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TIME: 07:59 CST, 34:13:59 GMT

12/19/73
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 59 minutes

and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is just about to come within range of the tracking antenna
at Hawaii. The pass through Hawaii will last about 7-1/2
minutes. The changeover has just been comcluded here. The
Flight Director now on duty is Charles Lewis, and the space-
craft communicator is Hank Hartsfield. Milton Windier said
he'll be available approximately 8:30 for a change of shift
briefing in the Building i briefing room. We're live now
for air,to,ground at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Hawaii for
7-I/2 minutes. Good morning from the Bronze team.
CDR Good morning, good morning.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC Jer, something we should have got up
earlier and we - we let it slip here; on your next ATM pass
we would llke for you to alien the electronic crosshairs
to the comet overlay.
CDR Okay_ Hank, I'ii line it to the center
of the occulting disk.
SPT Hank, the way we plan align those is to
put the overlay on the occulting disk and center that as best
we can and then use the crosshairs at the very center
to mark (garble) overlay. But the objective is to put it on
at the center of the occulting disk which you can do by using
the overlay.
CC Okay, we copy that_ Edo
CC Skylab, Houston. We're still discussing
that pointing alignment down here on the electronic crosshairs.
And I think you said it right, but just let's verify here.
After you center the overlay on the S052 field of view, then
we align the crosshairs, electronic crosshairs, on the dot
which is right in the center.
CDR Yeah, that's right.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard in 22 minutes. And
advise that the JOP 18 maneuver pad calls for a Nu-Z update,
I think, starting at a window of about 14:08. We won't need
that now since we got one earlier today.
CDR Roger.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has passed out
of range of the tracking antenna on the Hawaiian Islands.
Our next acquisition is 20 minutes away at Vanguard. This
is Skylab Control at 9 minutes after the hour.
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Time: 08:26 CST 34:14:26 GMT
12/19/73

Greenwich mean time. We're now about 3_i/2 minutes from
acquisition at Vanguard. The Flight Management Team meeting
is not yet completed, here in the Mission Control building.
But, we expect it to be over shortly. Flight Director Milton
Windler has indicated he'd like, as soon as possible, to complete
that change_of-shift briefing in the building 1 briefing room.
So, we're going to hold the Vanguard pass recorded for replay
after the press conference. We don't have an exact time, he
indicated herd try and get over there shortly after 8:30, so
we'll hang on to the Vanguard pass until that change-of-shift
briefing is able to get started in building i. We expect
that that should be able to begin between 8:30 and 8:45.
This is Skylab Control. It's now 26-1/2 minutes after the
hour.
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SL-IV MC-II02/I
Time: 08:44 CST 34:14:44 GMT
12/19/73

Greenwich mean time. Milton Windier is still here in the
building in the building 30, Mission Control Center. He
has not yet left for building l, so we're going to begin
playing back that Vanguard pass. We expect the change of
shift 18 going to be delayed until 9 o'clock central standard time
that's 15 minutes from now. Here is the Vanguard pass just
concluded.
CC Skylab, Houston. With the ATM conference.
Over.
SPT Morning, Bill, go ahead.
MCC Okay. Let me hit you real quick here with
a couple of solar topics and then I'll get into JOP 18-D discussion
if you'd like. Okay, on the Sun, you've already seen that
T59 lifted off last night, the remaining small portion of it
we feel may not actually be the old $37, but it's probably
old $39, which is why it's still there. Double 0 has increased
its activity, three flares last evening. C-I a sub normal and a
1 normal. No big words required there. If you're having
difficulty locating the neutral line, you've got a lot of
company and we anticipate possibly, increased activity for the
next 24 to 48 hours out of that. If you're looking at the
H-alpha, there's a potential new bypolar region coming out
right below 03, we don't know what to make of that Just yet.
Toward (garble) - -
SPT 03?
MCC Yeah; right below 02, NOAA sees a little
bitty bypolar - bypole coming out there. And, the plan for
today had concentrated almost exclusively on P59, which is
no longer around. NOAA doesn't really know whether it's
liable to reform or not. In all likely hood we will be
replanning the ATM passes, after the comet maneuver, changing
the emphasis from P59 to active region 00, and you might just
file that in the back of your mind for thinking about here.
We've got 7 minutes left on this pass. Let me see what
questions you've got and then I'll talk 18 delta with you.
SPT Okay, just a couple of comments. Last
night, which I didn't I believe we didn't mention air-to-ground
we did see the - the streamer out there above P59 become a little
broader at the base expecially towards the south and I'm wondering
whether that was the initial part of that branching off. I think
going to active region i0 is a good plan. I had trouble, as
you just pointed out, finding the neutral line. But I chased it
all around_ I ended up with an isolated fold up here toward
the north and I'd like some better words from you if I could
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later on, once we start working it. Over on 18 delta, I got - I

got a couple of questions lined up here and unless you got something
specific why don't you let me ask them?
MCC Okay, why dontt you ask your questions
and then I've almost got a walk through here of pointing
out important things I've picked up on the SLS and other
thoughts. So go ahead with yours.
SPT Okay. Step 21, it says star STDN data
only, do not use star tracker for maneuvering, and yet we
have all the information. I - That information there
is only to you - You just cannot find anything at all in the
52 field of view. That was the reason it was put in there
and I was still using that in that instance and I'm wondering
why it was put in there to not use it for maneuvering.
MCC Okay, the problem there is, that even if
you don't see anything, you can't use it. The comet is moving
at 8 arc - 8 arc minutes per hour and the star tracker gimbal
angles are only valid at one given time that is toward the beginning
of the first orbit and really we'd have to provide you with
a matrics of gimbal angles updated every 5 minutes in order
for that to be useful information. If you do the JOP am
printed now, with those star tracker angles, the maneuver
you made would point you to where the comet was probably an
hour and a half ago, by the time you get around to doing that.
We'll use your inner and outer gimbal angle numbers to compute
after the fact where the various maneuvers had you, but we
don't feel at this time that we can use the star to point us.
We should get that fixed up for next time, but for now, we
Just can't do it. And the C's the C metric probably should not
have been sent.
SPT Okay; very good. I understand now. On
step 25. It says to - Before each 82B exposure meaneuver to
place comet in the 52 field of view and repeat step 18 to place
82B at comet - comet. The question there is, do you mean
before each exposure - That means after the SHORT exposure, wait
for exposure of 20 minutes, we repoint before the LONG WAVELENGTH
exposure of 20 - of 7 minutes and if so, what do we do with 56 which
has got an exposure of 27 minutes?
MCC That's affirmative. You do repoint at
the end of the 20-second SHORT prior to the initiation of the
7 _ 20-minute SHORT prior to 7-minute LONG. You leave
56 open, you will not be off very long and there they've
got that long intergration and don't feel that that will
effect them adversely that much. This again is due to the
8 arc minute per hour motion. We did not have enough time
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for the computer to compute the motion compensation the JOP

was set up for in step 25. Again, we promise that for future
18 deltas, but this one we just couldn't make it. This is
our work around that repoints us. Over.
SPT Okay. It also says to repoint and take
additional exposure in 82B WAVELENTH LONG. By repoint, do
you mean again to the comet nucleus and also where is the
axis of the nucleus - l'm sorry, the axis of the comet
relative to the slit, what's the angles?
MCC Okay, yes we do mean to repoint again.
You should find that the comet tail will be streaming off
to your right. The motion is to your left and the Sun would
be toward the left. So, that if you had the maneuver that
put the slit slightly to the left of the nucleus, comet
motion would carry the nucleus through the slit eventually.
So, that that's the direction and the attitude. Over.
SPT So, when we initially point at the nucleus
ideally then what we're going to see is the nucleus and then
the (garble) tail, if we wait long enough.
MCC That's right and the SHORT WAVELENGTH 82B
of course, is looking at Lyman alfa, which is like a 2 degree
target so there's no real criticality on the pointing there.
The LONG WAVELENGTH is looking primarly at the OH and CN
radicals, with like a 2 arc minute nucleus, so that those
are the ones for which the pointing is very critical. And,
that's why we have to play the game to peak up before each
LONG exposure. Over.
SPT Okay. Very good. I understand.
MCC Okay. l'm not going to get any where near
through my list here Incidentally, I'ii be standing by here
in the MOCR, if you've got any questions of me, I'ii be
standing by through your JOP 18D. The 55 GRATING we have
initially given you both OPTICAL and MECH REP numbers, because
you will be starting with it probably in OPTICAL REF. We never
change the grating so that just leave it in wherever it
is, OPTICAL or MECH REP. A reminder here from ESCD,
in step i0, we do not do the momentum bias, but you do do the
rest of step I0, the ACT SUN SENSOR reconfiguration. When
you first acquire you should find the comet at about 6 o'clock
about mid way in your overlay field of view. The first thin_
you do is a maneuver let me break here, we've got 1 minute
til LOS. Tananarive is next in 16 minutes. And, it's not
very long, we may miss it, after that is Hawaii
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TIME: 08:52 CST, 34:14:52 GMT
12/19/73
MCC let's just leave it in wherever

it is, optical or MECH ref. A reminder here from ASCO in step
i0; we do not do the momentum bias but you do do the rest
of step i0, the ACQ SUN SENSOR reconfigurations. When you
first acquire you should find the comet at about 6 o'clock
about midway in your overlay field of view. The first thing
you do is a maneuver - let me break here. We've got I minute
to LOS. Tananarive is next in 16 minutes. And it's not
very long; we may miss it. After that is Hawaii in 58 minutes
from now. Okay, so you make a slight maneuver to put the
head over to the left and get as much of the tail into
the 52 field of view as you can. There's no hurry here.
The ASAP for starting BB30 just indicates that we don't have
a time to put there. Whenever you're ready, go ahead and
start. We will be - you'll be putting the overlay on with
our best guess as to the bias, 56:50, which is plus 250.
One thing is watch out, we now have a 90-degree roll-in which
makes it easy to confuse the X- and Y-axes if you're thinking
of zero roll. And also in the simulator, especially, you
need to pay a lot of attention to the paralax problem to
repoint your head at the same position. Antares should be
in there, and it's a 1.2 magnitude star. And it looks like
we're just about LOS. We can talk to you next.
PAO Skylab Control, that concludes the Vanguard
pass. We're coming up on acquisition of signal now at Tananarive
where we have 4 minutes. Immediately after this, Milton Windler,
who's now enroute to Building i, will be available for our
change of shift briefing there. That'll be about 4 or 5 minutes
from now.
MCC Okay, Ed, we're back with you here through
Tananarive. We may not last very long. Hawaii will be the
last pass prior to maneuver initiate. That's 40 minutes
from now, and it'll be about a 9-minute pass. Let me give
you opportunity for questions. Over.
SPT Bill, I'm still working through the
pointing test. I don't see anything that - any major questions,
we've just taken a little time to go through it all.
MCC Okay, let me just hit a couple of more
high points here and then I'ii finish off at Hawaii. On the
pointing test pad, steps 2 and 3, we've got three places where
there is five - oh, like five symbols. We apologize for that,
that should have been a line where you could write. And it's
going to be hard to write over those, but I don't want you to
think that that's a number that we're giving you. Those
should be your place to write. On the pointing test take
as long as necessary, even if it takes the entire second orbit.
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TIME: 08:52 CST, 34:14:52 GMT
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SPT Bill, let's go back to procedures (garble).

(Inaudible) You can turn out (garble) on the axis if you
want a straight Y-axis or X-axis maneuver. Is that affirm?
MCC That's affirmative. What we say is
approximate and then just make your maneuver. If you're right
on the axis, great; if not you're just looking that you
parallel the proper axes.
SPT Okay, and those maneuvers are the desired
X and Y should have negative (garble). Is that affirm?
MCC That's affirmative. We've written down
XB itself, and XM then is X-P minus X-B.
SPT Okay; very good. I'll see it written
above (garble).
SPT Okay, it (garble) taking a long time to
go through all this.
MCC Okay, I certainly understand. We're sorry
we didn't get it to you last night. On the overshoot measure
when we get that number, if you downlink that to us, we'll
try to get word up to you as to what to do about it if any-
thing. And looks like we're going over the hill here. We'll
see you in Hawaii in 37 minutes.
SPT Looks like the only thing you can do with
it is try to figure out what percentage it is. That is,
going back from octals to decimals, figure a percent, put that
into our HP35 and then we've got to take it, convert everything
back toward the decimal and octal again to make it work.
MCC That's one thing. There's a lot of thought
here, though, that it may not be a percentage, it may be
a constant overshoot which will be real easy to hand]e while
still in octsl.
SPT You put a unit a 0.01-degree maneuver
in it would overshoot?
MCC Well, that's the one thing we're not sure
of, that_ why we're making the 220-octal-unit maneuvers,
and then later the 30- unit to see if the overshoot is the
S a me.
SPT Understand.
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SL-IV MC-II04/I
Time: 09:00 CST, 34:15:00 GMT
12/19/73
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours i minute

and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station has now passed beyond the antenna at Tananarive.
35 minutes to our next acquisition at Hawaii. Change-of-
shift with Flight Director Milton Windier, who's gone off
duty the last hour, will be beginning shortly in the
Building I briefing room. Flight Director Milton Windier
is off shift at the present time. Chuck Lewis is on duty
here in Mission Control as Flight Director. Bill Lenoir
conducted the last two passes with discussion of the ATM
instruments and JOP 18-D, which is the observation of
the comet Kohoutek scheduled for today. The regular Spacecraft
communicator, at this time, is Hank Hartsfield. A
reminder, that Building i briefing on change-of-shift
should be gin shortly.
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TIME: 09:35 CST, 34:15:35 GMT
12/19/73

and 42 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now 55 seconds from acquisition of signal at Hawaii. The pass
through Hawaii will last about 9-1/2 minutes.
PAO Spacecraft communicator at the present
time is Carl - is Hank - Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9-1/2
minutes. And if someone is available I'd like to get a
REG BUS ADJUST - get ready for the JOP 18.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, on REG BUS 1 we'd like to go 20
degrees counterclockwise, and on REG BUS 2, 25 degrees counter-
clockwise.
SPT How's that look, Hank?
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it. And for
information, we'll be dumping the recorder this site. And
Ed, Bill is standing by for a little more discussion on the
JOP 18.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay, let me give you a couple of goodies
here before we get into it. The station passes pertinent to
the JOP 18, we will have Vanguard at 16:08, 16:08. Shortly
after you have begun the maneuver we will have Ascension at 16:24.
Then there is a big gap until Vanguard again at 17:45, when
we're almost through with the whole JOP 18D. I give you those
so that you can plan ahead any comments that you've got to
us. The Ascension at 16:24 is a 4-minute pass, and that's
probably your only opportunity to pass to us any overshoot
information you've got. Depending on what it is, we may or
may not be able to work it out in real time. If it's a
fixed overshoot, I'm sure you can figure out what to do and
we can quickly tell you in real time. If it's a scaled over-
shoot, obviously the smaller maneuvers will give us the smaller
errors and we'll have to try to work out something here as
quickly as we can to tell you how to account for that. I
gave you one bit of misleading information before. The star
tracker data that you have is valid as best as we can compute
at 17:20. That's right at the beginning of the second rev.
That means if all else fails and we never see the comet we
can still do the 52 ops in the first rev; we can do the pointing
test on the Antares for the rest of the first rev; and at
17:20 we can use the startracker to point to where it thinks
the comet is and proceed with our exposures just based on a
- assuming that got us there. Hopefully, we will see the comet.
The TV we asked for is, if convenient, the whole world here
would like to look over your shoulder a little bit, and, hopefully,
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we'll have something interesting to look at. So that whenever

that fits in, but don't let it interfere. The time we thought
was maybe while you're doing the pointing test, just moving
it around then it won't be in your way adding time or anything
of that nature.
SPT How much time do we have on the VTR?
MCC Stand by, we'll get that number for you.
And one thought here, when you are peaking the 55 detector,
the best word I can get is to expect about i0 times the
background, and that's a very rough idea. You'll get a hint
on the background when you run the - the MAR during the 52
data take, because that ought to be out in the middle of
nowhere. And what you should expect when you're on the comet
with the grating is about i0 times the background; that's very
rough. And you can decide on your own how much time to budget
to that step 19, but don't get hung up there forever. And we
can just press on from there with the assumimg that our
maneuver was right and we can take a look at the startracker.
Okay, let's see, what - What other question, comments have
you come up with during the interim? Over.
SPT Nothing additional, Bill; I'm just going
through it again.
MCC Okay, I'ii be sitting here. If there's
anyway I can help you out, just let me know.
SPT Okay,Bill; appreciate your help.
MCC Okay, and you've got about 23 minutes on the
VTR you can use. You don't have to use it all.
SPT Okay, does that mean we have to cut it off
after 23, or do you want us to run it to the end? The reason I'm
asking is if we turn it on do we have to know a specific time to
turn it off? Or can we just leave her running as long as we got
something up there?
MCC Okay, that's affirmative. There's 7 minutes
already on it. You can turn it on and let it run to end of
tape. So you've got about 23 minutes in there.
SPT Thank you.
MCC Okay, and what that will do, incidentally,
is that will force us to forego the subsequent ATM solar TV
that we've got up to 23 minutes available. Whatever you don't
use on the comet, we will use on ATM later on the Sun.
SPT Okay, I understand, Bill. Thank you.
CC And, SPT, Houston; that REG ADJUST looks
good to us.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
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Time: 09:42 CST 34:15:42 GMT
12/19/73
CC Okay, and Ed, Houston again here. On the

maneuver you can expect some TACS firings. I got 7 mibs
during the pointing test in the SLS last night and that appears
to be about what we would anticipate that you should expect.
It does not interfer with the pointing test except that you
can see the jumps and the blips while you're doing the
maneuver.
SPT How about during the period of ATT HOLD
out there, pointing at the comet?
CC Okay, right now we're not estimating any
but, these are only rough estimates and that shouldn't effect
the very lon_ intergration times that we've got.
SPT Question again, on 56. Should I just
leave that shutter open as long as we're doing the 82B exposures?
CC Roger; that's affirmative. Leave it open
as lon_ as lon_ as you've got in there for 82B, and let's see
I believe they're asking for 27 minutes. Is that right?
SPT That's right. They'll give us considerably
longer than that if keep maneuvering around for 82B.
CC Roger, Ed. Why don't you leave 56 open
as lon_ as you can in there and we'll get more than 27, if
we can.
SPT Okay.
CC And, Skylab. We're about 40 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard at 08, 22 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 46 minutes and
46 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
out of range at Hawaii. Our next acquisition is 21 minutes
away at Vanguard. During this pass, again, astronaut Bill
Lenoir, who is a member of one of the backup crews of the
Skylab missions and a former professor at Masschusettee
Institute of Technology was talking with Skylab crew, with
Ed Gibson particularly about the observations of the comet
Kohoutek today. Dr. Lenoir has been conducting the ATM
conferences over a period of several weeks now, and he is
giving extensive information to the crew today about the
observations on joint observation program number 18, which
will be the first observation of the comet Kohoutek. Hank
Hartsfield gave the LOS call there and he is the on-duty
spacecraft communicator. 20-1/2 minutes to acquisition at
Vanguard. This is Skylab Control.
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Time: 10:07 CST 34:16:07 GMT
12/19/73

