79, 68, Charlie India 126. Nikons:
i, Charlie X-ray 39, 48; 2, no change; 3, Charlie
India 112, 26; 4, no change_ 5, no change.
70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 52, 155. ETC:
Charlie Tango ll, 01 - 045. EREP: Set Tango,
8949, 8287, 9163, 9158, 2699, 0023. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa l, 04, Charlie India 80, 99,
Mike Tango 08; Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India 127, 41,
Charlie India 93; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 79,
68, Charlie India 126; Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 77,
08, Mike Tango 09. Back, 07, Charlie India 78,
46, Charlie India 74.
CC Thanks, Jer.
005 01 28 25 CDH Houston, CDH.
CC Go, Jet.
CDR Okay, on this TV-104 that I'm doing - correction,

103. It's going to take a good hour and a half,
I think, just to get - get the equipment built
and ready to go. There's a little wire pyramid that
has to be made and a little wire cube and a couple
of other goodies. And those are good for a half
hour apiece. And so tell the folks when they
started allowing time for some of these things,
not to be skimpy with it.
005 01 29 0h CC Copy, Jer.
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005 Ol 32 13 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 16 minutes to

Goldstone at 01:48.
005 01 32 25 PLT See you, Story.
005 01 48 18 CC Skylab, I've got you through Goldstone and Texas

for i0 minutes. Your med conference will be i0 min-
utes from now through MILA at 01:59.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And y'all ready for some news, or do you have some

for me now? The last pass that we plan to t_]k to
you will be after the med conference. That's Ber-
muda at 02:04.
CDR Okay. Why don't you throw us %he news at that pass.
Ed's working ATM and Bill's working on his science
demo, and that'll probably be better timing.
CC Okay. We'll do it then.
CC And, Jet, we can offer you a wakeup which is 26 min-

utes early or 20 minutes late. You'd probably like
the late one.
CDR Yes. Why don't we go for the late one, and we'll
set our alarms.
CC Okay. Planned time of wakeup is we - we'll call

you at ll:20. And the Flight Plan calls for a
wakeup at ll:00.
CDR Roger.
005 01 58 33 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to handing over to the

med conference. We'll be back with you at Bermuda
at 02:04. We'll lose you at Bermuda at 02:07.
And, Ed, if through Bermuda we could check the ATM
closeout, it would be good. We wouldn't have to
call you later.
005 02 0_ 0_ SPT Yes, that's affirmative, Jerry.
CO Skylab, we're back with you here through Bermuda

for 3 minutes. We see Ed closing out the ATM.
We'll take a look at it before LOS here.
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SPT Story, the reason for the delay is, I went zipping
into the command module to get some S063 Kohoutek
photos.
CC Okay, Ed. You all ready for some news?
SPT Sure am. Go ahead.
005 02 04 58 CC Leo K. Thorsness announced he will run for U.S.

Senate from South Dakota and said that his 6 years
in North Vietnamese prison camp will make him a
better public leader because "I learned a lot more
about America, what America is all about, what she
stands for." Thorsness, 41, a retired Air Force
officer, said he will run in the primary and seek
the nomination for the seat now held by Senator
McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate.
An icy blizzard, rare in the San Fransico area, left
thousands of unprepared lowland residents stranded,
shivering, shoveling out from under blankets of
snow. Snow choked usually sun-bathed mountain ridge
roads. The white stuff spooked horses on a sea level
ranch. Startled drivers in the Oakland hills were
forced to abandon their autos.
005 02 06 O0 SPT Story, would you like a frame count before you press
on?
CC Yes, sir. And two - two things up there, Ed, the

XUV MON inner door is still OPEN and MPC is still
ENABLE.
SPT Yes, I still haven't finished it up. 13668, 4831,

164, 4 - 406, 5066, 4398.
CC Okay.
CC And we're a minute from LOS here. We don't plan to

call you at the next station, but it is Carnarvon
in about 40 minutes at 02247.
005 02 07 21 CC Thanks for the frame count, Ed. The panel looks
good and sorry the news was so short.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPT_0N
005 ll 2X XX CC (Music: "Strawberry Roan" and "El Paso" by Marty

Robbins)
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're about 1 minute from

LOS. We'll see you again at Vanguard at 58 with
a recorder dump.
SPT Good morning, Hank.
CDR Gene Autry, eat your heart out.
005 ll 2X XX CC (Music)
005 ll 58 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for ll minutes.

And we'll be dumping the recorder.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
CDR Hank, would you ask them to check the WASTE PROCES-
SOR EXHAUST PRESSURE, please?
CC Will do, Jer.
CC CDR, Houston. Looks normal to us. We see 0.007.
CDR Okay, I'm going to OPEN the URINE DUMP VALVE now,
and we'll see what you see then.
CC Okay, we're watching.
005 12 00 06 CDR Okay, it's OPEN.
CC Skylab, Houston. For into, right after you started

making z's last night, we got the results of a
thermal study that was run at Marshall, that showed
that the - these long maneuvers that we've got out
of solar inertial are causing the skin of the
vehicle to roa - reach the critical point, which
we may start to get some outgassing from the insu-
lation, the old TTI problem again. And as a result
of that, we've had to shorten this JOP 18D today
to one pass rather than two. Now the J0P 18 pad
we sent up does reflect that when Ed gets to doing
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it; and as a result I also - the results of that

I had - we've had to make a few Flight Plan changes.
They're very small, to take that into account. And
so whenever each of you is free I have - Just give
me a call and I'll give you your part of the Flight
Plan corrections.
SPT Okay, Hank, I'm ready now. Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. What it amounts to you - yours is pretty

simple. You will just stay on the console and run
an ATM pass in place of the second JOP 18D pass.
And that causes a - a change in the schedule. If
you have that handy, I can give you that very
briefly on what you'll do for that second pass.
SPT I don't have the ATM schedule. Hold on, I'll go

get it.
005 12 04 58 SPT Okay, Hank, go ahead with the changes to the ATM
schedule.
CC Okay, Ed. In the pass that's scheduled there

at 18:04, right prior to that, the - the pad says
there's a ground ENABLE MOMENTUM DUMP at 17:53.
Change that to 16:15, for info. And the - your
pass will start at 16:15, in place of the JOP 18D,
and you'll also do the 18:04. Now what we suggest
you do is do the shopping list 14 Alfa, as it's
called for there, on the first rev and do a
14 Bravo on the second rev. And - the 18:0h rev -
And the only change to the pad will be that for
the 14 Bravo, down on S05h, the GRATING should be
IN instead of OUT.
005 12 06 32 CC SPT, Houston. I - I think I might have made an

error reading that up. We want you to do shopping
list 14 and not - and delete any reference to that
Bravo, except we want to do one of them with the
GRATING, OUT and one with the GRATING, IN on
the 16:15 and 18:04 revs.
SPT Okay, Hank, I copy. On the 18:04 rev, you want the
shopping list 14, one with the GRATING, IN and
one with the GRATING, OUT.
SPT Hank, as I see it, that 18:04 pass is all one pass,
so it looks like you want two shopping list lh's
done on the same pass?
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CC Negative, Ed. We want a shopping list 14 on both

of the passes. In other words, we're adding,
instead of the second JOP 18D rev, we're adding
in another ATM pass, and it will be on ... 16:15.
You'll be there, but I think it starts really
about 16:30, at sunrise.
SPT Okay, I'm with you. I was looking at the other

end of it. Okay. I got it now, Hank. Somewhere
around 16:15, 16:30. Whenever it starts, we'll
give you a shopping list 14 and either GRATING, IN
or GRATING, OUT, in the ops for the next orbit.
Thank you.
CC That - that's right, Ed. Thank you very much.
005 12 08 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Scension - Ascension at 12,
and that's about 3 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Got a question on the 18D pad,

step 14. They say if you don't find the comet,
reverse all search maneuvers. Can't you ... with
the biases and start from scratch?
CC Ed, we're about to go LOS. Let us catch you at

Ascension. That's about 2 minutes from now.
005 12 12 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Ascension for 7-1/2 minutes. And if I understood
your correc - question correctly, Ed, it was in
reference to reverse all search maneuvers. That
really - you don't really have to do that. All
you'd have to do is hit SOLAR INERTIAL and it'd
take you back where you were. And the reason for
the comment on the Venus in there is that, if
you're properly centered, Venus will be out of the
field of view, and that was Just an information
remark.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.
005 12 13 47 CC And, Ed, you probably noticed we didn't send you

up a SAP update this morning, or solar activity
update. There really wasn't that much going on.
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We decided we'd just voice up what little change

is going on. Active region 12 is slowly declining;
active region 14 is stable, no activity reported.
And there's no optical features associated with
_ the XUVbrightening at 250 at 1.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank. Hopefully that pad's going

to start getting longer again.
PLT Hank, the PLT on the ATM.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Question for the ATOM there. On these 5h's when

they're going to - when we take time exposures,
are they going to take specified time in the pad?
I just started a sequence here, and I think I did
it incorrectly. But I - in order to do it as it is
on the pad, I think I have to have a time, unless
it's a specified canned time on that?
CC Will do.
PLT It is a change on the J0P Summary Sheets.
CC That's affirmative, Bill. I was - I think it was

the last change we sent up there. Is - Well, next
to last; I believe it was change 18 that changed
that building block.
PLT Yes, but the duration of the exposure isn't quite

clear from the - the length of the space on the
Summary Sheet. I just wondered if I was Just
supposed to sort of eyeball that or are they going
to specify a time-exposure duration in the pad?
PLT Okay, I've just been updated by Ed here, and it's

supposed to be 17 minutes.
CC That's affirmative, Bill. Should be M, S, 0, S,

1 and 17-minute exposure.
PLT Thank you, Hank.

We'll only drop out for about 30, 40 seconds. Will
be right back with you at Canary.
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005 12 20 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you again through

Canary and Madrid for 9-1/2 minutes.

see you again at Guam at 56, 26-1/2 minutes from
now.
005 12 56 13 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We've got a 9-1/2-minute pass here today.

One question for you on the Sun, I don't have
anything to add. We have not yet seen any ev-
idence at - on the ground on H-ALPHA or anything
other than the EUV from OSO, on the region that
you mentioned coming over the limb at 250 bearing.
Can you tell us what you see there?
SPT Bill, I've not had a pass on the ATM panel this
morning, so I can't tell you. As soon as I do
get one, I'll - however, I'll take a quick look
for it.
_ MCC Okay, fine. Just pass it down wheneveryou get

there. Got some comments on today's activities.
Do you have the schedule sheet with you?
SPT I sure do, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. The first thing is on the shopping list 14,

which we had scheduled for the pass that begins at
18:04. Because of thermal constraints, we can only
run the JOP 18D for one orbit. So we pick up the
orbit previous to 18:04 as well, rather than running
Just shopping list 14 Alfa on the 18:04 orbit.
What we want to run is the shopping list 14 Alfa
on the previous orbit, and we'll pick up shopping
list 14 Bravo at 18:04. The only change on the
Bravo is, you'll notice down at the bottom there,
we have tagged on 54 LONG EXPOSURE, M, S, O, S, 1.
So we've got GRATING, OUT there. We want to run
the shopping list 14 Bravo the same, except we
want the GRATING, IN on 54. So we're recommending
in summary here, to do 14 Alfa first, with GRATING,
OUT; do 14 Bravo second, with GRATING, IN; and
each one is a full orbit long. Is that clear?
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SPT Okay, Bill. At the orbit at somewhere around 16:15,

you want shopping list 14 Bravo with the GRATING,
OUT and the subsequent orbit, 18:04, shopping list
Bravo with GRATING, IN.
D
MCC The first orbit, 16:30 or whenever it is, is

14 Alfa, actually peaking on the plume with
GRATING, OUT. The second orbit then is 14 Bravo
which is the background shot with GRATING, IN.
SPT Okay. I got it.
MCC Okay and now for more comments. Within shopping

list 14, you'll notice that when you read it, it
says to m__ximize DETECTOR 3 for 55 on either magne-
sium X or neon VII. We recommend trying magnesium X
first, mainly because its GRATING comes first, and
then to - go to neon VII. If you don't find any-
body home in magnesium X, if you find nobody home
there, locate a bright point if possible on the
XUV MON and Just go radially outward from that.
And if that fails, Just - the orbit's yours.
SPT Okay. Would you go over that once more again,

Bill?
MCC Okay. The way the shopping list is written, it

says maximize DETECTOR 3, and it offers magnesium X
or neon VII. Try magnesium X first, and if you
can't find a plume in magnesium X to peak on, go
to neon VII. Again, if you can't find a plume
to peak on there, look at the XUV MON and find
a bright point and Just go radially outward from
there with the right offset from the limb. And
if you can't find any break points, then it looks
like you've picked up another orbit for observa-
tion time.
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005 1B 00 05 SPT Okay. I got it, Bill. Thank you.
MCC And note that 55 has a particular GRATING specified.

So - and that is MECH REF since you'll be off of
the limb.
SPT Okay.
MCC And one last thing here. On the JOP 26 later in

the day that Jerry does, it's Just a confirmation
of what's in the schedule pad. 82B takes a long
exposure that spans four building blocks and one
pointing change in between. Don't worry about it.
They've all ready taken that into account, and
they don't mind the pointing change.
005 1B 00 41 SPT Okay. I think Jerry understands.
MCC Okay. And now to answer your question on coronal

transients from several days ago. Basically, what
it looks like is that both Parkinson and Murphy
have combined to act against us. We've got several
things going against us, this mission, the first
and foremost of which is that it is Just not nearly
as active as it was, say, for SL-3, and that was
what we compared with. I've got a memo here, pre-
pared by Jess Smith and Ernie Hildner and Broussard
on actually quantifying the coronal transients
from SL-3 and what we've done so far in SL-_.
And the big conclusion is that activity is much
less SL-4, than it was SL-3. And as a matter of
fact, if you'll recall several - the last half a
cycle and a cycle and a half ago, we had 87/92
up and then the following cycle we had 00 up, and
that's been the wildest thing we've seen. We
looked not too long ago at an H-alpha picture from
that longitude on SL-3, and there were about six
quite active regions that you could see, and 00
or 87/92 would have fallen pretty much in the
middle of the complexity and activity there.
005 13 01 58 MCC So your Sun is much less active. And then the
thing that Parkinson and Murphy really get us on
is that most of the coronal activity that we have
had has fallen at - at night or during your sleep
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cycle really. So our only conclusion is about all

we can do is to wish for better times ahead here.
One note here is if you recall several weeks ago
when prominence 59 lifted off while you were asleep -
We had scheduled big observations that day, but
it lifted off while you guys were aslee p - we got
a lot of unattended data on it from S055, S052,
and 82 Alfa. Shot considerable film and 52 got
several STANDARD sequences when it was out at 0.4,
0.5, and about 0.7 solar radii. So that everybody's
quite excited about that, even though it would have
been nice if you guys had been up. We could have
gotten a little more - a little more data as far
as being able to use the man up there changing
modes and so on. So about all our - we can conclude
there is that we've Just been unlucky, and we have
an inactive Sun, and we just have to keep our eyes
open.
005 13 03 14 SPT Okay, Bill. I hope we pick up something when we

got the active longitude coming around the corner
again here.
MCC Okay, so do we. And one note there is that many

of the coronal transients that we have seen in SL-2
and 3 we've picked up by accident, several of
which, as Bob MacQueen told you earlier, were when
crewmen were actually at the panel looking at the
displays and there would be a coronal transient
occuring, that Just is not visible on board.
005 13 03 44 SPT Okay, we got a pretty good monitor up here, and

I think if they're - if they're barely visible,
they ought to show up here.
MCC Okay, good. Now one more thing here. On S054 we

talked a bit yesterday about changing some building
blocks there again, and I concluded that we prob-
ably had ought not change them. What we want to
do is all of the sequences where we say GRATING,
OUT, M, blank, O, S, 256 and what have you, S054
would like more flexibility at being able to put
the GRATING, IN. Rather than send you a massive
change that, in effect, has you going through all
the building blocks lining out the zero or the 0
and making a line, where we could say GRAT, IN;
GRAT, OUT, what I would recommend is, let's Just
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treat all of the S054 sequences where it says

GRAT, OUT. If the pad says nothing, it's GRAT,
OUT; if we want it IN, we'll say GRAT, IN. On
things like today where we have a BB 28 that -
the BB 28 itself has both GRATING, OUT, we wanted
one IN, one OUT, so we say GRAT, OUT; GRAT, IN.
And we're hoping that's clear enough that we don't
need to take 30 minutes of your time with a change.
We've got 50 seconds here until LOS. Vanguard is
next in 31 minutes at 13:36 and what are your
thoughts on that, on 54?
005 13 05 06 SPT Yes, I agree with you. I don't think we need to

go through more changes. I also recommend, though,
that if it says OUT on the JOP S_rmmary Sheet and
you want to change it to IN, Just preface it by
-- a change,unless that makes it harder on the
bookkeeping down there. But it would help us a
little up here.
MCC Okay, fine. Understand you're saying that if we

want to change it from OUT to IN, we Just say:
Change GRAT to IN.
005 13 05 28 SPT Yes, or anything else which will catch the guy's
eye, so he can make sure - make sure that he re-
alizes that he is changing it from the J0P Statuary
Sheet. Maybe that makes it harder in terms of
bookkeeping down there, in terms of changes that
you come up with. I know we had some rough ground
roll on percentages and so forth, but under the
circumstances, I don't mind as long as they specify
the change.
MCC Okay, fine, Ed. And we're officially LOS here;

so I'll stop talking and we'll see you tomorrow.
005 13 36 26 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're A0S at Vanguard for

8 minutes.
003 13 36 32 PLT Good morning, Crip.
CDR Hello, crimson buddies.
CC How you guys doing today?

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CDR Oh, pretty good except we've got a little problem.
005 13 36 hl CC You really know how to start my day out right.

What is it?
CDR Right. Our urine dump doesn't dump.
CC That's the one you told me you wanted to use last

night.
CDR Right. Our friendly bronze team says the WASTE

PROCESSER EXHAUST gas PRESSURE is okay, but we're
not moving any fluids at all. We shifted over to
the secondary - or to BUS 2 on the heater, and we
closed up the DUMP VALVE about an hour ago, and
shifted over to the other heater. And what do you -
what does the pressure look like now?
CC We'll check it for you.
005 13 37 35 CC Okay, we're still showing it to be 0.008.
CDR Okay, you don't have any readings of temperature

or anything like that, do you?
CC Unfortunately we do not.
005 13 37 55 CDR Okay, I'm going to throw the handle over to the
DUMP position again, and we'll see what happens.
CC Okay.
005 13 38 14 CDR Okay, it's in Db_IP.
CC Roger, Jet. Did you happen to verify the circuit

breakers on p_uel 614, your DUMP HEATERS, BUS 1
and 2?
CDR Okay, I'll go check that.
005 13 38 38 CDR They're CLOSED; we've got lights.
CC Okay.
005 13 40 03 CC For the PLT, while we're waiting on Jer to let us

know what's happening with the urine dump, I do have
a couple of Flight Plan changes I'm going to have
to note to you, Bill. We don't have to get them
in this site, but we probably should by the next;
so whenever it's convenient with you.
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005 13 h0 2h PLT Roger, Crip. I'll be with you in about a minute.
CC Okay, no big rush. We have about 4-1/2 minutes

left at Vanguard here.
005 13 42 32 PLT Crip, I have my pad out now.
CC Okay, Bill. If - if you've got your summary handy,

let me Just basically tell you in general terms
what we're going to do and then we can mark it up.
Because the 18D was shortened up for Ed today,
we can't do that 183 ops that we've got scheduled
for you around 16:00, because we're going to be
maneuvering. So what we'd like to do is move your
M092/171 observer up to as soon as you finish the
film installation on 183. And then at the end of
that we want you to pick up a housekeeping 60 Echo,
the food transfer that Jerry originally had. And
I'm going to take it off of his later.
PLT Okay, if I have - I read you correctly then, after

the S183 film installation, I pick up the M092/171
observer on the CDR; that starts at around what,
15:45?
CC Yes, somewhere in that time. Whenever you finish

the installation you can - you can start it.
005 13 43 46 PLT Okay, and at the completion of M092-171-I on the

CDR, I pick up a housekeeping 60 Echo.
005 13 43 58 CC That's affirmative. And then later when I talk

to Jet, I'm going to move that 183 ops later down
in his schedule. But that's basically we all -
all we had for you. There was one item I wanted
to note for you on your upcoming SO19 operation.
We made a little error when we put the TILTs in
and we put it in negative numbers. You need to
subtract those negative number from 360. I think
it should be fairly obvious to you. If you got
that pad I can go ahead and give you the correct
numbers.
005 13 44 32 CC If - if you don't have it real handy right now,

contact is Canary in 11-1/2 minutes at 13:56.
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005 13 4h 43 PLT Okay, I got TILT minus 1.7, so I'll make that
358.3; and the minus 0.5, I'll make that 395.5.
CC 359.5; Roger.
PLT Escuse me, 359.5.
005 13 h5 58 CC Okay, that's - that's got it.
005 13 56 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Canary. We

have you for about 12 minutes.
005 13 56 2h CDR Roger, Crip. And my bag still runneth over.
CC Okay, Jer. I guess, we don't want to let this

get us behind on today's Flight Plan and our re-
commendation would be either to throw it over in
the corner some place else while we - while we
work on it or go ahead and put it out the trash
airlock, your option. One item that you might try
sometime today in a - in one of the open housekeep-
ing periods that we have, is that we have the UCTA
urine inlet hose adapter that we use to dump the
UCTAs, that is in locker 823. And you might try
connecting that up to that dump and open it up and
see if you're getting any flow at all through it.
005 13 57 13 CDH Okay, we'll give that a try.
CC Roger. And our recommendation, I guess would be,

on this problem you've been having with the urine
bags and the trash airlock, would be to - to go
with two bags max at one time.
005 13 57 36 CDR Okay. I don't know how long our urine disposal
bags are going to last at that rate.
CC Well, we're - Roger. We are - I think they men-

tioned to you the other day that we're going to
probably go to 36-hour collection or at least al-
ternating 36-hour and 2h-hour collection. So we
hope that would extend the use of those bags
somewhat.
CDR Okay.
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005 13 58 02 CC Jerry, do you have a moment here to copy down

something on your Summary Flight Plan? Or would
you want to get it a little bit later; it's - no
big rush on it.
CDR First of all, a question. This period of time

between l_:18 and 1_:37 when I'm not allowed to use
the ergometer. Can I use the Mark I or the
treadm_ll?
CC Stand by 1.
005 13 58 55 CC Okay, Jer, the - the answer to that is that you're

GO to - to use the Mark I and the treadmill. And
one question we have right now, it's about doing
the - the jumping exercise on the treadmill, and
let me- let me check on that.
CDR Okay, I'll go ahead and get started on the ergom-

eter, and will you -will we be any A0S passes
in that period of time?
CC Stand by l, Jet.
.- 005 13 59 46 CC No, unfortunately we don't.
CDR Okay, I'll get my pad and pencil. We'll do those

updates now.
CC Oh, I'm - I'm sorry, Jer. Yes, we'll have some

before - before then. I was thinking that you
were talking about getting - during that period
that you couldn't use the - use the ergometer.
We can get it after your exercise period. No
sweat. All I want to do - -
005 14 00 12 CDR Okay, what I was thinking was, during that period
when I couldn't exercise, we could do the updates.
CC Oh, okay.
CC Also, sometime this pass, probably be most con-

venient for Ed, if he can get a moment up there
at the ATM panel, I'm going to need to - to get a
REG ADJUST for the upcoming 18D pass.
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005 14 O0 36 SPT With you in a minute, Crip.
005 14 00 37 CC Okay, Ed, thank you.
005 14 03 04 SPT Okay, Crip. What would you like?
CC Okay, Ed. On panel 206 there, what we want to do

is, if we've got the original positions marked,
we want to take the REG ADJUST pots 1 and 2, l0 de-
grees clockwise.
005 l& 03 31 SPT You've got it.
005 14 03 33 CC Thank you, sir.
005 14 05 26 CC For the CDR. Jer, regarding the exercise, at appar-

ent, - you've got a mount to - to t-1_ about
that?
CDR Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. You - The only restriction that we've got

on SO19 ops is ergc_eter only. One - In looking
at that, one item, we bring to note is that you're
scheduled right up until 15:00 for exercise. And
at 15:02:18, Delta data take commences, so we are
affirming that your exercise will be complete
by 15:00.
005 l_ 05 O0 CDR Yes, it ought to be.
CC Okay.
005 14 08 42 SPT Hello, Crip. You still there?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay. Thought I'd Just tell you what I'm working
on during the observing period. I managed to find
what looks to be a surge, and it's around 2_0, Just
a little bit south of the brightening in XUV mon-
itor. It's about 30 arc seconds off the limb,
about 60 arc seconds in linear dimension, that's
tangent to the limb. Although it's not completely
a linear feature, that's roughly the magnitude
of it. I've been able to get some oxygen VI
intensities of around 200 in them, and I've got
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some spectra going on 82B both on the hot point

as well as completely away from the whole region.
That's what I'm - that second part is what I'm
working on now for the background spectra. 55 is
getting some GRATING, AUTO SCAN and some MIRROR, AUTO
AUTO RAST_s truncated down to line 20. Try and
get some spectral and time resolution on it. So
there probably is something coming around the
corner there at around 240, 250, and I'll keep
an eye on this region today.
005 14 09 51 CC Very good. I hope we've got some activity coming

around for you. We're about B0 seconds from LOS.
Next station contact in 3_ minutes over Honeysuckle
at 14:44, 14:4h.
005 14 l0 04 SPT Okay, Crip. The feature itself doesn't appear to

be moving away, but it certainly is changing shape
over the past 30 minutes or so. And I do not see
any connecting links down to the chromosphere.
It's pretty much free up to around 25, 30 arc sec-
onds above the limb.
005 lh l0 2h CC Okay. Appreciate that good description.
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005 14 h_ 20 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honeysuckle. We have you

for about 8 minutes.
SPT Roger, Crip. The maneuver's going pretty well

except the rates in Y are Jumping around quite a
bit. I've been looking at the RATE GYRO outputs,
and ntumber 3, or the one out in the rack, is
oscillating between - anywhere between 14 and 400.
005 lh 50 05 CC Okay, Ed, in - in looking at it, we also saw the

oscillations in Y-B, although the - it seems to
be damping out now and your total attitude looks
pretty good.
SPT Crip, would you expect those oscillations would

come out to the correct mean value? And are they
updating the strapdown correctly, or could that
account for an error in updating your strapdown?
CC Ed, apparently the mean value looks like it's

pretty good because if the - the integral value
of them was building up sufficiently large to
cause an error in your strapdown, you would get
a discompare. And it's not going to be anywhere
near that big.
005 l_ 51 Oh SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. Do you have any kind of
an estimate of how much the error might be in
terms of hundreths of a degree, so if I tried
to find the comet I might know which direction
to - to move it?
CC I - okay, we're about a minute from LOS. Next

station contact is going to be Bermuda in
37 minutes at 15:28, 15:28. We'll be da - doing
a data/voice recorder dump there. We may see a
tenth of a degree error. I don't know if we can
give you a - a direction of it one way or the
other.
SPT Okay, Crip. I guess it's mark one eyeball. I'll

see what I can do.
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PLT Crip, one quick question on the documentry

photo 17. You have 1 percent required, s_id I
just wondered if - would you verify that that is,
indeed, 1 percent?
CC Checking.
005 lh 52 h2 CC Use what you need, Bill.
005 15 28 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda for 7 minutes.

We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. I've checked the urine line and

it appears to be plugged. And I'm standing by
to copy the changes to the Flight Plan for today.
CC Okay, if you've got your s_1_ary handy, we want

you to scratch your housekeeping 60 Echo. Bill
is going to pick that up later. And, as soon as
he finishes with the 183 film installation, we
want you to start your M092/171 run.
CDR Hey, Crip, do I have some kind of constraints

between exercise in that run?
CC Believe so; I believe it's an hour. Let me

check that. It's a 1-hour constraint. And we're
assuming that you're not going to ready until
pretty close to 16:00 to start that anyhow.
CDR Okay.
005 15 29 l_ CC Okay. And when you finish up the 92/171 run,

you can go ahead and eat at that time if you
would, please. Should be somewhere a little
after 18:00. And then we want you to pick up
the 183 ops, which we originally were going
to give to Bill, and that's going to be at about
18:48 is when you need to put that down.
CC And for Ed, on the panel, if you'd stay off the

DAS for a moment, we need to get some - the work
with the heaters on the CMGs, and we'll tell you
when you can have it back.
CDR Okay, Crip.

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CC Okay. That's got it all. And we'll sit here

and consider what we can do about - about the -
dump. Did you - do you have the heater still on,
or did you turn it off?
CDR No, it's been on since early this morning.
005 15 30 43 CC Okay, very good. And, for Ed, the DAS is his.
And, Jet, did you - did you get anything dumped
at all this morning, or was it blocked when you
started?
CDR It was blocked when we started. The first thing

we tried to do was evacuate the new bags, and
they wouldn't evacuate. I guess I could have
told you when we talked earlier that - that it
wasn't drawn. But I went ahead and checked
it with the UTCA [sic] collection bag ad - adapter,
anyway, to make sure.
CC Okay. Very good. Appreciate the info.

station contact in 2 minutes, Canaries, 15:36,
_ 15:36.
SPT Okay, Crip. I was able to find the coma, but it

was fainter than faint. I had to move it out to
Just about the very edge of the display, made a
couple of maneuvers to move it out in - in Y and X
and then Just watched the edge of the display,
and finally it - it appeared. And I believe I
was able to maneuver it in, but I had to maneuver
it from a position of around 160 in, so the scale
factor may get to us a little bit. But I think
we came out a little better by doing that than
starting from where it initially was, which I said
to be in the right quadrant, anyways, but I could
not have said, how close it was.
005 15 34 45 CC Okay. And did I copy 160 as where you had it on

the display?
SPT That's where I finally maneuvered it in to.

I mover - maneuvered it over to the X-axis, at
around minus 160. I could not see it any closer
than that.
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CC Okay. Might give us a good hint as to where to

try tomorrow.
SPT Okay, that's not where I really started, Crip - -
005 15 35 l0 CC Roger. I got - got you.

Canary, and we have you for about ll minutes.
END OF TAPE
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_P
5 15 _6 h9 CC •Skylab, Houston. We' re 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Carnarvon in 26 minutes at
16:13, 16 :lB.
005 16 lh 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon. We

have you for about 9 minutes. Sorry we lost the
line awhile ago and didn't get to give you an LOS.
005 16 15 17 SPT Say, Crip, I'd like to amplify the discussion we

were having Just when you went over the hill the
last time about where you were going to place the
comet in the field of view of the WLC.
CC Okay.
SPT Might be better if you didn't - might be better

if you didn't place it right at the very edge
because I can - I cannot see it unless it's moving
I think if you placed it a little bit inside, in a
position I cannot see it, like you did today, I'll
have to make a maneuver that moves it outward away
from the center and then Just watch that very
small annulus around the outside where I have a
hope of seeing it. Wait until it comes across and
pick it up then.
CC Okay, Ed, I'm - I'm sorry; I didn't - didn't quite

grasp what - what you wanted us to do then. Do
you want us to make it such that you have to do the
maneuver going out? Or do you want us to go ahead
and try to place it on the edge?
005 16 16 09 SPT No, Crip, don't place it on the edge, because even
if it's sitting there, I'll never find it. The
only way I can see it is if it's moving. It looks
Just like a moving noise. It's a very - it's so
faint that it'll never show up unless it is moving.
So if you position it roughly the same way you
did today, then I can make a maneuver outward, and
I can hopefully see it move across in a radial
direction, that very small annulus on the outside.
CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you very much for the

suggestion.
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SPT Thank you. Crip, I 'm not holding out too much
hope. I think I really Just lucked out today.
005 16 16 _7 CC Okay, actually we didn't think that you would be

able to get it today, so that's good work.
005 16 22 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We 're going to have a brief

dropout here in about 1 minute between Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle. I'll call you when we're back
on.
SPT Crip, I'm wondering if the folks down there can

tell me whether there's any start with a apparent
magnitude greater than 2 in the 52 field of view;
it there's something that might compete with the
comet for visibility?
CC Talking today or tomorrow.
SPT I guess both. I'd like to make sure that today

I really was looking at the comet and tomorrow with
the - like to know what the situation will be.
005 16 24 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Honeysuckle

for about 4 minutes. Ed, in answer to your question,
we didn't even have any fifth magnitude, or down
to fifth magnitude stars in the field of view, so
we feel fairly confident that you did get the
comet if you saw anything. T_norrow we're going to
have Venus in the field of view, but no stars. So
there shouldn't be any - any confusion.
SPT Hey, Venus in there, that's relatively bright.

Why don't you Just five me a plate to - to put Venus,
and heck, that'll position the comet then for us?
CC Sounds like a good idea. We'll - we'll work that.
SPT Crip, I've gone through all the S054 changes, and
the only one I'm a little clear [sic] on is the
exact change that we had in building block 17 on
J0P 8, both sides of the s11mmary sheet. And I'm
wondering if you could Just read that up to me and
I'll make sure we have it correct.
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005 16 2507 CC Will do. And we're rewinding your VTR to - to

dump it over on MILA, this upcoming State pass.
SPT Okay, Crip. I didn't put anything on there because

it was so darn faint. I din't think that it would
show up on the ground at all.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT And also, I was pretty rushed.
CC Copy.
CC Ed, if you've got that building block 17 handy,

I can go ahead and read it to you now.
SPT Okay, Crip; go ahead.
CC Okay. What we want is an M, S, blank, L, 6_.

And we want that at four times: 0, 13, 26, and
29.
005 16 26 2h SPT I believe that last one should be 39, shouldn't

it, Crip?
CC Let me verify that. You're right. It was written

down wrong here. It's 39.
SPT Okay, I've got it. Thanks very much, Crip.
005 16 27 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact at MILA in 33 minutes ; that's 16 -
17:00 on the - on the nose.
005 17 00 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at MILA; we have you

for about 14 minutes. And in the latter portion of
this pass at Bermuda, we're going to be doing
a data/voice recorder dump. And I'll tell you
when that comes up. It's a couple of minutes yet.
005 17 02 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to go ahead and

dump the data/volce recorder dump here.
005 17 03 30 CC PLT, Houston. We show that you've still got 92

selected on the ESS. If you would, select 171 for
us, please. And, Skylah, Houston. For your in-
formation, since we got two recorders going, you
can - your voice would still be recorded if you
need to use it.
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PLT Okay, Crip. That switch was confirmed in 171.

It was not out of 171.
CC Okay, thank you. Our telemetry here must had

a blip.
SPT Okay, Crip. In reference to shopping list item i_,

looking for polar plumes at the South Pole, I was
down there and spent quite a bit of time in
magnesium X and - and the neon line and could not
locate anything except Just noise. There was no
discernable peaks anywhere in plus or minus about
600.- or 500 from the polar positon. So I have
gone ahead and moved around to about 2h0, 243
or so, on the - on the disk in the - where the
active region is coming around the corner. And
I've gotten something relatively - a relative
peak in the neon line, and I'm doing a very similar
observation to what we were going to do at the
pole.
005 17 05 07 CC Okay, Ed; we copy that. Thank you.
005 17 07 42 SPT Also, Crip, that surge of material which I was

looking at in the previous orbit is no longer
visible on the display. I gave them a building
block 32 at the beginning of the orbit, and I'll
try for another one at the end. I did not see
any transients on the WLC.
005 17 07 59 CC Okay, we copy that.
END OF TAPE
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005 17 i0 22 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, when you get a moment, back -

backroom would appreciate knowing exactly what kind
of observations you're running right now, so it -
for planning for the next orbit, since apparently
the South Pole is not going to be any good.
SPT Okay, Crip. I Just took the neon VII and rolled -
kept on rolling around the Sun until we got to a -
a reasonable peak - discernible peak, which came
on around 80 counts or so. And that turns out to
be - well, I guess they can copy the roll as well -
plus 4054, which looks pretty much perpendicular
to the limb. The slit is 15 seconds off the limb.
55 is a step down to the very edge of the slit;
that is, line h. Stand by.
05 17 12 Oh SPT Yes, 82B is WAVELENGTH, SHORT. Exposure time's

4 sequence. 55's got two GRATING, AUTO SCANs.
I'm going to give them a lot of truncated MIRROR,
AUTO RASTERs, down to maybe line l0 or so, so
- they can see where they were looking. 56 is get-
ting SINGLE FRAME h, 8 minutes; SINGLE FRAME 5,
8 minutes. And 54 is getting a long exposure;
it'll be a little over 17 minutes.
CC Okay, very good. We're about a minutes from LOS,

and next station contract - contact is 5 minutes
at Madrid, 17:17. If you've got any suggestions
for any way we may be able to help you out on
next - next orbit, we would ap - be glad to hear
them.
SPT Well, we could work on this region right above -

right where I am now, of 50 - or of 82. Wanted
to get s_ne background spectra. I could Just
roll above Sun center and give them another series
where the counts are relatively low. That's a
real time consumer, but if they'd like that back-
ground spectra, we could do it.
CC Okay, Ed, that - that sounds like a reasonable

idea here. And the VTR belongs to you guys again.

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005 17 17 B0 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Madrid. We have you

for 8 minutes.
SPT Crip, you might ask them what kind of contrast

they expected in those two lines in the - for
polar pltnnes. I was able to get strictly noise in
magnesitnn X running from i0 to 25 in neon and from
around i0 to 30 or so. And whether I was moving
or sitting still, the noise apparently looked Just
about the same.
CC We'll check that you for, Ed. As a matter of in-

formation, we are designating that area that you're
working on now over there, 240, as active re-
gion 15. And we expect that we'll be able to
see it from the ground here very shortly since
you've been noting a littly purging out of it.
005 17 18 27 SPT Okay, thank you.
005 17 22 49 SPT Crip, in looking at the white light coronagraph

pictures relative to yesterday, I also see a -
just a hand streamer structure around 2 - 200 on
up to 240. No real definite well defined streamers,
just a - an enhanced region in the corona ex-
tended out, oh, maybe two solar radii or so. Much
more enhanced than it was yesterday. The other
streamer, the one at - oh, around 280, a very
thin, narrow only, remains the same, and the
same for the one over at about 070.
CC Okay, Ed; we copy that. And l'm still trying to

get an answer to your previous question.
005 17 24 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS; next

station contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes at
17:50, 17:50. And, Ed, we're not going to be able
to give you a quick answer on the expected contrast
on those two lines at the - at the polar region.
And we'll try to give you an answer, maybe by the
next station.
005 17 50 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Carnarvon for

9 minutes.
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PLT Roger, Crip.
005 17 51 58 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, at your convenience, I need

to make one other mod to your Flight Plan for
today.
PLT Stand by.
005 17 53 00 PLT Go, Crip.
CC Roger. At about 24:00, you have an - an S063

stow 2 - CST-2. We need to change that to a
CST-3 so we can have the SAL evacuated for the
night.
PLT Roger. Make that Charlie, Sierra, Tango dash 3.
CC Roger. And also, if you've got your details

handy, at 18:38, we had an optional handheld 170-3,
the laser, and that has been scrubbed for weather.
And if the other guys are - are listening, or you -
you could pass that on to them; I would appreciate
it. That's because it's on everybody's details.
PLT Okay, we will all three read it.
CC Thank you, sir.
PLT It sure was pretty last night.
005 17 54 01 CC Yes, I was reading over your remarks. It sounded

like it really stood out.
PLT The whole northeast quadrant there, Just about,

was clear with snow cover and Moon - it was
moonlit. And you could see, of course, all the
cities lighted up, and - and you could also see
the - the landscape.
CC Roger. Well, it's - I'm looking at a satellite

photo right now, and it looks like it's kind of -
kind of clouded up Just - Just south of there.
The clouds moved in from the south.
005 17 54 36 PLT Yes, I figured it was sort of rare.

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005 17 56 07 CC For the SPT. Ed, if you've got a moment, I can

tell you the expected contrast between the two
lines that you asked earlier and give you some
information regarding the upcoming pass that we'd
like for you to try.
CC Okay. We would expect each of the lines, magne-

sium X and neon VII, to have a contract with the
background of about a factor of 2. And does that
pretty much answer your question?
005 17 57 08 SPT Yes, it does. However, I'm - I was Just thinking

it over. As I moved far off the polar region,
it did drop down maybe a factor of 2 or so. But
that was far off the polar region, and I'm won-
dering Just what was the magnitude or the width
of the plumes. I always - I'd pictured this as
relatively small, and certainly not covering the
whole polar region uniformly.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can get an answer to that.

Also, if you're going to give us these 82B back-
ground exposures on this upcoming pass near that
new active region 15, 5_ would like to get a long
exposure with the GRATING, IN with a minimum of
about 17 minutes. We would like to get it as
long as possible though.
SPT Okay, I understand. We'll do it.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
005 17 58 07 PLT Okay, Crip; PLT. How much time on the VTR for use
today?
CC Checking it.
PLT The reason I'm asking is that this fluid mechanics

experiment requires playing with a bubble of
water, you know. And - and you can't guarantee
results the first time, and I'm afraid I'm going
to soak up quite a few minutes of VTR on it.
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CC Okay, Bill. The only thing that we've got sched-

uled in addition to that, I guess, on the TV is -
we've got a TV-68 that Ed is going to run, which
we've got - allotted him about 15 minutes for.
And other than that, we've got it all cleaned off
right now, so the rest should be available.
005 17 59 09 PLT Okay. I'll try to make it as fast as possible,

but I did want to forewarn you.
CC Okay; we understand. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS, and we're going to have you again over Honey-
suckle in about 2 minutes. If it's convenient at -
at that time, I would like to make a correction to
that AMB retract cue card that we sent you up last
night, at that station contact if somebody could
have it handy.
PLT We 'll have it available.
CC Thank you, sir. Oh, and also, if it's convenient,

I can talk to Jer there regarding the dump probe
and our plan on the urine dump problem.
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. I'll get him over this contact so I don't

go LOS in the middle of it.
005 17 59 57 PLT Oh, yes. Okay.
005 18 01 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Honeysuckle.

We have you for about 3-1/2 minutes. And if
somebody's got that AMS retract cue card handy,
I can give you this modification we have to make
to it.
PLT Okay, Crip. You got me so excited, I dropped

my crispy bar.
CC Oh, are you getting to enjoy those today?
PLT Okay, have it right here in front of me.

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CC Okay. This is in the latter portion of the pro-

cedure, to be used if - if you lose your place on
the rotation counter on step 3. We had said to
turn the rotation knob 0.1 of a turn clockwise ;
that should have been counterclockwise. I believe
that Jer discovered that for us last night.
PLT Okay, that change is incorporated.
005 18 02 48 CC Okeydoke, appreciate that. And if Jer's listening,

regarding the - the probe, we really haven't been
able to come up with any reason why that it - it
should be stopped up. Could be that the heater's
not working, although we don't - don't think that's
the case. And what we'd like to do now is to leave
it alone and have you go ahead and use the trash
airlock to get rid of the - the urine bags, observ-
ing the two bags maximum at one dump that we men-
tioned earlier. And you - one - about the only
thing that we could see that was possibly different
today was that we hadn't been trying to dump urine
2 days in a row. And it may be that, if we let
it set overnight, that it will sublimate off and -
and clear up when you - when you try it in the
morning. If that doesn't turn out to be the case,
we're going to go ahead and leave it as is until
day 53 when we'll schedule a probe changeout using
the - the one that - that came off of the - the
WMC - correction, the wardroom probe that you pulled
out when you put in that modification for the LBNPD.
So that one is available to - to change out. Also -
but we won't schedule that until day 53 unless some
time does pop - crop up tomorrow and we'll - we
could slip it in.
005 18 04 20 CDR Okay, Crip. But one point: we did not dump any
urine today or even try. The thing was plugged
up before we ever tried to dump urine today.
CC Roger. Yes - yes, I was just thinking about that

point. And I guess, normally, even on the days
after you do dump, you always try to evacuate your
bags, and normally that has worked in the previous
cases.
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CDR Yes, that's right.
CC Okay, fine. We're about - are - are you still

having problems with the boric acid? We're about
30 seconds from LOS, and next station contact is
Texas in about 29 minutes at 18:3_. That is,
is the boric acid not dissolving completely, and
you reckon that might have had something to do
with stopping it up?
005 18 05 06 CDR I wouldn't be surprised, Crip. We've reported

several more instances on tape.
CC Okay, fine. Well, have there been any recent

incidences KsicS of that that you've noticed?
CDR ...
CC We're - we're going over the hill.
CDR No, none. No, we haven't had any recently.
005 18 05 31 CC Okay, thank you.
END OF TAPE
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f -
005 18 33 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Texas for

16-1/2 minutes.
005 18 36 59 CC Skylab, Houston. Over the latter part of this

CONUS pass, we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump over Bermuda, and I'll call you before we
start it.
005 18 38 26 PLT Crip, got a question on Mexico City.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT We see a very large circular feature; I guess it's

up in the northeast part of the - or northeast
section of the town or northeast of the town, and
we were Just wondering what that was. It's green,
looks like grass growing on it fairly heavily and
it's - also has a concentric pattern to it.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get an answer for it.
CDR We're wondering if it's an athleticfield or polo

or something like that.
CC Maybe if they give me a little leave, I'll go

down there and find out for you.
PLT Sounds like a good way to go.
CDR You can take leave in late February.
CC That's about what my other boss told me. This is

so much fun, though, it beats leave.
PLT You don't sound very convincing.
005 18 _0 42 CC Skylab, we're talking to you through Bermuda now.

We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
005 18 h3 06 SPT Hello, Crip. You still with us?
CC Yes sir. I wouldn't leave.

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SPT Say, Crip, found something kind of interesting.

l've been looking above the active region 15, and
it looks like l've found a spot in a look struc-
ture. In magnesium X I got a count of about 250,
•up 60 arc seconds or so above the limb. And it
appears fairly isolated, as in the Y._FT/RIGHT and
UP/DOWN, I can move - when I have a drop well
below i00 in only - oh, i0 arc seconds or so.
I've not really had time to explore it to see
whether there actually is a loop. In other words,
I'ii have to maneuver around and find different
points. But if you look at the XUV monitor, you
can see the - what's coming over the hill appears
to have two bright points to it. And I'm wonder-
ing whether that really is the basis of a loop.
And also I might see something indicating that in
H-alpha, although that's not for sure. But there
is certainly something up there. Whether it's a
loop structure I'm seeing edge on, or what, l'm
not sure, but it's fairly bright in magnesium X.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you for that good description

there.
CDR We're flying over Bethpage, New York, home of the

lunar module.
CC Roger, that. Does it look cold down there?
CDR Sure does.
CC Ed, if you have an opportunity, we would appreci-

ate getting a GRATING, AUTO SCAN on 55 on that
area that you were talking about.
SPT Roger, Crip. I was going to give them a couple

of truncated MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs to get a look
at the whole area, and I'm just about to give
them a GRATING, AUTO SCAN.
CC Thank you, sir.
005 18 45 47 CC Jer, I don't know whether - if you're getting -

busy getting ready for your 183 ops coming up.
If you'd like, I can give you the time for your
phone call setup this evening.
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CDR Say again, Crip.
CC If - your phone call is set up this evening for

02: 42.
CDR Okay, 02: 42.
005 18 48 20 SPT Hey, Crip, I think when I spoke to you before, I

said magnesium X when I really meant oxygen VI.
Those were counts of around 250 in oxygen VI,
which makes it look even a little more intense.
CC Okay, Ed. So noted.

station contact is Madrid in 5 minutes at 18:55,
18: 55.
005 18 55 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS at Madrid for

6-1/2 minutes.

station contact is Tananarive; that's in about
17 minutes at 19:18, 19:18.
005 19 03 53 CC Flight, CAP COMM. Do we have a restriction on

PLT' s PT?
005 19 20 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Tananarive. Under-

stand we have a low signal strength and I may not
be able to hear you. It's only for about 2 minutes.
Next station contact is Honeysuckle in 21 minutes,
at 19:41, 19:hl.
CDR Okay, Crip.
005 19 20 45 CC I can hear you a little bit.
005 19 41 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Honeysuckle.

Another one of these long passes. I've got you
for a whole minute here. Next station contact is
at Goldstone in 28 minutes, at 20:10, 20:10.
DETECTOR 2 on 55 for the ATM panel.
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PLT Thank you, Crip.
005 19 43 02 PLT Hey, Crip, I asked yesterday about the source of

alcohol in the spacecraft. Did you ever find out
anything about that?
CC I'll check it for you. I don't have a ready an-

swer. We'll get you over the States.
PLT Step Bravo of TV-107.
005 19 43 23 CC Roger.
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005 20 i0 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone.

We have you for about ll minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy, Howdy. I understand those guys in Goldstone

down there tracking for you are having kind of
a hard time getting to their station. They had
to plow through about 50 miles of 1-foot show, which
is a little bit unusual out there on the MoJave.
SPT I'll say. There's - looks like there's nothing

but cloud cover, except for a few small spaces over
there by Mexico.
CC Yes. Well, I understand they're due for some more

snow and may be spending even several more days out
there. All packed their lunches to go in.
005 20 ll 53 CC PLT, Houston. If you got a moment, Bill, I think

I've got an answer for you on this alcohol question
you had earlier for TV-107.
PLT Yes, go ahead.
CC Roger. What we want you to use are the biocide

wipes. You can use those that are located in 73h.
You get them out of the I_S or 707, your choice.
PLT Okay.
PLT One of the reasons for asking is because it calls

for injecting a small drop of alcohol on a slide,
and I couldn't find any of the liquid form.
CC You're Just going to have to try squeezing some

out of the wipes. It's a - -
PLT Okay.
CC Of course that's Zephiran, not alcohol.
PLT Roger. And I assume you did mean a wet wipe not
a biocide?
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005 20 12 51 CC No, (laughter) I meant a biocide.
PLT Thanks a lot, Crip.
PLT My hands are going to be all dirty for the TV.
CC I - I guess when I asked that same question down

here, I used to think we had iodine in those and
I'm being told that we've Zephiran in those. Do
you - do you know different than I do?
PLT Well, it's dirty-brown-looking stuff, whatever it

is.
CC That's iodine. We don't want to use that. Stand

by 1.
PLT The regular wet wipes, the utensil wipes, they

have Zephiran in them.
005 20 13 58 CC Okay. The answer is (laughter) - I think I'm

ready to turn this question over to the next team.
But, no, we want you to use the wet wipes.
PLT Great.
CC I think it's fantastic. You wouldn't believe

what we just went through to come up with that
an swer.
005 20 17 09 CC Skylab, Houston. Does the CDR have a moment to

talk about a modification of his Flight Plan?
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Roger, Jer. Because we're getting a little bit

low on our allotment for film on EDT31 [sic], we
want you to scrub out the ops that you've got to-
day at 22:00 and also the stow that's set up at
about 01:10 or 15 or so. And we're just going
to leave them in and let them incubate tmtil around
mission day 53.
CDR Okay, scrub the ops, and stow today, and we'll do
something on 53.
CC Roger.
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005 20 21 59 SPT Hello, Buffalo. Looks cold down there.
CC Roger. You're up over in the - Just passed the

Great Lakes area now, and I'm sure it's cold
up there. Probably getting a little ice on those
lakes.
SPT A lot of white stuff down there.
CC Say, Ed, while I've got you on the - on the horn

here. I hate to tell you this, but your 133 data
last night, after about 2 hours after you went to
sleep, went invalid. And I was wondering how
your electrode check went this morning?
SPT The electrode check this morning was all right.

Last night I had to touch some bare metal to get
a ground. But that's happened on other occasions.
CC Roger. Well, when you retired it was sending

down good data, apparently. And then it went out,
somewhere around 05:h0 this morning.
SPT Gee, I checked the first thing this morning, Crip,

and it all lookedreal good. I didn'teven have
to touch metal to get a ground.
CC Okay. Thanks for the info.
SPT Why don't you check to see whether that was Just
a temporary or whether it was out completly until
when I got up?
CC It was bad for the entire evening after it went out

that one time.
SPT Since I've had problems with that one little sleepy
cap, maybe I'll trade it in for another one.
005 20 24 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We got a - a keyhole coming up

here at Bermuda. In case I lose you completely,
next station contact is over Madrid. And that's
about 7-1/2 minutes, at 20:32.
005 20 24 h0 CC We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there,

also.
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005 20 32 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid. We have you

for 8 minutes. We'll doing a data/voice recorder
dump here. And your Flight Plan should be on board.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
005 20 40 ii CC Next station contact is Tananarive, in about

11-1/2 minutes at 20:52, 20:52.
005 20 52 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Tananarive.

We should have you for - oh, about 9 minutes.
005 20 55 27 CC Skylab, Houston. In case you didn't hear my last

call, we do have you through Tananarive, and we've
got you for about 6 minutes.
PLT Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy, Howdy.

Next station contact in 17 minutes over Honeysuckle;
that's at 21:17. Crimson team is going to say
good evening, and I'ii go ahead and turn the mike
over to the silver-tongued orator of the silver
team.
SPT So long, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
PLT We'll see you Crip.
CDR We'll see you, Crip.
CC See you in - see you in several days. We're going

to take a few days off here and go and see what's
happening in the world.
CDR Going to go have another eggnog party?
005 21 O0 46 CC Going to practice for one.

for 6 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.

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005 21 22 35 CC Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii

at 21:39.
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Time: 005:21:30 to 005:23:00
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005 21 38 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes. We show that you've put some more
time on the video tape recorder. And we're
wondering if you're though with it so we can go
ahead with our plan to dump over the States here.
Over.
SPT How much time is left on it, Bruce?
CC 8. - or 9.6 minutes is left available. Over.
CDR Bruce, we still got TV-68 to do. And we'll try to

make that fit 8 minutes. And so it won't be
ready for you for another hour or so.
CC Okay, undertan - understand, TV-68. And is that

what you've been putting on? Over.
CDR No, 107's been going on it. 107's complete now.
CC Okay.
CDR Bubbles Pogue has done his thing.
CDR By the way, Bruce, the urine dump line seems to

be drawing now. I Just made a check of it with
the UCTA collector bag adapter and it's got a
pretty good head of suction. But I'm going to
let it go for a while longer.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC And for the CDR, we show the S055 and H-ALPHA 1

DOORs CLOSEd. We'd like to get them open, please.
Over.
005 21 45 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes through Goldstone
at 21:49. Out.
005 21 49 O0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

7-1/2 minutes. And I guess they're having a
white New Year down there at Goldsone.
CDR That's what we hear.

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station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 21:59. Out.
005 21 59 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

6-1/2 minutes. For the CDR's information, our
current plan is to leave the urine dump probe
heater on, continuously, until further notice and
until we see how things are reacting. Over.
CDR Roger.
005 22 04 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston for CDR.
CC Roger. Looking at the VTR, we show that you have

2.7 minutes remaining on it. If you plan to go
ahead and finish it up to the full 30 minutes,
we would like to know this. And in that event,
we'd like to get your TV from the ATM console. It's
scheduled for the VTR for your pass at 13 minutes
of day remaining on the midnight pass. Downlinked
real time to be recorded either at Carnarvon at
00:26 or Guam at 00:41. And in any event, we
need to have the video tape recorder given to us
at Guam at 00:41, so we can rewind in prepare -
preparation for dumps over the States to get it
cleaned off by tomorrow morning. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We're going to use it.
CC Okay. Then it'll either be Carnarvon or Guam for

a TV down link o f the ATM data. And you've got
2.7 remaining on the VTR.
005 22 06 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3 minutes through the Canary
Islands at 22:09, starting off with the data/
voices tape recorder dump. Out.
005 22 09 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 9-1/2

minutes with a data/voice recorder dump starting
now.
CDR Houston, CDR. Can you designate another recorder

for us, please?
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CC Stand by. If you can give us 2 minutes more, we

can finish with the regular one. Otherwise, we'll
give you another one.
CDR Take 2.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The data/voice tape re-

corder is yours. Out.

station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 22:32. Out.
005 22 33 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

2 minutes. Out.
005 22 34 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 19 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 22:54. Out.
-- 005 22 53 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 8-1/2 minutes. And for the PLT, we have a
change to your S063K maneuver pad, if you have a
minute.
005 22 56 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston for the PLT. We need to

get this n_neuver pad correction into you before
LOS here at Honeysuckle in 6-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Say again, Bruce.
CC Roger. We have a change to your S063K maneuver

pad which we need to get up this site.
PLT I have it in hand.
CC Okay, the reason this is being changed is that

the last dump maneuver on the last momentum dump
changed nu Z from what we expected it to be. So
we're changing the fine maneuver. And the fine
maneuver should now read: 52021, 51034, 51303,
50027. And the decimal equivalents are: minus 0.28,
minus 1.95, plus 0.23. Read back. Over.
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PLT Roger. Understand the fine maneuver has been

changed, 52021, 51034, 51303, 40027, decimal X,
Y, Z, respectively, minus 0.28, minus 1.95,
plus 0.23
CC Roger; you're readback is correct. And just for

the CDR's info, in case he's listening. The go
around on the S055 and H-ALPHA 1 doors last pass
arose out of the fact that we had you pointing
more than 22-1/2 arc minutes from Sun center
and the ATMDC. Therefore issued a DOOR CLOSEd
command for thermal protection of the unit. Ac-
tually, you can get out to more like 30 arc minutes
before you get into trouble. This was our fault
and we'll watch it a little more closely in the
future to prevent this happening. Over.
005 22 58 57 PLT He copied.
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station contact is 12-i/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 23:1h. And we show 1.7 remaining on the VTR.
Are you through with the instrument? Over.
CDR We're all through with the instr_nent.
CC Okay, thank you. Then we'll go ahead and take it

and start our dump a little early.
005 23 02 25 CDR Okay.
005 23 14 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for i0 min-

utes. Out.
005 23 23 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone at
23:26. Out.
005 23 26 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for 9 min-

utes. Out.
005 23 31 h0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
23:37. Out.
005 23 36 h6 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. With our ESP into your

ATMDC, we don't see the 15-minute maneuver time
loaded for maneuvering back to SI yet. Over.
005 23 4h 57 CC Roger, Skylab. We see it in and verified from the

ground down here with a minute and a half to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through the -
through Ascension at 23:53. Out.
005 23 53 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes. Out.

station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon
at 00:27 with a data/voice tape recorder dump
scheduled at AOS. Out.
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9-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump here. And we'd like to remind you we're ex-
pecting a TV downlink of ATM data, either here or
over Guam at 00:41 in place of the use of the video
tape recorder that's called out in the ATM schedule
pad. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CDR You getting TV now, Bruce?
CC We're not getting it here live in the control

center. It's coming down through Carnarvon to be
recorded and shipped back by surface mail or
something like that. Over. We're checking - -
CDR Okay, but I can go ahead and start it now, right?
CC Yes; go ahead. And we'll check the remote site

to make sure they're recording an image of some
sort.
CC It looks like we're getting a good signal at

Carnarvon, Jerry.
006 00 28 27 CDR Okay.
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/f-
006 00 35 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston; a little over i minute

to LOS. Next station contact in 6-1/2 minutes
through Guam at 00:41. 0ut.
006 00 41 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for a little

over 7 minutes. Out.

at 01:05. Out.
006 01 05 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And we'll be stand by for the evening status re-

port at 01:12 through Merritt Island. Out.
006 01 07 14 CDR Houston, CDR. You ready for a frame count?
CC Lay it on us.
CDR Okay. 13314, 4655, 161, 387, 4870, and 4275.
CC We got them, Jerry. Thank you.
006 01 i0 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS;

i-1/2 minutes to A0S at Corpus Christi. Out.
006 0i 12 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 10-1/2 minutes.
Out. Make that 12-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And we're ready for%he evening status report

anytime you are. Over.
006 01 13 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston, now coming to you through

Merritt Island, standing by for the evening status
report.
CC Okay. Boy, that handover's complete. Now we're

coming to you through Merritt Island and ready
for the evening status report. Out.
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SPT Exercise: CDR, Alfa, plus 4; SPT, no change; PLT,

no change.
CC Break break, break break, break break. Okay, hit

it again, please.
SPT Hit what again, Houston?
CC Start over again, please.
SPT What didn't you copy?
CC We didn't copy the beginning of your report,
CC SPT - -
SPT Did you have a dropout?
CC We were getting you weak, and all of a sudden you

started c_ning up from the background. And we'd
like you to start the evening status report, please.
006 01 16 01 SPT Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; SPT, 7.7, 7.0
heavy, 0.7 light; PLT, 8.0, 8.0 heavy. How do you
read?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT Urine Volume: 210, 305, 190. Drinking water:

8178; 4115; 0139. Body mass: CDR, 6.308, 6.307,
6.315; SPT, 6.347, 6.346, 6.348; PLT, 6.218, 6.218,
6.221. Exercise: CDR, Alfa, plus i; SPT, no
change; PLT, no change. Medications: CDR, none;
SPT, none; PLT, Seconal. Garment usage: CDR, none;
SPT, none; PLT, one socks, one shirt, one shorts.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list
aeeom - accomplishments: SPT, S063 comet photo-
graphs, frmnes 3 to 13, taken at 19:05. Inoperable
equipment : none. Unstowage - Unscheduled stowage :
none. CDR: salt packs, 6.5; devs ; plus one straw-
berry, plus one tea; water devs, plus 1.5. SPT:
salt, zero; deviations, plus tea, plus Apollo
grape drink, plus biscuits, plus tuna; water devs,
plus 4.0. PLT: salt packs, 6.0; deviations, plus
tuna. And 12 water gun clicks we used for the
science demo. Stand by for the photo report.
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006 01 18 14 PLT Roger. A 16-millimeter, documentary photo 17 and

that's transporter 05, Charlie India 127, 34 per-
cent, Charlie India 93. Nikons: Nikon l, Charlie
X-ray 39, 41; Nikon 2, Bravo Victor 27, 17;
number - Nikon 3, Charlie India ll2, hl percent ;
Nikon 4, Bravo Echo 09, 06; number 5 is empty.
70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 51, O01, that's
a new load. ETC: no change. EREP: no change.
Drawer A config_aration: the only change is in
A-2, transporter 05, Charlie India 127, 34 percent,
Charlie India 93.
CC Okay, I think we've got all that, Bill. Thank you

very much. And we're ready with the evening ques-
tions and then the news if we can squeeze them in
here. Over.
PLT Roger; go.
CC Okay. On the urine dumps using the urine dump

system: What urine bag configuration has been used
for dumping the urine the day before the urine
dump problem occurred; i.e., were you dumping one
bag at a time, or dumping three bags simo, and is
z- this the configuration you'vebeen using for
dumping urine all along? Over.
CDR We've been going three bags simo ever since the
first day.
CC Okay. Have you disposed of today's urine bags and

if so, how?
CDR We haven't done it yet. I guess we'll put them

down the trash airlock.
CC Okay. You're GO to use the urine dump systmn if

you desire.
CDR Okay, let's give it a try.
006 01 20 08 CC Okay; great. For the SPT, the polar plumes that
you were looking for in shopping list item l_ are
roughly 30 to 60 arc seconds wide and 2 to
3 arc minutes long, as seen in XUV. They're prob-
ably best detected in magnesium x with a contrast
ratio - or magnesium X I guess that is, with a
contrast ratio of about 2 to 1 against the corona.
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They extend from the limb in a radial direction.

At a height of 20 arc seconds you might expect the
count rate to go for about l0 to 20 in a broader
diffused maximum as you slew across the plume.
They may originate as bright XUV points in the
polar holes or may be loops associated with polar
filaments seen in projection. In any case, they'll
probably be difficult to find. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC For the CDR and the PLT. From the voice tran-
scripts, it's not clear that you're running the
S183 DAC for 1 second after sunset before the first
exposure and for 1 second before sunrise following
a last exposure. The reason that we're doing this
and have this in the procedure is due to the possi-
bility of light leakage through or around the DAC
shutter to prevent the previously exposed frames
from bec_ning light struck or to prevent you from
trying to put data on film that had been damaged
previously by being exposed to light. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. We have been doing that with - Jer's

been doing it all the time. I think I have slipped
up a couple of times. One of the reasons I think
that does not appear on the tape and - is because
sometimes we don't turn the recorder on at a con-
sistent time. I think I've been a little bit remiss
on that, and I'll try to do a better Job on that.
But I think that we've been getting that most all
the time. I'll watch it very carefully in the
future.
006 01 22 05 CC Fine. We weren't trying to point the finger at

anybody. It was Just for understanding here.
PLT No, that's a good question.
CC On the $233 bracket for photography, is that still

attached to the S-3 window? We want to know because
we're going to start up again on mission day 5h.
PLT Bruce, all that is is a kludge universal mount to

the installation. It's no big deal.
CC Is it still there?
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PLT Negative.
CC Okay - -
PLT It was in the way.
CC (Laughter) Okay; thank you. Bill, for you. During

your T002 run, or data derived from it, the stand-
ard deviations achieved were 38, 2_, 10, and
16 arc seconds. And these are considered to be
excellent. In fact, you're doing exceptionally
well. We do have a couple of suggestions that
may make things a little easier for you and help
out a bit further. To prevent having to rush be-
tween the sightings, you can take fewer points
during the same interval, especially, during zero
bias. And to alleviate the awkwardness of having
to rotate your body to take sightings, you may
rotate the instrument eyepiece instead. Over.
PLT That's neat; I didn't know that.
CC Yes, instead of turning the world, turn the eye-

piece, I guess. And for - again for you, with
respect to TV-107, were all segments, A, B, C, D,
and E, covered today? We've not seen them all
on TV. We're Just wondering about this.
006 01 23 43 PLT Let's see, I forget exactly. I - I don't have the

book right in front of me. I did not do the one
on the slide because I didn't have the Zephiran
squeezed out. I did the TV on - I think it was
A, B, and D. Let me check the book; Just a second.
CC Okay, we got about 30 seconds to LOS here. Next

station contact is in 9 minutes and 17 seconds;
Ascension at 01:33, private medical conference.
And I guess that's our last site of the evening.
CDR Bruce, as soon as I started the urine dump it

plugged up again.
006 01 24 18 CC Okay, we copy that, Jet. We're not going to have

time for the news here. One item you might be
interested in though, the prime recovery ship
New Orleans departed San Diego today at 17:00 Zulu.
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It'll arrive in Pearl Harbor on the llth, pick up

the SML and go through some training exercises
and pick up prime recovery ship support full time
on the 13th. Over.
006 01 24 40 CREW ...
006 01 37 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Roger. Thank you. Hey, Just a quick one for Ed

there. We were having comm problems on the evening
status report. Thank him for bearing with us and
repeating the report. For the PLT, it looks like
TV-107 Bravo is the item you were talking about
not completing with the slide. Is that correct?
PLT That's affirmative. I guess you didn't read that.

I gave it to you just as you were going over the
hill.
CC And you got all the rest of it, right?
PLT Yes, I did, Bruce, within the constraints of my

ability.
CC No - hey, we're Just - I'm Just asking them fast

here. We got 35 seconds to LOS. For the CDR, did
you notice any unusual amount of air in the urine
bags you tried to dump this morning? Any contam-
inants? And we're sending you a teleprinter message
tonight on the alternate technique for urine bag
preparation you can use if the probe doesn't work
in the morning. And we're trying to work in a
urine probe changeout sometime tomorrow, probably
during the period of time blocked out for TV-107
A and B for the PLT, letting him finish up TV-107
in the other part of that period. Over.
006 01 38 34 CDR Hey, Bruce, the urine system dumped all 7000 milli-
liters in about 5 minutes. It Just broke loose
and let go.
CC Hey, that's good news.

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PLT We think so too.
CC You can relax now, Bill.
CDR Bruce, we have a question on the heaters now.

Is there any possibilit_ of damage at all by leav-
ing them on forever?
CC No, leave them on forever, or atleast until the

end of the mission. And after 02:00 here, we
won't be calling you again. Sleep is at 03:00.
If you want us, put i0000; do not _TER in the
DAS. Over.
CDR Okay. Fine, Bruce. And how about mentioning to

the guy who's got duty in the morning that ...
morning ...
006 II 39 20 CC Didn't copy.
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(Music)
006 ll 24 57 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning to you.
CDR Good morning to the bronze and the brass.
CC Roger. Hey, you got us intrigued down here. Just

before you went LOS last evening, you said some-
thing about pass something to the -whoever re-
lieved Bruce. And we listened to that thing over
and over and over and we still haven't figured it
out. What did you tell us?
CDR Oh, we missed the news last night, Hank, and we

were wondering if we might have a little morning
news.
CC Okay. How about I read it up to you at Ascension?

Is that all right?
CDR That'd
be great.
CC Okay. We're about 40 seconds from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Ascension at 28. That's about
3 minutes from now. And we also plan to dump the
recorder there.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
PLT Morning, Hank.
006 ll 25 49 CC Morning, Bill.
(Music)
006 ll 28 2h CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Ascension for l0 minutes, and we'll he dumping
the recorder.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay. I'll give you a little news if you want to

listen up. The - We all moved our clocks ahead
here a few hours back. At 02:00, it became 03:00.
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The switch to daylight saving is the first time

the nation has gone on year-around daylight
saving since World War II. And it was proposed
by President Nixon and approved by Congress to
• help ease the energy crisis. However, several
of the states are exempt. Congress said Hawaii,
the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, mud most of
Indiana are - are exempt. Arizona, parts of
Kentucky, and the mountain time zone areas of
Idaho and Oregon were exempted by Secretary of
Transportation Clause S. Brinegar, acting for
President Nixon. Cows, it seems, are unoffically
exempt. "When a cow gets on schedule you don't
fool around with her. They don't like that," said
Mrs. Hillard O. Durham whose husband is a owner
of a Tennessee dairy farm. "Mr. Durham will milk
by the Sun and not the clock." Up to 16 inches
of snow fell in parts of Southern California early
Saturday stranding hundreds of travelers. Hardest
hit was the town punnily called P_]mdale, north
of Los Angeles. Some 200 motorists and five
busloads of persons stranded there Friday night
were led toward Los Angeles by four snow plows.
More then 200 cars were pulled from the record
snow on California 14 in the Newhall, Lancaster
area, and then the other motorists abandoned their
vehicles and made way by foot.
006 ll 29 58 CC Hundreds of other persons were trapped by mud

slides unleashed by heavy rain on Topanga Canyon
Boulevard, 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles.
And in Boston, a truck backed up to a stately
apartment building on Con_nonwealth Avenue recently
and swished 3 tons of coal down a chute into the
basement. Buildings on the tree-lined street gave
up their coal furnaces years ago but the converted
Victorian townhouse has 18 fire places and its
owner wants the tenants to have a way to keep
warm if the oil furnace runs dry. Similair fears
of a petroleum shortage have stirred up long-lost
business for retail coal dealers, a trade that's
been in nonstop decline since World War II. Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan says he thinks the
Israeli Cabinet now will be ready to make a
formal presentation in Geneva for the disengagement
of Israeli and Egyptian forces near the Suez
Canal. "I'm going home and I do hope that the
Cabinet will he in the position to form something
concrete," Dayan reported after a 4-hour metring
Saturday with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
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It was their second meeting at the State Depart-

ment in 2 days. Kissinger called the talks very
constructive and very useful and said he remains
hopeful about the prospects for an agreement in
Geneva between Egypt and Israel. The Secretary
indicated that differences between the U.S. and
Israeli positions have narrowed. Here's a
little item from Michigan. William E. Street,
a smooth talker whose exploits included con -
conning the Detroit Tigers into a tryout in 1971,
got caught trying to get a straight Job. Street
was picked up Friday while seeking a Job at the
Michigan Employment - Employment Security Commis-
sion. Police officials said Street was a fugitive
from southern - a southern Michigan prison at
Jackson.
006 ll 31 42 CC A spokesman said he escaped October 20 while

serving a l- to 20-year sentence for an extortion
attempt against the wife of Tiger left fielder
Willie Horton. In the spring of 1971, Street
showed up at the Tiger's training camp in Lakeland,
Florida, posing as a pro football player, Jerry
Levias. He was granted a tryout but when the
real Levias saw the wire story he quickly called
_- the Tigers from his Texie home - Texas home and
exposed Street. In 1972 Street used a University
of Michigan football he]_et early - easily rec-
ognizable with its distinct maize and blue striped
design to help talk his way into the training
camp of the North-South College All Star football
game at Mi_m_. That time his lack of athletic
talent quickly gave him away. Last fall he
was arrested at Detroit's Ford Hospital posing
as a doctor and his probation was revoked. Of-
ficials said he had been showing up at the state
employment office nearly every 2 weeks since his
escape, where unsuspecting aides were trying to
find him a Job. And here's a story, dateline
New York. Fat men don't fare well in landing
higher-paying executive Jobs, according to a
survey by an employment agency that specializes
in placing executives. "An overweight person may
be losing as much as $1,000 a year for every pound
of fat," said Robert Half, president of the Madison
Avenue Agency with branches in h3 American cities.
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006 ii 33 05 CC A survey conducted by a dozen of Half's branches

showed among executives in the $25,000 to $50,000
salary range, 9 percent were more than i0 pounds
overweight. In the $10,000 to $20,000 executive
range, 39 percent were more than l0 pounds heavier
than the standards of normal weight established
by insurance companies. Half attributed the
finding to a prejudice against the overweight and
_hat he held to be a false belief that they are
not as good workers as siam persons. "The over-
weight," Half said,"are fairly stereotype - un-
fairly stereotyped as slow, sloppy, inefficient,
and overindulgent. When important high-paying
jobs are at stake and candidates are under close
scrutiny, the overweight are less likely to be
hired or promoted into them," he said. Half, who
is 5 feet l0 inches and weighs 150 pounds, said
his agencies frequently are asked specifically
for slim Job candidates, but remembers only one
company in 25 years that wanted a plump executive.
This company was a maker of outsized apparel.
006 ll 34 04 CC So what it looks like for us, as long as we stay

slim there's hope, and if we get overweight, we
find the right apparel maker.
CDR I didn't realize the food folks are doing us a

favor.
006 ii 34 47 CDR Thank you, Hank; that's good news.
CC You're quite welcome.
PLT Hank, while we're discussing the lighter side,

I've got a favor to ask.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Could you take the Flight - the Skylab overflight

times and angles by my house over the next month?
And this is overflight visible from Austin, for
Bill.
CC Okay, overflight times over Austin.
PLT Affirmative. And thank you very much.
CC Okay; will do.

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CC Skylab, Houston. We didn't get to your news last

evening because we run [sic] into this hour where
we agreed not to bother you. How do you feel
about getting the news during the presleep or -
•postsleep period in this hour when we're not
supposed to bug you?
CDR Well, actually I think, in the morning, during

this hour when we're eating, is a good time
anyway.
CC Okay. You'd prefer the news in the morning then?
CDR Sure, that'd be fine.
CC Okay. Why don't we plan on doing it that way

then?
CDR Real good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at _mm at 12.
006 ll _6 35 SPT So long, Hank.
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006 12 12 49 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Howdy, Hank.
006 12 15 00 CC Skylab, Houston. I only have two small Flight

Plan items for you this morning: One for the
CDR's - a cc_nent to CDR's details, and the other
a small change to the PLT's photo pad, whenever
it's convenient.
SPT Go ahead, Hank. We're listening.
CC Okay, for the CDR. AT 19:30 he's doing the S063

prep, and we failed to note in "his details that
he will need the PLT's pad, ops pad, to do that.
And that message nmnber's 5224.
SPT Okay, he 's got that.
CC And for the PLT. Based on the - what we got on

the dump tape on the completion of part of TV-107,
when we made up the photo pad, we thought he had
it all to do yet. So to change that to - to be
correct, we need to make it TV-107B only. And
he'll only need 2 percent for that. And we'd
like to use transporter 08, and it's in A-4.
SPT Hold on a minute, Hank, please.
006 12 16 3_ PLT Okay, Hank. Let's see now, this is on message

5209 Alfa. That'll be TV-107 Bravo only, and how
much percent?
CC Roger. 2 percent, Bill. And we want you to use

transporter 08 in A-4.
CC We copied last night that you had completed TV-107A.

And so we needed to just change this pad to take
that into account.
PLT That's affirmative; took me Just a while to find

it. I got it now. 2 percent required and trans-
porter 08 in Alfa _.
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CC That's correct, Bill. Thank you.
006 12 17 40 CC And, PLT, Houston. We'd like for you to hold up

on the TV-105. You indicated that you were going
to take a few more pictures. We'd like for you
to leave the salt where it is, and let us take a
look at our film budget before you do that.
PLT Wilco, Hank. That's white on white or clear on

clear crystal and liquid. And boy, it's really
hard to get that thing to show up in photographs.
But three more might not be any better, so I think
your decision's a good one.
SPT Hank, I have a question about TV-77 and your perma-

nent general message number 26 related to it. I
could do some of that today, but I need to know
by what time you would need it, and also how much
VTR time would be available.
CC Okay, we'll work that for you, Jerry [sic].
SPT Thank you, Hank.
006 12 19 22 CDR Houston, CDR. We found that TV data on my pad.
CC Okay we copy. You - you - you talking about TV-I -

TV-777
CDR That's affirmative. That was Ed talking to you a

minute ago, and I've got the 77 data on my pad.
CDR And, Hank, on TV-10h, I'm not going to be ready

to do that today. I'd like to - that's already
on our shopping lsit. I'd like you - the folks
on the ground Just to drop that, and we'll get it
as soon as we're ready. Little bit of information
I wonder if you might teleprinter up to me when
it's convenient, and that is the diameter of the
wheel and the weight of the - of the CMG. Also
the speed, wheel speed.
CC Okay, we'll do it.

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006 12 21 h6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Vanguard

will be coming up at 52; 31 minutes.
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006 12 52 hO CC Skylab Houston through Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Hank.
PLT Hi, Hank. What's the weather forecast for our

EREP track?
CC Okay, stand by l, and I'll get the latest.
006 13 00 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. Regard to the weather for your

EEEP today, it looks like down in the Mexico area
there - it's 0 to 0.3 coverage and pretty much
scattered across the Gulf. Once you reach the
Continental U.S., though, going along the East
Coast there, it's almost totally overcast until
you reach Newfoundland. Newfoundland is scattered,
and then you get overcast again across the North
Atlantic. Of course, some of the things we're
interested in is in - in the North Atlantic. And
on over to where the track ends around Spain, and
you have 0.4 to 0.7 there now. We're due to get
another weather update here in a couple of hours
and we can update that.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. Ca-

naries will be coming up at 12, and that's about
ll minutes from now. We'll be handing over to
the purple gang, and we'll say so long to you
from the - from the bronze boys for a couple of
days.
CDR So long, bronze boys. Have a good vacation.
006 13 02 00 SPT So long. Enjoy it.
006 13 lh lh CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang again.

We got you at Canary Islands and Madrid for
13 minutes.
CDR Hello, Phil, Richard, and gang.

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CC How you guys doing this morning? Off to a good

st art ?
CDR Yes. So far, so good.
CC ...
SPT Just finished up our documentary photos, Richard.
CC Very good. Good morning, Ed. How're you doing?
SPT Pretty good. Thought we were going to run into

a snag. Jerry didn't want to shave, and I didn't
have any whiskers.
CC Everybody's got a problem this morning.
SPT We solved it by covering me up with shaving cream

and then got the photos.
CC Go, Ed.
SPT Say, we'll try to get about 15 minutes' worth of

TV-77 on the VTR for you before 23:00. Is that
about what you folks are thinking?
CC Stand by a second.
CC SPT, while the INC0's checking that, your phone

call today is set up later on, Just for your
planning purposes, at 22:10 Zulu.
SPT Thank you, Dick.

Honeysuckle comes up at - at i_:01. And you can
put TV-77 on the VTR at your convenience.
SPT Okay, Dick. Do you have any kind of a total time

allotment for that ?
CC It's 15 minutes, I believe; it's listed in - in

the CDR's detail pad. I think that's it. I don't
have any other information yet. We'll - we can
talk about that before Honeysuckle though, and
I'll get you a straight answer.
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SPT Okay, Dick. 15 ought to do it for sure. If it's

any less then that, let me know. Thank you.
006 13 27 05 CC Yes. CDR's detail says 15 - VTR, 15 minimum.
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006 14 02 27 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honoysuckle for 6 minutes.

Canary Islands comes up at 14:52. SEe you there.
CDR Roger, Dick. And would you send us up another

copy of general message - permanent general message
24 Alfa?
006 14 08 2B CC Sure will, Jerry.
006 14 52 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and Madrid for

12 minutes. And we're sending up, this pass, a
cop - another copy of the permanent general mes-
sage 24 Alfa and also some information you requested
on the CMG wheel.
006 14 55 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and Madrid for

about 9 minutes. Understand you called and I
didn't hear you here in Houston. Go ahead.
- SPY Yes. Hello, Dick. I was tellingyou we have the

ATM on the VTR for this pass and also TV-77.
CC Okay, thank you.
006 14 56 55 CC Skylab, Houston. For you - for your information,

there's only about 3 minutes left on the VTR. We're
going to be dumping that at our first opportunity.
But that probably means that you probably should
not use the VTR until your next regularly scheduled
time, which is an ATM pass at about 20 - It's the
ATM daylight cycle; it starts at 20:29.
SPY Okay, Dick. You said we should not use it until

that time. Is that correct?
CC Yes, that's what we'd suggest. There's only about

3 minutes remaining to the end of the tape now.
006 15 03 32 CC Skylab, Houston; 45 seconds from LOS. Carnarvon

comes up at 15:31. We're going to dump the data/
voice recorder at Carnarvon. And also Bill Lenoir
will be here, and that's the scheduled ATM con-
ference site.
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SPT Thank
you,Dick.
006 15 03 48 CC Roger. See you there.
006 15 30 31 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference for about
.- 8-1/2 minutes.
MCC Okay. Let me Just start off here with some solar
update words. I don't have too much here to talk
about this morning, so we'll get into the solar
update. The prominence 72 is intermittently active,
especially the south part that's at about north 10.
And even though we don't admit to it, on the or-
bits that Jerry will be doing later, our J0P 26,
the subject is prominence 72, although we've got
pad pointing. And I give you that Just for your
information. Prominence 74, which is down at
around, oh, looks like about 240 on the limb, is
intermittently active. It's officially called
an active prominence region, although there again, I
there's not too much really going on there. To
give you an indication of how dull the Sun really
is now, your sighting of active region 15 was
reported in the local press here. And reading it,
it indicated that it is more than it has really
turned out to be. The next thing coming up is
active region 97, which was in a state of decline
as it went over the west limb. We do not expect
too much to happen there. The next really signif-
icant things are coming back in 4 or 5 days when
the active longitudes really begin to come around.
From the present time to the end of the nominal
84-day mission, you have now approximately 1 more
solar rotation to go. So, on the average, we'll
be looking at things for the last time around here.
And that's about all I've got to say this morning,
here, on the Sun. Let me pass it to you for some
con_nents and then I'll get into a few other items.
006 15 32 19 SPT Okay. That's the one reason I made the comment
about let's make sure we get the flare program
worked out, because we only have one more crack
at - looks like the Hirman longitude. I guess
the Holt longitude is just coming around the corner.
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Maybe that's the one !'m associating with active

region 15. I'm wondering what the 55 people had
to say about the relatively high intensities which
I got - which I menaced to find up there in the
corona about 60 arc seconds out. I did give them *
a GRATING, AUTO SCAN, a little over l, perhaps
closer to 2, as wall as some MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs.
I was wondering what they had seen there; whether
it was loops or whether it was an isolated location.
We also saw a surge there that day, so maybe it's
not quite as dull as we might initially think. And
thirdly, we've got JOP 18D's and I'm wondering how
many more of these we will be doing. The pointing
will have to all be done either straight from off
the strapdown or using the planet Venus. We won't
be able to home in on it as well as we have before,
because I - I don't think I could see it today.
I really was lucky yesterday. And lastly, before
I forget it, I'd like to thank all the NOAA people
in the backroom who have been doing such an ex-
cellent Job of giving us information every day on
the pad as well as the updates. And also some of
the little cheerful comments they've been putting
in there. We've appreciated all, and they're doing
great work.
006 15 33 48 MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks a lot for the comments. Let me
Just take them in inverse order here. On the J0P 18
Delta, today is the last one; we will not be doing
any more. On the 55 results from yesterday, they
don't at this time know any more about it than you
do inasmuch as the data has not come out of the
recording and transcription system here, so they
have not had a ti - chance to look at it. That
ususlly takes about 48 hours.
006 15 34 15 MCC And we are meeting today, this afternoon as a

matter of fact, to map out our strategy for the
active longitude passage from east limb over to
passage of central meridian, so that we're looking
ahead about l0 - l0 days to 2 weeks.
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006 15 3h 27 MCC I'ii report to you tomorre_ on what we map out as

our final strategy and what happens at the request
that we put in because of that to the saience
planning session tonight. So I should have more
to tell you on that tomorrow.
SPT Okay, I'm sure there'll be a time period in there

in which the flare probabilities are relatively
high, like that 2 - or 3-day period which we went
through Just a short while ago. And at that time,
I would think it would be profitable to spend a
good part of our time in flare wait and try to
get some priority put on that relative to other
things, so that we can stand a good chance of get-
ting a flare rise.
006 15 35 20 MCC Okay. Thank you. And I'll certainly put that
input in today as the SPT input to the planning
here, and I'm sure you'll have some help from some
of the other experiments. I've got a question for
- you on the JOP Sununary Sheets that came up yester-
day, on the 54 changes and the status of those
changes, and in particular on J0P 1 Bravo - not
JOP 1 Bravo, building block 1 Bravo, JOP 6, which
is page S-23. I don't know if you've got the JOP
sheets handy or not.
SPT I have it right in front of me. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. Can you just tell me what you've got there
now for the 54 operations on the Bravo part of
that building block?
SPT Okay. It's a M, S, blank, S, l, START beginning -

a START at the end for 17 minutes. And let me
explain the reason that that one as well as the
one over on JOP 8 got a little confused. And that
is, I never got ahold of the - the second change
which was sent up. I believe it was change
number 18, which contained both of those. All of
the other ones, which were on the one long change,
I had those down very meticulously, and I thought
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that there was only one piece of paper associated

with it and never got the other one until Just a
short while ago. I think we've got it all straight
now, though.
006 15 36 27 MCC Okay, fine. And then you can - you're saying that
also on the building block 17, that change has
been made and that we're all up to date now?
SPT That's right. As I said, that one little sheet

of paper which contained both of those, I had not
seen when I was making all those corrections.
MCC Okay, fine. And one other thing here on the prom-
ised change to shopping list 30, that's apparently
got caught in a 3-day do loop here and has not
up Esic], yet but it should definitely come up this
afternoon. Let me apologize for the delay on that.
And I have a question. At the same time we talked
about that, you mentioned a 55 LIMB OFFSET program,
and I interpreted that at the time without think-
ing about it as something in the shopping list.
And I find now my notes and the downlink tape are
confusing to me; and I just need you to tell me
all over again what you were talking about.
006 15 37 20 SPT Okay. There is mini-LIMB SCAN, I believe it's

called; I'd have to pull it out and dig into it
myself. Why don't we leave that as a subject un-
til tomorrow, and I'll try to get you some more
definitive words on it. It's essentially the
program where we move 1 arc second at a time, and
I believe we had something like that in both the
shopping lists and in the JOPs. And I Just - I'll
dig them both out and talk more about it tomorrow.
MCC Okay, good. Now that you mention it again, I

think I know what you mean, but let's both look
at it and talk tomorrow then. And then I've got
just one last point here which we'll probably
work up as a shopping list change if it sounds
reasonable to you. 82B is interested in looking
at a weak prominence. Actually what they're after
is they want to get the Lyman-alpha profile of a
prominence. So what they would like it to be is
not optically thick in Lyman-alpha which is almost
contradictory by asking you to find it in H-Alpha;
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if you can see it. It's almost certainly thick

in Lyman-alpha. But what they're thinking of now
is to find a barely visible prominence in H-ALPHA,
to point at it and with the i01 film, give them
a SEQUENCE TIMES 1/2. We're having a handover here.
Let me give you a call on the other side.
006 15 39 07 MCC Okay, Ed. We're out on the other side. If - at

the time you've got i01 film, they'd like a
SEQUENCE TIMES 1/4. And if we're back to the
102 film, then Just a SEQUENCE, NORMAL. And if
that sounds reasonable to you, we'll work it up
with some words on a shopping list and send it up
to you.
SPY Sure. That's good, Bill. I'm wondering whether

if you went to a prominence which you could see
fairly well and put the SLIT parallel to the
fairly bright material and then moved so many
ARC SECONDS off to where you could not see any
material along your line of sight, whether that
would do it for them also?
MCC That's a good thought. Let me mention that to

them. AnotherthoughtI had was to look along
the filament channel and what made it occur to
me was when prominence/filament 59 blew off, you
could - for the whole limb pass - disk passage
of that, you could see the filament channel where
it was, but you couldn't see any filament there.
And likewise when it got on the limb, you could
not see any prominence material there. So that
you might stand a good chance of finding opti-
cally thin Lyman-alpha there where you actually
could not see anything in H-ALPHA. Let's work
on that and we'll send it up to you then.
006 15 20 17 SPT Yes. That one, if it was optically thick - or

optically thiH in Lyman-alpha, then you might
have enough Lyman-alpha coming through from the
background to obscure whatever you're trying to
see.
MCC Oh, yes. I meant you'd have to wait until it got

over on the - on the limb as a prominence.
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SPT Oh, I see. Okay. Very good.
MCC Okay, Ed, - -
SPT Okay, it looked -
MCC That's all I had for today.
SPT Bill, are you still with us?
MCC Yes, I'm still here. That's all I had for today.
You got anything else we need to talk about?
SPT Not - not particularly. Let me Just describe what

I'm looking at in the XUV and - and WLC. In the
WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, the structure 's changed
very little except that the one streamer which we
had at about 9 o'clock has now pretty much sub-
sided; it was a very thin one. I can barely see
that anymore now. We also have the one which is
over there at 8 o'clock, above 15. That's appears
quite a bit more enhanced. The one over at
2 o'clock is about the same. XUV MONITOR, the
only things, of course, that show up are the fila-
ment channel up there at the northeastern edge.
We've got the three active regions which all appear
roughly equal intensity except for 15, which is -
we're seeing on the limb_ so it appears to be a
little brighter. A good coronal hole at the south,
and I really don't see any other good - any large
size coronal holes anywhere else; a couple of
bright points, but that's about it.
006 15 41 50 MCC Okay, fine. We'll see that the backroom gets
ahold of that for planning. Thank you.
SPT Thank you, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston. The purple CAP CO_4's back with

you. We've still got about 3 minutes left in the
pass. Standing by.
SPT Dick, I think I owe you a couple of words on

TV-77 that Just came down.
CC Okay, go ahead.
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006 15 h2 hl SPT I looked at your - I looked at your general mes-

sage 26, and there were some good points made in
that, so I went back through those sketches and
updated them according to those points. And on
this TV-77, have gone tkrough the full 9 yards
again. I do - would no_ intend to do that every
time, but they had some good ideas in there of
how to make it a little more visible as well as
understandable. So all that's put together in
one big unit now.
CC Hey, that sounds real good, Ed. And that probably

will help it a bunch. Thank you much.
006 15 hh 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're h5 seconds from LOS.

MILA comes up at 16:18.
006 16 18 27 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at MILA and Bermuda for

12 minutes.
CC And, PLT, Houston. When you're able to we'd like

to have the DAS to do an outer gimbal backup.
CC PLT, Houston. Did you copy our request for the

DAS?
006 16 20 5B CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Bermuda for 9 minutes. How

do you read?
PLT Read you 5 square. How do you read Skylab?
CC Read you loud and clear, Bill. We had a little

problem there with COMM through MILA. I'm read-
ing you okay now. We'd like to have the DAS if
we could for a couple of minutes and do an outer
gimbal backup.
PLT Roger. You got it.
CC Thank you, sir.
006 16 22 20 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. Thank you

much.
PLT Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. I had a few words here that I'd

like to visit with Just about anybody that could
talk to me here, if you have a time during one of
these passes, about some thermal conditioning of
the spacecraft during the next few days,
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, Ed. It turns out that in a few days we're -

we're going to be starting up turning on the in-
terior temperatures due to the beta angle. And
we think you cou- you'll be money ahead if we
can go ahead and start like today in keeping some
lights turned off in order to sort of begin to
cold soak the vehicle. And we think this'll prob-
ably buy you some degrees at the peak temperature
when we get to that. So what we'd suggest is -
is that you start today, all three of you, in mak-
ing sure that all the interior lights that can be
turned off and still allow you to do your work do
get turned off. In event that it gets so cold
that you need some warmth, we do not want you to
turn off the OWS heat exchangers - that would
defeat our purpose - but use the lights to turn
them back on in order to, you know, get warm in
case the few extra clothes are not too convenient.
I think the end result will be that you'll be a
lot more comfortable when we get to the peak
temperature.
006 16 24 53 SPT Okay, Dick. We'll go ahead and do that. I'm sure
there's lots of lights we could do without around
here, and why don't we Just go on through and see
what the hare minimum is.
CC Okay. We - Why don't you Just do that starting

today. And also, I have a - while I_m talking to
you - I have a note for a pad that belongs to CDR,
and I'm not sure where he is in his PT cycle, but
it's a real simple correction. You might pass it
on to him or he might Just be listening. That is,
it's his VTS pad. And there's a DAC magazine
listed on there that's Charlie Lira - Charlie Lima i0.
And it's listed as being located in Juliett 4, and
that's incorrect; it's located in Juliett 3.
SPT Okay. He copies that. Thank you, Dick.

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L -"
CC Thank you.

Madrid ccmes up about h minutes from now, and I'll
•call you there.
006 16 29 59 PLT Roger, Dick.
006 16 34 02 CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger.
006 16 hlll CC Skylab, Houston; h5 seconds to LOS. Carnarvon

comes up at 17:07, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Carnarvon.
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006 17 06 56 CC Skylab, Houston; Carnarvon for l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. First time it's handy for some-

body here at Honeysuckle or - correction, either
here at Carnarvon or at the upcoming Honeysuckle
pass right after this, I've got a REG ADJUST I'd
like somebody to accomplish for us prior to this
_EP.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. First of all, we're going to want to return

our present settings after EREP, so what we'd like
you to do is ms rk the present position of the -
of the two REG ADJUST pots. And then after you've
done that, rotate them clockwise about 22 -
20 degrees, and then after the _qEP, when we give
you a holler to - we'll ask you - be asking you
to reset them. So it's 20 degrees clockwise on
both of them after marking them.
PLT Take a look at that, Dick.
CC Okay, sure will. Thank you, Bill.
006 17 13 16 CC Skylab, Houston, for the PLT. The - Our initial

look at the REG ADJUST looks good. We will have
to take a look at it in sunlight, which is coming
up in about 3 or 4 minutes. But prior to LOS
Honeysuckle, we should have a good hack on it,
but it looks good now. Appreciate it. Also an
update on the weather. It hasn't changed - Our -
our prediction hasn't changed hardly at all since
Hank talked to you this morning, and that is
mostly clobbered conditions over the East Coast.
For your information, during your North Atlantic
overflight, there is a large storm, one of the
largest storms that has - has occurred in the last
several years, with wave heights of up to 45 feet
in the - in the North Atlantic. And so a good
bit of the data there - the RADIOMETER and ALTIM-
ETER will be on for those purposes. But you
will be seeing a lot of clouds today.
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CDR Roger, Dick. Does that storm show on your satel-

lite photo as a great big swirl?
CC Jerry, we don't have a real recent satellite photo

of that area, so I can't really answer your
"question.
CDR Okay.
CC And, incidentally, about 3 or h days ago some of

the wave heights were - were reported at about
75 feet; so it's a real wing-dinger.
CDR How'd you like to be out there in an LST.
CC Not this sailor.
PLT Dick, I have reconfigured the downlink box, so as

soon as telemetry becomes available I would like
a confirmation under the correct configuration.
CC Okay, PLT; stand by.
006 17 15 _l CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS at

Carnarvon. Honeysuckle comes up in Just a couple
of minutes from now. And, Bill, we'll have to
wait until we get AOS stateside to verify config-
uration on the downlink box. But we'll - I'll be
giving you word as soon as we know.
007 17 17 28 CC Skylab, Houston; Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; the REG ADJUST looks real good

to us. We don't need to correct it. And one more
comment that - a couple of passes ago I was mention-
ing to Ed that we suggest you guys turn lights off
so we can begin to get the vehicle cooler in order
to - to lower the peak temperature during max beta.
After we've looked at it for a day or so and you
guys have - believe you've sort of reached some
sort of a working level on light, we'd like to
know Just about how many lights, as an estimate,
you've - have been able to do without as a delta
between, say, before we asked you to turn them
off and - and tomorrow.
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CDR Okay.
CC All righty.
006 17 21 16 CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Texas comes

up at 17:50.
006 17 50 31 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on the coast of Central

America now.
CC And ... - -.
PLT Stand by. On my mark l0 seconds. 51:h8,

192 MODE going to READY. Standby -
006 17 51 _8 PLT MARK. All righty.
CDR How's the attitude?
PLT TAPE MOTION green light. Good show.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR How's the attitude look?
CC Stand by.
CDR Okay. I bungled up the entry into Z-LV. I went -

I put the fine maneuver - went to ATTITUDE HOLD,
CMG and put the fine maneuver in, like a d11mmy,
instead of going to Z-LV first. So then I went
to Z-LV, which should have zeroed things out, and
then put the fine maneuver in again.
CC Okay, Jerry. Stand by and let us think about

this one for a second, and incidentally, we are
getting good EDDU data.
CDR Okay. Good deal.

