Skylab 4 PAO Mission Commentary 2 of 32

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TIME: 21:35 CST, 04:03:35 GMT

11/18/7 3
PAO This is Skylab Control; 03:55 Greenwich

mean time. Following is crew physican Dr. Jerry Hordinsky
summary of the medical conference. The crew continues to
adapt well. Stomach awareness tends to be noted pre-meal
for the comma_er and the Pilot. The Science Pilot still
continues without any motion sickness problems. The crew
is on their third day of an anti-motion sickness regiment
and tomorrow will only have a single dose each if no further
motion symptoms occur. The crew, all_ did personal exercise
protocols today and feels the exercise improves their
subjective state a great deal. The pilot's nasal congestion
is mildly uncomforta_e and a decongestant will be taken
tonight. That completes the crew physican's summary statement
following the medical conference over Hawaii or later this
revolution. The crew of Skylab IV has signed off until
six a.m. tomo _ow morning and we'll do likewise. At 03:37
_eenwich mean time back at 6 a.m. Houston time.
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-101/I
Time: 05:51 CST 04:11:51 _MT
11/19/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at ii hours

51 minutes Greenwich mean time. This being our first announc-
ment of the morning, standing by now for Capcom Story Musgrave
to make the call up to wake up the crew.
PA0 Skylab IV is now under acquisition through
Madrid tracking station.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you
through Madrid for 4 more minutes.
CDR Good morning, Story.
CC How are you doing this morning?
CDR You caught us in the pads.
CC Okay. We've got some teleprinter pads
onboard for you, and we've got one mistake on the med status
pad. It refers to the first dose of antimotion sickness
medication is mandatory for tomorrow, that refers to today.
You only need to take one early today, and from there on
it's up to you and take them only if you have symptoms.
CDR Okay, I read that, Story.
CC And one other thing, you've got three
nu z updates required and that's on your flight plan. In the
future that will be on the ATM pad right at the panel, so
whoever is at the panel can get those. But at present you
need to asign those to someone today. That's on the bottom
of your flight plan, and there is no hurry on that, the first
one is at 14:28.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and
about 25 minutes from Carnarvon at 12:22. Be dumping the
data voice recorders there.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at ii hours 58 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station range
with Madrid. The next station to pick up Skylab will be
Carnarvon in approximately 24 minutes. This is Skylab Control
Houston.
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SL-IV MC-102/I
Time: 06:21 CST 04:12:21 GMT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 12 hours

21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now approaching
acquisition through Carnarvon tracking station. Less than a
minute away now from picking up Skylab IV through Carnarvon.
We'll stand by and keep the line open.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Carnarvon an
Honeysuckle for 14 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
record _s over Carnarvon.
CDR Roger, Story.
PLT Story, you might advise Dr. Hordinsky
that all three of us got an excellent night's sleep last night.
CC Okay, we'll do it. And we were watching
Ed down here and _ looks like he got a lot of good sleep.
And we persued your comments on air in the water from the
wardroom table. And looking at comments from the SL-III crew,
they did not have trouble with air in the water. It appears
that the food that they reconstituted tended to off gas and
produce some air. So you might take a look at where the air
is coming from. Is it in the water or is it produced by the
food you are rehydrating?
PLT Okay Story, it sort of seems like the
drink now. At times it seemed like I was getting a pretty
steady flow of water, other times it's almost frothy. But
I don't want to overemphasise that. BuE we were more or les
convinced there was some air entrained in the water, although
we did observe that there is not only air in the food packaging
but there could be this off gassing that you are talking about.
CC Okay, and rehydrating some of the drinks
you might be able to look at some of the water there and see
if there is any bubbles in it.
PLT There is quite a bit of air in the drinks
but also when we fixed our salt solution, it was almost trans-
lucent, it was translucent because of some small air bubbles.
You know it just occurred to me, Story, I'm going to go check
all of the QDs on the water fittings. It just may be break them
and make them again. See what they think about that down there?
PAO That is Pilot Bill Pogue talking to Cap comm
Story Musgrave. Flight Director now in the Mission Control
Center Milt Windler.
CC Bill, we think that water tank 2 is about
bottomed out, and we'll be switching you to another water tank.
So you might as well stand by on examining the QDs.
PLT Okay.
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SL-IV MC-103/I
Time: 06:36 CST 04:12:36 GMT
11/19/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 12 hours 37

minutes Greenwich Mean Time. Skylab IV continuing on this
pass over Australia; about 2 minutes of acquisition time re-
maining through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab we're a minute from LOS and about
30 minutes to Texas at 13:06.
PA0 Skylab Control, Houston at 12 hours 39
minutes Greenwich Mean Time; Skylab IV now out of station
contact with Honeysuckle. The next station to acquire will
be Texas in approximately 28 minutes. The crew of Skylab IV
was awakened shortly before 6 a.m. Central Time this morning
while passing over Madrid tracking station. The crew now and
it's their post sleep act _ity period. Very little voice con-
tact with them thus far this morning. We're at 12 hours 40
minutes Greenwich Mean Time, and this is Skylab Control - -
Skylab Control, Houston, at 13 hours 6 minutes Greenwich
Mean Time; Skylab IV now approaching acquisition through
Texas tracking station. We'll stand by now and listen for
the call up from CAP COMM Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab we've got you stateside for 16
minutes.
CDR Got you Story.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 13 hours ii min-
utes Greenwich Mean Time; Skylab IV continuing on this state-
side pass. Very little voice communications with the crew
aboard Skylab IV at thi_ point in the morning. The crew now
in their post sleep activities, which includes breakfast.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 13 hours 19
minutes Greenwich Mean Time, about 4-1/2 minutes remaining
on this stateside pass.
CC Skylab we're a minute to LOS and 5
minutes to Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 13 hours 24
minutes, loss of signal now through Bermuda. The next station
to acquire will be Madrid in approximately 3-i12 minutes.
minutes Greenwich Mean Time; Skylab IV now approaching acqui-
sition through Madrid. We'll stand by for CAP COMM Story
1_usgrave's call up over Madrid.
CC Skylab, AOS Madrid 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Again, you may be inter-
ested, we're eating, we're trying this new liquid pepper,
and although it's a bit difficult to use, it really tastes good
on the eggs.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, could we get confirmed the first time
of the first: Nu z update?
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Time: 06:36 CST 04:12:36 GMT
11/19/73
CC It's 14:28.
CDR Thank you.
CC Ed, Houston.
CDR He's listening.
CC Now we'd like to save a little time here
and get going on the activation, so we'd like to delete the
M-172 cal and both the M-074 cals and just get zero mass
readings on all three devices. That means i0 readings with
no masses in each of the three devices.
SPT Roger, we got that last night, thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, see you
in 30 minutes at Carnarvon at 14:03.
CDR Roger, Story.
minutes Greenwich Mean Time, a loss of signal now with Skylab
IV through Madrid. The next station to acquire the space
station will be Carnar _n in approximately 28 minutes. Today's
activities aboard the Skylab space station will prepare more
of the scientific equipment aboard for use in the extended
mission planned for this, the third Skylab crew. Last night
data was gat _red with the sleep monitoring device worn by
Dr. Gibson. He'll don the electrode-equipped cap once again
when he retires tonight. Charts of the sleep patters are
studied by Dr. J. D. Frost of the Baylor School of Medicine
in Houston. All 3 crewmen will spend an hour in vigorous
exercise today, the fourth day of a mission that could be
permitted to last 12 weeks. Commander Jerry Carr will trans-
fer a number of pieces of experimental hardware from the
command module into the space station. Science demonstration
kits, Earth Resources magnetic tapes, and a treadmill for
exercising is scheduled to be moved today. Carr will also
move a container of 1,000 gypsy moth eggs from the command
craft to a convenient location in the wardroom where it will
be attached to the wall with a velcro fastener. The progress
of the moth experiment is to televised later in the mission.
Another experiment to be transferred, again listed as a pos-
sibility for television at a later date, is a neutron detector.
The detector may confirm earlier findings by a Skylab student
investigator indicating that high speed neutrons are _r more
numerous in space than had been previously anticipated. Only
one experiment is scheduled to be performed by the Skylab
crew today. Pilot Bill Pogue will test the Skylab atmosphere
with an aerosol analyzer. The analyzer collects partic 1
for post flight study while the operator watches a counter
on the device. Earlier tests showed the space station to be
as clean as a hospital operating room. All three crew
members will also check their blood pressures and are sche-
duled to make measurements of their waistlines today. Without
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Time: 06:36 CST 04:12:36 GMT
11/19/73
assistance from the crew, three of Skylab's solar instruments

will maintain a continuing observation of the Sun. The white
light coronagraph, the X-ray spectrographic telescope, and
the ultraviolet scanner will be in use twice today pointed
at the center of the Sun at 14 hours 44 minutes Greenwich
Mean Time and 22 hours 51 minutes Greenwich Mean Time. During
the unmanned periods these instruments have been operating
daily so scientists will have extended records of solar de-
velopments. Only three active regions are now visible on the
face of the Sun, and solar forecasters say major flares are
unlikely today. _lanned operation for the solar telescopes
should begin next Sunday with a checkout of the control and
display console scheduled for late Saturday. First Earth
Resources surveying is expected to begin Saturday with a
descending pass over the United States. Before the Earth
Resources Experiment Package can be used, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson will attempt to repair the antenna drive system ofr
the microwave radiometer's scatterometer altimeter
during the flight's first space walk. The movable antenna
has not been usable since September 14th. The comet Kohoutek
now glows faintly in the morning sky 107 million miles from
the Sun and 152 million miles from Earth. Skylah observations
of the comet are expected to begin Friday with handheld
photography. Using a 35-millimeter _ikon camera and a standard
55-millimeter lens, one of the crew members will take color
pictures of the distant glow from the left viewing window of
the command module. Skylab flight controllers expect to begin
using the instruments in Skylab's scientific airlock to study
the comet later this week. While plans are not yet final,
the far ultraviolet eleetronographic camera will probably see
its first use next Saturday. The Apollo telescope mount in-
struments will join the common investigation about December
13. We're 13 hours 40 minutes Greenwich Mean Time, about 23
minutes away now from reacquisitlon of Skylab IV over Carnarvon.
This is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC-104/I
Time: 07:49 CST 04:13:49 GMT
11/19/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 13 hours,

49 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We have the following
announcement to make. At 9:00 a.m., Houston time, the pioneer
briefing from NASA Headquarters in Washington will be piped
into the Johnson Space Center building i, small briefing
auditorium. This will be one way audio only and will not be
piped out over the Mission Control Center release line. I repeat,
9:00 a.m., in the small briefing auditorium, JSC building i.
This is Skylab Contro i, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 14 hours,
3 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now approaching
acquisition through Carnarvon. A new flight control team now
on duty in the Mission Control Center. Flight Director Neal
Hutchinson and his team. Our CAP COMM now is Astronaut Bruce
McCandless. Less than a minute away now from reaquiring
Skylab IV. Standing by for the callup. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 3-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Right, Good morning, Bruce.
CC Good morning. Just a point of general
interest, you now have 32 hours, 49 minutes of daylight remain-
ing until Sunset. Over.
SPT Thank you Bruce.
CC Okay. Now then. Got a couple of questions
for you. Did we understand you correctly last pass to have
said that you had completed the zero mass calibrations on the
body mass measuring device and on the two specimen mass
measuring devices last evening? Over.
SPT No, Bruce, that's negative. We reported
that we got the information last night that all we had _ do
was the zero calibrations on the - uh calibration.
CC Okay. In that case, what we would like
to do is to inhibit momentum dump and gave you one crack for
taking the zero mass cal data on all three of them at once.
And, I guess, we'd like to know what your druthers are on
when you'd prefer to do that. Over.
PLT Hey, Bruce, I'm gonna have to have you
(garble) here. I'm gonna get the T003 cranked up (garble)
from the post-sleep that I didn't get to acomplish. (Garble)
up-date (hammering sound) and go to the following night-flight
logging ready to (hammering sound) get the zero cal.
CC Okay. Then, I guess we're talking and
.looking at your flight plan in the block. It starts about
15:30 and including the night cycle in there, wherever it
may fall. Over.
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Time: 07:49 CST 04:13:49 GMT
11/19/73
SPT Roger, Bruce. That's good. About 15:30,

including the night (garble)
CC Okay. Actually you know we don't have
any night any more but we'll hold off the momentum dump that's
in the block starting at 15:30.
SPT Okay. So then any time from that date
side all the way throu _ to the following date side is good.
CC Roger. That's correct, Ed. And, for
your further information. The M133 data that was taken on
you last night has been received down here and it's of good
quality. Over.
SPT Roger. That's good to hear, Bruce. When
I got up this morning (garble) get the solar information on
recorded. So many electrodes for (garble) out. And I wasn't
sure whether we were getting good data in here.
CC Okay. One minute til LOS. Next station
contact in 7 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at 14:14. And
for the PLT, if he's listening. On the wardroom water
situation. We expect that sometime today or tomorrow you'll
probably run out of wardroom water and need to change tanks.
Your first clue may well be that you are suffering a drop in
pressure or you don't get any water out of the wardroom system.
At your convenience, prior to selecting tank 3. We need to
get an iodine check on that can be today, tomorrow, but
before selecting tank 3. Over.
SPT Roger. Understand, Bruce. Iodine check
on water tank 3.
CC Roger. Out.
8 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal with Carnarvon.
Next station to acquire, Honeysuckle, in 5-1/2 minutes.
acquisition through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek. One minute til LOS. We'll be dumping your tape recorder
next site, which is Corpus Christi in 29 minutes at 14:43.
And, I'd like to remind you that your first Nu up-date today
comes at 14:28. That's during this LOS period_ And then the
star tracker operations wants you to get the inter gimbal
angle set. We'd like you to slew the outer gimbal back
and forth a little bit until you get star presence ind _ated
then go to auto. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. I understand that. Got a
question for you on T003. There was not a dummy filter in
there. There was only one filter in the case and in the
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Time: 07:49 CST 04:13:49 GMT
11/19/73
storage. Will you confirm the one we should be using it.

Serial number 3. And another number on it is 630092.
CC Roger that -
SPT (Garble)
CC Roger. That's the correct one, we had
scheduled during deactivation on SL-III to install it. We
weren't sure whether it had actually been accomplished. You're
in good shape. Out.
CC Copy, Ed?
SPT Roger. Bruce. I got it. Thank you.
15 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through
Honeysuckle. The T003 is the aerosol analyzer. On that very
short pass over Honeysuckle we heard CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
speaking with Science Pilot Ed Gibson. We're at 28 minutes
away now from reacquiring Skylab IV through Texas. And at
14 hours, 16 minutes, Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC-105/I
Time: 08:42 GMT 04:14:42 GMT
11/19/73

43 minutes (_eenwich mean time. Skylab IV now less than a
minute away from station contact through Texas. We'll stand
by with the line open.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi for i0 minutes, Out.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Okay, I've got you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS, next sta _on contact in 5-1/2 minutes through Madrid at
15:04. Out.
SPT Talk with you then, Houston.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hou
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Bermuda. Next
station to acquire will be Madrid in 4 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hours
3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from contact with Skylab IV through Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 9 minutes. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 15 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. A very quiet pass over Madrid. About
5 minutes remaining on this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact through Tananarive probably in about
18 minutes at 15:30 Zulu. The antenna that we are selecting
aboard the spacecraft _ the one will that pick up the last part
of the pass. The intial part of the pass will be in blockage.
Subsequent station contact in 37 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 15:50. Out.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station contact Khreu_
ig!rid. Next station to acquire will be Tananarive. This
is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV _IC-106/l
Time: 09:25 CST 04:15:25 _T
11/19/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for acquisition and
contact with Skylab IV through Tananarive.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Tananarive
for 6-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute and 1/2
to LOS here at Tananarive. Next station contact is 17 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek at 15:50. Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time; Skylab IV now out of range through
Tananarive. Next station to acquire, Honeysuckle, in 15
minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC-107/I
Time: 09:50 CST 04:15:50 GMT
11/19/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 15 hours 50

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now a minute away
from acquisition through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 5 minutes. Out.
CDR Got it, Bruce.
PLT Bruce, this is the PLT on the ergometer, are
you getting data on this?
CC Yes we are Bill. You Know, we're getting the
RPM and the watts out if the ergometer. That's about it. You're not
hooked up or anything are you?
PLT Negative. I wasn't quite sure how, what
you had to have on for you to get that data.
SPT Bruce, SPT. Would you tell me whether
we've reached dump night yet?
CC Yes Ed. We're in it. In fact, we're
almost through dump night. However, the dump was inhibited
for you if you're concerned about the mass measuring device
calibrations. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I know I had finished it
up just now and I was wondering whether I could use it (garble)
Disregard.
CC You understand you just finished the 30
mass cals?
SPT That's right. I'm going to put them on
recording now.
CC Okay. lighty fine. We'll go ahead and
enable for the next scheduled dump.
SPT Okay. I'm right at the panel now. I
can hit it (garble).
CC Negative. We'd like to do that from
Ground Control as a matter of routine. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC And just for your general information
the EGILS tell us the max temperature you should get on
board during this period of continuous sunlight is only about
4 or 5 degrees above your present, probably be 82 to 83 down
in the experiment com_rtment. Over.
SPT That's okay. Thank you Bruce. Sleep
compartment 3 gets a little warm, because the (garble)
sunshine (garble), and we've been thinking of turning off
some of the lights here also just to keep the temperature down.
CC Okay, that'd be fine. Your option. You
could also put a portable fan in there and blow the air around
a little more if you wanted to. We're aware of that problem
with sleep compartment 3.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
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Time: 09:50 CST 04:15:50 GMT
11/19/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. CAP COMM Bruce llcCandless talking
to both Bill Pogue and _ience Pilot Ed Gibson. Pilot Pogue
reported that he was on the ergometer, wanted to see if we
were receiving readings here in the control center. And
initialed calibrations of the mass - specimen mass measure-
ment device was taking place with Dr. Gibson.
CC Skylab this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next statio_ contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at 16:11,
and we'd just like to remind Ed to get his PT in this morning
if he's not already do_ so. Over.
PLT Rog, he heard.
SPT Rog, Bruce. I'll go ahead and so that as
soon as we get Bill off the bike.
CC Roger. Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station
range with Honeysuckle. The next station to pick up will be
Hawaii in 14-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC-108/I
Time: 10:08 CST 04:16:08 GMT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 16 hours

9 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 2-1/2 minutes away now
from acquisition through Hawaii with Skylah IV. A procedure
to solve a minor problem which has plagued Skylab since the
launch of the workshop on May 14, is scheduled to be worked
out in a short while by Pilot Bill Pogue. Since the loss of
the micrometeoroid shield on launch day, a minor momentum
problem has been encountered with the use of the M092 lower
body pressure device. The nitrogen used to lower
the pressure in this experiment is vented overboard. If the
micrometeoroid shield were in place it would serve as a
disperser of the vented nitrogen. In stead, during the previous
manned operations of the workshop, the M092 nitrogen vent
has acted as a thruster adding unwanted momentum. Pogue is
scheduled to attach one end of a 6-foot hose to the M092 vent
connection, and the other end will be hooked up to a vent in
the trash airlock area. This small plumbing job should help
alleviate this problem. We're 1 minute away now from reacquiring
Skylab IV through Hawaii. We'll stand by and listen.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. With respect to filling the three
return water bags, we suggest if you have not already accomplished
this you hold off on that until we select portable water tank
number 3. We're not sure you'd make it all the way through
the filling operation on tank 2, and we're awful concerned
about getting entrained air in the bags. Over.
CDR Okay, Bill has already done it.
CC How did it work?
PLT Bruce, it seems to have worked okay.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Of course you never can tell how much air
is in it. That is the trouble, because you can't see.
CC Roger. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 16:19. Out.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 16 hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
picking up through Goldstone in 2 minutes.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Roger. You anticipate us. We're with you
through Goldstone for 9 minutes. Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say Bruce, I've got a question on the activ-
ities for Jerry on (garble) at 16(?):15. We as yet have not taken
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blood for the (garble) measurements on the PLT. Had you meant
for us to take those on the PLT or would you want a second set
of the ,mossion done on the CDR?
CC Roger, Ed. We want the second set on
the CDR. And we have completely abandoned the first set of
measurements on the PLT. Over.
CC And by the way, Ed, this is at 16:15 here,
this is blood pressure and the girth measurements. It's not
the full set of anthropometric measurements. Over.
CDR Hey Bruce?
CC Speak.
CDR This is the third set on me. There has
been one set taken on mission day 2, one set on mission day 3,
and now a set today.
CC Okay, right. That's correct. It's calf
girth measurements and blood pressure on you.
CDR Okay.
SPT That's CDR only. Is that affirm?
CC That's correct. Itts 16:15 here.
SPT Thank you.
CC And if you look ahead in the detail flight
plan, Ed, you 'ii see at 24:00 we're going to get the girth
measurements and the blood pressures on yourself and on the
PLT at that time. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Skylab IV. Next
station acquiring will be Bermuda in 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 5 minutes. Out.
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Time: 10:33 CST 04:16:33 GMT
11/19/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 16 hours

35 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV still under
acquisition through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute til
LOS. Next station contact through Canary in 4 minutes at
16:41. And, we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at Canary. Out.
38 minutes, Greenwich Mean Time. Skylab IV now out of
acquisition range with Bermuda. Next station to pick up,
Canary, in a little less than 3 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 16 hours
41 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition with Skylab IV through Canary.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 9 minutes with a data voice tape recorder dump. Out.
LOS. Next station contact, in 12 minutes, through Tananarive
at 17:02. Out.
51 minutes, Greenwich mean time. A loss of signal now with
Skylab IV through Canary. Next station acquiring, Tananarive,
in approximately i0 minutes. For 30 minutes, just before
lunch, the Skylab IV crewmen will go through a fire drill,
doing what they should do in the event of a fire aboard the
orbiting spacestation. Today's test is a dry run during
which Commander Jerry Carr, Science Pilot Ed Gibson, and
Pilot Bill Pogue will move to their respective stations.
Cart goes to the multiple docking adapter, at the structural
transition section. _bson goes to the orbital workshop
and Pogue moves down to the command module. In the event of
a real fire, each crew member would don their secondary
oxygen masks and proceed with prescribed steps either in
search of the fire and/or prepare for exiting the workshop.
Today's drill calls for the crew to don the oxygen masks,
close the appropriate hatches and review the fire drill
checklist. The Skylab caution and warning system will alert
the crew in the event of a fire. There are 22 ultraviolet
fire sensors throughout the spacestation. These are divided
into 5 groups. 8 are in the MDA/STS area. 2 are located in
the aft end of the airlock module. 3 are in the forward area
of the workshop. 6 are in the orbital workshop crew quarters and
3 are located in the experiment area of the workshop. 12 sensor
control panels provide control of these 22 sensors. 4 panels
are in the MDA/STS. One in the aft airlock area. 2 in the
forward portion of the workshop. 2 in the experiment area and
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3 in the crew quarters. Lights on these panels indicate the

location of the fire. In the event of a fire, the panel
lights would turn on, a fire tone would come on, the master
alarm lights would turn on and a warning tone would be initiated
The activity today is a rehearsal for the crew in moving to
their respective positions. In the MDA, the workshop, and the
command module. And reviewing procedures in the event they
had an actual fire alert. Wetre about 8 minutes away now
from reacquiring through Tananarive. This is Skylah Control,
Houston.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 17

hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
possible voice commu _cations with the crew of Skylab IV
through Tananarive.
for 5-1/2 minutes. We've got a good block both ways now.
Out.
CDR Roger. Go Houston
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead CDR.
CDR Roger, Bruce. Bill and I are trying to
do this housekeeping 60 Hotel, which is the LBND and NPV in-
stallation. The checklist calls for an E - 610 Charlie. We
should be to able to find the LBMD 90 degree adapter, and
it's not in there. Got any other suggestions?
CC Let us check on that for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. _le think it should be in A-5 now.
Over, Jer.
CDR Thank you Bruce.
CC Alfa 5, locker A-5. Over,
CDR Okay, A-5.
CC And also, the LBNP wardroom heater
probe adapter. We've got that in your detail flight plan.
CDR Okay, copy.
Next station contact in 18 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek
at 17:26. Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through
Tananarive. Next sta _on contact with Skylab IV will be
Honeysuckle in approximately 15 minutes. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have an announcement.
The Earth Observation Aircraft briefing for newsmen will be
held in the Johnson Space Center small briefing auditorium
in Building i at 12:30 p.m. Houston time today. This confer-
ence will not be piped out over the Mission Control Center
release line. I repeat the start time, 12:30 Houston time,
today. We're about a minute away now from reacquiring Sky-
lab IV through Honeysuckle. We'll stand by and leave the
line open.
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CDR Houston, Skylab. You with us?

CC Yessir, through Honeysuckle Creek for 9
minutes. Go ahead. Over.
CDR Okay. Bill is getting ready to go down
in the plenum through the sleep compartment and remove that
dump heater probe.
CC Very good. Give him my best wishes.
CDR Okay.
minutes GMT and we heard from Commander Jerry Carr aboard the
Skylab space station talking to CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
here in the Mission Control Center. Skylab IV is now under
minutes Greenwich mean time. Our best estimate, Pilot Bill
Pogue about half way through and hooking up the hose for
M092. We heard from Jerry Carr, who indicated that Pilot
Pogue was on his way into the plenum area with the hose
fitting. Procedurally, the hose fitting upstairs, we would
expect to be hooked up.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. About 5 minutes
now remaining on this pass over Honeysuckle. We're at 17
hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:30 CST 04:17:30 GMT
11719/73

LOS. Next station contact in 11-1/2 minutes, through Hawaii
at 17:46. And, sometime during your lunch period, probably
stateside pass, we'd like to get a few words from the commander
regarding your status on completing the activation checklist
items. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out, Ed.
PAO Skylah Control, Houston. 17 hours,
36 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through
Honeysuckle. Next station to acquire Skylab IV will be Hawaii.
45 minutes, Greenwich mean time. A minute away now from
reacquiring Skylab IV through Hawaii. We'll stand by and
wait for the callup from CAP COMM Bruce MeCandless.
SPT Jerry will be with you in a minute, Bruce.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Hello, Bruce, CDR.
CC Go ahead Jerry. I'm listening.
CDR Okay, the Activation Checklist is complete
up to page R.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CDR We have yet to do a PB02 sensor replacement,
A CO2 filter replacem _t, and all the steps beyond that.
CC Okay. How about the PLT test of taping
the switches?
CDR That's all done.
CC Okay. Very good. Thank you.
CDR Okay. And the LBNP - uh - NPV is completely
installed now. We're putting all the tools away.
CC Okay. Mighty fine. The comment from
Owen Garriott here, is that on their flight, with respect to
the wardroom water, they didn't find any gas in the wardroom
water system: however, they observed that when they added
water to certain reeonstitutible food items like veal and
spaghetti, there was gas formed as a result of the reconstitution.
He suggests that in order to cheek for where the gas is you notice
whether you get gas when you reconstitute drinks. He said
they did not have any gas in the drink reconstitution. Over.
CDR Okay. We've noticed all that same stuff
ou _elves, but, we do definitly have gas in the water because
you can feel it in your mouth when you take a drink out of
the drink gum.
SPT And, Bruce, I also - when we got down
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here the first day, we're still working out of some of the bags.
I used the wardroom table for just plain water and I got maybe oil,
6 or 7 drinks out of that. Just plain water and maybe i0 -
i0 to 20 per cent of it was bubbles.
CC Okay. Thank you, Ed. We copy.
CDR Bruce, also when we reconstituted our
salt into the liquid sodium there's lots of bubbles in that
too .
CC Okay. Do you think you're getting any
distortion of the volumes of water that you're using or
significant one, due to the fact that there's air in it?
CDR That's affirmative, Bruce. That's why
we've been coming down every day on the evening report with
reduction or deltas in our _hydration water. We average a
loss of about 1 ounce of water on every drink and something
like a half an ou _e on all the reconstitutibles.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR What it means, is we do a lot of bag
swinging up here after we get the thing get the water in
and try to make room to get some more water in.
CC Is that generally successful?
CDR About 50 percent of the time.
CC Okay, good. We tried that on Apollo i0,
with the orange juice, and didn't have any notable success.
CDR Oh, it works - it works about 50 percent
of the time, if you're quick. You can take an 8 ounce juice
container and _iI it with 8 ounces of water, and then swing
it, and about the top inch and a half of it will be a big
bubble. If you work real fast you can put a valve in and get
rid of about half of that air and then you start getting
liquid and you have to swing it again. But, what it does, it
makes food reconstitution a real time consuming event.
CC Sounds like it makes it more of a black
art, than a science, but is Bill where he can listen or talk
for just a minute?
CDR Yeah. He's listening.
CC Okay. With respect to the Coolanol
reservicing this afternoon. We got a couple of items here.
If you could dig out your Swiss Systems Checklist. We're
looking at page 9-61 and following. Over.
CDR Okay. Stand by.
CDR Okay. Bruce. Hit the page again.
CC Okay. 9-60 and subsequent.
CDR Okay.
CC First item is, as you notice on the flight
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plan, we're asking you to weigh the Coolanol before you do

the servicing and also to weigh it afterwards. This is
weighing the container in the A-7 locker, and prior to weighing
we'd like you to remove this - remove as much of the food as is
possible. But, without removing the RCS tank and its bracketry
from the A-7 locker, since we understand that there are other
involv _ special technique to get it strapped back down
properly. Also, take the gear off of the sides of the locker.
What we want to do of course is get the thing in exactly the
same configuration for the weighing before and after. Another
item here is that the current system of pressure in the primary
loop is running around 12 to 15 psi, instead of the 5 psi
that we had anticipated, due to the fact that you're in a
warmer thermal environment. We, none the less, want you to
follow the procedures as given in the checklist, that is filling
until you get a pressure of 19 to 21 psi, as it's called out
on page 9-64, in the system. For one difference, however,
is that we want to use 23 psi, that's 23 psi, as the criterian
for an overfill. So that, unless you, inadvertently, fill
to greater than 23 psi, we will not backflow into the Coolanol
reservoir. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. We've already cleaned A-7
almost completely. There's probably three or four survival bars
down one side that we just can't get out. And A-7 is cleared
out other than that.
CC Okay. As long as they're in tight and
don't rattle that
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CDR Okay Bruce, we've already cleaned A7

almost completely. There is probably three or four survival
bars down one side that we just can't get out. And A7 is cleared
out other than that.
CC Okay, as long as they are in ti=ht and
don't rattle that's fine, just leave them there. We'd like
you to write in that com_nt about 23 instead of 21 on page
9-64 under the overfill condition. At the top of page 9-65,
we can catch you again over the states on this, we want to get
a chance to look at the system before you disconnect the
coolanol reservoir. So it's 9-65 about the seventh line down
we want to insert get a go from state end prior to disconnecting.
We've got 30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 2-1/2
minutes through Goldstone at 17:57. Over.
CDR Okay. Is the point in the checklist
opposite the 500 where it says disco mect male female?
CC No, it's up further up. You go servicing
tank and you come down and it says cool and supply valve open
then close. We want to do it there before it says disconnect
saddle valve service hose.
CDR Okay, we'll put a hold for state end on that.
CC Beautiful.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Loss of signal
through Hawaii. Next station to acquire, _idstone in about
a minute. We're now at 17 hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean time.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're back
with you now through Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, it was a little hurried there going
over the hill from Hawaii or down into the sea or whatever
you want to call it, but we don't have any further comments.
Do you have any further questions regarding the procedures
coming up?
CDR I guess the big question Bruce, is TV.
I thought we were going to do TV on this but it looks like
everybody else is busy, there's nobody to do it.
CC Well, you're scheduled for TV72. It was
our understanding that it was the whole thing was sort of
a one-man job, putting the camera in position and then working
in front of it. Over.
CDR Okay. I was under the impression that
it was a two-man job.
CC And Jerry, of course anything here, is that we've
got enough flexibility so that if you feel it is appropriate
to break out of your day 4 transfers and run the TV camera or
give him a little assistance, why feel free to do it and we can
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work around it. Over.

CDR Okay Bruce, I probably will because that
is the way we trained.
CC Okay. And then also we figured it would
probably be something like one of these flares where you've
got one guy in the ATM panel and everybody else clustered
around watching.
CDR I hope this one doesn't flare up.
CC Well, I hope not either.
CC And reviewing your progress through
the Activation Checklist, Jet, what we'd like to do is to
have you work on through that the PP02 sensor replacement
(garble) to filter that whole column of stuff you've got down
there before _tting into the day 4 transfers. That way
we can pretty well close out the activation phase. Over.
CDR I agree with you, Bruce. That is what
I was going to plan to do.
CC Okay, mighty fine.
CC And also in reviewing things here it
looks to us like you've made up a good bit of ground here this
morning, and we guess you all must be moving around a lot
better and getting a sort of acclimatized to things.
CDR Yeah, that's right. I think we've made
it real good progress. That good night's sleep last night did
all three of us a world of good.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 8 minutes through Bermuda at
18:09. And for the CDR, when you get down to it in your
day 4 transfers, we would like you to go ahead and bring the
liquid crystai thermometers across but do not install them
on the rate gyro six-pack packages. The ground units that
we've got up at Harshall have been showing a milky type dis-
coloration. We'd like to look into the situation a little
further before we put them on. Over.
CDR Wilco.
Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for reacquisition of
Skylab IV through Bermuda.
for 9 minutes. And just to satisfy our curiosity, have you all
completed drying the third suit yet? Over.
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, thank you. And back again with
respect to these liquid crystal thermometers, we would like
to stow all of them in MI41. That is the spares which were
originally destined to go there plus the ones that were
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supposed to be installed in }141. Over.

