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Time: 16:56 CST 24:22:56 GMT
12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours,

56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab completed a pass over
the Guam tracking station during the change-of-shift news
conference. We have 3 minutes, I0 seconds tape of that pass.
We'll play that now.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello from the purple
gang at Guam for 9 9-1/2 minutes, and we're dumping the
data/voice recorder.
SPT Hello, purple people.
CC Hello there, how're you guys doing today?
SPT Well, pretty good. We're (garble) along
and things looking up. Tell old Phil he certainly was
right about crew moving around the vehicle. We did a stabi-
lity test this morning, and we're watching Mercury in the
white light coronagraph TV display and had Bill and Jer a few
motions and he sure shows up around a 400ths of a degree or
so will show up quite easily.
CC He says just think what it would have
been like if he'd been up there moving around.
SPT Dick, I'm not going to touch that one.
PLT I wish you wouldn't talk like that, Dick,
you're going to scare our other CMG.
CC (Laughter) Well, I'm trying to sit here
with my broken arm talking to you now.
SPT What'd you do?
CC He just broke it when I said that.
CDR I don't believe that, Dick, he's a gentle
man.
CC And, Skylab, Houston, for the PLT. On
your details pad, Bill, coming up here in just a few minutes
at 22:56, we got a - a film change on S063 and we have a
question about that reticle so that we can prepare good pads
for you tomorrow. What we want to know is, does Nikon 04
have a reticle with a cross hairs in it or does it have one of
the reticles with the rings-concentric rings in it? When you look
at that camera, would you take a look at the reticle and let us
know which way and that'll effect how we write the pad tomor-
row.
CDR Okay, says he will.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Right now he's taking a stroll on Thorn-
ton's revenge.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Hey, Ed, if you have a chance, we'd like
to get some Z-axis drift data. There's going to be a star
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Time: 16:56 CST 24:22:56 GMT
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available per the star tracker pad about 31 minutes remaining

coming up. And if you have a chance after that, we wonder
if you would acquire the star with the star tracker and
then leave it acquired until the star is goes down below
the horizon or sets and then just make sure that the shutter
is closed and we can look at the data and get some in-
formation from it.
SPT Okay, you'd like to look at (Garble) with
31 minute day remaining to around 6 of night remaining.
CC That's affirm, Ed, thanks you much.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 45 seconds from
LOS. Vanguard comes up at 23:21.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end
of the tape. The flight director who has just come on
shift is Phil Shaffer, who is the _ubject of some of the
conversation early in that pass. CAP COMIM Astronaut, Dick
Truly, in the reference to Thornton's Revenge during that
pass, was to the treadmill, that Scientist Astronaut, Dr. Bill
Thornton developed for this Skylab mission. And Pilot Bill
Pogue is exercising on that at the moment. The comet Kohoutek
continues to increase in brightness. Observers in Houston
can see the comet, if skies are clear, tomorrow morning at
5:30 a.m. , located 14 degrees above the horizon in the south-
east sky. All over the nation, the comet rises about 2 hours
and 20 minutes before the Sun in the southeast sky. For star
gazers, the comet appears just below the constellation Libra -
a diamond-shaped cluster of four stars at the tail end of
Scorpio, the Scorpion. Tonight's comet photography will be
completed just a few hours before the Earth passes through
the plane of Kohoutek's orbit. The comet's orbit is at a
slight angle to the orbit of the Earth. Kohoutek passed be-
neath the orbit of Planet Earth two weeks ago, and will cross
above our orbit at the end of January. While we are passing
through the orbital plane, we should have an improved view of
small particles left millions of miles behind the comet - far
beyond the 7 million mile long tail observable by Earth instru-
ments. At the present time, the comet's brightness is es-
timated at about plus 4 magnitude, or about 600 times fainter
than the planet Venus, with a maximum magnitude of minus 4.
But the latest measurements indicate the comet has doubled
in brightness this past week. Accurate determinations of
the magnitude of Kohoutek are really not possible from the
Earth. Differences in the instruments used, the skill of the
observers, and the atmospheric conditions in various regions
of the Earth produce substantial disagreement in descriptions
of the comet's brightness, size, and length of tail. For-
tunately, careful and regular photographs taken by the Skylab
crew from above the Earth's atmosphere will allow scientists
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to make exact determinations of the comet's brightness during

the weeks of growth and decay. Such photographs, made with
a simple 35-millimeter camera, will not be able to be
analyzed until the Skylab returns - Skylab crew returns in
February. Skylab is now 17 minutes away from acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard. At 23 hours, 4 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC801/I
TIME: 17:20 CST, 24:23:20 GMT
12/9/73
20 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approachSng
acquisition through the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston Vanguard for ii minutes.
CREW (garble)
CC Skylab, Houston, Go ahead.
CDR Dick, this is CDR we're doing our
caution and warning check and we're not getting the Klaxton.
We're looking at it now to see if we can figure out what
the problem is.
CC Okay, Jer thanks for letting us know
and let us know if you get it out.
CDR It's working fine now Dick, it was a
little procedural problem.
CC Okay, CDR thank you sir.
CC SPT, Houston just a reminder we're about
2 minutes from sunset, you might want to go ahead and go
to power down for unattended ops and get pointed at
active region 96 for us.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston for CDR, we were trying
to figure out here by looking at the procedure, what kind
of a procedural error might make that klaxton unavailable to
us if you know what it is, when you get a chance there's no
5ig hurry, you might let us know. And also for Ed we assume
you just didn't attempt the startraeker thing, over.
SPT That's right Dick, l've got them sorbed
in 4-1imbing eoaligning here and just slipped by me. I'ii try
to get it the next orbit.
CC No why don't you wait and let us ask
you for it again, Ed and there's no problem we can catch it later.
Nothing lost.
PLT And the procedural error Dick was that I
inhibited both systems, both Delta P systems, I (garble)
number 2 and I interpreted it to be both. So I - that's
why we didn't get the alarms.
CC Okay, no problems thank you for letting
us know, we're about a minute from LOS, I'll give you a
call just 8 minutes from now at Ascension.
SPT Dick, we've got a white talk-back on
82A door, it wasn't open this pass and we have not used it.
CC Okay, Ed thank you for letting us know.
I had a note here when you got a chance to tell you what
we did and where troubleshooting and I'll catch that
later when you have time to listen.
SPT Okay.
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TIME: 17:20 CST, 24:23:20 GMT
12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has

loss of signal, Ascension will acquire Skylab in 6 minutes,
the 82A door has hung up again and attempting to close it,
it closed only part way and it's now hung up again. There
are no plans to use that instrument again today and during
the night the Apollo telescope mount support people here in
the Control Center will work up a procedure for the crew
to free that door for tomorrow's operation. At 23 hours,
33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-802/I
Time: 17:37 CST 24:23:37 GMT
12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 37

minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension is about to acquire
Skylab. And then that will be followed with Canary acquisition
perhaps a few seconds dropout between Ascension and
Canary. And Madrid has overlapping coverage with Canary
Islands.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Ascension for 2-1/2
minutes.
CDR On that little wall where the astro
pins are.
SPT It's getting noisy up here.
CC What's all that?
CDR We've got all kind of sirens and Klaxtons
going off. These guys are doing a little testing.
CC Roger that. Well_ don't bail out.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
from LOS Ascension. We're going to drop our just shortly,
and I'ii give you a call when we get locked up at Canary
and Madrid for a long pass. I do have - when you get through
with that HK28E, I've got two or three things I'd like to
discuss with you.
CC Hello Skylab, Houston, we're AOS
Canary Island and Madrid for the next 13 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Canary Islands
and Madrid for the next 13 minutes. Out.
CDR Houston, Skylab, our caution and warning
check is complete.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much for
letting me know. l've got a couple of little notes here
that I wanted to talk to you about when you get a chance.
One is I have a little description of the S082 door trouble-
shooting that we're in the process of doing. And also I
wanted to ask you a question about flight planning item thatts
coming up in a couple of days.
CDR Okay, how much more time we got?
CC We've still got 5 minutes in this
pass and incidentally, Jerry, there's no hurry on these items,
we can catch them later if you guys are busy.
CDR I tell you what Ed's recording now and
he'd probably like to be on this. Why don't we postpone it
until he's available?
CC Okay, that's just fine. There are a
couple of items, why don't I get up here and pass on to you
now which he doesn't need listen to. One is first ehance
any one of you guys gets, we'd like to get a REG BUS ADJUST
on one and two. And what we request on panel 206 and what
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Time: 17:37 CST 24:23:37 GMT
12/9/73
we're requesting is a 20 degrees counterclockwise. The second

note l'd like to get up now is in about a hour or so Bill
is scheduled to do a SO73 ops at about 00:45 and in that cue
card it says to turn all the wardroom lights out. And I
don't know what they're serving in the 0 Club tonight,
but it sure is going to get messy if it's pitch black
dark, so it turns out that we'd settle for is for you to
just to dim the lights as much as you're able to do. But be
sure to close the ward room curtain.
CDR Okay, we sure will Dick, thank you.
CC Yes sir.
CDR And Bill's up at the STS now.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay Dick. Both of them 20 degrees
counterclockwise.
CC Thank you Bill.
CDR And Dick, it looks like Kohoutek is
still back behind the ATM panel as best we can tell. We'll
take another look at the 233 period tonight.
CC Okay Jer, I wonder if you have time - we
still have about 3 minutes left, let me tell what our little
flight planning problem is and you guys can think about it
for awhile and get back with us.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, tomorrow's your day off and the
day after is the one we're talking about. We presently have
a - a $201 Golf scheduled and the time on that is 05:20 to
07:00 Zulu. And turns out that 07:00 Zulu is like 1 o'clock in
the morning here in Houston, so it's going to be a real late
night. What we're planning to do at the moment on the Flight plan
Plan for that day is first of all is to provide a full 4 hours of
eat and pre-sleep time prior to the 201 G operation, and
also let you sleep in the following morning to make up for
it. Our question is would you also like to get an hour's
extra sleep at the start of that day? Over.
CC Why don't you guys talk about that and
get back with us with what you want to do?
CDR Okay, so your proposal is to start the
day after tomorrow start i hour later and we'll stay up
until 07:00, huh?
CC We'll we need to stay up until 07:00 to
get the $201 G due to the constraints on getting that experiment
accomplished. So the following morning after that we definitely
are going to let you sleep in. The question to you is would you
like'an hour's extra sleep at the start of that that day, day
after tomorrow?
CDR Okay, thanks, let us think about that.
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Time: 17:37 CST 24:23:37 GMT
12/9/73
CC All righty.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Guam comes up at 00:20, and we're going to dump
the data/voice recorder down there at Guam.
CDR By the way Dick I got a look at Kohoutek
when we did our S063 maneuver, I looked out of window number
2. And therets getting to be so much stray light up there
now it's getting harder and harder to see. You dontt see
that much of the tail.
CC Roger CDR, thank you for letting us
know.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has
loss of signal, Guam will acquire Skylab in 24-1/2 minutes.
At 23 hours 55 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC803/I
TIME: 18:19 CST, 25:00:19 GMT
12/9/73
PAO Zero Hours, 19 minutes Greenwich mean

time. Skylab is approaching acquisition through the Guam
tracking station.
CC Skylab Houston we're AOS Guam for
7 minutes and we're dumping the data/voice recorder here
at Guam.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC PLT, Houston sometime don't forget to
tell us what kind of reticle that camera has in it that we
asked you about awhile ago. And also for you, we're experi-
encing some difficulty in determining exactly the number of
frames used during the S019 ops and so sometime this evening we_d
appreciate it if you could look at the film cassette 002 and
003 and give us a frame count on them.
PLT Okay.
CC Also Bill while you're close to the phone
and listening, let me pass this one up to you guys, I'm
trying to get the evening questions out of the way early
tonight so maybe we can have a quiet evening. The folks that
are listening to the transcripts on the dump tapes have said
a couple of times that there appears to be some sort of an
excessive background noise on Channel A that showed up and
sometimes it obscures the speaker when he's speaking softly,
one possible thing that might be causing this is that if any
haedset is connected up to channel A and that its CCU
select or switch was on ICOM PTT, this could possibly cause
the problem so you guys might check around and make sure
that's not it.
PLT Okay, thank you and I'm looking through
the camera right now and it had the conventional (garble)
head that had the sort of cross hairs, and little circles in
the middle.
CC Roger, understand it has the cross hairs
and then just the one circle in the center of it, is that
cOrrect.
PLT Negative, it has two circles and has
the split circle in right dead center.
CC Okay, Bill thank you very much.
PLT Actually I guess there are three circles.
CC Rog, I understand, three circles. Thank you.
CC Skylab Houston welre a minute from LOS,
Honeysuckle comes up 5 minutes from now.
PLT Roger, Dick and we'll take that extra
hourof sleep in the morning.
CC Okay, very good, we'll sure give it to
you, you deserve it. Also next time somebody wonders up
towards panel 206, no hurry, EGIL would like to
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TIME: 18:19 CST, 25:00:19 GMT
12/9/73
do another tweak on the REG BUS adjust, we'd like REG BUS
adjust i, 5 degrees counterclockwise and 2, i0 degrees
counterclockwise. No hurry.
CDR Okay, REG i, 5 degrees, REG 2 i0 degrees,
both counterclockwise.
CC Yes sir, that's right. Thank you.
PLT The S019 magazine, or whatever it is,
reads 45 plates or frames, (garble) and number 2 (garble)
Did you want number i, I couldn't find a number 1 in that
drawer.
CC Negative Number 2 and number 3 and under-
stand number 3 is (garble) 45 and number 2 66.
PLT Negative, number 2 is (garble) 00.
CC Okay, thank you Bill.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal, Honeysuckle will acquire Skylab in about
3-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the line up and monitor into the
Honeysuckle pass.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-804/I
Time: 18:30 CST 25:00:30 GMT
12/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute

from LOS at: Honeysuckle. Next station contact is the
Vanguard at 01:02, and for your information - correction
next station contact is Canary Islands at 01:19. And for
your information there's a message in the teleprinter that
describes to you some of our theories as to what's wrong with
the CMGs and you might take a look at that and read it at
your leisure.
SPT Thank you Dick.
CC Rog, see you there.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, one more thing as we
go over the hill, Dallas Cowboys 27, Washington Redskins 7.
CDR Hey, how about that.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal, the next station to acquire will be
Canary Islands in 42-1/2 minutes. At zero hours 37 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC805/I
TIME: 19:18 CST, 25:01:18 GMT
12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour,

18 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching
acquisition through the Canary Island station.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Canary Islands and
Madrid for 14 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there Ed, how're you guys doing.
SPT Well, just finishing up some GRID. How
about telling us about the 82A door. if you could please.
CC Okay I'ii certainly do it and I've also
got a - iln our never-ending quest to keep you guys informed,
I've also got a little note here on the ATM, C&D loop status
after that. Okay, first is the 82A door. Before I go
through this mission note, Ed, let me tell you that we're
troubleshooting the door here at this site. We believe that
we are going to have a procedure available prior to the
first ops in the morning that will allow us to operate
the door, however at this moment the analysis is not complete
and we're not sure what the cause is, but here's essentially
what the troubleshooting we did today to arrive at where we
are. We did a little bit of troubleshooting that was interrupted,
that was unsuccessful ther - that was interrupted by the
stability test that you did so we took a time out and then this
afternoon, here's what we did. First we inhibited and then
enabled both door motors, we attempted the 82A door open with
no joy. Then we inhibited and reenabled both motors and
attempted a closure and no joy. We inhibited and reenabled
again and - and got - attempted the door opened and the door
opened in about - approximately 2 seconds. This series indi-
cates that we were stuck in a position that was very close to
full open when this last command was issued. What we then did
was inhibited the power on one motor which was the secondary so
that this subsequent closure of the motor - excuse me, the
subsequent closure of the door in case it got caught up with be
soft, so to speak that is only a one motor and sure enough as you
saw and reported awhile ago it did get hung up. We're
presently troubleshooting. We're We're considering
pinning the door open on the next EVA, there are a couple
theories as to what's hanging it up and I guess that debate
is so - up in the air enough now so we can't really give
you an idea as to the cause. However we do think we will
have a procedure in the morning that allows to operate up
to the EVA, then we may very well pin it open. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you Dick. That's kind of
surprising that it hangs very close to the open position,
I would expect it more close to the close position but maybe
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12/9/73
we can go on out and take a look and see if there's anything

possible we can do in the EVA to restore that operation before
we have to resort to pinning it.
CC Well, it's - one of the theories is that
there was a - during testing, prior to launch there was a
configuration that - where a piece of GSE was installed
behind the door as I understand it, at approximately the
position that would allow the closure of - excuse me, would
allow full opening to be about 2 seconds away. And the
sequence of events during testing may have caused something
to happen to the hardware and they're taking back looking at
the testing records now to see if that might have had some-
thing to do with it but right now, that's just one of the
theories.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, the other thing I wanted to tell
you about was the note I have here from the EGIL which has
to do with the ATM control and display coolant loop status.
Several days ago we had you select pump Charlie in this ATM
C&D loop and this was done to see if the flow fluctuation that
we had seen on the pump Bravo were pump related. Since
the fluctuations have continued with pump Charlie we've
concluded that the problem is not caused by the pumps themselves,
and we're continuing to analyze but so far, we've reached
no firm conclusion. The possible causes that we're considering
that are being considered now and being looked at, first of
all, a potential of air in the loop, secondly a possibility
of other contamination in the loop. (Tone) Another possibil-
ity is a - pump relief valve opening periodically. And finally
possibly anomaly in the flow transducer. The fluctuations are
not harmful to the pump, nor do they affect the cooling capa-
bility so we feel the present condition is something we can
live with.
SPT Okay, thank you Dick. Superimposed of
your speech, there was a busy signal.
CC Roger and we're trying to figure out
where that busy signal is coming from. Maybe it's Santa
Claus. (Tone)
SPT Did INCO get _is call through?
CC Say again, Ed.
SPT Did INCO get his call through?
CC I guess I am Ed, we're chasing down that
little problem now and get back to you.
CC Skylab, Houston we've located the
problem and we're getting ready to switch lines, just shows
you how much trouble I have making a phone call.
SPT Just g_t to start paying your phone
bill, Bill (sic).
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12/9/73
CC That's the truth.

CC Skylab, Houston how do you read now?
SPT Sounds good, Dick.
CC Okay and speaking about Santa Claus,
you guys might be interested to know that everybody down
here is beginning to think about Christmas and in Houston
today it's real cold. Today there was a little boy who
came through the viewing room that was terribly worried
about how Santa Claus was going to find you guys -
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Time: 19:28 CST 25:01:28 GMT
12/9/73
CC and in Houston today it's real cold. Today,

there was a little boy who came through the viewing room that
was terribly worried about how Santa Clause is going to find
you guys going round and round in the workshop. And he also
couldnVt understand what Santa Claus is going to use as a
chimney.
SPT Well, we got a spare chimney hanging off
the side of this thing and all he's got to do is know how
to make a good (garble) and we're in.
CC Well, we're going to help him with that.
PLT Hey, Dick, are we experiencing a partial
eclipse of the moon?
CC As a matter of fact, Bill, we are. l
think I was told earlier that it was going to be about a
10 percent eclipse, but w I can find out real quick a little
more about it.
PLT Okay, we've got a great big full moon
up there and all of a sudden, we start loosing a hunk of it.
CC Rog, Bill. Make sure that the window
that you're not looking out of or - make sure that we're
leaving the wardroom window curtain closed during S03 - 73
exposures, but that is an eclipse of the Moon that you're
looking at.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 01:59.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC See you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. And as Bill Pogue noted, there is a partial
eclipse of the Moon underway now. Earlier today, there was
some thought given to asking Jerry Carr and Ed Gibson to
observe and perhaps photograph this partial eclipse from the
wardroom window. However, it became a matter of science
straight off between eclipse observation and photography and
the S073 photography which Bill Pogue is performing now. Tryi
to observe debris behind the comet Kohoutek and the
balance went to the 73 photography. Next station to acquire
Skylab will be Carnarvon in 25 minutes. At i hour, 34 minutes
Greenwich mean timep this is Skylab Control.
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SL-1V MC807/I
Time: 19:59 CST 25:01:59 GMT
12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour, 59 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acquisition
through the Carnarvon tracking station with overlapping cover-
age through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello d - at Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. You ready for some TV
down-link now? I'm going to roll 90 degrees in just a minute
and I've got the white light coronagraph up.
CC Stand by.
CDR A little bit earlier than scheduled, but
it's more convient right now, cause I got a 90 degree
ROLL coming up.
CC Roger, Jer, we can't take it until we
hand over to Honeysuckle. I'ii let you know as soon as we
can. That's about 6 well, somewhere in the neighborhood
of about 6 minutes from now.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We see you've acquired a
star. We'd like you to leave it up if possible.
CDR Will do it.
CC Thank you sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. Handover is complete
between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, Jerry. You're go for the
TV down-link, and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay, Dick, I don't have a roll to give
you now, but we're at minus 5400, that looks best.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, my roll has drifted. I had minus
5400, and now it's 5385 and I haven't touched the hand control-
ler, in fact, I've inhibited. Okay, it's the NuZ update that
did it.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Be sure before.you leave
the panel tonight, no matter what the position of the star
tracker shutter is, be sure and put the shutter switch to
CLOSE just before you leave, and also on the H-alpha i night
interlock switch, we think that one - that one ought to be
in normal now.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Roger, and we're about a minute from LOS
MILA comes up at 250.
CDR We finally got some Sun spots.
CC Hey, good.
CDR And the region 96 has got a little Sun spot.
CC Maybe that one will get very active.
SL-IV MC807/2
Time: 19:59 CST 25:01:59 GMT
12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has

loss of signal. The next station to acquire will be Bermuda.
The Merritt Island station elevation will be too low on this
revolution so Bermuda will be the next station in 35-1/2 min-
tues. At 2 hours, 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-808/I
Time: 20:50 CST 25:02:50 GMT
12/9/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the Bermuda station now.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Bermuda for 7
minutes.
CDR Roger Dick, and I got a ATM frame count
for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, starting with H-Alpha i and just
going right: down the line. 11548, 1129, correction 4129 -
4129 is what that is on the second one.
CC Okay.
CDR The third one is 138, 1209, 5784, 3863.
CC Okay Jerry, thank you sir.
CC And CDR, Houston, since tomorrow is
your guys day off you're getting some messages that you
don't normally see later on this evening we're going to be
updating your first update to the master anomaly list that's in
the Flight Plan that you can put in sometime just to keep
yours and ours pretty much up to sync. And also we uplinked
I think at the last pass a sort of a dictionary of Flight
Ddata File books versus the current changes, l'm advised
that's not on board yet but both of those messages will be
coming up this evening.
CDR Okay Dick, and any thing that happens
to come to mind tonight or tomorrow on visual ops, go ahead
and send them up too.
CC Okay, we'll sure do it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we got about 4 minutes
left in this pass here at Bermuda. I have some news here
for you that I could read up Itm not sure I'ii have time
but I could if I don't I can catch it later. Your next
pass at Madrid is evening status, and the following that is
the med conference.
CDR Go ahead and get started, Dick,
CC Okay. Congress is heading into the
last 2 weeks of the current session scrambling to clear
the calender of various controversial legislation. Foreign
aid to Israel, the creation of an independent special Watergate
prosecutor, confirmation of a Attorney General, and the
resolution of a trade controversy are on tap. The question
of whether and when 30 billion social security recipients
will gain an ii percent increase in benefits next year
remains unanswered today. The House and Senate have approved
the two-step boost, but they acted on separate bills. A
procedural tangle makes the future of the two bills in the
next 2 weeks uncertain. With Congressional leaders shooting
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to end the session by the 21st of December a delay in Social

Security increase is in prospect. Israeli Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan met with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger
today. They discussed Israeli's shopping list of military
hardware. The United States has agreed to give Israel about
one billion dollar's worth of airplanes, tanks and other weapons
and equipment, to replace Israel's losses during the 18-day
October war. Senator Hatfield says one way to get rid of
the energy crisis is to expand the government-backed
AMTRACK rail passenger system. He plans to introduce an
amendment to the rail service bill asking AMTRACK
officials and the U.S. Transportation Department to study
new potential routes. Arab oil ministers say they will cut
back oil production another 5 percent in January, but
still promise to lift their embargo against the United States
just as soon as Israel pulls out of occupied Arab territory.
At the same time Secretary of State Kissinger thanks Holland
and Portugal for their support during the Middle East War,
and arranged to dispatch an energy expert to help the
Dutch through the Arab boycott. Deposed President
Papadopoulos of Greece is settling down to a life of comfort
with the help of those who toppled him 2 weeks ago. There
are unconfirmed reports that he knew about the coup in
advance. Your alma maters did right handily in basketball
this weekend. Southern California sneaked by Illinois 71 to
60; Princeton eked out Villanova 77 to 70, and Oklahoma State
trounced Nebraska Omaha 90 to 65. I already told you
one football score Dallas 27 Washington 7, here's a few
more; Baltimore over Miami 16 to 3; St. Louis over Atlanta
32 to 10; Pittsburg over Houston 33 to 7; Philadelphia
over the Jets 24 to 23; Cincinnati over Cleveland 34 to 17;
Detroit over Chicago 40 to 7; Buffalo over New England
37 to 13; And the New Orleans Saints over San Francisco
16 to I0. We are about 45 seconds from LOS, next station
contact is Madrid at 03:02, and I'ii be standing by Jerry
for the evening status report there. You guys ought to be
thankful for 75 degree up there because the predictions
for Houston are freezing temperatures with frost.
CDR Well, we appreciate it. Thank a lot
for the news Dick.
CC Yes sir.
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12/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss

of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in 2-1/2 minutes. We'll
keep the line up and monitor through Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 8-1/2
minutes and standing by for the evening status report.
CDR Okay Richard. Here it comes.
CC Okay.
CDR Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6 heavy, i light; SPT,
7.0, all heavy; PLT, 6.5, 6 heavy, half light. Volume: CDR,
1900; SPT, 2400; PLT, 2100. Water gun readings: CDR, 7172,
2345, 8500; CDR, Body mass: 6.315, 6.312, 6.313; SPT, 6.365,
6.357, 6.365; PLT, 6.228, 6.234, 6.238. Exercise: CDR,
method Alfa, leg, 30, 5100, Brav - method Bravo, Alfa, Delta,
Echo, Foxtrot, i0 minutes, 20 repetitions each. Method
Charlie, Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, 26 minutes, 20 repetitions
each. Method Foxtrot, walk, 9, run, i, N/A on repetitions.
Springs, 01 minute for 200, toe rises, 02 minutes for 150.
SPT, method Bravo, Bravo, Foxtrot, and curls, 16 minutes, 40
repetitions each. Method Foxtrot, springs, 15 minutes, i000,
toe rises, 5 minutes, 200. PLT, method Alfa, leg, 35, 5300.
Method Bravo, Alfa, Bravo, Delta, Echo, 08, 50 each. Method
Charlie, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot and Golf, i0,
20 each. Method Foxtrot, walk, i0, spring 01_ i00 repetitions,
toe rises 01, 75. Method Echo, Alfa and Bravo, 02, i0 each.
Medications: None by anyone. Garments disposed of today:
CDR, one pair of shorts; SPT, one pair of socks, one pair of
shorts, trousers and a shirt; PLT, none. Food log: CDR,
salt packs_ 5.5, deviations, plus one coffee with sugar,
plus one grape drink, plus one apple drink, rehydration water,
plus 1.5 SPT, i0.0 salt, plus one tea, plus biscuits, minus
1.0 rehydration water; PLT, plus i0 salt, i0.0, deviations,
plus one grape drink, plus one coffee, rehydration water,
minus 1.0. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list:
none. Inoperable equipment and disposition: DAC 4, transporter
7, transporter 3 has been tested and found to be okay.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Photo log: 16-millimeter, Earth
observations, HHI53 in eclipse of the Moon, Charlie India,
125, 05, Charlie India 124; Nikon, Nikon 02, Bravo Victor 44,
35; Nikon 03, Charlie India, ii0, 51; Nikon, 4, Bravo, Echo_
08, 15; Nikon 05, Bravo, Hotel, 01, 31; ETC, no change; EREP,
no change. Drawer A configuration: Alfa i, 02, Charlie
India, 73, 96, Charlie India, 56; Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India,
93, 72, Charlie India 122; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 125, 05,
Charlie India, 124; Alfa 4, 03, Charlie India 71, 62, Charlie
India, 82. A footnote on this one is that Alfa 4 was re-
ported yesterday as having transporter 3 with 82 percent in
it. That was a typographical error. That should be 62. It
hasn't been used in days. The DAC is transporter 07, no change
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and I owe you frame counts on Nikon i and the 70-millimeter,

and stand by, I'ii give them to you.
CC Okay Jer.
CDR Okay, on Nikon 01 is Charlie X-ray 36, 49.
70-millimeter is Charlie X-ray, 47, 153. And that's it.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. You
can - you - with all that talking, you're going to be able
to be - to Join the Purple Gang. You're propably purple in
the face by now.
CDR That's right. All my blood vessels are
standing out.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Thank you much. We
still got about 3 minutes left in this pass. I'm standing
by.
CDR Okay. I think, Dick, we're going to
going to standardize our exercise, and just give you deviations.
I'ii work it out and put it on tape as to what - how it's all
going to work out, but I think all that reading and all
those numbers is unneccessary when we do the same thing
nearly every day.
CC Okay, Jer. Why don't you think about that
and do that: for us.
CDR Okay.
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12/9/73
CC Okay, Jer. Why don't you think about

that and do that for us.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston two questions on the evening
status report. First of all we copied that no method Alfa
exercise on SPT and secondly on the report for Nikon 05,
would you confirm - I think you said is DH Ol and we wonder if
that should be BH 04, over.
SPT Yeah, Dick the old bod took a rest on
Alfa today.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR You're right Dick, it's BH 04.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 03:35 and that's a med
conference.
CDR Okay, so long.
CC So long. We do have one pass after
Carnarvon you guys and that's Honeysuckle; it comes up
at about 5 minutes after Carnarvon LOS.
CDR Okay, see you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
passed out of range of the Madrid station. The next contact
will be through Carnarvon. The daily medical conference
will be conducted at the Carnarvon station. However we'll
bring the line up just prior to acquisition there for any
conversation that may take place after the conference at
that station. At 3 hours, ii minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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12/9/73

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon is about to
acquire Skylab and the Honeysuckle station will have
acquisition immediately after Carnarvon loses signal.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS through Honeysuckle
for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston we were wondering if you
had a chance to look at the SIAs and see if there was a
CCU plugged into any of them and maybe get rid of the background
noise, over.
CDR Yeah I think our big problem, Dick is
the one up by the ATM. It frequently gets left on and we
just have to go up and remember to keep it turned off.
CC Rog, understand.
CDR And Dick, I tried to get on Kohoutek at
2:33 time and it just didn't work out, we can't find it.
CC Well, I'ii be darn, sorry about that.
CDR It's gotta be hidden behind that
ATM solar panel, that's all I can see. The starfield seemed
to indicate that's probably where it is. I've seen it
everytime we've done a 70 degree roll to do, either S063 or
one of the other out the SAL window rolls, you can see it
very plainly in STS window number 2 but I get the distinct
impression that the tail is shorter and I think that's
because it's so close to sunrise.
CC Roger, Jerry.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about a minute
from LOS, tonight. You guys have a goodnight sleep and
sleep in late in the morning, we'll give you a voice call
a couple of hours later than normal so see you tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Dick goodnight.
CC Goodnight.
SPT Goodnight Dick.
CC Goodnight Ed.
MCC Goodnight Jerry.
CREW Goodnight all.
MCC Goodnight Bill.
CREW Goodnight Duke.
CC This is Skylab Control. All of the
goodnights have been said and as the CAP COMM Dick Truly
reported, wake-up time tomorrow is 8 a.m. central standard
time, 2 hours later than usual, with the exception of a
few hours of duties throughout the day tomorrow is a
crew day off. We do not yet have the report from the
Flight Surgeon on the crew health status. As soon as that
is recieved, we'll bring it to you. At 3 hours, 52 minutes
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minutes Greenwich mean time. A Mission Surgeon's report on
crew health for mission day 24 is as follows: The crew
remains in good health and spirits and is looking forward
to their day off. Signed Eduard C. Burchard, M.D. for
W.R. Hawkins M.D. We'll take this release line down now
until wakeup time tomorrow morning 8:00 a.m. central standard
time. At 4 hours 19 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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12/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. 14:03 Greenwich

mean time, and it's wakeup time for Skylab IV crew. Space-
craft communicator, Bob Crippen, will make the first call to
the crew during this stateside pass, probably with a music
wakeup. We'll stand by for the next 12 or so minutes for
Goldstone, Texas, and MILA.
CC (Music)
PLT Morning, Houston.
CC Good morning, guys. (Music) Crip's (garble)
site with you.
PLT Which crew is Crippen?
CC We got a whole team of Crippens down here.
CDR The Scarlet Pumpernickels.
CC Are we going to get the toothpaste act
again? Has Ed been practicing up?
CC (Music)
SPT No, we decided to junk that routine.
CC Coming out with a better one?
SPT I'ii brush them when I get back, Crip°
CC Okeydoke. For your information we're
AOS through the states and we got you for about 13 more min-
utes.
CC Music)
END OF TAPE
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12/10/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from