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PLT Okay. Good show. I'm standing by for 52:40 and

already have a READY light. Going to REF, 6 in
191. Okay. Waiting for 53 minutes on the mark.
190 SHUTTER SPEED will go to FAST. Pausing,
momentary stand by. Okay.
006 17 53 01 PLT There's MEDIUM and there is FAST. Stand by for

53:14, ALTIMETER, STANDBY.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We're happy with the attitude.

Looks like - not sure how you got into it, but
looks like it turned out okay.
006 17 53 15 PLT ALTIMETER, STANDBY.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Ed, I guess you're getting the ETC about

right now.
006 17 53 23 PLT ETC to AUTO. 193 ALTIMETER MODE, 5; RANGE 77.

RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Standing by for 54 minute
takeup. Stand by. On my mark, 54 minutes.
006 17 54 O0 PLT MARK. And SCAT and RAD, ON. 54:35 on my mark.
006 17 54 35 PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20, and SHUTTER SP_;_ to MEDIUM

on the 190.
CDR Okay. Data coming on on the first cloud-free

area.
PLT Standing by for 55:10.
CDR Now going for a second cloud-free area.
PLT On my mark. Stand by -
006 17 55 i0 PLT MARK. Okay. SCATTEROMETER, STANDBY, RADIOMETER

to STANDBY. Waiting for 18, RADIOMET]_, OFF.
Stand by -
006 17 55 18 PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF. 24, ALTIMETER, ON.

Stand by -
006 17 55 24 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. 55:30, 192 MODE to CHECK.

Stand by -
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006 17 55 30 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Okay, Ed, 58 minutes

even, ETC to STANDBY.
006 17 55 41 CDR MARK on the second cloud-free area.
006 17 56 16 CDR Starting on the third area.
CDR MARK. That's the end of that one.
PLT And Just a quick comment for ground; Alfa 2 read-

ing was very - was almost full-scale low when I
first took my measurements at T minus 10. And I
rechecked it a couple of times, and later on it
was well within limits. So I may have a - sort
of a sticky transducer there or something.
CC Okay, Bill. Copy.
CDR Okay. Looking for the Cheasapeake.
PLT How's it look there, Jer?
CDR Very cloudy.
•PLT Dang, that's a shame. Who entered that statement

on weather?
CDR Looks like we're coming in over land.
PLT That old ALTIMETI_ UNLOCK light hasn't flashed

today.
CDR How about that.
PLT It likes the clouds, I guess.
SPT Mississippi really must be putting out the water.

You can see the mud plumes going far out. It's
really building up a delta.
PLT (Chuckle) I spoke too soon. I got an ALTIMETER

UNLOCK light, didn't I? I'll wait 15 seconds.
And, Ed, you're up on about 15 seconds for ETC to
STANDBY.
SPT Roger.
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PLT I still have a READY light; however, I'm not go-

ing to do anything yet. I'll watch it. 58:50
I go to STANDBY on the ALTIMETER anyway. 0ops.
I Just lost it. Okay. I'm going to try the
15-second bit. That'll be a 23. Turn it back
ON. Be 15, and ALTIMETER back ON. And I'm going
to kill it again at 50 here. I'll Just leave the
ALTIMETER LOCK - There, it came back on again,
the ALTIMETER b31LOCK light. Still have a READY
light. Standing by for 58: 50. Have a READY light.
006 17 58 50 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY. RANGE, 76; CROSS-TRACK

NONCONTIGUOUS. POLARIZATION to 5. Downllnk
switch position going to OFF. Waiting for 18:00
even. Let me check that. ALTIMETER did go to
STANDBY, yes.
CDR Okay. Looks like the Cheasapeake Bay mouth is

going to be a bummer.
006 17 59 19 PLT ... CROSSTRACK *** CONTIGUOUS, RIGHT; POLARIZA-

TION, 5; downlink switch position, OFF. Looking
good here.
•PLT I will start at 07:&0 S193 POLARIZATION to 4 and

below that I want to check out a bunch of config-
uration. And then starting that READY out S190
at l0 minutes MODE, STANDBY, I - Following that
I want to check a lot of configuration. Cause
we had a lot of multiple printouts there and some
of them were partial lines. 18:31, ALTIMET_q, ON.
CDR Okay, Houston, this is VTS. We're - I established

her direct in a patch of blue water here but it's
probably out to sea a little ways from the mouth
of the Chesapeake.
PLT Standing by for ETC, AUTO, Ed.
CC Roger, Jet.
CDR Better than no data at all though.
CC Roger.
PLT l0 seconds to ETC, AUTO.

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PLT And the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still out.
CDR The northeast was so clear 2 days ago and look at

it today.
PLT Yes, this time of the year it doesn't take long

to go to pot.
006 18 01 30 PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPW_ to SLOW on S190. 36, 192 MODE
going to READY -
006 18 01 36 PLT MARK. 192 MODE, READY and I - stand by - have a

TAPE MOTION green light.
CDR Hey, Richard. We got any troops flying the North

Atlantic this afternoon?
CC We'll check, Jerry.
CDR Had old A.J. out there on the last trip.
CC Yes.
PLT In about 15 seconds, Ed, ETC to STANDBY.
006 18 02 12 PLT MARK. ETC to STANDBY. Waiting for 03:i0. Every-

thing looks good on the C&D panel. Oops' They
all - l'm going to have to stop saying that.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light Just came on. Still a
READY light. I'ii keep my mouth shut. That's
what I'ii do. Stay out of trouble that way. On
my mark, 03: i0.
CDR Big blue sucker hole here.
006 18 03 i0 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. Standing by for

4 minutes.
CC And, CDR, Houston. In answer to your question,

A.J. is out there again this morning there in the
C130, station out of Halifax.
CDR Roger.
PLT Lost my READY light on the ALTIMETER; going to

STANDBY. Got to go to STANDBY at 4 minutes any-
way. Guess I'll turn it back on at 50. Back on.
READY, on. Standing by at h minutes. My ALTIM-
ETER UNLOCK light came back on again. Stand by -
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006 18 04 00 PLT MARK. ALTIMET_ to STANDBY. RADIOMET_ to

STANDBY. And waiting for 04:12.
CDR Okay, the cloud cover is breaking up to a scat-

tered condition now. Got a lot of blue water.
006 18 0h 12 PLT MARK. SCATTEROMETER and RAD both ON. Okay, Ed,
at 04:20 ETC to AUTO. Stand hy on my mark -
006 18 04 20 PLT MARK. ETC, AUTO. 04:35 ALTIMETER RANGE, 73.
CDR Okay, CAMERA'S ON. Nadir swath.
PLT RANGE, 73 on the ALTIMETER. Okay now, Ed - rather

Dick, I'd like to check some configuration follow-
ing 07:40. I'm going to read my steps. S193 ALTIM-
ETER, •ON. S193 POLARIZATION, 4. S191 REF, 2.
At 9 minutes VTS, AUTO CAL, READY out. S190 at
i0 minutes. MODE, STANDBY. Did that verify?
CC That's - that's affirm, Bill.
PLT Okay, starting at ii minutes even. I start off

my - and there's nothing between that MODE,
STANDBY I Just gave you in ii minutes. S193 ALTIM-
ETER, STANDBY ; RANGE, 70.
CDR That's correct.
PLT Okay; thank you.
CDR Okay the clouds on this - on this nadir swath

appear to be lined up pretty much across our path
or, at least, either generally across or from 230
down to about 830.
006 18 05 40 PLT Getting a RAD/SCAT GIMBAL MALFUNCTION light blink.

It's out right now. Single moment, there - there's
more momentaries - coming on and staying on. Now
it's out again. That's the RAD/SCAT GIMABL light.
I think we're all right. I don't think that's a
big deal.
CDR Okay, now the cloud streets are beginning to line

up with our flight path.
PLT Still blinking.

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SPT Dick, how much further down the road is the center
of the storm?
CC Stand by.
PLT •Another blink. Now it 's out again.
CC SPT, Houston. I don't think we have a well-defined

center. It - It spans almost the entire North
Atlantic and - so I can't really help you there.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Madrid at -
Madrid at 18:ll.
SPT Thanks very much, Dick.
PLT Standing by for 07.26. RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light con-

tinues to blink on - oh, about 20-second centers.
PLT Yes, it's Just about 15-second centers. 192,

STANDBY -
006 18 07 26 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY; RAD to STANDBY. Stand by

for RAD going to OFF at 34.
006 18 07 34 PLT MARK. RAD, OFF. At 40 ALTIMETER is going ON.

Stand by -
006 18 07 h0 PLT MARK. ALTIMER, ON. S193 POLARIZATION - -
006 18 ll 16 PLT The ALTIM_ER, ON. READY light on. No UNLOCK

light. There, it Just blinked. That was at ll:20.
It was Just a momentary blink.
PLT Okay, I'm waiting for ll:40 for READY on on 191.
PLT The ALTIMETER UNLOCK light comes on steady at 36.
006 18 ll hl PLT And there's 191 READY on at cue. S193 MODE, CROSS-
TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you AOS again here at

Madrid for about 7 minutes, and, Bill, while you
a break in here, we'd like to verify that the EREP
BYPASS valve - I mean the EREP COOLANT valve was
put to FLOW. We didn't see it drop in ATM C&D
loop.
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PLT That's affirmative, Dick. And Jerry even had his

warm little ear right up there by the bulkhead
and we noticed a distinct change in pitch. I'll
let him describe it to you - -
CC "Okay.
PLT - - when he's got the time.
CDR Yes, we heard a definite pick up in the - in the

noise level when it took the surge. Then it kind
of settled down - quieted back down to its normal
level.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much.
PLT And I Just put the ALTIMETER to STANDBY because

I've lost my READY light. Be coming back on with
it momentarily.
006 18 12 42 PLT MARK. Back on. Got a good READY light.
PLT I've had l0 - about 7 seconds, I got an ALTIMET_

UNLOCK light again but I still have a READY. I
wonder if thermal heating has something to do with
that thing because it was working like a champ
there in that first sequence.
CDR I don't know. Say, we were pretty close to high

noon when you started using it. Over a period of
time, we used to get the radiant heat.
PLT Yes, that could be it. Could be back reflection.
CDR Yes.
PLT Still have a READY light.
CC And CD - CDR, Houston. Just a reminder, we're

coming up about 18:16 on the maneuver. We do not
see the maneuver time loaded in there yet.
CDR Okay. I was just coming over to do it now.
CC Okay.
PLT ALTIMET_ back ON. READY, on. Flash, okay.

Gives me a good flash about anywhere from
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5 to 7 seconds after I reinitiated following a

malf cycle. Be 14 minutes even. Waiting for i_:35.
One nice thing about it, at least it glm_antees
you about 30 to _5 seconds of good data there
•every time you recycle it.
CDR Yes.
PLT No UNLOCK light. Stand by, 14:35. Stand by -
006 18 14 35 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Waiting for 41.
006 18 14 41 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 47. Stand by -
006 18 14 47 PLT MARK. RAD, ON. RAD, ON!
006 18 14 56 CDR MARK.
PLT ... for 15 minutes.
006 18 I_ 58 CDR (Laughter) Got it.
006 18 15 01 PLT MARK. 19h MODE, MANUAL.
..... CDR Okay. We're i minute from the fine maneuver.
PLT 18:16. Is that when you're doing it?
CDR Right,
PLT Roger. That's a fine maneuver, right?
CDR Yes.
PLT Okay. Stand by for 16 minutes even. Stand by -
006 18 16 00 PLT MARK. Okay, that's 193 RAD to STANDBY. EREP

going to STOP.
CDR Okay. We're maneuvering.
CC Okay, Jerry, and if you'd let us have the DAS

here for a minute, we'd like to issue a heater
command.
CDR Okay. You've got it, Dick.
CC Thank you.
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PLT Looks like a pretty clean run.
PLT Bravo 7 is reading 34.
CDR The heaters cooling off, Dick? The CMG?
006 18 17 08 CC Well, we're having to continually manage the heaters

a couple of times a rev to keep them in our desired
limits. But we've been able to do that with the
station passes that we have.
CDR Very good.
CC And the - and the DAS is yours.
CDR Okay. I'm going to re - going to enter the maneu-

ver time for SI now.
PLT 92 DOOR going CLOSED. And 190 door coming closed.
CDR Okay, Ed. The SI maneuver time is loaded. All

you have to do is punch the button.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS.

Carnarvon comes up - a real low pass at 18:49.
CDR Roger.
PLT RECORD switch going OFF.
CDR Okay, it's latched.
006 18 19 08 PLT Okay.
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006 18 h8 09 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Carnarvon for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. Couple of things for you down

here. Last night on the dump tape there was some
comment there about a problem with the location
of the ED61/62; namely, that the lights might
cause some problems sleeping. If it - if it did
turn out last evening, or in general, that this
is the case, it's okay with us to move the exper-
iment to - nearby any other OWS lamp. If you
decide to do that you can use sticky back Velcro
out of the tool kit to attach it. And we'd like
you to make a light meter reading of the ill1-,ina-
tion per the Student Experiments Checklist; that's
on page 2-3. The reading - says that it should
be a minimum of 30. However, we would like a
reading of 40 or 50 if - if it's desired. And
if you do decide to move it to another place that
you like better, Just let us know.
CDR Okay, Dick. We sure will.
006 18 49 45 SPT Dick, the readings you got last night at the speci-
fied location were between 5 and 20.
CC T_mm. Okay. Thank you, Ed. And I think it 's

obvious to you, but this is one light, of course,
that we do want to leave on during the next few
days as we cool down the vehicle.
CDR I 'ii buy that.
SPT Dick, we got a lot of lights powered down here -

powered off and put down to low intensity. You
want to watch and see what happens over the next
24 hours.
CC Okay, great, Ed. We'll - we'll be doing that.

We're about 50 seconds frc_ LOS here at Carnarvon.
Honeysuckle comes up in Just a few minutes. And
we're going to have a very short pass there also.
So I'll see you there.
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006 18 50 hi PLT Okay, Dick. And tape, 5.7 centimeters. Filter

configuration before the pad change: Charlie,
Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Bravo, and Alfa, 1 through
6 respectively. And, of course, those are all
double letters.
CC Okay, Bill. Got it.
PLT Okay. And I'm going up now to reset the buses.
CC Oks_.
CC Skylab, Houston as we go over the hill. I may

have misunderstood what you said your second, PLT,
but we do not want you to reset the REG ADJUST
pots yet. We'll let you know when we do.
006 18 52 00 PLT Yes, we Just ... Thank you, Dick.
006 18 58 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you at Honeysuckle for

about a minute and a half. The next station pass
is Goldstone at 19:27. And, Jerry, sometimes today,
while Phil and I were on shift, we wanted to talk
to you a little bit about two or three things.
One is - is I'd like to recap a couple of pieces
of information from the last few days' Flight Plan
that you've accomplished since we had our flight
planning discussion the other - about a week ago.
Also there were a couple of questions there that
we wanted to get clarified so we make sure we're do-
ing them right. And finally, we got some discus-
sions to talk to you about - about the - the way
we're going to be handling urine samples during the
rest of the mission. And I was thinking, about the
only chance we have is this upcoming stateside
pass. So if you could make yourself available
about that time, we'd sure appreciate it. And
AOS time Goldstone is 19:27.
CDR That'll be fine, Dick. If you want it now, it's

okay. We're eating lunch.
CC Well, I'll tell you, I wish I had the time now,

but we're Just about to go over the hill in about
15 or 20 seconds. And so I Just can't really get
into any of it. So I'll give you a holler at
Goldstone.
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CDR Okay, I'll be ready.
006 18 59 16 CC Okay.
006 19 27 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A08 stateside for

17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. CDR standing by.
CC Okay What I wanted to do here was go over several

things and ask some questions Just mainly about
how things have been - been going and to clarify
a couple of points. First of all, we've taken a
look at the last few days, since we had our ops
conference about a week ago. And it looks to us -
appears to us like things have been going real
well, although the final Judge of that is you guys.
The science hours, this morning we took a look at,
for the last few days. And based on - based on
the same kind of ground rules that I was talking
to you last week when I told you we were scheduling
and accomplishing about 24 hours on - not includ-
ing the day off and also not including today since
we don't know if any shopping list items will be
done yet - The average for the 4 days in between
there has been about 26 hours, which is obviously
a - an improvement over what we were doing. So
that looks -
CDR Dick, break. You cut out there.
006 19 28 B9 CC Okay, I think we're having a hand - handover so

let me make sure we - Okay, I believe the hand-
over's complete now, and - and so I'll start up
again. Essentially what I did - we did was took
a look at the last week and with exception of the
day off and also with exception of today, since
we don't know how it's going to come out, we've
averaged about 26 hours of - per day between you
three guys which has been devoted directly to
science. So obviously that's about a 2-hour in-
crease. I was wondering how you guys had felt
about the last few days and then - and then since
we've had a couple of different teams come on the
summary shift, we've had a little bit of confusion
as to a cou - a couple of your guidelines, partic-
ularly in the presleep area, and I'd like to ask
you about them.
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006 19 29 29 CDR Okay, Dick we've been feeling a whole lot better.
They're - We're not quite as rushed, and we're
able to get things done a whole lot better, I
think. And still, in whatever spare time we can
•get, we can get the shopping list. I think the
shopping list idea is a very good one. It gives
us an opportunity to get a few things done more
at a leisurely pace and when the time is available.
003 19 29 54 CC Okay, well we'll - we're going to sure try to keep

it up. Jerry, let me - let me go over this pre-
sleep guideline that you read down, although I
wasn't here this evening. And let me read it back
to you and see if this is the way that you intended
it because there has been a little bit of confusion
in our scheduling here. As - as I understand it,
first of all you want an eat time - and these times
are adjusted to central daylight time - but you
want an eat time somewhere around 22:00 Zulu. And
you want an absolutely free time for the hour prior
to bedtime, which is like 02:00 to 03:00, which -
Both of those sound good. And you desire a total
presleep time which includes that hour for eat of
about 2-1/2 hours. Do I have that right?
•CDR No, we told them on the ground that they could cut
that back to 2 hours if they wanted to, presleep.
003 19 30 48 CC Okay, and that - and that includes the eat period.
Is that correct?
CDR It doesn't matter to us. However you want to work

it.
CC Okay. I understand. Okay, the - the key thing

really is between the presleep and the postsleep
time that you gave us, which adds up to an excess
of 3 hours, we're assuming that that's time that's
available in order to take advantage of in sche-
duling science. And I Just wanted to clarify that
because there has been an effort - and there has
been a desire to increase our science time here
from an average of something like 24 hours a day
to around 26 or something like that.
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CDR Well, Dick, the - the hour in the morning from

the time we get up until we start work, if we can
leave that open and not put any science in there,
that's an hour presleep time and that's all we
need - or postsleep time. Then in the evening -
'if y - if we are essentially put to bed at
9 o'clock CDT, then that's an hour free time there,
and we have no science or anything to bother us
in there. Then we have the time that I think we
need to kind of unwind and get ready for sleep.
And the rest of the time you guys can do anything
with - as you desire, as far as science is
concerned.
006 19 32 04 CC Okay, Jerry. That answers the question. Inci-

dently, I did notice also in looking back in the
Flight Plans, that we never had to split PT during
this week, which really was a little bit of a sur-
prise to me. But it's a nice surprise. I'm not
sure that's going to keep on happening, but we
hope it does. But we certainly aren't going to
make a habit, obviously, of splitting it. I've
got a couple of specifics here that I'd like to
mention to you. First of all, it has to do with
_- the film-thread pad. You requested that we get
it up to you the evening before, which is plenty
okay with us. We think we can get it to you about
one pass earlier in the evening than we normally
would otherwise, if during the evening status re-
port, you'll read the photo log first. What this'll
allow us to do is to build a film-thread pad and
have it in the pool here, assuming no deviations.
And then as we get the deviations at the start of
that pass, about half the time, we figure, we can
crank them into the pad and get - get a film-thread
pad up to you at that same site if that's okay with
yOU •
CDR Yes. That's fine, Dick.
006 19 33 07 CC Okay. I got one more subject to talk to you about

and that's urine samples. We've discovered after
doing all the additions and so forth, that we're
somewhere on the order of 23 bags short. And what
we're intending to do, and I think this was men-
tioned to you very briefly yesterday but I wanted
to talk to you some more about it today - what
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we're intending to do is work up a plan where

between here and the end of the mission, we go on
something like a B6-hour sampling period for the -
most of that time. This is going to mean that
you'll sample urine after you wake up in the post-
'sleep one morning, and then the following day
you'll sample it at the end of the day, probably
during presleep. And we're going to - and we're
planning on starting this on tomorrow's Flight
Plan. We're - Our guidelines, Just for your infor-
mation as far as scheduling is is that that's about
a 20-minute task. And it's a serial task so we're
going to allow time in the presleep in addition
to your free hour to accc_plish that. On the eve-
nings where we do work somebody up right up to
9 o'clock local; in other words, if he had to do
his urine sampling after that time, we -we're
trying to get it cleared with the PI now to accom-
plish the urine sampling earlier, like right before
dinner, or Just - It kind of depends on how that
particular Flight Plan comes out.
006 19 3_ 39 CDR Okay, Dick. That sounds fine.
•CC Okay. That's all I had Jerry. If - if you didn't

have any other comments about how things are going
or any suggestions for us to improve on it, that's
all I have.
CDR Dick, one little thing that kind of rises up and

bites us every once in a while is maintaining cor-
relation between the details and the Flight Plan.
Every once in a while, it seems like different
teams do things Just a little bit differently.
And once in a while you'll find something in the
Flight Plan and not in the details. And then when
another team schedules it, it'll be done the other
way. We were wondering if maybe it might not be
a good idea to put a little D for, you know, Delta,
after or alongside any item in the Flight Plan
where you've got details that need to be consulted
as well. Just sort of an extra little memory Jog-
ger to make sure you go over and check your details.
006 19 35 _3 CC Tell you what, Jerry. Let us kick that around down
here and see how we might could best implement it
and get back to you.
Pnge 7 of 8132_5
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And we've still got about 8 minutes here stateside,

and I'm standing by.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Next time you get a chance,

you can put the REG ADJUST pots back to where they
were. We're happy.
006 19 36 30 CC Skylab, Houston. I think I dropped out there, but

next time somebody gets a chance you can reset the
REG ADJUST pots to the pre-EREP set - settings.
We're real happy with them.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Madrid

comes up at 19:_8. And we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Madrid.
006 19 43 03 CDR Roger, Dick.
006 19 48 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Madrid for 8 minutes,

and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here.
CDR Roger, Dick. And been thinking a little bit about

what we were talking about. And you were asking
whether or not the eat period would be considered
in the presleep. And, yes, I guess what it boils
down to is with a 2-hour presleep period now,
i hour of it will be for the evening meal, which
we'd like to have, you know, most desirably right
around 6 o'clock central daylight time. And the
other hour would be that period frem 9 until I0.
CC Okay, Jerry. That's the way we copied it, and

we'll - we'll make sure you get that much time.
006 19 49 36 CDR By the way, Dick, we're cutting a pretty good swath
in our shopping list. I'd suggest that you con-
tinue to feed up interesting things for us to do.
TV-103 and 104, they gave us in the shopping list
and then tried to schedule them on us today. And
I asked them not to do that, that we'd rather take
those demos like that and have lots of time to fool
with them and get them all set up. And then we'll
ask for TV time when we're ready to do it.
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CC Okay, Jerry; copy that. And I agree with you

about the shopping list. That is a heck of a good
way to work. And that's what Beano and those guys
had found also. You will notice in the next few
days, I'm sure as a result of this conversation,
"is - is some increase in your scheduled time. So
don't hesitate to holler if we overdo it. We tend
to do that sometimes.
006 19 50 35 CDR Okay, Dick.
006 19 56 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Tanana-

rive comes up at 20:09. I'll call you there.
006 19 57 01 CDR Roger.
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00620 09 23 CC Skylab, Houston; Tananarive for 9 minutes.
00620 16 h3 CC Skylab, Houston, we may have an early LOS here

at Tananarive. Honeysuckle comes up at 20:35.
I'll call you there. Also, CDR, what we're
planning on doing on today's Flight Plan with
regard to a Jogger to lead you to the details,
we do not have a delta sign and also we're afriad
if we use a D some of the S,,,,,-,ary
Flight Plan
may get confusing. So what we're planning on
doing is in the column - in the left-hand col,_mn
next to each guy's row on the S11,_ary Flight
Plan, we're going to insert a dollar sign instead
of an exclamation point in that vertical line
of exclamation points. The dollar sign will
indicate to you to look on your details pad for
information.
CDR Good idea, that's like money in the bank.
CC Roger that.
CC You and the Flight Director have the same lousy

sense of h_nor - htmor, Jerry.
CDR Great minds track together.
CC Roger.
006 20 17 56 MCC Thank you, sir.
006 20 35 lh CC Skylab, Houston; Honey suckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Dick, the TV's on the video tape recorder.
CC Okay, we noticed the switch is still on portable.

You might Just maks sure that you did switch it
to TV prior to putting it on there.
CDR Ho, ho, ho.
CC Ah hal You owe me a sarsaparilla, me and the

INC0.
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CDR Right, I'll do it again.
CC Okay, stand by Just a second, Jerry. And INCO will

rewind it for you, and we'll save the tape.
CDR Okay. I'm going to have to wait l0 minutes anyway.

I want to get finished with this EXTENDED STANDARD
so I can put some WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH on anyway.
CC 0kay, Jer.
006 20 37 24 CC Skylab, Houston_ the VTR is rewound and waiting

on you when you get to it, Jer.
CDR Okay, tb_ks.
006 20 39 31 CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute to LOS; Hawaii at 20:55.
CDR See you later.
006 20 39 41 CC Okay.

6-1/2 minutes. And for the SPT, we have a minor
mod to the J0P 18 Delta pad. And we'd also like
to take the video tape recorder not to prepare for
dump. We see you put 3.7 minutes' worth on it.
CDR You got it, Bruce.
CC Roger, thank you.
PLT SPT will be with you in a few minutes, Bruce; he's

tied up.
CC Okay, no rush. We got about 2 and - 2 hours or so

before we really need to get to it.
006 20 58 12 CC And, Skylab, Houston again. At your convenience,

we'd like you to go ahead and return the REG BUS
coarse adjust pots to their pre-EREP settings.
It's about 20 degrees counterclockwise. Over.
CDR Okay, that's in work now, Bruce.
CC Roger, thank you.

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CDR Bruce, the RASTER COUNTER on S055 - I think

we - we've had an old complaint about that sometimes
incrementing Just random.
CC Yes, I think it increments inunits of 80.
CDR Well, it appears that it's not random anymore.

Any time when you're in MIRROR, AUTO RASTER, every
time you go through the 20's column, you know, and
it seems to hit 23 more often than anything else.
That's precisely when the COUNTER updates 1.
006 20 59 16 CC Okay, so as it's going back and forth, every time

_ it passes through it - every time it passes through
the 20's column you add 80 to the GRATING POSITION?
CDR No, only on the upcount, and it's not adding 80.
This is the - this is the RASTER/SCAN COUNTER, you
know. And every time you do one full MIRROR, AUTO
RASTER, it's supposed to bump up 1. But in this
particular case, it - it bumps up 1 every time you
go through 20 - coll:mn 20 counting up.
CC Okay, we've got that, Jerry. That sounds like a

new one to us. The previous one was on the GRATING
POSITION count and it was going up random amounts
that were multiples of 80 - 80 grating lines.
CDR Roger.
006 21 00 55 CDR Okay, Bruce. Ed seems to think it has something

to _o with when the - when it crosses the limb
of the Sun, it sends a signal.
CC Okay, we'll take that input also. And we've got

about 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact is
Goldstone in 2 minutes at 21:03, and we'll be
starting off with the data/voice tape recorder
dump.
CDR Roger.
CC Say, Jerry, on this SCAN COUNT, you have a little

flip-flop there, don't you? That - How about the
OPTICAL - the GRATING OPTICAL REFERENCE flip-flop?
Can you correlate that going to barberpole, let's
say, with adding 1 to the SCAN COUNTER?
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CDR Yes, I'ii start looking at that. I Just thought

about doing that.
006 21 01 55 CC Yes, the ZER0-0RDER goody.
006 21 03 19 CC AOS, Goldstone; 9 minutes and 20 seconds; data/

006 21 ll 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 21:16. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. And that random - this RASTER/SCAN

COUNTER update looks like it is - has something
to do with the talkback. It's probably _I. I
tried running it back and forth across the Earth
limb. And every time we went from barberpole to
gray, we got an increment.
CC Every time you went from barberpole to gray you

got an increment?
CDR That 's affirmative.
006 21 12 23 CC Okay.

6 minutes. Out.
006 21 21 35 CDR 35.

Islands at 21:26. Out.
006 21 25 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Canary Islands

for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
006 21 28 01 SPT Houston, SPT standing by to copy the change in

the J0P 18 pad.
CC Okay, Ed. It's in building block 30A and if

you're looking at the - Would you rather look
at the message we sent up to you or the JOP 18D
pad sheet? Over.
SPT Let's go with the pad sheet.

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006 21 28 2B CC Okay, building block BOA under 82B. The first

exposure you should have in there is a 5-second
one; the second exposure a 20-minute one; and
the third exposure is as long as possible. And
on that third exposure, which is as long as possi-
ble, we'd like to change WAVE T._GTH from LONG to
SHORT. Over.
SPT Okay, I've got it, LONG to SHORT.
CC Roger, and while we're talking to you here, Ed,

Just like to remind you that your f_i ly phone
call is at Honeysuckle Creek at 22:10. T,EFT ANTENNA
going to RIGHT. Over.
SPT 22:10, T._WT to RIGHT. Thank you, Bruce.
006 21 29 00 CC Roger, out.
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• SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

station contact in lh minutes through Tananarive
at 21:h8. And for the CDR, or whomever's inter-
ested, the Flight Plaus for tomorrow are in the
woodpecker.
CDR Roger, Bruce. Thanks.

station contact in 19 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 22:10 with the SPT phone call. Out.
006 21 51 23 SPT Roger.
006 22 ii 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 8-1/2minutes. Out.
006 22 18 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute until LOS. Next

• station contact in 12 minutes through Hawaii at
22:31. Out.

9-1/2 minutes. And we need the DAB for a minute
to give you a nu Z update. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
006 22 32 16 CC And we've finished with the DAS. It's all yours
again.
CDR Roger.
006 22 32 22 CC Info for the CDR. We Just saw a subnormal flare

in active region 12. Information only.
CDR Right, we saw it too. We Almost went on it.
CDR That flared about 3 minutes ago, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, this is Houston. l've got a couple of words

on what we discovered on your RASTER/SCAN COUNTER
problem. Over.

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006 22 36 33 CC Okay, we've decided to name this one after you,

Jerry, known as the ambiguous Carr mode of opera-
tion on the - the ATMo It turns out that the
system is functioning as it should from the wiring
diagram, and that if you are near GRATING ZERO so
that the ZERO-ORDER detector works, if you're in
a RASTER/SCAN mode, and if the instrument is scan-
ning onto and off of the disk of the Sun, then
you will in fact get an increment to your COUNTER
each time that you (a) complete a RASTER, and
(b) SCAN back onto the disk of the Sun going to the
talkback gray on ZER0-0RDER unit, because the
signals from the GRATING SCAN complete which is
tripped by the ZERO-ORDER detector and the signal
from the RASTER/SCAN complete, which ccm_es out of
another set of logic are dioded into that COUNTER.
Now in the future, in order to preclude this am-
biguous mode of operation, all that you need do
is put the GRATING REFERENCE switch to MECHANICAL
and that - you know, and not DRIVE the GRATING and
that won't change your GRATING POSITION counter,
but that will interrupt the output of the ZERO-ORDER
detector, and you'll be back to Just counting
RASTERs. Over.
006 22 38 20 CDR Okay, Bruce, thank you. And tell the boys in the
backroom that I'm deeply moved by the honor they've
bestowed on me.
CC (Laughter) Okay, we'll do that. We were sort of

surprised to - to report that you had indeed dis-
covered a new operating mode ourselves.
006 22 39 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next :

at 22:42. Out.
006 22 42 &0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
006 22 _9 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

22:53, leading off with the data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.

8-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
Over.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. If you're busy with the

recorder, we can let it slip until Canary or
Ascension.
CDR Affirmative, Bruce. I'm debriefing ATM.
CC Roger ; out.
006 22 58 23 CDR Houston, CDR's finished with the recorders.
CC Okay, thank you, Jer.
CDR Houston, CDR. You can tell the guys in the backroom
that I've debriefed this on the tape, but essen-
tially, that subflare's happening right in the
middle. I guess I - I mapped out the right-hand
side of one curve and the left-hand side of another
so we probably don't have a very good data match.
006 22 59 _2 CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you.
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station contact in 8-1/_ minutes through Ascension
at 23:10. Out.
006 23 04 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascen-

sion for 15-1/2 minutes. And we'll be doing a
data/voice tape recorder dump now. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
006 23 i0 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

at 23:_3. And for the SPT, wynoticed the CANISTER
ROLL has not yet been INHIBITed, although you're
at minus 6300. We'd like to INHIBIT for added
stabitity. Over.
006 23 19 43 CC Roger. Thank you.

Honeysuckle Creek for 9 minutes. Out.
CC And for the SPT, we need the DAS for a minute

to control the CMG bearing heaters. Over.
SPT You got it, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CC And we're through with the DAS, Ed. Back to you.
SPT Roger.
006 23 47 45 SPT Houston, when you're looking at Venus, there's no

mistaking it. It looks around 6 octal units and
it's exceptionally bright. Had to turn down the
intensity on the scope Just so I could work with
it.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed. Thank you.
006 23 _9 20 CC And, Ed, if you'll pardon us looking over your

shoulder, we don't show S054 running for a long
exposure. Over.
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SPT Right, Bruce ; thank you.
CC Roger, out.
006 23 51 03 CC 1-1/2 minutes to LOS here. Next station contact

• in 7 minutes through Gl_alnat 23:58. And for the
SPT, if you like, you can put up to about 18 min-
utes' worth of - up to about 8 minutes' worth of
comet/Venus TV on the VTR. Over.
006 23 51 26 SPT Okay, Thank you, Bruce. I'll probably do that

at the beginning of the next orbit when I
reacquire.
006 23 58 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 5-1/2 min-

utes. Out.

station contact in 7-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 00:ll. Out.
007 00 l0 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 1 minute.

Next station contact in ll-1/2 minutes, Goldstone,
at 00 :22. Out.
007 00 22 ll CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda coming up
here. And we've got you 5 minutes through Goldstone
to start with, and we'll be doing a data/voice
tape recorder dump at Merritt Island. Out.
007 O0 26 26 CC 1 minute until LOS. Next station contact in 2 min-

utes, Corpus Christi. Out.
007 00 29 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for ll-1/2 minutes. Data/voice tape
recorder dnmp if you're not busy. Out.
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007 00 40 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds until LOS.

Next station contact in 9 minutes through Ascen-
sion at 00:49. Out.

5-1/2 minutes. Next station Carnarvon, we'll be
standing by to receive the evening status report.
Out. And we need to get the DAS here for a minute
for a CMG bearing heater command.
SPT Roger, Bruce. You have it.
CC Thank you, Ed.

0
007 00 51 25 CC And we're through with the DAS command. It's back
to you, Ed.
SPT Roger.
CC And the VTR has been cleaned off. It's all yours.
SPT Roger.

station contact in 25-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 01:20. And we'll be standing by for the
evening status report at AOS. Out.

10-1/2 minutes. We need the DAS right now to
configure the CMG bearing heaters. And we're
standing by for the photo log and then the
evening status report. Over.
SPT You got the DAS.
CC Roger; thank you.
CDR Okay, on the photo log. 16-millimeter: Delta

Papa 2, Charile India 127, ]8, Charlie India 93;
Delta Papa ll, Echo, Foxtrot, and Golf, and Delta
Papa 12, Charlie India 127, 00, Charlie India 93;
Tango Victor 107, Charlie India 79, 62, Charlie
India 126; EREP VTS, Charlie Lima 10, 50. Nikon l,
_ CharlieX-ray 39,, 35; 2, empty_ 3, Charlie
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India 112, I17; h, no change; 5, empty.

70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 51, 040. ETC is
Charlie Tango ii, 068. EREP: Set Tango, 9024,
8362, 9238, 9230, 2774, 0099. Drawer A: Alfa i,
no change; Alfa 2, 05, no supply, take-up is
Charlie India 127; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 79,
62, Charlie India 126; Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 77,
07, Mike Tango 09. Back 07, Charlie India 78, 44,
Charlie India 74. That's it.
007 Ol 22 12 CC Okay, we got it. Standing by for the evening

status report. The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay, sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light; SPT
6.8, all heavy; PLT 7.5, all heavy. Volume: CDR,
1750; SPT, 1750; PLT, 2100. Water guns: 8826;
4190; 0238. Body mass: CDR, 6.316, 6.318, 6.318;
SPT, 6.354, 6.349, 6.3h9; PLT 6.214, 6.205, 6.214.
Exercise: no change on all three of us. Medi-
cations: none for any of us. Clothing: CDR,
shorts and socks; SPT, trousers, shorts, and
socks; PLT, shirt. Food log; CDR, salt, zero;
deviations, minus I lemonade; rehydration water,
plus 1.5. SPT, 4.0 salt; no deviations:
minus 1.0 water. PLT, zero, zero, zero. Okay,
Flight Plan deviations: The SPT did 7 - TV-77,
and tomorrow the CDR and the PLT will swap EREP
tasks. The PLT is the only member of the crew
that's been - that's had training on EREP cal
with - with the lunar field of view. Shopping
list accomplishments: PLT did T002-3 today. The
data's on tape 02:40 to 03:00. SPT did Tango
Victor i01, 1-hour prep. And he also got a sweat
sample, and he did $063 photo sequence. Inoperable
equipment: Transporter 07 - We had an early end-
of-film light. We troubleshot it a little later,
hand-wound it, and cleared it. And it's operating
okay now, and we're going to put it back into use.
Transporter 08 - Film broken with 7 percent
remaining. Unscheduled stowage: none. Housekeep-
ing completed.
007 01 24 31 CC It sounds like you guys had a bangup day there.

You're really ripping through the shopping list
accomplishments and repair work. Got a couple of
questions for you here, and then we'll let you go.
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Did the urine dump line work satisfactorily this

morning, and were you able to evacuate the new
urine bags through the dump line successfully or
did you have to use the backup procedure? Over.
]!_ CDR No, it worked like a champ.
CC Beautiful. For the SPT, was the comet ever as

bright as Venus, and if not, can you estimate
how much fainter it was at its brightest. Over.
SPT No, it was never as bright as Venus by a consider-

able margin, but I'd have a tough time giving you
any kind of a quantitative assessment of that,
Bruce.
007 01 25 lh CC Okay. And you put some comet sketches on the TV

today. We'll get those back in the site here
later on tonight. Do you think it's worthwhile
doing TV of comet sketches later, say, day after
tomorrow or anything like that? Over.
SPT I think a 2-day interval now is a little bit

close. I think maybe we ought to open it up to
about a 4-day or so. In the next h days from now,
I might give you a little something, but there's
really not too much changing other than the tail
length and neg - other very small features.
CC Okay, we'll feed that into the mill. And for

the CDR again: On mission day h6, which is about
a week ago, you gave us a M487-2 Charlie debriefing.
But when you got to the comments on item number 5,
habitability improvements, you noted that you were
going to go by that one for the time being and
come back to it later. And we've checked the
voice tapes, and we can't find any place that you
came back. And we're wondering if the next day
or so you could take a minute and put some words
on that subject on the tape recorder at your
convenience. Over.
007 01 26 19 CDR Okay, Bruce. I better put that on my shopping

list, so I don't forget it again.
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CC Roger. And since we're shifting the evening news

around to the morning these days, why, that about
wraps it up for this site, unless you've got some-
thing for us. Next site, which is Guam at 01:33
acquisition is your evening medical conference,
and after that we'll talk to you for about a
minute and a half or - or so through Goldstone.
And then let you knock it off for the evening at
02:00.
007 01 26 52 CDR Okay, Bruce. I don't think we have anything.

On that housekeeping for today, I said it was all
finished, it really isn't. I still owe you a
squeezer bag dump, which I'ii do before bedtime.
CC Okay. You talk about owing us a squeezer bag

dump, that reminds me about the old one about
getting change for a mib.
CDR What's a mib?
CC A minimum impulse bit for your TACS.
CDR Is that right?
SPT Hey, Bruce, I'd like to give you a couple of words.
CC Go ahead.
007 01 27 31 SPT JOP 18, this looks like the last one we're going
to be working on. And from my side, working
them up here, it looks pretty successful. I think
the J0P Summary Sheets were put together in a
very short period of time, but an excellent job
done on them. l've had no trouble working my way
through them. I thought they were very carefully
thought out and well done. As far as maneuvering,
heek, the ASC0s and all the guys down there on the
ground coming up with maneuvers did a great job.
We've done a lot of maneuvers here on two CMGs
that I think we were hesitant to do repetitively
on three CMGs just a couple of months ago. So,
all in all, I think the folks down there did a
great job, and it looked like a pretty successful
program.
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007 01 28 17 CC Okay, Ed. We'll certainly pass those co_ents

on, and I share your - your feelings with you.
We've gone from a situation where on three CMGs
we thought we could just barely hack it, to where
we've done a beautiful job with you all doing
it here on - on two CMGs. And the assessment
we're getting from the backroom is that we've
given the comet a very thorough looking over with
all the ATM instruments. And the consensus down
here is that it's been a riproaring success due
in no small part to your dedication to the - the
tasks involved and getting on with the program
there.
007 01 30 04 CC CDR, Houston. Reference your remark about the

PLT, we show the PLT on S191 for the lunar cal
tomorrow, which takes place from about 00:30
down to 02:00. Over.
CC And also the EREP cal at 12:00 Zulu.
CDR Let me reread what l've got. I didn't see it that

way.
007 01 30 51 CC We got about i0 seconds to LOS. Med conference

coming up at Guam at 01:33 in 2-1/2 minutes.
We'll talk to you for just a minute at Goldstone
before you sign off for the evening.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TIUkI_SCRIPTION
007 01 59 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16 minutes,
but we'll Just talk to you here for about a minute
or so and then let you have some peace and quiet.
For the SPT, when you close out from JOP 18 Delta
here, we'd like you to leave the apparatus in
SOLAR INERTIAL since we're short on daylight sites,
and we won't be doing it unattended. That is, at
the end of step 35, stay in SI instead of going
to EXPERIM_{T POINTLNG. There's no convenient
wakeup site right on ll:O0 Zulu, so we recommend
that you set your alarm clock. We'll call you from
over Guam at 11:29. Over.
SPT Roger, understand Bruce. I'm sorry I didn't quite

understand the reason for not going to EXPERIMENT
POINTING.
007 02 00 48 CC We're not going to be doing any unattended work

this evening because we're short on ground sites
in daylight. And there's a possibility that if
"we can't see it in daytime, if we have a failure
of the wedge dribe motors, we wind up with a
horrendous situation. So we'd rather not do it.
Just leave it in SI. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce, will do. Thank you.
CC Okay, and if you need us after we sign off here,

i0000, do not ENTER in the DAS. We'll give you a
call. And the film-thread pad is on board for
your use at your discretion this evening. And a
final item, they'd like to remind you that there
will be no urine sampling tomorrow morning. The
next urine sample is tomorrow evening in accordance
with the Flight Plan and the new urine sample pad
you have on board. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Thanks a lot. And you're right on

that lunar cal thing. I was not reading high
enough on the Flight Plan.
CC Okay, so if we're squared away on that, why, we'll

bid you a good night.
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007 02 01 22 CDR Okay, good night, Bruce.
007 02 16 06 CC S056 AIRLOCK to CLOSE, please, before you leave

the panel.
PLT Roger.
SPT Roger, Bruce, I haven't finished up the powering

down for unattended.
CC Sorry about that, but this is our last contact this

evening.
007 02 16 26 SPT Okay, will do.
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007 ii 30 17 CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through Guam for

9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Morning, Bill.
PLT Got the news there?
CC Yes, sir. But I got about three EREP changes

to get to Jer prior to starting the EREP eal i
so let me give those to him and then I'll press
on with the news.
PLT Stand by l, Story.
CC And no need to acknowledge, but for Jer, I'll

need his CDR detail pad. And the only other
pad I'll need for him is the EREP cal, C&D pad.
PLT He's getting them out now.
CC Okay. We sent plenty of them up to you last

night.
007 ii 31 _6 PLT 0kay, Story. GO ahead.
CC Yes. This is on Jer's detail.
PLT Roger. He has them.
CC Understand you're ready for me to read.
PLT That 's affirmative.
CC Okay, CDR details. Between ll:02 and 12:00, put

down ll:50; EREP; BUS l, ON; S191 POWER, ON.
PLT He has that one.
CC Okay. And at 15:58, cross out 15:58 and put

downl6:08.
PLT Okay. He has that one.

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CC Okay. And on the EREP cal, C&D, cross out on -

that's on page 2, GMT 12:57. Cross that out and
put down 12:56.
PLT Okay. He has that one noted.
CC Okay. l've got about three or four more for you,

but those concern EREP 22. It's, oh, 5 hours
from now; so they can wait. And if you're ready,
here's the news.
CDR Fire away.
007 ii 33 45 CC Israeli Government is reported preparing to with-

draw its forces 18 miles from the Suez Canel if
Egypt agrees to reduce its troops and arms on the
east side of the waterway. Newspaper reports in
Israel and the United States said this was the
plan discussed by the Defense Secretary Moshe
Dayan and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
during Dayan's visit to Washington last week.
Dayan, before leaving Washington, said he thought
the Israeli Cabinet could not submit its proposal
to the Egyptians at the troop disengagement talks
in Geneva. But there was no indication yet just
when his proposal would be made.
CC Robbers who stole an 80-pound grasshopper weather

vane that for 232 years sat atop Boston's his-
toric Faneuil Hall probably used a helicopter,
police said Saturday. Police and city officials
said the missing 4-foot-long grasshopper, gilded
with gold leaf, is priceless. An expert said
it will probably sell for hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Superintendent of the old hall, lo-
cated in the Haymarket Square area, discovered
the grasshopper was missing when he went on the
roof to raise the flag Friday. The last time he
remembered noticing it was a month before, but
several persons said they saw it around Christmas,
police said.
CC President Luis Echeverra [sic] of Mexico has

ordered the highest funeral honors for David Alfaro
Sequarez [sic], the last of Mexico's three great
muralists, who died of cancer Sunday. He was 77.
The president ordered that the body lie in state
for 24 hours at the Palace of Fine Arts in downtown
Mexico City. Burial will be at noon; that's on
Tuesday.
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007 ii 35 15 CC Snowy Alaska may not yet rank as a winter va-

cation haven, but Japanese ski enthusiasts are
discovering it by the charter load. Winter vis-
itors from Japan have doubled over the past year
and are now pouring in at the rate of 1000 skiers
a month. Prince Charles; heir to the British
throne, took a spill from his horse during a
polo match but remounted and continued the game.
The prince, who recently arrived in Singapore
to join the frigate H.M.S. Jupiter as comm offi-
cer fell during a match Sunday at the Singapore
Polo Club.
CC Bing Crosby, hospitalized with pleurisy, is re-

ported in good spirits as he watched a telecast
of the annual Pro-Am Golf Tourny that he normally
hosts at Pebble Beach. Sheets of rain drenched
southern California Sunday as a wave of storm
fronts lashed the coast, and residents battled
snow and mud left by earlier storms. The National
Weather Service said 5.29 inches of rain were
dumped over the area by last Sunday and the
outlook was for more of the same. Forecasts said
more flooding and mudslides could be expected.
And that's all I've got for you on news this
morning.
PLT Thank you, Story.
007 ll 38 27 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 30 minutes

from the Vanguard at 12:09.
007 ll 38 35 PLT Roger.
007 12 09 37 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.
SPT Morning, Story. I have a question for you.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, in looking through the pads here, I noted

that I have a EREP cal maneuver, which is great,
but I don't see it anywhere denoted in either
my Flight Plan or the details. And I was wondering
how I would know to look for that pad in the
future!
CC Because you beat Story to it by about l0 seconds.

It should've been on your details and on your
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Summary Flight Plan, Ed, and I was just going

to call you right then.
SPT Okay. l'm up to speed right here, and if no

one objects, I might take a quick peek at the
Sun.
CC They say to have at it, Ed.
SPT Thank you. For the bookkeepers, Story, I got

it all read last night after we finished up
that JOP 18, also.
CC Okay, Ed, and we just sent you up a solar activity

update ; it' s on board.
007 12 19 i0 CC Skylab, about 30 seconds to LOS; i0 minutes to

Canary. And we'll be dumping the data/voice at
Canary.
SPT Story, a note on that solar activity update: There

is a lot of enhancement in XUV, and it's a region -
which I did a little work on last night - at
around 260.1. Looks as though we have another
active region coming around the corner there.
And I noted some fairly - relatively high inten-
sities - 30 arc seconds to 60 arc seconds - off
the limb last night, and I'm taking another look
now.
007 12 19 56 CC Okay, Ed.
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007 12 29 59 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid. We'll be dumping

the data/voice here at Canaries, and we got you
for 13 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, if you get ahead on setting up your

EREP there, I've got about three changes to get
up to you. There's no hurry, however; I can get
them up in the next 2 or 3 hours. But if you
get ahead and get some time, I'll give them to
you.
PLT Roger.
r 007 12 32 32 PLT Okay, Story, I have my pads out.
CC Okay, Bill. PLT details, at 00:22, you can

scratch everything on that line. 00:22, delete
it all.
f_
PLT Roger. That's deleted.
CC And if you can, dig up EREP-22 C&D next.
PLT Okay. I have it.
CC And go to page 2 and go down to ii minutes and

i0 seconds.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay. Delete all of that. Delete S192 MODE CHECK.
007 12 33 36 PLT Roger. Got that.
CC And then moving on down to what looks like

14 minutes and 15 seconds, S192 MODE to READY,
delete that.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay. The next one is the EREP-22 VTS. Jer'll

be doing it.
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PLT Yes. And that's one of his pads?
CC That's one of his, but you can copy down the

change all right on that.
PLT Stand by just a minute. Go ahead with the change,

Story.
007 12 34 37 CC Okay. On EREP-22 VTS - that's 53:20, just below

"operate marks;" that's where you want to put
this - add: ii minutes and 00 seconds, special 02.
PLT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. On EREP-22 VTS - that's 53:20, just below

"operate marks;" that's where you want to put
this - add: ii minutes and 00 seconds, special 02.
PLT Got it.
CC Select three cloud-free water sites.
PLT Okay.
CC Track each site for i0 seconds, through nadir.
PLT Roger.
CC And then just below the word "primary" and above

"special 01," put "special 02."
PLT Go ahead.
CC Area ii00 to 1445.
PLT Roger.
CC And that's CROSS-TRACK ANGLE, RIGHT, zero zero.
PLT Roger.
007 12 36 27 CC That's it for now. Thank you.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, we're 6 minutes to LOS here, and we'd like --

to see the maneuver time before we go LOS.
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SPT Okay.
007 12 38 31 CC Ed, your maneuver time's confirmed, and _e_ve got

all the EREP changes up to you.
_ SPT Thankyou, Story.
_@_ CDR This is the CDR at 12:39. Delta 6 at time T

time T-2, which was 12:33, was 43 percent. CDR out.
CC Okay, Jer.
CDH Okay, this is the CDR with the MONITOR readings.

Alfa 2 is 93; Alfa 3 is 87; Alfa 4 is 93; Alfa 5
is 98; Alfa 6 is 20; Alfa 7, nothing. Bravo 2
is 91; Bravo 3 is 82; Bravo 4 is 91; Bravo 5 is 91;
Bravo 6 is 47; Bravo 7 is 33; Bravo 8 is zero -
correction - Make that I; Bravo 9 is 58. Charlie 2
is i00; Charlie 3 is 88; Charlie 4 is 97; Charlie 5
is 50 - correction - 46; Charlie 7 - Charlie 6
is 46; Charlie 7 is 48; Charlie 8 is 92. Delta 2,
86; Delta 3, 85; Delta 4, 85; Delta 5 is 15;
Delta 6 is 46; Delta 7 is i0. Okay, the S192
switch is verified OFF; READY; DOOR, OPEN.
CDR Okay, the 192 DOOR is OPEN.
007 12 42 52 CC Skylab, a minute to LOS and about 26 minutes to

Guam at 13:09.
CDR Roger, Story.
007 12 43 ii CDR 192 MODE to CHECK. S190 HEATER switch OFF light
is out. Panel 117 checks are okay.
007 13 09 18 PLT - - ... now going to the Imbrium Basin.
007 13 09 22 PLT MARK. Data mark for i0 seconds on the Imbrium

Basin.
007 13 09 30 CC Skylab, Houston, Purple gang's with you here at

Guam for the next 4 minutes.
CDR Hello,Richard.
007 13 09 39 PLT MARK. l0 seconds on the 0ceanus Procellarium.
CC Is the Moon pretty today?
PLT Yes; nice and full.

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PLT Okay. All right, now I need t,ogo 5 degrees

DOWN, which will make that a total of 6 degrees.
CDR Looks like your little clock alarm went off early,
Bill.
PLT Yes. I'ii get it just a second here.
CDR No rush. Sure did.
PLT Okay. 10 seconds on 5 degrees down. Okay.

CAMERA, OFF. rl_latwas a good rim. Okay, l'm
standing by to do - No, it didn't go off early,
either, l'm due here in just about 2 minutes. I
wanted to - or in a minute and a half. 13:12,
l'm supposed to change.
007 13 i0 43 CDR Right.
PLT Okay. l'm putting my gloves on. Are you -

Do you have to take any more pictures right
now?
CDR No more pictures for now.
PLT Okay. Let's - -
CDR Press on.
PLT Get her now. Take my headset off.
CDR Got scatterometer work to do here and radiometer

work. Okay. My next mark's at 11:30; 13:11:30.
Stand by.
007 13 ii 30 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
007 13 ii 32 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, STANDBY. Okay, the next mark

is 12:00. Stand by.
007 13 12 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER's ON. Okay, coming up on 06.
007 13 12 06 CDR MARK. 191 REFERENCE to 2.
007 13 12 27 CC Skylab, Houston. 50 seconds to LOS. Honeysuckle

at 13:19. See you there.
pL
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CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, next mark is 13:06; the VTS AUTO CAL. Stand
by.
007 13 13 06 CDR MARK. AUTO CAL at 06. Next mark is at 13:30;

13:30. Stand by.
007 13 13 31 CDR _ MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. 193 MODE going

to XTNC, L/R. POLARIZATION is 5. Next mark is
13:48. Stand by.
007 13 13 49 SPT MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON.
007 13 14 02 SPT Lots of time, Bill.
007 13 19 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Another one on the horizon. Yes,

down. Yes, there's another one down. Right.
PLT Down.
CDR Down, apparently.
CDR _Yes, indeed; you color in three black squares

today for EREP.
PLT ... 717
CDR Say again.
PLT Isn't that 171?
CDR No. What is a special i and special 2? Okay,

i minute to EREP, START. All right.
CDR Okay. On my mark, it'll be 21:50. Stand by.
007 13 21 50 CDR MARK. EREP, START. Okay, at 22:00 -
007 13 22 02 CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO. Looking for a READY out
at 15.
007 13 22 13 CDR MARK. READY's out at 12. MODE is STANDBY;

SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM. Next mark is 22:40.
Stand by and -
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007 13 22 40 CDR MARK, MODE to AUTO on S190. Looking for READY

out at 22:55.
007 13 22 52 CDR MARK. The READY light went out at 50. SHUTTER
SPEED to FAST. MODE went to STANDBY first. Now
its SHUTTER SPEED is FAST.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're 40 seconds from LOS. Canary

comes up at 14:08. See you there.
CDR Roger. See you then.
CDR Next mark's 23:20. Stand by,
007 13 23 21 CDR MARK. 190 to MODE, AUTO. Looking for a READY

out at 23:35. MALFUNCTION light on number 3.
Must be out of films. READY light was out at 32.
Going to STANDBY. EREP STOP at 38. By golly,
we just barely had enough film. S190 camera
number 3, MALF light came on at the last exposure.
007 13 24 24 CDR Okay. Our friendly MONITOR, Bravo number 7,

is reading 33 percent. S192 DOOR going to CLOSE
now. QLOSlNG and LATCHING n_mlber 192 - or
S190 window.
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007 14 09 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary and Madrid

for 12 minutes. And sometime during this pass,
I have a teenie correction to make to the SPT
and CDR's Summary Flight Plan and also a note for
the CDR on ED31.
CDR Roger, Dick. Go Ahead. The EREP tape remaining

was 4.2 centimeters.
CC 4.2 centimeters. Okay, Jerry; thank you much.

Jerry, here's the deal. In the - First of all,
on the S11mmary Flight Plan for you and Ed, for
you at 14:45, where it says ED31 ops, and also
for Ed at about 16:30 for ED61 ops, we should have
written "photo" underneath each one of those
blocks. Those operations are supported by a photo
pad. But we normally put "photo" on the Summary
Flight Plan, and we failed to do so on this one.
007 14 i0 24 CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, I got a couple more - -
CC Okay, Ed. And, Jerry, I got a couple more for

you here. On your ED31, when you get into the
ED31 checklist or at least the Student Project
Experiment Checklist on the ED31 stow section,
page 5-9, it says - it says here to get these
cans out for - to use for the Petri dishes and
discard the contents. Turns out that the con-
tents of the cans - There's some boric acid tablets
in there, and we do not want to throw them away;
so don't go verbatim by the checklist. Be sure
and save the boric acid tablets.
007 14 ii 13 CDR Okay.
CC Okay. And, Jerry, as long as l'm talking to

you, we!re putting together the final touches on
tomorrow's Flight Plan. And there's one item in
the - in the morning - there's an opportunity to
do a S019 Kohoutek maneuver - That turns out
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to be the only opportunity of the day to get it

in. And it's going to involve the SPT doing a -
a maneuver at about 11:48 Zulu, which is going to
take him approximately - It's - it's going to be
about a 15 - or 20-minute block, and he's going to
end up getting some PSA after that for a total
of about an hour and 15 minutes. The wake-up site
is 5 minutes prior to ii:00 Zulu. One of the
things that helps us here is the fact that there
is no urine sampling in the morning. So if
it's okay with you, we're going to press on with
this plan.
CDR Yes, that sounds reasonable, Dick.
007 14 12 18 SPT Great with me, Dick.
CC Okay, great. We'll press on and put it all to-

gether, and that's a - that's all the notes that
I had for yon here. We've still got about
9 minutes; so l'm standing by.
CDR " Okay, Dick. And on those Petri-dish containers,

I saved the original one that they came in. I
couldn't see any good reason for throwing it
away. So what I'ii do is put them in that con-
tainer and discard it,
CC Okay, and while Corollary's thinking about that

one, Jerry, one thing we'd like to confirm. And
that is - with the PLT - is we'd like to make sure
prior to this ne - next EREP pass that the
S190 filters got changed that were on his
cal - _EP cal, VTS pad.
CDR That's affirmative. They got changed.
007 14 13 06 CC Okay, real fine. Thank you much.
007 14 19 27 CC CDR, Houston. We got about a minute and a half

before LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 14:48. Back
to the subject of ED31, let me make sure I
understood a - what you're doing. It's okay
with us, when you stow an ED31, to put the
Petri dishes either in the boric acid cans, as
long as you don't throw the tablets away, or
in the original Petri-dish cans. And then the
15 little Petri dishes in those containers will
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end up in the chiller. Let me confirm with

you that that's what you intend to do.
CDR That's affirmative.
007 14 20 04 CC Okay. Thank you.
007 14 48 16 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference. And

we've got about 13-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. Let me hit you here first with a couple of

sola_ updates. We've got one note here on active
region i_. It has grown somewhat in the past few
hours and has developed a group of tiny spots.
In addition, there are surges at about
south 10, east 90, which suggests that the
returning active region 97 may be rotating over
the limb and may not be totally dead. And in
addition, of interest, there's an apparent
piece of prominence that's about i0 degrees west
of north - which is at a very, very high latitude
for a piece of prominence - and it has been con-
firmed by at least two observatories. We've
looked on previous days' H-alphaand we can find
nothing on the disk that would indicate what that
is. Perhaps later in the day on observing time,
you might find it interesting to go up there, see
if it's still there, and if so, do some work on
it. Over.
007 14 49 26 SPT You said i0 degrees west of north?
MCC Right, It's almost at the north pole, just a

little bit to the right, as it looks on our H-alpha
and on our neutral-line drawings here.
SPT Okay. I'ii go ahead and take a look at it. And

the other one - the surges you said were - were
around 260.
MCC Yes. About 255, 260; right on the limb.
SPT Okay. I was going to talk to you about that later.

For the past three times l've had observing time,
l've been working on that area, and there is some
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XUV brightening - quite appreciable brightening.

And l've been able to find some fairly high counts,
I think about an arc minute or so off the limb,
and something suggesting a loop structure, although
l've not really had time to fully confirm that.
So it looks as though we've got around - the active
region 16 comin_ around the corner there. It might
be about a day or so before you can see it.
007 14 50 24 MCC Okay. Sounds good. We'll be interested in studying

that. On today's plan, one of the things that's
evident - although I don't believe we've actually
mentioned it on this plan, although we've mentioned
it before - for 82B, the PRS is NO GO; so that on
all of our limb-scan type things, we do our point-
ing - they prefer the white light display to
H-alpha - to put the slit on the limb, note the
FINE Sun SENSOR reading, and then move out the
appropriate number of arc seconds. On the pass
that begins at 15:07, that you will be doing short-
ly, the 17 Alfa we're doing on the bright points,
55 has noticed in previous data that bright points
are exhibiting time changes that - Well, from one
total MAR to the next, they noticed significant
changes. That's the reason that we swapped to the
BB28 - to get the mini-MARs in and look at them
on a 1-minute time frame. Following that - -
SPT Okay.
007 14 51 24 MCC Following that, orbits of Jerry's at 19:47 and -

Well, the two BB28s - JOP 2C, step 6, BB28: The
first one, although it doesn't appear so, is to
get a long exposure for 82 Bravo over the active
region. The second set of that 2C, step 6, BB28 is
not related to the first. It is actually the first
step of a quiet le - region mini-limb-scan, which
we will finish tomorrow. And that's about the
only odd things about today's plan. Do you have
any other problems with it?
007 14 52 01 SPT No. That appears straightforward. The way we've

been working the 82B offset is exactly as you just
spelled out, using the white light display. The
bright points, I'm not sure whether the brightest
is the best. There is a fairly bright one at
around 200.3; however, there are some fainter ones
around close to Sun center, also. I'm - I'm not
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sure whether that might actually be a small dipole

and a little emerging flux, but I'Ii go over and
take a look at it. And l'm wondering what their
classification is as far as a bright point versus
the small EFR. If we see anything in H-alpha
resembling an EFR, I would assume that we - that
we've - ought to press on and find a bright point
with no manifestation in H-alpha. Maybe you can
confirm that before it does come time to do that.
The active region - -
MCC Okay. We'lllookat that.
007 14 52 55 SPT Okay. Active region 16 - or the next one coming

around the bend is kind of interesting because it
does have some fairly high counts in oxygen VI ; up
around between 150 and 250, an arc-minute or so
off the limb, and l'm able to step down towards
the limb. We'll find a maximum, first of all, in
roll up around that, then step down for three or
four steps on the mirror, and then left/right and
find maximum to the left and to the right, which
would imply a - a limb structure. And I'm trying
to give some GRATING, AUTO SCANs at those locations,
and the observing time I've been able to put in
since yesterday. The 55 information which you sent
up is very - going to be very useful. Got a couple
of questions on it. The last one says "disk and
prominences," and I assume that means filaments
and prominences, filaments being on the disk. And
secondly, I'd like a few more words on the disk
work to be done at Lyman-alpha. It says "disk
greater than 0.9, then only for a few minutes."
I'm wondering if you could amplify on that a little
bit. One thing we want to make sure is we're
very conservative with working with Lyman-alpha.
MCC Okay. Let us take a look at that and get some

more words up to you. You're right. We want to
be conservative on that. And Dick has a few words
here he wants to mention to you guys.
007 14 54 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Let me just break in here a

second. We're about to hand over from Carnarvon
to Honeysuckle, and we're going to be dumping the
data/voice recorder at - at Honeysuckle. And I'll
let you know when we're through.
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MCC Okay, Ed_ let's see. We just recently sent up

an 82B PRS MALF. You guys probably have not had a
chance to look at it yet. Is that right?
SPT That's right. I have not seen it yet. Wait and -

Well, I'ii look around here and - and then work it
a little bit.
MCC Okay. We'll talk about it tomorrow then. You

might all three look at it. Even though it's got
your name on it, it's not clear who we would
schedule it for yet. Okay, Ed, a couple of other
thoughts here. The J0P IE that we were apparently
talking about yesterday on the micro-MAR, whatever
we want to call it, on 55 - -
SPT Bill, you - you - you cut out after the discussion
on the 82B. Apparently, you've got a handover.
Would you pick up again there, please?
007 14 55 25 MCC Oh, okay. We'll talk about that tomorrow. You all
three might want to look at that so we can schedule
it for whoever's best - timewise. On the 55 limb
scan that we were talking about yesterday, I
concluded that we were talking JOP i Echo, and 55 is
definitely interested in that. As a matter of fact,
we'll be trying to schedule that for tomorrow.
SPT Okay. Very good.
MCC And an answer from 55 also, on the plumes that you

gave them a couple of days ago. On one plume,
they did see it in most of the detectors, most
lines on your mini-MARs, but it was not clear in
some of them. There were two plumes seen in
oxygen IV and in oxygen VI, and they have not yet
analyzed the grating auto scan. But the conclusion
is to keep the plumes coming for them.
007 14 56 19 SPT Okay; very good.
MCC Okay.
SPT One general - Go ahead.

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MCC ._,_ Go ahead. I was going to talk :t ]itt]e bit here

about our fiare-progr_n mee[,_n_ ycsLerday, and
that may take a bit of time here.
SPT Okay, just let me add two quick things. One, a

question, and that is on documentation, l'm
wondering whether l'm giving people sufficient
information, so that when they go to interpret
their data, they've got all they need. If not,
they could send up a - a - more of a standard
format on the teleprinter of the type of information
which they would need from the observer, when he
is doing a program, in order to help them in their
data reduction. And secondly, just looking at the
pictures today, the white light coronagraph had not
changed appreciably from yesterday, but the stream-
ers over at 2h0, 250 - there really are two of
them - one's superimposed upon the other. And I
can see the one, which probably has a base somewhere
around 230 maybe, is inclined slightly towards
the north, and the one that has a base maybe 2h0 is
Dretty much radial. And as you get further out,
you can see the too diverge. And if you look at
the scope, you see that the two of them almost -
They don't cross, but because they are at opposite
angles, the one streamer, if you look at it - the
single streamer - tends to neck down and then
diverge again, which is kind of interesting until
you realize what's happening. The XUVmonitor
picture: 0nly thing new there, of course, is the
active region 16. The - What else you see on the
disk: The other active regions have remained about
the same except for solar rotation. Still have a
good coronal hole at the south. Very small negli-
gible one at north with a filament channel coming
down from it on the east side and a couple of
bright points around which we could work with
today. But nothing else. Go ahead.
007 14 58 27 MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you. And the answer on the bright
points is, we do want to go for bright points and
not an emerging flux region. Okay, now on the
flare discussion that we had yesterday, we've
mapped out the planning here which really represents
the ATM request for the next 14 days or so, through
January 20 or day-of-year 20, mission day 66, which
in - involves an increase in the time that we have
been getting. The main point here is that we will
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be picking up the active regions om the limb -

mostly looking at the corona as it comes over -
picking them up on the limb and following - oh,
following them over past central-meridian passage,
Generally speaking_ most of the experiments [sic]
feel that they want to be shooting film at a fairly
high rate to get the flares, that waiting doing
nothing will probably miss the rise. The general
feeling is that we will be scheduling J0P 2C and
things of this nature, which will put the experi-
ments in a fairly high data-take mode, when we
feel flare probability is high. We do want to
point out, though, that the crewman, whichever of
the three of you that's on, does have the discre-
tion - at any time he feels the activity warrants
it and he feels that he has a better chance of
getting the flare rise, the preflare trigger,
et cetera - to jump the program that we have up-
linked and go into JOP 3B, building block 24. We
will be processing some changes to building
block 24 so that experiments like S054 will be
taking data in the actual wait portion, but this
would let the crewman take his attention and really
apply it i00 percent to the XUV MON, H-alpha, and
so on.
007 15 00 19 SPT I think that's a good idea, Bill.
MCC Okay and - -
SPT ThatJll give them some good time history.
MCC Say again. I cut you out.
SPT That will give them some good time history. In

case we don't happen to start the thing right at
the initial point brightening, the - you know,
the first i0 or 15 seconds of it, they'll still
have part of it.
007 15 00 38 MCC Okay, and to carry on here a bit, I will be pre-

paring a message that will show you our 14-day
plan here in as much detail as we know it over the
next day or so. Presently, your next crew day off
is 3 days from now, on Thursday. We will have a
P! rep who will speak to you at that time. We'll
try to schedule it with all three of you. And he
will speak to you on the active-Sun plans for all
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of ATM and how we will be carrying out for the

next week to 2 weeks. And let's see. We're a
minute from LOS. MILA is next at 15:35, which is
about 35 minutes from now. We have another
30 seconds, and I'ii let you carry it on.
SPT Okay, one thing I would like to add. We concluded

our JOP 18's yesterday. And then I - I mentioned
briefly last night, when Bruce was on, I thought
the whole program went pretty well. I thought it
was quite successful - from looking at it up here -
from two standpoints. One is the observations
which were carried out using the ATM JOP S1_mmary
Sheets, which I thought were in excellent condition.
They reflected awful lot of hard work on them on
the part of the people - through all of the Pls
down to AI Holt, who finally put the whole thing
together. And secondly, I think the ASCOs and all
of the other folks who worked out the maneuvers
did a great job. We were doing maneuvers on
two CMGs that people were a little hesitant to -
to do with that kind of frequency on three CMGs
just a couple of months ago. So overall, I was
pretty happy with the program, and I think we're
coming back with some good data.
MCC Okay, good. Thanks for your words. I'ii see that
they get passed on, and we'll be talking to you
tomorrow.
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007 15 35 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at MILA and Bermuda for

12 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. I got a little bit behind the program

here in the ATM. Two things came up. One, when
I looked at - for two bright spots, both of them
turned out to be mini active regions which I can
see in H-alpha. Just as I got settled on the third
one, which I could not see any manifestation in
H-alpha, which I'm still working now, we started
drifting off in attitude. We had CMG-number-3
outer gimbal hung up in the negative stop; so I had
to go to ATT HOLD and put in the 2-minute maneuver
time and reselect SI, and get all worked - worked
out a little bit. It took about 1 minute or so
before the drive logic seemed to do anything. We
drifted a little further off attitude during that
period of time. And we got back, and we're working
it now. I don't think we've used any mibs at all.
CC Okay, SPT. Thank you for letting us know. We don't

show any use either. At the time you went LOS,
we thought we probably were in good shape, although
we were at the end of a pretty large tail [?] ma-
neuver. We felt like the gimbal angles were going
away from the stop center, but apparently one of
them didn't get up - hung up; so thanks for helping
US.
007 15 39 37 SPT Hello again, Dick. Let me give you the coordinates
of where I've been working.
CC Go ahead.
SPT ROLL of plus 0004_ UP/DOWN of minus 298, and LEFT/

RIGHT of minus 190.
CC Okay.
007 15 40 57 PLT PLT, Houston. In looking at our data, it appears

that you've already accomplished housekeeping lhH,
the inlet CO 2 cartridge replacement. Our data
shows that sieve B - on the sieve B side, we're
f
showing an off-scale low; so you might check the
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sensor and make sure that - that they're in there

and seated properly.
PLT Roger. I noticed that, and I will go check it out.
CC 0kay_ Bill. Thank you much.
007 15 46 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. Madrid

comes up at 15:50; that's 4 minutes from now.

Carnarvon comes up at 16:23, and we're going to
dump the data/voice recorder at Ca - at Carnarvon.
And, PLT, Houston. We see on M0L SIEVE B the
PPCO 2 reading on scale now; so whatever you did,
looked like it worked.
PLT Yes, I took and - I interchanged them from M0L

SIEVE A to B. I couldn't do anything by taking it
out and putting it back in; so I interchanged the
units, and they're both reading now.
007 15 58 39 CC Okay. Good.
007 16 23 13 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

And, Skylab, we're going to dump the data/voice
recorder here.
PLT Dick, I got a couple of questions on the C&D pad.
CC Okay, Bill. Give me about i0 seconds and let me

look at it, and I'ii try to help you out. Okay, I
got it. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Has to do with the ETC caliout. I have an

ET - ETC AUTO callout at 8, 17:08 even, and then
back to STANDBY at 10:15. And then I have another
ETC STANDBY at 11:30. Back-to-back STANDBY. Then
have an ETC AUTO at 14 minutes, a STANDBY at 16:30,
and another STANDBY at 19:45 and another STANDBY
at 22 minutes. How about having them check those
real quick and see which one of them - or if - if
that, in fact, is correct. And it very well may
be. It may just be something I don't understand,
but it looks like there's a mixup on what ought to
be AUTO and what ought to be STANDBY there. And
the other thing is that Ed's pad is probably
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correct; however, I make these callouts, and I may

confuse him if I use my pad, call out these that
I have on my pad.
007 16 24 55 CC Okay, Bill. Good question, and we will check it.

Skylab, Houston. Two things here. I wanted to
talk to SPT for a minute about the maneuver times
and so forth when you have a chance, Ed. And also,
when somebody's available, we would like to do
another REGADJUST in preparation for EREP 22.
SPT Go ahead, Dick. l'm listening.
CC Okay, Ed. During the - that LOS when you - when

we got the gimbal on the stop and you made that
little maneuver for us, we've - that generated some
discussion here. And it turns out that there's
a difference between an onboard note which is in
the ATM Malf Procedure and a - ATtiC-program note
here on the ground. And it revolves around the
constraint on maneuver times due to the gimbal-on-
the-stop logic, which is normally active during
the first minute and the final minute of a maneuver.
Real briefly, the onboard note - which, if you'd
like to take a look at when you get a chance, is
in the ATM malf book, page 4-11 - says that a ma-
neuver time of i minute should not be used. And
our ground-program note indicates that maneuver
time of 2 minutes or less should not be used because
for a 2-minute maneuver time, that logic will be
activiated during the first minute and the last
minute of the maneuver. We think - We are trying
to straighten out in our own minds to make sure we
understand exactly what the two of them should say,
and we will get them together. But until we have
thought it out properly, we'd suggest the better
part of valor is to use a minimum maneuver time,
if that comes up again, of 3 minutes.
007 16 27 16 SPT Okay, Dick. I'll go ahead and do that from now
on out. I had talked about the first one, the
1-minute maneuver time, and I thought 2 was a clean
time to put in. We were at a small attitude devia-
tion there, and we had plenty of H, where HP was
down there around 20 percent or so; 15, 20 percent.
I'll wait until I hear from the - you further, though,
before I ever use 2 again.
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CC Okay. Real fine. Zero's okay, and 3's okay; but

let's stay away from i or 2. We also see that 2
is still in there and the upcoming maneuver time
hadn't been loaded yet. And when somebody gets a
chance, I'd like to get a REG ADJUST done.
PLT 20 degrees clockwise?
CC Yes; the same as yesterday. We'd like to mark

the present position and rotate each of the pots
007 16 28 51 CC PLT, Houston. l've got an answer for you on your

EREP C&D pad.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Okay. It turns out that both pads actually are

correct. The confusion factor comes is that - if
you have the time and look closely at Ed's ETC
pad - there are some multiple entries there at -
at the same times, and the entry that you have
only reads the first of those multiple entries
to jog him to go ahead and use his pad. So there's
nothing wrong with your pad to tell him to do it;
however, he has to use his complete pad for the
thing to work properly. But we have rechecked
both of them. They look okay.
PLT Great. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR How's the weather, Dick?
CC CDR, Houston. I'ii tell you what. We were just

in - about to update me on the weather so I can
give it to you. And we got a Honeysuckle pass just
following this one, and I'ii get it up to you as
soon as l'm smart about it.
007 16 30 26 CDR Oh, very well.
007 16 32 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

Honeysuckle comes up - Oh, we're just going to
drop out a few seconds before Honeysuckle. The
weather, again today, looks like you guys are
going to get a nice view of plenty of clouds. The
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weather just - at the very first of the data-take

will be broken; then it will be 8-to-lO cloud
coverage over Mexico. It'll be broken again between
Yucatan and Florida and then go back to about 8 to
I0 - i0/i0 cloud cover over Florida. And the heavy
weather will continue Just about all the way across
the North Atlantic. The storm that we talked about
yesterday is still there. It probably will be break-
ing up a little bit as you get to the last end of
the data-take and approaching the European land
mass.
CDR Roger, Dick. Thanks.
CC Roger.
CDR Sounds like real spectacular VTS viewing.
CC Yes, I think so.
007 16 3h h8 PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger, Dick and we got a couple of problems here

in my EREP prep. I got a FILM ADVANCE MALF light
on camera 3 and 5. This is a new load. The counter
had advanced properly, 28 on a sensitometry [?]
advance, and when I got the MALF lights, I followed
the procedure on the cue card and did a SINGLE.
Advanced that. Everything advanced the proper
number of frames. I took the cameras 3 and 5 off
and looked at the film. One of them looked a little -
a little bit Wrinkled. That was number 3. So I
tried to straighten that out by using finger force,
and I got that one to where it's operating pretty
smoothly now. I did another SINGLE, and both of
them advanced. And I marked the film with the pen -
marker pen. Both of them advanced, and I still get
MALF lights. And a separate, perhaps related pro-
blem, is the FMC breaker is now popped again.
CC Say again the name of the breaker, please.
SPT The forward motion compensation, the FMC.
CC Okay, Bill, let's think about that a second. We've

.- still got 3 minutes here at Honeysuckle.
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007 16 38 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. Texas

comes up at 17:09. And, PLT, Houston. About all
the help we can give you here is: Number i, we
think we - you can ignore the MALF lights if - if
you think the film is advancing properly, as you
said. We would like to try to reset the 190 -
correction - the FMC circuit breaker by going 190A
POWER to OFF, then attempt to reset the circuit
breaker, and then 190A POWER back ON.
PLT Yes, I'ii do that real quick and tell you. Okay,
POWER, OFF; breaker, IN; POWER, ON. The breaker
stayed IN. And how about doing one SINGLE real
quick, and I'ii let you know if the - if the FMC
pops.
CC Okay, go.
PLT Good; it stayed IN.
007 16 39 09 CC Great. See you at Texas.
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007 17 07 29 PLT *** Skylab. Okay, I got to start here in about

i0 seconds.
CDR Yes, they'll be coming up through Texas any moment

now. I'ii ask them.
PLT Okay, start at 07:45. 007 17 07 45

to AUTO.
007 17 07 53 CDR MARK. 07:53, 190 MODE, AUTO. At 8 minutes, ETC

to AUTO, Ed.
CDR Hello, Houston, CDR. How do you read?
007 17 08 00 PLT MARK.
CC Hello, CDR; loud and clear.
CDR Okay, we got a little question on the time line.

Bill Just told me that at ll:20 he wants a VTS
AUTO CAL, and I'll be right in the middle of the
special 02 that was read up ... We don't want
to do that, do we?
CC Stand by.
CDR I can do a VTS AUTO CAL now, and it'd be done in

time.
CC Okay, Jer. Stand by.
PLT We do have MALF lights 3 to 5 which are being

disregarded.
CC Okay.
PLT Stand by for 08:54.
CDR Coming up on the coast of Mexico, in the 45-degree

pitch.
PLT Stand by -
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007 ]7 08 '))_ PLT MARK.
CC Skylab, Houston.
PLT 192 MODE, READY.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like an AUTO CAL now.

It's a good catch. We missed it.
CDR Okay.
PLT ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
007 17 09 03 PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL - -
CDR AUTO CAL at 00 - 09:00.
PLT And, stand by 10:15, now. Okay?
PLT Okay, good show, Ed - Jer.
CDR Okay, that means the AUTO CAL's not going to be

done until 11:26, so I'm going to miss 26 seconds
of my data.
PLT Okay.
PLT Well, I had a line drawn there. I was wondering,

if there was some inconsistency, but this'll work
out fine, except for the 20 seconds of data.
CDR That's okay. There's plenty of time, I think.
PLT l'm getting a TAPE MOTION flicker.
CDR Yes, I got that t}lismorning too.
PLT Okay.
007 17 09 44 CDR Seems to be all right, though, if this moves

well.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on the coast of Mexico on

the Yucatan Peninsula. And along the coast, I
see a lot of coastal blooming today; a lot of
plankton blooms along the coast.
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PLT Standing by for i0:15.
PLT ETC, STANDBY, shortly, Ed.
007 17 l0 17 PLT MARK. And I'm going to SHUTTER SPEED, FAST,

pausing momentarily in MEDIO3__.
CDR Okay, the - the plankton blooming is along a part

of the coastline that curves to the south, and
then curves back up to the north. It's right -
well, there's a wide - there's a peak on the -
along the western side. Sort of a - a point of
land and it's south of that point of land, along
that area, a lot of coastal blooming. Now we're
at the northern point of Yucatan Peninsula and
there's not much coastal blooming at all.
PLT Okay, at ll:30, ETC, STANDBY. It's about 15 sec-

onds, Ed.
SPT Rog***
007 17 ll 18 CDR Okay, the VTS's CAMERA is going ON. The - the
191 light ought to be on now, Bill.
PLT It's not.
CDR Okay, it's 11:26. This AUTO CAL ought to be

finished.
007 17 ll 30 PLT Okay, ready now. ETC to STANDBY; 190 MODE to

STANDBY and FRAME, 32. Still not on. INTERVAL, 20.
007 17 ll 41 PLT It's on now. Good show.
CDR Okay.
PLT 13:24 is my next one. And that was at about

43 or 4_.
CDR Okay, I got some cloud-free area here.
007 17 12 12 CDR Starting a data take, 25 degrees.
007 17 12 30 PLT Okay, I got the -
CDR And l0 degrees ; taking data.
PLT Dick,are you listening?

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CC Yes, sir.
PLT 13:24, I turned the RADIOMETER OFF. This means

that, if l've done everything correctly here, that
will be both SCATTEROMETER and RADIOMETER, OFF.
Do we want that? I thought we wanted one of
those on for heating.
CC Stand by.
PLT I think the configuration is RADIOMETER, STANDBY

and SCAT, OFF. If I turn the RAD OFF, that'll
mean both RAD and SCAT are OFF.
CC Roger. I understand.
007 17 13 15 CC PLT, Houston, the answer is_ we do want to get

the RADIOMETER OFF. We need the RAD and the SCAT
OFF for the ALTIMETER ops, and that is okay.
PLT Okay, stand by -
007 17 13 24 PLT MARK. RA_D

OFF. 13:30.
007 17 13 30 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. 13:53 is my next one.
PLT I do have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. It just went

out.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, we're in good shape. READY light. No, no

UNLOCK.
007 17 13 44 CDR Second Pointing. Taking data.
007 17 13 53 PLT MARK. 190, MODE to AUTO.
CDR Okay, that's the end of that one.
PLT And ETC at 14 minutes to - to AUTO, Ed. l'm sure

you got that. 191 REFERENCE to 6. I only have one
MALF light to the - I only have a MALF light on
camera 5 now. Cycle the POWER, OFF, that last -
at that last sequence. 14:30, S190.
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007 17 14 30 PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDID%_.
CDR Okay, whistling over the coast of Florida.
CC PLT, Houston. While we got a short break here, I

would like to advise you we have seen FILM ADVANCE
_" MALF lights before on mags that have not been used
previously, and so we don't think that's anything
unusual.
PLT Okay. I cycled the POWER, OFF after the last 190
sequence and put it back on. And then when I did
my sequence this time, it's in a sequence right
now, I only have a 5 light right now.
CC Okay.
PLT 192, MODE to STANDBYat 15:20. _
007 17 15 20 PLT MARK. STANDBY. 192 POWER, OFF, and waiting for
16 :30.
PLT 192 POWER, OFF, okay.
CDR Okay. Got the nadir swath going, the weather over
Florida is beautiful. I should say it was beautiful.
CDR Starting to pick up clouds now. Nice blue water.
PLT Okay, Ed, at 16:30, ETC, STANDBY.
PLT Still have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light but your

READY light is remaining on.
CDR Still scattered clouds.
007 17 16 54 SPT MARK. ALTI}{ETER, STANDBY and MODE, 5. Stand by

for 17:13.
CDR Lots of cloud street between - -
PLT Stand by.
CDR - - 16 minutes and - -
007 17 17 13 PLT MARK. 17:13, ALTIMETER, ON. _

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CDR - - 17 minutes.
PLT READY light; no UNLOCK light.
CDR Scattered to broken cumulus and cloud streets.
CC Roger, Jerry. You can say hello to the guys at

Cherry Point and Beaufort_ you're just passing them
to the left there.
007 17 17 29 CDR Roger. Hello all you gyrenes.
CDR l'd like to slew off to the left and look at you,
but l'd catch the dickens.
PLT 17:45, SCAT to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. Broken to overcast - -
007 17 17 45 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. And I do have an ALTIMETER

UNLOCK light but I still have a READY light.
CDR Solid overcast. Looks like two layers at least.
PLT l've lost my READY light, l'm going to turn off.
CDR Hey, one of your MALF lights went out.
PLT Yes. Number - number 3 went out.
007 17 18 26 CDR Yes, it got well.
PLT Yes. You can cycle the power off between sequences
and give it another shot, which is what I did.
Okay. 15 seconds and ALTIF[ETER back ON. And the
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is flashing, but it went
out.
CDR Still a solid overcast.
PLT What are we doing? Taking pictures of cloud cover?
CDR Yes, with a nadir swath. Okay. Let's take a - are

you taking data?
007 17 18 52 PLT Yes, I am.

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CDR All right. Let me just
PLT Take a look at the IMC, if you want to.
CDR Fine.
PLT Or FMC_ I guess it's called on this thing.
CDR Yes.
PLT Be autiful.
CDR Okay. The breaker's still in.
PLT Still in. FMC breaker's still in.
CDR Okay. Showing 800 counts on the - on the K-5.
CDR Check my drift. Okay. Overcast - -
007 17 19 31 PLT MARK, S190 INTERVAL to i0.
CDR - - And some cirrus above stratus.
PLT And at 45 1 want SHUTTER SPEED, FAST, and ETC will

go to STANDBY at 19:45 which is about 5 seconds.
007 17 19 46 PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED, FAST.
PLT Well, the old UNLOCK light stayed out. Stand by

for 20 :33.
CDR Low overcast with cirrus on top.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Okay. And we're beginning to break out.
007 17 20 33 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RA_D to STANDBY.

20:45. Stand by.
007 17 20 44 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON; RADIOMETER, ON; ALTIMETER,

RANGE, 74. And at 22 even, I should get a READY
out on the 190.
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CDR Yes. Let me take a look here and see if it's

done any moving since the last time I looked at it.
Okay, 5 is advanced i0 frames.
PLT Yes.
CDR It just advanced another one. It's doing fine.
PLT Good show.
CDR I don't know what's causin_ that MALF light to - -
PLT Oh, that little sensor, if it doesn't get on -

l'd better watch what l'm doing here. 22 even that's
what I want.
CDR Okay, I got an END OF FIL_ light on the - on the

DAC. We're out of film. There's no sense in
letting it grind.
007 17 21 41 PLT l'm getting an occasional flash of the RAD/SCAT

GINfBAL light.
CC And, Jerry, that doesn't surprise us. We thought

you might run out of film. No problem.
CDR Okay.
CC Lots of good cloud pictures.
CDR Yes, I'ii say. Lots of clouds. We're now going

into a broken-to-scattered condition.
PLT Stand by. And ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
CDR Cirrus over scattered cu.
007 17 22 29 CDR Bill, after all the scrunching up we dad on that

label on the side of that cassette to try to give
ourselves lots of room. Now it's out of film and
l've got four lines left to write on.
PLT Well, the way it was going, you know, it looks like
we were only using 2 or 3 percent per pass.
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CDR Yes. Clear as a bell now. Ns_-y a cloud over the

water.
007 17 22 43 CC You might know. We're i minute from LOS. Madrid

comes up in 5. I'ii call you then.
CDR Weatherman speaks with forked tongue. Oh, there's

a cloud. Okay. That vindicated him.
PLT Get the - -
CDR Okay. Well, l'm going to go off the headset.

There's not much more here. There's no data being
taken. There's a scattered cu.
007 17 23 41 PLT RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light's flickering again. Waiting

for 24:10.
CDR Scattered going to broken on the cu, no cirrus.
007 17 24 i0 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
007 17 24 12 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 18.
CDR And that's the end of the swath.
PLT Stand by -
007 17 24 18 PLT MARK. RAD is OFF. And 24:30 ALTIMETER _ill be

coming ON.
PLT 28:05. Stand by -
007 17 28 05 PLT MARK. 28:05, ALTIMETER, ON. 193 MODE CROSS TRACK
CONTIGUOUS. Stand by for 30:05.
CC And Houston's back with you for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is on. READY

light is still on.
007 17 29 03 PLT Okay. At 02, lost my READY light. Going OFF with
the POWER. Coming back ON at 17 (cough).
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007 17 29 17 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
PLT UNLOCK light came on at 29, at 29:29.
PLT We're waiting for 30:05. Stand by -
007 17 30 05 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RADIO_ETER to STANDBY.

30 :15.
007 17 30 15 PLT MARK. P_FERENCE, 2 on 191. 30:30, want the

RADIOMETER, ON. Stand by -
007 17 30 30 PLT MARK. RADIOmeTER, ON. AT 31:15, I want a VTS

AUTO CAL.
CDR We got a fine maneuver coming in at 45 seconds.
PLT VTS AUTO CAL, okay. 194, MODE to MANUAL. 31:54,

standing by.
PLT Stand by -
007 17 31 54 PLT MARK. 31:54 there's RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Fine maneuver's in.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay. And, PLT, Houston. When you get a second,

I need to make a real quick comment to you.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. We just discovered a pad error which at

15:20, per the - per your pad, you turn the S192
power to OFF and this means in your post cue card,
you will not be able to close the 192 DOOR. We
also have a mission rule that says if the power
goes off for more than a minute, we want to leave
it off for a couple of hours. So when you get
into the post cue card, right there, at the very
top of it where it says, "192 DOOR, CLOSED,"
don't do that step. In a couple of hours or
when we're satisfied, we'll remind you of it and
get you to go back and - and do - accomplish that.
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PLT That's a very good call, Dick. I questioned that

when I did it. I don't know if you remember but
I sort of made a special intonation when I went
to 192 POWER, OFF but - Okay, thank you very much
for the reminder.
007 17 33 02 CC Okay. Well, I'm glad we caught it in time.
PLT I would've sure done it.
CC And, Skylab, -
CDR Okay we're on our way to SI.
cC Okay, Jerry, we need the DAS here for a minute or so.
CDR Okay, Dick. You got it. And let me tell you about
something w@ saw a little while ago. Right after
sunrise, I was up looking out STS window number 3
and looking off to the south towards the South Pole,
and I said to myself, "Oh, gee whiz, look at those
cirrus clouds over there." Then I realized that
those cirrus clouds were up above the airglow and
I don't know what they are but they're very, very
interesting-looking phenomena. And I took - I
got the Hasselblad real quick and took some photos
of it. But if anybody there has got any ideas what
it might be, I'd be interested to know.
PLT Stand by -
CC Okay. Thank you.
007 17 33 55 PLT MARK. Okay. EREP, STOP. Okay. Looks like a

fairly decent run there.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We still have a couple of

minutes here. Back to the FMC circuit breaker that
Bill found out prior to this pass. That Was pulled
open during the cal maneuver, and it might save us
chasing a hardware problem. Do you recall whether
or not you closed it after the EREP CAL this
morning? If you didn't, that might've been why
it was open or did you close it, and it just popped
again?
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PLT Stand by just a minute. Jet's o_f headset - -
CC Okay.
CDR Say again, Dick.
CC Yes, Jerry. Awhile ago, Bill reported that as he

was prepping up for this EREP pass, that the FMC
circuit breaker was open, and you had opened it on
the cal maneuver prior to that and were to close
it after that. And we were thinking perhaps if
you missed closing it, that might explain that
and save us chasing a potential hardware problem.
007 17 35 05 CDR You know, Dick, I think you're right. I don't

remember closing that breaker. I'ii have to look
at my pad and see if it calls it out anywhere.
CC Well, l've- I already looked. It does say down

in the remarks to enable the FMC, and it is in the
checklist. But it would be an easy thing to miss,
and that's probably - probably what happened.
PLT Okay. That takes a load off my mind because I

was afraid we were going to run into that wormy
problem we had about 4 or 5 weeks ago. You know,
where we had to twist the little screw and all that
stuff.
CC Roger. And we're 20 seconds to LOS. Carnarvon comes

up at 18:04.
CDR Roger. And we're already headed toward SI; I

started early. We fired a bundle of TACS.
CC Roger, Jer. We'd recommend leaving it alone. We -

we're watching you.
007 17 36 08 PLT Bravo 7 is reading 32-1/2. Approximately ...
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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRI]_I'ION
007 18 0h 52 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 3 minutes.
J/ CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Skylab, Houston. We've still got a couple of

minutes here at Carnarvon, and l've got a note
for either the SPT or the PLT on this afternoon's
M092 run.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. If you remember, the problem we've been

having about the legband Charlie Juliett and the
fact that when we've used it, we've ended up
off-scale on a couple of occasions. We've very
cleverly changed a cal - a ground cal program
that we have here on the grou - on the ground.
And this afternoon, rather than using the 3.5 as
indicated on the pad for an LVMS bridge cal
number, we'd like you to use 2.0. And this
evening, we'll have - we'll be sending you up a
general message that tells you to permanently
change that legband so that from here on out,
we'll use 2.0 for that legband.
007 18 07 01 PLT Roger. Copy that. That's 2.0 is the eal number
for Charlie Juliett.
CC Okay, that's correct.
PLT And 1.3 centimeters on the tape - EREP tape.
CC 1.3 centimeters; okay, I got that.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer.
CDH Looking back over the pad and how I managed to

throw us into the SI MODE so early, I think -
I'm not making any excuses, but the pad itself
has got - It looks pretty much like a trap. I'll
tell you what we ought to do. I think in the
future, maybe when the - like in this case, the
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CDR - Apparently, I was not to do the SI MODE.

That was to be an SPT job later on. Why don't
we either leave it off or make some sort of remark
above the - the SI MODE, saying "i hour from now"
or "will be done by the PLT" or something like
that. Probably it won't ever happen again, but
just to preclude that and make sure it doesn't,
that probably would be a smart thing to do.
007 18 08 ii CC Okay, Jerry. Let us think about how we can avoid

that trap in the future. We're about to go LOS
here. I'ii call you at Honeysuakle in 6 minutes.
007 18 08 18 CDR Okay.
007 18 14 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We have a very short AOS here

at Honeysuckle. Texas comes up at 18i44. And
we're going to be dumping the data/voice recorder
there.
007 18 15 ii PLT Roger, Dick.
007 18 44 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AO - AOS stateside for

16 minutes, and we're dumping the data/voice
recorder here.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a funny going on up

at the ATM. If - if somebody has a minute to
run up there for us, l'd like to speak to him
about it and get him to look at something for us.
PLT Ed's on his way.
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
007 18 45 28 CC Okay, two things, Ed. One is, we had an error

in - in powering down for unattended ops on the - _
your schedule pad. We need S054 EXPOSURE ran -
RANGE to 256. And also, we've noticed AGC oscilla-
tion on H-alpha 2. We'd kind of like somebody to
select H-alpha 2, if you could do that and take a
look at it for us and report to us what it looks
like.
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SPT Okay. Will do.
CC All righty. Thank you, sir.
SPT Okay, how does it look now, Dick?
CC Stand by. SPT, Houston. Looks stable now to us.