CDR Wilco.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _IC-ll3/l
Time: 12:12 CST 04:18:12 CMT
PA0 Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours 15

minutes Greenwich mean time. Continuing acquisition of Sky-
lab IV through Bermuda. Very quiet pass in terms of voice
communicatiorts with the crew of Skylab IV.
CC Skylab this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 2 minutes through Canary Islands at 18:19.
0nt.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Standing by now
for acquisition through Canary.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Canary and
Ascension for 16-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder over Ascension. Out.
CDR Rog. We're eating lunch now, Bruce.
CC Roger. Likewise.
CDR Enjoy your (greasyburger, Bruce.
CC No. I'm having barbequed chicken and a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a cup of coffee.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. For lunch today
Commander Carr is having peanut butter, jam, bread, lemon
pudding, and an orange drink. Science Pilot Gibson is having
pork and potato, biscuit, pears, and a grape drink while
Pilot Bill Pogue is having salmon, green peas, pineapple,
and an orange drink. We're at 18 hours 21 minutes Greenwich
mean time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
minutes. About 13-1/2 minutes remaining on this Canaryf-
Ascension pass.
PAO gkylab Control, Houston. 18 hours 29
minutes Greenwich mean time. About 6-1/2 minutes remaining
now on this pass over Ascension by Skylab IV.
Next station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon at
19:01. Out.
CDR Roger.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has Loss Of Signal
now with Skylab IV. The next station to acquire Skylab IV
is Carnarvon in 25 minutes, and coming up this afternoon Pilot
Bill Pogue will start to do another Skylab repair job in a
planned effort to repair the coolant system aboard the workshop.
Trouble in the airlock module coolanol system, which removes and
dissipates heat from critical experiment and operations systems
began showing problems during the Skylab III mission on
August 8th the ninth mission day for the crew of A1 Bean,
Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma. Three subsequent attempts
to trace an apparent leak in the primary COOLANOL system
were unsuccessful. The secondary coolant loop took over the
load when the primary loop was shut down on August 23rd, day
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27 of the Skylab III mission. A special coolant reservicing

kit was prepared for this mission and loaded aboard the com-
mand mod _e. The reservice kid consists of a tank containing
42 pounds of COOLANOL, a series of saddle valves, bolts and
spacers, and _ak check hoses. This repair kit weights about
87 pounds and the COOLANOL loaded in the tank should be suf-
ficient to resupply both the primarY and secondary loops.
The resupply tank is a modified command module reaction con-
trol system fuel tank. The repair kit was stowed in Locker
A7 in the command mod He. The procedures to install the
lines to the primary and secondary loops should be completed
in approximately 2 hours. Prior to launch, initial procedures
for this repair job were validated by backup Science Pilot
Don Lind, and later verified by Skylab IV Commander Jerry
Carr as well as Pilot Bill Pogue. Generally the procedures
will be accomplished in the following order. One, weighing
of the Command Module Locker containing the replacement
COOLANOL tank; 2, remove the panel in the structural transition
section where the COOLANOL lines are located; 3, install
saddle valves; 4, make leak checks; 5, connect the 60 foot
water service hose to the workshop gaseous nitrogen supply
- this furnishes pressure to force COOLANOL from the replace-
ment tank; 6, make another leak check; 7, penetrate COOLANOL
lines; 8, make another leak check. If all goes well, this
will be the :fifth major repair job in the three Skylab mis-
sions. The parasol and the solar wing deployment on the
first mission and the twin boom and the gyro six pack installa-
tion on the Skylab III mission. This work on the coolant
system is planed to begin sometime shortly after 19:00 hours
Greenwich mean time, or 20 minutes or more from now. We're
21 minutes away now from reacquiring Skylab IV. And at 18
hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control,
Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-II4/I
Time: 13:00 CST 04:19:00 GMT
11/19/73

Skylab IV through Carnarvon.
CC Go ahead Skylab. We're listening. Go
ahead Skylab. We're listening.
PLT Roger. OWS systems hands up Reference
page 17-6 (?), not keeping 83 (garble). I'm on step 2 and
my condensate (garble) is less than 3.0, which requires a
condensate system dump. Would - I'd like to know what the
precise nomenclature of that task is. The condensate system
dump that is referenced there. Which one of the dumps is it?
Is it the holding tank dump?
CC Roger. Stand by, please.
PLT It reads (?) 12.8 on the delta-V. That's
why (garble) I'm going to do that task.
CC Okay Bill. 2.8 is good enough in our
present configurations. Press on as if it were (garble) and 3.
PLT Thank you.
CC And we appreciate your call on it.
PLT All right. Thanks for that word, too.
Can save me a lot of time.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. About 2 minutes
remaininz on this pass over Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab this is Houston in the blind. (?) 1
minute to LOS. Next station contact in 7 minutes through
Guam at 19:15 Zulu, and for the PLT, when you take the readings
on the coolanol tank, if you have not already done so, we'd
like to get a set of five readings from all six decimal
places. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours ii
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now at Honey-
suckle. Next station to acquire, Guam, in approximately
5 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston in 19 hours 15
minutes Greenwich mean time in less than a minute away now
from acquisition of Skylab through Guam.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Guam for
2-1/2 minutes for the CDR. Over.
CDR Come in Houston.
CC Okay, Jerry. Since you're going to take a
little five out here to operate the TV camera, we'd like to ask
you to go one step further and gives us sort of a running
commentary on the oper _ion, either live or on the VTR as you
go along, if yon would, please. And for Bill, if you've not
already performed the first Coolanoling, when you do so and when
you do the second one also, we'd like to get a set of five read-
ings recorded to all six digits. Over.
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PLT Say again where you do want the readings?

CC Roger. When he reats - when he weighs it
on the B_IMD, we'd like to get five sets, or five readings per
each set, one before, one after, and record all six digits of
the readout on the BMMD please. Over.
PLT Okay Bruce. Will do.
Next station contact in 8 minutes through Hawaii at 19:25.
And a request for comm _tary from the CDR was not intended
to be one that would tie him down the whole tim_, you know.
But just keep us posted periodically on how things are coming
so we don't have to interrupt Bill. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce. And when I removed the Par-
tial Pressure Oxygen Cistern, number 2, I noticed a piece of
rather crystaline-looking white material, and I tasted it, and
it's very salty. It's right on the end of the sensors. It's on
the outboard side. And I was wondering if you want me to save
that crystal and bring it back.
CC Save it for now. We're just about LOS.
And we'll catch you over Hawaii.
CDR Okay. Also sensor number 2 can be inserted
in R, but you can't rotate it to L.
CC Roger. We're aware of that condition.
You can just stick it back in the hole there and leave it.
It'll work fine.
CDR Okay.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Skylab
IV through Guam. Next station acquisition will be with
Hawaii in 6 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
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Time: 13:24 CST 04:19:24 (_T
11/19/73
PAO Tms is Skylab Control, Houston at

19 hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV less than
a minute away now from _waii acquisition. The first step
in the Coolanol repair is the weighing of the command module
locker 7A, which contains the Coolanol tank. This will be
done with the body mass measurement device, one of the two
onboard space scales. We're standing by now for the callup
from the CAP COM _uce McCandless. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.
for 4 minutes. Over.
SPT (garble), Houston. This is the SPT,
l_m on the vent activations on the bottom of page 1-1.
CC Okay, we copy. You're finishing up
activation, Ed, and you're at the bottom of what, 4-1?
SPT Negative Bruce. I've just started the
vent activation. And I'm on the bottom of page i-I.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
CC Skyiab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next: station contact in 8-1/2 minutes through Gold-
stone at 19:37. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours 31 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station range
with Hawaii. Next station to acquire, Goldstone in 6 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours 37 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition of
Skylab IV throu _ Goldstone.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 5-1/2 minutes. Go ahead, Jerry. We heard you calling
while we were out of contact and couldn't get back to you.
Over.
SPT Houston, no, that was the SPT. I've got
a question on page 1-2 of the vent activation checklist. Half-
way down on the first col_n where it says 625 LBNP vacuum that
valve open. I have a write-in that comes after that which says
omit this step if housekeeping 68 is complete. Bill did
complete 68 this morning, but the position of that valve is now
closed. Do you _nt it open?
CC Negative, Ed. We want that particular
valve closed. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC That's the panel 625 LBNP vacuum vent valve.
SPT Rog. I understand that. He told me to
open it here, and I thought maybe that was the position that
68 would be, but apparently not.
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CC Negative Ed, that leaves it closed.

CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Okay, got a nomenclature problem. I'm
on page 4-6 of the activation list.
CC Stand by just a second.
CC Go ahead, please.
CDR O_y, step 2 says remove MOL SIEVE Bravo
C02 inlet, and in parentheses says blue 203 PM (?). It's blue
205 PM on Hol Sieve B. On 14ol Sieve A it's 203. I'm
wondering which one I ought to do, A or B?
CC Okay, if you look further down the page
on block 4 I think it repeats this for panel 203 Mol Sieve A,
and the words that I believe I'm hearing here is it should
read 205, and go with B.
CDR Okay, that's what I thought it was supposed
to be, thanks_
LOS. Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through Corpus
Christi. Out.
Skylab IV through Texas.
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 12 minutes. Out.
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Time: 13:50 CST 04:19:50 GMT
11/19/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 19 hou _ 51

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV continuing on this
stateside pass with about 5-1/2 minutes remaining over Ber-
muda.
Next station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension at
20:05. Out.
CDR Still there, Bruce?
CC Go ahead, Jerry, for about another 40
seconds.
CDR Okay. On that mol sieve B on the blue,
one of the O-rings was missing. Do we need to put a replace-
ment in or can it make it without it?
CC We brought up four spare 0-rings in the
utility bag in U-I in the Command Module, Jerry.
CDR Okay. I'll go get one.
hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of
station contact with Bermuda. The next station to acquire
Skylab IV will be Ascension in approximtely 8 minutes. Mean-
while the crew of Jerry Carr, Ed Gib;_cn, Bill Pogue, are
pressing ahead in their various flight plan procedures for
today. And after, in the case of Bill Pogue, after weighing
the COOLANOL Locker, he will attach an adapter to the nitrogen
line on Panel 500 in the Workshop, to which he will hook the
60-foot-long onboard Water Servicing Hose. The hose will
carry the gaseous nitrogen at 35 psi into the COOLANOL reser-
vice tank. Next he will complete removal of the access panel
to the STS, using a pocket knife. He will carefully remove
the insulation from the affected COOLANOL lines. Next step is
placement of a saddle (?) valve on the primary coolant line, and
then another valve on the secondary line. By using a leak
meter on a 3-foot-long hose, he will make a check to determine
the integrity of the fitting on the line. The saddle (?) valve
will be placed atop the COOLANOL line. The line has a puncture
mechanism to pierce - the valve has a puncture mechanism to
pierce the line and a quick-disconnect fixture through which the
COOLANOL will flow. The saddle valve, Y-shaped, weighs less
than a half a pound and is 3 inches and about 2-1/4 inches
wide. The mechanism which punctures the line consists of a
stainless steel cap and the punch made of carpentar's steel.
Puncture of the line is accomplished by thumb-twisting the
stem on one arm of the Y-valve. This pressure is sufficient
to pierce the stainless steel coolant pipes and permit the flow
of replacement COOLA_L into the lines through the other arm
of the Y-shaped valve. Plans are to pump sufficient COOLANOL
into the system to a point where the pressure within the
system reads 19 to 21 psi. After completing the work on the
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Time: 13:50 CST 04:19:50 GMT
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primary system and assuring that there are no leaks and that
the pressure within the system is between 19 and 21 psi,
Pilot Pogue will proceed to work on the secondary loop. When
complete, he will again weigh the stowage locker and replace-
ment tank to assess how much COOLANOL was pumped into the
two systems. Since occupation of the Workshop, the secondary
loop has stabilized at about 20 psi. Normal pressure with-
in the system is about 25 psi. We're at 20 hours Greenwich
mean time. About 5 minutes away now from reacquiring Skylab
IV over Ascension. This is gkylab Control, Houston.
minutes Greenwich mean time. About 1 minute away now from
reacquiring the gkylah space station over Ascension.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Ascension
for 5-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping your data voice tape
recorder next _te over Carnarvon. Out.
CC Skylab this Houston. A minute and a half
to LOS. Next station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through Car-
narvon at 20:35. We'd just like to remind you about the NuZ
update we have scheduled for 20:41, at 20:41, just after AOS
at Carnarvon. And if Jerry has a second, maybe you could give
us some idea of how the PLT is progressing through the COOLANOL
servicing procedure. Over.
SPT Okay. I'ii get the NuZ update. Jerry will
be with you in just a minute.
CC Roger. Thank you Ed.
PLT Bruce, I'm at a break here. I have all the
equipment and everything in the station now. l've weighed the
COOLANOL, have the servicing hose ready, and Jerry and I are
getting ready to start on it now.
CC Okay. Did you put the weights on Channel A
recording.
PLT That's affirm.
CC Roger, thank you.
CC And just for your information, Bill as
we go over the hill, here, the pressure inside the primary
loop right now is running about 16 psi due to thermal heating.
PLT Roger, 16 copy, copy 21, don't go over 23.
CC Roger. That still stands, see you over
Carnarvon.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 20 hours,
12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station
contact with Ascension. That is, we heard at the close of that
pass, Pilot Bill Pogue advising Cap Comm Bruce McCandless that
he had all the equipment in place and was ready to start the
Coolanol repair job. We're 24 minutes away now from reacquiring
the Skylab Space station. Next acquisition will be over
Carnarvon. Twenty hours, 12 minutes Greenwich mean time this is
Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCII7/I
Time: 14:34 CST, 04:20:34 GMT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 20:34 Greenwich

mean time, 50 seconds away from acquistion at tracking station
Carnarvon, Australia. A reminder to newsmen in the Houston
News Room at 3 p.m. central time this afternoon there will be
a status briefing on the Apollo/Soyuz, Test Project byGlynn
Lunney, who is Technical Director for the United States, in
the ASTP. Twenty seconds now from acquisition at Carnarvon.
And hopefully we will get a report from the Skylab IV crew
on their progress in tapping into the coolant line with the
saddle valve and injection of coolanol into the loop. Standing
by at 20:35, Skylab Control.
for i0 minutes. Ont.
CC ATM, this is Houston. ,We notice that you
are trying to acquire the star now. You're still on the tail
end of the dump. We've got about another 2-1/2 minutes we suggest
you hold off until 20:41 for the NuZ update. Over.
SPT Roger.
SPT Houston, the SPT, I take it that
those values for the time for NuZ update that you give us
are the earliest times we can get it. ls that correct?
CC They got a 2 minute buffer leewayin
them, Ed.
SPT Okay, so this will be good from 41 to 43?
CC No, it's good from 39 to 41 and then
probably 4 or 5 minutes after 41, so like 39 to 45 or 46.
SPT Okay, I see where 39:30 now is still
maneuvering.
CC Roger, Ed, the way that we're calculating
them this time is 2 minutes after what we believe will be the
end of the dump. And that is good until the star is lost, and
I guess we were just 40 seconds or so off on predicating the
dump this time. Over.
SPT Roger Bruce.
CDR Houston, we'll be ready to start the TV
in about 5 minutes.
CC Okay, as far as we can tell the VTR is
ready to roll and that will be just before we reacquire you
at Guam.
CDR Okay, Bill's _othis set up pretty well
laid out now. We'll get a backoff Shot, a wide shot, of what
the setup looks like and then we'll move in fairly close and
watch what he does.
CC Okay, we'll just call you Cecil B. DeCarr.
CC And for the SPT, we'd like the star
tracker update. Thank you.
LOS. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam at
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Time: 14:_4 CST, 04:20:34 GMT
11/19/73
20:49. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of signal
through Carnarvon, a minute and 20 seconds until reacquisition
through Guam. Skylab IV Pilot Bill Pogue during the Carnarvon
pass said that he had the coolanol injection set up and all
complete and was preparing at that time to record on video
tape a television picture of the set up. Fifty seconds to
reacquisition through Guam. Standing by at 20:48 Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-II8/I
Time: 14:48CST 04:20:48GMT
11/19/73
CC Skylab this is Houston through Guam

for i0 minutes. Out.
PLT Houston, Skylab .
CC Go ahead Skylab, we're listening.
PLT Yeah, Bruce, I'm just getting ready to
start in on the primary Coolanol and start giving
reference to this servicingumhilicals. And I have doubts
about the precedure on page 17-7. I was wondering if the
purpose of that service was to get a vacuum in that line,
bleed that line down, that water servicing hose. And the
procedure on page 17-7 nowhere had you turned the v_ive
closed on the servicing hose. Now I don't know maybe there are
check valves in there. It's not require_L_ b.ut in starting the
procedure on the primary Coolanol loop on page 9-62 had
you verified that valve on the water servicing hose closed.
Now should I have closed the valve on the water servicing
hose when I exposed it to the vacuum during the procedure
on page ].7-6, 17-7?
CC Stand by.
PLT The reason I'm asking that question is
on page 17-7 it looks like the procedure has been modified.
There's a reference to some tape that appears nowhere else in the
procedure, and I thought maybe they might have left a line
out there.
CC PLT, Houston. The intent here is merely
to get the water out of the interior of the hose, since you're
going to be using it for gas pressurization on the backside
of the RCS bottleand we're going to fill the whole thing
up with nitrogen at 35 PSI very shortly anyway. The
significance of the neutral tape is that we put that tape
on the umbilical after it was serviced with water to indicate
the fact that it was serviced with water and you can go
ahead and just close that valve instead of verifing it
closed. Over.
PLT Okay, that takes a load off my mind. , I
had to ask.
CC No, byall means ask. That's what we're
down here for.
CC And PLT, Houston, we wonder, just so we
all stay in sync here, whether you could tell us what step
you're accomplishing now on the procedure. Over.
PLT Bruce, I'm on page 9-62 and I'm working
at the35 PSI reg position, Panel 500.
CC Okay, Bill, we're looking at the VTR time
down here right now, and it doesn't appear that you've recorded
anything to date. Have you been intending to? Per check-
list? Over.
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Time: 14:48CST 04:20:48GMT
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PLT Well the thingis - the way the

procedure is written, you start and then you stop and go
down and get all this other stuff ready. So I got everything
ready laid out there, and right now I'm in the process of
stringing this hose, which sort of breaks right into the
middle of the procedure.
CC Okay, do you have the saddle valve on
yet?
PLT No, I'm waiting on that. I that's sort of
a simple thing to do and I was going to have everything
ready and then do it all in one sequence, serially.
CC Okay, beautiful, yeah we understand what
you're doing now. Thank you very much.
PLT A1 right.
CC And we have 1 minute to LOS; next station
contact in 16.-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at 21:15. Out.
through tracking station at Guam island. Nnext station in
!5 minutes will be Goldstone and a stateside pass. However
the Apollo/Soyuz status briefing is beginning momentarily
in the Houston news room with Manager- Technical Director
Glynn Lunney. We'll record any air to ground from Skylab IV
for delayed playback at the conclusion of the briefing.
Skylab Control out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCII9Jl
TIME: 16:07 CST, 04:22:07 GMT
11/19/72

mean time. 8 minutes away from acquisition at Carnarvon, brief
pass act o_ Carnarv_ at a three degree angle, likewise at
Guam, very low final pass of those two station. Upcoming
prior to Carnarvon, we'll playback the stateside pass that
was made daring the ASTP briefing in the Houston News room
We'll roll that tape at this time aRd go live for Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi and Bermuda for 17 minutes, over.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead SPT, over.
SPT First, I'm ready for that Houskeeping 60G,
if you like_ 131 and 102 are configured and standing by for
your caution and warning signal 1 and crew alert.
CC Okay, it's on its way Ed.
CC SPT, Houston, has it gotten to you yet?
SPT Roger, Bruce, I read you loud and clear.
CC Roger, we hear in the background.
CC And for your information we will have
live television commencing over Corpus Christi here in about
30 seconds so if you want take that into account we can
pick up some free time that isn't going on the VTR, over.
SPT Bruce, I have a question for you on that
procedure.
CC Fire away.
SPT Where it says give test count that
transcript_Implies.that I give the test count, is that correct.
CC That's correct, you give it Ed.
SPT Okay, Bill was at 131 and was at 102 and
gave the test count and he did not come through or he could
not hear me.
CC Roger we copy that.
SPT Do you want to try the same thing on
number 2?
CC Stand by, please.
CC SPT, this is Houston_ we're going to
reset crew alert and we're going to send it to you again.
This should in fact tie both channels together, when it's
sent so we'll go through the procedure once more.
SPT So am I to understand that I have to hit
intercom is that affirm?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston we've reset, we're ready
to send it again, over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Mark.
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11/19/73
CC SPT, Houston any joy? Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce when I gave the test count
on S131 it came through very faintly at 102, the reverse
direction, they couldn't hear it at all. That's going from
102 to 131. Right now, they're kind of busy with the DB
and maybe we can persue this at a later time.
CC Wilco, we'll do that and I know that if
we could over a station sometime in the future, maybe do the
30 minute leak check we'd like to get the CDR to do a RCS
quad A to PSM pressure equalization.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC And Ed, we're resetting the crew alert relay,
we'll reschedule the test at a later time.
CC SPT, Houston in checking out the circuit
through here, the crew alert warning test requires that you
not hit the master alarm reset prior to conduct the voice
check between the 2 intercomm boxes since doing that
releases the call relay. We wonder if perhaps this is the
problem in the procedure, over.
SPT That's negative, Bruce, we have had that
in our ears for the full duration of all the attempts, that's
not the problem.
CC Okay, thank you, we'll proceed to look
into it a little further.
SPT Okay, Bruce if you are wondering me where
I am in there check out I'm on page 1-7 and I had to go through
the percent 02 C02 taleranus adjust several times in order to get
them in there.
CC You say that's 1-7 medical activation?
SPT Affirm.
CC Roger, thank you.
SPT I final got the values of 15.04 and
54.5.
CC Okay, we have about 30 seconds here to
LOS, next station contact in 44 minutes through Carnavon at
22:15, out.
SPT Video recording is in progress now, Bruce
and Bill has just finished scraping the insulation off the
line.
CC Okay, we show about 8 minutes of time
on the video tape recorder now, thank you.
PAO That completes playback of the stateside
air to ground recorded during the ASTP press briefing.
30 seconds away from acquisition Carnarvon and hopefully
we'll have comments from Bill Pogue on how he is progressing
in the coolant loop servicing, standing by -
CC - - (garble) for 6 minutes, over.
SL-IV MC 119/3
TIME: 16:07 CST, 04:22:07 GMT
11/19/73
SPT Say Bruce in the (garble) activation
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI20/I
Time: 16:15 CST, 04:22:15 GMT
11/19/73
PAO Standing by.

CC For 6 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, here's the (garble) activation
page i-i0. Ran into a bit of a snag. The procedure was to take
1-1/2 milliliter setting on the calibrated pump, ajust 5 times
and than read out the readings. I got them and they appear to be
about a factor of 2 or 3 higher than the nominally expected one,
but I'm starting into the second round of procedures of jet
strokes at the same setting after the second stroke I did not
pump any more, that is the pressure built up in the line. So
frankly we don't have a valve that's opening inside and we need
to get a pressure. I want to be able to relieve the pressure
just by taking the pump off the hose and I'm trying to check
back a few things now and see what I can think of in the way of
the problem.
CC Okay, we copy Ed, stand by.
CC And where is the PLT in his Coolanol
servicing procedure?
CDR Bill, has finished the first phase, he's
got the saddle valve clamped on, and has got the nitrogen
pressure on and out for the 30 minute leak test. We've got
about 7 more minutes to go and that leak test will be up.
CC Okay, while we're waiting could we get
you to run up to the command module and do the RCS A propellant
to PSM equalization procedure for $4-19, the systems check-
list. Over.
CDR Yeah, this would be a good time.
CC We'll be watching.
CC And PLT, if you do have a second here
since you're in the middle of the leak check, we dumped the
tape last pass over Carnarvon and have not found any voice
recorded BMMD reading for the Coolanol package. Did you say
you put them on there or you'd Just written them down? Over.
PLT When I put them on, the little green light
came on but I have them right here, let me read them to you.
CC Okay, we're listening.
CC And for your info, we have 16 minutes
consumed on the VTR. You have 14 minutes capacity remaining.
PLT Roger. And the numbers are as follows:
551068, 550913, 551201, 550986, 551053, 551014, 551771.
CC Okay, thank you Bill, we copy that.
One minute to LOS. Next station contact in 10-1/2 minutes
through GUam at 22:30 Zulu. And we're working on Ed's
problem here.
SPT Okay, Bruce, if you want to check and
see whether the XL - XL sample valve should be opened or
closed, I believe the checklist has it closed, and that
doesn't make sense. And I'm also going to go up the line
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Time: 16:15 CST, 04:22:15 GMT
11/19/73
looking at the nl - -
CC Break, break.
SPT (Garble)
CC Break, break. On panel 620, the nitrogen
supply valve, the N2 supply valve should be open, would you
verify that please?
SPT That's verified. Both valves on 620
are open.
SPT Also the gas supply valve on 622 is open.
CC Roger, we copy Ed.
SPT It strikes me that the few times that I have
not felt any of the air coming out of the insulation port.
CC Okay, we copy, Ed. Hold off please
until Oaam in 8 minutes. We'll get to you there.
SPT Okay.
through Carnarvon. Seven minutes to reaeq_isition at
tracking station Guam. Skylab IV, Pilot Bill Pogue reported
that he was into the nitrogen leak test of the saddle valve as
it's clamped over the coolant tube which is about 5/16 inch
in diameter, made of stainless steel, and prior to puncturing
the hole with the screw in puncturing device he's making a leak
check of the clamp itself, using nitrogen. In about 7 minutes
remaining as he mentioned in this 30 minute test. We'll
leave the line up live during this gap between Carnarvon
and Guam. Standing by at 22:22, 22:23, Greenwich mean time
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-12 i/i
Time: 16:23CST 04:22:23GMT
11/19/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam

for 3-1/2 minutes for the SPT. Over.
CDR He'll be right with you, Bruce. I've
run the 30-minute check on the saddle valves - herets what
happened. I pressurized it with nitrogen, closed off the
test port valve and I had -34 PSI is what it pressurized to.
Bht after I turned off the test valve it immediately dropped
to about 33 and stabilized. And now itVs reading about
30-1/2, which is about 2-1/2 PSI drop in 35 minutes. It's
just a little beyond the criteria on the check list.
CC Okay we copy Bill, stand by a moment
here.
$PT Okay, Bruce, SPT up, ready to go.
CC Okay, we got a grand total of 4 valves
in a series, You've checked the one on 620 and the 622
pneumatic valve, panel 225, up in the airlock module. OWS
N2 supply valve needs to be full open. Panel 500, which is
the water pressurization control panel, has an ESS MI71
valve which also needs to be wide open. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, let me go on up and check
the other two_
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute
until LOS. Next station contact in 19 minutes through
Goldstone at 22:51, where we are dumping the data/ voice tape
recorder.
SPT Roger.
SPT Okay, Bruce, the one down in 500 was
closed and I opened it up and I'ii give her another try.
CC Mighty fine, Ed, and for the PLT, you'd
better hold where you are in the servicing procedure. We'll
talk you to over Goldstone after we kick this around. Over.
PLT Roger.
CC And just for curiosity, we're looking
at the gage down here, and do you feel like 30-1/2 is a good
reading on the thing? Over.
SPT No, it looks like itfs about 30.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you very much. W_'II
talk to you over Goldstone.
SPT Roger.
PA0 This is Skylab Control, LOS Guam, for the
final time today, 16 minutes to acquisition at Goldstone.
Bill Pogue has run the leak check, or pressure check, on the
saddle valve, pressurized it with nitrogen up to 34 pounds
per square inch which was the spec value. It dropped - when
he took the pressure off the supply it dropped to 33 pounds,
and then leaked down to 30-1/2 pounds over a 35-minute period.
SL-IV MC-121/2
Time: 16:23CST 04:22:23GMT
11/19/73
The people here in the Control Room are looking at possible

means of getting a higher pressure integrity where it will
hold the 34 pounds without any leakage. The puncture in the
line has not been made at this time. This is a check of
the valve body itself and its attachment to the tubing.
15 minutes tc Goldstone, at 22:35, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC122/I
Time: 16:50 CST, 04:22:50 G_IT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. 22:50 Greenwich

mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition at Goldstone for
stateside pass. _eanwhile, here in the control room, various
engineers and Flight Control people that have had their
heads together to come up with suggestions to Bill Pogue on
how he might get around the problem he's encountered in the
degredation of pressure in the saddle valve for the coolant
injection system in servicing the primary coolant loop. The
suggestions will be passed up by Spacecraft Communicator
Bruce McCandless.
CC through Goldstone and Corpus Christi
for 14-1/2 minutes. Dumping a data/voice tape recorder and
standing by for the PLT. We have a couple of things for you
hare. First off we'd like to know what the pressure reading
is on the leak test unit now. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through
Goldstone and Corpus Christi for 14 minutes, dumping the
data voice tape recorder and standing by for the PLT. Over.
PLT All right, Bruce, how do you read?
CC Okay, loud and clear, Bill, we got a
couple of things for you to do. First off, though, we'd like to
find out what the pressure is in the leak test assembly now.
Over.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Hey, Bruce, did we just pass over a large
low-pressure area?
CC You must have, cause that leak test isn't
going very well, but we'll check a little further.
CDR (Laughter). No, what I'm saying, Bruce,
is there's a huge - what looks to be a low-pressure area. We
passed over it about i minute a_o. It right in the middle
of it it's got a huge swirl of clouds and then around the outside
is a great big wide moat of rather scattered to - broken
clouds. And encircling - encircling the whole thing is a very
very large ban of strato - it looks like just strata - stratocumulus
there's probably a pretty healthy cirrus layer over the top.
CC Roger, we copy. We'll get ahold of
our weather people and check it out for you.
PLT And, Bruce, that pressure is down to 25 now.
CC Okay, what we would like you do is the
following; verify that the red bleed valve knob on the leak
test assembly is securely closed. And then disconnect the A
Why don't you do that now. If it moves significantlly we may
have a different course of action. Over.
PLT I was able to move it just a little bit,
not much. I had closed it.
CC You said you had closed it? Over.
PLT Yes. I had closed it in the checklist when it
came up. I was able to get just a sort of a squeeze out of
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Time: 16:50 CST, 04:22:50 GMT
11/19/73
there, but I think I'm just binding down metal to metal.

CC Okay, we want you to disconnect the
leak check unit from the saddle valve, and then re-pressurize
the leak check unit from the water service umbilical there, and
run a leak test on that unit by itself. The configuration we'd
like on the QD on the end of the leak test unit after you've
disconnected it from the saddle valve is just as it disconnects -
that is, do not reinsert the dust plug or sealing cap. And while
that's in progress we'd like you to go ahead and remove some
more insulation from the same line in preparation for possibly
installing a second saddle valve at another location adjacent
to the first one without removing the first one. Over.
PLT I got it Bruce. I'll do it right now.
CC Okay, and we suppose we don't really need
to ask this, but could you verify you torqued the first saddle
valve down in accordance with the checklist values? Over.
PLT Rog, 20 inch-pounds.
CC Okay, and for the SPT, how's your _
checkout now that panel 500 is open?
CDR Bruce, he's working right now, he'll be
with you in a minute or so.
CC Okay, you haven't heard him mutter any
obscenities recently, have you?
PLT Negative. I think things are looking
up now. It's unstuck and he's just getting his data.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
SPT Okay, Bruce, it looks as though it's
working pretty well now. When I tried it again after opening
up the film on panel 500 it stuck once and then I went up and
checked the valves up in the airlock and that was okay, I came
back and tried it once more by just breathing into it and that
seemed to open it up. And now I'm doing - going through the
regular cal. And everything's working pretty well. I'm - I'm
on the second - the right-hand page of 1-10.
CC Okay, mightly fine. Thank you, Ed.
SPT Give me a call when you get that tape
recorder free and l'li put some more values on it.
PLT And Bruce, the iodine concentrate in
water tank 3 is 3 to 4.
CC Understand between 3 units and 4 units
on tank 3. You guys are really moving around today.
PLT (Garble) It was sort of a difficult
check because the color was lavender instead of blue, but the
density of the lavender more nearly correspond someehing
like 3 or 4.
CC Roger, out. You're not actually running
on water tank 3 yet, are you?
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11/19/73
PLT Negative.
CC Roger, out. And for the SPT, the data/
voice tape recorder is yours. We've finished the dump.
SPT Thank you, _Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the
information of the CDR, we show a very-low-pressure area off
the west coast of Oregon and Washington State. And our indica-
tions are approximatley 40 knots of wind associated with it.
Right off the top, we don't have any further details on it. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce, wish I'd had a camera
loaded and ready to go. It was a pre_y spectacular looking
pattern.
CC We'll pick it up with the handheld photos
as options tomorrow and then on we can cover. And for the
PLT, we'd like to know how you're coming on the leak check of
the leak check assembly. Over.
CC Okay, a minute and i0 seconds until
LOS. Next station contact in ii minutes through the Vanguard
in port; at 23:16, standing by. Over.
CC And the flight plans are onboard. Out.
through the Texas tracking station - tracking ship Vanguard in
9 minutes. Skylab IV Pilot Bill Pogue still attempting to
sort out the source of the leak on the leak check equipment
for the coolant servicing saddle valve. The ground suggested
that he disconnect the hose of the leak check equipment to see
if perhaps re-pressurizing it might determine the source of
leakage being in the hose or the gauge itself rather than
in the saddle valve. Also it was suggested that he serape the
insulation from an additional length of the tubing in the coo
coolant system adjecent to the present saddle valve. And
perhaps at a later time, if the other measures do not isolate
the source of the leak, another saddle valve can be attached.
Fli_ht Director Nell Hutchinson has changed his estimate of
when he will be availabe for a change-of-shift briefing from
6 p.m. to 7 p.m. or later Central time. Eight minutes to
acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard. At 23:08 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC123/I
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11/19/73

mean time; 50 seconds to acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. We are sure that this station pass will learn whether
or not the source of the leak or pressure drop is in the
test equipment itself_ rather than in the valve. Likely
if the pressure does drop in hose and valve assembly that's
used in the pressure test that would prove that the valve
itself is airtight and fluidtight. Spacestation Skylab is
now starting revolu _on 2,754.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston back with you
again, I believe we got a drop out there. Go ahead Ed.
SPT Bruce, have a 2 psi drop here in 21 minutes
with the 34-32 and still waiting for that 30 minute check.
CC CDR, this is Houston, while we working
with this other matter can you tell us if you finish you
activation checklist, over.
CDR I should be done in about 15 minutes,
I'm in the quiescent configuration check right now.
CC Okay but the CO sampling, the SLP transfer,
PPOZ filter and the filter replacment are all complete?
CDR That's affirmative, I put it on tape.
The CO sampling, it looks like the picture, the color of the
salts inside the tube were already above zero before I ever took
a sample and then when I took the sample I saw no appreciable
difference.
CC Okay, thank you Jerry, we've seen that
on previous missions and preliminary interpretation is that
there's no CO in the air.
PLT Say Bruce I have another inspection cleared
on the front (garble) line for the installation if another saddle
valve if it becomes necessary.
CC Okay, we copy, but stand by please Bill.
PLT Rog. I won't do anything.
SPT Houston, the SPT is finished with the
(garble) activation.
CC Okay, thank you Ed.
CC PL_t _his is Houston, over.
PLT Yo.
CC Roger, could we get another reading on
your leak test setup to confirm that it's still coming
down, over.
PLT Yeah, I did Bruce and that's 27 minutes.
The reading is 31-1/2 so it's dropper 2 and a half so far.
CC Okay, here is what we'&_ike-you to
do. You can break down that setup and proceed as though
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the first saddle valve had passed the leak check and go on
into the liquid-leak check and we'll see you over Tananarive
with the coolant valve from the tank still open, holding pressure
on the liquid on the saddle valve, But do not proceed into
the line piercing step of the checklist.
PLT Roger, understand.
CC So you'll talk this over Tananarlve, of
course now if you see leakage or something go ahead and
shut the pressure off on the unit as it says on the caution
note.
PLT Roger.
CC And we're -
PLT I will not pierce.
CC And we're a minute and a half from LOS,
next stalzlon contact is in 16-1/2 minute over Tananarive at
23:41 and we should have good comm through Tananarive, out.
CC CDK, _ouston we're seeing some anominal
behavior on fuel cell 3. If you get a master caution and
warning from the command module, we suggest you close the
_lain A ilain B, BUS CONNEC_ circuit breakers, two of them on
panel 50_ over.
CDR Okay thanks Bruce.
CC And we've had to do this on previous
missions on the Skylab series.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through tracking ship Vanguard; 14 minutes untill acquisition
at voice relay station at Tananarlve in the _(alagasy Republic.
A low pass of 4 degrees along the edge of Tananarive. It
is assumed now that the saddle valve Bill Pogue attached to
the cooling line is indeed intact and has good pressure integrity
because the test rig leaked at the same rate all by itself
than it did when it was attached to the valve earlier.
Pogue has been asked to proceed with the fluid cheek on the
valve but: not to pierce the line to allow fluid to flow
into the cooling system until Fission Control has him over
a station and agrees that it's the proper thing to do.
Hopefully the fluid check will have been accomplished by
the Tananarive station. We'll be back then at 13 minutes.
At 23:27 Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-124/I
Time: 17:41CST 04:23:41GMT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 23:41