LOS. We'll see you over the Vanguard in about i0 minutes at
14:30, 14_30. And, we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
SPT Roger, Crip. We'll see you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. A loss of signal
through the MILA tracking station. Tracking ship Vanguard
for the first time, today, coming up in about 8 minutes. Crew
awakened by uplink of the Tijuana Brass, playing "The Lonely
Bull." Probably several schools of thought on whether that's
the best way to wake up or not. The crew of Skylab IV have
a day off today. And, this is their 25th day into the mission,
which is scheduled for a recordbreaking 84 days. Being a
day off doesn't necessarily mean they have nothing to do.
But, they will have fewer chairs chores to occupy their
time, permitting them to do their own thing during off-duty
periods, including taking a shower. Today's major activity
will be with the Apollo telescope mount. Other items will
include comet Kohoutek photography, optional handheld photo-
targets at various times during the day and a science conference
at day's end. The telescope activity today will include the launch
of a Black Brant calibration rocket to check for possible
degradation of detectors and optics on Skylab's S055 experiment.
This experiment, the ultraviolet scanning polychromator spectro
heliometer, observes temperal changes in the ultraviolet radiation
emitted by several types of solar regions. The purpose of the
Harvard College Observatory calibration rocket, is to compare
detectors and optics in the rocket, to those on board Skylab's
S055 solar experiment instrument. The rocket will be launched
at 1:20 p.m. central standard time, from the White Sands Missile
Range in New Mexico. It will reach an altitude of 240 kilometers,
which translates out as 150 statute miles and will be aimed at
a spot on the Sun, that is being observed by the Skylab ATM
instruments. The 493-pound rocket payload will be aimed by
an onboard guidance system. To verify it's accuracy a 35-millimeter
Nikon camera in the rocket payload will take photos of the
solar disk every 12 seconds during the calibration period.
These photos will be processed later to ascertain that the
proper area on the Sun was in the site of the spectroscanners
in the rocket. The entire flight of the rocket from lift-off
to landing by parachute will be 30 minutes. Recovery will be
made on the White Sands Missile Range. In the event there has
been any degradation in the S055 optics or detectors, adjust-
ments will be made during the final data reduction to compensate
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for the degradation. During four data take sessions at the ATM
console, some 3 hours and 20 minutes of solar data will be
gathered by the Skylab crew, today. Science Pilot Ed Gibson
will be at the ATM console for most of the data take. Commander
Jerry Carr will spend one session at the ATM console, today.
Pilot Bill Pogue will be taking photos of comet Kohoutek
throughout the day, plus photos of optional targets on Earth.
Optional handhold photo target for today, include photographing
two tropical storms. One in the South Pacific, off the Fiji
Islands and another in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of
India. Other handheld photo targets include looking at the
tidal action around islands and in the fjord areas of the
South Coast of Chili in South America. This tidal action
may have development potential as a potential energy source
for generating electricity. Another photo target will be
island wakes and vortices in the Southwest Pacific around the
Solomons, Fijis, and New Caledonia. Island wakes create
turbulance to considerable depths and bring nutrients to the
surface waters, which can produce conditions suitable for the
existence of major fisheries. A phototarget of the
New Zealand Alpine Fault in the Circan (?) Pacific Fault Zone is
a potential source of information for use in detecting major
trends of other fault zones. The crew's sleep period begins
at i0 p.m., tonight, central time and Gibson will be on duty,
should a call to the crew be necessary during the night.
3 minutes to acquisition tracking ship Vanguard and since we're
so close we might as well stay up in live here.
END OF TAPE
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12110173
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Vanguard

for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And for Jer, there, they got a Nu Z
update time just starting about now, and somebody can work
that in. And wanted to call all of your attention, particularly
Jerry's, to a permanent general message we sent up regarding
82A's door, TGM-10, before he gets into his ATM operations
this morning. It's basically what to do in case the thing
doesn't open properly. And I can talk about that if there's
any questions on it.
CDR Okay, thanks Crip.
CDR Okay, Crip, the Nu Zis complete.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Bill, got one item, a small change on your
details today. If you got them handy we can get it now,
or it's no hurry. We can get it later.
PLT Give me about 2 minutes.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Crip, PLT here in the (garble) details
(garble).
CC Okay, at 16:41 we have a 63 operation
and we refer to a remote control cable to be used, and
actually we should have been saying the manual shutter
release cable.
PLT No sweat; understand.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're I minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Goldstone in an hour and 3 minutes
at 15:42.
CDR Roger, Crip.
SPT We going to have a conversation with
Paul Patterson there, Crip?
CC I'm sorry Ed, I couldn't hear that one.
Say again.
SPT Are we going to have a talk with Paul
Patterson sometime today? Is it over Goldstone?
CC You've got science conference scheduled
for about 02:00 this evening. And I'm not sure whether
Paul's in that group or not.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Bill Lenoir coming in, then, over
Goldstone?
CC I didn't tell you the truth. At 15:42
you do have a conference scheduled over Goldstone, and
Paul will be here.
SPT (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
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through tracking ship Vanguard. Ground track of the space

station misses all other stations until we hit Goldstone
again for the final stateside pass of the morning. That's
an hour and I minute from now, at which time we shall return.
At 14:40 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:41 CST 25:15:41 GMT
12/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 15:41 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition in 50 seconds through tracking station
Goldstone. Scheduled during this pass will be the Apollo
telescope mount operations conference between the Science
Pilot, Ed Gibson, and Scientist Astronaut_Dr. Bill Lenoir,
who is standing by to talk with Gibson. This is a routine
conference scheduled each morning. Acquisition in about 25
seconds through Goldtone. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone
for ii minutes, and before I turn the mike over to Paul Pat-
terson I'd like to correct our pointing for the CALROC
today.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. We're in - it has (?) for quiet region
i, left, 160. We would like to change that to LEFT 145.
The up, down, and roll remains the same. Okay; and TV's
looking good to us.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jer, just one other item be - I
don't know if you've already activated it or not, but some-
time today you might try using your X-RAY IMAGE scope while
your X-RAY SPECT switch is in BUS i. We think that that should
work in BUS i and you wouldn't have to switch it back and
forth. And I going to turn the mike over to Paul Patterson
now.
MCC Good morning, Jerry, Ed, and Bill.
CDR Good morning, Paul.
MCC I have a few topics which I thought we
could discuss in the time remaining, but first I'd like to
know if you have any questions you'd like to ask of the NRL
group.
CDR Yes, Paul, there is one and that was the
4-11mb coalignment which we've done. It turns out that the biasls
has changed in left/right, and I found that rather strange,
and also right after I did the 4-limb coallgnment I went out to
the limb to see if I could put the slits (garble) to the limb
and it turned out not to be an up/down of zero. That's all
on tape, and I'm wondering whether you had a chance to look at
itand tell us what effect it has on our pointing.
MCC I would - come in early this morning
but I couldn't find the tape of the the transcript of the
tape, but I will look at that. The specs and the science
console are looking into that and however, it is interesting
it - also for CALROC today. So we'll have some sort of an
answer back to this morning on the results of the coalign-
merit. By the way, you might be interested in knowing that
the Sun is quite quiet because the west limb is sort of io-
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cated in Gibson's Gap, the central meridian is somewhere

near Pop Pogue's (?) Pocket, and the east limb will be approaching
Hole's Hump in a few days. So you can expect some - some
quiet - some lack of activity the next couple of days.
CDR I knew we'd get blamed for it.
MCC Yes. - -
CDR (Laughter)
MCC The - first off I'd like to cover is
the one about the use of the 82B film. You may have noticed
from the curves of film rates that we gave you that we have
roughly 450 frames to use before we get into the type i01
fast film, which we'd intended to use on the comet. Our
policy is that the Sun is our highest priority, and although
we'd like to support the comet studies, we're extremely
reluctant to waste the film just to reach the i01. So what
we thought we'd come up with is some sort of a strategy where
we could arrange to take as many frames as we could as well
as we could before that time, and what we're going to try to
do, and you can expect to see this on the pad in the next
few days, is take a number of building block 13s, that is
three-orbit limb scans; we'll try to take some atmospheric
extinction observations to study air pollution, and at the end
of the week, when active region 87 comes up over the east
limb and the activity picks up, we'll try to do some we'll
ask you to do some systematic studies of the active region.
And between those three topics we hope to get much closer
to the i01 film.
SPT Okay; that's good, Paul. We have noticed -
have been aware of the problem, and the unfortunate part is most
of the activity is is rather quiet, which calls for long
exposures of most of the features you've studied. So we've ended
up taking long exposures even in some of the shopping list
items. So it's - I kind of got caught between a quiet Sun
and Kohoutek coming up. We'll do our best to make good use
of it.
MCC Thank you. We do appreciate the unsche-
duled observations you have made, and please feel free to
use - to make any independent observations you want which you -
are intersting to you, as the author of the Quiet Sun
book, or which you think we might like to have. We are in-
terested in shopping list 5 where we can get a real good look
at a prominent boundary and then get a reference spectrum
for comparison, which is something you can always do on the
quiet sun.
SPT Okay. We'll try and get through to do
that for you, especially get the background study. The
The problem has always been that we do the shopping list items
at the end of an orbit and you have just about enough time to
get the first exposure but not the second.
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MCC Yes.
SPT Go ahead, Paul.
MCC Okay. The next topic I wanted to discuss
was the exposure cue card. Is it clear to you the way it
was arranged?
SPT Yes it is, Paul, it's quite well written,
and I can understand what it - what it's (garble). And
I have referred to it occasionally for shopping list items.
MCC Okay. I have a couple of comments on it.
The first is at the very first under section called activity,
where I put point brightenings, I imagined you probably
figured this out, but I just want to make sure there was no
confusion. What I call point brightenings are those fluc-
tuating bright spots near the neutral area (?) of an active
region where you hope to sort of catch some instability prior
to the onset of _usubflare or a flare.
SPT Yes. You're talking about a B(?) visible
(garble), either in (?) H-alpha or something which we are in a
bright point and we see fluctuate in one of the 55 lines.
MCC Yes. The sort of things that you saw
on the XUV monitor picture that the feet - or the 82A picture
at the feet of the magnetic field loops in an active region.
And when you do point - now of course you'll be wanting to
use the other instruments at the time, but if by any chance
you're only using the 82B and you feel like you could roll,
what we'd like you to do if you could is try to locate the
conjugate points of the loop. They probably both will be
bright if there's any sort of preflare particle acceleration
occuring down the loops - the lines of the loop to the sur-
face of tlhe Sun, and if you were to lay the slit along both
of those why we could double our intensity in the spectrum.
SPT Are you saying to put that slit that
perpendicular to the neutral line?
MCC In that particular case it would be, yes.
SPT Okay.
MCC But don't just lock on that. You know
you have - just use your judgement. One spot is sufficiently
bright, as I think you remember from seeing the spectra at
the Cape that we showed you.
SPT Okay.
MCC Another thing is - you may notice that
I've set outside points having radii, and that's just a refer-
ence to our scattered light pro - problem in the longer por-
tion of the short wavelength range. And we would like to
stick as close to the limb as we could for most studies, to
minimize the contamination of our spectra there. The topic,
comparative spectra, you'll notice in the observations off
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the limb on the prominence, on spicules, and on the active region

loops and polar plumes, I have included background.
As we've talked before, the name of the game of the 82B slit
is comparative spectra, and I just wanted to answer the ques-
tion that you raised earlier in the week. To us that means
a systematic spacial pointing where you sort of use the slit
as a scalpel to dissect the feature by going across it or
along it in some sort of systematic way. Or, for a feature
where you'd have extraneous light, a backgr - a spectrum on
the feature and then off the feature to get a background or
a reference spectrum and then, for events or things that
change with time, we'd like a comparative spectra after the
event has occurred. So to - so you get a spectra during the
event and then after. So there are sort of three phases to
comparative spectra, and I hope I've answered your question
there.
SPT Yes. That's the answer to the question.
The problem arises in that the amount of time that it takes
to do that, and also the pointing - changing of the pointing
where we have other epxeriments in operation and I'ii try and do
as much as I possibly can along that line without interfering
with the other experiment operations.
MCC Yes. We're aware of the problem. Okay.
I would like to mention one thing that we have we tal -
discussed before, and that's the use of the 82A film. There
hasn't been much activity so we haven't brought this topic
up before, but Bill Lenoir will be speaking to you a little
later in the week, just before activity picks up, to discuss the
use of sequences of 82A exposures and to give you s - free
rein to go hunting for subflares and flares. And he'll be
covering that later.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. The last topic I have is the ques-
tion of how well we're doing on packing the cycles for you,
and whether you'd like -
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MCC - - before and that's the use of the

82A film. There hasn't been too much activity so we haven't
brought this topic up before. But, Bill Lenoir will be speaking
to you, a little later in the week, just before activity picks
up, to discuss the use of sequences of 82A exposures and to
give you free reign to go hunting for subflares and flares.
And, he'll be covering that later.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. The last topic I have is the question
of how well we're doing on packing the cycles for you and whether
you'd like some more time to do freelance observations.
SPT Time in general. Bill and Jerry, both,
feel that the time which they're getting at the ATM is just
about right. And, I, personally, would like to get more. I'd
like to get an about an extra two orbits a day, if there's a
place for me to squeeze that in, without squeezing it out of
the sleep too much.
MCC Are you - -
MCC Excuse me, Ed.
SPT Okay, and also on time, the day off. I could
certainly use a little bit more llke today we - as I look at
the pad there's not a lot of meat in it, in terms of the ATM
observations and I certainly would like to see more.
MCC Are you referring to just time made
available to you, to use the ATM panel, or time out of the
portion of the day that we're alloted, that we would ought not
schedule, hut leave open for you?
SPT What I'm talking about is both, Paul. I
don't see why I couldn't be performing some of the operations
or some of the observations which the Pls would like to see
performed, but don't have time, in the current planning. And
also I st_ll - I would like to have some more time available
also, you know to explore some of the things which I
find interesting. One of the problems has always been when
it comes at the end of a - an orbit. You pretty much just get
started on something, say like a bright point, which I was
looking for yesterday and had a tough time locating, by the
time I finally got on it, it was a little bit late and I'm
note sure I really got on it. Then I could not get a comparative
spectra or could I do a GRATING AUTO SCAN with the MIRROR
AUTO RASTER and a host of other things that are reakky required
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in order to complete a good observation. So, I guess, l'd

rather see a maybe a pack a couple packed orbits and
then something free as opposed to a little bit at the end.
Because it just - The end just doesn't allow you to do a complete
job on any given thing.
CC Skylab, Houston. 15 seconds to LOS. We'll
have you again at Vanguard in 12-1/2 minutes. 16:05 for a
data/voice recorder dump.
MCC Okay, Ed. Well, we'll take that into account
in planning and I'm sure other people have heard what you said
and we'll be considering it.
SPT Okay, let me mention a couple of o _er
things. One is the 56 long exposures versus the activity.
We've been trying to give them long exposures, fairly long, because
we don't have much activity and we realize the intensities
are relatively low. 55, l'm wondering whether any of their
data has shown changes in time of the spicules. 52 corona has
looked rather quiet and we have not noticed any transients at
all and I'm wondering whether there's been anything picked up
via the ground. (Garble)
MCC Over the hill, Ed.
through Goldstone. ii minutes to tracking ship Vanguard.
Scientist-Astronaut Bill Lenoir gave over his morning ATM
conference time to Dr. Paul Patterson, who is a solar physicist
with Ball Bros. Research. A Colorado firm, which has been
involved in some of the crew training on ATM operations. He
had a lengthy discussion with Science Pilot Ed Gibson on some
of the rationale and operational aspects of ATM operation. Returning
in i0 minutes for tracking ship Vanguard. That was the final
stateside pass of the morning. At 15:55 Greenwich mean time
Skylab Control.
mean time. Acquisition forthcoming at tracking ship Vanguard
in about 45 seconds. Space station Skylab nearing the end of
revolution 3032.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard and wetre
doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Okay.
CC Hey, Jer, wanted to make sure that with
that pointing change I gave you awhile ago for the quiet re_ion
that you understood that that was applicable for the rest of
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the day, and the reason is the 4-11mb coalignment is changed from
what the original numbers we would give you.
CDR Okay, Crip. We understand. We've got it
written down on the pad.
CC Okeydoke, very good. And I also did it
rather quickly, did you understand what I was saying about
checking out your little X-ray scope there on bus i?
CDR Yeah, that's right. We're gonna check it
out now.
CC Okay. Whenever you want to.
CDR Works fine on bus i.
CC Okay. That's what we concluded down here,
that means that that switching it back and forth from all that
unattended is unnecessary.
CDR How's the TV you got? I think the first
white light coronagraph you got at a roll of 10800 probably
wasn't too good. We were busy and didn't have time to focus
it up well.
CC Looked pretty good to us.
CC Jer, I know you're busy there running the
pass. Would like to discuss a few things there about scheduling
of ATM, either - with you and Ed, because we think we got some
conflicting information about what we're supposed to be doing.
We can either do it now or later on in the day.
SPT Go ahead, Crip. We're both here.
CC Okay. First, I guess, six to seven ATM passes
a day is probably pretty close to the max that we're going to
be able to put down for you and some days we may be able to
beat that a little bit but not too often. And considering the
ratio that we're now giving between splitting it up between
all three of you, Ed said that he wanted some more passes but
if we're not able to increase the number of passes, does he
want to take some that you guys are now doing or what?
SPT No, that's negative, Crip. I think they
need to get one or two passes a day to keep up on it and also just
because they enjoy doing it. I guess I'm thinking further down
the road when EREP is - doesn't have a favorable observing
period, at which time I think the ATM will probably pick up
a little bit.
CC Okay. We are, you know, sort of out of the
CONUS EREP cycle right now. We will be getting some over other areas
but, of course, with not the frequency that we_ve been doing
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over CONUS, so - and we are going to try to maximize corrolary

and ATM during this period, so in some circumstances, we may
be able to increase the ATM passes, but it gets pretty tight
on trying to schedule.
CDR Okay, Crip, I think if you just give Bill
and I one, no more than two a day, I think that'll be plenty.
Why don't you do something like three a day for us and one of us
will take one and the other one take two and then give the rest to
Ed. And, on days when you're about one ATM pass short, just give
each of us one.
CC Okay. We got that. Now, what Ed was talking
about, I guess he wants several in a row and to pack them
pretty tight on the first couple and then sort of give him one
that's got lots of time for him to do shopping list kind of
items, is that correct?
SPT Yeah, yeah, that's affirm, Crip. Pack them so
that they're at least feasible to do, because I hate to end
up without getting their observations done, and then at the - any time
they choose during the day, which is, you know, at their preference
put the observing time, which they were going to schedule into
one pass. That doesn't mean that one pass can't include other
things but I'm saying try to lump it all together in one continuous
time, because I think I can do more for them that way.
CC Okay. Believe we got that. Now, regarding
your day off, Jer gave us some word the other day about four ATM
passes max on a day off, now I'm sure that when we did that we
weren't planning on - or when you said that you were - didn't
know you were going to stick you with a JOP 12, but that's the
reason like today that there are only four ATM passes scheduled.
And, if you have any desires we currently have got a couple
of passes that are scheduled for unattended ops and we can
certainly give those to you.
SPT Okay. I think when we got into the bind
last time was when - our last day off, if you recall, was
one of the harder days we've worked since we were up here. That's
because we were doing everything, ATM, EREP and a host of other
things. When we do have pretty much of a free cycle here - free
time but not EREP, then - -
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CC - - give those to you.

SPT Okay, I think where we got into the
bind last time was when our last day off, if you recall,
was one of the harder days we've worked since we were up
here. That's because we were doing everything, ATM, EREP,
and a host of other things. When we do have too much of a free
cycle here, a free - free time but not EREP, then four still
looks like a good number, and let's just work with that if
I can get four passes. And we_ll see how things go from
there. I have a desire for for more, but unfortunately
we don't get the rest if we go for more right now. So, let's
just try to work for four now and see how that works out.
CC Okay, we'll leave the Flight Plan as
we've got it for today then.
CDR We're going to review again, we'll - then
talk to you in a second.
CC Okay, no sweat, we got - got all day.
CDR Okay, Crip, Ed's only got three of them
today. You can - If you could spare one of your unattended
passes I think he could use it.
CC Okay, that that was originally supposed
to have been for four for him, but somehow the scheduling
has ended up giving you the one. And let me tell you -
stand by a moment -
CDR That's probably because we had the - the
ATM conference during this one.
CC That's probably - probably the reason.
At any rate, stand by i and I'll give you the times available
for the other ones and you can select one.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. ED, I can tell you what
our druthers would be if you want to get an extra pass in
today.
SPT Okay, Crip, go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed, we've got an unattended OPS
scheduled at 17:17, and you can have all of that if you'd
like it. The other one is the 18:50 pass. That is our
midday synoptic. If you do take that one, we would like
you to do a building block 2 in it for us.
CC 17:17 pass you can do anything you want
to.
SPT Crip, I'ii take the 17:17. And is there
anything in there which - me moving in there which would
take out which they want done, I'd be glad to do it?
CC Nope, it's all yours.
SPT Very good, thank you.
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CC Have fun.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again in 16 minutes over Tananarive at
16:32, 16:32.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through tracking ship Vanguard. Reacquisition of space station
Skylab in 14 minutes through the voice relay station at
Tananarive. Dr. Royce Hawkins of the Medical Operations
office at Johnson Space Center, at 2 p.m. today will hold
a briefing on the medical condition, health status of the
Skylab IV crew. Also, Dr. Hawkins will be accompanied by
several medical experiment principal investigators. That's
at 2 p.m. central time in the Houston News Room. We'll be
back in 13 minutes for Tananarive. At 16:18 Greenwich mean
time, Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:31 Greenwich
mean time. Acquisition upcoming in 50 seconds through voice
relay station at Tananarive for which we are standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Tananarive for
8-1/2 minutes.
CC And, SPT, Houston. You got a moment
to talk, Ed?
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. I'm going to have to renege
on what I told you a while ago. That rev at 17:17 is being
devoted to CALROC. We're consequently - we are going to
need to run that one from the ground. Like to give you that
18:51 rev and request that you do a building block 2 in there
for us for the midday synoptic.
SPT Hang on, Crip. Let me take a look at the
schedule. Be right with you.
CC Okay. That's right around what currently
you've got scheduled as chow time.
SPT 18:50, Crip?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay, I'll take it.
CC Sorry your - sorry we had to change our
minds there.
SPT Okay, you want a building block 1 or 2?
CC 2; data (?) 2.
SPT Oh, okay, that's no problem. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Crip, you might have noticed I had
to use our little procedure to open the doors at sunrise, and
now it looks like I'm going to have to use it again for this
pass.
CC Okay, we - we copy that. And Jer, one
thing that may not be self explanitory on that procedure is
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what that does for us is allows us to open them with two

motors and close them with one motor. And we don't want to
ever close them with two motors because - just driving it
further into the stock.
CC And, Jer, would probably be helpful for
us from just to know roughly how many times you end up
having to do that.
CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR, Houston. When you finish up
there at the ATM I got one little correction that we need
to make to the message that we sent you up on checklist
status.
CDR Okay, I'll call you in a few minutes.
CC Okay, again there's no rush on that one.
We can catch it later in the day too if you'd like.
CDR Okay, Crip, (static) the job here. It looks
like it's been (static).
CC Skylab, Houston; in the blind. Going
over the hill hill at Hawaii at 17:16. And make sure
maneuver time is loaded in 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. How are you reading?
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CC Skylab, Houston. Are you reading?

CC Skylab, Houston. Can you read now?
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Okay. We're about ready to drop out here.
Hawaii's going to be at 17:16 in about 36 minutes. Like to
remind you to make sure that you load maneuver time of 15
minutes for the upcoming maneuver.
CDR Okay. And did you copy my remarks on
this 82A door message?
CC Negative.
CDR Okay. I said it looks like the message
is slanted toward opening the door rather than closing it,
and what I've done is inhibit the primary motor (garble) -
CC Going over the hill, Jerry, We'll talk
to you later about it.
through Tananarive. In fact it was LOS during a good part of that
pass. The difficulties of the antenna at Tananarive main-
taining lock on the space station. 35 minutes to next sta-
tion, which is Hawaii, at which time we'll be back. At 16:41
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
CDR Roger, Crip. Hey, a question comes to
mind here. On these maneuvers that we're doing for S063 and
the like, those are our best opportunities really to get a
photo of Kohoutek with the Nikon. I wonder if they would be
interested in having us do it then.
CC We'll ask around here, Jet.
CC CDR, Houston. It is our opinion that
you probably aren't able to mount the camera in any way
securely at $2 window, and consequently you can't get it as
stable a photograph as you can when we're back in the other
attitude. Can you enlighten us a little bit about that?
CDR Oh, I think we can jury-rig it. We'd have
to do without a remote cable.
CC Okay, Jet. Why don't you let us think
about that. Right now we - we'd just as soon go ahead and
schedule them out of the $3 window, but when you're back in
solar inertial.
CDR Okay.
CC Jer, I don't really think we understood
as to why you couldn't use the little manual shutter
release on the on the - on window $2. Could you enlighten us there a
little?
CDR Oh, well because Bill's using it at this
pass.
CC Ah ha. But in other situations where he
wasn't using it you probably could, like it (garble)
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CDR Yes, that's affirmative.

CC Okay.
PLT I think we're a little bit ahead of you,
Crip. We've been talking about that, and most of the time
when Jer's able to see that itts during a maneuver which is
being performed for an observation at the minus-Z SAL
in which is :required the use of the manual shutter release.
The remote operation of the remote shutter release cable.
CC Rog. I guess that since we've been
talking about getting minute exposures it doesn't seem that we
can reasonably do that during the maneuver.
PLT If (garble) by the triggering of the
time manually and the release of it manually, Jer could do
it.
CDR Crip, this is not during the maneuver.
This is during that stable period of time when the guy down at
the minus-Z SAL is doing his thing.
CC Okay. Okay. l'm sorry. We got - I got
confused. I get confused easily on Monday mornings, l'm
with you. But that would mean that you couldn't do them at the
same time then again. Okay. I guess if you could do that
then certainly you could get better photographs than
we can get out of the $3 window.
CDR Yes. That's affirmative. There's just
nothing in the $3 window to see right now. By the time that
comet would come out behind from behind the ATM panel it's
going to be sunrise.
CC Rog.
PLT Also, Crip. Another flight planning note,
this is the second time since you told us about crew
gyrations that you scheduled PT, the SO or some observation right
in the middle of a PT period.
CC Okay. This -
CDR Tell them it's awful hard to do PT with-
out moving around.
CC Yes, yes. Understand. Okay. So noted.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Vanguard at 22 - in about 22 minutes
at 17:44. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
CDR Roger. So long.
through Hawaii. Acquisition at that station was about 1-1/2
minutes earlier than the clock here indicated that the space-
craft would be coming over the horizon at Hawaii. Next station
in 20 minutes tracking ship Vanguard. And at 17:23 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in 50 seconds.
Network controller reports that the tracking ship Vanguard is
in rain showers, Spring rain showers in that part of the
world, and that some of the data relayed back from the ship
may be somewhat ratty, as the word was used. We'll stand by
here for tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Vanguard, and
we have you for about i0 minutes.
CC And Skylab, we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Jer, earlier we were having
a discussion on that 82A door procedure, and it was just about
the time we were breaking up and going LOS, and we never got your -
the full gist of what you were talking about. At your convenience,
we can go ahead and talk about that again some time.
CDR Okay Crip, we're coming up on some HH30
Alfa pictures now and I'ii be back with you in just a couple of
minutes.
CC Okay, no sweat. Just wanted to let you
know that we hadn't gotten it all.
SPT Hey Crip, I saw some pretty good size waves
down here by the fjords in Chile. It looks like there's a fair amount
water moving into those. The waves run primarily perpendicular
to the flow and perpendicular to the coast line, and kind of
bow in towards the opening of the fjords. They're falling
in fairly long wavelengths, too.
CC It sounds like they're having some rough
weather. I understand you're coming up over Vanguard. It
gets pretty heavy rain on the Atlantic side here.
SPT Yes [?] We broke out of the clouds just in time
to see a fair amount of it. I wish we had some fjords up
around Houston, we could get a little more energy out of them.
CC Rog. And Ed, we need somebody to inhibit
the manual pointing control for us for this unattended pass.
CDR Okay Crip, my comments on 82 Alfa were
that it looked to me like the procedures you sent up were
mainly biased toward getting the doors opened and not getting
them closed. And I'm glad you mentioned the fact that you should
only use one door to close them or one motor to close them with
because I think I would have been inclined on the basis of
that pad or that uplink to use both motors.
CC Okay Jer, the thing maybe is misleading a
little bit, but the intent had been that this procedure probably
should handle it both ways. It starts out if the 82A door talkback
is white at sunrise. And normally your condition there
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would have been that it failed to close at sunset and then

when you come up to sunrise to use it, well it's still white.
Of course since that one doesn't automatically open, doesn't
automatically open by the computer. And the bit of inhibiting
the motors and enabling them again is there simply to reset
that timer. And I guess situation is also if the proce-
dure works well, if for some reason you have tried to open them
and they didn't, it allows you to go ahead and put both motors
on and to open it and then go back to the single motor. And
we do want to stay away from any situation that would put both
motors on trying to close it, though.
CDR Okay, but I still had a white when it
came to sunset time. And in order to close it I just inhibited
both of them and came back on with the primary only, and it went
to b arberpole.
CC And unfortunately that - that's misleading.
That's really a situation where you get a false indication
at that time. The wiring is such that it just shows the last
positien that you commanded it. It doesn't really reflect the
position of the door.
CDR Okay, I understand. In other words, we
won't worry about it too much at sunset, at sunrise we're concerned.
CC That's affirm. What we just you don't have
to pay any attention to it at sunset, just go ahead and let
it stay white. And then when you get ready to use it at
sunrise to go through the further [?] procedure.
CDR Okay, very good.
SPT Crip, I think we got some good data on those
fjords in Chile. We got a little DAC film on it at 2 frames a
second to show the motion, some 300 millimeter and 100 millimeter.
CC Okay, real good. We'll pass that on to
Bill. And he's going to be talking to you later on tonight
about a bunch of visual OPS anyhow. You talking while you're
pumping?
SPT No, I've got Bill pedaling for me now.
CC Ah-hah.
CDR Hey Crip, we're looking at a ice flow which
is pretty large. We've got one large block which is about
a dime at arm's length.
CC Okeydoke. If it looks like a dime from there,
it must be a pretty big one,
CC And Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. We'll
see you again over Tananarive in about 15 minutes at 18:09,
18:09. And for the CDR, wondered if he would like for us to
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resend that permanent general message regarding the 82A

doors to make it a little bit clearer that that is exactly
when that is applicable, and the fact that we want you to use
two motors and one to close. Just make sure nobody forgets
it.
CDR Crip, leave it like it is. We're putting
a little note on the bottom ourselves.
CC Okay, fine and dandy.
through tracking ship Vanguard. Science Pilot Gibson was
successful in photographing and observing some of the wave
action along the south coast of Chile and also reported
seeing a very large ice flow in the Atlantic, which to him
was the size of a dime, at arm's length. I suppose someone
clever in trigonometry could figure out what that would subtend
at the Earth's surface from that altitude. Today's calibration
rocket launch is now counting down for a i:00 p.m. central
standard time launch. After the rocket flight is completed and
evaluated for performance, Science Pilot Ed Gibson will spend the
following three afternoon daylight periods pointing the Harvard
College Observatory's unltraviolet spectrometer, S055, at
the same area of the Sun as the rocket's instruments surveyed
earlier. Because the area of the Sun scan by the rocket
is a very quiet section, and just below the Sun Center, virtually
no change will occur between the rocket data take and Gibson's
afternoon observations. Today's calibration rocket will allow
Skylab's data to be compared to a standard light source
to allow precise scientific interpretation of Solar data.
I've been handed a note to the effect that a dime held at arm's
length would subtend about a 5-mile diameter ice flow from orbital
• _it_tude. _ Back in ii minutes for Tananarive. At 17:57 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
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mean time and 50 seconds away from acquisition through track-
ing - voice relay station Tananarive, final pass today.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive for 4
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive for 3
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive
for about 2-1/2 more minutes. The comm fading in and out.
not sure whether you got me now. In the blind, Hawaii at 18:51.
CDR You're almost impossible to read, Crip.
CC Roger. Hawaii 40 minutes, 18:51.
CDR Okay. Copy.
through Tananarive. 35 minutes to Hawaii. We'll return at
that time for the final Hawaii pass of the day. At 18:16
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
mean time. Final Hawaii pass of the day upcoming in less
than a minute. Calibration rocket launch still on time for
i p.m. liftoff at White Sands Missile Range, i p.m. central
time.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii I0 minutes.
CC SPT, and we see that 52 is pointed off
a little bit too much for it, need to either go a little bit
more towards sunset or close that door.
CC Thank you, sir.
SPT Crip, I think that 82A was to be omitted
from building block 2. What about 54?
CC Checking, Ed. Stand by i. Ed, we want
54 to run.
SPT Okay.
SPT Does 55 them want any particular grating
position?
CC Checking.
SPT Does 55 want their MIRROR AUTO RASTER in any
particular grating position?
CC We're checking on it for you. Where
we're at now looks good, Ed.
CC CDR, Houston if you're available,
there's a couple of questions to ask you. If not, if that's
you riding the bike or something, we can check with you later.
CDR Okay. l'm on the bike, but I can listen.
CC Jer, I was just going to ask you on that
switching that - taking the camera the comet out of 52. That
sounds like a pretty good option to us, but we - we're wanting
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to get two photographs a day, which would mean we'd

probably be wanting to get one out of $2 when you
were maneuvered over for SAL ops, and another one when you
were in solar inertial which will require you getting a
photograph out of $3. And the question is, do you think you
can switch them back and forth? In other words, do one like
in the morning and one in the evening, and if you do, would
you like to have a little time scheduled for that if we do
it?
CDR I think the initial setup would take a
little time. After that I don't think it'll be any problem_
the big thing is waiting until it comes into sight on
$3. I guess the problem is, Crip, if we don't have two
maneuvers a day to on SAL attitude, might as well give up
on it because we're not getting anything out of $3.
CC Okay; copy. You're saying that $3 is
just not - not at all visible.
CDR That's right. Not yet.
CC Copy.
CDR Either Bill or I goes up and we look
about two or three times a day and we still haven't seen it.
CC Jer, if we set up to take out of $2,
what's a reasonable time? 15 minutes, 30 minutes for the
initial prep for getting some kind of apparatus where you
can connect it there?
CDR I think 30 minutes the first time and
then after that we'll just need the normal time.
CC Okay; fine.
CDR What we're doing is we're cutting card-
board out, spacers and things. It makes a pretty good restraint.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Bill calls it his origami structure.
CC Yes. Glad he's good at that.
SPT Say, Crip. If we do not plan to use
82A during an orbit, would you want us to go to the procedure
callup or just leave the talkback white?
CC Consensus here is leave it white. We're
about 1 minute from LOS - 30 seconds rather. We're going to
have you again over the Vanguard in about 22, 22 minutes.
Can you tell us, Ed, whether you tried to cycle that door
open this time?
SPT No, I did not, Crip.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-822/I
Time: 13:01 CST 25:19:01 GMT
12/10/73

through Hawaii tracking station. Tracking ship Vanguard in
20 minutes. After Vanguard, the next station will be Vanguard
again. One whole revolution with only one station. Ground
track slides in between all the other stations, out of range,
for a period of about an hour and a half. We'll return in
20 minutes at Vanguard at 19:02 Greenwich mean time. This
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC823/I
TIME: 13:23 CST, 25:19:23 GMT
12/10/73

mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in 50
seconds. The calibration rocket from White Sands Missle
Range lifted off at 01:i0 p.m. central time. Reached it's
peak altitude at about 4-1/2 minutes later at 01:14:35 central
time. Peak altitude was 167.5 statute miles. All sensors
were reported operational. On the way back down the payload
parachute popped open at 01:18:35 approximately. Standing by
here for Vanguard acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard, and we
have you for about 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we are doing a data
voice recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. And for Ed's information,
the CALROC got off okay, and everything looks i00 percent.
And I've got the modification to the pointing data for a
quiet region 1 for his subsequent building blocks if he could
copy.
\SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger, want to make that up plus 40. And
the left previous modification that I gave you is okay, minus
145.
SPT Quiet region 1 is up, plus 40, and left
minus 145.
CC Roger. And roll remains the same.
CC And, CDR, Houston, if you have an
opportunity I can give you the change to the message we sent
you on checklist updates.
CC The change to the change to the change.
CDR Okay, Crip, let her go.
CC Okay, we sent you a message 2554 which
was checklist change status, and you can change the change
that said we changed (laughter) the SWS hALF procedures. You
can delete the SWS hALF procedure and change 01. We have not
made the (laughter) no changes to the change.
CDR Say again.
CC Where we have down SWS hALF procedures,
change 001, you can delete that. No changes have been made
to the SWS hALF procedures.
CDR Hey, you made it without laughing; good
show.
CC It was hard.
CDR I'm going to keep at you until you did
it right.
CC I figured you'd do that to me, Jer.
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TIME: 13:23 CST, 25:19:23 GMT
12/10/73
SPT Say, Crip, I was over on channel A,

could you explain that last comment to me, please?
CC We I'll put it on tape for you.
SPT Don't you know it ain't dignified for
CAP COMMs to giggle?
CC You're right. Flight's still trying
to get me to explain it to him.
CC Ed, we need high voltage off on 55;
main high voltage off.
CC Correction on my last. For detectors
i, 2, 3, and 4 we want the HIGH VOLTAGE OFF on those.
SPT Okay, Crip, I took MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE
OFF, and detectors i, 2 off, and I had 3 and 4 off. Were
you not configured right when we came up?
CC Okay, we want the main high voltage
on, Ed. That was a mistake on my part. And wanted to
ensure that detectors i, 2, and 3 were off.
SPT Okay, i, 2, and 3 are off. Do you have
a problem down there; or up here?
CC Okay, we were indicating i, 2, and 3
and 4 were all on, and when you were going to reference,
optical reference, we thought there was going to be a problem.
Apparently it was in the configuration we come up in.
SPT Yeah, Crip, when we came up we were
running, and I was running both zero auto raster and a
GRATING AUTO SCAN at the same time, so I had to go to
experiment stop. I assumed you were in nonatte ded (?) configuration
and I wondered whether you also had those detectors on.
CC That's affirm. We had had the detectors
on, that was the problem. We're - we're okay rignt now
though.
SPT Okay, Houston commands to turn those
detectors off?
CC Let me verify the status all the detectors.
CC Okay, Ed, we show all detectors off
at this time.
SPT Hey, Crip, I show I'm in the STOP MODE
with MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE to OVERRIDE.
CC Okay, that that all looks good. We're
squared away now. And the problem was that we had had
left some on in the unattended OPS.
SPT Okay, I also have a scan spect alert
light which I cannot get rid of. Even cycling HIGH VOLTAGE
ENABLE RESET 1 to RESET and OFF again. It's back on.
CC You're saying that gets rid of it
or does not get rid of it?
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TIME: 13:23 CST, 25:19:23 GMT
12/10/73
SPT It does not get rid of it.