What did you do?
007 18 46 55 SPT Okay. It's the same old problem we've had with
H-alpha 2. You've got to ZOOM IN when it's first
powered up. And apparently, the power to it was
interrupted - and l'm not sure how that happened -
and then came back UP- And in order to get it
stable, you have to ZOOM IN a small bit, wait
until it stabilizes, and then move back OUT.
CC Okay, we may have another question. Hang on just

a second, Ed. SPT, Houston. We can't think of
anything else to ask you about it right now.
Appreoiate the information and going up there for
US.
SPT No problem, Dick. Glad to do it. Dick, l've got

a couple of things for you.
CC l'm sorry; say again.
SPT l've got a couple of points, l'd like to mention

a few things to you,
CC Go ahead.
• 007 18 47 55 SPT Okay. One is, when we were doing the EREP today -
we were coming up on the west coast of Central
America - I could see some fairly large eddies a
couple of hundred miles or so in diameter. I
could see these same things yesterday, which I
attributed to the confluence of two currents, and
I think we ought to concentrate a little hit more
on that site. I was able to see a small amount
of blooming in the circulation pattern; so I
think we have a good way of picking it up. Secondly,
our friend - friendly ED61/63. Just as a note
and try to clarify something, this thing has
taken so far today about 2-1/2 hours of my time,
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which l've managed to rob from other things - you

know, hustling through the ETC prep and post and a
whole host of other ways. What l'm wondering is
how the bookkeeping is done on this stuff. It
just occurred to me the other day, as we started
reading off numbers of times spent on various
things, that we just put an awful lot of time in
on things like this and perhaps people have never
really understood that. Charged particle mobility,
for example, which was a 1-hour experiment, took
me more like 8 or 9. And ED61/63 is turning out
to be a time consumer, at least for the first go
around on the photography, l'm wondering, when
the people figure up the times, whether they've
worked with the stuff that's been put into the
Flight Plan initially or in the way it's actually
been flowing, which we've probably given you very
little information on. l'm convinced that we've
probably put in a lot more than what is shown,
because guys are - we've been going now, well,
pretty much 14 hours a day or so working. And,
you know, 2 hours for eating and 8 hours for
sleeping and working the rest of the time, and
it's got to show up somewhere.
007 18 49 38 CC Roger, Ed. Concur. On this particular one, we

showed something - just looking at the Flight
Plan - something like 1/2 hour; so it's obviously -
that that's a bad misestimate. And the best way
we got to correct that is you guys letting us
know; so keep it up.
SPT Okay. I ought to he able to steam along a little

faster on it, but I had to figure out how to
make the whole darn thing work. The - the
lighting arrangement for it is not too - too easy
to work. We also had to change the film in the
middle of it and a couple of other small things
that came up. The second time around ought to
be a little faster, though.
007 18 50 14 CC Okay, copy. Incidentally, l've had a note here,

talking about lighting, that I meant to ask you
about. Turns out that since you guys started
turning down the lights yesterday, that the
temperature in the bird has gone down, oh, like
somewhere in the order of a degree and a quarter,
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a degree and a half; so it is doing us some - some

good. Then ! was wondering if you could make
an estimate as to - Well, first of all, do you
think you've achieved some kind of average lighting
level now? And if you have, what kind of estimate
can you make on the number of lights that are
off now that were on, say, 2 days ago?
SPT Can I give you - I think we've reached a workable

level. Occasionally, we have to turn an additional
light on for a task, but we usually turn it off.
l'd say we're probably down to about half the
number of lights on, and the ones that we have left
on are down to the low intensity, l'm not sure
of the difference between the wattage of high and
low intensity, but I think it's probably cut the
total wattage down considerably, to a fraction of
what it was before.
007 18 51 16 CC Okay. Well, we were shooting for just about half

the number of lights that were normally used. So
sounds like it's going to work just about the way
we planned. And we'll keep you advised. Thank
you much.
SPT Thank you, Dick. What - By the way, what is the

difference between high and low intensity? And
what factor is involved there in wattage?
CC I'ii find out; hang on.
CC SPT, Houston. The high intensity is 12 watts and

the low intensity is 9 watts.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC And - CDR, Houston. On this handheld 170 that's

on your Flight Plan coming up, we're boosting
the laser up to i0 watts to try to get through
the cloud cover that's up there.
CDR Yes, we were just wondering if they were - we

were going to be able to see them.
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CC Roger. We are, too.
007 18 53 45 CC Skylab, Houston. Next time somebody gets an

opportunity, we'd like to reset the REG ADJUST
pots to their pre-EREP-22 level.
PLT Roger, Dick. I'ii get it in about 5 minutes.
CC Okay, fine.
CDR Looks like they didn't have enough watts to do it,

Dick.
CC Okay, Jer. Sorry about that. Thanks for trying,

anyway.
CDR Hey, Dick, have you figured what the total TACS
cost on that early maneuver was?
CC Stand by. We were talking about some numbers just

a second ago. Let me see if we understand them
now. Hang on.
CDR Okay. I suspect it was costly; we fired a lot

of mibs.
CC Understand. Stand by, Jer.
007 18 56 47 CC CDR, Houston. Our estimate right now is somewhere

in the order of 965 pound-seconds. However, we
will be running that - or taking a closer look
at it. And when we understand exactly what it
was, we'll certainly get back to you.
CDR Okay; thanks.
CC Say, incidentally, Jerry, talking about this,

we've come up with a suggestion about how to make
this maneuver pad a little more clear. And so
if you have a chance any time today and have that
maneuver pad in hand, I can tell you what we'd
propose to do and let you comment on it.
CDR Okay, l'm ready now.

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CC Okay. What we'd suggest doing is - You see the

dotted line just prior to the statement that says,
"After maneuver starts, load the SI maneuver"?
What we'd do is delete that dotted line since
that's done by the - by the crewman that does the
fine maneuver. However, following - two lines
below that, following the - the maneuver time
entry and prior to the SI MODE with the time
entry, we'd put a dotted line there. And if it
belonged to a different crewman, like it did
today, we would stick SPT in the middle of that
dotted line, just like CDR is in the middle of
the dotted line at the header of the message.
007 18 58 03 CDR I think that would really do it, Dick. That sure
would have saved me today.
CC Okay. Well, that seems like the simplest thing.

And if you think that's good enough, we'll do that.
CDR Yes, I think so.
CC And, CDR, Houston. The eomm got bad there for

just a second. Am assuming you said okay.
CDR Yes, I agree with you; that looks like a good

solution.
CC Okay, fine.
SPT Dick, i can go ahead and get those REG ADJUST,

if you like right now.
CC Okay, go ahead. We appreciate it.
007 18 59 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute form LOS. Madrid

comes up at 19:05, 5 minutes from now. See you
there.
PLT Dick, if you have time, you might take a look at

the REG ADJUSTs.
CC Okay, Bill, sure will. Hey, just a reminder as

you guys are preparing for this M092 this after-
noon. It is an MI51 dealie.
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PLT I have three marks in my Flight Plan.
CC (Laughter) We Just couldn't help but bug you. And

the REG ADJUST looks good. Thank you very much.
PLT Yes. Thanks for the reminder.
CC Roger.
PLT l've got the portable timer set.
007 19 00 17 CC Roger.
007 19 05 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. And we've got the VTS unpowered

right now while we're using the power for intensity
lights on this DP-23.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. And incidentally,

l've got a procedure here for getting the 192 DOOR
CLOSEd, if somebody could copy it down. We'd like
it not to be done, however, until we have LOS
Madrid. And that'll ensure us we have about
2 hours an - which is the time we're shooting
for.
007 19 06 13 CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay, it's real simple. EREP POWER, BUS 1 to ON.

Then S192 POWER, ON; 192 DOOR, CLOSED. Should get
a DOOR CLOSED light; should come on in 60 seconds.
Then S192 POWER, OFF and BUS 1 POWER, OFF.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Real fine. And it's okay to do that after LOS

Madrid. Thank you much.
CDR Good enough.
007 19 13 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds to LOS.

I'll give you a call at Tananarive at 19:27.
And, SPT, Houston. Sometime this afternoon, when -
when it's your best opportunity, and you got
time to visit with us for 2 or 3 minutes, we'd
like to talk to you a little bit more as to what's
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been holding you up today on the ED61. The reason

we're particularly interested is, as you know,
we're going to have an ED61/2 ops scheduled for
the next several days. And if there's some way
we can clean up the procedure or help you out or
schedule it for the right amount of time, it'll
help us out to - to know that the soonest. So
sometime this afternoon, why don't you pick a
time and give us some - some words on that.
SPT Okay. Will do it, Dick.
007 19 14 28 CC Okay, great.
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007 19 27 09 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for

8 minutes.
007 19 32 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We should still have you here

for about 2 or 3 minutes, but in case we have an
early LOS, Honeysuckle comes up at 19:51.
007 19 51 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
007 19 54 49 CC CDR, Houston. Just for your information, when you

came AOS here at Honeysuckle, it's apparent to us
that CMG number 2 is experiencing a number - another
glitch like it has before. The indications to us
are about the same. The wheel speed's down a
little bit. And we'll be - we'll let you know
when it's cleared up.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Okay.
CDR Dick, what's the nature of the glitch? Is it the

temperature again?
CC Well, there's two or three things that goes - goes

on, Jerry, and all of them are indicated here.
The wheel speed is down presently at 8870, and
that's about, oh, somewhere around 30 rpm low.
The wheel amperage is up just a hair, and the
temp's - Tell you the truth, l'm looking in real
time and not looking at a plot the GNS have, but in
general, the temperatures have been a little bit
slower to respond. But this one doesn't look
any different or worse than the other ones.
CDR Okay, thank you.

Hawaii comes up at 20:13. And one other thing,
Jerry. The two bearing temps now have just about
converged in temperature, and normally there -
there's a spread between the two temps of several
_-- degrees.
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CDR Roger. Copy.
007 19 57 01 CC Okay.
007 20 13 20 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 3-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Dick. Like to mention one small

thing that came up during the M092 prep. In
order to - -
CC Hey, Ed, I can - I can barely hear you. Go ahead.
SPT Dick, how do you read me now?
CC That's much better. Go ahead.
SPT Let me get rid of this squeal.
CC Okay.
007 20 15 14 SPT Dick, for the M092 left leg, Charlie Juliett, to
try to get that down to 2, we had to go to full-
scale low on the GAIN. And the best we could get
it down to was 2.3, rather than the 2.0 which you
talked about before.
CC Okay, Ed. Copy.
CC Say, incidentally, guys, we got about a minute to

LOS and about a 3-minute gap in between here and
Goldstone_ so I'ii give you a copy. Just the last
few minutes, we were handed some photos that were
taken on SL-3 of the aurora, and I don't know
right now whether or not this was at northern or
southern latitudes. But these pictures are ex-
tremely striking. And they do appear very much
like what could be described as cirrus clouds, and
they do extend - Portions of them, in these photo-
graphs, do extend above the airglow very visibly.
Their color is extremely white, just like clouds
against a real black sky, and of course the Earth's
horizon in the airglow. So our best guess right
now, for lack of anything else, is, what CDR saw
awhile ago was probably the aurora.
007 20 16 33 SPT Very good. Thank you, Dick. Hey, I did have a
question on that pad which was sent up for photo-
graphy of aurora. It said Southern Hemisphere
only. Yet in the past month or so, we've seen
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quite a bit of it, especially up over by the

Great Lakes.
CC Okay, we'll check that one, Ed, out. We're about

to drop out over the hill here. I'ii call you at
Goldstone.
007 20 16 57 SPT Thank you, Dick.
007 20 20 01 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside, for

9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to have the DAS here a

couple of minutes, and - so ASC0 can do an outer
gimbal backup command.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Dick, looks like southern California has got a

real low moving in on them. Really right across
them; it's about halfway over them. Got a very
well defined pattern.
007 20 22 17 CC Roger, Ed. They've had a tremendous storm out

there - oh, couple or three days ago, as a matter
of fact - out in the Mojave Desert. I was reading
the paper last evening that Palmdale had 16 inches
of snow, and that was generally true all through -
up in the Mojave Desert. Up in Death Valley, it
was snowing also and sticking on the ground.
SPT Sure looks like it could do that from up here.
CC Roger. Well, it's dumped a lot of rain and snow

out there on the west coast the last few days.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT I don't see any overshooting cloud tops, Dick, but

there certainly is an awful lot of cu[mulus] just
spattered uniformly throughout a very wide area,
all in the patternof a low.
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CC Roger.
007 20 29 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.

Texas comes up in about 4 minutes.
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007 20 33 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 5 - we are at Bermuda

AOS for about 5 minutes. There is a keyhole here
that is going to happen about a minute from now
and will last about a minute. Couple of items for
you: First of all, the CMG is - at that last LOS
was looking back - okay. So it looks like that
problem was temporary and not a problem anymore.
And in answer to the SPT about the photo pad
for shooting the aurora, we put it on there for the
southern one only because we thought that was the
only one you would be able to see. However, the
settings that are listed are good, and you're
certainly welcome to use them anytime you see them
either north or south.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Dick. Looks like we got a scheduling

problem here. You got Bill doing an M093 and
then Ed and I overlapped on PT/PH which looks like
somebody's not going to use the ergometer.
CC Okay. Let me see if we can unravel it here, for

a second.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS..

Canary comes up at 20:43. We're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Canary.
007 20 38 35 CDR Okay.
007 20 43 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for about 9 min-

utes. And an explanation of how we intended the
Flight Plan to work here was since Bill had had
his PT earlier in the day, we assumed that he would
be off the M093 - or ergometer portion of the run
l°ag(_2 of' _ /3320
and that both CDR _ind SI"I

' would _Ise tile _[ast half
of their PT period on the ergometer. And we
figured that would work out the way it was on the
summary Flight Plan.
CDR Okay, I guess the question is heating restraints

on the ergometer.
CC Well, again, I guess - I guess I have to ask you

guys how it turned out the way we scheduled it.
We - It appeared to us that we had at least an
hour after the lunch period prior to anybody
getting on it. Oh, l'm sorry, you said heating,
not eating, l'm sorry.
007 20 44 05 CDR Yes, that's right, heating constraints on the

ergometer itself. See, Bill's going to put 300
on; I'ii put on 5000, and then how long's Ed
going to have to wait before he can put on 8000?
CC Okay. We talked about that just a second ago,

Jerry, though. Let me - let us check it again
real quick and get back to you.
CDR Okay.
007 20 44 58 CC And Skylab, Houston. I forgot to remind you at

AOS here, but we are dumping the data/voice re-
corder if you got another running. So any voice
you put on will be get - attained there.
CDR Okay, good enough. I owe it an ATM debrief.
CC Roger.
007 20 50 01 CC CDR, Houston. We've rechecked the ergometer con-

straints per the cue card and our - and our heat-
ing constraints, and it looks to us like we're
perfectly okay with - with the number of watt-
minutes that you and Ed - the part that Bill's
going to put up there - put on there is just
about negligible. And the 5000 that you plan and
the 8000 that Ed plans in that scheduled period is
okay.
CDR Okay, great. Thanks, Dick.

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CC Roger.
CDR Dick, which recorder have you got designated for

recording up here? We're not getting any green
light.
CC Stand by.
007 20 51 03 CC Skylab, Houston. The dump is complete and INC0

thinks you should have a green light if you're
asking for voice record now. We're about 45 sec-
onds from LOS. Tananarive comes up at 21:03.
CDR Yes, but what recorder did they have designated,

say, 2 or 3 minutes ago?
CC Jerry, at - a couple or 3 minutes ago your voice

was going on recorder number i which was not the
data/voice configured recorder, so you would not
have seen a light at that time. But it was - we
were getting a voice.
CDR Okay, good. Just wanted to make sure.
007 20 51 49 CC Roger.
007 21 04 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 5 minutes.
007 21 07 45 SPT Hello, Dick. How much time hav@ we got left in
this pass?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. In case - in case we have an early
one, Honeysuckle comes up at 21:27. See you there.
SPT Okay, Dick. I'ii talk ED61 to you at that time.
007 21 08 i0 CC Okay, real fine, Ed. Thank you.

for 9 minutes. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yes. Richard Truly told me that the friendly SPT

was going to have a few thousandwords on ED61
for us over Honeysuckle here. But it's no big deal
to us. If you want to come back later, why, that's
fine.
Pag_ 4 of 8 /3322
FLT He's ri_ll, in I,h¢' middlt_ oV <'×_'r<'_.:_c_

r'i_lt now,
Bruce. IIe'll get with you Late_'.
CC Sure. We'll catch it later this evening, Bill.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay. The discussion on ED61/62 originated when

I remarked that it took around 2 or 2-1/2 hours
to get this thing put together today. And the
folks on the ground was wondering what - what the
holdups were. Most of them occurred because of
the first time through *** know all the gear.
And I don't think there's anything which I can't do
the second time around a heck of a lot quicker and
probably pretty much do it on schedule. But
they're interested in finding out what was the
hangups I ran into, so I'ii just go through them.
They're very small but there's a fair number of
them. First, it just took a little while to figure
out what the K-2/K-3 adapter ring assembly is, how
it works, how it fits together, where you find it,
and so forth. That won't be a problem the second
time. Putting the camera on the mount - it's
set up for a slide, which is only good with the
electric Hasselblad. It turns out you can unscrew
the slide, and the screw which holds the slide
on also holds the camera on, but that took a little
while to figure out. The taping together of the
sides for the 61/63 con - 62 container really
isn't feasible because you got to continually
rotate it. And if you tape them together, you got
to take the tape off to rotate it. So you're just
left fighting with those sides flopping around
whenever you're working, and that gives you just -
it's just cumbersome; slows you down a little bit.
007 21 36 08 CC 30 seconds to LOS.
SPT The ...
CC 30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in

ii minutes at Hawaii. Ed, go ahead.
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SPT I'ii pick it up ]._tee, BJ'u_e.
007 21 36 23 CC Okay, sorry about that. But we're beginning to

get the picture on that.

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Roger, Bill.
PLT Bruce, last night there was some talk about giving
the photo report early, and I can't recall exactly
how early they wanted that. Was that just a -
have it read first, or did you want that like maybe
an hour or so ahead of the evening status report?
CC Well, we'll - what we're trying to do down here,

Bill, is have the film-thread pad standing by out
at the site, or at least ready to go to the site.
And if you could read the photo log down at the
beginning of the evening status report pass, then
that'll give us the duration of your reading up
the evening status report to check that against
the film-thread pad and make a correction if we
need to and try to get it up the same site. How-
ever, realistically, l'd expect to see it about a
site or two later if there are any major changes.
Over.
PLT Okay, that answers the question. Thank you.
CC And of course, what we're trying to do is get the

thing up to you so that be - while you still have
a little time left in the evening so that you can
work on it at your option as you requested.
PLT Yes, I sort of cut the legs out from under the
photo people last night with a couple of reports
on transporters. And I got the thing all ready to
go now if you want to take it.
CC Give us 5 seconds and we'll take it.
PLT And we'll get you some of the handheld stuff.

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PLT I have it now if you want it, Bruce.
CC Okay, Bill. Let her rip.
CC We're standing by to copy.
007 21 49 25 PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: EREP cal, Charlie Lima i0,

41 percent; EREP VTS, Charlie Lima I0, empty,
zero percent; documentary photos 23, Charlie
India 128, 79 percent, Charlie India 127;
MI51/M092/93, Charlie India 178, 29 percent,
Charlie India 74. 35-millimeters: Nikon i,
Charlie X-ray 39, 18; Nikon 2; Bravo Victor 28,
39; number 3; Charlie India 112, 07; Nikon 4,
Bravo Echo 09, 06 percent - or 06 frame count;
Nikon 5; Bravo Hotel 06, 00, fu - full load.
70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 51, 66. ETC:
Charlie Tango 120, 12; Bravo Whiskey 03, 077.
EREP: set Tango is depleted; set X-ray, 9961,
2142, 9685, 9047, 0818, 9724. Drawer A configura-
tion: A-I, no change; A-2, transporter 05,
Charlie India 128, 79 percent, Charlie India 127;
A-3, no change; A-4, transporter 08, Charlie
India 77, 07 percent, and the film broke; _09
was stowed. There's no takeup reel on A-4 right
now. In the Back, 07, Charlie India 78, 29 percent,
Charlie India 74.
007 21 51 38 CC Okay, we copy all that. Do you happen to know

when the film on transporter A-4 broke? Over.
PLT Yes, I was getting ready to photograph the TV-I07

yesterday, and I had one - or had two jams, and
one of them finally was diagnosed as a break, and
the other one, I was able to use the little tool
and thread it through and get it working again.
But both of those were yesterday - oh, in the
middle of the day, whenever it was I was going to
photograph TV-107.
CC Okay, we copy all that. Thank you, Bill.
PLT And those were the two jams and they were reported
last night. They were both in attempting TV-107
yesterday.
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CC Roger.
007 21 52 37 SPT Houston, SPT. I'ii pick up here as quickly as

possible.
CC Okay, we got about 4 minutes left here at Hawa£i,

Ed.
SPT Okay. Next stumbling block is that these windows

where we were supposed to have viewed -there's
eight of them - should all be clearly marked.
Unfortunately, when you use the marking pen, it
doesn't stay on the metal, so therefore, you ended
up getting sticky back and cutting out numbers
and pasting them on, which took a little while.
The repositioning of the - or actually the -Let's
go back. The handheld position of the camera
mount adjacent to the light was not a rel -
relatively easy thing to do until you got the hang
of it because you had the lid flopping around. And
you had to get the light to just about the right
value. I found that rather than the 8 inches
which they suggested,I had to get down to around
within i inch of high intensity light, in order
to get the intensity readout they specified on
the light meter.
CC You say you went to i inch?
SPT That's correct, i inch.
007 21 53 40 CC Okay, we'll check on that. They may have been

talking about 8 inches from the film plane. That's
where you usually get in a hangup with these
extension tubes. Go ahead.
SPT l'm using step 8 on 2-6 of the student experiments

checklist. And the way I would interpret that is
within 8 inches of the light.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
SPT Okay, in the middle of that, then, we had a film

load because we - it takes eight and there was only
four left on the film cassette. And, lastly, just
normal breaking it all down, putting everything
Page 8 of 8 /3326
back in its place - K-2/K-3, and so forth, and -

and the logging. A lot of it was just learning
curve, and some of it was just first time through.
And I think the next time ought to he something on
the order of half an hour or 45 minutes.
CC Okay, we've got all that, Ed. And we'll just go

ahead and schedule you for normal duration run
next time and see how that works out.
Sl_f That'll be fine.
CC Roger. Thank you for the details.
007 21 56 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 2 minutes through Goldstone.
And we'll have a data/voice tape recorder dump
at AOS, which is 21:58. Out.
007 21 58 31 CC Skylah, this is Houston through Goldstone for

7-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. PLT phone call, next site at Bermuda.
AOS is 22:10. Out.
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007 22 05 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

22:10 with the PLT phone call. Out.
007 22 i0 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.
007 22 19 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston; LOS. Next station con-

tact in i minute through Canary Islands. Out.
007 22 20 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands

and Ascension for a total of 16-i_2 minutes. Out.
CC And sometime, for Bill, when he has a minute, l've

got a minor correction to his lunar cal pad.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Ready to copy.
CC Okay, Bill. Step 2 where we say, "Obtain DAC

magazine Charlie Lima i0"; change that to
Charlie Lima ii from J-4. And on the last page
next to the bottom line where it says, "Stow DAC
magazine (J-3)"; change that to J-4. Over.
PLT Roger. Have it.
CC Okeydoke. Thank you.
007 22 31 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston; for the CDR. We have a

change to sOIgK pad. Over.
CDR Stand by, Bruce.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I have the pad in hand. I'll copy

it.
CC Okay, Bill; S019K pad. What happened is we cal-

culated the pointing for prism out instead of
•prism in. So we got to change all the - the
ROTATION and TILT settings here. If you're
ready to go? The first one which is about the
third line down, change ROTATION from 251.6 to
read 250.6.
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007 22 32 38 PLT Stand by I. I had the maneuver pad out.
CC l'm sorry, I was -
PLT Okay, l'm sorry, Bruce. Would you start over

again, please?
CC Okay, about the third line into the pad, change

ROTATION from 251.6 to read 250.6. Over.
PLT Roger; 250.6.
CC TILT goes from 23.3 to read 21.3, an_! the ROTA-

TION XX goody becomes XX0.6. Over.
PLT Roger. That makes the TILT 21.3 and the XX 06 - 0.6.
007 22 33 36 CC Okay. Then for star field 352, which is the next
one down, we change the ROTATION value from 148.7
to read 150.9. TILT goes from 24.2 to read 23.6.
And the number of turns changes from 3.6 to 3.5.
ROTATION goody goes from XX8.7 to XX0.9. Read
back.
PLT Roger. The 148.7 changes to 150.9, and the 24.2

changes 23.6; the XX0.9, and it's 3.5 turns.
CC Right. We should have just sort of jacked up

the periods and run a new pad underneath that on_.
We're sorry about it.
PLT Okay, we have the corrections now. Thank you.
CC Would you like us to ship you up a new one at

Carnarvon if we can get it put together here?
PLT Why don't you go ahead and do that, Bruce, if it's

no trouble? If you don't, well, we have this.
CC Okay, we'll give it a try.
007 22 35 37 CC And i minute to LOS. Next station contact in

27 minutes through Carnarvon at 23:02. Out.
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CC And, Skylab, if you'd check the old woodpecker

there, your SOI9K pad has been revised.
PLT Thank you.
007 23 lO 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at
23 :26. Out.

4-1/2 minutes. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCPIPTION

station contact in 8-1/2 minutes. Goldstone at
23:38. Out.

4-1/2 minutes. 0"**
CC Skylab, this is Houston; for the PLT. We have

the film-thread pad on board, but we believe there
is an error in it, which goes along with the photo
log. On Nikon 03 we anticipated that you would
have run out of exposures on CII12 some time today.
And the pad for this morning instructed you to go
ahead and reload with CII13. And the frame count
that you passed down indicates that you probably
did do this as you went from frame count last even-
ing of 47 down to 07. And when you get a chance,
at your convenience, not to interrupt you meal or
anything like that, could you just confirm for us
that it was indeed CII13 in there and the count is
07? Over.
PLT Stand by i.
CC No, don't interrupt.
007 23 41 37 PLT No, I was just re - getting ready to go up and do

the SI maneuver. Standing by to do that. Just
get the film-thread pad; I'II go by the film vault
on my way.
CC Okay.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT. That's correct; that is 113,

and the film - number - frame number is correct.
CC Okay. And if you could just make the appropriate

correction to you film-thread pad - I think it's
status only in the 35-millimeter section, we'd
appreciate it.
PLT Roger; will do. Thank you very much.
CC And you can disregard the remark which says when

112 is depleted reload with 113, obviously.
f-
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007 23 42 40 CC i minute to LOS. Next st_itio_ _'ont_ct in 2-I/2 min-

utes through Corpus Christi al 2_:4q. Aud we'l_
have a data/voice tape r_corder du_ coming up
Bermuda at 23:46. Out.
007 23 45 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi and

Bermuda for - Stand by. Corpus Christi alone for
i minute.
007 23 47 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Here we go again. This time

through Merritt Island for i0 minutes with a data/
CDR Houston, CDR. l'm using the tape recorder; can

you redesignate another one for me? This is for
S019.
CC Negative. But we'll delay the dump for you.
CDR All right, sir; thank you.
CC Keep on trucking.

station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension
Island at 00:06. Out.

7 minutes. And for the SPT and anybody else who's
running the ATM in the near future, we've got a
message.
PLT Stand by, Bruce. l'm just about to go back to

SOLAR INERTIAL.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Bruce, my rates look good. Could you confirm

my GYR0 3 OUTER GIMBALs? Their reading is full-
scale low again.
CC It's looking good to us, about 42 degrees.
PLT Okay, carry on, Bruce. What was it you wanted?
008 00 07 50 CC Okay, S082B has 13 frames of type i01 film remain-

ing. We've scheduled this tomorrow in the Flight
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Pa_e "_ o1' "5/3333
t,ype film, and, bherei'ore, we'd .liM, [;o re:_l, riel.

82B to scheduled operations m_Li] this type
i01 film has been depleted. Then you're back on
the solar type film. Type 104 film begins at a
frame count of 344, that's 344. Over.
PLT Roger. Reference 82B special sensitive comet film,

there are ii frames remaining which you're reserv-
ing - at least that's what you want to use for
tomorrow.
CC Okay, we - -
PLT Other film picks up at 344.
CC All right; we show 13 frames remaining.
PLT Sorry, 13.
CC Yes, the intent here is just to not use this stuff

up on shopping list items or anything like that.
PLT Okay.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Okay, we had a close call on this S019. This dog-

gone canister started to jam up like the other one
did. And I got desperate, decided that since we
didn't have much to lose l'd go for brute force and
I about tripled the force required to put the lever
in the SLIDE RETRACT position, and it went in. Now
it seems to be working normally except the forces
are just a little bit higher on the operating mech-
anism. But at least it feels like it's doing what
it should be doing.
CC Okay. Which exposure - or which frame was that on?

I don't know that it makes much difference - -
CDR At the termination of the first Kohoutek frame,

which was the 400-second one, is where the problem
came. I lost about 2 minutes fiddling with it.
And finally got desperate, decided to go the brute
force way and got it running again. So essentially
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what happened is, I didn't get the last widened

exposure he wanted on the star i'ield, but i did
get all the Kohoutek stuff.
008 00 i0 21 CC Okay. Sounds like you took the right action there.
And l'm not sure what we can do about it, but we'll
certainly feed it into the mill and see if there's
anything we can come up with.
CDR Okay, the whole blow by blow is on tape. I'm be-

ginning to think maybe I ought to get that other
cassette, try a little brute force on it.
CC Why don't yon stand by on that, and let us think

that one over.
CDR Yes, I'Ii wait until you folks talk about it.
008 00 Ii 53 CC We got about a ]_-minute keyhole here. I'Ii call

you on the other side.
008 O0 13 09 CC Hey, 35 seconds to LOS at Ascension. Next station

contact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon at 00:36.
Out.

10-1/2 minutes. And we're going to pick up the
delayed data/voice tape recorder dump here with
your permission.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I think we're through with it for

now.
CC Roger. We'll let you know when we're finished with

the dump.

station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam at
00:49. And the evening status report will be coming
up at Goldstone at 0]:15. Out.
008 O0 50 O0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 10-1/2 min-

utes. Out.
008 00 59 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
with the evening status report. And we'll be stand-
ing by at 01:16 to copy. Over.
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CDR Roger, Bruce. We'Ll be ready.
END OF TAPE
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008 Ol 16 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Merritt

Island, and Bermuda for 16 minutes. Standing by
for the evening status report. Over.
CDB Okay, Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 7.0 heavy; SPT,

6.8, 6.0 heavy, 0.8 light; PLT, 7.0, 7.0 heavy.
Volumes: 3600, 1750, 2650. Water gun: 8235,
4236, 0274. Exercise: CDR, no change; SPT, no
Alfa; PLT, no change. We'd like to make a change
in the standard exercise for all of us. Change
method Foxtrot to read zero springs, and 400 toe
rises. Let me correct that. Reduce method Fox-
trot to zero springs and 400 toe rises. Some of
us have walk and run on there; that should stay
on. But across the board each one of us is going
to stop doing springs, and we're all going to do
400 toe rises from now on. That includes today.
008 01 17 39 CDR Medications: none for anyone. Clothing: CDR,

shirt and socks; SPT, none; PLT, none. Food log:
salt, for the CDR, plus 3.5, minus one coffee
with sugar, plus 2.0 rehydration water; SPT,
1.5 salt, plus two biscuits, plus butter cookies -
one butter cookies - plus one lemon pudding, plus
vanilla wafers, plus one grape drink, minus 20 cc
for TV-101; rehydration water zero. PLT, salt,
zero; deviations, zero; rehydration water, zero.
Photo log, you've already got. Flight Plan devia-
tions: ED61/63, 2-1/2 hours. Shopping list ac-
complishments: PLT, T002-1, stars ii and 12.
It's on tape from 02:20 last night to 02:40. SPT,
S063 comet photo sequence, two times; also the
SPT did put a - one half hour in on TV-101. The
CDR, 1 hour on TV-103 preparation, and you can go
ahead and schedule me VTR time whenever you can.
And I'll go ahead and - and do that one. And the
CDR did one sweat sample today. Inoperable equip-
ment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none. A note
to the medical people in the sweat sample area:
Rather than using wipes, if they want any more
sweat samples, we would recommend the use of a
washcloth, rather than wipes. CDR out.
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CC Okay, Jerry. We've got all of that, but we missed

your body mass measurement readouts from this
morning. Over.
008 01 19 41 CDR Okay. CDR: 6.301, 6.306, 6.302; SPT, 6.365,

6.365, 6.365; PLT, 6.233, 6.231, 6.236.
CC Okay, we got those. A couple of quick ones for

you. Better set your alarm clocks for reveille
in the morning. We'll call you through the Van-
guard at 11:25 Zulu. Your phone call for tomor-
row, Jerry, is at 02:34 to 02:44 Zulu through the
Vanguard. And we've got one question here for
Bill on S063 airglow, or would you rather -
Disregard the question, we'll catch it on post-
flight debriefing. And - Okay, we're going to go
ahead and turn you over to the medics here, for
the medical conference. And this'll be the last
pass of the evening observing your 02:00 sound
through, so we'll bid you a good night. And see
you in the morning. 10000 on the DAS if you want
us, and we're taking the VTR for dump.
008 01 20 56 CDR Okay, Bruce. Good night.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCI_IPT[ON
008 ii 26 07 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you through the

Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Morning, Story.
CC Good morning, Bill, And we've been shipping up

some pads to you with a teleprinter low indica-
tion. You might check the last pad you got.
The last one we sent to you was 5414 Alfa. That's
an EREP Z-LV maneuver pad.
PLT Roger, I didn't see any red on it.
CC Okay,
PLT Roger. 5414 Alfa we have, and we ought to be

pretty good for the message you're sending up
right now.
008 ll 27 26 CC Okay, Bill_ If you're not seeing any red, we'll

ship up a solar - a solar activity update pad and
a 5-day forecast. That's all we've got left for
tonight.
PLT Okay. We ought to be fine for that, and then

we'll change the paper out.
CC Okay beautiful.
CC And, you all ready for the news now? Or if you're

not, I've got Ascension coming up here in about
15 minutes.
PLT No, hit us with it,
008 ii 28 02 CC Okay_ More than 3000 government reforcements

backed by armored vehicles sped to Phnom Penh's
northwest defense lines to counter a big rebel
force flashing towards Phnom Penh. Field reports
said the insurgent attackers abducted 4000 vil-
lagers. Brian Faulkner quit as leader of North
Ire - North Ireland's Unionist Party. His de-
parture, following a vote against him in the
party's governing body, the Ulster Unionist Council,
was a _lesr setback to Britain's plan for peace
i
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between Protestants and Roman Catholics, Faulk-

ner kept his job as Chief Executive of the prov-
ince's 7 - 7-day-old administration. The FAA may
recommend sanctions against foreign airlines who
refuse to tighten security against terrorists.
The discussion of sanctions, including possible
denial of landing rights, grew out of last month's
firebombing and hijacking at Rome. Thirty-two per-
sons, many of them Americans, died in the
incident. The U. S, Parole Board has ordered three
of the five convicted Watergate burglars released
on parole effective March 7. The board freed
Eugenio R. Martinez, Frank A. Sturges, and Vir-
gilio R. Gonzalez, who have served more than a
year in prison and are confined at a federal
prison camp in Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
The Federal Energy Office is looking into rumors
of oil stockpiling and fuel hoarding. Officials
say they are investigating possible petroleum
stockpiles by the oil industry and fuel hoarding
by the nation's railroads and trucking firms.
They said there was no evidence so far of hoard-
ing or excessive stockpiling. For only the 21st
time in more than 270 years, rare astronomical
conditions are producing swelling tides along the
coasts of the United States. The tides, along
with other weather factors, were causing erosion
at Newport Beach, California. But on the East
Coast the feared combination of tides, offshore
storms, and onshore winds have not materialized.
Pioneer movie producer Samuel Goldwyn was re-
leased from St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica
in satisfactory condition. A hospital spokesman
said Goldwyn, 91, had been under observation at
the hospital since December 22.
008 ii 30 08 CC The nature of his ailment was not disclosed.

But a hospital spokesman said Monday it was
minor and primarily related to age. He had
suffered a stroke some years ago. President
Nixon has acknowledged receipt of 24 paper Christ-
mas trees from Viola Shand's first grade school
in Jarrat, Virginia. The children made the trees
last month, decorated them with nonelectric home-
made ornaments and called the display, "Even a
first grader can be ecology minded." They got
a letter from Nixon thanking them for their "Mes-
sage of encouraging support." And that's it for
this morning.
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PLT Thank you, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 7 minutes to Ascen-

sion. Finished sending up all the messages we
have for the moment. So at your convenience, you
can change out the paper. But there's no hurry.
008 ii 35 44 PLT Roger.
008 ii 43 42 CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for

3 minutes.
CDR Roger.
008 ii 45 57 CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out Just for 30 seconds

here while we hand over at Canaries and Madrid.
We plan to dump the data/voice at Canaries.
008 ii 46 ii CDR Roger, Story.
008 ii 47 13 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries and

Madrid for 12 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And we got a computer down here. Could you verify

that no one's using the voice recorder?
PLT That's affirmative, Story.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT That is to say, no one is using it.
CC Under stand.
008 ll 56 32 CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC For your information only, we've got a computer

problem down here. We've had no data throughout
Canaries and Madrid. And you've got PT scheduled
here coming up pretty soon and we'd like you to
refrain from riding the ergometer during the S019
ops. That goes from about 12:15 to 12:h7.
CDR Will do.

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CC And how's Lh_' m,'meuw,r going, I,H?
CDR Looks pretty good so far.
CC Okay.
008 ii 58 03 CC And we're a minute and a half from LOS, about

25 minutes to Guam at 12:24.
008 12 26 07 CC Skylab, we're AOS Guam for 6 minutes. And we

still have no data down here.
SPT Hello, Story. It looks good from up here.
008 12 26 21 CC Okay.
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008 12 30 46 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. The next station

is Canaries in about 50 minutes at 13:23. Be
dumping the data/voice there.
008 13 24 31 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Canary and Madrid. Hello

from the purple gang. We've got you for 13 min-
utes and we've got our data back down here, and
we're bringing our machines back up. How are
you guys doing this morning?
CDR Morning, purple gang. We're doing great. Welcome

aboard.
CC Thank you, sir. It's a very foggy morning in

Houston.
CDR Maybe that's what got the computers. They're all

fogged up.
CC Could be. Matter of fact, I heard on the radio

coming in that it was ll degrees below zero in
Minneapolis this morning. So I hope you guys are
toasty up there. You can feel sorry for the folks
up that way.
008 13 25 14 CDR Hey, speaking of Minneapolis, Dick, you know

there's a - a great circular volcanic structure
up in - in northeastern Canada that we discussed
every once in a while in our geology briefings
that we got for the Apollo program. And Bill and
I have noticed on two occasions that out near
Minneapolis, there's also a great circular struc-
ture in the ground that is accentuated by the
snow cover right now. I was wondering if the
geologists might have a word for us on that. So
far, we haven't really located Minneapolis and
so we can't tell you whether it's east or west,
but it's right up there in the Wisconsin/Minnesota
area. It's about the same size as the one up in
Canada.
CC Well, we'll certainly sic our purple geologists

on it and try to get you an answer.
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CDR Well, he doesn't really have to turn purple to

get the answer.
CC Yes, but the only one we have is purple. So we'll

get him.
CDR Okay.
008 13 31 40 CC SPT, Houston. We still have about 6 minutes in

this pass. Sometime when you get a minute, I'd
like to speak to you, please, sir.
SPT Morning, Dick. Now's a good time. Go ahead.
CC Hi, Ed. Hey, if you'll whip out your summary

Flight Plan for today, I wanted to give you a
choice here about moving something around. And
it might break up a little more time for you to
do something that you'd rather do; I don't know.
If - If you'll look on your summary down at about
18:15 or 18:30, somewhere right in there, it - it
has the ED61 ops photo. And then if you'll look
down lower at a time of about 23:15, there's a
block of open housekeeping. What happened yester-
day was, when we built this Flight Plan, and prior
to the conversation with you in the afternoon
about the problems you were having with ED61, we
moved that ED61 ops from that lower housekeeping
block up to that block where it is now, because
we felt like in that upper block there would be
a little more time. If - However, if you would
like to move it back down to 23:15 or so, it -
it would free up that other one right after your
eat period there, and it might give you a little
more time to do something off the shopping list
or science demo practice or whatever you feel
like doing. Which - Whichever place you decide
to do it, though, let us know because succeeding
days, we need to schedule it pretty much on the
24-hour repeat timing.
008 13 33 13 SPT Okay, Dick. Let me tell you where we stand on

that. I've already whistled through ED61. I got
that done this morning. I'm pretty fast with ETC
stow also. What I'm wondering is, looks as though
that opens up that time frame in there. And I
see that the ATM is not running manned that time.
I'm wondering if I could slip then into manned ATM
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pass somewhere around there, right after ETC ops.

Probably take me around 5 - l0 minutes to get
that thing stowed and then I've got crispy bars
which I can eat in 5 minutes. I've got an ED61
that's done, so it looks as though that opens up
that whole time frame.
CC Okay. We - We're looking at that right now.

There is a scheduled handheld photo right in
there, but that ought to be easy for you to whip
off and get in the middle, I would guess.
SPT Okay. Now that we're starting to have a little

activity come around the corner, Dick, I'd like
to see if we can concentrate as much time as I
could squeeze in here.
008 13 34 21 CC Roger, Ed. And while they're taking a look at -

and making sure that that's okay with everybody
to do that extra ATM pass, I have a question for
you guys about the presleep activities that I was
going to ask later but since we're talking about
ATM anyway - You notice on today's Flight Plan
and also the one we're working for tomorrow in
the - the evening meal - it - we end up that one
guy eats - Everybody gets plenty of time to eat
the evening meal, at least on the Flight Plans,
but one guy eats separately than the other two.
L And as long as we take advantageof the daylight
cycles down there for an ATM pass, probably this
is going to be true every night. And we kind of
didn't want to do this without, you know, talking
to you about it in advance and making sure that
that was okay with you.
SPT Dick, from my standpoint, Jerry may have some-

thing to add on to it, but heck, I don't object
to doing that at all. I guess ... time. Hold
on; I'll get rid of this squeal.
CC Okay. Well, un - unless I hear differently from

Jerry, then that - that's the way we're planning
them anyway, and that's the way you'll probably
beseeing them.
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008 13 36 ii SPT Dick, for now, that sounds good. Why don't we
get back with you if there's any change.
CC Okay. Great.
CC SPT, Houston. We think getting that extra ATM

pass is a neat thing to do, and we'll be - we
would like you to get that scheduled, or somebody
to get that scheduled handheld photo for us that's
there listed in the s_mmary at around 18:00. And
ATM folks will be thinking and if - Ed, to see if
they have any suggestions about what you might do
during that daylight cycle.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
008 13 37 04 CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Madrid - correction, Carnarvon comes up at 14:04.
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SKYLAB AIE-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
008 14 04 36 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference. We've

got a total long pass here through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 14 minutes. Over.
SPT ... go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. You came through very weak there. On

the solar update for today, we don't have too much
to add. The emerging flux regions that are popping
out and disappearing all over the Sun, it's really
Just more of the same story. You've probably no-
ticed on the plan for today, we've scheduled Jerry
on some prominence observations with instructions
to pick his own. To us, it looks like there may
not be all that much to pick from. We thought
maybe you might have a better idea, having looked
at it more recently.
SPT Okay. The small bit of observing time I did manage

to squeeze in this morning, I was looking at a
surge over above active region 16, and I didn't
have a chance to take a lap around the limb. I'll
do that, though, this next orbit.
008 14 05 34 MCC Okay, fine. You might pass on whatever thoughts

you have to Jerry. If - in the event he cannot
find a prominence, the schedule just asks him to
go on into the shopping list items. On today's
plan the 17 Alfa JOP that you will be doing next
orbit at 14:25 is a repeat of yesterday's. 55 wants
very much to get as close to a full orbit's worth
of 1-minute mini-MARs on the bright spot as they
possibly can, which is why they have repeated that
today.
SPT Okay, I agree. That sounds like a good idea. I'm

sorry that the control system and also selection
wouldn't let us do it yesterday. I see some good
bright points which have developed on the XUV
MONITOR which were no - not there yesterday
close to the center of the disk. And I'll try
and choose one rather quickly that does not have
any H-alpha plage.
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008 14 06 26 MCC Okay, good. Sounds good. Now, I've got a couple
of answers to questions that you asked. Regard-
ing the question of information that you were
downlinking and whether it is sufficient, I guess
the answer is, in general, the numbers and all
that is sufficient. The one thing that we would
like more of, and we were very happy the day that
you had the three observing orbits, is a little
more chatter and in particular what you're think-
ing of when you select various targets and things
such as this. That - if you possibly can, just
let us know what you're thinking, and why such and
such looks better than somewhere else. That helps
us try to get inside your mind here a little bit.
SPT Oh, okay. I'll go ahead and do that. Sometimes

when you're up here looking at it, it all seems
straightforward and you don't realize that you
folks don't have the same visibility a couple of
days later when you're just looking at the trans-
scripts. So, I'll go ahead and do that.
008 14 07 16 MCC Okay, fine. And, also on the shopping list 30

for S055, disk and prominence, you asked the ques-
tion whether that meant filament as well as promi-
nence, and that answer is affirmative. It does.
Some more guidance on the Lyman-alpha part of that.
New guidelines: if you are less than 0.9 of a
solar radius, in other words pointing more in
toward the disk, you should limit that to less than
30 seconds with Lyman-alpha on DETECTOR i. Between
0.9 and the solar radius, i minute is a nice guide-
line. Outside the solar radius there would be no
limit at all.
S_T Bill, is that 30 minutes - or 30 seconds oer step?
MCC No. That's 30 seconds total. Well, actually that's

30 seconds at the - at the center of the line and
when you're off, that wouldn't apply. You'd have
to gage that more by the counts when you could see
when you were on the line and when you were off
in the wing.
008 14 08 23 SPT Okay. I suspect the first time through that I'ii
whistle through there pretty quick, because you -
you do have a - a flat plateau there. And if you
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took 30 seconds per step you could be considerably

longer with Lyman-alpha intensities on that detec-
tor. So I'll play it conservative the first time
around, and we'll see how it goes.
MCC Okay, fine. You also might start on some feature

off the limb, just to get the experience, when there
really doesn't - there is no time limit.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Let me hit you with a couple of other things.

For tomorrow's ATM conference, the schedulers
were unable to work you in. So rather than give
it up, it looks like Jerry will be scheduled for
the ATM conference somewhere along midday, unless
you would prefer that we just skip it altogether.
SPT No. That's a good idea. Let's just go ahead and -

Sounds like a good idea for Jerry. Right now he's
strapped in a Thornton device and probably can't
respond, but that sounds good.
008 14 09 19 MCC Okay, fine. And, on today's extra orbit that we

got, it turns out it's not all that much of an
orbit for you. We will not be getting back to SI
until 18 minutes prior to 400 kilometers, and that
would be at 18:0h. What we suggest is that you
operate shopping list items. And we're particularly
interested in active region 16. From what you said
it sounds like you are also.
SPT Yes, that's affirm, Bill. We'll talk a little bit

more about that in a minute.
MCC Okay. And - -
SPT Go ahead with anything else you have.
MCC Okay. And in the event that Jerry does not find
a good prominence and goes into the shopping list -
in spite of the notes which - on the schedule pad -
on the SAP saying, "82B 101 film, use scheduled
ops only - They are willing to operate in shopping
list 7. But that is all.
SPT Okay. I'll make a note of that.

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008 14 i0 15 MCC And one final comment here. The day-off conference
will be given day after tomorrow by Bob MacQueen
on the solar activity plans we have for the next
2 weeks.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good. Be glad to talk with Bob.
MCC And, in spite of saying that was the last one, one
more is that tomorrow we will be scheduling you
to do the PRS test on 82B. I'm prepared to talk
about that today if you want to. I will not be
able to talk to you tomorrow because of the sched-
ule. So I'll turn it back to you now.
SPT I looked it over, and it appears fairly straight-

forward in terms of what you want us to do. I
don't see any problem. We'll just have to make
ourselves a little table of - initially, so we can
get the fine Sun sensor pointings figured out before
we start into it. Other than that, it looks
straightforward.
008 14 ll l0 SPT A couple of questions. One: 54, in the exposure

of 17 minutes, I guess, four times they're 256 at
17 minutes and 4 seconds. How precise would they
like us to be on that? We can set the timer up
and try to make it as precise as possible. And
in instances where we have, say an extra 2 or
3 minutes, would they like us to continue that on
up to 21 or 22 to give them a longer exposure, or
is it getting at a factor of 4 over 256 the most
important thing to go after there? Today, where
we have one which is specified for 27 minutes, I
suppose there that they are interested in the max
possible, despite the fact that 27 minutes is writ-
ten explicitly.
MCC Yes. That's affirmative. Generally on the

17-minute exposures, that's part of their synoptic
program and they do want 17 minutes. And the last
number that they gave me, our accuracy was plus
or minus I minute on that. And generally when we're
longer than that, it generally turns out that we're
going for the max possible. The number we put in
is our calculation of how much is left.
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008 14 12 17 SPT Okay. And looking at, first of all, the WHITE
LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, we don't see any real major
change in the structure; small ones, though. The
streamer over at 2 o'clock has greatly diminished
in intensity. Form pretty much remains the same.
Maybe the southern edge of it has dimished the most
in intensity. The ones above active region 16,
that is around, say, 230 - 250, that one remains
pretty much unchanged in overall intensity and in
width. But I can see three streamers now, as
opposed to two yesterday, as wo go further out.
And there also appears to be a little bit less in
the way of streamer structure north of that ; that
is, around 290 - 300. Yesterday I could see a fair
number of small streamers and now they're there
but greatly diminished in intensity. The XUV MON-
ITOR, the story again is pretty much the same, except
for the bright points which I've mentioned. Active
region 16 looks fairly intense, although it's right
on the limb, and you'd expect it to. The coronal
hole at the south is still there. And I've been
looking at these pictures and noticed that there
F really is two levels of coronalhole, if you will.
If you look at the center of the disk, you can see
a Coronal hole, which is - and also to the southern
part, which is less in intensity than the remainder
of the disk, but it still has a significant step
in intensity above what you see at the south pole.
The south is just completely blank in the picture
I have; and then there's a - a step function up
to a relatively low intensity and then another step
up to the normal disk around the center. And I -
This is something I had not really noticed before,
that there was - really was two levels.
008 14 14 17 SPT Let's see. One other - one other thing. The sur-
ging above active region 16, I did notice some this
morning. I went out to around i0 to 15 arc seconds,
and 55 got a little data on that truncated MIRROR,
AUTO RASTER and 54 [sic], same PATROL SHORTs. I
only had about 8 minutes or so to work it. I've
been wondering in looking at it, whatever happened
to active region 13? Are the NOAA guys suspicious,
or did that just disappear?
MCC That Just sort of decayed and died a nature/ death

on the disk. And they stopped giving it a number.
l
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SPT Oh. (]kay. As Far as the observing programs for

today, I guess we've covered it. I don't see any-
thing else other than to work active region 16.
And I'ii take one look around the disk and see what
else is out on the limbs, but that appears to be
it from here.
MCC Okay, fine, Ed.' _Thank you very much. There's

3-1/2 minutes left until LOS. I'ii turn you back
to Dick Truly here for the - I'ii turn you back
to Dick Truly here for the rest of the pass. And
I'ii be talking to Jerry tomorrow, and Bob
MacQueen'll talk to all three of you the day after.
SPT Thank you very much, Bill. So long.
008 14 15 44 CC And SPT, Houston. While you're still close to the

phone there, since you did the ED61 this morning,
we'll be scheduling that one some time during the
morning for you. And it's okay with us; you don't
have to hit that - do it exactly when it is sched-
uled. We would like you to get kind of close to
it the maximum of 4 hours away each morning, though,
in case you pick it up early in the - in the post-
sleep activities.
SPT Okay, Dick. _ I understand what you're after there.

However, this morning there was really no signifi-
cant change. The rice seeds are just sitting there
looking - looking nominal and not doing much.
CC Roger. At about what time did you take the

pictures?
008 14 16 35 CC As a matter fact, Ed, let me ask you two questions.

Assuming that we do - that you do accomplish it
in a schedule block, is a half an hour about the
right amount of time, or if not, what? And also
this morning, what time did you take the photos?
Do you remember?
SPT Yes. I took them Just around 12:00 even. And a

half an hour is more than adequate for that. l've
learned how to do that pretty streamlined. After
the time I spent yesterday to get it all worked
out, now we can whistle through it pretty quickly.
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The kind of thing which I wish we had it to do

initially was to take that time out to learn how
to do something Well, and then you can go through
it in - well, this case, about 20 minutes, it took
me.
CC Okay. Real fine.
008 14 17 57 SPT Dick, and one other thing on TV-101. Right now
l've got the thing set up and pretty much ready
to start with some data, but I need to know some-
thing about the DAC film which is available, l'm
wondering if you could tell me what the status is
on that so I can pick that up as a shopping list
item.
CC Okay, we'll work on that one. We're about

30 seconds from LOS. Bermuda comes up at 14:53,
and Jerry, are you close to the phone real quick
here before LOS?
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
008 14 18 32 CC Okay. Sometime in the next day or so, we're going

to try to pick up a 192 alignment check. If, in
fact, this morning after you do the EREP mag that's
scheduled, if you are running a little bit ahead,
if you did the EREP BUS i to S191 POWER, ON about
i0 minutes early, we figured you might could get
in the 192 alignment check prior to EREP today,
and we would not have to worry about scheduling
it. It - it is not a requirement today, though,
so if you're not running ahead, don't sweat it.
CDR Okay, Dick, I seriously doubt that I'ii get ahead

on that EREP mag thing, since I haven't done that
up here before.
CC Okay, fine. We're certainly not planning on - on

getting it. We are planning on scheduling it;
just thought we'd let you know. See you at Bermuda.
CDR So long.
008 14 19 18 CC Okay.
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008 14 55 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for about

8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. For the folks in the backroom on

ATM, I've been able to locate about six or seven
different bright points. I looked at about half
a dozen of them, and every one of them had some
manifestation in H-ALPHA. So l've chosen one which
has a relatively low manifestation, but is still
relatively bright. Maybe it's Just the particular
type we have on a disk at the present time. But
I was able to see something in H-ALPHA with every
one of them.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you much.
008 14 58 08 CC PLT, Houston. l'm not sure where you are in your
PT, but either here or at the following Madrid
pass, either one of them would be plenty soon
enough, l've got a couple of corrections to a cou-
ple of your pads for the upcoming EREP maneuver.
SPT Dick, he'll talk with you pretty soon on the next
pass.
CC Okay. That'll be fine.
008 15 00 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We had a question awhile ago on

TV-101 and some requests about the DAC film. With
the DAC film status as it is, we prefer not to use
it for TV-0 - I01 today. However, we do have about
25 minutes of - essentially free time available
on VTR. So what we'd recommend doing is - is if
you want to do TV-101 today, do it as you - as you
see fit, using the VTR, and let us know when you -
when you did it so we can plan our VTR dumps this
evening.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. I'll try and squeeze some
of it in today if possible.
CC Okay, fine.
008 15 03 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 15 seconds to LOS. Madrid

008 15 03 13 SPT So long, Dick.

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008 15 07 ]h CC Skylab, Houzton. Madrid for 8 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. In reference to your question the

other day about the circular area around Minneapolis,
we don't have an answer on that one. We're also
still looking at - Bill Lenoir and the handheld
photography troops are working hard on that one
and also the circular area around Mexico City.
And we've also been looking at some photography
around the Plains of Nazca. But Lenoir did tell
me to tell you he was pretty sure the one around
Minneapolis was i00,000 people huddled together in
that minus ll-degree weather to keep warm.
CDR I believe it. Hey, that circular area down in

Mexico City looks like some sort of an athletic
field or something like that. It's circular; it's
got a lot of green grass, and we just didn't re-
cognize it as any kind of an athletic field that
we - we're familiar with.
008 15 09 31 CC Roger. One of the - that was one of the things

that we're still looking. The National University
soccer field down there has a capacity of - in
excess of i00,000 people. And - and that very
likely might be it.
CDR Okay. As I remember, it was near the airport.

I'll try to look for it next time I go over.
CC Okay. I - I kind of think that's what that one is.
CC And, also, a reminder for Bill. I've got a couple

of pad changes I need to get up, anytime here at
Madrid. We've still got 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. Which one would you want to do first?
CC Okay. VTS pad first.
PLT Stand by.
CC Okay. And the next one, while you're getting them

out, is the maneuver pad for EREP 23.
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008 15 ii 17 PLT Okay. I have the VTS pad.
CC Okay, Bill. There's two things on that. First

of all, on the left side about four big blocks
down where it says special 02, that's a mistake.
It should read special 04. And then right under
that, the block where it says special 01, we should
have put a remark in that block that says the DAC
is not required for the special 01 nadir swath.
Over.
PLT Roger. Cot those changes.
CC Okay. And the next one is a minor one to the Z-LV

maneuver 23 pad, message $414 Alfa.
PLT Okay. I have it. Go.
CC Okay. Down there in the "Monitor vehicle rates,

maneuver to Z-LV attitude," that bottom block.
The - We've got a sign error there. The Z-axis
maneuver that's listed there as a plus 0.001 should
read minus 0.001. And that's it.
PLT Okay. And that's duly noted and, of course, just

to confirm, that is maneuver to the Z-LV attitude,
the rates.
CC That's correct. Thank you very much, Bill.
008 15 14 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Carnarvon

comes up at 15:40. We're going to dump the data/
voice recorder at Carnarvon. And just a reminder,
we still need a teleprinter paper changeout. We're
not in trouble here for any short messages we might
want to send up to you. None scheduled at the
moment, but we will be unable to uplink the Flight
Plans later. But that's about 3 - 3 hours or so
from now. So there's no big hurry. See you at
Carnarvon.
SPT Thank you, Dick. We'll get it.
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008 15 40 01 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for

15 minutes.
CC Go ahead, Jet.
CDR Hey, Dick, we've got a scheduling problem for S063.

The only people who have had training on that have
been the PLT and the SPT. The CDR has continuously
avoided that particular experiment. I have done
some setups - some preps up here now, but this'll
be the first operation pass that - that l've been
assigned to. You might consider reassigning that,
or we'll go ahead, and I'ii give it a try.
008 15 41 07 CC Okay, Jerry. Let us think about it a little. That

catches us by surprise, and we're sorry about that.
But we'll - Let us think about it a little and get
back to you.
CDR Okay. I just might caution the FA0s to make sure

they have a good listing there of who's been trained
on what. You know, way back when, we decided that
there's a lot of experiments that all three of us
would not train on, that we would have a prime and
a backup on some experiments, and the third guy
would just ignore them.
CC Okay. We'll sure do that, and - and just be sure

and point them out to us if we do make a goof.
008 15 41 43 CDR Okay.
008 15 43 02 CC CDR, Houston. In - in checking with our training

guys, the - the information that we had was - is
that you had been trained on the comet ops but not
the airglow ops, and perhaps that was in error.
The one today is a comet ops.
008 15 43 53 CDR Roger, Dick. I'ii go ahead and try then.
CC Hey, Jerry, no; don't misunderstand me. We're not

asking you to - to try it. I was just trying to
clear up and make sure that you noticed that it was
comet ops and check that piece of information with
you to - to see if we were accurate or not. We -
It might be - very well be real easy for us to swap
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w_ w:_nted to take a
look at that though, I just wanted _o ssk you and
see if that was incorrect.
008 15 44 21 CDR That's incorrect I have not even touched the

S063 equipment on the ground. I stayed away from
it.
CC Okay, fine. We'll get back to you. And also for

the SPT, when you can get to it, we need the ATM
powered down for EREP.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC All righty. Thank you, sir.
008 15 45 15 CC And, CDR, Houston. A note for you here if you've

got a minute. An answer to your questions on the
sweat samples. Turns out we only have one more
sample that's required. That's on the SPT, and
that will complete all our requirements for samples
for the mission. We would prefer that you go ahead
and use the wet wipes. And the reason for this is
that we - we know what the consti - constituency
is of the wet wipes, and we'd be kind of working
with an unknown with using a towel or washcloth.
And so we'd prefer the wet wipe for this la - last
sample. Over.
008 15 45 49 CDR Okay, Dick. I hadn't thought about the consti -

constituency idea.
CC Okay. And I made a mistake. It's a dry wipe, not

a wet wipe.
008 15 45 58 CDR Roger. I understood that.
CC Okay, fine.
CC Go ahead.
CDR l've looked over the S063 comet ops. It looks like
it probably isn't too terribly difficult to do and
I can handle that without any problem. I'ii just
have to have one of the other guys check the set-
up and make sure l've got it right, and I think we
can muddle through it. We'll call that OJT.
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008 15 48 51 CC Well, I tell you what, Jerry. If - if you want

to do it that way, it suits us fine. It will
prevent us from rescrambling the rest of day,
but I - I don't think it would be that much
of a Job. It's kind of up to you. That suits
US.
CDR We'll give it a try.
008 15 49 05 CC Okay. Have fun on the 0JT.
008 15 50 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle. We've

got you for 5 minutes here, and sometime this -
this pass, if somebody's close, we'd appreciate
on panel 206 another pre-EREP REG BUS ADJUST.
What we'd like is pots 1 and 2, rotate clockwise
to about 25 degrees. And if you overshoot one
way or another, we'd rather you overshoot than
undershoot.
008 15 51 01 CDR Okay. Clockwise 25.
CC Yes, sir.
008 15 51 34 CDR Okay, Dick. That's complete.
CC Thank you, Jer.

Next pass is Texas at 16:25, and the REG BUS
ADJUST looks real good to us. And, Jerry, we're
assuming you didn't have time for the 192 align-
ment, and we're planning on scheduling that pro-
bably tomorrow.
CDR That's correct, Dick.
008 15 54 44 CC Okay. Thank you much. See you at Texas.
008 16 25 ll PLT 26:06 is when I - there we go ... there it comes.
008 16 25 26 CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you for 15 minutes

stateside.
CDR Roger, Dick. On my monitor, Charlie 3 is reading

about 5 percent high.
CC Roger.
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CDR Correction, Dick, it's right in. It's right in.

I was overlooking the attenuator limits.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, REFERENCE to 6 on 191. Stand by -
008 16 26 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER going to STANDBY at 26 even.

Next one's at 06. Stand by -
008 16 26 06 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER going to STANDBY.
PLT Okay, zooming in, looking for the volcano.
CDR 26:12 coming up. Downlink going to position 5.

Okay, it's zoomed all the way in. Downlink went
to position 5 at 13.
CC Okay.
PLT ... 14 - -
CDR Let us know as soon as you can verify downlink -

TV downlink.
CC Okay, we'll let you know.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, next mark will be 26:54. Stand by -
008 16 26 54 CDR MARK. S192 going to READY. Tape speed's picking

up.
PET Well, don't see a thing.
CDR 27.
008 16 27 00 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM on 190.
PLT ...
CDR Okay, Ed, at 27:30 we've got an ETC to STANDBY

and then AUTO.
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008 16 27 13 CC CDR, Houston. We verify good downlink.
CDR Always works better when you've got the cables

connected.
CC Roger.
008 16 27 30 CDR MARK, 27:30, Ed.
008 16 27 54 PLT CAMERA, OFF. Okay, I didn't get any of the vol-
canoes. I got some volcano craters. I had
nothing to work from. Okay, 04, 29:33. 35 LEFT,
zero.
CDR Okay, On my mark it will be 29:10 when the

Sl90 light should go out.
008 16 29 lO CDR MARK. It went out right on time. MODE going to

STANDBY. FRAMES going to 39. Next mark's at
29:30. Stand by -
008 16 29 30 CDR S192 MODE to CHECK. Your ETC ought to be STANDBY,

Ed.
PLT Okay, l'm tracking a clear area of water.
CDR Next mark is at 30 even, 16:30:00. Stand by -
008 16 30 00 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's OFF. Next mark is 30:11. Stand

by -
008 16 30 ii CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER's ON. We've got an ALTIMETER

UNLOCK light. At 17, 192 MODE goes to READY.
008 16 30 20 CDR MARK. I did it at 20. 192 MODE to READY. 23,

90 - 90 to AUTO. I was 3 seconds late. 30:30.
008 16 30 30 CDR MARK. ETC to AUTO. I got distracted watching

the altimeter and got 3 seconds late on a couple
of those.
CC Okay, Jer. No problem.
008 16 30 42 PLT IMC, OFF.
CDR Okay, should be within the tolerence.

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PLT - - nadir swath.
CDR Okay, coming up on 30:50 downlink switch will go

to position -
008 16 30 50 CDR MARK. Go to position 7.
CDR Okay, ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still on, but we

still have a READY.
CDR Coming up on 31:10. Stand by -
008 16 31 I0 CDR MARK. Downlink to 8.
PLT Okay, we're going right across keys, it -
CDR Coming up on 30:3 - 31:30, Ed. Stand by.
008 16 31 30 CDR MARK. ETC to STANDBY. 31:40. Stand by -
008 16 31 40 CDR MARK. 192 to STANDBY.
PLT Bahama banks.
CDR Sounds like you've got some clear weather.
PLT Yes, it's fairly clear. Just a few clouds. We're

coming on the Blake Escarpment now. I'm just about
the ... do a nadir swath on it, you know *** on
crosstrack here, now, 32:09. Okay, we're into
our nadir swath at 32:09. No DAC.
008 16 32 27 CDR Okay, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light went out a little
while ago.
PLT Yes, these volcanoes were to the northwest of

that. It's covered by documentation. I saw a
whole lot of a lot of mountains and everything,
but I didn't see any of the plumes or lava flows
or anything.
CDR Yes. That's Central America; if you don't have

time to look at it, it takes a while to locate
stuff.
008 16 33 17 PLT Okay.
CDR Okay. Coming up on 33:25.

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CDR Stand by -
008 16 33 25 CDR MARK. 190 INTERVAL going ul) to 20. SI{JTTER SPEED
going to FAST.
CDR Next mark is at 33:40.
CDR Standby -
008 16 33 40 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; MODE, 5.
CDR 33:55 is next.
CDR Stand by -
008 16 33 55 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
CDR Okay, Ed -
008 16 3h 00 CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light

flicked.
PLT I just readjusted to nadir. I had drifted to

approximately I degree uptrack.
CDR Next mark will be at 34:30 where we want ETC to

AUTO.
CDR Stand by -
008 16 34 30 CDR MARK. 34:30. ETC, AUTO.
008 16 35 01 CC Skylab, Houston. This is a nice long pass. We

still got you for about 6 minutes. Standing by.
CDR Hey, that's great.
CDR Started clouding in yet, Bill?
008 16 35 16 PLT It's starting to cloud in now. It's about 0.5

fluffy cu.
CDR Dick, I never d_d hear a weather forecast. Was

it forecast to be as cloudy today as it was
yesterday?
CC No, it wasn't. And I forgot to get it up to you

at Honeysuckle there. And I was considering
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giving it to you in between some of these steps,

but it'd Just kind of crowd it. In general, it's
a lot less overcast than it was, partie - as you
have - as Bill has already seen so far. He is
getting ready to go into a 0.6 to 0.7 cloud cover,
though, across the North Atlantic.
PLT Yes. We're into that already.
CC Yes.
008 16 36 Ol CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light just came on. No, it's
still got a READY light.
PLT Pickin_ up some cirrus now.
PLT Looks like - almost like Jet stream cirrus.
PLT We do this until 43. Yes.
008 16 36 41 CDR Okay. The READY light on the ALTIMETER just

went off. I'm going to STANDBY.
008 16 36 57 CDR And going back to ON on the ALTIMETER. Got a

READY light.
CDR Okay. And my next mark will be at 37:15.
CDR Stand by -
008 16 37 15 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's OFF. RADIOMETER is going to -

ALTIMETER to STANDBY, and RADIOMETER's going to
STANDBY.
CDR 37:27 coming up.
008 16 37 27 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON. RADIOMETER in ON.

ALTIMETER is going to RANGE, 74.
CC Roger. You got me, Jerry. Thought I was going

to get to make a call to you on that altimeter
switch.
CDR Yes.
CC Rats.
008 16 37 47 CDR Curses, foiled again..

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CDR RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light. Now it's out.
008 16 38 52 CDR RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light and off.
PLT You know, I may have gotten that target. *** lava
flowing. It could have been flowing down the
side of that - that crater.
CDR Sure.
PLT So I may have - may have gotten it after all. I

just figured I was going for a dead crater. But
it was real close to the pointing they gave me.
PLT I did not see the gas plumes nor the three vents
nor the triangular lava area.
008 16 39 42 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Madrid in

5 minutes at 16:45.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Oks_v, we're looking for an S190 READY out at 40:10.
008 16 40 14 CDR MARK. The READY went out at 40:14. MODE to STAND-
BY. ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
PLT Yes. We're over a solid overcast now ....
008 16 h0 4h PLT Now we're breaking out.
CDR Man, even the reflections of the Sun around the

window there look cold.
PLT You wouldn't like to go for a little skinny dip-

ping down there?
008 16 41 07 CDR No. I don't think so.
PLT (Laughter)
008 16 hh 31 PLT Okay. I've got a maneuver coming up at hg. That's

4-1/2 minutes from now. And I'm just going to -
for whoever's monitoring this, I'm going to leave
this thing on on nadir swath. It's not costing
a bit.
008 16 44 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you again; Madrid

for 8 minutes.
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CDR Roger.
008 16 45 00 CDR Okay, 191 REFERENCE is back to 6, where it belongs.
PLT Okay, I'm going to go over and take care of the

maneuve r.
CDR Got a little ahead of myself. Put the 191 REFER-

ENCE to 2 about 2 minutes early. It's back to 6
where it belongs. I'll get it back to 2 at the
proper time.
CC Okay, Jer.
008 16 46 25 CDR Okay, I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Still

got a READY. On my mark, it'll be 46:40.
008 16 46 h0 CDR MARK. Now the REFERENCE can go to 2. On my mark,

it'll be 46:50. Stand by -
008 16 46 50 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. *** my mark, it'll

be 56.
008 16 46 56 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. On my mark, it'll

be 47:05. Stand by -
008 16 47 05 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. On my mark, it'll be 48:00.

Stand by -
008 16 48 00 CDR MARK. 194 MODE to MANUAL. 48:10, we're going

to have a VTS to AUTO CAL. Stand by -
008 16 h8 l0 CDR MARK. AUTO CAL. Next, 49; 16:49:00. Going to

have a maneuver. Okay, Bill, 15 seconds to the
maneuver. Right? Okay. On my mark, it'll be
16:49. Stand by -
008 16 49 00 CDR MARK. 16:h9. 49:06 on my next mark. Stand by -
008 16 49 06 CDR IMARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Looking for a

191 READY on. at. 50: 50; Good show.
CDR Okay. I've got a few steps to do here, but they're

not very -
CDR Okay. Starting to watch now for S191 READY on.
008 16 50 50 CDR MARK. The READY on was at 50:50, right on time.

EREP,STOPat 56. Standby-
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008 16 50 56 CDR MA_(. EREP, STOP. Post remarks. Downl]nk_ch

to OFF. TAPE RECORDER POWER, OFF. 92 DOOR,
CLOSED. 90 POWER, OFF. 93, RAD/SCAT and ALTIM-
ETER's - all three OFF. 19_ POWER, OFF.
008 16 51 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Carnar-

yon at 17:19. See you there.
PLT Roger, Dick. We're going to go have a bite to

eat.
CC Real good. That looked like a real good EREP

pass to us.
008 16 51 48 PLT Thank you.
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008 17 19 16 CC Skylab, Houston; Carnarvon for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
SPT Hello, Dick. Let me tell you about something kind

of interesting as we went over by the Gulf of
Fonseca last pass.
CC Why don't you tell me something kind of

interesting?
SPT As we were going over there, we could see down a

fairly large eddy, around60 miles or so in diam-
eter, circular and right off the Gulf of Fonseca.
Andyou could see blooming at the very edges of
it, add Just inside the blooming it looked as
through there was a fairly dark, red line which
had the same appearance as the red tide which we've
seen elsewhere. I'm not sure that's really what
it was but it had that appearance. And it looks
as though also that's where we get the convergence
of the Equatorial Current and the countercurrent
which could be associated with that eddy. So that
western side of the -Central America is looking
interesting, because we saw a countercurrent up
by - or a large eddy associated with that same
type of confluence of currents up there by Aca-
pulco Just the other day. So not all the action's
over on the east side; we're seeing something on
the west side too.
008 17 22 03 CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much. Incidentally, we

appreciate somebody turn - changing the teleprinter
paper out. We're going to send up a test message
and then we'll be using that one later. Also, Ed,
this morning - Remember the day we ginned up a
little message to give you same information about
the comet? It turns out that several more ions
and - and elements have been identified in some
spectral analysis. And if you - I thought I'd
read them up to you if you'd like. There's about
five extra ones.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good, Dick. Go ahead.

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CC Okay. In addition to the ones that were on the

message that we sent the other day, the following
have been identified: carbon-hydrogen ion, car-
bon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide,
and Lyman-alpha. Incidentally, a matter of in-
formation - the hydrogen cyanide and also the -
one of them that was on the previous lists, the
methyl cyanide, have never previously been identi-
fied specifically in spectral analysis of a
previous comet. The best thought is that they
probably were present but not detectable because
of the equipment. And since we've done so much
looking at Kohoutek, we - we noticed them in this
comet.
008 17 23 28 SPT That's interesting, Dick. I wouldn't suspect to

find those. I think the S082B data, when that
comes back, will come up with a host of additional
lines and perhaps seme more components. It's a
very sensitive instrument.
CC I think you're probably right. We're about

1 minute from LOS; Honeysuckle comes up in about
7 minutes. And, Ed, one more thing that I was
going to get to you sooner or later about: You
know this little portion of an ATM pass that
you're going to get to do after a while; there's
only about - oh, Just a very short time that you
might get a peek at the Sun prior to doing that
scheduled handheld at - at a time of - on your
details, an on-station time of 18:05. We were
just thinking that you might consider, if you do
look at the Sun and that it is - not a whole lot
going on, you could stay at the wardroom window
about another 3 minutes and pick up two more op-
tional handheld sites. That, of course, depending
how the weather is up there.
008 17 24 27 SPT I was looking at that, Dick. What time do I -

would I be able to start the panel? I might be
able to get something going with S055 on some-
thing interesting and Just let her run.
CC Well, it's going to be very - -
SPT ... down here.

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CC It's going to be very close. Sunrise is about

18:04. So it's going to be a hustle to really do
much of anything right there at the start prior
to that first handheld. I - I'm sorry - I'm
sorry. I said that wrong. You get to SOLAR INER-
TIAL at 18:04. Sunrise will be much previous to
that.
SPT Okay, Dick. I'll certainly try and pick up these

handhelds. I think they've got some real interest-
ing and useful ones there. And if I can get some-
thing useful going on on solar observations, I
will also.
CC Okay, great. We'll see you at Honeysuckle.
008 17 25 13 SPT So long.
008 17 30 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle; very

short pass, about a minute and a half. Texas
comes up at - at 18:01. We're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Texas. And if Jerry's
close, I'd llke to speak to him Just a second
about a couple of flight planning items.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Jerry, real quick the - on the science demos, the

mode we're in is that when you guys - you guys
are practicing up on them in your own free time
and letting us know when to schedule them, and
that's fine with us. We Just wanted to let you
know that we aren't trying to schedule any prac-
tice time and if any of the demos require a hunk
of time that you feel ought to be scheduled, if
you'll let us know, we'll be glad to do that.
Second thing is, is the other day when we talked,
we didn't really talk about the crew day off.
Our previous plan, and what we're planning on for
your day off, day after tomorrow, is to schedule
about l0 hours total of experiment work. But
we'd like to em - emphasize to you that that's
strictly at your discretion. If you'd like zero
or any other number, if you'll let us know, we'll
crank that into our planning.
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008 17 32 07 CDR Okay. I think last day off was a little over-
scheduled and I'll be interested to see how you
work it this time. But I think we already have
more of a day off and just, say, 2 free hours and
a shower.
CC Concur with that. Well, why don't we try to put

one together and - and even during the day off,
if you think it's a little much, feel free to -
to knock off at your discretion, any work you do,
no problem.
CDR Okay. Well, we're interested in getting in all

the Kohoutek work done, because we realize the -
the scheduling problems there, and the same goes
for ATM and EREP.
008 17 32 39 CC Okay, great. I'll see you at Texas.
008 18 O0 34 PLT And I'm not taking the pictures exactly like ...
008 18 O0 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for 17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. We're back in the saddle again.
CC Roger. And we're dumping the data/voice recorder

here at Texas. I'll let you know when we're
through with that.
CDR Okay. You going to redesignate another one? Now

we're in the RECORD mode right now.
CC Stand by just a second.
CDR Okay.
008 18 01 23 PLT IMC, OFF/HIGH. Okay, I don't need the ALIGN to it

yet. MAX MAG. Good.
CDR Yes, MIN MAG's too easy.
PLT Yes.
PLT 07:0h. 07:0h, turn the DAC on .... tell me wh***

18:13:49, I turn it off. 9 minutes on this
• thing.
CDR Okay. I'm looking for an Slgl READY light at

on at 02:46.
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CDR About 30 seconds from now.
008 18 02 46 CDR MARK. READY light's on at 46. REFERENCE going

to 6.
CC Roger, Jerry. And we've decided not to dump here.

We won't have any problem m_king up that schedule
though. So I'll let you know when we are going
to dump.
CDR Okay.
008 18 05 42 CC SPT, Houston; no response required. The laser is

going to be at l0 watts up at Goddard. And the
folks up there say that they're looking up and
see some holes - see some blue skies through the
broken clouds.
CC Roger.
CDR Rots a ruck, eagle eye.
PLT Okay. Waiting for 07:04.
PLT IMC, 0FF/HIGH. ALIGN, I'm not going to use. MAX

MAG, verify it. Standing by for 07:04.
PLT Standby.
008 18 07 04 PLT MARK. Pushing that - okay, it was 16 degrees UP.

At the start, at 17:04. Let's carry through.
Pushing the DATA button.
PLT Okay. Stand by. 6, 7, 8. Releasing DATA push-

button; reacquiring. Okay I got the picture at
07:57. Stand by -
008 18 07 58 PLT MARK. Okay. And I got the same ***; that's
14 degrees UP at Start. And 57:b8:40. DATA push-
button is being held.
PLT Stand by. Going to have to make a LEFT/RIGHT

correction after this one. 40.
PLT h
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008 18 08 40 PLT MARK. Okay. Zero LEFT/RIGHT. All right, we're

back to the picture waiting for 50 to come up.
Stand by -
008 18 08 50 PLT MARK. Okay. It's ii degrees UP. Holding the

DATA button.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to take the DAS

here and do an outer gimbal backup command.
SPT Roger, Dick.
PLT 09:33.
PLT Stand by. 09:33 and 09:42. Release DATA button;

reacquire. Stand by -
008 18 09 41 PLT MARK. Pushing DATA button; zero degrees - excuse

me, 08 degrees UP. 8 degrees UP and we're press-
ing now. Okay, we'll run to 10:26.
PLT LEFT/RIGHT is holding in pretty good. 10:26.
008 18 l0 27 PLT Okay, release, and going to the horizon again.
CDR On my mark it'll be 10:35. Standby.
PLT Stand by.
008 18 i0 35 CDR MARK. S190 to SINGLE.
PLT 40 -
008 18 i0 40 PLT MARK. 05 degrees UP at 40. Okay, I start at 40

instead of 35. And that's 6 degrees UP now,
6 degrees at - apparently right on the border.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Roger.
PLT Okay, waiting for - -
CDR On my mark, it'll be ll:13.
PLT Waiting for ll:19.
CDR Standby -
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008 18 ii 13 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. At 11:20, my next mark.

Stand by.
PLT Stand by for mark. Okay ...
008 18 ll 20 CDR MARK, 190, SINGLE.
PLT Standing by for 28.
008 18 ll 28 PLT MARK. 03 degrees UP.
PLT And this runs until 12:ll, and that was started
at 11:28.
CDR Okay, my next mark will be at 12:ll.
CDR 12:ll coming up. Stand by -
008 18 12 ii CDR MARK.
008 18 12 ll PLT MARK. Okay, there's ...
- CDR There's190 MODE, SINGLE.
PLT Okay ...
CDR 12:17.
008 18 12 17 CDR MARK. 192 to STANDBY.
PLT Waiting for 12:35. Waiting for 8:12:35.
008 18 12 35 PLT MARK, and tha's ZERO degrees UP. 8:12:35 running
to 8:13:49.
PLT Okay, it was a real good run, it looks like. One

time was off; the 10:35 to 11:19 was started at
10:40. Went from 10:40 to 11:19. The UP angle
reported was correct.
PLT And I'm still holding the DATA buttonhere, run-

ning to 8:13:49.
PLT And DAC will go off at that time.
CDR Okay, I'll have a MODE, SINGLE at that time as

well. On my mark it'll be 13:49.
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PLT Stand by.
CDR Standby.
008 18 13 49 CDB/PLT MARK.
SPT 190 MODE, SINGLE.
PLT DAC off. Release pu - DATA pushbutton. And we

see w** degrees UP. And ZERO degrees. All right,
data over following interval, using DAC only at
beginning and and end of intervals. Okay, we
want 18:16:55; standing by for it. 3 degrees,
UP; ZERO, LEFT/RIGHT. DAC on. I don't guess
they want the DATA pushbutton pushed. Oh. All
right. Use the DAC only ....
PLT Okay, retrack 3 degrees, UP; ZERO, LEFT/RIGHT.

DAC on, 18:16:55; off at 17 and 5 seconds more
28 to 33, 20:28 to 20:33. Okay that's what you're
doing now.
008 18 16 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Madrid

comes up in 5 minutes. I'll call you there.
CDR Roger.
PLT Okay, have at 3 degrees, UP; ZERO, LEFT/RIGHT

standing by for 55. Stand by -
008 18 16 55 PLT MARK. Okay, DATA pushbutton is being held. DAC

off. 20:28
008 18 22 l0 CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
PLT Okay. I guess I'm going to double check the ma-

neuver here.
SPT Dick, I think the clouds got to us on that one.

I could not locate it at all.
CC Okay, Ed. Sorry about that. Thanks for trying.

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SPT Got some information, though, on lake ice and

storms coming off the Great Lakes which I'll put
on tape.
CC 0kay, fine.
CDR Say, will that bother this AUTO CAL? Did you kill
your power?
PLT ...
CDR Okay.
CDR I didn't think so either, but I thought I ought

to ask.
PLT ...
CDR Okay. I'm looking for a 191 READY light at 2_:20.
008 18 24 18 CDR MARK. READY light on at 18. EREP to STOP. Okay.

Bravo 7 is reading 3_ percent, 34 percent.
192 DOOR going to CLOSED.
CDR No, I 'm through now. Okay.
008 18 26 51 CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime around here when you

get a chance, we'd like to redo the REG BUS AD-
JUSTs that we did a while ago. We'd like to
rotate back to where we were, and that's approxi-
mately 25 degrees counterclockwise from where you
are now, on both pots. And I've got a quick
question for the PLT and CDR when you get a chance,
guys.
PLT Okay. I've done the REG ADJUST. Take a look at

it and press on.
CC Okay, Bill. We're coming up in the next several

days and - several instances where we'll probably
be doing some more back-to-back EREPs about this
time of day. And it was convenient to us today
to schedule your - you guys' eat period in be-
tween the two EREP maneuvers, but we didn't want
to do that if it was too cramped. And - and so we
wanted to ask you kind of how it went today.
CDR That was no problem at all. There was ample time

to eat, Dick.
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008 18 27 51 CC Well, that's real good. If the timing works out

this way again, then, we'll probably stick your
eat period in the middle there again, like we did
today.
CDR Very good.
CC Okay. And the REG ADJUST looks good to us. And,

CDR, Houston. If you get a moment, I've got a
minor correction to your detail pad.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We made - the tail end of this day got

kind of crowded and we made a mistake on the medi-
cal conference. It should read Carnarvon at 23:54,
instead of where it is. This will put it tonight
prior to the evening confence - conference, which
• is something we usually try to avoid so the sur-
geon can listen and - listen to the evening con-
ference prior to talking to you guys. But tonight,
it's Carnarvon, 23:54; and I'm not sure whether
Story reminded you before I came on duty this
morning, but your phone call this evening is Van-
guard at 02:34.
CDE Okay. Got them both. Thank you.
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008 18 30 06 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Tananarive

at 18:44.
008 18 44 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for

7 minutes.
CDR Hello at Tananarive for 7 minutes.
CC Hello.
PLT Hi, Dick, PLT here. I have two small - a small

spot on platten number 2 and 5. They're about
1/2 millimeter in diameter, and they do appear to
be opaque. Do you want me to try to clean them or
leave them alone?
CC Hang on, Bill.
PLT I just got through trying the camel-hair brush,

and that doesn't work.
CC Okay, Bill; hang on just a second.
008 18 46 14 CC PLT, Houston. I guess for now we'd rather think

about them rather than do something a little
hasty here. So for flow, why don't you just let
them go.
PLT Roger; and also on cameza number 6, about the

same size spot. All three of them look like tiny
little specks of emulsion that had been smeared
on the platten.
CC Okay; thank you, Bill.
CDR Dick, the EREP tape remaining is _.5 centimeters.
CC 4.5 centimeters; thank you.

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008 18 49 54 CC PLT, Houston. After doing a little bit of think-

ing about this, we do think it's okay for you to
use the S190A clean procedure that's on the back
of the S - of the EREP odds and ends cue card, if
you can take time to do that. We're getting
close to LOS Tananarive; Honeysuckle at 19:08.
008 18 51 02 CC Skylab, Houston. I understand I dropped out there.

What I was saying to Bill was, we think it's okay
for you, Bill, to try the S190A clean procedure
on the back - third column on the bottom on the
back of the EREP odds and ends cue card to get
those little spots off - or try to. Over.
CDR Roger, Dick.
008 18 51 27 CC Okay, fine. We're going LOS. Honeysuckle at

19:08.
008 19 08 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed.
008 19 i0 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds to LOS.

Goldstone comes up at 19:36.
008 19 37 17 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S stateside for i0 minutes.

And we'd like to have the DAS so GNS can update
the TACS pulse width and the thrust level.
CDR Okay, you have it.
CC Than_ you, sir.
008 19 40 09 CC Skylab, Houston; the DAS is yours.
CDR Roger; thanks.
008 19 47 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. We're just going to drop out a couple of
minutes. I'll give you a call at Bermuda.
CDR Roger, Dick.

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008 19 49 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
008 19 5_ 09 CC Skylab, Houston; 50 seconds from LOS. Canary at

19:59.
CDR Roger; see you then.
CC Okay.
008 19 59 43 CC Skylab, Houston. Canary for 9 minutes.
008 20 00 00 CDR Roger, Dick.
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SK'YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
008 20 07 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Tartan-

afire comes up at 20:19, and a couple of tomorrow's
Flight Plans are in the teleprinter.
CDR Roger, Dick.
008 20 20 46 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for 6 minutes.
PLT Hi, Dick.
CC Hi there.
008 20 26 13 CC Skylab, Houston. i minute from LOS, Tananarive.

Honeysuckle comes up at 20:43, and we're going to
be dumping the data re - voice recorder at Honeysuckle.
CDR Roger, Dick. And you've got IR photos on the shop-

ping list. Wonder if you'd ask the folks to give
us a camera to load the IR film in, in the event
we get to it.
008 20 26 38 CC Okay. We'll try to have that at Honeysuckle for

yOU •

for 9-1/2 minutes. We're standing by to dump the
data/voice tape recorder here, and I have some in-
formation on the IR photos, if you're ready to copy.
CC Okay, Nikon 02 - If you want to get ahead on the

IR photos, shopping list items, download Bravo
Victor 28 from Nikon 02, noting the frame count
before you remove it, and load IR10. Over.
CDR Okay, download Bravo Victor 08 and load IR10.
CC That's Bravo Victor 28.
CDR Okay; 28.
008 20 44 45 CC Roger. Out.

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008 20 52 21 CC SKYLAB, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in ll minutes through Hawaii at
21:03. And we see the CMG-number-2 outer gimbal
near its stop. You may get a reset; if so, Just
let her go.
CDR Okay, looks like our attitude just went bananas

right in the middle. We're off 1.8 in X and 0.2
at Z.
CC Okay, Jerry, would you load a B-minute maneuver

time and reselect SOLAR INERTIAL, please?
CDR Okay.
CC And it closed the doors on you, as you - as you've

probably noticed by now. We'll talk to you over
Hawaii.
008 20 53 27 CC You have to go to STANDBY or ATT HOLD and then

reselect SI after loadingthe maneuver time.

i0 minutes. Out.
CC Roger. As a result of that glitch on the APCS,

we see that you started the ATMpass over again
here, which is fine, but we would like to be sure
to get the last building block 28 run on this
pass; so we recommend that you truncate what
you're doing at about 19 minutes, time remaining,
and pick up on the last B328. Over.
CDR Okay. What I did, Bruce, was I stopped all the

clocks and - when the door had closed. And I
Just picked up the count - When I got back on and
got the doors open, I picked up the count again.
And we're Just pressing on.
CC Okay, beautiful.
008 21 06 22 CDR 56 still had the shutter open and everything;

all I had to do was OPEN the DOOR. I think 82B
probably changed - changed one frame on me.
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CC Roger. That's the word we're getting on 82B.
CDR Okay; so they got two halves instead of a whole.
CC 82B was the one that was concerning us, Jerry,

in that if you started it with the 17 minutes
over again, why you wouldn't have had enough
time to - to press on to the last building block.
And we do want to get that last BB28 run.
008 21 07 19 CDR Okay. And it looks like 82B is going to get

about a 9-minute exposure here.
CDR No, looks like I can stretch that to ll.
008 21 08 22 CDR Bruce, do the guys in the backroom see anything

emerging in the way of maybe a new active region
or something up at about 280, at 0.8 or 0.9 radius?
CC We'll check on that.
CDR There's an XUV bright spot there that was - been

r there since this morning,and I saw some H-alpha
enhancement there a little while ago.
008 21 09 12 CC CDR, this is Houston. We have a bipolar region

at that point that is not growing. It has not
been assigned a number. And if it stays like it
is right now, it probably never will be. Over.
008 91 09 25 CDR Okay.

at 21:15. Out.
008 R1 15 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone

for 7 minutes. And we're going to take the
VTR here at Goldstone only for a short dump.
Out.
008 21 22 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston: 1 minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 5 minutes through
Bermuda at 21:27. Out.
008 21 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda

for 8 minutes. Out.
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Islands at 21:36. Out.
008 21 36 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston; with you through Canary

Island and Ascension for 16 minutes. Out.
008 21 52 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 4 minutes to LOS. Next

at 22:19. Out.
008 22 19 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon -

through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes. Out.

station contact in 14 minutes through Hawaii at
22:_2, with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
AOS. Out.

8 minutes. Starting out with the data/voice tape
recorder dump, if you're not using it. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. And I have the photo log, when

you're ready to copy.
CC Fire when ready, William.
PLT 16-millimeter: -
CC If you're reading, we're not copying after the

first word, 16-millimeter.
008 22 43 22 PLT Roger. I had a bad squeal up here. Okay,

16-millimeter, EREP cal: Charlie Lima ll,
95 percent. Now that was the EREP cal that was
done last evening. EREP 23 plus Earth-limb cal:
Charlie Lima ll, 80 percent. And that was the
stuff that was done today. 35-millimeter, Nikon l:
Charlie X-ray 39; count is 13. Nikon 2: Bravo
Victor 28; count is 25. Nikon 3: Charlie
India ll3; count is 23. Nikon 4: Bravo Echo 09;
count is 15. That anticipates nine exposures.
S063 comet ops coming up. Nikon 5: Bravo Hotel 06;
the count is 04. And that anticipates three
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exposures on the $233 comet ops that's coming up.

70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray _l; the count is
103. ETC: Bravo Whiskey 03; 134. EREP set
X-ray: 0051, 2232, 9775, 9137, 0908, 9821.
Drawer A configuration: Alfa 1, no change ;
Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, no change; Alfa 4,
transporter 08, no supply. Takeup reel is now
Charlie India 77. In the back, no change.
CC Okay; thank you, Bill. We've got all that down

here. h
008 22 h5 01 PiT Thank you.
008 22 49 44 CC ..., PLT; this is Houston. We've got 1 minute to

LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through
Goldstone at 22:54. And I've got a change to
your ATM schedule for the next pass, the one be-
ginning at 23:44, which I can give you now or
wait until Goldst0ne.
PLT Go ahead now, Bruce.
CC Okay, under J0P 2 Charlie, step 6, building

block 37, you'll find three 82B exposures over
there - i plus 20, 5 plus zero zero, and 17 plus
zero zero. And we want to reverse the order of
those three exposures in order to insure that the
longer exposures will be taken on the type
101 film. Over.
PLT Roger; understand. Take the 17 first, the 5,

and then the 1 plus 20.
CC You got it.
008 22 50 h0 PLT Thank you.

5 minutes. For any crewmember, when you get a
moment, we have the med conference coming up -
Carnarvon, this rev - at 23:54. And last evening
we wound up recording the med conference on the
alrlock module tape recorder. To preclude that
this evening, we'd like someone to go up in the
command module and check the quiescent comm con-
figuration per page 3-3 of the Systems Checklist
for panels9, 10, and 6. Over.
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CDR Okay, Bruce.
008 22 55 49 CC Thank you, Jer.

station contact through Merritt Island in
3-1/2 minutes at 23:02.
CDR Roger.
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008 23 03 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Bermuda for

10-1/2 minutes. Out.
008 23 ii 31 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CC Okay, earlier today you all asked for some IR film

so you could take the IR photos tonight, and we
gave you a cassette that you could load. Since
then, however, it develops that the situation is
not quite that simple. From the way Bill read
the photo pad - or the photo status report down
this evening, we gather that you've not yet taken
the BV28 film out of Nikon 2 for the IR load.
The situation that comes up is that you've got
two S063 airglow runs tomorrow morning by the SPT.
One of these requires the BV28 film, the other
requires the infrared film. Probably the simplest
manipulativesequencewould be to go ahead and
leave BV28 in Nikon 2 until after the first
S063 run, then down load it, load the IR film and
use the IR film for the second S063 run, and go
ahead and take your IR photos tomorrow as they're
scheduled in the Flight Plan. Over.
008 23 12 59 CC But before you answer, we can accomodate either

way. It just means that you have to - if you put
the IR film in tonight, we'll run the S063 with IR
first in the morning, and then you can down load
the IR and put BV28 back in. And in all fairness,
even if you leave it in tonight and take it out
tomorrow, BV28 will eventually have to be reloaded
anyway to finish up the roll of film. Over.
008 23 13 27 CDR Roger, Bruce. We didn't necessarily intend on

doing the IR films tonight. I was just mainly
trying to find out what cassette was next, not
realizing that we were scheduled for IR films
tomorrow.
CC Okay. I gather from that you're - you're saying

you'll sort of stick to the Flight Plan. The only
difference it makes to us is that we need to know
in order to build the S063 pads with the right
.... timeson them. Over.
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CDR Okay, we will not do IR tonight, and we'll leave

the film out of - out of the camera. We'll leave
the BV28 in it.
008 23 13 58 CC Okay, thank you very much. And we're sorry for
all the confusion attendant. And we got about
15 seconds to LOS here. Next station contact in
7 minutes through Ascension at 23:20. Out.

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
008 23 29 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 23-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 23:53, with the evening medical conference.
Subsequent station contact now 37 minutes away
through Guam at 00:07. We'll talk to you over
Guam. There'll be a data/voice tape recorder dump
at Carnarvon. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We've about figured out why all

that stuff got recorded last night. Bill was on
channel A, and I commed PTT at the VTS station,
and we suspect that probably what was coming over
channel B was going right through his mike and
right back down again.
CC Okay (laughter), we copy that. So, in other words,

the command module was in good shape, and we were
just happening through the airwaves there.
CDR Yes, I think - I think that's what happened, and

it got recorded because he had the recorder on and
was doing his VTS work on that EREP CAL last night.
008 23 30 43 CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
009 00 06 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for i0 min-

ut es. Out.
009 00 15 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute and 40 seconds

to LOS. Next station contact, 17-1/2 minutes
through Goldstone at 00:33, and the film thread
pad is on board. Over.
CDR Roger. Thank you, Bruce.
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009 00 33 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, and Merritt Island for 16 minutes. Out.

at 01:32. And we'll be standing by to receive
the evening status report at AOS, Carnarvon.
Over.
CDR Roger; copy.
009 00 48 42 CC See you there.