Greenwich mean time. Acquisition in 50 seconds through
the station at Tananarive. To recap briefly the situation
with the coolant loop servicing, it has been fairly well
determined that the leak during the pressure check observed
by PLT Bill Pogue was apparently in the test rig itself for
checking pressure, which is a short length of metal-covered
hose with a pressure gauge in it and quick-disconnect
fittings on each end when attached t _ the saddle valve t_at's
been clamped to one of the -
CC -seconds to LOS. Next station contact
in 48 minutes through Goldstone at 00:31 (garble). Your reminder
of NuZ update at 23:48 Zulu. Outer gimbal angle, plus 0350.
And for the PLT, how goes your leak check? Over.
CC PLT, Houston, how's the liquid
leak check going? Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for the PLT In
the blind on your leak check. If it is leaking, back off on
the procedure, install the second saddle valve in a new
location, make a new liquid leak check, and if so, go ahead.
But do not break down the configuration until aft^r you
have checked with us per page 9-65. If it is not leaking,
go ahead. Over.
PLT I don't take that information to do the
penetration, do I?
CC If it is not leaking, you do have
permission to penetrate it. Do not break the setup down
until after you've checked back with us per the verbal
instructions on 9-65. Over.
PLT Roger, it's looking good.
CC Beautiful, press on.
SPT Say, Bruce, this is the SPT.
CC Bill-
SPT This is some more information on the (garble)
battery ehangeou t .....
CC Break, Break, Break, Break. Bill,
you've got Coolanol pressure on it now, is that correct?
CC PLT, Houston, you've got Coolanol
on the saddle valve now, is that correct?
PLT That's affirm, Bruce, and it's not
leaking.
CC Okay, go ahead. And go ahead, Ed.
SPT (garble) battery changeout - I could
not find the procedure anywhere, although it looks straight-
forward and I could not find the batteries inthe F510.
CC Okay, let us check on that.
CC It'll probably be Goldstone before we
get it.
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Time: 17:41CST 04:23:41GMT
11/19/73
SPT We'll check in the Command Module for

them.
CC Okay, you transferred them yesterday. They
should be in the battery bag that you transfered. Over.
SPT Okay, we'll check both places.
CC And if you copy, NuZ 2348, outer gimbal
0 plus 0350 suggested. Over.
SPT We copy, understand 0350 plus.
CC Okay, that was from AA to F510 Golf for
the battery bag.
SPT Okay, we'll check it.
CC Okay, SPT, we aren't finding any
procedures. We think it's fairly straight forward like you
mentioned.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, lose of signal
through Tananarive. Apparently the liquid checks on the
saddle valve were successful, and Bill Pogue was given a
GO to go ahead and pierce the line for start of injecting
Coolanol into the cooling loop. The saddle valve is sort
of a V-shaped valve with 2 legs on it, one of which has a
quick-disconnect for fill hosefrom the tank of Coolanol.
The other leg has a thumbscrew-like device with a carpenter's
punch adapted to allow the line to be pierced, the 5/16
inch diameter stainless steel tubing carrying the cooling
through the cooling system, by twisting the punch that
screws down and pierces a hole. Then itls backed out, the
cooling fluid is fed in through the other leg of the vee to
go in through the hole made by the punch in the opposite
leg of the V-shaped valve, Earlier, a pressure test using
nitrogen was made of the valve. The test rig consists of
a short length of hose with quick disconnect fittings on each
end and a valve with a gauge attached that shows the pressure
in the line and in the valve, that is the saddle valve on
the Coolanol line. However the leak break was the same
while attached to saddle valve or by itself. The source
of the leak of about 2 pounds in a half-hour in both cases
has been isolated to the test rig. Therefore it was decided
that any test on other valves attached to the line would be
invalid also because of this built-in leak. Pogue proceeded
to check the Coolanol fluid to see - a visual check to see
if there were any leaks of the Coolanol coming out around the
quick disconnect, or the plumbing between the tank carrying
the Coolanol and the attach p_int. He saw no evidence
of leak and at Tananarive he was given a go to proceed
with piercing the line and injecting the Coola_ol into the
cooling system. 41 minutes to Goldstone, next station at 23:50
Time: 17:41CST 04:23:41GMT
11/19/73
Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 125/1
TIME: 18:30 CST, 05:00:30 GMT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 00:30 Greenwich

mean time as space station Skylab came over the hill at
Goldstone, the telementry showed the pump inlet pressure on
the primary system at 27.2 pounds.
for 4-1/2 minutes for the PLT, over.
PLT Got you Bruce, go.
CC Okay, we're looking at your pump inlet
pressure and in the primary loop it looks good to us. If you
have disconnected from the saddle valve and have instal
the two caps and the valve, you go to start on step i0 which
is the pump check. We'd like you to do it during this pass so
that we can watch and you can check the leaks and you can
break the rest of the gear down after supper, over.
PLT Okay, I stopped at that place where you
told us to hold, just before the step that said disconnect
saddle valve service hose from clank coolant outlet QD
Install caps on end of hose, that's where I pick it up.
CC Go ahead and pick up with step I0 right
now with the coolant loop inventer switch, over.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, we're showing DELTA Phi across the
pump of about 65 psi and pump running, Bill.
PLT Rog, and I'm checking the saddle valve
again, but boy, I've been watching it for 45 minutes and it's
looking pretty clean.
CC I imagine you've almost got a spit-shlne on
it by now.
PLT Yeah, I kept imagining that I saw
drops, it's very funny. Okay now I don't see any leaks, you
want me to pass on with this second bullet here at this
none - Oh I wait for 5 minutes, I see.
CC Okay, Bill go ahead and get us under
the two-pump configuration here, we've got a minute and
a half to LOS.
PLT Okay.
CC One minute to LOS, next station contact
through the Vanguard in 17 minutes, we will dump the
data voice tape recorder at 00:53, we're still watching the
loop configuration.
PLT Yeah Bruce, I'm really confused here
started step i0 there with 2-BC with the V switch on and
checked for leak, now you want me to go on primary coolant
leaks in a filter select ON etc?
CC What we want you to do is turn the
inverter off, turn pump C on and turn the inverter back
on so we can get both of them starting up when the inverter
comes on, over.
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TIME: 18:30 CST, 05:00:30 GMT
11/19/73
CC Okay_ we're watching them now if you want

to give us a quick leak check, we'll appreciate it.
PLT Looks good.
CC Okay, Bill we're going over to hill,
we_ll llke you to watch it for about 5 minutes and then
turn it off and put the inverter switch i0 COMMAND per the
checklist and go eat dinner. And as we say in the Navy, BRAVO
Zulu which is a good show.
PLT Yeah, we're feeling pretty good about it.
A lot better than gas cooking.
for the flnai time today through Goldstone Tracking Station;
next station in 15 minutes will be tracking ship Vanguard.
Crew will be at that time more than likely in a rather
delayed evening meal. Pogue successfully serviced the
cooling loop, enjected the Coolanol fluid and the inlet
pressure on the primary coolant loop pump, where it had
been about 16 pounds as they came over the hill at Goldstone
it showed 27 pou _s and when the pump was turned on the
DELTA Phi jumped rapidly up to about 63 pounds when it had
been vertually 0. And this compares favorably to 62 pounds
of pressure in the pump on the secondary loop. Apparently
there are no leaks around the saddle valve of Coolanol,
none that could be seen by Pogue. We'll be hack in 14 minutes
for tracking ship Vanguard. At 38 minutes past midnight,
Greenwich mean time, Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC126/I
Time: 18:52 CST, 05:00:52 GMT
11/19/73

mean time, acquisition in 50 seconds at tracking ship
Vanguard. The new Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly to
relieve Bruce McCandless will make a brief check on - with
the crew on the status of the coolant loop which has been
rejuvenated with coolant injected into it. But since it's
considered rather form to talk with your mouth full, the crew
likely won't have a whole lot to say. They should be in the
middle of the evening meal at this time. Standing by for
acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston, Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Hi, Dick, how are you doing?
CC Real fine, and you guys? The purple team
is glad to be with you again.
CDR Rog. And we're happy to have you. We're all
feeling great. We're having a meal right now.
CC Roger, and we'd like to confirm a couple
of things from Bill. First of all we're assuming that the
leak check, after we went LOS, on the saddle valve went okay.
And also we'd like to verify since we can't see it on TM
that you put the inverter switch for the primary loop back to
COMMAND.
CDR That's affirm. Both counts - that is, negative
on theleak, and yes, I did put in to COMMAND.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, so we can get on with
our own use of the primary coolant loop we're going to
command pump Bravo on and it will cause a master alarm on
board.
SPT Okay, I'll run another check.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we still have about
5 minutes here at Vanguard. Don't won't to keep disturbing
your supper, but we'd like a couple of statuses as to how far
the CDR got - is on the day 4 transfers and also the SPT on
the ambient food transfer, housekeeping 60 Echo. And the
reason for our question is that we realize that we're a little
bit behind this evening, and when we come over Tananarive
we kind of wanted to let you guys know what on the flight
plan this evening was mandatory to be done and what could be
left until tomorrow.
PLT Stand by, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT CDR says he's - there's nothing on the
day 4 transfer, we were both working that Coolanol problem.
CC Roger.
PLT And 60 Echo has not been done.
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Time: 18:52 (]ST, 05:00:52 GMT
11/19/73
CC Roger, understand.
PLT And we' re just curious if we used the
full 30 minutes for the video tape recorder?
CC Roger, I'm not sure I - -
PLT We're sort of trying to ration it.
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston, we show about
5 minutes remaining on the VTR.
PLT Okay, thank you. Now, Dick we finished
the sequence and it's all on the recorder.
CC Very good and for your information TM
looks super on the loop so far.
PLT Beauti ful.
SPT Houston, this i s the SPT, also on housekeeping
60G we did not: have a successful completion o f that test
and we're going to tend t o it later. It's a short one and
we can d o it anytime tonight.
CC Roger, Ed, thank you.
SPT And the PLT did not do that one
housekeeping thing with the T003 in the head.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS.
Tananarive conies up at 01:17, and one little comm check that
we'd like you guys to do sometime this evening at your
convenience is configure panels 102 and 131. That's the two
SIA's you were testing a while ago, one on channel and one
one channel B. And then have somebody go up to t he command
module speaker box , panel 98, and using the call button which
should tie the two loops t ogether, make a c all and s ee i f
is his voice is heard on both of those speaker boxes.
SPT Roger, understand, ick.
CC Roger and there's no hurry on that. Just
whenever you happen t o be in a good spot for i t.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab ontrol, loss of signal
through tracking ship Vanguard. Tananarive in 13 minutes.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is doffing his headset
preparing to leave the Control Room headed for the Houston
News Room for a change-of-shift briefing. He will bring with
him one of the famous saddle valves used in servicing the
primary coolant loop aboard Skylab . Some other illustrations
of the work that went on in servicing the coolant loop. The
Tananarive pass and perhaps the following Hawaii pass will be
taped for delayed playback after the press conference. At
01:04 Greenwich mean time. Skylab ontrol.
END O F TAPE
SL-IV _IC 127/1
TIME: 19:56 CST, 05:01:56 GMT
11/19/73

mean time and five minutes out of Hawaii tracking station.
During the just completed change of shift briefing by
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. We've had one station pass
the one over Tananarive, this was recorded for playback, we'll
play that tape back now and go live across Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston Tananarive for 9 minutes.
SPT Hey Dick, I have a question on the
reution detector photo.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Just exactly what are they looking for
here? I'm looking up in the student experiment checklist,
it's really not too clear.
CC Let me see if I can get an answer for you.
CC Skylab, Houston a couple of things for
you, first of all in answer to Ed's question, the purpose
of the photographs for the detector is to identify which
detectors are in exactly what locations and in what orientation.
So that when we get the data later, we'll be able to correlate
CC Skylab, Houston we dropped out for
a minute at Tananarive, How do you read?
SPT Loud and clear Dick, I've got the word
on the neutron experiment, we can just go ahead and get
location type pictures.
CC Okay, fine, that's correct. Let me talk
to you a little bit about the rest of the evening. First of
all let me tell you a couple of things that are mandatory that
you do this evening and a suggestion how you might get a little
ahead on the stowage transfers and then you can let us know,
what your plans are in one of the later passes and how far you've
got. First the mandatory item is that first of all in Housekeeping
8 Alfa, we must get at least three of those urine bags processed
this evening for tomorrow. It's not mandatory that we do the
entire procedure. In the day 4 transfer it's mandatory that we
get the _<i-31 bite board transferred and that item is on page
3-4 of the stpwage - day 4 stowage procedure you can find that
most of the way down that page. Now one suggestion that we
have might allow you guys to work somewhat in parralel on this
stowage transfer is if one person would go ahead and do pages
3-1 and 3-2 and get the first two disposal bags filled up then
he could handover those two disposal bags to somebody and
tear that page out of the book, then the other guy could go
down and to below and put the stuff up. So why don't you just
let us know what your plans are and later on how far you've
got and then we'll take care of whatever we don't get done
this evening tomorrow in the next day flight plan.
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TIME: 19:56 CST, 05:01:56 _T
11/19/73
SPT Okay, Dick.

CC Okay, we're going LOS here we'll see you
at Hawaii at 02:02 and I'll be standing by there to get your
evening status report.
SPT Okay, so long.
CC And if you still hear us Jerry, when you
went up to the command module a couple of hours ago to check
that cau _on and warning on fuel cell 3, what did you find
then over.
SPT I wasn't even aware of it, Dick. No one
said any -
CC Roger.
PAO That concludes playback of the Tananarive
tape, we're about a minute out of Hawaii at this time at
which this station has scheduled the evening status report.
Food, water, sleep, sleep quality, medications. Standing
by at 02:01 Greenwich.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 128/1
TI_E: 20:011 CST, 05:02:01 _{T
ii/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS at Hawaii for

8 minutes and l'm standing by for the evening status report.
CDR Hello, Dick evening status report
follows: Sleep: the CDR; 6.5/excellent; SPT; 6.5/ very
sound; PLT; 6.5/excellent. For volume; CDR: 1200, SPT:3500;
PLT; 2400. Water gun reading; CDR; 6456; SPT is 0640; and
the PLT was 6893. Boddy Mass: CDR; 6,289, 6.289, 6.290;
SPT: 6.419; 6.419; 6.418; PLT: 6.248; 6.247; 6.246. Exercise:
CDR: Alfa legs; 253000; Next light is Bravo; Alfa Bravo
and echo; 10, A, and i0, E. Next light is Charlie; Bravo
Charlie, Delta and (garble), NA, repetition 5 each; next line
is Echo, lower back NA, repetition i0. For the SPT: Alfa,
leg 35 minutes, 70i0; next llne is Bravo, Alfa and Bravo,
NA, 40 repetitious. PLT: Alfa, leg, NA - correction i, 5 min-
utes, and one minute for 2240; next line is Bravo, Alfa,
NA, and i0 repetitious. How are you doing so far?
CC I'm right with you, Jerry go ahead.
CDR Okay, medication, CDR: one scop/Dex, at
breakfast; _PT; one scop/Dex, at breakfast; PLT; one (garble)
and for breakfast.
CC Roger.
CDR Stand by a second.
CDR Dick, a correction on the PLT, it was two
proamps at - during the day, one at breakfast and one at supper.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, now I've got some girth and blood
pressure measurements for you.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Left calf, thirteen and a quarter. Correction
that was the right calf.
CC Okay.
CDR The left calf was thirteen and one eighth.
Arm blood pressure 108 over 78, leg blood pressure 128 over 76.
For the SPT: the right calf was thirteen and seven eighths,
the left calf was thirteen and seven eighths. Arm blood
pressure 125 over 86, leg 140 over 82. For the PLT: right
calf thirteen and a half; left calf thirteen and five eighths.
Arm blo _ pressure 122 over 82, leg blood pressure 158 over 90.
CC Okay, go ahead. We got about 2 - 2-1/2
minutes left here in Hawaii.
CDR Okay. Okay, Dice I'm going to have to
get the food part for you at our next pass this isn't complete.
CC Okay, fine Jerry, I'ii pick it up later.
CDR Okay.
CC Is there anything else you have down there
you want to give me. I have a couple of items to mention to
you.
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Time: 20:01 CST, 05:02:01 GMT
11/19/73
CDR Okay, well as it stands right now the

activation checklist is finally complete. And what we'll do
with the 4 day - day 4 transfer, we'll take a whack at it
tonight after we get all of our housekeeping done and I don't
know just how far wetre going £o get we're all three beginning
to get a little tired here and I think it would be better
for us not to overdo it today_ get a good night's rest and
start hot and fresh tomorrow.
CC Okay, you do what you think best. And
one of these later passes we still got a couple three passes
this evening and you can just update us on how far you got
for our planning.
CDR Okay, fine. And the Nikon photos haven't
been taken yet. They'll be taken before bedtime and I'ii
report them then.
CC Okay. Some of the things I wanted to
mention to you that we don't think are necessary to do tonight
are if you haven't already done them are the housekeeping
2 Alfa and 2 Bravo, the T003, weighing the coolanol and
also restow - restowing all the coolanol servicing gear as
long as Bill has completed all of step 9 on in the SWS
systems checklist, on (garble) -65.
PLT I'm at step ii and in a hole here Dick,
because I can't find these (garble) actually at step 12.
CC Okay, Bill. And Skylab we've got about
20 seconds to LOS_ Vanguard is coming up at 02:31 and that's
scheduled for the med conference and Tananarive follows that
at 02:56.
CDR Okay, we'll talk to you then.
CC Okay.
PLT And I do need to get that guard on as
soon as I can Dick, I don't want to leave that saddle valve
unexposed, we may kick it.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylah Control, we've had loss
of signal through the Hawaii station, next station in 20
minutes will be tracking ship Vanguard in which is scheduled
the medical conference with the crew physician, Dr. Jerry
Hordinsky. Apparently all three Skylah IV crewmen last night
got 6-1/2 hou _ of excellent or very sound sleep. They're
still on the scopolamine/Dexedrine or Proamp, motion sickness
pills as precautions, and we'll come back up for the Vanguard
in - just in case we the Spacecraft Communicator gets the
loop back from the crew physician, prior to the end of that
pass in 19 minutes, 02:11 Greenwich mean time Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IY MC-129/I
Time: 20:55CST 03:02:55GMT
11/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 02:55 _eenwich

mean time, acquisition in 50 seeonds for the final time
throuFh the voice relay station at Tananarive. Fairly
briefly pass of 5 minutes or so at a low elevation angle.
The preceding pass over the Vanguard was taken up entirely
with the medical conference, and the up coming pass at
Hawaii also the final one of the evening will likely be the -
also the final conversation with the crew today. Acquisition
at Tananarive coming up in 5 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 4 minutes.
PLT Rog, Dick. And I found some sobers.
CC Okay, real fine.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey Jake, I wonder if you might be able
to set up a couple of calls for home tomorrow evening?
CC Yes sir, we'll certainly do it. For
who?
CDR Hay, what would you say 2 limited to
2 or could you do all 3 in one evening?
CC We'll certainly do our best to do all
3.
CDR Okay, fine if you can't, you can hold
one off - you can hold mine off an extra day if your time
is limited.
CC Okay, sure do it.
CDR Okay, and we're gonna - half of the
Nikon photos taken and the next thing that we're going to
get done is the com box check out between the Command _iodule
and the AMD.
CC Okay, l_ve got a couple of three things
that I wanted to talk to you about Jerry, while I've got
you here. One is is in the Command Module we've - sometime
this evening we'd like to go back to inverter operation.
CDR Okay, you want to go back to inverters,
right?
CC Roger, it's - and to do that on panel
three invertered to the main BHOVO, and the inverta 2 AC2
on up, mnd then inverts 1 AC2 off.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, earlier Ed Gibson asked a question
about the w[als of electralite paste, and I've got a answer to
that. It turns out that you've got the two vials of paste
that you carried up which are to be transferred this evening
form A4 down to SO9 or at least in the day 4 transfers, when
ever you get to that. Plus we think that there's an additional
full vial left from SL IIl and that also should be in $909,
and the partial vial that you used last night. And we looked
at the data and last nights M133 data was good up to within
one hour of the wakeup time. The electra load should be
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Time: 20:55CST 03:02:55GHT
11/19.73
and gooey and tile cap should fit snugged to insure good data,
and we'd like you _ use the same cap tonight that you used
last night if possible.
CDR Ed said okay, and that remindes me, he'd
better get it out of the chiller.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, if you read we're about
30 seconds from LOS and I'll give you a call at Hawaii at
03:38 Hawaii pick up at 03:38, and we'll be dumping the
data voice recorder at IIawaii.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS at Tananarive
35 minutes to Hawaii, space station Skylab on the start of
revolution 2736, we'll be back in 35 minutes for Hawaii at
03:03 Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI30/I
TIME: 21:35 CST, 05:03:35 GMT
11/19/73

mean time; acquisition at Hawaii upcoming in 2-1/2 minutes
or there abouts. In recognization of Flight Director's
Phil Shaffer's purple team of flight controllers.
Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly served all the console
positions in the Control Room with cups of purple ice cream
from the local ice cream palor. In a more serious vain, the
crew physician's summary of the crew medical conference is out
and it reads as follows: The crew has had another very
busy day. Tihe Commander and the Science Pilot took their
last anti-motion medication this morning. The pilot took
one dose in the morning and a second strictly prophylatic
dose later in the day. Despite the great deal of motion
involved in the day's activities, the crew reports no
motion-sickness symptoms. The crew is continuing daily
personal exercise but still in quanities slightly less than
optimal. Although earlier reported sleep periods are both
short and light, the fatique of the preceding two days
activities leads to quick deep sleep at the present time.
That concludes the summary by crew physician Dr. Jerry Hordinsky.
One minute from acquisition at Hawaii. And standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston, Hawaii for i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick did you - you just caught us
in the middle of a game called drop the pill in the urine bag.
CC Roger.
CDR I guess I could finish up that evening
status report now if you're ready to copy.
CC Okay. I - I am Jerry, go ahead.
CDR Okay, on that first page for the photo
log status it's Nikon 03, Charlie India ii0, 5 frames - 1 frame
locked into flash attachment malfunction.
CC Okay and I've got that and on the next
item that's on the flight plan deviations, Jerry, we do have
a Vanguard pass coming up about i0 minutes after your
scheduled bedtime. And that's about a half hour from now and
I was thinking maybe we can save that and I can give you a call
there and you can review today's flight plan. And just let us
know what you did not get accomplished and we'll crank that
into our planning.
CDR Okay, good enough, now let's see, I owe
you some crew information now.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay for day of the year 323, mission day 4
menu Charlie. CDR - no solt packs and deviateion in plan's
one coffee and rehydrate - rehydration water deviation, I
mentioned it to Dr. Hordinsky and I think, what we ought to
have the food people do from now on is to assume that we're
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TIME: 21:35 CST, 05:03:35 GMT
11/19/73
going to lose one half once of water on every drink that

we mix due to air in the water because I think it's a big
pain in the neck for us to sit here and recalculate that
every night because it is the same number. People on the
ground can do that.
CC Okay, concur.
CDR Okay for the SPT no salt pack used, no
deviations and the same on the rehydratables. PLT no salt
packs used, deviation is minus one coffee and some thing on the
rehydration water.
CC Okay, real fine Jerry. Incidentally,
a while ago on that business about the two inverter operations
I wanted to give you just a word on that to put your mind
at ease. What we're trying to do, it turns out on all three
missions is go to one inverter operation to save some power
in terms of the coolant loop just starts to get too cool.
And we should have corrected that in your checklist before
you flew but we missed it and that was the reason for puttin_
you on two inverter operations, over.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Okay.
PLT Hello Dick, SPT Housekeeping 60G leaves
a variation which you recommended to us.
CC Rog.
SPT We found out that we can and they do
get the two comms systems together by using the call
switch in the command module. But it's very weak in both
directions that is either from the call box gets to the 102
or 131 or just talking from 102 to 131 or back and forth. And
all transmissions are relative weak. And I suspect that's why
we didn't hear it today because there was a lot of noise going
on at the time. We were trying to run the picts.
CC Okay, understand, thank you much.
SPT Would you like to try that portion of
it again, where you send up the alert from the ground?
CC Okay, stand by for a second.
CC SPT Houston affirmative, we're going to
send you the crew alert command again and you can try it.
We are aware that it does load the system down and you do
have to speak up on those.
SPT Okay, Dick. Give us a second to get up
there.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're sending the
command.
SPT Okay, Dick it's as we suspected. It is
coming through but very weak. You want to go ahead and try
the other system?
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CC Roger we would like to do that.

SPT We're standing by.
CC Okay. Roger, it's coming at you.
SPT Okay, Dick that was probably about the
same, probably about strength two.
CC Okay, thank you for putting up with
us and testing it again.
SPT Glad to do it.
CC Roger, and ENCO tells us that when you
do tie the two loops together in order to get any kind of
good volume out of them you have to get in about 4 inches
of the mike to - because it's loaded down.
SPT Rog, we had our ears and our lips
about one inch - right on the speaker.
CC Okay and we're about a minute away from
LOS Hawaii. I will give you a call at Vanguard at 04:10
and I would appreciate it if you would glance back over the
flight plan and would be prepared at Vanguard and let us know
what you did not get accomplished today and we will take that
into account.
CDR Okay, Dick, we'll do it.
CC Okay.
PLT And Dick just for the record, the Coolanol
servicing repari is all done, the standoffs are installed and
the saddle loop is protected by the cover.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you Bill.
CC PLT, Houston have you restowed all the
servicing gear for the checklist.
PLT Yeah, that's affirmative.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT It's on the dounlick tape.
CC Okay and you weighted the bottle and
eve rything.
PLT It should be on the recorder. If you don't
get that if you try to dump then I'Ii voice it to you in
the Hawaii pass.
CC No we'll pick it up. Thank you very much.
through Hawaii. Final Hawaii pass of the day. And normally
would have been the final pass before the crew begins their
sleep period, however, the people on the ground would like
to compare notes with the crew to determine which of today's
flight plan items were not accomplished so that they can
be rescheduled in succeeding days. So we'll be talking to
them again at Vanguard in 20 minutes. Back at that time at
3:49 Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI31/I
Time: 22:09 CST, 05:04:09 _IT
11/19/73
PAO 04:08 _reenwich mean time, 50 seconds

away from acquisition and at tracking ship Vanguard, for the
final pass of the evening before the crew enters into rest.
CC Skylab, Houston Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Been waiting up for you.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, on the CDR's column, the day four
transfers weren't done, we did go up and get the bite boards
off. And housekeeping 3A, the squeezer bag dump it isn't any-
where near ready to be dumped so we skipped that, in the
SPT column Ed overlooked T003-6, he says he'll pick it up
tormorrow morning, if you want it. And houskeeping 60 Echo
didn't get done today. On the PLT side of the house housekeeping
8-Alfa, we did only three bags instead of 12.
CC Okay, Jerry before I get off the telephone
here why don't - let us review and see if we got any other
questions.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, one question on the
PLT column what about the T003, 2, and 3 and _ listed at 23:00?
CDR That did get done.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston I guess we didn't
quite copy that did you say that did or did not get accomplished.
CDR It did get done.
CC Roger.
CDR Was accomplished.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we got what we wanted
for the information for today's flight plan, thanks for the
information and I'm - I want make any more calls here at
Vanguard we still have about 6 minutes, however, - correction,
about 4 minutes and I'm standing by.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Good night, see you in the morning.
CDR Good night.
CDR llouston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey, Dick we just did a little research
and it turns out that we really didn't do T003, 2, 3 and 4
yet, he did six and he thought it was 2, 3, and 4. We'll go
ahead and pick those up before we go to bed.
CC Okay, let me make sure that I - that I
understand what you're telling me, prior to going to sleep
tonight you will have accomplished 2, 3, 4, and 6. Is that right?
CDR Six was done earlier today, and we'll do
2, 3, and 4 right now.
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CC Okay, real fine understand.

from tracking ship Vanguard the crew preparing for their
sleep period, Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly signed
off for the evening after checking with the crew on out-
standing flight plan items for today that will have to be
carried over. Next station Ascension Island in 5 minutes.
Returning at 6 a.m. Central time tomorrow this is Skylab
Control at 4:20 Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-132/I
Time: 05:51 CDT, 05:11:51 GMT
11/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

MS Good morning, llouston.
CC Are you up and at em, yet? I thought
we could get you here, maybe a few minutes early, because our
next pass is about 25 after 6:00. And we didn't know
whether you'd want to sleep that late or not.
CDR No. Thanks for calling Hank. We'll -
We'll get rol _ng.
CC I'll make a deal with you. You can wake
me up at Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS, now. We'll be coming up on Texas at 24. And at that
site, if it's convenient to listen up, I'll just give you an over-
view of what we expect to do today to try to get ourselves on down
the timeline a little bit.
CDR Okay, Hank. See you then.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _Ic-133/i
Time: 06:22 CST 05:12:22 GMT
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, _ouston at 12 hours

23 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from reacquiring Skylab (garble) place through Honeysuckle
approxima Sly 30 minutes ago by CAP CO}IM Henry Hartsfield.
Flight Director now on duty is Chuck Lewis. We'll stand by
and leave the line open and await Hartsfield's next eallup
to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. Ue're with you Stateside,
14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston. Be with you in a second.
PAO Skylah Control_ Houston. 12 hours,
29 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV continuing with
a pass over Texas. Very quiet pass in terms of communications
with the crew. The crew now in their post sleep activities.
CDR Okay, flank. Go ahead.
CC Okay, JeT. What we had in mind here was
to work on the flight plan a little bit so we can get these
transfers out of the way and what we're doing in general is
deleting lead in the Ml31s that we have later in the day. And, we're
also prepared, if necessary, to delete the Ml31s that will be
scheduled the following morning. I have the details of this,
if you can markup your flight plans, whenever it's convenient
for you to copy this down.
CDR Okay. Stand by, just a second.
CC The way we figured, you're a 8 hours,
8 man hours down on the on the schedule. And, none of the
changes take place until after 20:00, JeT, if you want to
wait a little while later to copy some of this down.
CDK Okay, Hank. I've got (garble) (static)
CC You were cut out then. We lost the COMM
for a moment. Say again, please.
CDR I've got the pad now, Hank. We can go
ahead and s_=art.
CC Okay. We had a couple omissions on the
flight plan itself. At 20:00, the CDR has PT scheduled and
we should of had "sweat" under that. If you'll pardon the
expression? The time under CDR from 21:15 all the way down
to 20 or 00:45, down there just prior to eating is the time
that we've blocked out for you to do the day 4 transfers, as
much of that: as you can do.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC And, CDR, if you have your details
available. At 21:15 we're gonna delete 70 Alpha, 70 Uniform,
70 Victor step i, and 70 Whiskey. That housekeeping we can
delay for awhile.
CDR Okay. Good enough.
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11/20/73
CC Okay. For the SPT. The place where we

had him doing the _I131 observer. _e want him to do as much
of the hou _keeping 60E, if he can do the ambient food
transfer. And, if he wants to modify his detail to reflect
that, that will be good. For the PLT.
CDR Wait, Hank. Stand by. This is down
around 23:15, where we read _131 observer.
CDR Okay.
CC And, for the PLT, at that same time frame
where he has PT scheduled. We also, need a sweat sample from
him. If he wants to add that in. And, at just under his
personal hygiene there at that open housekeeping. We want
to do 8 Alpha. And, do at least 4 bags.
CDR Right there, after personal hygiene?
CC That's affirmative, at about 0030, some-
where in there.
CDR Okay.
CC And, that that just about does it for
the changes we propose for you to do today and then if they -
if we need it, as I say we can probably scrub the Ml31s tomorrow
mornin_ too, to give a little more time.
CDR Okay, Hank. _$e'll do our darnedest to get
caught up.
CC Okay. And, in the presleep, CDR, I
omitted one thing there. In your presleep, we'd like for
you to do hou _keeping 3 Alpha.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC134/I
Time: 06:36: CST, 05:21:36 GMT
11/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from

LOS. Madrid at 43.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 12 hours, 39
minutes Greenwich mean time. A loss of signal now with
Skylab IV through Bermuda. Next station to acquire will be
iladrid in 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2
minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO CAP COMM Hank Iiartsfield talking to
Commander Jerry Carr through Madrid. We're 12 hours, 44 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. The line is open.
SPT Good morning, Houston. SPT. I got a
question for you.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT On TO03 operations, the Checklist doesn't
call for voice recording in the data books. I suspect maybe that's
what they want. Would you clerify that, please?
CC Wilco.
CC SPT, Houston. Voice recording is not
necessary. Just record the data on a little card there with
the device and will you bring those home with you.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you switched over
to water tank 3 yet?
CDR Negative. Not yet, Hank.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Do we need to ask you first before we do it?
CC Negative. At your convenience.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Carnarvon at 18.
CDR Come on, Houston.
PA0 Skylab Control, Houston at 12 hours,
range with Madrid. Next station to acquire will be Carnarvon
in 27 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-135/I
Time: 07:17 CST 05:13:17 GMT
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

13 hours, 17 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV, less
than a minute away now from acquisition through Carnarvon.
We'll stand by now for CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield callup.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
5 minutes.
19 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We're up live on this
Carnarvon pass. Now receiving data through Carnarvon. The
crew of Skylab IV, still in their postsleep scheduled portion
of the flight plan.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Hey, Hank, I'm all hung up on that camera
equipment activation. I can't find stuff. I was wondering if you
could have them check real quick and tell us where the Hasselblad
70-millimeter camera is located.
CC Okay. We'll put it in work.
PLT Also the instruction as listed in
photo pad is go to buna page in the ops book
for photo activation procedures, Now - Some of the cameras
have already been activated and used and others haven't.
And the instructions are of such a general nature that it's very
easy to make a mistake and cycle through a camera that's
already been in use.
CC I'm not sure how we can help you with
that, Bill. Do you have a specific question about it?
PLT I guess that's my question. The instructions
aren't specific.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it.
PLT It's on page g-i of the photo ops book.
It sort of tells you, A, go grab all the cameras and fix them
up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS
here, in about i0 seconds. We'll have a short pass at Honeysuckle
at 29. And if you still read, the Hasselblad is in Foxtrot 523.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 13 hours 24 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Carnarvon. During
that Carnarvon pass we heard CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield talking
to Pilot Bill Pogue. Next station to acquire, Honeysuckle in
approximately 5 minutes.
28 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV, now approaching
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CC Skylab, Houston (garble) at this time

I got 2 quick remminders for you. We have a NuZ update coming
up at 13:48 and also we've got a new star today, Canopus, so
you'll have to dash that in.
CDR (Garble) thank you, Hank. Ue'll get it.
CC And our next contact will be on the hour
at Texas. And we'll dump the data voice recorder there.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-136/I
Time: 07:3.5 CST 05:13:35 GMT
11/20/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station range contact
with Honeysuckle. A summary of today's flight plan day 5 for
the Skylab IV crew goes as follows. The crew will be pinched,
poked and _otographed today in their first mission day of
intensive medical experiments. Even before awakening this
morning, the Science Pilot Ed Gibson's sleep patterns were
monitored and recorded here in the _ission Control Center.
As often as possible during the coming weeks Gibson will wear
a sleep cap fitted with electrodes as a subject of experiment
_133. Only nine caps are left on the space station and the
damp electrodes have a tendancy to dry out, so the Science
Pilot probably will not be monitored every other night as
the scheduled used on the two previous flights. Gibson will
begin the medical experiments before breakfast when ha draws
blood samples from his fellow crewmen. One of the crewmen
then returns the favor for the Science Pilot. The Science
Pilot measures the hemoglobin and places the sample on the
centrlfu ge to remove the blood cells. The blood plasma
is then frozen for return to Earth at the end of the mission.
Gibson also measures the concentration of the astornaut's
urine. While Gibson is finishing the pro_essing of the blood
samples, Commander Jerry Carr will begin the first of 27 scheduled
runs in the lower body negative pressure device. Pogue observes
and assists the outside pressure around the lower half of
Carr's body as reduced slightly inhibiting the return of the
blood to the upper body. A function similar to that performed
by gravity on the Earth. While Bill Pogue observes this
activity all three crew members made seven runs on the ground
before last Friday's launch, and each will be tested about
once every three days during the current flight. Experiment
measures the changes in the heart's ability to pump blood
that occurr in the absence of gravity. Carr will also perform
two associated tests first made during the last Skylab flight
In the first: test, Carr performes isometric exercises with
his legs to determine the effect of muscle use in overcoming
blood pooling. The second test restricts blood return with
a blood pressure cup fitted above Carr's knees. Crew members
will repeat both tests at least twice, in the middle and at
the end of the stay aboard the space station. Photographs
of Carr's face should reveal a transfer of body fluid to the
lower extremities will be taken by Pogue during the run.
Following the tests of the Commander's cardiovascular system
he will mount the bicycle ergometer, and connect an elaborate
set of sensors which measure his oxygen intake, carbon dioxide
production, heart beat, breathing, blood pressure, temperature,
and other physical conditions as he exercises. The metabolic
SL-IV MC-136/2
Time: 07:35 CST 05:13:35 GMT
11/20/73
activity experiment MI71, measures the effect of strenuous

exercise on the astronaut's system. In the afternoon, Ed
_bson will observe Bill Pogue as he performs the same set
of experiments and related tests. During his own morning
exercise period, Gibson will take a sample of his perspiration.
An absorbant pad containing the material will be sealed in a
bag and be returned for careful analysis after the flight
concludes. Although no such data was gathered during the
first Skylab flight, scientists studying changes in the astro-
naut's chemical balance requested the sampling during the
last mission. Samples are to be gathered three times during
the flight to provide information on substances lost through
the skin as a result of vigorous exercise. After lunch all
three crew members will strip to their underwear for another
new Skylab study using a 35-millimeter camera with infrared
film the astronauts will take turns photographing each other.
The full body photos using heat-sensitive film should indicate
changes in each astranauts blood flow. Increased blood flow
shows up as higher body temperature which will be visible on
the 35 millimeter film. As an indication of body volume changes
girth mea _rements will be made on all three astornauts during
the early afternoon. Each crew members left leg and arm
waist and chest and hips will be measured today if time permits.
After dinner the Skylab IV astornauts will make stereo photo-
graphs of each other as another record of body volumes using
Nikon 35 milimeter cameras held about 3 feet apart. Two
members of the crew will simultaneously photograph the third.
Because of problems in refilling one of Skylab's cooling lines,
all of the scientific equipment scheduled for transfer from
the command module yesterday will be moved this afternoon by
Commander Jerry Carr. The postponed transfer includes a
sealed container with i000 gypsy moth eggs to be moved to the
wardroom area and attached to the wall with a Velero fastener.
Science Pilot Gibson will check the eggs for visible changes
before going to bed tonight. Because the crew is running
a little more than two hours behind schedule, the planned first
run of the rotating litter chair used in Skylab's motion
sensitivity experiment which was earlier scheduled for today
had to be postponed. The experiment may be one of the crew
members tomorrow with the other astronauts completing their
first test in flight after Thursday's space walk. All three
Skylab passengers are in Bood health having lost just a little
weight since launch morning. Yesterday's status report showed
Carr weighing in at 148.2 pounds down 1.55 pounds, Gibson at
155.9 pounds down i.i pound, and Pogue at 145.8 pounds down
3.2 pounds. Pogue who experienced some motion sickness during
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the first day in space showed a slight weight gain yesterday,

up 5 ounces from the previous day's measurement. Carr gained
nearly 3/4ths of a pound while Gibson lost about i0 ounces.
We're now at 13 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean time, and
20 minutes away now from reaequiring $kylab IV over Texas.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI37/i
Time: 07:58 CST, 05:13:58 GMT
11/20/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control, Houston at 13

hours, 58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now ap-
proaching acquisition through Texas. We now have a new
team of Flight Controllers on here in +he Mission Control
Center. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson now on board. Our
CAP COMM for this shift is Bruce McCandless. We'll stand by
now and await acquisition of Skylab IV through Texas.
Christi. Will be dumping your data voice tape recorder here
and the stateside pass, we'll be with you for 15 minutes.
Out .
CDR Reg. Good morning, Bruce.
CC And $kylah, this is Houston. For the
PLT - -
CDR Stand by just a second.
CC Yeah, no rush.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Go.
CC Okay. Not time (garble) which is the motor-
driven Nlkon that gets used with S063, needs batteries both
in its motor drive unit and in the photomic light meter head.
Nikon 02 needs batteries, in the motor drive unit anA the Hasselblad
which is located in P-523, also needs batteries. Manual Nikon
NK03, needs batteries in the photomic head and this needs to
be done today since you'll be usin_ it for the stereo photo _
this evening, and that camera will be taking light meter
readings for the exposure. You also need to transfer _he
flash shoe from the photomic head on NK03 over to NK04 since
you'll be using NK04 with the flash this evening on th_ stereo
photos. In pointafax, as you know, the flash shoe come_ off
by unscrewing the eye piece ring on the photomic head. It might
just he simpler to switch the photomie heads around s_nee
you got batteries in the one on NK04 already and you go_ the
flash shoe installed on the photomic head on NK03. Ov_r.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you very much for
that information. And I'ii get to this piecemeal during the day.
CC Bill, if you would, I guess this goes
for all three of you, when you do change the camera cnnfio-
urations around, if ynu'd just take a second and tell us
about it_ on the air-to-ground or on the tape, why it would
greatly facilitate our keeping track of what the configuratinn
up there really is. This is some+hing that we tend to hav_ trouble
keeping good track of. Over.
PLT Yes, I agree cause I've already (garble) myself
here a couple of times. And we'll try and get you good
information on that.
CC Okay and some miscellaneous items. We
put the NuZ update windows on your detail pad today. I guess
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Time: 07:58 CST, 05:13:58 GMT
11/20/73
this pertains mainly to the SPT and occasionally to t_e CDR.