CC Okay, we copy.
CC Okay, and Ed, we've been doing some big
dumps and we'd like to get in enough zu - NuZ update some-
time between 20:50 and 21:14.
SPT 20:50, okay.
CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We've got a nice long period where I can't bug
you anymore, an hour and 28 minutes to the next Vanguard
pass. That's going to be at 21:00.
SPT Crip, you got any good words on how
to get rid of the SCAN SPECT alert light? And how does
the system look down there?
CC We're looking at and I'm afraid I
haven't got any words.
CC Try turning the detectors back on and
it should go away; 1 and 2.
PAO Skylab Control; loss of signal through
the tracking ship Vanguard. Next station will be Vanguard
again in an hour and 27 minutes. At 2 o'clock central
time in the Houston News Room there will be a medical status
briefing on crew health by Dr. Royce Hawkins. And three
medical experiment principal investigators will take part
in this briefing; Ed Michel, who's the Principal Investigator
for MI71 metobolic activity; Dr. R. L. Johnson, M092 lower
body negative pressure; and they - Dr. J. L. Homick of
Johnson Space Center, who's discipline in experiment unable
to locate. Any Skylab ground station passes taking place
during this briefing will be transcribed - recorded on
tape for delayed playback. At 19:34 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-824/I
Time: 14:59 CST 25:20:59 GMT
12/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours

59 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston, welre AOS Vanguard, and
we have you for about ii minutes.
SPT Hello Cripp, we're on the fifth of the
fifth out of six of the mirror auto rasters for 55. I'm not
down to 82A as yet, when I tried the procedure we have, it
turns out that it sets the stop command at 55 when we turn
off both motors because they dontt have a door OPEN signal.
So I wanted to make sure I got the slides done before I
tried that again. I tried it twice now with the 82A door
with still a (garble) talk back, and l'm going to give it
a try here as soon as I finish up this one mirror auto rasters
once again.
CC Okay, we got it.
CC And Ed while we were going over the hill
while ago and we were having that problem with 55, the problem
was that we had left the configuration of 55 such that it had
a mirror auto raster and we had not senta stop command to that.
So you always had a mirror auto raster going, and we had not also
turned off the detectors. So that was really what was causing
our problem. Wondered if you'd get the light out on the
(garble).
SPT' Yes I did Cripp. I noticed that we had
a mirror auto raster going fairly early in the game so I put
a DAS command in through the switch selector 4. And then I
also did get the lights up by cycling all the power - all the
(garble) high voltage on and off.
CC Good Ed. Solved all of our problems, i
thank you.
SPT Cripp, would you confirm that they want me
to take these two exposures with the light indication on the
door?
CC Let me check that Ed.
CC Skylab_ Houston, wonder if either Bill
or Jerry are available to test - to check duct 2 flow on
panel 617 for us. We've got an indication down here looks
sort of like the telemetry problem we had with duct i, we'd
like to verify it.
CC And Ed, we're still trying to get your
question answered on 82A.
CDR Okay Cripp, what do you need to know?
CC Okay, just want you to give us a reading
on duct 2 flow panel 617.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 14:59 CST 25:20:59 GMT
12/i0/73
CDR It looks like it's about 490.

CC Copy 490.
CC SPT, Houston, regarding your question
on 82A. We do not want to take the frames with the (garble)
indication, what we would like you to do is after this - if
you have time after this mirror auto raster on 55 the to try
going to your procedure of inhibiting the door motors and then
enabling them again.
SPT Okay Cripp, I've been through that
three times now, I'ii give it another try.
CC You've all ready tried it three times huh?
SPT That's affirm.
SPT I'ii give it a go once more with you
folks looking at it if you like.
CC Yeah, we'd like to wait till the raster
finishes. And we got you for about 4 more minutes.
SPT Okay. And Cripp we didn't get that
NuZ update in until just about 33 remaining in this orbit,
you changed the experiment roll from 5400 to 5390. And I
figure that ought to be about a 4 arc second errro in the
pointing for 55.
CC Okay, we got it thank you.
CC PLT, Houston, you got a moment Bill, we'd
like to talk a little bit about 509 and batteries?
CC And if you're tied up now_ we'll catch
you later.
CDR He'll be right there.
PLT Go Cripp.
CC Okay, just wanted to tell you, when you
terminate the charge on battery 7 do not start charging
battery 6. 509 has been delayed until mission day 29 about
4 days away, and we don't want to charge a battery until just
prior to the run.
PLT Okay, after - okay and say again that
which battery.
CC Battery 7, I believe you had that
scheduled around 01:30 this evening.
PLT Okay, and you want me to charge battery
6, but not 7, or was it the other way around?
CC No.
PLT Okay, understand, so when I terminate
7 don't start 6.
CC That is correct. That's good. And a
break for SPT. We're seeing a little bit of funnies on the
doors on the inner door and the outer door seem to have
reverse signs right now Ed. And we'd like you to just stop
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Time: 14:59 CST 25:20:59 GMT
12/10/73
messing with 82A right now.

SPT Okay Crlpp.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS, will see you again in about 3-1/2 minutes over Ascension
at 21:14 and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there.
SPT Okay Cripp on the permanent general message
number i0 which you sent up, I presume then that the last line
on there which says repeat steps i and 2 up to three times
and then complete steps 3 and 4. You probably want us to
eliminate that (garble) then complete steps 3 and 4.
CC Well the 3 and 4 was assuming that we
got the thing open.
SPT Oh okay, that's not the way I read it.
And but I did hold up anyway. Thank you.
CC Ed, would you put it back on a single
motor for leaving it?
loss of signal. The Ascension Island station will acquire
Skylab in 2 minutes. Flight Director Don Puddy, the off
going Flight Director estimates that his change of shift
briefing will begin at 5:30 p.m. central standard time in
the news center briefing room at JSC. 5:30 p.m. central
standard time for the change of shift news conference with
Flight Director Don Puddy. We'll keep the line up and monitor
the Ascension pass. Asquisition at Ascension in just over
i minute.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC825/I
TIME: 15:12 CST, 25:21:12 GMT
12/10/73
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Ascension

9 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston did you copy my last regard-
ing the 82A door motor that we wanted to leave it with only - -
SPT Affirm.
CC - - only one motor on so we wanted to go back
through step 3, but we of course do not want to operate until
problem a little bit.
SPT We've got 40047 entered twice, Crip.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Houston, Skylab; PLT.
CC Go, Bill.
PLT Roger, subject is the S063 comet cue card.
CC Rog.
PLT Under S063, Charlie, Sierra, Tango i, 2, 3,
I have a suggestion for them to research. Following the wiring
on the - I guess it's near the end of it, there is a line that
says, stow T025 filter holder, (S) (F502). The next step is
install canister dust cover, F502 on canister adapter. Then
the next step is remove T025 canister with one-quarter inch
Allen bit, et cetera. Somewhere right along in there I think
what should have pressurize SAL or pressurize AMS or something
procedure on the SAL decal.
CC Okay, we'll look into that.
SPT Hey Crip, I suggest that I continue on
using the roll I have right now of 5390, unless they'd like
me to roll to the 5400.
CC We'll check that for you.
CC Ed, minus 5390's fine; you can stay right
there.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab Houston we're i minute from
LOS, we'll see you again at Guam in 35 minutes at 21:58, 21:58.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
moved out of range of Ascension's antennas now. The next
station will be Guam in 33-1/2 minutes. Skylab Astronauts
Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue have partial day off
today_ but tomorrow they will stay awake an extra 3 hours
until i a.m. Wednesday, to gather scientific data on the
upper atmosphere. The long night's work has been scheduled
to take advantage of a rocket-launch planned by the Department
of Defense for about midnight tomorrow. The rocket is
expected to be a Minute Man missle. Will be launched from
western test range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
SL-IV MC82S/2
TIME: 15:].2 CST, 25:21:12 GMT
12/10/73
as a scheduled military test launch. The rocket will be

observed up to more than 150 miles in altitude as it travels
toward Eniwetok, Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Using the FAR
ultraviolet electronographic camera the crew brought up
in the command module. The Skylab astronauts will photograph
the changes that occur as the rocket pierces the upper levels
of the atmosphere. Three stages of rocket effects are to be
photographed, first the FAR ultraviolet camera will record
the bright light of the rocket's exhaust. Then the rocket's
effect on the ionized upper atmoshere will be recorded, and
final the camera will detect the changes along the path of
the missile, along the wake of the missile. At the time
of the rocket's passage through the upper atmosphere, Skylab
will be moving toward the northeast across the Pacific Ocean
on ground track 44. Because the Defense Department's rocket
will be moving to the west as the space station moves north
east, both the exact timing of Skylab photography and the
precise pointing of the movable mirrors used to direct light
from the area to be photographed into the scientific airlock
that holds the electronographic camera will be very difficult.
At its closest the orbiting laborat-o-ry will more than 300 miles
from the Minute Man and for some of the photography it will
be as far as i000 miles away. To adjust the mirrors and
operate the camera, both the Pilot Bill Pogue and the
Science Pilot Ed Gibson, will have to work at the small
airlock on the side of the workshop away from the Sun. The
Commander Jerry Carr will monitor the space station maneuvers
required to perform the photography. This complex photographic
activity keeping the crew up much later than usual may reveal
the mechanics of the upper atmosphere including the reason
for a very strange phenomenon, first photographed last year
from the surface of the Moon. A FAR ultraviolet electrono-
graphic camera just like that being used on Skylab for the
study of the Comet Kohoutek was taken to the Moon aboard
Apollo 16. Photographs taken by the 16 crew of the Earth
showed two bands of oxygen atoms in the upper atmoshpere on
either side of the magnetic equator. Although some scientists
had suspected such areas called the tropical airglow bands
might exist they had never before been photographed. The Apollo 16
film was dramatic evidence for a phenomenon in Earthts upper
atmosphere_ A new discovery has never been confirmed by
independent evidence and later this week the Skylab crew will
attempt to photograph the airglow bands from about a thousand
miles away in an attempt to determine the the thickness of
the zones. The Skylab photography may also detect movement
of the airglow bands produced by changes in the Earth's
position_ rotation, and solar winds. At the present time
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TIME: 15:].2 CST, 25:21:12 GMT
12/10/73
atmospheric scientists believe that the tropical airglow

bands are produced by updrafts of electrons, which move away
from the Earth freely in the near vaccum of the upper
atmoshpere_ The electrons moving outward collide with
oxygen ions, recombining to form oxygen atoms that can be
photographed with Skylab's special ultraviolet camera. The
tropical oxygen airglow is not yet well understood but the
photography of Tuesday night's rocket passage through the
atmosphere may help to confirm the current theory. The rocket's
rapid movement should create an artificial updraft of electrons
producing a temporary airglow in the skies over the Pacific.
Such an oxygen airglow is invisible to human viewers, its
light wavelengths are too short to be seen by astronauts or
observers on the ground. The cameras like the S201 which
use a highly scientific - highly sensitive photocathode and
shoots electron -
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC826/I
Time: 15:30 CST, 25:21:30 GMT
12/10/73
PAO Used a highly scientific - highly senstive

photocathode and shoots electrons at its 35-millimeter film_
can detect the ultraviolet light, most of which is scattered
by the atmosphere and not detectable from the planet surface.
Only about 2 minutes are set aside for the rapid series of
photographs showing the rocket's affect on the upper electrified
atmosphere° To aid in the precise timing and pointing necessary
for the photography, the exact moment of launch will be relayed
to the Mission Control Center here in Houston by way of hot
line direct from Launch Operations at the Western Test Range.
A total of 15 photographs of rocket's passage will be taken by
Pogue with Gibson adjusting the mirror to three different
positions in the short time the Skylab crew will be able to
photograph the event. The complex dynamics of the upper atmdsphere
where the Sun's energy directly affects the Earth and its
weather, are only a part of tomorrow's night scheduled operation
of $201. The comet camera will also take a series of photographs
of the remnants of exploded star the Crab Nebula several
thousand light years from our solar system. And a relatively
close neighbor compared to many astronomical bodies was a
spectacular star when it exploded some 9 centuries ago. The
brilliant super nova observed by earthlings and recorded in
historical documents created a gigantic shock wave traveling
through space at a speed of several million miles per hour. The
mass of materials ejected from the exploded star produced t_he
Crab Nebul leaving a pulsing neutron star or a pulsar at its
center. The series of photographs made with Skylab's camera
once the backup model for the Apollo 16 flight, but specifie_lly
modified a few months ago to fit the space station needs, the
series of photographs will help determine the state of the
gases in the expanding nebula. While light takes several
thousand years to reach Earth from the Crab Nebula three other
targets to be photographed during the midnight experiment
period are so far away that the light we receive began its
journey long before man walked the Earth. Three clusters of
galaxies hundreds of millions of light years from Earth will
be photographed with the special camera. Recording hydrogen
between the huge collection of stars far beyond the reach of
man. Skylab now about 25 minutes away from acquisition through
Guam. At 21 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC827/I
Time: 15:57 CST, 25:21:57 GMT
12/10/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is moving within range
of the Guam station now.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Guam 9 minutes.
SPT Rog, hello, Houston. We're still looking
at a white talkback on 82A and I have not tried to reconfigure
an innercommand since your last request. Anything you'd
like me to try on it?
CC No, I think we need - need to think about
that one for awhile Ed.
SPT Okay, Crip, your last comment was that
the doors had opposite signs, which I didntt quite understand.
CC Okay, we're talking about the locked door on -
on 82A and we'll see if we can get that clarified.
CC And Ed, that's - that still didn't clear
it. We get telemetry information which tells us what that
little inner door or locked door on 82A is doing but you you
can't see that of course. And yours is a you were reflecting
the position of the outer door the thermal shield door.
SPT Okay, I understand Crip. Is the inner
door hanging up also?
CC Ed, a little bit more information about
that, no, the inner door is not hanging up, the - the problem
was that we got an indication here that that they were in
opposite conditions that we had not seen before and that was
causing us a little bit of concern. But we believe that we -
we understand that problem now. The only problem is really
associated with the thermal shield door and trying to open
it up.
SPT Okay, thank you Crip.
from LOS. We have two of the three flight plans sets on board
and we realize that tomorrow is a very long day, we've tried
to make up for it in the following day being a shorter
about a 20 total man hours. Crimson team's going off for
now. We'll have you AOS again at Vanguard in about 30 minutes
at 22:38, 22:38.
SPT So long, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
CDR We'll see you Bob.
CC See you manana. And ATM promises me we're
going to have a better day.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Guam has loss of
signal. The next station is the tracking ship Vanguard in
29 minutes. The Flight Controller team handover is underway
in the Control Center. The new Flight Director will be Phll
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Time: 15:57 CST, 25:21:57 GMT
12/10/73
Shaffer, the new CAP COMM is Dick Truly. The off-going

Flight Director has Don Puddy has scheduled his change-of-
shift news conference for 5:30 p.m. central standard time.
At 22 hours 9 minutes Greenwich mean this This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC828/I
Time: 16:36 CST, 25:22:36 GMT
12/10/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, hello from the purple gang at
the Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Hello, there.
CC Good afternoon, you guys having fun
today?
PLT Yeah, we're having a lot of fun, we've
been taking quite a few handheld photographs. I just
there was a tropical storm down there by the (garble) got a
series of about i0 of the (garble). Looks like there's a
lot of associated activity with that thing, too.
CC Roger, I think you've already heard
that the CAL ROC launch went very well, we have now recovered
the payload and the films been developed. And as a matter
of fact I have a change for Ed, on the ATM schedule pad.
A pointing change, for the daylight cycle starting at 23:30.
SPT Go ahead Dick.
CC Okay, where those up and left numbers
that were previously changed, the up number remains at plus
40, the left number I'd like to change again. And this is
based on the CAL ROC data, it should read minus 120, for left.
SPT Okay, Dick, plus 40, and minus 120.
Thank you.
CC Yes sir.
SPT And Dick, as you probably know, we've
had a few problems with the 82A door, again today. If the
folks down there could find anyway to as sure themselves they
got a good door open, I'd be glad to get some exposures to
this orbit or the next one for them.
CC Roger, Ed, we have been - our team has
been getting up the speed and getting handover the last hour,
and if we get to that point this evening we - you'll be the
first to know.
SPT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston, back to the subject of the
82 door, when we get to Ascension, the upcoming pass, and
I'ii remind you again when we get there. It'll be during
the night, we are going to be doing some ground commanding
to re-establish our confidence in door operations and then
maybe we can go back to operating 8 - 82.
SPT Okay, Dick_ thank you.
CC Yes sir.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS.
Ascension comes up at 22:55.
PAO This is Skylab Control, As - Ascension
will be the next station to acquire Skylab. Vanguard has
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Time: 16:36 CST, 25:22:36 GMT
12/10/73
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Ascension

Island station in about 5-1/2 minutes. At 22 hours 49 minutes
Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC829/1
TIME: 16:53 CST, 25:22:53 GMT
12/10/73

53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin
a long acquisition pass starting at the Ascension Station
going through the Madrid station.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Ascension and
Canary for the next 13 minutes and we're going to be doing
some ATM commanding on the S082 door here.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead Ed. SPT, Houston go ahead.
SPT Hello Dick, I'm wondering if I have any -
CC SPT, Houston you got caught right in the
middle of a handover and I didn't copy what you said, say
again please, over.
PLT Roger, Dick he was wondering if he had
a VHF comm set up for today.
CC Yes sir, as a matter of fact he does and
it's Canary Island at a time of 00:36.
PLT Roger, 00:36.
CC Roger, Bill and for yon tomorrow, I haVen't
set it up yet because we haven't picked a pass yet but I'll
let you know.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, I know that there is a little
E time involved and it does make it hard but is there a
way for us to either get an - an update in the morning or
sometime maybe a couple - at least 6 hours ahead of time so
we can plan the day accordingly.
CC It certainly is, Ed. We'll get it up to
you.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston for the CDR, just for our
information are you guys planning on doing any crew option
TV today?
CDR Yeah, we're just kind of getting it up now.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
from LOS, Guam comes up at 23:36 and the preliminary results
from our commanding on the S082 is that we are unable to get
a - get the thermal shield door opened using either of the
heat of the primary or the secondary motor so we're going to
continue to think about it and keep you updated.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Skylab
space station has passed out of range of the Madrid tracking
station. Guam will acquire Skylab in 25-1/2 minutes. At
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TIME: 16:53 CST, 25:22:53 GMT
12/10/73
23 hours, i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab

Control with a reminder that the change-of-shift news
conference with Flight Director Don Puddy is scheduled for
5:30 p.m. central standard time, 20 minutes from now.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 minutes

past midnight Greenwich mean time. During the change of
shift news conference Skylab was in contact with the Guam
and Honeysuckle stations. We taped i0 minutes 45 seconds
of conversation over those two stations, we'll play that
now.
CC AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger Dick, Have you folks down there
noticed the humidity - relative humidity is gone up some
in here.
CC Roger Jerry, stand by and let me check
on that.
CDR The reason why I'm asking is our old
friend the icy spot in the ward room window is forming a
little fog right where the ice was before. And we suspect that
just because we took the showers and everything today we
probably got the relative humidity up quite a bit.
CC Rog, Jerry, hang on a second.
CC CDR, Houston, the answer to your question
is yes the relative humidity has increased and we do think
it's due to the showers. The dewpoint is about 4 degrees
higher than it normally runs and so that probably is the
source of that moisture.
CDR Roger_ just about the time sunrise
occurs and when the Sun angle is low we see the moisture
about the middle of the day-side pass when the Sun angle
gets pretty high it seem to disappear and then it comes
back again.
CC Roger, probably won't be too long before
you guys have to clean it out again.
CDR Yeah I think you're right.
CC Hey Jerry, I'm not sure what you all
are up to, but a bunch of passes this evening are going to
be devoted to science conference. And I've got a little of
evening questions and notes and this and that and so when
ever you're in a listening or visiting mood I'd like to
talk to you about them.
CDR Go ahead, we're just puttering around.
CC Okay, let me go through them as I get
to them. First of all this one is on EREP, I have two here
on EREP one's a question. After the last EREP pass we looked
at the voice tapes and we couldn't find any tape measurement
listed on the tapes and so when you have a minute we wonder if
you would make a tape measurement of the EREP tape remaining
and that'll help us in our planning.
CDR That was 4.4 centimeters.
CC Okay thank you very much.
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CC Next one is not a question but just a

note here and it goes back to EREP 14, and I didn't hear you
guys ask this question but apparently there was a question
or some conversation as to why the S193 radiometer was
switched from standby then to off and then later back to
standby. It turns out that the radiometer AGC will
saturate if the radiometer is left in standby during
altimeter operations. There is a mention of this on page
12-23 of the checklist if you're that interested, but we
just thought you'd let you know that that was an accurate
callout on the pad and that was the reason for it.
CDR Okay, I remember questioning that at
the time, it didn't seem too logical.
CC 0kay. Here's another one wetre interested
in. You reported that some wear on the treadmill and we've
been talking about some ways if we could use some things on
board to replace the treadmill. Specifically one of the
things that's been discussed is those - you know on the inside
of the film vault doors those dust covers are made of milled
Teflon and we've had some guys looking at how those might be
substituted for the treadmill. In order to help us we were
wondering if you could expand any on the - on the magnitude
of the wear on the tr - of the treadmill Teflon pad; And
also another question was does the pad itself appear to be
cold flowing.
CDR Well, we'll have to look at it a little
bit. The area I was talking about the wear is in the forward
third where the where the metal folds, you know the metal
plate underneath it. There's sort of Just a trace of a ridge
there, and the Teflon there you can feel it in your socks
as you're walking.
CC Okay Jerry. We're going to continue
to try to think of a way to replace that thing or use something
different if it does get to the point where you need to - stand by.
CDR Okay.
CC And Jerry, while we're on this subject can you
make any estimation of - of the magnitude of how much the
Teflon is worn at the place that you can feel the ridge
with your toes and no sense in answering right now but you
might take a look at it and let us know later.
CDR Dick, I just went over and looked it
over again and it doesn't look like to me like it's worn
much at all. The thing is I was just trying to point out
when I mentioned it the first time is that sure does look like
a wear point. And that's the place where it's going to go
if it goes_
CC Roger understand. Maybe we're expending
a little more energy down here than necessary in trying to
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solve it for you.

CDR Yeah, you might be. It doesn't look
too bad yet, I was just kind of raising the alarm flag so
people wouldn't be surprised if it did break up later.
CC Okay. I do have a couple of more notes
here, but I'm going to have to get briefed on this one so
hang on a second I'ii get back with you.
CDR Okay.
from Los. Honeysuckle comes up here in just about 5 more
minutes. And for the SPT all of our indications on the 82A
door are that the thing is stuck OPEN. What we'd like you
to do is to operate the door this pass normally. You will
have no ready light, we want you to ignore the door talk
back and be sure and confirm the grating short or long
before starting the exposure. Over.
SPT Okay Dick I Sure will. There's only
2 exposures called out for this orbit. Would they like me
to go back and try and pick up a few of them previous? I
can do that quite easily.
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston for the SPT. We would
like i extra 5 minute exposure wave length long.
SPT Five minutes long, I've got it thank
you Dick.
CC Roger. and Jerry I've got another
couple of questions and I'ii get them at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay Dick.
CC And SPT, Houston, if you read in the
operations of the door we want you to ignore for this next
pass that permanent general message 10 to change your
procedures. Just operate the door normally per the
original cue card.
SPT You mean with the door switch.
SPT Okay Dick, l'm also looking at a white
talk back for the wave length, and I'm not sure what that's
telling me. Is there a way I can clear that and find out
where I really am?
CC Rog, we think it'll clear when you open
the door.
SPT It did, thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Say Dick just as I did that I got - when
I had the door open I got the -
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CC Yeah, it'll clear when you open the door.

SPT It did thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, Dick just as I did that I got - when
I had the door open I got the flare enable talkback went white
which we usually does during o - door opening and then it went
barber pole which it usually does when it's pulled open. I
not sure whether that fits in with your diagnosis but it looks
good.
CC Okay, Ed thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Honeysuckle a short
pass for about 3 minutes and I got a couple of more questions
I can get out if you guys still are near the phone.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, the other day I mentioned to Ed
and requested him to estimate the amount in inches this is
on the ED63, the amount in inches of agar left in the valve,
he said he'd do that but we haven't found that recorded on
channel A anywhere and if you haven't done it we would like
you to re-record that data. We're interested in this since
we're planning on planting some rice in the vials and growing
some rice to help satisfy your voracious appetite.
SPT I knew you'd find a way to get me to do it,
Dick.
CC Well I'm going to keep trying. I got one more
for you guys and this is on the subject of the Nikon batteries.
We're interested in keeping good track of the batteries
because we want to make sure we have - we understand the
status and have good batteries for the EVAs toward the end
of the mission. Sometime when you get a chance, we'd like
to know the serial numbers of the batteries in Nikon 01 and
02, we'd also like to know whether the battery that's in Nikon 01
has been changed out since EVA number 1 and finally one reminder
since everybody around here is conserving energy, when you're -
this is in the cue cards but when you are using the electric
Nikons, we_d prefer you to use them in the manual mode whenever
that's possible.
CDR Roger Dick we've been trying to do that.
CC Okay.
CDR And the one in Nikon 01 is 1052.
CC Thank you.
from LOS, Vanguard comes up at 00:16 and Jerry have you
guys changed that one in Nikon 01 since the EVA?
CDR That's negative.
CC Okay.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 minutes

past midnight Greenwich mean time. That's the end of the
tape and Skylab is about 3 minutes away from acquisition
tracking ship Vanguard. We'll keep the line up and monitor
the Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Vanguard for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead Ed.
SPT Okay_ for the unattended ops, Dick, I've
been able to locate a bright point, l'ts not one of the brighter
ones I've never seen. It only gets up to around 700 or so.
It's fairly small that is, it takes fairly precise pointing to
get on top of it. It is fairly close to the equator but I do
not see any activity around it in H-alpha so I do think
we were going to have a bright point and I have identified it
as such in the XUV monitor picture. The coordinates are
a roll of minus 5400, an up/down of minus 0127 and a
left/right of minus 0182. And I maximized this location using
oxygen 6, detector 3 at a GRATING of all balls.
CC Okay, Ed stand by a second.
SPT Okay, also right now I have the 55 mirror
at the SLIT position. If they'd like me to move that down
to 25 1 can but I thought that - and then move up a corresponding
85 arc seconds. But what I was hoping to do is to get out in
time enough to give 82B an exposure but I never got there.
CC 0 - and Skylab, Houston we'd like you to
leave the pointing as it is and go to line 25, I thought you
must be listening to the ATM's backroom loop because when you
started talking about that they were talking about where to
ask you to point for this unattended ops. Sounds good.
from LOS, Canary Island comes up at 00:36 and a reminder for
Ed, your family comm is set up there at Canary 00:36.
SPT Very good thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
loss of signal, the next station will be Canary Islands in
ii-i/2 minutes. At zero hours, 24 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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PAO This is Skylab Control, at 0 hours 34

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acquisition
through the Canary Island station. And there will be
overlapping coverage through Madrid.
CC Skylah, Houston, AOS Canary and Madrid
for 13 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC And I forgot to mention to Ed but he
should use the left antenna. We think that's the best.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR or the
PLT, in ATM closeout we need one item which is a SO56 stop,
we see the shutter open. And we'd also like a frame count
when convenient.
CDR Stand by, I'ii get it right for you.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, Dick, there's a 56 stop.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, the frame count is 11355, 3987,
133, 1198, 5697, and 3791.
CC And, Roger, Jerry don't leave the panel.
Just a second I think we may have one more request. Stand
by.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, we did not get a shutter
close there on - on 56, what we'd like you to do is open
the airlock then issue a stop, and then close the airloek.
Over.
CDR Okay, how's that?
CC Roger, stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston we still show the shutter
open so we're going to have to think about it and understand
the problem For now we'd like camera power to go off and
then you can go ahead and leave the panel, thank you much.
CDR You were cut, Dick, say again.
CC Roger, we still show the shutter open
so we're going to have to think about that one for a little
while, so before you leave the panel we'd l%ke you to go
camera power to off and then it's okay for you to go back to
what you were doing.
CDR Okay, what do you say I cycle the camera
airlock switch again, but this time leave a good five seconds
between that and the stop switch? I gave about 2 last time.
CC Okay, we're willing to try that again
Jerry.
CDR All right we'll put 5 seconds between
each switch throwing.
CC Okay.
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CDR Okay, how does that look?

CC No, joy, Jerry. The shutter's still
open so I guess we'd llke the camera power off and then you can
secure.
CDR Okay, camera power's off.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Madrid has loss
of signal. The next station will be Carnarvon - station will
be Honeysuckle in 32-i/2 minutes. At 0 hours 50 minutes
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PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour,

22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle is about to
acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Honeysuckle for the
next 8 minutes and we're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
CDR Roger, Dick we're just finishing up our
dinner and then we're going to get on our TV session.
CC Roger, Jerry I'd like to read a message
to you if you're listening.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Dr. Nikolay Gurovskly and members
of the Soviet delegation of the joint working group in the
space biology and medicine wish to extend sincere congrat-
ulations to the Skylab-IV crew for the tremendous contribution
you are making toward procuring medical data which will provide
the base for future manned space flight efforts. The delegation
have been privileged to visit the Control Center and to hear
reports on your progress while exchanging data on the two
previous Skylab flights with Dr. Berry and his delegation.
They wish you a most successful mission and a safe landing.
CDR Thank you Dick and please tell the
gentlemen that we appreciate their good wishes, thank you.
CC We'll certainly do that, thank you.
CC Skylab Houston we're i minute to LOS,
Bermuda comes up at 02:07 and that'll be the first of the
science conferences and our guest Dr. Story Musgrave will
be talking to you there, I think.
CDR Roger, Dick,
CC Skylab, Houston one last switch on the
ATM configuration wonder if somebody would check the EVA
aut - auto door switch to storage please.
CDR Will do, Ed's on his way.
CC Okay.
SPT What's the status on 56,
CC Tell you later.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of Honeysuckle. Bermuda will be the next station in
34-i/2 minutes. At i hour, 32 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
acquisition through Bermuda and the start of the Science
conference with the crew.
CC Skylab AOS through Bermuda for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And Jer this is your med science conference.
CDR Roger go ahead.
CC Okay, we'll discuss things a little bit
out of order here to be sure that I get to some questions that
have been sent down by Ed. The first one is the purpose of
TV-II7, although it's not titled such it really is an experiment
in electrophoresis. Although it is entitled a particle
mobility. An electrophoresis is used here on the ground to
separate things such as proteins which have electrical
charges on them and to separate cells in human blood and the
like. And the advantages in doing this in zero g are that you
don't have the convective currents or don't have the sedimen-
tation that you have down here in one g. And we did
fly an electrophoresis experiment successfully on Apollo 17
and we also had one, a large one it was going to be launched
on Skylab but we ran out of weight space. And we're sure
that we will be using electrophoresis on the Shuttle for
things like separation of proteins and vaccines and the like.
SPT Okay thank you Story. Think they got
some useful information from what was done.
CC So that was going to be just a photographic
demonstration of electrophoresis in the zero g environment.
Now I'ii skip ahead on to M133 because I caught one of your
questions that came down on the tapes, Ed.
SPT Okay.
CC First of all Dr. Frost wants to thank
you for running his experiment even though it wasn't
scheduled :for your mission. He's very appreciative of it,
and he's getting a lot of data. I'ii quickly summarize the
data you're getting. In terms of total rest, that's of
course when you've got the cap on and the machine running
your averaging and that's over the runs we got 6.8 hours a
night of total rest. Total sleep about 6.1. And terms of
stages, stage i you're running 6.9 percent, stage 2, 41,
stage 3, 19, stage 4, 12, and (garble) sleep about 20. Now in
terms of comparison with the other 2 missions you're running
a little bit closer to Joe Kerwin on SL-II than Owen Garriott.
In other words you're running a little heavier in the
deeper stages of sleep, that's stage 3 and stage 4. For
the comparison Owen, his stage 3 was only 6 percent yours
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is 19 percent. Owen's stage 4 was 0.5 percent and yours is

12. So you're running a little bit more high percentage
in the deeper stages of sleep.
SPT Okay thank you Story. Shows what you
can do if you work at it.
CC And you also had a question on channel
B about how your last run went. You had some skepticism
about the data. The data came out fine.
SPT Very good, thank you.
CC And some of this stuff may be a little
redundant to you because you may be plotting this data on
your onboard charts but I'ii press on anyway. As you
probably know, Jer and Bill their weights are very close
to prelaunch weights, Jer is only within a half pound of
launch weight which is doing extremely well, and Bill is
only down 4 pounds. Ed's down about 5 pounds. And Ed
your caloric intake prelaunch was about 200 kilocalories
above what the nominal menu was and Jet and Bill's stayed
about the same. You probably need at least about 200
kilocalories above the normal during flight. At present
you're running, oh, less than a hundred above the nominal.
And in considering all the exercise you're doing you
probably need just a little more.
SPT Okay, l'm all for that Story if we can
just find a way of working it out.
CC Yeah that's true we've got a lot to do
there. We are going to Flight Plan when we get a chance
an inventory of the food - that's total inventory of the
food. The ground inventory that we have down here we
don_t have a awful lot of reliance in. But we think the
total overage we have for a fully planned mission amounts
to about 350 calories per day above the nominal menu.
SPT Okay that ought to be enough to go
around.
CDR I hope it is, otherwise he's going to
start gnawing on our leg.
CC Okay. And Ed the Pls thank you for the
exercising weight loss measurements you take. The weight
loss is about 1.85 pounds. And at that 7000 watt-minutes
they put at about 400 kilocalories which represents 2 ounces
of fat or if you were burning protein or sugar that'd be
about 4 ounces of protein and 4 ounces of sugar.
SPT Okay thank you Story I think I'm in
better shape now then when I came up here, I certainly
feel that way on the bike.
CC Yeah I think we can agree with that.
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l've got a couple interesting questions on fluid balance.