14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the tracking ship Vanguard.
The pass through Vanguard will last approximately 7-1/2 to
9_I/2 minutes and the spacecraft communicator is Hank Hartsfield.
Bill Lenoir is still here in Mission Control. He may be talking
again to the crew here on the JOP 18D comet photography with
solar instruments that's scheduled to begin in a short while.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
7_i/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. We need to uplink some
momentum biases, if we could have the DAS?
SPT Okay, Hank. Go ahead. We've made the
maneuver and unable to see the comet so far. We checked to make
sure we had put in the fine maneuver by putting it in again
here at SOLAR INERTIAL. We still don't see it, but we're
gonna go back to original reference, SOLAR INERTIAL and look
again,
CC We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you see Antares?
SPT Negative, Hank.
CC Roger_ we copy.
CC And, SPT, the DAS is yours.
SPT Before we initialize or edit the strap down,
Hank, we ended up with final of PX, Y, and Z of 3.0, 342.1
and 351,5 _static) 6. 351.5 and 0.6.
CC Roger; we copy.
SPT Okay, Okay, Hank, we found it it's right down
at the very bottom edge of the tube, just about off.
CC Good show. We copy,
CC Was what you found, the comet or Antares?
SPT Hank, we can't tell. We've got a It
looks like a star, but we've not got sufficient resolution on
it yet and it's right now at the very edge of the tube and
now gone off. We're gonna make a maneuver now in order to
get a look at it.
CC Okay_ we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Wetll see you at Ascension at 25, that's about i0 minutes.
SPT Hank, it looks pretty much like a star.
We can not see any tail on it, so we'll Just keep looking.
CC Roger_ Bill advises that if it is a
bright point it would probably be Antares and the comet being
more defused would - wouldn't appear the same.
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Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station has gone
beyond range of the tracking ship Vangaurd. 7-1/2 minutes
to acquisition at Ascension. The Ascension pass is a
3_i/2 minute one, very low elevation pass and it will be the
last before the Skylab crew goes out of site of the ground
stations for quite a long period of time. They are in the
process now of working at the ATM console Ed Gibson and
Jerry Carr, are both there, preparing for JOP 18. Designers
of the Apollo Telescope Mount and it's array of astronomical
instruments and cameras did not foresee that someday the big
eight-sided observatory would be called upon to observe and photo-
graph what is forecast to be a spectacular comet. Scheduled
in today's Flight Plan is the first ATM viewing of the
comet Kohoutek, during this mission. The so-called JOP 18,
one of many joint observing programs established for the
solar instruments. The solar astronomy instruments in the
ATM will be pointed toward the comet many times in the next
several weeks. As Kohoutek makes it's swing past the Sun
on December 28th and continues out towards the far reaches
of the solar system. Among the scientific investigations
under way as the ATM is diverted periodically from it's
study of our nearest star is the study giving the structure
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TIME: 10:18 CST, 34:16:18 GMT
12/19/73
PAO The solar astronomy instruments in the ATM

will be pointed toward the comet many times in the next
several weeks as Kohoutek makes its swing past the Sun on
December 28 and continues out towards the far reaches
of the solar system. Amoung the scientific investigations
underway as the ATM is diverted periodically from its study
of our nearest star is a study to determine the structure
and composition of Kohoutek, its coma and tail, plus an
analysis of how comets change and evolve during their brief
moment of glory when they're visible to Earthlings. The
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-lived phenomena
in Cambridge Massachusetts still predicts that Kohoutek will
reach a maximum brightness or magnitude of minus 4, instead
of a minus 9 magnitude predicted many months ago. The predicted
magnitude would make the comet as bright as the planet Venus
basking in reflected sunlight. The comet will be somewhat
diffused while Venus appears as a bright point of light like
a star. The comet's expected to reach its peak brightness
when it's very near the Sun and extremely difficult for
groundlings to see. From that point as it appears in the
evening sky during January it's expected to grow in size
for a period of time, but it is expected also to get somewhat
dimmer. With a magnitude of a minus 4 the comet will be
approximately 25 times as bright as Halley's Comet was on
its last passage. Each of the solar instruments will
view the comet to gather data of varying kinds. For example,
the S052 white light coronagraph will examine the changes
in the coma and tail and also measure effects of the solar
wind upon the comet. The SO55 ultraviolet scanning
polychromater spectroheliometer, on the other hand, will
scan and record the ultraviolet spectra emitted by Kohoutek.
Similar data and perhaps perhaps indicating ionized
helium and oxygen will be gathered in the extreme ultraviolet
spectrum by SO82, the extreme ultraviolet spectroheliograph.
Such light is not visible from Earth's surface as the very
short wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet are scattered and
absorbed in the upper reaches of the atmosphere. One of
the solar instruments which records X-radiation, the SO56
extreme ultraviolet and X-ray telescope will collect data
on Sun-generated X-rays absorbed by the comet's tail to
aid in determining its total mass density. An extremely
long exposure, 27 minutes, will be used to photograph the
X-ray absorption far fainter, of course, than that than
the X-rays normally seen on the Sun. Koboutek today will
appear to be quite near the star Antares and the constellation
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Scorpio. Antares will serve a dual purpose, that is a

calibration point of known brightness, and as a distinct
point of light to be used in a check - in checkout and training
period to help the crew maneuver the space station to point
the large telescopes at the comet Kohoutek. Durin_ this last
pass Ed Gibson indicated that they had located a point of
light. They were unsure whether it was the star Antares,
also known as Alpha Scorpius, or whether it was the comet Kohoutek.
Ground advised them that it's very likely that that is Antares.
We're about 3-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signal at
Ascension where we have a very brief pass, the final one
before the operation is well underway on the comet. We'll
keep the line up live now for air-to-ground at Ascension
even though that is still about 3 minutes away.
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CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for

about 4 minutes here, Ed. And I've got some advice for you
if your situation has not changed. Over.
SPT Go ahead_ Bill.
MCC Okay, I assume you can Antares, but not
the comet, is that true?
SPT That's affirm. We're out at about
ii0 octal in plus X.
MCC Okay. The adivce is to go ahead and
proceed with the 52 data take if you have not already done
that. Proceed from that into the pointing test on Antares
and complete that taking as much time as required. On the
second daylight pass, start with the Antares, about where it
is now, compute a maneuver to center Antares, perform that
maneuver, then do the step 19, 55 search, but don't wait too
long because the - don't dally too long at it because that
pointing will be off. Then perform step 21, 22, and 23,
after returning the mirror to slit center and that is the
full star tracker maneuver calculation and maneuver. That
is valid at 17:20. If you do it after that that is still
all right. That should give us some good 82B first exposure
on the Lyma-alfa cloud. So, since we cannot see it we'll
do the 52 data take where we are, we can perform the pointing
test with no problem. We will use the star tracker to center
the comet where we think it is at 17:20 and we will go ahead
and proceed with the building block 30 as indicated, except
between 82B exposures we will not make the maneuver out
and back to recenter i_, since we don't know where it is. Over.
SPT Okay, Bill. I understand. We'll press on.
MCC Okay. Good enough. Good luck.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Vanguard at 17:45, with data recorder dump
and that's an hour and 18 minutes.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now out
of range of the tracking antenna at Ascension, just about to
cross the coast of Africa. Our next acquisition is not for
an hour and 15 minutes. During this period the Skylab crew
will be occupied with JOP 18, the first observations of the
comet Kohoutek, using the solar instruments. This is Skylab
Control. Our next acquisition is at 45 minutes after 17:00
Greenwich mean time.
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and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now just about
53 seconds from acquisition of signal at Vanguard after an
hour and a quarter of time, in which the space station was
out of range of all of the tracking antennas around the
world. This pass through the Vanguard tracking ship should
last approximately ii minutes. Spacecraft communicator at
the present time is Hank Hartsfield. Bill Lenoir is still
in Mission Control to talk to the crew about operations on
comet Kohoutek.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
i0_i/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the recorder.
CDR Roger, Hank. We're still trying to get
our alingnment our roll alignment squared away. We're down
to our last whack now, I think. We've got the taget up
high. We're going to shift it down to the bottom and I think
we'll finally have her aligned. At least within the accuracies
that are acceptable.
CC Okay, Jer. We copy.
CC Rather than acceptable, I should say,
attainable.
CDR Looks like we can't position it in roll
much more accurately than about 50 arc minutes.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT Hank, I was just voice recording when
we came up there. I hope I didn't get the tail end of it.
PLT Hank, PLT here. I Just put some stuff
on tape, which may be of interest to the people concerned
with ATM C&D coolant loop. It had to do with the sound that
we reported yesterday.
CC Okay, Bill. We copy.
CC And we haven't started the dump yet.
So that should be okay.
PLT Beautiful. What I did_ I took a bunch
of sound-level readings around with the pump running and
with the pump off.
CC Hey, that ought to be interesting to
look at.
PLT It's sure frustrating, because that pump
sure makes you perk up your ears when you hear it. But boy,
I tell you (chuckle) if you'll pardon the expression, the
difference is in the noise level.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to suggest
that after you get the canister positioned to do the roll thing,
if you'll take MPC ROLL to INHIBIT, it might make the canister
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a little bit more stable during the maneuver.

MCC Skylab, Houston. I've got another
thought for you here, when you've got just about a half a
minute to copy.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay. Don't know if you caught our call
about inhibiting the ROLL ENABLE, that's one thought. It
appears that at best you'll finish the pointing test here
with maybe i0 minutes or so left in the day orbit. Go ahead, if
you've got any time left at all, and take the 82B SHORT
WAVELENGTH exposure with whatever time remains. And the -
Forget the star tracker pointing, because some of the stars
have sets. The gas cloud we're looking at Lyman-alpha is
like 2 degrees apart. So just do the maneuver that appears
to center Antares in the center of the field of view. And
then we're almost certain to he plenty close enough for B2B.
Go into EBb30 and take data for the remaining part of the
comet rise time. Over.
PLT Okay. You want us to pick up on step 8,
then? That's about where we are in the test here and then
8, 9,
and i0?
MCC Go ahead and finish the pointing test.
Dontt let what I said hurry you through there. Do all of
that until you're happy with it. In the event you finish with
some time remaining, then go ahead and take as much 82B time
as you have left after centering Antares. Don't do the
star tracker stuff, because stars have set. But if the
pointing test requires the remainder of the orbit, go ahead
and use it.
SPT Okay, Bill. How about us centering our
position, which is i0, OCTAL to the left of Antares, which
is about where the comet would be.
MCC That's fine, but it's not necessary, if
that's any extra trouble. But that would be fine.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in
i minute. We_ll see you at Ascension at 59; 3-1/2 minutes.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station has passed out
of the range of the Vanguard tracking ship. We're about a
minute and 50 seconds from acquisition of signal at Ascension.
At this time there are about 27 minutes altogether on the
video tape recorder. 20 minutes of that are expected to be
photography of the comet and also of the star, Antares, which
is being used as a pointing target by the Skylab crew.
Astronauts _ -
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PAO - this time there about 27 minutes

all together on the video tape recorder. 20 minutes of that
are expected to be photography of the comet and also of the
star Antares which is being used as a pointing target by the
Skylab crew. Astronaut Gibson and Gerald Carr are at the
console and have indicated that they have been able to see
their targets but they have not given much discussion. They
are, of course, occupied in the very detailed work required
to point the instrument and to gather the required data. Right
now they are in a daylight period when the Sun is also
visible but not visible, of course, on the solar instruments
which are now pointed for the first time at the comet Kohoutek.
We'll keep the line up live now. We're about a minute from
acquisition at Ascension. The pass through Ascension will
last 10-1/2 minutes, and the spacecraft communicator on duty
is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Ascension for
10-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; for info. Since the
Prominence 59 lifted off last night and we had three passes of
observing time on that this afternoon, we're going to have
to change your ATM schedule. We're going to ship up a page
of the schedule that will replace the one you got. And we'll
cover the 18:50 rev and the 20:40 rev. The - and we'll get
the rest of it up to you at Guam. But that'll at least cover
you for the next couple of passes. It calls out looking at
a new active region 04, which is located at 220.3, and the
flare probability is i00. That info will also be on the pad.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.
CC And, Skylab, that message is on board, we'll
slew it out now. And it will not have a trailer.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute from
LOS. Our next station contact is Guam at 43, in 34-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank, what's the possibility of
staying at this attitude any longer or electrical and other
considerations that say we have to go back at 18:14?
CC Roger. Our momentum analysis won't allow
it, Ed. We'll we'll - we can't stay any longer than the
Flight Plan calls for.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours i0 minutes
has now passed out of range of the Ascension tracking antenna.
Our next acquisition's about 33 minutes away at Guam. The
massive prominence observed yesterday on the east limb of
the - or left edge of the Sun, lifted off last night at about
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i0 p.m. after the Skylab crew had turned in for the night.
When the first motion of the prominence was detected by
ground observatories it has moved out about 0.2 of the
solar radius, or 90,000 miles away from the Sun's surface.
When last observed at about 7 a.m. central time today, the
giant eruption was about 0.6 of a solar radius out
about 270,000 miles away from the Sun, and was moving away
at a velocity estimated at 50 kilometers a second, or about
1112,000 miles per hour. Because of the time in the Sun's
rotational cycle at which the prominence lifted off, it's
not expected to cause any disturbances around the Earth
such as geomagnetic storms. The trajected - trajectory of
the prominence will not bring it in an Earthward direction.
The prominence, a huge region of cold - cool dense gas in
the intense heat of the Sun's atmosphere, provided ground
observers a visual event described as spectacular today.
Remarkable though the prominence was to Earth viewers, it did
not match in size the great prominence of 1946. It was,
however, one of the largest in recent years. Yesterday's
departing prominence was estimated to be about a quarter of
a million miles in length, or more than 30 times the diameter
of the Sun diameter of the Earth. The Skylab S052 white
light coronagraph instrument in the Apollo telescope mount
recorded the liftoff and departure of the prominence during
seven orbits of unattended ATM operations last night. Film frames
returned by the crew at the end of the mission should yield
an interesting record of the breakaway and dispersion of one
of the largest prominences in recent years. This is Skylab
Control at 12 minutes and 22 seconds after the hour. We're
one-half hour away from our next acquisition.
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PA0 Skylab Control at 18 hours 42 minutes and

18 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
passing over the southern part of Japan. It's just about to
be acquired through the tracking antenna at Guam. We're
about 48 seconds from acquisition of signal there. The pass
through Guam will last about 9-1/2 minutes. Flight Director
on duty now is Charles Lewis and Hank Hartsfield remains as
the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for
9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Would it be convenient
to read down the results of the pointing test. We've got
another 18-D coming up here in 2 days and we'd sure like
to have that data to crank into the loop if it's convenient.
SPT Tell you, Hank, its gonna take a little while
for me to go back and get organized and to put it in understandable
matter. And I think it's best done on - on tape. And the problem
here being I got an ATM pass and the M092 coming right up
after it, so what I might do is move the MO92 run back a
little. We didn't have a real organized format for doing
that, which is one of the problems of that stuff coming up
late. So, we had to make up our own little sheets of paper
here and keep track of where we were going to and from in
maneuvers and so forth and it's going to take me a little
while to pull all that - all those words in an understandable way
so that you folks can really use it.
CC Okay, Ed. Don't - Don't change the
flight schedule. Just whenever its convenient to get it
on tape, but sometime today if you'd let us know when you
do have it on and then we can look for it.
SPT Okay, Hank. What we essentially came
up with is a roll of 5700 appeared to be about the best we
could actually come up with. That gave us about an error of
maybe plus or minus 1 in Y when we made the large X maneuver.
The large X maneuvers always tended to over shoot. A percentage
of overhoot was not always a constant which was surprising
to us. So I'll put it on tape and see what we can come up with.
CC Roger; we copy. And as you hear there,
page 2 of your new ATM schedule is tapping out on board.
SPT Okay, I got the one for this upcoming
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pass right here. Thank you.

SPT One of the problems during that whole
test, Hank, was that the roll on the grid which was required
did not seem to be a constant. It seemed to be the end of
the round, and we found that 5700 appeared to be in about the -
a good compromise. I'll give you the data and you might be
able to see what we mean. You also have all of the maneuvers
which were put in down there, I know, and on tapes so you'll be
able to follow it and do that also.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT I think what we'll probably be doing in
the future is to maneuver whatever we want to look at, whether
it's a star or the comet onto the X-axis and then just make a
straight X maneuver and we've got to figure out what percentage
to put in there or what bias to put in there in terms of the
length.
CC That sounds good, Ed. And, that that is
what we're working towards.
SPT I'm wondering why we were so far off
initially on it. We - We just managed to see the thing in the
bottom of the display by putting our - you had to put your
head right up against the panel and look down past where the
metal ring around the TV was in order to actually see where -
actually see the comet - or I'm sorry, the star.
CC The prelimiary information we had, Ed, was
that Antares would be pretty close to the edge at the end of
the maneuver.
SPT Okay, I was looking at it - looking for it
at about the same position we saw Mercury last night and it
was much further down.
CC What we did was target for the comet where
Mercury was and that would have put Antares much closer to the
edge.
SPT My understanding was that the comet head
would have been a little bit to the left of the star.
12 octal units.
CC Okay, and if the comet had been - It maneuverd -
ended properly and - and the comet was at the same place of
Mercury, Antares would have been to the right and down.
SPT Okay. I didn't expect it to be that far
down.
CC We didn't either.
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CC And, Ed, yesterday you commented that the

maneuver from the EREP to the SI had different Y-rates than
we had given you on the pad for monitoring, and you -
We went back and looked at it and you were right. We had an
error in the pad. It was a ground error.
SPT Okay. No problem. It didn't change at
all and it appeared that _e were that error would narrow it
down. So it didn't pose a real problem in monitoring but that
was just an open question in my mind.
CC And whenever it's convenient for anyone
sometime today, we'd like to get the VACUUM FORCE VALVE on
panel 316 CLOSED. We left it OPEN after the C&D trouble-
shooting yesterday to allow the - any moisture in the line to
get completely evaporated out of there. That ought to be
clean now, we can close that valve and eliminate a potential
leak source into the condensate system.
SPT Hank, say again. We missed the first
part of that message.
CC Okay. On panel 316 there the lock - the
VACUUM SOURCE. During the procedure yesterday we left the
VALVE OPEN and - and cranked capped it off. That was to allow
the line to completely dry out and we're ready to get the VALVE
CLOSED now. We're afraid if we leave it open we may have a
potential leak source into the condensate collection system which
will destroy our delta-P.
SPT Okay, Hank. We'll take care of it. Thank
yOU.
CC And, by the way. We'd like to give you
a couple of "At a boy's" for all the good work on that C&D
loop yesterday. Most of it done on our shift was completed on the
next shift and it looks like that system is right back up
to where it was a loss now.
CDR Thank you, Hank. We were very pleased
with the procedures too. We handed out an "At a boy" last
night, for the condition of those procedures.
CC Thank you very much.
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CDR Yeah, thank you, Hank. We were very

pleased with the procedures too. We handed out an atta boy
last night for the condition of those procedures.
CC Thank you very much.
CC And while we're passing "atta boys" we'll
give one to Ed. We took a look at the T - TV 120 on the
Gypsy moths, and it worked out real well, both the video and
the voice. And will you tell us what to look for. The larva
on the cotton was distinctly visible. Which we think it was pretty
good for something that small. So I'm conveying my thanks
from all the moth people and the TV people. And we're
about 40 seconds from LOS. We'll see you again at Ascension
at 19:40. And that's about 47 minutes from now.
SPT I wish we could give you a nice clear picture
of the comet.
CC So do we.
SPT Hank, the corona has changed considerably
f_om this morning in that there is a relatively large streamer
which was only briefly able to see this morning at around
10:30 right adjacent to the fairly strong one which was at
say 09:30 or so. So that area of the corona looks as though
the streamers are a little wider and stronger.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed. And as we go over the
hill here you may get a nominal H-cage at about 19:00.
CC It could be some minutes after that at
maybe as late as 19:30, we're not sure. There's a possibility.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
at Guam, 36 minutes to our next acquisition . During this
pass there's some discussion of the pointing operations
trying to detect the star Antares in the white light corona-
graph view seen on the television camera. That TV has approx-
imately 20 minutes on it, a little more than 20 minutes, 21 minutes
of television of the Kohoutek and Antares observations
today. That JOP 18-D, first operations on the comet with solar
instruments has not been completed. We're in the eating period
for the crew. Also ATM observations are just beginning now for
Science Pilot Ed Gibson. Meanwhile Pilot Bill Pogue is in
his exercise period. This afternoon the Science Pilot will
be the subject right after he completes this run of solar
observations in which he mentioned he had seen an observable
streamer. After that he'll have his M092/MI71 medical runs,
both metabolic activity and the lower body negative pressure
runs. And that will conclude the major experiments although
there is also an S019 comet operations scheduled for late
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this afternoon with Pilot Bill Pogue. Most of the morning has
been occupied with this joint observation program on the comet
Kohoutek using four of Skylab's solar instruments. 35 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal. This is Skylab Control at
56 minutes after the hour.
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Time: 13:10 CST, 34:19:10 GMT
12/19/73

now 30 minutes from our next acquisition of signal. The Vanguard
tracking ship has been taken down. We are not going to be
using the antenna there. The crew has been given the last
pass off. This would have been, normally, the last
pass over the Vanguard for today. The crew has been given
that last pass off. So, 30 minutes to our next acquisition.
That will be at the Ascension Island tracking antenna. There's
an announcement on the change-of-shift briefing on experiment
$228, Dr. Buford Price of the University of California at
Berkeley will be conducting a briefing at 2 o'clock in the
building i briefing room here at Johnson Space Center on the
results of the experiment on cosmic particles striking Skylab
from outer space, from the space beyond Uranus. That
experiment $228, trans-Uranic cosmic rays, the results based
on the two previous Skylab flights will be discussed by Dr.
Price in the Building i briefing room at 2 o'clock. That's
just a little less than an hour from now. This is Skylab
Control. 29 minutes to our next acquisition of signal.
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TIME: 13:39 CST, 34:19:39 GMT
12/19/73