This is for your convenience and we wonder if you want these,
if so, we carl continue doing it. If you don't think they're
necessary, we'll drop back to just giving you the one time,
that is about 2 minutes after dump midnight. And I guess t_e
feeling down here is, we prefer to drop back. The the C&_ panel
on the ATM tells ynu whether or n-t a dump is in progress. Of
course, you got the talkback up there and then you got the tim=
remaining in the day-night counter. I guess you can assume
that if it's time remaining in day, why you're not dumping.
Down here, we're still showing 8 hours and 48 minutes o_ daytime.
But that's visible illumination. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We understand the oonstraint
of not being in a dump but what do_s the day-night go' to
do with the star tracker?
CC I don't see that it has anything to do
with the star track^r as such. Oh, okay. On your star t_ack-r
pad, it gives you the availahlity of the star and time remaining
of day and n_ght.
PLT PLT Bruce, I think we prefer if you folks
just put that in for a little while and we'll knock it off
when we get th_ feel for it.
CC Roger. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 5 and a quarter minutes through
Madrid at 14:19. Out.
Bermuda with Skylab IV. Next station to acquire is Madrid
in 4 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-138/i
Time: 08:16 CST 0_:14:16 GMT
11/20/73

20 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV, now under
acquisition through Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 8-1/2 minutes and we've got a few notes here on the
biomed experiments. On MO92, we'd like you all 3 to use a
saddle setting of 6 for the first run. And, thereafter,
you can adjust it as required for crew comfort. For the CDR,
the VCG Y-axis setting should be 5 instead of what's on the
cue card. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead. Over.
SPT The first two notes. One, the MII0, in
order to draw a vacuum on the automatic sample processer. I
ha" to use a syringe, as opposed to the water dump line,
because we convertea that to the M092 dump. I had to I took
a syringe that we used yesterday and I cleaned it up, rather
than using one of the new syringes which had anticogaulant in
it. I didn't want to run short on those. My second point is
on the star tracker. I think once we get up and we're operating
the ATM, and we got a guy there at the panel all the time to
note what the star availability is, we won't have any problem.
But most of the time we're not at that panel and I think givin_
those extra (garble) information on the detail will help us.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
SPT And - uh - Bruce, got a third point on the
question which you asked on the (garble) pad above the water
consumption from the water gun reading.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Those numbers are correct. For
the first couple of days here I've been trying to keep the
water level up. Three reasons. I guess, one is we all know
we want to keep it up so we don't get dehydrated as we've
seen in other flights. Secondly, the atsmophere here is very
dry and we do - you do feel thirsty. And, thirdly, the
medication which we've taken also can dehydrate you, or at least
make you feel dehydrated. So, all three things combined
make you really p,,t the water away.
CC Okay. Thank you for the info. We were
just inquiring to make sure the numbers were right and we
hadn't screwed up down h_re.
LOS. Next station contact in 11-1/2 minutes through Tananarive
at 14:40. Out.
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Time: 08:16 CST 05:14:16 GMT
11/20/73
PAO Skvlab Control, Houston. 14 hours,

30 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station
range with Madrid. Next station to acquire will be Tananarvie
in i0 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 14 hours,
acquisition through Tananarive.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're sort of
fading down into the mud here at Tananarive. Next station
contact through Honeysuckle Creek in 21 minutes at 15:07.
Out.
50 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Out of station range now
with Tananarive. The next station to acquire will be Honey-
suckle in 16 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-139/I
Time: 09:05 CST 05:15:05 GMT
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston, 15 hours

acquisition through Honeysuckle. We'll stand by with the
line open and wait for CAP COMM Bruce _cCandless's callup
to the crew of Skylab IV.
Creek for 2 minutes. Out.
SPT Hello, Bruce. I've got a question for you.
CC Fire when ready, Ed.
SPT Okay, where do I find the procedures for
PT sweat. I looked in biomed flight plan, checked with
correlation and I couldn't find it there.
CC Okay, we'll get right back to you.
CC Okay, i minute to LOS, next station contact
in 26-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at 15:35.
CC And your procedure is on cue cards, cue
card number 2-30 for sweat. And I think the PT is your option.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And it's on the cue card which is labeled
unscheduled exercise slash sweat, slash H20 loss. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, we got it. Thank you very
much.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 15 hours
contact with Honeysuckle. Next station to pick up Skylab
will be Goldstone in 25 minutes. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hours 32 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. At this point in the work day
Commander _rry Carr is the subject and Pilot Bill Pogue is
the observer for the lower body negative pressure experiment
followed by metabolic activity experiment and facial photos
and the limb blood flow. _leanwhile during the previous pass
over Honeysuckle, Science Pilot Ed Gibson asked for checklist
inform ation on the sweat experiment. The crew has been asked
to collect specimens of their perspiration accumulated during
their exer _se period. This is part of a list of more than
i dozen detailed test objectives ahead of the crew in addition
to the more than scores of scientific and engineering experiments
the crew will perform during the mission. Previous crews
have remarked about an apparent decrease in salinity of body
sweat. It is known that disturbances in mineral balance mechanisms
are occurring on Skylab flights, although it cannot be used
quanitatively, a relative assessment of changes in normal
sweat patterns would be of value in the study of mineral balance.
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Sweat samples of each orewman will be made with a wipe once

early in the mission, in middle and late in the mission. These
samples will be measured on the specimen mass measurement
device, and samples will be returned for analysis on the ground.
The minerals and the returned wipes will be leached out and
measured. These data will be compared with the results of
normal sweat patterns to provide an assessment of changes as
related to the overall study of body mineral balance. We're
standing by now, we're 30 seconds away now from reacquiring
Skylab IV over Goldstone. And this is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi and Bermuda for 10 minutes. Out.
CDR Hello, Bruce. Bill right now is setting
up the pictures of Jerry on the M092. And I'm all set to do
the exercise with the sweat collection.
CC Roger. Thank you, Ed.
CC SPT, this is Houston. Over.
CC Disregard, SPT.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce. I'm listening.
CC Yeah, you're pretty well tied down in
the bicycle thou gh. We wanted to get you to throw a few
switches for us, but it is not all that critical.
CC Go ahead with your exercise protocol.
_eenwich mean time. Out of range now with Goldstone. Next
station acquisition in 1 minute is Bermuda.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI40/I
Time: 09:46 CST, 05:15:46 GMT
11/20/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston now coming to you

through Bermuda for about 5 minutes. Out. &nd'll be dumping
the data voice tape recorder next site at Canary. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Canary at 15:57.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hours, 15
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station
range with Bermuda. Toward the end of that pass, the EGIL
Flight Controller reported seeing on his display is the M092
vent into the waste tank. You may recall, this that the
crew of Skylab IV, two days ago, installed a 6-foot hose to
dump nitrogen out into the tank. This plumbing appears to
be working well and the M092, the first M092 run for this
mission is now in progress with Commander Jerry Carr as the
subject and Colonel Bill Pogue, the Pilot, as the observer.
There will be about 25 M092 runs during the course of the
Skylab IV mission. We're 15 hours, 55 minutes Greenwich mean
time. This is Skylah Control, Houston.
PAO Skylah Control, Houston. 15 hours, 57
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now approaching acqui-
sition through Canary.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for
8 minutes. We're dumping the data voice tape recorder. Out.
CC And SPT, this is Houston. _$e see you
stopped pedaling and wondered if you could do a configuration
for us. Over.
SPT Yeah, give me a minute, Bruce. I'll be
with you.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. Up in the command module, we
want a configure for simul and the procedure for this is
panel 3, VHF AM Bravo to Duplex right antenna_ panel 9, VHF
AM switch to TR. I can read it back again when you get up
there, if you'd like.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I'll give you a call from
there.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Let's have those switches
again, please.
CC Okay, Ed. Over on panel 3, VHF AM Bravo,
switch to Duplex.
SPT Got it.
CC VHF antenna to right. That's the rotary
up at the top of the switch.
CC This better?
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11/20/73
CC Panel 9, the commander's intercomm panel,

VHF AM switch to TR.
SPT Okay, it's there.
CC Okay and the reason wetre doing this is
we're trying to check out Canary and the other ground sites
here on VHF in preparation for your private comm telephone
calls. Over.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good. Thank you, Bruce.
CC And in fact, if you'll hold on a minute,
I'll give you a call on VHF. It should be coming over
channel B in the workshop.
SPT Okay. I read you loud and clear, Bruce.
Okay. She's working during the day. You might have a tough
time gettting her. Yeah, Methodist Hospital with Dr. Alex-
ander, Surgical Assistant.
SPT Say again here. Can you just cut out?
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Delay that.
_fe've got a problem between the station and the ground. The
station's reading you okay. Out.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and
a half to LOS. Next station contact is Tananarive in 12-1/2
minutes at 16:17. We'll track you there. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-141/I
Time: 10:06 CST 05:16:06 GMT
11/20/73

7 minutes, Greenwich mean time. That command module
communications checkout between CAP COMM Bruce _IcCandless,
here in the l_ission Control Center and Science Pilot Ed
Gibson was in preparation for the private family comms, which
will take place somewhat earlier today because of the lousy
station coverage this evening. We're i0 minutes away now
from reacquiring Skylab IV over Tananarive and this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
acquisition of Skylab IV through Tananarive.
for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Contact in
16 minutes through Honeysuckle.
PAO (Static) - minutes, Greenwich mean time.
Skylab IV out of station range with Tananarive. Next station
contact, Honeysuckle in 14-1/2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-142/I
Time: 10:40 CST, 05:16:40 GMT
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston, at 16 hours

41 minutes _eenwieh mean time. Skylab-IV, now, approaching
station contact with Honeysuckle, less than a minute away, now,
from acquisition through Honeysuckle. Standing by, Skylab
Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is llouston, through Honeysuckle
Creek for 9 minutes. Couple of interesting points, here.
One is that we realize the relative humidity in the workshop
is down. We sympathize with your plight and in addition to
sympathizin:E with it, we're going to work up a little procedure
to enable us to raise the humidity to a more comfortable level.
Over.
CDR Roger. You're all heart, Bruce.
CC And for the SPT. Tell him that hers go
on his priw_te comm at 17:34. From experience with the last
mission, we heartily recommend that he use the private eomm cue
card in configuring the command module for it. And, I think,
we also, want to hack out of the panel 9 VHF-AM switch.
SPT Okay, Bruce. You want the panel 9 VHF-am
switch back to center position?
CC That's correct. And when you get through
up there, if you'd go ahead and turn it back on, we'll try
and run some site checks prior to the subsequent calls for
the day. And for the CDR. We have him set up through Guam
at 20:04. And the PLT, through the Vanguard in port at 01:50 -
at 01:46. Over.
CDR Roger. Thank you Bruce.
CC And the reason that these are spread
out through the day, is that the site coverage gets pretty
sparse later on in the day. And we tried to get you each -
get you each a good 10-minute period here. And also not inter-
rupt the major medical experiments. So, it's not usual, that
they be spread out quite like this.
SC Very good. Thank you, Bruce. Appreciate
it.
CC Also, on the dump tapes from 2 days ago,
you requested information on where to stow the portable waste
stowage bags. We'd like this stowed in U-I in the command module.
And that particular location is also called out in the activation
checklist on page 2-109. Over.
SC Okay.
CC And, you, I think, reported yesterday,
Ed, that you are unable to find the radiation survey meter
battery replacement pack, which was transferred from A-8 to
F-510 on day 3. You said you'd go back and recheck. Did you
find it?
SPT Yeah. Let me explain what happened there,
Bruce. When I took the radiation survey meter back off, the
battery module was sitting in there. The top part of that module
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11/20/73
came off with the top of the meter. So I found myself looking
at 6 small batteries. So that's what I was looking fur. In
reality, I should have been looking for the whole battery module,
which eventually figured out.
CC Okay. You got it squared away, now?
SPT That's right.
CC Beautiful, Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 16 hours 52 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station contact range
with Honeysuckle. Next station to acquire will be Hawaii in
9-1/2 minutes. This is Skylah Control, Kouston°
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
and 1 minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV approaching
acquisition through Hawaii. _e'll stand by with the line open.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 17 hours 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time. A very quiet pass over Hawaii. The
commander, Jerry Carr, as the subject and Pilot Bill Pogue
continuing with the medical experiments that were scheduled for
this morning.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at
17:13. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC143/I
Time: ii:ii CST, 05:17:11 _{T
11/20/73
PAO Skylab Control, 17 hours 12 minutes

Greenwich mean time, loss of signal Hawaii. Approaching
acquisition now through Goldstone.
13 minutes. The hiomed controller reporting that the
commander and pilot are now starting experiment MI71, having
completed the lower body negative pressure experiment.
for 3 minutes. Out. Make that 7 minutes. Out.
SPT Hello, Bruce, SPT. I'd like to clarify
something with you on the private eomm configuration.
CC Yeah, we'd like to clarify some things
with you on the private comm configuration, too. Shall we
go first, or do you want to?
SPT Go ahead; you may be thinking the same.
CC Okay. The configuration that you want
is the one that's listed under private comm VHF Delta. That
is, panel 3 VHF A and B duplex which you've already got;
VHF antenna, which you've already got on right, which is the
correct one for this pass. And panel 9, that's the FTR, VHF
AM off. Panel i0, S-band TR off. Intercom off and VHF AM
to TR. Over.
SPT ROd. Okay, Bruce. That clarifies it.
When I was looking at VHF AM to TR on panel 9 that made me
wonder.
CC Yes, you want to do the - the steps in the
brackets ow_r there in the VHF Delta.
SPT Rog. That was assuming it was going to
be on the left switch from VHF on S-band. Okay. I'ii go on
to oelta.
CC Roger. You got it. And then of course,
VR either headset or speaker box as you prefer on the box on
the rizht.
SPT Okay and I can configure that after our
last pass before 17:347
CC Yes, that'll be Bermuda. We can give you
a reminder as you go out of site there. It's a fairly short,
no, it's a reasonable length pass. And for your information,
we're going to have you hooked up through Canary and Ascension.
They overlap here. But we haven't completely worked out the
antenna coverage for Ascension yet, but you started out on
right, go all the way through Canary and there's a possibility
you might have to switch to left for Ascension. We'll give you
a call.
SPT Okay. Very good. You folks do good work.
Thank you.
CC Tha_ll give you about 17 minutes total.
SPT Great.
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Time: ii:ii CST, 05:17:11 GMT
11/20/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at 17:24
and we'll have a 2 minute keyhole in the thing. Make that
a short keyhole in Bermuda.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal Goldstone. Ber-
muda acquisition in 3 minutes.
for 8 minutes and for the SPT, we got the antenna better plots
on Ascension now this pass. It doesn't really look very good.
It's left antenna, but you go through blockage by the space-
craft right in the middle of the pass. Over.
SPT Good, Bruce. Understand you want me to
stand them - stay on left from up begining to the end?
CC No, we want you to start out on right
antenna through Canary. When you loose Canary, you can go
ahead and switch to left and try Ascension if you'd like.
You_ll get some contact through it, but it probably won't be
very good and you'll be in blockage in the middle of that
Ascension pass which in itself is 7 minutes long.
SPT Okay. Understand.
CC And also, when someone has a moment, the
readings that we're getting from partial pressure of 02 sensor
number 2, the one that wouldn't lock into place all the way,
are fluctuating some. WeVd like you to take a piece of tape,
no particular color, and use the tape to try to hold it down
into its socket securely. Over.
PLT (Garble).
CC And if you'd let us know after you've done
it, we can take a good, close look at the data and see if it's
settled down any.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _C-144/i
Time: 11:28 CST 05:17:28 GMT
11/20/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute til

LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Canary at
17:34. SPT VHF private CO}{M. Out.
33 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with
Bermuda. Standing by for acquisition through Canary. This
will be the station pass in which Science Pilot Ed Gibson
will have his private family conversation.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Ascension for 16 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We are copying
the SPT on VHF intermittently on the thing and we're still
working on oonfig _ation.
handover to Ascension. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at Ascension. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston now coming to you
through Ascension. We'll dump the data voice tape recorder
and for the SPT at Ascension here. Probably best to go to
left antenna on VHF and continue on into blockage there. Over.
47 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV continuing on this
Ascension pass. About 4 minutes remaining until loss of
signal. _Ieanwhile Science Pilot, Ed Gibson, is carrying on
his private family conference.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/4 minutes
til LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 18:17. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours,
51 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through
Ascension. Barring operational constraints Skylab's first
observation of Comet Kohoutek is tentative!_, scheduled for
mission day 8, on Friday. The first instrument scheduled
to gather data on Kohoutek is the $233, which will be placed
in the left hand viewing window of the command module.
Photographs of the Comet and Star Fields will be made with a
35 millimeter Nikon camera. A sequence of two exposures will
be made every 12 hours for the first I0 days. November 23
through December 2nd. The first exposure will be made of a
star field and the second exposure will be made of the comet.
Both exposures will be made with a lens focus setting on 12 -
25 feet and exposure time will remain constant. From December 3
through December 19, a sequence of 4 photographs will be made
every 12 hours. Prior to the cometVs preperihelion, the
$233 camera will be positioned in the command module. During
the post parahelion, the comet's closest approach to the Sun
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Time: 11:28 CST 05:17:28 GMT
11/20/73
the camera will be positioned in the workshop wardroom window.

If $233 is placed in the command module on Friday, Comet
Kohoutek will be approximately 141 million miles from the
Earth. 96 million miles from the Sun and traveling at a
speed of about 94,000 miles per hour. Skylab instruments
including 6 ATM experiments will be aimed at the comet on a
schedu _d basis between Friday and the first week of January.
Use of the $233 camera, is dependent on the Thanksgiving EVA,
which calls for ATM filmloading and completion of repairs on
the S193 EREP instrument. Present plans if all goes well,
calls for additional observations to be made for 3 days,
starting November 24, with $201, S183, and S019 experiments.
We're at 17 hours, 54 minutes, Greenwich mean time. 23-1/2 minutes
away now from reacquiring Skylab through Carnarvon. This is
END OF TAPE
SL-IV 145/1
Time: 12:15 CST 05:18:15 GMT
11/20/73

16 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV less than a minute
away now from Carnarvon acquisition.
SPT Hello Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT. We're with you through
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek for 9 minutes. Over.
SPT Hey Bruce, I think the Comm went real well
Procedures were great and good comm all the way. Give our
thanks to all of the folks who it up.
CC Okay, we will. We're glad it worked
out that well. We'll hope for some more like that in the future.
SPT I meant the configuration in the command
module, the same as we had before the (garble) to comm which
was, I believe what you wanted so that you could do some more
checking out.
CC Right, that is. We'll be listening at
the various sites for the VHF to check it out.
PLT Hey Bruce, PLT here. I_m getting ready
to put the iodine in water tank 3. And I just wanted to
confirm that we're going to go for 9 parts per million?
CC We're checking on that now, Bill.
PLT Okay.
CC And while we're talking to you here,
Bill, the other day Jerry mentioned when he took the 02 sensor
out of number 2 I believe it was, no it was the C02 sensor
out of one of the sieves the - stand by.
CC Jerry mentioned when he took one of the
C02 sensors out of sieve B he had a white crystal line substance
on the end of it. And if you can still find it, we'd like
to mark that cartridge for return at the end of the mission and
bring it back. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce, I'm pretty sure he read that.
CC Roger. Thank you.
PLT And, as long as we're talking about it -
changing the cameras around this morning the small glass -
I don't know if it's for the filter or not. It's for the ground
glass for the imagery (?) in the head, you'll find your head on
the 35 Nikon came out and floated to 3 and I tried to get it
back in and my question is, which side of that glass faces up?
the convex side or the flat side?
CC We'll check on this. I believe the convex
side is up and ground side down, but let us check on it.
PLT All right. I think that is right because
I took the head off another camera to check and that is the
way it was, but I can't get it back in that way. I'll go ahead
and work on it.
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CC Okay, now Bill, you may have to push

the button on the back of the camera that releases the platomic
head to open up the little jaws and hold that piece of ground
glass in place. And look for the notches, if you will, on the
upper surface of the thing, hecause it actually locks in place.
Over,
PLT Okay, I remember now. Thank you.
CDR (garble).
CC Go ahead,CDR.
CDK I just taped sensor number 2, and it looks
to be a pretty hard one (garble).
CC Okay, thank you very much. And I believe
that was an error a minute ago. The sensor that you took out,
you reported a white crystal line substance on the end of it,
I think was the other, the former PP02 number 2 sensor and we'd
like to bring that back instead of the C02 cartridge. Over.
CDR Okay, that's the one.
CC And could you tell us where it is right
now, and we'll write into the deactivation checklist and make
sure we get it.
CDR Okay, the white crystal broke free of the
sensor, and I have white crystal stuck to a piece of tape right
next to the sensor package. The sensor itself I have marked
and that's put away in 301.
CC In what 301?
CDR In locker number 301.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Do you want them both or do you want just
the Crystal?
CC We'd like to get them both, Jerry.
CDR Okay, I'ii put them together in 301.
CC (Garble) teleprinter message 0632 and 1'11
put it in my book.
CC Okay, and for the PLT, you can secure
on chlorinating tanks, or iodinating tank 3 for the time being.
We'll monitor it periodically, as we would normally, and if it
needs it we'll give you a call. And it's 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 15 minutes through Hawaii at 05:33,
excuse me make that an 18:30.
CDR Roger.
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Honeysuckle.
Next station to acquire will be Hawaii in approximately 13 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC146/I
Time: 12:39 CST, 05:18:39 GMT
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control_ 11ouston at 18

hours, 40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now ap-
proaching acquisition range through Hawaii. We'll stand by
and keep the line open and listen for the callup from CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless.
for 5 minutes. For the PLT.
PLT Go, brother.
CC Yeah, okay. On the ground glass - indeed,
the convex side goes up, the nice, flat ground side goes down,
and if the look at the ground glass, there are 2 little notches
on one of tlhe narrow side. Those go up and to the left as
you hold De camera down in front of you as you would at
waist level with the lens pointing away from you, and are
intended to be engaged by two small dogs coming out of the
left hand side of the base of the aperture there. Those
dogs are operated by the button on the back of the camera
which also releases the photomic head. Over.
PLT Copy, Bruce. Understand. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR.
Over.
PLT Go Bruce. He's listening.
CC Okay. Use the Hasselblad - the HDC with
the 100-millimeter lens for today's handheld photo targets if
you would and all visual observations sites are low priority
until mission day 9. And a third comment for handheld site
30-A at 19:01 Z which is your first one and is coming up
shortly if you opt take it. The site is Lake Superior. The
4-L scale is on exposure 4-3 of visual observations book. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you
over Goldstone in about 5 minutes. Time of 18:52 and that
4-L scale is in figure 4-3 in the visual observations book.
CDR Roger. Copy. Figure 4-3.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now at Hawaii.
Goldstone coming up in 3-1/2 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours, 56 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Very quiet pass over the States.
Skylab IV under Goldstone acquisition. It would be reasonable
to assume that the crew of Skylab IV are in their lunch break.
CC Skylab, this is llouston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4 minutes through Bermuda at 19:01. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-147/I
Time: 12:58 CST 05:18:58 GMT
11/20/73

Greenwich mean time. 1 minute away now from picking up
Skylab IV again over Bermuda.
for i0 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension at
19:19. Out.
13 minutes, Greenwich mean time. A loss of signal now through
Bermuda. Next station to acquire will be Ascension in
6 minutes.
acquisition of Skylab IV through Ascension.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
SPT Hello, Houston, SPT. I got a question
for you.
CC Send your question, SPT.
SPT Limb volume measurements. In the
activation checklist, placement of the leg band is at the -
PLT Number i.
SPT number 1 is located against the ankle.
In the medical checklist - biomed checklist, tells us to put
the - 1 taped to the right with middle Velcro between the
tibial tuber and kneecap. If we do that the number 1 is
gonna be well above the ankle. Could you clarify which one
they want?
CC Stand by. We will.
SPT Right now, we're gonna press on with
number one on the ankle. That's the way it seems to work,
otherwise we won't be able to measure down towards the
ankle, and that would be consistent with the way we've gotten
the data so far.
CC SPT, Houston. Were you referring to the
calibration band or can you be a little more specific? Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I'm referring specifically
to, in the biomed checklist, page 14-1, at the top. The
third line down. And I'll give you the activation minute here
PLT 5-5.
SPT That's 5-5, at the top, second and third
lines down.
LOS. Next station contact in 23-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 19:51. For the SPT. Do it like it says it in the activation
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11/20/73
checklist. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. That's the way we're putting
it on. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
30 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of station
contact with Ascension. Next station coming up will be
Carnarvon in 21-1/2 minutes. During that pass over Ascension
we heard briefly from Science Pilot Ed Gibson who wanted
to check out checklist procedures for the limb volume
measurement experiment. We're at 19 hours, 30 minutes. This
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Time: 13:50 CST, 05:19:50 GIIT
11/20/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 19 hours, 15 minutes

Greenwich mean time. 1 minute away now from reacquiring with the
Skylab IV through Carnarvon.
for i0 minutes and we got two items here. One, of course, is
the Commander's private comm is set up for the next site, Guam,
which is 13 minutes away. The same VHF configuration on the
private comm cue card with the Delta's in it and the other
item is with respect to the ergometer rpm. Are you copying me?
Over.
CDR Go ahead. Keep talking.
CC Okay. This is just a reminder that we want
to keep the ergometer rpm below 80 rpm. The higher values
can possibly damage electronics package and disable the er-
gometer. _he only reason we're bringing this up is right at
the end of the station pass covering the SPT's exercise this
morning that telemetry bit went off-scale high. It could've
been noisy data. But we just wanted to comment on this since
potential failure could be serious. Over.
PLT Rog_ understand. We all three heard it, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT And water tank 3 has been activated.
CC Okay. Thank you. And after you draw
a little water out of the thing, you know, maybe in a day or
so, expect we'd appreciate hearing whether you're getting
gas out of water tank 3 as well or whether it's peculiar to
tank 2.
PLT Okay. We'll let you know. And it pro-
bably will take that long. I did a poor job of making one of the
QD's and leaked oh, probably be a teaspoonful of water but I
could're got some gas in the line too.
CC Rog. Roger. Out.
CDR Houston, this is CDR. I'm going to be-
gin confiFuring VHF for private comm.
CC Okay. Mighty fine, Jerry.
CDK Bruce, is the left antenna still bad?
CC Negative, Jerry. We want the right an-
tenna.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, this is Houston. On completion
of your conversation, go ahead and go through the complete
private comm reconfiguration, turning the VHF A_i B to OFF, and
we'll power it back up again later this evening prior to the
conversation over Vanguard and check it out then. Over.
LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes through Guam at
20:04:51. CDR private cemm on VHF, and it may acquire a
few seconds early on VHF. Out.
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11/20/73
CC And duration of the Guam pass on S-band

is i0 minutes and 4 seconds, maybe a little longer on VHF.
Out.
2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through
Carnarvon. Next station to acquire will be Guam. And
Commander Jerry Carr's private family conference is scheduled
for this upcoming Guam pass. 2 minutes away now from Guam
acquisition. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is llouston through Guam for
9-1/2 minutes. And for the SPT, we are going to have to redump
the experiment 2 tape recorder. We request that you not attempt
to start recording M092 data until we give you a go. We expect
to have it completed before LOS here at Guam. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through
Guam. Do you read? Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston on S-band.
Do you read on S-band? Over?
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 20 hours
ii minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV still on it's pass
over Guam about 3 minutes and 40 seconds remaining on that pass.
The Guam station is where Commander Jerry Carr is conducting his
private family conference. A couple of calls placed by CAP COMM
Bruce !{cCandless here in the !_ission Control Center received no
reply from the other two crew members. We suspect that the
S-band switch - or an S-band switch in the workshop is imporperly
positioned, thus inhibiting the reception of the call. We're
less than 3 minutes away now from losing signal through Guam
We'll sta _ up (sic) with the line and continue to monitor.
CC Skylab, this is Houston in the blind.
1 minute to LOS through Guam. Next station contact in
16-1/2 minutes; Goldstone at 20:30. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours 16 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through Guam. Next
station to acquire Goldstone in 14 minutes 40 seconds. This
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Time: 14:29 CST, 05:20:29 G_IT
11/20/73

mean time acquisition through Goldstone in 50 seconds. Stand-
ing by resumption of communications through Goldstone.
Corpus Christi and Merritt Islands for 16-1/2 minutes. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylah, this is Houston through
Goldstone, Corpus Christi and _{erritt Island for 16 minutes.
Over.
CC Skylab, Skylah, Skylab, this is Houston
acknowledge. Over.
CDR Hello, Houston this is Skylab. How do
you read?
CC Okay, loud and clear Jerry. Say listen,
both dur _g your private comm through Guam and the SPT's
through Canary and Ascension we were unable to raise you on
S-band, and we think that perhaps the panel 9 S-band switch
got moved out of the TK position. Over.
CDR Looks like it did Bruce, I'll put it in.
CC Okay, if you go by that cue card on the
VHF Delta column, you notice we leave panel 9 S-band TR in
VHF panel 9 off so that we can communicate with the rest of
the workshop on S-band while you're talking on VHF. Over.
CDR I don't quite understand how that happened,
I thought I had the cards on right. I think you're getting
through fine all the way through the workshop now.
CC Okay, we didn't mean to bug you, we
thought maybe we had a situation here where we had no comm
we'd have to give you a crew alert or something that check it
out.
CDR NO, we could hear you talking but the
only one that was coming through was panel 98.
CC Roger, we copy. And now you got panel
9 back on and wetre back in business. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey we were just curious how the L -
LB_{P nose (garble) seems (garble) to you.
CC It's working real good Jerry, the upper
trench here is unable to see any change at all.
CDR Hey, that's great.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute until
LOS. Next station contact in 44 minutes through Carnarvon at
21:30. Over.
SPT Roger, Houston, so long.
through the tracking station at Bermuda. It has to be one
of the quietest stateside passes on record except for when the
crew is asleep. Next station in 41 minutes will be Carnarvon
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Australia. Final Carnarvon and Guam pass upcoming. We will

be back at that time. At 20:48 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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ii/20/73

mean time. Acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia in 50 seconds.
Carnarvon, a short dropout of several minutes and reacquisition
at Guam. Standing by for both stations.
for 6-1/12 minutes out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute to
LOS, next station contact in 8-1/2 minutes through Guam at
21:44, out.
END OF TAPE
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11/20/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