7 minutes. Standing by to copy the evening status
report. Go ahead. Over
009 01 31 48 CDR Roger, Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 6.0 hea_-y; SPT,
6.5, 5.5 heavy, 1.0 light; PLT, 6.5, 6.0 heavy,
0.5 light. Volumes: N/A for today. Drinking
water gun: 8288, 4248, 0293. Body mass: CDR,
6.315, 6.313, 6.314; SPT, 6.387, 6.386, 6.387;
PLT, 6.240, 6.240, 6.241. Exercise: no change
for anyone. Medications: none for anyone.
Clothing: CDR, shorts; SPT, shorts, shirt, and
socks; PLT, shirt. Food log: CDR, salt, zero;
deviation, plus one lemonade, plus one grape
punch; rehydration water, plus 2.0. SPT, zero
salt, plus two biscuits, plus one tuna, plus one
tea, plus one lemon pudding, plus one vanilla
wafers; rehydration water, 18 ounces plus. PLT,
salt, zero; plus one tuna, plus one biscuits,
plus one coffee; rehydration water, minus 1.0.
009 01 33 08 CDR Flight Plan deviations: no great deviations today

for tomorrow's Flight Plan. It's beginning to
bring up a little concern over the amount of ATM
time that's being assigned per day. We Just this
evening received a - an ATM overall plan. We're
looking at it. We would like to talk about that
tomorrow morning at the ATM conference with an eye
toward increasing the ATM at least one more pass
per day. Shopping list accomplishments: T002-2,
star 16 to near limb, on tape 01:55 to 02:05; 2 -
T002-2, star 50 to near limb is on tape at 21:40.
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All housekeeping was done. S063 comet photo se-

quence was done. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage: none. And, Bruce, a change
to the photo log: on Nikon 04, up the count from
15 to 16.
009 01 34 20 CC Nikon 04, the count is 16. We've got all that.
And we will be prepared to discuss the ATM sched-
u_ling with you tomorrow. Understand that your
concern is over you're not getting enough sched-
uled. Over.
CDR That's affirmative. We'd like to - we'd like to

take a look at the possibility of scheduling at
least one more pass per day. And I want to make
sure that the SPT is - got the lion's share of
the assignments and that the CDB and the PLT have -
probably about one a day is plenty.
CC Okay. Have anything else in mind, or should we

go ahead with the evening questions?
CDR No, that ought to do it, Bruce.
009 01 35 08 CC Okay, yesterday you gave us some new method Fox-

trot exercises, deleting springs and increasing
toe rises. We'd like the times associated with
the increased number of toe rises. Over.
CDR The total delta T will be the same for the springs
and toe rises. Just convert it all to toe rises
over the same span of time.
CC Okay. For Bill: on mission day 52, which was 3

days ago, T002, you did not indicate what filters
were used. If you recall, could you tell us what
they were? And also, we would like for you to
continue calling out marks when the image is
alined. Over.
009 01 35 52 PLT I did not use any filters. And copy on the last
r emar k.
CC Okay. Another one for Bill for $64: reference

S063 airglow ops on day 52, seems to be a popular
day, at 21:24. On this pass, the rotation of the
AMS mirror was fixed and the airglow was acquired
by tilting the mirror, Here comes the question.
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Can you compare the ease of tracking the airglow

with this acquisition procedure with tracking the
airglow by changing mirror rotation while holding
the tilt fixed? Over.
PLT Yes, I can. I don't see that there's any problem.

There are two comments I'd like to make and - it
was in that respect. And that is that I'm won-
dering if we may be able to use that long eye
relief on a Nikon. I'd - I'd like to - to try it
once, if they would give us a chance, rather
than the sight. The sight has so much of the
image truncated that, since - I was misled there
on a couple of exposures, I think. And I was not
tracking the - the horizon at all; I was tracking
the edge of the field of view as it is truncated
by the side of the AMS canister. So, that is a
suggestion I'd like for them to take into
consideration.
009 O1 37 12 CC Stand by a second, please. Okay. In reference

to your remarks about that, the airglow tracking
equipment was not planned to be used with the AMS,
and had it been, the sight would have been better
positioned. The camera viewfinder can't be used
for tracking because the airglow would not be
visible through the narrow-band filters. Over.
PLT Okay, that's fine; that's a good answer. And then

I have one other comment that I also made on tape.
And that is you use - you can actually lean down
and see through the AMS mirror and get a better
view of the horizon than you can looking through
the sight. That's how I noticed my error.
009 01 37 55 CC Okay, that's a good input. We got 45 seconds to

LOS; next station contact in 8 minutes through
Guam at 01:45. That'll be our last pass for the
evening. Does the airglow seem to rotate as fast
and move across the mirror as rapidly as it does
.with the rotating mirror method? Over.
PLT There's not enough difference to - to worry about,

and I - I would much rather stay with this fixed
rotation and tilt and work with that, rather than
try to change the rotation and tilt.
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CC Okay. I understand stay with the fixed rotation

acquired tilt. With the reticle not illuminated,
how did you position the reticle with respect to
the line of the airglow while tracking? Was it
mo - was the moonlit Earth a help in tracking?
PLT Negative. The moonlit Earth was not a help. And

what l'm - the main thing l'm trying to do is
look at the position of the camera itself and fig-
ure what the long axis of the film frame is and
just try to put the horizon across the center of
that as best I can.
CC Okay, thank you. That winds it up. We'll say

good night to you over Guam.
009 01 38 58 SPT Good night.
009 01 45 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 6 minutes,

our last pass for the evening. We would like to
get an ATM frame count, if you could work that in
for us. And also, l've got a question here on the
standard exercise protocol, in that we're still a
little bit unsure about what it is you're doing
with method Foxtrot. Over.
CDR Bruce, I'ii put it on tape again. It depends on

the guy. All we did was cancel out all springs,
and now we're all doing 400 lifts. And all the
rest of the Foxtrot remains unchanged.
CC Okay. The question was brought up down here is

that it looks like - then it's taking you 5 min-
utes to do 400 and Ed 20 minutes to do 400 and
Bill 2 minutes to do 400. And apparently our book-
keeping has broken down.
CDR Okay, we'll give you some new numbers.
009 01 46 52 CC Okay, thank you very much.
009 01 49 14 SI°T Houston, SPT with the frame count. Are you ready?
CC Go ahead.
SPT 12499, 4249, 155, 346, 4452, 04, 056.
CC Okay, that last one was 04056, Ed?

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SPT 4056, that's right.
CC Okay, we've got 2 minutes to LOS. Next station

contact is in 9-1/2 hours, or there abouts, through
Ascension. We'll call you at ii:00 Zulu for wake-
up. And a reminder, the CDR phone call at the
Vanguard at 02:34 Zulu; LEFT ANTENNA all the way.
Over.
CDR Okay. 02:3h, LEFT ANTENNA.
CC Roger; good night.
SPT First one thing for the ATM folks before we leave:
out at - the white light coronagraph, there's a
streamer, very narrow, which I had not seen this
morning, which is narrow and fairly intense for a
good distance out, maybe 3 radii out. It's not
a helmet-type streamer; it's narrow all the way.
And it appears about 300 or 290 on the disc.
009 01 50 46 CC Okay, we copy that; thank you.
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009 02 20 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi.

Sorry to bother you; two items we need reconfigured
before you hit the sack here. First is, we see
DETECTOR 1 on S055 was left on at ATM panel close-
out, and secondly it appears that the VTR has not
been completely reconfigured per page ll-4 of the
MDA Checklist Experiments and Log since we've got
no POWER on it. Over.
PLT Yes, you're right, Bruce.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT On the VTR, that is.
009 02 21 13 CC ... And the old looking-over-your-shoulder team

bids you goodnight. And I believe this is our
last - last evening shift of the mission.
PLT Night, Bruce.
CC Or at least for this stretch, goodnight.
PLT I'll get that VTR POWER in about l0 minutes, if -

if that's okay. Were you going to use it right
now?
CC No, that's fine. We just wanted to get it before

you hit the sack.
009 02 21 45 PLT Okay, thank you.
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009 ii O0 21 CC Morning, Skylab. Got you through Ascension,

Canaries, and Madrid for 14 minutes.
CDR Morning, Story.
CC Morning, Jer.
009 ii 13 40 CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS. And the

next time we'll probably see you will be an hour
and 6 minutes at the Vanguard at 12:20. Guam has
a problem with their - their S-band. We may pick
you up over Guam. If we do, it will be in about
26 minutes at 11:40.
SPT Morning, Story. Talk to you then.
CC Okay. And if you're ready for it, the next station

we'll have the news for you.
009 Ii 14 i0 SPT Say, very good.@ Thank you, Story.
009 ii 42 01 CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 5 minutes.
PLT Roger. Read you 5 square, Story. Standing by for

the news.
CC Okay, Bill. While l've got you, did you get the
S190 platens, that's 2, 5, and 6, cleaned yesterday?
PLT That's affirmative. And everything looks real good.
CC Thank you.
009 ll 42 32 CC President Nixon marks his 61st birthday today,

ready to emerge from a period of introspective
seclusion with a fresh effort to halt the erosion
of Watergate on his presidency, senior aides said.
Several aides acknowledged that the strains of the
past year have taken their toll on Nixon's physical
vigor. But they described him as determined to lead
the renewed comeback campaign. They said part of
it includes giving Cabinet members more visible
responsibilities, continuing Presidential stress
on foreign affairs, and a White House reorganization
with Vice President Gerald R. Ford assuming a broad
role in congressional and domestic affairs.
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009 Ii 43 07 CC The possibility of a U.S.-Cuban dialogue on the

renewal of diplomatic relations was Under study
at the State Department following reports of Cuba's
willingness to consider the subject under certain
circumstances. Cuba's ambassador to Mexico,
Fernando Lopez Muino, said his government is "ready
to discuss, not establish," relations with the
United States if Washington is prepared to end its
support of the 9-year-old hemispheric embargo of
the Caribbean island. Jody Dietrichs, age 6, was
refused admittance to a Miami Beach hospital 2 mort
2 months ago because his parents couldn't pay for
the lifesaving heart surgery their son needed. Jody
underwent surgery Monday at St. Francis Hospital
to repair a faulty heart valve. And he is doing
just fine today, with the operation a success, the
hospital said. By the time of the surgery, more
than $4,000 had been donated to the youth, including
$2,000 from a marijuana dealers association_ None
of it will be needed, however; two surgeons donated
their skills, and the hospital is picking up the
tab for Jody's care. New Mexico State University
regents have agreed to plan for a solar heating
and cooling system to be installed in the school's
proposed agricultural department building. Specs
indicate the system, approved Monday, will require
80 percent less energy than a conventional system
of comparable capacity.
009 ll 44 29 CC Large undersea oil fields have been discovered off

Brazil's northeast coast, the newspaper 0 Globo [3]
reported. The paper said Brazil's state-run oil
monopoly, Petrobras, was producing 1000 barrels
a day at the oil field. Scientists who say they
know little more about whales than _aptainAhab
knew about Moby Dick plan to use §pace age elec-
tronics to find out how the massive animals live.
The marine scientists said they hope to be able
to study whales in their natural environment for
the first time. They hope to find out why some
species of whales are threatened, and what can be
done about it. The scientists plan to attach
sensing devices to whales and then track their
movements for up to a year. Eventually, they said,
the tracking would be done by satellites. A new
volcanic island in the Pacific, still too hot to
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step on, has been claimed Ja - by Japan. The island

is about 600 miles south of Toyko, is about 5 times
the size of a football field, and has six active
volcanoes.
009 ii 45 26 CC Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport has suspen-

ded practice - that's bombing practice - at the
Matagorda Island, Texas, bombing range while rare
whooping cranes are nesting on the nearby Aransas
Natural Wildlife Refuge. Major Wood, Barksdale
public information officer, said Monday the suspen-
sion would remain in effect until the cranes again
leave the refuge on the southeast Texas coast. And
that's it for the morning.
SPT Thank you, Story.
009 ii 46 19 PLT Do you have the recorders, Story?
CC Yes, we're dumping the data/voice here, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
009 ii 46 37 CC And we're a minute from LOS. The next station is

the Vanguard in about 35 minutes at 12:20.
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009 12 20 55 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC On a noninterference basis with your ATM work,

sometime in the next half an hour or an hour l'd
like to discuss what you'd like on updating your
onboard master anomaly list.
CDR Okay. I'ii have a couple of spare minutes shortly.
CC Okay, let me know.
009 12 26 26 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 14 minutes to

Canaries at 12:40.
CDR Talk to you at Canaries,Story.
009 12 26 37 CC Okay, Jer.
009 12 40 31 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries and

Madrid, 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. And go ahead with your discussion

there.
CC Okay, Jer. We're thinking we can save you a little

bit ot time incorporating changes to your master
anomaly list that's in your Flight Plan book by
not sending up anomalies that you're very fs_iliar
with and that you're working with every day, such
as the TV input station that you replaced, the
star tracker failures, the fact you're running
with 82B and XUV monitor doors open. We're feel-
ing maybe you don't want to have to incorporate
those changes, but we're interested in your philo-
sophy. On the other hand maybe you'd like a
history of these anomalies, and we'd just like to
know what you want on those.
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CDR No, I thir_k we can do along - get along fine

without them. There's no real need to compile a
big history up here. And why don't we just figure
on doing that? Leave the - the stuff that we're
really familiar with out.
009 12 41 40 CC Okay. And let me just run down, if you got

30 seconds here, a quick list of things. And you
can give me a yes or no on them.
CDR All right.
CC The TV input station replacement.
CDR No, we don't need it.
CC Star tracker?
CDR Negative.
CC The difficulty ejecting urine disposal bags through

the TAL?
CDR Negative. We're intimately familiar with that

problem.
CC The fact you're running with the urine dump heater

on all the time?
CDR Negative.
CC The ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP fluctuations?
CDR Negative.
CC The PCU composite leak you had during your EVA?
CDR Negative. That's kind of a one-timer.
CC Yes. Okay. The S019 _S rotation indicator

problem?
009 12 42 23 CDR Negative.
CC The S019 cassette number 3 that jammed?
CDR Go ahead and send that one up.

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CC Okay. And, the S183 carrousel problem?
CDR Yes. Well, let's send that one up too.
CC Okay. And the - on S055, the delta - the 80-count

delta that's on the indicator and the intermittent
first and second digit problems?
CC It's - -
CDR Oh - Go ahead and send that one up, too.
CC Okay, thanks. That gives us a general philosophy,

and _e'll get those three to you. Thanks.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Story.
009 12 54 01 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 30 minutes

to Carnarvon at 13:23.
009 12 54 18 CDR Roger, Story.
009 13 28 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. And hello from

the purple gang. We're at Honeysuckle for 8 min-
utes and we're dumping the data/voice recorder
here.
CDR Good morning, purple guys.
CC Hi, Jer. You guys having a good day this morning?
CDR Well, we're off and running.

I
CC I don't have a whole bundle of things to tell you

guys this morning. But, Ed, when you get through -
whenever, this morning, you get through trying
that S063 real - taping those batteries and so forth,
why don't you let us know how it turned out. No -
no hurry on our part to know.
SPT Okay, Dick. That's all done and it's working '
great.
009 13 28 56 CC Good show. Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TEANSCRIFIIION
009 13 35 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS.

Bermuda at 14:11. See you there.
SPT So long, Dick.
009 13 35 34 CC See you, Ed.
009 14 ii 32 SPT Hello, Houston; SPT.
CC Hello, SPT; go ahead.
SPT Dick, are the folks in the backroom ready for the
M133 malfunction test?
CC Tell you what, Ed, stand by. Let me see if we can

get cranked up real quick here.
SPT Okay.
009 14 13 06 CC SPT, Houston; affirmative. We have data now.

Have you been - tell me where you are in the
mal message. Are you down through step 3 yet?
SPT That's affirm. I'm waiting for step 4. I have

the ELECTRODE SELECTOR to OFF right now, and I'm
ready to go to left EEG.
CC Okay. Why don't you go to left EEG for 60 seconds,

and let us tell you what we see.
SPT You got it.
009 14 13 36 SPT MARK.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We're continuing to look at our

data so just leave it on there, and _ and I'ii
let you know when to turn it off.
SPT Okay.
009 14 15 55 CC SPT, Houston. Looks like we are getting valid

data on the ground in this configuration. So
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we're - looks like we have found the loose con-

nection. When I understand a little better later
on today, we'll try to get back to you and tell
you more about what we've found. But you can go
ahead and secure the tesk - test. It looks like
a success to us. The - there's no reason to
continue these following steps here.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick. I'm not sure what's been
done. The configuration I have is that the - the
cap's plugged in but not on. And also I have gone
through the M133 tape changeout. Maybe there was
a loose connection that got tightened up in that
process.
CC Okay, Ed; understand. And thanks for getting

ahead. We appreciate it.
009 14 16 45 SPT Okay, Dick. We got the 63 mal and 63 APR done.
Just waiting for the - and the ED61 ops done. And
I got a little start on the exercise, and also
the 133 stuff is done now. l'm wondering if there's
a way of squeezing in an extra ATM pass sometime
today with that extra - a little bit of juggling.
I know we got some EREPs going so we're not Sun
centered, or SOLAR INERTIAL a good part of the time,
but l'd appreciate doing what you could.
CC Well, why don't you let us look at it?
SPT Thank you.
009 14 18 41 CC _ Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS.

Madrid comes up at 14:23. We're going to dump
the data/voice recorder at Madrid. And, inciden-
tally, this Flight Plsm today - this - this upcom-
ing data/voice recorder dump and also one that
occurs, oh, a couple or 3 hours from now are
absolutely mandatory for us to manage the - the
tapes this morning. So we will be dumping there
at Madrid. I'ii - I'ii give you a call there.
SPT Okay, Dick. So long.
009 14 19 12 CC Okay.
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009 !4 23 lh CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes.

And, Ed, when you got a chance, I got a couple of
quick questions for you on the M133 stuff we just
did.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, first of all, let's talk about the mal pro-

cedu_e. In - in steps 2 and 3 when you were to
verify the - the cable connections that are listed
there in the message, if you still have it; did
you just look at them or did you disconnect them
and reconnect them or did you Jiggle them or - or
exactly what did you do to verify those?
SPT Okay. I just made sure that each one of them was
firm, that I did - but I did not reconnect them,
take them off and reconnect.
CC 0 - -
SI_ However, there was one connection, the one going

into tape recorder number 2, which I did discon-
nect for the tape changeout. That's the only one
I did disconnect, however.
009 14 24 ii CC Okay, and the others you just kind of grabbed hold
and Just made sure they were firmly connected; then
let it go at that?
SPT Correct.
CC Okay. Let me ask you a question on the tape

change procedure. In step 1 of the tape message
it says get a needle - we're trying to - the prob-
lem is, we're trying to keep up with the needles.
And it says either take the needle that you pre-
viously used, or if it's not available, attain -
obtain a syringe with a needle from the
microbiology kit. And we need to - to know which
of those you did Just to keep up with how many
needles and where they are.
SPT Dick, that's a utility needle we've had here. I

think 0wen left it for us. We've washed it out
and used water with it many times and - and just
left it around for utility. It was pretty Clean
because it has been flushed many times with Just
plain water and dried.
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009 14 25 18 CC Okay, that's great. We just wanted to know had

you gotten another one out of the microbiology
kit, and apparently not. So we got the informa-
tion we need. Thank you much, Ed.
SPT You're welcome, Dick. Dick, you may be interested

to know we got one more piece of life up here
inside the wild moth jar; only one new one that I
can see. That makes a total that I can count in
here of five approx - maybe six.
CC Okay, great. It's getting - really getting crowded

up there, huh? Hey, listen, Ed, I don't know
whether Story told you this morning, but your phone
call this evening is Ascension at 22:37, and I'ii
remind you again.
SPT Thank you.
009 14 28 26 CC CDR, Houston. We still got about 3 minutes left

here at Madrid. And the ATM guys in the backroom
are real interested in the activity on the Sun, on -
particularly around the southeast limb. If you
have a chance during these next 3 minutes, they'd
sure appreciate a - a voice update on that.
CDR Okay. I'ii have to stop my little mini - mini-MAR

here in order to do it.
CC No. Don't do that, Jer.
CDR Okay. I'ii get them to you first pass after !

finish here.
CC Okay. That'll be fine.
009 14 30 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 14:56. And, SPT, Houston.
It - it appears preliminarily that we will be able
to get at least a portion of an extra ATM pass
sort of in the middle of the day. It's not real
obvious and right now we're juggling conflicts
between data-take times, stows, preps, and so
forth, but we'll have it worked out if it's possible
and - and get it back up to you as - in plenty of
time.
SPT Thank you, Dick. Appreciate what you can do.

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009 14 31 03 CC Okay.
009 14 56 26 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle for 16 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I'm ready to talk to you about the

Saun - the Sun now.
CC Okay. We're ready to listen. Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay. What I'll do is just describe the XUV MON

and the white light coronagraph and then H-alpha.
CC Okay.
CDR On the XUV MON, the active region 12 is pretty

much gone. There's just a little bit of fuzz on
the west limb there. Active regions 14, 15 and 16
are about the same; 16 has come around the limb
a little bit more, there's quite a bit more bright
area there. The little bi-polar region that I
mentioned yesterday that was enhanced in H-alpha
is - got three spots in XUV right now. And they're
a little brighter than they were yesterday. There
was one bright spot yesterday that was below active
region 14, about - oh, I guess, about O.B of a
radius below it. And it's there again today and
a little bit brighter. And that's essentially it.
The coronal holes at the caps are quite clear and
we have a filament channel that ex - extends from
the coronal hole at the south pole almost up to
active region 16. It actually falls short of it;
oh, actually, more around active region 15.
CC Okay.
009 14 58 31 CC CDR, Houston. Do you see anything, or did you see

anything above the limb in the southeast region?
CDR I'll get to that in a minute.
CC Ok - -
CDR Okay. WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH: Between yesterday

and today, the - this large wide streamer that Ed
was talking about yesterday that had three spikes
in it, it's now reduced back down to two spikes
again. It's a little narrower, it's about the
same width at the base, but it's narrowed down
at the top. And then I remember yesterday evening
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Ed mentioned, I believe, to the ground that up at

about 300 degrees, it looked like another spike,
a long narrow spike, was beginning to form. That's
still there this morning. And to me, and on the
picture l've got here that I took, it looks like
it's narrower at the base, at the occulting disk,
than it is further out. It seems to be more like
a - a ray. Then in between this - this ray and the
large streamer down below, there seems to be a - a
fuzzy area beginning to extend out that looks
like it might turn into a streamer, and that's at
about 270. Then over on the other side of the
Sun on the west limb, the wide streamer at - that
extends from about 2 to 3 o'clock, is not any
wider at the base or out at the end. However,
some of the material in the middle has kind of
dropped out, so what you've really got is a - is
a spike at about 2 o'cloek and a spike at 3 o'clock.
And then it begins to dim out a little bit in
between, in the - in the wide band in between.
And that's it on the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH.
009 15 O0 19 CDR And then in H-ALPHA, active region 14 now is -

is three sunspots. You've got the one bright
one that was there yesterday; there's one out
ahead of it about 25 arc seconds to the west.
And then to the east of it about 50 arc seconds
is kind of a - a weak, floppy-looking area that
looks like it might solidify into a sunspot or
something. It shows up in the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY
of the SUV SLIT. And - let's see, the bright spot
that I mentioned that's below active region 14;
that's at about 110.3. We have H-alpha enhance-
ment there and got a oxygen VI count of aboutt i000.
Active region 15 doesn't look like much. It's
not very interesting and not very hot. The three
XUV spots I saw do have H-alpha enhancement.
They're not very - not very hot, but it's better
developed that it was yesterday. Prominence 64
is clear and more pronounced than it was yesterday,
but it's about the same size. Active region 16
is a fair - fairly simple active region; it's
not too hot. Oxygen Vl - maximum count I could
get was about 2000. It's one single sunspot.
And then below it, on the east limb, about
20 degrees below it, there's a little bit of
surge activity, a couple of small areas where
surges are about two to three times the height of
the spicules in that area.
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CC Okay, Jerry. Copy.
009 15 02 21 CC CDR, Houston. One question for you, in addition

to what you asked. On your XUV, did you see any
brightening at all above the southeast limb?
CDR Well, right over active region 16, there's a good

deal of brightening, and the brightening does
extend a little bit further to the south than to
the north. But it's not too pronounced.
CC Okay, Jer. Anything else?
CDR No. That's about it. The main XUV brightening

at the limb is right over active region 16.
CC Okay, CDR. Sure appreciate the real good briefing,

and the guys will be using it to plan the rest -
to take a look at the rest of the day and also
this extra ATM pass looks like we - we may get.
While you're thinking about that, let me give
you a note for a couple of your succeeding
daylight cycles, Jerry.
009 15 03 17 CC And I don't think it's necessary for you to be

looking at the ATM schedule pad for this.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE T]OkNSCHIIITION
009 15 03 XX CC But on two of your daylight cycles that are coming

up later, at the end of them there's a powerdown
listed for S063 maneuver and later for an S183
maneuver. And ATM advises he'd like you to use the
powerdown for EREP cue card when those show up in
the schedule pad.
009 15 03 41 CDR Will do it.
CC Okay. A couple more things. When you and Bill

have a chance I've got some EREP pass weather for
you. And also I realize that SPT right now is
busy on S063, but the - possibly just before LOS
he and Bill might have time. But at least when
he and the PLT have time to talk to me for a minute,
both looking at their Summary Flight Plans, I
think we have an easy way to get Ed an extra ATM
pass.
CDR Okay, Dick. And, we're ready to listen to the

weather.
009 15 04 15 CC Okay. It's improving - continuing to improve.

It's very much the same track, as you know, that
you've done the last couple or 3 days and each
day the weather's getting a little better. Looks
like that prior to - to crossing the Central
American co - coast is a bubble of just about clear
air and the first portion of the land mass there
in Central America will be somewhere around
2000-foot scattered. It will get a little more
cl - cloudy on the eastern shores there. Then as
you cross up across Cuba and the Bahamas, that
should be very good, some - occasionally some
scattered to broken clouds. Then again, as you
cross the North Atlantic, it's going to vary;
the - the - there is a big low out to the east of
the Eurasian land mass there. So there's - it's
going to vary between some clear spots and also
some fairly heavy cloud cover, but it - it won't
cover quite the large areas that it has. The coast
of France as you cross it should be pretty clobbered,
we think.
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009 15 05 26 CDR Roger. Copy.
CC Okay.
CC And, CDR, Houston. One item on the ATM powerdown

on S055. We need the LINE SC_Y, please.
CDR Roger.
CC Thank you.
CDR Dick, confirm you want 528 on the GRATING. That

doesn't add up to anything on the - on my chart
up here that looks right. It looks like it might
be 518.
CC Stand by.
009 15 06 46 CC CDR, Houston. The backroom confirms that 528's

the number that they desire.
CC CDR, Houston. l'm not sure that I got caught in

a handover there, but the backroom confirms that
528 is the number they desire.
CDR Okay. 528, MECHANICAL REF.
CC Okay.
009 15 09 01 CC Skylab, Houston. It's time for our pre-EREP REG

ADJUST, if anybody's - anybody's available to do
it for us. What we'd like this morning is both
REG ADJUST pots i and 2, rotate about 20 degrees
clockwise; that's 20 degrees clockwise. And for
your information with beta going up and the day-
light periods getting longer and longer, it turns
out that we're not - after this EREP we probably
are not going to remove this adjustment. And we'll
go with it and let it stay here until further
notice.
PLT Okay. I just made it. Take a look at it.
CC Okay.
CC Bill, we're about a minute and 15 seconds before

we get into sunrise and we really need to get
there before we can give you a really good hack,
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but I'ii let you know. We still have about

2 minutes in the pass so, go back to what you're
doing. That 's find.
PLT Okay.
009 15 i0 21 CC And, PLT, Houston. If you've got your Sun_nary

Flight Plan there and have a minute, I can explain
to you what the options are on - to get Ed this
extra ATM pass. It involves both of you guys.
And then during LOS or sometimes you can talk to
him and tell us which way you guys would like to
do it. Either way we get the ATM pass.
PLT Okay, press on.
CC Okay. The cleanest way to do it, if you'll look

at your column and also Ed's, down there about
18:30 you notice he has an S063 AST-3. And then
down at about 19:30 you have an S063 comet prep 3
prior to your comet ops. The cleanest way to do
it is just to swap those two. You would do the
stow and then eat, and he would do the prep after
his ATM pass, which we're going to stick in there
right after his S063 AOP. Another way that you
might do it is you just shorten your eat period
and you pick up both the stow and the pre, if you
would prefer to - either way you'd get the stow.
And if you'd like to also do the prep, since you're
going to do the ops, that'd be okay with us. That
would free up Ed for a good bit of time there
that he could do science demos, but really doesn't
matter to us. If you'd just let us know which
way you guys'd like to handle it, we'll give you
the supporting information and - a little bit
later.
009 15 ii 50 PLT Okay, why don't I go ahead and do both of those,

because I have chili for lunch and that's not
going to take me long.
CC Okay - -
PLT No, I'ii just do the S063 Alfa Sierra Tango 3,

and we'll just call it quits at that.
CC Okay. Suits us fine. And we'll - we'll give you

any supporting information you need, and we'll
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look at the Flight Plan based on that. We're

about to go LOS here. !'ii give you a call at
Texas at 15:43. See you there.
SPT Thanks very much for working that out, Dick. What
time would the ATM pass start?
009 i5 12 23 CC It's at about 18:28 when you'll get there. You'll -

you'll arrive there right after your S063 AOP.
And we'll have a plan for you when you get there.
009 15 42 27 PLT Managua? We're in business.
009 15 42 31 CDR MARK. 42:30; EREP, START. Somewhere along the

line EREP START switch got left on.
009 15 42 43 CC Houston's with you, Skylab.
CDR Roger.
CDR Coming up on 43:00.
009 15 43 03 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON at 43:02.
PLT Okay. I got one of the two - three volcanoes.

DAC, on.
CDR Next mark's at h3:37.
CDR Stand by.
009 15 43 37 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Next one's at 43:43.
009 15 43 43 CDR MARK.
PLT ... been a cloud shining ... - -
CDR 190 MODE to AUTO.
PLT Track it down to 15 degrees and then I'ii see if

I can get one of the other ones. Do we have the
DAC now?
PLT Yes.
PLT No, l'm getting them; I don't know which ones

they are.
PLT Okay,DAC off. I g - I thinkI got - -

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CDR Next mark is 45:00.
PLT 566 and 567.
CDR Stand by.
009 15 45 01 CDR MARK. S192, MODE to CHECK. 45:06; stand by.
009 15 45 07 CDR MARK. 191, REFERENCE to 2. 45:30 next.
PLT Okay, I'm almost sure you got 566 and the last
one was either 567 or San Crist6bal. I think
it was San Crist6bal because there were about
three craters in a row, left to right.
CDR Stand by - -
009 15 45 30 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER going to STANDBY at 45:30.

Setting up MODE 5- Looking for an S190, READY
out - READY out at 49:40.
009 15 45 42 CDR MARK. Out at 40 - 45:41.
CDR At 46, ALTIMETER's coming on.
009 15 45 48 CDR MARK. 190, MODE to STANDBY. Frames to 39;

SHUTTER SPEED, FAST. Okay, we need a VTS, AUTO
CAL, Bill, at 46:16.
PLT Okay.
CC Jerry, real quickly at - right after this AUTO

CAL l'm going to need to talk to you about a real
quick pad change to save us some data here.
CDR Okay.
009 15 46 16 CDR MARK. Go ahead.
PLT Is that the AUTO CAL?
CDR Yes.
PLT Okay. You may be about 2 seconds late.
CC Okay, real quick, Jerry. And I'll help you on

this upcoming time at 48:06 to not get lost. Down
the pad right after 55 - correction, right before
the 55:37 entry for S190 - -
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CDR Okay.
CC - - I want you to write in S190 SHUTTER SPEED to

MEDIUM.
CDR Right before 55:37, huh?
CC That's correct.
CDR All right.
CC And l've got one more for you at 16:02. That's

just before the entry at 03:50, 192, MODE to READY.
I want you to write in S190 SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW.
CDR 16:02. Right before what?
009 15 47 06 CC It's - it's at a time of 16:02:00; S190 SHUTTER

SPEED, SLOW.
CDR Okay. 16:02:00, SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW. Okay, and

that - the SIIUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM is going to be
at 30 - 55:37 on the money. Right?
CC That was a mistake, Jerry, that I - it was my

fault. The time for the Sh_TTER SPEED to MEDIUM
is 57:00.
CDR 57:00; okay.
CC Okay - -
CDR Okay. We may have ourselves a tape problem here;

l'm not sure. I found the EPEP switch in START
and I haven't got the slightest idea when it got
there. I don't know how long the tape recorder
had been running. Charlie 8 is now reading
46 percent.
CC Okay, you're coming up on 48:06.
CDR Okay. Stand by -
009 15 48 07 CDR MARK it. MODE to SINGLE.
CDR Now 48:32's the next one.

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CC Okay, Jerry; thank you very much. That was real

late catch on a pad error we found that's going
to save us some i - 190 data. Thank you.
CDR Okay. Coming up on 48: 32. Stand by -
009 15 48 32 CDR MARK. S190, SINGLE again.
CDR All right now, watching for S191, READY light to

come on. Expect it around 48:56 to 58.
009 15 48 58 CDR MARK. It came on at 57. Going to REFERENCE, 6.

Looking for 49:12. Stand by.
009 15 49 12 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RANGE is 78. 49:37's

the next one.
CDR Stand by.
009 15 h9 37 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, ON at 37.
PLT Standing by for 50:32 for special 02 - or 50:33

for special 02.
CC Roger. And, PLT, Houston. One quick note on

that one. Chances are it may be clouded over.
If it is we'd like you to take a uniform cloud
ar e a.
PLT Okay. I think we're going to be all right. Oh,

yes; we're going to be okay, Dick.
PLT Okay, IMC, ON. All right, MAX/MAG. Here we go.

DAC, on. IMC, LOW. Okay, DATA pushbutton, push.
009 15 51 54 PLT Stand by. Minus l0 degrees, release.
CDR Gee, I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, but the

READY light's still good.
CDR READY light's out now. Okay, I'm going to go to

STANDBY on the ALTIMETER. Now. 15 seconds.
ALTIMETER's back on, ready loc - UNLOCK is out,
and READY light's on.
PLT 52:51 -
009 15 52 52 PLT MARK. DAC, off.

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CDR Next mark's at 53:02. Stand by.
009 15 53 02 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RADIOMETER to STAND-

BY. Next mark is 53:14. Stand by.
009 15 53 14 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMEfER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON. Next

mark at 53:26. Stand by.
009 15 53 27 CDR MARK. S190 to AUTO.
PLT 53:41 coming up. We have zero UP, zero LEFf/RIGHT.
009 15 53 41 PLT MARK. I'ii just give a DATA pushbutton mark there.
And there's fairly heavy cloud cover; intermittent
holes, breaks in the clouds.
CDR Looks like strata cu.
PLT Okay, hitting some blue water now at 54:17; and

back over the clouds.
CDR Okay, next mark's going to be at 55:37. 37

coming up. Stand by.
009 15 55 37 CDR MARK. FRAME INTERVAL on S190 is going up to 20.
CDR Charlie 8's reading 40 percent now.
CDR On my mark it'll be 15:57:00. Stand by -
009 15 57 00 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED going to MEDIUM on S190.
CC Okay, Jerry; thank you much for that one. We're

about to go LOS here in about 20 seconds. Madrid
comes up at 16:01. I'ii call you there.
CDR Okay. We'll see you then, Dick.
CC Okay.
009 15 57 33 PLT Okay, 57:30 made a slight adjustment. It had

drifted to i degree UP; I put it back to
zero degrees. It's also gone from zero RIGHT
to zero LEFT. Has not been a change on that.
009 16 01 i0 CC Skylab, Houston's with you for 8 minutes, Madrid.
CDR Roger,
Dick. ._
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CDR Okay, at 02 SIIUTTER SPEU_D is SLOW; it was 02:02.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR 03:50 is the next mark.
CDR i minute. And about 35 percent tape remaining,

according to Charlie 8'
CC Roger, Jerry. And considering we - we had a whole

bundle of tape in the front end of this pass and
if that meter's anywhere near right, we think
we're okay for this pass. We are going to be very
interested in a quick tape measurement from you
after this run, though, so we'll know whether or
not we have to change out for tomorrow.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. Here comes the tape user at 03:50. Stand

by-
009 16 03 50 CDR MARK. S192, MODE to READY. Shifting gears on

the tape recorder. Boy, old Charlie 8 really
settles down and stops wagging around as soon
as you get to the high speed.
CC Roger. Did you get the - -
009 16 04 0_ CDR - - 57 MODE to MANUAL.
CC Okay (laughter).
CDR Got that at 03. Okay. We got a 190, READY out.

And ALTIMETER to STANDBY, RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
21, RADIOMETER ON. S190, we're going to set that
at STANDBY.
CDR 05:06 is coming up next. Stand by -
009 16 05 07 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. 05:12 coming up

next. Stand by -
009 16 05 13 CDR MARK it. 192 to STANDBY.
009 16 05 18 CDR EREP, STOP.
CDR Beat you by a hair.

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CC Roger. That one looked real good, Jerry. And,

incidentally, that late - that late change I read
up to - to you in the middle there; it just turned
out that we'd - we were sending 190 into the sun-
set at a SHUTTER SPEED of FAST and we didn't want
to do that. It was just an oversight, and sorry
we were late, but sure appreciate your catching
it for us.
CDR Yes. Glad we got it.
CDR Okay, let me give you a quick tape measurement

here.
CC Okay.
CDR I can give you an estimate before I go down and

get the steel tape.
009 16 06 08 CC Okay. And, we'd like to have the DAS. We're

going to cycle the heaters on the CMG.
CDR Okay, Bill's clear of the DAS.
CC Okay.
CDR 7/16 of an inch. Let's see what that turns out

to be. That's my guess.
CDR Thanks, Bill.
CDR (Laughter) Yes.
CDR 1.2 centimeters, Dick.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much.
CDR I was 1/64 of a - 1/32 of an inch off. Sorry

about that.
CC Eyes gone bad up there.
CDR Yes.
009 16 07 26 CDR That's just the width of my pencil; it's not the
eye.
CC Ah-ha.
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CDR The eye is still good. Pencil's a little sloppy,

but the eye is good.
CC I have found just the opposite during the mission.

MY -my pencil works great, but my eyes are going
bad (laughter).
CDR (Laughter) Okay. I think I owe you a reading

here. Bravo 7 is 35 percent.
CC Okay. And we're i minute to LOS. Carnarvon at

16:35.
CDR Okay. We'll see you then.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, I forgot to tell you, but the DAS

is yours.
CDR Okay.
CDR S192 DOOR, CLOSED.
CDR Yes.
009 16 08 43 CDR Going off the hot mikes, Dick.
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009 16 35 44 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Carnarvon for 5-1/2 min-

utes. And a note for the SPT. This pass we're
going to be uplinking you a personal message from
the ATM guys with some suggestions for this - what
to do on this extra ATM pass you're going to get.
CC Okay. And also a note for Bill Pogue. Bill, I

have a couple of minor corrections to your details
and Flight Plan I need to get up anytime the next
couple of hours, so it's no rush at all.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
009 16 36 37 CC Okay. Why don't we do the Flight Plan first, Bill?

Down at a time of about - on there of about 00:40,
where it says - or 01:00 where it says S183, stow l,
we'd like to change that to a stow 2. And the rea-
son is, is at the time we uplinked this Flight Plan
-- yesterday,we were consideringan EREP pass in the
morning on your day off instead of the afternoon,
and now that's been scrubbed. So it changes, see.
We do not need to stow the AMS, so that changes.
And the next one's on your details.
PLT Okay. I got that one. Stand by.
CC Okay.
PLT Go ahead with the change on the details.
009 16 37 30 CC Okay. First of all, this is just a cleanup. I

don't care if you put it in. You already know it,
I think. But you ought to add in there a time of
19:15, S063 AST-2, which is the one you're picking
up from Ed. And change the time of the S063 CPR-3
to 20:00. And we want to change that one to a CPR-2.
So that'll read 20:00, S063 CPR-2. And that change
is because - since now we're doing them back to
back and we don't have to depressurize the AMS.
PLT Roger.
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CC Thank you, Bill.

Carnarvon comes up 6 minutes from now. I'ii call
you.
009 17 17 44 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello stateside for 16-1/2 minutes.

We're going to be dumping the data/voice recorder
here. And also we missed our comm at Honeysuckle.
We had a - a line go down between Honeysuckle and
back here. So sorry we didn't get to talk to you.
We see that we're on the way back to solar inertial.
SPT Hello, Dick. We heard you over Honeysuckle. Just

broken, however.
CC Okay. And, say, Ed. While you're close there,

we got a little flight planning suggestion for
later on in the afternoon if you'd like to take
advantage of it.
SFT Go ahead.
009 17 18 19 CC If you look at your S_immary Flight Plan, you'll

noti - and talking about the period of time between
22:30 Zulu and about 24:45 Zulu. We don't under-
stand in our own minds why we didn't swap the col-
umn that's listed for Jerry and the column that's
listed for you there, which would have provided
you some more ATM time. We think that was an over-
sight on - on our part. And if you guys would like
to swap between you to let you just continue that
next ATM pass there, it'd be okay with us.
SPT Let me see if l've got enough butter cookies to go

down and trade him. And I'Ii get back with you.
CC (Laughter) Okay. It's - Either way you guys would

like to do it. It's just a suggestion. Just let
us know.
SPT Thank you, Dick. Appreciate it.
CC Roger. And Jerry would pick up the 183K maneuvers.
009 17 21 22 SPT Dick, Jerry and I will go ahead and make that swap.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute, if you'd do

a split S you could land at Ellington.
SPT How many g's does this thing qualify for, Dick?
CC Not that many, for sure.
SPT It would have to be all on instruments, Dick.
CC Roger.
009 17 24 34 SPT Dick, it sure looks like Mississippi's getting some

good thunderstorms. Good line of them running
east-west with a couple overshooting cloud tops;
not very pronounced, however.
CC Roger.
009 17 27 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to have the DAS for a

couple of minutes. Con_nand the outer gimbal back
up.
SPT You've got it.
CC Okay.
009 17 28 30 SPT Dick, this is kind of a surprise to me, but of all

the places in the whole northeast that are rela-
tively clear, it's good old Buffalo, New York; not
a cloud in sight over the city.
CC Hey, I was just thinking back there when - talking

about hometowns. I was thinking, when you were
talking about thunderstorms, that probably was over
mine and yours is clear.
SPT Dick, where's your hometown?
CC Fayette, Mississippi.
SPT Thank you.

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009 17 33 43 CC Skylab, Hous[,ou. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Madrid comes up in 5 minutes. Call you there.
009 17 33 49 SPT So long, Dick.
009 17 38 39 CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Madrid for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. We got a CMG SAT, and there's an outer

gimbal that's getting a little close to a stop.
CC Okay.
009 17 39 24 CC SPT, Houston. We're watching it and we think the

gimbal angles are improving. Looks like the
situation's going to stop itself.
SPT" Thank you.
009 17 46 46 CC Skylab, Houston; we're a minute to LOS. Tananarive

at 18:02.
009 17 47 01 SPT Roger, Dick.
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009 18 01 45 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 6 minutes.
009 18 06 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We might have an early LOS here

at Tananarive; Honeysuckle at 18:25.
009 18 26 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle. Very

short pass, less than a minute. Goldstone comes
up at 18:53. And for the SPT, here's a real quick
solar update for you. Some small surges which
began near 26/1. On the limb at about 15:48 Zulu
where accomp - accompanied by weak centimetric
radio emissions were probably associated with
returning active region 05. And that active
region's now numbered active region 17.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
009 18 26 44 CC Roger. See you - see you at Goldstone at 18:53.
009 18 53 29 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference. Over.
C])R Hi, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Jerry. How're you doing today?
CDR Just fine, thanks.
N_C Good. We got a couple of comments here on the

Sun and a couple of things on today's observa-
tions, and then I'll let you bring up what you
want to bring up. The activity on the east limb
that you've noticed on the XUV MON and so on is
active region 05 returning. Right now, it is -
well, I shouldn't say right now, but earlier it
was surging lightly. It has ceased, but we think
it will probably start again in a bit. And that
is now labeled active region 17. Earlier you
had given us a very excellent description of the
Sun, and Bob MacQueen will talk to you more about
that tomorrow. But one of the areas that you've
mentioned over the last several days is a bright
point or perhaps an emerging flux region that's
up around 285 at 0.75 radii. That is now active
region 18 and it has a small - a small sunspot in
it. And, that's about all I've got to add today
on the Sun for you.
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009 18 54 37 MCC For today's operations, you'll notice that we've

given you a lot of op - ops time, which - obvi-
ously we're not trying to duck the issue here on
scheduling; it's a little uncertain as to what
the Sun was going to provide for us. We thought
by doing that and giving you the appropriate items
in the shopping list that you would probably do
a better job planning than we would. And let's
see; the extra time that Ed is doing right now,
we'd like to say thanks from everybody here:
the flight planners, the ATM backroomers, myself,
and everybody. We think it's great the way the
last couple of days you guys have done a little
bit extra stuff early and freed up some observing
time for us here. One comment that is not in the
note that Ed had on the extra ops. If - if he
takes that long 82B exposure off the limb, we
believe that is the last frame of the i01 film.
009 18 55 34 MCC Let's see, one other comment here. l've got an
answer to a question Ed gave us last night on
54, regarding the consecutive BBI and BB2. The
actual BB2 is for S054. During the building
block i, they take a GRATING, OUT 256-seeond
sequence as part of their regular synoptic pro-
gram. And then with the recent change, during
the i Bravo portion they take a 17-minute exposure
with the GRATING, IN for spectral information.
They can calibrate that 17-minute exposure much
better if they have a regular sequence, 256-second
sequence, with the GRATING, IN. So, in general,
they request that BB2 in an orbit Very close to
but not necessarily the same orbit as the BBI.
And that's the reason for the BB2 in there. It's
not really anything to do with S052. So, maybe
you ean pass that on to Ed.
CDR Okay, Ed's right here and listening.
009 18 56 36 MCC Okay, good. I sort of thought that was the case.
And, let's see, the only other thing I've got here
on my list to talk to you about was something
you mentioned last night you wanted to talk about,
and that was the ATM scheduling and the planning.
So why don't ! - oh - whoops, one thing here. On
the ATM conference message for MD56, we have a
typo here. Oh, in the words at the beginning
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about two-thirds down, we say "near central meri-

dian passage (mission day)." That's my lousy
handwriting being misinterpreted; that's actually
mission day 6h. The only reason I mention that
is mission day 69 doesn't appear on our schedule
and mission day 64 does. So, why don't I turn
it to you and let you bring it up how you want
to here.
009 18 57 21 CDR Okay, Bill. I guess I pretty much told you the
story over the air-to-ground a little earlier
today, about what the Sun's looking like. Right
now, Ed's off the limb th - about there where
active region 17's about ready to come over.
And we see some faint prominences. And he's
doing a little work on that. And concerning the -
the ATM scheduling, we were a bit alarmed last
night when we saw how little ATM Ed had today
and how much I had, and we didn't - didn't seem
to think - it didn't appear to us that it was
really necessary. Like this one coming up could
have very easily been traded, and of course we've
done it now. And, considering the fact this is
our last whack at some of these hot longitudes
and the opportunity to get some - some flarerise,
we're certainly in favor of increasing the ATM
time if we can, up - at least one more rev. It
looks like the average for the next I0 days or so
that you sent up looked like 6 to 6-1/2 revs per
day. And, we kind of think it would be a whole
lot better if we could go for more like 7 or
7-1/2 revs. And let's fact it, Ed is the guy
who's most creative at the ATM because this is
his bag. And I think that Ed ought to have a
minimum of four runs per day, and Bill and I will -
will bat cleanup on whatever is left. But any
time it's at all possible to schedule Ed for this
stuff, he's the guy that ought to be here, not us.
009 18 58 57 MCC Okay, Jerry, we appreciate the input. And one

thing l'd like to say here is that both you and
Ed, in particular, as the onboard solar physicist,
ought to make inputs like this anytime you have
thoughts of this nature. I, for one, will per-
sonally see that it gets into the appropriate
channels to be considered. And I'm sure there's
i00 people behind me that will back me up if I
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don't. But any Lime you 1_el thah things are

going right, wrong, or however, please do let us
know. We're not very good at guessing what's in-
side your mind. We will put your input on the
ATM additional orbits into the science planning
meeting tonight to be considered along with all
of the other science that goes into it. Inci-
dentally, the planning committee obviously does
agree with you and actually did before we sent
the message up. We inadvertently left off some
orbits for observing time every day that didn't
show up in the schedule you got. So, it sounds
like your bookeeping and ours is pretty much in
line. And - -
CDR Yes. Well, that's great. If you got some extra

orbits in for observing time, that - that's right
down Ed's alley, and I think that's what we ought
to have.
009 18 00 04 MCC That's right. The only difference there is that's

what the ATM world wants. That's not necessarily
yet what the ATM world will get. We have to throw -
throw our request in the hopper with everyone _-
else and see what comes out of the science meeting.
And we'll certainly put your input in and see
what we get tonight. Now, on the question of
giving Ed more of the given ATM orbits that we
get, Phil Shaffer's sitting here next to me and
he admits that today - or actually he wants me to
tell you that today - later on in the day was just
a flat-out flight planning error. And we'll do
the best we can to see that that does not happen
again. However, it looks to me like most of the
time it's a problem of constraints that other
things are requir - require the SPT. I've just
gotten a list of all the things for which the SPT
is prime and for those for which he is required.
And l'm going to look at that tonight, make some
suggestions as to how we can change it if that
looks appropriate, check it over with Vance and
Don and see if from their backup training they
don't concur that CDR or the PLT is capable of
doing certain things as well, and then make these
inputs into the flight planning group here. And
we'll keep you posted as to how that goes. But
hopefully we'll be able to relax some SPT con-
straints to that he can get some more ATM time.
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CDR }[ey, that's a very good idea, [_ill.
009 19 01 27 MCC Okay. And for right now I don't have too much
more to say about that. We'll be putting your
inputs in, like I said, along with the ATM plan-
ners into the the scienc meeting tonight. And
any time that you have any feelings that ATM is
getting shortchanged or, really, any other disci-
pline for that matter, please don't hesitate to
let us know. Your suggestion on the downlink
obviously gives the appropriate group a little
more ammunition and argument in trying to come
up with the best schedule for the day.
CDR Okay, Bill. We don't mean to sell short anybo<v

like EREP or any of those other - the major medi-
eals or some of those. But anywhere that suffling
can be done that can - can put us in a little
better position from the ATM standpoint, I think
we're all for it.
009 19 02 14 MCC Okay, fine, Jerry. And we'll keep you up. To-
morrow is Bob MaeQueen and he has a total of
about 15 minutes air-to-ground time on two differ-
ent passes to discuss the active Sun operations
with all three of you.
CDR That's great; we look forward to talking to him.
MCC Okay, fine. And I'ii be talking back with you

then - -
009 19 03 03 MCC Okay, Jerry. Sorry about that. We cut off on a

handover there. Bob MacQueen will be talking with
you tomorrow, and I'Ii be talking vis ops with
you tomorrow. And I'ii be back with the regular
ATM conference with you all on day after tomorrow,
then. And if you don't have anything more to add,
I'ii turn it back to Dick Truly here. And see
you tomorrow.
CDR Okay. Ed's got a real goody to pass on here in

just a minute. As soon as he can get free.
MCC Fine. We'll be standing here waiting.
009 19 03 45 SPT Hello, Bill.

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MCC Hi. Go ahead.
SPT I've been working this region on the southeast

corner and looking at the plage which we have
coming around the corner. We have the first of
all the plage for active region 15 and then some
coming around the corner a little bit beyond that
and a little bit lower. Extending from that plage
and further south n the XUV monitor, I can see
a - about a half of a loop; in other words, a
structure which is *** and which is very discern-
ible as a - well it just appears as a loop.
Usually - almost all the time in XUVMONITOR, we
see anything on the limb, it's a plage which ex-
tends all the way out. I have never been able to
identify anything in the way of a loop structure.
And here it's readily apparent and pretty much in
that region in the work we're doing now. And I
think on any other subsequent orbits I can pin-
point ***
MCC Okay, Ed. You - we just dropped out. We'll have

you again in a minute.
009 19 05 20 MCC Okay, Ed, we're back with you here. We had a
dropout there. And you were describing the XUV
mon and about a half of a loop and subsequent
orbit. Go ahead.
CDR Yes, he's going - going to try to do some work

on it in subsequent orbits. It's - even I can
see the loop, so it's there, and it's a real in-
teresting looking little feature. By the way,
Bil - Ed wanted me to tell you that we have 345
frames of 82B left, so we got one more of the
sensitive.
MCC Okay, l'm not sure what the story on that is.
There's an apparent miscount between the ground
and the air. And we think you took the last one,
but we can get back with you. And on that - SPT
working the loop that he sees, don't forget that
we've already said to you much earlier that any
time you see a situation that in your estimation
justifies changing our plan, go ahead.
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CDR Yes, I think this is one of those cases, and he's

going to do a little concentration on it.
MCC Fine. Just let us know what you do after you

do it, then.
CDR Okay.
009 19 06 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm back with you here. Bill's

still plugged in if you have any other questions
for us - for him. We have about 4-1/2 minutes
left here at - at Bermuda.
CDR Roger. I don't think we have any more questions.

That about covers the waterfront for today. Or
should I say the solarfront?
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. Incidentally,

these last few days really have been going well.
One thing that we've noticed quite obviously by -
by the way you guys are getting ahead, that - that
some of the flight planning times that we're
using are a little too big. And so any time you -
you feel like that we scheduled too much for a
given item, and particularly when that repeats
two or three times, let us know so we can chop
that down a little bit and get even more efficient.
CDR Will do it.
MCC Okay.
CDR Today's M092/93 went in about an hour and i0 min-

utes. But we think it was more of an exception.
What have we got scheduled for that right now,
do you know?
CC Stand by.
009 19 08 30 CC CDR, Houston. Our flight planning times for 92/93

is an hour and 30 minutes. And when we include
the limb blood flow, we add 30 minutes to that
for a total of 2 hours. And today was the limb
blood flow day so you've got 2 hours for both you
guys on the Flight Plan.
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CDR Right. Let's see. Last week_ as I remember,

on an M092/93 - or the week before last, we gave
you back 20 minutes on that. And I think if we
have an - the next one's as good as this, we'll
probably give you back another 15minutes at
least.
CC Okay. Well, it's your call, Jerry. Any time on

any of these, you thin - you find some ..., let
us know and we'll crank it in.
CDR Okay.
009 19 i0 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

Madrid comes up at 19:16.
009 19 15 59 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I've about got TV-103 ready to go.

Is there enough VTR time available today to do it?
CC Stand by, CDR.
009 19 17 25 CC CDR, Houston. There's about 20 minutes available

to you on the VTR. And our - our estimate is -
is that that ought to be more than enough for
TV-103. If you could get through with it before
about 23:00, that would help us out in cleaning
it off for tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Thank you.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Dick, I missed something before. They apparently

named the new active region 17. Could you give
me the location of that, please?
CC Ed, it's at 26/1.0. It's on the limb at 26.0.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
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009 19 20 57 SPT Houston, SFr.
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
SPT Yes, Dick. Let me describe a little bit more

what we were working this past orbit, and what I
see in the way of the XUV MONITOR. We were work-
ing over the southeast limb. We got a building
block - or shopping list 32, 26 and 21 run con-
currently, with a couple of repeats in there of
GRATING, AUTO SCANS in different positions. But
what we saw on the XUV MONITOR was coming down
from active region 17, a - about a half of a loop
and it extends down to about 200 arc seconds below
the region, which diverges from the bright XUV
plage, and finally contacts the limb there. And
l'd say its radius is something on the order of a
quarter to a third of a solar radii, and it's very
discernible. And I figure on subsequent orbits -
for one'orbit at least, we could point to it and
see if we can get some 82B spectra and some good
spectra on 55, then continue taking some long ex-
posures on the two X-ray instruments.
009 19 22 13 CC Okay, Ed. Copy. Let me see if our ATM guys have
any other suggestions for you, and I - we'll get
back to you.
SPT Okay. And we're reading 345 Up here. So far the

film counter has been for all purposes up here,
anyway, it's very accurate. If we do have 345,
then we got one more i01 film, and we could make
good use of it.
CC Roger.
CC And ATM agrees with you th - he thinks you're

correct.
SPT Is that on the frame count, Dick?
CC Yes, that's affirm. That answer was on the frame

count. He - he thinks you analysis of that is
right.
SPT Thank you.

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CC And, SPT, Houston. We've polled the Pls also;

they agree with your analysis of what you ought to
do in the - in the short time future on that half
loop and what you talked about, so they don't have
any further suggestions. We're about a minute
and 20 seconds from LOS. Tananarive comes up at
19:36. See you there.
009 19 23 27 SPT Thanks very much, Dick.
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009 19 36 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Tananarive for

7 minutes.
009 19 42 51 CC CDR, Houston, if you have a minute_
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
009 19 43 07 CC Roger, Jerry. And before I start, we're about

a minute from LOS, Honeysuckle at 20:01. Yes-
terday, there was a conversation about TV-101,
and we told you to use the VTR if you did it at
all. And we noticed that the VTR use didn't
come off yesterday. We're considering scheduling
TV-101 for the SPT on day 57 which is a couple
of days from now. But we didn't want to put it
on there for sure until we knew you all were ready.
And there was a little confusion on our part as
to whether or not you were ready for that one or
not.
CDR Okay, stand by just a second.
CC Okay, and if we drop out there is no hurry on

this. Any time this afternoon, if you'll just
let us know.
CDR Okay, Ed.
CDR Okay, Dick, go ahead and schedule it for day 57.
009 19 44 29 CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much. We'll do it.
009 20 00 47 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Honeysuckle for

9 minutes.
PLT Hello, hello.
009 20 02 12 CC SPT, Houston. When you get a chance we've had

a change in nu Z that's going to make us change
some numbers on the S063 Kohoutek maneuver pad
message 5525. And I'd like to update that pad
when you've got an opportunity.
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SPT Okay, Dick, st_id by a moment.
CC Okay. We've still got 7-1/2 minutes here at

Honeysuckle, so no big hurry.
SPT Go ahead, give me the numbers now, Dick.
CC Okay, Ed, l'm talking about the fine maneuver

which is about 5 or 6 lines down there and here
are the DAS entries: X should be 51050, Y should
be 51230, and Z should be 51034. The corresponding
degrees for each of those is X minus 0.4 degrees,
Y minus 1.52 degrees, and Z minus 0.28 degrees.
Over.
009 20 04 53 CC SPT, Houston voice check. Lines dropped out for

Honeysuckle there mo - momentarily, how do you
read?
SPT Okay, Dick, I read you loud and clear. How me?
CC Loud and clear. Did you get all those numbers

before we dropped out?
SPT Yes. They are 51050, 51230, 51034, and minus 0.40,
minus 1.52, a minus 0.28.
CC Roger, Ed. You got them. Thank you much.
009 20 07 07 CC Skylab, Houston. If any of you guys have been

looking ahead in your details and were planning
on picking up optional handheld photo at
22:17 Zulu, which is the laser, you can forget it
because the weather is clobbered in up there at
Goldstone.
CDR Roger.
009 20 08 02 CC SPT, Houston. When you get a second, I got a

note here from the S054 folks.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Ed. I guess I wa - I was used to you being

on the console, I really wanted the CDR. Sorry
about that.
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009 20 09 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 20:21. And CDR, Houston. Let me
read you this note anyway. At your option S05_
would like to operate in the M, S, O, L, 64 mode
for max of four repetitions while pointed at the
southeast limb around active region 17.
CDR Okay, Dick. Ed and I are going to swap out on

this particular ATM pass rather than the next
one. Looks like this one is just about as con-
venient as the other.
CC Okay, you can swap out on both of them if you like.

Your choice.
CDR Okay.
SPT Dick, is that MO- is that M, S, 0, 64?
009 20 09 57 CC M, S, 0, L, 64, Mike Sierra Oscar Lima.
009 20 20 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Aloha at Hawaii for i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. The old gimbal on the stop got to

us again. Just after you went over the hill,
we started losing attitude and had to put in a
3-minute maneuver time, STANDBY, and then back
to SI, and we're Just coming back in there now.
CC Okay, Ed.
SPT It was OUTER GIMBAL 3 pegged low.
CC Okay.
009 20 21 04 SPT And for the ATM folks, the XUV monitor now shows
that that one little thin loop which I was talking
about is now - it's very diffuse, and I cannot
identify it the same way as I could in the pre-
vious orbit. So it's changed appreciably within
one orbit. We did get some Sun centered work done
in the very beginning of the orbit, essentially
building block 2, with the STANDARD MODEs of 52.
And 54 got the GRATING IN, 256 EXPOSURES. And I
was just going over to work up on it - work on it
and set up on it, looked as though I was getting
some oxygen counts around 30 seconds off the limb
with around 400. And we were just going to get
some GRATING going when we started driftingoff
attitude.
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CC Okay. Thank you for the update.
SPT Fortunately, Dick, it looks as though we're

going to get back on the attitude here Just in
time to make the other maneuver, so I don't think
we'll have any more time for solar work.
CC Roger, Ed. It's kind of a bad break.
009 20 30 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. Goldstone

in a couple of minutes. I'll call you there.
009 20 32 43 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone for 7 minutes.
009 20 34 17 CC Skylab, Houston. One item on the ATM configura-

tion, request the H-ALPHA l, NIGHT INTERLOCK switch
to NORMAL.
CC We see it. Thank you much.
009 20 37 18 CC Skylab, Houston. Yesterday you guys were sched-

uled on a housekeeping shopping list for house-
keeping 28 Echo, which is the RAPID DELTA P and
fire sensor verification. We didn't see any
indications on our downlink TM that you ever got
that done although you've might have sandwiched
it in at a time we were not recording on subframe 4.
We'd like for you to con - confirm that either
you did or didn't get it done yesterday because
if you didn't, we'll put that back in the hopper.
SPT Roger, Dick. That was done.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you.
009 20 38 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

at Goldstone. Bermuda is about 4 minutes away.
I'll call you there at 20:44.
009 20 48 07 CC Skylab, Houston. Bermuda for 3 minutes.
009 20 50 09 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS; Canary at 20:53.
009 20 53 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. Canary and Ascension for

15 minutes.
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009 20 55 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got the Flight Plans

coming up here at Canary a_d Ascension. And,
for the CDR, there's _i innovation in tomorrow's
Flight Plan that l'd like to speak to you if you
have a minute sometime during this pass, 12 minutes
remaining.
CDR This is a product of the innovative purple team?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Do I need to have it in my hand?
CC No, I - I believe it's simple enough that I can

describe it to you.
CDR Okay, innovate away, sir.
009 20 56 01 CC Well, it turns out that the only put - the only
thing that we listed in the Flight Plan was the
time-critical items which is [sic] a few science
things that are attached to the ephemaris and
soforth. And we decided to leave the eating, PT,
- showers, anything else that you want to do up
to you guys. So there's a great expansive -
expanses of open space there, and we figured
that you might like to decide how to schedule
that as well as we do.
CDR Okay, very good. And why don't we do that every

day? You just send us up a big shopping list.
CC That's exactly what I recommended.
CDR Do I hear the FA0 mumbling a little bit there?
CC The FAO has been mumbling and grousing for the

last 6 hours (laughter).
CDR Hey, Dick, TV-103's on the recorder.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you.
009 20 57 06 CDR I hope.
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SK_LAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
009 21 07 26 CC Skylah, Houston. i minute until LOS, Honeysuckle

SPT Roger, Dick. So long.
CC I lied, though - Crip will see you there. I'ii

see you in the morning.
CDR Hasta manana.
SPT Hey, purple team, thanks for working on the Flight

Plans so well today. Appreciate it.
CC Yes, sir. We really - these last few days have

really been going good. And you guys deserve a -
a day off. They've really been some nice days.
So we'll see you tomorrow.
009 21 08 22 SPT So long.
009 21 38 07 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. Crimson crew is with

you, AOS through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
SPT Hey, it's the voice of the Crimson Cripper.

Hello, crimson team.
CC Roger. We've been loafing for a couple of days

and thought we'd come back and work with you guys
a little bit.
PLT I was going to say, it was about time.
CC You're right. Truly was telling me that while

we were loafing, you guys have been tearing into
it lately.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be doing a data/voice

recorder dump here.
009 21 40 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We had a little keyhole drop

out there. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump through Honeysuckle here.
CDR Roger, Crip.

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station contact is Hawaii in 13 minutes, at 21:58.
And Ed, we'll be standing by to do that 82B PRS
test at that station. And in case you haven't
got it handy, that general message was 5358 Alfa.
SPT I have it, Crip. I'ii be standing by ready to

go.
009 21 58 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Hawaii for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. We're sitting 40 arc seconds off

of the right limb and ready to go to LIMB SCAN.
CC Okay, Ed, copy. But you're very weak.
SPT Okay, Crip. How is this? A little better?
CC No, that's still - still very low. Understand

you're ready to go -
SPT Stand by. Stand by.
SPT Okay, Crip, how do you read now?
CC Ah, that's good, Ed. And you've got a GO to

select LIMB SCAN and also, if you're not planning
on using the VTR for a little while, we'd like
to go ahead and take it, and rewind it so we can
do some dump over the upcoming CONUS pass.
SPT Okay. I had missed the VTR on the previous ATM

pass. If they would like me to pick that up any
time soon, I'ii let you folks manage it one way
or the other. It's fine with me. Go ahead.
Okay, going to LIMB SCAN now.
SPT LIMB POINTING now.
CC Copy.
SPT Back to LIMB SCAN now.
SPT We're 20 arc seconds above the limb. We're going

to go to LIMB SCAN.
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009 22 O1 16 SPT MARK.
8PT LIMB POINTING -
009 22 01 51 8PT MARK.
SPT LIMB SCAN -
009 22 02 14 81:_ MA__.
SPT We're right on the limb. Let me give you 15 sec-

onds here at LIMB SCAN.
SPT LIMB POINTING -
009 22 03 15 SPT Now,
SPT Back to LIMB SCAN -
009 22 03 36 SPT Now.
SPT We're 20 inside the llmb. I'ii give you 15 sec-

onds of LIMB SCAN.
CC Roger, Ed. And we're still copying the thing.

It's being unstable though.
SPT Right now from here, it's holding at - -
CC Okay, that one's hold/ng.
SPT -- ... 19.
CC Roger. Okay, copy that one holding.
SFT Going to LIMB POINTING -
009 Mow.
SPT That's going between 18 and 19 - -
CC Yes, that one looks pretty solid.
SPT - - ... holding as good as it ever did.
CC Just naming that one looks pretty solid here.
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SPT Okay, going to minus 40. Going back to LIMB SCAN.
SPT We're at minus 40.
009 22 06 05 SPT Going to LIMB POINTING.
SPT Okay, Crip, it looked unstable except at the

minus 20 and minus 40.
CC Roger, Ed. Copy that. And I -
SPT It looked a little more unstable in LIMB POINTING

than it did in LIMB SCAN. Maybe it just took a
little longer for the thing to diverge, however.
009 22 06 45 CC Okay, we're about 45 seconds from LOS. Next

station contact is going to be Goldstone in
4 minutes. And we'll - we do have your VTR and
we'll probably give it back to you right after
Goldstone. I'ii let you know there.
SPT Okay. Would you like to see any more of this

test, Crip? Or are you through with it?
009 22 07 09 CC You can go ahead and continue with the minus 180.
That is if you want to, Ed.
009 22 I0 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for

5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Crip. l've slewed from minus 40 to at

least minus 80 arc seconds twice now and it goes
up to minus 50 at the appropriate point and just
hangs at minus 50 in LIMB SCAN. Would you like
to watch? And I'm set up for another one.
CC Okay, that's fine, Ed. That tells us what we need

to know.
009 22 12 40 CC SPT, Houston. I guess that really concludes the

test for us on the 82B PRS. And I guess what we
can conclude from that that indeed there is a
degradation in the video level and that it's not
operative except when you're on the disk itself.
And since really that's - the system was designed
to work off the limb, it's really not going to -
not going to do us any good.
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SPT I thought what it did, Crip, was to measure a

line above the slit and one below it, and see
when that saw a step function in light and from
that calibrated - or calculated the offset that
you had. And it seems to me that it wouldn't -
shouldn't work any better off the disk or on the
disk.
009 22 13 31 CC Ed, as I understand the system, that - there is

a variation, it's not a step function at all.
It is a variation in voltage, sort of an analog
system, dependent on how far off the limb you are.
CC And - -
SPT Thank you, Crip.
CC Okay, and it is a function of limb darkening,

basically.

see you again in 5 minutes over Bermuda.
SPT Okay, Crip. It doesn't look as though we're going

to be able to squeeze in the Sun center work for
52. Would you like for me to put that - try to
put that on the VTR on a subsequent orbit?
CC If you can work it in, we would appreciate it,

Ed.
009 22 16 06 SPT Okay.
009 22 21 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda. We have you

for l0 minutes.
009 22 23 37 CC Skylab, Houston. The VTR belongs to you guys

again.
SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. I see here that we don't

require any VTR be done on this. I can give you
the information, although I have not gone through
a full standard cycle, but I could give you the
pointing information on the WLC null, Sun center
pointing calibrations.
CC We'll take it.

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SPT Okay, to gel the ri_ig centered around the occult-

ing disk, I ended up with a fine SUN SENSOR
read-out of UP/DOWN of minus 30 and LEFT/RIGHT
of minus 45. The error needles that I was looking
at - in UP/DOWN was plus 8, and in LEFT/RIGHT,
I neglected to go TIMES 10, so I can't give you
that readout. All I know is that it was full -
full-scale right. It became full-scale right
when I was at a LEFT/RIGHT of minus 12. So
I went an additional 13 are seconds out after the -
after it hit 30 or full scale right. I can do
that again and pick up - pick it up with TIMES lO
although I think that information may do.
009 22 25 07 CC Okay, Ed, thank you.
SPT The question was also addresssed here of whether

we'd be able to do this during our regular Sun
centered operations. And I don't see why not,
it's just as easily done as the other pointing.
CC Okay, that's good information. Thank you.
SPT As a matter of fact, Crip, if we have another

sunset and operation coming up on the pad, which
I see we do - well there's our standard patrol
at the end. Six - JOP 6 step one, building
block IA, IB, we can go ahead and do it then if
they like.
CC Okay, let me get confirmation of that one, one way

or the other.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Crip, you may be interested in knowing that the

comm improved when I used our little handheld
mike in the - It was barely audible, apparently,
to you folks when I was using a comm carrier and
a full headset.
009 22 26 28 CC Okay, we copy that. Is that the headset youVve

been normally using?
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SPT It's not my headset. I - it's one of the other

guy's. I don't see the - the name on it right
now but I did bend the mike pretty much down to
the nominal position. Although I guess I could
have come a little bit further. I think the
handheld mike works real well if you hold it in
the right position. And I think we've learned
how to do that.
CC Roger. It sounds fine with me.
SPT Crip, could you give me the time and the antenna
for my phone call today_ please?
CC Roger. It's our next pass, at Ascension 22:37.

That's about 9-1/2 minutes away. And the ANTENNA
is RIGHT.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Ed, regarding the - doing the Sun-centered

operation with 52 on the upcoming BBI. I guess
we'd rather think about that for a couple of days
before we give you a GO on it.
SPT Okay, that's fine, Crip, just let us know anytime.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Hey, Crip, are you ready to copy a photo log?
CC Yes, sir.
009 22 28 27 PLT Okay. 16-millimeter: EREP 24, Charlie Lima ii,

72 percent. Nikons: Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 39,
reading 13; Nikon 02, India Romeo i0, reading 26,
that assumes 9 frames taken for IR photos later
on this evening; Nikon 03, Charlie India 113,
reading 37, and that anticipates using 6 frames
for IR photos later this evening; Nikon 04,
Bravo Echo 09, reading 26; Nikon 05, is reading -
Bravo Hotel 06 is reading 07 and it anticipates
using 3 frames for $233. EREP set X-ray, 0109,
2290, 9833, 9195, 0966, 9883. Drawer A configu-
ration: no change.
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009 22 29 50 CC Okay, Bill, we copy that, and we'll see if we cau

get your film thread up fairly shortly. One item -
we've got a couple more minutes here. But l've
got a mod to make to your 183 pad, and if you've
got it handy next pass over Ascension in about
7 minutes, I can give it to you there. Or, we can
get it a little bit later if you'd like.
PLT I think it's Jer's pad. But I can take it.
PLT Oh, you mean 183. Yes, okay. I'll take it.
Right.
CC Okay. Do you want it now, or do you want to wait

a little while?
PLT If you've got it, you can go now.
CC Okay, all it is on the first field, the Kohoutek,

which is PLATE 25, we want to change the TILT.
It should be 19.1 vs the 24.3.
PLT Roger. Understand. Make it 19.1 instead of 2h.3.
009 22 30 55 CC Roger. That's correct, thank you very much. And

we're 1 minute from LOS and next station contact
is 6 minutes over Ascension at 22:37 and we'll
be set up for Ed's phone call there.
009 22 37 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension. We have

you for l0 minutes, l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger, Jet, And if Bill is available, one item we

need to - to get an update on is Bravo Victor 28
was offloaded out of Nikon 02 today, I believe by
Ed. And we need to - to get a status on that
one for our records down here, please.
PLT Roger ....
CC Okay, no hurry.
PLT Frame count - frame count was ll.

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CC Okay.
009 22 42 12 CC PLT, Houston. For your information, Bill, we do

have your film thread on board. And it might be
a good idea, if you have an opportunity, to check
it and make sure that it came up okay.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Roger, there was - we had a little line hit -

while - during the process of uplink.
PLT And, Crip, just for the records, there has been
no change on the Drawer A. The film prints they
had last night had a - some of the 100's digits
were left off. I think 126, 127, and 128, but
it was rather obvious what they - what was intended.
CC Okay. Copy that.

station contact in 23-1/2 minutes; Carnarvon at
23:10. See you there.
009 22 46 59 CDR Okay, Crip.
009 23 i0 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon for

10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Hey, Crip, I got a little legal question for you.
CC Well, you're not asking the right guy for a legal

question, but I'ii try to get a - get a lawyer
to answer it for you. Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Oh, you're a good sea lawyer. If - if we declare

butter cookies to be legal tender up here and if
Ed buys one ATM pass from me for two cans of
butter cookies, whose menu does it get counted
against?
CC That's definitely too complicated for this sea

lawyer.
CC We can probably charge ATM with the science time

just required to figure it out.
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CDR See, I knew you weee a sea l_wyer.
CC No, I have to credit that one to Flight.
009 23 12 39 CC And, CDR, Houston. I guess our recon_nendation

would be to - let them float on a free market and
see what - what their value comes out at. Let
it be established, a little free trade there.
It's a sad day when you end up using butter cookies
for monetary value though. You ought to have
something better than that on board.
CDR It's better than fecal bags.
CC Especially used ones.
CC Go, Ed.
SPT Say, Crip, earlier today I mentioned that I could

see a loop structure in the XUV monitor. On the
next pass it had pretty much become very diffuse
and barely discernable and now it's back again.
And l'm at a position which is a little bit away
from it, and I'ii be working in pretty soon. Al-
though I don't have too much longer in this pass.
The thing came up, then became very diffuse, disap-
peared nearly and now it's back again. So l'm
going to try to get a look at it now. I got about
i0 or 12 minutes to do it.
CC And, Ed, if you can get around to it, we would

recommend GRATING, AUTO SCANs on the loop structure.
009 23 19 40 CC And, SPT, Houston. Also, Ed, if you can work it

in we would appreciate an 82A exposure of that loop
structure, recommend WAVELENGTH, SHORT, 40-second
exposure.
009 23 19 59 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station

contact in 4 minutes over Guam at 23:23, and
we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
009 23 23 47 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Guam 9-1/2 minutes. And

we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
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009 23 31 37 CC SPT, Houston, there you got a moment?
SPT Just a moment, please, Crip.
CC Okay, no - I - no sweat.

station contact is Goldstone in about 17 minutes,
at 23:50, 23:50. And, Ed, what I was calling you
about was nothing critical, though. No sweat,
just forget about it.
SPT I just had to close out the ATM and get the
maneuver started here, Crip. And I'ii talk to -
with you over Goldstone.
009 23 33 00 CC Ok - Okay, no sweat. Just go ahead and press

on with your maneuver.
009 23 49 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone.

Got you across CONUS for about 18 minutes.
SPT Roger.
SPT I am ready to listen to the golden voice of the

Crimson Cripper.
CC Well, it is that - what l've got to tell you - what

I was going to tell you awhile ago is no longer
important, but I got something else to tell you.
When you were running the 133 mal earlier today,
I guess we feel that there may be a - a break in
the panel assembly to the SIA cable which was
remade by moving the hardware around during the
tape change. And prior to doing the 133 run to-
night, we would like for you to change out that
cable with the spare one that's located in 913.
009 23 50 47 SPT Okay, Crip. I'ii go ahead and do it. What's

kind of strange, though, is that that signal cut
out about 2 min- 2 hours after I fell asleep.
So either it's got something that doesn't take
very much mechanical stress or l'm a pretty violent
sleeper.
CC You want me to comment on that? About your violent

sleep, Ed? No yo - you're absolutely correct
that it did stop about 2 hours after. And I guess
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what we feel is that perhaps there is a - maybe

a - a little break in the - the cable such that
it's just sort of intermittent with - that could
be caused by mild movement.
SPT (Laughter) Mild movement, Crip?
CC How would you like me to phrase it, Ed? Do you

thrash in your sleep?
PLT You're too much, Crip.
009 23 51 59 SPT Crip, l'd like to request a private conm with you.
CC No, thank you, Edward.
SPT Hey, Crip, off that subject. I got an easy one

for you.
CC Great. I need one.
SPT When looking at rice seeds in agar growing in

zero g, how do you tell the root from the stem?
CC I was trying to think of a good answer, hut I

haven't got one. We'll look at it.
009 23 53 45 PLT Crip, I got an easy one for you.
CC Go; I need another easy one.
PLT Our subject is T002; it's a serious question.

Filter 2.6, does that de - mean filter 1 and 1.6
both? In other owrds, they both add up to 2.6
and I assume that's what it meant. Would you
check that?
CC Will do that for you.
SPT One other thing, if you would, Crip. We need two

more names. We got two more little - little furry
fellows up here.
CC You got some more of those white and hairy things

running around?
SPT Wel]. they're kind of dark and hairy. When you

look at them under the magnifying glass, they're
really kind of interesting little guys.
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009 23 54 34 CC Copy. They're dark and hairy?
CC We'll try to think of some good names, for you, Ed.
SPT I think we'll call them Harry and Harriet.
CC You've determined their sex, of course?
SPT To tell them apart, Crip, what you do is you

scream, "Hey, Harry, here comes your wife," and
the one that starts running - that's Harry.
CC You're getting better all the time, Ed. You take

Henny Youngman's joke book up there with you?
PLT What's the weather like down there today, Crip?
CC Well, it's been sort of cloudy and warmish all

day. But we're supposed to have had a cold front
move in. And I haven't heard the results of it,
whether it got here or not. l've been locked up
in this little building for most of the afternoon.
009 23 56 28 CC I don't know if you copied that, Bill, but I was -

it was pretty warm today. Somebody tells me it's
getting - got up to 80. And the cold front we're
supposed to have come in late this evening is
going to drop it around 40 degrees tonight, which
is kind of chilly for us Southern boys.
CC And, for the PLT. Bill, your assumption was

correct on the filters. The i and the 1.6 total
up to the 2.6.
CDR Okay, Dick. He copies. Or Crip.
CC Either one. We both answer.
009 23 59 06 CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to talk, Jer?
CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC Roger. I guess l'm not sure exactly what refer-

ences were made to it today, but there is no re-
quirement for a EREP tape ehangeout for the pass
coming up tomorrow. The - the mount we've got
on is adequate for it.
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CDR Oh, that's good to hear.
CDR Have the guys on the gromld figured out when that
switch got thrown? How long it had been running?
009 23 59 45 CC Let me get a verification on that for you, Jet.
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SKYLAB AlE-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
009 23 59 47 CDR Yes, last time I remember throwing it was when I

did a film advance check at - right after loading
the S190 film.
CC Okay. And that - that was when it - when it was

thrown. And it's - I guess, we figured it was
about 15 to 20 minutes.
010 00 00 04 CDR That's a goodly amount of tape.
010 O0 00 22 CC Yes, that - you're right, it did run off quite a

bit, but we still have an adequate amount to do
the pass. No sweat.
010 00 00 30 CDE Great. Thanks, Crip.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Crip, on tomorrow's schedule we got a lot of good

open time, which means that we can do some of the
things which we'd like to do up here. And I'd
like to do ATM. What I'm wondering is, how many
passes, if I took the one which I have starting
at around 14:30, and we've got them going up
through the maneuver. How many passes would that
amount to? That's up to the - I guess, the ETC
prep. And, well, probably the maneuver's what
will cut it off.
CC I'll check that for you, Ed.
010 00 06 39 SPT Thank you. And also, I imagine they've got some
unattended ops planned, if I don't take it and
there's some things they would like covered. That
being the ease then, they may want to send up an
abbreviated schedule, ATM pad or just give it
to me over the - the loop. Either way is fine.
CC Okay, Ed. We can get answers to you for those.

And we had been planning on giving you some
general guidelines, and I'll give you some more
details on that on our next station contact. And
we're about 30 seconds from LOS now. And we'll
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have you again over Carnarvon in 40 minutes.

And that's at 00:48, 00:48. And also, we'll be
standing by to get the evening status report from
Jer then.
010 00 07 46 SPT Okay, we'll be ready. Thank you, Crip.
010 00 47 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon, and we

have you for about 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. You ready for evening status?
CC Yes, sir.
010 00 48 27 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy and 0.5 light;
SPT, 6.7, 6.7 heavy; PLT, 7.0, 6.0 heavy and
1.0 light. Volumes: 2400, 3850, 2700. Water
gun: 8353, 4277, 0389. Body mass: CDR, 6.318,
6.315, 6.314; SPT, 6.349, 6.352, 6.348; PLT,
6.248, 6.246, 6.249. Exercise: CDR, SPT, and
PLT, no change to the standards - from the stand-
ards. Now, beginning tomorrow, we are making a
change to our standard. Bruce pointed out last
night that we didn't give you the complete word.
So some of it is repeat, and some of it is new.
So these are the following changes to our standard
exercise patterns. CDR, method Foxtrot: we're
dropping the springs, and the toe rises are now
15 minutes, 400 repetitions. For the SPT, method
Bravo: the position Bravo plus curls, 25 minutes,
200 repetitions each; method Foxtrot for the SPT,
drop the springs, and the toe rises are now 15 min-
utes and 400 repetitions. For the PLT, method
Foxtrot: cancel out all the springs, toe rises,
i0 minutes, 400 repetitions.
010 00 50 28 CDR Okay, moving on. Medication: CDR, Sudafed last

night; SPT, none; pLT, Afrin today at 18:00.
Clothing: CDR, socks; SPT, trousers, shorts,
shirt, and socks; PLT, shorts, shirt, socks. Food
log: CDR, salt zero, minus two coffee with
sugar, plus one black coffee, minus one lemonade,
rehydration water, plus i.0; SPT, 11.5 salt, plus
a lemonade, plus two lemon puddings, plus tuna,
zero rehydration water; PLT, 4.0 salt, zero de-
viation, zero water deviations. Flight Plan
deviations: all changes were - that were done
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were reported on air-to-gro_d. Okay, shopping

list assignments: T002-3, filters i/ - i/i;
T002-1, stars ii and 12, and this data's on
tape at 02:20 last night; T002-1, stars 12 and 16
are on tape at 11:45 to 12:00; TV-104 - I reported
earlier that - on the VTR, it was 103, but it's
104. It's the gyroscope television that was done
today. All housekeeping was done. More T002;
this time it's -2, star 12 and Moon far limb,
that's on tape at 18:10; TOO- T002-2, star ii
and the Moon far limb, filter 1.6, and that's
on tape at 19:25. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage: none. And that does it.
010 00 51 54 CC Okay; very good, Jer. l've got a couple of

questions here I would like to run by you. I
think they - well, the first one is - somebody's
going to have to scretch- scratch your memory
a little bit. On ED72, which was scheduled, oh,
almost 2 weeks ago on day 358, we did not copy in
any of the voice transcripts that came down that
the capillarytube modules either the water or
the oil, was done. And we're wondering if you
can help us out on that to confirm whether or not
it was done.
010 00 52 42 PLT Okay. That was done, and I put a complete nar-
rative on the tape, I thought. But apparently,
it's fallen through the crack. It was the oil
in the wicking material, the woven material. And
I have notes made because the - the ll-minute
• film did not show any significant movement of the
oil up the wicking material, so I had - I made
sketches and - oh, at about 2-hour intervals
over a period of about 6 hours until we had to
move it for a meal. Let's see, that's about all
I can remember about it, other than the fact that
I did report it and I do have the sketches in
my notes.
010 00 53 30 CC Bill, we - we got the bit on the wicking material

which - which is the screen wicking assembly.
But in addition to that, portions of the experi-
ment include a - a capillary assembeely - assembly -
can't talk anymore - for water and then one for
oil.
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PLT Okay, those were not done.
CC Okay, I can assume then that the - the modules

for those are still available, is that correct?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, thank you.
010 00 54 16 CC Okay. And if Ed is available, I have a message

regarding this ATM pass, if he can copy.
SPT Sure can, Crip; go ahead.
CC Okay, I'd spoken to you once before just at the

end of a pass. It was before we started that
last maneuver, and you pro - probably didn't
get it. It was - was going LOS. But, if the
loop structure that you reported earlier is still
evident, 82A would like to observe it and get a
couple of exposures on it during the building
block IA.
010 00 54 55 SPT Crip, l'm still trying to figure out what l'm
looking at there. Sometimes the loop structure
is present and sometimes it's not in the XUV
MONITOR. I had just about had myself talked out
of believing that there really was a loop and it
was nothing but absorption by a prominence on -
lying underneath it. But then the fact that it
comes and goes and the fact that the magnesium X
intensity was up around 200 to 250, which is what
you'd expect from a loop, still has me questioning.
And l'm really not sure what the heck the darn
thing is. I real - I'ii take another look at it.
If 82A would like to go along on a gamble, because
l'm not positive right now, I'ii go ahead and
give them an exposure. I'ii give them a long
i minute and a - and a short for 20 seconds, if -
which is their standard, if they'd like.
010 00 55 _i CC We'll take it. And we're going to have a keyhole

here for about a minute, and I'ii call you when
we're out of it.
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010 00 57 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of the keyhole, and

contact is over Guam in 4 minutes at 01:02. And
we'll be do - doing a data/voice recorder dump
there.
010 01 02 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Guam, and

_._' we have you for about 8 minutes. We'll be doing
a data/voice recorder dump here. Ed, we see your
ATM TV on the VTR, and we've assumed that you've
completed that. If you have, we'd like to go
ahead and take it and rewind it so we can dump it
over this upcoming CONUS pass.
SPT Give me about another 40 seconds, Crip. I will

be through with it.
CC Okay, if you just let us know when you're through.