20 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now about 50 seconds from acquisition of signal through
the Ascension Island tracking antenna. This pass will be
through Ascension Island, Canary Island, and Madrid, and will
last approximately 17 minutes. We'll bring the line up live
now for air-to-ground. The spacecraft communicator is
Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're through Ascension,
Canary, and Madrid for 16 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we'll be dumping
the recorder at Canaries about 4 or 5 minutes from now.
SPT Hank, I believe you were trying to tell
me something when we went over the hill.
CC Okay, we were trying to tell you that there
was a good possibility of having a nominal H-cage while we
were LOS, and it looks like you did.
SPT Yeah, I didn't quite understand what you
were telling me and we got the - the cage apparently because we
had a gimbal hung up on the stop; outer gimbal number 2. And
I couldn't see what was happening there at the very beginning.
We started to drift off attitude in the solar pointing, and
that was the first I noticed it. And we switched out of
EXPERIMENT POINTING with the experiment doors all closed. And
then I started looking at the rates and attitude and HT looked
good and saw the gimbal was hung up. And what I did do was
try to get it off the stop by putting a maneuver command in
of zero attitude, which apparently probably would have been
easier just cycling in and out of ATT HOLD CMG to SOLAR
INERTIAL or STANDBY to SOLAR INERTIAL. But we never got a
TACS - TACS holding caution warning and was not a maneuver,
so that one didn't occur to me. That result was we ended up
in Y about 5 degrees attitude off for a little while and then
I went to ATT HOLD and SOLAR INERTIAL after the Zero H-cage. I'm
sorry, the nominal Hcage, I got back.
CC Okay, we copy. And sorry I didn't get
that call to you sooner, but we had taken some of our real
time data that we had obtained and run - run it with the MMP
and we'd just gotten the results there at about LOS and we
tried to get it up to yon.
SPT Okay. That nominal H-cage came first before
I made any commands into the couputer.
CC Roger; we copy. And we've got a a circuit
breaker we'd like to check.
CC Okay, delay that, we're okay now. We had
a problem with the transmitter at an earlier site, but the
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INCO said it's okay now. We do you have a comment from biomed
in regard to the MO92/MI71 that's coming up. We would like
for you to use legband Alfa X-ray on the right leg for the
MO92. And this applies to all crewmen from now on. And
also we'll give you a reminder that you do have MI51 scheduled
with that today.
CC Skylab, Houston; we had a handover there.
Did you copy my last in regard to the MO92?
SPT Negative, Hank. Say again, please?
CC Okay, for the M092 coming up this afternoon
we would like for you to use legband Alfa X-ray on the right
leg. And we'd like to use this for all crewmen from now on.
And also a reminder for todays run, we have MI51 scheduled.
SPT Alfa X-ray, and 151. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, in regard to the med conference today,
on your details we'd like to move that to 01:58 at Texas because
of the trouble we had with Tananarive.
CC SPT, Houston. We noticed detector 4 is off.
Did it kick off due to activity - solar activity or is there a
problem with it? Okay, we see it now. CDR, Houston. Do you have
a minute to chat about $233?
CDR Roger; go ahead.
CC Okay, we were looking at the dump tape
from yesterday and we noticed you had a problem again with
the camera and it got us to scratching our heads here. And
we took a look at it and when you got the shutter setting
into - into B and using the remote cable, we noticed that
at least on the one we got down here, the little lock on the
remote cable is kind of loose. And that if it is not turned
to the lock position when you press the - the shutter thing
down it will indeed pop right back out again and let the shutter
close.
CDR Yeah, after playing around we kind of thought
maybe that might be the problem. And also we're holding the
camera in place with a bunch of rubber bands and things. And
I think when we put it on we might have shifted the little shutter
speed knob just a tad. And I think we got it whipped now, it's
just a matter of being careful when you get those rubber bands
off.
CC Okay, good show. That that shutter control
there is very sensitive, if it's not right in the detent she won't
do what's she's supposed to do.
CDR Yeah, that's right, we found it out the hard way.
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CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Go ahead.
CDR Roger, Hank. You remember about 2 weeks
ago when we were talking about the clunkety-clunk noise down
in the command module?
CC Yes.
CC It's not back, is it?
CDR Yeah, it's back. You might have the
people check their data and see if, just as you and I were
talking about, the Nikon camera for $233 it came back again.
It wasn't as severe. You couldn't feel it as much as
you could Just hear it. And I wonder if the guys down there saw
it on their data.
CC Okay. We'll take a look.
CDR Apparently, they saw it last time,
and confirmed that it was there. It's still with us.
CC Okay. Is it still going on now, or
just happen
CDR Oh, no. It only lasts about a minute
or so, or maybe less.
CC Okay. And that was about 2 minutes ago?
CDR That's affirmative.
CDR I'm down in the command module doing
checklist changes. And I've apparently spent enough time
here for one cycle to hit us.
CDR I'ii tell you what it sounds like. If
you've ever been in an earthquake before, and if you've
heard the sounds that go with an earthquake, that's what this
sounds like, except you don't get the feel at all.
CC Roger. We copy. I've never had the
dubious pleasure of being in an earthquake, however.
CDR You've got to live in California for
a little while, Hank.
CC The only one they had while I was out
there, I happened to be airborne at the time.
CDR I looked over systems in the command
module. I can't see a thing. There's no indications of
any prohlem. And it definitely feels like it's outside the
shell of the command module. As I remember, I was
suspect that the maybe was down in the service module.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're coming up on
a keyhole. We may not reacquire. If we don't, we'll
see you at Guam at 22.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole
now. With only 30 seconds left, we'll see you at Guam.
SL-IV MC-II16/2
Time: 13:50 CST 34:19:50 GMT
12/19/73

over eastern Europe has passed out of range of the tracking
antenna at Madrid. Our next acquisition is 24 minutes away
at Guam. During this last pass the crew reported, again,
hearing in the command module a clunkety-elunk. Not much
more description than that. Commander Carr, I believe it
was, said that, sounds a little like it does in an earthquake,
although he couldn't feel any movement. That clunkety-clunk
has been reported before. And this time there's a live
telemetry on it. No doubt all of the systems operators here
will be taking a closer look to see if they can figure out
why it makes the strange noise. Has been quite some time
since it has been reported, but it's apparently, heard best
in the command module. Also, at this time we're noticing a
very slight rise in currents on control moment gyro number
2, as it again is down near the lower end of it's bearing
temperature cycle. The temperatures have risen slightly on
bearing temperature number 2. And wheel speed rpm has dropped
very, very slightly, less than half a degree; right now,
approximately in the range of 20 rpm-reduction from its
normal 8912 rmp's. Some anomaly in the behavior of that
control moment gyro and some variation over a period of time.
There was additional variation noticed last night, although
it was a very very slight one, involving an increase of about
20 milliamperes of current or approximately a 2-percent increase
in the current output of CMG number 2. That does not appear
to have been what has been called a failure signature, at
least in the earlier case. This one has not yet been fully
evaluated. But the earlier one was reported to be very very
slight. In fact did not carry enough interest for the
guidance officer last night to have him even put that in his
log. So there was a very very slight variation, however,
reported by other log keepers here in Mission Control. And
that, Apparently now we're going through a stage very similar
to that one. This one may be more of a failure signature.
But again, these are often repeated things that have now
happened more than half a dozes times over the last week or two.
And they don't cause any immediate concern. However, they
are being watched very carefully. This is Skylah Control
it's just about 20:00 hours Greenwich mean time. We're
22 minutes from our next acquisition of signal.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCIII7/I
TIME: 14:34 CST, 34:20:34 GMT
12/19/73

45 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
currently in acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle. We have
recording of the Guam pass, and we'll play that back for you in
a short while. I'd like to give you a brief report on the
control moment gyro which now appears to be settling down
again repeating its pattern of many days now. The (garble) or
slight anomaly in the operation of control moment gyro number
2 occurring almost exactly as previous flucututions have.
With the bearing number 2 temperatures near the lower end of
their cycle at about 59 degrees. The the current used
to spin the wheel increased about 2 percent, apparently to
overcome the slight reduction in wheel speed which amounts to
about a fraction of a percent below its usual 8900 revolutions
per minute. At that time temperature also increased in this
particular anomaly that has been seen before a number of times.
A very slight increase in the temperature bearing number 2
amounting to approximately a degree and a half, that
apparently now has stopped and the currents have started
coming back on to their normal level from a level of about 2
percent high. The clunkity-clunk heard in the relatively quiet
command module, by Commander Carr about half an hour ago
may be associated with the fluctuation in control moment gyro
number 2. A quick look at the first report of the strange
noise about 3 weeks ago, shows that the temperature of
control moment gyro number 2's second bearing was at the 60
degree mark at that time. There has been no further evaluation
made of that yet, but there may conceivally be some
association between the low temperatures on control moment
gyro number 2's second bearing, and the clunkity-clunk reported
by Commander Carr on the command module. That noise still
not identified could conceivably be associated with the brief
period of uneveness in the gyroscope wheel spin. The noise
might well be masked by the shirring of rate gyroscopes in the
multiple docking adapter, and by the collection of fans and pumps
in the main workshop areas. There is a fairly high noise level
in the orbital workshop area while the command module is believed
to be relatively quiet. The next few days should allow the
Guidance Officer to ask the crew to determine whether or not
the hiccup of the control moment gyro is perhaps related to the
noise heard today by Commander Carr. Earlier today the crew
recordered their pointing exercise using the star Antares,
on the television video tape recorder. The comet Kohoutek was
reported as not visible on the TV monitor by the crew. They
said that they attempted to see it and it was in the field of
view but it was not seen by the crew. It's expected that however,
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Time: 14:34 CST, 34:20:34 GMT
12/19/73
that the photography may well show that comet and of course
the photography will not be returned until the end of the
mission. A number of instruments were used but the video
tape recorder did not apparently show the comet on the screen,
although it was properly arranged for that. The comet was
within the field of view, however, did not appear. At present
time thruster attitude control system gas stands at 26,000
pound-seconds, that's an extended supply even if the control
moment gyro which again fluctuated for once again at - over
a period of now 3 weeks, it has had a number of these small
fluctuations, even if that should fail it's expected
that at least 8 days of attitude control would be provided by
the thruster attitude control system with the co command
module's reaction control system engines providing a backup
to that. That would at least offer another additional week
beyond that in the event that the control moment gyro should
at some future time become worse. Presently the currents
have come back down now to a relatively nominal level and the
temperatures are once again dropping as they should be on
bearing number 2. The heaters will come on on that bearing
within the next couple of hours. Everything is operating
properly now_ apparently and the control moment gyro is
settled down again. Wetll bring up the line now with the
pass from Guam and from Honeysuckle which has now been
completed.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Guam for
7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you at Honeysuckle at 33.
CDR See you Hank.
SPT This is SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hank, I put the pointing test information
on tape, you may want to dump that and get a look at it if you're
in a hurry.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed0
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle for
4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houstonp we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Canaries at 21.
PAO Skylab Control at 39 minutes and 50
seconds after the hour. That concludes the recorded passes
at Guam and Honeysuckle, completed just a minute or two ago.
And our next acquisition is now 41 mintues away, that will
be at Canary Islands. This is Skylab Control at 40 minutes
after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCIII8/I
Time: 15:20 CST 34:21:20 GMT
12/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours

20 minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away from
acquisition through the Canary Island tracking site. And
at this time according to the flight plan the crew - two of
crew members are doing a medical examination - exam -
experiment. With Ed Gibson the science pilot as the subject
of the M092 and MI71 experiment. And the commander, Jerry
Carr, will be, or is assisting him. Bill Pogue is tentatively
or is suppose to be at the ATM console. We'll stand by for
the air-to-ground, and see if - see what kind of communi-
cations we have.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid
for 13 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston for info. It was reported
that there was a subfaint flair out of active region 00 at
21:16, and two maxima, one at 21:20 and one at 21:28.
CC And Skylab we're about 1 minute from
LOS now. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 02 at 28 minutes.
PAO We've had loss of signal through Madrid.
We'll next acquire the space station in 26 minutes. At 21 hours
35 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCIII9/I
Time: 16:00 CST 34:22:00 GMT
12/19/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control at 22:00 hours

Greenwich mean time. Space station is about a minute away
from acquisition at Carnarvon. And t_e call-up coming to
the crew will be made by Robert Crippen_ who is the space-
craft communicator just coming on duty as a part of Flight
Director Don Puddy's crimson crew. Standing by for com-
munication with Skylab IV.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS
through Carnarvon for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hi, Crip, good to hear you.
CC Good to hear you gents. Sounds like
you've had a busy day.
CDR Yes, indeed.
CC All of our pretty weather in Houston
finally went away. One of our Texas blue northers just
came in and it's cold outside.
CDR That kind of weather change really gets
your attention, doesn't it?
CC Roger that, especially when everybody's
out doing their late Christmas shopping.
PLT Crip, PLT, here. Could you tell me what
time the DHF call is today?
CC Stand by i_ and I'ii get that to you.
CC Bill, before I get your phone call infor-
mation to you, we show that 54 is not in the proper mode
and it should be MOS 256. And regarding your phone call
tonight, that's set up for 00:24.
PLT Roger, and on the 54, I have 22:01 Zulu
and JOP 2 Alfa step 6 doing block i0 omit 82A Bravo. Information
on 56, 54, but not on 54, 56 and 55, but not on 54. We were told
to do the Alfa option unless there was a note to the con_
trary.
CC You're - you're correct and that - that's
our fault. We should have had option B there.
PLT I'm going to 256 now.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to talk,
Jer?
CDR Go ahead, Crip.
CC Rog. Just to let you know we had been
looking at CMG 2 down here, and that the bearing temperatures
at the DELTA between them has decreased down to the point
where they were pretty close to being equal. Which is a
indicative of a problem_ but that seems to _ave gone away
and they spread back out to 2 degrees right now. We've been
concerned about it_ but it looks like it's in good shape
and no sweat for the upcoming maneuver.
CDR Okay, thanks.
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Time: 16:00 CST 34:22:00 GMT
12/19/73
SPT Crip, at what time was the DELTA P at its

minimum?
CC Stand by i and I'ii get it - Ed, it was ap-
proximately 2 hours ago, about 20:21, somewhere in there.
SPT Okay, thank you. I was wondering if the
maneuvering we did this morning had anything to do with it.
CC We - we feel that it was probably that
somewhat induced by that, and -
CC And, Ed, it's not clear to us right he -
now, as to whether that's a thermal effect or due to loading
the bearings.
SPT Roger,Crip, thank you.
CC And, this little quirk of the CMG temp
is repetative with what we've seen before in that we are in
the lower portion of the temperature duty cycle of the heat-
ers. And they have - they have not come on that's similar
to what we've seen previously.
SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. One night previous-
ly you mentioned you might try to put that - that (garble)
on about a little higher value.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 16:14 CST 34:22:14 GMT
12/19/73
CDR Crip, are those heaters ground command-

able?
CC There - they're not commandable. We
did look at possibly putting that at somewhat higher value.
But it was involved - involved with cycling them a lot of
relays and we could have gotten ourselves in problems if
one of those relays did not - not cycle properly.
CDR Roger.
CC So as a result of that we've selected
that's not the course of action we want to take.
CC Skylab, a little bit late. Sorry about
it but we were doing a data voice/recorder dump through
this last portion. I - Honey - suckle and we're about
1 minute from LOS. We're going to see you over MILA in
36 minutes at 22:51, 22:51. And Skylab Houston your flight
plans are on board.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Are you threugh with the tape recorders
Crip?
CC That's affirmative, they're yours.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Crip PLT here. I assume that
54 also wants the 256 on this second performance of building
block i0, JOP (garble).
PLT Is that affirm.
CC Checking it.
CC That's affirmative, we do want it Bill.
PLT Thank you.
PAO The maneuver referred to in the air-
to-ground communication through Honeysuckle is an attitude
change of the space station in connection with the S019
ultraviolet stellar astronomy experiment. And this
experiment - involves the comet Kohoutek this time. Coming
up in about an hour. At 22 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean
time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCII21/I
Time: 16:51 CST, 34:22:51 GMT
12/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours _I

minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is about a
minute from acquistion at Bermdua apparently. Stand by for
the air-to-ground.
CDR Hey, Crip, pump Charlie is getting quite
noisy. I'd like to try pump Bravo with your concurrence
down there?
CC Copy that. Stand by l, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CDR Also, Crip if pump - pump Bravo is as bad
as pump Charlie I think we should give some consideration
to securing the pumps at night.
CC Okay, from a flow standpoint, pump Bravo
is _ is better than Charlie. Charlie's still putting out a
good flow right now.
CC Jer, would you elaborate on us on that
a lit - for us a little bit? We - everythin_ we're lookin_
at shows that everything's honky-dory, looks much better
than we_ve ever seen it before. Jer, would you elaborate a
little bit on that pump noisiness? Looking at data down
here the situation seems much improved and better than we've
ever seen it before.
CDR It's just that the pumps make a lot of
noise, just a minute I'll put it on ICOM PTP and put a mike
next to it and you can hear it.
CC Good.
CDR Stand by just a second, I got to get my
cord a little longer,
CC Okay, Jet. As is that thing bothering
you at night trying to sleep?
SPT That's affirm, Crip, it is a little bit
noisy.
CC Okay.
SPT Another thing, Crip, the real - worry
about that thing is touch temperature on the panel, the other
day I had that one tube on for about half an hour, got to
talkin_ with ground on it, and I could hardly tell the difference
between the one tube I had on and the one I had off. So,
I think for the - we're really way over conservative in
in thermal problem there.
CC Rog, are you talking about when you had
the pump off?
SPT That's affirm Crip. The other day when
they were doing the work on it, I had to have the - one
monitor on until I could tell any real significant temperature
change. And over a half an hour I could just barely tell
the difference.
CC That's a - that's a good data point.
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Time: 16:51 CST, 34:22:51 GMT
12/19/73
Thank you for it.