Could you say something about any subjective feelings for
the mechanisms of thirst and a desire for salt? I know that's
a difficult question to answer, but have you any feelings,
differences in how you thirst up there or an urge to eat salt?
SPT I usually have a desire for salt with
meals just because I like the seasonings. I guess I have a
subconscious knowledge or desire just because I know I lose
a lost of salt when I exercise. Thirst usually goes along
with salt intake or with the water output. But mostly with
the - in correlation with the salt intake. If I take all my
salt at one meal in a particular item then the thirst shows up
about half an hour to two hours later.
CC Okay, anything Jer and Bill on that.
CDR My salt and thirst sensations are just
about the same as Ed's really. And Bill pretty much agrees
too. And some of the food is pretty bland and you really want
salt with that. And that really in Bill and my case is
what causes us to want salt, there doesntt seem to be any
other. And of course like Ed said when you take the salt
then you get thirsty.
CC Okay. As far as M092 goes you've been
following that data just as closely as we have on ESS
of course. You've had heart rate elevations and blood
pressure decreases, and more exaggerated than preflight and
of course that's to be expected. As per other flights on
the changes in the leg volumes have been off scale and we
did change out that leg band and since the new leg band we've
gotten most of those back on scale but they're pretty
exaggerated. The leg blood flow that's been up. And I got
about 20 seconds to LOS, we'll see you over Madrid in about
3 minutes we'll be picking up Bill Lenoir with the ATM
Science Conference.
SPT Okay Story, I have a feeling that Bill
Thornton's device is helping us out quite a bit and I'm
wondering whether the leg volume is - has not changed as
much since we've been using that.
CC Yeah, that may be keeping up the maximum
calf girth was the next thing I was going to get to. It did
not show as abrupt a decrease as on our previous missions.
CDR Yeah we think that's the reason and another
thing would you let us know the next time you're up how
much tape is left on the recorder?
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CC on previous missions.
CDR Yeah, we need think that's the reason,
and another thing would you let us know at the next time
you're up how much tape's left on the recorder?
CC We'll get you an answer to that.
CDR Yeah, the VTR.
CC You got 20 minutes left on the VTR.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Bermuda's had loss
of signal to Skylab. The Madrid station will acquire in
less than 2 minutes, we'll keep the line up and monitor
through Madrid for the continuation of the science conference.
CC Hello Skylab, this is Houston are you
ready for the visual observations conference?
SPT Sure are Bill, we're ready go ahead.
CC Okay, in spite of what Story said I
think we'll talk about visual observations here, we got the
ATM this morning. Like to just start off here talking about
handheld site 33 alfa which you don't have yet. Actually
you've done it once under special designation, not alfa.
That's the cold eddies in the warm water that you located
for us off of Yucatan. Don't know whether anybody's told
you yet but that created quite a bit of excitment down here
and made tile papers and all that. And we think it's a
very significant finding. We are preparing a new topic
for the book, 33 alfa, which will have you looking for
similar phenomena in the - well in 6 specific areas in the
world's oceans and potentially in others if we find it in a
significant number of those. Just wanted to pass on the
fact that we are doing that and give you a couple of
"atta-boys" here for some good work and helping us out on
that, over.
SPT Okay, Bill, sure hope we can find a
few more instances like that, it's been interesting.
CC Okay, it really impressed us, itts
one of the few occasions that we get to ask you to do something,
be able to take your answer and pump it back into the
system and have you do something based on your answers so
that we make use of you being there in real time. Next
topic is upwelling and plankton (garble). You've done some
excellent work on those for us. Both off of the coast of
Argentina and east of New Zealand, we see that you detected some-
thing there also, we certainly want to pass on good words about
the descriptions, you're giving us. The observations are
really coming through in a splendid fashion as far as
being descriptive in allowing us to make - get good information
out of your words. I presently am writing up a new topic,
34 alfa which will use the fact that you can detect these
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upwellings and plankton (garble) trying to detect water temperature

differences around some of these small islands. And as the
new site will explain, this will, has the potential of
being used in an energy generation fashion replacing
petroleum imports, over.
CDR Roger, Bill in the area of plankton growth
and blooms and all that, we've been particularly impressed
by the Falkland - Falkland current down off the eastern coast
of Argentina.
CC Yes, so have we, the area with that and
the south Atlantic current are converging in there. We've cer-
tainly found your observations there interesting and we're going
to begin concentrating more heavily on that area.
CDR Yeah we've got an awful lot of photo cover-
age of that - that serpentine bloom area.
CC Good, we're hoping you'll keep an eye on
it and not necessarily take more shots of it unless you begin
to notice some changes in it.
SPT Okay, would you at some time discuss the
temperature differences and how we're going to see those
visually?
CC Okay, actually you don't see the temperature
difference you see the effects of the cold water coming to the
top, basically you're seeing the plankton and the algae-
things of this nature in the colder more nutrient fed waters.
SPT Okay, yeah that we do understand.
CC Okay, moving on here, this Friday we'll
will be holding our first team meeting here on the ground
where all of the visual observations team members will be coming
in, going over the transcripts one at a time, then we'll
meet and discuss these from an assesstment point of view to
see how we're doing, whether we think that's the way we
ought to be doing and making some changes based on that.
I would anticipate that we will probably have quite a few
new sites come out of that meeting. And we will certainly
keep you up to date on the results of that meeting, as a
matter of fact the next day off conference will probably
devote most of it to the results and discussions emanating from
that meeting.
SPT I think the material we have up here
which all went into that book is excellent, Bill and we're
getting a little more proficient in the use of it, our only
regret is that we dontt have time to do that as extensive
as we like to do the other good things.
CC Well, we certainly appreciate the problem.
The additions that we have sent up and your handling of
them, has this proven satfsfactory or would you suggest that
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handle this in a different fashion?

CDR Yeah, it's coming up fine and I - we're
not having a bit of trouble with it, we just - we enjoy
doing it too.
CC Okay, one other question here, we would
like to try very hard to keep you in our loop, so to speak,
so that we meet everyday selecting sites and looking at what
happened the day before and the day before that and what
we've been hashing over here is trying to decide a format
or what to keep you up to date with how we're doing. For
instance, such things as the fact that 146-4, the range land
and the pampas we feel has been adequately covered for now.
We'd like to come back in a month or so and look at time
changes to it, but we don't feel that anything more is
required there at this time. Other areas we would like to
change the concentration from several of the procedures
to some of the other procedures, but we haven't yet homed
in on what we think the best format for doing this is. It's
probably not worth the time to discuss it now but if you
would think about it and put some comments on the tape recorder
for us whenever you've got some thoughts. We are getting your
comments and it takes about - oh, about a day to a day and
a half, before we get them and we do act on them accordingly.
CDR Okay and I would think it'd be a
good idea if you got a list up to us right away of those
areas that you think we've covered adequately and we
should lay off of.
CC Okay, we'll do that. It turns out most of
them have gone away because of the changing Sun angles here
but we'll certainly get it up to you within the next day or so.
CDR Okay, are you going to talk about
New Zealand?
CC Hadn't planned on it but we can, go ahead.
CDR Okay, you can tell the geologists that
we've got some beautiful coverage on it. We did not do the
thing tonight because of clouds but we got that yesterday
in the evening after bedtime and we got some beautiful coverage
I don't - I think they should be able to find their fault
lines without any problems.
CC Okay, that sounds pretty good on
New Zealand and as I recall if you've done that, about the
only open item would be the north part of South Island from
overhead. I think we have missed that and we'll probably
try to schedule that and we_ll lay off of the rest of it.
CDR Okay.
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CC Okay, I want to also pass on some good

words and atta boys here for the way you're helping us out
on the things that are impossible to schedule, things like
the -
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CC And we want to also pass on some good

words and attaboys here for the way you're helping us out
on the things that impossible to schedule. The things like
the atmosphere and tropical storms, some of the ocean
phenomena. I notice all three of you are picking these up
on a site of opportunity basis and we find wetre covering
these just about as rapidly as we're covering the ones that we do
schedule. So, that keep up that good work, and one other
point on those sites where you give us an observation only, with
no photographs we want to emphasize that those are every bit
as important to us as the photographs and we treat those just
like photographs. They will be analyzed by the team members
especially so since we have them in our hands now. And keep
up that good work. We've got about 1 more minute here.
SPT Okay, Bill, one thing I've wondered is
we've never used the data acquisition camera and as we're
going across Australia yesterday, I thought, "gee that'll be
an excellent way to use it at two frames a second or so."
We could get a sweep across there and find an awful lot about
the possible water resources. And also about the various
discoloration or other phenomena which we've been looking
for.
CC Yes, that sounds like a good idea,-Ed.
We don't - we the visual observations program don't own any
DAC film, but if you've got some that you're going to shoot
up anyway that's an excellent way to do it.
CDR Now, that's what we just did with trans-
porter number 6, we got about oh, 8 percent of pretty good
scattered information.
CC Okay, and I'm supposed to remind you.
Bill is supposed to be doing $233 now, and Carnarvon is next
at 02:52, that'll be Bob Parker talking corollaries and
general science.
CDR Okay, he's up there now.
CC Okay, good. And according to the clock
here we're over the hill but if you got any quickie for us,
we'll take it.
SPT No, just a thanks for you Bill, you've

been carrying ATM and visual ops and they're both coming out
real well, thanks to your help, appreciate it.
CC It's a pleasure to help you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range now of the Madrid station. Carnarvon is the next station
in 24 minutes, and the science conference will continue there.
At 2 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acquisition
at Carnarvon, overlapping average at Honeysuckle.
MCC Skylab, Houston, through Carnarvon.
Over.
SPT Hello, Bob go ahead.
MCC Roger, evening gentlemen, I guess I should
warn you that at the end of this you'll be going into
evening status report as soon as I finish. I'll try and get
off before we get to Honeysuckle, so we'll have that time.
Let me start off by telling you a little bit more about the 201
observation that I know you're aware of having tomorrow
evening. You're aware of the rocket observation of the
atmosphere, just reminding you or refreshing your memory in
case you weren't really told about it premission, because it
was put on late, that we're looking at carefully timed changes
of the tilt and rotations and the backup crew, if you haven't
heard finds that usually 2 man operation for this is the
easiest one handling the tilt and one handling the rotation.
As far as we've been able to tell by watching your other work
on 01 so far, your changes have met the time constraints
very nicely, and we're not very worried at all a bout being
able to meet these 15-second intervals. The idea having to
keep you up this late for the rocket obviously bothers us,
probably as more than it bothers you. I guess I must say as
long as we're interested in serving the effect of the night
atmosphere of a rocket launch, near midnight and doing it
from a U.S. launching site, there's not much we can do to
launch it in the middle of your work day. So, it - it was
sort of a requirement, launch it very early in the morning or
rather late at night and this looked like the first hard
opportunity. So we had to press on with that. Over.
SPT Okay, good enough, Bob.
MCC Okay, as you probably realized if you've
been doing any adding and subtracting on your Flight Plans
recently in the last couple of days, although we have a major
exception coming up tomorrow, we seem to been able to figure
out a schedule which as far as we can tell is working out fairly
well, about 25 man hours a day for experiments, or something
like 2 hours a day for housekeeping. And if you fellows want
some changes to that we'd be, you know, very interested in
knowing about them. But right now that's the sort of planning
we're doing in the long term and that's the sort of planning
that went into that 7-day forecast you got up today. Over.
CDR We're beginning to enter a stride now,
and it - I thinks it's going to work out okay. That seems to
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be a good plan.
MCC Okay, something that requires probably
a bit more talk or least I'd like to emphasize a bit more_
it's encouraging to keep us to date on the time requirements
of the individual performances of things, particularly, I
guess the thing that really has the potential of bitting us
is I'm sure you're well aware at this point is all of yanking
things in and out of the scientific airlock. In particular,
all of you undoubtedly do a lot of time-critical items on your
own, at your own time and eonvience which helps you out, it
also increases our flexibility in efficiency in scheduling.
If we know what those times actually are, for instance, if
something's taking - we're scheduling for 20 minutes it
actually takes i0 and you think that's fine and using that
I0 for something else, we got nothing wrong with that, but it
would probably help us in the scheduling items from time to
time as far as efficiency is concerned if we knew that was i0,
even if you said, hey, but leave us the other i0 for free time.
We'll still be ahead in efficiency. So we'd like you to keep
that in mind if you find things are taking well either more or
less time, keep us informed but that doesn't mean that we're
necessarily going to jap you with more stuff. Just it makes
it more efficient for us and more - more flexible for us
on the ground in figuring out what can be done. Over.
CDR Okay, Bob, we'll sure do it.
MCC Hey, on the as I say particularly and
I'm sure you're well aware and it frustrates us on the ground
too, but the Kohoutek program is kind of driving us to it.
And we're spending an awful lot of time yanking stuff in
and out of the airlock, and I guess any - any particular
increases in efficiency that you find there will certainly
be a help. In general outlook you've seen the 7-day forecast
I might amplify on that a little bit, that you'll be seeing
fairly greatly increased ATM program this week. The EREP
CONAS window is closed, and so we'll be increasing - having
increasing time available and decreasing EREP time. Although
it doesn't really show on the 7-day forecast, at the very
end you'll find a geothermal path on day 32, in the evening,
this is down over Italy. And that's why it can still be
sort of within your work day, but then if we're goin - just
like the rocket launch, if we're going to do geothermal passes
over the United States and do them at decent hours as far
as the scientists are concerned in terms of having it fairly
much in the middle of the night. We're again forced to a con-
straint of having to do them on during times which really aren't
in the regular crew work day. On day 33 and 34, we're currently
looking at passes which would probably require 3 hour early wakeups,
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in order to get these areas in the western U.S. before the

Sun gets even too close to the horizon. Further stuff that
we're looking at during the next 7 days is increase in Kohoutek
programs. Now that the comet is getting closer to the Sun
and brighter_ I I might just add as a note of general interest
to you guys, you probably get to see the comet better and better,
here in Houston since the Moon is getting fuller and actually
therefore occupying more of the sky where toward the comet as
time goes on. We probably won't have another good view of it
until afterperihelion. So you got something on us up there in
addition to everything else. During this coming week we'll
also start our first JOP 18 Delta, and in anticipation of
that this week, you'll probably find an awful lot of S082B
usage. Although we won't probably use SO82B on the first
JOP 18 Delta, we are right now using a fair amount of film
to get down to the sensitive film for the JOP 18 Deltas
that are coming up a few days after the end of this coming
7-day period. You'll see a lot of A - SO82B usage in the
next week. On the comet also, on day 31, SO19 will be
observing a (sic) occultation - -
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MCC A few days after the end of this coming

7- day period. You'll see a lot of S082B usage in the next
week. On the comet also on day 31 S019 will be observing
a [sic[ occultation of star Pi Scorpii by the comet, so we'll be
getting a pass which looks at the star before occultation by
the comet and then a few hours later a pass when we again
look at the same star but this time with the comet in front
of ittrying to look for absorption. Over.
CDR Roger Bob. And tonight Bill was doing
233 and the comet has finally peaked down from behind the
ATM panels, so we should be able to get a few more pictures.
CC Very good, I'm sure they'll be happy to
hear that. The other night or yesterday evening you guys
did that late S073 pass during the lunar eclipse and I'm
not sure whether anybody told you or not the observations
that we've been doing the last 3 days of S063 and that
observation with S073 were aimed at making observations as
the Earth pass through the plane of the comet looking for
a particularly heavy concentrations of dust particles in
that plane. Over.
CDR Hey that's very interesting, I wished
we'd known that a little earlier.
MCC Sorry to tell you but I think Dick is
coming on the line.
CC Skylab, Houston, l'd like to break in
here and we have a procedure here to CLOSE the SO56 - we
need to CLOSE the S056 and H-ALPHA DOORS. On that S056
shutter we think what happened by looking at the TM that Ed
took a long exposure on S056 and the start/stop was not
issued to terminate the experiment and this left the shuttter
OPEN. If somebody could clear this for us, the filters in the
sunlight, we'd like to go ahead and do this. We'd like to
turn 56 camera power to ON, wait 3 seconds then issue a
START, wait 5 more seconds and issue a STOP.
PLT Okay, he's up there now Dick.
CC Okay good, I'ii give it back to Bob, and
when you guys are through I'ii be standing by for evening
status report.
MCC Okay Skylab, I guess I'Ii just use my
time that was handed back to me to say good evening, wish
you well and talk to you in 7 days.
CDR Okay Bob, thanks for calling it was good
to talk to you.
MCC Okay send us some questions if you have them.
CDR We sure will.
CC And Jerry when you get your book out
and you're ready to start reading go ahead.
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CDR Okay here it goes. Sleep, CDR, 9.0, 7

heavy 2 light; SPT i0, 8 heavy 2 light; PLT 10.5, i0 heavy
1/2 light. Volume: CDR 2000; SPT 1400: PLT 1250. Water
gun reading: CDR, 7257; SPT, 2392; PLT, 8585. Body mass:
CDR, 6.310, 6.311, 6.311; SPT 6.359, 6.349, 6.354; PLT,
6.238, 6.232, 6.236. Exercise: CDR, Alfa, leg, 5000.
Bravo, Alfa, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, i0, 20 each. Method
Charlie is Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, 06, 20 each. Method
Foxtrot, walk, 09, run, 01, spring, 01, 200, toe rises, 02,
150. SPT, Alfa, leg, 8340. Method Bravo, Bravo, Foxtrot,
and curl, 16, 40 repetitions. Method Foxtrot, spring
15, i000, toe rise, 05, 200. Method Alfa, leg, 6000, method
Bravo, Alfa, Bravo, Delta, Echo, 08, 550 each. Method Charlie
Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, and Gulf, 10, 20
each. Method Foxtrot, walk, i0, spring, 01, i00, toe rises,
01, 75. Method Echo, Alfa, and Bravo, 02, i0 each. Medication
none. Garments disposed of: CDR, one pair of shorts,
correction, yeah, one pair of shorts, one T-shirt, one pair
of socks; SPT, none; PLT, none. Flight Plan deviation: none.
Shopping list accomplishments we did some TV-81, we got some
garbled word, we asked how much tape was left on the video
tape recorder, and somebody said 3 minutes, and we'd only -
we'd only used about 5 of what we thought was 30. So it
kind of had us non - plus. We ahead and did it and it
didn't run dry on us, so you got some in there.
CC Okay Jerry. Jerry I think you
misunderstand - misunderstood what he said. It was 20
minutes left. So there's no problem it's on - so whatever
you put on there is on there.
CDR Okay very good. Okay, inoperable equipment
is none. Unscheduled stowage: none. On the food menu:
CDR, salt zero deviation minus one coffee with sugar, rehydration
water plus 2.0; SPT, four salt, no deviations, no water
deviations; PLT, was no salt, plus one coffee, and minus one
ounce of rehydration water. And here comes the photo pad:
16-millimeter: Earth observations, HH30 Alfa, Charlie,
India, 12!5, now has 00, Charlie India 124. Nikon 01, Charlie
X-ray 36, 35, 02 no change, 03 no change, 04 Bravo, Echo, 08,
18, 05 is Bravo Hotel, 04, 36. 70-millimeter is Charlie
X-ray 47, 173, needs to be changed. ETC no change, EREP
no change. Drawer A configuration: Alfa I, 02 no change,
Alfa 2, 0!5 no change, Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 125, 00,
Charlie India 124. Alfa 4 is 03 no change, and the back is
07, no change.
CC Okay, Jerry thank you very much and
for Ed let me - I think there was, we left one step out of
what we'd like you to do to get the S056 shutters squared
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away. We see the CAMERA POWER is ON, what we'd like now is
the following steps
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CDR Alfa 4 is 03, no change, and the back is

07, no change.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much. And for
Ed, let me I think there was - we left one step out of what
we'd like you to do to get the SO56 sh - shutter squared away.
We see the CAMERA POWER'S ON, what we'd like now is the fol-
lowing step. AIRLOCK DOOR to OPEN, then issue a START and
wait 5 seconds issue a STOP. Over.
CDR Okay, he's on this way back up.
CC Okay. And also we'd like to get the H-ALPHA
and the 56 DOORS, CLOSED.
SPT Okay, Dick, that looks like it did it.
CC Okay, thank you much.
SPT Okay, Dick_ could you tell me what was the
problem that it was never closed after last long exposure.
CC That's right. We think what the problem
was, Ed, and this is based on looking at the TM after we got
it on the ground, that you did a long exposure on SO56, and
you just forgot to or omitted the START/STOP command to
terminate the exposure. And that's what left the sh shutter
open, so there's no problem with the hardware.
SPT Okay, we'll just have to watch that one,
it's an off-nominal operation and if we get busy and get
distracted, we'll just have to pay very close attention to it.
Thank you.
CC Roger, Ed. And the procedure for the long
ex - exposure is listed in - in the building blockc. But it
is kind of an off-nominal thing. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We're going to come up on Texas at 03:39, and the doctor
will be there and you'll have your medical conference there.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
loss of signal. The next station to acquire Skylab will be
Texas station at Corpus Christi in 30 minutes. At 3 hours,
8 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about 45 seconds
away from acquisition at the Texas station with overlapping
coverage through the Merritt Island and Bermuda stations.
The evening medical conference will be conducted at the
Texas site, We'll keep the line up for alr-to-ground following
that conference.
CDR Well, usually the day after but they
offered us one on the day before and we took it.
CC Skylab, Houston we've handed over now
and we're back on air-to-ground, we still got you in
Bermuda for the next 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick we've changed out or I've removed
Charlie X-ray 47 which is the the 70-millimeter mag on
the Hasselblad and with comet light if you could give me
quickly another magazine, I'll load that tonight. We do
have handheld tomorrow scheduled. And either that or on the
film pad (garble) in the morning.
CC Okay, Bill stand by please.
CDR And Dick on our television tonight,
part of it was we did a suit donning exercise (garble).
CC Skylab Houston how do you read now.
CDR Loud and clear. Did you hear my last
comment.
CC Roger_ what I got was, on the TV tonight
you did a suit donning and then you dropped out, I don't
know what happened at the moment but say again, please.
CDR Okay, we thought that had never been done -
had never been televised so we thought we would do
that and we kind of killed two birds with one stone because
some folks last week wanted us to open one up and look in
anyway. So we looked at it and it doesnVt - there's no
sign of mildew or anything like that. It's a good suit.
We got it back in the drying cycle and we're going to bake
out the (garble) and put it all back where it belongs. Also
the TV thing is pretty broken up because we had to stop and
go several times. But I think the television folks down
there can edit it and make a pretty good piece of information
out of it.
CC Okay, Jerry thank you very much.
SPT (Garble), Dick if you want an ATM frame count
I'm ready.
CC Roger, we already got the frame count
from Jerry when you were in the command module, I think Ed.
SPT Oh, okay, very good.
CC One thing we are interested in knowing
though we're looking at star tracker gimbal angles and we
I
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suspect that the NuZ update at 01:22 was not performed, is

that right? That was on Bill's detail pad.
PLT I don't have anything on my details pad.
(garble)
CC Roger, Bill. The pad I'm looking at is
it's pad 2504 Charlie and down there the time of 01:22 NuZ update.
CDR Yeah, he was looking at the wrong details,
Ed's going up to take care of it.
CC Well, I'm not sure - I'm not sure there's
a star available now, Jerry so stand by i.
CDR Well we can't do it now Dick. We're at a
dump; we'll have to wait. As I recall the dumping available
(garble) 33 or so remaining in the day.
CC Roger, stand by a second please. Skylab,
Houston it's about another hour before another opportunity
for a NuZ update, we just wanted to make sure we understood
what was going on and didn't have some kind of star tracker
problem so we're willing to skip that NuZ update for tonight.
So don_t sweat it. And PLT, Houston we_d like you to use
in answer to you earlier question, we_d like you to use
Charlie X-ray 17 and that's located in slot Charlie 29.
PLT Charlle 29.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute to LOS,
Madrid is going to come up 4 minutes from now at 03:57 and
since we are doing a JOP 12 today, if any of you guys are
up, the next NuZ opportunity is 04:30 if you're still up
we would appreciate an update and when we get to Madrid I'ii
have some news if you'd like to listen.
CDR Okay, Dick 1'11 be up.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. The Madrid station will pick up Skylab in about
3 minutes. We'll keep the line up and monitor through
Madrid.
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CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Madrid for

the next 7-1/2 minutes. And if you'd like to hear some news
from the purple people tonight, I got some.
CDR Let her go Richard.
CC Okay. The Nixon Administration announced
today that it will unveil a new national health insurance proposal
later this month. Detailed legislation on the subject is
expected in January. The government and an environmental
group are considering separate suits asserting the Alaska
pipeline will give oil giants an unfair monopoly. One suit
seeks to halt pipline constructlon scheduled to begin in a
few weeks. When complete in 1977, the line will tap the
rich oil fields of Alaska's_ North Slope. President Nixon's
Operation Candor continues with the disclosure today that a
significant number of White House tapes were turned over to
special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Jaworski has also
reeeived two subpoenaed Watergate conversations from U.S.
District Jurge Judge John J. Sirica. Secretary of State
Kissinger in Brussels today told European allies they should
close ranks with the United States to avoid European-
American competition. Kissinger defended U.S. policy during
the Middle-East War, telling the NATO organization council,
Washington's decisions were in the interests of Europe as
well as America. Army officials announced today that
Rita Johnson of Eldon, Missouri and Joyce Kutsch of Sarver,
Pennsylvania, two teenage WACS will become the Army's first
female paratroopers. When they complete the five mandatory
jumps next week, they'll be sent to Fort Lee Virginia for
parachute rigger training. The girls began training about
2 weeks ago. Charitable agencies that distribute food baskets
and serve holiday dinners to the needy say their costs are
up. Some say budget prices substitutes wlll have to replace
more expensive items normally included in the yuletide gifts.
The stock market went up today for the third gaining session.
Analysts say investors are shaking off fears of an energy
crisis and they've gotten back to the business of buying
stoeks. The Dow Jones average of 30 Industrials added 13.09
points today to close at 851.44. Active trading on the
New York Stock Exchange showed advanced issues better than 2
to i over declines. Gasoline retailers said today they want
phase 4 price controls lifted so they can hike prices by at
least i to 3 eents per gallon. In Houston meanwhile, the Oil
Daily reported that last week's average retail price of
regular brand gas, less taxes, was 29.23 cents a gallon
compared to 28.96 i week earlier and back in 1972 a price
of 24.45. On the sports scene tonight Bill, your alma mater
is playing basketball tonight. Oklahoma State University
takes on the University of Texas at Stillwater, and Jerry
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the sports writers report today that the University of

Southern California is number 19 in the nation. And here's
a halftime score from Monday Night Football, the Rams 17, the
Giants 3. We're about 45 seconds from LOS, for the last
pass of the evening. So we'll give you a call in the
morning. See you tomorrow.
CDR Thanks, a lot Dick.
CDR Good night gang.
CC Roger, and the purple gang is going to
take a day or so off and then we'll be back on the grave
yard shift for another 5 days. Boo.
CDR You guys behave yourself.
CC They're keeping us off the streets so
much we can't help it.
PAO This is Skylab Control, the good nights
has been said. But there's still about 2 minutes 15 seconds
acquisition at Madrid, we'll continue to monitor through
loss of signal there.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Madrid has loss
of signal with Skylab. We have the Mission surgeon's daily
report on the crew health for today, mission day 25, it reads
no health problems exist. The crew is well rested after the
day off, signed Jerry Hordinsky, M.D., for Dr. W,R. Hawkins,
M.D. We'll take this line down now until wakeup time
tomorrow - tomorrow's wakeup time is 7 a.m., the crew will
be allowed to sleep an extra hour in the morning because they
will be up an extra 3 hours tomorrow night. At 4 hours 6
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 12:56 Greenwich mean

time. Acquisition through tracking station Guam upcoming in
about 50 seconds at which station the wakeup call likely will
be made to the crew of Skylab IV. So we'll stand up, stand
by that is for the wakeup call.
CC (Music: "The Peanut Vender")
CC Skylab, Houston. How are you doing this
morning?
SPT Morning, Hank. Just gathering up our marbles.
CC Okay. Is it sleepy up there this morning?
SPT Yes indeed.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Goldstone in 16-1/2 minutes. And that will
be coming up at about 21.
PAO Skylab Control. Loss of signal through
tracking station Guam. Final Guam pass of the morning. 14 minutes
until acquisition at Goldstone for a stateside pass. Wakeup
music this morning selected by Spacecraft Communicator Hank
Hartsfield was "The Peanut Vender" as played by Chet Atkins.
The crew of Skylab IV woke up an hour later than normal this
morning, and the day's activities will continue until i:00 a.m.
central time tomorrow making it an 18-hour working day. The
lengthening of today's activities will permit the crew to photo-
graph a Department of Defense Minuteman launch scheduled for
around midnight from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air
Force Base. Skylab IV crewmen plan to use the far ultraviolet
electronographic camera to photograph the missile as it travels
toward Eniwetok Atoll in the western Pacific at altitudes up to
150 miles. The crew will attempt to record changes that occur
as the rocket pierces the upper levels of the atmosphere. During
the photography of the flight of the rocket, Skylab will be from
300 to i000 miles away from the rocket's path. This camera will
be mounted in the antisolar airlock. Pogue and Gibson will
operate and adjust the articulated mirror system while Cart
performs maneuvers required to orient the space station for
the proper angles to photograph the rocket's path. Prior to
this activity the crew will have one of their busiest days
operating the Apollo telescope mount gathering data on the Sun.
Heavy emphasis on the North Polar Hole and spicules will occupy
most of today's ATM time. The spicules are spears of frame -
flame that are near the limb of the Sun. They're brilliant jets
of luminous gas that rise approximately i0,000 kilometers above
the surface of the Sun and then fade in 2 to 5 minutes. Some
scientists think that the spicules may provide the primary
path for material and energy flows into the corona, or they
may be nonrelated but dynamic side effects. The North Polar
Hole is to be observed extensively by the ATM today. The general
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magnetic fields of the Sun are weaker at the poles. And one
theory is that the solar wind may emanate from these areas
of the Sun. Data takes on solar activity today by the ATM
will total 6 hours and 46 minutes during nine sessions at the
ATM console by the three Skylab crewmen. Jerry Carr will
be taking photos of Kohoutek in the morning and the evening
with a 35-millimeter Nikon camera in the continuing observation
of the comet as it approaches the Sun. Bill Pogue will operate
the far ultraviolet electronographic camera to take photos
of comet Kohoutek in the evening as Jerry Carr maneuvers
the Skylab into position. Ed Gibson will be performing more
ultraviolet airglow horizon photography, S063, to record the
ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere along with the twilight
airglow that occurs in the upper atmosphere. The airglow
is caused by chemical reactions in the ozone, oxygen and
other gases when they are stimulated by the Sun's radiation.
The upper atmoshpere is photographed at twilight against the
dark sky of space. Bill Pogue will serve as a subject today in the
M092/MI71 lower body negative pressure and metabolic activity
experiments with Jerry Carr as the observer. Performing
these medical experiments provides information concerning
the cardiovascular adaptation during flight and data for pre-
dicting the degree of orthostatic intolerance and impairment of
physical capability to be expected when the crew returns
to Earth. The metabolic effectiveness in doing mechanical
work in the environment of space is determined as measurements
are taken of oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide output, minute volume,
vital capacity, respiratory quotient, heart rate, blood pressure,
vectorcardiogram, body weight and body temperature. Handheld
photo options for today include ocean currents at the southern
tip of South America and especially the Falkland Current. Another
photo target is a submarine volcano called Tonga located south-
west of Samos in the South Pacific. A major rangeland in
northern Australia called Ginham Land is another handheld
photo target option today. Skylab IV crew will sack out at i:00 a.m.
tomorrow morning, and will sleep in until 9:00 a.m. Wednesday.
Bill Pogue will be the duty man for the sleep shift. 8 minutes
away from Goldstone acquisition. Returning at that time for
the stateside pass. At 13:13 Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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mean time. Coming up on a stateside pass here nearing the
end of revolution 3046 for space station Skylab. Acquisition
through Goldstone, Texas and Merritt Island Launch Area
tracking station. For a total pass of approximately
ii minutes, it looks like, Ii or 12 minutes, they're all added
together. AOS Goldstone predicted in 15 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Goldstone and
MILA for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CDR (Garble)
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Good morning, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Good morning. Sorry to bother you here,
but, Bill's gonna be talking to you at the next pass at
Vanguard and I won't get you again before you're on the ATM.
This is really for all three of you. We sent up some check-
list changes for the ATM cue cards, which you probably noticed.
And, we want to cancel the use of the permanent general message
number i0 and we think that the 82A outer door is jammed open
and so you're not going to get the appropriate door talk-
back indication. But, we still need the (sic) open the inner door
so the instrument can see the Sun and the checklist changes
we sent up will do that.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank. We're gonna let
the ESS signal light close the door automatically.
CC And, just to remind you, and I'm sure you're
aware of it, you also won't have a ready light because it
needs that door open signal.
SPT Okay, Hank. I think we will get an
operate light though.
CDR Hank, CDR. Would you give me a syn - (garble)
pa - time for the next pass?
CC Okay, we'll work on it, Jer.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC (Garble) just a quick one for you, Bill.
I need to get to you too, because Bill's gonna talk to ATM
the next pass. When you do your S063 prep here, coming up
about 14:45; just want to give you the reminder that on the
pad it calls for you to install both the manual release shutter
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cable and the remote control timer. Just wanted to point

that out, because the checklist cue card that you use there
doesn't call for the manual release shutter cable, but we
want both of them on there.
PLT Okay, now I thought those were one and
the same. Now, say it again.
CC We want the manual release shutter cable
and the remote control timer cable. The timer - you need both
of them there and I guess you need them to swap them over,
but the cue card only calls for the remote control.
PLT Okay, thank you, Hank.
PLT Hey, to be perfectly frank, I don't know
what that timer is that you're talking about.
PLT Okay, Hank. I'm with you now, I know
what you mean by S063 timer.
CC And, CDR, Houston. The next (garble)
set time will be over the next stateside, and we'll give you a
reminder there.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Vanguard will be coming up at 47 and that's about 10-1/2 minutes
from now.
CDR Okay.
through tracking station at MILA. 34 minutes to tracking ship
Vanguard and the scheduled ATM conference with Science Pilot
Ed Gibson aboard Skylab, and Scientist Astronaut Dr. Bill
Lenoir. We'll return at that time. That's 8 minutes to
Vanguard. For some reason the AOS clock shows 33 minutes.
Didnlt think the Earth had grown in diameter in the short
time. Wet11 be back in any - at any rate, whatever time it
is for Vanguard at 13:38 Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-844/I
Time: 07:45 CST, 26:13:45 GMT
12/11/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control; 13:45 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in about
50 seconds. And across Vanguard, we'll have the ATM conference
between Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Scientist Astronaut Dr.
Bill Lenoir, who is standing by to discuss today's ATM
operations. Vanguard in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard
for 8-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR, a reminder that we're
in the NuZ update window. And SPT, Bill's standing by for
your ATM conference.
SPT Good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We've got about 8 minutes here.
And let me start off here with a quickie. Some good news. ATM
scheduling over the next week or so, the number of ATM passes
is up on a tentative basis here. Today we have nine, tomorrow,
tentatively we had six. And then on the rest of the week, it's
seven, once, and eight the rest of the time, with two right now
scheduled on your day off. But you can change that at your option.
You might consider just asking for some totally open orbits
to work on your own there.
SPT Yeah, I would like to go into the ground
rule we established yesterday. I'm trying to get four in or
so on the day off.
MCC Okay. And, I'm sure, we will be more
than happy to accommodate that for you. We had one question
here regarding scheduling of ATMs. Tomorrow, on Mission day
28, apparently, we can get another ATM pass that we don't
presently own, if you can do it in the time frame from
02 to 03 Zulu. And there's been a lot of confusion here
as to just what our guidelines are inside of the presleep period
there. And maybe we can get those straight right now if
you have a minute.
SPT No. That's fine. We have said that
we don't want to be working - extend far after 9 o'clock or
0 03. So, heck, something going from 2 to 3 is great. And I'm
kind of sad not to see them coming up in that time frame. Go ahead
and put it in.
MCC Okay. That's the way I remembered it.
But, that was one of those things that you get any
group of four people together, and you had five different
opinions as to what has been said.
SPT Okay. Go ahead and do it.
MCC Okay. We have one other question here,
regarding special one-time-only type operations. The situa-
tion arises, well would have arisen today. Later on we
wanted to do a special one-time-only thing with 82B. We
were debating whether to just go ahead and put it in the
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schedule with the explanation out in the right-hand side or

whether it would be better just to refer to a separate
one-time general message, describing the duties and things.
For instance, it involves something on the order of taking
some systematic 82B pointings inside a coronal hole and outside
of it, right across the boundary there, and squeezing off
a couple of normal sequences. Do you have a feeling for
which way you guys would find easiest to work with that?
SPT Well, if you could put it with the
schedule pad, it would make it a little more convenient.
However, we don't want you to shorten the thing up to the
point that we end up not doing it the way which you had designed.
So the guidelines are, I guess, if it's relatively short
and simple, put it with the schedule pad. If it requires a
little further explanation, make a general message out if
it the same way as you did the other day with the additional
work for the four-limb coalignment for 82B. We don't mind having
additional information up here at all. We welcome it.
MCC Okay. And one other thought here. Some
open questions on 400 kilometers versus 250 kilometers. In
general, you can run as you know the white light eoronograph
54 and 56 down to 250 kilometers 82B sometimes, 82A no, and
55 preferrably not, especially on something like CALROC, where
the information is very definitely important. And a rule
of thumb: 250 kilometers in time is about half way between
400 kilometers and the 400-kilometer computer sunset signal.
SPT Okay. That's good to know. Thank you.
MCC Okay, Ed. I've got one question here,
regarding the 0300 ground rule, here. Did your answer apply
to just you, or to everybody. We have a pass this afternoon -
tomorrow, I'm sorry, for Bill that runs from about 02:30 to
03:30, and do we need to truncate that or is he willing
to go ahead and do that?
PLT I'll go ahead and do it.
MCC Okay. Fine. Thank you. And, Ed, on
the four-limb coalign that we did, we planned to do another
one tomorrow. The "non-round Sun" has us somewhat confused.
We suspect that it may be the fact that the left right Sun
sensor axis is not perfectly aligned with the gimbal axis
for removing the canister. Either it has changed or maybe
it never was aligned. And we're going to be scheduling another
one tomorrow, to look at this. We frankly, just don't
understand all that's going on here.
SPT Well, I certainly don't either. And I
was very careful in going through it. I think most
of the numbers reflect that, except the very end result
with the "non-round Sun". And that was quite a surprise.
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MCC I can imagine.