5-1/2 minutes. We'll dump your data voice tape recorder
next site, which is Goldstone. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 18 minutes through Goldstone
at 22:07 Zulu. Out.
through _am. Final Guam and Carnarvon pass of the day.
Goldstone in 16 minutes. Two more quiet passes here over
these last two stations as the Skylab IV crew continues with
the day's lineup of medical experiments. At 21:51 Greenwich
mean time, retur _ng in 15 minutes for Goldstone and stateside
pass, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _IC153/I
Time: 16:05 CST, 05:22:05 G_T
11/20/73

mean time, acquisition in 50 seconds through Goldstone.
Space station Skylab now ending revolution number 2,747
around the Earth. Stateside pass one revolution ago was
extremely quiet as the crew of Skylab IV ran medical
experiments and were too busy to talk to the ground. The
same held true for the just completed Carnarvon and Guam passes.
We should have contact.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there. How y'all doing?
SPT Real well, thank you.
CC Good show.
CC Skylab, Houston back to the subject to
PP02 sensors we're still reading a low indication on number 2.
So next time somebody has a chance what we'd like to request
on panel 225, 02, N2 controllers monitor we'd like you to
switch that to number 3. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick, I'll be going by there in
about 5 minutes.
CC Okay, fine thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT. We'd like
to confirm that you've got the VCG Zulu gain set at 5? And
CDR, Houston.
CDR Dick, that's affirmative he did set the
gain at 5.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger. In the last day or so and I don't
think we've discussed this little anomaly with you. In the
last day or so abou - on about three occasions we've seen a
fluctuation in the ATM C&D coolant loop flow and the maximum
fluctuation we saw was a decrease in the flow of about 30
percent. We're not going to need that coolant loop running
for the next 3 or 4 days, so what we intend on doing and I'm
going to ask you to throw a couple of switches when you get
a chance. Is to shut down that coolant loop and we're going
to leave it shut down and possibly think up some troubleshoot-
ing to do and this won't have any impact on operations at all since
we dontt nee need it. What I'd like you to throw on the
ATM panel first is the lighting integral switch to off, and
then on panel 203, ATM coolant pumps Bravo switch off.
CDR Dick, the integral lighting switch is
off.
CC Okay, good. And the other one Jerry is
the - on panel 203 AT_i coolant pumps Bravo.
CDR Okay, it's off, Dick.
CC Okay, good and I guess only caution
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note here is we'd like you to leave the - apparently you

have been leaving this lighting INTEGRAL switch to off and
we'd like to continue for you to do that until we get the
coolant loop running again, just as a reminder the coolant
loop is really suppose to keep the tou temperature of the
panel down, it's really not to save the electronics or any-
thing, so you might be a little cautious but our data shows
that it shouldn't get too warm for you. Over.
CDR Okay, Dick, thanks.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston i minute to LOS.
Vanguard at 22:33.
CDR Roger.
mean time, loss of signal through the Merritt Island launch
area station, Next station in 8 minutes will be tracking
ship Vanguard. After Vanguard, the ground track of Skylab
misses all stations until we get around to _idatone again.
Almost an hour's time without - without any ground contact,
we'll be back in 7 minutes for the Vanguard pass. At 22:24
Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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TI}IE: 16:31 CST, 05:22:31 _IT
11/20/73

mean time, acquisition in 50 seconds through tracking ship
Vanguard. Tracking shlp Vanguard coming up.
CC Skylab, Houston, Vanguard for 9 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control, still at acquisition
over tracking ship Vanguard. Some 3-1/2 minutes remaining.
We're estimating change of shift briefing with Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson at about 5 o'clock, perhaps a few minutes
after 5 in the Building i news room. We'll stay up for the
remainder of the Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about i minute from
LOS, Vanguard. You're going to be LOS for a little over an hour.
I'ii call you at Goldstone at 23:44, and there's a copy of
tomorrow's flight plan in the teleprinter.
CDR Roger, Dick, talk to you in an hour.
CC _o_er, see you then.
through tracking ship Vanguard. Next station in an hour and
2 minutes will be Goldstone again, final stateside pass for
the day. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson estimates he will
be available in the Houston News Center for a change of shift
briefing about 5 o' clock Central Time. Should there be any
live air to ground during the period of the press conference
it will be recorded for delayed playback. At 22:43 Greenwich
mean time. Skylab Control.
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SL-IV _IC155/i
Time: 17:43 CST, 05:23:43 G!IT
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylah Control; 23:43 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition coming up in 50 seconds through
tracking station at foldstone, the final stateside pass of
the day. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson, who first indicated
that we would be in the News room at 5 and then later at
5:30, is still in the Control Room, sorting out some sort of
procedure with his data people, llopefully he will be en-
route to the News Room for his change-of-shift briefing
before too long. Meanwhile, we'll follow through on the
Goldstone pass and likely we'll be recording the succeeding
Vanguard pass for delayed playback.
SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston I was delay in calling
you. We're getting ready to drop into the keyhole for about
a minute or so, and I'll call you as soon as we get locked
up out of that. %$e are AOS Goldstone for about the next
i0 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS stateside. Wetre out
of the keyhole and still got you for 8 minutes.
SPT Koger, Dick, I'd like to discuss that
last NuZ update with you.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, I got up here just at the close
of the window port with 43 minutes remaining in day. And
I got a star with the manual search, and as soon as I hit
AUTO, I got a flickering of the door closed, and then finally
the door closed on me. And I'm now looking at a orbital
plane here of 15.7, which I suspect is kind of high. So I
don't think we got a good NuZ update from that. And you
may want to command a new one in or (garble) for a dump.
CC Okay, let us talk about it for a second, Ed.
SPT Another alternative Dick is to try
it with around 3 minutes time remaining in day. Apparently
the window opens up again there.
CC Roger, Ed, we're talking about it. I'ii
get right back to you. We still got about 6 minutes left
in this pass.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger. Here's what we'd like you to do.
Ue'd like you to attempt another NuZ update. In looking at
the star tracker pad, the star's available on the time
remaining clock of day 3 minutes, so you have about a 3
minute opportunity there to try and get a good update, We'd
like you to try it there. If you in your own mind are
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unsuccessful in getting a good NuZ update there, we'd like

you to inhibit the upcoming the momentum dump. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to
LOS, Vanguard comes up at 00 :i0, and we'll be dumping the
data tape record _ at the Vanguard.
SPT Roger, Dick.
through the Goldstone and Texas stations. 13 minutes to
tracking ship Vanguard. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson
should be walking in the Houston News room at this time
for his change-of-shift briefing. We'll tape the Vanguard
and Tananarive pass for delayed playback after the change-
of-shift briefing. At 23:57 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC156/I
TIME: 18:32 CST, 06:00:32 GMT
11/20/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control; 00:32 Greenwich

mean time. Twenty seconds away from what would nominally be
acquisition at the voice relay station at Tananarive but
at this very moment network advises the Flight Director that
all the lines to Tananarive are down, are out of service at
any rate. Therefore we will have no voice contact with
space station Skylab through Tananarive. We have tape from
the just completed Vanguard pass recorded during the change-
of-shlft press conference which we'll play back at this time.
CC Skylah, Houston, Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, Vanguard for 8 minutes,
we're dum _ng the data tape recorder here.
SPT Roger, Dick. We've got a NuZ update with
2 minutes remaining in the daytime orbital plane error with
plus 11.9 outer gimhal with minus 1254 and inner gimbal plus 583,
it looked good.
CC Okay, Ed thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're I minute to LOS
Tananarive comes up at 00:33.
PAO And that completes playback of the
Vanguard pass. Space station Skylab is over Tananarive but
as mentioned earlier we have no contact through Tananarive
because of land line difficulty, next station will be
Hawaii in 44 minutes, returning at that time. This is
Skylah Control at 34 minutes past midnight Greenwich mean
time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:IB CST, 06:01:18 _IT
11/20/73

mean time. And we're in acquisition at Hawaii and at least
data is coming in, displays are live. We'll await Spacecraft
Communicator Dick Truly's call to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Hawaii for
the next 6 minutes. And I didn't get to give you a call
back at that Tananarive pass I told you about because all
our lines to Tananarive were down at the time.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about a minute
from LOS Hawaii. Vanguard AOS is at 01:47, a reminder to
Bill, we're going to have your private comm set up at Vanguard
and also for Jerry we're getting - I'm going to be expecting
the evening status report down there Jerr. One suggestion
to you, CDR, on the evening status reports when we get
to that particular pass of the evening we put that on the
tape recorders, so you can go just about as fast in reading
the numbers as long as they're clear as you like and we can
listen to the tape afterwards and get all of the numbers
we don't have to get it in real time and then possibly at the
end of your reading down we can go over the day's evening
questions.
PAO This is Sky!ah Control, loss of signal
through Hawaii next station 20 minutes from now will be the
tracking ship Vanguard, the evening status report from the
crew on food deleted from the menu, water drunk, medication,
the - and - the station at Tananarive apparently is still
down at this time. The next Hawaii pass will he the final
one of the evening however it's the medical conference with
the crew physician. We'll be back in 19 minutes for Vanguard.
At 01:27 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 158/1
TIME: 19:45 CST, 06:01:45 GMT
11/20/73

mean time and 50 seconds away from anquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard and the evening status report from the Skylab IV
crew. Standing by for AOS, Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes, I'm standing by for the evening status report.
CDR (Garble), Dick.
CDR Ready to copy, Dick?
CC Yes sir, go ahead and I'm not sure you
copied my transmission up at Hawaii, Jerry but you can go as
fast as you like on these numbers because we're recording
them and we can listen to them after the pass is over.
CDR Oh, okay.
CC But that squeal does kind of bug us.
CDR Yeah, we going to try to locate it and
quiet it before I start.
CC And Skylab Houston, COMM TECH wanted me to
ask you if you copied their up-ink on VHF in the command module.
CDR Apparently not, Bill said he didn't get
through.
CC Roger, we're checking it.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, here comes the evening status report.
Sleep, CDR - 6.5, good. SPT 7.0, fair. PLT - 6.5, good.
Volumes: CDR - 1200, SPT - 2750, PLT - 1500. Drinking water
gun: CDR - 6501, SPT - 0821, PLT - 6942.
CC Okay.
CDR Our friendly squeal's back again.
CDR Okay, Body llass: CDR - 6.290, 6.291, 6.291.
SPT 6.421, 6.420, 6.421. PLT - 6.227, 6.227, 6.232. Exercise:
CDR - Method Alfa, leg 30 minutes, 4110 watt minutes.
That includes ?_171. Exercise Bravo - position Alfa Bravo and
Echo, i0 each repetition. Exercise Charlie Bravo Charlie and
Delta over the position and i0 each with repetition, that
was exercise method Charlie. For the SPT - method Alfa leg -
25 minutes, 4038 including the MI71. Method Bravo oh that's
right, I beg your pardon, it does not include 171 he did not do
that today.
CC Okay.
CDR Just 4038. Exercise method Bravo for the
SPT -
CC I'm still with you Jerry go ahead.
CDK Okay, it's - He's going to call it Foxtrot.
And what it is it's the Alfa Bravo with the hands held
outward, so from now on that will be called Foxtrot for the
SPT. 40 repetitions. PLT exercise method Alfa - leg
30 minutes; 4650, no medication today. The SPT's blood pressure
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11/20/73
and girth measurements are as follows: arm blood pressure

122 over 78, leg blood pressure 158 over 82, left calf 14,
right calf 13-7/8. Okay moving on to the photo log, it
just dawned on us, today, we just discovered that there is a
new thing called the Neutron environment. It's some sort of a
demonstration which none of us has ever seen before. I've got
the sinking feeling that th_se f._ur photos that I took last night
with the Nikon, for ED76 neutron detector was meant for this one
for this demo. As part of the day 4 transfers, we discovered this
demo and we have deployed it. I got a hunch they're going to
want us to take more photos of that. We'll wait until we get
something on the pad from you on that.
CC Okay we'll think about that one.
CDR Flight Plan Deviations - we did not get
any Earth observa dons done today, we just added on to the
grindstone _oo much and really haven't even had a chance to
look out the window. The day 4 transfer we got up to 4 bags full.
Okay, let me go to the Photo Log now.
CC Okay.
CDR On the photo log - 16 millimeter, transporter
07 - was _I092, 171-2 and M092, 171-3. Supply was Charlie India 85,
the take up was Charlie India 58. Percent remaining on supply
is 27. For the 35 millimeter: Nikon 05, we started at 12 and
we finished at 56 frame counts, this is the IR _hat was loaded
by the ground and we're asking how many frames do we have before
we have used the film?
CC Okay, let us get back to you on that one, Jerr.
CDR Okay one note on the IR with the Nikon, on
the M092, we took one side facial photo at the wrong setting
so one extra frame was taken at f/ll.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, back to inoperable equipment. We
found, Bill reported this on the down-link tape, and you can
get all the details there but one of the DACs, I believe it
was DAC number 02 did not work this morning. We changed
to another DAC and it worked fine. So we think it's the
camera itself, not the transporter. I got a few (garble) reminder
but there're transfer stowage changes that you probably ought
to know about.
CC Okay Jerry, we still got about a minute
and a half here and I've got a pile of questions to ask you
which I will ask you at the next site which is Tananarive so
why donTt you use the next minute and a half and keep talking
about the stowage.
CDR Okay. Day 4 stowage transfer procedures.
Page 3-3, I}ISS, drug supply canister C was stowed in locker _
_700 instead of 706, 706 is chucked full of all sorts of IM_IS
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canisters and I got a hunch we're going to have to do an inventory

throw away some drugs. There's no room for this new canister
in there. At the bottom of the page, VTR electronic TC cards,
four of them, were stowed in W719 instead of W720 because about
2 days ago I stowed all of our crispy bars in 720. Going on to
page 3-4 the Velco kit, we stowed that in locker Echo 625 instead
of Echo 6232 Echo.
CC Okay.
CDR And that does it.
CC Okay, Jerry, I've got a number of evening
questions of various things, one thing we - after we enable
after hug update while ago, we forgot to inhibit the
manual pointing control, we'd like to do that now and I'll
ask you these questions and get you and answer on the
neutron science demo photos, when we get to Tananarive.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Roger, see you there.
through tracking ship Vanguard and apparently the Tananarive
station is back with us. Dick Truly will fire up his
questions to the crew, that have accumulated through the
day, through the Tananarive station. The pass immediately
following, not immediately, but about a half hour later will
be the Hawaii pass for the medical conference. And will
be the final pass during the crew wake period. 13 minutes
until Tananarive. At 01:57 Greenwich mean time. This is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:09 CST, 06:02:09 _T
11/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Contrul; 02:09 Greenwich

mean time and about 50 seconds away from acquisition at
the Tananarive station, which apparently is back in service
at this time. Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly will follow
up with his evening questions to the crew, which he was unable
to pass up during _e Vanguard pass. 20 seconds away now
from acquisition through Tananarive and standing by.
PAO The primary airlock module coolant loop
which was serviced yesterday is showing a pump inlet pressure of
25 pounds and a differential pressure of 51 pounds.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for
5 minutes. How do you read?
SPT Loud and clear.
CC Roger, I didn't get a food log report
from Jerry on the evening status. I would like to get that.
And then I got a bunch of notes here to talk to you about.
CDR Okay, I just realized that after we
signed off. Here it goes.
CC Okay.
CDR Day of the year 324, menu - mission
day 5, menu delta. CDR: no salt, deviation, minus two coffees,
minus lemon pudding, and minus green beans. Dehydration will
be (garble) when you proposed last (garble). SPT: seven salts,
no deviation. Standard (garble) water. PLT: zero salt, minus
two coffees, plus one pear, standard water deviation, you got that.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're fading out a little
bit. We'll see how much of that we can get off the tape, and
if we miss some of it I'ii ask you for it again later when we
have a clearer comm. Let's talk a minute about the photos
for the neutron detectors. I think the easiest way to do it
is tell you what we desire to get, and then you can figure out
if you got it or not. What we desire for you to get is
listed on page 3-2 of the stowage book down at the bottom
of the page, and it is photography of the 4 neutron detectors
that support the science demo which is TV 108. Over.
CDR Okay, well those are the 4 we did not
get, so we will have to reschedule that.
CC Okay. Understand. Okay, there's a -
next question is we would like to get your status on a couple
of other things. You told us where you were on the mission
day 4 transfers. How far did you get in housekeeping 50 Echo,
the food transfers, and also how far did you get in housekeeping
8 Alfa which was the - fixing up the urine hags?
CDR We got the 4 urine bags done that we
were asked for there, and 60 echo was in work right now. I
should be complete in about a half hour.
CC Okay, fine. Next question that I have
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Time: 20:09 CST, 06:09 GHT
11/20/73
has to do with the private comm that Bill just had back
there at the Vanguard. After about 2 or 3 minutes of no
joy, suddenly we got real clear comm for the rest of the
pass with no action by the ground, and we were wondering if
the - if it was the switch configuration?
CDR I think it probably was. You're going
to have to bear with us until we get that squared away.
CC Roger, understand.
PLT (Garble) Dick, I thought I had missed
went back down in the experiment wardroom compartment and
(garble) heard you come up, so I had to (garble) and get
set up again.
CC Okay, Bill thank you. Next thing is
for Jerry, and this is one I wanted to get up to you last
night, Jerry, but we were - Listen, when you have a chance,
we missed the leg girth measurements and the blood pressure
data on all three crewmen from mission day 3. So if you
have that wrltten down in the - for that mis - for that day's
status report and at your convenience could put it on the
voice recorder, wetd appreciate it.
CDR Okay, that's mission day 3 everybody's
leg girth and blood pressure measurements.
CC That's correct. We're about 1 minute
from LOS here at Tananarive. The next station is at Hawaii
at 02:53, and that's scheduled for a med conference. And
then I have one more pass after that and I do have some more
questions. I'ii try and get another one or two in here.
Now that you're on water tank 3, did you experience gas
again in reconstituting food for the evening meal.
CDR We still have some, but it's not as bad as
before.
CC Okay, is there any way you could let
us know about how much is it - half as had or can you even say
just a little bit better?
CDR It's - it's a little early to say, I
think I can give you a reading on it tomorrow.
CC Okay, let me slip in one more question
here. The other day we - we reset the reg on reg volt talkbaek
on CBRH 3 and the reg volts and battery bolts talkback on
CBR!I 9, and the power system alert light. We just
wanted to verify that when we reset those that those
indications are all okay now?
through the Tananarive voice relay station. Next station in
33 minutes :is Hawaii for the medical conference with Dr.
Jerry Hordinsky. And as it turns out, there is one other pass
over Vanguard before the crew begins their sleep period.
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Time: 20:09 CST, 06:02:09 GMT
11/20/73
Returning in 33 minutes for Hawaii scrub that. We'll

return for the Vanguard pass in as much as the Hawaii pass
is the private medical conference. Vanguard in an hour and
4 minutes. At 02:20 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV HCl60/l
TIME: 21:24 CST, 06:03:24 GMT
11/20/73
PAD This is Skylab Control; 03:24 _eenwich

mean time. Fifty seconds away from acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard. Spacecraft communicator Dick Truly has a raft
of questions to ask the crew on their current status of stowage
work accomplished. And he'll be hard pressed to wedge it all
into 9 minutes of this pass. This is the final pass of the
evening before the crew begins their g hour sleep period.
15 seconds to acquisition Vanguard. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston, Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there. I still have a bunch of
things to talk to you about, and this is the last pass and
several questions. }{ave you got anything for me?
CDR Yeah, Ed's got - wants to tell you about
those CBRMs and I've got one for you. You know we're scheduled
for stereo photos tonight. _e just got to looking around and
we don't have any photo pads or anything on that. I think
we ought to cancel it.
CC Roger we sent up last evening - we did
send up some stereo photo information on a pad that was
named IR photos, that included both IR and stereo.
CDR Well, I _uess we blew it then, Dick,
because I can't find it.
CC Okay, understand. We'll resehedule.
CDR Okay, the next thing I wanted to mention
to you was that I think that if we're ever going to get
caught up and get ourselves into a position to where we can do
this EVA and do a proper prep and all of that, we're going
to have to whack something out of tomorrow. Looks to me like
we probably ought to propose to drop the MI31 stuff again. There's
an awful lot of stuff here that we need to do that we Just haven't
had time to do. We've just been throwing things around. We
haven't had time to put things really well away and stow
everything properly and this place is really getting to be
a mess. l think we'd better get ourselves consolidated before
we go com_tting off into an EVA. And l'd like to take a couple
more hours tomorrow, just for consolidation.
CC Roger, Jerry, we've been doing a lot of
talking about that same subject. Can I get to you and ask a
few questions to get us squared away.
CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC First of all we sent up a change number i
to the storage book about two days ago and it had to do with
those IMSS canisters. And from what you said it made us kind
of wonder if you had entered that change on page 3-2 at the time
you did the day 4 transfer today. We did uplink the change
again at a recent site and it ought to be in the teleprinter,
over.
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11/20/73
CDR Yeah, I do have that change. I got it and it

is in my book. The problem is it's just going to take a lot
of time to search through all those cans and put all those drugs
in the right place. And time is just something we just don't seem
to have too much of the last two or three days.
CC Roger, understand. We just wanted to
get that squared away. Next question, on the Nikon photos
today with the IR photography, we expected you to report
down a frame count somewhere in the neighborhood of 36 or so,
and you reported 56 and asked the question how many frames
there were_ It turns out that when they counted them at the
Cape, there were exactly 43 frames available and it makes us
wonder how you got to number 56, whether there was a mal-
function or whether you advanced after the last frame or what?
CDR No, we call - I thought _ called down a
number 36, not 56.
CC Ah-hah. Okay, I guess I copied it wrong,
but perhaps you said 56.
CC Okay, next question is - has to do with
the MI51 photography that you did today on the _092/M171 runs.
Could you verify it for us, did you photograph for the _I151
stuff for tlhose runs. Did you photograph both runs today
or just the second run, over?
CDR No, both runs.
CC Okay, understand. Here is another thing
and it's in answer to a question that you - came down to us
earlier today about the humidity. Unfortunately we're in
a position where there's several ways that we could
increase the relative hum. However now, however we're very close
between the inlet temperature on OWS heat exchangers and the
dew point. So even though we could - we could help you out in
increasing the humidity, we don't particularly want to, because
it's going to get us into a situation where we begin to collect
condensation. The only good news that we can think of to remind
you of is that the beta angle is coming down and in just the
very next few days, we expect it to get a good deal more com-
fortable as the average OWS temperature decreases_ Over.
CDR Okay, Dick, maybe that will handle it
for us.
CC Okay, we expect the temperature to be
stablizeing out over the next several days and the relative
humidity will increase, and hopefully that will make it a
little better if not super good.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Incidentally we have uplinked again
the photo pad to support the stereo photography. So if you
do have time or want to get to that this evening, at least
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11/20/73
you have the pad. If not, just let us know in the morning then.
No problem, llere's a question from the G and S. We still have
about 2 minutes here. It turns out that they did not see
this data in real time. But when they looked back at some
of the dump data, they showed a point in yesterday's time
line where the six-pack gyros, mainly in the Z-axis, switched to
coarse gain for about three seconds. And we can't find any
reason to explain this except possibly somebody might have
bumped into the rate gyro six-pack or something might have hit
it. And we were wondering if any of you guys remember that
happening? Over.
CDR Dick, I think with any three of us that's
a distinct possibility. We'll try to be more careful around
there.
CC Okay, well we were just going to ask you
about it, because we just didn't understand it and there
is no anomaly that we're chasing there.
CDR Well you know Dick, that's right about
where we were doing the mol or the Coolanol work, and I
suspect that maybe one of us did bump it.
CC Okay, here's one more for you. This one's
from the INCO. You know the anti-feedback adapter that you
carried up to be installed if you wanted to ix the command module.
Have you installed that?
CDR Negative, not yet.
CC Okay.
CDR We hardly got time to do any personal
hyKiene, let along install thin_s like that.
CC Roger, understand. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS end so we'll give you a call in the morning. And
we'll do a good bid of thinking tonight about how we might
can - help you out.
CDR Okay, I'd like to see us finish and be able
to go to bed tomorrow night about 9 o'clock or so, if we could.
CC Roger_ I understand. And I'm not sure I
copied your answer a while ago about the CBRMs. Did you say
that the - when we did correct those indications, that they
are okay, now?
CDR Ed's coming up now; he'll answer that
for you.
SPT Yeah, when you reset, we do not have
a POWER SYSTEM ALERT light and we do not have the flag. We
do have a status of charger battery regulator OFF on CBRM 3
and 5. We are showing a qurrent, however, on 3 of 3-1/2 amps
and on 5 of 5 amps.
CC Okay, copy. Thank you very much.
See you in the morning.
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TIME: 21:24 CST, 06:03:24 GMT
11/20/73
SPT Good night, Dick.

CC Say, good night, Dick.
MCC Good night, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That pass made up
for all the quiet ones earlier today, when hardly a word was said.
Loss of signal through tracking ship Vanguard. Next station will
be Vangua_ again in an hour and 28 minutes. Crew and mission
control have signed off mutually untill 6 o'clock Central Time
in the morning. The following is the crew physician's summary of
the medical conference. Reads as follows: Two of the crew members
completed the lower body negative pressure in bicycle
ergometer experiments today. Slightly elevated heart rates
as compared to preflight resembled the trend in SL-III.
However no changes of clinical concern were manifested.
The crew still is keeping extremely busy and getting quite
tired_ The plan is to increase their total sleep in preparation
for the upcoming EVAts. Motion sickness continues to
be a bygone problem. No medications were taken today.
That is Dr. Jerry Hordinsky - crew physician's statement
following the medical conference back at Hawaii. Signing
off until 6 a.m. Central Time, This is Skylab Control
at 03:36 Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-161/I
Time: 06:00 CST, 06:12:00 GMT
11/21/73
MCC (Wake-up music) The Lonely Bull

CDR 01e, Houston.
CC Roger, you're over Madrid now.
CDR (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about
4 more minutes here, through Madrid. Good morning.
CDR Good morning, Hank.
CC Whenever you get around to it - When-
ever you do these things there's a whole bunch of stuff
in the teleprinter, you'll probably find. We've uplinked
to you a new Flight Plan to operate on today, to give you
a little more time to get squared away. As far as the
day 4 transfers, you'll find there, the only mandatory thing
there is getting the stuff out of A-9. It'll be noted on
your details there for the CDR, to get the T025 gear, so
we can get ready for the EVA. Everything on the Flight
Plan, except the medical stuff thot's required is pointing
towards getting ready for the EVA. And it also cranks in
your going to bed an hour early tonight.
CDR Okay, that sounds great, Hank.
CC And, also, we did make an
area - error in transmitting. And we sent up a -one new
summary Flight Plan when we had all three sets of details
attached to it. So we repeated the summaries with the SPT
and PLT details. So that they'll have an extra set of details
there.
CDR Roger.
CC And the only other Flight Pl_n item
that's new in there is a new photo pad for the SPT.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
to LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 33. And, in
case you get to it before then, I don't know whether you
will or not, there's some checklist update there in the
EVA stuff. And there's a point which could be a little
confusing, but I can clarify that there for you at Carnarvnn.
CDR Good enough, Hank.
PA0 Skylab Control, Houston at 12 hours
7 minutes Greenwich mean time. A loss of signal now through
Madrid. CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield made the wake-up call to
the crew of Skylab IV right at 12 hours Greenwich mean time.
And then played for their wake-up_ pe_±od, The lo_ely Bull
He talked to Jerry Carr about teleprinter updates. Our next
station to acquire will be Carnarvon in 25-1/2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _C-162/I
Time: 06:31 CST 06:12:31 G_IT
11/21 _3
PAO This is SkyZab Control, Houston at 12 hours

32 minutes, Greenwich mean time. The Skylab IV space station
now approaching acquisition with Carnarvon. Less than a
minute away now from Carnarvon acquisition. Our flight
director presently on duty is Don Puddy. CAP COMM Henry
Hartsfield. The wakeup call to the crew of Skylah IV was
placed last pass over Madrid at 12:00 hours G_T. We'll
stand by now and keep the line open and await the callup
from CAP CO}IM, Henry Hartsfield to the crew of Skylab IV.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Houston, go ahead.
CC Okay. We're with you for about 5-1/2 minutes
now.
CDR Hank, and you said you have some clarification
that you wanted to put up this pass.
CC Oh, okay. Well, when you get around to
making those changes to the EVA Checklist there's a little cut
and paste there. An item surrounded with asterisks. It says
it goes in two places and they only give you one of them. It's
a little confusing. I know it's confusing when I started
updatinF our checklist down here. And, I guess the best
way to handle it is put it in one of the other places and
then just draw a little arrow to the other place. The only
way I know to do it.
CDR Okay, good enough.
CC While I got ynu. Did you ever perform the
Housekeeping 10A? The Sus loop sneakup?
CDR That's affirmative. Bill did it last
night about - about an hour and a half before we went to bed.
CC Okay, Uas the - did he - were there any
comments on it? Uas there anything sugnigifant to report about
it?
CDR Stand by. Bill will talk to you.

PLT We must have a problem with our tape
recorder, Hank. Now this is - occasionally I hit the wrong
button. I realize but I was very careful last night. I
gave a complete rundown on that. It worked out just fine.
No master alarms at all. Also checked the water quantity
in both the reservoirs, primary and secondary, and they were
both full. I think that was 8AI or something like that.
CC Okay. I guess we are having a little
problem. Did you get the rad 3 data also?
PLT Say again.
CC The rad 3 data. The survey with a radiation
meter. Did you do that too?
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Time: 06:31 CST 06:12:31 _IT
11/21/73
PLT Ed did that one. Yes, he did that. He

verified that.
CC Okay, I - what we - the reason I'm asking
these questions. We're not finding the data on the tap
and we're beginning to wonder if we've got a tape problem some-
where.
PLT As I said. I'm sure I've made occasional
mistakes, but yesterday when I reported a SUS loop. I was
very careful.
CC We did a little checking here. We got
some tapes we haven't listened to yet. Soj it may be on that.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We did find the tape for that
period, around 21:05, and we did not find the rad 3 data on
there. I guess the schedule called for Ed to change the
battery and the CDR take the readings.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. _e're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 45.
Carnarvon. Honeysuckle acquisition in 5 hours 5 minutes
40 seconds.
45 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Less than 20 seconds away
now from reacquiring Skylab IV through Honeysuckle. A very
short pass. Approx _ately a minute and 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through
Honeysuckle for about a minute and if you need us and our
next contact will be Texas at 14.
CDR Roger. Hank.
CC And, incidentally, we just found tile
housekeeping 10A data and our apologies for bugging you about
it.
CDR Please say again that last message, Hank.
We were all talking and missed it.
CC Roger. Ue found the 10A data and we
apologize for bugging you about it.
CDR No sweat. I have been screwing up on that
tape recorder. And also, flank. It's a good tiling you did
bug us because we did not get the RSM 3 data, yesterday at
21:15.
CC Roger. Ue copy.
CDR Want us to go ahead and try to get it today?
CC We'll try to get some times up to you
here shortly and if you have an opportunity you can do it.
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Time: 06:31 CST 06:12:31 GMT
11/21/73
CDR Okay.
Honeysuckle with Skylab IV. The next station coming up to acquire
will be Texas in 27 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-163/I
Time: 07:13 CST 06:13:13 GMT
11/21/73

acquisition through Texas. We'll stand by and keep the line
up and listen for the callup from CAP CO_IM Henry Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you stateside
for 16-1/2 :minutes.
SPT Hello Hank. We're doing a little shopping
trying to get the food from the overage squared away for break-
fast here.
CC Okay. How's the humidity been lately? Is
it still a little uncomfortable for you - too low.
SPT It's still pretty dry, but no major problem.
CC Okay, we've been working on that this past
evening. The boys in the back room have been knocking around
some ideas on how to maybe run the humidity up. And one of the
things that they looked at is using three of your large towels
wettin_ them with about 6 ounces of water with a drink gun and
anchoring them over the defuses in your sleep compartment.
That probably ought to at least help you during the sleep
period.
SPT Okay, good suggestion. Thanks, Hank.
SPT Iley flank, we're having a bit of a problem
finding the right things from the overage. Could you fo_ks clarify
whether there is any other overa_e food other than in 550,
554 and 555?
CC Okay, we'll check it out.
SPT I heard you were supposed to have a whole
raft of sausage and also grapefruit drink up here and we can't
find a trace of either one.
SPT Hey Hank, we just explored or discovered .
a new gold mine here. We've got some food packages buried
away here which we're going to search through also.
CC We copy.
CC Which food packages were those, Ed?
SPT Say again, Hank.
CC Which food packages were those you
referred to?
SPT Tile seven which we brought up. What we
would like to know though is which one of the seven are the
sausages in?
CC Okay, we'll check.
SPT It's clear, Hank, eventually we're going to have
to take the time out to go through all this and sort it
out, and we'll label it so it won't take all this time. But for right
now we're just going to have to hunt and search.
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11/21/73
CC SPT, Houston. You might try 563 rear.