CDR Here it is.
CDR Think Bill took some measurements earlier
today with 487 gear_ let me give you a listen to the rate
gyros while we're at it.
CC Okay.
CDR That enough.
CC We couldn't hear it.
CDR I think the problem is Crip, it's not a
localized source of noise, so with the mike you really can't
pick it up to well. (Garble) _ -
CC Ah, so. Can we hear the pump?
SPT Do you say you did hear the pump?
CC Nop I haven't heard it yet, have you
tried putting it by the pump?
SPT Yeah_ I tried the pumps too_ I guess it
just won't get through.
CC Yeah, could be the frequency range on
it too, is - is it a low noise?
CDR No, it's a fairly high frequency, let me
think now, those of _ well you been to st St. Louis when
they were checking out the vehicle. I t_ink you probably
heard them then when they going.
CC Rog.
CDR They sound just like the command module
glycol pump.
CC Okay. Do you think they sound normal
and it's just the fact that theytre so loud that they're
bothering you, is that the problem?
CDR They sound like the glycol pump in the
command module is all I can tell you. I haven't heard normal
ATM coolant pumps, apparently.
CC Okay. But there's no chugging or anything
associated with it like what we had prior to prior to
doing that C&D procedure?
CDR No, that's correct. They're running a
whole lot better, just noisy. See, before they were running
much quiet _ much more quietly, and every once in awhile they
would begin to undulate and you could - you could hear the
changes in frequency. But it never got this loud, and it
wasn't till after we did the flush and got it running again
that they got this loud.
CC Okay. And _ and as I understand it the
reason that you want to turn them off at night is just so that it
won't Bother you while you're trying to sleep?
CDR Yeah, that's right. The workshop is
really a very qu£et place and now all of a sudden it's
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Time: 16:51 CST, 34:22:51 GMT
12/19/73
gettin_ noisy.
CC Okay, we - we copy that.
CDR Okay.
CC Get it working right and it comes ba -
around to bite you.
CC Skylab_ Houston_ we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll pick you up over Madrid in about 4 minutes at 03 -
correction 23:04, 23:04.
CDR Okay.
CC And Jer, we're working on the - the pump
problem here, just to make sure we got a consensus.
CDR Roger.
PAO Space station is over the Atlantic Ocean
at the present time. We'll reacquire in about 2,1/2 minutes.
And we'_ll keep the line up for the reaequisition at through
Madrid.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI122/I
Time: 17:02 CST 34:23:02 GMT
12/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Madrid.

And Jer, you've got a GO to switch to pump Bravo on the
ATM C&D coolant loop. We will appreciate it if you would
give us a idea of what the DELTA and sound is, if any. CDR,
Houston, did you copy my last regarding pump Bravo?
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through
Madrid for 5-1/2 minutes. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear, Crip.
CC Okeydoke, we had a little line problem
there for a while. Regarding Jerry's previous request, he's
got a GO to turn off pump Bravo which we'd appreciate if
you could tell us what the difference if any in the sound
is. And also, maybe, if you could give us comparative a
comparative ana - a difference between this pump and a SUS
pump when it's running. They're the same kind of pump.
PLT Okay, Crip, we'll do it.
CDR Okay, Crip, we're on pump Bravo right
now and it's considerably quieter than pump Charlie. And I
threw on SUS pump 1 to listen to what it sounded like and
it's as loud as pump Charlie was, however, it's a lower
frequency than Chalrie is. Charlie seems to be running quite
a bit higher.
CC Okay_ and understand pump Bravo is both
quieter and of a lower frequency?
CDR No, pump Bravo is the same frequency as
pump Charlie, except the - you know, it's not as loud -
CC Very good.
CDR - and the SUS pump runs in a lower
frequency, but it's every bit as loud as pump Charlie.
CC Okay, copy that. Do you - what would
you think about the loudness of Bravo to run during the
sleep period?
CDR Well, let's let it run for a while and see
how it does. Sounds like a good idea right now.
CC Okay. Sounds like a winner from here.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. Carnarvon in 26 minutes at 23:37, 23:37.
PAO The pump referred to in the air-to-
ground on the last pass is a part of the coolant loop system.
This particular pump has the name Charlie. As you heard_ they
turned Charlie off and substituted pump Bravo which was
not quite as noisy. Flight controllers here on the ground
monitoring the systems could find nothing wrong in the sys-
tems that relate to the coolant loop, other than the fact
that the pump itself is performing with a great deal of
gusto. That would be pump Charlie that was performing with
a great deal of gusto. It has now been retired momentarily
and pump Bravo, the more quiet of the two, is working in its
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'rime: 17:02 CST 34:23:02 GMT
12/19/73
place in the coolant loop system. We're 22 minutes away

from acquisition again. And at 23 hours 14 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI123/I
Time: 17:35 CST 34:23:35 GMT
12/19/73

35 minutes Greenwich mean time. One minute away from
acquiring the space station through the Carnarvon site.
Tomorrow we'll have some television coming down from the
space station. And at that time the science pilot will show
and describe some of the equipment used by Skylab in the
Kohoutek comet investigation. We expect he'll tell how
the cameras and other instruments work. And probably give
us some kind of an idea why it is so valuable to take
comet data from space. Three seconds to acquisition, we'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're AOS through
Carnarvon, have you for 15 minutes.
CDR Roger_ Crip. Old pump Bravo worked
all the kinks out, now it's every bit as loud as pump Charlie
was .
CC Uh-huh, Okay. So I guess
CDR It took a little while to get lathered
up.
CC Okay, so I guess your druthers are
your previous statement. You would like to be able to turn
it off in the evening. Is that correct?
CDR Yeah, if we can.
CC Okay.
CC We'll -
CC Okay, you are go for turning it off
in the evening and turn it on in the morning. And we'll
get a change up tonight for your pre and post sleep cue
cards to reflect that.
CDR Okay, thank you Crip.
PLT (Garble)
CC Bill, I can hear you very faintly in
the background. Are you calling?
PLT Roger. Do you have an antenna suggestion?
CC That's affirm. If you're speaking for
your p_one call tonight it's right to left.
PLT All right, thank you very much.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We_ll see you at Texas in about 31 minutes, that's
00:23, And for the PLT, Bill your phone call well be shortly
after that, at about 00:24.
PLT Roger_ Crip. Thank you.
CC Rog, and antenna again is start off on
right and go to left.
PLT Rog.
SL-IV MCI123/2
Time: 17:35 CST 34:23:35 GMT
12/19/73
PAO Next space station acquisition through

Texas in 29 minutes. Tomorrow's television tour is scheduled
to start, that is a TV tour of tile Skylab equipment which
well be used in comet investigation. That tour is scheduled
to start at 3 minutes after i0, central standard time. The
comet itself tomorrow will be about 35 million miles from
the Sun traveling now at about 168 thousand miles an hour.
It's 54 minutes after the hour. At 23 hours 54 minutes
this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI124/I
Time: 18:21 CST 33:00:21 GMT
12/19/73
PAO Skylab Control at 21 minutes Greenwich

mean time, in day of year, 354, ii more to go before 1973
is kaput. We'll acquire the space station through Texas
in about 28 seconds. Standing by for the call from the
ground through Texas station.
CC Skylab, ouston, we're AOS through Tex_s
and we've got you about 13-1/2 minutes. Skylab, Houston,
we're AOS hrough MILA at this time. We have you for about
13 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy, howdy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got a little
dinner music we can roll for the background if you're -
you're interested in having it.
SPT We're not eating dinner now, Crip, but
maybe you'll make us hungry, go ahead.
CC Come on, according to my flight plan,
you're supposed to be eating.
SPT What's Jerry doing?
CC He's supposed to be exercising, you
tell me. (Laughter) I can't see up there very well.
PLT Yeah, that's what he's doing. I'm
running a tad late because it's kind of tough to exercise
if you can't move.
CC Sorry about that. It's called isometerics.
SPT Hey, Crip, we're waiting for the music,
go ahead.
CC So am I. We're - a little technical
difficulty. We'll get right back with you.
PLT Why don't you save those for the morn-
ing?
CC Yes. (Laughter) Can't get you out of
bed otherwise. In the morning, I've got all night to plot
it.
CC (Music.)
CC Bye now.
CC (Music)
SPT Hey, Crip, that's beautiful. Thank you.
CC Thought you'd appreciate that. And by
the way, we are doing a data voice/recorder dump here in
case anybody's looking at it.
CC (Music.)
SPT Hey, C rip, you know, if you played any-
thing like that on every pass, you guys wouldn't even have
work.
CC Okeydoke.
CC (Husic.)
CC Afraid I'll put you to sleep with music like
this.
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Time: 18:21 CST 33:00:21 GMT
12/19/73
CC (Music.)
LOS. We'll see you again at Madrid.
from LOS now. We'll see you again over Madrid in 4-1/2 min-
utes and that's going to be at 00:42.
SPT We'll be listening for you, Crip. Thanks
for the music.
CC (Music)
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI125/I
Time: 18:39 CST, 35:00:39 GMT
12/19/73
CC (Music).
CC Back with you once more through Madrid
for 7 minutes. (Music).
CC For the PLT, Bill, any chance you got
time to run over panel 207 with us to determine exactly
what we_ve got inhibited on the Caution and Warning panel,
please. (Music).
PLT Give me about 2 minutes.
CC Okeydoke. (Music).
PLT Sieve A, PPC02 and gas low. OWS gas
interchange, Condensate tank DELTA P. Sieve B, PPCO2 Sieve
B flow is at - still enabled.
PLT He had just counted them again, there's
a total of 5. What've you got?
CC I concur, got 5 and I can verify then
that the primary coolant temp low and high are both enabled.
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, real good. Thanks Bill, we
appreciate it.
PLT Rog.
CC (Music).
CC Skylab, Houstonp we're I minute from LOS.
Next station contact is Carnarvon in 28 minutes - correction
Honeysuckle in 40 minutes, at 01:29, 01:29. (Music).
PLT Rog, Cripp thanks for the music.
CC Rog, l_m being accused of using it as bait
asking you a question and turning it off and when you give
me the right answer turning it back on again. Just want to
make sure -
PLT Well may work.
CC (Laughter), just want to make sure I
heard you answer though. (Music).
PAO That interlude of lovely music that is
dinner music to eat by, or music to eat dinner by, was as
follows_ How High The Moon, Moonlight in Vermont_ By The
Light of the Silverly Moon, Stairway to the Stars, a portion
of Moonlight Becomes You, interrupted by air-to-_round
commentary. And finally an old Eddie Cantor favorite
Making Woopie. And l_m not so sure about the res - the -
that last one. The Mo - the music as I said came courtesy
of the Network Controller here at Mission Control. We're
25 minutes from reacquiring again. And at 51 minutes 50
seconds Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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PAO And this is Skylab Control at i hour

27 minutes Zulu time. 48 seconds away from acquisition on
what will be a rather short pass through the Honeysuckle
tracking site. Standing by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS for i whole
minute. Your next station contact is over Texas at 01:58p
and that's going to be your med conference. SPT, for your
information, we're taking control of the VTR for handling
the dump that's full right now. And I need to tell you some_
thing about your time mode exposure on 52.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, we didn't specify it, but that should
be done with the FAST SCAN MODE.
SPT Okay, same as we did in JOP 18. Under-
stand.
CC Rog.
PAO Next space station acquisition at Texas
in 27 minutes. And at i hour 30 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:57 CST 35:01:51 GMT
12/19/73
PAO Skylab Control here at 1 hour 57 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Texas, that would be the
Corpus Christi tracking station. Standing by for air-to-
ground which should come up in about 30 seconds. Two of
the crewmen ought to be eating at about this time. Ed Gibson
should be at the ATM console according to the flight plan.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you for
about 5_I/2 minutes there through Bermuda.
CC And for the PLT, laser observations are
cancelled for today.
PLT Roger, got it.
SPT Crip, how would you like an ATM frame
count.
CC Adam would just love that.
SPT Here it comes_ 07831, 01952, 00040, 0_589,
03 (static)
CC Ed, stand by we're breaking up slightly.
CC Okay, I need you to start again at 82B.
CC SPT, Houston, how do you read?
SPT Yeah, I got you loud - loud and clear
Crip. I just had to change headsets all around again.
CC Okay, sorry,
SPT 82B is 589, 3579, 2279,
CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC Ed, while l_m talking to you here, I've
got one of the evening questions, I might as well try to get
out of the road.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, the OSMP, better know as the On
Site Moth Person has viewed video of the TV 120. And he
appreciates the show. The only problem we have is trying
to distinguish between the ar - eggs and the larva. And we
want to make sure that you did get the 35-millimeter photos
for us.
SPT Yes, I did Crip_
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
SPT Crip, Itm not sure at all what the field
of view even with the eloseup on that Nikon or the extension
tkat your going to see a heck of lot more than what you saw
on the TV.
CC Copy that. We got a keyhole of about
20 seconds coming up here. I'Ii talk to you on the other
side,
CC Okay, we're back with you on the other
side of the keyhole. We've- we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Madrid at 02:19. That's about
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6 minutes away, and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder

dump there.
SPT Hey Crip, for the ATM folks on unattended.
I think they may have to point up around i00 arch seconds
to get themselves onto the center of active region 00.
CC Copy that.
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12/19/73
CC (Music).
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Madrid.
We have you for about 3-1/2 minutes. And Ed, we need you
to reset the configuration on S054 for us, please sir?
CC (Music).
CC Skylab, correction, I was looking at the
wrong clock, we have you for 7-1/2 more minutes. (Music).
CC SPT, Houston, have you got to time to
correct the configuration of S054 for us, please sir?
(Music). Oh, I - correction, I'm not fast enough. I
understand you have corrected it for us. (Music).
SPT Didn't want to interrupt the good music,
Crip.
CC Oh, just trying to get you guys in the
in the spirit of things. (Music).
CC CDR_ Houston_ Jerry you got a moment?
(Music) .
CDR Yes sir, go ahead.
CC Okay, you might have noticed we have got
you scheduled - well we got Bill scheduled to do the house-
keeping 60 Dog tomorrow. We're changing over to water tank
4, and we show that the current was getting a little bit
low And if you want to change that over tonight, well you got
a GO to do so. And since we recently put - raise the iodine
level in tank 4 up to 6 parts per million, there's - it's
not necessary for you to go through that check unless you
want to.
CDR Okay, fine, thank you Crip.
CC (Music). Also another item. We got
you scheduled in the morning for the DP3, and in the evening
for a DP4, both of those associated with - with eating chow
and - and cleaning up afterwards. And I guess normally,
that should be done with - with all three people_ and it
really doesn't work out just setting up DP3 as we currently
have it. We were wondering if you would think you've got time,
just move your DP3 to the evening meal, when we've got you
all three eating pretty close together and pick up the DP3
and 4 together. Do you think that might workout? (Music)
CDR Yeah, I think that might workout a little
better.
CC Okay, why dontt you take a look at it.
And if you agree to that well that's fine and dandy do it
your way.
CDR Okay.
CC (Music). And Jer, we'd appreciate any
words you might have on how you would like to handle the
documentary photos in the future? (Music). That is primarily
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whether you would like big blocks of time altogether or Just

segments to pick them up as you go?
CDR Well, one thing is for sure we - we do
need time to send them up. We found in almost every case
that it takes more time to send it up than it does to take
the photos. And I would also appreciate it whenever possible
that we keep those things out of the PSA time.
CC (Music). Okay, copy, you would like to
keep them out of the PSA. And that you do need adequate time
to set them up.
CDR Yeah, that's right. Particularly stuff
up in the MDA, because you know there's no high power sources
of electricity up there anymore. And we have to run a big
extension cord in from the dome of the workshop.
CC (Music). Okay, copy that. (Music).
Jer, do I interpret it correctly? You're saying because of the
setup constraints that you would perfer to have it in large
blocks like hour to 2 hours, to pick up several scenes to -
within that item?
CDR Yeah, I think I - we_d like to give that
a try and see how that works.
CC (Music). Okay, we copy that. And for
your information, tomorrow morning when you're getting ready
to do your ATM C&D work, you can go back to using pump Charlie.
And we are going to be uplinking you a - a change, as I
mentioned earlier, for your cue cards regarding that.
CDR Okay, pump Charlie.
CC We'll give you a reminder of that in the
morning. (Music).
CDR Good, I was just trying to think how I
was going to remember it.
CC The only way to remember that is to
remember it. (Music).
SPT Remember to remind us will you, Crip?
CC I'll remember to remind Carl to remind you.
(Music) .
CDR What was it you were going to remind us
of, I forgot?
CC I was going to remember to remind me.
(Music) .
CC Jer, a item of interest for you. All that
work you've been doing helping find out where the AMS is
pointed is then helping pointing verification with the 133
yesterday, plus the pointing test with the AMS and the Kohoutek
attitude indicates we've got a 1.2 degree tilt bias. And
future pads will reflect that. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We're going to see you over Tananarive, I guess, at
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02:41. And that's about 13-1/2 minutes away.