SPT However, we did have an appreciable change
in the bias from these light sensors (garble) up and down.
And I would not expect the drift to be as hard as that
turned out to be.
MCC Right. And there's indications from
52 that all of that change came in within the last 2 days.
That they're PES just seem to be going to pot in here as
far as the signal they were getting. So that's one of
the reasons we want to repeat it. We could not schedule
it in today, but we will tomorrow.
SPT Okay.
MCC And last night, 56 filter 1 was
open for something like 1-plus orbit. We're going to not
take long exposures on filter 1 for a while here, so it
can cool off and settle down and really getting our own
confidence back. You might take note of that. I know that's
not one of your normal shopping list long filters, but you
might just hang off on filter i for awhile.
SPT Okay. We certainly will, Bill.
MCC And just a note of interest here.
Rusty's over at Marshall today, looking at the 54 EVA
procedure to see what we could do with them. And, I guess,
the sequence sort of, is to see whether or not you can see
and reach in there once the camera's removed from the center
work station. Then see if you can free it_ get it back to
total normal operation, and if not, then spin it backwards
to filter 3 and press on from there. So, within a couple
of days we should have some more work on that.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Let me take a pause here. We've
got only 2 minutes left, and I haven't given you time to
say much of anything. Why don't you go ahead.
SPT Well. It looks as though we're going
at it with another quiet Sun today, and I was just looking
at the XUV monitor picture. The coronal hole up north,
which I guess we want to work on, looks about as pronounced
as the one in the south, maybe not quite as large, but the
boundary is there. There's a filament (?) channel leading
down from it, which you kno you know which - what it's
associated with. I don't see much in the way of bright
plains on the disk. I was able to locate one or
two yesterday and put one on for unattended. But there does
not appear to be many - many there today. The ones that are
there are relatively faint. The active regions coming
around the corner on the east limb are not very bright.
So it's probably another good day for quiet Sun. The white
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light ooronograph picture has got very prominent and bright

streamers of that - around that about - o'clock or so
running radial and it's fairly broad at the base (garble)
power is very bright. The second brightest one is out just
about completely opposite of that at 2 o'clock. But that
does not extend down as far, it's not as bright, and it's
about as wide, running from maybe 2:30 to or 1:30 to 3:30 -
1:30 to 2:30, excuse me. And then there's two very faint
ones. One at around 9 o'clock excuse me i0 o'clock
and one over there about 8:30, which is superimposed on the broad
base of the first one I mentioned. But, no evidence of
a transient, just the slowly changing corona as it rotates.
MCC Okay, Ed. And we asked everybody
yesterday, and every dicipline here concurrs, they dontt
see any significant motion on the Sun, either. We're
going LOS right about now. Next contact is Goldstone in
i hour and 3 minutes, which will be at about 14:59.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bill.
MCC Okay. We'll see you tomorrow.
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CC 29.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bill. See you tomorrow.
CC Okay. We'll see you tomorrow.
through tracking ship Vanguard. Next station in 1 hour and
1 minute will be Goldstone, present groundtrack on this orbit
for the space station misses all the other stations. Next
rev we'll start picking up Tananarive and Hawaii and the
good ship Vanguard, of course practically every revolution
for about the next 6. 13:57. Back in an hour. This is
Sk_lab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 14:57 Greenwich
mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition Goldstone and
according to the timeline this morning, the first run of
S063 - ultraviolet airglow horizon photography should be
underway with the Pilot, Bill Pogue. This experiment photographs
in the visible and ultraviolet spectram of the ozone layers
of the Earth and twilight airglow around the Earth. The camera's
mounted in the scientific airlock, the antisolar scientific
airlock, the only one available in as much as the parasol
juts out the solar scientific airlock. Principal investigator
is Dr. Donald M. Packer of the Naval Research Laboratory in
Washington. Should be AOS at Goldstone at this time.
CC Good morning, Skylab. The crimson team's
with you, AOS across Goldstone for 12 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC PLT, Bill you got a moment to talk about
the 131 run that you're going to be doing on Ed coming up
later?
PLT Okay. I'm right here by the minus-Z
SAL setting up the 63. Go ahead.
CC Okay. There was a checklist change which
changed the levels for the 131 OCI test and we wanted to make
sure that those got in. It seems they were omitted the last
time we did it. It's checklist change 03 to the biomed
Checklist and if you've got a pencil handy, I can give you
the test levels that we wanted to do.
PLT Stand by. I'm going to go down there and get
the cue card - to put it right on that.
CC Okay, fine.
PLT Okay, Crip. Fire away.
CC Okay. The levels are i, 4, 8, I0, and
14. And Ed, you can select one of the monitors for the TV
downlink. We're standing by for it.
PLT Okay, Bob. Those are already on the cue
card. I guess we just overlooked it the last time.
CC Okay, fine.
CC And for the CDR, if you wanted S009 set
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time, we got one coming up in about a minute if you can get

it.
CDR I'm on my way.
CC And Jer, if you're in the vicinity and
can hear me, the set times specifically is 15:03:46 Betas
plus 2 and periods I00.
CDR Roger. Thank you.
CDR Okay Crip. It's running right on time.
CC Okeydoke.
CC And PLT, Bill, one other item on that
131 run coming up - did you - copying, it's counterclockwise,
30 rpm.
PLT Counterclockwise and 30.
MCC SPT, Houston. If you're - can on the
ATM panel, if you'd select one of the monitors for TV down-
link, please.
LOS. We'll see you again in about 12 minutes over the Vanguard
at 15:23, 15:23.
through tracking station Texas for the final stateside pass
of the morning, i0 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard. Space
station Skylab currently in a an orbit measuring 227.3
nautical miles at Perigee and 243.9 nautical miles at apogee.
Takes a minute, 33 seconds - I beg your pardon, an hour 33
minutes and 13 seconds to make one revolution traveling at
a velocity of 25,077 feet per second. Cabin pressure remaining
at 5 pounds per square inch, partial pressure of oxygen is
intentially somewhat high at about 3.9 pounds. It's left
at a high percentage and - to compensate for the venting of
nitrogen which will occur during the runs of the M509 astro-
naut maneuvering unit later on in the mission. The thrusters
on the M509 use nitrogen gas to avoid upsetting the balance
between oxygen and nitrogen in the cabin atmosphere, it's
purposely kept - the oxygen level is purposely kept high.
And the average temperature in the workshop atmosphere at
the current time is about 75 degrees. We'll be back in 8
minutes for Vanguard. And at 15:13 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylah Control.
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SL-IV MC-846/I
Time: 09:21 CST 26:15:21 GMT
12/11/73

mean time. Space station Skylab crossing the northern portion
of the Chilean coast, and about 40 seconds away from acquisition
by the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes.
CC For the CDR. Jerry, you got time to chat
a minute in the - in amongst this housekeeping you're doing?
CDR Say again, Crip.
CC Jerry, I was wondering if you would mind
taking a look at the waste processes for us. We saw - have
been seeing an elevated temperature since late yesterday
afternoon elevated pressure, pardon me, since late yesterday
afternoon. On those things we want to make sure that they're
all sealed properly. Or have you recently put anything in them
that might cause it to be going up?
CDR Well, let's see, Crip. We had a put a
diekel (?) bag in yesterday and some desiccants. Possibly it was
the desiccants.
CC Was that (garble) desiccants you did?
CDR Yeah, that's right. You know we took a -
opened the suit yesterday for our television thing and I think
the desiccants and one of them may not have been sealed properly.
CC Okay. That's probably what's caused it
and we appreciate the info, You get a chance to, look at
Wolf volcano while ago.
CDR We were a bit late. Fernandina volcano
is the one that's really smoking up a storm, and we saw a long
straight plume heading due east from the mouth of the volcano.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Our photos are oblique.
CC Okay, fine, thank you.
CC Another thing, Jerry. May not be clear
to you on your pad there, but, we called out housekeeping
2 Bravo dash 12A, it's not up 2 Bravo dash, it's housekeeping
12A we want there too.
CDR Okay, Crip. And also, how about our waste
prooesser exhaust pressure, what does it look like right now?
I'm pegged out.
CC We're checking.
CDR When we started our urine dump today, it
went from .05 up to about .075 and stabilized and so I went
away from it, and now it's pegged out high.
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CC Okay. We've been showing it elevated

since about the past 16 hours and I have checked to see if
I can get a reading for you right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We're reading about .08, which
coincides with .008, which coincides, I believe, with what
you were reading as pegged high.
CDR Yeah, that looks about right.
CC Jer, while I'm talking to you here. There's
another item that like you to all be aware of. We're still
seeing the fluctuations in that ATM C&D coolant loop, and we
would appreciate it, then, if you might periodically check or if you
happen to hear any noise in the place where AI left you the
noise sign, if you would inform us about it, so we can see
if they coincide with our data showing the glitches. Also
notice if you get a pump DELTA-P light, low light.
CDR Will do, Crip.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're probably gonna
loose you a little bit early here. Probably go LOS at any
time. We've got Tananarive in about 17 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay, and Jer, a little misinformation I
gave you on that wa - waste processer pressure. What
we're reading is .008, and your meter should not be pegged
high. We've had problems with that pegging high before, and
it's probably just your meter. If you got any questions on
the future, why don't you just give us a call and we'll tell
you what it is.
CDR Okay, I figured it was the meter, but I
thought I'd better make sure everytime I see it.
CC Okeydoke, thank you.
through tracking ship Vanguard. 15 minutes to voice relay
station Tananarive. Commander Jerry Cart reported getting
oblique photos of one of the handheld photo targets, this
morning. The Fernandina volcano on the - in one of the
Galapagos Islands. These islands are some 600 nautical miles
on the coast of Equador, on the Equator. The Galapagos
Islands are geologically and biologically unique and are under
study by several international groups. The Fernandina Caldera,
which was photographed this morning has had a major collapse
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and five eruptions in the past 5 years and is constantly changing.

And, with the photos, it is hoped that the size and shape of
any new lava flows can be determined. And, also, the location
of any new source vents, relative to the Caldera. 13 minutes
to Tananarive, at 15:35, Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC847/I
Time: 09:48 CST, 26:15:48 GMT
12/11/73

mean time. 50 seconds until predicted acquisition through
voice relay station Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Tananarive
and we have you for about 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Seems that we've might -
OOMM's breaking up a little bit here in Hawaii - going to be at
about 40 minutes at 16:33, 16:33.
PAO Skylab Control. Loss of signal at Tana-
narive. Hawaii in 36 minutes at which time we shall return.
15:56 Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
mean time. 50 seconds until acquisition for the first time
this morning through tracking station Hawaii. Skylab IV
Commander Jerry Carr is scheduled at this time to be on the
Apollo Telescope Mount operations console on one of many
solar observations scheduled for today.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Hawaii
for about 5 minutes and we' re going to be needing the DAS
for this this pass. We'll be giving you a NAV update.
You might see orbit save time or jump about 6 seconds during
the process.
CDR Okay, yon got it.
PLT And Crip, could you verify that our
experiment i recorder is in fact running?
CC It is verified running, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Good Crip. We're just now getting started
with the MIgI-I. We had to work a little bit on S063 and
turns out that the information which Bill needed to set up
the S063 was in my pad and that wasn't figured out till a
while ago. So we've all been working on it. We think we've
got it set up. But we're a little late with 131 - we may have
to (garble) it off in order to get 63 in.
CC Okay. Copy and understand that the
63 OPS was in your pad when it was supposed to have been in
Bill 's .
SPT No, the information for the setup was
supposed to be in Bill's. That's the camera prep.
CC CDR, Houston. We need to be in mechanical
reference for this observation on the ATM panel - on S055.
CDR Roger.
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12111173

LOS. We'll see you again in 23 minutes over the Vanguard. We'll
be doing a data/voice recorder dump and that's at 17:01, 17:01.
And, Ed, if either you or Bill get a chance on the subsequent
pass, we'd appreciate it if you could relate to us what it
was that was confusing that was in your pad vice Bill's because -
so we can keep it straight in the future. We don't exactly
understand where it - what was missing.
PLT Okay, Crip. What it was, I was scheduled
for Alpha Papa Romeo 3 on S063, which it should apparently
carry up to the Alfa Oscar Papa of S063. But, part of
the information for the camera setup and all and the filters
and everything was on Ed's pad. His Alfa Oscar Papa
pad.
CC Okay. We were under the impression that
all that info should of been on the ops pad, since that was
assigned to Ed, but, we'll take a look at that. Thank you.
PLT Oh,actually that's the equipment that I worked
with, you see, that's experiment (garble).
CC Over the hill.
Hawaii. 21 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard. We'll return
at that time. At 16:39 GMT Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 16:59 Greenwich mean
time. 50 seconds away from acquisition through tracking ship
Vanguard. Standing by for Vanguard acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for the next i0 minutes and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump.
SPT Roger.
CC And, we found the problem that Bill and
Ed were reiating to and we'll fix it up such that they get two
pads, next time. Sorry about that.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Roger. The guys in the backroom are probably
noticed that I'm behind on S055 and go d a question for them.
Would they like me to have this MIRROR 3 RASTER, would they
like me to truncate it in order to get more of the MIRROR
AUTO RASTER at a GRATING of 528, or shall I just go ahead
and finish the MIRROR 3 and get as much MIRROR AUTO as I can?
CC Checking.
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CDR Which will only be about a minute.

CC Jer, what we'd like you to do is after
one good RASTER on the 102, we'd like you to go ahead and
go to 528 at for the MIRROR AUTO RASTER.
CDR Okay. Will do.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We're gonna see you again at Tananarive in 15
minutes, 17:25. Jer, can you tell us whether you had a
chance to get a GRATING 302 RASTER in or not?
CDR Yeah, what happened is, I was having
trouble getting the grating set at the right position. I kept
missing my opportunity, so I got 302 first, I'm doing 102 now
and I'll do 528 last.
CC Okay. That's good. That's what we thought
but, we weren't positive. And, also, no need for Bill to
acknowledge, but his phone call this evening is set up for
just about 03:00, and I can make sure he understands that
later.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC Thank you, Bill.
through Vanguard. Final pass through Tananarive voice relay
station upcoming in 12 minutes. Returning at that time, this
is Skylab Control at 17:12.
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SL-IV MC-849/i
Time: 11:23 CST, 26:17:23 GMT
12/11/73

mean time. 50 minutes - 50 seconds, that is until acquisition
at voice relay station Tananarive. Final time across
Tananarive today. There'll be approximately 35-minute
LOS period after Tananarive until we come across Hawaii,
almost directly overhead at that station on the Island of
Kouni (sic), 87 degrees. That's 87.7 degrees. That's just 2.3
degrees off straight up.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive. We
have you for about 6 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. You have a moment to talk?
CC Are you busy pedaling?
CC PLT, Houston. Got a moment to chat, Bill?
CDR He'll be right with you.
CC Okay. No hurry.
CDR We've got another exercise period and a
no movement situation both scheduled at the same time, again.
PLT Go, Crip.
CC Okay. Bill, we copied that you did not
get to do the 131 MS portion of the run while ago on Ed. And
our recommendation would be, if you've got your Summary
Flight Plan handy, is for you to eat early, around 19:00
where we've got a housekeeping period scheduled for you.
And then for you to shift it in at about 19:45 there approxi-
mately, where Ed has got a housekeeping period. And what
is currently scheduled for your eat period.
PLT Sounds like an excellent suggestion, Crip.
We'll do it_
CC And, Skylab, Houston. There is no
constraint in motion for this S063 OPS. On this one here.
We will identify on the pad where there is a constraint.
CDR Okay. Fine.
CC CDR, Houston. Jer, do you have a moment
to chat about handhelds and how much time you need to prep
for them?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. We're considering right now about
putting down on your details or whatever is applicable,
3 minutes prior to time of closest approach. Do you consider
that an adequate adequate amount of time?
CDR Yeah. I think 3 to 5 minutes is okay.
We just blew it on the one this morning.
CC Okay. You want 3 or you want 5?
CDR I think 5 would be better.
CC 5 it is.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll have you again in 37 minutes over Hawaii
at 18:08, 18:08.
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through voice relay station at Tananarive. 34 minutes until
the next station, which is Hawaii. We shall return at that
time. At 17:33 GMT, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Pass directly over the Hawaii tracking station
starting in 50 seconds, midway through revolution 3048 for
space station Skylab. We'll stand by as the Hawaii station
locks onto the downlink from space station Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii and we have
you for about i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. Let me tell you about S063°
CC Tell me, tell me.
SPT Okay. Started off with time ridging (garble)
not worked properly and l've got to dig into it and find out
what happened there. So all those exposures that were made
were done with the manual timing (garble) table. It - as expected
took a little OJT at the beginning to work it all out. Turns
out to get any kind of adequate tracking, you've got to track
it, two directions both with the rotation with a ring and
also with the up/down to keep the dash line on the airglow.
I think I got around to 6 or 7 good photos, reasonable photos
with some reasonable tracking. They got better as they went
on and gave about a 2-minute one at the conclusion. But I
consider that one pretty much of a OJT one and I'ii see if
we cantt get you some - one DAS called out for in the future.
The pictures seven were done all alternating filters back and
forth. So essentially, what we did get was around two or three
exposures which were called out for but most of that was taken up
figuring out the three things you've got to change. The ro-
tation on the AMF - AMF, ehe rate (?) track anf finally track
plus the manual timing. It's a real octopus operation but I
think we're getting there.
CC Okay, Ed° Copied. Can you be a little more
specific about which frames you missed?
SPT You'll have to get that off the tape, Crip.
CC Okay.
SPT I think what it amounted to is - well -
hold on I'ii - let me give you - -
CC That's fine. If you've got it on tape,
that's good, Ed. We'll get it off of that.
SPT Okay Crip. What was called out for in
the way of exposures, frames 1 through 9 were essentially every
3 minutes, take a 64-second exposure alternating between the
two filters. Except the first one has two - the first two
filters were the same. They're essentially the same exposure.
What I did was - seeing as we got a little behind there at the
beginning. Just alternate back and forth filters trying to
get them roughly 60-to 65-second exposures. They may be a
little different than that using the manual timer. The problem
is, you have to track and also try to keep an eye on a watch
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and work the other three hands too.

CC Okay. Appreciate the problem there with
the timer being out. Can you say any more words about that
other than it just didn't work?
SPT I guess the button is it didn't move the
shutter. 11 tried it twice but I didn't have the time to dig
into it so I just have to go manual from there on. I'ii go take
a look at it now.
CC Okay. Copy.
CC Ed, one suggestion we have from here is
you might check the down counter on that timer - if it - on
the camera, excuse me. If it's sitting at zero, you cannot
take a photograph with the timer.
SPT Okay. Would you say what to check again,
please Crip?
CC Okay. On the camera itself, there is a
down counter; and if that's sitting at zero, it'll not take
timed photographs with the timer.
SPT No, it's not Crip. It's now sitting on
21.
CC Okay. Very good.
CC Ed, while I'm talking to you here, I
wanted to tell you that that T and this i_ for all of you,
actually, that TV you gave us yesterday on your day off was
real good. The camera work and the lighting worked out well.
The voice quality was good but they would appreciate it if you
would still the microphone just a little bit closer to your lips.
The quality of the voice that Bill gave later, while you were
doing that suit donning, came through very clean. So and
yours was just a little bit on te weak side. So if you
might try when you're using that mike, putting it a little bit
closer to your lips, we would appreciate it.
SPT Okay Crip. Will do. Bill was wearing -
actually wearing the Snoopy cap when he was working. I'ii
try and do that. Thank you.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Okay Ed, there's one other item is that before
you take that exposure with the timer, you have to insure that
you manually cock the camera. The first time, that is.
SPT That was done, Crip.
CC Okay. That just about exhausts our ideas
right now. Let us think about it for a while.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll have you again over the Vanguard in about 22 min-
ute_; _t 18:39. And Ed_ we assume that you did put the batteries
in the timer. (Garble) and - i guess we're checking to see
if we got some other batteries onboard now that we might try.
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SPT Okay, Crip. That turned out to be the

problem. We took one of the timers out of there and apparently
one of the timers had a battery in and one didn't. We were - we
got the one without it. I'd like to find out where in the
procedures somewhere along the way is either putting battery
timers in - we went astray.
CC Okay. We'll look into it. Looks like
we might have had a problem in the way the procedures were set
up there.
through Hawaii. Next station in 20 minutes, will be tracking
ship Vanguard. Viewing the comet Kohoutek is becoming in-
creasingly difficult for astronomers here on Earth. While the
comet grows brighter each day, it now has a powerful rival
for its section of the night sky. The full Moon, nearly
a million times as bright, produces so much scattered light
in Earth's atmosphere, that good views of the comet are very
difficult. Despite the interferance of moonlight, the latest
measurements of the comet's tail indicate that it is visible
for a 13 million miles behind the envelope of gases and dust
that form its head. For the next few days, the bright Moon
will make the comet more difficult to see. As the comet moves
closer to the Sun, at a speed now greater than 120,000 miles
per hour or 2000 miles a minute, morning twilight will also
make viewing difficult. At the present time, the comet be-
comes visible just above the southeast horizon about 2 hours
before sunrise or about a half hour before the morning sun-
light begins to brighten the atmosphere in the eastern sky.
While observation is now difficult from the Earth, where observa-
tories pointing their instruments along the horizon are blocked
by buildings or tall trees that obscure Kohoutek, the comet
is still within easy view of the astronauts aboard Skylab.
While the regular observations of the cometts brightness,
using a Nikon camera twice each day, are becoming difficult
from the command module window, the comet's new position,
nearing the Sun, has made it visible from one of the small
windows in the structural transition section, between Skylabts
docking section and airlock portion of the cluster. The
comet's position in the solar system, now less than 60 million
miles from the Sun and several million miles inside the orbit
of the planet Venus, is bringing it closer to the Moon each
day. By December 24_h, when the comet will be about 22 million
miles from the Sun in just a few days before its closest
approach to the solar surface, the dark moon will nearly
block our view of the comet in the morning sunrise. Aboard
Skylab, the comet camera will be used to photograph Kohoutek
tonight about 7:30 to 8 p.m. Houston time. Meanwhile, using
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a 120-foot radio telescope in Haystackj just west of Bostonp

Massachusetts_ astronamers are trying to detect water in the
comet. Recent - recent studies of the comet have shown
evidence at hydroxyl - a combination of oxygen and hydrogen
atoms exists in the comet. This is believed to be a product
of the breakdown of water molecules which have been super-
heated by intense sunlight that radio telescope search not
effeeted by the brightness of the Moon will continue through-
out the month as the comet increases in brightness to surpass_
scientists expect, every star in the sky. 16 minutes to the
tracking ship Vanguard. At 18:22 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
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mean time. Tracking ship Vanguard upcoming in 50 seconds.
Next statio_ after Vanguard will be Hawaii. A gap of almost
an hour, out of contact. And that Hawaii pass will be the
final one of the day, at a fairly low elevation angle of
3-1/2 degrees. Standing by for acquisition Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard 9-1/2
minutes. Doing a data/voice recorder dump.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've had the woodpecker
working and all your flight plans are onboard. CDR, when you
have a chance I would like to talk to you a little bit about
the S019 canister, that we're scheduling for tomorrow's ops
It's just, I think, it deserves a little bit of explanation.
SPT He heard you, Crlp, and he'll be with you
in a little bit.
CC Okay, Ed, while I've got you there, we're
trying to understand the problem of the batteries in the timer
and there was an S063 activation, which was on one of your
cue cards. It's S063 act handheld, which called for installing
batteries in - in the timers and I guess, right now, we are
a little bit uncertain as to what of that was done and whether
we got the batteries in the timers, also as to which battery
is in Nikon 02. So, maybe if you could give us an update on
that sometime we could understand the problem better.
SPT Okay, Crip. The problem was that on
activation, we had two of us working the problem and one
assumed that the other guy got that particular thing.
We had a timer battery in number i, but not in number 2.
Number 2 is the one we picked. You want a timer batteries
in number - in the camera or in the timer?
CC In - well, I guess we could use them all.
Nikon 02 and the timers if you could, and it's not necessary
to get that right now, but_ if we could have that down sometime
today, we would appreciate it.
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Got a nice long one, have you again at Hawaii, a little over
an hour from now, at 19:49, 19:49.
through tracking ship Vanguard. 59 minutes to the next station
at Hawaii. On December 24, the day before Christmas, the
Moon will block out the center of the Sun's disk, in what is
called an annular eclipse. A type of eclipse which leaves the
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outer edge of the Sun showing around the dark sphere of the
Moon. Skylab solar instruments will be gathering data on the
eclipse of the Sun for six consecutive passes. The first three
beginning at 10:40 Greenwich mean time or 4:40 a.m. central
standard time, will be controlled automatically through
ground-controlled unattended operations. At 15:10 Greenwich
mean time on the day before Christmas, the crew will begin
a series of three passes in which they can observe portions
of the annular eclipse. From the Earth, the anular eclipse
will be visible at its maximum along a line that runs from
the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Acapulco, across the northern
part of South America, over the Atlantic Ocean and on over
part of northwest Africa. In annular eclipses, the Sun appears
to be larger than the Moon, even when the Moon passes directly
in front of the Sun, a bright circle, like an orange hula hoop
can still be seen. In a total eclipse, on the other hand, the
entire solar disk is blocked out. The last total eclipse, for
which some of Skylab's telescopes were operated by ground
control was June 30th, of this year. For the December 24
annular eclipse, about i0 percent of the Sun's surface will
remain visible. Even along the track of a maximum eclipse.
Viewers in the central and eastern United States will he able
to see a portion of the pre-Christmas elift - eclipse. It will
begin just after sunrise, about 7:30 a.m., Houston time and
will last as long as 2 hours in southern Florida. Only a
small part of the Sun's disk will be blocked out for most
U.S. dawn observation. Naturally, careful precautions must be
taken to when observing the eclipse, to avoid serious eye
injur - eye damage. This is the second annular eclipse this
year. A very brief eclipse occurred last January over the
southern portion of South America. Though it may seem strange
to Americans shivering in their woolen underwear, one of the
reasons the annular eclipse frequently comes during the winter
season in North America, is that the Sun is now closer to the
Earth, than it is during much of the year. Winter and summer
are caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis, not by the Earthts
distance from the Sun, and with winter in the northern hemisphere
we have summer conversely below the Equator. At the same time
the Sun is nearer to the Earth, and appears larger, the Moon
happens to be further away and seems smaller. Thus it is
that the little Moon fails to obliterate the giant Sun. While
an annular eclipse is not as useful for scientific observations
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one advantage for students of the Sun is that the Moon provides
a sharp-edged occulting disk, making it possible to photograph
smaller and more clearly defined solar features as it cuts across
the bright surface of the Sun. The Skylab crewmen will never
see the maximum level of the eclipse, but the frequent
opportunities to see parts of the Sun blocked out by the Moon
should provide new information about our nearest star. Infor-
mation that couldn't be gained without the cooperation of
Earth)s only natural satellite. 55 minutes to tracking station
Hawaii. We'll return at that time. At 18:53 Greenwich mean
time, this :is Skylab Control.
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mean time. About 50 seconds away from acquisition through
tracking station Hawaii. Final Hawaii pass of the day.
Midway through revolution 3049.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
3 minutes.
CC Skylab, the MOCR down here looks like
we reverted back to that other program. It's all of a
sudden full of Apollo 17 people.
PLT It's always nice to have company.
PLT Crip, I have those numbers for you -
battery numbers.
CC Appreciate them.
PLT Okay. In Nikon number 2 the battery number is
1054, the timer batter is I think it's 1090. If it's
not that, itls 1890.
CC Okay.
CC What about the other timers? There are
two timers, or did you get a battery in the other timer yet?
PLT That was timer number 2 that I gave you, and
stand by for timer number i.
CC What I was talking about awhile ago,
regarding Apollo 17, we've got Captain Cernan and Dr. Rock
down here making a presentation in the MOCR to the flight
controllers of Apollo 17.
PLT Oh. Good show.
SPT Crip, the serial number on the 1 - in timer
number 1 is 1090, or perhaps 1890. The ink is rather unclear,
I believe it's a zero, 1090.
PLT Okay.
CC Those are the same numbers I got for 2.
PLT Stand by, Crip.
CC Okay. No sweat. If there's any confusion,
we can get lit squared away later. We're about 1 minute
from LOS now. We're going to see you over the Vanguard in
26 minutes at 20:17, 20:17.
PLT Okay, Crip. Clarification, 1088 is on
timer number 2. 1090 or 1890 is on timer number i.
CC Okay. We copy, Bill. Thank you very
mu ch.
for the final time today through the Hawaii tracking station.
24 minutes til the next station, which will be the tracking
ship Vanguard.
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PAO It was a year ago, today, almost to the

minute, that Apollo 17 touched down on the Moon, for the final
manned lunar landing. This landing was at Taurus Littrow. Apollo
17 Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt,
are here in Mission Control, to observe the anniversary and
to recognize the support they received from the Flight Control
Team.
CERNAN Houston, this is Challenger, are you
reading? Go ahead, Houston. This Apollo 17 crew Jack Schmitt
and myself, Gene Cernan, sort of want to share an anniversary
we're having with all of you that are on the loop, that can
hear us, cause today is the - a very special day, almost a
year ago, to the minute as a matter of fact. Right now at
54 minutes past the hour while Ron Evans was circling the
Moon in America, Jack and I were guiding Challenger to
a landing in the valley of Taurus Littrow on - there's very fond
memories in our hearts and in our minds and we hope all of
you share the significance of that moment a year ago with us.
We've taken this opportunity of today to present to you here
in Mission Control and all those people here at JSC who
supported your entire operation, a flag that we carried with
us aboard spacecraft America on our flight Apollo 17. I guess
the real significance of this flag is manifested in its own
history, but to us the flag itself, the fact that we had the
opportunity to carry it, sort of represents the dedication
and the effort and the courage and the self-sacriface of so
many of you people here - here at the Center, who made our
mission even possible, much less the success that it was.
And the spirit of that feeling and the dedication which you
people put forth for us and for the entire Apollo Program
I think is very significant of the traditions and the heritage
of our country that has allowed our nation to grow into the
greatest nation that the world has ever seen. So with, I
think you understand, an obviously sincere feeling of humility
but an awful lot of great, exciting pride we want to present
to you in a way of saying thanks, this flag, that went with
us on our mission last December. To Gene and to all of your
people who worked _o hard, who worked so dilligently, not for
just Apollo 17 and not just for the Apollo Program and all the
people involved in it, but for our country and ultimately for
the significance and that peace and that hope of all mankind
that we speak of so frequently.
SCHMITT Okay, if you can read me Houston, I think
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you all remember what I said when we deployed the flag

similar to this on the Moon, that that was the flag that flew in
the MOCR - aft - during Apollo ii and through Apollo 16 and
it's up there and it's up there not only representing the
country but representing everyone of you guys. And everybody
involved in Apollo through the years. Now, this one went
to the same place, but this one's come back and to fly in the
MOCR and I hope you'll let it fly here for as long as we're
flying in space. You may be interested in a little bit of
history. During the Apollo 15 mission Dick Gordon and I
started talking about the possibility of flying the MOCR flag
if we had a chance to fly and then when Apollo 17 crew was
selected Gene and I started talking about it, and we brought
it up with Gene Kranz and everybody thought that it was a
great idea and that's fortunately with the help of George
Abbey and a few other people around the Center we were able to
fly it. Typical in NASA history, the flag that flew on
Apollo ii was a different size than the flag that was flown
subsequently, so we had to make some design modifications
in order to carry it. But, I think, everybody was happy to
do it and I certainly was happy to have the_opportunity to
deploy it, not only personally but I - as I said before,
I think for everyone in the room. Thank you very much.
KRANZ Okay, on behalf of the Flight Controllers, thel
people in Mission Control, for all of our previous space
programs, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, our current program
Skylab, and the Mission Controllers who will be flying programs
of the future, will accept this flag. The flag shall always
stand in the Mission Control Cenfler here, and when we look
at it we_ll think that dedication to the job, self sacrifice,
attention to detail and craftsmanship are what we need to
keep this country great. And to solve any of the problems that
we run across in any of the programs of this nation. We thank
you very much.
SCHMITT Our pleasure.
CERNAN Thank you Gene-o and Bill, we - -
CERNAN Bill (applause) hey-hey. Bill Schneider
we thank you for the time during this Skylab Mission, the
guys up there we know all personally contribute a great deal
towards all the Apollo missions, and we'd like to think that the
Apollo missions have contributed something to what they're
doing up there and I think they are an extension of what was
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sort of our model on Apollo 17 that it's the beginning, it's

not the end. Thank you.
PAO Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt putting the
flagstaff in the bracket which this morning was moved from
the third floor control room down to this control room.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 20:00 hours
Vanguard tracking ship coming up in 16 minutes. We'll return
at that time, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Tracking ship Vanguard in about 50 seconds, and
following Vanguard will be the first pass of the day over
tracking station Ascension Island.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Hey Jet, you got a moment to chat a little
bit about S019 OPS and what we got scheduled for you tomorrow?
CDR Yeah. Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. Tomorrow, we call out for you to
do an S019 using canister 2. In the past, you've been using
canister 3. Couple days ago, you did an operation wher_ we
had intended for you to use canister 2. But apparently, it
was overlooked and you continued using 3. And in the process
of that last operation, you did make a focus adjustment which
set it up for camera or canister 2. However, there it was
incorrect since you were still on 3. I guess, tomorrow we're
going to schedule for 2. We believe the focus is set correctly
for 2 right now. And one of the reasons we're going to 2,
is that Carl has discovered that by evacuating his canisters
to vacuum, he's getting some fogging of the film. So he
does want them pressurized now. And since we want to pressureize
them, we figure we might as well go ahead and use it. So
we will be using canister 2 now and would like for you to
check the focus to make sure you are set on the correct 2.
CDR Okay. This is the second 2 for canister
2. Right?
CC That's correct.
CDR Okay. I sure will.
CC Okay. Just wanted you to understand the
reason we were going ahead and picking it up now so that we
could get that - that canister pressurized and prevent any
fogging.
CDR Okay. Good enough. I suggest you put
a reminder on tomorrow's detail somewhere about or in the
pad - the operations pad for 19 to recheck the focus.
CC Okay. Sounds llke a good suggestion. I
think that maybe we might have said that all ready°
CDR Yeah, a good check and balance that way.
CC Okay Jer, your Flight Plan details are
onboard and it does tell you to do that.
CDR Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. Bill, do you have a moment
to Jot down one small correction on your details for today?
PLT Rog, Crip. Go.
CC Okay. At 01:32. We've got you scheduled
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for S-201 OPS (comet). We'd like to give you a little more
lead time on that and make that 01:25 (garble) 210K OPS or
comet 0PS.
PLT Will do.
CC Thank you.
SPT Hello, Crip. I got a question on the
post-S063 OPS.
CC Go, Edward.
SPT Okay. It says "door closing" and that
includes pressurizing the AMS. You want to leave the AMS
pressurized for a long time or would you want to leave it
vented the way it is now? Right now the door is closed but
it can vent.
CC We'll check that for you.
SPT Okay. And the second time through the air-
glow, I went pretty smoothly this time no major problem
encounter.
CC Okay. Very good. I'm sure the Packers
appreciate that.
CDR Hey Crip, and we're trying to go back to
figure out where - where we ran a snag with those batteries.
And where we did was when Bill was doing on page 8-1 of the
photoactivatlon, I had said activation of electric Nikon and
Nikon timer, and he went ahead and put the battery in one timer
and I asked him if he had done anything with the timer. He
said yes, and we let it go at that. The instructions - there's
enough - referred to any further to any timer than that. So
it was a miscue on our part. We should've cross checked
each other.
CC Okay. We got it. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, in answer to your ques-
tion, we have Bill scheduled to perform the S063 AST (sic) operations
which will take care of the SAL. So you can leave that up to
him.
SPT • Oh, okay. Thank you, Bob. He does have
door closing under the completion of my OPS and that's why
I did that. Thank you.
CC That's affirm, mate. Having closed under
yours and then under - so it takes care of the pressurization.
SPT Very good.
CDR 717 troops out there working?
CC That's affirmative. They have completed
it and they have presented us with the new American flag.
CDR Very good.
CC And - -
CDR You folks down there in MOCR deserve it.
You do good work.
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CC That's affirm. Good bunch of guys down