The checklist says there should be some sausages in there.
SPT Ue found some in fruit bag 7, Hank, we'll go
ahead and use it out of there.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC CDR, Houston. We do have some time for
you on the RAD 3 for RASM. Snd whenever you - or whenever
it is convenient for you to copy, just give us a call.
CDR Okay, Hank, I'm ready to copy those times
now.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're about i minute from LOS.
The times are at 18:25, 20:19, 22:00, and 23:35. And each
of those is a i0 minute window starting at that time. And
the preferred pass for the South America anomaly is the 22:00
window.
CDR Okay, and these are all for RSM 3, right?
CDR Okay. Well, we've already started out the
day, Hank with one foot in the bucket. This little food exercise
cost us about a half an hour. I think we better have the
planners as soon as possible schedule us about a 2 to 3 man-hour
block of time where we can go up and empty out all of these
food bags and organize the overage in a pantry style so that
we can find the food in a hurry.
CC Okay, we'll work that. We're just about
LOS, Jerry. We'll be at Madrid at 35.
CDR Okay, Hank.
PAO Loss of signal now with Skylab IV. Next
station to acquire will be Madrid in less than 4 minutes.
Greenwich mean time. Approaching acquisition with Skylab IV
once again through i_adrid. We heard from Commander Jerry Carr
reporting they are a little bit behind schedule in getting
started this morning looking for some of the overage food
onboard. We'll stand by at this time and listen for the callup
from CAP COI!iMHenry Hartsfield to the crew of Skylab IV.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-164/I
Time: 07:35 CST 06:13:35 GMT
11/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston, through Madrid for 9
linutes, and we'll be dumping the voice data recorder here.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, IIouston. We're about i minute to
LOS; Tananarive at 5:06.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, Ilouston. 13 hours 45
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss Of Signal now with Madrid.
Next station to acquire will be Tananarive in approximately
ii minutes. Very quiet pass over Madrid as the crew of Sky-
lab IV proceed into their morning meal. 13 hours 45 minutes
GMT. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition through Tananarive. Our flight director presently
on duty is Neil llutchinson. The CAP COMM is astronaut Bruce
McCandless. We'll leave the line open. This is Skylab Con-
trol, Houston.
for 8 minutes. Out.
CDR Morning Bruce.
CC And it is a good morning, clear and cold
down here in Texas.
CDR Bruce, would you check and see if we have
i hour (garble) period after eating before doing the 131 sche-
duled for today?
CC That's affirmative. Over.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab this is Houston going down in to
the mud at Tananarive. Next station contact 21 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek in 14:22. Out.
hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time. We expect no further
voice transmissions with the crew of Skylab IV through Tana-
narive. The next station to acquire will be Honeysuckle in
approximately 18-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _C-165/I
Time: 08:21 CST 06:14:21 GMT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 14 hours

Creek. We're 1 minute til LOS. Next station contact in
27-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at 14:51. Out.
CDR Roger. Bruce. Talk to you then.
CC Roger, Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead. Over.
SPT Hey, Bruce, noticed you folks
have been operating in experiment pointing. Could you give us
a quick status on the lock and the changes you've made since
we put them off?
CC It's all GO. _le're going over the
we're still operating on secondary APC system is GO. And,
we just got a couple of seconds left here til LOS. Over.
CDR Rog. That's good. You've noticed no
anomaly then in the lock?
CC That's correct on (garble) got no problems
nothinF we've noticed.
SPT Good to hear. Thank you, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 14 hours
Honeysuckle:. Next station to acquire will be Goldstone in
approxima _ly 25 minutes. The first task to take place, this
morning, for Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue will
involve the _i131 human vestibular function experiment. It's
scheduled to be performed this morning in mock rotation.
}lock rotation, which means, head movement only while blindfolded
with no RPTI[on the litter chair. Science Pilot Ed Gibson will
be seated in the rotating litter chair. Pilot Bill Pogue will
be the observer. Then Pilot Bill Pogue will spend part of
this morning preparing TO25, a contamination recording cameras,
to be taken outside on the crew's first spacewalk, Thanksgiving
Day. Advance preparations for the complex spacewalk, the longest
planned for any Skylab crew, will involve about 2-1/2 hours
late this afternoon. The crew is scheduled to go to bed at
9 p.m., local Houston time, an hour earlier than usual, so they
will be well rested for Thursday's spaeewalk, expected to
last more than six hours. During the spacewalk, scheduled to
begin at 16:10 GMT, tomorrow. The crew will attach the
contamination cam _a and several other pieces of experimental
hardware to the structure . It supports the solar telescopes
above the space station. Several of the large telescopes
themselves will be stocked with fresh film for the coming
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11/21/73
month of solar investigations. A major objective of the walk

in space is to repair the control system for an Earth-
scanning antenna used in studies of sea conditions, ice, snow,
and other surface features. The bowl-shaped antenna, used to
scan a wide path beneath the space station, began moving
erratically September 14. An attempt to regain control of the
earth resour _s instrument was made later in the second Skylab
mission. At that time, the crew observed the erratic antenna
from within the space station. Among the experiments to be
set up outside the laboratory are four extremely smooth plates
that will register the impact of tiny dust particles traveling
through space at high speed. The plates will bring to twelve
the number exposed during the Skylab program. And they are
part of the particle collection experiment (S149). Like the
two earlier sets, these will be returned at the end of the
flight and analyzed to determine the effect of interplanetary
dust on windows, telescopes, cameras, or other exterior optical
surfaces exposed during long spaceflights. A fourth set of
plates may be left out at the end of the flight for some furure
space crew to pickuP. One plastic panel was used or is
used - or - used to detect cosmic rays from beyond the planet
Uranus will also be placed outside the space station, attached
to a clipboard on the telescope mount struts. The panel is
similar to a set of 35 that hang near the litter chair in the
orbital workshop. Another panel has already been returned from
within the space station for analysis on Earth. A set of
materials potentially useful for protecting space vehicles
from radiation will also be deployed. Previous thermal coating
samples, or control coating samples, brought back to Earth
proved to be unsatisfactory for detailed analysis. The crew
will also attach large cuffs of metallic foil used in determining
the abundance of certain ions in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Other cuffs from the magnetospheric particle composition
experiment ($230) will be brought back inside the space
station. Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue will work outside the space
station to install film cartridges in the four solar instruments.
A new color film, designed to distinguish various X-ray wave-
lengths, will be installed in the Skylab's X-ray Telescope.
That being S056. Some 400 frames of special highsensitivity
film suited in photographing for photographing the Comet
Kohoutek will be included in the 1608-frame magazine for the
extreme ultraviolet spectrograph. That being $082B. Extreme
ultraviolet light has wavelength too short to penetrate the
Earth's atmosphere, so space-born telescopes are required to
photograph the invisible radiation. Also to be supplied with
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11/21/73
film during the spacewalk are tile extreme ultraviolet

spectroheliograph (S082A), with 201 frames provided, and the
large pan - pointing telescope, H-alpha i, which will make
16,000 photographs as the astronaut uses it to view the red
light emitted by hydrogen in the Sun. While these four solar
telescopes have been empty since the second Skylab crew made
their last walk in space on September 22, two other photographic
instruments have been operated frequently during the nearly
2 months that no astronaut has been at the space station's
control panel. About 20 per cent of the film for the White Light
Corona_raph (S052) has been used thus far, while nearly 30 per
cent of the film for S054 consumed during ground-controlled
operations. Both film packs will be used up before the
spacewalk scheduled for Christmas Day. One of the two astronauts
working outside the space station will also pin the door of a
second pointing telescope (H-alpha 2) in the open position.
The motor used to open and close the door failed several times
during the second Skylab mission. A second, backup motor also
has failed. The contaminatlon-reduction provided by the
instrumentVs door is not considered essential for its use as
a non-photo_raphic pointing aid. A difficult repair attempt
will be made by Ed Gibson later in the afternoon when he works
on the antenna control system for the microwave radiometer-
scatterometer-altimeter. The radar sensor is used to detect
surface roughness and temperature by measuring the radiation
emitted by land and water features, and by bouncing radar signals
off of the area under study. An extremely precise altimeter
registers the exact height of the spacecraft within a few feet,
providing data on the exact shape of the Earth and on surface
irregularities. The antenna, nearly 4 feet in diameter, is
electronically controlled as it scans the ground many miles
ahead and behind the space station. Moving back and forth
across the path of the vehicle. The device used to control
the antenna's movement began operating erratically after
frequent use on the last mission. Gibson will clean the area
around the gimbals, where a piece of aluminized Mylar, used
to insulate the instrument is believed to have shorted out the
control mechanism. After the cleaning, the antenna drive will
be tested. Should it again move erratically, the Science
Pilot will perform a check out of the cables leading from the
instrument's electronic package. If the repair fails, the
antenna wil] be planned - will be pinned in a position pointing
directly for surface - survey purposes. Locking pins, much like
those used to hold the antenna in place during the launch of
the spacecraft will be inserted by Gibson. About 80 per cent
of the required data for the radiometer-scatterometer was
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obtained on the first 2 flights. _iore than half of the altimeter

data has been gathered. To record higher quality information
using the radiometer and scatterometer portions of the device,
the antenna may be pinned in a different position on a later
spacewalk. The instrument, already used in studies of sea,
wave, wind and temperature conditions, is of particular value
in sensing ice, snow, and mositure content. All of which
should be the focus of passes later in the planned 84-day
mission. First use of the Earth resources sensors, which may
include several passes over possible sources of geothermal
energy during the coming months, could come as early as
Saturday, if the equipment checkout is completed Friday. The
first Earth survey is expected to cross the United States
from Northwest to Southeast. We're about 16 minutes away
now from reacquiring Skylab IV over _idstone, and at 14 hours
35 minutes, Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.
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Time: 08:49 CST 06:14:49 GMT
11/21/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now approaching
acquisition through Goldstone. We'll stand by now with the
line open and monitor. This is Skylab Control. Houston.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Goldstone
Next station contact _lerritt Island in about a minute and
a half. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Merritt
Island. 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact Bermuda.
2-1/2 minutes at 15:02. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Bermuda
PAO About 2 minutes remaining on this pass
over the States and through Bermuda tracking station. A
very quiet pass. We're at 15 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean
time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
Next station contact in 5 minutes through _ladrid at 15:13.
Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss Of Signal now through
Bermuda. The next station to acquire will be _ladrid in
3-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Madrid
and Canary Islands for 9 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder at Honeysuckle Creek. Out.
Next station contact in about 12 minutes through Tananarive
at 15:33. Antenna coverage is going to be good in the
middle and bad at both ends. Out.
CDH Roger, Bruce. Just wondered how you
folks were handling the on NuZs today? Can we help you?
CC We completed the set of NuZ data take
requirements and have no further NuZ updates scheduled at
the present time for you to do.
CDR Okay.
CC Once we start the manned AT_I operations
of course, we'll go back and put in a couple of amend up-
them in to - date you.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Sky-
lab IV through Madrid. Next station to pick up the space
station will be Tananarive in approximately i0 minutes.
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Time: 09:32 CST, 06:15:32 GMT
ii/21/73

32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 4 now approaching
acquisition range through Tananarlve.
for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 17 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek. And at 15:58, we'll be dumping the voice tape recorder
there. Out.
PLT Rog, Bruce. And I've run into, just a
little question here on the TO25 Nikon prep. The checklist
indicates or implys a color exterior film will be used and the
pad indicated a Bravo, Echo, -3, which I've already loaded.
And would you verify that the pad is correct and also which
list will be - Disregard the last one.
CC Okay. Stand by. I'll see if I can get
it to you before LOS here.
CC Roger. Bravo Echo 03 is correct.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
PAO Skylab Control, llouston. 15 hours 43 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Out of voice communications, range now
through Tananarive with Skylab IV. At the close of that
Tananarive pass, the pilot, Bill Pogue had some questions
about preparations for the T025 contamination recording
camera which will be taken outside tomorrow during the EVA.
He is now in the process of readying that camera for use
tomorrow. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle in 14 minutes.
And at 15 hours 44 minutes Greenwich mean time, this isSkylab
Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:57 CST 06:15:57 GMT
11/21/73

57 minutes Greenwich mean time. One minute away now from re-
acquiring Skylab IV through Honeysuckle. We'll stand by now
with the line open await CAP COMM Bruce McCandless's call to
the crew of Skylab IV.
Creek for 9 minutes. We'll be dumping your data voice tape
recorder here. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 11-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 16:18. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 16 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Skylab IV now
through Honeysuckle. Next station to acquire will be Hawaii
in i0 minutes. This afternoon at i:00 p.m. in the small news
briefing auditorium in Building 1 a briefing will be held on
tomorrow's EVA. This briefing featuring Bob Kain, the Skylab
EVA Procedures Officer. I repeat an EVA Briefing at I:00 p.m.
Houston time today in the News Center Briefing Auditorium.
We're 16 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
acquisition through Hawaii. We'll stand by now with the line
open.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
CC Hello, SPT.
SPT llello, Houston.
CC Okay, hello, Out.
PLT Hey Bruce, a couple of quick ones.
CC Go ahead. Over.
PLT Rog. I have been working for about
45 minutes just trying to find (garble). And I'm working on
page 7-2-1, 7.2-1 in the EVA checklist trying to configure
the Nikon. And none of this stuff is labeled, and there is
no stowage indicated, of course, in the checklist because I guess
they didn't know where it was going to be. But I'm not sure
that I have the correct remote cable. And I don't know where
the long eye release view finder is.
CC Okay, we'll start working on that for
you, Bill.
PA0 Six minutes remaining on this pass over
Ilawaii. Bruce _[cCandless has spoken briefly with Science Pilot
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Ed Gibson, who is scheduled housekeeping duties at this time.

And also with Pilot Bill Pogue, who is preparing the T025
camera for use tomorrow during the EVA.
CDR Bruce, I'd like to ask you something about
TV 3.
CC Okay, TV3 is cancelled. Over.
CC Acknowlege. Over.
CDR All right.
CC Does that answer your question.
CDR (Garble) Okay. That simplifies it.
CC Okay, for the PLT, the long eye release
view finder if it has not yet been moved will be in A-8 in the
command module. If it has it will be in F-502 Alfa. Over.
PLT Rog, Bruce. Thank you.
CC PLT, this is Houston. We believe the
remote cable should also be in F-502 Alfa, and are you using
the T025 prep cue card?? Over.
PLT That is negative. I'm using the EVA
prep checklist. I'll get the cue cards.
CC Okay, and the remote cable if you should
be using has a toggle switch on the end of it. Over.
PLT Ah yes I do recall now. Thank you.
CC Also known as the remote timer cable.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone
at 16:30. And you'd be amazed at the number of things we
can track down back here from our updated stowage list. So
if you come up short or can't find anything, Just give us
a yell and we'll go to it. Over.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 16 hours 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Hawaii.
Goldstone acquisition in 2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-!V MC-169/I
Time: 10:28 CST 06:16:28 GMT
11/31/73
CC Skylab this is Houston through Goldstone

CDR Hello Bruce. As long as you're feeling
so helpful I get one for you.
CC Okay,. Don't overdo it, but shoot. Fire
away Jerry. Jerry, are you there?
CDR Yessir. On page 9-8. Well, going through
locker Foxtrot 507 Alpha 9, it says I'm supposed to find a
T025 remote control cable, a T025 35 millimeter camera thermal
blanket, and a T025 projection cover. The remote cable (gar-
ble) is the one I brought in from the command module earlier,
and put in 502-A, but I see no sign of a camera thermal blanket.
CC Okay. We'll look for a camera thermal
blanket and a protective cover for you.
CDR Okay. Stand by. Bill says he just found
it in the 510. Don't need you after all, Bruce.
CC Okay. Hey, yeah, we are glad to look for
those thin_s. Don't take much sarcasm seriously.
CDR Okay. Here's one that I found in the
509A9 uh, 507A9 locker. It's some kind of a release valve.
It's air research release valve, and the part number is
82952011, and I haven't got the slightest idea what it goes
to and it was just floating around loose in the locker.
CC Okay. That's air research 8295-2011.
We'll put Stevie to work on it.
CDR Okay. I think there's a NASA part number,
a NASA serial number that might help. It says NASA 004000028139.
CC Okay. _e'll work on it.
CDR Okay.
Next station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at 16:41.
A question for the CDR. Can you give us another clue? What
color is the val _? Does it look like it's a helmet purge
valve? Over.
CDR Negative. It's not a helmet purge valve.
It's aluminum, and it's about 2 inches in diameter and it's
got, uh - oh heck. It's sort of a mushroom shaped with a
connecter at one end and then another connecter coming out
the side.
CC Okay. Thank you.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now. Next station
to acquire will be Bermuda in 2-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Bermuda
CDR Listen; on that valve I've got, it in
my hand and I can describe it to you and you can draw it if
you want to.
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11/21/73
CC Hey. Look Jerry. I think we're wasting

time trying to track it down right now, or by communicating
on the thing. We've got the part number. We're working on
it. Why don't you just put it some place where you know where
it is and we'll get back to you with the identity of it. Over.
CDR Okay. I'm going to leave it in the A9
locker in the commnd module.
CC Okay. In the A9 locker in the command
module.
Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through Canary Islands
at 16:50. Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now coming up on
acquisition through Canary Island.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Canary and
Ascension Islands for 15-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston. For the CDR and
PLT, as soon as you've get upped the working on the S191 door
opening procedure, we would appreciate hearing how much it's
going pretty much in real time if you can arrange to do so.
Over.
CDR Wilco.
CC Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV continuing its pass
over Canary and Ascension. The average workshop temperature
now reading 78 degrees. The primary coolant loop holding in
very nicely. We know show a pump inlet pressure of 25.3 psi.
Next station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon at 17:33.
And it was not our intent to constrain the S191 doo_ procedures
to station contact. So if you get to them during the LOS,
why press on and we'll talk to you over Carnarvon. Out.
CDR Can you give AOS time?
CC Roger. AOS Carnarvon at 17:33, 17:33
Zulu.
CDR Okay.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Ascension.
The next station to acquire the Skylab space station will be
Carnarvon in 26 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC-170/I
Time: 11:30 CST 06:17:30 GMT
11/21/73

Greenwich mean time. Approaching acquisition now with Skylab IV
through Carnarvon.
CREW (Garble)
CDR Roger, Houston. We're getting ready to
start the 19] door opening now.
CC Roger, Jerry. We're all down here
watching. And we do have overlapping coverage from here through
Honeysuckle Creek, so we have got about 9 minutes total here.
CDR Houston, we just opened the 190 window.
Unfortunately itVs dark outside so we're going to have to wait
for light.
CC Okay, you've got 3 minutes and 50 seconds
to daylight.
CDR Okay.
Greenwich mean time. We've been hearing from Commander Jerry
Carr on the S191 door opening procedures. We want to verify
that the S191 infrared spectrometer door opens properly. On one
of the earlier Earth resources passes last mission the door
was opening and closing slowly so it was left open for the
further Earth resources passes, then closed at the end of the
mission. This is to see that the door does properly open.
CDR Bruce, we're going bythe procedure on
page 2-12 of EREP change sheets. And instead of voice recording
this we'll give you real-time Hacks.
CC Okay, we've got our books open too and
that will be fine with us. Let there be light.
CDR Apparently your words aren't as effective
as the other Guy's.
CDR Bruce, you are right, it is a light
outside. But; we're looking at the dark area. We're
going to turn the lights down here and see if we can see well
enough to do this.
CC Okay, look we got 2-1/2 minutes left
in this pass. You know, don't hold on us, we would Just like to hear
what is going on when we can hear. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce, we've killed the lights in
here so we can see now, so we're going to go ahead and start
it.
CC And the advice we get here is the motion
of the door as it opens may be considered to be unsteady,
but we hope it will open.
CDR Okay.
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11/21/73
CDR Okay, on my mark. MARK.

CDR The door is moving.
CC Great.
CDR So far very slowly and not very Jerky.
It's open about 5 inches.
CC Beautiful. It takes, what, a minute and 46
to open or something like that.
CC Let's see, we're estimating it will probably
take 2 minutes for the door to open. We have 53 seconds left
in this station pass. Next contact in 13-1/2 minutes through
Hawaii at 17:56 where we will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder. Out.
CDR Stand by for mark. MARK.
CC Roger.
CDR Are you with us?
CC Yeah. What was the mark for?
CDR The second mark was when the door passed
out of the VTS line of sight.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
CDR And the first mark was when he started.
44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Out of acquisition range
now with Honeysuckle. And at loss of signal we heard from
Commander Jerry Cart the S191 door, the infrared spectrometer
door was almost open, and in the process of opening. We're
at 17 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
PAO 55 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Skylab IV space station now approaching acquisition of signal
through Hawaii. We'll stand by and listen for the callup from
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, we'll be dumping your data voice
tape recorder here. And can you confirm that the S191 door
opened all the way? Over.
CDR Bruce as best we can tell is that it opened
so that it was completely out of the VTS field of view with the
gimbal pulled forward.
CC Beautiful. Those are the sort of words
we like to hear.
CDR Did you get tile delta-T between those two
marks okay?
CC Yes we did.
CDR Okay. By the way, how long was it?
CC It was I minute and 38 seconds.
CDR Very good.
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SL-IV MC-171/I
Time: 12:00 CST 06:18:00 GHT
11/21/73

a half til LOS here at Hawaii. Next station contact through
Goldstone at 18:07, which is about 4-172 minutes from now and
for the CDR. Sometime during this Stateside pass, Goldstone (sic)
or Bermuda. We'd like to take just a minute or so and talk with
you regardubg the status of your readiness for EVA tomorrow.
Over.
CDR Okay.
5 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with
Hawaii. Coming up next will be Goldstone in 2 minutes
40 seconds.
for 5-i/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Okay. The question that we wanted to
discuss wit]i you for a moment or so here is how you feel your
status of readiness is coming with respect to the EVA, which
we currently have scheduled for tomorrow? On the other shift
(cough) other shift last night. We noted you expressed some
concern at still being working on day 4 transfers and getting
the housekeeping squared away and set up up there. Over.
CDR We seem to be getting ahead of the game
now or I guess we're getting ahead - we're catching up. Day
4 transfers are about complete and we should be able to get
into the EVA preprep without any trouble _onight and with an
early go-to-bed, we should make it fine.
CC Mighty fine. Those are the words we love
to hear.
Greenwich mean time. We heard from Commander Jerry Cart, who
feels that the crew of Skylah IV will be GO for tomorrow's
EVA. CAP COMM Bruce McCandless had posed that question.
LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 18:17. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours, 15 minutes,
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Goldstone. Next
station contact Bermuda in less than 3 minutes.
CDR Bruce, I'm gonna have to ask a dumb question.
What is the VABD area for this Rad 3 measurement?
CC How about Van Allen Belt Dosimeter.
CDR I'ii buy that. Thank you.
CC They're pretty expensive.
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Time: 12:00 CST 06:18:00 GMT
11/21/73
CC And, CDR, this is Houston. Does your

question imply that you're getting ready to do the RAD survey
coming through the South Atlantic anomoly this pass. Over.
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Oh, Roger. Thank you.
CDR 18:25. Correct?
CC Roger that°
CDR Okay.
CDR Right over Boston. Thinking about baked
beans. Wishing we had some.
CC Roger. And in answer to your previous
question. The unidentified valve is a eryo vent relief valve,
left over from one of the preceding missions. We believe
from SL-II. It goes on panel 603 on the 02 fitting there.
Over.
PLT Rog. He heard that, Bruce.
CC And, just leave it in A-9 and we'll
give you a stowage location for it later on in the mission.
PLT Okay.
CDR Bruce. A question on a procedure on that
radiation survey meter. The four measurements. Are they to be
taken in close proximity serially in time or on different passes?
CDR Okay, Bruce. I asked that question wrong.
Did you just give us four times, so that we had four opportunities
or do you want four different seperate measurements?
CC All the measurements taken out of one opportunity
and what we gave you was four windows for conducting the thing.
Over.
CDR Very good, Bruce. _e got it.
CC And one set of three measurements completes it.
Over.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston. 1 minute til
LOS. Next station contact though Ascension in 7 minutes at
18:34. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours, 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Skylab IV through
Bermuda. Next station contact will be through Ascension in
5-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
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Time: 12:36 CST, 06:18:36 GMT
11/21/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through

Ascension for i0 minutes. Out.
CDR Hey, Bruce, that radiation reading, 1
think, was a bummer. The dosimeter The radiation survey
meter, I should say, really didn't even move at all. It stayed
pretty much a full-scale low. And we put a new battery in
the thing yesterday. But it doesn't seem to be working. The
number was off and it was set at .01 radiant per hour. And
it just still didn't do a thing.
CC Okay, J_rry. We're checking that. Looking
at our 20 by 40 wall map here, it looks like you haven't gotten
to the anomaly, yet.
CDR You want to give me a new time, then?
CC That's under active consideration here.
CC Okay, Jerry. Are you in a mode where
you can do it again, for us, about 3 or 4 minutes from now.
Over.
CDR Yeah, I think so.
CC Okay. We'll give you a MARK.
SPT Bruce, how about you giving us a mark at
the time of the reading and I'll transmit those numbers right
on down to you real time.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
a half to log. Next station contact in 24 minutes through
Carnarvon at 19:07. And you're go to start the reading. Better
put the second two on tape. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. We'll go ahead and put the
whole thing on tape. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out. See you at Carnarvon.
PAO The readings referred to there are the
South Atlantic anomaly dosimeter readings.
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Ascension.
Next station coming up will be Carnarvon for the Skylab IV
space station. Carnarvon 21 minutes 40 seconds. This is
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SL-IV MC173/I
Time: 13:49 CST 06:19:49 GMT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab IV space staion
is presently under acquisition through Goldstone. We'll play
back the tape of which was accumulated to - through the news
conference and then pick up live on the stateside pass.
for 10 minutes. Out.
PLT Bruce, I'm having trouble locating the
grounding strap for the camera T025 experiment.
CC Okay, we'll check on that. You know what
the thing looks like don't you. It looks like a little piece
of wire with I guess sort of a banana plug on one end.
PLT Yeah, I've seen it before, but I can't
find it anywhere. I looked in all the bags that were brought
up for the EVA.
CC Okay we're looking.
CC Okay, Bill have you checked on the side
of F502 in the EVA mount bag. Over.
PLT Yes, I have. I've gone through it a
couple of times, but let me go through it once more.
CC We'll check further also.
CC PLT, this is Houston. Over.
PLT How did you do Bruce?
CC Roger. We're still working on that
grounding strap. We show that it was lauched, attached to
the TO25 EVA clamp in the mount bag, on the aft bulkhead.
And presumably that's the ba_ that you brought down to the
side of F502.
PLT Okay, I'm going to take a quick trip up
to the command module. It may be up there.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute till
LOS. Next station contact 4-1/2 minutes through Guam at 19:20.
Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
6-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC PLT, this is Houston. If the entire bag
had not been transferred from the command module it would be
located underneath the Commander's couch. The grounding wire
was launched with its little clip end connected to the
grounding stud on the side of the clamp mechanism of the T025
bracket ri_iht where it clamps around the structural member
of the deployment assembly then pierces through the
oxidizing film. Over.
PLT Rog. Bruce I found it thank you very
much.
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Time: 13:4!) CST 06:19:49 GMT
11/21/73
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 17 minutes through Goldstone at 19:46.
Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,

Corpus Christi, _lerritt Island, and Bermuda for 18-1/2 minutes.
Over .
CDR Right Bruce we got you.
CC Roger.
CDR Are we over Vancouver?
CC Yes, sir.
Greenwich mean time. We're now up live. Skylab IV under
acquisition through Texas.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute till
LOS here at Bermuda. Next station contact in 41 minutes
through Carnarvon at 20:45. Out.
PAO Skylab Control Houston 20 hou _ 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Bermuda,
next station con _ct with Astronauts Carr, Gibson, Pogue
aboard the Skylab space station will be in 40 minutes. This
is Skylab Contro i, Houston.
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Time: 14:43 CST 06:20:43 GMT
11/21/73

mean time, and 50 seconds away from acquisition at Carnarvon.
Following Carnarvon, the final pass through the tracking
station at Guam. Up live and waiting for Carnarvon and
Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 7-1/2 minutes through
Guam at 20:59. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through Carnarvon, Australia. Three minutes until re-
acquisition through Guam.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Guam
for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 15 minutes through Goldstone
at 21:22. Out.
FAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through tracking station Guam for the final time this
afternoon, 12 minutes to Go ldstone. One can only assume that
the crew is extremely busy. They haven't said a work in the
last two station passes. If theytre on the timeline for today,
they're involved in the dual medical experiments. Lower
body negative pressure, MO92, and metabolic activity MI71,
with associated photos made in the same time frame which
show redistribution of fluids, particularly in fac _i tissues.
The Science Pilot is the subject with the Commander, Jerry
Carr serving as observer. Meanwhile the Pilot, Bill Pogue,
during the time the other crewmates are involved in the
medical experiments, is scheduled to be doing some exercise
and some housekeeping chores around the space station. All
three get together later this afternoon, in about a half
hour if they're still on the timeline, to begin preparations
for tomorrow's EVA. These preparations have scheduled in
the Flight Plan about 2-1/2 hours. The evening meal will
start somewhat later than normal at about 06:20 for all
three crewmen. Back in i0 minutes for stateside pass,
Goldstone, Texas, and HLA. At 21:12 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC175/I
Time: 15:21 CST 06:21:21 GMT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 21:21 _eenwich

mean time. Acquisition through Goldstone and Texas and MLA
stations in the States coming up in about 40 seconds. Skylab
IV crew today is not _e gabbiest crew that we've had. How-
ever in view of the packed flight plan they probably don't
have time to talk very much on the air to ground. And more
than likely view calls from the ground is interruptions. We
have telementry data on the space station, should be placing
the call shortly. Wardroom temperature is 75 degrees, cabin
pressure 5 pou Ms, partial pressure of oxygen 3.6 pounds.
CC Houston through Goldstonej Corpus Christi,
and Merritt Island for 14-i/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Look like we're over the top of you, Bruce.
CC Yes, you are. We show you Just off the
coast headed southeast over the Gulf.
PLT Man, it's a beautiful view.
CC Yeah, it is. You can't see Pete Conrads
kid up on the roof, can you?
PLT Just a second, I'ii check.
CC Okay, and Bill when you get back from the
window, there, we've been watching your progress here and it
looks like you're in pretty good shape and about on time for
the prep and sometime here in a couple of minutes when the
CDR has a minute, we'd like to talk to him about a GO/NO GO
point in the EVA checklist for the S193 operations. Over.
PLT Okay.
CC I just barely copied you, it sounded like
you were really on intercomm there.
PLT Yeah, you're right, I was. He's tied up
right now, Bruce. He'll get with you as soon as we have next
station pass.
CC Okay, and on your tasks, how are you
progressing.
PLT I just brought the hoses back. I finished
with serv _ing the umbilicals and the PCUs. That's completed
and I'm getting ready to take a picture down lens experiment.
CC Okay, beautiful.
PLT Just happened to pass the window just at the
right moment. You know, we've really got a beautiful view of
Cuba and the Yucatan peninsula too.
CC Yes, indeed. And there's some beautiful
diving water down there, too.
PLT Yeah, I see it. It looks nice.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. _$e're i minute
to LOS. Next station contact in ii minutes through the Vanguard
at 21:48. Out. And we'll be dumping your data voice recorder
at the Vangua _.
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Time: 15:21 CST 06:21:21 GMT
11/21/73

through tracking station Merritt Island launch area, here at
Kennedy Space Center, Florida. i0 minutes to acquisition
tracking ship Vanguard. Skylab IV pilot, Bill Pogue, observed
the Texas Gulf coast as the space station overflew that area,
with no cloud cover. Also commented on seeing the snorkling
and skin diving waters off the Yucatan penninsula in Mexico.
Took a few moment out there to be a tourist. 21:39 Greenwich
mean time, back in 9 minutes for tracking ship Vanguard.
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC176/I
Time: 15:47 CST, 06:21:47 _IT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control , 21:47 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition through tracking st tracking ship
Vanguard in 50 seconds. We'll stand by here for acquisition
through the Vanguard with Skylab IV.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through the
Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes. Out. Dumping a data voice
tape recorder.
SPT Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
SPT Which checklist, cue card, or documenta-
tion should be used for the S149 PR2?
CC The S149 cue card.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston. Is the
CDR available for a minute?
CDR Go ahead Bruce.
CC Yeah, Jerry, one note we have that we'd
like to put in your EVA checklist it's on - if you want to
write it down page 2.1-23 where the header for S193 operation
starts and we'd like to insert a note there to verify a go with
state and for the S193 operations before you start into that
segment of the EVA, now in addition to putting this in the
checklist we wanted to comment and say that we're not trying
to constrai:n you to getting this go no go over a specific
site but merely that sometimes before this point that we've
talked over the pro _ess through tile A- EVA and things of
this sort and decided on whether to go on or not for the 193
antenna work. Over.
CDR Even just for the preliminary work?
CC Yes sir, we want to establish a go and
no go it seems like a clean break point before we even start
on it there.
CDR Okay, we'll do her.
CC Okeydoke, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 1 hour and 4 minutes through
Goldstone at 23:00 Zulu. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, next station in
1 hour and 2 minutes will be Goldstone again. The space
station Skylab has passed over the hill from tracking ship
Vanguard on this particular revolution as the space station
orbit precesses westward it miss all of the stations,
Tananarive, Guam, Carnarvon, Hawaii until we hit Goldstone
again alm _t 1 full revolution from now. Will be back at
that time at 21:58 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL MC177/I
Time: 16:24 CST, 06:22:24 GMT
11/21/73

mean time. Acquisition at tracking station Goldstone in
35 minutes, meanwhile handover is underway here in the
Control Center, Flight Director Milt Windler taking over
from Neil Hutchinson. Hutchinson will be enroute to the
News Center for a change-of-shift briefing within the next
5 or i0 minutes. We're estimating change-of-shift briefing
in about 5 to i0 minutes, as soon as Hutchinson breaks away
from the Control Room and gets to Building i. We'll be
back in 35 minutes for the final stateside pass of the day.
At 22:24 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC178/I
Time: 16:59 CST 06:22:59 GMT
11/21/73
PAO Over Texas for the final statesidepass.

Flight Director Neil Hutchinson left the control room some
20 minutes ago, ostensibly en route to the news center. Hopefully
he hasn't been mugged or something. But he should be showing
up for a change of shift briefing before to long. Meanwhile
we'll stand by here for a stateside pass. And should the
Flight Director show up we'll shut down the air-ground and
record the balance of it for delayed play back. Standing by
i0 seconds away from Goldstone acquisition.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 13 minutes.
SPT Track, Story.
CC Hello.
SPT Hello Story, got a question for you.
CC Go ahead Ed.
SPT Would you please tell us where E699 is?
CC Could you say again on that Ed. There's
a loud squeal in the back ground.
CC Say again what you're trying to locate.
SPT Story, I wanted to know where E699 is.
That's Echo six, niner, niner.
CC Okay, be with you on Echo 699.
SPT Thank you.
CC Ed, E699 is a trash airlock, and we
wondered what you had in mind.
SPT We're okay now Story. But occasionally
there's things called out for a E699 not critical items.
We have not been able to find that location. For example
stowage checklist calls for the ED-gloves being in there,
although we know where they are right now. But we're trying
to find E699 for a few other things and no luck.
SPT All right, Houston. Skylab how do you
read?
CC Loud and clear, got you for 6 more minutes.
SPT Okay, this squeal seems to be coming from
the workshop and not from the command module. And it's a
completely different kind of squeal than anything we have
ever heard before. I donVt really know what to tell you about
it. We've checked all the boxes and we can't trace the culprit
down.
CC Okay, we can verify that. We're reading
you loud and clear right now. And that squeal is different
than it has been in the past,
CC Ed, can we help you any more on E699?
SPT No Story, if you can't find it don't
worry about it. It's not critical right now. We'll press
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SPT (Contd.) on with the prep.
CC E699 is the trash air lock.
SPT I hope we haven't stowed anything we
need there.
CC I hope so to. That's where things go
after you've done with them of course.
CC I wonder why the stowage wizards Just
didn't call it a TAL instead of a E699?
CC Probably should have.
SPT Hate to tell you how many minutes we've
wasted looking for that thing when we were looking for things
like urine disposal bag or one thing or another. You look them
up in stowage book and it says there are so many of them - stowed
in the E699.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard at 23:26. It's about 15 minutes
be enough for the data voice recorders there. And Ed that location
E699 that means at the beginning of your mission there are
that many original items that have been put down there since
the original launch of SL-I.
SPT Okay, Story I'm glad we found it out now.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control loss of signal
through Texas tracking station. Final stateside pass of the
day, 12 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard. Ue'll be back
at that time, at 23:12 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC179/I
Time: 17:25 CST 06:23:25 GMT
11/21/73

mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in 50 seconds.
And strangely enough, the long missing flight director just
walked back in the control room. Standing by for acquisi-
tion at Vanguard in about 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for
7 minutes. Will be dumping the data voice recorders here.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And, Skylab, if you don't have a need for
the speaker box in the command module over the last site when
we dumped the DSE there was some voice on it. So, apparent-
ly some time along here we did record some of your icomm. You
might check panel 69 in the command module. Be sure your
intercomm switches are in off.
CDR All intercomm switches are off, Houston.
CC Okay, fine, Jerr.
CC Skylah, in the last couple of - We dropped
out the last cou _e of minutes. Go ahead.
CDR (Garble), Story.
CC I'm losing you again here. We're having
some problems with the Vanguard. We're back with you a_ain
and in case we loose you, we'll be seeing you over Tananarive
at 23:48. And if possible, we'd like a status report on how
you're getting along.
CDR Okay, Story. We're approximately through
the - halfway through the prep for this evening.
CC Okay. (Garble), we're 30 seconds from
LOS at Tananarive in 15 minutes at 23:48.
through the tracking ship Vanguard, 14 minutes to Tananarive.
In lieu of a change-of-shift press conference, flight director,
Nell Hutchinson, will come on the broadcast loop with a summary
of today's activities as well as an outlook for tomorrow's EVA
and preparations for the EVA. Neil.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI80/I
Time: 17:47 CST, 06:23:47 _T
11/21/73
PAO Voice relay station at Tananarive in