CDR Roger, see you then.
CC (Music).
PAO At 2 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI129/I
Time: 20:40 CST 35:02:40 GMT
12/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 40 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Tananarive and while
we wait for the air.to-ground through the - communication
through the Tananarive_ let us read you the mission surgeon's
daily report on the health of the crew. "The crew health
status is good. The pilot's hack rash continues to subside.
The mood of the crew is very satisfactory. In that regard
listening to music from the ground in their non-critical
time frames really is quite entertaining and helps them to
somewhat share in the spirit of the season down here on the
ground." Those words of wisdom from Dr. Gerald Hordinsky.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're AOS through
Tananarive for about 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, while you're there, question from
509 PI. Since you didn't get any HHMU time on the first
run, how do you feel about taking 5 to i0 minutes of
familiarization time after Bill finishes his run, if time
permits?
CDR Very good, I think it's a good idea.
CC Okeydoke.
CC (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you again over Honeysuckle in 19 minutes
at 03:06, 03:06,
CDR Okay, Crip, we'll see you then.
CC Roger.
CC (Music)
PAO And we've lost signal at Tananarive.
(Static) Lost signal at Tananarive. Back in - back in a
few moments let's see here - Now the extranious information has
been - has been eliminated. We'll be back in approximately 16 min-
utes through Honeysuckle. At 2 hours 49 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCII30/I
Time: 21:04 CST 35:03:04 GMT
12/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours 4

minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station is approaching
the Honeysuckle tracking site. The crew at the present
time is essentially through with their days activities
havin_ post-sleep tasks at this time with one small amount
of comet photography still remaining to be done - or being
done. We're 8 seconds away from acquisitionp and we_ll
stand by for the communication with the crew of Skylab IV.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you through
Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're 30 seconds from
LOS. Goldstone in 27 minutes at 03:34 and we'll be standing
by for the evening status report there.
CREW Roger, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
PAO Something new has been added to the
Skylab routine tonight. Earlier we had dinner music with
the dinner and now as the crew is in touch with some of
the - certain of the tracking stations, they are receiving
air-to-ground I mean, they are receiving music from the
ground up. Tonight's music happens to be appropriately enough,
Christmas music. Evening status report coming up in 23
minutes. At 3 hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCII31/I
Time: 21:32 CST, 35:03:32 GMT
12/19/73

minutes. A minute away from acquisition through Goldstone.
Evening status report coming up. Standing by.
CC Skylab_ Houston we're AOS through
Goldstone across the States. We've got you for ii minutes.
And we are staning by for the evening status report at
Jerry's convenience.
SPT Hey Crip, would you ask biomed whether
he_s getting some good S133 data right now?
CC We'll look at it.
CDR Okay, Crip here it comes. Sleep: CDR,
8.0, 7.5/heavy, half/light; SPT, 8.7, 8.3/heavy, .4/light;
PLT, 8.0, 7/heavy, i/light. Volume: CDR, 900; SPT, 1150;
PLT, 1300. Water gun: CDR, 7565_ SPTp 3025; PLT, 9144.
Body mass: CDR, 6_304, 6.303, 6.304; SPT, 6.354, 6.354,
6.352_ PLT, 6.248, 6.248, 6,248. Exercies: CDR, Method
Alfa, minus 2 minutes. SPT, no change. PLT, no change.
Medications: CDR, none. SPT_ one pro F last night. PLT,
Tinactin as directed. Clothing: CDR, one pair of shorts,
one pair of socks. SPT, none. PLT, one T-shirt, one pair
of shorts. Flight Plan deviation: none, Shopping list:
none. Inoperable equipment disposition; DAC number 01 is
been rechecked and cleared and it seems to be okay in all modes
except the time mode, and we have noted that on the camera
with a piece of tape and put it into use. Transporter 03
was reported as jammed last night. We found the film was
broken. We trimmed the film and started it up again, re-
threaded it and are using the same takeup reel. It has
accepted the film and we don't know how much it will take,
but there's 40 percent left on there. We thought we'd
give it a whirl. Unscheduled stowage: none. Food log:
CDR, zero salt_ zero deviations, plus 1.5 water. SPT, 4.0
salt, zero deviations, plus 8 ounces of water. PLT_
zero salt, plus one butter cookies, minus 2 rehyrdation
water. Getting back CDR, deviations, change that zero to
a minus one coffee with sugar. And stand by for the film
log.
CC SPT_ Houston. Ed for your information,
we do not see good data on the 133 at this time.
SPT Okay, Crip how's it look now?
CC Stand by. Well, Ed, we show that you're
in rim sleep, right now.
SPT But llm talking to you Crip. Thank you.
CC You don_t talk in your sleep, do you Ed?
SPT Not to you Crip. I don't think I do.
I had a problem in the test position. I could only get
the test lights when I went to - when I actually grounded
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myself on some bare metals. So, I had a couple little

alternatives here and I wasn't sure which was the right one.
Thank you.
CC Okay.
CDR Ready for the Film Log, Crip?
CC Yes sir, shoot.
CDR Okay. 16-millimeter: Delta Papa 13,
Charlie India 126, 54, Charlie India 125; MI51, M092/71,
Charlie India 73, 80, Charlie India 56; Delta Papa 21,
Charlie India 126, 40, Charlie India 125. Nikon zer
CC Jet, I'm sorry, we dropped out part way
through that report on a handover. Let me see where we
got througk. Okay, we got all the 16-millimeter stuff, we
need tAe Nikons, please. Skylab, Houston_ how do you read?
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI132/I
Time: 21:41 CST 35:03:41 GMT
12/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?

CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read through
Texas?
Texas?
Texas?
CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston, apparently we have a
downlink problem, and we're going to go LOS. I_ii have you
again over Bermuda in about 3 minutes, and we will pick up
the rest of the report there.
Bermuda. We had you for 5 minutes. How do you read?
CDR Read you loud and clear _ clear. How
do you read me now?
CC Okay, very good. l_m sorry, we lost
our downllnk apparently back over the States earlier. And
we copied all of your report except when you got down to
the Nikons. And we didn't get any of the Nikons from there
on.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Nikon 01, no

change; 02, Bravo Victor 43, 18; 03 no change; 04 no change;
05, Bravo Hotel 05, 23 70rmillimeter: Charlie X-ray 171,
correction Charlie X_ray 17_ 139. ETC_ no ehanBe. EREP, no
change. Alfa i, 02, Charlie India 73, 96, Charlie India 56;
Alfa 2, 05, C_arlie India 93, 12, Right Tango 06; Alfa 3,
06, Charlie India 126, 40, Charlie India 125; Alfa 4, 03_
CP_arl_e India 71,41, Charlie India 82; Back 07_ Charlie India 74,
full, Charlie India 72. And that's it Crip.
CC Okay_ very good. I've managed to get
what few evening questions out of the road that I've had a
little bit earlier. I_ve got one item that - for Bill. If
k_ got his flight plan for tomorrow handy we need to make
one alteration.
CDR Okay, go ahead. He's got it.
CC Okay on your details at 01:20 the hand-
held 170_3. The laser that's been scrubbed. The same
problem that we'_ve had tonight; it's kind of cold and snowy_
and sleeting. So they scrubbed the laser out for tomorrow.
You can also note that on your summary where it has the
handheld designated down there around 01:30.
PLT So noted.
CDR Crip, I don't know how kosher it was
to - to try to go ahead and thread transporter 03. But it
already had film in the take up real, but it took it. I
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wonder if you would have the photo guys to think about

that. And it that's a bad deal we can go ahead and pull
it back out again, but it took the thread real well. And
the question now is, do they think it will go ahead and
finish up, or do you think it will Jam up again?
CC We'll check that for you Jer.
CC Jer, it seems that we've been having
problems with transporter 03 throughout the mission and
what we would like to do is just to retire that one. And
we'll give you information in your film thread pad tomorrow
morn£ng that will tell you what to do to replace it.
CDR Okay.
CC Jer_ weVve got one small problem. We -
on transporter 02 we got 2 different numbers for the cassette
remaining on different parts of the report. Could you
verify for us what is remaining on 02?
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS here.
So, we can then get it over Madrid, correction over Canary.
And that's at 03:56 in about 5 minutes from now.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI133/I
Time: 21:52 CST 35:03:32 GMT
12/19/73

Canary for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. On transporter 2 let's
try a whole brand new number, 79 on both of them.
CC Okeydoke. We got that.
CDR Okay.
CC I believe that more or less cleans up
the items for the night. You guys are interested, I can
run through a few news items for you.
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okay, Melvin R. Laird resigned today
as President Nixon's chief domestic counselor and called on
the House to decide by March 15 whether it will impeach the
President. Laird predicted that an impeachment resolution
would fail but said the matter should be resolved promptly
because the continuing controversy over Watergate and other
issues is hurting America's foreign and domestic policies.
He called on his former colleagues in the House to "accept
their constitutional responsibil _ responsibilities" and
vote on the issue. The Soviet Union reported that its
Soyuz 13 spaceship completed 18 orbits of the Earth and
the rookie cosmonauts aboard feel fine. The progress report
ended a 24-hour silence on the new spaceship since it was
reported successfully launched Tuesday in a flight that
coincides with the space trip of the U.S. Skylab 3 astro-
nauts. It was the first time Soviet and American spacemen
were in orbit at the same time. The Soviet mission was
described as a checkup of systems on board the redesigned
Soyuz spaceship which is to be used in a joint Soviet_
American space venture. An estimated 250,000 people kuddled
in temporary shelters in Connecticut early today after being
driven from frigid homes in the aftermath of a severe winter
storm, officials said. And I understand a few people are
huddling from frigid weather here outside, although it's
nice and warm in the MOCR. The Houston Rotary Club an-
nounced for nominations for the Vince Lombardi - Outstanding
Collegiate Lineman Award. They are: Bill Wyman of Texas_
Randy Gradisher of Ohio State_ Lucious Selman of Oklahoma_
and John Hicks of Ohio State. (Music) I'm informed
it's 68 degrees warm in the MOCR. And for the outstanding
news item of the night: Deep down in his basement, in a
state of suspended animation, Edward Ben Elson has i0 bushel
baskets full of little people, he says. They are only one
inch tall, but they weight what normal people weigh. Elson
says they were delivered Monday by a 10-foot-tall visitor who
landed his spaceship on Elson_s lawn and made i0 trips to the
basement carrying the baskets. All told_ Elson say, there
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are 143,000 miniaturized human beings. He says it's up to

him to pick up 1,000 more. The whole thing is connected
with Elson's theory that the world will end Christmas Day.
"The Comet Kohoutek will mix with the atmosphere on Christ-
mas and the Earth will drown in a sea of petroleum oil,"
Elson said Tuesday from his McFarland, Wis., home. "It's
ironic the world's energy crisis will be solved," he added.
"But the solution will exact such a terrible price." So
with that, we conclude the - the crimson's team evening
with you _ (applaud) Yeah. Twice in a row, I got through
the news cast. (Laughter) We wish you guys a good night, now.
See you manana.
CDR Oh_ that's beautiful, Crip. Hey, Crip,
one thing if you get a chance, if they've been published,
we'd be interested in knowing what Soyuz 13's orbital para-
meters are.
CC I believe I might have those in hand.
The (garble) is 51.8 degrees, the (garble) is 89.9 minutes,
and it+s in a an eliptical orbit 183.7 nautical miles - by
109.7 nautical miles.
PLT What was the inclination - was it 61 or
51.
CC 51.8
CDR Sounds like they're right along with it.
Tell them to stop by for coffee sometime.
CC Okay, we - we've looked at it and it
doesn't appear that you're (garble) at any place. Vance
doesn't want you beating him out of his mission.
PAO Well, the Flight Plan says that they
are LOS for the LOS through Canaries. And this, we think
is the last communication for the night. So on - on mission
day 34 ends we'll close it up here too. At 4 hours 6 minutes
43 seconds Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 06:08 CST 35:12:08 GMT
12/20/73

is now coming within range of the tracking antenna on the
ship Vanguard. The pass through Vanguard will last about
I0 minutes. The spacecraft communicator on duty right now
is Carl Henize. Flight Director now is Milton Windler. We're
coming up live on air-to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with a wakeup
call.
CC Skylab, this is Houston wishing you a
good morning on mission day 35.
PLT Roger, Carl. Good morning.
CC Good morniing. Thursday morning down
here. Let's see we must be on the 20th of December and it's
a very chilly Thursday morning. We're having our first good
freeze.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have LOS
in 1 minutes. We'll see you over Tananarive in about 15 minutes.
22 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station over the
South Atlantic has passed out of range of the Vanguard tracking
ship. Our next acquisition is 14 minutes away at Tananarive.
This is Skylab Control at 19-1/2 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I135/I
Time: 06:32 CST 35:12:32 GMT
12/20/73

is now about to be acquired through Tananarive. The space-
craft communicator is still Carl Henize and this is the
second call of the morning.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tanana-
rive for the next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Carl.
CC And I have a reminder here. I'm sure
you've remember it already to turn on pump Charlie and the C&D
cooling loop.
CDR Thank you, Carl.
is now out of acquisition at Tananarive, our next acqui-
sition is 34-1/2 minutes away at Hawaii. This is Skylab
Control at 44 minutes after the hour.
END OF !rAPE
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TIME: 07:17 CST, 35:13:17 GMT
12/20/73
CC Hawaii for 6 minutes.

SPT Morning Carl.
CC Good morning. How are things going up
there today?
SPT Oh, we're just getting rid of postsleep
activities; measuring ourselves up, finding out how much
we're growing.
CC Right, and sounds like we got a new
business growing people taller up there.
SPT That's what it's turning out to be; we
just keep on eating and growing.
CC Maybe you found the fountain of youth,
do you think?
SPT We only got 85 days to test it.
CC Uh, huh.
PAO Skylab Control at - -
SPT Hey, Carl, one of the - one of the longest
mission ever been flown and the paradoxical thing is, we don't
have time to do all the good things we think we should.
CC Yeah, life's frustrating that way. Isn't
it?
CDR Houston, DR.
CC Say igain.
CDR Carl, this is the CDR. Would you give me a
time for the next opportunity to set S009?
CC Okay. Stand by on that.
CC Jerry, the time for that next S019 set
is 14:54:25.
CC It sounds as though we have LOS. We'll see
you - we'll see you over Vanguard in about 15 minutes.
and 40 seconds. That pass began about 2 minutes before
our clock showed we should get acquisition as the space
station was to the north of Hawaii. Spacecraft communicator
Carl Henize gave them the call at 13:18 Greenwich mean time
and we now have gone out of range of signal there. Our next
acquisition is 20 minutes away at Vanguard. This is Skylab
Control at 26 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I137/I
Time: 07:45 CST 35:13:45 GMT
12/20/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now west of
Chile about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at Vanguard,
where we_ll have a l0 minutes pass. Here at Mission Control a
handover is in progress with Flight Director Milt Windler going
off duty and Flight Director Phil Shaffer coming on duty.
Change of shift today will be at the usual time in the after-
noon, between 4 and 5 o'clock. This is Skylab Control. We're
live now for air-to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston (echo).
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard
for the next i0 minutes. (echo)
CDR Roger, Carl. (echo) We got an echo.
CC Hey, this is a beautiful effect we got going.
CDR Carl, I did not get that (.garble) time Cecho).
You cut out just about halfway through it. (echo)
CC Righto. I have two possible times for
you, if you'd like to jot them down. (echo)
CDR Go ahead. (echo)
CC The first one conflicts with your photo-
graphy of the comet, but it is 14 hours 54 minutes 25 seconds.
A second possibility is 18 hours 0 minutes 46 minutes. (Echo)
CDR Okay, Carl. Copy 14, 54, 25; 18, 0, 46.
(Echo) Carl, are you ready for the TV downlink? (Echo)
CC Roger We're ready. (Echo)
CC Skylab, this is Houston, We have LOS in
i minute. We'll see you at Tananarive in about 18 minutes
from now, and a reminder, Jerry, that we have MI51 today to-
gether with the M092/171 operations.
CDR Roger. Thank you, Carl.
CC Sure thing. So long.
passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. 14
minutes from acquisition of signal at Tananarive. Present
time a handover is in progress here at Mission Control with
Phil Shaffer coming on duty as Flight Director and Milton Windler
going off. Our change of shift briefing will be held after
the Phll Shaffer shift is completed at about 4 o'clock this
afternoon. That's the standard time. Variation yesterday was
necessary because the normal afternoon change of shift could
not be held. So there will be a change of shift briefing
but not until this afternoon, approximately 4 to 5 p.m.
central standard time, about 9 or I0 hours from now. We're
in the process of also having a change in our spacecraft
communicator with Dick Truly about to take over from Carl
Henize. This is Skylab Control at 57 minutes after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 9 minutes 33

seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
over the southern part of Africa, just about to be acquired
through Tananarive. We're 50 seconds from acquisition there.
Phil Shaffer has taken over now as Flight Director with Dick
Truly as the spacecraft communicator. Pass through Tananarive
will last 6 minutes, and then we'll have a long LOS period
until we're at Hawaii. This is Skylab Control. We're live
now at Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple
gang. We got you 4 minutes at Tananarive.
SPT Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning. You may not believe this
but they suddenly let the purple gang on the day shift for
the first time this mission.
SPT Very good. Glad to have you with us.
The daytime, at least.
CC You're not half as glad as we are, and
you better keep a good watch on us today because they we haven't
had a lot of practice this mission on this shift.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a couple of min-
utes from LOS Tananarive. Just in case we happen to lose
you early the next station contact is Hawaii, that comes up
at 14:53, and that's where the ATM conference is scheduled
with Bill Lenoir and we also intend to dump the data/voice
recorder at Hawaii. Out.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Jerry; incidentally, that first S009
set time they gave you at 14:54 awhile ago. In case you
haven't already caught it, the conflict there is that turns
out to be in the middle of your $233 comet photos and that's
why that that one's probably going to be impossible and so
the one to shoot for is the one at 18:00, and I'll remind you
later about that.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thanks.
CC Roger. And good morning.
CDR Good morning. How are you?
CC Pretty good. It's cold down here this
morning. Below freezing in Houston.
CDR Got your furnace running?
CC No, we're not allowed to do that anymore
down here. Got to bundle up. It's below freezing in Houston this
morning.
CDR I'll bet the lumber yards are having a run
on insulation.
CC You bet.
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now out of range of Tananarive. Our next acquisition at
33 minutes and 40 seconds away at Hawaii. This is Skylab
Control. It's now 19-1/2 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I139/I
Time: 08:52 CST 35:14:52 GMT
12120173