here. Brag a little bit. We're about 30 seconds from LOS
now. We're going to see you at Ascension at about 4 minutes
from now at 20:31, 20:31. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump there.
CDR Okay. So long.
tracking ship Vanguard. We're about 2 minutes away from re-
acquisition through Ascension Island tracking station at
approximately 3:32 this afternoon, Houston time, one of the
Skylab crewmen will use handheld cameras, such as the Hassel-
blad with 100-millimeter lens or the 35-millimeter Nikon
mounted with a 55-millimeter lens to photograph a submarine
volcano, Tonga, located about 200 miles southwest of western
Samoa in the Pacific. And in south Atlantic off the southern
tip of Africa, navigation charts record numerous seamounts
with tops anywhere from 30 to 120 feet below the surface. It
is believed that a great number of seamounts are shols -
and sholds which present potential hazards to shipping remain
undiscovered. However, identification of submerged topographic
features is difficult. Generally the surface effects which
give possible clues to their discovery are water color change,
generally lighter colors, current wakes and open oceans, and
long wavelengths of the surface waves in the open ocean which
are produced by the submerged peak. Today's handheld photo -
photography will take place along groundtrack 39 which passes
about 70 miles west of Tonga. A Nikon with a 300-millimeter
lens, will be used for closeup shots of the seamount. The
afternoon plhotography is optional but Science Pilot Ed Gibson
may interrupt his exercise period to take the shots. 30 seconds
now away from reaequisition at tracking station Ascension Island.
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PAO - - which are produced by the submerged

peak. Today's handheld photography will take place along
groundtrack 39, which passes about 70 miles west of Tonga.
A Nikon with a 300-millimeter lens will be used for close-
up shots of the sea mount. The afternoon photography is
optional, but Science Pilot Ed Gibson may interrupt his
exercise period to take the shots. 30 seconds now away
from reacquisition at tracking station Ascension Island.
Standing by - -
CC - with you once more through Ascension
for 9-1/2 minutes doing a data/voice recorder dump.
CDR Can't hear you.
CC SPT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, hers listening.
CC Okay. Actually, I guess it's for the for you,
Bill. We had told Ed earlier that he did not need to
pressurize the SAL and we took away that one, "atta boy" that
Ed gave us awhile ago (laughter) and we were mistaken. The It
looks like we've got a problem on our cue cards there. He
should have had it pressurized for you to do the stow. You
may have already caught that.
PLT Rog_ Crip.
CDR That's okay, Cr±p. You've got more
atta boys left than we do.
CC Not so sure about that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We're going to see you over Guam in about 38 minutes.
That's at 2i:!7. And for Jer, on your ATM pass coming up, for
the XUV MON, TV downlink, would you hold that 5 minutes to
make sure we don't overfill the VTR?
CDR Will do.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR. About to go over the hill.
CDR Will you ask the 183 people if they're
satisfied, that they understand the situation on S183. The
last batch of questions they sent up indicated that they
probably didn't understand too much what I had debriefed.
CC We'll check it and talk to you at Guam.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Ascension. 34 minutes
to tracking station Guam. Orbit continuing to precess
westward and pickup stations in the western Pacific. We'll
return in 33 minutes for the Guam pass. At 24:42 Ground
elap - Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab control.
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Time: 15:15 CST 26:21:15 GMT
12/11/73

mean time. Acquisition at Guam in 50 seconds. Midway through
revolution 3050 for space station Skylab. We'll await the
callup by spacecraft communicator Bob Crippen for the Skylab
crew. Commander Jerry Carr should be back on the Apollo
telescope mount control console.
CC Guam 6-1/2 minutes.
CC And, for the CDR. Jet, in reference to
your last question just before we went over the hill as to whether
we we didn't - had any more 183 questions. We are satisfied
with all the answers you've given us to the 183 questions and
we were wondering if what prompted your inquiry into that was
whether you'd noticed On the Flight Plan tomorrow we've got
a (garble) scheduled on 183 for Bill to perform and that
was just in reference to making a final check on carousel i-i
prior to doing ops with it on day 28.
CDR No, the reason why I asked the question
Crip, was that the question list that came up to me here a
couple of days ago, asked a lot of the questions that I
answered in my debriefing and I just wanted to make sure
that everybody had gotten the answers to these questions
and were satisfied.
CC Okay_ Jer. We have got the answers and
we are satisfied; that covered them all.
CDR Okay.
CC And, the ATM wishes to pass on his
congratulations for the past three orbits of limb scan. Those
were real fine OPS you guys been doing.
CDR We kinda shorted the S055 guys, but
we got most of it.
CC Believe you got everything that was
required in there.
PLT Crip, PLT, with a comment and a question.
CC Go, Bill.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Rog. I've completed the instructions
contained in the general message for the $201 and let's see,
the number on that is 2637 alfa, and step 2 was performed, and
there was no movement of the film transport box when I tried
to go counterclockwise so I think that probably make the PIs
feel a little more comfortable. And, also got a question on
the cue card, S063 airglow cue card. The last - the flip side
in the last column asked a question under S - Sierra Tango 2,
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it says perform S019, PR2; 183, PR3; S073, PR2, and I wonder
if we shouldn't put $201-2 as another an alternate
possibility so there's a total of four alternate possibilities
there and that is a question. IVm not volunteering information.
CC Volunteer information for us. We'll look
into it.
We'll see you again over the Vanguard in about 32 minutes at
21:54 and weVll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
through Guam. Tracking ship Vanguard will be the next station
over which the space station Skylab will be crossing. Also
on this revolution we'll pick up Ascension, Canary and Madrid
an overlapping pass which will run about 14 minutes. 29
minutes to Vanguard. Returning at that time. This is Skylab
Control at 21:24 GMT.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:53 CST, 26:21:53 GMT
12/11/73

through the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the
Vanguard for ii minutes doing a datalvoice recorder dump.
CDR Hello, Crip. I've got an easy one for
you.
CC Go. I could use one.
CDR What do moth eggs look like when they
approach the diapause?
CC I don't know if I'd (garble) that one at all.
CDR Crip - -
CDR Better ask another moth there, Crip.
CC I'm looking for another moth down here.
CDR I didn't mean to stump you, Crip. Let
me clarify a little bit more. You can either answer for tame
or for wild ones.
CC (Laughter)
PLT I've been Staring at these little fellows
for days and I'ii be darned if_l can notice any change and
l'm wondering what I should be looking for.
CC Haven't seen any eclosion, huh?
CC Hello? I've got Bruce back here backing
me up. You think you've been staring at moth eggs, wetve
been staring at them up on here on our i0 by 20 for as long
as you've been up there too. That's said with respect.
PLT I think they're all waiting for the M479.
CDR I wish they'd do their thing, Cripo We
need something for the spiders to eat.
CC You shoudn't say that with the Silver Team
coming out. You guys take any moth balls along in case they do
hatch?
CDR I wouldn't touch that line with a 10-foot
pole.
PLT Crip, PLT here. The 131 was finished as
per your suggestion and (garble) already.
CC Okay. We suspected that from telemetry
down here. Appreciate it.
Ascension at about 3-1/2 minutes from now, 22:08. Crimson guys
are turning it over to the silver guys and the Crimson CAP COMM's
going to go look up what diapause means.
CC See you manana.
CDR We'll see you, Crip. Thanks for the pleasant
words.
CC Roger. Hope you guys don't work too late
tonight.
CDR I think we've lost control over that one.
CC (Laughter) I think you're right. We'll
regain it though.
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CC Next time, I'm bringing my dictionary with me

to work.
CDR Oh, Ed's been laying in the weeds with
that one.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension - or rather
Vanguard has loss of signal. Ascension will acquire in 2
minutes. We'll keep the line up and monitor into Ascension.
Here, in the Control Center, the flight control teams are
changing. The new Flight Director is Nell Hutchinson. The
new CAP COMM, Astronaut Bruce McCandless. Flight Director
Don Puddy has scheduled his change-of-shift news conference for
4:30 pm central standard time in the News Center briefing room.
4:30 p.m. central standard time for the change-of-shift
news conference with Flight Director Don Puddy.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 16:07 CST, 26:22:07 GMT
12/11/73
CC Skylab_ this is Houston, through Ascension

for 6 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 1-1/2 minutes through
Canary Islands at 22:16. Out.
PLT (Garble), Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Dr. Thornton
Page will be an additional participant at the Change-of-
Shift News Conference. Dr. Page is the principal investigator
for $201_ the far-ultraviolet electronographic camera that
will be used for the comet Kohoutek. It's also the camera that
will be used in the rocket photography tonight.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through Guam at
22:52. Out.
of signal. Next station will be Guam in 24-1/2 minutes.
Change-of-Shift News Conference with Flight Director Den
Puddy and Dr. Thornton Page, principal investigator for
S201, the far UV camera, is scheduled to begin in approximately
5 minutes, in the Building i News Center briefing room. At
22 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 17:14 CST, 26:23:14 GMT
12/11/73

14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is 18-1/2 minutes
away from acquisition at the Vanguard tracking ship. During
the change-of-shift news conference, Skylab made a pass over
the Guam station, there was no conversation during that pass
we do have 25 seconds of tape, primary the call-ups from the
CAP COMM, we'll play that for you now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
i0 minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS,
next station contact in 31-1/2 minutes through the Vanguard
at 23:33 with a data/voice tape recorder dump, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that's the end
of the tape. Skylab system engineers are stepping up work on
troubleshooting procedures for the water-filled cooling line,
that runs through the control and display panel for the
space station solar instruments. More than a hundred times
during the current Skylab mission, the ATM coolant loop has
had a noticeable, brief reduction in the rate of flow. These
slight changes, read on the telemetry in Mission Control,
began shortly after the ATM loop was turned on by the crew
during the activation period. In the weeks since the loop
was turned on, and the variations were noticed, flight
controllers shifted from pump B to pump C in an attempt to
determine if the pump itself was at fault. When the new pump
had no effect on the flow-rate fluctuations, ground controllers
turned their attention to the small device used to measure
the flow rate. Without other evidence for comparison, the
transducer itself was thcught to be a possible cause of the
variations in readings. Yesterday, however, the water flowing
through the control panel shut down completely for 3 minutes.
During that interval, actual heat transfer was measured.
The temperature changes were solid evidence that the flow-rate
measuring sensor was working properly. And this new information
has increased the attention being paid to the ATM cooling
system. Before the mission, most of the effort made by the
systems staff was toward ref_lling the much more essential
airlock module coolant loop. The smaller ATM loop which
uses water, depends on the pair of coolanol-filled airlock
module systems that the Skylab crew repaired successfully
during their first days aboard the space station. Several
procedures for repairing the ATM loop, in case it should
stop flowing permanently, are now being developed. If the
ATM cooling system were to stop completely, two areas would
be effected. First, the control and display panel, from
which the astronauts operate Skylab solar telescopes - would
become hot to the touch. The present temperature limit,
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12/11/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range
of the Vanguard tracking ship now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 8 minutes. Over.
CDR Hello Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll dump you the data/voice
tape recorder here. How y'all doing?
CDR We're all doing greatj we got Bill
through the LBNP_ and he's peddling himself blind now.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 12-1/2 minutes through Canary Island
at 23:52, with a data/voice tape recorder dump. We were
unable to dump the recorders over the Vanguard here due to
propargation problems. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed, you got about 5 seconds.
Over.
SPT Okay, I've noticed an appreciable change
in the streamer up at 8 o'clock or so. The base is narrowed
quite a bit and the whole thing has become elongated, and
l've been =rying to get in as many shopping list items i as
I possibly can. It just looks like a common streamer which has
been stretched out. The base is actually narrowing down
now, very close to the disk.
loss of signal. Canary Island station will pick up Skylab
in 10-1/2 minutes. At 23 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean
time_ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC861/I
Time: 17:51 CST, 26:23:51 GMT
12/11/73

through the Canary Island station with overlapping coverage
at Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
Island and Madrid for 14-1/2 minutes. Data/voice tape recorder
dump here at Canary. Out.
SPT Hello, Houston, SPT.
CC Hello, Ed, go ahead.
SPT Okay, Bruce, what I was trying to squeeze
in there when you went over the hill, was that in looking
at the corona the very prominent streamer at 8 o'clock,
is both elongated and started to neck down close to the disk,
relative to this morning it looks like a helmets streamer
which has been stretched out still very bright. But at the
base it has started to neck down a little bit, at the conclusion
of this last orbit. I've picked up a shopping list item i at
the beginning of the orbit and one at the conclusion of the
orbit, and I'ii be taking another look at it at the beginning
of the next orbit.
CC Okay, mighty fine Ed. Sounds like you're
right on top of it there.
SPT If the folks in the backroom have any
other desires for it let me know, I'ii be glad to do it.
CC Sounds fine to us, Ed, just keep it up.
SPT Okay. I wouldn't called a real coronal
transient but it certainly is a fairly swift changing
structure.
CC Now, we're in complete agreement with
what you have done and what you are doing.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead Jer.
CDR Roger, transporter 05 - I've been fooling
with it a little bit. And looks like we have broken film
with about 30 percent used and about 70 percent remaining. The
question we hay e is do we have any empty cassettes up here
to use as take-up reels?
CC I'm sure we do. Stand by a second. I'ii
get you an answer.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Jer, would you believe the one to
use is MT05?
CDR Thank you.
CC Empty 05, that is Mike Tango 05, and it's
located in F524.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC (Laughter). They really got you on the
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pneumonics on that one.

CDR Bruce, out in - how about MT06, 7, 8 or
9, 05 is not there?
CC Okay, Jer, go ahead and take 6.
CDR Okay, I'll look around a little while
and see if I can locate 5 later.
CC Yeah, all right but for right now, we'll
plan on your using 6 in this application and if you find 5
around let us know where it is?
CDR Wilco.
CC Skylab, this is Houston a minute and
a half to LOS. Next station contact through Honeysuckle
Creek at 40 - 00:40 Greenwich mean time in 35 minutes. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has
loss of signal. Honeysuckle will acquire Skylab in 33-1/2
minutes. A replay of yesterday's Skylab television trans-
mission is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. central standard time
on the television monitors in the JSC news center. To
repeat the television transmission from Skylah yesterday
will be replayed - video tape replay on the monitors in the news
center at 6:15, about 7 minutes from now. At 7 minutes
past midnight Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC862/I
TIME: 18:39 CST, 27:00:39 GMT
12/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 0 hours 39 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acquisition
through the Honeysuckle, Australia station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 4 minutes, out. Make that 8 minutes_ out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for the SPT, over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Ed, I have a change here to your
201 Kohoutek maneuver pad, over.
SPT Okay, Bruce which pad is it, the first or
second?
CC It's 2636 Bravo.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, under the fine maneuver part, you'll
see where it says 52021, 50000, 50001, 50000, over.
SPT Yep, go ahead.
CC Okay, we want to change the change Y
to read 50153, which is equivalant to plus 1.07 degrees,
change Zulu to read 51035 equivalent to minus 0.29 degrees.
And read back the fine maneuver please.
SPT Let's see, the total part of the maneuver
is the 52021, X is 50000, Y is 50153, Z is 51035. And zero
degrees in X, plus 1.17 degrees in Y, and minus 0.29 degrees
in Z.
CC Okay, your octal was correct, the equivalent
in the Y-axis is 1.07 positive.
SPT 1.07.
CC Okay, thank you Ed and 1 minute to LOS,
next station contact in 37 minutes through Bermuda at 01:24,
happy maneuvering, out.
SPT Bruce, we've got a question for the ATM
folks.
CC Okay, you got 7 seconds, fire away.
SPT Looks like the coronal hole boundary at
the north is very diffusely defined , and I'm not sure welre
getting the kind of data they're after. I would recommend that
if we do any more work in the near future, we try the one in
the south, The boundary looks to be much straighter and
much better defined.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Honeysuckle has
loss of signal, The next station is Bermuda in 35 minutes.
Crew's preparing to maneuver the space station for comet Kohoutek
photography. At 49 minutes pass midnight Greenwich mean time
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TIME: 19:23 CST, 27:01:23 GMT
12/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 23 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acquisition
through the Bermuda station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with you through
Bermuda for 5-1/2 minutes, the maneuver looks good to us, out.
CC And just for your information, for the
SPT we agree with you on the point of using the southern
boundary of the coronal hold in future operations, out.
SPT Okay, thanks very much, Bruce. I was going
to do that for the next observing period we have, if I can't
go back and repeat some of the work we did at the north which
I don't think was too satisfactory.
CC Okay.
SPT Bruce, also we've been giving shopping
list item 1 at the beginning and conclusion of each orbit and
we can continue to do that if they would like to get a
standard mode in there to look at the polarization (garble)
(garble) we can go ahead and do that for him also. That
is not a shopping list item however, and I'd like to find
out from the ground if that's really what they want.
CC Okay, we'll get back to you on that.
SPT, this is Houston, you're cleared to include a $052 standard
in connection with the performance of shopping list 1 when-
ever you do it on a non-lnterference basis, not to interfere
with the other items in the shopping list item or with your
regular observing time, over. With your regular performances,
over.
SPT Okay, I understand, thank you Bruce.
CC Skylabp this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS, next station contact in 2 and 1/2 minutes through
Canary Island at 01:32, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Bermuda has loss
of signal. Canary will acquire Skylab in 1 minute, we'll
keep the line up for the Canary pass and there we'll over-
lapping coverage through Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands
and Madrid for ii minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 30 seconds to
handover to Madrid, we'll be dumping your data/voice tape
recorder through Madrid, out.
PLT Skylab_ PLT.
CC Go ahead PLT.
PLT Roger did ya'll take the recorders?
CC Yes, I called you at the handover, we're
dumping the data/voice tape recorder here at Maadrid.
PLT Okay, thank you. I didn't hear you,
I was right in the middle of 201.
Ill
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CC Okay, sorry.
PLT (garble) I'ii just report a nominal procedure
after the experiment is over.
CC PLT, this is Houston, we're going to start
another recorder to give you voice recording capability for
the balance of this pass. Out.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
26 minutes to the next station which is Carnarvon at 02:08,
out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of the Madrid station. Carnarvon will acquire
the space station in 25-1/2 minutes. At 1 hour, 44 minutes
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SL-IV MC864/I
Time: 20:07 CST, 27:02:07 GMT
12/11/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is less than a minute
away from a pass that begins at Carnarvon and carries through
the Honeysuckle, Australia station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 15-1/2 minutes. Out. And PLT,
this is Houston, when you have a minute we'd like to talk
over the $201 atmospheric operations pad with you. Over.
SPT Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay, if you would please get out the
atmospheric ops pad, it's 2633.
CDR Roger, we have it.
CC Okay. You all haven't had a chance to
really make a dry run on this. And of course with the
missile launch being scheduled for one specific time why
it's fairly important that you get coordinated on it. As
you look down here in the section in which says launch, the
salient point is that we want you, for example, to start
out with a rotation of 011.9, a titlt of 17.8, you put the
power switch ON. The reset switch to START. And then when
you get down here to time of 06:10:59, which is change
rotation and tilt, what we'd like you to do is start changing
the rotation and not the tilt in the first one cause it stays
constantee. Change the rotation here in such a manner that you
smoothly and uniformly go from 11.9 to 358.7 over the period
of 29 seconds is involved. Then you go ahead and step on
down another couple of lines, you hit the reset switch to
START, again 30 seconds later and i second after that you
smoothly and uniformly track from 358.7 to 353.4 in rotation,
and 17.8, 21.4. And of course, what you're doing here is
your tracking the vehicle as it makes its way into orbit.
And the significant point is that we would like you to not
start tracking until the time indicated, and then try to
time yourselves so that you just make a smooth motion and
wind up at the right angle at the right time. And the
suggestion has been made as a result of our ground sims here
is that one crewman change the rotation while the other one
changes the tilt and controls the reset switch. And if you have a
minute or so before the actual occurrance , CDR and the PLT
might give it few minutes and try to run though . Over.
CDR Yeah, we plan to do that Bruce, one
question here. I get the I can assume then that I'm not
going to go the short way from the rotation of 11.9 to 358.7,
they want to go the long way?
CC Negative, Jerry, we want you to go the
short way. That is from Ii through i0,9,8,7,6 just like
you're running your own countdown around the 358.7 and then
next time keep on going to 353.4.
CDR Okay, understand Bruce.
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PLT Also, Bruce, I have a question on the

T2 site just above.
CC Fire away.
PLT Okay. Now I don_t understand that -
this question to deeply, how this machine works. But all
the other field exposures have included a four line entry
with a reset switch to START i second before power switch
OFF. And T2 doesn't have that line entry. I have some
typographical problems in the T12 which I've sorted out.
I thought maybe they might have carried over and dumped
a line in the T2 pad?
CC Okay. What sort of typo errors do you
have? We only have - -
FLT I've got double line entries and spaces
inserted in the middle of the pad. And under the T2 field -
well normally, you got a power switch ON, reset switch START.
Okay that starts the sequence. If you got a reset switch
START, followed 1 second later by a power switch OFF, which
stops the sequence. Now T2 field doesn't have that reset
switch to START, followed by power switch OFF i second later.
CC Okay, we copy you Bill. Stand by a
second. And would you like us to uplink another a pad to
you?
PLT No, we - this is all right if I just
get it squared away.
CC Okay.
PLT I've - I've asked you that question out
of ignorance Bruce, I just don't know.
CC We're answering - we're working on
answering that question with - about the same status right
here at the mike and we're getting the answer from the back-
room.
CC Skylab, Houston, I got a i minute key-
hole coming up here. I'ii be back to you shortly. Out.
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TIME: 20:119 CST, 27:02:19 GMT
12/11/73
CC Skylab_ this is Houston_ 1 minute to

LOS, next station contact is 32 minutes through Merritt Island
at 02:56, out.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Merritt Island, Florida station will acquire
Skylah in 30-1/2 minutes. At 2 hours 25 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC866/I
Time: 20:55 CST 27:02:55 GMT
12/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 55 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is nearly in range of the antennas
at the Merritt Island Flordia tracking station, and there will
be overlapping coverage through the Bermuda station on this
pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for a grand total of 13 minutes and 20 seconds.
We got PLT private comm coming up here at Bermuda at 02:58
which is in about a minute and a half. And they'll pick him up
on VHF before we do the S band handover. Over.
SPT Bruce which antenna for the VHF?
CC Roger, start out on right go to left.
SPT Thank you.
CC And it's for the other guy. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Houston com tech
reports no joy on VHF. Are you configured? Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Houston
com tech reports no joy on VHF. Is the PLT in the command
module configured? Over.
SPT He's up there and Bill - or Jer's gone up to
check.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, com teck is reading
you on VHF. You apparently aren't reading him. If somebody
goes out to the command module you might tell the PLT to go to
the left antenna now.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Bermuda has loss
of signal. The Madrid station will acquire Skylab in about
3 minutes. We'll keep the line up, and monitor through that
pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 7-1/2 minutes, data/voice tape recorder dump next station
Carnarvon. And if we have someone handy to the EREP coolant
valve on panel 135, would you answer up. Over.
CDR Bill's on his way.
CC Okay, I thought I might catch him as he
came back by from the command module.
PLT l'm too fast for you Bruce. Okay what do
you want?
CC Just call you speedy. Okay we'd like you
to cycle a valve 4 or 5 times between the flow and the bypass
position. And when you get through with the cycling leave
it in bypass. Over
PLT Cycle 5 times and leave it in bypass then
work.
CC Roger. Out.
CC You might log it as exercise also never
can tell.
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PLT You must have worked it before, Bruce.

PLT It's complete.
CC Okay, thank you Bill. We're watching the
flow rate here and our hope was that by cycling it back and forth
if we had some contamination lodged in the seats this might jar
it loose.
PLT Okay, I'ii stand by here for a couple of
minutes if you want me to do it again.
CC That's not required Bill, these flow
glitches occur typically with a couple of hours between them.
ItVll take us a while to watch and see if there's been any
real effect on it.
PLT Okay, now the valve is in bypass.
CC Roger, thank you.
CC And Skylab for your general information
last time we left the valve in bypass the flow glitches that
we saw were smaller in magnitude than in the flow position. So
we're going to try that for awhile, no answer required.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute till LOS.
Next station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon at
03:47. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out of
range at Madrid station. Carnarvon will acquire the space
station in 24-1/2 minutes. At 3 hours 21 minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
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45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon is about to
acquire Skylab.
for 9-1/2 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder dump.
And if you have a second Bill, I've got some exploration
for you on this 201 atmospheric operations pad.
PLT Okay, Bruce fire away.
CC Okay, everytime that - when you wind up
a set of operations on 201, the frame of film which is
currently in position to be exposed gets wasted because it
stays there until next time you turn the power ON and hit
the reset switch. And everytime you hit the reset switch, it
takes you back to the beginning of a sequence of Ii frames.
The llth frame of which remains in position and remains -
continues to be exposed until you hit the reset switch
the next time, as long as power's ON, the intensifier's working,
and all that good stuff. So what we are doing in the T12,
T20 and TI0 operations is turning the power ON, hitting the
reset switch the first time to bring a fresh frame of film
into position and then letting the thing run through its
sequence, which takes 3 minutes and 25 seconds, leaving the llth
frame in position. Now the 10th frame is about a i00 and
some seconds or say a minute and 40 seconds. And by leaving
the llth frame position, you'll notice that the time between
the two resets is on the order of 9 minutes there or 8-1/2 min-
utes; so we're getting a long time exposure on that llth frame.
Hitting the reset switch the second time brings a fresh frame
of film up and there upon you turn the power OFF, and that is
the frame that's wasted instead of the llth frame which is
already got some time accumulated on it. When we come down
into T2, the desired operation is only to get the standard
sequence of i0 frames and to shut it off on the llth frame,
that is we're not trying for an llth frame time exposure.
Consequently there's only one operation for the reset switch
and then when you turn the power back ON, hit reset at 09:51,
you're bringing a fresh frame again in that llth frame is
the one that got wasted, over.
PLT Okay, Bruce, that's very good explanation
and thank you very much.
CC Rog.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead SPT.
SPT Hey Bruce, the streamer which we've been
talking about earlier today is - the pass hour or so has
undergone a fairly marked change. Previously reported that
it necked clown very close to the limb. It has done that
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somemore. And now it appears as though it's very thin at the

hose and has bloomed out about 1-1/2 maybe 2 solar radiant,
and is arcing very slowly up towards the north. It looks as
though there has been some activlty associated with that, and
a fairly large magnetic field reeonfiguration in the corona.
And I would suspect that some observations ought to be taken
on this for the time resolution of one half an hour to an
hour, whatever is feasible. Right now we're in the building
block i, and we're getting some good Sun centered day on it.
And I'm wondering if the people in the baekroom would rather
that we continue on with the some Sun centered operations or
move on to building block 28 and JOP 24?
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Hey, do your folks in the backroom have
any comment on that or should we just press on with business
as usual doing JOP 24?
CC Roger, no comment yet. We have it in
work and are you at the ATM now or what?
SPT Bill is up here and I'm kind of periodically
coming back and forth.
CC Okay, we copy. And for your information,
we're taking control of the video tape recorder at this time
to configure - rewind and configure for dump.
PLT Okay, Bruce I didn't quite get all I wanted
on there but that's okay, fire away. I did get a little of that
coronagraph on it. I didn't get the XUV MON on it yet.
CC Okay, that's all right, we're going to go
ahead and take it here.
PLT Fine.
CC PLT, this is Houston. On your schedule pad it
calls for two building blocks number 28. We'd like to go ahead
and get those in and then if you're fleet of foot and swift of
hand, maybe you can work in a building block 32 at the end,
over. That'll be on the -
PLT Okay, I'Ii call them back.
CC That'll he on the streamer.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab this is Houston i minute to LOS,
next station contact in a little over 2 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 03:57, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal, however Honeysuckle will pick up Skylah in
less than i minute. _ all continue to keep the line up,
stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle -
Creek for 4 minutes. And for the PLT, that building block 32
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is a part of JOP 20, in fact it is JOP 20. And in that

connection, we would also like you to omit S054, over.
PLT Roger, omit 54 on JOP 20.
CC Roger.
PLT Building block 321
CC Roger.
PLT If I get around to it.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston_ I minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 04:29. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Skylab is out
of range of Honeysuckle now. The station at Corpus Christi,
Texas will acquire Skylah in 28 minutes. At 4 hours i minute
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Time: 22:28 CST, 27:04:28 GMT
12/11/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
acquisition by the Texas station. The evening status report
will be taken at this station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Corpus Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes.
Standing by for the evening status report. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce, here it comes.
CC Let her rip.
CDR CDR, sleep: 7.5, 6.0/heavy, 1.5/light;
SPT, 9.0, 8/heavy, 1/llght; PLT, 7.5, 7/heavy, half/light.
Volume: CDR, 1300; SPT, 1200; PLT, 2200. Water gun: CDR,
7272; SPT, 2492; PLT, 8641. Body mass: CDR, 6.323, 6.322,
6.321; SPT_ 6.392, 6.392, 6.393; PLT, 6.245, 6.247, 6.248.
Exercise: CDR, Method Alfa, leg, 29, 5000. Method Bravo,
Alfa, Delta, _ho, Foxtrot, 10, 20 each. Method Charlle,
Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, 06, 20 each. Method Echo, Alfa,
Bravo, 03,10 each. Method Foxtrot, walk, i0, run, 01, spring,
02, 300, toe rise, 03 200. SPT, Method Alfa, leg, 40, 8341.
Method Bravo, Bravo, Foxtrot, and Curl, 15, 40 each. Method
Foxtrot, springs, 10, i000, toe rises, i0, 200. PLT, Alfa, leg,
37, 6000. Bravo - Method Bravo I should say. Alfa, Bravo,
Delta, Echo, 08, 50 each. Method Charlie, Bravo, Charlie,
Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Gulf, 10, 20 each. Method Echo, Alfa,
Bravo, 02, 10 each. Method Foxtrot, walk, 10, springs, 01, i00,
toe rise, 01, 75. Medications: none. Garments disposed of:
none. And the Food log: CDR, 3.5 salt, minus one coffee
with sugar, plus 2.5 water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus tuna spread,
plus one grape drink, plus 3.5 water; PLT, zero salt, plus
one mint, zero water. Plight Plan deviations: SPT read
the 02-13 ATM panel, instead of the CDR. Shopping list
accomplishments: housekeeping 8-alfa, boric acid 13.
Inoperable equipment disposition: transporter 05 and DAC
09 are okay. DAC 08 is still red tape. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Now for the photo log: okay, 16-millimeter: N/A.
Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray, 36, 30. Zero Ch - Nikon 02, Bravo
Victor, 44, _. Nikon on 03, Charlie India, ii0, 51. Nikon
04, Bravo India, 08, 18. Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel, 04, 41,
anticipating 3 exposures tonight for Kohoutek. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray, 17, 014. ETC: no change. EREP: no change.
Drawer A configuration: Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India, 93, 74,
Mike Tango, 06. No change on the rest of the Alfas, Alfa i,
Alfa 3, 4 is the back. And that's it.
CC CDR, Houston, on Nikon 04, we show it
probably should Baker, Echo, that is BEOA for the film type.
CDR That's affirmative. Bravo, Echo, 08.
CC Okay, we got all that. The evening
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questions are pretty minimal here. Where was CI22 stowed?