And, Ed, also for your information, in reviewing
r the pointingtest that you did earlier for us
on 52, we'll tentatively change one Sun-center
operation per day to the null pointing beginning
with mission day 57, be day after tomorrow.
SPT Okay.
010 01 03 13 CC You know, we just started day 56 here. I guess,

since originally that was all that this - this
mission was supposed to be, everything should be
gravy from here on, right?
SPT It's getting better all the time, Crip.
010 01 03 26 CC Roger.
010 01 04 23 SPT Crip, I'm through with the VTR.
CC Okay; we copy, Ed. And sometime when you get a

chance, I'd like to talk to you a little bit more
about 61 and 62.
SPT Now's a good time, Crip. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I 'm being told that the root always emerges

first. It's going to be colorless and will
remain so, and will also been - begin to develop
root hairs. And it doesn't say they're white and
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hairy, but I assume they are. Also, that the

stem emerges as an end-rolled leaf in a thin
membrane and will turn green in a few hours after
it emerges.
010 01 05 14 SPT Okay; thank you, Crip. I guess what l'm looking
at then are the roots, around about - oh, about
a third of them or so have emerged, and I put it
on tape this morning.
CC Okay, very good. We did have a question regarding

that a few days ago. You guys had reported the
light that this thing was near on - I believe it
was near light number 7 - had been bothering you.
And we'd like to know if - if it has been moved
away from that particular light and, if so, where.
And have you taken any light meter readings?
SPT Crip, no; we've decided it's not really a problem

there, and it's remained there. And we have taken
light meter readings. They were put on tape also.
As I recall, they were - at one end were 20, in
the middle were i0, and 5 on the other end.
010 01 05 58 CC Okay, we got that. Could you roughly estimate

how far that container is away from the light?
And is - is it offset linearly - I guess one of
the questions we had - I believe you gave us a
reading of about 20, and our spec on it said
it'd be - should be putting out about 40.
SPT Crip, this is mounted exactly where it should be,

exactly where the Velcro is placed and where the
decals call for ED61/63, right at the top of the
right-hand side of the panel in the 0WS. l'm not
sure what number it is, 613, 614, somewhere along
in there.
CC Okay; that's fine, Ed.
010 01 06 47 SPT Light meter readings were taken in exactly the

same way as call - that's specified. And the
way we've worked before with a - a white piece of
a checklist page. And I believe we got fairly
representative values. I rotated the page around
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to make sure we weren't getting any - losing any-

thing by reflection, and it remained constant.
So I believe we were getting the true value.
010 01 07 07 CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
010 01 09 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS_ next

station contact is Goldstone in 16-1/2 minutes
at 01:26. And that's set up for your reed
conference.
CDR Roger.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIFIIION
010 01 38 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you for about 2 more min-

utes across the States here.
SPT Crip, as soon as we get the $233 done here, I'll

power up some displays and give you a frame count.
CC Okay. That'll be fine. Thank you, sir.
010 01 40 06 SPT Are you ready, Crip?
CC We're ready, sir.
SPT 12252, 4132, 151, 343, 4326, 3998.
CC Copy it. We are 30 seconds from LOS. Next station

contact is over the Vanguard in about ii minutes.
That's at 01:52.
CDR Hey, Crip. On this S233, I might suggest to them

that maybe we wait a little longer after sunset to
take the comet pictures. I'm all through with the
sequence, and the comet's still out in the clear.
And that first one, there's so much light from the
Sun yet that - that it probably isn't any good.
010 01 41 05 CC Okay, we got that. Thank you, Jer.
010 01 52 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at the Vanguard. We

have you for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. The comet is still about 5 degrees

long. It really - it - it's really hanging in there.
It's not as bright as it has been in the past. It's
getting a little dimmer, but it's every bit as
long. And once you get dark adapted, you can see
it. Have you folks been able to see it on the
ground yet?
CC Well, we've had a little problem with clouds around

here lately. (Laughter) And times that we don't
have the clouds - I was going to sneak out tonight
to see if I could look at it. We've had several
people that have reported observing it from the
ground.
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CDR They getting it right after sunset, or about what

time of the evening are they seeing it?
010 01 52 58 CC Yes, it's about 1 hour after sunset, about the best
time to - to view it. Jer, while I've got you here,
tomorrow being your day off and you guys can sleep
in. Right now the first pass that we would plan
on calling you would be at Bermuda at 13:28.
CDR Okay, that sounds sterling. Have the coffee ready.
CC Well, we'll see if we can work on it. And if Ed is

listening, I can talk to him a little bit about the
ATM ops that he requested for tomorrow.
CC Roger, Ed. In addition to the two revs that we've

currently got you scheduled for, there are five
more revs available at which we had scheduled un-
attended operations. And you are welcome to any or
all of those. And ve are not giving specific
information on the schedule pad for them; we're
still listing them as unattended ops. But if you
want them, they're all yours. And we are putting
some items on the SAAT shopping list, things that
you might consider.
010 01 5h 19 SPT Okay, Crip. I'd like to take a fair number of them
and perhaps all, depending on how the day works
out. I'll certainly let you know though tomorrow
as - as we progress so that the people can EREP?
CC Yes, sir; all of those that I've spoke of are before

theEREP pass.
SPT Okay, Crip. Why don't - why don'% you figure that
I'll take them, And I'll - I'll let you know if i
have to duck out any of them, but I'll give you
plenty of notice.
CC Okay. And you have to take into account, that doesn't

leave you very much time for things llke PT or
eating or showers or what have you.
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010 01 55 05 SPT Yes, that's right_ Crip. That's why I got to take
and look the schedule over a little bit more tonight.
CC Okay. Why don't you ponder it over and just let

them know in the morning what your druthers are.
And the first one of that seven is the one that
we've got noted on your - on your sln_mary plan,
that's around 14:30 so -
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Okeydoke.
010 01 55 30 SPT Crip, I had a little observing time this orbit, so

I went over and looked for that elusive loop
structure and found some indications in neon VII
that we had something going on there, had counts
up around 20 or 30 or so. However, that was about
58 arc-seconds off the limb at - right around in
the region that I suspected that there _as something.
But just up north of that, about 2 arc - 2 or
3 arc-minutes, there were counts which were a - a -
a little bit higher than that even, although there
was nothing that I could see other than scme plage
extending up from below. But I really didn't have
time to research the area very much. But it looks
as though there's something up there, and I can't
be sure whether it's a - a loop structure or a
prominence which is just occulting the coronal
emission from the active region behind it.
CC Okeydoke, very good. And we're going to plan on

spending the evening ops here unattended, kind of
working on that particular area. Would you -
010 01 56 39 SPT Yes, I say there's some pretty strong emissions

from that region. So you're going to find something
interesting no matter what your - what your intent
is.
CC Very good. We appreciate you observations and

bringing it to our attention.
SPT The WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH display, Crip, is pretty

much as we've discussed it all day long, except
there is a fairly diffuse streamer developing right
around 280 -well, maybe running from 260 on up to
B00. It's just very deffuse in the WHITE LIGHT
CORONAGRAPH display.
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010 01 57 17 CC Copy.
010 01 58 38 SPT Crip, for the medical folks_ I did change out the
umbilical leading to the SIA, and I also changed
the umbilical leading to the cap.
CC Okay, we copy that ; thank you.
SPT The only thing left to change out is the cap and the
observer - or the sleeper.
CC You mean the subject there, yes. You're not hinting,

are you? We're about i minute from LOS. We're going
to go ahead and say good night to you here, guys.
If you need us for any reason, the next station con-
tact is not - not until Vanguard, which is at 03:03.
And also, in case you happen to be up there, we're
going to be doing a data/voice recorder dump at that
site.
010 01 59 43 CDR Roger; good night, Crip.
SPT Good night, Crip.
CC I'm sorry, if I - that was Goldstone I called at

03:03. Good night, guys. Have a pleasant day off.
PLT Same to you, Crip.
OlO 02 O0 03 CC I'll go think about butter cookies and what you can
trade them for.
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010 13 28 55 CC Skylab, Houston; good morning to you. You're at

Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes - correction, Bermuda
for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
010 i3 3_ _0 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Canary comes

up Just a couple of minutes from now at 13:37.
010 13 36 41 CC Skylab, Houston; Canary/Madrid for ll-1/2 minutes.
010 13 42 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 6 minutes

here - here at Madrid, and any time you guys get
the sleepy out of your eyes and want to hear some
news, I have it. Also, one note for the CDR. May
be a little late to help you on this, Jerry, but
I thought I'd tell you what the real requirement
on the S201 prep is prior to the ops. You notice
we stuck it in your Flight Plan there as - at
lh:00. What we want is to make sure that the prep
gets accomplished at least 30 minutes prior to the
time of the ops so that there'll be time for the
experiment to outgas and - and not hurt the data.
So if that'll help you in sticking it in your
morning's activities, have at it.
CDR Okay, Dick; thanks.
010 13 43 13 CC Okay.
010 13 47 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS; Carnar-

von comes up at 14:13. See you there.
CDR Roger.
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O10 14 13 20 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for i0 minutes.
CDR ... the news.
0C Skylab, Houston; say again.
CDR Roger, Dick; you can hit us with the news, if you
want.
CC All righty, why don't I pass it up to you. Presi-

dent Nixon's proposed budget will call for a higher
increase in defense spending than earlier esti-
mates, Budget Director Roy L. Ash says.
010 14 14 38 CC Skylab, Houston. I fell into a well there for a

minute; sorry about that. How do you read now?
PLT Read you 5 square. Say again all after President

Nixon.
CC (Laughter) Okay, sorry about that. President

Nixon's proposed budget - sounds like it may hap-
pen again. Hang on.
010 14 15 48 CC Skylab, Houston; I'll try it again now. Looks like

we're locked up pretty good, if we can keep squared
away here. "President Nixon's proposed budget will
call for a higher increase in defense spending
than earlier estimates, Budget Director Roy L. Ash
said. Ash said the increase will exceed $5 billion,
and sources indicated it could reach $6 to
$8 binion.
CC Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger will leave

Washington tonight to visit Egypt and Israel.
At President Nixon's direction, the announcement
said, Kissinger will make the trip in order to
assist the parties in the negotiations on the
question of separation and disengagement of their
forces in the Sinai Des - Desert and also along
the Suez Canal. The trip would be Kissinger's
third to the region since the October war. In
Geneva, Switzerland, Egyptian and Israeli army
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officers wound up the second week of troop pull-

back talks amid indications they are marking time
pending new high-level decisions. They adjourned
their sixth meeting since December 26 after 90 min-
utes, making it the shortest yet. The next round
is scheduled for _Tesday.
010 14 17 00 CC Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe has signed a Texas

Highway Commission order reducing the speed limit
on the state's highways from 70 miles an hour to
55, effective January 20. The Commission approved
the order after a brief hearing Tuesday, and
Briscoe signed it later in the day. Texas would
have lost $240 million in federal highway funds
if it had failed to reduce its speed limit to 55.
A bill signed by President Nixon on January 2
orders the Secretary of Transportation to dis-
approve highway projects in states that fail to
cut their speed limits to 55 in order to save fuel.
CC Bing Crosby's doctors believe he has an abscess

and lesion in one lung that might be the result
of pneumonia. The 69-year-old singer has been
hos - hospitalized ll days with fever and chest
pains. His condition was reported stable and
satisfactory Wednesday. Tissue samples were taken
from the lung lesion on Wednesday and tests for
cancer were negative.
010 14 18 02 CC A science teacher in Roanoke, Virginia, doesn't

like the return to daylight savings time, but has
put it to good use. Mrs. - Mrs. Leeta Sink had
the students in her 8 a.m. science class at James
Madison Junior High School plot the course of the
Moon as it went down and the Sun as it rose. It
was a new experience for some of them, she said.
Some had never seen it.
CC Here's one about the Navy. Twelve sailors who

returned home aboard the aircraft carrier Hancock
claim a world's record in a previously nonexistent
athletic event, relay team Jogging over water.
The sailors spent 36 days, or 4660 miles from
the Indian Ocean to San Francisco Bay, jogging
around the carrier's flight deck, night and day.
They estimated T_esday that they circled the deck,
or hanger deck in bad weather, nearly i0,000 times.
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l'ae_
We're definitely going to appiy to the Guinness

Book of World Records for a listing, said Lonnie
Adrian, 25, of Earth, Texas. No matter what time
of day or night it was, there was always another
man on hand besides the actual Jogger so the chain
was never broken.
010 lh 19 i0 CC Pennsylvania's daily ski report didn't come out

Wednesday because of a snowstorm. The State
Commerce Department, which furnishes the report
on ski resort - resort conditions, said the people
who compile it couldn't get enough - couldn't get
through the snow to work. In Buenos Aires, there
was a cigarette shortage due to labor problems.
Witnesses said one man waited in a long line,
found that his brand was out of stock, bit the
vendor, and fled the scene. And, CDR, Houston;
there's a - there's a Joke here that Flight is
going to make me read up to you that he thinks
you'll really appreciate. In Honolulu, U.S.
District Judge Samuel King provoked a mixture of
laughter and booing with a pun from the bench.
King was presiding Wednesday over the selection
of a Jury for a tax fraud trial when he was told
by on prospect - prospective Juror that she planned
a vacation to the island of Maul during January.
"Ah ha! Here today, gone to Maul," King cripped -
quipped as he excused her from jury duty.
CDR Arrgh!
010 14 20 29 CC My comments exactly.
CDR Thank you, Dick. We hope Bing gets to feeling

better.
CC Roger; me too.
CC SPT, Houston. For your information, the data

we got on M133 looked real good all night long,
so it looks like that one's worked out.
010 lh 21 17 SPT Thank you, Dick.
010 14 23 02 CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute, we're going

to hand over from Carnarvon to Honeysuckle, and
I'm not sure whether we're going to drop out or
not. But I'll give you a call when we're locked
up good at Honeysuckle.
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PLT Okay, Dick.
010 14 25 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're locked up at Honeysuckle

good now, and 3-1/2 minutes left.
010 14 27 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. MILA

comes up at 15:00.
CDR Roger.
010 15 O0 36 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside, for 13-1/2 min-

ues. And, Skylab, Houston. We're going to be
dumping the data/voice recorder here. And, PLT,
Houston. For your personal planning, your phone
call is scheduled this afternoon at 23:12 at MILA.
010 15 01 45 CC Skylab, Houston; having a little comm tro- trouble

this morning, l'm not sure exactly what portion
of my call went up or if all of it did. We're
AOS stateside for 12-i/2 minutes. We're going
to dump the data/voice recorder here. And for
the PLT, for your planning, your phone call at
MILA at 23:12 this afternoon.
CDR Roger.
010 15 13 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Madrid

comes up at 15:18. See you then.
CDR Roger, Dick
010 15 19 36 CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 6 minutes.
010 15 25 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Next

station pass is Carnarvon about 26 minutes from
now at 15:51. And, SPT, Houston. Are you getting
a normal image on the XUV MONITOR? We're not
showing anything down here.
SPT Yes, I am, Dick.
CC Okay. The indication - we had an indication on

the inner door that looked funny, but if you're
getting a normal image - appreciate the
information.
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010 15 52 45 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. You might want to review your

powerdown for unattended. We're about - a few
minutes here from daylight, and we're planning on
doing some unattended ops here. And also, a com-
ment for the CDR, if he's close.
CDR Roger; go ahead.
CC Jerry, we Just had the pleasure in here of watch-

ing your TV that you did on your gyroscope demon-
stration, and it was absolutely outstanding. And
I'd llke you to know that right after you gave the
little education about the CMGs and so forth that
Harry Clancy, our GNS, turned around and said,
"By gosh, Flight, I think I've got it."
010 15 53 57 CDR Hang in there, Harry; I'm trying to get it too.
CC No, it was really - it really was outstanding,

Jerry. It was a good demo.
CDR Thank you, Dick; appreciate the good words.

i
CC Roger.
SPT Say, Dick, in talking with Crip last night on to-

ds_V'S planning for ATM, the words we came up with
were that I was planning on working these ATM
passes up to the last one I had included on my
schedule, except for maybe one or two which I'd
try to tell you about. And I haven't mentioned
anything, so I assume that the ground was think-
ing I'd be taking these ATM passes. I may be
taking and ducking out of one there towards the
end, and I'll try and figure it out fairly soon
here. But you - with their concurrence, I'd like
to press on with a couple of more orbits here.
010 15 54 50 CC Well, I'll tell you what, Ed; that's absolutely

okay with us. And we will beat Crip on the head
this evening because the word we had was - is
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that you were going to let us know which passes

you wanted. And since you hadn't said anything
so far this morning, we weren't going to really
bug you about it. But why don'twe Just assume
you'll be taking the daylight passes until you
tell us different.
SPT Okay. Thank you very much, Dick.
CC Yes, sir.
SPT Dick, let me fill you in on a couple of things

I've been doing and looking at in the past orbit
or so.
CC Okay, go ahead.
010 15 55 48 SPT Okay. First of all, with the standard pictures

we've been taking, the corona now appears to have
a - a streamer at around 290, fairly faint but
not anywhere near as diffuse as it was yesterday.
It's getting a lot more organized, little narrow-
er, little - little more contrast. The ones
which were 230, 240 or so, now there appears to
be just one helmet streamer around 240 and a
spike at 230. That's the appearance it has; whe-
ther that's really - that's reality, I'm not - I
can't judge. We have one at - still at 300. It
used to be a spike a couple of days ago, and now
it's just become rather diffuse and spread - and
spreading out the further you go. That is, just
a - a wedge shape with the point of the wedge
closer to the limb.
010 15 56 43 SPT XUV MONITOR shows all the active regions, of

course, which we've spoken of plus a lot of limb
brightening at around 230 on up to 270, and a
good active region there coming around the bend.
That's the area which I've been looking at. And
we spoke of loops yesterday. I think loops prob-
ably is the incorrect term; they're more arches.
We're not talking about circles, if you will,
resting on the limbs, more arches spreading from
one portion of the limb to the other with maybe
about, oh, a fifth or so or sixth of a circle,
define - or that arch de - takes up only a fifth
or sixth of a full circle, if you will. Maybe
60 de - 60 degrees or so at the most. There are
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two arches which are discernible in the XUV MONI-

TOR, and I've Just spent a very frustrating orbit
trying to pin those down using the 55 instrument.
I was able to establish several peaks in neon VII
and a very diffuse one in magnesium X, and a good
one in oxygen VI. However, they don't n - really
coincide with what I'm really able to see in the
XUV MONITOR. I think I do have a reasonable
peak, though, to work with at around, oh, 244
degrees from solar north. So I'll be working that
one, then, the next orbit. I've spent a lot of
time this past one, Just trying to map out what
the situation is over there. I still have to ad-
mit that it's - it's not straightforward at all.
And I'll try to get - get it a little better in
hand on this next orbit and then start trying to
get some good spectra on the real interesting
points.
010 15 58 31 CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much for keeping us up-
dated and please continue any time you have a
chance.
SPT Will do, Dick. Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Dick, PLT. I'd like for you to check on something

for me.
CC Okay.
PLT Subject is TV-107. Recorded some stuff several

days ago and I'm getting ready to tear down the
equipment, and it suddenly occurred to me I had
not had a comment on it. Would you check and see
that that all got down and voice with it?
CC Okay, Bill. Hang on.

Honeysuckle comes up in 4 minutes.
SPT Dick, I see I missed the TV downlink on this past

orbit. If there's any way I can get that informa-
tion back to them, either VTR or TV downl_nk on
subsequent orbits, please let me know.
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CC Okay. Why don't you let me get back to you as to

the best way to handle that?
010 16 04 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for a

real short pass, about a minute and a half. Texas
comes up at 16:34
CC And, SPT, Houston; when we get to Texas, we have

enough time there right after Texas AOS to get the
TV downlink. So as soon as we're locked up good,
I'ii let you know there and we can pick up that
at that point. And, PLT, Houston. In answer to
your question on TV-107, we've called some of the
folks over at Marshall to - who have taken a look
at all the downlink and - to ask them. However,
it's going to be a - a little while before we get
an answer. So if it isn't inconvenient to you,
we'd appreciate it if you wouldn't tear it down
yet. And then after this - at the Mad - at least
by the Madrid pass that follows this next state-
side pass, we'll get you an answer.
PLT Okay.
CC Thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go.
010 16 05 23 CDR Hey, Dick. A little historical question. Can

you research and find out for us what day it was
that we lost CMG l?
CC Sure thing.
CDR Hey, Dick. I just realized. We've got a master

anomaly list; we can get that information
ourselves.
CC Well, as a matter of fact, I was looking in the

master MAL here and - and going to look it up for
you. We'll get it to you.
CDR Okay.
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CC It was day 327, Jerry, we think. We - we're

checking that.
CDR Okay.
010 16 06 09 CC That's correct, 327.
010 16 34 30 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Texas stateside for

6 and - 16-1/2 minutes. And, SPT, Houston; we're
ready for the TV downlink.
SPT Okay, Dick. I'm working off the limb so the best
I'll be able to give you is the XUV MONITOR, but
I'll go ahead.
CC Okay.
PLT Dick, a quick question for the photo people.

i
CC Okay. Go ahead, Bill.
PLT I have this handheldof the tree infestationup

in New England and have IR f_]m, and I'd like a
se - recommendation for the setting using the
Nikon 300.
CC Okay. i
O10 16 38 05 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer. h
CDR Roger. We're looking at that big circular green

structure inMexico City again. I shouldn't say
structure. It's manmade, and it's kind of - it's
got concentric rings and they've got a few squares
of tan in it and - but for the most part it looks
like green -fgreen grass. It's very, very large.
I don't think it's an athletic field. I think
it's more like an agricultural experiment area or
something.
CC Does it look like it's outside the main - city

proper or in - inside of it?
CDR That's affirmative. It looks like it's outside of

the city.
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CC Okay. We'll continue our search.
010 16 38 53 CDR It's northeast of the airport. And, oh, it must

be l0 miles outside the - the main part of the
city, and probably l0 or 15 from the airport.
CC Okay, Jerry. That_ks for the additional informa-

tion. We'll - We'll track her down yet.
CDR Looks like the duty cloud bank's still sitting

over Houston.
CC Roger that. It just won't leave us. We've been

hoping it'd get clear around here so everybody
could have a chance at looking for the comet after
sunset, but no joy for the last few days.
010 16 41 03 CDR Mississippi's really spewing out the mud and silt
today.
PLT Hey, Dick. If you can get those settings, I'm

getting ready to take these pictures of Cape Cod
as soon as I get this maneuver in.
CC Okay. I got them right here, Bill. You ready to

listen?
PLT Go.
CC Okay. In general, we'd like you to use the set-

tings for the CX film exterior on the still camera
exterior photo cue card. However, for this up-
coming opportunity, here are the numbers: Sun
angle is 20, f-stop is 4.5-1/500.
PLT Okay. That's the word I wanted to hear. Thank

you.
CC Yes, sir. Incidentally, Bill, I also have a

couple of words on TV-107, when you get a chance
this morning. Might help if you have the TV 0ps
Book when we talked about it.
PLT Okay.
010 16 48 17 CC SPT, Houston. On H-ALPHA l, request NIGHT INTER-

LOCK switch to NORMAL when you get a chance.
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CC Okay.
PLT And, Dick, Cape Cod was under clouds. Couldn't

get that phot O . YOU might have the people check
!! _ their window. They called out the wrong STS win-
_ " dow. Should have been S-2, I think, instead of
S-4. ! r
CC By gosh, we'll sure check it, Bill. Thanks for

trying; sorry about the weather.
I. PLT Try again next time.

i
CC Sure.
010 16 49 51 CC Skylab, Houstbn; we're a minute to LOS. Madrid

comes up at 16:55.
SPT Talk to you then, Dick. On the XUV downlink,

which I just isent down, the best integrations
I've found for viewing it without a persistence
image scope are around 2 to - 2 to _ seconds;
probably 3 is about the best. You can see just
the bare hint of an arc structure. You can not
really discern that the intensity drops off as
you go in, however. You can just barely make it
out. I can _ee it a little bit better on the XUV
MONITOR with the persistence image scope, how-
ever; and I was able to get a peak in neon VII
this past orbit and get some spectral data on it.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
SPT Dick, one thing they shouldn't be led astray on,

which I think got me on a couple of occasions,
is there's some little tick marks on the center
of the XIYqMONITOR, and those tick marks will ob-
scure part of the plage and tend - you think you -
that you're seeing something that you're really
not; that is, a - an arch when it's - really isn't
there. And I had to move off those tick marks ...
010 16 51 22 CC Roger, Ed. We're going over the hill and losing
you here.
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010 16 55 18 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 6-1/2 minutes.

And, SPT, Houston; we did copy your comments
about the tick marks on XUV MON when you - as you
were going over the hill. You did finally go
down in the mud, though.
010 16 56 _5 CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry I missed your call. Say

again, please.
CDR Did you say you missed the SPT's comments?
CC I got the SPT's comments as we were going LOS at

the last site, about the ticks on the XUVMONITOR.
I understood - COMM TECH told me that you called
here at this site, and I did miss that.
CDR Okay. We were just checking to find out what you

had and hadn't gotten at the last one.
CC Oh, okay. Well, we did get Ed's comments as -

but he did finally go down in the mud, but we did
get his comments about how the tick marks could
fake you off on - on observations on XUV MON.
CDR Okay.
010 16 57 4_ CC And - and a reminder Just for Bill. Again, I -

I have the information you asked for on TV-107
any time. We've still got _-1/2 minutes here.
CDR He'll be right with you.
CC And, Jerry, one comment for you. We've - have a

couple of people on the team who have been down
to Mexico Ci - City recently, and they advise us
that about l0 miles to the northeast of the city,
and we did find on a - on a map of Mexico City a
little dotted circular line that looks like
there's something out there, although it isn't
indicated what it is here. He says out there
there's a large lakebed sort of a thing that is
in - intermittently - has more or less some water
in it and it's used for tour - boat tours and -
and that kind of thing. And it sounds like it
might be just about in the right spot. So we
can't say that's what you're looking at, but if
you see any water in there that very likely may
be it.
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010 16 58 49 CDR Well, the surprising thing is, Dick, is that it's
a perfect circle and it's - it's got zones in it
of different colors of green andsome brown, and
it looked more like grass than anything.
CC Okay. Well, we're continuing to think about it

but that was the best ind - best suggestion that
we could give you right now.
CDR Sounds like the right ro - location, though.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, Dick; I have TV-I07 out.
CC Okay, Bill. First of all, they reviewed all of

it and got a couple of comments. First on
page A-15, item B-II; they never - they believe that
you didn't do, which was doing the same thing
with colored water that you had done with alcohol,
or if you did do it somehow or another that Just
didn't get down. Also there was a pen and ink to
this procedure that - that added a single step,
which was item Echo that should have been put in
at the bottom of page A-16. Do you have that in
there? That also wasn't done.
010 16 59 56 PLT That's affirmative. That was not done. I couldn't

develop the skill to do that Echo at the time.
I'll - I'll work on that and see if I can get it
to do that.
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010 17 00 07 CC Okay. One more comment, on - on section A down

there around step - well, when you do that business
that's illustrated there on the page - bottom of
page A-14 where you put the little needles in the
ball. They had a suggestion - you did follow the
procedures very well that are listed in the book.
They did have a suggestion that might make that
show up better if you would ever care to do that
again. And that is, put the needles - or wire,
I think you were using - into the ball of liquid
and let it stay there until the oscillations are
completely damped out and then, very rapidly,
simultaneously remove the two pieces of wire from
each side of the ball and - and then continue to
take TV of the - of the ball so that we could look
at the oscillation, the type oscillations and so
forth as they get damped out.
010 17 O10l CC I would like to make the point to you, though, that -
I don't know what you guys are doing today, and
you can certainly do anything you want to do, but
the TV for this science demo certainly comes beneath
the priority of you guys using it for your own -
whatever you guys would like to put on the VTR
today. So don't feel like we're asking you to do
a bunch of extra work today that you hadn't planned
on. It's strictly up to you.
PLT Sure. Understand, Dick. And, also, that last item

you mentioned doesn't work. I tried the wire - Just
the points of the wires in the bubble, and you can
pull them out and very little happens at all. And
they mentioned the thing going from a pancake to an
oblong ellipsoid, and you don't even get anything
approaching that. All you get is the tiniest little
vibration.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. We're about

half - we're about 30 seconds from LOS. And
Tananarive's coming up at 17:19.
010 17 01 57 PLT Okay.
010 17 19 ll CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for a sched-

uled 4-1/2 minutes. We might drop out a little early
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this pass. If we do, Honeysuckle is at 17:42. And

a couple of notes for you guys. SPT, Houston.
If you're going to run the next ATM daylight cycle,
I do have a note.
SPT Yes, Dick.
CC SPT, Housotn. We dropped out there for Just a

second. The note that I had for you, if you're
going to run the next pass, is we would like for you
to rep - to perform a building block 2 for a midday
synoptic. We'd like you to omit 82 Alfa and per-
form a 55 MIRROR AUTO RASTER, DETECTORS all, GRATING
zero.
010 17 20 26 SPT Okay, Dick. I sure will do that. I've been giving
them a building block 32 at the beginning of each
one of these orbits so they do have some synoptic
on it but not in the STANDARD MODE. Also, I'll go
ahead and take the orbits on up to the EREP, which
we'll be doing later this evening. So Just let
those folks on the ground send up any information
they would - or anything they'd like me to do - go
ahead and carry it out. What I plan to do now is
to go on back to that loop structure and try to
roll, get right to the exact same position in
that ROLL, to give 82B a position off of that loop
in a - pretty much in a quiet region, but in - the
exact same distance from above the orbit - the limb
and give them a background structure - or a back-
ground spectra. And then also give 54 a fairly
long exposure, greater than 17 minutes. I'll roll
in a way which will give them good dispersion.
010 17 21 21 CC Okay, Ed. The only thing we see in - between here

an/EREP for you is those science conferences. So
that sounds like a good plan to us. I thought I'd
pass up to you - I did have a mission note here
for you that was only to be read up in case you
asked for something to do. Why don't you let me
just tell you what their thoughts are and then you
can - but, strictly your choice. First of - -
SPT Okay.
CC First of all, there were a bunch of shopping list

items on the SAP that I'm sure you're wor - I sure
you've already read and are working into your
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observing time. Also, the - you might consider

running the no-EREP alternate ops that were sche-
duled on - at 22:23 on the - that's a no - no-EREP
alternate, ATM schedule pad; that's a consideration.
And also S052, sometime, would like another WHITE
LIGHT CORONAGRAPH Sun center null pointing test,
if that's convenient. I'd like to reiterate, though,
that there's no priority im - implied in any of
these, and if you - from your own observations,
if you thin - think that something else would be
smarter than any of this, have at it.
010 17 22 25 SPT Okay. Ask them if they'd like to have that done -
that null pointing done with their building block 2
coming up next orbit.
CC Okay. That's affirm, Ed. That'd be Just fine.

And we're about a minute from LOS. Honeysuckle
comes up at 17:h2. And I did have one short note
or amplifying remarks for Bill Pogue on the TV-107.
Your description of those very tiny oscillations
were - were kind of interesting to the guys. And
if you do do that again, they would like to see
that on TV. If you do it, be sure that the thing
is as stable as possible prior to extracting the
needles from the - the little bubble, because in
some cases in the othe/ demo, the oscillations
already present at the time that the needles were
taken out made it kind of difficult to analyze.
010 17 23 18 CC So Just use your own Judgment on that.
010 17 41 50 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Honeysuckle for about

a - another short pass for about a minute and a
half. Goldstone comes up at 18:10. 0nly thing
I had here at this pass is when we get to state-
side next time, we wanted to repeat the little
procedure that we did several weeks ago with you
guys when we got in contact with our contractor
facility up in St. Louis. We wanted to pull a
couple of circuit breakers over about a h- or
5-minute period and that will require, if you guys
can support it, either CDR of PLT to help me out
for h of 5 minutes up around panel 200. We're try - -
CDR Go, Dick.

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CC Okay. We're still trying to chase down our funnies

in telemetry subsystem.
PLT PLT on the panel STS.
010 17 42 41 CC Okay. We're not going to need you, Bill, until we

get up during the next stateside pass, which is
when you're in contact with St. Louis. The time,
incidentally, on that is 18:16.
010 17 42 55 PLT Roger.
010 18 i0 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for about

ii minutes. And I'll give you guys a call when
we have data from our - from up in St. Louis so
we can get some help up at panel 200. That's about
5 minutes away.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Also, Jerry, I have a question here on flight plan-

ning. We've got a little idea that could help
us from time to time; namely, the first time it
could help us is in getting somebody a - possibly
getting somebody a straight instead of a split PT
tomorrow, but we're not sure it's okay with you.
CDR Okay; go ahead.
010 18 Ii i0 CC Okay. The specific question is we - you know, when

we run into some of those corollary maneuvers -
corollary opportunities that require a maneuver,
we have been pretty studiously avoiding giving -
showing in the Flight Plan that the maneuver for
that be accomplished by the guy who happens to be
sitting on the ATM console at the same time. If
the - the guy that is sitting at the ATM console
can work the maneuver execution into his operations
there every now and then, that - that opens a good
opportunity for us to take advantage of something
else. And we've got a situation that Phil and I
were just sitting here talking about on tomorrow's
Flight Plan and wanted to get your thoughts on it.
CDR Well, what do you say we try it? We've done it

once or twie up here, just kind of ad-libbed when
the opportunity presented itself, and let's try
scheduling it.
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010 18 12 06 CC Okay. We are not sure that - for tomorrow that

this is still going to work out because we're
still flight planning a little bit here, but at
least we'll try a hack at it. We figured it prob-
ably would be okay but just thought we'd better
check.
CDR Yes. Thanks a lot, Dick. Appreciate it.
CC Okay. Okay.
SPT I just want to know if it's okay for the guy

running the ATM to do it from ...
PLT Say, Dick, ... a question on handheld 20. Do they

want the Wratten filter on the 55-millimeter lens?
It's IR film.
CC Stand by. PLT, Houston. We want the filter on for

the facial photos.
PLT For the facial photos only.
010 18 13 08 CC Stand by, Bill.
PLT Dick, this IR coverage is snow cover. And - and

I don't know what the purpose of a - a Wratten
filter is unless it's to narrow the band pass.
So I - I just wondered if they wanted it for these
snow cover phots.
CC Okay. We'll check it.
010 18 14 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting data in St. Louis

now, so if somebody can go to panel 200 for _ or
5 minutes, we'd appreciate it.
SPT Yes, Dick. Bill and I'll try and work it. We're
both doing other things here, but go ahead,
CC Okay. Panel 200, the bottom row of circuit breakers

on the right-hand side: TRANSDUCER GROUP 1 PLUS
24 VOLTS, OPEN.
SPT Got it.
CC Okay. I'll give you another call in 2 minutes for

another one.
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CC PLT, Houston. Our photo experts tell us that you

ought to use that filter any time that you're using
IR film, so it's not just for the facial photos;
it's any time.
010 18 16 33 PLT Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Sure is a lot of snow down there.
CC You bet you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready for the next breaker

on panel 200 now. What we'd like now is TRANSDUCER
GROUP i MINUS 24 VOLTS, OPEN. I'ii call you again
in another 2 minutes to close them both.
SPT You got it.
CC Thank you.
010 18 20 17 CC Skylab, Houston; sure appreciate your help on that

panel 200 breakers. And we're satisfied with the
data we got now. You can close them both and - and
go back to what you were doing.
SPT Okay, Dick.
010 18 21 05 CC Skylah, Houston; we're going to hand over in about

30 seconds to Bermuda. We might drop in - drop
out for a second here. I'ii give you a call when
we're locked up.
010 18 21 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're locked up at Bermuda now;

st - got you for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Right now we're having a camera orgy.
CC Roger.
CDR It's the neatest day we've had in weeks.
CC Hey, good.
PLT You think it's cold in Houston, you ought to take

a look at Hudson Bay.
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CC I'd Just stoon - Just as soon to stick with Houston

this - this month.
CC Just think how happy all those Minnesota people

are going to be, coming to the Super Bowl down here
at this time of year.
CDR You think they'll go away happy?
CC Who knows?
010 18 26 57 CC Skylah, Houston; we're a minute from LOS. Madrid

comes up at 18:32, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder when we get to Madrid.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUnD VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
010 18 32 31 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Madrid for 9 minutes
SPT Hello, Dick. Looks like we have a little activity

over on the southwest limb, fairly good time rates
of change involved. Looks like a - a surge perhaps,
with a manifestation in H-ALPHA. I spent the - the
past orbit getting some spectral information on what
I thought was a fairly bright knot in longitude 6
with a count of around a little over 200, about
55 arc Seconds off. And I got some 82B and 55
spectral information on it. When I came back and
looked at it after I had gotten this information,
I found out that the count had gone down to 500
or so. So it was changing fairly rapidly. And what
I'm working on now is trying to get some MIRROR
AUTO RASTERs Just above the limb truncated, to try
and get some - look at that - whatever is happening
there. Apparently, had I realized it was changing
that rapidly initially I could're gotten a good
orbit's worth of timed data on it. But we did get
some spectral information on something which is
changing with time, but that's probably not the
optimum.
010 18 34 05 CC Roger, Ed; copy. Thank you very much. And,

incidentally, when we came AOS here I forgot to
warn you we were - we're dumping the data/voice
recorder here, so beware of that.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Dick, how about giving me a call as soon as you

turn the recorder back to us?
CC I sure - I sure will, Bill.
PLT Dick, PLT. Would you give me a call as soon as you

give the recorder back to us, please?
010 18 35 i0 CC Roger, PLT. I got your call and answered it; you
didn't hear me. We sure will.
PLT Boy, the - the red rock in that Grand Canyon really
shows up; very nice contrast with the snow cover
arolLnd the rims.
rf _
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CC Roger. I bet that is pretty.
PLT Jer and I should have gotten enough to keep the

doggone snow cover people busy for a year, just with
that one pass alone just then.
CC Roger.
PLT Also, just out of curiosity, would you ask some

of the geographers if there's a large mountain
range to, oh, say, 3, 400 miles to the northwest of
Hudson Bay up there?
010 18 36 34 CC Okay, PLT. We'll certainly look at that right now.
PLT I thought I say it. And, of course, Hudson Bay

opens up to the north in the Arctic Ocean, but it
looked like - oh, if you just took the center of
the big ball of Hudson Bay and go up about northeast
about 400 miles - looks like there's a very interest-
ing mountain range up there.
CC You - I think you said northwest the first time.

Is it east - northeast or northwest?
PLT It's northeast; l'm sorry.
CC Okay.
010 18 38 29 CC Skylab, Houston; the data/voice recorder is yours.

Thank you very much.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS.

Tananarive at 18:52. See you there.
010 18 41 06 PLT Roger, Dick.
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!
010 18 53 45 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive for 8-1/2 minutes.
010 19 00 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We have had a good bit of con-

versation today about photog - out-the-window
photography with IR film. There's one other
reminder that - that our photo folks wanted me
to pass on to you. And that is, when you take -
use IR film and take out - exterior photography
using it, that you ought to use, rather than that
infinity focus setting, you ought to use the
little setting that's with a red R. We're not
sure whether the R is red on the ring, or whether
there's a little red line next to it with an R
next to it. But, at any rate, that one should
be used rather than a - infinity for exterior
focusing.
PLT Roger. Thank you, Dick.
010 19 O0 57 CC Okay. And we're about a minute and a half from

Tananarive LOS. Next station is Honeysuckle at
19:18. And that's going to start the science -
conferences for today. I thought I'd run down -
down them real quick. Honeysuckle and Hawaii will
be Bob MacQueen talking about the ATM. Then
Goldstone is - we're going to have a guest,
Skylab SL-2 guy here. Joe Kerwin is going to talk
to you on the med conference. And then following
that, the next two passes, Bermuda and Canary
Islands, Bill Lenoir is going to talk to you.
Those two. And also, Joe Allen had a couple of
inputs on the science demos, and not sure whether
Joe's going to get a word in there or not.
PLT Okay, Dick. Copy.
010 19 01 53 CC Roger. See you there.
010 19 18 20 MCC Skylab, Houston. This is the ATM conference.

Good afternoon.
SPT Good afternoon, Bob. How are you?

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MCC Fine, you guys. Before we get into some ATM topics
let me make an operational note. And that is
that 82A would like very much to see a WAVELENGTH
SHORT 20-second exposure to record this activity
on the east limb that you've been looking at, Ed.
And that's pointed almost anywhere with a ROLL
of zero. In addition, 82A wanted me to pass on
that they would be interested in any exposures
that you feel are warranted by the activity
in the upcoming days. Over.
SPT Okay. Very good; thank you, Bob. I'll give

one right now; we're at ROLL to zero.
010 19 19 l0 MCC Okay. I want to discuss three topics with you

this afternoon, if I may. First of all, the
planned activity ops for the next l0 days or so,
as contained in the general message that you've
already received and made some preliminary comments
on. Most importantly, I'd like to talk to you
about some guidelines for use of a modified
building block 24 that'll be coming up to you.
And, finally, something about our air-to-ground
interaction over this period of solar activity.
Over.
SPT Okay, that sounds like a good plon - plan, Bob.

Go ahead.
010 19 19 46 MCC Okay. With regards to the scheduled observation

program, I wanted to run down what some of the
experiment goals were going to be over the next
7 to 14 days. First of all, S052; they feel
that the placement of the quiet and active limbs
is pretty ideal for both the performance of
J0P 9 and J0P 19 in the Alfv@n wave study. The
old west regions, which is now the east limb
structures, are among the more interesting that
they have seen on the TV downlinks during the
mission. Next, S054 will seek very heavy opera-
tions with nearly lO cycles of high time resolution
studies when the active regions are near central
meridian passage, using BB34's or 35's. They
also desire some high time resolutions when the
active regions are on the limb, using BB23. Their
film philosophy with regard to these studies and
particularly with regard to flares: it would be
better to shoot for flares and miss than never
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to have shot at all. The next experiment, 55,

has some very interesting new data. They're
particularly now interested in mini-MARs on the
active regions. And they will schedule these in
JOP 2 and other JOPs. They seek approximately
1-minute time resolution. This is because they
are not seeing the 300-second oscillation in the
upper chromosphere. So mini-MARs, they think,
may be very important for studying heating theories
on the solar disk and in particular above active
regions. Over.
010 19 21 22 SPT Okay. That's a - a good thing to be going at.

Are they interested in seeing transients of a
sporadic nature or organized wave motions?
MCC I think both, Ed; they particularly think that

the organized wave motions may be important with
regards to heating theories. Over.
SPT Okay. I hope they can see something along that

line. I - as you said, I - I don't think they -
I haven't been able to identify them with the -
with the 300-second oscillations. I'm wondering
if they've been able to de - find anything else.
MCC Yes, I don't think they've seen anything organized

at all down to this time period that they can
achieve with mini-MARs.
SPT Okay.
010 19 22 07 MCC Okay. $056 will expend the majority of their

film on the dispassage of these active regions,
using PATROL SHORTs and PATROL LONGs. They do
have plenty of film for flare programs to be
initiated. And finally, 82A is planning a high
time resolution sequence over a 36-hour period.
This will consist of alternate single exposures
in WAVET.k_NG_H LONG and SHORT, eacN orbit. They
will run unattended operations so as to fill in
that time resolution program. Then in one orbit,
they will run 22 frames in varying time intervals
so as to get a nested sequence throughout that
cycle. That whole program will extend something
like 54 frames, and as I said to you earlier,
they'd like to see exposures at your option when
activity warrants. Over.
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SPT Okay. We'll certainly keep that in mind, Bob.

And do they plan to schedule that for a specific
day at - say like right now, or are they going to
wait for certain solar conditions to arise?
010 19 23 ii MCC Ed, that'll he scheduled on a certain day, and I

think they want to wait until those activity -
the main regions are near CMD for optimal spatial
resolution. And we're 35 seconds until LOS. Let
me begin talking about BB24, if I may. The
philosophy of BB24 that has been discussed over
the past several days is to be in operation when
the onset of a flare occurs. And the rationale
is that we want to get increased flexibility of
BB24 to increase the probability of catching flare
rise. Now, there are two changes that we are
talking about in BB24. One is that S055 desires
a mini-MAR, option B. We'll uplink like that -
that change. And two, we desire that you don't
hesitate to run any or all the experiments at
will, whenever the opportunity arises in BB24.
This is in keeping with the good film. And I
think we're about LOS here.
SPT Okay. Will we pick you up again on the next pass?
010 19 24 18 MCC That's correct.
SPT ...
CC That's affirm; and that time - -
MCC - That'll be Hawaii in 15 minutes.
SPT Okay. One question for the 55 people. Right

now l've started the no EREP alternative -
alternate, and looking at the 55 maxi-RASTER.
They want to be above active region 17; the
pointing coordinates look as though I'ii be cen-
tered more above the equator than I will he below.
l've started with number 2_ which is at minus 120
and minus 1130. I wonder if they'd take a look
at that and make sure that pointing is correct.
MCC We sure will take a look at that right now.

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010 19 37 56 SPT Hello, Bob. I believe we have a good lockup; go

ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. We're A0S here at Hawaii for 7 minutes

and 30 seconds. And the ground would like the DAS,
please.
SPT Okay, they have it.
MCC Okay. On the - on the maxi-RASTER, it does look

like the pointing was a little far north on that.
And if you're in progress, indeed the intent is
over the activity on the southwest.
SPT Okay, it looks like I'll be able to pick them up

what they specified, plus I'll give them two more
to the south.
010 19 38 30 MCC Okay. Very good. Let me, then, pick up what we
were beginning to get into on BB24. And that is,
let me reiterate th - the second point which we've
discussed over the last few days. We desire that
you not hesitate to run - and that's the emphasis
here - any or all the experiments at will, whenever
the opportunity arises in BB24. And these modes
that you run, hopefully, will not interrupt with
interfere with your preflare observations. And
I'm going to return to that point in Just a minute.
For example, we could imagine you running several
exposures or sequence in anticipation of a pre-
flare in any of the experiments. We have read
your comments of 2 days ago on the use of the
monitors and the possible conflict with the above
operations that I'm speaking of. And I hope that
you'll comment further on this interplay between
observations of XUVbright points and the like
and the proposed operations. Currently, we do
plan operations, and of course now BB24 we'd like
to have more operations, completely at your dis-
cretion, on the active regions. But you have the
complete freedc_ to terminate, interrupt, or
otherwise change any of the scheduled ops, or the
building block 24 ops, to go into monitor watch
or flare wait, or whatever you think is necessary.
And the main point here, I'd like to sum up, is
that you should feel free to run the experiments
at will or not at all to make you most comfortable
with watching the activity change or the XUV
MONITOR. Over.
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010 19 40 16 SPT Okay. I understand that, Bob. And thanks very

much for that liberty. I think it's probably the
best way to increase - or give ourselves the
most favorable odds of getting a flare rise.
Again, that is a difficult thing to do unless
you're really watching it all the time. And,
unfortunately, you are a little hesitant to shift
out of a specified program in order to do that,
because you know most - or the majority of the
time you're not going to catch one. So you're
going to have to go through that phase several
times before you end up with good data. But we'll
go ahead and - and practice that.
MCC Okay. That - that sounds real good, Ed. And I

think the point that I'd like very strongly to
emphasize to you is that the experiments do have
film, so that you shouldn't hesitate to jump into
BB24 operations and to space some exposures out
over the duration while you're watching for these
changes in the hopes that you will be able to
anticipate the preflare. But we certainly don't
want you to feel constrained to initiate BB24 on
any one kind of phenomena. Certainly on an
impulsive point brightening you would initiate it.
But on any other indication you think may be a
precursor to the flare, the word is go.
SPT Very good. Thank you.
010 19 41 40 MCC Okay, the - the last topic has to do with our
interactions over these next l0 to 14 days. As
you recall, we found during SL-3 with the Sun
changing rapidly, the planned program could get
grossly out of data with what was going on in the
Sun. And to alleviate this possible problem we'd
like to suggest three things. First of all, that
you criticize freely the scheduled ops. Secondly,
that you modify, as we've Just discussed, the
scheduled ops. And three, that you attempt to
fill us in prior to, hopefully 18:00 Zulu, which
is the planning meeting time, with whatever verbal
descriptions of the Sun you think are appropriate.
And certainly, I think Jerry's description of
2 days ago was a model of clarity and we'd be
eager to hear such descriptions at any time
toward the goal of our changing targets and
scheduled operations. Over.
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010 19 42 hl SPT Okay. We'll go ahead and do that and probably

try to give you a little bit more in the way of
descriptions. We assume that you have a lot of
information at your disposal down there and some-
times realize that maybe the - you get it a
little bit late. And secondly, as far as my own
interaction on this, I can do that if I am getting
one or two passes in the morning which will allow
me to see where we stand that particular day.
It's rather hard unless I do that, however. As
a matter of fact, it's next to impossible if I
don't get to the panel.
010 19 43 19 MCC Right. And Phil tells me they try to do it.

It's not working out exactly right now, but hope-
fully they can do better. I think the sum of the
whole thing is, Ed, we - Jerry and Bill, that
whatever you feel is necessary to modify the
current on-going observations, we want you to
feel free to go ahead and modify those in the
hopes that you'll pick up interesting temporal
changes and/or preflare observations. And in -
in sum, we are certainly eager to see the flexi-
bility of the ATM utilized fully to study the
active Sun. As you're all too well aware, this
is the last time around after more than a decade
of this, and we certainly hope the Sun cooperates
and want to wish you good luck on catching some
goodies. Over.
SPT Thank you very much, Bob. We'll certainly be

doing our darndest up here to bring back some
new and interesting data on the active Sun. I
think the way you've specified it and the way
you've laid it out is going to give us the best
opportunity to do that; appreciate it.
010 19 44 25 MCC Very good, then. That's all I have unless you
have anything for me.
CDR Roger, Bob. Thanks for the hunting license.
SPT Bob, no, I have nothing further. Thanks very

much; I think you've laid it out pretty clearly.
MCC Okay. Then I'll turn this back over to Dick then.
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010 19 _4 54 CC Roger, Skylab. We still have about a minute and

40 seconds here, and Joe Kerwin is plugged in
here with me. We will - I'll Just give it to him.
There will be a break in here between Hawaii and
Goldstone, but I'ii Just turn it over to Joe.
PLT Hi, Joe.
CDR Hello, Joe.
MCC ... This is your friendly skybones with a little

update on the DTOs. You ready?
CDR Beunos dias, JosE.
MCC Hello, hello. How are you?
CDR Pretty good.
OlO 19 45 26 MCC Okay. Hey, we wanted you to know a few of the

good things we're learning from some of those
clumsy old medical DT0s. And we're pretty excited
about some of the data that you're getting for us
on the - the leg - the leg blood flow and the
muscle pump measurements. It seems like this all
is beginning to fit together in a picture with
the anthropometric measurements, the lower body
negative pressure, increases in - in leg circum-
ference, and so on. And it's saying things to
us like, initially on entering into zero g there
apparently is a tremendous egress of blood from
the lower extremities. And, apparently, it's in
the veins, because it's - it comes back so - so
quickly when you either put a cuff on the upper
leg or going into lower Body negative pressure.
And - but the really interesting thing is the -
is the trend in the data. Over a long period of
time, you guys, as you probably have noticed, are
beginning to - to flow less blood into the lower
legs un - under those conditions, so that there
are adaptive changes taking place. We don't know
what those adaptive changes are; we've got some
hypotheses, but we're very, very interested in
the trend in that data. And I wanted to know
whether you had noticed subjectively any changes
in your - in your reaction to LBNPD.
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010 19 46 55 MCC I think we're about to go LOS, and - for about

2 minutes, and you can answer that when we come
AOS over Golstone.
010 19 49 19 MCC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone.
CDR Roger, Joe. In answer to your question, I guess,

subjectively, I would say - we just t_]ked a little
bit about it now. I'd say, subjectively, if you
could plot something like tolerance as the ordinate
and time as the abscissa, that you would see we
came up here at a given level, and we - we sagged,
and we stayed fairly low until about, oh, 30 days
or so. And actually we reached the low point before
that; we were started up and we reached a plateau
a little after 30 days or so. And right now,
subjectively, we all feel very good in the LBNP.
010 19 50 08 MCC Okay. Well, I think that goes along with the -
with the blood flow measurements. And it's
interesting, because what it's saying to us is
that this may not be a question of - of total blood
volume at all, but rather how much of the blood
volume is pooled in the legs, and that there are
adaptive changes going on either in the tissues or
actually in the veins of the legs that are tending
to let you pool less blood. And the time course
of it's extremely interesting.
CDR Well, we certainly have noticed that it moves

around quickly because we tried a little something
here of doing a bunch of other toe rises and really
working the calves over and then immediately
measuring. And in Almost every case, our calves
were a half inch larger in dia -in circ1_ference.
010 19 50 50 MCC Yes. That - that makes a lot of sense. I'll just
briefly meantion another effort that you guys did
that - that has been looked at, and that is the -
the taste and aroma measurements that you took.
We think that data is - is extremely interesting,
although, as you noticed, it's - it's not at all
consistent. We're not surprised at that; there
are too many unmeasureable variables. However,
from an operational point of view, it emphasizes
the importance of having condiments in the - in
the - the space kitchen so that the guys can salt
or sweeten the food to their own taste. And this -
this will be an input to the Shuttle system.
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CDR Well, we certainly do agree with that.

i
010 19 51 34 MCC Okay. And I - l'd like to mention one more, before
I find out if you guys have any residual questions.
And that's a DT0 that - that has not come up to
you that - that is still under discussion, but
it - it has to do, Ed, with the light flash
observations that you have been reporting to us
during the mission. The implication that you saw
the light flashes primarily during the South
Atlantic anomaly is interesting and rather surpris-
ing to some of our radiation experts because they
postulated that the light flashes were - were
caused more or less exclusively by cosmic radiation,
which should be at a minimum there and that - and
that the light flashes should be at a maximum when
you're at maximum latitude. Therefore, we're
thinking about asking you on a - on a - some kind
of a shopping list basis, or perhaps scheduled,
to devote about 1/2 an orbit at some - it'd - it -
it would have to be an appropriate orbit, obviously -
to observation of light flashes and an attempt
at a - at a semiquantitation so that we could
find out whether they're - they're occuring up
in the horns or - or down in the anomaly. And
there obviously might be some problems you'd have
doing that. One of them is do you need dark
adaptation to do it? And it would take about
45 minutes or perhaps a little bit longer to make
one clean sweep through. We'd - we'd like you
to be thinking about that and telling us whether
you think it's feasible. Over.
010 19 53 09 SPT Yes, that will be a hard one, Joe, because many
times you might go a week or so without ever
remembering seeing one and then all of a sudden
it'll come on pretty strong. The other correlation
I did make is when we had a lot of activity on the
Sun. Now maybe I Just happened to be more restless
at that period of time, but all the data is spelled
out there for you. And it was in - in that partic
couple - instances there, pretty well correlated
with the activity.
MCC Yes. And that says cosmic says and the other one
says protons. And we're just not sure which is
which and it'd be interesting to find out. How
much dark adaptation do you think you are requiring
before these things become noticeable to you?
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SPT Probably about 5 to i0 minutes.
NK_C Uh-huh. Would you have any objection to - to

trying it on - on a scheduled basis if - if we
could clear out the time for you, sometime later
on down - downstream?
010 19 54 06 SPT No, I'll be glad to try it. And - you know it's
one of the easier experiments in the world to go
into the - the sack and close your eyes and look
at the light flashes.
MCC A little boring, I admit. Okay, that's about all

I had on the - on the list to talk about. Do you
guys have any questions or any gripes or any
suggestions about the medical DT0s?
CDR No, Joe, not offhand; we'll let the other guys
get their licks in if they have any. One thing -
we got the food inventory up this morning, and
it's become apparent to us that you people down
there don't have any idea what's in overage. We
Just took a sample case. We looked at bread.
As best we could tell, the - the overage has got
a bundle of bread, and there's only a requirement
for 7 more in high density diets from here on out.
So I thought we'd better take a - a food inventory
sometime today and get it down to you on tape.
010 19 55 08 MUC Okay, we'll be waiting for it. I know, Jerry,

that we - we ratted a lot of bread away in one
of those lockers because we didn't like the darn
stuff. So there's probably a lot of that up there.
CDR Yes, there's a bundle. We also got our eyes on

the ham slices and the fruit cake, too. We got
a couple of proposals to make there, or maybe I
should say propositions.
MUC Okay. We're 1 minute to LOS. If - if you don't

have any more medical comments, I'll turn you back
over to the CAP COMM.
SPT Hey, Joe?
MCC Yes.
SPT You talking DT0s or the - the total picture?

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010 19 55 46 MCC Total picture ir you like, Ed. I haven't talked

experiments because the experiment world is pretty
dull right now.
SPT l'm Just wondering what they're learning about

cardiovascular conditioning or deeonditioning.
MCC Well, of course, as you can tell subjectively,

your - your MI71 curves are - are darn near
straight lines. You're not really, based on my
rough look, exhibiting either conditioning or
deeonditioning musculoskeletally. And as far
as - cardiovascularly, you appear to be recovering
somewhat. And if inflight performance of LBNP is
a good gage for the first postflight experience,
I think that looks quite encouraging.
SPT Okay. I personally have also been able to

correlate a fairly good performance in LBNP with
amount of fluid intake a day or so previous - also
going along with salt intake. Now, apparently,
that's not been correlated quanitatively with
Jerry ...
010 19 56 47 CC Roger, Ed. We're going over the hill.
010 20 00 26 MCC Skylab, Houston with the visual observations

conference. And we've got a 6-1/2 minute pass here.
In 2 minutes we'll have a 1-minute keyhole. I'll
be able to copy you, but you will not read me.
So let's time it, and I'll let you talk for that
minute. Over.
010 20 O0 41 SPT Go ahead, Bill.
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010 20 O0 42 MCC Okay. I'ii just start off down the agenda that
you've got. The emphasis that we're following right
now is obviously concerned with the northern hemi-
sphere and we're emphasizing the northern part of
the northern hemisphere; the lakes and ice up at
the north-50 type sites. In particular, our prob-
lem here is Sun angles, as you've probably figured
out. We're coming up on several days where the Sun
will never get to 20-degree Sun angle for you in
the whole 2h-hour period. We've got this one
chance of about i0 days total to take a look up
here north before our lit portion of the orbit
shifts further south. We'll be concentrating on
the lakes, the ice in the lakes, as well as the
water circulation; the snow in and around the lakes,
the Great Plains and so on; and weather over the
lakes, much like you have been describing. Fre-
quently we will schedule them, and we'll send it up
as one site, assuming, of course, that you are going
to be looking at it all. If we ask you to look
at ice and you can't see the ice for the clouds,
well, then we've got a nice HH07 situation probably.
Does that sound reasonable?
CDR Yes, affirmative, Bill.
010 20 01 57 MCC Okay, another thought here. On the film status:

Right now on our film budget, we'ver very, very
fat on film. We've got all sorts of film. We'd
like more stereo if you can give it, and we're
sending up a message on stereo. Looks like we
are coming up on our keyhole. Let me stop talking
and why don't you talk, and I'll let you know when
we are on the other side.
CDR Okay, Bill. As far as film goes, we put a big

notch, a good-sized notch in it today; we've really
been snapping off a lot of film. Bill got some
coverage of Hudson Bay, which I didn't expect to
see. And there is a lot of good - what looks like
good, thick ice up there. The Gulf of St. Lawrence,
there is a lot of ice beginning to form up there.
And I Just got finished taking a Hasselblad shot.
And I took a Nikon 300 shot on the last rev, and
Bill took some Hasselblads. So, we are getting
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a lot of good - good ice. Ed has done some work

on cloud patterns over the lakes, and some of the
lee squalls and all that. Why not let him talk
a bit about that?
010 20 03 06 MCC Okay, Jerry, that sounds real good. That's exactly
what we've got in mind and what we're after. Got
a couple of answers for you here which - I'ii
answer your questions with a question after I give
you the first part here. On the features that
you've noticed in Minnesota - I should say feature,
singular, we're not sure what it is, is the sum
total of what l'm about to tell you. There is a
possibility of a large lake somewhere up north of
the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. But we're not sure
whether that's what you're seeing. There is another
interesting possibility here, and that is that
there is a structural basin in Paleozoic rocks
that's about 40 to 50 miles across. Minneapolis/
St. Paul sits right in the middle of it. However,
there's no known topographic expression of it.
The fact that you saw it in the snow may not be
contradictory to that, and we're just confused as
to exactly what it is. If and when you see it
again, give us all the details you can, and we'll
work some more on it.
010 20 04 07 CDR Yes, I was watching for it on this last rev when
we went over the Minneapolis area. And I'ii be
darned if I couldn't find it. It looks like the
snowmelt has now gotten rid of it, but we did get
a picture of it. So we've got something to show
you when we get back, if we don't see it again.
MCC Okay, very good. And in Mexico City, we think

what you're seeing there is a large circular dry
lake bed about 2 miles in diameter. It's called
Lake Texcoco, and we got this information from the
Mexican consulate here. It's about 12 miles north-
east of the center of the city. In arriving at
this we also considered a huge soccer stadium which
is smaller than that lakebed, and we also considered
a large tufted volcanic ridge, which is a circle
of dark volcanic rock in the center of which is
lighter rock. However, this - the diameter of
this - is bigger than the diameter of Mexico City
itself. So we feel it's the first thing I mentioned,
but not entirely sure that we can totally rule out
the others.
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010 20 05 00 CDR Yes, well, what confuses us is the fact that it's
such a perfect circle, and there's concentric
rings in it like a hull's-eye.
MCC Oh, sounds like a dry lake, Jer.
MCC Sounds - it still sounds like that dry lakebed

to us which shows up on maps, at least, very cir-
cular. We'll look at some more and let you know
if we change our mind. A - an answer to Bill's
comment earlier about seeing something up northeast
of Hudson Bay: we've looked our maps over here
and talked to some people, and it looks to us like
it's some mountains on the northeast coast of
Baffin Island, which is nothing short of amazing
because that's 65 to 73 degrees north that you're
seeing, and I would assume at very, very low Sun
angle by the time you get up there and very much
in relief on the horizon. Does that sound right?
CDR Is that the circular volcanic structure we were

talking about?
010 20 05 52 MCC No, these are the mountains that Bill thought he
saw northeast of the - of the bay, Hudson Bay,
up in Canada.
CDR Okay, I see.
PLT Yes. Well, the west side of the mountains, I think,

were catching the light, and that was why I was
able to see them.
MCC Okay, sounds like you were looking very, very far
to the north.
PLT I was.
MCC Say again.
PLT Yes, in fact, it was just - just inside the

terminator.
010 20 06 16 MCC Okay. We're a minute to LOS here. Canaries is

next in 3 minutes. On the Mexican upwelling, what
you saw there near the Gulf of Tehuantepec was the
same upwelling that was detected on NOAA 2. You
gave us very, very good description, much better
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resolution than NOAA 2 can get to. We thank you

for that. One comment here on deserts: You gave
us a report, not very long ago, on some fires and
smoke out in the desert near a factory and an
airfield. It disappointed us a bit that you didn't
mention anything about the wind direction; we want
to emphasize in the deserts in particular, wind
direction is important, as it is everywhere. And
future emphasis over and above what we're doing
now in the north: We're going to pick up the
African rift and drought areas; we're going to do
some dim light work; and we'll be returning to
southern hemisphere currents and to the rangeland.
And I want to emphasize that on a lot of things we
ask you to look for, the information that you do
not see the feature is a positive input; that's not
a failure, but that's positive information for us
to operate on. And looks like we're LOS now, so
we'll be seeing you later.
CDR Okay, Bill. The wind was from the north-northeast

on that fire.
010 20 07 30 MCC Okay. Thanks very much.
010 20 09 40 MCC Okay, guys, l'm back with you here for a few minutes
and then I'ii turn you over to Joe Allen. One
thing I omitted from the future emphasis, we will
be again looking at metropolitan complexes and try-
ing to finish that one off in a reasonable fashion.
PLT Hey, Bill.
MCC Yes_ go ahead.
PLT I have an input on the metropolitan area. Boy,

this snow cover is the greatest thing since peanut
butter for showing up city outlines and extensive
growths.
MCC Okay, great. That's good information; we'll try

to schedule it accordingly.
CDR Also, Bill, getting back to that smoke; I should

tell you that the wind was light because the smoke
was billowing; it wasn't blowing out straight.
MCC Okay, good. Thanks a lot, Jerry; that's a big

help to us there.
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CDR Yes, we'll try to keep the wind information coming

too.
010 20 i0 25 MCC Okay, good. That is very important to almost all

of the sites. On the not seeing of features, in
:_ particularwhat I was thinking of is the 33 Alfa/
_" 34 Alfa type things: The Yucatan eddies and the
turbulentwakes, that it's as useful to us to
know that we don't see them as it is to find out
that they are there. And let me close Just by
mentioning that with regard to oceans, we've
received letters and information from both Stevenson
and Maul on the performance that you've done, and
both of them were very, very complimentary to the
work that you're doing. And the one big point
that both of them made was the type and quantity
of information that you are providing that is Just
not available in any other way. So, want to thank
you for all that, pass on those good words. And
unless you have something, let me turn you over to
Joe Allen.
CDR •..
Of0 20 ii 15 SPT Bill, I would like to - to add that I think we

ought to look on the western side of the - Central
America a little bit more because as l've pointed
out in two instances, we were able to see eddies,
and I think we might be able to determine something
about the current patterns.
MCC Okay. Sure will, Ed. We'll be looking back at it,

but the Sun is coming north now, and we're going
to have to wait and catch it on descending tracks
shortly.
SPT Yes, that's probably an optimal time to get it

anyway, as we can get a lot in one full sweep.
MCC Good.
MCC Hello, Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Hello, Joe.

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010 20 ii 52 MCC Hello, troops, l've been brought in as a very

highly paid, but probably nottoo clever, repre-
sentative of the science demonstration community
today. And if you can shift your thinking over
to that, I would like to talk about that a little
bit.
CREW Fine ...
CDR We're shifted. Go ahead.
010 20 12 ii MCC Okay. I've got a list of about 15 items in front

of me that have to do with the science demos.
Every one of them is either a congratulations on
a demonstration that's been well done or voicing
anticipations, foreseeing the ones coming up.
You're getting fantastic - some fantastic results
from them and interest all over the country as to
what's coming out of these demonstrations. Jerry,
I'ii speak to you first about your gyroscope
experiment, l've been studying physics for a
number of years more than l'd like to admit, and
I never did understand that until I saw your demon-
stration yesterday. It was fantastic. Over.
CDR I tell you, zero g makes a great frictionless

bearing.
010 20 13 Ol MCC I wish we had thought of it earlier. Bill, your

fluid demonstration experiment - that's been
picked up on television around the country, and
we're getting calls from physicists on that, de-
scribing your - and tal - wanting to talk about
your in - inverted plate of very weak jello, that
hemisphere part of the experiment you did. It
was, in general, terrific. And by the way, l'm
not going to go down this list item by item but
just want to pass along congratulations from all
the people. I do - do want to mention about three
particular things and they're - in turn here. I
want to talk about that liquid dynamics liq - liquid
drop experiment. I want to - to discuss very
briefly the TV-101 experiment which, Ed_ I think
you have set up; it's the floating zone experiment.
And then finally, a couple of real quick words on
human dynamics. So when you're ready I'ii start
in.
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CDR Okay, go ahead.
Ol0 20 lh 01 MCC Okay. Start with the liquid drop experiment. It,
as I say, has worked out very well. Bill, if
you're the man on the - on that demo the next time,
we'd like a few more things from it as you choose
it from your shopping list. Whey you set it up,
we wonder if it would be possible to put a scale
in the television picture some place so we can get
better dimension from the TV picture. This may
be a little much, but if you think it's possible
to also put a mirror mounted over at 90 degrees
and cant it at 45 degrees, so we can get a side-on
view, get - get that depth dimension as we watch
the deformations of the droplet, it would be help-
ful. We'll leave that up to you as to whether it's
possible or not.
010 20 lh 51 MCC The - we're interested first in - in seeing just

more simple vibrations of - of fluid glob either
on a tether or floating three - free. It seems
that it doesn't really matter if it's on the
tether or not, if it's easierto do that way. We
like to watch it be disturbed. And then, Bill, if
you Could just let it completely damp out its
oscillations before you disturb it again, it would
be helpful to us in measuring the decay time.
We're interested both in the frequency of oscil-
lation and the decay time. You'd be interested
to know that that is applicable to all sorts of
astrophysics calculations right down to nuclear
physics calculations. Do that experiment with
several size fluid globs if you could. You might
also consider in - injecting a small air bubble
with a syringe into the fluid glob. I'll unkey now
and ask if you have any questions.
010 20 15 54 PLT Okay, one of them does have an air bubble. I'd have
to look at it to show you. And I understand the -
I got some co_nents and feedback this morning from
Dick Truly. I think I know what you want, and I'll
try to give it to you.
MCC Okay, Bill. Also in you science demo kit is a

small ring of aluminum tubing that has a stem on
the end of it and holes drilled into the inside
circumference of it, so that when you blow into
the stem it makes a turbining effect at the center
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of that tubing. And we think you can spin up your

drop to a fairly high rate of speed just by putting
the tubing around, then blowing into it. And we
think they may - they'll certainly flatten out.
They may fission like a nucleus, or they may go
doughnut shape on you. It would be very interest-
ing to see that. Also, we'd like to see some more
collisions of drops, if you could. You can put
them both on tethers and then blow one into another
perhaps. We'd like a large drop on a large drop,
a small drop on a large drop, and then you can let
your imagination wander and maybe put soap in one,
or an air bubble in one, or even get out some _f
that immiscible liquid which is probably stowed
back in your science demo kit and do a - a water
drop on that immiscible liquid drop. Over.
010 20 17 15 PLT Roger; understand. And the - the free drop is

extremely difficult to work with, but I'ii try
harder.
MCC Okay, Bill. Ed, a comment on the TV-101 experiment,

the floating zone. John Carruthers is here from
Bell Labs and, of course, quite interested in that.
And he thinks you're pretty well squared away on
what's to be done in general. We're particularly
interested that you give us as good a background
against which the TV's going to focus as it watches
that, and we think you can tell a lot about that
background by just looking into your monitor. Over.
SPT Yes, l've got that set up, Joe. We've got a white
background, and I plan to use different colored
fluids, so I think we'll be able to get some good
visual quality out of that.
010 20 18 00 MCC Terrific, Ed; sounds good. Those things are just
coming out - can hardly describe how clear they are
to you and the enormous amount of interest in them.
One last cogent on the human dynamics experiment
which you might give some thought to, taken from
your shopping list, and just a reminder: There's
the experiment where the two guys can shove off
simultaneously from opposite sides of the workshop
and meet in the center with zero impact parameter
or with n - nonzero impact parameter, if you want to
demonstrate angular momentum. Over.
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SPT Yes, that's a good fun thing to do, Joe, and I guess
we'll just have to start trying to do it - a little
bit more of it.
1010 20 18 38 MCC Well, that's way dow_ on the list; that's just for
fun. We're about to run out of time here, if you
have any con_nents or questions. And Bill Snoddy's -
Snoddy's sitting here in case you have some comet -
comments. You got l0 seconds.
SPT The only comment I would make, Joe, is that we've

really not gotten into the science demonstrations
as deeply as I would have liked to up to now. And
I think we'll try and catch up a little bit over
the next few weeks.
MCC Well, they're good fun, and we enjoy watching them.
CC See you at Tananarive in 14 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
r MCC Nice talking to you, troops.
PLT Take it easy, Joe.
010 20 19 22 CDR So long, Joe.
010 20 33 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Tananarive; it's a short

pass for a couple of minutes. Honeysuckle comes
up at 20:54. And I had a couple of - couple of
notes for - with regard to a question that
Ed Gibson asked that Joe Kerwin asked me to pass
on from his mad conference with you guys a few
minutes ago.
SPT Okay, Dick; very good. Go ahead.
010 20 33 54 CC Okay. Real quick, Ed; you asked the question that
you thought there might have been a correlation
between the water and salt intake on the day pre-
vious to the 92 runs. Joe said that he's going to
have - make sure that they take a look at that,
and he - the 92 people will get you an answer back.
He did say that their initial feeling on the data
that they had was that the correlation - that a
better correlation was in the way that the legs,
as the days go on, have been handling the blood
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flow, due to the -their indications of circumference

during the LBNPD runs. And so they're going to
take a look at - at that and get back to you on it.
Also one other item, on - and this really is for
the CDR and PLT - on tomorrow's limb volume measure-
ments that you haven't seen yet because you haven't
seen the Flight Plan, but they're on there. We've
added an extra 15 minutes to that thing, so that
at least on a one-time-only basis, you can get
both left and right arms and legs. We're not sure
at this moment whether or not that's going to be
a permanent change from here on in, since we, the
other day, asked you to scratch out that right
column. But at any rate, in the morning, we would
like to get that.
PLT Okay, Dick.
010 20 35 ii CC Okay. We're about 15 seconds from LOS, so I'll

call y'all at Honeysuckle.
PLT I got a question you can work on.
CC Okay.
PLT I did a T002-2 between Aldebaran, and I thought,

and the far limb of the Moon. In fact, it was the
planet Venus. I can't go far enough to pick up
Aldebaran. Would you get me another star to use
for T002-2?
CC Sure will.
PLT Yes, I meant Saturn. I was only off a few thousand

light years, Dick.
010 20 35 44 CC (Laughter) Okay.
010 20 55 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for

8 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. I have an answer for you on the

T002-2.
PLT Go, Dick.

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CC Roger, Bill. It looks like in any case, it's going

to be pretty difficult because the Moon is so close
to slipping out of the field of view also. But
looks like star 16, Procyon, would be a lot better
choice, if any will work at all.
PLT Thank you. That's all I wanted to know. Thank you.
010 20 59 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 3-1/2 minutes left

here at Honeysuckle. We're - we're going to be
turning over to the crimson team after this pass.
And you guys have been awarded a prestigious award,
and if you're - can listen here for a second, I'd
like to advise you of it.
SPT. Go ahead, Dick.
O10 21 00 l0 CC Okay. First of all, I'd like to say that the

reason you have been awarded this is because this
last set of execute shifts that the purple gang has
worked with you have - every day has gone so great.
We're going to be off for a couple of days. It
reads as follows: "The fraternal order of one-
armed paperhangers, in recognition of your efforts
on SL-4, and particularly of the last week, have
elected you collectively one-armed paperhangers
of the year." And the - I'd like to describe the
award to you. It's a large picture of a guy who's
hanging paper on the side of the MDA, one foot is
working the ATM; he's doing a couple of corollaries
with the other foot. And he's saying to himself,
"Let's see, do I give up sleeping and eating to
get this stuff done, or do I tell the purple flight
to shove it? Hmm, purple flight is pretty big; I
wonder if I can outrun him? Oh, well, I'm tired
of the high-density food anyway, and these sleep
restraints sure ain't feather beds, so I guess I'll
go ahead and work." And it'll be sitting on your
desk when you get home.
010 21 01 16 PLT Thanks a lot, Dick, we'll look forward to re-

perusing it.
SPT We're all deeply moved, Dick.
CC Roger. It really has been a good set of days

though, and we'll see you when you get back.
PLT Thank you, Dick.

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SPT Thanks for all your help; so long. Have a good

time off.
010 21 02 37 CC Skylah, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 21:15.
010 21 15 02 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS through Hawaii.

We have you for 9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Hidy. You guys enjoying your day off?
PLT Yes, taking it easy.
CC Very good. The troop was telling me you were having

some kind of an orgy up there. He didn't - didn't
say what kind.
PLT We weren't too specific. We had a beautiful pass

across the States from, oh, lo - upper Baja up to
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. And we were really
burning up the film.
CC Roger. I was listening that pass also. It sounded -

it sounded pretty neat. lots of snow cover.
010 21 21 01 SPT Hello, Crip. How are you doing today?
CC Pretty good, sir; and yourself?
SPT Very good, very good.
CC I heard you were taking advantage - taking advan-

tage of all those ATM passes.
SPT That's right. I'm becoming addicted. Crip, I'm

wondering if you could ask the NOAA folks whether
they have any reports of a prominence and/or surge
activity somewhere around 240, right at the limb.
CC Okay, we'll check that. And you've got a case of

the low voices again today.
SPT That's because I'm using a headset as opposed to

the other mike. I'ii go ahead and get the other - -
CC No - well, you're coming in perfect right now.

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SPT Yes, I have to hold it right next to me ... - -
CC Oh, okay. Understand. If it's - it's - it's no

big deal; it's just that you're down kind of faint.

And we'll see you again at Goldstone at 21:27; that's
in about 3 minutes. And, Ed, to answer your ques-
tion, we've, about an hour ago, picked up a small
active prominence in the area you indicated.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Crip. I've been watching it, and
initially, it looked like a surge and -
010 21 24 15 CC Hold it. Over the hill.
010 21 26 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone. We have

you for 6 minutes. And, Ed, your description of
the - the prominence kind of got lost in the mud
as we went over the hill.
CDR He'll be with you, Crip. It looks like he's got

something cooking right now.
CC Okay, no sweat. Thank you, Jer.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Hello, Ed. If you're still busy, no sweat, but you

started to talk about the activity associated with
that prominence, and we never did get it.
010 21 28 45 SPT Okay. When I first looked at it earlier today, it

was relatively small, and it looked like a surge.
And I think air-to-ground discussion indicated that.
When I came back to it, it did look more like a
prominence than a surge and was not extending too
high. I started working the region a little further
north of that, which centers the XUV MONITOR
brightening on the limb. And also it gave me a
oxygen VI count of around i00 or so i arc minute
off the limb. I then saw that this was really
changing form, and it was out of the view of 55.
So I have since rolled and now are [sic] giving
consecutive MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs to this region
which covers the active prominence, and it also
covers the region which had the relatively intense
brightening. I kept seeing some small changes
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occurring in the prominence m_d the region aro_id

in H-ALPHA, so perhaps we're getting some good-time
information on 55.
CC Okay, very good. And NOAAdoes concur with your -

that that was not surging, but just activity associ-
ated with the prominence.
END OF TAPE
Time: 010:21:30 to 010:23:00
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010 21 32 18 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
21:37, 21:37.
SPT So long, Houston.
010 21 32 _2 CC Bye-bye, Ed.
010 21 53 59 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Ascension for

i0 minutes, and we'll be doing a data/voice re-
corder dump. Sorry I didn't give you any previous
warning regarding that med conference. CAP COMM
was caught asleep.
CDR Little oversleeping there.
CC Roger, Roger. It takes me awhile to get - get

organized here. About midnight I get organized.
010 21 57 16 CC Skylab, Houston for CDR and PLT. For the up-
coming EREPpass, I have several changes and
notes that I'm going - we're going to have to
make to the pads. We've got a couple of hours
before those are really going to be applicable
and whenever it's convenient for you guys, we
can - we can do it. And it's going to involve
the C&D, the VTS, and also one minor comment to
the CDR's detail.
CDR Okay, Dick, I'm ready to copy now.
CC Okeydoke. Do you - do you have your VTS pad

handy?
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Okay. One item we'd like you to add in the post

remarks is, before removal of the S190 mass,
we'd like you to voice record the frame counters.
CDR Okay, got it.

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CC Okay. Also, Jer, if you have your details handy,

because we moved up the start of the maneuver a
little bit, we called out on your details at
00:ii for EREP maneuver which is 5 minutes before
the maneuver start time we normally give you -
We actually should be 00:06 now to give you plenty
of time on the panel.
CDR Okay, I change ii to 06?
CC Okay, that's affirm. And, let's see, I guess the

one item l'd like to call to your attention and,
I guess _ Is Bill handy there where he's listen-
ing also? This is just a note of interest rather
than anything you have to note down.
CDR Yes, he's listening.
CC Okay. We have a note in the - at the beginning

of this C&D about leaving the TAPE RECORDER,
POWER, OFF until 01:58. And the intent there is
just to save some tape that would normally be
used during prep in the tape recorder checkout, and
the S190 film advance, and also to save some tape
in the first S190 photo sequence over Sumatra and
Malaysia. With the TAPE RECORDER, POWER, OFF,
when you hit the EREP system switch to START, it
will not turn on the TAPE RECORDER naturally.
So - and that was just the way we were going to
do it, and it was a little bit different than we
had in the past and I just wanted to call it to
your attention.
PLT Yes, I caught that, Crip, but I appreciate the

comment.
CC Okay, also we normally had - have you turning

on BUS power early to get things a little bit
warmed up in advance and we've been noting those
in places like your details. That's not required
today, so you will norms]ly get your BUS on by
your C&D - correction, your - your cue cards.
PLT Roger.
CC Okeydoke. And I've got a list of numerous changes

I need to - to make to your C&D pad if you - you
haveit handy, Bill. -
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PLT Give me a few seconds here.
010 22 00 48 PLT Okay, I'm ready to copy.
CC Okeydoke. At 01:50:50, we have an S190 READY

out and we need to change that to frame 33.
FR - FR-33.
PLT From FR-17 to FR-337
CC That's correct.
PLT Okay, I've got that.
CC Okay, now down below at 02:02:40, we have another

S190 READY out that we want to delete.
PLT Okay.
CC At the next line there where it Says ETC STANDBY,

of course, that still occurs at 02:40; so you
can just make a note of that.
PLT Okay, I've got that out in the left colnm_.
CC Okeydoke. At the next line the S190 MODE

STANDBY, we want to delete that. And also the
frame 09 and the SS SLOW.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay, and where we have that 03:53 right below

that 8190 MODE, AUTO, we want to change that to
8190 SS SLOW.
PLT You don't want to go to MODE, AUTO?
CC No, we want to delete - change the MODE, AUTO to

an $8 SLOW.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay and that's the - the total list of changes

we - we have to that. I did have one for Edward.
Where he has an ETC stow, we want to go ahead and -
and leave that in to help us out for to - tomorrow.
And we want to change it to an ETC load; and if he's
- not available,I'll get that to him a littlebit
later. That's in his Flight Plan.
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010 22 03 34 PLT Okay, Crip. Go ahead; he's listening.
CC Okay, Ed. If you'll note right after ETC ops

about zero, a little after 02:00, ETC stow, we'll
want to change that to an ETC load.
PLT Is that a cassette for him?
CC Roger. They want him to load IR03 from F-26 into

the spare mag. And we want to put BW03 into
drawer 27, F-27. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.
Next station contact is going to be at Carnarvon
at 22:27, 22:27, and that's about 23 minutes away.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay, if you do any voice recording, you're going

to get a blinking light. We're using - had to
redesignate and we're using recorder 1.
010 22 04 34 PLT Roger.
010 22 27 18 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon. Have you

for 9-1/2 minutes.
010 22 32 45 SPT Hello, Crip. As you were going over the hill, I
copied you wanted me to take IR03, load that into
spare mag. I was going to get it from F-26.
What did you want me to do with the film which is
in the spare mag right now?
CC Roger, Ed. We'd like you to put Bravo Whiskey 03

into F-27.
SPT Will do; thank you.
CC Thank you, Ed. And I don't believe l've notified

you guys; in case you didn't hear the woodpecker,
your Flight Plans are on board.
CDR Thank you, Crip.
010 22 35 49 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 6 minutes over Guam, and that's
at 21 - correction 22:42.
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_ SPT Okay, Crip. _ wonder if you folks Could get the

camera people to tell - give me a little informa-
tion on the Polaroid film which we have available
to us up here. Most of it's worked real well,
but recently I got ahold of some with some rela-
tively low serial numbers and it's all but pretty
well fogged. Very low contrast and it's tough to
to use. The ones I've been using have been a
thousand - serial numbers 1010, 1020 and so - in
that range. I dug out a few which were 1005 and
1006, and they were not too good. I'm wondering
if they could give me the time at which various
serial numbers came up here. That would help me
out.
CC Okay, and understand the 1010 are okay. That's

the 1006 or so that are fogged.
SPT Yes, it's about that. Maybe the ones I've been
using are a little higher than lO10; maybe 1012,
13, 14 - in there.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get some data for you

on that, Ed.
010 22 42 l0 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Ed, how is it you always know that we're in ground

contact before I give you a call so well? We got
you for 7 minutes through Guam.
SPT I was just wondering if you're ready for the TV

downlink.
CC Stand by 1. While I'm checking with that, Ed,

if - if you happen to be looking at the active
prominence that we talked about at 02:40 duriag
this observing time on this orbit, we would rec-
commend GRATING POSITION on 55 of 2_34 OPTICAL
REFERENCE. And we're waiting for the TV.
010 22 43 05 SPT 2434, and here comes the TV.
CC Thank you, sir.

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CDR Actually, we have a little bird up here who tells

it he's a - tells us he's a friend of the
woodpecker's.
CC Ah, so; those little birds are good at doing things

like that. I was just thinking all my AOS/LOS
calls were really unnecessary.
CDR That's okay, though; we like your voice.
CC Oh, that's the nicest _hing anybody's said to me

all day.
010 22 48 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS. And

we'll see you again in 17 minutes over the States
through Goldstone at 23:06. And for Bill, the
latter part of the States' pass picking up at MILA
is going to be set up for his phone call.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And that'll be starting off on the LEFT

ANTENNA and switching to the RIGHT later.
PLT Thank you.
CDR And, Crip, how's the weather for lasers?
CC Let me check that for you.
CC And it's the same story again; she's NO GO due to

weather. So you can scrub that one.
010 22 49 32 SPT Okay, thanks.
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010 23 06 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone. We have

you for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. At your convenience, I can give

you a little rundown on the - on the weather for
the upcoming EREP pass. We can either do it here,
or we can pick it up at Ascension.
O10 23 08 41 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR. Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay. I had another box on too loud, and it was

starting to squeal. Got a question. Postsleep
this morning, it says no urine samples. Our urine
schedule says that we ought to be doing it tonight,
but it's not in the presleep. I assume we're going
to go ahead and do it. It's in the details,
however. That's right; I forgot about that.
CC Okay. That, as I understand it had been where they

were - they were planning on putting it, Jer. It
should - But it in your detail. And you were
supposed to do it this evening; that's correct.
CDR Okay; that's right. I shouldn't even ask the

question.
CC And the way we keep swi - switching all this stuff

around, if you can keep up with it, you're a better
man than I am.
CDR Yes, we got a little chart down here in the head,

and that really keeps things honest.
CC Okeydoke. I won't comment about that. That must

be Jim Sidwell's chart. He worked up a new one
for you, too.
CDR Yes, that's right. It's the Jim Sidwell special,

and we got it all colored in. We color in every
day as we go; it's like a short-timer chart.
CC Okay. And you guys are working in that direction,

as far as short timing.
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CDR We're over the hill.
CC Roger that.
010 23 ii 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

pick you again in about a minute and a half over -
over Texas. And shortly thereafter, we'll be set
up for Bill's phone call and say again the ANTENNA,
LEFT to RIGHT. And also, we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump through - through MILA.
010 23 13 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Texas. We have

you for ii minutes, and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump.
CC And, SPT, Houston. Ed, at your convenience, I can

try to answer your question on the Polaroid film
packs.
SPT Be with you in a minute, Crip.
CC Okay; no rush.
010 23 19 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We've finished the data/voice

recorder dump, and we've also reconfigured. We're -
Recorder 3 is back. This is data/voice recorder.
SPT Say, Crip, there was a suggestion made previously

that I could do some of the no-EREP alternates on
the ATM. The one which they suggested, 23:56, has
a building block 1-A and 1-B. We just got done
doing a l-A, 1-B with those time exposures in there
for 82A, and I'm wondering if they would want that
or perhaps do the no-EREP alternate at 22:23.
CC Try to get a quick answer for you on that.
SPT Okay.
SPT Also, Crip, if time permits, I was going to put in

the 82B operations, which are called out on the
no-EREP alternate at 23:56; however, Just those
beginning at 6:30 TIME REMAINING.
CC Okay; copy that, Ed.

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010 23 23 46 CC Ed - or Skylab, we're about i minute from LOS.

And next station contact is over Ascension in
i0 minutes, and that's at 23:34. Ed, we're a
little bit confused about the - the amount of time
you've got available to do the ATM stuff that you
recommended or you suggested there. I don't think
that you're going to have an adequate amount of
time to do that stuff on the 22:23 rev. Also, that
J0P 7, BBI5, for 82D exposure was to be coordinated
with some ground stuff, and so we don't need that
one.
SPT Okay, Crik - Crip, then what's your recommendation.

Just do the first part of the - of that orbit?
CC I guess ad-lib.
010 23 24 38 SPT Okay.
010 23 33 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension. We have you

for 5 minutes.
010 23 35 24 CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody has a moment, we've

got a real-tlme request for a handheld of a little
cyclone we got sitting off the Philippines down -
that you're going to come over on the next rev
around. And I could give you some data on it, if
you've got time to copy it.
CDR Okay; go ahead.
CC Roger. You got a - got a pencil handy and a piece

of paper?
CDR Sure do.
CC Okay, what I'm going to do is give you the - the

listings for the - for the site. It's a GMT
of 00:19:37; be a handheld 15 - Sun angle is 34 de-
grees out of window S-I - using a Hotel Delta
Charlie 100-millimeter, Charlie X-ray film. What
it is, we got tropical cyclone Wanda, which has
developed recently. The winds are expected to be
60 knots with 70-knot gusts about the time that -
that you come over it. And this is going to be,
oh, about 9 minutes or so after you've initiated
the maneuver to - to Z-LV on this pass.
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CDR Okay, Crip. And just where is it, relative to,

say, Luzon or Manila or something like that?
CC Roger. Okay, I can - It's almost due west - correc-

tion - due east of the Philippine Islands. And
I can give you a lat/long, if you'd like. It's at
11.4 north, 130.6 degrees east. It's almost due
west of Llyte.
CDR Due west or due east?
CC I'm sorry; don't know my east from west again.

Due east.
CDR Okay, Crip, we'll give it a whirl.
CC Roger. FLIGHT just put a - a rock in my right

hand to remind me.
010 23 38 16 CC We are i minute from LOS. Next station contact is

Carnarvon in 26 minutes at 00:04.
010 23 38 24 CDR Roger.
011 00 03 49 CDR That's right, Ed. l'm on my way up.
CC And l'm here. We're AOS at Carnarvon; we'll have

you for about i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. Say_ no wonder I didn't think I had

enough time to do much on this orbit. I didn't
realize that Jerry had the maneuver going on. I
was only looking at my own section of the Summary
Flight Plan.
CC Okay. You had us scratching our heads here about

that for - for a little while.
SPT There's no way I was going to fit 55 minutes worth

of data into 15 minutes.
CC I know you're good, Ed, but I didn't think you were

quite that good. Have you got time to reach over
to panel 206 and turn the REG ADJUST pots, i and 2,
25 degrees clockwise?
SPT Sure will, Crip.

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CC Okay, and a little bit of information. We'll

probably be leaving them there for the entire
evening; so you won't have to be changing them
back after the pass.
CDR Hey, Crip. Let's postpone the evening status report

until after the EREP; I'ii give it to you then.
CC Okay; will do, Jer.
Sl_f Crip, you said clockwise. Is that affirm?
SPT Thank you.
CC And, CDR, at your convenience - And I guess we'll

have plenty of time after the maneuver gets started
here, but I can give you a brief rundown on what the
weather is anticipated for - for the pass. But
you'll probably be able to look out the window
over there pretty soon and see it pretty good.
011 00 08 15 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, if you get a chance, we would

like about 5 more degrees on - on that REG 1 pot.
CC ... --
CDR How's that grab you, Crip?
CC We'll take a look at it.
011 00 09 26 CC Skylab, Houston. That adjustment looks good.
CDR Roger.
011 00 12 07 SPT Hello, Crip. Would you like a frame count?
CC Would love one.
SPT 12029, 3983, 147, 4198, 3939-
CC Thank you very much, Ed.
SPT Very welcome.

station contact is over Guam in 4 minutes at 00:17.
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CDR Roger, Crip.
011 O0 14 08 CC And for PLT: On the powering down there, we're

not sure the duet fan configuration per the -
per the checklist right now. If you have a chance,
recheck it.
011 O0 17 41 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Guam i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. S190 looks like a good window rather

than S-I, and we don't have it in sight yet.
CC Okay.
PLT And, Crip, you were saying something about the fan
configuration not being quite right, l've rechecked
it a couple of times. Could you be more specific?
CC Okay, on the duct fans in step i, we were showing

all of DUCT 2 FANS OFF and DUCT 3 FANS all ON. And
I guess that powerdown is supposed to turn them
all - all OFF in DUCT 3 and 3 and 4 OFF in DUCT 2.
PLT Okay, that's what I thought I did. I will go down

and check.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS to handle

the CMG heaters for a little minute.
SPT You have it, Crip.
CDR And the best I can tell through the clouds, Crip,
we're passing the south end of Mindanao right now.
CC That's about right.
CDR Okay, it's starting to get pretty cloudy. We may

get something good here after all.
CC Okay, you should be coming right up on it.
CC And our little minute is over, and the DAS belongs

to you guys again.
011 00 20 41 SPT Crip, there is a cyclone - cyclonic pattern to it,

but it doesn't look as though it's really had a
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chance to form up too well. I don't see any eye.

And right now we're looking for feeder bands and I
really can't see any extensive ones.
CC Roger. So it's just a - A general all-cloudy-type

formation is about all you see?
CDR No, there is some cyclonic shape to it, and there

is one faint feeder band that comes in from around
the Leyte area. But it just hasn't had a chance to
develop. Probably in another day or so, it might
wind up tighter.
CC Okay, well this one has just recently started to

wind up; so what you're - what you're saying is
probably consistent with that.
SPT Yes, there's no - there's no real eye in the center

of it, Crip; there's overshooting cloud tops.
PLT And there's also a sort of general spiral-in path

of very heavy thunderstorm activity; just sort of
dispersed along a path that psirals into the center.
And it's the closest in arm, if that makes any
sense.
CC Okay.
SPT It's so closely filled in there at the center,

Crip, that it's kind of hard to see the details.
It's - The center, though, it does have an awful
lot of overshooting cloud tops. It's very flat,
and it could be a circular exhaust cloud; but I
really can't say that for sure unless we can see
around the sides of it. We can only see the top
view of it.
CDR There are some clouds to the north of it about

100 miles that are beginning to take up sort of an
arcutate form there; it's beginning to get curved.
So it looks like it's probably winding up into
something.
CC Okay. Reeally appreciate that good description.

I'm being informed that we have not had an oppor-
tunity to get satellite photography of it yet; so
that's the first real good orbit observations we've
had.
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CDR Roger. I'ii bet the satellite can give you a much
better picture of it than we can. We're just too
close to it.
CC Roger. But that was a pretty good rundown you guys

gave us; practicing up to be weathermen.

station contact is over Goldstone in 16-1/2 minutes
at 00:43.
011 O0 26 45 SPT Roger, Crip.
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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
011 O0 43 00 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS across the States.

And we're going to have you here for about
i0 minutes or so.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; we'll need the DAS here

for a moment to upload some momentum biases.
PLT You've got it.
CC Skylab, Houston; the DAS belongs to you guys

once more. And for the SPT. Ed, whenever it's
convenient, I can give you a rundown on those
Polaroid film packs.
CDR Okay, he'll be about 15 - 20 minutes.
CC Okay, there is no sweat. We can get it either

later today or tomorrow, whenever he likes it.
CDR Okay.
011 00 48 56 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about over Texas now, and

we'll be dumping the data/voice recorder.
CDR Roger, Crip. And l'm a little surprised that

we don't have any DAC tonight.
CC You're talking about on the EREPs for the VTS.
CDR Yes.
CC I don't know an answer to that right now, but

I'ii see if I can get one for you.
CDR Okay.
011 00 56 30 CC CDR, Houston; if you've got a moment I can ex-

plain to me - explain to you why we didn't
schedule the DAC up for use on the VTS.

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CC Roger. You'll notice we are not using 191 this

pass, and I'm being told that the only require-
ment for the DAC on the VTS is for pointing
correlation for 191.
CC They're - they're basically saying that the DAC's

resolution is - is such that it's not really very
good for a data source.
CDR Oh, okay, then.
PLT Hey, Crip, I have a slight anomaly here the 190

Alfa people may be interested in.
CC Tell us about it.
PLT It has to do with the camera number 6. When I

downloaded it yesterday, I voice recorded the
frame count. Number 6 c_mera was reading 9883.
When I loaded it this evening, it was reading
9884. Now all other - all the other five cameras,
of Course, had the same frame count as when I
took them out. I thought maybe I might have made
a recording error. Then when I did the film
advance, all the first five cameras advanced
three counts from the readings I gave you a
moment ago, but the number 6 camera advanced
five counts to 9889. It is moving film; I took
it off and checked it. But i just thought you
wanted to know about it because the count is not
going - perhaps not going to check out.
CC Okay.
CC And, Bill, I am being informed that we are aware

of that. There's a problem with the magnetic
film advance on that particular station. And
we're looking at a little procedure that might
help us check that out.
PLT Roger.
011 00 59 02 CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. Next

station contact is Vanguard, and that's about
i0 minutes away at 01:09.
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011 01 09 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard

for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. Hey, Bob, will you pass a message

to the purple gang for us?
CC Be happy to.
CDR Roger. Tell them that - You - you heard their

little presentation this afternoon, didn't you?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Yes, well, will you tell them -
CC It moved us also.
CDR Just tell them that we were so moved by their

little presentation that we were speechless for
a moment, but they really didn't give us time to
reciprocate in kind at all. But I want to now,
• and I wonder if you would just pass the word to
them. Just tell them that on day 61 we're going
to take red dye markers and on day 67 we're going
to have blue, and since red and blue make purple,
we're going to dedicate them to purple gang.
CC (Laughter) That's beautiful. It so happens i

get to - to work with the leader of the purple
gang tomorrow and I will - it'll take a great
deal of pleasure in passing that on.
CDR Well, we figure that's the least we do for those

guys. They've really been great.
CC They really have. You guys put - put up with

them on executes for, what? 5 days there. I
thought you guys did good.
CDR You guys do a good job and we'll dedicate a red

one to you.
CC No comment. Okay and we need the DAS to get the

heaters for the CMGs.
PLT Jer says to tell you we're - we're deeply moved

by your comment.
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CC That was "no comment" you were deeply moved by -

yes.
CC I was sitting here lamenting that we aren't

going to get to share this EREP pass with you
guys. You're going to have to do it all by your
lonesome, and we can't listen in.
PLT We just realize that.

station contact is an hour and 4 minutes away
over Goldstone at 02:20, 02:20. We'll be doing
a data/voice recorder dump there and happy EREP.
CDR Roger. Thanks, Crip, And I guess - looks like

we'll be flying right over Houston. We'll be
looking for you.
CC Well, actually you came pretty close the last

pass. This - this one coming down is going to
bring you - looks like over Baja.
011 01 15 53 CDR Oh yes, that's right.
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011 02 19 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone. We have

you for 12 minutes. We'll be doing the data/voice
recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. We started back into SI about

2 minutes late. We got busy looking at the
ground and let the time go. And the - the ability
to - to tell the confluence up there - We had
two things working against us: Number i was a
lot of clouds, and number 2 was that apparently
you just can't see changes in blue - that is, from
lighter blue to darker blue. Ed could see the -
the line of demaration from where he was in the
wardroom, looking out that window, but I couldn't
see it in the VTS. I did, however, see chlorophyll
blooming, plankton blooming along the coast of
Japan; so it's apparent that you can see the
green-to-blue contrast but not the light blue to
dark blue.
CC Okay, that's a good description. Thank you, Jet.
CDR By the way, Crip, we had two CMG SAT during the
Z-LV. Was after we took the fine maneuver out at
01:31, and they both occurred early. Once we got
settled out over - well, we were just about abeam
of Taiwan when things settled out real well, and
we had no more SAT.
CC Okay, appreciate that information. Thank you.
011 02 24 27 CC Skylab, Houston. At the time, we're showing both

caution and warning systems turned OFF. That
90 Alfa you went to earlier would have powered
down number 2, but it should not have gotten
number 1. Can you tell us what the status of
that is? Do we have telemetry problem?
PLT 1 and 2 are back ON, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT I caught that in the reconfiguration.

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CC Roger.
CC Bill, we're show - still showing both of them OFF.

You might - might ought to check that on panel 207.
I'm sorry; on circuit breakers on 202.
011 02 26 05 PLT Made the same mistake the checklist people do.
Up is ON, to me.
CC Roger; understand. We got them now. Thank you.
PLT Roger.
Oll 02 31 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is over the Vanguard in 12 minutes;
that's at 02:44. And if you guys could have a
evening status report for us there, we'll - we'll
take it and get out of your hair for this evening.
CDR Okay, Crip. Bill's just eating now, and we're

going to do a documentary on it for DP-4. So let's
hold off on that a little longer.
CC Okay. The - We have a Tananarive pass also coming

up, and that's about 03:ll. I can get it there;
if not there, Hawaii at 03:54.
011 02 32 23 CDR Roger. We shoot for 03:ll.
011 02 44 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

ll minutes.
011 02 54 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Tananarive in about 17 minutes at 03:ll; 03:ll.
And we'll be standing by for the evening status
report there, Bill.
011 02 54 20 PLT Roger.
011 03 ll 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive. We have

you for about 6 minutes.
PLT Roger. And you're ready for the photo log first?
CC Yes, sir.
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PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: Okay, that's Delta Papa 3,

Charlie India 128, 50 percent, Charlie India 127.
35-millimeter, Nikon i: Charlie X-ray 40, 66.
Nikon 2: India Romeo i0, 09. Nikon 3: Charlie
India 113, 46. Nikon 4: Bravo Echo 09, 26.
Nikon 5: Bravo Hotel 06, i0. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 51, 154. ETC: Bravo Whiskey 03,
reading 087. EREP set: X-ray, 0154, 2335, 9878,
9240, i011, 9937. Drawer A configuration: only
change in Alfa 2 position. Alfa 2 transporter 05,
Charlie India 128, 50 percent, Charlie India 127.
Ready to read evening status.
CC Okay.
011 03 13 I0 PLT Roger. Sleep: CDR, 8.0; 7.0 heavy, 1.0 light.
SPT, 8.5; 7.5 heavy, 1.0 light. PLT, 9.0; 8.0 heavy,
1.0 light. Urine: CDR, 260; SPT, 180; PLT, 335.
Water gun: CDR, 0426; SPT, 4304; PLT, 8384.
BMMD: CDR, 6.298, 6.299, 6.293; SPT, 6.327, 6.342,
6.327; PLT, 6.228, 6.225, 6.220. Exercise: CDR,
no change; SPT, no Alfa done today; PLT, no change.
Medication, CDR, none: Clothing, trousers and
shorts. SPT medications, none; and clothing,
shorts and socks. PLT, none/none. Shopping list
accomplishments: T002-2, filter 1.6 on tape at
approximately 15:40. And that was Saturn to the
f_r limb, if you can believe that. Okay, squeezer
bag replacement; and ED-61 ops, documentary photos
number 3. Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled
stowage item location change: SOP - 010 and -012
to Foxtrot 550 from Foxtrot 557. Okay. Menu,
CDR: salt, 19.0; minus one tea; minus one straw-
berry drink. SPT: 4.0 salt; no d's. On the CDR,
correction: rehydration water deviation, plus 1.0.
I'ii read the SPT's over: salt packs, 4.0; no
water; no deviations on the food; rehydration
water, zero. PLT: salt packs, 4.0; plus i coffee
and sugar; minus i tea; rehydration water d, zero.
011 03 16 01 CC Okay, Bill, I believe that covered it all. One

item: Not really all that interested in your
cleaniness, but from a matter of thermal stand-
point, we're kind of interested if - if you got -
anybody took showers today.
PLT Oh, all three of us took showers.

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CC Okay, very good. That's - Marines running a clean

ship up there, right?
CC Okay. And one item: It is quite possible that

you might get a CMG SATURATION in the upcoming,
night dump period. And if you guys are going to
be retiring, you might want to go ahead and INHIBIT
that particular CAUTION & WARNING function so that
it won't bother you.
PLT Roger, Crip; understand. And also, all housekeeping

was done today.
011 03 16 54 CC Okay. Copy that. Your wakeup site tomorrow is

going to be Honeysuckle at 12:02. We'll give you
a call there. We're about a minute from LOS. Next
station contact is over Hawaii at 03:54, but we're
not planning on giving you a call. If for any
reason you need us, Just use the old i0,000 on
the DAS, no ENTER. We'll say goodnight here, guys.
PLT Roger. That's 12:02, huh?
CC Yes, sir. We kept you up late tonight; we'll let

you sleep an hour late tomorrow morning.
PLT Oh, one thing I failed to mention on the shopping

list is T002-3, filter 2.6.
CC Okay, we copy that. And I guess one item I might

read to you regarding TO02 performance: After
your ops on mission day 46, your accuracy dropped
somewhat. It Went down to around 19 to 20 arc sec-
onds. And then it became excellent about 9 arc sec-
onds on 52 and around that order for the last
couple of days.
PLT I've made some remarks on tape; opinion as to why

accuracy varies.
CC Okay, real fine. And we're going over hill now.

Talk to you tomorrow.
CDR Good night, Crip.
011 03 18 13 CC Good night, guys.
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011 12 03 46 CC Morning, Skylab. Got you through Honeysuckle

for 6 minutes.
PLT Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Bill.
CC Ed, Houston.
011 12 07 23 CC Ed, I don't like to bug you this early after

getting up, but this concerns TV-101, which'll
be coming up pretty shortly after your PSA.
And my next pass with you is at 12:56, so I was
thinking you might get into it by then. On
TV-101 the TV Ops Book only gives you information
on - on closeup scenes on that. If possible it'd
be nice if you'd give us a narration and intro-
ductory scene on TV-101 or get a picture maybe
standing back so you get the big picture. You
might also say what you made it out of. And you
might also get some TV showing you putting the
pieces together.
SPT Story, I could do the first one, but the second

one just is - I really don't have the time to
take it all apart and put it back together again.
That would require another hour or so at least.
CC Yes. You don't want to do that.
011 12 08 37 CC And we're a minute from LOS here; about

50 minutes to Madrid at 12:56. Be dumping the
data/voice at Madrid.
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011 12 57 25 CC Skylah; AOS through Madrid for i0 minutes. We'll

he dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Are you ready for us to schedule the TV-103 ops?