Greenwich mean time. We're coming into acquisition of signal
through Hawaii. Spacecraft communicator is Dick Truly, and
the pass will last approximately I0 minutes.
MCC Good morning, Skylab, Houston, with the
ATM conference and we'll be dumping the data/voice recorder
here. Over.
SPT Bill, perhaps you ought to not do that.
Bill's right in the middle of a S019 and using the recorder
all the way through. Unless you want (garble) that data.
MCC Okay. We'll hold that. And getting in
here to the ATM conference, on an XUV MON downlink came
down last night, we noticed a bright region that was totally
unexpected to us over behind the east limh at about i0 to 15
(garble). Old active region 87 is in that region, although it
would appear that the brightness is behind there. As you
probably recall, 87 died or decayed on the last disk passage
on the last rotation. We're not sure what to make of it,
although it may be a very interesting region and we're won-
dering what you see of it and also want to tip you off to
keep your eye on it and do whatever looks right today with
respect to that. Over.
SPT Okay, Bill. Let me ask you, what is the
location of active region 2? I'm not up in the ATM but I (gar-
ble) on the other side of the filament (garble) which is the
(garble) of 00.
CC Okay. Roger, Ed. I can just barely hear
you on that, but active region 2 is on the disk now. We can
see it on our H-alpha, and it looks like it's at about 0.9
radius at about 260 and we're talking about a limb brightness
that's well behind that, actually beyond the limb.
SPT Okay. And looking at the picture, it's
tough to tell whether that is not really just an extension of active
region 2. I can not discern the two separate brightenings.
Now if I go on up and integrate for a short period of time I
may be able to do that. I am not looking for the (garble).
On the TV downlink, which I just sent down, I gave you some fairly
short integrations (garble).
MCC Okay. We didn't have those in yet. We
were looking at last night's and there was a definite break
between the 02 brightening and this brightening behind the
limb. And another question you might look at when you get
up there is whether this is connected with any coronal fea-
tures. Okay. Couple more words here on active region 00.
Since our update this morning we've had two more subfaint
very small and they're in the very bright region south of
the leader. NOAA guesses that possibly within 24 hours this
thing may just do something spectacular for us on the order
of an M-3 or M-4, and again that's a guess, and maybe it's
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wishful thinking more than a guess. However, if it were to

occur what they would guess is that it would start in the
same place as these two and three subfaints that we've had
and spread along the neutral line to the east. Possible
sequence of events would be a handful of C-l's and C-2's
increasing the activity in that region and then boom into the
big one. The long X-ray, from 8 to 20 angstroms, have increased
from about 150 to 240 since yesterday. EUV at 284 angstroms
is down slightly. A similar case in SL III apparently preceded
some activity, although it's kind of hard to make that com-
parison here. The neutral line again is real difficult to
trace. Thought I might just advise you that the way NOAA
draws it, you've got a big leader spot and a spot behind the
leader spot. The spot behind the leader spot they're saying
is opposite polarity and that there is a little protut pre-
trusion of that following polarity that juts up to grab
that following spot. There's a very bright kernal that is
south of the leader spot and a little bit to the east. That's
the area that the activity has been going on in and you might
keep your eye on that today with the observations on 00.
They're guessing als
SPT (Garble) shopping list - shopping list items
at the completion of orbit, but we got some spectra or mirror
auto raster in that region. (garble).
MCC Okay. Sounds good. And NOAA is saying
that the entire region there is looks to them like a beta
gamma configuration, indicating mixed polarities and very tight
gradient. Okay. We've got another 5 minutes here.
Today's plan, the 82B filler you just did really filled
the JOP 24 square, we're trying to get a 82 Alfa picture about
every other orbit for the activity in 00, and obviously we're
concentrating on 00. Note that there's one new change and
we'll be getting up an official note to you on S055. Mech
REF 104 is now the same as optical reference, all balls.
It's at the change from 102. In the future it's 104 and that's
based on some engineering studies that they had done here.
SPT Okay. That seems to make a little sense. When
I've used a 102 for some reason I have not gotten the intensities
that I should have (garble)
MCC Okay. Good. And there's not too much
that we expect to be coming around the east limb with the
possible exception of this brightening that we noticed. So
there's not much to warn you about there. Wonder what you
might suggest that we take a look at tomorrow.
SPT First let me ask you, the neutral line
in 00 runs primarily east/west, that's primary east neutral
line, before it makes a couple wifferdills and goes north and
south. Is that correct?
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MCC That's affirmative. It's primarily

east/west through there, and like you say, a couple north/
south wifferdills to go up and impose some bright region.
SPT Okay. Let me tall you what I see first.
In looking at the corona, I have not seen anything above
the active region 02, or in that latitude. We do have still
a streamer, although greatly reduced in size and in intensity
where we've had the one for the past 3 or 4 days at around 28,
290. Over on the west limb we do have a fairly prominent streamer,
which has been there for a period of time and it just, in general
just changed in intensity but not location. It looks like
a good Helmet streamer and extends our a fair ways. Most of
the coronal structure is over on that side right now in terms of
overall intensity. We do have another faint streamer up around
oh, 310, 320 or so. And that's about it in the corona. Apparently
on the east limb anyway.
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Time: 09:00 CST 35:15:00 GMT
12/20/73
SPT Most of the coronal structure's on that

side right now in terms of overall intensity. We do have
another faint streamer up around, Oh, 310, 320 or so. And
that's ahout it. The corona apparently_ on the east anyway,
most of the material rotated out of the disk perhaps where we
cannot see it. Speculating there. XUV, in looking at the
active regions, I've been trying to look for interconneetions.
And the only (garble) I can see of itis the active region i.
at the trailing edge there's some plage running both north and
south, indicating, perhaps there could be something going up to
99 and something coming down to 00. Again, it's just a
hint in the bright plage which leads off in that direction.
I think active regions 3 and 4 are interesting because they're
so relatively small and close together. It might be something
that we can, at least, keep an eye on, but not necessarily
do any extensive observations. Active region 150 is the one
we ought to watch for flares. And I'd like to spend as much
time sitting on that as possible. If not FLARE WAIT
but doing observing programs on it. If we really are
serious about getting the rise time of _ the rise of a
flare, then I think we ought to sta_ on that region as much as
possible. Over there on the limb of p61, it's kind of
interesting where we have a prominence and a filament, one
joining the other, rotating onto the disk is - Maybe we can
(garble) observations there at least a couple mirror auto rasters
and maybe some spectra would be (garble) Just inside the limb
and just off the llmb, where the prominence and filament is
located, maybe some comparison spectra rotated off of that
location.
MCC Okay, Ed. I got that. And that sounds
good. A couple of words here on flare observation. The
54 people tell me that a few days ago on the flare work that
you did, you did as well as you possibly could have. And
they want to congratulate you on that. Let me break in here.
i minute to LOS. And Vanguard is next at 15:25. And back
to the flares, both 82 and 54 feel that observing time is
required where you can dedicate you time for looking for
good brightenings and flare rise opportunities. That they
just cannot get things like that on a scheduled basis. So
we certainly depend on you and we'll try and give you as much
time as possible to do that. I have some comments here from
S054. On two occasions, long enough ago that I'm sure you
don't remember the details, there was a very slight brightening
once when you were on panel and once just after Jerry had
gotten there. In both cases, you did not put 54 into the
FLARE MODE for operations. And that's easy to understand
here, looking at the situation that you had. What 54 wants
to emphasize is that, don't hesitate even for small questionable
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events. If you've got any doubt at all, go on it. They would

rather spend some film on a false alarm than miss the real
thing. And the day after Christmas is your next crew day off.
AI Krieger will be talking to you about 54 ops, how they faired
in the EVA and what they want to do on flares. Over.
SPT Okay. Glad to hear that (garble) Sitting
and waiting and perhaps (garble) (static)
MCC Okay. Break, break, Ed. You're over
the hill. We'll see you at the next stop.
Greenwich mean time. We're out of range now of the tracking
antenna now at Hawaii and 20 minutes from acquisition at
Vanguard. This is Skylab Control at 4 minutes 22 seconds
after the hour.
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition through Vanguard. Pass will last 8 minutes
to 9-1/2 minutes, and the spacecraft communicator right now
is Dick Truly. During the last pass over Hawaii we had a
morning solar conference with Bill Lenoir.
CC Hello, Skylab. We're at Vanguard for
8 minutes and we are going to dump the data recorder here.
CDR Got you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC PLT_ Houston. We've still got a couple
of minutes. Are you at the point in the pass where you could
listen to me for about 30 seconds?
PLT Go, Dick.
CC Roger, Bill. On the subject of HK60
Delta, I'm not sure whether or not you guys - you got that
out of the way last evening or not. It's on your summary
Fli_ht Plan today, listed at about 18:45. What I wanted to
mention to you is, is that there's a little remark about HK60
Delta at the bottom of your details pad that might be easy to
miss since it isn't listed up higher in the chronological
events in the details pad, and it looks like a little trap
to me. So if you haven't already done the 60 Delta today,
when you get ready to do it you might be sure and read that
remark.
PLT Yeah. I did see it. But thanks for the
reminder. It was way down there at the bottom.
CC Okay. Fine.
CC And Skylab, We're I minute from LOS. We'll
see you all the way around again at Vanguard at a time of 17:03.
And we plan on dumping the data recorder when we get back
around there. So see you in an hour and a half.
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PLT Yeah, I did see it, but thanks for the

reminder, it was way down at the bottom.
CC Okay, fine.
CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you all the way around again at Vanguard at a
time of 17:03. And we plan on dumping the data recorder
when we get back around there. So see you in an hour and
a half.
Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Vanguard. Our next acquisition is an hour and
28 minutes away. That will again be at the Vanguard tracking
station. Today the astronauts will photograph the comet
Kohoutek, adding to their detail examination of the comets
growth and development as it speeds toward the Sun at more
than 165,000 miles an hour. During the day the comet will
cross the orbit of Mercury, just over 30 million miles from
the Sun to become the nearest neighbor to our star. All three
crew members will also point the large solar telescopes at
the Sun's active half, which is now rotated into view on the
side of the Sun nearest the Earth. Solar forecasters said
today that a sequence of flares might well explode from the
Suns surface later in the day. Skylab's systems are functioning
well. A cooling line used for the solar instruments control
panel was cleaned earlier this week and now is working better
than it has since before the space station was launched. Skylab's
two large gyroscopes used to maintain the space station in a
stable position as it moves along its orbit are both working
perfectly today. Yesterday there was a very slight variation
in speed. Several times during the pass one of the gyroscopes,
CMG number 2, has shown very slight changes in rotation
speed and accompanied by a slight increase in current. That
variation was repeated again yesterday afternoon and has not
caused any additional concern. It's one of several fluctuations
that occur from time to time in the CMG's performance. That
involves a slowing by less than a percent from the usual
8900 revolutions per minute. Flight controllers are, however,
keeping careful watch on the attitude control system to guard
it against unnecessary strains during its brief occasional
fluctuations. Temperatures inside the Skylab are now
approximately 80 degrees. That's a relative high level that's
been brought about by a combination of long periods in the
Sun, and also the number of attitude maneuvers that have been
performed for observations of the comet and also for Earth
resources investigations. Those attitude maneuvers do tend
to bring up the temperatures slightly as they move the Sun
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into different portions of the space station. Yesterday on

the MO92 run, the lower body negative pressure device run, on
the science pilot. The science pilot did cut short the
run a few minutes before it was to have been concluded. He
did feel some sensations during the minus 40 and minus 50
levels, which are the maximum levels for lower body negative
pressure. But it's now believed that that's only a very
slight variation. It may in fact have been due to the higher
temperatures or could have been due to lack of sleep or improper
eating habits. It's not considered to give any concern. However,
the M092 run will be performed again before the space walk.
So we should have additional data on that. Science pilot
has previously had one on one occasion had trouble completing
the run, but he has completed it successfully in the period
since then. At I0:00 a.m. there will be a video tape playback
of gypsy moth television,120, that will be narrated by
Dr. Dennis Morrison who's the cognesance scientist for the
gypsy moth experiment. That TV was recorded a couple of
days ago by Ed Gibson aboard the space station. This time
every - all the systems seem to be operating properly. No
variations observed so far in the wheel speed on CMG number 2,
although we're once again moving to the low range temperature
now in bearing 2 of about 60 degrees. That's the cycle that
normally runs about once every 12 hours. And temperatures
vary from about 80 to 6 - to a little below 60 at which point
the heaters come back on. We're now at the lower end of the
range where those fluctuations have occurred in the past.
However, no - no observable changes have taken place yet in
the in wheel speed or amperage. This is Skylab Control,
an hour and 25 minutes to our next acquisition. I'ii repeat, at
i0 o'clock cntral standard time about 23 minutes from now
that video tape playback will have the narration live on the
release line. This is Skylab Control at 38 minutes after
the hour.
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Time: ii:01 CST, 35:17:01 GMT
12/20/73
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 1 minute

now 55 seconds from acquisition at the Vanguard tracking
antenna. A Mission Control announcement has just been put
up on one of the large Eidophors that the Christmas tree is
now up and decoration will begin in 3 hours. This is Skylab
Control and we're live now for air-to-ground at Vanguard.
The pass will last approximately i0_i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston_ hello at the Vanguard
for i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there, Edward. And also we're
dumping the data/voice recorder here at the Vanguard.
CC PLT, Houston. We appreciate you getting
your NuZ update. We do see that the star tracker still shows
a star present indicates the shutter's still open.
We're about 2 minutes from LOS. Ascension comes up at 17:16.
PLT Thank you, Dick. It's closed now.
CC Roger.
and 52 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
is passed out of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. Our next
acquisition is about 2 minutes away at Ascension. At the
present time, the Skylab crew, Jerry Cart, the commander is
at work on the bicycle ergometer, putting out a full 200 watts
of energy and bicycling about 69 revolutions per minute. He's
completed his MO92/MI71 run. We didn't get data on most
of that run. But that has been completed apparently. And
he's moved on to his physical training. And at this time,
Science Pilot Gibson, who is observing the M092 run this
morning should be in his personal hygiene eating period and
ready to take over the ATM run the next pass. S019 operation
should be underway, too. Some photography of young star
fields by Pilot Bill Pogue. Later in the day there's an
M509 run with Pilot Bill Pogue acting as test pilot. We'll
come up line now, for air-to-ground at Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Ascension
for the next 7 minutes. And a reminder for Bill, this ATM
pass that you're on now is going to get cut short a little
bit. Your on station time for SO19 is 17:27 Zulu.
PLT Thank you very much. Appreciate your
reminder.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS Ascension. It'll be a while before we see you at
Guam. That time is 18:00. And_ Jerry, if you a reminder
for you. If you want to set your portable timer so as to
catch that next S009, that time again is 18:00 and 46 seconds.
And that's just about the time we'll be having AOS at Guam.
See you then.
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CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.

CC Yes, sir.
now passed out of range of the tracking antenna at the
Ascension Islands. Our next acquisition is 33 minutes away
at Guam, During this last pass, Commander Cart completed
his bicycling and is, perhaps, now doing the remainder of
his physical exercise period. He does normally use a number
of other exercise devices during the day as part of a regular
pattern. Currently, the control moment gyro, apparently, is
operating about as it normally has, It has reached the
lower end of its cycle. And there have been no observable
changes in its current, or its revolution speed. So apparently
CMG-2 may be able to get through this period without any varia-
tions. Yesterday, during the early afternoon there was a
very slight variation in its operation. But it is typical
of those that have been occurring now for about a month. 32 minutes
to acquisition at Guam, and 28 minutes after the hour, this
is Skylab Control.
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12/20/73
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 59-1/2 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now about
to be acquired through the Guam tracking antenna. The pass
through Guam will last about 9 minutes. Spacecraft communicator
is Dick Truly and the Flight Director on duty now is Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Guam for
9 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Roger. Sweet Sue is set.
CC Hey, thank you, sir.
PLT This is the PLT. Are y'all still trying
to take the recorder?
CC PLT, Houston. You were real broken and
I dldn_t copy you. Say again, please, sir.
PLT Just wondering if you were trying to
take the recorder. It keeps blinking on and off.
CC Okay, stand by.
CC Bill, you got a erratic light indication
because we redesignated recorders. You are recording though,
so you can press on as you like.
PLT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute and
20 seconds from LOS here. Next station contact is Ascension
at a time of 18:56_ or 57. For the CDR and SPT, we
see TV_77 is coming up in a little while. And, Ed, whatever
you did with regard to the head - wearing a headset or holding
the mike close when you did the gypsy moth TV yesterday
worked real good. So we'd suggest that continuing that so
continue to get good voice for this TV-77. I'll see you
at Ascension.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. I been looking
into what you like on that and it may take a little bit longer
to get that whole total job done. We'll start working on
it though.
CC Okay Do what you think's best and let
us know when - when you're through and we'll reschedule
if we need to.
SPT Thank you.
is now out of range of Guam. We're 46 minutes from our next
acquisition at Ascension. Present time on bearing number 2
temperature on the second control moment gyro is very near
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the minimum point on its journey to about 57 degrees when

the heaters will come back on and start warming it up again.
There have been no variations in either current or in wheel
speed which indicate it looks like it's going to get through
this low end of the cycle without any sort of a fluctuation.
It has fluctuated a number of times over the last month,
but the last time was yesterday afternoon, again very
much simular to those that had happened earlier. And no
significant differences have been observed. However, it
does appear that during this pass it's not going to reach
that - that stage. At least that's the way it looks right
now as the temperature is a little less - just a little
over 58 degrees. 45 minutes to our next acquisition of
signal, ii minutes and 15 seconds after the hour, this
is Skylah Control.
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SL-IV MCI144/I
TIME: 12:55 CST, 35:18:55 GMT
12/20/73

45 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab is now within
54 seconds of acquisition at Ascension. The pass through
Ascension will began a series of passes as we have overlapping
station coverage from Ascension, Canary Island, and Madrid.
The spacecraft communicator on duty here in Mission Control
is Richard Truly. And the total length of these passes will
be approximately 14-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
We're live now at Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Ascension,
Canary and Madrid
for 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we've handed over to
Canary Islands. We still got you here for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to have a
little keyhole right here toward the end of the Madrid pass.
Should pick you up for about a minute after that. Just in
case we don't, the next station is Guam at 19:38. And we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder at Guam.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station over Eastern
Europe is out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid
after a pass through Ascension, Canary Islands and Madrid.
Our next acquisition is 23-1/2 minutes away at Guam. The
present time Skylab crew should be involved in TV-77. There's
no time yet been put on the video tape recorder. That television
of crew activities is one of the main activities for this
afternoon. M509 operation should be starting in the next
hour or so. That astronaut maneuvering test flight will be
made by Pilot Bill Pogue. Observing at that time will be
Commander Carr and in the meantime Scinece Pilot Ed Gibson
will be doing his exercises and personal hygiene. Very quiet
day today aboard the space station. This morning medical
run M092/MI71 completed. And everything seems to be moving
along very smoothly. Astronauts Carr, Gibson, and Pogue are
completing their 5th week in space today with a variety of
research projects in progress. During the morning Commander
Cart participated in two medical tests, the lower body negative
pressure run and also the metabolic activity experiment. These
are to measure the effects of gravity free environment on
the human body. While Carr was monitored by Science Chief
Ed Gibson, Bill Pogue observed an active Sun which could
provide the astronauts with a significant series of erruptions
later today according to forecasters from the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. This afternoon Pogue will
be flying the astronaut maneuvering unit, that's the nitrogen
powered backpack that may be used by space shuttle technicians
to repair orbiting satellites and complete construction work
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in the 1980's. All of Skylab's systems are functioning well

today. The large attitude control gyroscope that is showing
some area - some slight irregularities in behavior several
times in the past month has been working perfectly since
yesterday when it had its last little variation. This is
Skylab Control, it's 15 minutes and 45 seconds after the hour.
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12/20/73

now 54 seconds from acquisition of signal through Guam. Pass
there will last 7 minutes and 20 seconds. Bring the line up
live now for Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam for 6-1/2
minutes. And Skylab, we're going to be dumping the data/voice
recorder here at Guam.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS
Guam. We're going to drop out just about 6 or 7 minutes.
I'll call you at Honeysuckle at 19:52.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now passing
out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam. And we're
about 6 minutes now from acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle.
During this pass data here at Mission Control indicates
that everythingts still functioning smoothly. The control and
display panel coolant loop that was cleaned out by the crew
several days ago is still operating very well and flow rates
are still much higher then they have been since the space
station was launched. Crew has indicated that both pumps
B and C do create quite a bit of noise but that's about the
level of noise that's expected from those pumps. It's simi-
lar to the pump level noise level from the suit umbilical
system coolant loop, which has similar pumps. We're getting
an unusually long station pass at Guam. Our lines are still
up there but we don_t expect any more conversation. Today
Commander Gerald Carr completed his MO92/MI71 run in a
period where we had no telemetry. The run was ready to be-
gin at a Vanguard pass and then we had loss of signal at an
hours and 30 minutes before our next acquisition. During
that time both M092 and MI71 were run and completed. We have
no data at all so we can't report on the success or the - any
problems might have occurred in the runs. Yesterday Science
Pilot Ed Gibson performed the M092_ that's the lower body
negative pressure run, and he did not complete his run at
the lowest levels of pressure_ at minus 50. He terminated
with 7-1/2 minutes remaining, about half-way through the
run. When his blood pressure got down to the high 60's, he
did indicate some feeling of mild stomach awareness at the
minus_40 level but said that he didn't feel too bad so they
went on to the minus-50 level, at which point the blood
pressure became too low and they did terminate the run of
lower body negative pressure device. Science pilot reported
on the taped communications to Mission Control that he - the
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symptoms he had were a little sweating along the back of the