50 seconds. All three Skylab IV crewmen at this time
involved in preparations for tomorrow's EVA, for installing
film canisters in the solar observatory telescope and cameras
and for repair work on the on one of the Earth resources
antennas or scanner. Standing by here for Tananarive in
i0 seconds.
PAO This is Skylab Control; the operator
at Tananarive is unable to lock up on the spacecraft. He has
C-band transponder lock up with the space station but unable
to get the antenna zeroed in on the S-band signal.
CC Skylab, we got you AOS through
Tananarive for about 2 more minutes. In case we drop out
we'll see you at Hawaii in about 37 minutes at 00:34.
SPT R _er, Storey.
PAO Skylab, Control, loss of signal such as
it was from voice relay station at Tananarive, 34 minutes to
Hawaii. We'll be back then at 00:00 GMT, flat midnight.
This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI81/I
Time: 18:33 CST 07:00:23 GMT
ii/21/73

mean time. Acquisition momentarily through tracking station
Hawaii.
CC Skylab, were AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes
CDR Looks like we sort of crossed a snag in our
EVA preps.
CC Okay, what you got.
CDR Okay as far as I can tell from the stowage
hooks there are only 4 LCGs up here in the whole place. And
they are Weitz, Lousma, Bean, and _rriott's unused LCGs. I
just opened them up and every one of them is damp and mouldy.
CC Copy.
CDR I guess we need to make a quick decision
on whether we go tomorrow cap cooled or whether we want to
try to d _ these things out and look at them in the morning.
As best we can tell Story it looks like the tubing in the
LCGs is got good integrity. We don't see any indication of
damage or deterioration of the tubing. But as soon as we
opened the lockers the LCGs were in we could smell the mildew,
and when we cut open the bags, most of the material has got
a very light coat of mildew on it.
CC Okay, copy that Jer we're working it.
CDR Okay.
CC Jer, could you verify that those LCGs
came out of D-422?
CDR One in 422 , and 3 and 404.
CC Copy.
CC Okay, Jer could you give us a status report
on your EVA prep.
CDR Story, we're eating dinner right now. I
would guess that we're about 3/4 of the way through the prep
or the pre-prep. When we ran across the mildew we said,
"Oh, piffle", or words to that effect and gave up and came
into eat dinner.
CC Okay, that was excellent.
CC Skylab, we're at 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard in about 23 minutes at 01:02 and
then the ew_ning status report will be coming up then.
CDR Story, we might as well put off the
status report for a pass or two. We are not going to be able
to get to it.
CC Okay.
through Hawaii, 21 minutes to Vanguard. The first call at Hawaii
Skylab Commander Jerry Carr reported to the ground that he had
encountered some snags in preparations for tomorrow's EVA. The
liquid cooling garments which go under the space suits that had
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Time: 18:33 CST 07:00:23
11/21/73
PAO been scheduled for this crew to wear

came out of their storage bag in a damp and mouldy and
mildewed condition. Although Carr did say the plastic tubing
through which the chilled water circulated to carry away
body heat while in a pressurized suit appeared to be in
good condition. People in the control room are puzzling
over ways to rejuvenate these liquid cooling garments.
Back in 19 minutes for Vanguard at 00:42 GMT Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC182/I
Time: 19:01 CST, 07:01:03 GMT
11/21/73

mean time 50 seconds to acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard.
Various people in the Control Center including the manufacturers
of the liquid cooling garment are puzzling over ways
of cleaning and redrying the liquid cooling garments to
prepare them for the EVA. The surgeon maintains that there's
no specific health hazard involved in the men wearing the
mildewed liquid cooling garment, however, it poses a some-
what of a hazard to the inside of the space suit in that the
mildew likely would be transferred to the surfaces of the
space suits themsleves. We'll see what takes place here as
the evening progresses.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story.
CC Hello. Could you quanitate the amount
of degredation- the amount of mildew on the LPGs and take
a look at the water inside the tubing and see if they look
clear? Give us an idea of the a little better idea of the
shape of the LPGs.
CDR Okay, sure will.
CDR Okay, Story, I'm looking at Paul Weitz's
LPG_ that's about the worst one, as I guess you would expect.
All down the front of it you know down the zipper tab,
looks like it's been salt and peppered. It got pepper
sprinkled on it; it's not really bad but it is definitely
mildewed and the odor is definitely there. These things
have been out of their packages now for about an hour and
there's been considerable drying done. They dry pretty well.
Now let me look at it very closely here, and see if I can
see anything in the water.
CDR The large water tubes, Story, are very
clear.
CC Okay_ is it your opinion that if you
cleaned up some spots with some biocide wipe or someting of
that nature and let them dry during the night, or just simply
just let them dry. What condition do you think they'll be
in tomorrow morning?
CDR I don't know. I think theytll probably
be okay. Little bit of Old Spice here and there, under the
armpits, they might just be fit to wear.
CC And how about the innerlining, Jer,, is
there any mildew on the innerlining?
CDR I was just looking at that now. Stand by.
CDR There's just a little bit of mildew on
the innerlining, Story, and no where near as extensive as on
the outside.
CC Okay. And confirm Jerry, that the other
three are significantly in better shape than the one you're
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11/21/73
telling us about?
CDR Okay, let me just look at them a little
bit. That's affirmative on Carriott's, it's considerably
better. Stand by for the other two.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, Jack Lousmats suit is almost as
bad as P. J.'s but not quite, that's Weitz's.
CC Okay.
PLT And Jerry's cutting up - cutting out
the Bean suit now.
CC Okay.
PLT Bean's suit is about like Garriott's.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, now that they've got a little
drying time on them. I would say that they don't look as
bad as they did when I first cut them out of - Just
with one hour's drying time behind them, I think probably
what we ouglht to plan on doing is wearing Bean's and _rriott's
suit outside and I'Ii wear the Weitz's suit inside. I don't
don't know what we can do to Jack Lousma's suit, it's
probably to big for any of us.
CC Copy, Jerry.
CDR I think the plan was originally that
Pogue was going to wear the Weitz's one and Gibson was going
to wear the Bean suit and I was going to wear the Garriott
one, but I think as long I'm the one that's EVA this time,
we probably ought to put that one on Pogue and I'ii wear
Weitz's.
CC We're 15 seconds from LOS here, Skylab.
See you over Tananarive in about 13 minutes at 01:25.
CDR Okay, Story, thanks.
through tracking ship Vanguard 13 minutes to the voice relay
station at Tananarive which may or may not be able to lock up
on the spacecraft this time. It had difficulity last revolution
and we got very little communications through that station.
As the crew unpacked additional liquid cooling garments, they
seemed to think that the garments were net in as bad shape as
first thought, however, they will need to be dried and some
attempt made to remove some of the mildew spots. Some of the
various biocides that are used for wiping down surfaces in the
waste management area and other parts of the space station are
being considered as a means of neutralizing the spots of mil-
dew. And the low humidity in the space station apparently
causes the drying to progress faster than if the humidity were
much higher. The humidity is down around 45 percent, I believe.
We'll be back in ii minutes for an ostensible pass over
Tananarive. At 01:14 GMT, Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC183/I
Time: 19:24 CST, 07:01:24 GMT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylah Control 01:24 Greenwich

mean time. Fifty seconds from what should he acquisition at
the voice relay station Tananarive° However, we're advised
by network that that station or the land lines to and from
it across Africa have cratered, therefore no Tananarive
on this pass, and it would be the final one this evening.
The next rev passes to the north of it's coverage - range of
coverage, so we'll be back for Hawaii in 43 minutes. Normally
the medical conference would be scheduled then, however in
view of the discussion on the liquid cooling garments, and
ways to clean them up and get them dried, it's likely that
the medical conference will be slipped to a later station.
Back in 43 minutes for Ha_i,
aii at 01:26 Gmt. Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC184/I
Time: 20:08 CST 07:02:08 GHT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 02:08 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at Hawaii coming up in 50 seconds.
In as mueh as we lost tile Tananarlve station pass earlier
this revolution, the medical conference which had been
scheduled for Hawaii has been slipped to Vanguard. And
further discussion on how to refurbish the liquid cooling
garments will take place here through Hawaii. We'll listen
in as in 20 seconds when we acquire tracking station Hawaii.
CC Skylab we're AOS through Hawaii for
i0 minutes.
SPT Hello Story.
CC Hello, we're sorry we missed you over
Tananarive. We did have a slight problem there. We'll be
dumping the data voice recorders at this station. And I've
got a few procedures for you on the LCGs that you probably
done all ready.
SPT Okay Story, let me give you one thing
first. While Jerr was very gingerly putting those crystal
thermometers on the rate gyros we got a caution with a number
5 rate gyro failure in the axis. And we're singled up on
rate gyro 2 at the present time. Looking at the rate gyros
i, 2, and 3, all look good. Now I suspect all we got to do
is go back and enable 2 and 3.
CC We saw that coming over the hill Ed and
we concur with that.
SPT Okay, why don't you go ahead with the
LCG procedures.
CC Okay, and we suggest using wet wipes.
That's zephiran chloride, the clear wipes. To wipe off the
major areas of mold after that use the biocide wipes so's
the betadine wipes the ones with iodine, the yellow ones.
And wipe off any remaining mold and don't bother to dry that
betadine, just let it soak in there. It's a very diluted
solution and won't be harmful. Then you can hang them up
hang them up three separately and not near the radient heaters
or any other ignition source. There were three hangers in
D-424. You may want to turn on a portable fan on them, what-
ever you think is best to get them dry, and in the am - in
the morning, we'll take a look at them.
SPT Roger.
CDR All right, Houston, this is Skylab.
CC Go ahead, got you for another 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, I got three of those six liquids
thermometers on there. Do you want us to go ahead and put
the other three on, or just monitor the rate gyros?
CC Yeah, you can go ahead and put the rest
on, Jerr.
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Time: 20:08 CST 07:02:08 GMT
11/21/73
CDR Okay, and if you are ready, I'll just

start off with the evening status report.
CC Okay, stand by 1 minute while we get
those people ready for it to come down. Are you in the
STS now?
CDR I'm up in the forward part of the MDA.
CC Okay, stand by 1 and we'll get the guys
ready for that. Did you understand the instructions for
treating those LCGs.
CDR Yes sir, I sure did.
CC Okay, we'll take a good look at those
in the morning. You can help us make a decision whether
to use them or not. If they're not acceptable in the morning,
we'll have a flight plan ready for you, which will be a catch-
up type thing and maybe we can let them dry another couple
or 24 hours. In terms of your EVA prep, give the LCGs priority.
If you haven't finished anything else yet, we'd like you to
still get to bed on time.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going the Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay, here we go. Sleep: CDR: 7.5, 7
solid, 1/2 light. SPT; 7.5, 6-1/2 solid and i light.
PLT; 6.5, 4 heavy and 2.5 light. Urine volumes: CDR;
1400, SPT; 1500, PLT; 1600. Water gun reading: CDR; 6552,
SPT; 0949, PLT;6985. Body mass: CDR; 6291, 6289, 6291,
6290° SPT; 6419, 6417, 6416. PLT; 6227, 6233, 6230.
Exercise: CDR, I'm going to get mine this evening before
I go to bed. It will be Alfa, leg 15 minutes 2000 watt minutes.
SPT, Alfa, leg 30 minutes and 5000 w - watt minutes, and that
includes _I171. Second exercise method is Bravo and it's his
regular Foxtrot routine which we outlined last night. And
the reprtitions are 40. PLT: Alfa, leg 15 minutes, 2250,
and he's going to get his before he goes to bed, too.
Medication, none. Photo log: Okay, the photo log, M092/171-
1 Charlie India 122, 69, Charlie India is 64. 35 Nikon, 05,
Ground load is a cassette and the frame count is 40. Nikon 03,
Charlie India ii0, frame count is 12. Okay, now the food
log: On the food log, the CDR, deviations is plus 1 apple
drink, and one lemonade. No salt packs used and the standard
water rehydratable deviation that we've purposed. SPT:
5.0 salts, no deviations. Standard rehydratable water.
PLT: deviations minus bread, and minus one coffee. 0 salt,
and standard water rehydratables. That's it, Story.
CC Okay, fine. We're 1 minute from LOS
here. We'll see you over the Vanguard with a medical con-
ference about 22 minutes at 02:40.
CDR Okay, see you then.
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CC And if you could float up to the STS

up there om panel 225, get the 150 psi nitrogen REG A to
close.
CDR Okay, 150 psi nitrogen REG closed.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR You got it, Story.
CC Bill, I've got something for you, too.
CDR He's listening.
CC If he's not installed the new batteries in_
Nikon 01, we need to get those in there for T025. And
if he hasn't installed those, get them in per the SO63
activation cue cards.
CDR Story, he's already got the batteries
in, but per SO63 activation, what procedure is different
that we should note?
CC I'ii probably have to get you later on
that.
CDR Okay, Story. And one quick last one,
that is we propose to use the Nikon camera (static) -
with the crew talking as they went over the hill at Hawaii.
Next station in 20 minutes, Vanguard with the medical conference.
In the likelihood that - that air ground loop will be turned back
to the control room will come up for that pass 19 minutes
from now and at 02:21 Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC185/I
Time: 20:39 CST 07:02:39 GMT
11/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2:39 Greenwich

mean time. Acquistion at Vanguard in 50 seconds. Part of
this pass will be the medical conference and the loop likely
will be turned back to the control room for additional discussion
of the liquid cooling garment situation. Over Hawaii the
crew was instructed to wipe down the 3 best appearing liquid
cooling garments with biocide wipes - two different types of
biocide cleaning cloths. And to hang the garments up in the
space station at different locations where air circulation
and the low humidity aboard will aid in their drying. Our
current thinking is that in case the garments are not suitable
for wear under the space suits for tomorrow's EVA, tomorrow
would be used as a sort of catch up day for other chores aboard
the space station, such as perhaps check out of the Earth
resources survey equipment and instruments. And the additional
24 hours would be used for - for further cleaning and drying
of the mildewed liquid cooling garments. The last alternative,
least desirable, would be to split the EVA into 2 parts with
gas cooling with such as the one used in the final EVA on
Skylab IIl. We're AOS on Vanguard for the next 7-1/2 minutes,
and we'll standby.
CDR Is it okay to do that?
CDR Okay.
CDR I didn't hear your converstation CAP COMM
are they --
mean time and 56 minutes to the next station at Hawaii. The
loop was passed back to the CAP COM about a minute away from
LOS. Very brief exchange there and because of a situation
of patch plugs and wires down stairs in the building, it
appears that hardly anyone except the CAP COM heard the crew
and vice versa. In that last minute of the Vanguard pass the
crew told the CAP COM, Story Musgrave, that they likely would
be in bed by Hawaii. To recap the current situation on the
liquid cooling garments the crew will, or is now in the process
of wiping them down with biocide saturated cloths. They will
be positioned through out this space station in areas of
circulating air. And it's expected that the circulating air
coupled with the low humidity in the space station, which is
down around 40 or 45 percent, will aid in drying both the moisture
of water dampness that caused the mildew as well as any residual
biocide left from the wiping down operation. And through the
night the suits will - or the liquid cool garments which are
long-johns with plastic tubing sown in to carry chilled water.
They should be dried by morning. If not, Thursday would likely
be scheduled as sort of a catch up day for other chores aboard
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the space station. Such items as check out of the Earth

resources survey instruments are under consideration for
scheduling an alternate flight plan. At 02:56 Greenwich
mean time, back when the crew physieian's summary report of
the medical conferences available. This is Skylab Control.
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11/21/73

mean time. We have now the missed air to ground over
Vanguard. Because of patching difficulties downstairs it
did not get on the GOSS conference loop, but only on the so
called air ground loop. We'll have the people downstairs
play back this minute and a half at this time.
CC Skylab, we got you for a minute and 20
s econds .
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, you need to use the Nikon Ol
there, that's - that's an electric camera as opposed to the
04. And I missed your question; we were going over the hill.
CDR Okay, we were wondering about document-
ing the $230 clips. We thought we'd take that S Nikon 04
out with us to take the picture and keep it in the FAS at all
times.
CDR Hello, Story. You with us?
CC I'm getting you an answer on that. And
we're about 20 seconds from LOS. We'll be putting you to bed
this pass if you want us, the next station is Hawaii at 03:50.
CDR Anothe- hour, huh? No, we'll probably be
getting to bed. They were cleaning up these things, they look
pretty good, they're drying out real well. The biocide is
doing a real effective job so I got a lot of hopes. It's
not the kind you might even wear this kind of thing on the
ground might inconvience you a little bit. Might loose a
few friends but I think it's looking@pretty good.
CC Okay, that's certainly what we're wor -
working for also.
PAO This is Skylab Control; that completes
playback of the lost minute and a half of air ground at the
tail end of Vanguard. At the conclusion of the surgeon's
conference with the crew, when it was han - when the loop was
handed back to CAP COM and you heard Flight Director Milt
Windier get on the loop there trying to figure out why he
wasn't hearing the air to ground e_ther. It was a direct
patch to CAP COM to save time, rather than do the switching
in the normal manner that t_kes a little bit longer. Flight
surgeon Dr. Gerry Hordensky's crew status statement reads as
follows : the crew is preparing for the EVA tomorrow, fatigue
should not be a factor considering last night's improved
sleep and the final extended sleep period planned this
evening. The Science Pilot performed his lower body negative
pressure and bicycle ergometer experiments, although mild
subjective symptoms were noted in the lower body negative
pressure it was completed. And this together with a good
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response to the work levels on the bicycle show him to be

medically clear for tomorrow's E"A. The Commander and
Pilot had their medical checkouts yesterday. That completes
Dr. Hordensky's status on the crew medical condition at
this time. Apparently the biocide cleaning of the liquid
cooling garments went rather well and they - Jerry Carr
reported at that brief segment of conversation there at
Vanguard that the drying process was going fairly well and
he expected the garments to be in good condition tomorrow
for EVA. He decline to stay up for the Hawaii pass in
28 minutes. It's a very brief pass of only 2-1/2 minutes
anyhow because of the low elevation angle final Hawaii pass.
He said they would be in the sack at that time. And we're
going to do likewise. Back at 6 a.m. Central time, at
03:22 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control signing
off.
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11/22/73
MCC (Music: A Walk in the Black Forest)

CDR Good morning, Houston.
CC Good morning.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 12 hours Greenwich
mean time.
CC "A Walk in the Black Forest" sounds like
a good tune for today.
CDR Good morning Hank, it looks like a good day for
EVA to day.
CC Great. This pass at Honeysuckle is a real
short one.
CC We'll be LOS here in about 30 or 40 seconds.
We'll be coming up on Texas at about 30.
CDR Okay Hank, talk to you then.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of range through Honeysuckle.
The wakenp call this morning made By CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield
to the crew of Skylab IV was accompanied by the music, "A Walk
in the Black Forest." This selected according to CAP COMM Harts-
field because it is symbolic of the fact the crew of Skylab IV
will be taking a walk in the blackness of space today. Our
Flight Director on duty at this time is Don Puddy. Next station
to acquire will be Texas in 27 minutes. And this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now from reacquiring
Skylab IV over Texas. We expect on this pass some discussion
with the crew of Skylab IV in an effort to determine the status
for the EVA scheduled for this morning. The liquid cool garments
to be worn during the EVA were found to be damp and mildewed.
And the crew with the advice from the ground wiped these garments
down with biooide and hung them out to dry prior to the start
of their rest period yesterday. Science Pilot Ed Gibson and
Pilot Bill Pogue are scheduled for today's Thanksgiving EVA. Standing
by now for acquisition at 12 hours 30 minutes, Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for
16-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Have you had a chance to look at the LCGs
this morning?
CDR Yeah, Ed just went up and checked them.
He said they ]Looked about the same as yesterday, you know the
little specks and everything. We laid on a lot of biodyne
and they don't smell quite as bad either. It looked like they'll
probably be okay. I'll go up and take a look at them
in a few minutes.
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SPT Yes, Hank, they are pretty much of a

uniform gray as they were yesterday. And the specks which were
there which we put a lot of biodyne on seemed to have not
completely disappeared, but at least they are fading
the back ground not so noticable and they don't smell any-
where near as much as they did yesterday. And they are extremely
dry.
CC Okay, sounds good.
CC From the way you just described it here
I would assume that you're saying that at this point you're still
GO for the EVA. Is that correct?
CDR That's affirmative, Hank.
SPT Yeah, but from our standpoint, Hank, they '
look all right, the kind of thing you might wear them on the ground.
CC Okay, good show.
SPT One occasion only.
SPT Hank, would you clarify today we're using
the DAC, but not the TV. Is that affirm?
CC That's correct, Ed.
SPT Okay, we use the DAC for 151 and for
post. That's the only place that's used.
CC Okay, the DAK is for the I_151 prep and
post. That sort of does that for use.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.
CC While we're talking about cameras, we've
got an okay for you to use Nikon 04 outside. And the information you'll
need to do that is found on page 7.2-1, and the EVA Checklist
gives you a setup for you.
SPT 7.2-1. Thanks.
Greenwich mean time. We've heard from all three crew members this
morning. CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield speaking to the crew of
Skylab IV. And as you heard from Jerry Carr, Skylab IV feels
it's go for tlhe EVA this morning.
CC Skylab, Houston for info, we'll be dumping the
voice data recorder here shortly.
CDR Rog, Hank.
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11/22/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid in about 5 minutes
at 51.
PA0 Skylab Control, Houston; 12 hours
49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now, next
station to acquire will be Madrid in approxomately 2 minutes.
CC Skylah, Houston; we're throuBh Madrid
for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 12 hours
55 minutes. A very quiet pass over Madrid for Skylab IV.
The crew of Skylab IV in their postsleep activity period
of the flight plan. About 3 minutes remaining of acquisition
time through Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about i minute
from LOS. We're scheduled for Tananarive at _13. If we
have trouble with that Honeysuckle will be coming up at 38.
CDR Roger. And are yon confirmed mission-
day and year 326?
CDR Roger.
CC It's turkey day; happy Thanksgiving.
CDR Happy Thanksgiving to you, Hank. The
reason we asked the question is the clock down here in the
OWS is reading 3:27.
CC It did it again.
59 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with
Skylab IV through Madrid. The next station for Skylab IV
will be Tananarive in 13-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control,
No us t on.
12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab IV through Tananarive.
16 minutes Greenwich mean time. Within range now of Tananarive
but no callup as yet.
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Out of voice range now
with Tananarive. Next station coming up will be Honeysuckle
in 17 minutes. This is Skylah Control, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
13 hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Leas than a minute
away now from reacquiring Skylab IV through Carnarvon. We'll
stand by with the line open. A very short pass over Carnarvon,
approximately a minute and a half in duration. Correction,
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thatwould be Honeysuckle. 30 s-tendsaway now fro TM

CC Skylab, Ho"ston. We've got about a
minute with you here through Honeysuckle. And we'd like
to clarify something we told you while ago. We errored
anA we didn't get you a pad up for the EVA dac. You can -
you will -se the DAC on the EVA and it should be transporter
06 to go with the DAC you prepped.
CDR Transporter 06. roger.
C_ We're about 30 seconds from LOS n_w.
We'll be coming -p on Goldstone at 07, and we plan to dump the
voice data recorder there.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control Houston at 13 hours
40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with
Skylab IV through Honeysuckle. Next station to a_quire
will be Goldstone in approximately 26-1/2 minutes. Assuming
a successful space--alk today, astronauts aboard the Skylab
space station tomorrow begin reoular observations of c met
Kohoutek, now seen _s a fuzzy _ot in Earth's predawn e stern
sky. For the first time in history men working from a
platform high above the Earth's atmosphere will have the
opportunity to study a comet so spectacular that it's
expected to out shine the brightest star as it skir_s th_
Sun just =fter Christmas. The comet Kohoutek, now m_re
than 140 million miles from our home planet, will pass
above Earth's orbit early next we_k streaming towards
the Sun, It speed's already gre°ter than 90,000 miles p_r
hour. At it closest in mid January the comet will be
more than 75 million miles from Earth. The tremendous
gravitational pull of the Sun will excellerate the comet
to a speed of more than 230 thousand miles per hour as
it passes just 13 million miles above the Sun's surface.
Although the comet will eventually become one hundred times
as bright as Halley's comet, it is now becoming visible
to the naked eye for the first time. First of the Skylah
instruments to be trained on the comet will be a simple
camera with a fancy name and a remarkably important function.
The Kohoutek photogrammetric Photography experiment will
provide essentia] background information on +he new comet.
The crew will permanently attach _ 35 millimeter Nikon
camera loaded with black and white film to a mo_reable bracke_
located in the command module. From this location the camera
can be pointed out the left viewing window of the small
craft using - used to transport the crew to and from the - -
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PAO - the new comet. The crew will permanently

attach a 35-millimeter Nikon camera loaded with black-and-white
film, to a movable bracket located in the command module.
From this location, the camera can be pointed out the left
viewing window of the small craft, used to transport the
crew to and from the space station. During a 4-week period
expected to begin Friday, the crew will take a series of
photographs twice each day. At first, three photographs
will be taken; one clear picture of the comet and two out-
of-focus shots of a star-studded portion of the sky. Later
a fourth photo - an out-of-focus view of Kohoutek - may be
added. The twice-daily photography will provide an extended
record of Comet Kohoutek's life as it grows and later declines
in brilliance. From Skylab, which usually passes into darkness
more than a dozen times each day, the comet's develop-
ment can be recorded far more frequently than from Earth.
In analyzing the film, scientists will compare the light
from Kohoutek to the light produced by well-known stars to
establish the comet's absolute brightness. Because stars
appear as bright points of light, they over-expose small
spots on the film, so the star field pictures will be
made with the camera out of focus. By spreading the light
over a larger area to produce cometlike images, scientists
can better estimate the star's total brightness. Should
the head of the comet become very bright, the crew may take
an out-of-focus picture of it twice each day as well. Mak-
ing precise, repeated measurements of the comet's brightness
is nearly impossible from the surface of the Earth. Changes
in the atmosphere affect the transmission of light, and as
the comet comes nearer the Sun, the general brightening
of Earth's sky during observation periods further reduces
the value of the photography. From an observatory on Earth,
the comet can be viewed only once each day, and weather may
interrupt the study during times when the comet is going
through great changes in size, brightness, or shape. Fur-
thermore, as a distinguished astronomer warned his colleagues
not long ago, as many as i00 identical observatory cameras
would have to be coordinated to prevent substantial losses
of data due to weather, making the analysis of varying atmos-
pheric influences a staggering task. So, with a simple
camera and just 236 frames of black-and-white film, astro-
nauts aboard the Skylab space station will be able to gather
data long beyond the reach of Earth-bound man. Skylab's
more complicated instruments will be brought into action
over the weekend. On Saturday, a camera designed to record
far ultraviolet light wavelengths-much too short to be seen
by the human eye and too short to penetrate Earth's atmosphere-
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will be pointed at the comet to take its first series of

photographs. The special far ultraviolet electronographic
camera is like one used by Apollo 16 astronauts to produce
spectacular photographs from the surface of the Moon. The
instrument may be installed in the space station's scientific
airlock on a dozen occasions during the planned 84-day
Skylab mission. Because most far ultraviolet light is pro-
duced by atoms of hydrogen and oxygen, such photographs should
aid scientists in determining part of the chemical makeup
of Kohoutek. At the present time, many observers believe
comets to be composed primarily of frozen water. Even with
an attached mirror system, the camera cannot photograph the
comet until the entire space station is maneuvered to bring
Kohoutek within view. The second Skylab instrument to look
at the comet through the airlock will be a French device
capable of detecting the presence of hydroxyl - - a combina-
tion of hydrogen and oxygen that may be produced by the break-
down of water in the comet. The ultraviolet panorama experi-
ment, with Dr. Georges Courtes of France's Laboratory of
Space Astronomy in Marseilles as the principal scientist,
is scheduled for use Sunday. Monday's schedule calls for
the crew to operate a third instrument, ultraviolet stellar
astronomy, again seeking details of the comet's chemical
composition. Photographs of the comet will be returned by
the Skylab astronauts at the end of their lengthy stay in
space, and should provide new i_naights into one of the most
mysterious of interplanetary travelers. Although a dozen
instruments--including a battery of telescopes designed for
observing the Sun or altogether a dozen instruments including
a battery of telescopes designed for observing will be trained
on the comet as it makes its brief pass through the solar
system and then disappears, perhaps to return in 75,000 years.
The Comet Kohoutek, now faintly visible to the unaided eye,
rises in the southeastern sky 3-1/4 hours before the Sun.
We're now at 13 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time. 19 minutes
away now from picking up Skylab IV again over Goldstone_ and
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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Time: 08:05 CST, 07:14:05 GMT
11/22/73

14 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute
away, now from picking up Skylab-IV once again through
Goldstone. Meanwhile in the Mission Control Center, there
has been a handover in flight control teams. The Silver Team
of Flight Controllers headed by Fli_ht Director Nell Hutchinson
now on duty. The CAP COMM is Bruee McCandless. They will be
on duty during this morning's scheduled space walk, for
Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue. We'll s_and by
now for the call up from CAPCOM Bruce McCandless. This io
CC Skylab, this is Houston, throug5 GolAstone
Merri Corpus Christi and _erritt Island for ii minutes. We'l I
be dumping the data voice rape recorder here at Goldstnne. Out.
PLT (Garble) Bruce. And we got an uDdat_
on the fuse of the DAC (g=rble) It was transDort_r 6. Coul;
you confirm the - which nAC we' re using?
CC Okay. I'ii get that for you in just a
second. For the SPT, we'd just like to confirm that when you'v =
got the S056 film magazine ready yesterday, you did infact
remove the protective tape from over the aperture. Over.
SPT That's affirm, Bruce. I took the ape off
and I'm getting load 5, the color film.
CC Okay. Mighty fine. We're not meaning to
bug you. It was just a w_ite-in - or a paste-in change ilk _
that. We wanted to _ake sure that it got in.
SPT Good thing to do Keep reminding me
CC And that'll be DAC number 6 for the EVA,
Bill. Over.
PLT Roger. We copy. DAC 6.
CDR Hey, Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CnR.
CDR Hey, Bruce, while browsing through the
chiller this morning, I found a chocolate chip ba- tha I
should have eaten last night. I put it in there to ch_ll it
and forgot it. Would you ask the food people if they 'A like
to modify my supplement list this morning? Or would they like
me to eat the bar?
CC (Laughter) I will ask them that qu=sti_n
for you, CDR
CDR Go ahead.
CC Say, Ed. We'N just like to r=min j you =II
that the camera Nikon 01, which you have installed on T_25 for
operation today has an inoperative film counter on the top o_
the camera. That's the one that start low and counts up. And
you won't be able to Or Bill won't be able to see the counter
on the motor drive unit with the 51anket installed. So our
suggestion is that Jerry just scratch +he frames out one b,, one
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on his checklist as they're taken. And yo- all not bother

with the frame counters at at1. Over.
SPT Okay. That was o-r plan. The inopera-
tive counter's all taped over.
CC Okay. Mighty fine.
SPT Bruce, for this Nikon 04 that we're going
to keep in the FAS in the shade, for the F230 pictures, we're
getting in the setting of F-ll an A we've got her tethered.
CC Okay. Mighty fine. And just a note on
that NK-01 you know the counter on the motor drive b_se h_s
to be set at least re 41 or above i_ order to _et the moeor
to operate when the impulses are rereived. Over.
SPT Okay. We'll mak= sure that's done.
CC Okay. Thank you. And also, we'd like
for you to try to space out the &0 exposure over the entire
d_ta take period, By this, we don't mean that you should sit
there and try to clock them with the stop watch to _et t_eTM
equally spaced or anything like that. We just want to avoid
bunrhing them up at the beginning. And it looks like about
an average of 50 seronds or so between exposure8 would be +he
way to hack it. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC CDR, we've got an answer for you on your
candy b_r question. One, there will be no change to the supple-
ments today. Two, it's your option whether you eat it or not.
Just tell us. Over.
CDR That's neato. Thank you.
CC Something new and different.
CDR Right. I've got plenty to e_t today. So
I won't be eating it,
PLT Okay, Bruce. I've Bet a mall on D^C
number 6. An_ could you tell me real quick where the fuses
are for the 16-millimeter DACs.
CC In work,
PAO Skvlab Control Houston, 14 h_urs 14 minutes
Greenwich me=n time. The crew aboard Skylab IV now going
through early preparations for the EVA.
CC PLT, Houston. They believe the fuses a-e
in F-527. Same locker from which you've got the DAC There
are a lot of little bitty bags and pockets in that locker.
You might cheek them pretty closely.
PLT Okay. It wasn't listed in the photo
ops book. So, I thought maybe they had changed them around
for our mission.
PLT Bruce, (=arble) been in there all the time,
hut I thought they would have listed the location.
C_ Skylab, this is Houston. 1 m'nut_ to
LOS. Next seation contact in about a minute and a h_If t_ron_h
Bermuda at 14:18, Out.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Bermuda

for 5-1/2 minutes. Got a comment f_r th_ PLT. Over.
CDR Go ahead. He's listening.
CC Okay. On yo r EVA prep, PLT, on pa_e 1.2-7,
under ATM C&D panel configuration, one of the call outs is
the lightin= intergral switch to fixed. With the ATM comlant loo n
shut down, we would of course like to leave the intergral
lighting in off. Over.
PLT Say again, t"at page.
CC 1.2-7 in the EVA checklist.
CC Right hand column.
PLT And Bruce, DAC 6 doesn't seom to want to
work this morning. Could you gi_,e me another one?
CC Okay. We will do that.
CC Roger. Recommend you use DAC 07 f_om the
same locker. Over.
PLT Roger. And would you have the photo people
list DAC 6 as malfunctioning until I can get it fixed.
CC Roger. Just for our informatio-, ar _ we
using that on spacecraft power or on battery pack?
PLT I was usin_ it on spacecraft power _t the
film loading station. I checked my loading camera for gr=en
light. I pushed the little button there and got a Kreen light
on it. I tried the same _f course, on the DAC 6. I Hid not
get one. I changed the (garble) and I still did not get one.
CC Roger. Ou_.
PLT And, Bruce. What lens do you want to use?
CC Understand. What lens for the DAC _ Over.
PLT Affirmative
CC Stand by.
CC Bill.
PLT Rog.
PLT Go.
CC Roger. I show lO-millimeter lens.
PLT Okay.
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11/22/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 14:28.
Out.
CDR Roger.
hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time. The loss of signal
now with Bermuda. Next station to acquire will be Madrid
in 4 minutes. As the Skylab IV space station passed out of
range with Bermuda the crew of Skylab IV was readying for
the upcoming EVA this morning. Today's EVA is the seventh
EVA in the Skylab program. Three during the first manned
mission and three during the second visit. As many as five
spacewalks, two for recording comet Kohoutek data, may be
scheduled for the crew of Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill
Pogue. If Gibson and Pogue complete the repairs to the
S193 today they could match the longest EVA time of 6 hours
and 31 minutes, logged by the crew of Skylab III, when they
deployed the twin boom solar shield. If the crew is unable
to complete the S193 repairs today, another EVA may be sche-
duled for that purpose tomorrow. Another spacewalk is
planned for Christmas day, during which time special instru-
ments are to be deployed to record the passage of comet
Kohoutek. A second EVA for comet data gathering is planned
for December 29. And the final spacewalk, during which the
crew will retrieve the ATM film, is scheduled for 3 days
before the end of the mission. We're about 2-1/2 minutes
away now from reacquirlng Skylab IV through Madrid. Standing
by, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. AOS Madrid for
9 minutes. Out.
PLT Roger. And, Bruce, I couldn't find the
DAC 07 anyplace. I'm using DAC 0 - DAC number i. I took
it out of the aft compartment.
CC Okay, Bill. DAC number 01 is fine and
we'll continue scratching our heads about the location of
the DAC 07.
PAO Fourteen hours 30 minutes. That was Bill Pogue
reporting that he was going to use the data acquisition
camera number i, vice number 7, which he had some difficulty
in locating. It will be Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot
Bill Pogue outside for today's spacewalk. Preparations
are taking place now for that.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC We're right here. Go ahead, Skylab.
CDR Okay, Bruce. _e're just checking over
the - the Ueitz LCG again, and looks like there's some
air bubbles in the line. So I'm going to shift over and
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wear the Lousma suit. It's too big, but since I'm not going
anywhere, it'll probably be okay.
CC Stand by just a second, please.
CDR Say again.
CC Stand by just a minute, please.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, this is Houston. We will be hooking
up the gas separator there in the procedure and we don't
feel that gas bubbles in the LCG will cause you any problems.
We recommend you stick with the Weitz LCG. Over.
CDH Okay. We'll give it a whirl.
PAO 14 hours 34 minutes. That was Commander
Jerry Carr talking about the liquid cooled garment. As he
pointed out, he's not going anywhere. Certainly implying
that he will not be going outside on the spacewalk today.
In any case, it appears likely that he will wear the Paul
Weitz suit versus the Jack Lousma suit, which would undoubt-
edly be much too large for him.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in ii minutes or so through Tananarive
at 14:48. Probably will have you for about a third or 1/4
of an ii minute pass. So consequently the following station
contact is 37 minutes away from now, Honeysuckle Creek, and
that's at 15:14. Over.
CDR Roger, Houston.
Madrid. Next station will be Tananarive in i0 minutes.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for voice
contact witlh Skylab IV through Tananarive.
for several minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive.
Over.
CDR Hello, Houston, Skylab; loud and clear.
CC Roger, Jerry. Say - we just found by
reviewing a dump tape, which we really do do_ that when
T025 was prepared for EVA yesterday, the handle that was
on the T025 container was not reinstal]ed after the bracket
was put in position, but that Bill shimmed it up with some
washers that he found around the workshop. This handle
should have been reinstalled so that you get handle EVA
bracket T025 canister. However, there is no problem with
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the operation of the experiment. It just means that it may

be a little less easy to handle EVA, and you 'ii probably
have to put the tethers in a different location as, for
example, around the (garble) ajusting screw thread. It's
your option if you want to go back and back the bolts out
and take the washers out, put the handle on, and reassemble
it. You can. Or you can press on from the present config-
uration. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. If I have time I'll put
the handle on; if not, we'll press on as is.
CC Roger; out.
PAO That's Bruce McCandless talking to Pilot
Bill Pogue. T025 camera is the coronagraph contamination
measurement camera.
CC Skylab this is Houston. 3-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 18 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 15:14. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston. 3 minutes to
LOS at Tananarive. Next station contact in 17-1/2 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek at 15:14. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC192/I
TIME: 08:59 CST, 07:14:59 GHT
ii/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; at

15 hours Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of voice
range through Tananarive. The next station to acquire will
be Honeysuckle in approximately 14 minutes. Over Tananarive
we heard CAP COMM Bruce MeCandless talk to Pilot Bill Pogue,
about the TO25 camera, the coronagraph contamination measure-
ment camera. This is planned or had been planned, rather
I should say, originally to he placed in the scientific
airlock, but due to the placement of the parasol and then
the twin boom solar shield the scientific airlock has been
inoperative. So part of the activity for today is to
place that camera outside on a handrail near the EVA bay.
We're 13-1/2 minu ks away now from reacquiring Skylah IV
through Honeysuckle. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 15 hou
13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away
now from picking up Skylab IV through Honeysuckle. Following
our last pass the EVA officer here in the Mission Control
Center estimates the crew is slightly behind the timeline
but should egress their space station close to the nominal
time. We'll stand _, however, and continue to monitor
during this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through
Honeysuckle Creek for 6 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Yeah, by the way, Jerry, I can pass this
to you again later if you like. In the event that you
have to use the ECS malf 26 during the EVA, the primary
coolant loop configuration is pump Bravo and inverter 2
on line. And probably the easiest way to remember this
would be to put a piece of tape on the panel and write on
the tape, or just sort of circle around the configuration
you got up there on panel 203. Over.
CDR Okay, pump Bravo; inverter 2.
CC Roger.
CDR Also, Bruce, the prep checklist indicates
that there is supposed to be an EVA pad. I can't think of
anything we need an EVA pad for, we got all of our TO25
exposures. Now is there any other thing we should know about?
CC You're correct, Jerry, all the pads
you need have been entered in the checklist. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC CDH, Houston. We're looking at the
SUS 1 coolant loop and it looks good to us. And, for your
information, the airlock module secondary loop is also
verter Bravo inverter 2, pump Bravo. So you got two
Bravo on both loops.
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TIME: 08:59 CST, 07:14:59 GMT
11/22/73
CDR Roger, Bruce, we copy.