That's that liquid film science demo.
CDR I ought to be ready in a day or so. I haven't

really done anything in about 2 days on that -
or 3 days on that.
CC Understand. You want a little more practice on

this?
CDR Yes, I really don't have all the little wire goodies
made yet.
CC Okay. Copy.
011 12 58 19 CC And while I got you, can we reduce any am - any

times that we allocate for you on M092/93 and the
M171? At present we're running an hour and a half
on 92/93, and 2 hours on 171. You think we could
reduce those any at all?
CDR Yes, I think so. Let us think about that a little

bit and after - maybe after today's run I can call
you down some reductions.
CC Okay.
CC And is anybody near the STS yet?
PLT I'm up here, Story_ be about 5 minutes before I

can do anything.
CC Okay.
011 13 O0 02 CC Ed, Houston.

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CDR Go ahead; he's listening.
CC Okay. Working on tomorrow's Flight Plan for JOP 19,

we need three consecutive passes. And we're wonder-
ing if it's all right with him to schedule one
ATM pass starting immediately after he gets up
and then have his PSA period after that ATM pass?
SPT That's good, Story. Go ahead.
CC Okay, thanks a lot, Ed. That'll help us out a lot.
011 13 02 14 PLT Story, what was it wanted you - you wanted at the
STS?
CC Okay, Bill; we got a couple of CAUTION and WARNINGs

to reenable. One of them is the - the CMG SAT
that you LNHIBITed last night so you wouldn't be
woken up. And the other one is the BAT CHARGE LOW
on BAT 8; make that BAT 8 only; reF_NABLE that one.
MCC That's affirm, ...
PLT Roger. Those are re - reENABLEd. That was

BAT CHARGE LOW, number 8 and CMG SAT.
CC Yes, sir; that's it. Thanks.
SPT Story, we're ready for a little morning news when-

ever you can.
Oll 1B 03 23 CC Okay. Let me whip about a minute's worth on you

here. We're going LOS in about a minute, and the
next station is Carnarvon about 28 minutes from
now at 13:31. A Federal Energy Office official
said that the curtailment in gasoline production
may be much less than expected because the petro-
leum shortage is not as great as was feared.
William A. Johnson, Director of Policy Analysis
for the Energy Office, said it may be necessary
to only reduce production by about 15 percent
instead of 30 percent, which was the original
estimate. He also said that evidence suggests we
will be able to avoid rationing in the country.
Vice President Gerald R. Ford says the White House
may be willing to release some of the 500 tapes
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and documents demanded by the Senate Watergate

Committee. In an interview, he said he received
support for his proposal for compromise efforts
in a telephone conversation with White House Chief
of Staff Alexander M. Haig, Jr. "They're willing
to sit down and negotiate, as I understand it,"
Ford said.
011 13 04 24 CC Ten years after the Surgeon General's report on

smoke and health, efforts continue to regulate
cigarettes as a hazardous substance. Senator
Frank E. Moss, Democrat from Utah, and at least
two voluntary health organizations are preparing
a petition asking the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission to regulate cigarettes as it would other
hazardous substances, banning those with excessive
tar and nicotine. President Nixon has ordered the
impounding of $3 billion in funds for aiding con-
struction of waste treatment facilities in the year
beginning July i, administration officials disclosed.
Congress has authorized $7 billion for the program
of Federal grants. In a letter to the Environmental
F Protection Administrator, Nixon said the Federal
Government must continue its efforts to control
spending in order to avoid renewed inflation for
- or a requirement for increased taxes. The art
of necking has reached new heights at the zoo in
Stoneham, Massachusetts, thanks to a group called
Giraffe Associates. The group banded together
to buy Girard, a 3-year-old male giraffe who now
is the constant companion of the 1G-year-old Leona,
a resident of the zoo.
011 13 05 29 CC I guess that's all we - I can get to you now.

And Hank will finish it up if you want.
011 13 31 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon/Honeysuckle for

13-1/2 minutes. Good morning from the bronze boys.
PLT Hello, Hank.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CDR Morning, Hank.
011 13 33 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Story didn't finish getting up

the news. Thought you might be interested that
offensive tackle John Hicks of Ohio State won the
r Lombardy trophy.
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CDE Hey, very good. Did they have the awards last
night?
CC That's right.
011 13 37 18 CC Skylah, Houston. Would you like to hear a couple

of more news items?
CDE Sure would, Hank.
CC Okay. Here's one that - from Memphis, Tennessee.

It says an all-night grocery there, they - they
made no profit from a box of popcorn bought by
two police officers early ThursdaY. Shortly after
the officers purchased the popcorn and left the
store, they got a call to report back to the store.
It seems that the store's clerk had been locked
up in the cooler while the holdupmanwaited on
the customers, among them the two policemen
(laughter). The clerk said the holdupmaa served
two other customers while waiting for the store to
empty so he could clean out a safe and cash register.
Here's one from- -
SPT I think you made that up.
011 13 38 05 CC No. No, I didn't, l'm reading right off the news
here. It says in Copperas Cove, Texas, the old
fashion habit of snuff dipping has become the rage
among some of the high schoolers and authorities
don't like it. This is not the effete old English
habit of opening a silver snuff box and taking a
pinch and sniffing it. This is the pioneer and
Deep South procedure of pulling out the lower lip,
shaking in a generous portion of tobacco, closing
the lip and let it seep around. The problem is
that the snuff begins to make the mouth water.
Sometime or other, the user must discharge the
overflow or drown. The school trustees, spitting
mad, so to speak, took action this week. "There
won't be any more snuff dipping or tobacco chewing
in school," they decreed.
011 13 39 40 CC On the serious side of the news, Egyptian gunfire

killed an Israeli soldier on the Suez front Thursday,
and a 4-hour artillery battle erupted on the
southern front wounding five more Israelis, the
military command said. The fighting came one day
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before Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was

to fly to the Middle East to assist Egypt and
Israel in reaching an agreement to separate their
forces on the tense front.
011 13 hl 05 CC Skylab, Houston. As a general item here, you may

have already noted it, but in our hand - in our
data base for our handheld photos, referencing
the STS windows, we had windows 2 and 4 switched
somehow or another. So in today's pads, everywhere
it refers to STS window 4, it should be STS window 2.
We've corrected our data base and that should be
taken care in - of in future pads.
SPT Got it. Thank you, Hank.
PLT Yes. I think we pointed that out yesterday, Hank.
011 13 44 01 CC SPT, Houston. We don't see anything on the VTR.

We're wondering about the TV-101. Have you re-
arranged your schedule a little bit?
SPT That's right, Hank. I got the exercise out of the

F way first thing in the morning. There's no way
I could do that after eating, so I'm just finishing
up my meal now and I can go on on that 20 - 101.
I think there, however, I'll be able to get a
fresh start at it first thing in the morning here.
I'll put something on tape, but I'm going to be -
have to do it in ten 15-minute pieces throughout
the day. And what I don't finish up today, I'll
keep on hitting tomorrow and the - and the follow-
ing day. I think there's a wealth of material there.
It's just going to take a little while to work
it all in.
011 13 4h 47 CC Okay, good show, Ed. And we're about 40 seconds

from LOS. We'll be coming up on MILA at 19, and
that's about 34 minutes.
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011 14 19 18 CC Skylab, Houston through MILA for 11-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, Jet, we're configured for ATM TV any time

you're ready.
CDR Okay.
PLT Hank, PLT here. Having a little problem with the

tape recorder loading on that reel number 23 l'd
like to brief you on.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
011 14 20 07 PLT Okay. First time I loaded it, checked it out, when
I went to 192 MODE, READY, I got the - the RECORDER
MALF light came on and then followed by a green
light, but the RECORDER MALF light did not go out.
F Okay, so I rewound the stuff and recheckedevery-
thing and I checked the tension on the hub and so
forth. Started up again and green light fine on
the slow speed. And again when I checked the 192
to READY, the MALF light didn't go out. I checked
everything two or three times; everything looks
normal. Checked the tension and the tightness on
the hub. So I just let - thought l'd brief you
on it and let them think about it.
CC Okay. Understand that you get the green light and

everything looks normal, except the MALF light
doesn't go out.
011 14 20 59 PLT That's affirmative. This - apparently during a

run that's an acceptable situation, but I wanted
to brief you about it ahead of time.
CC Okay, Bill, let us think about that a little bit.
CC Bill, that occurred on both the low speed and high

speed?
PLT Only on the high speed.
CC Just the high speed; understand.

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011 lh 22 39 CC CDR, Houston; we've got a little report in here

on ATM. It - it appears to us around - on the
limb around 250 to 260 that there's a - some minor
surging taking place. And it could be coming from
old active region O0 or O1, which is now rotating
on the disk. And we're wondering if you're seeing
anything in that vicinity.
CDR Haven't seen anything yet, Hank, since I'm still

Sun centered. XUV, I guess, is about the best
thing to look at.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Right now active region 14 looks like the hottest

one in XUV.
CC Roger; we copy.
011 14 25 05 CC And, CDR; and I guess if the SPT lis - is listen-

ing he can copy this too. He - he had a question -
or c_nTment the other day regarding the Polaroid
film fogging. We looked back through this and -
and packs number i001 through 1026 were taken up
by SL-3. And 1027 through 53, you took up. And
we determined that it's the SL-3 film that is -
is doing the fogging. So, we would suggest you
use the packs 27 through 53 first, which is the
newest film.
SPT Th_ you, Hank.
CDR Hank, there are some surges up there at 250.
CC Roger; we copy.
011 14 28 04 CDR Hank, do the guys in the backroom want a shopping

list 3 or something like that on the surge, or
you want me to go ahead and get the calibrations
out of the way?
CC Okay, we'll check that out. And while we're doing

that I got a - a note for Bill. We've looked
into that S192 thing, and the indications there
are normal, Bill. The S192 POWER is OFF so the
TAPE RECORDER recognizes no signal coming in the -
in the READY MODE. So it thinks that the thing
has failed and gives you a MALF light.
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PLT Okay. Thank you very much.
CC And for the CDR; we would like a shopping list

item 3 if you can work it in.
CDR Okay, I'ii probably have to drop 12 Echo.
CC Okay, that's okay to do that, Bill - or Jerry.
011 14 29 55 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about i minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Madrid in 4 minutes at 34.
011 14 34 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
MCC Well, I was just - Okay, thank you.
MCC Roger.

see you again in 26 minutes at Carnarvon at 07,
and we plan to dump the recorder there.
011 15 07 43 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9-1/2 min-

utes. And we'll be dumping the recorder.
CDR Hank, the recorder's in use right now. Ed's

doing TV-101.
CC Okay. We copy.
011 15 i0 ii SPT You can dump the recorder, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
CC And, Ed, we passed you some bad numbers while ago

on the serial numbers of those film packs. The
ones for SL-3 were correct; the - the ones y'all
took up were 2 - 1041 to 1066.
SPT Say again, Hank.
011 15 i0 50 CC Roger. I read up the numbers on the film packs

while ago, regarding the ones that SL-3 took up
and the ones you took up. The ones you took up
should have been 1041 to 1066. I gave you the
wrong numbers earlier.
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SPT Ha1_, what's the start_ug n_e_' of the one we

took up?
CC Roger. 1041.
SPT Thank you.

be down for about a minute and right back with
you at Honeysuckle at 17.

Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Texas in 29 minutes at 15:51.
011 15 21 41 SPT Roger, Hank.
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011 15 51 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas, MILA, and Bermuda

for 16-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC And for the SPT, for info, at 15:18, NOAA reported

a type 3 radio burst.
SPT Roger, Hank. Thank you. I'ii be with you in a

moment.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we'll need the VTR until the
MILA LOS. That'll come at about 15:54; we'll be
dumping it here.
SPT Okay, Hank. All l've got on there for i01 so far
is the intro, l'm going to try and put in some
on the demonstrations piecemeal throughout the
day.
f CC Okay. We copy. We're just going to clean off

what's there, so it'll be available for you later.
And for info, the laser pass has been scrubbed
because of weather.
SPT Roger.
011 15 53 39 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We've got another 14 minutes

left. Somewhere, preferably in the early part of
this pass, we'd like to get someone to do our
REG ADJUST in prep for the EREP.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. We'd like to get REG, BUS l, 5 degrees

counterclockwise and REG, BUS 2, ADJUST l0 degrees
counterclockwise.
SPT You've got it.
CC Thank you, sir.

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011 15 54 24 SPT Okay, Hank. When I started on the panel this

morning, apparently Jerry had noticed a surge and
perhaps got some data on it. The surge itself is
located at 250 degrees, just about right even at
250. It consisted of a Jet which was inclined
45 degrees to the horizontal and extending out
30 arc seconds, inclined towards the south. There
was a very diffused mass of material, maybe
20-arc-seconds across, which was out at 20 arc
seconds when I first looked at it. It's now
moved out to 25 or 30 and perhaps become a little
bit larger, but still is relatively faint. That
time, which I made those observations, was 15:30;
and right now, 25 minutes later, the jet has just
about disappeared. It's still visible, extends out
maybe 5 to 7 d - arc seconds above the surface,
and the diffused material is slightly further out -
maybe 25 to 30 arc seconds is the center of it.
I did not notice anything in the way of a transient
when I first looked at the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH
this morning. I'ii be going back to Sun center
at the conclusion of these observations and try to
pick up a building block 32. The corona did have
some changes in it from yesterday. The - at 230,
the streamer, which is at that location and in -
which is inclined slightly towards the south, was
enhanced. Overall appearance did not change
appreciably. If anything, it might've been a
little bit narrower, but it was more enhanced. The
region from 240 to 260 is also enhanced. It's not
a single streamer, but more of a diffused area of
material which is reflecting, and that goes out to
around 3 solar radii.
011 15 56 32 SPT At 270, we still have the sharp and very narrow
helmet streamer, and that is also inclined slightly
to the south. XUV MONITOR shows the active
regions 7 and 15 pretty much relatively low level,
same intensity. Active region 18 is low intensity
with the following plage in XUV MONITOR a little
larger and perhaps a little brighter. Active
region 16 is about as bright as what we see on
the limb in the way of 17 and 19, which is about
where the action is right now. On board, we have
a touch time dis - distinguishing between active
regions 17 and 19. Also the X-ray count from up
here, PMEC has been relatively low, less than 300
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all the time. So I've not gone into any rapid

modes in the X-ray instruments. I'm just getting
the long-time exposures called for. I think we
chose a good position to work this morning, and
I'm just going through the observing program as
it's called out, because we're right in an optimum
position and getting good MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs.
I started the MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs at line - or
GRATING POSITION of ZERO rather than 243_, however,
just because I happened to be there and wanted to
pick it up early. So, I think we've got a good
position to work with the remainder of the day,
and it looks good.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you for the rundown.
011 15 59 13 CC SPT, another comment on your problem with distin-

guishing between active regions 17 and 19. We
had the same problem down here this morning. So
in the future, we're just going to call that one
area active region 17.
SPT Okay. Thank you. I have a question for 82B. In

f order to make sure I coveredthe jet, which was
extending this morning, I did not roll as far up
as I could have - as far north as I could have.
So that their SLIT was really between the - the
jet and the other material. Now that the jet has
disappeared, I could truncate their 35-minute
exposure here. And when the X-ray instruments
are finished with their two exposures, I can go
ahead and roll and put their SLIT right on the
diffused material if they would like.
CC We'll check on that.
011 16 01 23 CC SPT, Houston. Did you mark the original position

of the REG BUS ADJUSTs before you moved them?
SPT Say again, Hank, please.
CC Roger. Did you mark the original position of the

REG BUS ADJUST knobs before you moved them?
SPT Yes. We've got a couple of marks on there for

nominal positions, Hank. So, I think we'll know
what - know what to go back to.
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CC Okay. Well, the reason I'm asking, Ed, we got -

on this adjust you made for us, we got a little
bit more than we wanted. WE'd like to half what
you did. In other words, go clockwise back a
half of what you really - originally went on both
of those. You - we - that should be roughly
5 degrees clockwise on i, and i0 on 2.
SPT Okay.
011 16 02 19 SPT How's that look?
CC Okay, give us a minute to look at it, and we'll

let you know.
SPT Okay, what do the 82B folks think? I'm at the

point here where I'm ready to start some more
X-ray exposures. The SLIT would be right on the
diffuse material. Chances are their - as I look
at it, the top of their SLIT is getting it right
now. But the - I don't have it completely centered.
CC They're still discussing that, Ed. I'll try to get --

it just as soon as I can.
SPT Okay, I'll press on with another X-ray exposure

for 13 minutes.
011 16 03 13 CC SPT, Houston; we concur with your proposal on

orientation of the SLIT.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CC And for info, the REG ADJUST you did looks good
to us now.
CC CDR, Houston ; whenever it's convenient, sometime

during the day, I have your details for your
private phone call.
CDR Okay, I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay. We've got it set up, Jerry, for MILA at

00:06; RIGHT ANTENNA.
CDR Okay, 00:06, RIGHT.

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011 16 06 49 CC Skylab, Houston; we're ] minute t'romLOS. We'll

see you in 5 minutes at Madrid at 12, and we plan
011 16 06 59 SPT So long, Hank.
011 16 ii 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes with

a recorder dump.
CC CDR, Houston. You probably noticed that the - the

periods of poor site coverage are moving out of
the sleep period back up into the presleep, and
i'ts making it a great deal more difficult for us
to - to schedule the evening status and the med
conference and also private phone calls. So what
we're looking at, with your concurrence, is trying,
where possible, to schedule the - your private
coming in the middle of the day somewhere during
an open housekeeping period, if that'll work out,
so that we can take the pressure off of trying to
schedule the - the evening status and reed confer-
ence later in the evening.
CDR Roger, Hank. Understand. Whatever you can do is

fine.
011 16 15 33 SPT Hank, would you ask the 82A guys whether they'd
like to see anything in the way of an exposure.
We got a - a good roll for them right now and,
if there was any activity out in the corona, they
may be able to pick it up.
CC Okay, Ed. Give us a SHORT WAVELENGTH, 20 seconds.
SPT I was just setting up for it. Thank you.
011 16 18 16 CC Skylab, Hosuton; we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll

see you again at Goldstone in an hour and
9 minutes. There's a possibility we may have you
through Hoenysuckle - it's a very low pass - at
16:58. The Goldstone pass comes up at 17:27.
You're EREPing then. The weather for your EREP
pass is pretty much clear until you reach the
Oklahoma area. It then becomes broken 0.4 to
0.7, and that seems to be imprcving at this time.
We'll know more about it later. And up along the
Great Lakes region onto the rest of your pass, it's
pretty much overcast.
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011 16 18 58 SPT Thank you, Hank. For the ATM people thinking
about planning, the region at 250, the H-alpha
surface features c - are continually changing. I
think I might see another surge breaking out of
that location, at least the H-alpha appears to be
growing. So, high-time resolution studies on that
part of the limb look to me ... - -
011 16 58 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for a minute

and a half.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Okay. I've got an update on your weather. It has

improved a little bit. It should be 0 to 0.3 all
the way to Chicago, if luck holds out. And then
it starts becoming overcast and probably it'll be
overcast pretty much the rest of the way. There
is an interesting feature northwest of the coast
of Spain. There's a good - good sized low there
that's kicking up surface winds 50 to 60 knots,
which should probably kick up some good wave
action. Also, for- as far as snow cover goes,
you'll pick up the snow somewhere near the Kansas-
Oklahoma border and from then on the rest of the
U.S. is snow covered 2 inches - or 4 inches or
more. And there may be one little - I said it was
clear to Chicago - one little patch of ground fog
in the Panhandle area.
CDR Okay • Hank. Thank you.
CC We're about to go LOS now, Skylab. We'll see you

over Goldstone with EREP at 27.
011 16 59 51 CDR Roger. See you then.
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011 17 27 03 CDR Okay, at 27:40, we're going to want a - the VTS

to AUTO CAL. I'ii - -
PLT Okay. Stand by.
CDR I'ii be giving a mark at 34 for EREP, START and

then one for AUTO CAL.
PLT Okay.
011 17 27 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're monitoring you through

Goldstone.
CDR Roger, Hank. Okay, on my mark it'll be 27:34.

Stand by.
011 17 27 34 CDR MARK. EREP to START. Next is the VTS AUTO CAL
at 40, Bill. Stand by - -
F PLT Standby -
CDR Mark it.
011 17 27 40 PLT MARK.
CDR Okay, RADIOMETER Is going to OFF. My next mark

will be at 28 even.
PLT There's Baja. Got it ....
CDR Stand by.
011 17 28 00 CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER's ON. 194, MANUAL.
CC Bill, in regard to your special 0/2 on the

snow-cover area coming up, due to where the snow
cover is, we expect that you won't acquire that
until 34, rather than 33:14 as we've indicated;
however, we'd like you to track that, if you
would, right on up to the special Ol at 36:26.
PLT Okay. By track, you mean track the - the partic-

ular spot that I pick.
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CC That's affirm. You track the snow-covered

ar - area you pick out there.
PLT Okay. What I was going to try to do, Hank, was

pick a snow-covered area near Kansas City if it
looks like I'ii be able to do it. Otherwise,
I'll just go ahead and pick an area.
CC Okay. We copy.
011 17 29 08 CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light flashing. Went out.
PLT There's Guaymas. I see the city of Guaymas.
CDR Okay, my next mark is 29:33.
PLT I'ii track Guaymas, and then I'll track out in

the little bay, the one in ... triangle.
CDR Stand by -
011 17 29 33 CDR MARK. S190 MODE TO AUTO.
PLT There's the bay. I'm going to give you a DATA

pushbutton on that little bay at Guaymas. Now
I'Ii track the city of Guaymas. I'm using the
DAC. DATA pushbutton, release. Okay. Set up
for White Sands, 31:26.
CDR Okay. At 30:20, I'm looking for an S191 light on.
011 17 30 21 CDR MARK. The HEADY came on at 20. REFERENCE to 6.
PLT Okay. I got White Sands. Okay, I see the area

they want. Beautiful. Okay.
CDR Okay, Ed, we got an ETC AUTO coming up in about

24 seconds. On my mark, it'll be 31:10. Stand
by -
011 17 31 i0 CDR MARK. ETC, AUTO.
PLT DAC, on; tracking.
CDR Next mark is at 31:35. Stand by -

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011 17 31 35 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape recorder's picking

up speed. And got a MOTION light. ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light is on. The READY light is out. Going
to STANDBY.
CDR Okay, I think I'ii just leave the ALTIMETER OFF.

Only get about 5 more seconds if I turn it ON.
Stand by for RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
011 17 32 i0 CDR MARK. At 08. 32:20's next.
PLT Okay, there's i0 degrees UP.
011 17 32 26 CDR Okay. SCATTEROMETER and RADIOMETER are ON. I

got them 4 seconds late. 33:10 is next. Be the
ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Okay. Trying for the lava. There it is. Okay,

l'm going to get both of them. Beautiful. Okay,
DATA pushbutton. Zoom in, MAX. Got the dike.
Right there. Okay, l'm right on the dike. DATA
pushbutton. There. We scored on both of them.
f-
CDR Good deal. My next mark will be 33:10 for ETC

to STANDBY.
PLT I'd have had to be hit in the head not to be able

to pick these things out.
CDR Stand by -
011 17 33 i0 CDR MARK. E - ETC to STANDBY. Coming up on 16 -
011 17 33 16 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
PLT Okay, that's it.
CDR RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Okay, and ANGLE going to zero. 24 -
011 17 33 26 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON.
PLT Okay. Special 02, 33:14.
CDR Next one is 35:30.

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PLT Okay. 33:14 - 34, rather; 34. Okay. 34:33.

Kansas City is 3 - 3.8, RIGHT. Okay, it's going
to be close to - Okay, l'm - l'm seeing an ar -
area near Kansas City. CAMERA, ON. MAX MAG.
Okay, there we go. And it's next to the river.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 35:30. Coming up on 30.

Stand by -
011 17 35 30 CDR MARK. 190 SHUTTER SPEED to MEDII_4.
PLT There's zero downtrack.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 36:00.
PLT i0 degrees downtrack. CAMERA, OFF. Special 01,

36:26.
CDR Stand by -
011 17 36 01 CDR MARK. S193 POLARIZATION to 4. Alfa to MODE l;

193 Alfa.
PLT Zero zero.
CDR 36:15 coming up next, with an ETC to STANDBY.

Stand by -
011 17 36 15 CDR MARK. 36:15. 36:46 is next.
PLT Okay, and we're taking data on nadir swath.

Zero zero is showing. Okay, IMC, ON now.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 36:46. Stand by -
011 17 36 47 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER 0 - to STANDBY: RADIOMETER

to STANDBY.
PLT Okay. I put the IMC ON just a second there, and

I took it out.
CDR 36 :54. Stand by -
Oll 17 36 55 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's OFF. Coming up on 37:00.

Stand by -
011 17 37 00 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.

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PLT Okay. I was Just a little slow getting everything

set up on that - first nadir swath.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Still got a READY.
PLT Well, we're going across Lake Michigan now, I

think; some lake, anyway.
CDR READY light's out. Okay, turning 193 to STANDBY

for 15 seconds.
PLT Got pictures of water ... - -
CDE ALTIMETER back to ON. Coming up on 38:10. Stand

by.
011 17 38 ii CDR MARK. 192 MODE, CHECK.
CDR Looking for an S190 READY out, at 38:40.
PLT DAC will be going OFF at 38:43; VTS DAC.
f 011 17 38 44 PLT MARK. DAC, OFF.
CDR Okay, somewhere along the line, 190 did not get
put to AUTO. MODE is now STANDBY. The frame
is 16. When I get a chance, I'ii look back and
see if I can figure out what I - what I did.
41:10 is the next one. I got a 190 SHUTTER SPEED
to MEDIUM. I got a 180 MODE to AUTO at 29:33;
I must have missed it.
PLT And we're in a nadir swath. Picking up a lot of

high, fine cirrus, very thin cirrus.
PLT And on special 01, I was about i0 seconds getting

everything set on that thing. Everything else
was nominal, and now we're in nadir swath until
52:55; no DAC.
011 17 40 Ol CDR Okay, ALTIMETER UNLOCK and RE_&DY light's out.

We'll just stand by for 15 seconds.
CDR ALTIMETER is back ON.
PLT We're over a solid overcast now. Going to turn

the DAC ON for a few - -
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CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK.
PLT - - more frames because there's an - an unusual

cloud formation there. That ought to be good.
These roll clouds that we were seeing yesterday,
Jer?
CDR Yes.
PLT There's about six of them in a row there. I - I

took some pictures of them earlier today, too.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK. Going to STANDBY. l'm going

to leave it OFF.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 40:10. Stand by.
011 17 41 ll CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. 41:35 is next.
CDR Okay, at 41:35 we'll be putting the ETC POWER, ON.

Stand by.
011 17 41 35 CDR MARK. 41:35; ETC POWER, ON. At 41:43 -
011 17 41 44 CDR MARK. SI90 MODE to AUTO. Got a READY light.

41:50 -
011 17 41 51 CDR MARK. ETC to AUTO. 41:55 -
011 17 41 56 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON. 42:15's

next.
CDR Stand by.
011 17 42 15 CDR MARK. At 42:15, 192 went to READY. We've got

a TAPE MOTION; good shape. 43:15 is next.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Should - should we not have the READY light out on

8180: l'm at AUTO; I got a READY light on.
CC That READY light will stay on while it's running

it's sequence, Jerry.
CDR Okay. 43:15 coming up. Stand by.

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011 17 43 16 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, OFF; RADIOMETER, OFF. I got

my light sequence backwards in my mind there.
43:27 coming up. Stand by.
011 17 43 27 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. 43:34 coming up.

Stand by.
011 17 43 35 CDR MARK. 190 MODE - INTERVAL to 20. 43:34 [sic].
011 17 43 41 CDR MARK. 193 to XTNC, L/R; POLARIZATION, 5. 43:52;

stand by.
011 17 43 52 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON.
CDR 44:05; ETC should be at 4.8 FRAMES/MINUTE.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you again at

Madrid in about 4 minutes.
CDR Okay.
PLT Got a couple of frames in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

. there, too. Quite a bit of ice information just
from the DAC frames, I'ii bet.
CDR Yes. Except yesterday they didn't feel the

resolution was good enough to do any good on
the - last night's EREP pass.
PLT That right? Well, I went - I took about

four frames ove/ the Great Lakes.
011 17 45 02 CDR 45. 190 READY light is out; ETC to STANDBY;

190 to STANDBY.
011 17 49 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. Can the guys in the EREP backroom

tell whether or not at 29:33 1 made a call for
S190 _DDE to AUTO?
CC Roger, Jerry. You made that call there, and we

think probably everything's all right. If you'll
give us a reading on station !, we can probably
tell right quick,
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CDR Okay. I found ths_h swLlch OFF when I came to iL;

so it could be that I grabbed it when - up above
when I was supposed to put the SCATTEROMETER to
STANDBY. I may have grabbed 190 and put it to
STANDBY, which means we're about 2 minutes lost.
Okay. Station l's reading 183.
CC 183. Roger. It should read around 210, I think.
011 17 49 58 CDR Okay. I suspect that's what happened then. Up

there around 36:46, when the SCATTEROMETER went
to STANDBY, I may have grabbed the 190 switch and
put it to STANDBY.
CC Okay. We copy, Jet.
PLT This nadir swath isn't going to go anywhere. I'm

going to go up there to get the maneuver.
CDR Okay. On my mark, it'll be 52:00. Stand by.
Oll 17 52 01 CDR MARK. 194 MODE, MANUAL.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 52:55.
CDR Stand by.
011 17 52 55 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, OFF.
011 17 52 57 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF; 57. 53:06 is next. Stand

by.
011 17 53 06 CDR MARK. EREP, STOP.
CC Skylab, Houston - -
CDR Okay.
CC - - We need the DA$ for HEATER, OFF commanding.
PLT Stand by i. l'm putting the new maneuver time in.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Bravo 7 is reading 35; 35.
PLT You've got it, Hank.
CC Thank you, sir.

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CDR Yes.
011 17 54 29 CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment?
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Hey, Jer. On the last two S193 callouts you made

there - S193, STANDBY and radiometer - SCATTER-
OMETER/RADIOMETER - the pad calls for STANDBY, and
you called them OFF. And you did that previously
up there at about 43:15. We were wondering if you
were putting them in STANDBY and - and calling it
OFF or - or are y - did your pad print out wrong
or what's going on?
CDR No. That's - I put them in STANDBY. I just seem

/ to have this hangup of calling it OFF.
CC Okay. We copy, Jer.

see you again at Tananarive at 09.
011 17 57 32 CDR Roger.
011 18 l0 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. This morning we uplinked a pad

that changed the still-camera cue card; change
number 2. We found some errors in this pad, and
if - if you haven't incorporated that already,
we'd like for you to hold off on it. If you
have, we're going to have to send up a correction.
CDR Okay. It's already done, Hnak.
CC Okay, I - I guess I can tell you if you - what's

wrong with it, if you've got a minute to listen.
CDR Sure. Go ahead.

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011 18 ii 52 CC Okay. The problem was in - in - in telling you

how to - to put the - the whole rig together
there. The - I guess you already knew it, but
in - when you used the Wratten filter - which you
have to use with all the IR film, Wratten
number 12 - when you use that with a 300-millimeter
lens, you've got to use the - the stepdown ring,
72 to 52 millimeters. And that does cause a
little edge vignetting. But I think you already
knew that. But the big error was in the - the -
how to focus the thing. It wasn't very clear in
that pad, and it - it was contrary to what we had
told you yesterday. What we told you yesterday
is correct: That for infinity focus, you set the
infinity mark over the red dot on the lens. In
fact, the 135-, the 300-, and the 35-millimeter
lenses, which are standard commercial lenses, are
always focused for IR film by putting the setting
over the little red dot. And, of course, you -
you can even get interior shots if you - I think
you know this already and from your training. But
if you focus, say, at 4 feet, using the eyeball,
then you'd have to move the little 4-foot setting
over to the red dot to get the correct IR focus.
And the only one that's different from that is
the 55-millimeter lens, which you will be - or
could use on an optional photo coming up at 20:40.
The 55-millimeter lens doesn't have a red dot.
It has an R with a little dot over it. And that's
the - the thing you use to focus for IR film with
that lens.
011 18 13 28 CDR Okay, Hank. Thanks a lot. l'm sure that would
have been a source of confusion the first time
we tried to use it.
CC CDR, Houston. There's one othe/thing I ought to

add. That pad change we sent up indicates that
you can use the light meter to get a focus - or
get a shutter speed set up. That's not absolutely
correct. The - If you use the light meter, you're
going to beabout one-and-three-quarters stops
off; so we s -crect - correct - correct thing to
do would be to use the - the settings that are
called out in the table.
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CDR Okay, Hank. We'll do it that way.
011 18 18 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go over the hill

here in about a minute or so. We'll see you again
in 17 minutes at Honeysuckle; 18:35.
011 18 18 12 CDR Roger. So long.
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011 18 35 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Could we have the DAS to up-

link some momentum bias?
CDR You have it.
CDR Hank, the EREP tape remaining is 4.3 centimeters.
CC Roger; copy. 4.3.

see you in about 15 minutes at Hawaii at 55.
011 18 55 54 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 6-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. For info, we see less than 2 min-

utes of tape remaining on the VTR.
PLT He copies, Hank.
011 18 57 47 CC CDR, Houston. You've got an M092 coming up later

this evening, and I have a comment I need to get
to you prior to you running that, whenever it's
convenient.
PLT We're listening.
CC Okay. It's in regard to legband Charlie Juliett.

Just a reminder to - to cal it to a setting of
2.5, and this applies to all the runs using leg-
bands Charlie Juliett. We sent up a message on
mission d_v 54 with this change, and we noticed
that the run that you had since then you used
the - the earlier value. We'd like to get the
2.5 value in the rest of the cal runs.
PLT Okay. Charlie Juliett, 2.5.
CC That's correct. Thank you.

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011 18 58 56 SPT Hank, I have about one-third of the runs on the

TV-101 on the tape, plus the introduction. You
may want to dump that. And I'll pick up some
more runs today whenever we can have a VTR back.
CC Okay. We copy, Ed. Thank you very much. And

we will start dumping that here at Goldstone.
SPT Thank you.
CC And for info, Ed, we should be able to clean off

about lO minutes of it during this stateside pass.
So after our CONUS pass, you should have l0 min-
utes available if you want to do something.
SPT Okay. I got an ATM coming up here, and I'll see

what I can do after that.
Oll 18 59 46 CC Now that you mention ATM, I might give you an

update here. NOAA has reported three type
3 radio bursts within - well, since 18:45. Well,
I guess the last one occurred at 18:45.
SPT Hank, you may want to query the people in the

baekroom for S052. I'll be spring loaded to do
a shopping list item 24 anytime they know that
a type 3 is going on. So if they want to call
it, I'll go into that mode.
CC Okay. We 'll run that by them.

We'll see you at Goldstone in about 2 minutes and
we plan to dump the voice recorder there.
011 19 05 05 CC Skylab, we'll be dumping the voice recorder here

at Goldstone.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question regard-

ing the shopping list item 24, the - the way we're
working that, we can't tell what's going on.
You've got the best view. We'll just tell you
that we have seen the - the type 3 radio bursts,
and then it's your option to run the shopping
list 24 based on what you see.
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011 19 06 40 SPT Okay, Hank. It was my understanding in discus-

sing with the people before we left - was that
we're looking for fairly rapid transients, which
might be fairly faint, and that they might show
up on their film whereas they wouldn't show up on
the TV here. Rapid transients, the only way we
can detect them was with type 3 radio bursts, and
I would have to know when one one - when one was
actually in progress in order to start the se-
quence.
SPT If they'd like, Hank, I'd be glad to give them

that particular shopping item for 2 minutes, just
on the speculation that we might be seeing some-
thing. But they might want to wait until we
actually know we have a type 3 in progress.
CC We're discussing it here now Ed. I - I'll get

right back with you.
011 19 08 07 CC Okay, I guess the way we would like to - to do

it, Ed, is as you suggested. If - if we see one
in progress, or - or - or think one's in progress,
f we'll give you the go ahead and you can go ahead
and run the - the shopping list 24. But we have
no way of telling; all we do is pick up the - the
burst. And we have no way of telling what's
really going on. And the best way to do it would
be on a real-time basis.
SPT Okay, Hank. Or if they come very frequently

too, and we have not gotten one, we may want to
take a speculation that there's one in progress
that we haven't been able to coordinate up until
then. I'll wait for your call.
CC Okay.

see you again at Bermuda in 4 minutes at 19:17.
011 19 17 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda, 6 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank. Are you ready for the TV downlink?
CC Okay. We stand by ready to take it.

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CC Go ahead. We got about i minute, Ed.
SPT Okay. Were - were they ready for the TV downlink?
CC That's affirmative. Didn't you get our call?
SPT Negative. You must have dropped out. I been

giving them XUV MONITOR INTEGRATION. And also,
they got some WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, so they
want to - they got what they're after, though.
011 19 22 39 CC Okay, we copy. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again at Canaries at 26; that's
about 3-1/2 minutes.
011 19 26 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 7 minutes.

And we need the DAS for a minute.
CDR You've got it.
011 19 28 18 sPT Hank, we still have that material which is above

the surface at the radius of 250, seen in H-ALPHA l,
20 arcAseconds off the limb. It's the diffused
material which we talked about this morning.
However, it has changed shape. There are still
two elements to it; one has an arch - a very small
arch to it and - in H-ALPHA. And the other is
pretty much of a trapezoidel shape. I did not
see anything connecting it to the surface, how-
ever. It may well very [sic] be a - a prominence,
but is certainly has nowhere near the appearance
that I've seen before. However, it's very static,
being there for 2 or 3 hours now. And we'll just
keep an eye on it from here on out.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed.
011 19 30 24 SPT Hank, do we now have around l0 minutes on the

VTR?
CC We only got about 8 minutes cleaned off, Ed; you

got about 8 minutes available.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'll go ahead and try to use it.

Thank you.
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see you again at Tananarive in 14 minutes at
z9:48.
011 19 34 04 PLT Roger, Hank.
011 19 49 18 CC Skylab, Houston through Tauanarive, 3 minutes.
011 19 51 35 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

at Honeysuckle at 20:ll; that's 19 minutes from
now.
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011 20 ii 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
011 20 18 09 CC SPT, Houston. We've noticed on telemetry an in-

crease in X-REA, and our stations are clouded (ver
down here. We're wondering how it looks up there.
SPT Okay, Hank, I was just going to get to you. The

BERYLLIUM APERTURE POSITION is still down at 4.
We've not had any change there. The PMEC is up
around 400, but again I can't tell whether l'm in
the anomaly. Hold on, our IMAGE INTENSITY COUNT
though, was around i0 to 15, which is a little bit
higher than what we've been seeing. I do not see
any bright points in the XUV MONITOR with the
persistence image scope. We do notice though,
some surging out on the limb, and - Stand by just
a moment please.
CC You're not in the anomaly.

f
SPT Are we in a horn?
CC That's negative. You're just coming up over

Honeysuckle. In fact, you're off the coast of
Australia, now.
011 20 19 31 SPT Okay, Hank. I do not see anything in the XUV

MONITOR or the X-REA which would indicate that we
have something going on on the limb. I do see in
H-ALPHA though, some more of the surging which we
have seen earlier this morning. The faint feature
which is the - which is above the limb, which I
described this morning is a little above 240 -
or 250, maybe 253 or so, 20 arc seconds off the
limb and still there. It's changed shape slightly.
The region which surged earlier this morning at
250 and climbed 45 degrees to the horizontal going
south has got a small amount of surging again,
although it's not reaching anywhere near as far
as it did before. It's only around i0 degrees,
or i0 arc seconds off the limb. Around at 230
and 240, we see some material coming straight off
the limb and then curving south. It goes up around
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i0 to 15 arc seconds. And then down at 230, we

also see some material, not anywhere near as dense,
however, which comes off the limb and curves north.
It looks as though it could be the foot of a promi-
nence, but there's nothing in between the two.
So I'ii - -
011 20 20 44 CC Break, Ed. We're going LOS now, and we'll see you
at Hawaii at 31.
011 20 31 lh CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank. Let me tell you what happened after

you went over the hill. I was watching the XUV
MONITOR as we were doing the MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs
on 55. And there was not a sudden point brighten-
ing, but the active region 17 on the limb became
relatively bright over a course of about a minute -
a minute and a half. And I moved over when we
first started seeing it, just to get a better look
at it in H-ALPHA i. And we had a point brighten-
ing in H-ALPHA i, also. I started the experi-
ments in the flare MODE; that was at around 18:25.
The PMEC was 400 and going up; it eventually reached
around 600. The oxygen VI count, when we first
got over there, was around 30,000. It's now
looking more like 12. We started - we gave 82A
a WAVELENGTH, SHORT, 20 seconds; 82B, two sequences
of WAVELENGTH, SHORT, TIME's i/h. It did not
really appear to me to be a full-fledged flare
on the way up, so I did not go into the flare
MODES with those two instruments. 55 got the
MIRROR, LINE SCAN, which it is still looking at ;
56, AUTO SHORT, about 6 minutes; and 54 was
started immediately with an M, F, I, H, 64. And
we've now come out of that mode.
011 20 33 41 CC Good show, Ed. We copied that.
SI°T Hank, what I would propose to do is to sit on

this region for the remainder here in a building
block 24. And toward the end, go on back to Sun
center and get in a STANDARD MODE for 52.
CC Roger, Ed, and we concur with that.

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SPT Hank, there were to he some changes coming up

on the flare wait, for the various experiments.
If there is anyone who would like to be operat-
ing at the present time who is not, right now
I only have 56 going in a - - AUTO, LONG - -
MCC ...
SPT - - and 55 in the MIRROR, LINE SCAN. If there

are any other instruments that would like to be
operating, we could go ahead and do that.
CC Stand by, Ed.
CC SPT, Houston. We got blocked somehow on - on

part of your last transmission. Would you say
again on - on what you have on now and what you
suggest.
011 20 35 39 SPT Okay, Hank. We have 56 going in a AUTO, LONG;

55, in a MIRROR, LINE SCAN which crosses the
region which is still enhanced; and the other
instrumentsright now are just configuredfor a
flare wait. Are there any other instruments
that would like to be operated?
CC Okay, stand by a bit, Ed, and we'll get you an

a/% 5_wer.
SPT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. We like the configuartion you're

in right now.
011 20 36 42 SPT Okay, thank you, Hank. We started out right at

this region with our first MIRROR, AUTO RASTER,
so we got a look at it before we got the point
brightening.
SPT Hank, just around l0 to 15 arc seconds south of

the point brightening, which is really in H-ALPHA,
which is really a linear strip of brightening and
runs maybe l0 arc seconds or so parallel to the
limb, right - right at the limb in H-ALPHA, we
have a surge emerging. It's building going out
to around 20 arc seconds now, however, but it's
bright at the base as is the H-ALPHA plage, so
I suspect it may grow.
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CC Roger. We copy.
011 20 39 23 SPT Hank, that was a good call on the X-REA. As you
know, I don't have that readout up here. What
did it get up to? How close was it to bumping
over to APERTURE POSITION 3?
CC Okay, it got up to 4400, Ed, which is very close

to the bump-over point. And we're about 50
seconds from LOS. Out next site is Goldstone at
43. And that's about 3 minutes.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we've started rewinding

the VTR, and we're going to need it for the rest
of the day to get dumped everything that's on
there now.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'd appreciate the folks that are

interested in TV-101 to take a look at it tonight
and give me some suggestions for the work tomor-
row. I still have quite a few things lined up,
but their input would be useful.
011 20 40 42 CC Okay. We'll see what we can do, Ed.
011 20 43 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6-1/2 min-

utes.
011 20 47 47 CC CDR, Houston. Earlier today I made a comment

about scheduling the private co_ns - earlier in
the day to take the pressure off of low pass
coverage we have in the evening. Let me ask you
another question. We got a discussion going over
here on what's acceptable or not. You know, we
try not to bother you during the last hour of the
work day with busiess. Would that be an accept-
able time for a private phone call, or would you
rather hold it out of that period too?
CDR Negative. That would be just fine. We've had

several in that period already.
CC Okay. We copy, and that takes a little pressure

off.
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011 20 48 52 CC Skylab, IIouston. We're about i minute from LOS

now. We'll see you again at Bermuda at 54.
011 20 54 03 CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda for 9 minutes.
SPT Hank, we've not seen too much in the way of XUV
activity. It's pretty much subsided there. Oxy-
gen VI count has gone down to around 8000. The
surge which now just appears as a - about a 3 - 4
arc-second band, extending out, growing fainter;
it's climbed 45 degrees again. And it goes out
to around 30 arc seconds now. The faint material
which we've discussed before is still hanging
about 30 arc seconds above the limb - 20 @rc
seconds above the limb. And the MIRROR, LINE
SCAN is crossing that, so if there are any changes
in it, I'm sure that's going to pick it up.
CC Okay, we copy, Ed.
SPT Hank, I've just about concluded that that material

we're looking at is a prominence, although it's
r- fairlyhigh off the limb. And I do not see any
feet to it, but it's awfully stable, so that must
be what it is.
CC We copy.
011 21 02 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. The

next site is Canaries at 05. We'll be handing
over to the crimson team there. We enjoyed work-
ing with you today. See you tomorrow.
SPT Good talking with you, Hank, and the bronze boys.
Talk to you tomorrow.
CDR We'll see you, Hank.
011 21 02 51 CC So long.
011 21 05 06 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. The crimson crew is with

you. We're talking to you through Canary right
now, and the total pass is going to be about
15-1/2 minutes, of which Bill Lenoir is going to
take the last portion.
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SPT The golden voice of the Crimson Cripper. How

are you today?
CC Not very golden. I don't know whether Hank told

you, but l've been sitting in here doing a -
we're trying to practice up so we'll know how to
bring you guys back.
SPT We need a little of that, too.
CC Tell you what we - it was obvious we do, too.
SPT You been running with the CMB?
CC Yes, sir.
SPT Backup guys in there?
CC Roger, Roger. All doing good - good work.
SPT They always do.
CC Won't - won't say they came in wrong end. (Laugh-

ter) Wrong end forward but that was - that was
another story.
SPT Save that one for the sims.
CC Roger. Now, we figured that Vance had had plenty

of practice flying the entry, so we just knocked
it off, and - and it doesn't do well if you leave
it umm_ nded.
011 21 07 30 CC Ed, if - if you're sitting there with time on

your hands, I got Bill sitting over here with
time on his, wanting to get away, really, I think.
And - and you guys could go ahead and conduct
your conference.
SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead. I was just debriefing

this past one on the recorder, so I might as well
talk real time. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. Good. Don't let me cut you short of a

good debriefing there. As you know, right at
the end of the orbit here you were getting another
flare, and it looks to us like it's a - well, I
shouldn't say yet; it looked like it's in the C
range, anyhow. We'll be trying to get some word
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to you as to what it was before I hang up here.

Other than that I don't have much to add about
the Sun, because l'm sure you're much more aware
of what's going on than I am, being up there
seeing it in real time.
SPT At what time did you pick off that rise?
MCC It was right at the - it was still climbing when

the doors closed.
011 21 08 45 SPT That's the way it always works. This is the third
time in a row now; not in a row, but third - third
time since we've been up here and we've gotten
that.
MCC Yes, and it apparently was C-2 or better, and

it started at about a minute before the doors
closed. That's the actual rise out of the mud.
011 21 09 08 MCC Okay. Well, maybe we'll be catching some more

of those here. I don't have too much to say
abouttodays plan. The flaresare obviously
altering what we've done. On the next orbit,
there's a mierolimb scan for 82B is really what
that is put togther doing, at a plus 20 and minus
2 from the limb. This morning on the BB-23,
the 56 operations, I had a question as to whether
that was confusing to you or whether you intention-
ally did it the way you did. And we don't really
have an argument, but if we're confusing you, we
want to make sure we do something to not do it.
The building block 23, as it's set up - you do a
sequence of different kinds of 56 operations,
and then a SINGLE FRAME, LONG, and we gave you
the data for that. We noticed what we got was a
long single frame for the orbit, and we're wonder-
ing if that was intentional on your part or whether
we did something to confuse you.
011 21 09 59 SPT No. Apparently I misinterpreted the - the building

block there, Bill. I thought that it was a change
on their part and they only put in one exposure,
but I just didn't read all of the - all the way
across there. I guess I was too busy looking at
some of the other things we had going on here.
MCC Okay. No problem. We just wanted to make sure

we didn't do something confusing there. And to
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clarify something that's probably already been

clarified enough, we pass you up all the informa-
tion that we get on things such as type 3's -
radio bursts. In the case of type 3's, generally
speaking, it's old enough that we're not terribly
interested in it. If it is a young enough
occurence, we will say go into - we recomend
going into shopping list 24. So in the absence
of that, you can assume that it's old enough that
it's not of immediate interest right now.
011 21 i0 47 SPT Okay. I just wanted to let people know that we

are spring-loaded. At least l've worked it over
quite a bit. And spring-loaded to go into
that mode, so any time we're Sun centered or
they wish I would go Sun center, pick off some
of that data, we can go ahead and do it. And it
calls for either a 24 or a 25, depending upon
what level of activity they think they might see.
MCC Right, and Crip's got a comment for you now.
CC Roger. Actually this is down for Jet. We need

you to - We need you to check the electrodes on
Bill, there. The - it looks like the data is
getting kind of ratty on the VCG and left A and
R - RA is ...
SPT Crip, you cut out as soon as you started. Would

you please repeat that please?
CC Roger. Sorry about that. We had a handover there.

Just want Jer to check the electrodes on Bill.
VCG data is coming in kind of ratty and like you
to check electrodes LA and RA first, please.
011 21 ii 51 CDR Okay. We'll check them. We got real good

impedance tests on them all through the tests,
and we just got finished doing on for M0 - MI71,
but I'ii check them.
CC Okay, if you can, please.
011 21 12 03 MCC Okay, Ed, then l'm back with you here with a couple
of instrument comments. Obviously, from the tests
the other day, the PRS from 82B is NO GO. And we
will not be using it from the dur - remainder of
the mission. On the 52 special procudure to optimize
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their pointing, we'll be scheduling that once a

day and we'll do it the way we've done it yester-
day and today, and the way we've already done it
for tomorrow by putting the words in as to where
to go in the book and everything. We will not
necessarily be constraining that to be done by
you, but to be done by whoever happens to be at
the panel at the time. And if you think of a
better way of handling the scheduling and the
aiming of the crewmen to the appropriate part in
the checklist, let us know. And that's something
you just might think over the next couple of days.
011 21 12 48 SPT One thing you may want to do; I guess it depends
upon what your objectives are in doing that,
however. You may want to just figure out whether
the FINE SUN SENSOR readouts are sufficient. I've
noticed that in LEFT/RIGHT, it's around minus 45
has seemed to do it for most of the time
for me. In the UP/DOWN, we really don't have to
change. If the Sun sensor drift is not going to
get to you, we might be able to save it a little
time and make it a little easierthat way. How-
ever_ that's - it's not necessary if they feel
they'd like to sight it in - have us sight it in by
eyeball every time.
MCC Okay, we'll look at that, and see if it looks like

that's good enough and let you know. Then some
more reporting here on the ATM time inputs that
you and Jerry and Bill had. And also the input
for getting you, in particular, more of the given
AT - ATM time. We went to the science planning
meeting and made as strong an input as we possibly
could for the schedule that we wanted, including
your recommendation as a solar physicist in space
and so on. And we will be getting as much as we
can possibly get weighing off our inputs versus the
other experiments -the corollaries, EREP, and so
on. So, the Flight Plans that you will be looking
at will have about as much ATM in them as we can
schedule into them within the conflicts of EREP and
other experiments. Any - don't hesitate to
criticize us on our scheduling point of view or
the flight planning or anything because, of course,
that helps us and we're not hesitating to criticize
you on any of the things that you're doing,
although we haven't found much lately to holler
about. On the aspect -
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011 21 14 28 SPT Bill, a - a - a point there - We certainly

feel ATM deserves a good amount of time, but
on the other hand we don't want to feel that
EREP, or medic als or some of the other worthwhile
things we're doing up here should be really cut
back, severely in order to do it. We think
they're all good things. We just feel that the
ATM deserved a little more emphais than they
were getting.
011 21 14 52 MCC Okay, and that's pretty much the way we interpreted
it. Now a couple of other thoughts here, on you,
in paricular, getting more of the ATM time that we
get. We've got the guidelines here and the
flight planners to the extent that essentially,
the SPT will be scheduled for ATM wherever it's
at all possible. And, again, that may not be as
much as you asked for, which essentially was one
orbit for Jerry, one for Bill and the rest for you.
Because of a bunch of conflicts. And I think
generally, when you look at the schedule, you can
see what the problem was. There's a couple of
things that might enable us to give you an extra
pass or two of the ones that we do get, and I
wanted to talk to you about those. On - one
thing was - like we're doing tomorrow - now
we'll be getting you up early for the JOP 9
mainly because that's the only place the three
consecutive orbits fit, I should say 19. There
is a question, and you had brought it up yourself
of the possihiliity of getting up early. There
is, frequently, the first orbit of the day, which
occurs shortly after you nominally get up, like
30 minutes afterwards. That is usually not
scheduled for manned operations. That's one
possibility for getting not only more time for
you but more for ATM. And l'm not asking for a
decision now or l'm not even pressuring you to
say yes. l'm just making you aware of the possi-
bilities here. One thing, though, is we certainly
don't want you to overdo anything and get yourself
into a hole and then wind up getting tired.
Another possibility is within our given flight
planning constraints now we cannot schedule you
or anyone really for consecutive ATMs with an eat
period in between, just because 30 minutes is not
the 40-minute requirement that we have. That's
another possibility - is to relax that or to just
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go ahead and take ]0 minutes ]ess ATM panel time.

Or one thing that was mentioned was, apparently
in SI-2, Pete frequently ate at the ATM panel.
And l'm not sure exactly how he worked that out,
but that's another possibility that would enable
you to get more of the given ATM time than we're
able to schedule right now with our constraints.
We - -
011 21 17 00 SPT Okay, I wasn't even aware, Bill, that you were
working to that constraint. For me, personally,
that's no problem. Maybe we ought to talk it
over a little bit more among all of us. But,
gee, that's no problem, especially today. It
takes 5 minutes to put in a crispy bar.
CDR Bill, this is Jerry. I agree with Ed on that.

I don't think we ought to hold it 40 minutes in
the case, of where you got back-to-back A - ATM
passes like that. I think we can work around that.
MCC Okay, they're whispering here in my ear that

F 30 minutes is the right number for meals and not
40. But as I think about it even 30 is not quite
enough with power up, power down. So that you
might want to rethink it in that context.
CDR Well, you can eat your main course down here and
bring your dessert or anything else up there with
you, and I think you can make that all right.
N_C Okay, understand.
SPT I'm surprised - I wish we knew we were working in

that constraint a long time ago. We might have
been able to get some time. I never - never knew
that was in there.
011 21 17 54 MCC Okay, well that's what I thought. There's probably

a lot of these things that you guys are not aware
of. I tried to ferret out all of the jobs that
the SPT only can do. And l've looked at those
and tried to decide how real they are, and talk
with Vance and Don about whether they feel any-
body else could do those. And we're looking at
all the flight planning from that point of view,
as what things you're scheduled for and are they
really - do they require you. And we're hoping
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that you do the same thing with respect to looking

over your Flight Plans and seeing how they're
scheduled. And if you see a point where you guys
could swap out ATMs for heaven sake - we assume
you are going to let us know.
SPT Yes. Jerry's been real good at that so far, and

we have worked a couple of swaps.
011 21 18 40 MCC Okay, and we'll be doing the best we can on getting
ATM as much time as it merits. And we'll be doing
the best we can at getting you, in particular,
Ed, as much ATM as we can possible schedule.
Okay, one last thought here, unless you had some
more points on that, is a little bit of building
block 24 talk.
SPT No, go ahead on that.
MDC Okay, probably the easiest way to talk this, if

you've got it convenient, is to pull out S-16
of the JOP Summary Sheets on JOP-3 Bravo, and let's
look at BB24.
CDR Could I interject a side con_ent here? I wonder

how Bull's electrodes look now.
CC They're looking good now, Jer.
CDR Okay, thanks.
011 21 19 26 MCC And while you're digging that out, Ed, let me
just tell you there's i minute 20 seconds to
LOS here. Carnarvon is next in 24-1/2 minutes
which is about 21:45.
SPT It's right in front of me, Bill; go ahead.
011 21 19 41 MCC Okay. Basically, the concept - you should tonight,

now, receive an offical change. Don't write any-
thing in it until you get it. But, basically,
it's going to change the 82 Alfa exposure from
40 to 20, which was an omission when we changed
to all the others ; we should have gotten that one.
And it's going to add another option for 55A; in
particular the option of a mini-MAR. Now - and
that's the hard change - now everything else is
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words that I just want to talk to you about on the

operation of BB24. 82A and B would like additional
sequences as they have scheduled, preinitiation of
BB24, and post wherever it ifts. Similarly, 55
would like mini-MARs wherever they can. And all
of these are within the constraint that this
should be on a noninterference basis with the
original intent of BB24. And, obviously, that
involves time looking at monitors and so on.
And then at any - -
SPT What was the - You mentioned 55 and what was the
first instrument you talked about?
MCC 82A and 82B.
011 21 20 43 SPT Oh, okay. Yes, l'd like to get a feel for what
they would like in terms of preflare data. We've
always been very conservative with their film,
and l'd like to know to what degree we can re -
relax that, even though l've heard some words
previously about going on flares, but preflare's
something else.
MCC Okay, according to our clock here, we're over

the hill. So, we're going to talk again at 09:30
central time in the morning, 14:30 or there abouts.
Let me pick this topic up again then. I'ii see
you tomorrow.
SPT Okay, one other thing if you would ROLL orientation -

like, today, we had a - a reasonable one, I
thought, where the MIRROR, LINE SCAN was going out
into the corona. If we do their mini-MAR - best
done if we are to the HORIZONTAL CROSS HAIR tangent
to the limb. And they ought to think about the
conflicts there in the 82 operation.
011 21 21 34 MCC Okay, thanks a lot.
END OF TAPE
Time: 011:21:30 to 011:23:00
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011 21 43 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon. And we

have you for 9 minutes.
011 21 44 12 CC And SPT, Houston. Ed, if you have an opportunity

this pass we need to make a modification to the
fine maneuver for the S180 - 83K maneuver coming
up, due to a change in nuZ.
011 21 45 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We have a keyhole coming up here

in about 15 seconds. And I'ii call you when we're
out of it.
011 21 46 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're clear of the keyhole now.

We've got you for about 6-1/2 more minutes. And
for the SPT, if it's inconvenient to get the pad
changed on - during this pass, l've got you at
Guam in about 12-1/2 minutes from now; we can get
it there.
SPT Let's get it at that time, Crip. l'm just setting

up the instruments.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Crip, I got some comments on scheduling times.
CC Okay, Jer. Be glad to copy them. Go ahead.
011 21 47 04 CDH Okay. Hank asked this morning if there was any
way - if we had any shaving to do on any of the
medicals. And Bill and I just finished an MO92/MI71
in an hour and 40 minutes, and that's from when he
starts taking his clothes off to get ready and to
get instrumented to the point where l've just
finished swabbing out the MA hole. And I don't see
how we can cut that down much shorter without rush-
ing so fast we start making mistakes. We were
going at a good speed and looking good there. So
I don't think you should schedule less than an hour
and 45 minutes for that pair of runs. But that as-
sumes, now, that Bill's going to get another 15 min-
utes assigned, or the subject will, to clean himself
up, because it takes a good 5 minutes to clean up
after something like that. So what it looks like is
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you can run the observer for an hour and 45 minutes

and the - the subject for 2 hours.
011 21 48 07 CC Okay, we copy that. Then you feel that's adequate

amount of time in case things, you know, don't go
quite so smoothly too.
CDR Well, that only gives us about a 5- or 7-minute

cushion in the event we have a problem. And if
we have a problem, we're just going to have to take
up the slack somewhere else in the schedule.
011 21 48 25 CC Okay, copy that. And we'll reflect that in the

future scheduling then.
CDR Okay, on the MD92/93; I guess we'll have to think

about that a little bit more, but I think we can
get through that in an hour and 15 minutes easy
enough. So let's start scheduling that way on the
M092/93.
011 21 48 47 CC Okay, does - you want us to also add that delta

time for the PH for the subject?
CDR Yes, I think you better. You know, if nothing else

he's got to get dressed and get ready to go to
the next place he's going to. And the times I'm
giving you are from when he starts undressing until
he's done and ready to start either dressing or do
his PH.
CC Okay. We've got that, and - so noted.
011 21 49 31 SPT Hey, Crip, for the ATM ops, what I'm doing here is
doing the - the limb - LB-8 and LB-9, so forth,
at the position where we had the brighenting on
the previous orbit. So I 'm going through the nom-
inal program which was called out, but at that
position, which turned out to be a ROLL of minus 1248
rather that a ROLL of 1400. If they'd like it
at 1400, would you please tell me?
CC We'll check it for you.
SPT Thank you.

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011 21 50 03 CC And for the CDR. Jer, one thing I want to make
sure: We are certainly happy with the work that
you guys been accomplishing, and you've really
been getting efficient. And in no way are we trying
to - you know - pressure you or cajole into
shortening up those times. And we - if - if you
feel comfortable with what you just gave us, well,
fine. If - if you don't feel real comfortable with
it, well, what you're doing right now is certainly
adequate.
011 21 50 32 CDR Okay. Well, the thing is, Crip, l'd like you to
know just how long it takes us to do things. But
on the other hand, you could do us a favor by
tossing in little bits of - blocks of time for
housekeeping or whatever you want to call it. Just
call if open if you want to - because that's the
times that we're going to be ableto pick up
shopping list items and things like that. And
if we get scheduled right to the hilt, then we can't
do any shopping list items. And, quite frankly,
I think if you keep our shopping list full of
goodies and things to do, we'll end up getting
more science per day working under that mode than
we will if we try to schedule everything right up
to the hilt.
CC Okay - -
011 21 51 08 CDR I think we already demonstrated that the last couple

week s.
CC Yes, you guys - you guys have been doing fantastic,

especially going through the housekeeping tasks
and picking up those short items. And that was
why I wanted to make sure that you - you understood
that we were - we were certainly happy with those.
But we've got it noted here, and we'll certainly
try to make sure that you got those cushion items,
or cushion places, in the - in the schedule.
011 21 51 29 CDR Yes, they really come in handy. And it's good for
our morale, too, to be able to stay ahead of you
guys instead of behind you.
CC I think you guys are always ahead of us. At least

you're ahead of the CAP COMM.
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011 21 51 50 CDR Oh, I don't know about that.
CC And for Ed: We're satisfied with what you're doing.

The rol - ROLL looks good like you had it.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Crip. Has the pad changed

because of it?
011 21 52 03 CC Okay, tell you what. We got a handover coming up

here, and it's not enough time. I'm going to go
ahead and - we're about a minute from LOS. Guam
in 6-1/2 minutes.
011 21 58 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Guam now. We've

got you for about 6 minutes. And if it's convenient,
ED, I do need to give you this 183K maneuver change.
SPT Okay, Crip. Go ahead with it.
CC Roger. It's a change to the fine maneuver. And

it's - the numbers are as follows: for X, 51050;
for Y, 51207; for Z, 50045. And if you'd like the
decimal equivalents, it's X of minus 0.40 degrees;
Y of minus 1.35; and Z of plus 0.37. If you got
those and you could read it back, appreciate it,
Sir.
Oll 22 00 14 SPT Okay, Crlp. Just Juggling the pencil here. 5105 -
51050; 51207; 50045. Minus 0.40; minus 1.35 and
plus 0.37.
CC Okay, that's a good readback. Thank you.
011 22 00 35 SPT Thank you, Crip.
011 22 03 h7 SPT Crlp, I'd appreciate any word you might have on
the flare that happened Just as we were going
around the corner before. Our PMEC COUNT is
exceptionally low now; we're down near around 200 -
150 or so. And I see no evidence of it in H-ALPHA
or XUV MON. At the beginning of the orbit, I did
go Sun center and give 52 a STANDARD MODE. And
I saw no evidence there of the cot - in the corona.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll - we'll try to get some data on

it.
011 22 O_ 20 SPT Them.k you.

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CC Understand you got a - got another one on the rise

there. And that was a - Charlie 3.
SPT Okay, it must have been a short-duration one.
CC Roger. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. In

7 minutes, we'll have you over Hawaii at 22:12,
22:12. And that's a real short pass, about a min-
ute and a half. Following that over the stateside,
this time, is the - is the med conference at
Goldstone at 22:23.
SPT Thank you, Crip. So long.
011 22 05 O0 CC Bye-bye.
011 22 ii 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Hawaii for this

real long pass of a minute and a half.
011 22 12 04 SPT Hello, Crip. Would you clarify something for me

on ATM?
CC (Chuckle) That'sasking a lot of me, Ed. But go

ahead.
SPT Yes, Crip. On 55 they have a GRATING POSITION of

630, and checking my list, I don't see that that
is included as one which has a - a fair number of
lines on the DETECTORs. And I'm wondering if we
could've had a misprint and they meant 620 on that
one. Whatever it is, however, they're getting
good data because I think they're seeing a - a
prominence, a bright area and a surge, all in one.
I'm carrying it down to line 25 rather than 13 so
we can include that surge in there.
011 22 12 42 CC Ok - okay. We'll try to get you a quick answer

here. We only got about 45 seconds left. Some
information on that flare awhile ago: It - it
peaked at about 21:03, which is about 1 minute
after door closure so you probably saw just about
the whole thing. And it - and it did fall off
very rapidly after peak.
011 22 13 06 SPT Unfortunately, Crip, I had moved to Sun center

just at that point and was working 52. So we - we
did not pick that one up.
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CC Roger. Understand that. I'd misunderstood that

earlier. We do want 630; it's got two valuable
positions in the helium continuum. I can't believe
I got all that out.
SPT I knew you had it tucked in there somewhere, Crip.

Thank you.
011 22 13 38 CC Surprising what having all of this knowledge back

in the baekroom does to help you out.
011 22 29 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS. We have you through

MILA. We - correction, we got you through Texas,
and we have you for 12 minutes.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Hey, Crip, somewhere we had a - a couple of numbers

which I think just had a little bit of a - a bias
in the wrong direction in them. In the ATM solar
pad, the schedule, it had, on this last orbit, to
truncate at 16 minutes TIME REMAINING, even though
it did have at least a 22:18 - they had it - the
proper time denoted there. But when we started
the maneuver at 22:18, we had 17 minutes and
32 seconds left in the orbit. So I was a little
bit ahead and was able to squeeze all the observa-
tions in, but I think the planning was done figuring
that we could truncate at 16 minutes TIME REMAINING
and have time to do the maneuver. So there's a
couple of minutes lost in there somewhere. And
maybe they could find out where it is and make sure
we don't have that problem again because we could
either miss the maneuver or miss some o -
observations.
CC You're absolutely right. That was the in - that

was the intent. Apparently we had an error_ we
appreciate you bringing it to our attention.

And we'll have you again at Ascension in
9-1/2 minutes, at 22:50, 22:50.
PLT So long,
Crip.
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CC Bye.
011 22 41 38 CC We're showing CMG 3 outer gimbal on a stop, and

a fair rate error. You might watch it.
011 22 50 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension for

5-1/2 minutes.
011 22 52 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Anybody who is going to have

some time a - a little bit later on this pass just
about the time that we've got you in contact over
Guam in, oh, about 41 minutes - We're going to be
coming up over tropical storm Wanda once more. And
if anyone has an opportunity to look out the
window, it will be on the one - Out of the 190 win-
dow is probably the best viewing again. You guys
did such a good job on visual observations of it
last night, we'd be interested in any more verbal
descriptions of it you could give us.
SPT You sure know our weak points, Crip. What time are
we supposed to go over it?
CC Yes, I was just sitting here figuring I could grab

you with that one. It's at 23:38.
SPT Thank you.
011 22 53 39 CC And Ed, while you're there; you talked about that
area around 290 today that you finally concluded
was probably a suspended prominence. And ground
observers concur.
SPT Yes, that was around 250.
CC Yes. Roger. That's the area.
SPT Crip, what has happened to tropical storm Wanda;

has it intensified?
CC Well, no, it hasn't grown like we were expecting.

I think last night I told you it might have up to
60-knot winds. And it still - oh, it has only
built up to about 40 knots at this time.
SPT Thank you.

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CC And actually it - it does appear to be diminishing

at this time. We are i minute from LOS. Next
station contact is over Carnarvon in 25 minutes,
and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
That's at 23:21, 23:21.
SPT So long, Crip.
011 22 55 37 CC Bye.
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011 23 21 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for

9-1/2 minutes, doing a data/voice recorder dump.
011 23 22 O0 CDR Roger, Bob.

LOS. Next station contact is in 3 minutes over
Guam at 23:34. It'll be shortly after that that
you might be able to pick up tropical storm Wanda.
011 23 33 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam. We have you

for lO-1/2 minutes.
011 23 37 47 PLT Crip, are you there?
cC Yes, sir.
PLT Okay, we're looking at this storm, and it has one

what I'd call pinwheel, and it leads down into a
fairly intense, but small center, which would be
where the eye were located if it were a tropical
storm or a hurricane type. But this - If you
could sort of draw an inverted comma, put the
head of the comma, then draw it up so that the
tail ends up about 12 o'clock, and the - the
head of the comma is in the center of the clock -
There is another intermittent, but fairly well
defined line of intense thunderstorms that ex-
tends up toward about 2 o'clock. They're inter-
mittent;
...... the spacing, oh, I would say - 25 to _
50 mileS between individual thunderstorms, but
they're all real granddaddies. They're great big
son-of-a-guns. And I would say that that line
extends probably up to the northeast - to east-
northeast about 250 miles.
011 23 39 00 CC Okay. Real good, Bill. That's a good description

of it. I think I got a -
PLT Well, it's a huge circulation system and the

satellite photos ought to - ought to really ampli-
fy what we say there.
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CC Roger.
CC Bill, while I was talking to you, we got plenty

of time to do it, but sometime before you execute
it, I do need to make a mod to your S019K pad
this evening. And why don't you Just tell me
when it's convenient with you.
PLT I think probably right now. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Right at the last there, in the remarks,

we have terminate last exposure at 02:12:15. It
should be - Just change to 02:12:00. That's
actually when we start the maneuver back to solar
inertial.
PLT Roger. Terminate 02:12:00.
011 23 40 23 CC Roger, Bill.
CC Bill, as long as I got you, also, before you

start getting your evening dinner, last night you
reported to us that the - you'd replaced the
squeezer bag, and we were wondering if that was
because of the original seal problem that was up
there when you launched, or was there some other
problem?
PLT No, it - The odors finally got to us, Crip. We

Just changed it out for that reason.
CC Okay. A little odoriferous, huh?
PLT Affirm.
PLT Even if we can't pass the smell test that they

give us, we can - we can pass that one.
CC Ah ha! Okay, very good.
CC And Just as a matter of information for you guys,

we are - have copied a couple of TACS mib firings
here within this past acquisition period - this
past couple of minutes because we're at a peak
momentum period.
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PLT Roger, Crip.
SPT Hey, Crip, one other thing, in looking at that

storm; Bill outlined it pretty well. There was
a line of thunderstorms which went along the -
the comma though, which fairly close lying in
looked like a fairly extensively long line, but
very thin. Looked pretty much like a squall
line.
CC Okay. Real good.
SPT About a couple of hundred miles long.
011 23 42 54 CC Roger. Hey, Ed, I was just taking the opportunity

here to see some of that TV-101 you - you put down
earlier. That's - that's really fantastic. You
guys are having all the fun up there.
SPT Yes, that is a lot of fun, Crip. There's lots of

good things you can do. I'm hoping we can have a
chance to get into that fluid mechanic series
quite extensively in the next couple of weeks.
CC Okay. That - that's certainly some - some weird-

looking stuff when you see it presented like that.
SPT Hard to tell from the monitor up here how - what

the clarity was. Was it focused fairly well?
CC It was beautiful, very sharp. Couldn't a -

couldn't have asked for any better.
SPT Could you see the clear fluid, the clear water?
CC Yes, sir. It stood out real well.
SPT Very good.
011 23 43 41 CC In fact you could even see little - little bubbles

sitting in it. We're about 30 seconds from LOS,
and next station contact is over Goldstone in
about 16 minutes at, oh, Just about on the hour,
00:00. And as a matter of remark, I'ii tell a
little bit later, but Jer's phone call is set up
for the last portion of that CONUS pass over MILA
at 6 minutes after the hour.
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011 23 44 14 PLT Roger.
011 23 59 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone, and

we've got you for 16-1/2 minutes across the States.
CDR Roger, Crip.
012 00 02 49 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, if it becomes convenient, fin-

ishing up the ATM here, and if you've got time
for it over this CONUS pass, same thing that bit
us on that nu Z update for the previous ms, curets
is applicable for the S019K maneuver upcoming,
and I need to give you another fine maneuver.
012 00 03 38 SPT Okay, Crip. Could we hold off until after sunset,
please?
CC Yes, sir. And we have plenty of time. I was

Just - just talking at you.
012 00 05 52 CC And for the CDR, in about, oh, about a minute

here, we'll be all set up for his phone call, if
he's not up in the command module already.
PLT He's already up there, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. Say, Bill, is this a convenient time

to ask you a question, or would it be better to
catch it a little bit later?
PLT Go ahead, Crip.
012 00 06 29 CC Stand by. We were handing over and I can't -

can't read you.
012 00 07 02 CC I'm sorry, Bill, if - I don't know whether you

said it was convenient, but apparently it wasn't
convenient for our comm situation. Is this a
good place to go ahead and ask you?
PLT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Yes_ I guess this is another one of those

$6h questions where we're trying to ask you to go
back and test your memory a little bit. We did
a CO monitor test on mission day 46, and this is
58, so that's about 12 days ago. And we appar-
ently asked you about it once and we were going
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to put it on tape, and we still have not been able

to find it anywhere. Can you help us out there?
PLT Certainly can. That was the day before EVA, if I

recall. Itwas completely negative. I went
through the instructions, you know, and every-
thing, and you look at the little - Stand by 1.
Anyway the indicator didn't change, and so the
indication was negative. I thought I put it on
tape, but apparently I didn't.
012 00 08 05 CC Okay. Well, we've had problems with getting some

of that lost sometimes, so - Very good, we got it,
and we appreciate it. Thank you.
PLT Roger.
012 00 l0 15 CC And, PLT, Houston. Bill, sorry to keep bugging

you, but got another question I need if - you
haven't - caused you to gobble down your food
there.
PLT Go ahead,Crip.
CC Okay, we were Just dumping EXPERIMENT 1 recorder,

and we didn't see any modulation on it for this
past 183 operation. And that should have been on
EXPERIMENT 1. Can you tell us whether we had any
problems there with it - EXPERIMENT 1 that you're
aware of?
PLT Yes, there was a problem; it was entirely pro-

cedural. I forgot to turn the switch on.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
012 00 ll 06 SPT Crip, go ahead and speak to me of maneuver pads.
CC Oh, yes, our favorite subject. Okay, on the fine

maneuver, on the S019K coming up - you ready to
copy?
SPT Affirm.
CC Okay. X is 51057; Y is 51074; Z is 50020. And

the decimal equivalents are X, minus 0.47; Y,
minus 0.60; Z, plus 0.16.
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SPT Okay, Crip; it's a 51057, 51074, 50020, for a

minus 0.47, minus 0.60, and plus 0.16.
CC That's a good readback, Ed; thank you very much.
012 00 15 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS, and

next station contact is all the way around, an
hour and 20 minutes away at Goldstone at 01:36.
And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there. Also that's where we're set up for the
evening status report.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC And Skylab, Houston. The VTR belongs to you guys

again. I believe we got a - some recording on
the ATM coming up.
012 00 16 44 SPT Thanks, Crip.
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012 01 36 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone. We

have you for 14 minutes. And we're doing a data/
voice recorder dump. And we're standing by for
the evening status report.
PLT Roger, Crip. While jerry's getting that ready, I

have the H - the ATM film count: 11852, 3742,
141, 315, 4026, 3739.
CC Very good. Thank you, Bill.
012 01 37 03 CDR Okay, Crip. Here comes the photo pad - photo log
first. 16-millimeter: EREP ops or VTS, Charlie
Lima ll, 62; S183, Uniform Alfa 04, 79. Nikons:
01, Charlie X-ray 40, 51; 02, India Romeo i0, 05;
03, Charlie India 113, 55; Oh, Bravo Echo 09, 26;
05, Bravo Hotel 06, 15. Okay, one word of expla-
nation on the IR - We had one exposure where the
flash didn't go off, and that's why we're at a 5
insteadof 4. Okay. 70-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 50, 005. ETC: Charlie Tango 12, 079.
EREP: set X-ray; 0183, 2364, 9907, 9269, 1040,
9967. Drawer A: no change. That's it on the
photo log.
CC Okay, if I could get a word in here. We see some-

body's using the recorder, and we do need to dump
it here if we can.
012 Ol 38 25 CDR Ed's doing i01 - TV-101. Standby. Okay, he's

stopped for now. Go ahead and dump it. Okay, the
evening status report. Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 5 heavy,
i light; SPT, 6.0, 4.5 heavy, 1.5 light; PLT, 7.0,
6.5 heavy, 0.5 light. Volumes: N/A. Water gun:
8404, 4318, 0459. Body mass: CDR, 6.303, 6.303,
6.302; SPT, 6.373, 6.370, 6.373; PLT, 6.247, 6.248,
6.242. Exercise: CDR, no Bravo or Charlie methods
tonight; SPT, no change; PLT, no change. Okay, now
we've got some st - changes to the standard exer-
cise patterns. For the CDR, method Echo, add neck
isometrics, zero minutes, because the isometrics
are being done while I'm doing other exercises,
40 repetitions - a total of i0 each in each direc-
tion; forward, back, right, and left. SPT, method
Bravo, minus B in curl. Reduce that by i0 minutes
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and by 100 repetitions. So what it should be now

is 15 minutes and i00 repetitions. Okay, PLT,
method Echo, add neck isometrics, again no time,
and 200 repetitions for him, 50 in each direction.
Okay, medications: none for anyone. Clothing:
CDR, socks and shirt; SPT, socks, shorts, T-shirt,
and trousers: PLT, none. Okay, the food log: CDR,
salt, 8.5; deviations, plus one strawberry drink,
plus one lemonade, plus one coffee with sugar,
no extra water. SPT, zero salt, plus biscuits,
plus one coffee with sugar, plus one grape drink
minus 22 cc of the grape drink for use in TV-101;
rehydration water, zero. Salt packs for the PLT
is 7.0; deviations, plus one tea, _lus one coffee
with sugar; rehydration water is zero.
012 01 41 12 CDR Okay, Flight Plan deviations: TV-101, the SPT has
invested 3 extra hours in that over what was in the
Flight Plan today. About 1-3/4 of that or so was
last night and the other - the rest of it was done
today, piecemeal. Shopping list accomplishments:
all housekeeping was con - accomplished - I should
say "the" housekeeping. And I have spent a total
of an hour and a half on overage food density -
inventory - I beg your pardon, overage food inven-
tory. And I'ii have a full inventory down on tape
this evening. Inoperable equipment: none. Un-
scheduled stowage: none.
012 01 41 59 CC Okay. Very good, Jer. The investment of the grape

drink was worthwhile.
CC CDR, Houston. One item I'd like to discuss with

you briefly, and I guess that will probably be it
because we haven't got any real questions for this
evening.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger. In the ATM conference today there was a

discussion regarding scheduling of ATM. And one
item I'd like to correct there - We're going to
have a handover here, and - I'Ii tell you what.
Let me pause, and I'ii call you out of it.
CDR Okay.
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012 01 43 14 CC Okay, the h:mudover's complete now, and we're

through with the data/voice recorder dump; so if
Ed needed any more, it's all his again. Regarding
what I was discussing on ATM, apparently we had
a little bit of misinformation - that had gotten
to Bill there. We used 30 minutes minimum for -
for scheduling on things like lunch. And knowing
that you've got adequate amount of time for you
guys, you know, to eat - eat lunch and get every-
thing all squared away and get back up to the ATM
panel. So we have been scheduling back-to-back
ATMs with - you know, with lunch over the - evening
period on the - on the nightside. So, that is being
done and there is really nothing to - to pick up
there.
CDR Okay. We've ta_ked over the idea of starting an

ATM pass about 30 minutes after wakeup, and because
this is our last chance at a flare I think we're
willing to bend over backwards during this high
activity period of time when the - we're at the
hot longitude. Let's go ahead and schedule Ed or
_ somebodyfor 30 minutes after getup, to do those
ATM passes. And if it begins to get to us, we'll
let you know.
CC Okay; so noted.
012 01 44 B6 CC Can I interpret that we're leav - you're leaving

that to our option based on solar activity?
CDR Yes, that's essentially it. I think that once this

hot longitude has gone by and the Sun gets super
quiet again, then I don't think we need to really
break our necks trying to get all the extra ATM
time. But let's kind of play that by ear when the
time comes.
CC Okay, real good. And we will do like I believe

it was on - done on the other day and schedule him
for for his full PSA after the ATM.
CDR Yes. Probably what he'll do is just grab a bite

to eat and whistle up to the ATM and get started.
And then after that period's over, come down and
take care of the urine sampling and finish up his
breakfast.
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CDR So I l;hink il; would be a wise thing to be sure

and give him his I'SA right after the ATM pass,
because, keep in m_nd that he'll probably only
have a little breakfast in him, and he's got other
chores that he's got to do.
CC Okay; so noted.
i
012 01 45 43 CC And one other point for clarification on the - on

your exercises. The changes that you gave us, was
that included today or is that starting tomorrow?
CDR We'll start that tomorrow.
CC Okay.
CDR Today was a freebee.
CC One freebee. Thank you, sir. I'ii get out of your

hair for a while. We still have you for about
4-1/2 more minutes, but that's all we had for
discussion.
CDR Okay.
SPT Say, Crip, a couple of things. Could you tell me

how much VTR time can be allotted to TV-101 tonight?
CC Stand by 1.
012 O1 47 07 SPT Okay, Crip, and while you're getting that one, let
me just tell you a couple of things that I saw on
the last ATM pass or the one before the last. It's
primarily what we saw in the H-ALPHA display, and
it looks as though we have a pretty good prominence
coming around the bend. The one prominence which
we saw at 250 degrees - there is another foot of a
prominence at around 2 arc minutes below that ;
that is, towards the south; another foot 2 arc min-
utes beyond that one; another foot at 1-1/2 arc min-
utes ; and a fourth foot at around 1-1/2 arc minutes.
So there is quite a bit there. There also are a
couple of other small prominences on the limb which
l'm sure you ali can see.
CC Okay, Ed. We've just seen some TV earlier of the

prominence itself, the one that - that is discon-
nected from the - from the disk, but haven't seen
the feet. But thank you very much.
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012 01 48 42 CC And, Ed, in answer to your question, you can have

17 minutes for the VTR tomight. There is a little
bit more than that, but we're having to save it for
tomorrow morning on the - to get some TV downlink
on the - pardon me - on VTR TV on the ATM.
SPT 17 minutes. Okay, thank you.
CC Ed, would you care to speculate about how much more

time you think you need for that?
SPT Well, Crip, put it this way. l'm about halfway

through the number of specified runs. That's
without including any different materials with -
which change the surface tension or the air bubble
inclusion or a couple of all the other good things
that are mentioned. I think - probably be about
another 1-1/2 times what is already on there.
CC Okay, we copy it. Thank you.
012 01 49 54 SPT And after that, Crip, as long as we've got the
waterworks all set up here, you might as well press
on with a coupleof the other things in the fluid
mechanics series. And why don't you let me take
and look them over and make a few suggestions. And
if you folks have any, why don't you come up with
some also?
CC Okay, very good. We are about 30 seconds from

LOS.
012 01 50 14 CC And next station contact is over Vanguard in about

I0 minutes at 02:00.
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012 02 00 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Howdy, Crip.
CC Roger, and we're going to go ahead and plan on

making this the last pass l'm going to talk to you
for this evening. There is an up-coming Tananarive
pass in about 30 minutes and then Goldstone's about
an hour and 15 minutes away. But we'll go ahead
and say good night here, and tomorrow morning we'll
give you a call over Honeysuckle at ll:19. That's
ll:lg, and that's to get Ed up in time to go do his
thing on the ATM panel.
012 02 01 24 SPT Thanks, Crip. Sure do appreciate it.
PLT Crip, I've just experienced an anomaly on the SO19

I think they'd probably want to know about. I was
trying to put it into SLIDE RETRACT to pick up a
new frame and it was - would not - didn't want to
go from CARRIAGE RETRACTED. So I pushed on it
rather hard because this fixed it the other day.
And this time I felt a sort of a crunching feel
and it made sort of a crunching noise, and now the
handle is free-wheeling, more or less. It just
flops back and forth, so I think we're in trouble.
012 02 02 05 CC (Laughter) It sounds like it.
PLT This time a bigger hammer didn't work, Karl.
CC Gather that, yes. Okay. Very good. Let me see

if we could - I guess that - that pretty well de-
scribes it. I don't see any questions I could ask
you.
012 02 04 15 CC And, PLT, Houston. In looking over the Flight

Plan here, I guess our recommendation would be if
you want to go ahead and do that S019 stow 1 that
we've scheduled for you tomorrow, this evening,
and go ahead and get that out of the road, well
that will be fine.
PLT Okay.
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CC Can - Bill, did - did we get any frames off?
PLT Yes, I got the 12-minute exposure on the comet.
CC Okay. Very good. And one other item I guess may

be obvious, but as far as the maneuver is concerned,
we want to go ahead and maintain this attitude until
the regular scheduled time to come out of it.
PLT Roger. Understand. Also, Crip, in case the pro-

cedures people get concerned about it, I will use -
I will reverse the number of turns counterclockwise
in the first step to get back to zero ROTATION.
012 02 05 35 CC Roger. That's fine.
012 02 i0 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. And as

I said before, we'll say good night. Tananarive
is 02:29. And we're not planning on giving you a
call there. And 10000 in the DAS doesn't work here
since we aren't - we don't have any data from Tan-
anarive. I'm assuming you guys concur that you
don't think you'll need any - any air-to-ground
_ there.
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PLT That's affirmative. We'll say good night, Crip.
CC Okay, guys. We'll see you manana.
SPT Good night, Crip.
CDR Good night, Crip.
012 02 ii 13 CC Good night.
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012 ii 19 48 CC (Music: "Come Saturday Mornlng )
012 ii 23 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Good morning from your

friendly silver team. And in case you hadn't
recognized the music, it's "Come Saturday Morning"
on a - or "Come Saturday Morning," on a Saturday
morning down here in Houston. l'd like to remind
the SPT, he's got an ATM pass. The actual activity
starting at 11:42 or about 19 minutes from now.
And we're I minute from LOS. Next station contact
is 50 minutes through Madrid at 12:14. Out.
CDR Morning, Bruce.
CC Roger. Good morning to you.
012 ii 24 06 CC And we will have a data/voice tape recorder dump

at AOS Madrid. Out.
012 12 14 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump
and a brief note for the SPT on solar activity.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. On the solar activity update that we sent

you this morning, we indicated that active re-
gion 20 had produced a 1-bright flare. Baylor reports
that this was really an M-3 class fla_e, and the
time was right, 10:28 Zulu. Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC I guess you keep an eyeball on active region 20.

And if you all are ready, l've got the morning
news here.
SPT Roger. Go ahead.
012 12 14 58 CC Okay. Cairo: Americans traveling with Secretary

of State Henry A. Kissinger are hopeful that a
basis for negotiating a troop disengagement on the
Suez front will be found within a week. Kissinger,
who arrived in Egypt Friday, meets with President
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An_ar Sadat For 2-]/2 hours today, continuing

discussions he began with the Egyptian Chief of
State Friday night. After a working lunch with
Sadat, Kissinger will depart for Jerusalem for a
meeting with Israeli leaders. Houston: A thin
17-year-old by the name of Elmer Wayne Henley
goes on trial here, Monday, in the largest mass
murder case in modern U.S. history. Henley, a
high school junior - a junior high school dropout,
who wore a wispy goatee at his arraignment, will
be tried under extremely heavy security, surrounded
during all court sessions by a wall of deputy
sheriffs and bailiffs. In all, 32 guard posts
will be set up around the fifth-floor Harris County
courtroom. The first days will be devoted to pre-
trial motions and jury selection. Lawyers have
estimated it will be 2 to 6 weeks before the first
testimony is heard. Chicago: Another couple of
inches of snow fell Friday, bringing the season's
snowfall, so far, up to nearly the average for the
entire winter. More than 32 inches of snow have
fallen in the city. Its total average annual fall
is 39.7 inches. South Dakotans, getting used to
subzero weather after 13 straight days of it, are
searching the books for the coldest winter season
on record. Since December 29, temperatures across
the state have averaged 15 to 25 degrees below
normal with the lowest reading of 40 below reported
at Flandreau on January i. On the west coast,
southern Californians braced for another spell of
rain and snow after a brief respite when the Sun
shone for a few hours. New storm warnings per-
suaded San Bernardino officials to ban travel on
mountain highways over the protest of resort opera-
tors who contend they're losing $i0,000 daily.
County officials said work crews were still clearing
snow from highways in an operation that has cost 600K.
012 12 17 02 CC New York: The stock market ended this week on an

upswing after five straight losing sessions. After
sharply dropping more than 57 points during the
week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced back
Friday to close up 18.37 points at 841.48. On the
New York Stock Exchange, advancing issues outnum-
bered those declining 986 to 469, and the Exchange's
index of some 1500 common stocks rose 0.62 to
50.12. Some analysts described the turnabout as a
natural rebound _after the losses, and others said
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investors were taking advantage of lowered prices.

On the American Stock Exchange, the margin of
advances over losers was almost 2 to i, and the
AMEX market value index added 0.18, closing 93.33.
Palm Springs: President Nixon has spent a third
night here, amid speculation he planned to return
to Washington today. Nixon talked twice by tele-
phone on Friday with Secretary of State Kissinger
before he left for the Middle East. And the Presi-
dent spent some time working on the budget and the
State of the Union message he will present to Congress
later in the month.
012 12 18 i0 CC And for the SPT, could you start H-ALPHA i running.
Nixon also played nine holes of golf with his
Florida neighbor C. G. Bebe Rebozo and ate lunch
in the warm desert Sun on a patio at the estate of
Ambassador to Britain Walter H. Annenberg, where
he, Rebozo, Mrs. Nixon, and the President's
daughter, Tricia, have been staying since Wednesday.
European energy situation: The Netherlands, the
only European country under an Arab oil embargo,
began to ration gasolinetoday in an attempt to
conserve fuel. Sweden initiated a mild form of
rationing earlier in the week, and Norway is sche-
duled to begin a complicated four-tier rationing
system on January 25. Most Western European coun-
tries continue to rely on reduced speed limits and
Sunday driving bans to cut gas consumption, but
Britain and Switzerland are known to have contin-
gency rationing plans ready. Port Neches, Tejas:
Three huge oil - oil storage tanks were still afire
today, but firemen said they had contained a roaring
six-tank fire that had threatened to consume a
large petrochemical complex. Firemen kept a wary
eye on the remnants of the furious fire in a Mobil
0il Company storage farm at the complex in this
southeast Texas city. One of the tanks still born -
burning reportedly held 70,000 barrels of crude
oil. The earthen levees built around the fire
zone; the efforts of firemen from area cities,
plants, and refineries; and the rainy weather were
credited with preventing a major catastrophe.
012 12 19 37 CC Washington: Iran has agreed to buy 30 Gr_mman

F-14 fighter planes at about double the currently
negotiated per plane price between the manufacturer
and the Defense Department, the Pentagon announced
-- Friday. The planes, plus parts and training,will
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cost $900 million. Cape Town South Africa: Doctors

have predicted a good chance of survival for three
boys and three girls born Friday to a 25-year-old
woman. The sextuplets are spending the critical
first 40 hours of life in incubators, handled as
little as possible and fed intravenously. The
babies were delivered by Caesarean section to
Susan Rosenkowitz, who took fertility drugs. Great
Britain: Few pub owners seem to be complaining
about the energy crisis. Business is booming, they
indicated, in a spot check of owners. They seem to
agree that the national emergency is driving people
to drink. Breweries are classified as food producers
and are working a full week together with other
essential industries. Others are restricted to a
3-day work week. It's no surprise that people are
drinking more said one pub owner. It always happens
in times of crisis. Many are doing it to bolster
themselves for a long and crowded journey home.
One bartender said, "We're a haven to workers from
unlit and unheated offices. People who are not
working come to the pub to spend time with their
mate s."
012 12 20 51 CC Washington: Senator William Proxmire said Friday

he has nominated a woman to the United States
Military Academ_, even though the service academies
will not accept women. "To continue prohibiting
women who want to serve from receiving the education
and other advantages of the academies is to deny
this country an immense talent resource," said the
Wisconsin Democrat. He said the name of Kathy
Bartilson, a sepior at Chippewa Falls High School,
will be submitted along with those of 19 men to
compete for his two available appointments to West
Point. We've got i minute to LOS. Nex station
contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon at 12:48.
Mrs. John Horn of Michigan says she's been fighting
fat all her life, but really nothing worked until
she told her dentist, "Shut my mouth." She's
already lost 17 pounds since she had her jaw wired
shut two weeks ago. And that's all the news for
this morning.
CDR Thanks a lot, Bruce.
CC Okay, you want to read it back to me?
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CDR Where do you want me to pick up?
012 12 21 50 CC All after Cairo.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOTCF TRA_SCRIVV[ON
012 12 48 45 CC Skylah, this is Houston, through Carnarvon and

012 12 50 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston, we show S052 still run-

ning in the CONTINOUS MODE with the DOOR CLOSED.
We'd like to get it shut off, please.
012 12 50 53 CDR Got it, Bruce.
CC Roger; thank you.
CC And when you have a chance, we also need to get

the MPC ROLL to INHIBIT, Jet.
012 12 51 41 CDR Okay; l'm changing out teleprinter paper right

now, Bruce. I'll have it ready in about i0 minutes.
CC Okay; thank you.
CC Just to satisfy our curiosity, Jerry, did you get

the red stripe on the teleprinter paper? Over.
CDR Negative. It's just that the paper was coming out
kind of tightly spooled, indicating that we're
near the end of the roll, and it was convenient
r to change it now.
012 12 53 05 CC Okay. Did all your messages come through okay?
CDR Yes, they were fine.
012 12 57 01 CDR Okay, Bruce; the paper's in. Run us up a test

message, would you, please?
CC Okay, we'll do that. I don't know if we'll have

time to get it out to the site this station or
not though.
CDR Okay.
CC No, I'm seeing two heads shaking left/right in

unison, so it'll he Merrit Island at 12:35 -
12 :30 - at - excuse me, at 13 :36 before we can
get you one.
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CDR Okay, f_ne.
CC And along the s_e lines, we've taken the video

tape recorder here, and we're rewinding, and we'll
be dumping over MILA. And when we get enough
cleaned off to make it worth your while to do
something with it, we'll let you know. Over.
012 12 57 5h CDR Very good. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger, in shutting down S052, it looks to us like

you gave it a STOP command. What we now need to
reset all the internal logic is the AUTO DOOR
switch to NORMAL, and then the MAIN POWER switch
to STANDBY, and then back to ON, please. Over.
CDR Okay.
012 13 00 22 CC Thank you.
012 13 01 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute and I0 seconds

to LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes through
Merrit Island at 13:36. Out.
012 13 35 53 CC Skylab, Houston through MILA for 11-1/2 minutes.

Good morning.
012 13 35 58 CDR Good morning, Hank.
012 13 37 03 CC Skylab, Houston. If the PLT can listen to me

while he's PTing there, I've got one item for him
this morning. And that is, we uplinked last
night a - an S019 mal procedure that we would like
for him to run during the S019 stow he's going
to do as soon as he finishes his PT and PH. What
we're trying to do is free up canister 002 and
see if we can get something to run S019 with.
PLT Okay, Hank. You say you're sending that up now?
CC It should be on board, Bill.
PLT Okay.
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CC It's message number 5855.
PLT Okay. I've got it.
CC Go ahead.
CDE Hey, Hank. At 12:52, they've got the PLT scheduled

to load three more bags with boric acid. And,
according to the schedule that was uplinked to us,
we're not supposed to have to do any more of that.
All the rest of them ary new-bag days. Could you
get a clarification on that?
CC Okay. This is one of the changes that came out

during the FMT, Jerry. It was decided that the -
they would resume the use of the boric acid tablets
for this day only. And it was - the whole thing -
concept is still under discussion.
CDR Well, i'm glad they clued us in on it.
CC In fact, that's the topic of discussion at the

FMT this morning, is to - do we want to continue
to do this? There's some eocern over retaining
the - s_ne of the samples - preserving them,
in case we do have a freezer failure or something
like that.
012 13 40 03 CDR Okay. Well if they make a decision, how about

letting us know, would you?
CC Okay. Sure will.
CDR This loading bags with boric acid is a time-

consuming, bothersome thing to do. And if we're
going to do it, I'd like to get it all done at
once instead of piecemealing it out over the next
28 days.
CC Okay. And I guess we concur with that too, Jerry.