head and a slight amount of dizziness, some tingling in the
hands which accompanied the reading of low blood pressure,
but the only thing he could attribute it to, he said, was
the amount of sleep he's been getting lately. He was up
working, of course, late the previous night and he said it
did seem that he'd gotten almost 8 hours of sleep, but that
he thought his sleep at night hadn't been quite as good as
it might be and also he indicated that heat in the workshop
might have been a factor. Temperatures were about 80 yes-
terday in the orbital workshop area of the space station,
partly as a result of the longer periods in the Sun, and
partly as a result of the number of attitude maneuvers that
had been performed. Those attitude maneuvers reorient the
vehicle in such a way that the Sun shines more directly on
certain areas of the workshop and other parts of the space
station and they do raise the temperature slightly. Yester-
day both coolant loops were brought back on line. Those are
airlock module coolant loops that provide an air conditioning
system for the space station. The primary loop has been shut
down since the space walk since it was not really required, but
now both of them are operating to put out a little extra
cooling. Temperatures now range upward to about 78 or 79
degrees at the maximum levels in the space station. We'll
no doubt get a report if any difficulty was experienced to-
day on the commander runs. The science pilot failure to complete
the M192 lower body negative pressure run gives the doctors
very little concern. It's something that has happened pre-
viously on the science pilot and he has completed it suc-
cessfully on the following runs, and they did indicate
that the metabolic activity, the experiment associated with
it - correction, the vectorcardiogram experiment associated
with it, was completed successfully with no signs of any
illness or discomfort. Science pilot also yesterday did some
photography of an area of insect infestation and some changes
in agricultural coloration that were due to The attempt
was made theat - near Perth, Australia, and it did indi-
cate that he was able to identify some color differences in
aEricultural areas there. He mentioned that he could not
be certain, of course, of the cause of the color differences
but did recognize discoloration along the edges of certain
fields which were a lighter green, almost a yellow, and sometimes
almost an orange on a couple of plots near Perth, Austra-
lia. This is part of a study of - attempting to determine
whether or not the astronauts can detect various things from
space by using their eyes alone. He did have binoculars
of course to assist him in the observation of the agricultural
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areas just outside of Perth, Australia. He gave an ex-

tensive report on the channel B tape recordings earlier to-
day. We're about a minute now from acquisition of signal
at Honeysuckle. We'll bring the line up live for air-to-
ground there. The pass at HoneysuckleVs a short one,
about
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PAO - - Australia. This is part of a study

of attempting to determine whether or not astronauts can
detect various things from space by using their eyes along.
He did have binoculars of course to assist him in the observation
of the agricultural areas just outside of Perth, Australia.
He gave an extensive report on the channel B tape recordings
earlier today. We'_re about a minute now from acquisition
of s_gnal at Roneysuckle. Wetll bring the line up live for
a%r_to_ground there. The pass at Honeysuckle is a short one
about 3 minutes long. And spacecraft communicator now is
Dick Truly. Flight Director is still Phil Shaffer, who will
be going off duty shortly after 4 o'clock today.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 3 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Looks like we may
have a flare starting up in active region - most probably in
active region 00.
SPT Rog. I was thinking it was 01, but we'll
take a look. I see the stuff going up.
C0 Okay, Bill. We're not sure, but it does
look like one may be starting up.
PLT Yeah, I think it's 01, but we'll - we'll
make sure before we start.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For the CDR or SPT,
durln_ the period of time that we thought you'd be doing TV-77
we have not seen any recording done on the VTR.
PLT Stand by, Dick. They've been working it.
CC Okay.
PLT The reason I haven't started on the flare,
Dick, is I haven't got a Beryllian aperature shut down. But
we're 54 and 56 in FLARE MODE now.
CC Roger.
CDR Dick, we've got about 2 minutes of VTR,
then this flare thing started.
CC Okay, Jer.
from LOS. I'ii call you at Canary at 20:38.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you do go back
to TV_77, we_d like you to verify the position on the select
the TV position on the selector switch.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 55-1/2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has now passed out
of range of Honeysuckle. Our next acquisition is 42 minutes
away at Canary Islands, During this last pass ground advised
spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly, that there may be an active
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region double zero flare beginning, giving some indications

here on the ground that flare activity may be beginning. That
was predicted earlier in the day and the solar forecaster
advised us at that time that it's quite possible that we might
get a series of flares including one perhaps in the mid range
of the M sized flare, or medium flare. That would make the
flare as large as any that has been seen so far in the Skylab
mission. This mission - During the previous mission we did have
a very large flare, much larger than the M class flare. So Pilot
Bill Pogue answered that he was busy watching that. He thought
personally that it was in the Ol active region, but that hasn't
been determined yet. We did apparently have the TV on during
part of that_ and we may get some data on that a little bit
later, The active region O0 and Ol are very near to each
other_ in the lower left-hand quadrant of the Sun or just a
little ways from the center. Active - Activity on the Sun
is up very substantially during the last few days as the active
side of the Sun rotates into view. 40 minutes to our next
acquisition at Canary Island and 57 minutes after the hour.
This is Skylab Control.
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and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the Canary Island tracking
station. Pass through Canary Island and Madrid will last
approximately 15 minutes and we'll bring the line up live
for air-to-ground now. Spacecraft Communicator is Dick Truly,
and at the present time here in Mission Control the Christmas
tree which was put up earlier today is being decorated.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary and Madrid
for 14 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there.
SPT Hey, we've been working on TV-77, and
we're just knocking off now. I'm afraid it's going to take
a number of sessions more in order to do that thing right.
We just got the introductory going, which is a general
overall discussion of it. And tomorrow I think we're going
to be looking at the ATM panel, and discussing instruments the
following day in the airlock. And the next day after that
talking about all the other instruments that are not covered
in the first two. That's the only way we can see to do this
thing right is to take a little time out and work each scene.
CC Okay, Ed. The way these next few days
look it's probably going to be a little while before we can
schedule some more time. Aproximately how many more sessions
of what duration do you think would satisfactorily do it?
SPT About three to four more sessions.
CC Okay. What's that, a half hour to 45
minutes apiece. Is that what you're thinking?
SPT Yes. About - At least 45. It takes you
a good 15 minutes to a half an hour sometimes just to get it
all lined up and figure out what you're going to do.
CC Sure. Understand. Okay. Thank you.
We_ll do that.
SPT Thank you, Dick. Dick, what we sent down
for the beginning was just a general overall discussion alon_
with some needs which we'll have to get all spliced together.
You got more time than the discussion goes, so feel free to
cut it up any way they choose.
CC Okay. When it gets down here I'm sure
they'll take a look at it. l_m assuming that - that Jerry
and Bill are getting started in the M509 preps, and have you
got any words to say about the flare?
SPT Yes. Bill was there at the time when
you came up, Looked like a very a subflare and the H-alpha,
only moved slightly. We did not see very much rise in the
PMEC. Image intensity count went up, oh, 15, 20, maybe a
little over that for a very short period of time. And we got
54 going in the mode. And we looked and decided it was on
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its way down already.

CC Roger, Ed. Thank you.
CC And, SPT, Houston. For about the last
six or eight passes I've been meaning to remind you, sorry
about that, but your phone call's set up this evening at
Goldstone at 02:51, if you want to plan on that.
SPT Yes. Sure will. Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
SPT 02:51.
CC Okay. Now we'll remind you again later
on.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS at Madrid. Next station contact is Honeysuckle at 21:25,
and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder there.
PAO We've had loss of signal through Madrid.
We'll reacquire again in 32 minutes at Honeysuckle. At 20
hours 52 minutes 23 seconds Zulu time, this is Skylab
Control.
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TIME: 15:24 CST, 35:21:24 GMT
12/20/73
PAO Twenty-one hours 24 minutes Greenwich

mean time.
PAO Fifty seconds away from acquiring the
space station through Honeysuckle in far off Australia.
According to the schedule at this particular time for
today's Flight Plan, the - two of the astronauts, Jerry Carr
and Bill Pogue, should be involved in the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit exercise. That is the activation checkout
and eventual operation of that unit that they strap on their
back and traverse through the interior of the spacecraft. And
while they're doing that the science pilot should be doing
some personal hygiene. One second away from acquiring; we'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honeysuckle for
8 minutes.
CC And, Skylab; forgot to remind you. We're
going to be dumping the data/voice recorder here at Honeysuckle.
And sometime this pass one of the 509 people, if you have a
chance, might give us word as how you're coming along in the
preps and so forth.
CC Skylab, Houston, we still have about 3
minutes here at Honeysuckle. Looking at the CMG gimbal angles
it looks to us like it's possible that you may experience a
CMG reset in between Honeysuckle and the next pass, Bermuda.
Just so you won't be surprised and no action required by you,
we thought we'd let you know.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS
Honeysuckle. Bermuda comes up at 22:09. See you there.
CDR So long, Dick.
PAO Skylab has moved out of range of the
Honeysuckle tracking station. We'll next acquire in 34
minutes at Bermuda. A reminder that we will have a change-
of-shift briefing at approximately 5 p.m. central standard
time, with the off-going Flight Director Phil Shaffer
appearing. And along with him will be Luther Powell, who is
a member of the Marshall Space Flight Center Skylab Office.
That briefing will be in Building number i, room 135, tentatively
set for 5 p.m., today central time. At 21 hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 16:07 CST 35:22:07 GMT
12/20/73

Greenwich mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition
through Bermuda. In the process here at the control center
of changing Flight Controllers with the evening shift coming
on. That will be headed by Flight Director Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston, Bermuda for 8 minutes.
SPT Hello Dick.
CC Hello there.
CC And SPT, Houston, the 509 guys may be
on the other loop and real busy, but sometime during this
pass if you could give an idea how they're coming in their
run or prep we'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay, Bill's been playing in the workshop
down here for quite a little while, let me get him where I
can ask him here.
CC Okay, I can hear you'll having a shoot
out in the back ground.
SPT Right gyro baseline maneuver.
SPT Hello Dick, they're in the right gyro
baseline maneuver.
CC Roger, all I copied was the right gyro.
SPT Baseline maneuver.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS,
Madrid comes up at 22:20.
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12/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Canary and Madrid

for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, for your information
tomorrow's flight plans are on board.
SPT Thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
CC And also Ed, you might pass on to Jerry -
is a portion of tomorrow morning where it it discusses
some time for him to take a look at the EVA Checklist changes
that are going to be coming up tonight. And on this details
pad there's an entry for a - an EVA conference scheduled
at the tail end of that same time. And Rusty will be here
to discuss with Jerry anything he wants to talk about in
in that section of the changes.
SPT Okay, Dick I'll talk to him about it.
Thank you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 22:54.
PAO We've set no records for oratory on
this pass which started at Bermuda, continued on through
Madrid. Principally because the two crewmen were doing an
M509, astronaut maneuvering unit experiment. And the pilot,
the Science Pilot, Ed Gibson was at the Apollo telescope
mount engaged in solar observation. A reminder that at
5:00 p.m. central time Phil Shaffer, the flight director
who is going off _ty will meet the press in the change-of-
shift briefing. Also meeting the press at that time is
Luther Powell, who is a representative from the Marshall
Space Flight Center, Skylab Office. That change-of-shift
briefing is 5:00 p.m. central standard time Building i,
room 135. Twenty-two minutes from reacquiring at Carnarvon.
At that time, we'll have a new crew of flight controllers
on headed by Don Puddy. They're identified as the crimson or
also known as the polka dot team. The Spacecraft Communicator
will be Robert Crippen. Twenty-two hours 31 minutes Greenwich
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SL-IV MCII51/I
Time: 16:52 CST 35:22:52 GMT
12/20/73
PAO And this is Skylab Control at 22 hours

52 minutes Greenwich mean time, with the new crew on - on
station here. The new crew of flight controllers, who just
added a new member to their team. They're now know as the
crimson polka dot gypsy moth team. Their signature is on -
can be seen on the huge i0 foot by 20 foot hidafore [?] screen
here where we show spacecraft track and - and tracking
station locations and position of the space station. We're
about 17 seconds away from acquisition through the Canarvon,
Australia station. We'll expect a callup from the space
craft communicator Bob Crippen to the crew shortly.
CC Good afternoon Skylab, crimson team with
you for 15 minutes through Canarvon.
SPT Hello Crip, looks like we have a small
flare going. I got the X-ray run experiments running
in their FLARE mode. I gave 82A one exposure and I'm waiting
for 672 before I get 82A or B going. I can get them going
right now if they'd like.
CC C - Copy that, we're checking it.
CC Ed, are you planning on putting 55 in
MLS?
SPT I was not in a GRATING POSITION so it
says go to REF and that's what I'm doing.
CC Looks like you've warmed up the Sun a
little.
CC Ed, our information is that this is a
subnormal less than a C5 and started about 22:48, and peaked
at 22:52. Correction on that Ed.
SPT Okay Crip, I must have gotten that close
to the peak, I'll cease the operations and go back to the
norm.
SPT Say Crip, would you have the 55 people
look at the information on their GRATING POSITION, I've gone
to GRATING POSITION of 00000 twice now. And when gone over
to a MIRROR MODE I've looked up and found myself in a
GRATING POSITION of 80.
CC Copy, you've gone to a GRATING of 0 and
then when you've gone to a MIRROR MODE it jumped to 80, is
that correct?
SPT That's right, not immediately upon going
to the MIRROR MODE but after I'd be working and I look up
and find out I'm at 80. And I confirm it's at 80 because
as soon as I change the GRATING REFERENCE it goes to GRATING
MODE GRATING POSITION it goes up from 80, 90, i00 and so
forth. It not just a problem with the COUNTER or the read-
out.
CC We're reading 34 right now, what do you
got.
SPT I'm reading 194.
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12/20/73
SPT Would you like to have me go through

ref once more?
CC Stand by Ed.
CC Okay, Ed, why don't you try going back
to reference once more. And for your information we're
pretty convinced that the 34 we're reading here is
correct.
SPT Okay, Crip. That seems logical to me.
We got some stables getting into the counter here.
CC Okay, flare might - might have caused
that. Why don't you go to mechanical reference first.
CC Ed, when you get back to mechanical
ref, recommend you go ahead and step to 104 and we'll use -
go ahead and continue to use mechanical reference.
CC Okay, and we're taking the VTR and
we'll give it back to you later for the ATM TV.
SPT Okay, Crip, by step to 104, you meant
I can still run it up using the grating. Grating scan
mode.
CC That's fan (sic) - all we want
you to do is to just go up to 104 and use that - that as
your :reference.
SPT Okay.
CC Ed, recommendation, if you're a little
bit behind because of that flare is to go ahead and get
your BB 4 and if you - then if you have time you can go
back and pick up the 32.
SPT Okay, I got the I minute of continuous
in for 52. I had to truncate the - the patrol short 56.
CC Okay, copy.
LOS. We'll see you again over Texas in 32 minutes, at
23:41, 23:41.
SPT Say, Crip, in the small-flare we have now,
I just gave 82A an exposure short with about 15 seconds
ex - exposure time. Would they like to have that to take
the place of their 20-second exposure they have here. I
have the roll at minus 5400 however.
CC Afraid I'll never get an answer to
you, Ed. Over the hill. We agree, we agree, yes.
PAO We're now i0 minutes beyond the time
when we advertised the change-of-shift briefing involving
Phil Shaffer, and our apologies to the press for the delay.
The delay was induced by the fact that the purple
team which is the team that Shaffer heads, has been
reviewing and approving the teleprinter messages on EVA 2
that are to go up to the crew this evening. This is a
task of some considerable doing, time consuming at least.
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It appears now that the purple team is about finished,

as a matter of fact, they are releasing some of the team
members, and we would expect that Mr. Shaffer will be in
the news center within the next i0 to 15 minutes. So,
the 5 o'clock press conference has been slipped to either
5:15, 5:20, 5:25 or 5:30 take your choice. We'll next
acquiiiiiire the space station at - in about 28 minutes through
the Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas tracking site. The crew
is still involved in the M509 astronaut maneuvering
experiment. And Science Pilot Gibson was at the ATM
console. 23 hours 12 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MCI153/I
Time: 17:17 CST 35:23:17 GMT
12/20/73

17 minutes Greenwich mean time. Mr. Shaffer is leaving
the control center at this time heading for the news
center over in Building number 1 in order to meet the
gentlemen and ladies of the press over there at the change-
of_shift briefing. We expect him over there momentarily.
At 23 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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12/20/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is approaching
acquisition through Texas. We should have air-to-ground in
about 40 seconds. At this time the crew should have com-
pleted its M509 run, put the Buck Rodgers type maneuvering
unit away, and should be involved some presleep activities
and personal hygiene. Standing by.
PLT Crip, are you reading mechanical ref
104 down there?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay. Just as I went from 103 to 104,
8 popped up, so I'm now reading 184.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wonder if Jer or Bill
could give us the status of the 509 run so we can know whether
to dump the recorders? We show the recorders still still
in mot£on.
CDR Stand by Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT Okay Crip. They're all done. Jer's
just finishing up on the HHMU, so we - you can take the
recorders.
CC Fine and dandy. Thank you, Ed.
CC And SPT, Houston. Ed, for your information,
we're feverishly working to get the JOP 18D pad up to you
this evening, so that you'll have a chance to go over it.
We won't run you through the mill that you went through
last time with it. And it should be up shortly.
SPT Okay Crip. Appreciate that. Are there
any extras thrown in there, or is it a straight 18?
CC It's a straight 18D. We put in a few
thoughts about if per chance the thing is not visible again.
We can talk about that later.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC Ed, we saw that you cycled the GRATING
again. Can you give us your latest reading, please?
SPT Crip, it's now reading 285. I advanced
it 21 from the last position and I did not get any changes
at that point, any anomalies, so I assume by that 0021.
CC Okay. We're showing 125 right now.
CC Correction, at - You're in 021 op - optical
and that's right.
SPT Got to go through three different
whipperdills to get from 285 to 021, but I think we're right.
PLT Crip, come on up here and be our book-
keeper.
CC I can't do it down here, but I'd sure
like to come up there and try.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute

from LOS. We'll have you again over Madrid in 5 minutes
at 23:59, 23:59. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump, And Ed, we'll puzzle about 55 and its GRATING, and
I'Ii try to figure out how to keep books for you. It looks
like the thing is getting a series of 80 pulses. Right
now we're showing a mech ref number of 125 and if you got -
add two 80_s on that_ that comes up with your 285.
SPT Okay Crip. You know, somehow we're -
I came that once before, not just the 80, but an extra 80 on
top of that. That's been happening a couple of times today.
I had not noticed it before today, however.
CC Of the sinister force.
PLT Crip, we need you up here. Come on up.
CC I'm ready.
PLT Wish we had a way to do it.
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Time: 1].:55 CST, 35:23:55 GMT
12/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS through Madrid.