That's CI122, which is the former takeup reel there, that
- that you wanted to use MT06 to replace?
CDR Okay, that's down in Drawer Foxtrot with
all the rest of them.
CC Okay, thank you. And to update the
information required for our radiation model for the film,
when you're using NK05, is it - excuse me_ when you're not
using NK05 is it left at STS window number 3 when not in
use or where? Over.
CDR Yes, that's affirmative, it's left at
the window.
CC And how about the Hasselblad when it's
not in use?
CDR Left in the wardroom.
CC And what
CDR And the same for Nikon 01.
CC Okay, Hasselblad's in the wardroom
window and NK01 is there also.
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR And at night all of these cameras are
put away.
CC Right, we copy, thank you.
PLT And I have an ATM frame count, if you
want?
CC Go with the ATM frame count.
PLT H-Alfa, 01915, 56, 3733, 82-Alfa, 127,
82-Bravo, 4075, 52, 5514, and 54 is reading 3680.
CC Okay, we got those Bill. And I have
here a retractions of some of my previous detail remarks
regarding $201 operations. You may recall how I explained
to you how to carefully uniformly and smoothly change the
rotation and tilt, spacing it out over the period of time
given on the pad. That is incorrect. We are not tracking
the vehicle during that previous time. We're changing from
one pointing coordinate to another, and what you have is
about a frame - exposure on that frame of about 14 seconds.
And the time that's given is the start time for change
rotation and tilt, is the time after which you should start.
And you should be at the new setting by the time listed
beside the new rotation and tilt. And it doesn't make any
difference whether you go there in big impluse or whether
you go there smoothly and slowly. Over.
PLT Thanks a lot, that makes that a lot
easier.
CC I - -
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CC - - (garble) and it doesn't make any

difference whether you go there in one big impulse or
whether you go there smoothly and slowly, over.
PLT Thanks a lot, that makes that a lot easier.
CC I thought that would brighten your whole
day up. I've been going through quite an evolution down
here looking at the ii frame sequence and seeing where all
this stuff fits in. It turns out that out of a given
ii frame sequence, we get about 4 or 5 usable exposures and
the rest of them are blurred during filter changes and
repointing and things like that so it's something you
got to really look at to understand.
PLT I can believe it.
CC And if you have no traffic for us here,
I have a :news summary which I can read you after our
handover.
PLT (garble) go.
CC Okay, we're now coming to you through the
offices of the Bermuda tracking station. And the Navy reported
today that six men were killed when fire broke out aboard
the Aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk, under the command of
Captain Robert E. Kirksey of California, located about 700 miles
east of the Philippines. 38 other men suffered minor burns
or smoke :inhalation. The blaze erupted about 8 a.m.
eastern standard time and was extinguished an hour later.
The ship is still capable of conducting flights. No explosion
was reported and the cause of fire has not yet been determined.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced today that he
is resigning from his office next Tuseday after 15 years.
Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson, Rockefeller's running mate
in four campaigns will take over. Rockefeller, age 65, whose
term expires December 31 next year said, "he can serve the
nation and the State of New York better as Chaimman of the
bi-partisan National Commission on Water Quality." Great Britian's
29000 locomotive engineers have rejected a last ditch government
appeal to call off their go-slow campaign. The action starts
tonight at midnight and could paralyze England's already
battered economy. It could also tie-up the state owned
railroad system. Cesar Cedeno, 22 year old star outfielder
of the ouston Astros baseball team was questioned today by
police in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in the
shooting death of a 19 year old woman. Cedeno, in the
Dominican Republic for winter baseball, says the shooting was
an accident. King Hussein of Jordan said today there is
"acute danger" of renewed fighting in the Middle East. In
West Germany Chancellor Willy Brandt signed an agreement in
Prague today that ends 35 years of Czech-German hostility.
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The treaty opens diplomatic ties between Prague and Bonn and
buries forever the 1938 Munich Pact that Hitler used to annex
part of pre-war Czechoslovakia. Washington. The Supreme Court
voted 6 to 3 today to give police blanket authority to
conduct a complete search of anyone that they arrest lawfully.
The decision represented a victory for advocates of greater
police latitude but brought dissent from the court's three
liberal members. Eli T. Reich Director of the Office of
Petroleum Allocation reportedly told Interior Secretary
Rogers Morton yesterday that he is on the verge of resigning.
Washington spokesmen say i he does, he'll be replaced by
an official from the Office of Management and Budget. Reich,
a former Navy Admiral, retired last November to accept the
position. Use of census information in a federal computer
program aimed at getting millions of Americans into car pools
was announced at Washington today. Under Secretary of Commerce,
John Tabor - excuse me, Under Secretary of Commerce, John Tabor,
said at a press conference that 1970 census information from
125 metropolitan areas of 250 thousand people or more showed
over 31 million workers drove to work alone. The house voted
overwhelmingly today to prohibit more than 5 billion dollars
in U.S. credit loans for Soviet trade until the Soviets
permit easier emigration. The bill now goes to the Senate.
A congressional committe was told today by Herbert Stein,
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, that fuel
price increases could raise the cost of living in the
United States 27 billion dollars next year. Stein said he
based his estimate on an expected 50 percent increase in
fuel prices. He also predicted that a 30 cent per gallon
increase in gasoline prices would be required to balance
supply and demand. Pope Paul's Christmas Mass schedule is
somewhat in doubt due to the feast day driving ban rules
placed in effect today in Italy. The Pople will say Mass in
St. Peter's Basilica at midnight on Christmas Eve only if
the government suspends the driving ban for the holiday season.
If not, the Vatican says Pope Paul will say Mass in the
Sistine Chapel for prelates and diplomats only. On
Christmas Day, however, the Pope will say Mass at St. Peter's
at ii a.m. and give the Apostolic Blessing from St. Peter's
balcony at noon. Katherine Graham, Publisher of the
Washington Post will become the first woman ever to receive
the John Peter Zenger Award. University of Arizona
spokesmen say Mrs. Graham earned the honor for her paper's
coverage of the Watergate affair. The award is named after
the Colonial publisher who won a major court battle leading
to a free press in America. New York. The stock market
closed sharply lower today, ending a 3 day rise. The Dow-
Jones average of 30 industrials up briefly in mid - morning
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trading closed off 16.96 points at 834.18. Volume on the

New York Stock Exchange was 20.10 million shares and declines
led advances by a 2 to i margin. The Big Board's composite
index of 1,500 common stocks was down .95 at 51 dollars
and 20 cents and the American Stock Exchange market value
index fell 1.05 to 91.03. Finally, for Bill, Oklahoma State
clobbered the University of Texas in that basketball game
last night, 83 to 73. And the final score on the Monday Night
Football game was Rams 40, Giants 6. And as we say in the
publication business, that's 30 sports fans.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And I've got a note here to 04 50 in
Madrid, there'll be a subframe i dump which I assume is the
same as a voice tape recorder dump. And for the CDR, also
another note passed to me during the readin B of the news.
Is we'd llke you to confirm the quanity remaining
on the transporter - transporter 05, that's read down
74 percent end I think earlier in the day, you'd referred
to about 30 percent already in the take up reel.
CDR Yeah, that was jst a wild estimate to you.
Take up reel bubble shows right around 30 percent. That's
the one we filed away and it just happens that the supply
reel shows about 74, sorry about that.
CC Okay, now we expect things like this on
the take-up reel, since it can go on asymmetrically and
74 percent it is.
CDR Yeah, that's right.
CC Skylab, l minute to LOS, the next station
contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at 04:51, out. And
Madrid is the medical conference, private comm, so we'll
next be talking to you through Honeysuckle Creek in 51
minutes at 05:37.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston we'd like to get a
nominal H cage, l0 minutes prior to the $201 maneuver this
evening, acknowledge, over.
CDR Nominal H cage l0 minutes before (garble).
CC Roger, and that's i0 minutes before.
loss of signal. Madrid will acquire Skylab in 3-i/2 minutes.
The daily medical conference will be conducted at that station.
We'll monitor through the Madrid pass, however in case that
conference ends before Madrid has loss of signal. We're
about 3 minutes away from acquisition at Madrid, we'll keep
the line up and monitor on through that pass.
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of range of the Madrid station now, the medical conference
occupying that pass. The next station will be Honeysuckle,
Australia in 39 minutes. At 4 hours 58 minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 23:36 CST 27:05:36 GMT
12/11/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up on a minute and half
pass at the Honeysuckle station. We have the mission surgeon's
daily report on the crew health for today, mission day 26. It
reads, the crew remains in excellent health despite the cramped
quarters. Intraerew harmony remains good. Signed Jerry
Hordinsky, M.D. for Dr. W.R. Hawkins, M.D.. Honeysuckle should
be locking up on the space station momentarily, we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek. Short pass 1-1/2 minutes. Next station contact through
Goldstone at 29 minutes at 06:06. And for your information
we're having range problems with the launch vehicle. It may
be scrubbed. We'll call you at AOS over Goldstone with the
inform _ion. If it is scrubbed only that part of the
201 atmospheric ops pad which is concerned with the block
headed launch will be scrubbed. You will still do TI2, T2,
T20, and TI0. Over.
PLT Rog, Bruce.
PLT Skylab, copy.
CC Okay. How's everything going with the
maneuver?
PLT Don't know Bruce, I'm down here at the
wardroom. Ed's doing the maneuver.
CC SPT, this is Houston. You having some
difficulties with the maneuver?
CC Okay, LOS, we'll talk to you at Goldstone.
CC SPT, Houston.
CC LOS.
SPT Yeah, go ahead Bruce.
CC We're Just wondering we didn't see the
maneuver starting on time. They're wondering if your having
any problems?
SPT Yeah, Bruce. We tried it without going to
art hold, and we're back to SI now. We're maneuvering right
now •
CC Okay, we copy. We'll see you over

Goldstone.
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Goldstone
station in 26 minutes as reported by CAP COMM, Bruce McCandless.
There are range problems at the western test range in
California. There is a possibility that the rocket launch,
which the crew was to photograph, may he scrubbed. We'll
have a - should have a GO or NO GO on that launch at
Goldstone. If that launch is cancelled the crew will still
perform the far ultraviolet photography on the three galaxies
and on the Crab Nebula, eliminating only the rocket photography.
At 5 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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12/12/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about 50 seconds
away from acquisition at the Goldstone, California station.
The rocket launch, which had been scheduled for the western
test range, has been cancelled due to range problems. The
crew will continue with the photography of the Crab Nebula
and three galaxies. But the rocket launch has been cancelled.
We'll stand by now for a call up to the crew.
Goldstone, Corpus Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda. Break,
break, the launch has been scrubbed. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce, we're continuing with the
exposures.
CC Roger, and you'll skip the part that's
entitled lau _h and take up again with the T20.
PLT Roger.
PLT Houston, Skylah, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger, on Tango 12 field, we were just
a bit late getting to attitude. We started - we waited until
we were reasonably stable within degree and a half. I
started the sequence and I terminated it on the pad time_
so we probably last - maybe the last two exposures of the
sequences. The rest of them we should have with no problem.
CC Okay, we copy that Bill.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 6 minutes through Madrid at 06:28.
And we'd just like to say here even though the launch got
scrubbed we all appreciate you staying the extra 3 hours to
give it the old college try for $201.
PLT Rog, Bruce, no sweat. Glad to do it.
CC And the old silver team here says good
night. We're going to handover to our buddies.
PLT Hog, good night.
CC On the tarnished silver team which is
bronze .
PAO This is Skylah Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Madrid will acquire Skylab in about 4-1/2 minutes.
At 6 hours 23 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylah
Control.
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26 minutes Greenwich mean time. Madrid is about to acquire
Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, there's been
a Flight Controller team handover in the Mission Control center.
The new Flight Director is Chuck Lewis, The CAP COMM now is
astronaut Henry Hartsfield.
CC CDR, Houston, one thing we'd like to clean
up tonight before y'all go to bed if it's okay is, on the
photostatius report you listed Nikon 02 Bravo Victor 44 as
36 frames and we're not sure we copied that right. If that's
correct, there was no frames counted off of it and that was
the camera I think that you used for S063.
CDR Okay, Hank. Stand by. I'll check it
again°
CC And Skylab, Houston we need one more item
on the ATM close out, we need to get the S052 mirror position
to camera.
CC Thank you sir.
CDR Yeah, you're right Hank. I read you the
mechanical counters instead of the electrical. The proper
frame count is 12.
CC Roger, we copy thank you Jer.
CDR That's a real coincidence that they
happen to be the same.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 1 minute
from LOS. Thank you for staying up late, we'll see you in
the morning, get a good night's rest.
CDR Night Hank.
of signal. We've said goodnight to the crew of Skylab. We'll
take this line down now until crew wake-up time tomorrow at
9 a.m.. Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
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mean time. Voice relay station at Tananarive in 50 seconds,
at which station the spacecraft communicator, Bob Crippen
will make a wake up call to the crew. And following his
practice will be preceded by music. The crew's sleeping
in a little later this morning because of the late work
day, yesterday, extending into this morning past midnight.
Standing by for Tananarive.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Houston in the
blind. We're just passing over Tananarive, so we can't
get a good lockup. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 15:49,
15:49. That's about 37 minutes away. And we have the dump
inhibited for your upcoming 233.
through Tananarive voice relay station. That station was
unsuccessful in maintaining a solid enough lockup and a
strong enough signal strength with space station Skylab to
effect air-to-ground voice link. Therefore, the wake up will
be at Hawaii, which is a very brief pass of 2-1/2 minutes.
35 minutes from now, we'll be back at that time with the
belated wake-up. At 15:14 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
mean time. Very short pass over Hawaii, and spacecraft
communicator Bob Crippen will attempt again, to wakeup the
crew. Tananarive voice relay station earlier this revolution,
was unable to lockup on the space station with the equipment
out there on the Island of Madagascar. We'll see if it
works at Hawaii.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over
Hawaii, and we've only got you for about 2 minutes. GNS
and EGIL tell me it looks like you're awake. So I assume you
got that call through Tananarive.
CDR Negative. We didn't get the call, but
we kind of got up by ourselves.
CC Okay. Glad you had a chance to sleep
in late. We had a little antenna problems trying to acquire
through Tananarive where we were originally going to wake you
up. And, I guess, just a brief reminder here. We've got a SOO9
set coming up at 15:54:20. And that's about all going right
now. A little bit later, perhaps over Vanguard, we might
talk about the upcoming trim burn.
CDR Okay.
LOS. We'll have you over the Vanguard in about 26 minutes
at 16_17, 16:17. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump. Can you tell us whether we managed to get in the 233
this morning?
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PLT That's affirmative, Bob. Got two very

good exposures. The last one was executed properly, but
there's an awful lot of sunrise, as was there one on the
one last night. The last exposure I took. And I'm standing
by. I'm going to do S009, also.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. That's
excellent. We were a little bit concerned about not having woke
you up, whether you got up there in time. These guys are
on the ball.
CC And we're assuming that we will be bringing

up the G&N at Vanguard in prep for the trim burn.
CDR And that S009 time was 16:54:20. Is that
affirmative?
CC That's affirm.
CC And, Jer, you copy. When we get to Vanguard
will be when we' re bringing up the G&N for the trim burn?
CDR Okay. I'ii have my pad ready.
CC Very good.
CC Bill, in the blind, that S009 time was
15:54:20.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The S009 referred
to by CAP COMM, Bob Crippen is the SOO9 nuclear emulsion
experiment, which is aimed towards studying the charge
spectrum of cosmic rays. It uses sensor strips, which are
stowed in the multiple docking adapter in a book fashion.
At I0 o'clock Houston time, there will be a playback on the
monitors in the Houston News Room and on the television
line of some Skylab III television, the crew quarters deck
tour and the first EVA in Skylab III. Next station in 22 min-
utes will be tracking ship Vanguard. At 15:55, this is
Skyl ab Control.
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Time: 10:16 CST, 27:16:16 GMT
12/12/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control. 50 minutes -

50 seconds, that is, to acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard.
It's presently 16:16 Greenwich mean time. Little less than an
hour away from the second trim burn for the mission, scheduled
at 11:04 a.m. central time. It's a small posigrade burn
in about i.i foot per second, using the service module RCS
thrusters - -
CC - - ton, AOS Vanguard doing a data/voice recorder
dump and sorry I misunderstood a number, Jer, read back to me
on the time of the S009 set. Did you guys get it, that it was
15:54:20?
PLT Rog. I got it, Bob. I was - I was up
there. I didn't answer you 'cause I was waiting for the time
to come up.
CC Okay. Very good. And if Jer is available
and also you, Bill, I guess that's because you're participating
in this trim burn, might like to run through a few items if
you can, please.
PLT Listening.
CC Okay. I guess we're blocked up and ready
for you to go ahead and start Jer on powering things up. A
couple of items I want to run over is of course, we are
using the CSM doing the attitude hold with no M - EMP (sic) on
your G&C checklist. 614 OPS and wanted to make sure that
you do have the change 2 entered.
PLT That's affirmative, Bob.
CC Okay. And that was just that little step
about tape recorder and when to do your AMF function DELTA-V.
The other item was it's not very clear on the checklist and
we saw it last time that there was several minutes between
when standby was selected at the ATM C&D and when CMC AUTO
was selected in the command module. And of course, you're
in free drift anytime you go to STANDBY until that AUTO is
selected. So that time should be minimized. In other words,
some coordination should go in there to make sure you switch
it over with the minimum amount of time and no control.
PLT Okay. We weren't aware of any lag last
time. But we'll watch it.
CC Okay. And there is a note at the bottom
of your trim pad regarding powering up the optics to look
for the OCDU failure (?) that we saw during rendezvous.
The - of course, you'll be monitoring that looking for your tracker
light and the one thing we did want to emphasize was that if you
get a tracker light, we would like to go ahead and trouble-
shoot it since it had been intermittent previously. However,
we don't want that in any way to interfere with your time
for your trim burn. We'll come back end get it later if it's
necessary.
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PLT Copied.
CC Okay. And one other item. I guess we
don't anticipate having to do it but the last time we did
have to kill some attitude errors with the command module
just to minimize - the perturbations when we turned it back
over to the APCS and it looked like you had tried to use the
translational hand controller and if that won't work, then
CMC AUTO. So you'd have to do that with the RHC or a VERB 49.
PLT Copied.
CC Okay. That's all the items here that we
wanted to cover and if you got any questions about it, we'd
be glad to try to cover them. We still got you for about
8 more minutes.
PLT That ought to about cover it, Crip. If
you think of anything else, why just come back.
CC Okay. Very good. I guess y'all can press
on with the powerup so we can look at it from the ground here.
PLT Crip, we're just finishing breakfast and
it may be a few minutes before we get up there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We'll
have you at Tananarive in about 14 minutes. 16:41.
PLT Rog, Crip.
tracking ship Vanguard. It's 12 minutes until final pass over
voice relay station in Tananarive which the last revolution
was unable to lock onto space statien Skylab with its antenna.
Signal strength was too weak to use. Going back to this trim
burn scheduled for 11:04 central time this morning, it's in
a posigrade direction. A 16-second duration burn of the service
module RCS thrusters for a total velocity increase of i.i foot
per second and it drives the space station groundtrack back
to where it has a repeating groundtrack every 5 days - repetative
coverage. At the present time, the groundtrank has drifted
about 7 to 8 miles east of the desired track. After the burn,
the orbital measurements will change only slightly. Perigee
will be 227.1 nautical miles and apogee, 244.7. We'll return
in ii minutes for Tananarive at 16:30. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC- 877/i
Time: 10:40 CST, 27:16:40 GMT
12/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:40 GMT.

AOS at voice relay station Tananarive in 50 seconds, hopefully.
At any rate, this will be the final pass over Tananarive
for today, or at least until late evening, when the descending
passes across Africa begin nudging across Tananarive.
15 seconds to predicted acquisition. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Tananarive for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We're all powered up
and ready to go.
CC Very good. Then there's no problems in
the powerup?
CDR No. Everything went just fine.
CC That's good.
LOS. We'll see you again in 37 minutes over Hawaii at
17:25. 17:25.
CC Skylab, Houston. I believe my last
transmission was broken. We'11 see you again at Hawaii
at 17:25 after the burn.
CDR Okay. It'll be all over, but the shouting.
CC We'll hope there's no shouting.
CDR Rog.
through voice relay station Tananarive for the final time
today. Next station Hawaii in 34 minutes, which will be
after the burn - trim burn. Today's main activity will
again be operation of the Apollo telescope mount. Joint
observing programs called JOPs in space speak. 26 and 9
will be performed today. JOP 9, which is being performed
over 30 day-night cycles will begin at i:00 a.m. this
morning with unattended operations being directed by ground
controllers while the crew was still asleep. JOP 9 is
concerned with solar wind and observations will be made
of the inner and outer solar corona. Data to support
investigations of the rate of expansion of the various
parts of the solar corona and the effects of the solar
coronal expansion upon coronal structures will be collected
from the white light X-ray in XUV corona experiments over
the next 2 days. JOP 26 activities today, will include
looking at the coronal and chromospheric structures along
the quiet west limb of the Sun. During eight manned periods at
the ATM console today, the Skylab crewmen will take turns
gathering some 4 hours and 46 minutes of data. More
comet Kohoutek photography with the 35-millimeter Nikon
scheduled today. Bill Pogue, earlier, at 9:40 should
have then made the first set of pictures and tonight at 8:32,
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Jerry Carr will again photograph the comet with the 35-millimeter
camera. The camera presently is in the STS window number 3
instead of the command module window. Following the trim
burn coming up in the next few minutes, Jerry Carr will
be the subject and Bill Pogue the observer for the human vestibular
function Ml31 medical experiment. Purpose of which is to
test the crew's susceptibility to motion sickness in the
Skylab environment, to acquire more data for understanding the
functions of human gravity receptors in the prolonged abscence
of gravity, and to test for changes in the sensitivity of
the human semicircular canals in the inner ear. The experi-
ment uses a rotating litter chair and other associated
equipment for gathering data. At 3:17 p.m. today, Carr will
take ultraviolet photographs of large areas of the Milky Way,
looking at young hot stars with the ultraviolet stellar
astronomy experiment, SOlg, telescopic camera. Also, in
the afternoon, Ed Gibson will be the subject, Bill Pogue the
observer, performing the MO92, Ml71 lower body negative
pressure metabolic activity dual medical experiments.
Handheld photo options today include the Lynn seamount
135 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, located on the
equator some 3300 nautical miles west of the Ecuadorian
Coast. Another photo target option is the Alpine Fault in
the Circum-Pacific Fault Zone off the coast of New Zealand.
Land use patterns in west Milaysia showing the vegetation
disbtribution and major drainage and geological features is
another photo option for today. An active volcano called
Merapi, on Java and the Indonesian Republic, is the subject
of another handheld option photo for the Skylab crewmen
today. Crew day will end at i0:00 p.m. central time this
evening. Ed Gibson will be the dutyman for the sleep period,
wearing a headset in case it's necessary to waken the crew
during the scheduled sleep period. Returning-
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SL-IV MC- 878/i
Time: 10:55 CST 27:16:55 GMT
12/12/73
PAO - - the crewmen today. Crew day will end

at i0:00 p.m. central time this evening. Ed Gibson will be
the duty man for the sleep period, wearing a headset in case
it's necessary to waken the crew during the scheduled sleep
period. Returning in 29 minutes for the Hawaii pass. This
is Skylab Control at 16:56 GMT.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 17:24 - -
CC Standing by for mark status.
CDR Hello, Crip. The burn went on time, no
problems with it at all. I got so interested in rates I
didn't monitor the optics CDU so I guess you'll have to get
that off the down data tape. Everything looked real good.
We spent very l_ttle time in standby and I think it only
took about 2-1/2 minutes or so for it to get down below .03
degrees so we could shift control back. It took what we
considered to be rather uncommonly long time for the CMG cage
talkback to go from barber pole to gray and that's what held
us up. We had low rates very very early. The burn itself was
smooth as glass for about the first ii seconds, when we finally
got over to the edge of the deadband then we got a bunch of
firings for attitude control and finished the burn with nice
low rate.
CC Okay. Sounds good, Jerry. Appreciate
that full a report.
CC And, for the SPT. Ed, you got a moment
to chat about your upcoming ATM OP?
SPT (Garble) Bob, go ahead.
CC Okay, you got a little squeal there, but
I take it you can read me okay. If you noticed in this
upcoming pad we've got you scheduled for a four-limb coalignment
and I believe Bill Lenoir ran through with you the other day
about the every time we do a four-limb coalignment we've been
seeing a wider discrepancy between the 823 and the fine Sun
sensor and it's all in the left/right axis going to the left.
Consequently today what we'd like to do is to do the four-llmb
coalign on the secondary fine Sun sensor to - as a matter of
comparison. And if you've got your pad handy and you've got a
pencil and paper I'd like to tell you about how we'd like to
go through about switching.
SPT Go ahead, Bob. Ready to copy.
CC Okay. Following the JOP 9, what we would
like you to do is to select SOLAR INERTIAL MODE and then
select SECONDARY fine SUN SENSOR and then open the fine
Sun sensor door and then go back to experiment pointing and
then press on with your pad.
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12/12/73
CC I can run through that again slower if

you'd like to. All we're doing is trying to get out of
experiment pointing so that we don't get a transient in when
we switch fine Sun sensors.
SPT I got it Bob. We go to SI and go to SECONDARY
fine SUN SENSOR open the fine sun sensor door go to experiment
pointing and then press on. How about at the end of the
orbit. You want us to go back to the prime (?).
CC No. We want to remain on secondary with
that four-limb eoalignment and we'll look at that data and make
a decision later as to what else we want to do about it.
A point I probably should bring up, it is quite possible that
when you go on to the SECONDARY fi_e SUN SENSOR, at first you
are gonna have to zero the wedges and it's quite possible
you might be on the back side of them. Are you famaliar with
that little ditty where you might have to straighten them
out?
SPT Yeah. That just involves driving it
through Sun center.
CC That's affirmative, and if they are on
the back side it could mean that the thing is actually gonna
be moving in the opposite direction from your MPC and it would
mean you would have to take it all the way around.
SPT Yeah. You just hold the MPC full over
until when it goes through Sun center then it comes up if
you move away from Sun center. I've seen that in the simulator.
CC Okay. Very good.
SPT (Garble) thank you, Bob.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. I guess, Ed, for
you. If you're up at the panel, we did not give you the
numbers to put in for reenabling rate gyro redundancy management
and if somebody's got the ATM systems checklist and data book
page 2-22 handy I can give that so you can go ahead and
reenable it.
SPT Give me 5 seconds, Bob.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. If you - are you looking at
page 2-22 about oh three/quarters of the way down the page
it has a series of DAS commands for last five of them
having blanks in the left not the last five of them, every
other one has a blank in it where it says enable (garble).
That should be a 4 in each one of those blocks. That
is a 5
SPT Yeah, that's what I've written in here.
Let me check with Bill and see what he put in. Hold on.
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CC Okay, we show that they have not been

reenabled.
SPT Oh. Okay, I'ii go - how about this
maneuver time?
CC We can' t see maneuver time so we' re not
sure about it and - uh - and Ed, see you putting the DAS
commands in. If you could also reenable dumps for us we would
appreciate it.
PLT Crip, would you verify my experiment i
recorder is running?
CC It is verified running, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Okay, Crip. The rate gyro redundancy
management is set up and you got the dump enabled.
CC Okay, we copy all that down here. Very
good. Thank you, Ed.
SPT Thank you, Bob. One thing we also added
is a writein to - 2-22, is where it says about the
center of the page (garble) are left in .03 we also have
written in and momentum talkback changes from cage to gray.
CC Copy.
SPT That of course is applied to the previous step
but we wanted to make it more explicit.
CC Roger, that. Okay, and don't know which
one of those is necessa_:ily gonna take longer, I guess, from
what Jerry implied that it took a long time to get the talkback
to go back to gray today. It wouldn't hurt to even let the
rates get below that .03 a little bit, too.
SPT Yeah, we did that. We got about lower (?)
magnitude below that. They were - I think the highest one was .004.
CC Okay, very good.
SPT If you'd like to go ahead and change that
number, we could do it, it's very feasible to get the number
to meet the factor of 5 lower, maybe 10.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll look into possibly giving
you a checklist changeup on that number.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over the Vanguard in 22 minutes at 17:55.
17:55 and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
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SL-IV MC879/i
Time: 11:34 CST, 27:17:34 GMt
12/12/73

through Hawaii. The thruster firings mentioned during this
pass took place during the trim burn or space station attitude
control were not TACS firings of nitrogen gas, but attitude
thruster firings in the service module RCS system to maintain
attitude for the duration of the burn and apparently the on-
set of the drift away from the attitude took place about ii
seconds into the 16-second burn. Some 22 pounds of RCS pro-
pellant were expected or predicted to be used for the trim
burn and initial data which still has to be refined as the
propellant temperatures settle down, show that approximately
31 pounds which may be somewhat less by the time the data's
refined. 31 pounds of RCS propellant were actnally used for
the trim burn itself and for the attitude control during the
burn. 17 minutes until next station at tracking ship Vanguard.
At 17:36 GMT, Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 17:54 GMT and
50 seconds from acquisition through tracking ship Vanguard
of space station Skylab during the end of its revolution
number 3062 around the Earth since launch last May. After
Vanguard, the next station will be Hawaii. The groundtrack
will miss all other stations. So it'll be about three-quarters
of a revolution out of contact.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for 9-1/2
minutes. And we are doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, we're looking at a
left count. It's minus 2500 which would almost look like
you' re back on the backside of the wedge there. Did you
check that?
SPT No, I didn't get the LEFT/RIGHT, Bob. I'll
do it now. (Garble) UP/DOWN. Excuse me the LEFT/RIGHT.
SPT Yeah, Bob. I got busy working the UP/DOWN
and hadn't looked at IEFT/RIGHT yet. They're both squared away.
CC Okay. Looks good to us down here now, Ed.
Next AOS is 59 minutes away over Hawaii at 19:03 and got that
one scheduled for Bill to come in and talk to you, Ed.
CC Ed, as we go over the hill, since you're
a little bit behind, we do want to get that four-limb coaligned
in if we can and forget about the 82B exposures if you get
behind.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS through
tracking ship Vanguard. 57 minutes to Hawaii. Final Hawaii
pass coming up at which time the ATM conference is scheduled
between Science Pilot Ed Gibson aboard Skylab space station
and here in Mission Control, with Scientist/Astronaut Bill
Lenoir, Dr. Bill Lenoir. We'll return at that time in 56 minutes.
At 18:06 GMT, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:01 CST, 27:19:01 GMT
12/12/73

mean time. Acquisition at Hawaii in about 36 seconds.
Final Hawaii pass and during this pass the - -
MCC - if you're ready, Ed.
SPT Okay, Bill. You're a bit broken up,
but go ahead.
MCC Okay. I'd like to start off here in
a little different tack this morning. First thing I'd
like to talk about is the conference usefulness as we
have been holding it. And tell you about a one slight
change here that I'd like to make in the way we're going. Over
the past few days, I've been thinking about the conference
and how it's been getting along here. And it seemed to
me in a couple areas here I've really failed to get at some of
the things we wanted to get at. One of the changes that I
propose doing here is the first thing of today's conference
and several of the next few here. What I'd like to do first
is to tell you the sense of the planning meeting that went
on the day before, that went into the Flight Plan and the
ATM schedule that you will be using that day. Usually these
conferences will be in the morning so it'll make more sense.
Then I'd like for you to give me inputs that you would like
me to make on your behalf to th e planning session. For
instance, good science that you think we ought to be doing
on the Sun as you see it from your vantage point. And in
addition to that, every Wednesday and Sunday, if you've got
any long term things, we go through a regular 7-day forecast.
So, that tomorrow morning when I call and talk to you, I'll
tell you the thinking that went into the schedule you have
for that day. And maybe you will have had a chance to do
some thinking on your part. And I will make some inputs
into that day's planning session which starts at about noon
every day 18:00 Zulu, as to what you think we ought to be
doing. And we'll throw it up on the board along with
everybody elses inputs by discipline and see what happens.
Do you have any other thoughts?
SPT No. I think you've got some good ideas
there. I've been thinking a little bit about it, also, and
I find that from my standpoint, if we could move this thing to
about midmorning, or at least after the first ATM pass,
it would have given me time to look at the Sun and to be
thinking a little bit about what is really happening.
As it is right now, I can pretty much get my feet on the
deck and come roaring up here. And already am not as fully
prepared and mentally awake for it as I would like to be.
So, I would like to see if we could move this thing back
a little bit further in the morning. I don't want to move
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it back so far that it would not be making 12 o'clock

planning session, however.
MCC Okay. Fine, Ed. We'll give that a
try. Incidentally, this morning, the reason that - I should
say this afternoon, the reason it's so late, we had an
opportunity I:o do it about midmorning, but it would have
knocked you out of an ATM pass and given it on to Jerry. And
I did'not want to do that. I chose to hold it now, rather
than earlier.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Just some quick thoughts on what
went into today's plan here. I think it's fairly obvious
that what we're trying to do is to study the quiet Sun in
such a fashion that 82B gets good science and uses lots of
film at the same time. The JOP 26 is a JOP that we amended last
night, in order to accommodate this small lens scan_ micro-
lens scan, whatever you want to call it to look at the
chromospheric structure on the quiet west limb. And Jerry
will be starting that later on in the orbit that he's in
right now. And I think Jerry and Bill will pick up two
more instances later on in the day. And then finally, on your
next orbit 55 will be looking for velocities in active
region 96. And -
SPT Okay.
MCC You might make sure you did put in the
change to JOP 26 that came up this morning.
SPT I certainly did, and I have a couple
of questions along that line which I'll get inot when you've
got a few moments I'd like to talk about it.
MCC Okay. We've got 3-1/2 minutes left.
Why don't you go ahead with that. And also if you've
got any inputs you'd like me to take back to the planning
meeting that's still going on, I'd be more than happy to
do it.
SPT Okay. I think what we're doing right
now is pretty much it. There's not a heck of a lot in the
way of activity.on the Sun, and we might as well be concentrating
either on either spicules which we have or chromospheric structure
chromospheric spectra, which determine what you're lining up for
chromospheric net work. And I noticed we have not been doing much
chromospheric network, and I'm wondering whether they have
gotten an update on the previous two missions from it. I wontt ask
for a response to that one right now, however. The four-limb
coalignment came out pretty well. I got it done this past orbit.
One thing that I did notice that in going back through all
the information for all the previous aligeents I find that
Sun is not the same diameter up/down as it is left/right.
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Time: 13:01 CST, 27:19:01 GMT
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Today the diameter came out to be 1950 in up/down and 1968

in left/right. And itts not greatly different than what
we've seen before. That I donVt understand. I did not
get a chance to get the 82B exposures in at the limb. I
only got one of them in. I will pick those up later on to-
day. Now, when we call out for a slit parallel, or
tangent to the limb, I have always taken that to be - work with
the slit as we actually see it, as opposed to the up/down
equals 000, but it does call out in the JOP summary sheet, they
have the up/down, in the four zeros. And I think we are not
getting the data we wanted. I don't think the slit is
always tangent to the llmb. Why that is true is still yet
to be found out but if we're really looking at the real slit in
the real limbin the white light display I feel that's what we
ought to go with.
MCC Yeah. I concur with that.
SPT Okay. A second point. Now that we've
got solar north available to us, where possible, I'd like
to work with that rather than 1080. I think it helps to
keep our thinking straight as far as where the flares are
on the disk. Thirdly is the 52 coverage of the transient,
relatively long transient coronal restructure thatwe saw
last night, in looking back at the pictures and thinking
about it_ it looks as though the streamer at 8 o'clock
had a fair amount of material throwing out from it. And
especially all the material which wasn't the base of an
open streamer was throwing out and realize that they were
relatively straight and very little material was left going
to the disk now. I think we did get some good coverage
on it. Yesterday, we gave a lot of quickie building blocks
whenever we could, beginning in this orbit and a couple - and
other times also.
MCC Okay, Ed. Break here for just a minute.
We've got about 40 seconds to LOS. Vanguard is next at
19:34 and that's in about 25 minutes. Now go ahead.
SPT Okay. I think we need a fairly quick
response on - seeing as Jerry's going to be doing it very soon -
is, do we want to put the slit tangent to the limb or do/wn equal
to four zeros. I prefer the former and I think that's the way
we'll go unless we hear different.
MCC Okay. I concur with that. Unless we
tell you differently do what you see on the TV with the
slit and take whatever up/down you get.
SPT Okay. And I guess the second question
is for planning. I'm not seeing much chromospheric network work -
work and I was wondering why that was true? I'm not asking for it
if they feel they've already gotten adequate coverage on the
previous missions.
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MCC Okay fine. I'll make that input. And the

NOAA people thank you very much for your description of the
southeast limb streamer from last night. And I'll talk to
you tomorrow.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Bill. Getting
more useful all the time, keep up the good work.
MCC Okay. We keep trying.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Hawaii.
And the ATM conference between Scientist Astronaut Bill
Lenoir and Science Pilot Ed Gibson, aboard space station Skylab.
We'll return in 22 minutes for the tracking ship Vanguard.
At 19:11 GMT, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:32 CST 27:19:32 GMT
12/12/73

mean time. Tracking ship Vanguard will acquire space station
Skylab within about 45 seconds. And after a 4-minute gap,
the space station will come across Ascension Island tracking
station. We'll stay up live for both passes. Standing by in
20 minutes - 20 seconds from AOS at Vanguard. Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for
9-i/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Hey, Crip. I'm sorry, maybe I've been
inattentive and I didn't hear it but, I never did get your
response yesterday about the appearance of moth eggs, when
they go into diapause.
CC Okay. I've just been waiting for appropriate
time to come back with you on that. It so happens there are
two vials of 500 eggs each. One labeled tame and one labeled
wild. Diapause refers to the hibernation (laugh)
SPT Stay cool, Crip.
CC I knew I couldn't do it.
SPT I knew I could only get you once though.
CC I think that's at least two times. Actually
diapause refers to the hi - (laugh) - if I could get Procedures to
quit laughing over here - hibernation cycle of the larvae and
the egg which lasts 6 to 9 months, normally. Upon hatching
(chuckle, chuckle) - I can't believe it (chuckle).
SPT You want to save it for Bruce, Crip?
CC I just hate to read it during your lunch
(chuckle). Actually when the larvae hatch, they're about
3 millimeters long (laugh) and are pure white (laugh) and hairy.
SPT Go ahead, Crip, we're all ears.
CC White thinks I need help.
CC Well, I'll take biomed's word. He says
they're 3 millimeters long and appear white and hairy. He says
they're primarily veget - vegetarian so I don't guess you guys
have got any worry, but they may eat the remaining eggs. And
since we've got no food for those larvae they are gonna die
at - die shortly. Now in the wild vial there may be eggs of
other insects so you might have to watch out for that, such
as wasp (chuckle). Since those eggs were gathered in the
field rather than grown in the laboratory. Lots of luck.
SPT Hey, Crip. Would you repeat all after the
first vial contains?
SPT Thanks, Crip. We got it. We really would -
seriously, we were interested in knowing because we've been
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staring at these fellows for a long time now and trying to

figure out what we should be looking for. We have not noticed
any change or seen any - any hatching at all. We'll keep an
eye on them.
CC Okay, Ed. Actually, to be a little bit
serious, the time between diapauae and hatching is a very
short period of time so actually since you're not staring at
them for every moment, at least I assume that you' re not,
you probably are not going to see the diapause phase that -
the first thing that you should notice is the little larvae
crawling around there amongst the copper eggs, I guess, and
since they're white and hairy they should really stand out.
CC And, Ed, one other item I ought to mention.
There was a comment earlier about the time that it took this
morning for the CAGE flag to go from CAGE to gray and that
shouldhave been 160 seconds. Now, I know it's kinda hard to
estimate, but it should be a standard time anytime you do a
nominal H CAGE for it to stay in CAGE for 160 seconds.
SPT No, Crip. I think it probably was 160
seconds. We were up here watching it and when you stare at
a flag 160 seconds seems like a long time. We did not time
it, however.
CC About as long as when you stare at vials,
huh?
SPT Crip, I hate to keep pressing you but, you
did say if you could see diapause before the hatching, or
did you indicate that you could actually see it before the
larvae came out?
CC I guess what we' re getting down here is -
is that, no, we don't - That's going to be a very short period
of time and we don't think that you're really gonna be able to
catch any of that so - You know, it's on the order of minutes.
We really think that the first thing that you'll be able to
see is the hatching.
SPT Thank you, Crip. Appreciate your hanging
in there.
CC Anything for you guys.
CC One item for the CDR, if he happens to be
listening, we've got his phone call set up tonight at 00:48
and that's going to be over the Canary/Madrid pass.
CDR Thank you, Crip.
We'll see you again in about 6-1/2 minutes over Ascension at
19:49. 19:49. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there and, Ed, in regard to the 82B exposures you missed earlier
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today. That had been a set of exposures so there's really

no place for you to go back and pick them up and you can just
forget them and we'll reschedule them.
SPT Crip, - okay. I was it was my
impression that they were trying to learn a little bit about
where their slit looks relative to the white light limb and
that kind of thing. If there're some very short exposures, I
can whistle on over to the right la - the right limb and pick
that up, heck, inside 3 or 4 minutes.
CC Talk to you about it over Ascension.
SPT Thank you.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:44 CST, 27:19:44 GMT
12/12/73
PAO Skylab Control. Space station Skylab

in a gap now between the Vanguard tracking ship and acquisi-
tion upcoming in 4 minutes through Ascension Island. Space-
craft Communicator Bob Crippen had sligkt difficulty keeping
his composure there in describing to the Skylab IV crew what
the moth eggs ought to look like in their various stages of
hibernation and hatching, reading from a description passed
to him by the biomed people. The Science Pilot Ed gGibson
is supposed to routinely check the vials of moth eggs each
night to see if there's any apparent change in their condi-
tion and progress from one stage to another. 3 minutes away
from Ascension Island. We'll stay up for this short LOS period
and be ready for Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension, 6-1/2
minutes and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CC And Ed, regarding our previous discussion
on the age Of the exposures on the limb, the feeling here is
that it would be kind of crowded to - to put them today. We
anticipate probably having to do another four-limb coalign
maybe tomorrow or the day after and we can reschedule the
82B exposures at that time. So we just a as soon you forget
about them today and we'll get them later.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Crip. Certainly will
do. If anyone's got some thoughts on that four-limb coalignment,
and the problems or unanswered questions we have, I'd appreciate
hearing from them.
CC I don't believe we've got a good explana-
tion for it right now. We're still monitoring it, ourselves.
We'll have you again over Guam in 37 minutes at 20:33, 20:33.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Ascension
Island. Next station in 35 minutes, tracking station on Guam
Island. The charger battery regulator modules, CBRMs, now
showing a 97.3 percent state of charge. Apparently the electrical
system in the space station is performing in good form. We'll
be back in 34 minutes for Guam. At 19:58 Greenwich mean time,
Skyl ab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC883/I
Time: 14:32 CST, 27:20:32 GMT
12/12/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through the Guam tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 6 minutes.
SPT Roger_ Crip. Have you looked at the tapes
yet to see how the LCDS went?
CC I don't believe we've got that data, Ed,
yet.
SPT Okay.
CC We'll look at it as soon as we get a
chance.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute to LOS. Van-
guard in 33 minutes at 21:11, 21:11.
SPT Crip, I see you haven't inhibited momentum
dump. Would you like me to do that from here?
CC Yes, Ed. I'd appreciate it if you would.
SPT It's inhibited.
CC Thank you, sir. That's (laughter.
CC That's worth at least one atta boy for yQu.
SPT I'm trying to get back up to ground zero.
CC You're doing okay. (garble) ball point.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss of
signal. Skylab will be within range of the Vanguard tracking
ship in 30-1/2 minutes. At 20 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:10 CST 27:21:10 GMT
12/12/73

l0 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is less than a minute
away from acquisition through the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go Edward.
SPT Okay, Crip. I'm just finishing up the
building block 19 here. (Garble) right on schedule
I was looking at the XUV monitor and noticed that the
activation coming around the corner which is 97 is now the
brightest one on the disk. The one which we're working on
96 is relatively bright, but looks like a fairly old agent
in the chromosphere network is right up to around one arc minute
on the center of it and let's you know it's pretty washed out.
Before (garble) the one that's coming around the corner
and the (garble) the corona and that streamer which blew off
yesterday or the material which moved out through it (garble)
stretched it out so that there's only a very faint streamer left.
One at 8 and one at i0, almost identical to one another. And the
one over there at 230 still remains fairly wide going from
around 3 to 2 and it climbs slightly to the north. No evidence
of a transient right now.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you. That's a good run
down on it.
CC Ed, while you're there and looking at the
TVs. Could I ask you a question that we've been trying to
go over some of the data from the stability test you ran for
us the other day. Can you tell us have you ever seen any
clocking between the H-alpha reticles in the electronic cross
hairs? Like rotation?
SPT I believe there may be a slight amount.
I think we knew about that before we went though. Hold on,
let me take a look again.
CC And, Ed, the consensus here seems to be
that the effect of seeing 97 brighter than 96 is probably
attributable to limb brightening, also data on it indicates
that they're probably both about the same brightness and we
did see the same effect, I guess, when 96 was coming around
the limb.
SPT Yeah, thank you, Crip. I was just thinking
that after I sent it. We just find the site. Thank you.
SPT Right now, I cannot see any elogging. The
reticles themselves are not you know they both appear straight
that is, electronic and mechanical. They don't exactly lie
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along one another. There's a little waviness in there, but