And we'll sure try to get you a - a concrete
answer on it.

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CC And, CDR, while we've got you here, we need to

get S054 running again.
CDR Roger.
012 IB 45 52 CDR Hank, the test message on the teleprinter's no

good. It fades off on the right side. Let me
readjust, and we'll try it again.
CC Okay. We were just going to tell you that it was

on board, Jer.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 50 and
we'll be prepared to ship you another test message
at that site if you get the adjustment made.
012 13 46 29 CDR Okay.
012 13 50 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. We're ready to try that teleprinter

message again, Hank.
CC Okay, we'll ship her up.
CC Skylah, Houston; could you verify the TPR switch

is in COMMAND?
SPT It is now, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, you should have one on board now.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Hank, the PLT with a report on the SO19 malf.
CC Go ahead.
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012 13 52 26 PLT Roger. Step 3 took both hands to move it into

the SLIDE RETRACTED position. Sort of clinched
my fingers together and put the heel of my hands
on - on the lever and on the opposite side of
the - or on the back side of the film canister
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and pushed as hard as I could with the heel of

my hands. And it moved into the SLIDE RETRACTED
position with a sudden quick movement. I started
to move this lever very slowly backwards and see -
It was very easy to move back about, oh, three-
eighths of an inch _nd then I encountered resis-
tance in the form of a - a quick stop. That is,
it - it moved very freely about 3/8 of an inch
and then hit resistance, so I stopped per in-
structions here. And the canister is now stowed.
CC Roger; we copy, Bill.
012 13 56 lh SPT Hello, Hank. Let me give you a little rundown

on what the Sun looks like this morning.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, we do see a fairly

substantial change, I would say, right above active
region 20. The region which used to be open in -
at about 250, we had a streamer structure which
started at about 210 and went up to around 240.
That is still present, pretty much undiminished.
It's the same it was yesterday, perhaps a little
bit stronger around 210; diminished around 230 to
240. Then coming out at 250 or so, there is a
streamer structure which moves out to about point -
well, let's just call it 3 solar radii. It's
still not as high as the surrounding streamer
structure, but it is a new structure. There was
Just a very hint of it yesterday, but it has
moved out considerably from that, and the whole
area in there is a diffuse intensity, which was
not present yesterday. So that area right above
there is changing and growing in intensity as
well as growth of a streamer. The region above
270 where we had a single streamer going out
yesterday, there is now a double streamer, one
right next to one another, maybe around l0 degrees
apart, but - if I would estimate where they would
hit the disk - but they are parallel. The one
which is to the south - there was just a hint of
it there yesterday - but that is now as intense
as the streamer - single streamer hwich we had
at 270 yesterday. So there's two of them right
there. Over on the other side, things look pretty
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much the same. The single streamer which we have

at 230 - centered at 230 - yesterday, there was
really a double, maybe at 2 and 3 o'clock. That
is now Just one diffuse area of about the same
magnitude, but now the two streamers are imminent.
012 13 58 3h SPT The XUV MONITOR, looking over at - starting at

active region 14, looks pretty much the same in
intensity. Active region 15 appears to have
decreased a little in intensity, the same as
active region 18, both showing thy - the two
plage with the follower being a little bit larger_
but diminished somewhat in intensity. 16 and 17 -
the region to the south of 16 does not appear
as enhanced as it was yesterday. But active
regions 17 and 20 both look as strong as they did
yesterday; no changes in form. There is also
some brightening on the limb at around 270 on
out to - -
012 13 59 23 CC Ed, we're going LOS. We'll see you at Carnarvon

at 2h.
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012 14 23 56 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference for

I0 minutes. Over.
MCC Okay. Just real quick off here a couple of words

on the Sun. It's nice to know we do have a Sun.
We - down here on the ground at Houston, haven't
seen it for about i0 days. From your reports,
we assume it's still out there and bright. The
P-76 on our limb exposures here that we look at
shows some bright radial threads, about three of
them, with thin connections across the top. And
that's important for some of today's observations
later on. And that's about all - -
SPT Bill, I looked at that earlier this morning and

there are some good radial threads starting around
300 and going over to 315 or so _lere the total
- prominencelies. Most of the major body of it
just goes around up to maybe 307 or so - about
halfway. Then there is another small portion,
and we can see a fair amount of connecting material
above the limb that connects the feet. So I
think there's quite a bit to work with.
MCC Okay.
SPT A very good prominence.
012 14 25 05 MCC Okay. Very good. Now, on the active region 17,
active region 20 complex there, we sort of sus-
pected that there may well be some connections
between these two and this is intuitive-type
evidence here. We don't actually see any, but
you might help us out looking for some. On day
of year ii, that was yesterday, there were three
indications of flares out of there, which we
informed you of. You saw only the latter one
in active region 17. The first two apparently
were not visible in XUV or anything other than
the ground-based X-rays and also the X-REA, lead-
ing us to speculate that perhaps the first two
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were triggered over in active region 20, which

was around back behind the limb. And the only
manifestation of that then was the higher X-ray
communicating with active region 17 and trigger-
ing off the last one that you did see. Then early
this morning before you got up, at 10:18, there
was a C-I in active region 17, followed about
15 minutes later by an M-3 in active region 20,
again leading us to suspect that perhaps these
" regions are connected. So that!s somethingto
keep in the back of your mind today in the next
few days - actually, the whole disk passage of
these regions. We'll try to - -
012 14 26 27 SPT Okay, that's - One question there, Bill. You

said the one which we managed to see. The orbit
which we did go into the flare mode, we saw a
point brigtening which we talked about yesterday,
starting into a flare mode. It only went up to
600. And then at the end of the orbit, you also
indicated that there was another one on the way
up just as the doors closed. You only talked
about one this morning which we actually were
available for. You've got me a little bit wonder-
ing about that.
MCC Okay. The ones early this morning, we've not

talked about other than when Bruce gave you some
words earlier because they happened shortly
before you got up. And the ones that l'm talking
about were the earlier ones from yesterday, not
the one that was on its way up as the door close.
MCC Okay. And one further thought on that - we'll

try to get the X-REA numbers up to you just as
soon as we see anything moving here rather than
waiting to confirm anything.
SPT That would be very useful. I appreciated that

call yesterday because it enabled me to get a
little more spring loaded and get things going
perhaps a bit quicker than I would have otherwise.
MCC Okay, and today's observations on prominence 76 -

we scheduled those yesterday. Obviously, prom-
inence 76 is fairly unique and a extraordinary
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prominence so [,hat we are quite interested in

_. observing this. The scheduling there was done
when active region 20 was essentially on the limb,
which makes it very difficult for us to predict
what's going to happen there. And we did not
expect the M-3 that came out of it this morning.
So you might file those thoughts away in the back
of your mind as far as your thinking on today's
actual observations go.
012 14 28 17 SPT Okay. Let me tell you - I think the planners did
an excellent job today. They really predicted it
well in running the solar wind observations. I
took a look at the corona on the first pass here
and got a look at it just at the end of the second
pass. And it has - Even though I mentioned earlier
that it had changed, and that was based on my
first look at it, on the second look at it, it
had changed quite a bit substantially over that.
Now, at 250, the brightening, which I talked
about in the white light eoronagraph, now goes out
to about 4 solar radii. And it is a pretty much
of a long slender streamer - almost a jet, if you
will, length and diameter ratio of - l'm guessing
now from memory - around 8 to i0 or so; very
prominent. So something's happening now, in the
corona, relatively fast, and we've got good
coverage over the past two orbits. And I guess
we will over the next orbit also. So for the
remainder of the day, I would also be trying to
put in some Sun-centered observations at the
beginning and the end of the orbit wherever
possible.
012 14 29 27 MCC Okay. Sounds real fine. Couple of quick thoughts

here on some of the times for ATM and times for
you that we discussed yesterday. And then I want
to get back in to BB24. On the ATM time, we are
running just about at our original request. The
message that we sent you up prior to Bob MacQueen's
talk, which was our request of planning in which
we had inadvertently left off about an orbit per
day for ops time, which put us into concert with
your suggestion that we looked about an orbit light -
We're getting approximately our original request
which means about minus one orbit per day from
what you suggested and we really wanted here. And
this is based on tradeoffs with EREP and everybody
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else. The thing I mentioned yesterday with respect

to the possibility of the first orbit of the day,
a lot like today, of course, is always available
at anytime that you decide that you want to do it.
Perhaps you might take a look at things the night
before rather than deciding on a blanket basis;
and picking occasionally, if you so desired, to
let us know, "Hey, I'd like to do that first orbit
instead." This gives you a chance to look at the
plan for the day. 0nly advice is don't overdo it
and get yourself in a hole here and tired. Also - -
SPT This morning worked out - this morning worked out

all right, and I would like to do that as long as
you've got this activity remaining on the disk.
l'm not at my sharpest when I first get up, but I
still think it increases the chances of catching
a flare, and we ought to go after it.
MCC Okay. Understand you'd like to take the early

orbits as much as possible. Sometimes they're not
with maneuvers and things like that, but when
they are, you like them. Is that affirmative?
SPT Yes, yes. That's affirmative, Bill. And especially

if it means having to give up an orbit if we don't
take it. Then I certainly - certainly would want
it.
012 14 31 20 MCC Okay. I believe tomorrow doesn't work because it's

an MII0 day. And sometimes it doesn't work but
frequently, it will. Also, I gave you some bad
information yesterday. You should not eat at the
panel for microbiological reasons. So obviously,
Pete and those guys did not do it. However, that
won't change any of the things we were talking about
yesterday. But since I had told you something
wrong, I wanted to correct that. And on the
scheduling for both total ATM and for you, keep
us on our toes, and we assume you will as far as
looking at the schedule. And if you spot any
obvious places where you and either Jerry or Bill
could swap and pick up an orbit for you, we feel
confident you'll let us know.
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PLT Ed, dom't argue with ...
SPT Okay, Bill.
MCC Okay, now, if you got BB24 handy, on JOP 3B,

page S-16, we'll talk about that again for a
minute.
SPT Okay, I have it.
012 14 32 17 MCC Okay. Obviously, the change that I said was coming
up last night is not up yet. It's in the signoff
cycle, and we're quite confident we'll get it up
to you prior to the next EVA, although it's
beginning to look like it may not be much before
then. The hard changes aren't any different than
I mentioned to you last night. And what I really
want to talk about is the concept and the philosophy
here. The 82A and B and also the 55 with the
mini-MAR are interested in getting preflare images,
spectra, et cetera from both the point of view for
getting a history of the area prior to whatever
subsequentlyoccurs,and also with the general
feeling that many experimenters would like to be
in a data-take mode at the time the brightening
occurs. Just a feeling that this is the best way
to really get the prebrightening history, which
you've got no way of knowing, short of some sort
of premonition.
012 14 33 ii SPT I concur with that, and I think as long as they've

got the film and they can run in a mode which
doesn't burn it too fast, it's a very good way to
go.
MCC And, that's what they're happy to do. The only

thing here is we should not let that interfere
with the original building block 24 intent, which
really is to be sitting there with a hair trigger
on a big spring ready to pounce. And at the time
that you spot or get a premonition of anything's
going off and wish to initiate the real BB2h, the
sequence as is indicated on here is just hit 54,
START, 56 goes EXPOSURE to SHORT, STOP, START; and
then to initiate the 82's, A's and B's and so on.
And, the important thing here is if you've got
somebody going at the time, don't fiddle re -
configuring him, hut to go ahead and start the
_-- real buildingblock 2h. And I'm talked over the
hill here, Ed.
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012 14 34 04 MCC Next is Honeysuckle in a few seconds.
012 14 35 06 MCC Skylab, Houston. l'm back with you.
SPT Hello, Bill. I thought we'd lost you for sure.

Go ahead.
MCC Okay. I wasn't paying any attention to the clock,

and I talked right into the LOS there from
Carnarvon. We're now at Honeysuckle for 3 minutes,
40 seconds. And, did I come through all the way
there or did I cut out at the end?
SPT Yes. Building block 24, I think you finished up

with pretty well, and could I ask you a question?
MCC Go ahead.
SPT On 55, the information which you sent up on GRATING

POSITION for centers of lines of interest. In
many cases there are listed two lines. Does that
mean that there are two lines pretty much at the
same wavelength? Or are they supposed to be picked
up on DETECTORS i and 2? Also, if we operate in
the STOP MODE, should we turn on any of the other
DETECTORs that could be turned on up to whatever
that position would allow in order to get some
additional data? Thirdly, I did do a - one
yesterday on the bright point over active region 20,
after it had - after the flare, which we worked
on a subsequent orbit. And I did an iron XV. And
I was wondering when they get the results back
from that to see whether that's interpretable, and
what changes ought to be made to the procedures,
if any, and how useful the whole thing is?
MCC Okay, Ed. When we look at that, we'll certainly

let you know. And, my understanding, as far as
the multiple line here goes, is that they fall on
different detectors. Right now, l'm unable to
tell you exactly which ones on which detectors.
But it sounds safe to go ahead and run all of the
appropriate detectors up to those that need to be
turned off as per the cue card.

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012 lh 36 56 MCC Okay. And, that's all I've got here for this
morning. I've already talked into some of Henry's
next pass here, so I'll sign off now and talk to
you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill. So long.
CC And Ed, while I've got you here, we did get some
con_nents back on your TV-101, if you'd like to
hear them.
SlY2 I sure would, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Okay. The general assessment was that it was

excellent. The lighting, the eloseup, the detail,
the verbal description were all first class. The
experimental data are in excellent agreement with
the theory, and for the first time, some new
convection and stability phenomena were observed.
The excessive wobble that you experienced there
may be reduced by placing the end of the particular
socket wrench extension closer to the bearing
surface. And, in the later sequences, the only
comment they had is that you did the initial
rotation rate a little too fast. But other than
that everything was oustanding.
012 14 38 06 SPT Yes. I agree with that rotation rate being a little
bit fast. The other is that I don't know whether
moving it in would help at all, because I had a
very tight fit there. I actually had to go in and
chip in - chip away paint on those supports - the
holes in the supports in order to fit the rod
through and then file it down. And, it's a very
close fit, and I had to put Krytox in there so it
would turn at all, turn smoothly. So I don't
think that's the problem. I think maybe the
wobble is that the plates which aryput on the end
are not quite perpendicular to the axis. But, I
agree - I'ii probably be working a little more of
that in the next few days and - next 2 days or so
is about all - and try to slow down the rotation
rate.
• CC Okay, good show, Ed. And we're about I0 seconds

from LOS. Texas will be coming up at 10, and that's
31 minutes from now.
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012 14 39 03 SPT Thank you, Hank. So log.
012 15 09 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and _LA for

14-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Say, we didn't get a report on that last teleprinter

test message. How'd it look?
SPT Looks good, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Hank, because of the changes we've seen in the

corona, I wonder if the 52 people would like a
STANDARD MODE at the very end of the orbit?
CC We'll check. We'd sure like to get one, Ed.
SPT Okay, about 7-1/2 MINUTES REMAINING, I'ii start

one.
PLT Hank, I have a report on ED72.
CC Go ahead.
012 15 i0 58 PLT Roger. Wish you'd pass on my regrets to Roger

Johnston_ the student that conceived the experi-
ment. Now the wieking part of the experiment has
already been done and I was going to do the
capillary - water in the capillary Krytox oil this
morning. When I unpacked the water capillary, I
noticed a lot of water mark sad staining on the
eardboard_ encrustation on the case inside. I
went ahead and tried it an3rway. Took an inordinately
strong force to release it. Oh, gosh_ as much as
I can - just about as much as I can put - pulling
my arms apart. I found it wouldn't even do it. In
fact, I had to get so I could push with one arm.
An_ay, apparently all the liquid was lost in the
water, so I went to the oil and the oil had also
leaked. So, both of those - neither one of those
experiments were possible to be performed.
CC Roger; we copy, Bill.

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PLT And the the leakage has been documented on DAC

film. I took about 3 percent Just to take
pictures of it to illustrate the degradation.
CC Okay, we copy. You used 3 percent of the allocated

film to photograph. Is that correct, Bill?
012 15 12 22 PLT That's affirmative. Some of it was abortive

attempts to start the photography, but most of it
was just taking photographs of the equipment so
you could see the condition of it as I unstowed
it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; if someone's available near

panel 206, we'd like to go ahead and get our REG
ADJUST for EREP so we can watch it the rest of this
CONUS pass. We'd like to get PEG ADJUST, BUS 2,
SPT I'ii give it to you in a minute, Hank.
CC Okay. Whenever you can.
012 15 14 15 CC And, Bill, a note for you. On our - on your

details where we have you changing out the S190
mag drive, we didn't tell you which station that
was. You probably already know though. It's
station 6.
PLT Roger. That's the one that's been slipping them.
CC And, we're in the process of sending up another

still camera cue card change. I think it should
correct those things that were ._rong with the one
we sent up yesterday that we talked about. I
hope this one puts that to bed. And one general
question for anybody that can answer. In the
interior photographs you've been making with the
IR film, have you been defocusing to the red dot?
PLT That's affirmative, Hank.
CC Okay, good show.
SPT REG, BUS 2 is 5 degrees clockwise, Hank.

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CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
012 15 16 16 CC SPT, Houston. We notice you have all the

DETECTORs, on. We'd like to get 6 and 7, OFF.
CC And for info, Goddard reports the laser is tracking

if anybody wants to go take a peek.
PLT Okay, there's two of us watching for it.
012 15 18 02 PLT How much power are they using, Hank? l'm looking
right in the right spot, but I don't see a thing.
CC We'll check. Okay, they're going into flash mode

now, Bill.
CDR Still don't have it.
PLT Sure looks cold down there, Hank. We never did

see it.
012 15 19 44 CC Okay, they're cranking up the power a little bit,

but you only got about i0 more seconds that you
can see it. I never did find out what power level
they were using.
CC Okay, I get the word now that they were using a

third of a watt.
PLT Okay, we never saw a thing.
012 15 23 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Madrid at 28, and we're scheduled
012 15 23 46 SPT So long, Hank.
012 15 28 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 minutes.

And, Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder here.
CC Skylab, Houston, would you like to get a rundown

on your EREP weather?
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Would you like to get a rundown on your weather

for the EREP?
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012 15 29 56 PLT Roger. Give it to us.
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012 15 29 58 CC Okay, Bill, it's pretty much like it was yesterday.

Zero to 3/10 over Mexico and on into Texas. Along
about the Big Spring area there, you'll pick up
a little cloudy patch - low clouds, stratus,
and break into the zero to 3/10 again. However,
it looks like there's going to be a pretty good
cirrus patch in the panhandle area, so we'll get
our cirrus data there. Then it's zero to 3/10
on up to Chicago. And just past there, along the
south of Lake Michigan there, you'll start pick-
ing up clouds again. And the rest of the track
is pretty much cloudcovered and - some places
there near 4 to 7/10 up in the Newfoundland area.
And also in the Ottawa area there's a patch of
zero to 3/10 that comes pretty close to the
groundtrack, so you may be able to see something
over that way. The snow cover starts around the
Kansas-Arkansas border and extends for the rest
of your tracking over the CONUS and the northeast
there.
012 15 31 i0 PLT Roger; copy.
O12 15 35 30 CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Carnarvon at 04, 39 minutes from now.
012 16 04 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for h minutes.
012 16 07 36 CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station is Honeysuckle at 15, for about 1-minute
pass. And in the even we don't get you there,
we'll see you over Texas at 45, EREPing.
012 16 07 52 CDR Roger, Hank.

for about 40 seconds here. If you can read me,
I'll try to get up the weather update. St. Louis,
clear; Chicago, clear; Ottawa, 3,000 scattered,
25,000 scattered, you may get those; Quebec's
overcast.
012 16 15 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy any of that weather?
CDR Negative. You were very garbled. We're reading

_ youclearnow.
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CC Okay, we got - we should be going LOS any second

now. St. Louis is clear; Chicago is clear;
Ottawa, 3,000 scattered, 25,000 scattered, so that's
a possible; and Quebec is overcast.
012 16 16 23 CDR Thank you.
012 16 44 20 PLT i minute from now.
CDR Okay, we should be picking up Baja California at

about 48:30; 46:30.
012 16 44 37 CC Skylab, Houston; we're monitoring you through

Texas.
CDR Hello, Hank.
PLT Okay, Hank, at 45:20 here I go downlink switch

position 9, and l'd like for you to verify signal.
CC Okay, we'll look at it.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on Baja.
PLT Stand by.
012 16 45 20 PLT MARK. Switch position 9, and waiting for 45:32.
012 16 45 33 PLT MARK. RAD, OFF, waiting for 38.
012 16 45 39 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON, and ALTIMETER UNLOCK light

immediately. Still have a READY light. *** my
EREP start i second later. 53, 190 MODE to AUTO.
Stand by.
012 16 45 54 PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO. Waiting for 46:06. Got a

good TAPE MOTION light. Stand by.
012 16 46 06 PLT MARK. 46:06, 192, MODE, READY; MALF light, now
a green light. Good show. 46:12. Okay, SCAT
to STANDBY. 94 MODE to MANUAL. Waiting for 46:35.
CC We got good downlink data.
PLT Good. Okay, waiting for 46:35.
012 16 46 33 PLT And the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is out.

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012 16 46 36 PLT MARK. CAL 3 swiLch to HIGH. Waiting for 47:05.

ALTIMETER UNLOCK light's on again. Still have a
READY light. TAPE MOTION is still green; looking
good.
012 16 47 02 PLT MARK. There's 47 minutes. Okay, 47:05.
012 16 47 05 PLT MARK. Dowulink switch position 7 and you might

verify signal again. Okay, ETC to AUTO at 47:12.
Okay, 47:48 coming up next.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still on but I still

have a READY light. Waiting for 47:48. Stand by.
012 16 47 48 PLT MARK. Okay, 192, MODE to CHECK; 54 and 190,

INTERVAL to 20. There we go, INTERVAL to 20.
At 40 even and --
012 16 48 00 PLT MARK. And ETC to STANDBY.
CC We have good downlink on position 7.
- PLT Roger. And I'm turning ALTIMETER, OFF, 15 seconds.
PLT Lost my READY light.
CDR Okay, we're into a solid overcast now.
PLT Okay, here's my 15 seconds. ALTI_[ETER coming back

ON and READY light. Waiting for 48:52.
PLT Stand by.
012 16 48 52 PLT MARK. Downlink switch position to OFF. Waiting

for 49:33. While I got a couple of seconds here,
I only got two frame count advances on camera
position number i when I did the camera checkout,
Hank.
CC We copy.
PLT S190 camera checkouts. All the rest of them

advanced three, even number 6.
PLT And the ALTIMETER's hanging in there. Standing by

for 49: 33.
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PLT Now, I got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, but I still

have a READY light.
012 16 49 34 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RAD to STANDBY.

And 45, I want SCATTEROMETER, ON. And RADIOMETER,
ON. Stand by -
012 16 49 46 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON; and RAD, ON. Two READY lights.
Okay, everything is looking pretty clean hear.
CDR Okay, there's Tinker and the Draper Reservoir.
PLT Well, got them all in sight. Great'
CDR Get a little data here and then press on.
PLT See if you can pick up the Keystone Dam in about

i0 seconds. Okay, 15:30 coming up in about
i minute, Ed. ETC to AUTO again.
CDR Downlink, Thunderbird.
PLT Shawnee - Shawnee will be right off to your left

there, Jer, in case you're interested.
CDR Okay. Better get up and look for some snow cover
now. Boy! Sure is getting white out. No, that's
cirrus. Cirrus over the snow.
PLT Okay, 51:30 coming up.
CDR l'm going to try to get my snow covered right

next to St. Louis.
PLT Okay, ETC to AUTO, Ed.
012 16 51 30 PLT MARK. And 190, INTERVAL to 10. Waiting for

52._0.
CDR Okay. I got St. Louis. We'll get our snow cover
data and St. Louis at the ssme time. l'm going
to be just north of St. Louis. Zooming in. I've
a uniform snow-covered area between the two rivers
north of St. Louis. Right in the bend of the
river. Okay, l'm good here til 15 -
PLT And, stand by for 52:40.

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CDR Okay, now l'm going to move to the right toward

the city of St. Louis.
PLT Stand by -
012 16 52 40 PLT MARK.
PLT 52 :40, MODE, READY on the 192 •
CDR Go right at - right at Lambert Airport, right in

• the clear area right in the middle of - between
the runways.
PLT Okay, and we got a good TAPE MOTION light.
_i CDR McDonnell Douglas, we're taking a picture of you.
CDR 53, okay. Now l'm going to try to get Chicago.
PLT That one ought to be easy, with Lake Michigan there,

- "_. if there's not cloudcover.
CDR Chicago is LEFT, 8.6. There's Lake Superior.
PLT i0 seconds to 53:50. Stand by.
012 16 53 51 PLT MARK. 53:50, 192, MODE to CHECK.
CDR Okay, Chicago coming up.
PLT ...
CDR My, so much snow. Okay, where is Chicago now?
PLT Okay, waiting for 54:24. Stand by.
012 16 54 24 PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED TO MEDIUM. And the ETC to

STANDBY in about 30 seconds, Ed.
CDR Boy, I'ii tell you the ice around Chicago makes
it difficult to see the shape of the lake. Okay,
get on up for Ottawa now.
PLT Okay, i0 seconds, Ed. Stand by.

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012 16 55 01 PLT MARK. ETC is going to STANDBY; ALTIMETER, MODE, 5;

RANGE, 76. Waiting for 58 even.
CDR I want 56:24. Okay, l'm setting at plus 5 in the

pitch, and 4.3 -
SPT Hello, Buffalo.
CDR 56:24, we'll do our thing. Ah, that must be it.

DAC' s ON ; taking data.
CDR Okay, we're north of Ottawa, I believe. We just

flew over the airport when I - Okay. Stopping the
data. Knock off at Quebec. That comes at plus 5.
Saw an airport go by and I shifted at that time.
Okay, we hit Quebec at 57:25. And let's see that
one's to be at RIGHT, 3.3. Yes, it's getting
cloudy. No, it's clearing up again. There goes
a - No. Okay, I'm going on time. I don't see
any metropolitan areas and I'm in the clouds.
The CAMERA's ON.
PLT ... 58 minutes.
CDR There's minus 5. CAMERA's OFF. Now, I'm not

so sure I saw Quebec.
PLT Stand by.
012 16 58 00 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
012 16 58 03 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 58:18.
012 16 58 19 PLT MARK. RAD, ON. 58:40. And about 15 seconds,

Ed, ETC to AUTO. Stand by.
012 16 58 40 PLT MARK it. 58:40, 192, MODE to READY; ETC to AUTO.
And I've got a good TAPE MOTION light on the speed
change. Must be getting ice out on the 192.
CDR Yes.
PLT Are we up over the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
CDR Yes. It's too cloudy to see any ice though, darn
it.
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PLT Natch.
CDR Right - right over that island up there. Actually,

we are past it now.
PLT Stand by. 59 :30.
012 16 59 31 PLT MARK. 92, MODE to STANDBY. Waiting for 59:54.
CDR The end of the island. It's up there in the

Gulf. I'll go ahead and give you a little data
right here on the tip of the end of the island.
Okay, I can't even hold it.
012 16 59 54 PLT MARK. 190, INTERVAL to 20. 17 minutes even.

ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
012 17 O0 01 PLT MARK. Okay, waiting for 06.
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._= SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
012 17 O0 07 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 20.
CDR Good ice data. Let's just take a little bit here.
PLT Stand by -
012 17 00 20 PLT M_tK. 00:20, 193, ALTIMETER, ON and a READY light

and a MALF. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
CDR Okay, we're taking nice data on an area that's

starting to ice up real well. I take it from
i0 degrees down to zero, down in the nadir.
PLT And the UNLOCK light went out. Still have a

READY light.
012 17 00 42 CC Skylah, we're going LOS. We'll see you again

at Madrid at 05.
CDR Roger.
PLT UNLOCK light again. Still have a READY light.
CDR Hank, you still with us?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, l'm not so sure I got Chicago on that

special 07 - that alternate. It may have been
Toledo. I couldn't tell because there's so much
ice on the lake. It's hard to locate the
shoreline. But that city was not big enough
to be Chicago.
PLT Okay. ALTIMETER, POWER going to STANDBY. Lost

my READY light.
CC Hey, you also missed Ten Springs [?] ...
012 17 01 47 CDI_ Son of a gun.
012 17 05 37 CDR Might have been a little better data.

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PLT Stand by -
012 17 05 41 PLT MARK. REFERENCE 2 on the 191.
CDR So - -
PLT Okay.
CDR 45-degree time would have been very good for

Ottawa and Quebec.
PLT A little less than a minute, I'ii need an AUTO

CAL, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT I'ii give you a call.
CC Skylab, Houstou. We're back with you through

Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT And l've lost my READY light. Going to STANDBY

on the ALTIMETER for 15 seconds. Leaves that
another 20 seconds of data anyway. 30 seconds,
Jer.
CDR Okay. What time is it we're going to go?
PLT 06:45.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Got a READY light again. Looking good.

Okay, about i0 seconds, Jer.
CDR All right.
PLT Stand by. On my mark -
012 17 06 45 PLT MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR You got it.
PLT 55.
r
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CDR Okay. l'm going to doff the hat.
PLT Stand by -
012 17 06 56 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. MODE to 3 ; RANGE, 70.

Okay, and I want 190 READY out at 7 minutes even,
and it is. MODE to STANDBY; it is. Waiting
for 07:13 for the ALTIMETER, ON. Stand by -
012 17 07 14 PLT MARK. Got it. Okay. Things looking good. Wait
_ for - next event is 9 minutes.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 08:07. Still have a

READY light.
PLT Okay. Coming up on 9 minutes.
012 17 09 01 PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL on 194. Waiting for READY,

on on the 191 at 09:25. ALTIMETER - oh, it
just went out. Okay, at 09:12, I want OFF with
the ALTIMETER switch. READY, on. There we go.
At 28 I'ii come back ON with the ALTIMETER. Okay.
Got a READY light. And I get 30 more seconds
of data. PLT 5 seconds. Stand by -
012 17 i0 01 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. EREP, STOP. Okay.

Hope that ... is ready for the maneuver, there.
Roger. We're finished, Jer. Getting my postcard
out, if you'll pardon the expression. Bravo 7
is reading 2 - that's - correction, that's 33.
92 is going DOOR, CLOSED.
CC CDR, Houston. Can you verify a couple of switches

for us on the ATM panel?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Under H-alpha, we'd like to verify the

H-ALPHA i switch is in AUTO and H-ALPHA 2 -
HEATER switch to PRIMARY.
012 17 ii 35 CDR Okay, H-ALPHA i was in AUT0, and I just put the
HEATER switch in PRIMARY.
CC Thank you, sir.

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CC And, Skylab, for info, active aurora has been

observed in the Northern Hemisphere. And if
sometime during the day you desire, you can take
photos according to the permanent message we
have, number 18 Bravo.
CDR 0kay, Hank.
012 17 14 04 CC Skylab, Houston; I minute to LOS. We'll see you

at Tananarive at 27, 13 minutes from now.
SPT Roger, Hank.
SPT Say, Hank, how much VTR time is available?
CC Okay, there's 12 minutes available, Ed. But

you'll have to rewind all the way back to the
beginning. And you can use the first 12.
012 17 15 05 SPT Okay, Hank, I'ii go ahead and put it in REWIND.

Thank you.
012 17 28 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for

7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. And 2.4 centimeters, tape remaining.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
012 17 34 16 CC We'll see you again at Honeysuckle at 52 with

a recorder dump at 17-1/2 minutes.

5 minutes. And we need the DAS to load momentum
bias.
CDR You got it, Hank.
012 17 56 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Hawaii at 13.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
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CDR Hey, Hank, you could tell the food people that
the overage food inventory went on tape last
night at about 03:15. And that essentially
reflects every single loose package of food there
is up here. And tell them also to add one
salmon salad to it - -
012 17 57 h9 CC I think we lost you, but we got it.
012 18 13 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 4 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, if you could hold off on using the

VTR until after our Goldstone pass, we can give
you 8 more minutes of VTR.
SPT Okay, Hank. We'll do that.
CC And, for the CDR, I think we cut out there going

over the hill last pass. We do have your food
inventory, and we're studying it.
CDR Okay, fine, Hank.
CC And incidentally, that EREP pass y'all did last

rev, looked like a real beauty.
012 18 16 21 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll see you

at Goldstone at 20, 4 minutes from now.
CC And, for info, the maneuver load looks good to

US.
012 18 16 53 SPT Thanks, Hank.
012 18 20 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 9-1/2 minutes.
012 18 29 ll CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute form LOS. Bermuda

at 33.
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012 18 32 46 CC SP - -
012 18 33 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 5-1/2 minutes.

And for the SPT, for information only, type 3
radio burst was reported at 18:20.
SPT Thank you, Hank. What's your X-REA look like now,
Hank?
CC It's a little above background, Ed, but not too

high.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. For info, we have dumped

some more of the VTR and rewound it. It's ready
to go, and there's 21 minutes available.
SPT Thanks, Hank.
012 18 38 23 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute from LOS. We'll be

coming up on Canaries at 43, and we're scheduled
to dump the recorder.

And we're going to dump the recorder here. And
also we need the DAS for the nu Z update.
SPT You've got it.
012 18 45 15 CC Skylab, Houston; the DAS is yours.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hank, you wtill there, or you going over the hill?
CC No, we've got about 3-1/2 minutes.
012 18 48 53 SPT Okay, in looking at the corona - WHITE LIGHT

CORONAGRAPH, the spike or jet, if you will, that
we talked about this morning is now a streamer
-- which goes all the way off our field of view.
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We had a streamer there originally this morning

at around 230, and the new one ca_e out at 250.
They're now both approximately equal in intensity,
in width, and elongation, going out. They run
out parallel, pretty much in a radial direction,
but parallel to one another. At 2-1/2 solar radii,
the one at 230 is 0.5 solar radii in - in width.
There's a gap in between them of 0.3 and then the
new one, whcih is at around 250 is 0.4 in width.
The gap which is in between them is clear all the
way out. The 52 folks have talked about these
things in terms of voids, l'm not sure that's
really what this one is; I'm not sure we got the
resolution. But it is an open area which extends
in the radial direction between the two streamers
about 0.3 radii in width.
012 18 50 06 SPT The disk has got a prominence which I had not
noticed this morning, at least not anywhere near
as intense. And that's at around 250. And it
extends about 20 arc seconds or so off the limb
and then - very intense base, and then cuts to
the south in a very fine arch, which is just
barely visible, almost parallel to the surface.
And that goes down for almost a full arc minute
before it disappears. The other prominence,
which we were planning to do the work on this
afternoon, still looks pretty good. There are
some vertical sections in it. I think we might
be able to at least pick out the area where
vertical thread would be possible, l'm not sure
we can see the individual threads, however.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed. Thank you.
012 18 51 30 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Tananarive at 04. Right
at the completion of the EREP pass, we noticed a
pretty good size heat pulse going to the secondary
coolant loop, and it seems to be modulating okay.
The flow rates dropped down out of one of the
valves, indicating that it's trying to slow up
the pulse, and it seems to be coming back up.
However, if you should get a CAUTION AND WARNING
on the AM SECONDARY COOLANT loop, we recozmend
you shut it down until we can take a look at it.
SPT Okay, Hank.

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• CC We don't think that's going to occur now; everything

seems to be okay.
012 18 52 08 CC The loop is recovering okay, but we - we just wanted

to tell you that just in case it did occur at LOS.
012 19 05 31 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for

4-1/2 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
012 19 09 00 CC Bill, we're going to be shipping up a message here

on this S019. We've talked to Karl, and we're
convinced that we've fixed that canister. However,
before we reschedule S019, what we want you to do -
and we'll send up a message to cover this - is to
take it in a dark place somewhere and try to cycle
it through one - one frame. And we've got a message
coming up to cover that. And if you can work it
into today, fine; if you can't we'll schedule it
anotherday. But we think we've got that thing
fixed.
PLT Okay, that'll be great. Where should we set the

conter? You might ask him that, Hank.
CC Okay, that's unimportant. But we'll - we'll cover

that. The important thing is the message is
coming up on that, Bill. And it's about 20 seconds
from LOS now. And we'll see you at Honeysuckle
at 28.
PLT Okay, it shouldn't take but a few minutes; I'ii

get that done today.
012 19 i0 01 CC Okay. Good show, Bill.
012 19 27 54 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

And we - we have some S-band problems at
Honeysuckle. How do you read?
CDR Read you okay now, Hank.
CC Okay, we may drop out - during this pass. If you -

if there's something does come up and you absolutely
need us, you can bring up the VHF.
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CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
012 19 30 48 CC Jerry, when you - when you get through with the
S052 on this building block you're in now, building
block 2, we would like for you to close the door
manually and to make sure that we have the
protection of the 20-arc-second discriminator.
We want you to cycle to MAIN POWER, S052 MAIN
POWER, to STANDBY. Remain for at least i second,
and then back to ON.
CDR Okay, we got problems building up on this experi-

ment or something?
CC No, Jerry. What happened early in the day, we

cycled the switch. And what happened, we suspect
that it didn't remain in the STANDBY position for
a - a full second. We don't think we set the
logic.
CDR Okay, copy.
CC And I guess in the future, we're going to put that

in the pad, that wait i second, so we'll make sure
we always have that protection and let the logic
set up.
012 19 31 50 CDR Okay.
012 19 47 27 CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii for l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
012 19 49 22 CC Skylab, Houston; let you know a little bit more

about that SECONDARY COOLANT loop glitch we saw
awhile ago. The flow rate out of TCV A valve is
just about back to normal. It's slowly modulating
its way back up here. We're going back to take
a look at all the data to see if we can reconstruct;
and we're also looking at the EREPs for the - x
during the high betas as to what effect that
may have. You know, we've had trouble with these
TCV valves sticking. And there is some speculation
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what that might ... was that the possibility that

the valve could have stuck and the demand for more
coolant kept - kept on the valve until finally it
broke free. And then when it did, it drove it
hard over, and go the kind of cool it wanted and
it might - the valve was modulating normal back
to - the - the normal flow.
CDR That sounds logical, Hank.
012 19 52 40 CC CDR, Houston. You might pass on to the SPT that

his phone call is set up for this evening at
23:23 at MILA with a RIGHT ANTENNA. We'll give
him a reminder later on, but I thought he might
want to know that to plan on.
CDR Will do it.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
012 19 56 22 CC We'll see you at Goldstone at 59 in 2 minutes.
- 012 19 59 II CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone, 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. It's set up for downlink on monitor i.
012 19 59 27 CC Okay, we're ready to take it.
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" ' SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
012 20 03 53 CC CDR, Houston. Could you give us a little INTEGRA-

TION on XUV MON?
CDR I had just started when you called.

We'll see you at Bermuda at ii, and that's 5 minutes
from now.
012 20 ii 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
012 20 18 45 CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on the Canaries at 20. And we're
scheduled to dump the voice recorder there.
012 20 18 56 CDR Roger.
012 20 20 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Ascension for

16 minutes. And we have a recorder dump.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Info for the PLT, the $019 mal

messen - message is on board.
CDR Roger, Hank.

see you again in Carnarvon at 03. And we'll be
handing over to the crimson boys. It's been a
good day today.
CDR Thank you, Hank. Have a good day. We'll see you
tomorrow.
012 20 36 37 CC Okay.
012 21 03 06 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS through Carnar-

yon. We have you for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. Hello, Crip.

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CC How you doing today, Jer?
CDR Great.
CC We even have a little sunshine here in Houston

today. First time we've seen it for a while.
I was beginning to think that thing you were
pointing the ATM at was Just all done with mirrors;
that it wasn't real up there any more.
CDR Sometimes, theway I operate this thing, I wish

it was done with mirrors.
CC Lots of fun with all those buttons and switches.
CC CDR, for your information, NOAA just reported an

X-ray-type flare in active region 20, and that's
just about all the information we got on it, no
magnitude or anything else right now.
CDR Okay, i'll hustle over there.
CDR How about an X-REA count, if you got it.
CC We're looking at it.
CDR I've got an H-ALPHA 1 enhancement, but it's not

really all that great.
CC Okay, right now it looks like it's falling off, so

it looks like something that just came up real
quick and is going back down now. Okay, an idea,
BERYLLIUM is in APERTURE 4 right now.
CDR Roger. What do you say I stay here and set up

building block 24?
CC Check that for you.
CC Jer, the consensus here is that we probably should

go ahead and continue with the normal operations
you got set up for today - this particular rev.
CDR Okay, the - enhancement is in active region 17

rather than 20.
CC Okay, very good. Appreciate that info.

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012 21 i0 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS, and

we'll see you again over Hawaii in about 16 minutes
at 21:27, 21:27.
012 21 i0 49 CDR Roger, Crip.
012 21 26 53 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Hawaii, 4-1/2 minutes.

And, CDR, Houston. Jer, I need to give you an
updated fine maneuver for this upcoming pass for
63, if you got the maneuver pad and can copy it,
please?
CDR Okay, stand by a second. Ready to copy.
CC Okay. Following are the DAS commands: X, 50007;

Y, 51160; Z, 50045. And the deci _ decimal
equivalent for that is: X is plus 0.07; Y is
minus 1.12; Z is plus 0.37. And appreciate it
if you could read those back, sir.
CDR Okay, say again the Z in the DAS entry.
- CC Okay,Z is 50045.
CDR Okay, for the fine maneuver: 51007, 51160, 50045.

And the decimals are: plus 0.07, minus 1.12, and
plus 0.37.
CC Roger. They were all correct except the X input

is 50007.
CDR Okay, that's right, 50007.
CC Roger. Okay, good readback. And if we could,

we'd like to find out if anybody's planning on
using the TV for about the next half hour or so.
If not, we're going to go ahead and take the
VTR and rewind it so we can dump some over this
upcoming CONUS pass.
CDR That's negative. I think you can go ahead.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TI_NSCI_IPTION
012 21 30 30 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS. Next

contact is going to be Goldstone in 8 minutes at
21:39; just about the time you're starting the
magle uve r •
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC 8 - 82B WAVELENGTH, LONG.
012 21 32 57 CDR Thanks, Crip.
012 21 38 50 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.

see you again in 2-1/2 minutes over Texas.
012 21 46 53 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S through Texas. And we

have you for about ll minutes across here. And
we're getting ready to start a data/voice recorder
dump.
CDR Okay, we're through with the recorders.
CC Okay, real fine. And, Jer, I - I kind of faded

out in the mud back over Hawaii while ago when I
was giving you a call on 82B. That WAVELENGTH
thing does hang up sometimes, and you have to -
to recycle that - that switch, as you probably
remember.
CDR No, that was a bungle on my part. I forgot to

change to SIIORT.
CC Okay, very good; thank you.
CDR Or correction, I should say. I forgot to change

to LONG from SHORT.
CC Roger.
012 21 47 54 SPT Hello, Buffalo.
-- CC Hello, hello. Does that look like - look like

hometown down there?
SPT It's white and there's a few clouds. That's the

hometown.
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CC Bet it's cold too, Ed.
SPT Not really.
012 21 48 34 CC Not for you - Not for you northern boys ; us

southern boys, that's pretty chilly.
012 21 51 22 CC Skylab, Houston; we still show that the record -

well, at least one of the recorders is in operation
some place, and wonder if we could have it for the
dump.
CDR Okay. We thought you were done with it and had

started using it again.
CC Nope. Sorry about that.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, Crip, I have found that circular structure

again I was talking about that's out by Minneapolis.
CC Very good. We've been wondering about that. Can

you tell us any more about it?
CDR Okay. It's - if you draw a straight line between

Minneapolis and Chicago, it's about half way in
between. And it's at the fork of the Mississippi
and a river that goes off to the east. And it's
on the southeast side of the fork. And the fork
makes up the part of the circle itself. It:s
just about as big as the - the large volcanic
structure up in Canada. And the east side of
this structure looks like it's forested; it's
pretty black. A lot of the snow is melted off
and it - it's not quite as quickly discernible now
as a circular structure. I would - it looked to
me like it was down below - oh, stand by -l've
got to get the name of the diz - titF again.
CC Looks like you are talking right below La Crosse.
CDR Yes, that's right. Right below La Crosse. Is

there a fork in the river at La Crosse.
CC No, it's south of there.

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CDR Okay well, I think that's the one.
CC Okay, that's a very good description, and we'll

look into it. See if we can find that it was,
CDR Good enough.
012 21 57 21 CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 9-1/2 minutes over Ascension
at 22:07, 22:07.
012 21 57 29 CDR Roger.
012 22 07 15 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS, Ascension for

7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy.
012 22 12 ll CC Skylab, Houston, we're still a couple minutes

from LOS, but there is going to be a Keyhole
coming up in about 20 seconds. I'll just go s_head
and give you next station contact, which is
Carnarvon in 25 minutes at 22:37, 22:37.
CDE Roger. See you then.
012 22 12 30 CC Roger.
012 22 38 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Carnarvon for

l0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Hello, Edward.
PLT Crip, I have a report on S019 mal.
CC Good_ Bill. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, I took it in my sleep compartments and went

through the operation. I was able to push the
frame into position, and move it back in CARRIAGE
RETRACTED, and then to STOW; was able to close
the FILM HATCH. And the frame indicator is
indicating 101.
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CC Very good. l'm sure Karl'll be glad to hear that.

Didn't want to hear any more of those crunches.
PLT No, this one sort of clicked a bit hard when I

pushed it in the - the frame into the - position.
But I think it was not an excessive force, and
we may have recovered that canister.
CC Very good; that's good news. Thank you, sir.
PLT Roger. It's good news to us, too.
CDR Hey, Crip, one thing you might have them do on

the next S019 pad, and that is let us know what
they would like us to set the frame count at,
when we start operations again. We've - oh, i
think we've clicked l0 or 15 different frames
off on that counter while not moving any film.
CC Okay, Jer, we'll - we'll check that.
CDR It's just a matter of sticking your finger in an

area where the little lever is and just clicking
it until you get it where you want it.
CC Yes, we can probably also just leave it where it

is and just go from wherever it is now, too.
We'll - we'll think about that and get - get back
to you.
CDR Okay, whichever way they want to go.
012 22 47 07 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS. And we'll

have you again in 3 minutes over Guam.
012 22 50 35 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Guam, i0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Skylab, we have finished with the VTR. So if

anybody needs to do any more work with it_ it's -
belongs to you.
CDR Okay.
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012 22 52 h2 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, we're looking on 55 there.

And we're showing that you're on line position 9,
and it's - it calls for you to cycle them on -
starting at 6 and then go to 8 and then 12.
CDR No, the first one's slit center, Crip.
CC And stand by i.
012 22 53 43 CC That's one for you, Jer. You're right. We -

we thought you were a little bit later on.
CDR Yes, I just found out, too, that slit center is

not 933; it's 1033. Somebody changed the card.
CC Well, that's news to me, too. I thought - still

thought it was 9.
012 22 54 20 SPT Sorry about that, Jer. I guess when we do that,

I ought to make a general announcement.
CDR Okay.
012 22 54 30 CC Need a "Now hear this" kind of thing.
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012 23 00 20 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

The next station contact is over Goldstone in
about 16 minutes. That's at 23:17, 23:17.
012 23 16 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across the States

for 17 minutes. And for Ed, your phone call is
set up at the last portion of the last half of
this pass, I guess, at 23:23.
CC That - that almost sounds as good as my legendary

Stardust Cowboy.
SC (Music)
CC I recognize the music behind the squeal that

time.
SPT I think we're a little far north for it though,

Crip.
CC Yes, but you'll - you'll be down there soon.
CC You guys are going to come just about right over

the Cape this pass.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Hey, Crip, tell the guys in the backroom that

active region 18 has all of a sudden popped up
with a nice little filament about 2 arc minutes
long, and we got a little piece of plage on
each side of it.
CC Very good, thank you.
CDR And also the prominence above active region 20

has finally touched down.
CC Okay, very good.

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012 23 23 58 CC Skylab, Houston, if we can, we'd like to dump

the data/voice recorder here.
CDR Okay.
012 23 25 45 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, do you have a moment?
PLT Roger. Go.
CC Roger. If you haven't started getting ahead of

the game on this S190 mag drive changeout there,
there's a couple of items l'd like to tell you
about in association with that. First is just
a reminder, it doesn't really call it out in that
procedure anywhere, but you - gloves should be
worn when you're working on it if you can. If
you can do all that stuff with the gloves on.
PLT Okay, Crip, the 190 mag drive change is complete.

I did a functional check on it; appears to be
working fine.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you. I suspected that

might be the case.
PLT It's all buttoned up and still nice and clean.
CC Okay.
012 23 32 39 CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute from LOS.

Next station contact is awhile away; it's about
44 minutes at 00:16. So we'll be out of your
hair for awhile.
SPT So long, Crip.
012 23 33 09 CC So long.
013 00 16 27 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon for 6 minutes.
PLT Crip, could you tell us how Wanda is doing?
_CC I'll try to get a report for you.

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013 00 17 31 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, in answer to your question,

it has diminished considerably. It is now class-
ified as a tropical depression with winds of
25 knots, and it's still located in the same
general area. So it will be just to the east of
your groundtrack on this pass.
PLT Roger.
CDR Crip, if you're ready to copy, I'll give you the

photo log.
CC We're ready to copy.
CDR Okay, 16-millimeter: Echo Delta 72, Charlie

India 79, 59, Charlie India 126; M151/ETC prep,
Charlie India 78, 18, Charlie India 74; EREP VTS,
Charlie Lima ll, 60. Okay, miscellaneous off
of transporter 7, the pad said just to shoot up
the film. That's Charlie India 78, 0, Charlie
India 77. That means that transporter 7 is now
empty. Okay, Nikon l, Charlie X-ray 40, 36;
_- Nikon 2, empty; Char- Nikon 3, Charlie India ll3,
55; Nikon 4, Bravo Echo 09, 38; 5, Bravo Hotel 06,
19. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 50, 017. ETC
is Charlie Tango 12, 061. EREP: set X-ray; 0284;
2464; 0007; 9369; ll40; 0076. Drawer A: Alfa l,
Alfa 2, and Alfa 4, no change. Alfa 3, 06,
Charlie India 79, 59, Charlie India 126. Back,
no supply, 0, Charlie India 78. That's it.
CC Okay, very good.
013 00 20 37 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, we're showing on 54 that the

GRATING is IN and it should be OUT.
CDR Do we have enough time for evening status?
CC Oh, only got about a minute and half left here.

And I'm - next station contact is over Guam at -
in about 9-1/2 minutes. Why don't you go ahead
and start it, and I'll tell you Just before we
go over the hill. If you've got it handy.
SPT Okay, Crip, I was reading one block ahead. I

don't think they want me to change in the middle
of the exposure, do they?
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CC I'm checking, Ed.
CDR Okay, I'ii get evening status on the next pass.
CC Yes. And also, if somebody could have - for SPT,

I guess, to have that maneuver for 201, that pad,
I'm going to have to give him another fine
maneuver change due to an update in nu Z .
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC Okay, we'll go ahead and leave the GRATING, IN

on - on this exposure, Ed.
SPT Go ahead with the changes to the maneuver pad,

Crip.
CC Unfortunately, I haven't got time to give them

to you. We're - we're going over the hill here.
I'ii - I can start it. It's for X, it's 50004;
Y, 51115; Z, 50036.
SPT 50004, 51115, 50036.
013 O0 23 42 CC Roger. And we're - we're going LOS now.
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SKY_ AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIF'].'IOI_
Di3 DO 30 46 CC Skyl_b, _ouston. We're AOS, Guam. We have you

for § minutes. If nobodYlS using the teleprinter -
Cor_tioD_ telepriDter - We need the VTR to go
_h_d _nd r_wi_d it for _ dump over the upcoming
CDNUS p_ss.
SpT It!s _ot Sa use, Crip; go ahead.
CC Okeydoke.
CC We're steading - -
CDR Okay. Are you ready for the big report?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR_ 7.0, 7 heavy; SPT, 6.5,

4.5 he_,vy, 2.0 light; PLT, 7 hours, 6 heavy,
1 light. Volume; CDR! 2750; 1700; 2500. Water
gun: 86_!, 4431, 0511. Mass: CDR, 6.326, 6.324,
6.318; SPT_ 6.389, 6.389, 6.387; PLT, 6.251,
6.249_ 6.251. Exercise: no change for anybody.
Medi_tioDs: none for anybody. Clothing; CDR,
no_e; SPT_ shorts, shirt, socks; PLT, none. Food
io_: CDR_ 6.0 s_it_ minus one coffee with sugar,
plus 1.5 w_%er; SPT, zero, zero, and zero; PLT,
1.5 salt, plus one vanilla wafers, minus i. 0 rehy-
dr_tion Nater. Flight Plan deviations: none.
ShoppSng list _ccamplishments: T002-4; it's on
tape in three different segments from 15:00 to
18:30. ED72 is complete. And all housekeeping's
done. l_operable equipmenz: ED72 capillary water
and oil are both inoperative. S019 cassette
numbe_ 2 checkout completed. Unscheduled stowage:
none, and that's it.
CC Okay, very good. We go_ about 2-1/2 more minutes

left in this pass. So one thing that I - we're
wondering _ little bit about. I know Ed's been
doing a lot of work on - on TV and we keep having
to dump it over here trying to clear it off a
little bit, and I'm wondering if us taking it and
dumping it is in any wet - way interfering with -
with Ed's plans for setting up, and how he's doing
the TV?
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SPT No, Crip. Not at aM. It's worked out real -

real fine. l've never had any conflicts at all
and no problem.
CC Okay, that's good to hear. The - also the situation

we're in now puts us coming over the States during
the day, and we're out of the - off of the range
for dumping TV during the night. So that's why
we have to do it like we've been doing it and
continually doing it through the day. Just wanted
to make sure it wasn't interfering with you.
Thank you.
SPT No problem at all, Crip. Press on.
CDR Okay, Crip. We got a couple of other shopping

list accomplishments to add, too, 2 hours on
TV-101 and the SPT sweat sample.
SPT Taken concurrently.
CC (Laughter) Okay, very good. Really enjoying all

your TV down here though.
013 00 34 35 CC Okay. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next station

contact is over Goldstone in about 18-1/2 minutes
at 00:53. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump. You guys are going to come within eyeballing
distance of Houston this time, looks like.
CDR The volcano in southern Japan, Sakurazima is

puffing out smoke again.
CC Very good. You guys can see quite a distance there.
CDR Yes, we're coming up on Tokyo now and you can see
FuJiyama just plain as day.
CDR Old Fuji-san. You don't even need binoculars to

see it.
CC Very good. Never had the pleasure. I'd like to

see it some day.
CDR I think it's one of the most beautiful mountains

in the world.
013 00 36 22 CC Sounds like it.

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_, _,_ _ 9_ CC Skyla_, Houston. W_e_re _OS, Gol4stone ,

i,_-i/2 minutes. Ap_ _e_ll __e 40_ng a_ evening
status re_ort - evening status report - I can!t
r._,@ ._ny more. _]_l'_e _oi_ a _a_/voice recorder
_ _e_e. "
S_ 1{ellp, Crib, let me tell yjou _rhat I see in the
cc _ _on_ _ou40_h_
$_ 0_[, _.t a radius o_ a_out 2.1 solar radii, 270 out,
the_e_s _. _airl7 bright _no_ of intensity, l'm
not _.u_,_e
whether _$ s _ateria_ there all in
ode - in one c_u_z.p,§o _o_peak, or whether it's
cross!ng of a couple o_ sma3_l streamers. It,s
hard to tell, but it is :reiativeiy_ b_ight compared
to ev.e_thin_ e_se that I _ee _p %1%e _orona.
Cc nk you.
O_a_,_; _ha,
_T _ex, _$D, o,ne othe_ thing related to that, coming
u r$g)_,_ _brough that an4 extend_n_ above _t is
¥_y _%_rp, p_rro,_ _tr_a_er that _aight - it
io_s__' _Q_S........... out _to_ _bQ_
..... _ 2-i/2
_,_, , _
to S_%Zr,2.7 . radii
CC Okay, _, _b_. you. _ fQr the PLT, if Bill's

a_aJ-l_ie, _@_re'shswi_i 'EREP _US i, ON. It looks
l_ke %_ _b_ _haye been l_ft ON _fter during that
SPT Crip, wha_ the usa_b$1ity of the VTR look like

- tonight fOr a little _a4_ional i01?
CC We're checking it _o.r_[QU here,
D13 00 55 35 PLT They'r_ both OFF, Crip.
PLT l_twa_ !_ft 0_ egr_!i-gr,but thg_'r@ both OFF now.
CC 0ka_y,thank
< f. _ _ : _ou.
. ,
CC _, afge_ ou_ - abou$ the time we - as we go LOS,

_e_ll g{ve yOu_back _he _P2E, have:
r_d_ou--Ohodla
a full_30 r_inutes on it.
SPT Thank you, C_ip" sounds good.

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CC Okay, and for Bill, I guess our telemetry indica-

tion down here - apparently we got a bilevel that
takes a little while to bleed down, and I guess
we were in error on that.
PLT Yes, I noticed when I was doing the camera checkout,

oh, about 45 minutes ago, that - that it had been
left ON.
CC Roger.
CC And, SPT, Houston. Ed, we'd like you to leave 55

in OPTICAL REFERENCE tonight.
CC And, Ed, we can take care of the GRATING, so you

don't have to mess with that.
SPT I got it, Crip.
CC Roger. Thank you, Ed. And is this a convenient

place to - to give the frame count or do you want
to try and do that later?
SPT No, let's do it now: 1571, 3411, 138, 294 ....

3345.
CC Ed, l'm sorry, we missed 52 in the handover there.

Would you say that one again, please?
SPT Okay, I believe you said 52. That 3558; and 56

is 33_5. Excuse me that's 54.
CC Roger. Yes, we got that. Very good. One other

item, Ed, I guess I'ii just mention it here because
the upcoming Vanguard is going to be your med
conference. And it's ri - backed right up against
the maneuver out - out of this 201 maneuver. Now
we put it on your details as 01:23. And normally
we allow you only - only 3 minutes, I guess. And
it's back up pretty tight. I Just wanted to give
you a little reminder of it.
SPT That's all right, Crip. I saw it on the maneuver

pad and I'ii get it.
CC Okay, thank you.

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CC CDR, Houston, know you getting ready to get busy

here, but we would llke to reconfirm your water
gun reading that you read down. We copied 8641,
which showed about 5000 milliliters consumed about
double what you've normally been doing and we Just
wanted to verify that. was correct. If you - -
PLT No, stand by, Crip.
CC If you're too busy, we can get from you later.
PLT 8641.
CC Okay.
PLT That's not right either. Stand by, Crip.
PLT Okay, crip, 8461 looks like the only logical number
we can come - come out with using those digits.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
PLT Roger.
012 O1 06 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute from LOS.

Next station contact is ll minutes over the Vanguard
at Ol:18, and that's the medical conference for
this evening. It's so happens we aren't going
to be able to get hold of you until Goldstone
at 02:33 again. So we're not planning on giving
you a call. If you need us, you can go ahead
and give us a lO,000, do not enter the DAS. And
for Ed, the VTR's all dumped, cleaned off, rewound,
belongs to you for 30 full minutes, if you want -
need it.
CC Night, guys.
PLT Night, Crip.
sPT Night, Crip, and crimson crew.
013 O1 07 20 CDR Good night, you guys.
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013 ii 24 47 CC (Music: "Light My Fire" by Lettermen)
013 ii 27 50 CC Good morning, Skylab. This is Houston through

Canary and Madrid. We'll have a data/voice tape
recorder dump coming up when we hit Madrid at
11:27. And how are you all this morning?
CDR Morning, Bruce. Our fires are lit.
CC Very good.
013 ll 37 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

at 12:05. Out.

Honeysuckle Creek for lh minutes. And if you'd
like, I can read the news up, if it won't interrupt
things. Over.
CDR Press on, Bruce.
CC Okay.
CC Say, we're having some long line problems here.

Stand by.
013 12 06 ll CC Skylab, this is Houston. How are you reading

me now?
PLT Reading you okay, now. You were cutting out and
breaking up there about 30 seconds ago.
CC Oh. Roger.
013 12 06 23 CC Houston: A crowd of 72,000 is expected at Rice

Stadium today for Super Bowl VIII under slate
gra - slate gray clouds and temperatures in the
50's. Most odds makers, including Jimmy the
Greek, have the Miami Dolphins a 6-point favorite
to defeat the Vikings. However, Dolphin coach
Don Shula insists that "odds don't mean a damn
thing." All-Pro receiver, Paul Warfield, pulled
a hamstring muscle in practice this last Wednesday.
However, he is expected to he in his usual starting
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role for the Dolphins. As a prime sidetrip for

Super Bowl '7h visitors, an estimated 15,000 people
toured the Johnson Space Center yesterday. This
constitutes one of the largest crowds in the
center's history and most of them came through
the viewing room here at the MOCR. Washington:
President Nixon, ending an 18-day working vaca-
tion in California, flew back toward Washington
Saturday night aboard a Government Jet Star.
The President had come to California on a regularly
scheduled commercial flight, but Press Secretary
Gerald L. Warren said a Government plane was being
used for the return trip for security reasons.
"It was felt," Warren continued, "that because
of the wide anticipation he was going back
commerically, the element of surprise was gone
and his security people felt it was best he go
back by Government plane." The President took
off from ps]m Springs airport, about a 15-minute
drive from the estate of Ambassador Walter
Annenberg, where he had relaxed since Wednesday.
Accompanying Nixon on the return trip were
Mrs. Nixon; daughter, Tricia; friend, C. G. (Bebe)
Rebozo; a military aide; his doctor; and two
secret Service agents. "A special communications
package had been installed in the Jet beforehand,"
Warren said. The craft was normally based in
Washington but had recently been flown to Edwards
Air Force Base in the California desert. Warren
said Nixon decided to return Saturday night so he
could get some rest tomorrow and watch the Super
Bowl game and be at work on Monday.
013 12 08 18 CC A motorist who insisted on buying more thant the

station's limit of $3 worth of gasoline was shot
and killed Saturday by a service station attendant,
police said. Booked on a murder charge was
Charles Russ, 31. Police said Russ told them
his boss had ordered him to conserve gas by
limiting sales to $3.00 per customer. A heated
argument broke out when he told Earl Richardson,
21, that the station would only sell him the
limit. Police say - said that Russ told them
Richardson appeared to reach under his coat for
a weapon, so he pulled his own pistol and fired.
Coroner Dr. Carl Rabin said Richardson was shot
in the back and died Almost i_nediately.
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CC "Henry A. Kissinger ordered a tap on the telephone

of former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird in
1971 in an effort to determine the source of
leaks from secret diplomatic dealings ," the
Chica_o Sun-Times said Saturday. The newspaper
said that a wave of mutual spying and suspicion
between the White House and the Pentagon led to
the tap. He quoted a former White House official
as saying Kissinger had ordered the tap of Laird's
phone to determine whether his secret diplomatic
dealings were being leaked to the Pentagon.
Kissinger was national security adviser at the
time and involved in the negotiation of the
Vietnam settlement. The newspaper quoted another
equally well-placed White House official as saying
that a wireless microphone was found some time
earlier in the base of a lamp in the White House
office of Wayne Smith, a Kissinger staff assis-
tant for program analysis. "Smith's office was
supposedly the site for technical planning for
Kissinger's negotiations on the Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks and on Vietnam," The Sun-Times
_ said.
013 12 l0 O0 CC Port Neches, Texas" A raging fire in an oil tank

farm was contained Saturday, authorities said.
The fire had engulfed six of the huge containers
Friday, but by Saturday afternoon a Mobil Oil
Company spokesman reported that four tanks have
burned out, a fifth is just smoldering and a
sixth is still afire. Lightning set one of the
crude oil tanks afire in the early morning hours
Friday. The blaze spread to five other tanks
and firemen moved in huge bulldozers to build
dikes to keep flowing oil from the burning rup-
tured tanks from spreading out still further.
Then they let them burn themselves out.
CC Grapevine: An American Airlines flight, flight

number 341 from New York is scheduled to land at
the world's biggest airport Sunday, nearly
3 months late. The Dallas-Forth Worth regional
airport was to have opened last October, but the
opening was delayed because of unfinished facil-
ities and there is still much work to be done.
Flight 341 is due to touch down at 12:07 p.m.,
the first scheduled airliner to land at the
17,500-acre complex. Billingham,Washington:
Fair Haven College is closing the generation gap.
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A federally funded experimental program known as

"The Bridge" is bringing people of all ages to-
gether for a multigenerational living and learning
in a college environment. Eight senior citizens
ranging in age from 60 to 80 have moved into the
college dormitory. Another 21 are to arrive this
month and a day care center has been set up for
preschoolers.
013 12 ii 27 CC Telavive: Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger,

began the crucial phase of his Middle East mission
and talks with Israli leaders after meeting with
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Aswan. A U.S.
official said Kissinger left Aswan with fresh hope
for working out a troop disengagement agreement,
but was well aware the critical part of the talks
now comes from the reactions of Israel and Egypt,
the proposal Kissinger will be carrying between
the two countries. Tunis, Tunisia: President
No_mmar Khadafy of Libya and Tunisian PResident
Habib Bourguiba have announced their countries
will be united into one new country, called the
Arab Islamic Republic. The fiery Libyan - and
moderate Tunisian said they were merging in re-
sponse to the appeal for the liberation of occupied
Arab/Islamic territorles. The referendum to ap-
prove the merger was set for January 18. The new
country is to have one constitution, one president,
and one government. United Nations, New York:
Secretary General Kirk Waldhein describes the
Suez ceasefire line as unstable and potentially
explosive, and has announced the U.N. Middle East
force will be increased to some 7000 men. In a
report to the Security Council he said U.N. peace-
keeping forces are hampered by the closeness of
the Israeli and Egyptian armies, the frequent
firing incidents, fortifications, and mine fields.
He said success in the Geneva disarmament -
disengagement talks would go far to correct the
problem. Beirut : Libya intends to boost the
posted price of its oil to $20 or $21 a barrel,
Oil Minister ... said in a Libyan news agency
broadcast. Libya's present price of $18.50 a
barrel became effective only on January i. The
posted price is the one on which royalties and
fees are charged.
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CC Cape Town, South Africa: The Rosencovity [?]

sextuplits have survived their first 1-1/2 days
and are doing well, a hospital report said. The
three boys and three girls born to Suzanne and
Colin Rosencovity [?] still require intensive
observation and care, but have shown no complica-
tions. Amsterdam: The Netherlands began gas
rationing Saturday to conserve its fuel supplies
even though Premier ... said the oil supply in
January was slightly improved over December.
Washington: The key administrator of Naval oil
reserves has resigned rather then accept further
encroaehments from oil companies upon Government-
owned oil fields, Congressional and Pentagon
sources said. Lieutenant Commander Kirby Grant,
Deputy Director of Naval Petroleum and 0il Shale
Reserves, resigned Friday. Neither Grant nor the
Pentagon had any comment. One story said Grant
is known to believe the oil companies manufactured
the fuel crisis in part as a means of obtaining
access to rich Naval oil reserves.
013 12 14 22 CC Washington again: The FBI says a new report that

Soviet visitors, black extremists and the new
left movement present a continuing threat to the
nation's internal security. It said the number
of Soviet block personnel residing in the United
States totals 2686, a 44-percent increase in the
last 5 years. The FBI also disclosed that it's
purged its thousands of files obsolete fingerprint
records, including those of some 9000 individuals
arrested during the 1971 May Day demonstration
here.
CC Washington: United States and Cuba appear to be

making a tentative effort to bridge the ideologi-
cal gap between them. The consensus among diplo-
mats here is the worst days of the bilateral enmity
are over. There's been a perceptible lessening
in the hostility of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
Castro toward the United States.
013 12 15 I0 CC Special prose - Watergate prosecutor, Leon Jaworski,

told newsmen that it conceivably could happen
that he would need President Nixon's testimony in
some of the criminal cases being developed by
the prosecutors. He said it might become necessary
to ask Nis - Nixon to explain matters on presi-
dential tapes. Among other points Jaworski made,
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he said his staff is studying the legal and con-

stitutional questions of whether an incumbent
president can be indicted. Washington again:
Representative Thomas P. 0'Nell, Democrat/Massa-
chusetts House Democratic leader, says Congress
will act early this year on legislation to limit
excess profits generated by soaring prices on
petroleum products. 0'Nell said in a statement
there may also be legislation lowering the 22-percent
depletion allowance, which oil companies may now
take on the value of their production.
013 12 16 03 CC Indian Bluffs Isle, Florida: Leans Brownell [?]

25, was in serious condition Saturday after being
wounded by a pet leopard she was trying to feed.
Physicians at Tarpon Springs General Hospital per-
formed an emergency tracheotomy to open 8/i air
passage through her throat. Ralph McDaniel, a
neighbor, told police he heard Mrs. Brownell
screaming, saw what was happening, and ran to her
with a gun. "The cat was still chewing on her
throat so I had to shoot", he said. Boston: "I
thought it was a gift," Gall Craddle [?] told the
judge. "I thought it might be somebody I knew."
She was talking about the extra $31,152.40 matured -
mysteriously credited to her savings account one
day. She spent $13,976. The money was mistakenly
entered into her account from that of another de-
positor. Suffix Superior Court Judge James P. Lynch
found Mrs. Craddle guilty of larceny on Friday and
said he will probably impose a probationary term
when he sentenced her January 29, if she cooperates
with the district attorney in explaining how she
spent it.
013 12 17 06 CC And that's about the news for this morning. Got
a couple of quick items for you concerned with the
mission, if anybody's available.
013 12 17 13 PLT We're read - ready and listening.
CC Okay, Bill. You're first up. On your limb volume

measurements on - on mission day 12, yesterday,
day of the year 12, we got all the data except for
the inspired chest circumference. The dump tape -
we could read it through the neck and Adam's apple
when you got down to chest inspired, it was some-
thing point 2, but we couldn't copy. If you've got
that written down somewhere we'd like you to send
it again. Over.
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PLT Will do, as soon as I can get over there and get
it. Go ahead, next item.
CC Okay. For your S183 operation, we'd like to add

S183 film installation at 22:52 on your details
following S183 PR-3 today.
PLT Roger.
CC And the ATM on-station time should be 23:07

following that.
PLT Roger. Have that.
CC And we - -
PLT 98.2.
CC 98.2?
013 12 18 41 CC Okay, thank you. And we got about 40 seconds to

LOS here. Next station contact in 35 minutes.
Make that 36 minutes through Merritt Island at
12:54, and I've got some changes to the CDR's
EREP C&D pad which we can pass up at that time.
He's subject then. We'll have to catch him later.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Hey, that was a real good news rtun-
down. Thank you very much.
CC Thank you. I guess all that training in doing

tracheotomies and things like that gets used
occasionally.
PLT Well, this is an MII0 day so that was sort of an

appropriate subject. Count Dracula Gibson is
doing his thing this morning.
013 12 19 31 CC Right.
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StOfLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
013 12 54 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

for 3 minutes. Out.

station contact in i0 minutes through Madrid
at 13:06. Out.
013 13 07 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 - 8-1/2 min-

utes. Good morning from the bronze boys.
CDR Good morning, bronze boys.
SPT Good morning, Hank and boys.
CC Good morning.

see you again at Carnarvon at 40, 25-1/2 minutes
from now. And we're scheduled to dump the voice
recorder there.
013 13 40 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 15 minutes. And we'll be dumping a recorder
here at Carnarvon.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Ed, while l've got you, have a little comment on

your pass coming up here at i4:06, if you want to
get your schedule out.
SPT Ready to copy.
013 13 41 16 CC Okay. P-80 is no longer visible, so at the

14:06 pass you're getting ready to run here, at
22 minutes TIME REMAINING, we'd like to change
the pointing to active region 20. And we want to
omit the 82B from the building block 28 unless
some bright points are visible. If you do see
some bright points, we want you to run the 82B WAVE,
SHORT with the exposure TIMES i/4. And if you
want to look over at the next pass at 20:20, we
want to do the same thing at 44 and 24 MINUTES
REMAINING.
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SPT Okay, Hank, I got that. Omit 82B unless I see

some bright points over in active region 20.
WAVELENGTH - -
CC And that - -
SPT - - TIMES llh.
CC Right. And the - and the CDR, I think, will be

running that 20:20 pass, and the - it's obvious,
but the roll is no longer critical then.
SPT Thank you.

see you again at Texas at 26, 31 minutes.
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013 14 26 06 CC Skylah, Houston through Texas to Bermuda for

15 minutes, and we plan to dump the voice recorder
here in a few minutes at MILA.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, CDR, for info. We have a few corrections

to your C&D pad for the upcoming EREP, and we
can plan on getting those at Madrid if you like.
013 14 26 44 CDR Okay, that'll be fine.
013 14 27 44 SPT Morning, Hank. Let me tell you what the Sun
looks like from up here.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, starting over on the west limb, we're

looking at the active region 14, pretty much
unchanged in XUV MONITOR from yesterday. Active
region 15 also pretty much unchanged, perhaps
not quite as intense. Active region 18, only a
following plage remains, the leader plage has
completely disappeared in the XUV. Active re-
gion 16 appears to be about the same - same shape,
same intensity. 17 and 20, both are relatively
bright, just rotating on a disk a little bit
more. Their general form is stear - still appears
to be the same, although we don't have anywhere
near the elongation we did yesterday in looking
at it. There is a couple bright spots, if you
will, or small plage north of the Equator, just
north of active region 17 and 20; Just a couple
very small ones, not very intense, but still
noticeable above the background. WHITE LIGHT
CORONAGRAPH, we still see a very thin narrow
spike at around 270, of which I mentioned last
night. The bright knot which was - of intensity
which was in there, has diminished and is barely
discernible. And we've not seen it unless you
really look for it.
013 14 29 20 SPT The two streamers which we had yesterday at

230 and 240 or 250, I believe, we called out
yesterday. They are both there, still parallel,
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broadened a bit, but they still go out to about

the same extent. In general, the - the corona
has not changed a great deal since I looked at
it - well, at 02, it was at 02:15 last night.
The east limb is also - excuse me, the west limb
is also pretty much unchanged. There is a very
faint helmet streamer with some bright intensity
with parallel sides extending outward surround-
ing it and no other real significant changes.
On the H-ALPHA, however, at active region 20
there is a very bright plage which extends up-
ward above the limb and looks to me like either
surging material or a - well, I'm really not
quite too sure. I want to go out and take another
look at it. I figure that's where we'll be doing
the work on the next building block. I'll give
you more details once I get out there and look
at it in H-alpha 1 again and start working it.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
013 14 31 21 CC And, Ed, we're ready any time for XUV downlink.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the laser will be

tracking, and it's - I don't know whether you'll
get a chance to look or not, but if you do,
after you report acquisition, they're going to
slew the beam ahead and behind the spacecraft
and evaluate that.
PLT Okay, Hank, we're standing by.
013 14 35 06 PLT No Joy on the laser.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Hank, there looks to be under a cirrus deck at

least from my angle. They may want to boost
the power.
CC Okay. They're going to flash it.
CC Okay, they're up at max power now, Bill.

l0 watts and flashing.
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PLT Looks like the clouds have spoiled it.
013 14 36 18 CC Yes, they reported it was a little bit hazy up

there this morning.

see you at Madrid at 45, and we'll be ready with
an update to the C&D pad there. It's about
4-1/2 minutes from now.
013 14 40 33 PLT Roger, Hank.
013 14 45 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 minutes.
CC And, Ed, just got a report in from NOAA. The

bright plage you reported near active region 20
has been designated the new active region 21.
And the material that we saw at 1346 ejected
out to about 0.1 solar radii, and there were no
reported X-rays associated with that.
013 14 45 45 SPT Okay, Hank, that's what we're working on right

now, and it does appearlike there'sstill a -
a surge in progress. I see above the limb, about
40 are seconds, a very faint amount of material
that was around 30 arc seconds when we started,
a little bit stronger. So it's moving outward.
We're catching it with 55 in the X - in 56. 82B
got a WAVELENGTH, SHORT, TIMES 1/4 right at the
most intense point, which was around 16,000 in
oxygen VI.
CC Roger; we copy.
013 14 46 56 CDR Hank, I'm ready to copy those C&D checklist

changes.
CC Okay, CDR, we just did a final weather check

here, and I guess it's not going to be necessary.
The - Based on the weather being lousy for the
whole track, we're going to scrub EREP for to-
day_ it just isn't worth it. And right now,
we're looking at some shopping it - list items
you might be able to pick up during that period.
And we'll get right back with you as soon as we
can have something to suggest to you.
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CDR Okay, thanks. Hank, you might include handheld

photos in that shopping list if there's any spots
where we might get them.
013 14 47 47 CC Okay, you're sure welcome to shoot any of the

ones that's on the optional list you have there.
013 14 49 19 CC SPT, Houston. In regard to the ATM, if you're

willing, we'd like to continue observations on
active region 21, and as you're doing now, using
the shopping list for the items that are listed
in the SAP.
SPT Good idea, Hank. You beat me to it by 15 seconds.

Thank you.
013 14 50 44 CC CDR, Houston. One thing you might consider now,

just finishing up the M171, is go ahead and get
your PT out of the way before eating.
CDR You read my mind, Hank. I was Just getting ready

to call you and suggest the same thing.
013 14 51 32 SPT Hank, looks like there's a relatively small

amount of brightening over active region 16 right
now, right along the plage.
CC Roger; we copy.
SPT 16 and 20 were - were not of - well, of the same

magnitude in the XUVmonitor. Before, 20 was
the only one that could be seen. Now, both of
them are up there about the same intensity.
013 14 52 08 CC Roger; we copy. And we're about 1 minute from

LOS. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 20.
013 15 21 31 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 3-1/2 minutes.

And, Skylab, if somebody's available, we need to
get the MPC ROLL to INHIBIT.
013 15 22 01 SPT Got it, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you. And if you'd listen UR, we

got a few suggestions for you. The SPT, of
course, will run that pass until - 15:19 to 17:00
on the ATM. And the CDR, we suggest that when
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he finishes his PT there, about 16:00 or so,

might do TV-I03, getting the rest of his hard-
ware built there. No TV will be available or
VTR, but he can do the prep of it that doesn't
require the TV. And then, at approximately
17:00, he could pick up the ATM pass while the
SPT eats and then hand over to him. And the CDR
could eat at 18:00, and at 19:00 will have to be
open. For the PLT, looks like we don't have
anything for him; Just that period will have to
all be open for him, and maybe he could pick up
some of the optional handhelds.
PLT I've got a bunch of T002 stuff I can do, Hank.
013 15 23 18 CC Okay, Bill, and we're - -
PLT What I'm doing right now.
CC Okay. And we're also looking at the possibility

of maybe a science demo, but we're not sure yet
PLT Okay, I have that 107 I could also work on.
CC We don't have any VTR available right now. That's

one of our problems.
PLT Okay. I'll practice in - in between times, but

give me anything you want me to do, Hank. Stand-
ing by here.
CC Okay. We - We're going to - we may get some

VTR later. I think Bob explained to you last
night the problem we got with our VTR dump.
013 15 24 13 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you

again at Honeysuckle at 31; that's about 7 minutes.
PLT Hank, have you been trying to take the recorder?
CC Let me explain here. I was just getting ready

to come to you here Just before we went LOS.
We're having to - We redesignated recorders.
We've got to dump EXPERIMENT RECORDER 2. And
after we redesignate here, you may get that
blinking light problem again.
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PLT Okay. Fine; thank you.
013 15 25 08 CC You - you will have voice record capability, but

the light may not function as it should.
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013 15 31 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for just about

a minute through Honeysuckle. Our next station
is Texas at 16:01, 29-1/2 minutes from now.
013 16 01 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you, Texas through

Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Bill, if there's a - a spare vial from M133, one

suggestion we have for you might be TV-II6 for
the next hour.
PLT I'll take a look at it.
SPT We don't have a spare one yet, Hank.
CC Okay; we copy. You might forgetthat; all -

that we have are suggestions.
PLT Okay; I'll press on, and I can get some more
T002-4.
CC Okay.
SPT Hank, on the last orbit, I was away from one of

the speaker boxes and you were talking ATM. I'm
not sure, did they suggest anything for the - for
this upcoming orbit? Right now I'm in a flare
wait mode with 56 in the AUTO, LONG; 55 getting
truncated MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs; 56 is in their
flare wait mode; and 82B has got - has gotten a
WAVELENGTH, SHORT, TIMES 1/4. And now we're just
waiting on that one also. We're looking at a
bright region right at the limb. I believe it's
your active region 21, we've called it this
morning. And the oxygen VI count is going between
10,000 and 24,000, a state of change by 5000 or
so within a matter of a minute. So it looks as
though it's sitting there brewing, ready to go.
And so I'm Just going to try and stay on top of
it, unless the other folks want something else
done.
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013 16 03 37 CC Okay. We're seeing an increase in the X-REA,

Bill - or Ed.
SPT Hank, that doesn't correlate with anything up

here. There's no brightening in the XUV MONITOR,
H-ALPHA, and the oxygen VI count's now down to
9000.
CC Okay ; we copy.
SPT PMEC is up but the IMAGE INTENSITY COUNT is down

around 1 or 2. PMEC is up to 400.
CC Okay, Ed. We're -we're still seeing an increase

in the X-REA; it's slowly creeping up there and
we suspect something's starting to happen.
013 16 05 40 SPT Okay, Hank. We're just going to take another

SINGLE, 64 with S054, giving them once - that
frame mode before this orbit, just for reference
data. And we're doing it again, and if something
else starts to happen, we're going into the
FLARE MODE. And 82B has got another WAVELENGTH,
SHORT, TIMES 1/h going.
CC Okay ; we copy.
SPT Hank, are the people in the backroom able to

read the oxygen VI count when we're real time
here or essentially, when all the detectors are
putting out?
CC Our sample rate's real low on that, once every

15 seconds, Ed, so we'd be awful lucky if we saw
anything.
SPT Okay. But as long as you can get come reading,

then it's not necessary for me to get to you
down to the ground except for what's been happen-
ing while you were LOS.
CC Yes, that's right, Ed.
013 16 07 h2 CC SPT, Houston. NOAA reports that there's prob-

ably - probable surging on the limb and it's -
it appears that AR-16 is brightening up a little.
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SPT Okay, Hank. They're pretty far removed from one

another. I see 16 in the XUV MONITOR. It's
about the same intensity as 21.
SPT The H-ALPHA, the hottest thing on the limb still

looks to be about where I am, and I cannot see
any surging material.
CC Ed, you said something earlier about not copying

the co_nents on th@ ATM. What is it you didn't
copy?
SPT Hank, I didn't copy what I didn't copy, so I

can't tell you (laugh). I heard you mentioning
ATM and something about the next pass. I knew
we had - we had t_.]ked about taking it, but I
did not recall - not hear any of your other com-
ments. I was away from the speaker box and
could not hear your comments at the time.
013 16 i0 21 CC Okay. Well, I - I think what you're referring

to here is I was commenting that the - that
you'd go ahead and - and take this pass that
you're on right now. And then at 16:00 - 17:00,
that the CDR would relieve you. He'd take that
pass which actually starts about 17:12. And
what we'd like for him to do there is a shopping
list item 12 on P-76. And we have a preference
there for building block 28 and the S055 in
option B. And the comment in relation to you
was that you could go ahead and eat after you
get off this pass, and he could hand over to
you at the console to finish that pass off, and
he could eat. That was the co_nent I think you
were referring to.
SPT Oh, okay. Yes, I got that, Hank. The specifics,

though, on what they wanted Jerry to pick up on
the next orbit, where - where is that spelled
out ?
CC Okay, we don't have - didn't have that orbit

scheduled, and what we'd like to do is a shopping
list item 12 on P-76. And we have a preference
for building block 28 and S055 in option B.
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013 16 ii 47 SPT Okay, I've got that. Ths_ik you.
CC Yesterday, I think, Bill said something to you

about not eating on the console. We've got that
under discussion and as far as we're concerned
if you'd - if you'd rather do that and grab a
snack up there, that's fine with us.
CC We're going to try and get a final resolution

on that thing sometime today. It's under dis-
cussion.
013 16 14 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got some good news and

bad news. The bad news is that on the TV dump,
we got down TV-101, we didn't see any modulation.
So apparently that 15 minutes or so was totally
lost. The good news is that now makes 20 minutes
of VTR available to you. We're saving out
i0 minutes for TV-69 later. You might check the
upstream input station.
CDR Thank you, Hank. That was at - 133 was left out.
CC Okay. And - And - And - it's your option on

how you want to utilize that 20 minutes of VTR.
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're i minute from LOS.

Madrid will be coming up at 22.
SPT Hank, could you have the folks dig back and tell
me what the last sequence on TV-IOI is that you
received.
013 16 17 39 CC Okay. Will do, Ed.
013 16 22 30 CC SPT, I think you're already on it, but we've

got a type 3 RADIO BURST and AR 20 is brightening.
SPT Roger, Hank. 14:20 we got on it. I saw the

brightening in the Xtr_ monitor. Right now it's
not too hot in oxygen VI and it looks as though
it,s just leveling off right now in XUV monitor.
I'll keep my eye on it. We've got the experi-
ments going in there so we're at FLARE mode
except for 82A. And I gave 82A a 20-second
exposure and 82B a WAVELENGTH, SHORT, TIFF2 1/4.
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If it picks up again, I'll C,o into the FLARE

MODE on those instruments.
CC Okay.
CC SPT. Did you omit S0567
SPT Negative, Hank. They're going in AUTO, SHORT.
CC We need a STOP and START on S056, Ed. We don't

see it running.
SPT How's that look to you, Hank?
CC Okay, we see operation now, Ed.
SPT Hank, was that still operating in AUT0, LONG or

was it not operating at all?
013 16 25 i0 CC Ed, when we - when we saw it there, it look -

appeared to us that we had the normal closeout
condition and that S056 was not operating.
SPT Okay, Hank. I had an OPERATE light up here, I'm

wondering if there's conditions where I could get
an OPERATE light and not have it running at all.
CC Okay. There's a possibility there, Ed, that we -

you were - you were in AUT0, LONG and that we were
in the wait period between exposures when we had
AOS then.
SPT Hank, that point has died away in the XUV monitor.
However, the oxygen VI count is up around 36,000.
CC We copy, Ed.
013 16 27 16 CC And, Ed, in answer to your question on TV-101, if

you can listen right now, the last scene we got
on that was the static extension of 2 inch - of
the 2-inch zone and with no rotation.
SPT Okay, Hank. That goes back a little ways. Thank

yoll.
SPT Hank, looks like active region 20 is developing

a filament ; fairly nice, relatively strong one
compared to what it was before.
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CC Roger.

see you again at Tananarive at 44; and that's
about 14 minutes from now.
01B 16 44 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston; one thing we neglected to tell you

was we want to scrub the EREP tape you have sched-
uled about 18:00. And if it's required, we'll do
it in the morning.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Honeysuckle at 09, 18min-
utes from now.
013 16 50 29 CDR Roger.
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Time: 013:17:00 to 013:18:30
Pa_e ] of 6/3717
013 17 08 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Honeysuckle for

2 minutes.
CDE Hello, Hank.
013 17 l0 05 CC CDR, Houston. Are you on the console?
CDH That's affirmative.
CC Okay, Jerry, what we'd like to do is cancel the

P-76 ops that - that we told you about earlier
We - we see a dark surge in active region 20.
We'd like for you to go back to active region 20
sad 21 and - and go into the flare mate - wait mode,
but do the listed S052 ops at the end.
CDR Okay, I'm sitting Sun centered now waiting for

a ESR. Do you want a building block 32, shopping
list i, before I got to the AR-20?
013 17 l0 53 CC Okay, we'll take that. And we're just about LOS.
We'll see you again at Goldstone at 37, and we
have a recorder dump scheduled there.
CDR Okay.
013 17 ii 06 CC And that's also ATM conference.
013 17 36 57 CC Skylah, Houston. We're with you through Goldstone

for 11-1/2 minutes 8_nd we've got resolution, I
think, on the eat-at-the-console flap. We'd like
to apologize for all this controversy over that
thing. You're perfectly clear to eat at the con-
sole whenever you so wish. Ands it's time for
the ATM conference, so here's Bill.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Hello, Bill.
MCC Oh, hello, Ed. What's your configuration right

now, Ed? Are you at the panel or is Jerry?
SPT We both are.

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MCC Okay. Well, let me talk to one of you and not

interrupt the other one. It's very important
here. I don't want to interrupt the operations
of the panel so I won't say much and we'll pick
up most of it tomorrow.
013 17 37 44 SPT Okay. Well, why don't you go ahead. Jerry's got
his eye glued to the XUV MONITOR and we're periodi-
cally watching oxygen VI and H-ALPHA - H-ALPHA, so
we're keeping an eye on it. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, fine. A couple of words here on the Sun I

Just got from Joe Hirman: We're carring an
active region 21, which is right now just beyond
the limb. We're - we have it with a flare prob-
ability of 400. When you reported earlier plage
over active region 20, that looked llke it extended
beyond the ]_mb. We feel that that's the hot,
dense core of active region 21 which_ apparently,
is a new region not in an old field area that is
just beyond active region 20 and wanted to tell
you that.
SPT Right. That's what I realized when I - once I

got a quick look at the Sun and had a chance to -
to get over there and look at the region. And
you'll find that's the way it is - discussion went
on the tapes. We - we were calling it 21 this
morning, and that's where we're pointed right now.
013 17 38 42 MCC Okay, good. A couple of quickies here on today's

plan. On Bill 's orbit, on his J0P 27, building
block 19, we've added some 82B exposures, which
I think is fairly clear. There's no 82B in that
J0P - in that building block in general and they've
just added two sequences in there. But I don't
think there can be any question about that. And
then I've got one note on your last orbit today
with the white light coronagraph null pointing
where we do a BB2, a roll and another BB2. The -
For the first thing, the part about the roll at
13 MINUTES TIME R]_AINING is wrong. It says
ROLL 0000 (roll about the llne of sight), that
should be roll about Sun center. I think if you
think about that, that'll be obvious that that's
what we want to do there. We've been sending you
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that message format and we will for a couple of

days here. You might think about whether that
particular format is good or not. And our sequences
for today is to go to the null pointing, do a BB2,
ROLL 90 degrees, about the FINE SUN SENSOR, Sun
centered, which is in essence the 52 line of sight,
do another BB52 - another BB2 and then back out
of our special pointing here. And, in the backing
out, when you go to STANDBY and then to ON, pause
for a few seconds in between. It - it's not
obvious that the logic is always seeing that
standby and that's getting us into some funny con-
figurations. And, one last thing on here that
I'm sure you're aware of; the potential problems
on not backing out of there properly. When we
do inhibit that, we inhibit the 20 are second
discriminator the 5 arc minute discriminator and
the other sneakie is we apparently disable the
computer signal from closing the door so that if
you should run into sunset there the computer will
not close the door.
013 17 40 38 SPT Okay, Bill, thank you. I didn't realize that last
one.
MCC Okay. And one other thing here on the BB24 with
S056 ops. I was talking with Jim Milligan earlier,
and apparently when you initiated the BB2h before,
you took his exposure switch to SHORT, but you
also have to hit a STOP and START in order to
reinitialize the logic and get the logic to see
that short.
SPT Okay. I had thought that 's what I 'd done, but
apparently I didn't go down on the switch and -
Just near f_r enough or down at s/l, and I got
the START but without the STOP. I 'ii make sure
that won't happen again.
_4CC Okay, fine. One last thought here from me, and
that is that tomorrow you'll find on the plan
that you do have the first orbit of the day, as
you had suggested earlier, which enables us to
get another ATM observing orbit in. We've got
a total of seven orbits for the day. You have
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four of them. If EREP is NO GO we have eight

and you have five of them. And, when you look at
it, you'll see that's Just the best that ATM could
do on that day because it's every available time.
So we are responding to your comments earlier and
anytime you have any comments on our planning and
so on Just let us know.
013 17 hl 52 SPT I sure appreciate that, Bill. I think it's going

to give us a greater opportunity to get the count
flare data which we've all been looking for.
MCC Okay, fine. And, I'll Just hold off these other
points I have here because they're not important
right now. I'd rather see you on the panel.
SPT Bill, you could really go ahead. We got two of

us up here and we're both - we're both looking at
the same thing, and we don't have any instruments
to operate. We're Just watching two or three
displays wh -while you're talking. So why don't
you Just go ahead and get them over with.
013 17 h2 26 MCC Okay. Really they amount to nothing. The first

is that we have in preparation right now, a film-
use message to complement the message that we sent
you, that will talk about all the experiments.
And we'll send that up as soon as we get that
churned out. On the S055 shopping list BOA ques-
tions that you asked the other day, the 55 will be
unabe to actually look at the line profiles in
great detail until they get a extensive computer
analysis. However, where you point it and how you
set it up looks good to us. And also in relation
to that, I gave you some bum poop when you asked
the question about the multiple lines. Those
multiple lines are all on DE ECTOR 1. However,
they're starting 14 steps early and carrying on
past the line. Part of that intent is to resolve
those lines individually. So there should be no
necessity there to run the other detectors.
SPT Okay, very good. The other detectors don't have

the wavelength aperture to really resolve it
anyways. Thank you for clarifying it.
MCC Okay. I'm sorry for giving you that wrong informa-
tion there, and that's a11 I have for today, really.
Unless you've got anything else, we'll - we can
sign off here.
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SPT No, I don't, Bill. I think what we're doing right

now is probably the best thing we could be doing.
MCC Looks that way to us too.
013 17 47 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. We'll

be back with you in 2 minutes at Bermuda.
013 17 49 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 5-1/2 minutes.
013 17 52 27 SPT Good surging out of active region 21, and 55 is

going to be picking it up. But so far, no brigh-
tening in XUV.
CC We copy, Ed.

see you again at Canaries in 5-1/2 minutes. That's
coming up at - on the hour.
013 17 54 44 SPT See you later, Hank.
013 18 04 07 SPT Hank, it sure looks like active region 21 is going

to be doing something in the near future. It's
been in oxygen VI, going between 12,000 and
27,000. It's just kind of going back and forth
with maybe 5-minute intervals or so. That's
roughly the time frame I've been looking at.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed. We hope we get something

here.
SPT It 'ii probably come at DOOR, CLOSE.
013 18 07 06 SPT Hank, there's very little change in the WHITE

LIGHT CORONAGRAPH. The streamer at 250, if any-
thing, it looks a little narrower than it was
before, relative to the streamer at 230.
CC We copy.
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see you again at Tananarive at 20, 12 minutes from
now.
013 18 21 45 CC Skylah, Houston through Tananarive for 5-1/2 minutes.
013 18 25 04 SPT Say, Hank, what time is kickoff?
CC O2i30.
SPT Thank you. Keep us posted.
CC Oh, we'll keep you posted. We - the game ought

to be starting a little over an hour from now.

see you again at Honeysuckle at 4h.
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l'a_e ] or 5/3723
013 18 44 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
013 18 44 41 SPT Hello, Hank.

see you again at 19:04 at Hawaii, ii minutes from
now.
013 19 04 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9-1-2 minutes.
013 19 04 29 SPT Hello, Hank.
SPT Hank, it looks like each one of the active regions

is having its turn at it. On the way - coming over
to 21, I took a lot at active region 16 and I just
happened to see a small, bright point in there,
and I got up to about 27,000 in oxygen VI. And
then 30 seconds later was right back down to 6000.
That was in the bright north/south plage directly
east of the sunspot in that active region. Another
thing of interest, which I didn't know I could see
up here, was plage in the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY close
to the limb. The linear plage which runs
north/south again - which is, in this case, ii0 arc
seconds east of the east sunspot in active
region 20 - I was able to see that plage in the
WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY just southeast of 21. It
sticks right out of the limb darkening.
013 19 05 57 CC That sounds pretty interesting. Didn't know you

could do that.
SPT I didn't either, not with the white light display

we have. It worked out real well.
CC Ed, we need the DAS.
013 19 06 37 SPT You have it.
CC Okay. We're going to give it a little nu Z update.
013 19 07 55 CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours.
_ SPT Thankyou.
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013 19 12 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about a minute and

20 seconds to LOS, and then we'll be back with
you at Goldstone at 16. We do have a question in
regard to tomorrow's Flight Plan. We have back-to-
back EREPs tomorrow, tracks 29 and 30, and in the
original Flight Plan that was done, it was planned
that the same operator would operate the VTS on
both tracks. Right now it's scheduled for the
PLT. However, preflight track 30 belongs to the
CDR, and the things on track 30 are the Rio Grande
Reservoir, the Grand Sand Dunes and possibly the
Denver metropolitan area. And we wondered if the
PL [sic] could do this or would you rather us plan
to swap you between passes?
CDR Hank, I'm sorry. Say again. Bill and I were

working on recording of some handheld observations.
013 19 13 35 CC Okay. We - We're about LOS, Jer. We - We'll

pick that up at Goldstone in a couple of minutes
from now.
013 19 13 41 CDR Okay.

Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CC Are you free to discuss that Flight Plan question?
CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay. Basically what it is, Jerry, is in the

S1_T_maryFlight Plan in - we're got tracks 29 and
30 tomorrow on EREP back-to-back, and the track 29
is Bill's, and - - preflight schedule, and track 30
belongs to you. And this - The way the passes are
set up now is to keep the same operators Just for -
for ease of flowing through the pass there. And
they have Bill set up for both tracks. Now
track 30 is the Rio Grande Reservoir, the Grand
Sand Dunes, and possibly the Denver metropolitan
area. And we were wondering how you felt about
that. Would you rather swap stations during the
middle of the pass, or can Bill handle the
track 30 and Just keep the same operator?
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013 19 17 23 CDR Let us talk about it for a couple of minutes,

and I'ii get back with you.
CC Okay; do that.
013 19 18 42 CC CDR, Houston. We've discussed it a little further

down here. I guess in - in - in our mind we think
that it'd probably be better if each of you did
your own tracks. And if you have no objection,
we'll Just go ahead and swap them.
013 19 19 01 CDR Okay, Hank. I think that's probably the best way
to go.
CC Okay. Wha - what happened it - it was a little

slipup earlier in the st,
mmary Flight Plan, and -
and they didn't get the right person's pad. And
then we Just caught it a little while ago, and
we're having a debate going on as to whether -
which would be the easiest way to do it. But I
think the easiest thing is just go ahead and
schedule each man for his own track.
013 19 19 25 CDR Yes, that'd probably minimize any difficulties.
013 19 22 06 SPT Hank, I've been looking at a gradual increase in

oxygen VI of active region 21 up to around 30,000 -
28,000 to 30,000. What is the X-REA doing at this
time?
CC Okay, it's a little bit above background, but it's

very low, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
013 19 22 h0 CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS, we'll see you
again at Bermuda at 27.
013 19 27 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
013 19 27 53 CDR Hank, would you send us up another copy of permanent

general message 26?
CC Permanent message 26. Wilco.
CDR Thanks.
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013 19 31 42 CDH Houston, CDE.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Yes, I just checked with Bill, and he has trained

on those - both those targets as well, so it
doesn't matter who you give it to.
CC Roger. We've gone ahead and changed it, Jet.

We'll send it up according to preflight.
013 19 32 01 CDR Okay.

see you at Canaries at 37, and we plan to dump the
recorder there.
013 19 37 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Ascension with

the recorder dump for 16 minutes.
013 19 39 43 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, active aurora has been

reported in the Northern Hemisphere, part of
message 18 Bravo for photos, if you desire.
013 19 39 56 SPT Thank you, Hank.
013 19 46 07 CC SPT, Houston, are you still at the panel?
SPT Yes, I am, Hank.
CC Okay, we have one small pad change right near on

the pad on - on the pass at 23:25. It's quite
awhile from now, but I thought if you were still
there, you could go ahead and make the change to
the pad.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, at 23:25 pass has a time remaining of 49 min-

utes on the S055 grating. On the pad it says
0850, it should be 0854.
SPT 0854, I got it, Hank, thank you.
CC Thank you, Ed.

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013 19 50 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Give you a quick update here.

The Dolphins won the choice and chose to receive.
And then with Csonka and Morris alternating, they
drove 62 yards. It's now 7 to 0, Dolphins.
CDR Roger. They sound tough.
013 19 52 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Carnarvon at 20, 27 minutes from
now_
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Time: 013:20:00 to 013:21:30
_-_ Pa_e i of 7 /3729
013 20 21 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon.

We have you for 7 minutes. And Hank said he was
sorry he didn't say goodbye, but he had to go watch
the ballgame.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy.
CDR I bet that broke his heart too.
CC Roger. A little update on that. The Dolphins have

done it again. The score is now 14 to nothing with
Jim Kiick doing the honors on getting the score.
SPT Thank you, Crip. Crip, it sure is good to see you

put duty before Super Bowl.
CC That - that's the Navy way. I couldn't find any-

body to take my place.
013 20 22 56 CDR Same way with the midwatch, isn't it, Crip? You
can't find anybody to trade.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Well, keep the coffee pot boiling.
CC We're doing it. We're - got the situation well

in hand.
CDR Active region 21's been teasing us all day.
CC Yes. Hank was telling me that it looks like it's

been trying to - something's been trying to boil
up, but nothing - nothing's overflowed yet.
013 20 25 ii CC For CDR; on the panel there. Jer, we did a little

while ago see some enhancement in active region 16.
And then we had an SID, sudden ionospheric dis-
turbance, which is indicative of a possible flare.
So - But we can't necessarily tie it to 16, but
it was - we did correlate that with some - some
enhancement in that region.
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SPT Say, Crip, what time did you see that enhancement
in 16?
CC 20:16. Sorry about that. 20:1 - -
SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. On a previous orbit I saw

an enhancement in there which I - believe I men-
tioned, but I never saw anything after that. It
looked pretty dull, like around 30 seconds when
it was pretty bright.
CC Roger. Correction on that time. It was about

20:10. So it was while y'all were on the dark side
there.
CDR XUV shows them all pretty much the same intensity.
21 is a little brighter.
CC Roger.
013 20 28 12 CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Hawaii in 15 minutes at 20:43.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
CDR Roger.
CC A little final update. Yepremian just kicked a

28-yard field goal. The score is now 17 - nothing,
Miami Dolphins.
CDR They still in the first quarter?
CC Just 6 minutes into the first half now. So - so

they're already in the second quarter. They are
in the second quarter. Sorry about that.
013 20 29 14 CC Yes, they got 6 minutes remaining in the half.
013 20 42 50 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii, doing a data/voice

recorder dump here.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR The recorder's in use. You better not dump it.
CC Copy, Jer. We're taking a look at our dump

requirementsrightnow.
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CDR Okay, I think Ed's doing TV.
CC Yes. Roger. I copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. It looks like with the time

requirements on it, that we'll be able to handle
the dump at Goldstone vice here.
CDR Okay, good.
SPT Crip, you can have the recorder, if you like.
CC Okay, we got it, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Goldstone in

5 minutes at 20:55.
013 20 50 14 CDR Roger.
013 20 55 23 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC SPT, Houston. When you gave us the recorders

awhile ago at Hawaii, we assumed that you have
completed with TV-69. If so, we'd like to go
ahead and take the VTR and dump a little bit of
it over this Goldstone pass. And we can give it
back to you over MILA in about 7 minutes.
SPT That's correct, Crip, and that sounds fine to me.

Go ahead.
CC Very good. We'll do that. We was trying to get

it cleaned off pretty good. Didn't know whether
you wanted to do any other TV Work tonight or not,
but we were trying to get it as clean as we could
for you.
SPT I think I might work a little more on TV-101 again.
CC Roger.
013 20 56 56 CDR Crip, on TV-103, I wonder if you might send - If

the woodpecker can stand the gaff, send me up a
little bit more information about - background
information about 103 and what some of the eorrel-
lations are. It just mentions, rather vaguely,
formationof thin crystals,and I would like a
little more information if I can.
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CC We'll work on that for you.
013 20 59 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS; see

you again in 3-1/2 minutes over MILA.
013 20 59 39 CDH Roger.
013 21 03 ii CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through MILA. We have you

for 11-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have a keyhole coming up in

about 30 seconds, about a minute duration. I'ii
call you when we're out of it.
013 21 05 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We'r clear of the keyhole. We

have you for about 9 more minutes. And Super Bowl
is in the halftime right now. Score still remains
17 to O. And, as obvious from the score, Miami
has sort of dominated the first half, Csonka
carried 16 times for 83 yards and Morris carried
for 50.
CDR Wonder what they're talking about in the Viking

dressing room?
CC I wouldn't care to speculate.
CDR By the way, Crip, how's the weather down there?
CC Oh, it's kind of cloudy and sort of on the coolish

side today. We haven't had much Sunshine - sun-
shine around yet - I can't even talk anymore -
sunshine around here, except for yesterday. We
had a little bit. It's been kind of dreary -
dreary winter day.
013 21 06 33 CDR Must be kind of muddy in Rice Stadium then.
CC No, we actually haven't had too much rain asso-

ciated with it though, so I think the field ought
to be in pretty good shape.
CC One of the items they may be talking about in the

dressing room is the fact that the losers only
get a check for 7500 dollars; winners get 15,000.
CDR Such incentive.

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CC Roger that.
CDR 7500. That'll just about pay their gas bill home.
CC Well, at the going rate of gasoline, might be pretty

close (laughter).
PLT What's the recorder situation right now, Crip -

voice recorder?
CC Check it for you, Bill. It's all yours.
013 21 09 33 CC You know, in looking back over the previous Super

Bowls, only a - a couple of them I guess were
really tight. Four of them were complete routs,
they tell me. And the other wasn't nearly as close
as the final score indicated. Some people say the
most memorable was the game that established it
as the super sports event of the year - was the
New York Jets' stunning victory, 16 to 7, over the
Baltimore Colts back in 68.
SPT That was a good one, Crip.
CC Roger that. The other one was pretty good was

the Colts' 16 to 13 victory over the Dallas Cowboys
in '71. That was when the Colts kicked a field
goal in the final 5 seconds to win the game.
CDR Hey, Crip, changing sports, how's the basketball

scene going this year? Is the NBLA [sic] on top
again?
CC You've got me completely at a loss, there. I'll

have to check that one for you, Jer.
CDR Okay.
013 21 ll 08 CDR I'd like to know where USC is in that ladder too.
CC Okay.
CC I'm told UCLA has got unanimous first place in all

polls.
CC Skylab, Houston. The VTR does belong to you guys.

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CDR What'd you say? VTR?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay.
013 21 13 38 CC Skylab, Houston. Looking over some of the press

stuff that came out in the paper today about the
Super Bowl, I hear that Bob Cochran, the Super
Bowl's Director of Broadcast and Promotion, has
said that, "NASA has also asked us to provide a
tape for the astronauts to watch when they are in
quarantine. And, therefore, they will be able
to see the game in its entirety when they get back
home." Since you're the only guys that are flying
around up there right now, I think they must be
talking about you.
CDR Hey, that's beautiful.
PLT Yes, I'll be looking forward to seeing that.
CC We're 30 seconds from LOS. Ascension in 7 minutes,

at 21:22, 21:22.
013 21 14 32 CDR See you then.
013 21 21 31 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension, i0 minutes.
SPT Say, Crip, I was working on TV-101 at the time you

told us we were going to be able to see the Super
Bowl game. Tell the folks who made that available
we sure appreciate it.
CC Okay, Ed. We always try to think of you.
CC (Laughter) Incidentally on the same subject, Csonka

Just did it again. The score is now 24 to nothing.
CDR Oh, those poor Vikes.
013 21 23 13 CC I imagine they're feeling it about now. Have a

little note here - -
CDR I can imagine.

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CC Yes. A little note of interest. They inform me

that the Dolphins are the least penalized team in
the NFL. Probably with Csonka there, the ref
doesn't want to call. (Laughter).
CDR Well, you know that't a mark of a good team, to

be able to play without penalties.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Ask the Oilers.
CC Can't answer your question about USC's placement

right now. There isn't a sports editor to be found
outside the - (laughter) outside of the football
stadium, I guess.
013 21 24 41 CDR I guess that figures.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE T_{ANSCRIPTION
013 21 30 24 CC i minute from LOS. See you at Carnarvon in

23-1/2 minutes at 21:54.
CDR See you, Crip.
CC Crimson team is fixing to get their picture taken.
013 21 31 05 CC Hope we don't break the camera.
013 21 54 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon. We have

you for i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy. And the Vikings got on the score-board.

The score is now 24 to 7. Also the Vikings have
got the ball and are now in Dolphin territory.
SPT Very good. Maybe they'll make a game of it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We show some work going on with

TV. Be advised you have 6 minutes on the VTR.
That's 6 minutes remaining.
CDR Roger. Thanks, Crip.
013 21 58 39 SPT Crip, we're all through with the VTR if you want
to go ahead and take it for dumping or whatever
you choose.
CC Okay, fine. We'll be taking it here to rewind it,

and we'll be dumping as much as we can over the
upcoming CONUS pass.
SPT Okay.
CC They'll make you a TV producer when you get back,

Ed.
SPT I got lots of practice as a cameraman.
CC Ro ger.
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SPT Also, Crip, during this TV-]01 series, I've become

very proficient as a cleanup man.
CC You've got all kind of talents going there, Ed.
CC Passed the word on to Julie that you're very pro-

ficient at cleaning up now. Just been informed
that Larry Csonka has broken Matt Bell's rushing
record for the Super Bowl of 121 yards.
PLT Not to change the subject, Crip, but do you have

a time and station for my call?
CC Yes, sir, at 02:10; and it'll be ANTENNA, RIGHT,

over the Vanguard.
PLT Thank you.

see you again over Guam in 4 minutes at 22:07.
CDR See you later.
013 22 03 48 CC Roger.
013 22 08 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S over Guam for

9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And there's no need to acknowledge, but,

Jer, as a little matter of info, we are planning
on - on this upc - upcoming 183 ops having you
check out a reference star of Canopus for us. And
we're going to be sending you up some data on that
a little bit later. But we've been looking here
between our predictions of nu Z and what the nUzE -
the computer holds, and we got about a degree and
a half difference in them right now. We suspect
that may have been causing us to use a little bit
of excessive TACS, if we don't really know what
nUzE - or, correction nu Z is on the path to Z-LVs
we've done. So we're going to try to get check
on it, and we'll be giving you some more poop on
it later.
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CDR Okay.
013 22 i0 24 CC Skylab, Houston. Final score in the Super Bowl,

nllmher 8 : Miami, 24 ; Vikings, 7 •
CDR Roger. Thanks.
013 22 15 01 CC Skylab, Houston. As a matter of info, we've been

seeing the activity of the Sun creeping here a
little bit over about this past 5 or i0 minutes.
And BERRYLIUM COUNT is up about i0 times over back-
ground right now.
CDR Roger, we'll keep an eye on it. Active region 21

is looking a little brighter.
CC Copy that.
013 22 16 40 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Goldstone

in 16-1/2 minutes at 22:33, 22:33.
013 22 33 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S across the States,

16 minutes, and we think we just saw a flare in
active region 21 - about a Charlie i. Looks like
it's already dying out though.
CDR Roger. XUV up here hasn't shown a thing.
CC Okay.
CDR PME - EC slowly crept up to a count of about 500

and just kind of - there" between 500 and 470 and
not much action.
CC 0kay, Jer ; thank you.
PLT Crip, I have a photo log, if you're ready to copy.
CC Ready to copy, Bill.
PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: S183, anticipate the fol-

lowing, Uniform Alfa 04 will be reading approxi-
mately 79 percent, maybe a little less. Nikon l,
Charlie X-ray 40, 25; Nikon 2, India Romeo ll, 41;
3, Cbarlie India ll3, 55; Nikon 4, Bravo Echo lO,
reading 00; Nikon 5, Bravo Hotel 06, 25, anticipate
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3 frames $233 later on this evening. 70-millimeter:

Charlie X-ray 50,039. ETC: no change, EREP: no
change. Drawer A configuration: no change.
CC Okay, thank you.
013 22 37 57 CC PLT, Houston. We have one question on Nikon 04.

You gave us a reading of zero. We had anticipated
seven frames in conjunction with the S063 ops.
PLT Yes, I figured you'd ask that. I went one frame

over on the allocation on that cassette. But I
finished - it would have been right in the middle
of the S063, so I Just went ahead and finished it.
There are some dedicated exposures, I think, for
sensitivity calibration. And I went into one of
those.
PLT Did you read that, Crip?
CC Yes, I copied that. We had a question here. Did

you load BEI0 in Nikon 4 for those ops today?
PLT Negative.
013 22 39 25 CC Okay, last night, we had - we were showing that

you had four frames remaining in BE09 and from what
you just said there, I copied that you took eight.
PLT No, let me look at my pad - what - whatever S063

calls for. There was no instructions for download-
ing. That - that cassette still had some exposures
left in it.
PLT That seven exposures is what my S063 pad calls for.
CC Roger, and - and you - copy you took seven.
CC Okay.
PLT I thought that thing was reading 44. It may have

been reading 45 when I took it out, which means
I went two into the sensitometry.
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013 22 42 39 CDR Houston, CDR. Active region 21 is slowly warming

up. Looks like it's probably going to be pretty
hot just about the time the doors close.
CC That's the wrong time. That timing's not very

well.
CDR Well, last pass I asked the guys in the backroom

to turn up the intensity on just a little more.
And I think maybe next time they turn it up a little
more, we'll have it.
CC Okay, we'll work on that for you.

station contact is Carnarvon in 43 minutes at 23:32.
013 22 h9 00 CC We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
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013 23 32 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Carnarvon. We have

you for 7 minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. Did active region 21 do anything

while we were gone?
CC No, haven't seen anything yet. Maybe we've been

saving it up for you. Although the X-ray activity
is pretty low right now.
CDR Roger.
PLT Crip, I got a question on ATM.
CC Yes, sir, go ahead.
PLT I'm getting ready to do this J0P 27 step 2, build-

ing block 19. It calls for pointing with the
H-ALPHA 2, and there are s_ae - which puts 82B
SLIT down on a limb, and - on the disk, rather.
And they're getting an awful lot of disk light in
their slit. What I'm wondering is, do they really
want to do that? Or have I pointed incorrectly?
013 23 33 13 CC Let me - let me find out what the backroom has got
to say about that, Bill.
PLT And I'm pointing for pro - yes, go ahead and ask
them and I'll continue to explain what I did here.
I pointed at prominence 76 using H-ALPHA 1 to find
it because it's a better view. And then I corrected
for the parallax with H-ALPHA 2. But, in doing
that, that's going to put part of the slit down
on the disk.
CC Bill, the answer to that is that in this particular

building block, the pointing is optimized for 55,
which you do with the H-ALPHA there. So, - and
82B takes what they got.
PLT Okay, I'm going with my present pointing.
CC Roger.
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013 23 38 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you in Guam - over Guam in 7 minutes.
013 23 46 16 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Guam, 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
013 23 47 38 CC PLT, Houston. You got a - you got a moment to

chat here in - in amongst your building blocks,
Bill?
PLT Roger, Crip. I've - I'm in a time sequence here.

I can ta]k to you about 30 seconds at a time.
CC Tell you what, sounds too - too time critical.

I'll - go ahead, and I'll catch you a little bit
later over the States. No big deal.
PLT You can go ahead and talk. I just have to stay

here at the panel.
CC Okay, really all I wanted to do was to tell you

that after you finish up this ATM run and have chow
this evening, it looked like we weren't - weren't
going to be too - too rushed on you. And if you
didn't want to get a little bit ahead, tomorrow
Jerry's scheduled for EREP tape changeout, and
it's - you could go ahead and do that tonight, if
you wanted to. It was tape Tango 24 into tape
recorder 1.
013 23 48 42 PLT Roger. T-24 into recorder i. I'Ii do it.
CC Roger. You're going to have to run off quite a

bit of tape, about ii00 feet, to do that, though.
But - and that's just if you want to kind of item.
PLT No, I think that's good planning. With fast for-

ward it don't [sic] take long.
CC Roger. It's - it really ...

Next station contact is in 18 minutes over Gold-
stone at 00:i0. And we'll also be dumping the
VTR there. And if - if it's convenient at state-
side, I would like to give the CDR some angles for
this reference star that I talked about earlier on
his 183 ops.
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PLT Okay, we'll see you then.
014 00 09 54 (Music: "Top of the World" by the Carpenters)
014 00 i0 26 SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Hello.
CC That was brought to you by popular request of all

of our listeners.
CDR Thanks a lot, Crip; thanks, JoAnn.
014 00 13 04 CC - 18. Hey, Jer, if - if it is convenient I can

give you some numbers here for this reference star
we'd like you to get at the end of the 183 ops.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
014 00 13 13 CC Okay, we'd like you to go ahead and complete the

183 ops as called out currentlyand then try to
get this star. You will be in daylight,but you
should have about 15 minutes with the dark Earth
below you that would allow you to do it. Star is
going to be Canopus, the ROTATION is 192.0, TILT
is 16.3; and for the ROTATION, that should be 3.7
turns counterclockwise from the 298.4.
CDR Okay, Canopus, ROTATION, 192.0_ TILT, 16.6; that's

._' 3.7 turns counterclockwise from 298.4.
014 00 14 04 CC Roger. That's 16.3 on the TILT.
CDR Okay, 16.3 on the TILT.
CC Roger. And of course, then to get back to zero

it'll be 5.9 turns clockwise from the ROTATION
position you' re at.
CDR Okay; 5.9 turns clockwise.
014 00 14 28 CC Roger. And what we'd like you to do is to center

Canopus up on the center reticle, and then of
course read us the new TILT and ROTATION, and then
you Can go ahead and proceed with the 183 post ops.
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CDR Okay, Crip, w_ll do.
SPT Crip, how's the VTR look?
CC 69 and 101 both look fantastic.
Olh 00 15 01 SPT How do the VTR look right now for putting on a
little more 101?
CC We're - we're dumping it; why don't you give us

about 5 more minutes.
SPT Okay.
Olh 00 15 16 CC You are fantastic with the liquid drops, Ed.
SPT They do it all by themselves.
CC Darn it, I thought maybe you'd teach me how to do

that when you get back.
01h 00 16 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We need to dump the data/voice

recorder over Texas here, so if we could have it,
please.
CC Too bad it's cloudy out; you guys are coming almost
directly overhead us.
PLT I guess no one needs the recorder, Crip, go ahead

and take it.
014 OO 16 59 CC Okay, thank you.
014 00 19 36 CC And if I've got the CDR's ear, I can tell him a
little bit about basketball.
CDR You got it.
CC Well, I'm - it's not ex - probably exactly what

you wanted to hear. I've got the AP ratings right
now; got UCLA, number l; Notre Dame, number 2.
Understand they're going to be playing, like this
upcoming weekend. Maryland, 3; North Carolina
State's nn_ber 4; and I had to go all the way down
to number 17 to find USC. They've got a 12-2
record.
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CDR Roger. They' re building.
CC Of course, I can't find University of Texas any-

where on the list, so I -l've got no reason to
say anything (laughter).
PLT They're building, too.

station contact in i0 minutes over the Vanguard
at 00:35, and we'll be standing by for the evening
status report there.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Roger, Bill. And on that EREP tape, I don't be-

lieve I told you earlier, but the one you pull off,
if you want to put it in A 9, that'll be fine.
PLT Affirm.
014 00 24 54 CC And for Ed, about i minute after LOS here, the VTR
willbe allyours.
SPT Thank you. Say, Crip, we gone over Houston, yet?
CC Yes, sir, you're Just about over Panama now.
014 00 25 ll SPT A little late, but hello, gang.
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014 00 35 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the Vanguard

for 9 minutes.
014 00 35 42 CC Now we're AOS for 8-1/2 minutes and we're standing
by for the Evening Status Report.
PLT Roger. Stand by just a second, Crip.
CC Okay.
014 00 36 17 PLT Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 5.5 heavy, 1.5 light_
SPT, 6.0, 4.0 heavy, 2.0 light; PLT, 6.0, 6.0
heavy. Urine: CDR, 160; SPT, 175; PLT, 200.
Water gun: CDR, 8491; SPT, 446 - exe_ise me, 4446;
PLT, 0520. Body mass: CDR, 6.317, 6.318, 6.315;
SPT, 6. 366, 6. 364, 6.3 - 84 - make it 64 - 6.364;
PLT, 6.248, 6.242, 6.244. Exercise: CDR, stand-
ard; SPT, minus Alfa; PLT, Standard. Medication :
CDR, none. Clothing: T-shirt and shorts; SPT,
Dalmane, that'll be tonight, socks, shorts, T-
shirt ; PLT, none/socks, shorts, T-shirt, trousers.
Flight Plan deviations: no EREP today. Shopping
list accomplishments: T002-1, stars 12 and 16 on
tape at 15:20, stars 16 and 22 tape at 20:00 hours.
T002-4 on tape at approximately 19:30 for a period
of time, and another one also at 21:00. TV-101,
1 plus 30; TV-103, 0 plus 30. Checklist update,
0 plus 45. Inoperable equipment: none. Unsched-
ules, et cetera: none. Meals: CDR, salt packs
5.5; deviations, zero; rehydration water, plus 2.0.
SPT, salt packs, 1.5; deviation, plus tuna, plus
one biscuit, plus grape drink; rehydration water
deviation, nil. PLT, 8.5 salt, plus one tuna,
plus one biscuit ; rehydration water deviation,
zero.
014 O0 38 40 CC Okay, very good. I've got one item here I'd like
to ask you, Bill.
PLT Roger. All housekeeping was accomplished, and go

ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, yes, I'm sorry. That - that does complete

your report, does it not?
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CC Okay. In going back over some of the dump tapes,

we saw your comment about leaving the food tray
heaters on all the time. And I guess we'd like
to help understand that a little - that situation
a little bit better from a power and from a thermal
standpoint. Would - that is affirmative, you have
been turning them on rather than working with the
timers - is that correct?
PLT Now, I don't remember making any statement to that

effect. I do use that - I usually come down and
do that when I can think of it, but it's not left
on all the time. No.
CC Okay, this was in a - I believe in a 480-- when you

were talking about M487 that you were sort of
talking about _- you know - things about the ve-
hicle. And you mentioned something about that.
Can you tall us normally how you do - do use the
timers then on the food trays in general?
014 00 39 52 PLT Well, when we have the time and set it up, we use
them just like they were designed. When you don't
you just come down and put it in - you know -
like if you're a little short on - you don't do
it far enough in advance, you just turn the thing
on and if it gets warm enough fine. But then you
go ahead and eat it the way it is.
CC Okay, fine. We have been worrying about the ve-

hicle's going - we're running into one of these
high beta cases, and we've been trying to think
of ways to sorta keep it cool. And, of course,
any power, like the heaters and so forth, does
add a little bit thermally to the vehicle. So
that was the reason that we were interested.
PLT i think I know the comment you're referring to

was how we use the timers. I said most of the
time that I just turned the - the food to - on
manually and left it on, but what I meant was I -
I was usually short-timing it.
014 O0 40 43 CC Yes, right. Okay. If - in looking at it, it

initially gave us the impression that perhaps you
were just, you know, turning them on and keeping
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it - like at breakfast, leaving it on all through-

out until lunch. But understand the situation
now. This one, perhaps, we can probably find out
a little bit better down here, but I interpret
from that comment that you're not - that on your -
the number of cavities that you're leaving on are
just the ones that are applicable for the meals.
And I assume that's probably on the average of
about two per person.
PLT Well - yes, it varies. I would say most of the

time I have all three of mine on say for a mini-
mum of about 15 minutes. That's just when you're
keeping the food warm while l'm eating it, and
I think the other people are doing the same. Now
when we're de - when we're thawing out food, of
course, that takes about a hour and a half to
2 hours.
CC Roger. Okay, got you.
014 00 41 41 CC Okay, that really runs over that question. There's

one other item I guess that - if you end up doing
that EREP tape change for us tonight. We had Jer
scheduled for it tomorrow. And one item we might
suggest him putting in where we had him scheduled
for that is to do a documentary photo 22 prep to
help Ed out since he's going to be trying to do
the ETC prep and the DT22 all done there together
in the morning.
PLT Okay, he heard that. Sounds like a good way to go.
CC Okay, and also from the photo status report we

did not get the impression that the photos were
taken of ED61 today by Ed. If - if he has not
done that, we would appreciate if we could get
some this evening.
SPT Crip, those were taken this morning.
CC Okay.
014 00 43 04 PLT Okay, Crip, I'm going to check the number on that
because the number I gave you was the same one I
gave you a couple of days ago.
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CC Roger. That was the reason we asked the question.

station contact is back over the States at Gold-
stone in an hour and 3 minutes at 01:47. That's
set up for your med conference. And just as a
reminder, I see Ed's got some TV downlink from
the ATM. And right now, of course, he's got TV
selected for the portable that he's been doing.
CDR Roger, Crip; thanks.
CDR Crip, the Charlie India 113 reading is 63.
014 00 44 19 CC Roger. Thank you.
014 01 55 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS. We got you 3 minutes

here through Texas. If the CDR's got it handy,
we would appreciate his results of the 183 star
reference there.
CDR Okay, Crip. Canopus wasn't even in the field of

view at those angles. And I picked the brightest
star in the field of view and put it in the center.
And I just couldn't convince myself that was
Canopus. So I started searching around, and I
found Canopus at a ROTATION of 188.2 and a TILT
of 16.6.
CC Okay, Jet, and you're fairly certain that was

Canopus that you found then.
CDR Yes. The other star just wasn't anywhere near

bright enough. The other star I found was at
194.0 and 17.7 TILT. And it just didn't ring
true. So we searched around a little bit on the
other side of the circle, and apparently Canopus
was just barely out of the field of view.
014 Ol 56 29 CC Okay, we got that. Maybe that'll help us out

finding out what's going on with nu Z. And the
other item, if Ed's finished up at the ATM, we'd
like the - to get the frame count.
SPT 10974; 2991; 133; 273; 3345; 3232.

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CC Okeydoke, very good. I recommend that we use

Carnarvon about - 11:24 as our first call for
tomorrow. If you guys want to get up at ii:00,
you might set your counters.
CDR Okay, that's a good idea. We'll do it.
CC Okay, and also remind Bill once more that his

phone call is set up over Vanguard, this upcoming
pass at 02:ll. With an ANTENNA of RIGHT.
CDR Okay, he's already on his way.
014 Ol 57 37 CC Okay, that's about 13 minutes from now, Bill.

And l'm going to go ahead and wish you good night.
Crimson team's going to take a few days off con-
sole for a while. Then we'll probably wake you
up come Thursday morning.
CDR Thanks a lot, Crip. Have a good evening.
PLT Have a nice vacation.
CC Roger.
SPT So long, Crip. Good working with the crew.
CC Yes, enjoyed it. You guys happen to study some

of the pads we're sending up - a 201 pad that
you're doing tomorrow evening. It's only got
about a 23 - second data take. And that is
correct, in case you start scratching your heads
over it.
PLT Okay, and I did go to flow temporarily here to

do this tape recorder work.
014 01 58 24 CC Okay. Thank you, Bill.
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014 ll 28 39 CC (Music: Nell Diamond vocal)
014 ii 33 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

another 3 minutes. Over.
PLT Thanks, Bruce. Good morning.
CC Roger. Good morning. We've got one item here

that we do need to get in. There is a message on
board, general message 6061 Bravo, regarding a
sextant check to be performed at 11:47 Zulu by
the Commander. Over.
PLT Roger. 11:47 coming up.
CC Roger. About 14 minutes from now. And nothing

else that's terribly pressing here. I do have
some news that I can read up to you if you're
interested, or we can hold that off until later.
PLT Yes. Go ahead and read some now and some later.
014 ll 33 47 CC Okay, Washington: After nearly h years of con-

troversial changes, Navy Secretary John N. Warner
has signaled a slowdown in the face of reform.
The move comes in a letter of guidance to a panel
choosing a successor to Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Jr.
as Chief of Naval Operations. Zumwalt shook many
of the Navy's traditional practices and Warner's
letter to the board stressed Navy tradition.
Houston: The Miami Dolphins, lead by running back
Larry Csonka, defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 24
to 7, Sunday in Houston to win their second straight
Super Bo_I for the championship of professional
football. Csonka, a 6-foot-2, 2BT-pounder, rushed
for a Super Bowl record 145 yards on a record 33
carries and scored two of the three Miami touch-
downs. With quarterback Bob Griese's passing
picking the Minnesota secondary apart, and Mercury
Morris providing an outside running threat, the
Dolphins jumped to a 14-point lead in their first
two possessions, increased it to 17 to nothing
at the half, and moved ahead 2h to 0 early in the
third period. It was not until early in the fourth
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quarter that the Vikings scored. With 1 minute

35 seconds gone in the fourth period, frustrated
quarterback Fran Tarkenton mustered his forces
for a 57-yard touchdown march. He finally took
the ball into the end zone. A crowd of 68,1h2
was on hand at Rice stadium watching the game in
overcast chilly weather. An estimated 60 to
70 million, including President Nixon, watched on
television. In winning Sunday, Miami matched a
consecutive Super Bowl winning record of the late
Vince Lombardi and his touted Greenbay Packers
in 1967-68. Some of the nation's largest oil
companies could have produced more domestic crude
oil in recent years, but didn't because it wouldn't
have been profitable, company officials have ac-
knowledged. The officials blame Federal policies
and regulations for the situation and said they
were only exercising sound business Judgement.
The result of a scientific study suggests there
will never be a major accident in a nuclear power
plant, according to an official of the Atomic
Energy Commission. The study indicated the odds
of a catastrophe in a nuclear plant are once in
1 billion years to once in l0 billion years. Okay,
we've got 20 seconds to LOS. Next station contact
in 36 minutes through Bermuda at 12:12 Zulu.
014 ll 36 09 CC Out.
01h 12 ll 56 CC The poor were the hardest hit by inflation in

1973 according to Congressional economists. And
the report by the Joint Economic Co,mnittee says
197h holds prospects for improvement. It says
there is no indication that the rate of inflation
will be moderate this year and thus the purchasing
power of consumers is likely to decline. Are you
copying all that?
CDR We had a little dropout, but we got most of it,

Bruc e.
CC Okay, very good. If you got the sextant star angles

for us, then I can pick up again and wind up the
news here.
CDR Okay, on Sirius it was 189.2 and i8.7, and on

Canopus I got 277.h and 32.5.
CC Okay, thank you very much.

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015 12 13 Ii CC Seriously, are you in a position where I can con-

tinue reading the news? Or would you rather I
keep quiet, while you do 131?
CDR No, go ahead and finish up. We're not quite

ready to start 131 yet.
01h 12 13 2h CC Okay. The president of the American Farm Bureau

Federation discounted on Sunday claims by American
bakers that a loaf of bread would soon cost $i.
William J. Kuhfuss, president of the federation,
said the bakers were trying to pressure Congress
into limiting wheat exports. He said such action
would create stockpiles of wheat, resulting in a
lower cost for the bakers. The public's response
to Government pleas that - to lower heating
thermostats cut natural gas consumption by 6 percent
during the last 3 months of 1973, the deputy di-
rector of the Federal Energy Office said Sunday,
"I was pleased to learn from gas utility executives
that natural gas used by homes, businesses, mad
industries was about 6 percent lower than the
quantity consumed during the corresponding month
of 1972," John A. Sawhill said in a statement.
Some companies reported reductions of as much as
16 percent. Secretary of State Henry A. Kisslnger
is still shuttling between Egypt mad Israel,
trying to get _greement on a plan to separate
their troops along the Suez Canal. After meeting
with Israeli officials in Jerusalem Sunday,
Kissinger returned to Aswan, in upper Egypt. He
discussed with President Anwar Sadat Israel's
proposal to withdraw its forces from the canal,
reportedly for more than 20 miles.
014 12 lh 36 CC Skylab _ astronauts take the record for the longest

space voyage tonight bypassing the standard set
last year by Skylab 3. The present crew will
exceed the previous mark of 59 days, ii hours, and
9 minutes at 8: tn - 8:10 p.m. central daylight
time as their space station passes over the Pacific
ocean. When Skylab 4 establishes the new space
flight endurance record, the astronauts will have
orbited the Earth 858 times and traveled more
than 24-1/2 million miles. John Self, of Warrens-
burg, Missouri, put a little something extra in
his 10-year-old Ford, a turbine muffler device
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he says saves gas and cuts doll air pollution.

Self, the operator of an ambulance service, calls
his invention the "rotary muffler antipollution
device." It gives quick starts and has almost
doubled his gasoline mileage, he said. "If this
one homemade job can do what it has for this old
junker, think what a really good one could do,"
he said. Self and his partner Harry Markley, a
machinist, - Henry Markley, a machinist, installed
a gas turbine engine on the rear axle of the old
car. The two took off the mufflers and piped the
hot gasses from the piston engine's exhaust mani-
folds directly into the turbine. Self said using
unmuffled exhaust gases to power the turbine adds
16 to 18 horsepower at the rear axle. Washington:
The evidence remains inconclusive as to whether
the illusive Big Foot, or Sasquateh[?] of the
Pacific Northwest is real. But there is a man
busy trying to find out. He is Peter Burn, an
animal tracker who is currently camped out in
Oregon, trying to get proof of Sasquatch's exist-
ence, or a lack of it, once and for all, according
to an article in the current Smithsonian Magazine.
014 12 16 17 CC Buenos Aires: Argentinian authorities are planning

to establish a lottery to benefit the needy,
government sources reported. They said each of
four weekly games is expected to yield 1.5 million
dollars. London: Central London's winter sunshine
has increased by 70 percent since 1962, as a
result of clean air legislation, the official
handbook Britain_ 1973 said. More than 5.2 million
homes and businesses are under smoke control.
Doha Quatar: Quatar donated $200,000 to help
West African countries hit by drought authorities
announced. The donation was in line with the
recommendation by the United Nations Economic and
Social Council. Niagara Falls, Ontario: Miss
Universe for 1973, Maras Margaretta Moran[?] arrived
for a look at Niagara Falls from the Canadian
side, but found she had left her passport and
Canadian visa in New York. But customs officials
waived regulations and allowed her to enter Canada
for a 90-minute visit. Tokyo: China had a
60-percent increase in freight traffic by train,
truck and boat between 65 and 73, the official
t
f
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Sin Hoa[?] News Agency reported in a broadcast

from Peking. Jamestown, New York: The partly
• frozen, bruised body of a 14-year-old kidnap victim
has been found tied to a tree in a heavily wooded
area near his home, authorities said. Investigators
said the snow-covered body of Daniel Ebersole was
found Sunday by an FBI agent and a deputy sheriff
after an anonymous telephone call. The boy had
been missing since Tuesday night. Authorities
said cause of death had not been determined and
that an autopsy had been scheduled. Daniel's
parents, Dr. and Mrs. Glen M. Ebersole of suburban
Lakewood had paid $15,000 ransom for the boy on
Thursday. Kenneth L. Williams_ 18, and Martin C.
Whitmore, 19, of West Ellicott and Jeffrey L.
Swan of Lakewood were arraigned on kidnapping
charges in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday and
Jailed in lieu of $i00,000 bond each. Most of the
ransom money has been recovered, authorities said.
014 12 18 12 CC Vatican City: Pope Paul VI says he saw comet

Kohoutek and he felt the sense of the cosmic
mystery. "We searched for the comet in the skies
after we were told of the trajectory of this fugi-
tive pilgrim of space_" the Pope told a crowd
of 3,500 in Saint Peter's Square, Sunday. We
intensely observed it." The Pope said he saw the
comet from his terr - terrace with the aid of a
modest telescope. London: Prince Charles was
officer of the watch when a distress call came
from three vessels having landing troubles because
of storms in the South Java Sea. The Royal Navy
said the heir to the British throne was right in
the middle of the rescue operation Sunday. Two
Navy ships were sent to locate the stranded vessels.
And after h hours and three attempts, the tug
Mediator and two barges it was towing were pulled
to a safe anchorage. Sark Channel Island: Europe's
last feudal ruler is 90. It is 90-year-old Dame
Sibyl Mary Hathaway of Sark. She celebrated the
anniversary by saying she's happy her rocky little
island in the English Channel is basically in-
dependent of the western economic system. "So far
we've had no trouble from the energy crisis,"
Dame Sibyl said Sunday. "I personally have enough
oil for heating for another 3 months, by which
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time spring should have set in and the need for

heating will be less." Sark has a population
of 577 and Dame Sibyl says no one has been incon-
venienced by the oil shortage. "But of course,
we do have a ban on motor cars over here and the
shortage is not so bad for us." We got about
26 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 2 min-
utes through Canary Island at 12:21. New york:
The Consumers' Union has its first female executive
director. She's lawyer and civil rights advocate
Rhoda H. Karpatken, 43. Mrs. Karpatken, counsel
of the 37-year-old organization for 16 years,
succeeds Walter Sanebach, who resigned last month
after 8 years. Mrs. Karpatken says she would like
to see the Consumers Union place new stress on
reporting the price and quality of services such
as insurance and health. Consumers Union publishes
the Consumer Reports magazine.
014 12 20 l0 CC Roger. See you over Canary. We don't see H-ALPHA 1

running yet.
014 12 20 22 CC We'd like to get it ON, if you would, please.
014 12 21 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Canary Islands

and Madrid for lO minutes. Out.
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station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon at
12:57. Out.
014 12 57 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.

Good morning from the bronze boys.
SPT Morning, bronze boys.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got some changes to the

EREP pad this morning due to weather. And it
looks like this co - upcoming CONUS pass, at about
13:45, would be a good time to get those up accord-
ing to what your Flight Plan looks like.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll be ready.
01h 13 05 06 CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we've rewound the

VTE, and we're probably going to need it for the
next three revs to clean it off.
CDR Okay, Hank.
014 13 ii 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Texas at 13:43. That's 32 minutes
from now.
CDR Roger, Hank. And how did the G&N optics angles
I gave this morning correlate with the correction
we got last night from 183?
CC Jerry, we're still working on that. I'll try to

get some more word for you by stateside.
014 13 12 37 CDR Okay, thanks.
014 13 43 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas to Bermuda for

14-1/2 minutes, and we're scheduled to dump the
voice recorder over Bermuda at about 47 or so.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient for someone,

we can go ahead and get our REG ADJUST done for
the EREP so we can watch it the rest of the stateside.
PLT Hank,whatis it?

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CC Okay. If yot1']] mark their original positions,

wetd like to adjust both of them, REG i and 2
PLT In work.
CC And, Skylab, I have an update for the C&D pad and

also for the ETC pad.
PLT Which C&D pad is it, Hank?
CC The EREP C&D; EREP 29, C&D. I think the CDR's

got that.
PLT Well, I actually dicided them up into the CDR's

and PLT's portion. What time does the change
occur?
CC Okay. It'll be right at the first of the pass -

at 21:54 will be the first change.
CDR Okay, Hank. l'm ready to copy.
014 13 47 06 CC Okay. If you'll look at page 2 of your EREP 29 C&D,

we want to delete a few items. Basically, the
weather is very similer to what we had yesterday.
It's overcast all the way into Pennsylvania. Then
we, perhaps, have about 5/10 to 6/10 there to Maine.
Then it should open up a little bit over the Gulf
of St. Lawrence and then be overcast the rest of
the way. We put these few items into the pad on
the - betting on the hopes that we would get some
clear weather in the Texas area, but it didn't come
about. We're overcast and fogged in this morning.
So we want to delete the item at 21:54, which is
the S192, MODE to READY. At 22:30, delete ETC,
AUTO; 23:10, ETC, FRAMES PER MINUTE to 10; at 24:10,
ETC, FRAMES PER MINUTE, 4.8; at 25:40, ETC, FRAMES
PER MINUTE to i0; 26:10, S192, MODE to CKECK; and
26:50, ETC, STANDBY.
CDR Okay, Hank. I got them.
014 13 48 33 CC And also, CDR, there's a note in your details re-

garding the 192 aligment check. All we want to
do is to take the meter readings. We don't want
to tweak.
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CDR Okay, copy. I'ii note it.
CC And also, I do want to point out a - something you

may have already noticed in the pads there. We're
doing something a little nonstandard on the man-
euvers. Normally, the VTS operator makes the man-
euvers. But on track 30, which is the second _EP
coming up, the PLT will make the - we'll use C&D
operator for that pass - will make the maneuver
to SI. He'll start that. And i'd like to point
out that - well, the reason for that, Jerry, is
you've got a VTS site right it - right at that
time. And the maneuv - he's got 30 seconds to get
off the C&D panel to get down to start the maneuver
and about 30 seconds to get back to the - the C&D
panel. It's a pretty tight thing, but that was
the only was we could work it out. So I just wanted
to let -make you aware of it, so you could look
ahead and see it.
014 13 49 50 CDR Okay, thank you, Hank. That should work out okay.
CC And for that reason, too, you might want to con-

sider wearing the long CCUs, since both of you
are - or swap them off there, so you can make it
down there and do that.
CDR Right. I was just thinking that. It'd be terrible

to surprise yourself and find yourself on a short
tether about the time you need to do that.
CC And I don't know whether Ed is free now or not.

I'd like to clean up his ETC pad, if I could.
CDR Okay. He'll be right w_th you.
SPT Okay, Hank. Go ahead.
014 13 50 57 CC Okay, Ed. At the front of the pad there, right

at the very top, where it says "FRAMES PER MINUTE,"
we'd like to change the 4.8 to 10.O. The first
item, POWER, ON, change the time to 15:26:40. And
then we want to delte all the steps through 26:50
to STANDBY, so that the first item you will do
after POWER, ON at 26:40 is at 27:40 going to AUTO.
SPT Okay. I've got that.

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CC CC Okay, and that does it. Thank you very much,

gentlemen.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, PLT, if you're still in the STS, we need one

more little tweak on REG, BUS i. We need another
PLT Okay.
014 13 52 55 CC And also, Bill, I guess it's obvious from the dis-
cussion on the weather, your site 385 you won't
be getting because of the weather.
014 13 55 43 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, because the next pass

is the ATM conference, I don't know whether I'ii
talk to you or not, but just so you'll be aware
of it, we're going to be commanding CBRM 9, REG,
OFF to ensure that we have a full bat charge prior
to the EREP pass. Andwe'll also command it ON
just prior to the EREP. This is to prevent the
little funny we had last time when the - going
deep into discharge there because of the short
nights.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Madrid at 01 with the ATM confer-
ence. And did you copy my comments on the CBRM 9?
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Did you copy what I said about CBRM 9?
PLT Negative. Say again, please.
014 13 57 i0 CC Okay. At Madrid is your ATM conference, but we

will be commanding the REG, OFF on CBRM 9 at Madrid.
And so, you'll see a light there on your panel.
And we just want to make you aware of that. The
reason is we want to be sure that the battery is
fully charged prior to EREP. We will command the
REG back ON prior to the EREP run. This is the
to prevent the little funny light we ha_ on _ne
last EREP, where the bat went into deep discharge
because the short night - fooled the REG into
thinking it didn't need to charge.
01413 57 42 PLT Okay. _-
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014 i4 01 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes. I

got a couple of quick items to clean up here before
Bill takes over. First, on the REG, BUS i, we need
another little bitty 5-degree tweak clockwise.
And also on panel 617 down in the workshop, we need
to get EXPERIMENT I RECORDER, OFF. And while
you're down there you might turn the ESS, OFF.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy?
SPT Roger. We got the REG ADJUST and Bill's going to

get the panel right now.
CC Okay, thank you. And here's Bill.
SPT Morning, Bill.
014 14 02 47 MCC Good morning, Ed. Let me just give you a couple
words here on the solar update. As I'm sure you're
well aware now, active region 23 toward the center
of the disk in the north hemisphere, has undergone
some rather quick growth. In a 10-hour period, it
went from something very small and more or less
insignificant to a fairly significant area. And
in the process, we upped our flare probabilities
from 1 to 3 for C's.
SPT This is - wait a minute. This is 23, you said?
CC 23, that's right. It's just west of 18.
SPT Okay.
014 14 03 26 MCC And active region 16 is stable and has been stable
for quite a while. It would not have surprised us
if it had decayed more here. Now we're beginning
to feel that it may go through a regrowth period
here. So you might just want to keep your eye on
that. It's beginning to look like it will be with
us for the whole disk passage. Active region 20
and 21 are our most probable activity areas in -
especially for M-type flares. One of the factors
here is the fact that being so close to the limb,
we do get significant limb brightening in the
X-rays and several of the M's that we have seen
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the last few days probably would not have been M's
on the center of the disk. Behind active region 21,
ac - the old active region 02 is due to return.
It should be on - right on the limb now. We don't
really expect much. However, if there were some-
thing there, it would probably be masked by the
XUV emission from AR 21, right in front of it.
If at any time today you see anything that hints
that something significant is coming behind 21,
do let us know. And the Sun that you're looking
at now, unless active region 02 comes back with
something wild or we get surprised, what you're
looking at now is basically the activity that we
expect for this passage. We don't expect to see
anything more - just be able to watch this across
the disk. Over.
014 14 04 51 SPT Okay, Bill. I understand. I can give you a little

update on what we see up here when we finish up
with the other topics.
MCC Okay. l've just got a couple of other quickies

here. On your observations yesterday, the Czar
wants me to pass up some "good work" and "attaboys"
here to you. As far as he could see, you had all
the right pointings and the right modes and every-
thing. Keep it up, and we feel we'll really get
some significant results out of this activity pass
here. And then I wanted to offer you the oppor-
tunity, if you had any, to ask me some questions on
JOP Summary Sheets change number 21, if you had
any questions. And that's all I have for the day.
SPT Let me get with you on that JOP Summary Sheet

change tomorrow, Bill. I have not had a chance
to really go into it.
MCC Fine. No hurry.
MCC And, Ed, that's all I had for today. The rest of
the time is yours here.
014 14 06 07 SPT Okay. Hold on just a moment. Okay. Let's start

off with what the XUV monitor's showing us. And
that is - we'll go over to active region 14, which
is relatively bright compared to some of the others
we have on there. It really shows up at only
around i-1/2 thousand in oxygen VI. Active
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r(_g[on 15 is very small in ox - XUV monitor. But

this morning when I looked at it, I did find one
very small bright point in it. It got up to 3000
in oxygen VI. Active region 23, as you point out,
is very strong, and that was up to 7000 in oxy-
gen VI afld shows up that way in the XUV monitor - a
very bright plage leading and very faint fol-
lower; they were both very small and well defined,
however. Active region 17 is large in XUV, but
doesn't show much in oxygen VI. It's only around
600 there. 20, 22, and 21 is looking - look -
still looks as where it's going to happen. 20 was
around i000 in oxygen VI and shows up fairly
faintly in - relatively faintly in the XUV moni-
tor. 22 is around i000 in oxygen VI and then 21,
of course, is up there around 10,000 and oscil-
lating. Yesterday we saw it go between, say,
8000 on up to 25 - 28,000.
014 14 08 13 SPT Okay, in looking at the corona, we see - still see

the same general shape. However, some of the rel-
ative intensities of the various features have
changed, particularly the two parallel streamers
which come out at 230 and 250. They have both
greatly decreased in intensity. Over at - a lit-
tle further up north, where we have that series
of streamers - fairly wide band of nearly - near-
ly parallel streamers - pretty much merge into one
another. They don't have too much identity except
for one strong spike at around, say 280; 270 I
believe we called it the other day. That's still
there and prominent but not, in a relative sense,
any more so than - than four others in that same
general locale. That whole area appears to be
enhanced relative to what we see down there at
230 and 250.
014 14 09 12 CC Okay. Break, Ed. We've got 20 seconds here to

LOS. Carnarvon is next in 26 minutes, and that's
at about 35 past the hour. Now go ahead, and
you've got about 15 seconds.
SPT Over on the west limb, that also is enhanced.

_. Just the present rotation of the activity over in
that direction has done it. And the general fea-
ture remains the same. We've got a streamer struc-
ture that goes from around 2 o'clock down to
_-_ 3 o'clock, running almost radial, inclined slight-
ly toward the south. No central streamers, just a
large band going out ...
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CC Break, break, Ed. You're disappearing in the noise.
014 14 09 53 CC We'll see you at Carnarvon.
014 14 36 Ol CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 5-1/2 minutes,

and we plan to dump the recorder here.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, Jerry, I just want to get an answer to you

in regard to the nu Z. Last night, the 183 check
showed about a 4-degree error. And the sextant
check this morning showed about a 2-degree error
in the same direction, It would be very difficult
for us to correlate the two. We'd have to somehow
or another propagate from one to the other, which
is not - not feasible. We're still looking at the
whole situation, and we will probably put in your
Flight Plan for tomorrow morning another sextant
check. And from there, we'll just make a judgment
on what we're going to do.
014 14 37 40 CDR Okay, Hank. I did notice last night when I was
breaking down S183 at the end of the mission - or
at the end of the run, I looked out with it at
zero zero, and the dlscone antenna is not in the
same place in the field of view as it was 2 or
3 weeks ago when we checked it at zero zero. Right
now the discone shows right straight down at
6 o'clock. Whereas, as I remember the first time
we looked at it, it was over at about 7:30.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jerry. We'll put that in

the system and study that a while.
CDR Okay. I think we're getting either some slippage

in the crank handle or the belt or something.
Anyway, my message is take the 183 data with a
grain of salt.
CC Roger. We do have a lot more confidence in the

sextant. In fact, we have utmost confidence in
that.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
014 14 41 01 CC We'll have a short pass at Honeysuckle at 48, about

7 minutes from now.

for 1 minute or so. The next site is Texas at 18,
and we'll see you there EREPing.
014 15 17 29 CDR 93 Romeo. Then STANDBY, the READY is out.

SCATTEROMETER is OFF; READY, off. Now ALTIMETER
is OFF; READY, out. 9h is ON, the READY is on.
Preoperate configuration is complete.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're monitoring you stateside

now.
CDR Roger, Hank. Sensitometry advance - during the

28-frame ADVANCE, I had MALFUNCTION lights 3, h,
5, and 6 on. I cycled the POWER, got them all
off, did a SINGLE, got 4 and 5 back on again. I
made a - checked the FRAME count afterwards and
all cameras had advanced 29 FRAMES. So, I guess
we're okay.
CC Roger ; I think so, Jerry. Those are new magazines,

so it's not totally unexpected.
CDR Okay. How's the weather at Houston, Hank?
CC It was lousy when I came to work this morning.

We had pretty dense fog.
CDR Okay. My next mark's going to he at 19:05. Stand

by.
014 15 19 05 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
PLT There' s Guadalajara.
PLT *** down more, picking up clouds.
CDR i minute to EREP, START.
PLT See, there's the mountains of Monterrey - can't

see Monterrey *** clouds. Ah, shoot. It looks
_-_ like the whole valley's fogged in down there.
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CDR Okay, on my mark, it'll be 21:34. Stand by -
014 15 21 34 CDR MARK. EREP, START. Got a TAPE MOTION light. On

my mark, it'll be 22:00.
PLT Looks hopeless, Hank - on VTS.
CDR 22:00 coming up. Stand by -
014 15 22 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER's ON.
CC Roger, Bill. We're still socked in down here.
CDR Bad scene. Okay, on my next mark, it'll be 22:23.

Stand by.
014 15 22 23 CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO.
014 15 22 27 CDR 194 MODE to MANUAL. That MODE to MANUAL was at

22:29.
PLT Nadir swath, 23:19. Good old nadir swath, when

everything else fails.
CDR Right. Nadir needs a good swathing out once in

a while, anyway. Okay, I got MALFUNCTION lights
on 4 and 5. Cameras 4 and 5. But it sounds like
they're all clicking away in there. Hank, could
you ask the guys in the backroom how many frames
we're going to use today? So that I can check out
4 and 5 when we're through?
CC Will do.
PLT Okay, I went ahead and turned the DAC on anyway,

so at least you'll know what you're getting. How's
Pittsburgh looking, Hank? As far as weather is
concerned? I ... the Steelers had a good season.
PLT Stand by -
014 15 24 13 PLT MARK. DAC, off.
CC Jerry, the total number of frames is 91 plus the

sensitometry, which should come out close to 120
frames at the end of this track.
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CDR Okay, I recorded the frame count after sensitometry,

too. So I'ii just check and see if I got that
plus 91.
CDR Still in the clouds?
PLT Yes.
CDR *** gun. Okay, 2 minutes to my next mark.
PLT Must be a lot of cirrus, too, because everything

looks out of focus.
CDR 2 minutes to an EC - ETC AUTO, Edward.
PLT Well, looks like there's a little hope up there

in the - miles ahead.
014 15 26 08 CDR You're going right up the west side of the

Appalachians, aren't you?
PLT Yes.
CDR Right over Huntsville, too, aren't you? Doggone

near right over Huntsville, Alabama.
PLT Yes.
CDR Smile, Marshall, you're on Candid Came a. i minute

to ETC, AUTO.
PLT And, Pittsburgh doesn't look good either, Hank.
CC Say again.
PLT I say Pitt - Pittsburgh looks clouded over, too.
CC Roger, Bill. I don't think you'll start breaking

out at all until you get up in the Maine area.
PLT Yes.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on 27:40 with an ETC, AUTO.

l0 seconds to go. Stand by.
014 15 27 40 CDR MARK. 27:40, E_C to AUTO. Next mark is at 28:00.

Stand by -
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014 15 28 00 CDR MARK. 193 POLARIZATION to 4. Okay, that POLARIZA-

TION to 4 was about 4 seconds late. Coming up
on 28:40. Stand by -
014 15 28 40 CDR MARK. 192 MODE, READY. TAPE MOTION. Getting a

little occasional TAPE MOTION flicker, but it's -
it's running. MALFUNCTION lights 4 and 5 are still
on.
PLT I got that circular structure up in Canada. I

might as well hang in with the VTS.
CDR Yes.
PLT Two of them.
CDR Two of them?
PLT These aren't the ones that normally are looked at,
I don't think. They are ...
014 15 29 51 CDR 1 minute to my next mark.
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01h 15 30 i0 CDR Going to have a nadir swath in the North Atlantic

again?
014 15 30 13 PLT No. Guess they figured they filled that square,
several times over, unfortunately.
CDR Okay. We're going to be going clear up to _3_ so

we're going to be clear over in Europe, I guess.
20 seconds to my next mark. Okay. On my mark it'll
be 30:50. Stand by -
014 15 30 50 CDR MARK. 191, REFERENCE to 2 at 31:00. Stand by -

31:00 -
Olh 15 31 O0 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. SCATTEROMETER to

STANDBY. No, SCATTEROMETER's back ON. I want to
turn it OFF too soon. 31:28 the SCATTEROMETER comes
OFF. Okay. I cycled it, and I messed it up, l've
got a SCATTEROMETER TRANSMITTER MALF light now.
014 15 31 28 CDR SCATTEROM_TER's OFF at 28.
014 15 31 30 CDR RADIOMETER's OFF at 30. I mean STANDBY, not OFF.

31:40. Stand by -
01h 15 31 40 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's back ON.
PLT Pressing.
CDR Okay, On my next mark it'll be 32:20. Stand by -
014 15 32 21 CDR MARK. POLARIZATION on 193 going to i. 192 to

STANDBY.
014 15 32 26 CDR MARK at 26. VTS AUTO CAL in i0 seconds, Bill.
PLT Okay.
014 15 32 40 CDR MARK.
PLT You got it.
CDR 250 - At 32:50 ETC to STANDBY, Ed. Stand by -

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014 15 32 5O CDR MARK.
CDR On my mark it'll be 33:14. Stand by -
014 15 33 14 CDR MARK. S190, INT_VAL to 20.
014 15 33 43 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Madrid'll be

coming up in 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. On my mark it'll be 34:10, 34:10.

Correction - 34:12, 34:12. Stand by -
014 15 34 13 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
014 15 34 15 CDH RADIOMETER, OFF. On my mark it'll be 34:30. Stand

by -
014 15 34 30 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. And we're looking for an

S190 READY on at 35:20.
014 15 39 06 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid for

10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CDR CAMERA MALF lights 4 and 5 are still on.
014 15 40 23 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is on at 22.
014 15 41 O0 CDR ALTIMETER READY light out at 59, going to STANDBY.
014 15 41 15 CDR ALTIMET_IR back on 14. Watching for an S190, READY,

out •
014 15 41 41 CDR 190 READY, out at 39. My next mark'll be 41:47.
014 15 41 48 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.

Next mark's at 41:59. Stand by -
014 15 42 O0 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON.
014 15 42 02 CDR S190 MODE to STANDBY. And then the POWER OFF.
CC Skylab, your maneuver load looks good.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CDR Next mark's at 43;00. Stand by -

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014 15 h3 00 CDR MARK. 194 MODE, MANUAL.
014 15 43 29 CDR Coming up on 15:44:00. Stand by -
014 15 44 00 CDR MARK. Start the fine maneuver. 44:06 is coming

up.
014 15 4_ 06 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
014 15 44 09 CDR EREP to STOP.
014 15 44 12 CDR SCATTEROMETER, OFF.
014 15 44 13 CDR ALTIMETER, OFF.
014 15 4_ 15 CDR TAPE RECORDER POWER, OFF. Okay. About time to

go eat now.
CC And the next maneuver load looks good.
CDR Roger, Hank. Guess we'll go pack our head.

have a short pass with you at Honeysuckle at 25;
that's 38 minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank.
014 16 25 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for a minute

and a half.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CDR Hank, the tape remaining's 6.6 centimeters.
CC Roger; we copy 6.6. And our next site is Goldstone

at 54. We'll see you there EREPing.
SPT Hank, how's" the VTR schedule look for today?
014 16 26 23 CC Okay, Ed, after we n_ke this CONUS pass this'll

be the last of our dumps. We'll have a clean VTR
for you.
014 16 26 35 SPT Good. Th_nk you, Dick.

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014 16 53 55 CC Skylab, through - llouston through Goldstone for

ii minutes.
PLT Roger.
014 16 54 28 CDR Hank, how's the weather look up Colorado way?
CC Okay, Jer. It ought to be pretty good up there.

You ought to have ze - zero to 3/10 throughout
this pass except for right around Colorado, and
you may have 4/10 to 7/10 there.
CDR (Laughter) Neat.
PLT Stand by -
014 16 54 48 PLT MARK. RAD, OFF. And ALTIMETER coming on shortly

at 54.
014 16 54 54 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. And at 55 we'll get a nice

EREP, START.
014 16 55 01 PLT MARK. EREP, START. I got a green motion - of tape.
014 16 55 04 PLT I have an ALTIMETER, UNLOCK light. READY light is

still on. 55:12.
014 16 55 13 PLT MARK. 194, MODE to MANUAL. Waiting for 56. Okay.
014 16 55 19 PLT ALTIMETER, UNLOCK light is out now.
014 16 55 21 PLT I have a MALF light ON 194. I still have READY

light.
014 16 55 26 PLT ALTIMETER, UNLOCK light came on at 26.
CDR Hank, would you recheck the pointing on site

number 275? My slider map indicates that I should
be looking to the right instead of the left.
CC Okay. I'ii check it.
CDR Okay. I see the - the nadir one they give me is

right 9 degrees.
014 16 56 Ol PLT Okay, I got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK - -

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CDR ... CROSSTRACK [here.
PLT - - at 55:39, cycled the switch back to STANDBY

back on. We have a READY light again.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on Baja. 45 degrees gimbal

angle. Ensenada.
014 16 56 53 PLT MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO. And no MALF light. Standing
by 57:20.
CC Jer, we think those numbers are right.
CDR Okay. Just wanted to make sure.
014 16 57 20 PLT MARK. 57:20. 192, MODE to READY and I got a

green TAPE light. On speed change. 57:30. ETC
to AUTO, Ed.
014 16 57 30 PLT MARK.
CDR Okay. Pass south of the Salton Sea.
PLT By the way, Hank, the transition on these - the

pads for transition, on back-to-back are just a
little bit rough here. At 16:51:15, the stuff
was all out of order, you know_ so I'd like a -
a sort of a configuration check there too, if we
could do that in the future. If we ever have
another one.
CC Okay. We copy, Bill. Good point.
014 16 58 23 PLT Okay. I lost the READY lights. I'm going to go

ahead and turn the ALTIMETER to STANDBY early.
014 16 58 28 PLT MARK. Stand by for 58:36.
01h 16 58 37 PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, STANDBY. 58;50, RADIOMETER

will be going ON. And that was about 6 seconds
early that the ALTIMETER went to STANDBY.
014 16 58 50 PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. Stand by for 59:10.

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Olh 16 59 07 PLT The TA[_E MOTION l]_ht _ l'l]ekering on this high

speed.
014 16 59 ii PLT MARK. POLARIZATION to 4.
CDR Okay. We got some clouds where we belong.
014 16 59 30 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. 36, SCATTEROMETER, ON.
014 16 59 37 PLT MARK. And RADIOMETER, ON.
014 16 59 39 PLT MARK.
CDR Okay, reservoir, where are you?
014 16 59 59 PLT That's the one that's hidden down in all the
mountains?
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014 17 00 XX CDR Yes.
PLT That snow-covered reservoir and snow-covered

mountains. Lots of luck.
CDR Okay. I think I got it.
PLT Good.
CDR Maybe. No, that's not it. Man, I got the right
river and everything. Those fingers don't show,
Bill.
PLT Yes, I know. I was just thinking, those things

are not going to bail you out this time. No.
CDR Dad_Tm_t. Got to be down there somewhere.
PLT White on white.
014 17 00 41 CC Skylab, for info, your maneuver time is not loaded.
PLT Okay. Th_k you, Hank.
CDR Sorry about that, Bill.
PLT It won't take but a second.
CDR All right. I got you some data. And got to turn
the camera on now. See if I can find the sand dunes
now.
PLT What's that maneuver time, Hank? So I don't fiddle

around searching for it.
CC It's l0 minutes.
PLT l0 minutes. Okay. That'll be 12 in octal. Is

that right?
CDR Okay. I'm getting sand dunes.
PLT Everythinghere's looking good.

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CDR Okay. That reservoir should've Just Jumped out

at me, but I just couldn't get it for sure until
the very last. And I got about 3, 4, or 5 seconds
of it.
014 17 Ol 39 PLT Starting to lose my TAPE MOTION light in 192 mode

and l'm still in 192. There it comes back. Must
just be very sensitive. What it is doing, Hank,
it's sort of flickering and then sort of going down
into the mud, then coming back up.
CC We copy.
PLT 17:02:20, SCAT - -
SPT I'ii go load that maneuver time for you. I got

time.
PLT Okay. Stand by -
014 17 02 21 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
014 17 02 23 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. 02:26, RADIOMETER, ON.
014 17 02 27 PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, ON; 194, MODE, MANUAL. Okay -
CDR Okay, Hank, I have that.
PLT 17 :03 even.
PLT Yes. Did.
014 17 03 16 PLT Okay. Hank, if you'd just verify those rates so

that nothing dramatic happens to us. Stand by
for 0B :30.
014 17 03 30 PLT MARK. 192, MODE, STANDBY, and waiting for 17:04.
And I got a good shiftdown in speed.
CC Maneuver looks good.
PLT Thank you.
014 17 0B 49 CDR Okay. We're going over Minneapolis now.
PLT Okay, waiting for 17:04 - There we go. The READY

light is out ; MODE to STANDBY. ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
RADIOMETER to STANDBY and EREP, STOP. And it -
that's correct.Okay.
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014 17 04 18 PLT That's it, Hank.
PLT Bring it up here.
01h 17 04 24 CC i minute to LOS. Bermuda in 2 minutes.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay. For the record, Bravo 7 is reading 32. 192,

DOOR, CLOSED.
CDR I wonder if there's any geothermal heating in the

dunes? Everything else was snow covered except
the dunes, and they were brown.
PLT You never know whether there - that is the result

of a - a cumulative effect of being able to absorb
more heat or they actually - do they act as a heat
sink.
CDR It 's amazing, though. I - Everything else _as

white. Then all of a sudden there were the dunes
just as a brown area in the right place. It's
amazing.
PLT Great.
CDR Just like a big scab. Well, I'ii tell you. l'm
not sure I got the reservoir. I saw so many - so
many areas that looked like that - -
PLT Yes.
CDR - - that it was really tough.
014 17 06 31 CC Skylab, we're back with you for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT Okay, l'm going to close the window. Get me a

latch over there in just a second.
CDR All right.
014 17 06 46 PLT Okay, Jer. Looks to me like a pretty clean run.

It Just sort of - It's just grossly disappointing
we can't do any better with our 191.
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CDR Well, if it doesn't Jump out at you just as soon

as you get there, you're probably never going to
find it.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hank, are you still with us?
014 17 07 58 CC Roger.
PLT Okay. So that I can give the people a lot more

information about the comment I made earlier.
That'd be real nice to have a - have the - a few
more time milestones leading up to the preoperate
configuration check, and also the check on the -
the switch configuration. For instance there, it
gives you reference - I had a THERMAL SOURCE ten-
tative RE_ENCE, but it didn't have a CAL. I -
l'm sure it was the - okay because it was the same
as was left over from Jer's pad but it would be
nice just to have a - have a complete preoperate
configuration just to ma_e sure in case one of the
switches got thrown in - in the previous post.
CC Okay; we copy, Bill.
014 17 08 43 CDR And one other thing that wasn't too clear, Hank,
and that was how I was supposed to leave the C&D
panel after the last pass. I went ahead and did
the post-powerdown of everything for back-to-back.
But I was given the distinct impression from the
way that pad was written that - that maybe I didn't
have to do that, - but there was Just enough there
to put a little doubt in my mind.
CC That's correct, Jerry. I guess that we - the whole

business was a little confusing. We should have
probably laid some more words on you. I think the
intent was to treat this thing as one long pass
and the - but it's not clear to me that - that that
got across to you and - -
014 17 09 30 CDR No. No, we got a hint of that but I was afraid to
follow that hunch because there was nothing in
words that said that, and the only way we could
... back-to-back is where you power down and then
power up again prior to the next one.
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PLT Yes, just hit us over the head with a ball bat
with a few words and numbers there, and we'll be
in good shape.
014 17 09 55 CC I think in the future we're going to use the back-

to-back so we don't put this confusion factor in.
CDR Yes, I think that'd help a lot.
CDR Well, I saw Farmington- -
PLT A-7. Okay. That 's - -
CDR I saw Alamosa.
PLT 191, AUTO CAL, MONITOR. EREP, START. Alfa 7 is

reading 15 - All right, just a second here. Did
that wrong. Stand by.
014 17 l0 31 CDR Go ahead and get off the recorder?
PLT No, I need the recorder on. I had to turn it back

on for this AUTO CAL monitor so - -
CDR Okay.
PLT It's been a while since I've done one of these,

and I screwed it up at first, right off the bat.
I'll Just start it again here.
CDR Beautiful.
OIL 17 i0 59 CC Skylah, Houston. We're I minute from LOS.
PLT ... to work.
CC Madrid at 16 for the dump recorder.
014 17 ll 06 PLT Okay.
014 17 16 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes,

and we're going to dump the recorder.
014 17 16 36 CDR It's in use right now, Hank. He should be done

in a minute.
CC Okay.
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CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info, the VTR is cleaned

off and rewound and you have the whole thing avail-
able.
CDR Roger ; thanks.
014 17 17 37 CDR Okay, Hank; the recorder is yours.
CC Okay, thank you. And whenever it's convenient we

can go back to the prepass REG BUS settings.
014 17 19 20 PLT Okay, Hank, if you have time to check them, take
a look at the buses.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it, Bill.
014 17 22 58 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we got a pretty good

heat pulse out of this - two passes here and the
TCV - B valve has modulated to the full cold posi-
tion, which is where it should be right now. How-
ever, if we run into the situation where that valve
sticks there - and you know we've had trouble with
these valves sticking - and you should get a PRIMARY
or a SECONDARY COOL _ LOW light, we would like
for you to shut down whichever loop that you have
that in and we'll talk about it at the next AOS.
CDR Okay, Hank, thanks.
014 17 23 48 CC We don't think it's going to happen. If you should

happen that both loops give you a cool, we want
you to go ahead and shut both of them down. That
won't hurt us. We're about a minute from LOS and
the next Contact will be Honeysuckle at 01,
37 minutes from now.
014 17 24 04 CDR Roger; see you then.
014 18 01 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
Ol4 18 O1 30 CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, Skylab, we've taken a look at our post-EREP

REG BUS settings and we need one more little tweak
on REG BUS 2. We need another 5 degrees clockwise.
CDR Okay. On the way.

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SPT How's that look to you, Hank?
CC Okay. We'll take a look at it. CDR, Houston.

Did we give you the time for your private call
today?
CDR Not yet, Hank.
014 18 02 53 CC Okay. It's at 20:20 at Bermuda, andthat's during

your open housekeeping there. And it should be
left antenna.
CDR Roger. 20:20, LEFT ANTENNA.
014 18 0h 06 CC SPT, Houston. We need to get the FINE Sun SENSOR

DOOR, OPEN and select EPC.
SPT Roger, Hank. We're doing it now.
014 18 05 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We've taken a look at that setting

on REG BUS 2 and we need to go counterclockwise,
half of what you went clockwise.
SPT That's like asking an elephant to step over an inch.
014 18 07 23 CC Skylab, Houston. That elephant's a pretty sharp

stepper. It's right on it.
SPT Thank you Hank.
014 18 08 B0 CC CDR, Houston. No need to reply if you're busy with

the M092. Just to let you know what we got coming
for you is several little items in reference to
the SO might - 19 pass you got coming up later to-
day, and we'll try to get those a little later,
maybe 19:30 or so, when you're through with M092.
Looks like you're ahead of the game a little bit
now so you'll be through in plenty of time.
014 18 09 16 CC SPT, Houston. We don't see the H-alpha 1 running.
014 18 09 32 SPT I'll probably have a letter waiting for me when I

get back from Henry Chester.
014 18 09 41 CC Okay. It's - We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll be

coming up on Hawaii at 21, ll minutes from now.
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CDR Hank, I got a couple of minutes now if you want

to start throwing data at me.
014 18 I0 08 CC Okay. We're about 20 seconds to LOS. I can get

in one of them. On a - probably you could do this
during a prep. As part of the S019 data take we'd
like to cycle through one frame of film. We're
concerned that during the mal that Bill ran that
the film on the carriage might have been partially
exposed.
CDR Okay. We'll ex -we'll extend one frame.
CC And I might get the second item. Canister has -

002 has about 90 frames remaining, and the frame
count is okay. Just continue counting from i01.
CDR Okay.
014 18 i0 48 CC And I'ii get the last one to you a little later
on. It's a little longer.
014 18 20 56 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. And I'm ready to copy your last item
on 19.
CC Okay, Jer. Doing the ops, prior to offsetting the

comet to the left crosshair, we'd like for you to
report the position of the comet head in the view-
finder. And what we want to do is try to determine
if a new up - nuZ update is going to be required
for the 201 ops later in the day and we can tell
from that position.
014 18 21 31 CDR We'll do it.

see you again at Goldstone at 33, 3-1/2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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014 18 33 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CC And, SPT, we need the DAS for a momentum bias

update.
SPT You have it, IIank.
014 18 33 32 CC And, Ed, we've looked at the dump tapes for the
limb volume that was run on you yesterday, and
if you recorded it prior to yesterday, we can't
find it.
SPT They were recorded right after that, Hank; and

I guess you're saying you didn't get it, so
we'll give it to you again.
014 18 33 58 CC Okay. At your convenience, Ed; we'd appreciate

it. We looked on the things we got down last
night, and we couldn't find it anywhere.
014 18 35 05 CC SPT, the DAS is yours.
014 18 39 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

Bermuda at 44, 4-1/2 minutes.
014 18 44 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda 7-1/2 minutes.

see you again at Canaries at 53 with a recorder
dump.
SPT Roger, Hank. Before you go over the hill, let

me ask a real quick question about H-alpha i.
CC Go ahead.
SPT We notice when we come up in the first part of

the work day, that's after it's been not used
all night long, we get a very crisp clear image
in H-alpha i, both off the limb and on the limb.
After we've been using it for several orbits,
the features tend to die away. They're - The
crispness, if you will, contrast, and in general,
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it's just not anywhere as near the quality pic-

ture that we receive the first thing, l'm won-
dering if there isn't anything we can do in the
way of thermal control of this by leaving doors
open on the nightside, for example, or something
to that effect, which would give us a good pic-
ture all the time.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at that, Ed.

And we'll be dumping the recorder.
014 19 Ol 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from a short LOS,

a few seconds, and we'll be right back with
Ascension.

Ascension for 5 minutes.
014 19 07 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Honey-

suckle at 38; that's 28-1/2 minutes from now.

7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC And, Skylab, for info, the coolant loops performed

beautifully. We're all back to normal now.
CDR Very good.
CC SPT, Houston. If we could have the DAS, we'll

crank in a nu Z update.
SPT You have it, Hank.
014 19 40 59 CC SPT, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, I have

a - have an update for the S019 maneuver pad, and
it's due to the fact that the nu Z changed a little
bit, when we did that update this morning with
the sextant.
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SPT I'ii be with you in a couple of minutes, Hank.
CC Okay, just give me a call whenever it's convenient.
SPT SPT, the DAS is yours.
014 19 43 23 PLT Okay, Hank, go ahead with the change to the fine
maneuver.
CC Okay, the fine maneuver should be X, 50003, making

that a plus 0.02. The Y should be 51144, making
that a minus 1.00. And the Z, 51120, making that
a minus 0.80.
SPT Okay, Hank, the maneuvers are 50003, 51124, 51120

for a plus 0.03, minus 1.00, minus 0.0 - minus 0.80.
CC Roger. Good readbaek.

LOS. Hawaii at 59; and that's about 13 minutes.
014 19 59 17 CC Skylah, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Around 4 minutes ago, we had an

outer gimbal 3 on the stop, took us off the Sun
" and with a reasonablerate we went to STANDBY,
3 minute maneuver time, selected SI, and we're
just working our way back there now.
CC Okay, good show, Ed. We - We saw that you'd had

a - had something happen there when we came AOS.
SPT Hank, if you folks can foresee something like

that coming up, at least a possibility of it, you
might alert us of it. I think we could handle it
a little faster.
CC Okay, I guess this is one we didn't foresee, Ed.

We - We thought there might be a possibility of
some DESAT fires, but we sure didn't think this
was going to happen.
SPT HT looked pretty good, it was down there around

25 - 30 percent or so, but outer gimbal 3 was
pegged high.
_ 014 20 00 40 CDR Hank, the S019 prep is complete.
END OF TAPE
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014 20 00 42 CDR I cycled one frame, extended one frame. And I

didn't like the feel of it. It's not - It felt
very, very rough and I had to use a very, very
high force in order to get it into the SLIDE
RETRACT position, l'm not so confident that we're
going to be able to make much use of this thing.
I get the - the feeling that we could have another
one of those Jam-ups anytime.
CC Okay, we copy, Jerry.
CDR Feels like there's something definitely dropped

out of alignment now, and you just can't get it
in the SLIDE RETRACT position without forcing it.
I figure sooner or later we're going to have a
crunch like on the other one.
014 20 01 35 CC Okay, you may he right. I guess the only thing

we can do is Just press ahead and try it, until
we can't use it anymore. Along that line, awhile
ago you voiced up to us that - or down to us
that the - when you had the discone number 1
centered up - and I assume you had the counter
then at 0.0 - that the discone was at the 6 o'clock
position. And before, I guess it's been a week
or so ago when we did this alignment check, when
the numbers read 0.0, the last two digits, we had
copied that the discone was at 06:30. Now is
there - has there been a shift as you recall in
the location of that discone when the counter
reads 0.07
CDR That's affirmative, Hank. That's why I made that

comment. The discone is - is now to the right
by some. It earlier was at 06:30 or 7 o'clock
and now it's at 06:30 - I mean at 6. So, we've
definitely had a shift in what 0.0 is reading,
not much but it's a shift.
014 20 03 18 CC Jerry, at the conclusion of your S019 ops today,

would you mind if - if - giving us another check
on that?
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CDR Sure will. Way I figure it, if you get a little

shift on an object up close that means a big shift
on a object way out. Maybe my thinking's foggy
or something here, but if the discone which is
only a few feet away, shifts something like 2 or
3 feet then it seems to me a star is going to
shift a whole bundle.
CC Well, that's right. An angular shift like that

could cause us to miss a target.
CDR That's right.
014 20 04 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We would like to dump some more

of the VTR off here this stateside pass to help
us in our measurements. And we're rewinding now,
and it'll be available to you again after this
CONUS pass.
CC And, Ed, a cou - if you can answer, a couple of

quick questions for you in regard to your comments
on the clarity of the H-alpha i. What was the
clarity after the back-to-back EREP pass? Could
you tell any difference. Had it - Did it get a
little better after not using it for a while?
SPT Hank, I don't definitely recall it as being real

bad or real good. That was not on my mind at
the time. So I guess I can't give you a real
good answer.
014 20 05 51 CC Okay. Have you noticed any degradation of - of

other instruments on the same monitor?
SPT No. I - I can't really. The monitors, I don't

think, is the problem. Although, I shouldn't say
that. We've never really have - have run a test
to verify that. And H-alpha is about the only
display, other than WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, we
really looked for a detail in, and it certainly
stands out very clearly in H-ALPHA. That's
H-ALPHA i on MONITOR i.
CC Roger. H-ALPHA i, MONITOR i, we copy.

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CDR Hank, would you send up another copy of change 005

to the Maneuver Experiment Checklist and Log?
CC Okay, we'll do it.
CDR Thank you.
01h 20 07 Ii SPT Hank, when we got the gimbal on a stop and moved
off of - of the position, we were pointed for the
first building block 28. We were about halfway
through that building block_ the EXTENDED STANDARD
was not complete. And we had just started the
second exposures for 52 and for 56. I've not
gone back and tried to redo that because the time
is just starting on the second building block 28
out here on the limb. If they'd like me to go
back and try to get that sometime later today,
if at all possible, I will.
014 20 07 42 CC Okay. We'll - we'll talk about it and have word

for you at Goldstone. We're about 20 seconds
f from LOS. Goldstone will be coming up in
3 minutes, at ii.
014 20 ii 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5 minutes.

And the maneuver load looks good.
CC CDR, Houston. Your - Your change 5 to the maneu-

vering checklist is on board, and the Flight Plan
and details got there ahead of it. And as a re-
minder, you've got your private call at 20:20,
the next site. We're about i minutes from LOS
now. We'll be coming up on Bermuda in 5 minutes.
014 20 15 47 CDR Okay, thanks a lot, Hank.
014 20 21 56 CC Skylah, Houston. We're through Bermuda for

6 minutes and your maneuver load looks good.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the laser optional

observing there scheduled for the next rev has
been canceled due to weather.

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OAJl 20 30 22 CC _kylab, l[oaston. We're I minute from LOS.

Ascension is tile next site at 00:37, 7 minutes
from now.
014 20 38 10 CC Skylab, Houston t_hrough Ascension i0 minutes.
CDR Hank, l've got the SAL window open and sighted
out, and the antenna can be put back where I b_
it 2 weeks ago by hacking down to 7.8. So that's
a 2.2-degree error.
CC Roger; we copy. 7.8 puts it back where it was

a couple of weeks ago.
CDR That's affirmative, Hank.
014 20 40 32 CC Jerry, when the counter reads 0.0, where exactly

is the discone? Is it right at 6?
CDR It's right at 6, at about 0.8 radius out.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Okay, Hank, I'm going over on channel A for

recording now. I'll fill you in on details when
I get finished.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Didn't get the word to you, but

the VTR is yours and there are 23 minutes available.
CC Skylab, Houston. Would you - Would you recall

what's on the first 8 minutes of that VTR?
SPT Hank, there was some TV-101 and probably some ATM.
CC Okay; we copy.
SPT You don't guess there's been a problem with it,

do you?
CC No problem. We were just curious what we - what

we were going to get when we got around to dumping
it.
014 20 43 46 SPT Don't do that to me, Hank.

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CDR lfank, the SFr noticeably paled.
CC Roger (laughter). INC0 appologies for frightening

yOU.
CREW (Laughter ).
CC Incidentally, earlier today, Bill Schneider said

to pass along that the 8-month warranty had run
out on the vehicle, so y'all be careful with it.
We aren't going to call it back.
CDR What's the blue book value on a 8-month old

vehicle - that doesn't use any gas?
CC That would probably be a big seller.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you again at Carnarvon at ll, and
we'll be handing over to the purple gang. See
you tomorrow; enjoyed working with you today.
01h 20 47 35 CDR Roger, Hank. Have a good day off.
014 21 l0 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Carnarvon for l0 min-

utes. Purple gang's back with you.
CDR Hi, purple gang. Where you been hiding?
CC Well, we took the weekend off and had a very nice

weekend. We were able to watch the Super Bowl,
either on TV, maybe somebody get - got to go see
it, lots of fun.
CDR Very good.
014 21 12 57 CDR Dick, I'd appreciate it if you guys would get

busy and get us up a flare right away; we're
getting tired of waiting.
CC (Laughter) Well, we'll work on it. I'm not

sure who to call and talk to.
CDR You've got to have the land lined to the right

guy.
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CC Hey, Jerry, Phil says to tell you that you're

closer than we are, so you make the call.
CDR Anybody got a nickel?
CDR That's a pay phone. We don't have any coins.
CC Uh-huh. Well, they're saying down here, you been

away from pay phones too long because a nickel
won't hardly get you - in the thing.
CC Hey, incidentally, Jerry, last evening, permanent

general message 23 Bravo was sent up to you that
had some shopping list items on it. And turns
out we found some - a couple of errors in that
shopping - in that permanent general message,
and so just for you r information, we're going
to be redoing that this evening and - and send -
sending you another one to replace 23 Bravo
tonight.
CDR Okay, fine Dick. And one item that I've noticed
missing from the shopping list has been TV out-
the-window, of North America. That was suggested,
oh golly, 2 or 3 weeks ago as a possibility to be -
to be coming up soon, and we just haven't heard
anything more.
cc Okay, we'll sure take a look at it.

LOS. Next L0 - A0S is at Goldstone at 21:50.
Be advised, we will have a Guam pass, and it
starts at about 4 minutes from now and then last
about 9 minutes. However, we're having some
problems with the voice circuits out at Guam,
so I will not give you a call. If you should
need to call me for some reason, if you'll select
VHF, we'll be listening. Otherwise, I'ii call
you at Goldstone at 21:50. See you there.
CDR Roger, Dick. And I owe you some words on S019

first chance we get.
CC Okay. Why don't we pick them up at Goldstone

if you have a chance?
014 21 21 04 CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
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014 21 49 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for a long

pass, about 18-1/2 minutes. And we notice there's
about ii or 12 minutes of something or other on
the VTR. And if you guys aren't going to be using
it in the next 17 or 18 minutes, it'd be conven-
ient for us to take control of it and dump it here
to the states and clean it off for you.
SPT No, we won't be using the VTR, Dick. That'll be

fine; thanks.
CC Okay, good. We'll do that. And, Jerry, we're

willing to listen to SO - the words on S019 any-
time. However, if you'd like to wait until after
this daylight cycle and catch us a later pass dur-
ing your PT or later, that's fine with us.
CDR It's okay. I just got a MIRROR, AUTO RASTER going

so I can talk for about 4 minutes.
CC Okay, we're listening.
CDH Okay. At the pointing that was given, the comet

was on the vertical center line, and down about 0.4
of the distance between the horizontal center line,
the horizontal center line - yes, and the lower
horizontal line. In other words, in a clock it
would be 6 o'clock, about 0.4 of the distance be-
tween the center line and the - the lower line.
CC Roger. Understand.
014 21 51 22 CDR Okay, I repositioned it over to - I put it on the

horizontal center line at the intersection with
the vertical left-hand line. And that gave me a
ROTATION of 263.5 and a TILT of 22.4.
CC Okay, copy; understand.
CDR And also made note of the fact that the - the
frame - the SLIDE RETRACT worked okay this time.
It still feels rough. I have no confidence that
it's going to make it through that entire
150 frames, but we'll just keep plucking away at
_ it. We haven't got anythingto lose, as far as I
can see.
/
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CC Well, that's the way we look at it, too, Jerry.

We might as well keep using it as long as it's
workable in any fashion.
CDR Okay. And I guess you got the word from Hank as
to where I found the - the antenna, that is the
discone antenna. It looks like about a 2.2-degree
error in rotation now, which means either the belt
has slipped or the handle has slipped or something.
CC Roger. We did get that information from Hank's

team.
CDR And that's it. I essentially - I repositioned the

comet within the first minute of the exposure and
then after that, left it alone.
CC Okay, good, Jerry. Thanks for letting us know.
014 21 57 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be handing over

to MILA in about a minute; and we're going to be
dumping the data/voice recorder when we get there.
CDR Roger.
014 22 02 O0 CC CDR, Houston. For your information, We're observ-

ing another little glitch on CMG 2. The bearing
temps are very close to being together and the
rpm is down a little bit. No action required by
you, but you might be aware of it.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
01h 22 05 53 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, we're

rewinding the VTR now. When we get through re-
winding it, and stop it at the proper point,
there's going to be approximately 22 minutes
of - of space on the tape that's available should
you need it later on this evening.
CDR Dick, you dropped out in the middle of your

transmission.
CC Okay, Jerry; sorry about that. We are through

dumping the VTR. We are - INCO is rewinding it
now. When he stops it at the appropriate point,
there will still be about 22 minutes of available
tape left on it in case you guys should need it
lateron thisevening. __
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CDR Okay, hhanks.
014 22 06 31 CC Yes, sir.
014 22 49 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon for 9 minutes.

It looks like the CMG's looking much healthier.
014 22 55 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a keyhole

coming up here in about I0 seconds. Should last
about a minute. I'll give you a call out of
keyhole.

Guam comes up at 23:02. And, PLT, Houston. We
notice the S055 GRATING is at 2234. The pad calls
for 2434. You might check that.
PLT Roger. Thank you, Dick.
014 22 57 36 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TIL_NSCRIPTION
01h 23 04 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for about

6-1/2 minutes. And, CDR, Houston. Any time it's
convenient to you, prior to the S210 - 201 ops
this evening, we got a couple of numbers to change
on that S201 pad for you.
014 23 05 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Guam for 6 minutes.

And, CDR, Houston. Any time you get a chance
this evening prior to the 201 ops that's sched-
uled, I've got a couple of mass numbers I'd like
to change on your 201 pad.
CDR Okay, Dick. In 15 minutes, I'll either be fin-

ished with m_ exercise or dead or both.
CC Well, I certainly hope it's only finished with -

with your exercise. But this change can cer-
tainly wait that long to find out.
CDR Oh, I'm really enjoying it.
CC Roger.
01h 23 09 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS; Gold-

stone comes up at 23:27. And I'll call you there.
014 23 26 42 CC Skylab, Houston we're A - AOS stateside for

15 minutes. We noticed that nobody's using the
VTR at the moment. If you don't intend to use it
in the next l0 or 15 minutes, we'd like to go
ahead and finish dumping it.
CDR Roger. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, thank you. We'll let you know when we're

through.
CDR Roger. The Aleutians are quite good tonight as

far as visibility is concerned. I think maybe
the next time we're by the Aleutians about an
hour and a half from now, we're going to do a
little TV out the window.
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CC Hey, good; that - that'd be nice.
CDR We'll take about 4 or 5 minutes and should look

pretty good.
CC Okay. Well, when we get through, we 'll let you

know how we stand. We should have it free for
yOU.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hey, Dick, is the weather clear down there in

Ho us t on ?
CC Well, unless it improved a lot since I walked in

the building at the start of this shift, it's
clobbered.
SPT That's too bad. I guess we're going over their

terminator, and we ought to be pretty good view-
ing if you had it opened.
CC Well, there were a few there were a few breaks

in overcast when I was coming in, but it was -
it was lots of clouds as it has been.
SPT Thank you.
014 23 34 55 CDR Hello, gang.
CC Hello, up there.
CC Can - -
CDR Getting CAVU out west of you.
CC Well, that's nice for somebody. You can't see

any holes at all, huh?
SPT Looks pretty solid, Dick.
CDR You know, it almost looks like we're sliding

right down the terminator.
CC Yes, I imag - imagine it is - real close to that

right now.
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014 23 37 24 CC CDR, Houston, just a r_ninder, l've still got

these 201 changes for you if you're free. We
still got about _ minutes here.
SPT Are you just fooling me?
CC Say again, please.
CC Roger. No Jerry, I just called, and got trapped

in a handover, to remind you that I do have
[ these coupleof changeson ROTATIONand TILT
angles on your S201 pad, when you get a chance.
And the next station Vanguard is - we're going
to give to the medic for a med conference.
CDR Well, I'm ready right now; go ahead.
CC Okay_ I'd like to change ROTATION to read 265.9

and TILT to read 25.0. This takes into account
the previouschangesthat you read to us on - on
your last ops.
CDR Okay.
CC One more item, we looked over the voice tapes

from the EREP this morning and we didn't find
any EREP tep - tape measurement. In case that
dropped out, We'd appreciate it if you'd let us
know what that was anytime this evening.
CDR Let's see, it was 6.6 after the first pass and
Bill called down the second one.
PLT Stand by. l've got it.
014 23 38 56 CC Okay. And, Skylab, Houston. We've dumped the

VTR. It's clean and rewound, so it's all yours
for the rest of the evening.
PLT 3.8 centimeters.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much.

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/ CDR We may get hit by the lighting probl_ on t_is
7 Aleutians idea, but we're going to give it a try.
J
J CC Okay; hope it works.
CC z Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS;

Vanguard comes up at 23:52. And that's your med
conference site. And also we're going to be
dumping the data/voice recorder at Vanguard,
23;52-.
014 23 40 39 SPT Roger, Dic_o _
014 23 59 18 CU Skylab, Houston. l've got you here for little

over a minute. I needto give you a real quick
correction to the $201 maneuver pad. If you
don't have it right there, how about grabbing a
piece of paper and let me read you some correct
numbers for the fine maneuver listed on that pad.
PLT Okay. And we're ready to copy.
CC Okay. X, 51023; Y, 50_33; z, 51104. The angles

that go with those are X, minus 0.19 degrees;
Y, plus 2.83 degrees; s;nd Z, minus 0.68 degrees.
The change is required due to a change in nu Z .
Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I got it. It's 51023, 50433, 51104 for a

minus 0.1 - 0.19, plus 2.83, and minus 0.68.
015 00 00 27 CC Okay. Thank you very much for getting it for us.
Your next pass is Goldstone at 01:04. And that's _
evening status report. I'ii be standing by there ___
for that. See you there. I"
ENDOFTAPE
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L YNDON B. JOHN,_ONSPACE CENTER

_+_"' NOVEMBER I973

SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

003 01 12 22 CC Skylab, AOS Carnavron and Honeysuckle 8 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story. You ready for evening status?

CC Yes, sir, we're ready.

CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 8.5 - 8.0 heavy, 0.5 light;

003 01 04 37 CDR Okay. No 16-millimeter today. Nikon 01, Charlie

003 01 09 57 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. You're 15 minutes

CDR Roger, Story.

SPT Story, could you please tell me how much VTR is

003 01 i0 21 SPT Thank you.

003 01 29 20 CC Skylab, got you through Hawaii for i more minute.

PLT Go, Story.

CC Bill, we see a prominence lifting off the east

PLT Shopping list item i. Roger. Over on the east

CC And that's Sun centered.

PLT Thank you.

CC And get that at the end of the orbit, when you've

PLT Okay, you want that rather than the atmospheric

PLT Thank you.

003 01 30 36 CC We're going LOS here. See you over Goldstone in

003 01 30 44 CDR Roger.

003 01 37 55 CC Skylah, A0S Goldstone, 5 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC Jer, working up a procedure for getting some

CC Okay, we_ll try it out.

SPT l'm going to try and get a shot of it this night-

003 01 42 01 PLT Story_ we're ready to read ATM frame count.

CC Okay, got 50 seconds.

PLT Roger. 14232, 5121, 170, 5439, and 4585.

003 Ol 42 49 CC Skylab, wetre going LOS here. We're 2 minutes

003 Ol 45 46 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Texas and

003 Ol 46 33 CC Skylab, just handover to Bermuda for i0 minutes.

PLT Go. Story.

CC We'll be dumping the data/voice here, Bill, we

PLT Roger. That's 445, and give me about 30 more

CC Okay, you got it.

003 Ol 47 30 PLT Okay, Story, through recording.

CC Okay, Bill, and l've got two updates for your

PLT Okay, Story_ ready to copy.

CC Okay. At 13:40_ TV-I05, cross out DAC only.

PLT You say cross out DAC only?

PLT Okay_ got it.

CC And at 23:39, make that S183 stow i.

003 Ol 48 29 PLT Roger, S183 Sierra Tango i.

CC Yes, and change that 22:39 to 23:39,

CC And your ATM closeout looks good and the EREP

PLT Thank you.

CC And Jerry got all he wanted to get to you when

CDR No, I think we're fine, Story, Thank you.

003 01 49 12 CC Okay, And wetre planning to make this our last

SPT Roger, Story. We'll have something on the VTR

CC Say again, Ed,

CC Okay, you've got 26_i/2 minutes left. And would

CDR Let's go for the 20 late. It looks like it's

CC Okay it'll be Hawaii at 09:38.

CDR Okay, thank you,

003 01 53 57 CC Ed, Houston,

CC Ed, if you take more than six S063 photos of the

CC Okay, it's no problem to us. We sure don't want

00R 01 56 22 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We're putting