PAO The SUS is a suit umbilical system.
We're at 15 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV
now under acquisition through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We do not yet
indicate the S052 PO_ER OFF as it should be - 1.2-8. And
weVre 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes
through Hawaii at 15:35. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce, we'll be there.
CC Roger. Out.
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now out of contact
with Honeysuckle. Next station coming up will be Hawaii in
14-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
station contact through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Hawaii
for 7 minutes. We'll be dumping your data voice tape recorder
over Goldstone next site. And for the CDR. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce, he's
CC Okay, Ed, we're going to his question
about EVA pads. One thing we did come up with is that, of
course, the TO25 window opportunities are on the CDR's detail
pad. He might make sure that goes up to the AT_I with him.
And also, why, if one of you get a chance we'd like to put
the MPC roll gain switch into the times 1 position on the
ATM panel to ensure that you do not inadvertently go to high
rate from tile EVA control panel in the times 2 position, as that
would probably put some spurious rates into the rack mounted
rate gyros for us. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, copied that. And I have
that particular bit of the pad up there at the ATM panel
already. And be advised, we've about finished the prep and
we're beginning the donning phase.
CC Okay, it all sounds great.
SPT Bruce, would you later send up a checkup
chan_e for that times 2 to times i.
CC We will indeed.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. We heard that
report from Commander Jerry Carr. The EVA prep phase is
finished; the crew is putting on their suits now.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:38 CST 07:15:38 _{T
11/22/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Best estimate now following
that last callup, or calldown I should say, from Commander
Jerry Carr would appear that the crew is about 45 minutes
behind schedule as they progress toward hatch-open time.
Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at
15:46 with the data voice tape recorder dumpout.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab IV through Goldstone.
for 7 minutes; dumping the data voice tape recorder. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For your infor-
mation, per our standard procedure with two guys on one
coolant loop, we're going to command pump Charlie on the
primary loop to the ON position so it'd give you inverter
2, pumps Bravo and Charlie, and a master alarm when the pump
starts up. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. We're going to command pump
Charlie to the ON position for primary loop in the airlock
module. Since you've got two guys running on one loop
that will give you inverter 2, pumps Bravo and Charlie, and
a master alarm when the pump comes on until it gets up to
speed. Over.
SPT Go ahead. I'm up at the panel.
CC Oh, okay. Okay, Ed, reconfiguration
complete. 0ne minute to LOS. Next station contact in 5 min-
utes through Bermuda at 15:56. Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now. Next sta-
tion to acquire will be Bermuda in 2-1/2 minutes.
for 7 minutes. Out.
SPT Roger.
Next station contact in 3 minutes through Canary Islands at
16:05. Out.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Bermuda.
Next station to acquire will be Canary in a minute and 40
seconds.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Canary
Islands for 9-1/2 minutes. If the Commander's free we'd like
to talk to him for a second. Or if he's listening we'll go
ahead.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
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11/22/73
CC Okay. Looking at your time line here in

the momentum dump scheme, we would like very much to get a
momentum dump this coming dump night pass. The dump will
terminate at 17:10 Zulu, and you'd be GO for airlock module
depressurization at or after 17:10 Z. This will enable us
to start the EVA now with a real good momemtum situation.
Over.
CDR Okay. That sounds all right.
CC Okay. So be it. We'll make the dump
this time and you're GO for airlock module depress at
17:10. And just for background information we're showing a
dropping pressure in the condensate tank. There's a drop in con-
densate delta-P, which we believe to be due to the water
gas separator installation. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC And that's not a problem. We'll work on
it later.
minutes Greenwich mean time. We heard the callup from CAP
COMM Bruce McCandless indicating the crew of Skylab IV that
they should be able to start the depressurization to begin
their EVA at: some point on or after 17 hours i0 minutes
Greenwich mean time. This is at the start of the next Hawaii
pass. A momemtum dump is scheduled to take place between
16:34 GMT arld 17:10 GMT. And it would not be desirable to
start the EVA during the momemtum dump period because of
possible TACS thruster firings. Ue've got about 7 minutes
remaining on this pass. We'll stand by continuing to monitor.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Roger. Ue're continuing to show a drop
in the condensate tank delta-P. What we'd like you to do
is disconnect the vacuum line QD from the water gas separator
until after you've connected up the LCGs to the PCUs and
gotten flow going through the LCGs and then go ahead
and hook it back up. Over.
CDR That panel 217?
CC That's correct.
CDR Okay.
CC And what we want to do is save the delta-P
that we've got for removing the gas from the loop after you hook
the LCGs into the system.
Next station contact in 3 minutes through Ascension Island
at 16:17. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-194/I
Time: 10:14 CST, 07:16:14 G}IT
11/22/73
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 16 hours,

Canary. Next station acquisition will be Ascension in
a minute and 40 seconds. The crew aboard Skylab IV has
been given a _ for depressurization in preparation for
the start of their hatch open in EVA. At 17 hours I0 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this will be at the start of the
IIawaii on this revolution.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Ascension
for 1-1/2 minutes. Next station contact is Tananarive in
ii minutes at 16:29. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to
LOS. Next station contact, Honeysuckle Creek, in 33 minutes
at 16:51. We'll be dumping your data voice tape recorder
there. Out.
Ascension. Next station to acquire will be Honeysuckle in
31 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
16 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute
away from acquiring Skylab IV through Honeysuckle. _#e'll
stand by and listen for the callup from CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Honey-
suckle Creek for 8 minutes; dumping the data voice tape
recorders. Out.
CDR The intercom, Jer. There you go.
SPT Hey, I hear I read you, Jer.
CDR Yeah, read you loud and clear.
CDR (Garble) Adjust the box.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay.
SPT Beautiful. Okay, PGA INVERTER VALVE; INVERTER
VALVE to vertical.
PLT Roger. Verified.
SPT Don helmet.
PLT You cut out on me.
SPT Yeah.
PLT Put your - See if you can get your mike
closer to your mou _, Ed, about an inch and a half. You
got to bend them - you got to form the (garble). Let's
check your connection here.
SPT Can't bend those things over any.
PLT You keep cutting out.
SPT Yes, do - so do you.
PLT Oh, I think it's triggering the box is
all it is.
CDR (Garble)
SPT Yeah, I believe so, Jer.
CDR (Garble)
SPT Okay, you want - -
PLT Fine square, Jerry.
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TIME: 10:14 CST, 07:16:14 _T
11/22/73
SPT (Garble) I think you cut it down too

much. Okay, now, let's get the helmet on.
CDR (Garble)
SPT Yeah. Get it. The troupe is that unless
we talk continuously, we really don't trigger them. All right
go ahead. No, negative, negative.
CDR Okay, good. (Garble)
PLT Jer?
CDR Yes.
PLT I don't - I think you're going to have
to make it a little bit more I'd have to about shout to
trigger it now. I don't - You're not on VOX, Jet, are you?
SPT You're not -
PLT I think you're just on hot mike. (garble)
grate the VOX up so that we - Hey, let me check. It's - it's
still (garble) unsensitive, so make it a little bit more -
SPT No, you need more Jer, we got to scream.
PLT Testing i_ 2, 3 that's about right.
SPT Yeah, that's good.
CC PLT, this is Houston. We're reading
you and SPT loud and clear. How are you reading us?
PLT Roger, Bruce, reading you five square.
SPT Roger, Bruce; loud and clear.
CC Okay, CDR, Houston. How are you reading
me? I'm reading the PLT, and SPT, okay.
PLT Okay, let's read through the next two
or three steps.
CDR Read you loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Mighty fine. We got a minute and a half
to Log. Next station contact in 14 minutes through Hawaii
at 17:11. Out.
PLT Okay.
PLT (Garble)
SPT Forget it.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, you put the helmet on; align it
lock. Do not rotate after attachment. You got that white
white to white. Come on over here, Bill. Let me help you.
PLT Yeah, not having a - -
BPT Here, I'll tell you what, hop in those
shoes.
PLT Okay. I didn't rem _bered that I was going to
have to use my foot restraints on that EVA today.
SPT Yeah, that sure slows you down when you
don't have them. Okay, white to white; make sure you got
your cable in there. And as soon as you get her snapped
out, I'll try and help you here in the back. Get your's
SPT (Garble) hasn't locked yet.
SPT the way ar There, we got it.
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TIME: 10:14 CST, 07:16:14 _IT
11/22/73
SPT Okay, (garble) selectboth.

PLT Okay.
SPT Okay.
PLT Suit pressure light, which I'm punching
out - -
SPT (Garble) VENT i LOW FLOW light off. LOW VENT
flow light off. Low (garble) protective visor.
SPT Okay.
SPT And that snaps down.
PLT Okay. Let me have your foot restraints
back. No, I don't need them.
PLT Okay.
17 hours - Skylab Control, Houston at 17 hours Greenwich
mean time. Loss of signal now with Skylab IV through
Honeysuckle. Next station to acquire will be Hawaii in
approximately ii minutes. At the start of the Hawaii
pass we would expect that the crew aboard Skylab IV would
have started their depressurization. During the Honeysuckle
acquisition we heard the Pilot Bill Pogue and Science Pilot
Ed Gibson going through their checkout procedures on the
VOX mode of communications. Their first activity today
after hatch opening is transfer of equipment from inside
the airlock to the EVA workbay. Since Pilot - Science Pilot
Ed Gibson will transfer experiment hardwa _ film - film
and EVA equipment to Pilot Bill Pogue, who exits the
space station first. Gibson will pass out equipment in
the fol _wing sequence, S149, partical collection experiment,
the center and Sun end of the work station film receptical
truss, the $230 and DO24 experiments, the $228 experiment.
After completing this activity, Gibson wil I check the suit
system and then translate to the center work station. As
Gibson exits the space ship and moves towards the center
work station, Pogue will assist the Science Pilot with
his 50 foot long life support umbilical. The first
activity for Gibson, at the center workstation, will be
the loading of the SO56 ATM camera with new film. Installation
of the new film for the H-alpha i camera is next. Upon
completion of these tasks Gibson will move up to the Sun
end to the top end of the Apollo telescope mount where he
will reload the SO82A and S082B cameras to accomplish the
film canister transfer. Pogue uses motorized the extendible
boom, which he controls from the EVA bay workstation.
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TIME: 10:14 CST, 07:16:14 G_IT
11/22/73
Before leaving the Sun end Gibson will pin open the H-Alfa 2
hatch door. This door has intermittingly acted up throughout
the mission and this will lock the door aperture at the
open position. This will not degrade the experiment. The
S054 door was opened like this on an earlier mission. One
item _bson takes care of before moving to the center work
station is installation of the $228 on a clipboard outside
the fixed airlock shroud workstation. This is a small
Lexan panel which will gather information on cosmic rays.
A time dependent activity is the installation of the T025.
This must be installed 25 minutes before ESS or effective
sunset. This work to be done by Pilot Pogue should take
no more than 25 minutes. One of the final tests tasks
at the Sun end is installation of the S149 on the rim of
the Apollo telescope mount. The S14 - -
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SL-IV }IC-195/i
Time: 11:04 CST, 07:17:04 _T
11/22/73
PAO more than 25 minutes. One of the

final task .- tasks at the sun end is installation of the S149
on the rim of the Apollo Telescope Mount. The S149 is one of
the experiments scheduled for use throughout the solar
scientific airlock which is now blocked by the parasol and
twin booms solar shield. Final activity of the scheduled
space work _tod_, if the crew does not repair the S193, will
be the installation of T024 and $230 experiment. The $230
is the magnos - magnetospheric particle composition experi-
ment which is a series of rolled foils of aluminum, aluminum
oxide and platinum, which are mounted on the AT_[ deployment
assembly tru _. Two shields of the experiment deployed during
Skylab III, will be retrieved and a new collector assembly
will be installed. The remaining collectors will be retrieved
on the last spaeewalk of this mission. T025 will be retrieved
prior to the end of the EVA. It will take data during the
nightside pass for approximately 35 minutes. Purpose of
today's experiment is to photograph the particulate matter
in the upper atmosphere. TO25 will later be used for comet
Kohoutek observations. Today's measurements will be the
first such observations made from a space vehicle and the
information obtained on the highest reaches of the earth's
atmosphere should be quite extensive. We're 6 minutes away,
now, fro m reacqui _ng Skylab IV through Hawaii. We'll stand
by and monitor at that point as the crew of Skylab IV approaches
their dep _ssurization and hatch open sequence. 17 hours
6 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV now approaching acquisition
through Hawaii. We'll stand by and leave the line open, pick
up any conversations that we might hear between the two EVA
astronauts and Commander Jerry Cart, as we approach the start
of the spacewalk.
PLT I'm with you Jer..
CDR Yeah. Just tuck it in the corner there.
(Garble) item.
for 9 minutes. Out.
SC Roger, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Jer. Because if the time
comes when we need, we'll have lots of extra (garble) tethers at
that point.
PLT Yeah, just screw it on inside one those rails.
We needed that tether for something else.
SC Okay.
SPT Slow and easy.
PLT Okay. I'm about where I normally am
for the training exercises.
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Time: 11:04 CST, 07:17:04 GMT
11/22/73
SPT Okay. Comeing up.

SPT (Garble)
PLT Gonna stow that?
PLT Oh. Okay. Let me move to my left and that'll
let you by on the right - correct side to get to it. Why don't
you let me do that, Jet.
CDR Yeah, I think - That's not a bad idea.
PLT See you've got that occulting disk and
everything right there in the way.
SPT See, there's no - no way you can stow it
all in here and then let me in too. Bill's going to have to
eventually push it back in here.
SC (Garble)
CDR That's a good idea.
PAO Science pilot Ed Gibson apparently
transferring to the airlock right now
PLT Okay. I'm - Let me get out of your way.
PLT _lan, that is a real tight fit. Let me wa
I think the T025 is in the way.
SPT I think you're right.
SPT I'll tell you what, we're gonna -
SPT Okay. Let me do that. And I'll tell you
what, Bill, let me pass this back to you.
SPT Just a second take the (garble) off.
PLT Let me take mine off, her e.
PLT Hit it slightly, I can't quite - -
SPT There you go.
PLT There we go.
SPT Okay. Now.
SPT Okay. Just a minute. We're going to
get T025 moved backhere.
PLT I've got it caught on the edge of the
(garble) -
SPT Stand back; I'll catch it.
SPT Okay, now. Move her back.
SPT Carefully. Okay.
SPT Now. Let me take and look the hatch over.
PLT Be real careful now. The T025 camera's
above your knees there - -
SPT Yeah.
SPT Okay. That hatch seal looks good, Jerry.
PAO Closeing the hatch and it is getting very close
now to hatch opening.
PLT Release handle, I think is on the other
side there, Ed.
SPT (Garble) second.
SPT I better hold TO25, here.
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Time: 11:0.4 CST, 07:17:04 GMT
11/22/73
SPT Okay. You take it off the hinge.

PLT No, I don't think you have to take off the
hinge.
PLT (Garble) goes that way. Why in the devil
dit they have me trained on that and then call you out to do it?
SPT Now, hold on now.
PLT You've got something on the other side of
it - -
SPT Yeah. I see it.
PLT Watch the camera up there
SPT Yeah.
PLT No, I said that it went that way, that thing
may turn around the other way. I didn't think that you reversed
the num_r ]panels, though. (Garble) both ways.
SPT (Garble) direction.
SPT Hey, Jet. When you came down here which
side of this panel was facing you?
CDR Garble
SC The rim rim ought to be on this side.
SPT No. Darnit. Let's see here. Yep. Let
me see what the other side has on it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 17:23. Out.
SC Bruce, how do you read?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT Okay. How about panel, hatch 325. Is the
rib side toward the AM?
CC That's the forward one?
SPT Aft one.
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Time: 11:19 CST, 07:17:19 G_[T
11/22/73
CC SPT, Houston. The 325 - the aft hatch

is not supposed to be closed. Just the OWS hatch back there.
Over.
PLT Okay. There you are.
Hawaii. Coming up next will be Goldstone in 2 min _es.
Our last contact with Skylab IV they were still progressing
towards hatch open.
$PT Unlock. Okay. And into lock. Okay.
CDR (Garble) unlock. Okay. Hold on.
Let us get T025 squared away first, Jer. Bill
did you move that camera.
PLT No it's behind the hatch now, I guess.
SPT Oh, we got it.
PLT There it is, over there.
SPT Yeah, it's okay. It's okay.
PLT Thatts going to be hard to get to, though.
SPT Well, let me -
PLT Better get it out of there before we
go hard suit.
SPT Yes.
and Bermuda for 5 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Houston. We had quite a few
condensate delta-P warning - or caution lights and I have inhibited
the caution and warning on that.
PLT Hand that back up here.
CC Okay, Jerry, and while you're at panel
207, we'd like to make sure the PRI COOL TEMP, HIGH, switch
is in the enable position. We believe it's currently inhib-
ited. Likewise, all the other primary airlock module coolant
parameters should be enabled. We believe they are. Over.
CDR PRI COOL TEMP (garble) is on.
SPT Now, where's your tether?
PLT Okay, let me get back in my right posi-
tion here because I thought the tether - here it is. We had
it up here.
SPT All right. Let's put it over here.
(Garble) the tether and we're gonna be all set.
PLT Okay.
SPT How about the other end.
PLT Okay. How's our umbilical situation.
SPT Okay. I think I'm clear. Let's see.
PLT Yeah, you are.
SPT I'ii put your umbilical over my head
here like this.
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Time: 11:19 CST, 07:17:19 _T
11/22/73
SPT Okay.
SPT You're all set. Go ahead.
PLT Yeah.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Just a reminder,
try to avoid pumping the rate gyro six pack installation in
your movements around the MDA. We're observing them giving
us outputs that are pretty good size.
CDR Roger. I've been thinking about that
the last 45 minutes. Being real careful.
CC Okay. We're not trying to bug you.
CDR I think it must just be all the
action going on in the airlock module in the MDA area.
CC Right, we've been following that on the
air-to-ground.
PLT Okay. I want to get the foot restraint
in. - -reading, Jer.
PLT And I've got to get 149 in here. Okay.
Man, is it crowded in here.
SPT You can move up towards me, Bill.
PLT That universal restraint - handhold there is
in the way, I think. Universal mount, I mean.
SPT Got a fair amount of gear packed in here.
PLT Yeah, let's see, where was I? Oh, yeah, I was
going to - -
SPT Just move back up towards me, Bill, and
you'll be okay.
PLT Yeah, I want to get all the umbilicals
over the back of my neck there.
SPT Okay. 1'11 watch you as you go out.
PLT I'm sorry. I'ii get that out of there.
PLT Okay - -
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 45 seconds to
LOS; next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda.
And for the SPT, would you verify that the airlock module aft
hatch panel 325 is not latched up against a seal but is sort of
down flat on one side.
SPT It's down flat on one side.
CC Roger. Thank you.
SPT (garble) You have to unlatch it. Move
it to unlatch. The dogs are up.
SPT Now you got - wait a minute. Pull it
back again. There's an over-center door catch down here by
- if you'll open it you'll see it by my foot. By my right toe
here. See that down here? You're going to have to pull it
open again. There's a little over center latch that's in the
way. You have to move your hand - there you go. There you
go. If you could get it in that pivot there, it will be all
right, I think.
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Time: 11:19 CST, 07:17:19 GMT
11/22/73
PLT Here.
SPT There you go.
PAO Skylab Control, Hoston, 17 hours 31 min-
utes. Loss of signal now. The next station to acquire will
be Bermuda _ 2-1/2 minutes, so we'll keep the line up and
continue to monitor any VOX conversation that may be coming
in prior to that time.
PLT Just a second. Let me move my suit
around so I can read my SO
SPT I'll tell you what, you get over there
I'll move that valve for you.
PLT Okay, you move it and I'll watch my SOP.
SPT Okay. Tell me when you're ready.
PLT All right. Okay. I'm - the picture is good.
SPT Okay. You got SOP flow?
PLT I got SOP flow.
SPT Okay.
PLT Going back.
SPT Roger.
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Time: 11:33 CST, 07:17:33 G}_T
11/22/73
SPT Just a second. Let me move my suit

around till I can free my SO -
SPT I tell you what. You get over there
and I'll (garble) for you on (garble)
PLT Okay. You move it. I'll. watch my
SOP.
SPT Okay. Tell me when you're ready.
PLT Ready.
PLT Okay. I'm (garble) pressure is good.
SPT Okay. You got an SOP flow?
PLT I've got an SOP flow.
SPT Okay. Going back.
PLT Roger.
SPT Okay. Just turn up to your right.
PLT Okay.
CREW Okay.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. Flow is going (garble) - now.
SPT It's good.
PLT Okay. Going closed now. (Garble) open now.
SPT Stabilized. around 30 or so. 35. Okay?
PLT Okay, that's good.
SPT Okay, turn around there_ Bill.
SPT Move towards your feet, move towards
your feet. (garble)
CC CDR, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 9 minutes. We have inhibited momentum dumps for the
duration of the EVA. And you're still go for airlock depress
at your convenience. Everything looks good from down here.
Over.
CDR Okay. We're about ready to do it now.
PLT Okay. Connectors are locked.
SPT Okay. How's your (garble).
PLT Take a look.
PLT Locked.
CREW (garble)
SPT Make sure there's no gap. They look good.
PLT Everything looking good.
PLT Looks good.
SPT Okay. Let me take a look here.
SPT Locked.
SPT Okay. You're good, Bill.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay.
PLT Man, is it crowded in here.
SL-IV MC-197/2
Time: 11:33 CST, 07:17:33 GMT
11/22/73
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay. Let Bill do that.
SPT That's right, we got it. Okay. Watch
your cuff gage.
SPT You've got it. That's good.
SPT See there goes everything. Now take
that other one out of there. And that string is going to get
in the way there, too.
PLT Yeah. Let me get that.
PLT Watch your mike and everything.
SPT Watch your cuff gage.
PLT Aw, come on there.
SPT Watch your cuff gage, Bill. I'm holding
on 3.7.
PLT (Garble) I'm holding at 3.9.
SPT We're picking up no lights. No lights at
all.
PAO Depressurization started.
SPT We should get (garble)
PLT Yeah. I've got to get that string off
of there. We may be in a little bit -
SPT How's the cuff gage - -
PLT Tied right in to it.
SPT (Garble) yet. That's (garble) Just
hold it like it is. That's good. What's it picking up there?
PLT Picking up a little light.
SPT Little light, now. Okay. Looks dark
from over here.
PLT Yeah.
SPT How's your cuff gage. _line's 3.7 (garble)
PLT 3.9
SPT Very good.
PLT Now, let's see - -
SPT No ice.
SPT Cuff gage at 3.72.
PLT (Garble)
SPT That'll unscrew on down there in a place
on your right, there.
PLT Yeah. That's what I've been trying to
do for the last l0 minutes.
SPT There you go. You've got it.
PLT Very good.
SPT Okay. You may want to - -
SPT Pretty small amount of ice, isn't it.
Still got some - lots of open screen there.
SPT It looks like the ice only goes out to
a radius of around 80 percent or so. (Garble) is still free.
SPT Down to 2.
PAO Little over halfway depressurizing now.
SL-IV MC-197/3
Time: 11:33 CST, 07:17:33 G_T
11/22/73
17 hours 40 minutes.
SPT Next, 1.5 in here.
PLT EV-I 3.9.
SPT EV-2 3.78.
SPT Okay, Jer. When does it tell us to
remove that extra screen.
PLT (Garble) take a little off. It might
help us some. I think we could probably still evacuate with it
right now, We've still got a maybe 30 or (garble) or so the area
remaining open. lie don't have much moisture in the (garble).
PLT Popping right down now. i psi.
PLT (Garble) just hold steady.
SPT Cover that thing back up with this when
you before you (garble)
PLT Yeah.
SPT That's a good idea. (Garble) out of
there.
LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes through Canary Islands
at 17:46. Out.
PLT That's about what we have.
SPT Yes.
PLT Okay. Ready for hatch opening.
PLT Hatch(/) to verify.
44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through
Bermuda. Next station to acquire, Canary in 2 minutes. At
LOS the - Po_ue and Gibson were just before hatch opening.
CREW (Garble) (Static)
PLT 6 on the (static) six on the EV-I
SPT Verified.
SPT EVA normal, EV-I
PLT Eva normal mode 2.
SPT Okay.
CC CDR, this is Houston through Canary
for I0 minutes. Would you give me a HARK on what time you
got on your watch for the start of EVA.
CDR Okay. I've got 3 minutes and 5 - 3 minutes
and i0 seconds. MARK.
SPT Okay, Jer. Go ahead.
SPT Okay.
PLT In work.
SPT Okay. Your umbilical's clear.
CC SPT, this is Houston. We're looking at
the TM data here. And we recommend that you increase the
flow of coolant through your LCG somewhat to bring down the
gas and delta temperature. Over.
SPT Okay.
SL-IV MC-197/4
Time: 11:33 CST, 07:17:33 @iT
11/22/73
PLT Okay. EV-I is in foot restraint.

SPT I'm showing a 4-1/2 now, Houston.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Ascension
at 17:50, where we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Out •
CREW (Garble)
PLT Yeah. That looks good.
PLT Very good. See that green is i0.
SPT Right there. That's good.
SPT Okay, Jer. What's next.
PLT EV-I is clean. EV-2 3.6 and no lights.
PLT 3.65 on EV-I.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV _IC-198/i
Time: 11:48 CST 07:17:48 G_IT
11/22/73
PLT Okay. They're both checked and they're off.

PLT Okay. Stand by i.
PLT Can you get to it?
SPT Yeah. Hold on.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. We clocked the
start time for EVA, or hatch open at 17 hours 44 minutes 6
seconds.
PLT That wrist tether wasn't a good idea.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Ascension
for 9 minutes. Dumping data voice tape recorder. Out.
CDR Is it locked?
SPT No. Just a second. All right. Yeah. Hold
on. We got the VS all set to go.
CDR (garble)
PLT I had to come out of my foot restraints here
to get that in. In the right position.
SPT Okay, Now. Do want to put a tether
on it first?
PLT No.
SPT Okay. Let me take mine off. Hold on to
it.
SPT Okay. You got a good hold.
PLT Rog. I have a good hold.
SPT Hey now. Let's get T025 out. Is that right
Jer? Okay. Bill, are you ready for T025?
PLT Just a second. Let me get this tether
out of the way.
SPT Which end would you like first? Float me the
occulting disk.
PLT Okay.
SPT Just a minute. Don't worry. I'll get to you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. A clock update based
on the Science Pilot's reports showed a hatch open time of 17 hours
43 minutes 23 seconds.
SPT _ - the umbilical with it before you pull.
SPT Okay. It's all yours. Want to read the
T025 ops there, Jer, Jerry? Got it. Yep.
CDR T025 going out now Houston.
CC Roger, Jerry. We're listening in.
CDR The 18:10 data take time still good?
SPT 90 degrees there, Bill.
CC Yes. The time watch is still good. If you
think you can get set up and ready to go by then.
CDR Okay. We'll give it a whirl.
CC Roger.
SPT - - push it Bill. Do it right. There you
go. - second. Filter case is hooked onto it.
SL-IV MC-198/2
Time: 11:48 CST 07:17:48 _T
ii/22/73
PAO Bill Pogue in process of placing the

T025 experiment out now. And as he stands in the well of
the
SPT I'm going to have to come out and make
sure that l_ve got this - the (garble) there, Bill. Okay.
I've got it. Couldn't tell if I had that bracket engaged
or not. A blind condition here.
SPT Yeah.
PAO T025, the coronagraph contamination ex-
periment to do this.
SPT Now, Jer; read that step again. Hey now.
I've moved it until the little bracket is trouching. And a
(garble). That didn't work Jer. Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead SPT.
SPT l'd like to bring down the LCG flow a
little bit please.
CC Stand by. Roger. Your option.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-199/I
Time: 11:56 CST, 07:17:56 GMT
11/22/73
CDR Commander to SPT.

PLT That didn't work, Jer.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT I'd like to bring down the LCG flow a
little bit, please.
CC Stand by.
CC Roger. Your option. We show that the
gas temp down about 9 degrees delta. Make yourself comfor-
table.
SPT Roger. Thank you.
PLT How far have we got to that first oppor-
tunity, Jerr?
CDR Just press on and we'll get her set up,
if we miss it we're all set up for the next one.
PAO The -
PLT Getting her set.
PLT All right. That's complete, Jerr.
PAO T025 camera is on the bracket which hooks
onto a handrail. Bill Pogue in the process of performing
this task.
PLT Filter A, right?
SPT Got a good detent field, there.
PLT Yeah, very good.
SPT Okay. Is that A in there?
PLT A-I is installed. I'ii verify, stand
by.
SPT A-I is clear; is that right?
PLT A-I.
PAO Status check in Mission Control by
Nell Hutchinson.
SPT Okay. AM off.
SPT A OFF, ATM off. What do we periodically
put that - both AT_[ and DA back on.
SPT Oh, Itm with you.
PLT Hey, I think there's something wrong.
I'm seeing :Sun through that thing.
SPT Wait a minute. That's what you you
should be centering it up.
PLT That's what I'm doing.
SPT You should be centering the Sun. You can
see that occulting disk has got a -
SPT You got it right. Just center up that
image.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon.
And as you get the Sun into the center, Bill, it should turn
SL-IV MC-199/2
Time: 11:56 CST, 07:17:56 G_T
11/22/73
into the orange and red images.

PLT Yeah, I'm getting it that way now, Bruce.
Thank you.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay. Now it's going orange.
CC Beautiful.
PLT Tap again, Jerry, make sure I got it r_ght.
PLT I can get it orange; I can make tile red
entirely disappear.
SPT Just make it centered up, Bill. (garble)
CC When it's centered up, all you can see
is the orange.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Ue're at 18 hours
Ascension; next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in 21
minutes. As we had loss of signal, we heard Bill Pogue in
the process of installing the T025 camera using the S063
occulting disks to properly position the camera on the hand-
rail. And a status check in the Control Center by Flight
Director Nell Hutchinson showed that all systems aspects
for the mission looked very good during this first space-
walk for the Sky]ab IV. Wetre at 18 hours 2 minutes Greenwich
mean time and 20 minutes away now from reacquiring the space
station. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 18
hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time and 38 37 - correction,
38 minutes since the start of this EVA. Ue'll stand by now
and keep the line open. We're less than 2 minutes away from
reacquiring Skylab IV through Carnarvon. Pick up any conver-
sations that might be transpiring between the two EVA astro-
nauts, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue.
PLT No I didn't; I'ii do that right now.
SPT Hand that back in right now. I'ii take
care of that.
PLT Got to get the tethers untangled here.
SPT That's all right. Don't force them.
CC • Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 9-i/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Hello, Bruce. We got a problem with
T025. _We got it set up and we were going great. Got 5 ex-
posures here and when we tried to set the time to exposure number 6
the doggone shutter speed knob came off in Bill's h_nd. So
we're having to pass it in.
CC Okay. We copy. Can you set the shutter
speed with the gloves on with the knobs that's part of the
camera?
SL-IV MC-199/3
Time: 11:56 CST, 07:17:56 G_T
11/22/73
PLT Well, that didn't come off, Bruce. It

started freewheeling. There's a little sort of spring clip -
circular spring clip in there with a notch in it that engages
the dog on the top of the regular shutter speed and I noticed
yesterday when I was assembling I had to put it together three
times to get: it to engage right. And I knew what had happened
as soon as I saw it freewheel.
CC Okay. Are you taking the whole long
eye relief viewfinder off to get it off? Over.
PLT No, I had the - I had to take the thermal
blanket off.
CC O - -
PLT You can't get down to the button and
everything until you take the thermal
SPT I tell you what. That sounds like a job
that ought to be done inside here with all those extra parts
and everything.
PLT I'd say that if we had time I think we
may be kicking a dead horse or trying to fix it.
CDR Bruce, I don't see any sense in the world
in wasting time on this experiment if we can't get it to hold
together. I think we better Just put it off.
CC Okay. We concur. Terminate the T025
operations and bring the apparatus back into the airlock.
Over.
CDR Okay.
PAO T025 - -
CDR We could have a look at it after the
EVA's over and see if we can't jury rig it so it will stay
together for the next one.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT The special viewfinder head fits on very
loosely, Bruce. It doesn't make a nice firm, tight engage-
ment. I'd say there's probably about - slack and I noticed
yesterday I had trouble with it -
CC Okay. We didn't copy the amount of
of the play but go ahead and bring it on in and we'll worry
about it later.
SPT Just a minute.
PLT Rog.
SPT Bill, hold on, Let that thing slip down.
Okay.
PLT Hey, Jer, Ed's still in the T025 now.
SPT Got that tether (garble)
PLT Get that in also.
SPT Just a minute here.
PLT It's a beautiful sunset.
SL-IV MC-199/4
Time: 11:56 CST, 07:17:56 GMT
11/22/73
PAO T025 camera being stowed inside the air-

lock now. Had 5 exposures. 40 were planned.
CDR Bruce, have the rate gyros settled down
now?
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MCI00/I

TIME: 21:35 CST, 04:03:35 GMT

PAO This is Skylab Control; 03:55 Greenwich

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at ii hours

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 12 hours

PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 12 hours 37

assistance from the crew, three of Skylab's solar instruments

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 13 hours,

SPT Roger, Bruce. That's good. About 15:30,

storage. Will you confirm the one we should be using it.

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 14 hours

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 15 hours 25

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 15 hours 50

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 15 hours 54

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 16 hours

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 16 hours

3 in the crew quarters. Lights on these panels indicate the

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 17

CDR Houston, Skylab. You with us?

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute til

plan, we're asking you to weigh the Coolanol before you do

CDR Okay Bruce, we've already cleaned A7

work around it. Over.

supposed to be installed in }141. Over.

PA0 Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours 15

27 of the Skylab III mission. A special coolant reservicing

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours

PLT Say again where you do want the readings?

PAO Tms is Skylab Control, Houston at

CC Negative Ed, that leaves it closed.

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 19 hou _ 51

PAO This is Skylab Control, 20:34 Greenwich

CC Skylab this is Houston through Guam

PLT Well the thingis - the way the

PAO This is Skylab Control; 22:07 Greenwich

CC SPT, Houston any joy? Over.

SPT Say Bruce in the (garble) activation

PAO Standing by.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam

The people here in the Control Room are looking at possible

PAO This is Skylab Control. 22:50 Greenwich

there, but I think I'm just binding down metal to metal.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 23:15 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23:41

SPT We'll check in the Command Module for

Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 00:30 Greenwich

CC Okay_ we're watching them now if you want

PAO This is Skylab Control, 00:52 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control; 1:56 Greenwich

SPT Okay, Dick.

CC Skylab, Houston, AOS at Hawaii for

CDR Okay, well as it stands right now the

PAO This is Skylab Control 02:55 _eenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control; 03:35 Greenwich

going to lose one half once of water on every drink that

CC Roger we would like to do that.

PAO 04:08 _reenwich mean time, 50 seconds

CC Okay, real fine understand.

CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

PAO This is Skylab Control, _ouston at 12 hours

CC Okay. For the SPT. The place where we

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from