I can't see any evidence of blocking, in either H-alpha 1 or
H-alpha 2.
CC Okay. The reason I asked the question.
It would almost appear from some of the data that we had a
bias off of about oh - 4 to 8 degrees on those maneuvers that
you were doing the other day and we're still looking at that.
SPT Crip, I'm afraid I didn't follow you on
the - how you arrived at that biasing from the maneuvers.
Which maneuvers in particular?
CC The little series of maneuvers you did
while you were looking at Mercury. In moving it around, the
fact that it didn't end up in the exact spot that you were
trying to maneuver it to, we can almost account for the
differences in all cases by a slight roll of about oh - 4
degrees or 6 or depending on who you're talking to. And, the
fact that the maneuvers always ended up going a little
bit further than what you desired.
SPT Okay. The clocking may be in the caronagraph
itself then and not in the H-alpha.
CC Now, we're still just looking at it in
time in prep for the 18-Delta that's coming up.
SPT What is the intensity of Kohoutek relative
to Mercury and should we be able to see it. I think there's
some information there when - at what point we're able to see
Mercury relative to the occulting disk. I think we can probably
extrapolate from that.
CC I'ii try to get you some d_ta back on that,
Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're I minute from LOS,
we'll see you again at Ascension in about 3 minutes at 21:25,
21:25.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC885/I
Time: 15:22 CST, 27:21:22 GMT
12/12/73

loss of signal. Ascension will pick up Skylab in about a
minute and a half. Wetll keep the line up and monitor. In
the Ascension pass there's overlapping coverage through
Canaries and Madrid.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we're back with you
through Ascension for 9-1/2 minutes. And Ed, in answer to
your previous question regarding the br - relative brightness
between Mercury and Kohoutek. Kohoutek is currently somewhere
between fourth and fifth magnitude, should be getting closer
to the plus 4 by the time we do 18D. Mercury when you looked
at it was minus .5, so that's at least a factor of a hundred.
Lots of luck.
SPT Yeah, okay, thank you Bob. How - we were
able to notice - we were able to observe Mercury when it
came out from behind the occulting disk and I don't recall
the exact deminsions but the filter does have an ap -app - on
appreciable radio gradient in it of about a fact of a hundred.
So, we're not quite that bad off, and if we might - it might
be on the border line.
CC Rog.
SPT That's if we're enable to initially place
it right on the outside of the white light coronography display,
I hope that's what they're shooting for, putting right close
to the edge.
CC Well, where you saw Mercury end up with
just about where they were shooting for, and that's relatively
- the relative position they're aiming for right now.
SPT Yeah, okay, that was pretty good. They
might want to look into see where they can move on in any
further or whether you buy much in terms of the gradient in that
filter. Trade that off versus the certainyy you're getting there.
CC Well, I think we maybe a little bit-concern
that - we might miss it a little bit and have it end up out
of the field of view.
SPT Okay, understand.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going to drop out
here in about i minute, and we'll have you again in about 2
minutes over Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston we are back with you. We
have you for about 6-1/2 minutes. And all of your Flight
Plans are on board.
CC Skylab, Houston, CDR, you - you got a
moment to chat?
PLT He's right in the middle of a S019, Crip.
CC Okay, sorry about that, Bill, I can go
ahead and talk if you got a moment, talk to you.
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PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, I guess - l'm sure you're probably
concerned about this too, the little problem we had with
the 190A filters not being installed. We_ve been doing an
evaluation of that to see exactly what it means, in - in
terms of sites and what was affected. As it turns out
after investigating, fairly thorougly, we found out that
we_ve got 6 mandatory sites which we're going to have to
repeat and 5 sites for sensor performance data. And we
can pick all[ of those up with no problem.
PLT Oh, that's very nice to here Crip, I'm
really sorry about that.
CC Yeah, but - as it turns out it doesntt
look like it going to be that big of an impact at all.
PLT Thank you very much takes a terrific
load off of my mind.
CC Roger, that.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC886/1
Time: 15:39 CST 27:21:39 GMT
12/12/73
PAO Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS.

Next site is Guam in 26 minutes at 22:09, 22:09 where we'll
be doing a data/voice recorder dump. And by that team - by
that time the next team should be on which is the big silver
team, and crimson guys are going off.
SPT So long to the Crimson Crippens.
SPT Thanks for all that good information on
the moth eggs, Crip°
CC That's why l'm crimson.
of range Madrid. The next station will be Guam in 25 minutes.
Flight Director, Don Puddy has scheduled his change of shift
news conference for 4:30 p.m. central standard time, in the
news center briefing room, 4:30 p.m. central standard time
for the change of shift news conference with Flight Director,
Don Puddy. At 21 hours 44 minutes Greenwich mean time this
is Skylab Control.
ENDOF TAPE
SL-IV MC887/I
TIME: 16:07 CST, 27:22:07 GMT
12/11/73

7 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
acquisition through Gaum.
PAO The Flight Director now is Neil Hutchinson,
the CAP COMM astronaut, Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
i0 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder dump, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS,
next station contact in 31 minutes through the Vanguard at
21:48, out. Make that 22:48.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylah is out
of the Guam station's range now. The next station will be the
Vanguard tracking ship in 29-1/2 minutes. The change-of-shift
news conference is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. central standard
time, about i0 minutes from now in the building 1 briefing
room. Participants will be off-going Flight Director Donald
Puddy, and his guidance and navigation assistance officer,
Terry White. Beginning tonight, the Skylab crew will be
giving mission control a shorter daily status report, and a
report that should be easier f0r everyone to understand.
Every night for nearly 4 weeks, the astronauts have listed a
long series of individual exercises, with tape recorders in
Mission Control used to capture the details of the crew members'
physical training program. But tonight's status report
should be much shorter. Instead of listing each exercise, the
number of repetitions, and the amount of time spent using
isometrics or any of five exercise devices now aboard the
space station, the crew will refer to a standard exercise
program. The new exercise program, tailored to the needs
and desires of each crewman, will be more strenuous than
the actual exercises reported during the past weeks. Flight
Surgeon Doctor Charles Ross says the standardized exercises
reflect a higher level of work, but seem to be the goal toward
which the crew has been striving during their 26 days in orbit.
Earlier this week, Skylab medical operations Director Doctor
Royce Hawkins said the third Skylab crew was working at a
level higher than either previous Skylab crew. Even before
setting the new levels of their standardized exercise programs,
the Commander, Jerry Cart, and the Pilot, Bill Pogue, were
matching the output standard reached by Jack Lousma. Lousma,
the pilot of the second manned flight, and a former University
of Michigan football player, exercised more virgorously than
any of the five other astronauts who have lived and worked aboard
Skylab during the first two flights. While Carr and Pogue
are at least equaling Lousma's efforts, the Science Pilot,
Ed Gibson, is far exceeding them. At recent performance levels,
Gibson is doing about 80 percent more than Lousma, Carr, and
Pogue. The new standard program, says Doctor Ross, will set a
new level. Here's a rundown on the daily exercise program
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adopted by the Skylab crew and reported to Mission Control earlier

today. Jerry Carr will spend 30 minutes bicycling, producing
enough energy to cook a modest lunch of soup, eggs, hot dogs,
and a small dessert with a microwave oven. Put to work to
solve another portion of the energy crisis, Carr's daily
bicycling with carry would carry him more than 30 miles
across the flat land of the Houston area. In addition to
his 5000 watt-minute bicycling, Carr will spend i0 minutes
each day using the Mark I rope-pull exerciser, which provides
continuing - continous tension and retracts automatically.
The Mark I is a modified version of the commercially available
"mini-gym". Carr will make 20 repetitions each of four
exercises, knee bends, behind-the-head triceps developers,
waist and trunk developers, and a combination of lifts.
For 6 minutes daily, Carr uses the springs - making 20 repetitions
each of an over-the-head stretch that broadens the upper
back, a behind-the-back stretch for the arms and shoulders,
and a stretch like that used by archers. Using the teflon
treadmill developed by Scientist Astronaut Bill Thornton
for the Skylab crew, Carr will walk vigorously for i0 minutes,
run for a minute, then do 300 quick, short springs, and
200 rises on his toes. The springs and rises are made
against the force of the elastic cords that hold the
astronaut against the slick surface of the treadmill. Carr
will also do a set of isometric exercises know as the
Hordinsky special, named for another of the Flight Surgeons,
Doctor Jerry Hordinsky. In the Hordinsky special Carr pushes
his legs apart against stationary blocks; then pushes them
together with a solid object between his feet. Bill Pogue
will perform many of the same exercises, but with higher
work levels for several of them. On the bike, Pogue will
ride 35 minutes doing 20 percent more work than Jerry Carr.
And in just 8 minutes with the Mark I rope device, Pogue
will repeat his four selected exercises 50 times each. The
pilot has 6 exercises with the multiple spring exerciser
making 20 repetitions each in a i0 minute period. In addition
to the isometrics suggested by the crew physician
Jerry Hordinsky, Pogue will take a 10-minute walk on the
treadmill, sometimes known as Thornton's revenge also know as
Thorton's plow and he'll also do 75 toe rises and i00 springs.
The exercise program for the Science Pilot Ed Gibson, is the
most strenuous, say the doctors, but it involves only four
exercises. Gibson will bicycle for 40 minutes, generating
8337 watt-minutes 40 percent more than Pogue, and two-thirds
again as much as Carr. With the Mark I rope exerciser, the
science pilot will do 100 full lifts beginning with his knees
bent and stretching to puIl the handle over his head.
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20 minutes are alotted for the mini-gym use. With the teflon
treadmill, Gibson will be doing a full thousand springs over
i0 minutes. He'll then use the treadmill for a series of 200
toe rises. The standardized exercise program shoud shorten
evening status reports by nearly half. Only variations from
the planned series are to be reported during the more than
8 weeks the crew may remain in space. So far, the exercise
program has kept the crew in excellent condition with no
medical problems and even though the crew is about to bypass
the space record set less than 6 months ago by Pete Conrad
and the first Skylab astronauts. The 28 day, 49 minute,
49 seconds the original Skylab crew spent aboard the
space station has then a new mark for Man's longest stay in
orbit. That since broken record will be passed by Carr,
Gibson, and Pogue at 8:51 a.m. central standard time on Friday.
At 22 hours, 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC888/I
Time: 17:00 CST, 27:23:00 GMT
12/12/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab completed the pass over the
tracking ship Vanguard shortly before the end of the change-
of-shift news conference. And is now about 8 minutes away
from acquisition through Canary Islands. We taped 3 minutes
of eonverstaion at Vanguard and we'll play that now.
Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR,
looking at the S055 telemetry, we show that detector 1 is
off and we're wondering if that tripped off or if you've
turned it off. And are you running per the schedule pad or
- are you doing something additional for us? Over.
CDR Did you copy Houston.
CC Negative, Jerry, we did not.
CDR Okay, that was inadvertent on that detector
i, I got it on now. What happened is I located a spray on the
limb just up above the area where I was doing a JOP 26, and I
got some time left over here now after the completion of my
work. I'm running a shopping list number 3 on it. I've
taken a 82B frame, 240 short, and zero offset, l'm now at a
plus 2 offset. I thought I'd try again at a plus 6 offset.
CC Beautiful, sounds great to us. Thank
you.
CDR This spray extends above the spicule
height in this area about oh, 1-1/2 times the height of the
spicules.
CC Okay, we copy that Jer.
CC CDR, Houston, we'd like to get an SO82A,
short wave length, 40 second long time exposure if you would
please?
CDR The only problem is we're down below 400
K now.
CC Okay, Roger, Jerry, disregard that.
Thank you.
CDR Roger, I had to truncate the last 82B up
to i minute 40 seconds.
CC Roger, we copy. And we have about 1
minute to LOS. Next station contact in 11-1/2 minutes through
Canary Island at 23:09. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end
of the tape. Canary will acquire Skylab in 5 minutes. At
23 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time, This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC889/I
TIME: 17:08 CST, 27:23:08 GMT
12/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours and

7 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about 50 seconds
away from acquisition at the Canary Island station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island
and Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 and 1/2 minutes
to LOS, next station contact in 36 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 23:57, out.
of signal. The next station for Skylab will be Honeysuckle
in 33-1/2 minutes. At 23 hours, 23 minutes, Greenwich mean
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SL-IV MC890/I
TIME: 17:56 CST, 27:23:56 GMT
12/12/73

56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle is about to
acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-
suckle Creek for 7 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder
dump. And CDR private comm coming up next station contact
at Canary Island, that's 00:48, out.
CDR Roger, Bruce, thank you.
CC Skylah, this is Houston i minute till LOS,
next station contact in 39 delay that - in 44 minutes
through Canary Island, at 00:48, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is passed
out of range of the Honeysuckle station. Quiet pass.
Bill Pogue at the Apollo telescope mount console. We're in
the time period set aside for Jerry Carr and Ed Gibson to
do their exercises. The next station will be Canary Islands
in 47 minutes. At 5 minutes passed midnight, Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC891/I
TIME: 18:47 CST, 28:00:49 GMT
12/12/73

46 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Canaries, and on this pass will carry through the
Madrid station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Canary Island and Madrid for 12 minutes. CDR private
phone call left antenna on VHF, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to
LOS, next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 01:27, see you there, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is beyond
the range of the Madrid station now. Acquisition at Carnarvon
in 26 minutes. At i hour 0 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC892/I
Time: 19:25 CST 28:01:25 GMT
12/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour

25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
at the Carnarvon station. And there is overlapping coverage
through Honeysuckle.
for 8-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice tape
recorder at Honeysuckle on the tail end of this overlapping
pass. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. This is dinner
time for the crew in Skylab.
CC Skylab this is Houston coming to you
through Honeysuckle Creek with the data/voice tape recorders
dump, out.
CDR This is Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead CDR.
CDR Roger, in my phone call my wife mentioned
that we might be visible over Houston tomorrow morning about
6:04 something like that. Would you check that out?
CC We will indeed.
CDR Okay.
CC You wanna turn your lights on or something?
CDR Yeah, we thought we would wave or
something.
CC And Skylab, we've taken control of the
VTR to dump same.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 30 seconds till
LOS, next station contact in 34 minutes through Merritt
Island at 02:14. Out.
CC And at Merritt Island we'll be standing
by for the evening status report.
CC Also, we're working on the verification
of the time you gave us as being the time of closes
approach to Houston. We'll get back to you as soon as we
get the word on it.
CDR Thank you_ Bruce.
loss of signal. Skylab will next be acquired by the Merritt
Island, Flordia station in 33 minutes. At i hour 41 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL IV MC-893/I
Time: 20:13 CST 28:02:13 GMT
12/12/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
Merritt Island. The evening status report will be given during
this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda. Standing by for the evening status report.
And we're with you for 11-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger Bruce. Be right with you.
CDR Okay. You ready to copy?
CC Let her rip.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 8.0, 6/heavy, 2/light;
SPT, 8.0, 8.0/heavy; PLT, 8.0, 7/heavy, i/light. Volume:
CDR, 2250; SPT, 1500; PLT, 1850. Water gun: CDR, 7298; SPT
2531; PLT, 8691. Body mass: CDR, 2.9 - correction, 6.307,
6.307, 6.308; SPT, 6.365, 6.366, 6.364; PLT, 6.242, 6.240, 6.234.
Exercise: CDR, standard routine, with the exception of his
method Alfa, minus 2 minutes; SPT, no change; PLT, no change.
Medications: CDR, SPT, and PLT, none. Garments discarded:
CDR, one pair of socks; SPT, one pair of shorts, one T-shirt;
PLT, none. Food log: CDR, zero salt, plus one cherry drink,
plus 1.0 water; SPT, 9.0 salt, plus one tea, zero water; PLT,
zero salt, plus one cherry drink, minus i ounce of water.
Okay, Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list accomplish-
ments: none. Inoperable equipment disposition: the S183 i-i
carrousel has been checked out and restowed. Unscheduled
stowage: none. Photo log: no 16-millimeter DAC used today;
Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray, 36, 30; Nikon 2, no change; Nikons 3
and 4, no change; Nikon 5, Bravo Hotel 04, 42; 70-millimeter,
Charlie X-ray 17, 032; ETC, no change; EREP, no change. Drawer
A configuration: no change. That's it.
CC Okay, Jerry. We copy all that, and does
the Nikon 05 include allowance for the $233 stuff coming up here
shortly?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC All righty, and on S183 in the mal, is can-
ister i-i considered servicable now?
PLT I can't really tell Bruce. I went through
the procedure, however I found it extremely difficult to rotate
the small gear down below with my finger. So I took some pin-
pliers to reach down in there, and it moved quite easily with
the pliers. I aligned it and I will put the rest of that in-
formation on tape. The drilled hole was 45 degrees to counter-
clockwise from the 12 o'clock position using the hatch opening
in it's 12 o'clock position reference. I did everything it said,
and it just remains to be seen whether or not it will function.
CC Okay. Thank you very much Bill. Sounds like
you did a very fine job of checking it out there. Now, for the
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12/12/73
evening questions. We have one here that concerns television

operations and planning in the future. On the second time that
you run through JOP 18, which is 5 days from now on excuse
me - on day 33, we would like you to set up the color camera
to watch you make the observations. You would use the video
select switch to go from the color camera to ATM video after
the comet is in view, which is essentially what Ed did on
TV 28 a few days ago. The voice we'd be looking for would not
be planned narration, but just some conversation about what
you're doing. How does that sound to you all?
SPT Sounds all right for the second time through
Bruce.
CC Okaydoke. And also, sometime next week,
we'd like to schedule a tour of the cameras and instruments that
you're using to study Kohoutek. This particular item is not
scripted or arranged in the TV ops book. We can send you
up a short pad, giving the sort of things that we want, but
you'll pretty much be on your own, have to wing it. We're
estimating it will take about an hour of two man time. One
for the cameraman and one for the tourguide and narrator. How
does sound to you.
SPT That sounds great. The more information
you give us, of course, the better we'll understand the limitations
of the teleprinter, of course. But $201, I don't know too much
about and it's the only one we've never really studied as far
as the theory of it's operation, so give just a few words on
how that thing functions.
CC Okay. We'll certainly do that, and we'll
try to work up a series of things that you can do in sort of a
coherent fashion to have some coherency to the thing as you
work through. Last item on the subject of TV is TV 6 of the
M092 operations. Stand by a second.
CC We're going to have a handover here in about
30 seconds, so I may drop out for a few of them. On M092, we'll
be scheduling TV 6 in the not too far distant future here, and
as you may recall it's a relatively complex and - -
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TIME: 20:21 CST, 28:02:21 GMT
12/12/73
CC - - let's see we're going to have an

handover here - on M092 will be scheduling TV6 in the not
too far distant future here. And as you may recall it's a
relitively complex telecast. It uses both cameras and I
don't believe you've been through exactly this configuration
so you'd probably have to pay fairly close attention to the
book to get the scenes to work out right in the ground editing.
You'll probably want to put a little extra time into separation
for it and we have two options, we can either give you
15 minutes or a half of hour extra before you perform it, for
you to spend some time with the checklist and the cameras
and the TV ops book. Or if you like to try dry running it once
without the VTR before you do it for real, we can schedule
it that way. And we'd like your feelings on which way would
be preferable, over.
PLT We'd much prefer the dry run so we can
look at the monitor and get a feel for the time involved_
and, you know, change of scenes and that sort of thing.
CC Okay, we copy that. And from the biomed
side of the house, if you think back - back on good old mission
day ii, the question has been raised as to whether the limb
volume measurements were performed on the PLT. We apologize
for letting this much time go by before we checked on it but
we've been looking for the data in the voice recorder dumps
and haven't seen it and we're not sure whether you in fact
performed it or not. If you did do it on mission day ll,
at your convience we'd would like for you to the information
on the voice recorder again, over.
CDR Bruce, where would that be recorded.
Would it still have been in the biomed or was there some
sort of data going into the activation?
CC No, that should have been in the section 14,
pages, like 14-3 or 4 as the -
CDR Okay, we're taking a look.
CC Biomedical experiment checklist.
PLT Okay, and while we're looking that up,
going baok to your suggestion regarding some sort of coherent
scenario for the review of the comet observation, And if we
buy that i00 per cent and based on chronology or any sort of
systematic run through in the description of what we've done
to date.
CC Okay.
PLT What day of the year DOY was mission day
ii?
CC Day 330.
PLT 330, thank you.
CC And for the SPT, if you're not flipping
pages there. Question from the ATM world, they'd like to
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TIME: 20:2] CST, 28:02:21 GMT
12/12/73
if the S052 occulting disk image indicates any obliqueness.

If so, is the obliqueness the same as displayed on monitor I
as on monitor 2, over.
SPT Objectively Bruce, there is some
obliqueness and also I can not now say that there is a
difference between the two. However, I can go up, take
someone up there, and make a few measurements and give you any
eccentricities that there might be involved.
CC Okay, we'd appreciate that and you ca_
either give it to us in real time or put it on the dump tape,
either way.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds
to LOS, next: station contact through Madrid in 4 minutes
at 02:29 and we'll see you there, out.
SPT Roger, Bruce here's a quick question,
will I be using that carrousel I-i tomorrow, haven't got to
that 183 pad, yet.
CC Yes you will Bill.
PLT Thank you.
loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in 3 minutes,
we'll keep the line up, monitor through the Madrid station.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR we confirm that 12:04 Zulu,
or 06:04 local time for essentially your closest approach
to Houston. Actually it's 12:04:32 and you will be
northeast of Houston at that time at an elavation of about
35 degrees and a slant range of about 383 miles, over.
CDR Roger, thank you Bruce.
CC You still want to flash the light
when you go over.
CDH We'll do a wig roll.
CC Wait'll we run that one on the MMP,
the SLS is stacked if you really want to.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC895/I
Time: 20:33 CST 28:02:33 GMT
12/12/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute till

LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 03:03 private medical conference. And for the CDR we
have reviewed the dump data from your trim burn. And looking
at the 0CDUs we have found no problems with that. Over.
PLT Thanks a lot Bruce. He's doing a 233
right now.
CC Okeydoke, you can pass it on to him later.
CDR I got it Bruce. Comet's rising right
on time.
CC We're glad to hear that.
PA0 This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Madrid station. Next station is Carnarvon
in 24 minutes. The evening medical conference will be
conducted during the Carnarvon pass. Honeysuckle has some
overlapping coverage with Carnarvon. We'll - we'll come
back up just prior to Carnarvon to pick up any air-ground
that may follow the medical conference. At 2 hours 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC896/I
Time: 21:01 CST, 28:03:01 GMT
12/12/73

minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 50 seconds away
from acquisition at Carnarvon. And the evening medical
status conference at that station. Coverage at Honeysuckle
will begin just a few seconds after LOS at Carnarvon.
We'll keep the line up for regular air-ground after the
end of the medical status conference.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Honeysuckle for 4 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR.
We need to get another frame count on Nikon 5, when you
read it down earlier this evening in the photo log, it
showed a count of 42 which would indicate that you only
took 1 frame on the $233 operation today instead of the 6
that were intended. Over.
CDR I knew you'd catch us eagle eye.
CC What does that mean?
CDR It means you're right. The frame count's
47.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 33 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 03:46. Out.
loss of signal. Texas will acquire Skylab in 28 minutes
for a pass that will also cover the Merritt Island, Florida
and the Bermuda stations. At 3 hours 18 minutes Greenwich
mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL IV MC-897/I
TIME: 21:45 CST, 28:03:45 GMT
12/12/73

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is a few seconds
away from acquisition at Texas. This pass will go through
loss of signal at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,
Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16 minutes and I've got a
few items for the CDR here and the evening news, over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jer both of these concern the
trimburn which you did the other day, during that burn,
once again we noticed the service module RCS quad Bravo,
fuel manifold pressure and the helium pressure tracking the
PSM fuel pressure as the burn progressed, from that we
infer that the RCS quad Bravo fuel quad isolation valve
is still not feeding properly. There will be a checklist
change coming up to you shortly that will shut quad Bravo
off from the PSM, that is close the quad Bravo to PSM
interconnect, but don't do it until we get that up to you,
over.
CDR Okay, Bruce thank you.
CC About all that that's doing iuagaurding
you against leakage through the thrusters in quad A, C, or
D, so that if that happened, it will not be able to pull
the B fuel down. The other item concerns your question
on the cage talkback associated with the nominal H cage
which you did after the trimburn. We've analyzed the data
and it shows that it was on for 160 seconds which is exactly
right and we think the system is functioning as advertised,
over.
CDR Yeah, we discussed that with Crip a little
earlier this afternoon, I guess just standing there and
looking at it and waiting for it to go, 160 seconds seems
like a long time.
PLT And Bruce, PLT with the ATM frame count
if you want.
CC Okay, let her rip, Bill no need to read
off the identification of the instrument, just read them
in order from the top down.
PLT 10623, 3577, 132, 1014, 5269, 3504.
CC Mighty fine, thank you. And understand
from our GNS that we just got the final reduction of the
data here on this nominal H cage and talkbaek performance
so we got the numbers to back it up now.
CDR Good enough, Bruce. You might notice on
there that the rates were very small this time, and in fact
we were well below the .03 degrees per second and
very, very quickly after the termination of the burn. I guess
SL IV MC-897/2
TIME: 21:45 CST, 28:03:45 GMT
12/12/73
that's what made it seem like such a long time when you were waiting
for that talkback to go gray.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC And if you're ready I can hold forth for
a couple of minutes of world news here.
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC And before I go on that, on S055 we need
the high voltage switch to detector 1 off and also the grating
position to 630. And for the CDR, wakeup in the morning will
be through Corpus Christi at 11:59 Zulu.
CDR Roger, thanks Bruce.
CC Okay, the big news stories of today, centered
on the energy crisis. As the White House proposed cutting
gasoline production 25 percent effective December 27. The
regulations proposed would give priority to emergency service
agricultural production, public transportation services and
energy producers who buy gasoline in bulk. But retail
service stations are at the bottom of the priorities, getting
what is left over. Stand by for handover.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC898/I
Time: 21:51 CST, 28:03:51 GMT
12/12/73
CC In related energy stories, President

and Mrs. Nixon will participate Friday in the traditional
lighting of the national Christmas tree but the tree itself
will not carry lights this year as an energy conservation
move; however, it will be spotlighted. And the University
of Miami launched an advertising campaign today directed at
attracting students who may be forced to miss winter semesters
at northern universities due to the fuel shortages.
London: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger proposed today
that the European allies in Japan join the United States in
a crash program to surmount the oil shortage by developing
new energy sources and conserving supplies. Kissinger spoke
at the end of a crowded day in which he added Algeria to his
tour of Arab countries before leaving England. U. S. District
John J. Sirica plans to turn over copies of two more
subpoenaed presidential tapes to special Watergate prosecutor
Leon Jaworski of Houston. The tapes turned over today
contain conversations held between President Nixon and aides
on March 21, 1973. Foreign Minister bba Eban reaffirmed
that Israel will attend the Arab-Israeli peace conference in
Geneva next week despite the threat of an Israeli boycott
from Defense Minis Minister Moshe Dayan. Storms raked
the nation's northernmost corners today, spreading rain and
snow in the Northwest and snow in the Northeast. Winds
gusting to nearly 60 miles per hour whipped snow and rain
in the northern intermountain region and the northern Rockies.
6 to 7 inches of snow covered the ground in Maine. Aboard
the Queen Elizabeth 2, the weary seaborne skygazers failed
to view the comet Kohoutek early today in their last sighting
attempt before steaming back to New York. About 200 passengers
aroused themselves by 4:30 a.m. eastern standard each day
only to stand on the soggy afterdecks vainly searching for
an opening in the stubborn mass of gray clouds over the
Eastern seaboard. The most celebrated passenger aboard,
Lubos Kohoutek, has been trailed by autograph hunters and
a television film crew. The Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory said that the comet appears as a white blob about
i0 to 15 degrees above the southeast horizon just before
sunrise each day this week. But I guess that's no news to you
all. Today it was reported that an instrument aboard Mariner
i0 has detected ultraviolet ra - radiation from the Gum
Nebula so intense that it corresponds to temperatures as high
as I00,000 degrees, i0 times the surface temperature of the
Sun and twice the temperature of the hottest stars seen from
the Earth and from orbiting satellites. The wire services
carried stories today about your trim burn. They quote Jerry, as
saying, "the burn was smooth as glass." The stock market,
which brokers say is confused and bewildered over the extent
SL-IV MC898/2
Time: 21:51 CST, 28:03:51 GMT
12/12/73
and impact of the nation's fuel shortages fell sharply

today. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrlals slumped
23.45 points to 810.73. Not too much in the way of sports
today but one interesting slldelight reports that Dallas
Cowboy coach Tom Landry has filed a protest with the National
Football League over irregularities by the Washington
Redskins in their Sunday clash. Landry said, "we had 6
illegal procedure penalties because the Redskin Defense was
yelling hut-hut-hut when Roger Staubach was calling signals.
We protested to the League office because it's illegal to
jam quarterback signals." And that's 30 for tonight.
Over.
CDR Hut-hut-hut.
CC (Laughter). I'm taking enough flack
down here in the Control Room right now without you guys
adding to it.
CDR Just thought we'd do a little jamming
of our own.
CDR Bruce, I think the passengers on the
Queen Elizabeth prebably shouldn't feel to badly, we can't
even see it here with the naked eye, really.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to
LOS, last pass of the evening. We'll see you over Corpus
Christi at 11:59 Zulu. Out.
CDR Roger, good night Bruce, and good night
silver team.
CC Roger, good night. And you can say
good night Dick, if you want cause Dick Truly's down
here too.
MCC Say good night, Dick.
CDR Dick, who?
MCC Thanks a lot.
SPT Good night, Dick.
CDR Good night, Dick.
MCC Good night guys, I'ii wake you up in
the morning.
SPT We look forward to it.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC899/I
Time: 22:03 CST 28:04:03 GMT
12/12/73

loss of signal. The good nights have been said. We have
mission surgeon's daily report on crew health for today
mission day 27. It reads no health problems exist no
medicines are being utilized. Signed Jerry Hordinsky,
M.D. for Doctor W.R. Hawkins M.D.. Wake up time tomorrow
is 6 a,m. central standard time. We'll take this line down
until that time. At 4 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time
END OF TAPE

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours,

available per the star tracker pad about 31 minutes remaining

to make exact determinations of the comet's brightness during

PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 37

we're requesting is a 20 degrees counterclockwise. The second

PAO Zero Hours, 19 minutes Greenwich mean

CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute

PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour,

we can go on out and take a look and see if there's anything

CC That's the truth.

CC and in Houston today it's real cold. Today,

PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour, 59 min-

PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 50

to end the session by the 21st of December a delay in Social

PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss

and I owe you frame counts on Nikon i and the 70-millimeter,

CC Okay, Jer. Why don't you think about

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours,

PAO This is Skylab Control at 4 hours 19

PAO This is Skylab Control. 14:03 Greenwich

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from

CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Vanguard

through tracking ship Vanguard. Ground track of the space

PAO This is Skylab Control, 15:41 Greenwich

cated in Gibson's Gap, the central meridian is somewhere

the limb on the prominence, on spicules, and on the active region

MCC - - before and that's the use of the

in order to complete a good observation. So, I guess, l'd

over CONUS, so - and we are going to try to maximize corrolary

CC - - give those to you.

what that does for us is allows us to open them with two

CC Skylab, Houston. Are you reading?

CDR Yes, that's affirmative.

PAO This is Skylab Control, 17:43 Greenwich

would have been that it failed to close at sunset and then

resend that permanent general message regarding the 82A

PAO This is Skylab Control. 18:07 Greenwich

to get two photographs a day, which would mean we'd

PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal

PAO This is Skylab Control; 19:22 Greenwich

SPT Say, Crip, I was over on channel A,

SPT It does not get rid of it.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours

CDR It looks like it's about 490.

messing with 82A right now.

CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Ascension

as a scheduled military test launch. The rocket will be

atmospheric scientists believe that the tropical airglow

PAO Used a highly scientific - highly senstive

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 57

Shaffer, the new CAP COMM is Dick Truly. The off-going

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 36

loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Ascension

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours,

23 hours, i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 minutes

CC Next one is not a question but just a

solve it for you.

CC Yeah, it'll clear when you open the door.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 minutes