We have you for 7-1/2 minutes, doing a data/voice recorder
dump.
LOS. We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 27 minutes,
at 00:33, 00:33, see you there.
CDR So long, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
PA0 Loss of signal through Madrid, reacquire
in about 24 minutes. At 8 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-IV MC-I156/I
Time: 18:31 CST 36:00:31 GMT
12/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 31 minutes

35 seconds Greenwich mean time. This is also day 355, day
of the year 355. We're about 45 seconds away from acquisition
through Canarvon. According to the flight plan the crew
should have by now completed the M509 and probably getting
ready to have their evening dinner together. One more
period of activities this evening includes ATM viewing by
the commander. We'll stand by for the call from Spacecraft
Commander Communicator Bob Crippen to the crew comin_ up
shortly.
CC (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with through
Canarvon for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger Crippen.
CDR Hey Bob, I've decided that we'll cancel
the documentory photos for tonight. We got behind on M509 and
it's been a busy day. And I think we just as soon knock it
off and try to pick another time when we're all eating
together and we can do a better job of it.
CC Okay Jer, that's fine.
CDR Bob, also tell the M509 guys that we're
going to be late with our debriefings but we'll get them
done before we go to bed.
CC Okay Jer.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS,
we'll have you again over Honeysuckle in about 7 minutes at
00:45, 00:45.
CDR Roger Crip.
PAO We're a mere 6 minutes away from reacquiring
the space station. As a matter of fact we're still getting
meaningful C-band data down from the station even though
the Skylab is out of range through Carnarvon. So we'll, in
the interest of conserving words on the part of all persons
involved, we_ll just keep the line up.
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SL-IV MCI157/I
Time: 18:39 CST, 36:00:39 GMT
12/20/73
MCC Oklahoma State University presents

holiday greetings to Skylab-III astronauts: Gerald Carr,
Edward Gibson, and Bill Pogue. Here is a special Christmas
carol from Bill Pogue's alma mater featuring the Oklahoma
State University Singers. (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston, we have you for about
30 more seconds through Honeysuckle. We'll see you again
at Texas in 29 minutes, 01:14. (Music)
CDR Roger Crip.
(Music)
PLT Thank the Cowboy Singers.
CC Rog, you're welcome, Bill. And our
OU Flight Director is proud to present that.
PLT Brightens up my whole day.
(Music)
PAO Well, the space station has moved out
of range of Honeysuckle to the tune of some Christmas
music tonight. The astronauts probably are at this time
in their at their dinner session, at least that's where
they should be according to the Flight Plan. We'll
reacquire them in 24 minutes over Texas. At 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 19:13 CST, 36:01:13 GMT
12/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 1 hour 13

minutes 50 seconds Zulu time. About a minute away from
acquisition of the space station through Texas on what
appears to be a track that will take the station directly
over Houston, Texas_ and Mission Control Center here.
Standing by for conversation with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we're back with you,
have you for about 6 more minutes through Bermuda. See you're
in the maneuver. Skylab for your information, you're
going to have about 3 minutes at the end of this maneuver
for settling out, about a minute extra over what we
normally give you. So you should have plenty of time to
get nice and stable.
CDR Roger, Crip. Looks like the weather's
clear over Chicago.
CC Rog, it's clear over Houston_ too.
You guys came almost directly overhead, I think a few of
the wives went out_ took a look at you come over.
CDR Yeah, you were so close to the
terminator it it was still too much Sun glare up here for
us to see Houston though.
CC Rog_ well it has to work that way for
us to be able to see you.
CDR Right.
CC Skylab_ Houston, we've got the VTR
dumped and rewound, and it's available for your use. Jer,
I believe you're scheduled for some TV downllnk on the ATM
next pass.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC And_ Skylab, Houston, Jer if you're
around ATM D - C&D there, we are enabling dump.
CDR Say again, Crip.
CC Rog, just calling you to tell you that
we were going to be enabling dump in case you saw your flag
flip.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 19:28 CST, 36:01:28 GMT
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LOS. We'll see you again over Madrid in about 5 minutes,
at 01:36. And we'll be doin_ a data/voice recorder dump
there.
SPT Roger, Crip.
(Music)
Madrid. We have you for 6-1/2 minutes. (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We're going to see you again over Tananarive in 17
minutes, at 01:59, 01:59. (Music)
CDR Roger.
(Music)
PAO At i hour 43 minutes Greenwich mean
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Time: 19:58 CST, 36:01:58 GMT
12/20/73

Greenwich mean time, coming up on Tananarive. The doctor
has his daily medical report, and I'll read it. No
significant health problems exists. The pilot's rash
continues to subside and further comments about it were
made only - will be made only if there is undue persistence
or a new reoccurrence. And that is signed Dr. Jerry
Hordinsky. Approximately i0 seconds until we acquire the
spacecraft through Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Tananarive,
have you for 6 minutes.
(Music)
CDR Hey Crip, that last maneuver kind of
skimmed the gimbal stuff, didn't it?
CC We aren't privy to looking at
the gimbals stops, so I guess from right now it didn't -
didn't see the maneuver. Did - lay on them for awhile.
CDR No, not for long, it just kind of
skimmed by and we had about 62 percent HT, and one of the gimbal
angles got up to about 90-92 percent.
(Music)
CC Rog. Do you recall whether that was
inner or outer, Jer on - and which CMG?
(Music)
CDR Number 3 inner.
CC Okay, copy. Normally, the inners aren't
really - really any problem, it's the outers that can
sometime get us into problems.
(Music)
LOS. We'll see you at Honeysuckle in about 20 minutes at
02:22, 02:22.
(Music)
CDR So long, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
(Music)
SPT So long, Crip. You don't have any good
words for me on the pointing techniques for looking at
the comet?
(Music)
CC Okay, we hope to have that up about
stateside. And that's going to be oh, like 47 minutes away,
and it'll be while you're having your - your family comm.
And after you take a look at it, we'll talk about it.
SPT Thank you.
PAO At 2 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean,
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Time: 20:21 CST 36:02:21 GMT
12/20/73

Greenwich mean time. Space station is way south of Australia.
It's still in range of Honeysuckle, and we expect to have
some communication through Honeysuckle for a ruther - rather
short period of time. In about 20 or so seconds we should
have a call up from Houston to the crew.
Honeysuckle, and we've got you for a whole minute and a half.
SPT There ought to be some songs that last
only a minute and a half.
CC Well, I_m sure that there probably is,
but I figured l_d foul it up if I tried to squeeze it in
that tigkt a time. Well_ I got a minute left now. And
Goldstone is 02;51, that's about 28 minutes away. And for
Edward, wetve got his phone call set up for there.
SPT Very good Crip, which antenna?
CC Start off on right and go to left. And
we hope also, as I said before, during Goldstone to be up-
linking this JOP 18D pad. And then a little bit later we_ll
when youtve had a chance to take a look at it we can discuss it
a little bit.
SPT Okay, very good, Must have about
30 seconds Crip, could you hum a little?
CC Hum.
CC Ought to sing the Eyes of Texas, with
all these Oklahoma types around.
PAO The Goldstone tracking station is next,
next up in about 25 minutes. At 2 hour 25 minutes Greenwich
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SL-IV MC-I162/I
Time: 20:49 CST 36:02:49 GMT
12/20/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station will be
crossing the west coast of the United States in the San
Diego area, and then heading on in a northeastly direction
over such cities has Salt Lake City, on toward Cleveland, and
then out over the North Atlantic. We'll acquire the station
in about 18 seconds or so. Most of the crews duties at this
time are behind them. There is one short period of Apollo
telescope mount
CC minute.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, are you still at the ATM panel?
CDR Yeah, just powering it down.
CC Okay, we if it's convenient we would like
to run a little test on that 55 GRATING problem that Ed was
telling us about earlier where the thing was jumping in counts
by 80.
CDR Okay, give me a second to finish what I'm
doing and I'll be with you. Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, and we are going to be taking the
VTR to dump it. Now let me tell you a little bit before we
get started what we're planning on doing. What we're we're
going to be asking you to switch the mode selector on 55
between various positions that I'ii read to you, and ask you
to monitor the GRATING POSITIONS to see if you can see an
increment. And what we're trying to do is to test out if we
got a noisy relay in the panel that might be causing this
80 count. And if you're ready, we'd like you to first place
the 55 mode switch to GRATING AUTO SCAN.
CDR Okay, that's done and I'm still reading
104.
CC Okay, now just cycle the switch to STOP
please and monitor and see if that changes.
CDR No change.
CC Okay, go back to GRATING AUTO SCAN.
CDR Okay, no change.
CC Okay, now we'd like you to go to MIRROR
AUTO RASTER.
CDR No change.
CC Okay, now you want to go back to GRATING
AUTO SCAN?
CDR No change.
CC Okay, did you see any jumps at all during
your operations this past rev?
CDR Negative, I was watching for them and
didn't see a thing.
CC Okay, I guess that's - that concludes the
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little test that we had and we didn't get any results from
it. Wonder if it's convenient, could I go ahead and get your
frame count for tonight?
CDR Okay, 7059; 1723; 32575; 3426; 2063.
CC Copy that.
CC And just to keep us updated we would
appreciate any future reports by any three of you guys if
we do see the thing jump again.
CDR Okay, we sure will.
CC And Jer, one item I'd like to discuss with
you a little bit. We're looking at some of our future
scheduling and one of the things to get in on your guys is a
limb blood measurement in associated with 92. I think we
did one earlier in the mission. We're kind of interested in
the - the fact that you're leg - leg volume seems to continuely
peg the - off the scale. And in doing that and trying to
meet all of our constraints of scheduling it's kind of hard
to do the next time up. And what we're pondering is if you
could go ahead and do a 92 with the - the limb blood, and then,
instead of doing a 171 we could schedule you for an instrumented
PT session where we would only be requiring you to just
wear blood pressure and the VCG harness. And since that's
a - a crew option kind of thing we need - need your opinion
on it.
CDR Just what ill of the exercise do you
want?
CC All we're interested in is getting the
ergometer run.
CDR Okay, that shouldn't be any problem.
CC Okay, ind that would be for - for all
three of you on this next series of runs coming up starting
day after tomorrow.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, if you're GO on that we'll - we'll
so schedule it.
CDR Crip, I missed nuZ update. I'll have to
get for you next time.
CC Okay, we copy that, thank you.
CC And Jer, for your information and for Ed
when he gets off his phone call, the JOP 18D pad is in the
teleprinter.
CDR Hey Crip, I got a star now, do you suppose
that's the right one?
CC Well you're in the middle of a dump, we
need to take a look at it. And Jer we show that 52's TV is
still on, we need that off and also 56 AIRLOCK door CLOSED.
CDR Okay.
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CC Okay, and that nuZ will not be any good,

so if you haven't gone to AUTO don't do so.
CDR Okay_ I won't.
._,
_...... CC CDR, Nouston, we have told the appropriate
people and that nuZ update will not be necessary tonight.
You can just forget it.
CDR Thanks, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston, for your info the VTR is
all cleaned off and rewound.
PLT Roger Crip°
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going drop out here
shortly and we'll pick you up and about a minute and a half
over Bermuda.
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Time: 21:02 CST 36:03:02 GMT
12/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Bermuda for 5 minutes.

(Music)
LOS. See you at Madrid in 6 minutes at 03:13, and we'll be
standing by for the evening status report there, Jer, if you've
had a chance to put it together.
(Music)
CDR Hey, crimson team, thanks for the
Christmas card.
CC Your welcome. Howls the level up there
Jet? I can't really judge it from down here, whether it's
too loud, or too soft, or what.
CDR It's just about right Crip. Over
Tananarive it was kind of weak yesterday evening, and that
was tSe only weak one,
CC Okay, fine and dandy. If your ready
with the evening status report, I'ii go ahead and kill the
music for a little while so we can copy it real good.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 21:14 CST, 36:03:14 GMT
12/20/73
(Music)
CDR Okay.
(Music)
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR. 7.0, 6.5 heavy,
0.5 light; SPT, 8.2, 5.2 heavy, 3 light; PLT, 7.0, 6.5 heavy,
half light. Volume: CDR, 1850; SPT, 2000; PLT, 1850.
Water gun: CDR, 7587; SPT, 3101: PLT, 9232. Body mass:
CDR, 6.320, 6.317, 6.317; SPT, 6.364, 6.361, 6.362; PLT,
6.250, 6.253, 6.250. Exercise: No change for any of us.
Medications: CDR_ none; SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as
directed. Clothing: CDRp one T-shirt; SPT, one pair of
shorts, one pair of socks, one T-shirt; FLT, one shirt.
Food logo CDR, zero salt, minus one coffee with sugar,
plus 1.5 waters SPT, 1.5 salt_ zero deviations, zero water;
PLT, zero salt_ zero deviations, zero water. Flight Plan
deviationsz no documentary photos today. And no leg volume
taken on the SPT. Shopping list accomplishments: none.
Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
Camera leg: MI51 (M092/171), Charlie India 74, 82, Charlie
India 72. M509 ops, Charlie India 73, 00, Charlie India
56. M50_ ops, Charlie India 71, 00, Mike Tango 07. Nikon
01, no change; 02, no change; 03_ Charlie India iii, 20;
04, Bravo Echo 08, 27; 05, Bravo Hotel 05, 26; 70-millimeter,
no change. ETC, no change. EREP, no change. Drawer A:
Alfa i, 02, Charlie India 73, 00, Charlie India 56; Alfa 2,
no change; Alfa 3, no change; Alfa 4p 08, Charlie India 71,
00, Mike Tango 07. Back 07, Charlie India 74, 82, Charlie
India 72. And that's it.
CC Very good. You really rattled all
that stuff off. Got a couple of questions for you if I
could ask them, please?
CDR Okay, go ahead_
CC Okay, got one here from corollary. Wants
to know if for future operations of TV 36 Bravo, a handheld
in conjunction with M509_ we would like to utilize the
observer as the cameraman in addition to his duties as a
commentator. This arrangement would eliminate the problem
associated with scheduling all three crewmen at once for
M509 runs, and possible to permit additional TV coverage.
Do you think this mode of operation would be acceptable to
you?
CDR Yeah, I think so. I don't think the
gyrations or _ of _ you know of a magnitude where you'd have
to worry about safety or anything.
CC Okay, good. We'll we_ll plan on that
in the future then. Question from the EGIL, of a total 42
OWS lights, approximately how many are left on when you go
to sleep? And the reason we're asking this question is to
try to figure out ways to maybe cool the vehicle off a little
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12/20/73
bit.
CDR Okay, we leave - we leave zero lights
on in the MDA. We leave lights 3 and 4, which are forward
compartment lights in the workshop. And we leave one
light in the waste management compartment, and that's it.
CC Okay, sounds like you got it darkened
down pretty good. We'd like to know also if you noticed
any temperature change in the OWS since we turned on the
primary coolant loop, and we - I guess we did that about
yesterday morning?
CDR That's affirmative Crip. I think it's
gone down a couple of degrees,
CC Okay. And are you still using the
portable fan up in the by the dome. And if so have you
got it oriented now to blow over the heat exchangers?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, real good. And do you happen to
have your Flight Plan handy for tomorrow?
CDR Yeah, let me get it.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, we have a little scheduling
conflict on Bill tomorrow morning. We got him doinR the
S009 set at the same time we had him doing $233. So, if
we could we'd like you to do the S009 set in the morning,
and I can give you the the times.
CDR Okay_ go ahead.
CC Rog_ the on station time of 12:36, set
time is 12_38:49. (Garble) plus 3_ and periods i00. And
additional item if Bill is lls - listening, we ought to
change that $233 on - on station time to 12:38. We - we
have him up there just exactly the time the the data is
suppose to start,
CDR Okay, I think he's up doing the 233
right now. You want him up at what time?
CC 12:38. I'ii - I'll try to get him
later or - or do you think you'll be able to catch him.
CDR Yeah, I'll get him. I'll put it on his
schedule for tomorrow.
CC Okay, fine. We're about 45 seconds - -
PLT All right, Crip,
CC You got it. We're about 45 seconds from
LOS. We got a Tananarive pass in ii_i/2 minutes at 03:33.
And if Ed can manage to get it in, that would probably be
the last good place we're going to have this evenin_ to
talk about tha_ 18D.
SPT Okay, Crip. I've just been taking a
look at it. Most of it seems fairly straightforward
until we get down in the steps 23_ 24, 25 and so forth.
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12/20/73
CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Crip. We're up in the command
module looking up north and there's a an awful lot of light
up there. I'd say there's going to be lots of little kids
happy around Christmas time. The old guys really working
away up there. Judging from the amount of light he_s got
a lots of help.
CC Very good.
CC Can you clarify for us Jer on MI51,
apparently the percentage you used was less than we had
anticipated. We anticipated 23, I believe you reported 3.
CDR No, Crip, there's 82 percent remaining
on the roll, and we started with a full one.
CC Okay_ that's good, we misunderstood.
PAO Skylab_s out of range with Madrid.
_e"ll reac_uire at Tananariye in 8 minutes, At 3 hours
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SL-IV MCI165/I
Time: 21:31 CST 36:03:31 GMT
12/20/73

32 minutes Greenwich mean time, with extraneous assistance
from some of the flight controllers. Expect to acquire the
space station at about a half minute from now through
Tananarive, standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston, does that static
sound as pretty to you guys as it does to me?
PLT Crip, have you been talking to us all
along here?
CC No, no, l_ve been waiting hopefully
until the static died down a little bit. And I've got
you for about 5 minutes through Tananarive now.
SPT Crip, let me ask you why in looking at
the pad here I do not see anything about your counting for
overshoot. I see we're putting the roll at 5700 but no correction
for overshoot.
CC Ed, I based that on - on your comments the
other day. The way you talked about doing it as you would
go ahead and do that yourself. Because wetre assuming that
you are going to compensate as you briefed at doing it. I
think you said you would multiply the value by like 0.97.
SPT Yeah, but I haventt come up with that
0.9X whatever it is yet_ and I was hoping the ground would
look at it and come up with a good number. I'll go ahead
and use that because that's probably is what I figured
is just a rough eyeball mean. But, it was just that -
a rough eyeball.
CC I tell you what, we_ll take a lot better
look at it tonight. But that number looks good to us 0.97,
and we_ll comfirm it with you tomorrow morning. A couple of
_te/ns I did want to cover on that, but before I get into it
I need to ask Jet, a couple of questions about on Nikon 05.
He reported 3 frames tonight and we think that 9 total should
have been used. That's with the 233 ops. While he's
checking into that Ed, and for all of the guys we're planning
on loading a patch tonight which basically just reduces the rate
at which we drive the CMG gimbals during a GG dump. And
this is just part of - of an idea to take some of the load
off of them. And we're going to load this patch tonight,
and but we're not going to implement it until we're insured
that some of our ground machine simulators that duplicate
you also are loaded ready to take this. But we wanted you to
know that we were going to be doing some computer work tonight.
SPT Okay, is that just for GG dumps or
is that for all maneuvers?
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12/20/73
CC GG dumps only.
SPT Okay, so if we're ever monitoring you
we just just
CC No -
SPT - - acceleration of the rate. I really don't
think that you'd end up noticing much difference on this at
all Ed.
SPT No, I don't think so either.
CC Okay, while - Maybe Jer is trying to find
that Nikon 05.
CC Okay, we dropped out there briefly, while
I'_ waiting on Jer for the Nikon 05 frame answer. Ed, I did
want -
CDR Okay_ I reported 26 and that's the right
number, That's nine more than last night.
CC Okay, that's two against the FAO.
CDR Okay, and did you get the straight and skinny
on the MI51 today?
CC Rog_ we that was also a problem in our
_nterpretation down here.
CDR Okay.
CC Two for you today, two against us. On -
for Ed regarding the 18D as I said we_ll try to verify that
numher for multiplication on overshoot. And Ed to clarify
that a little bit more, You said that you would like to place
it on the X_axis and then move up from there. We have ended
up putting it out in about the third quadrant for optimum
positioning for 52. So I guess we're going to leave that up
to your technique on how you'd do the maneuvering and put it
on the X and move it up. But_ we_ll get you a good number on
overshoot. Did want to point out - -
SPT Okay_ I'ii try to - I'ii try to put it on the
X_axis, And I think the overshoot, is different in those two
d_rections. But seeing as - that's the only one I really work
worked pretty well was moving up and down the X-axis. And I
prefer to stay there because that's the only territory we
really know.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS,
Next station contact is Honeyaucklep 03:58 that's only about
2 minutes before your bedtime. And unless you want it
I_ii _ we can just not call you there.
SPT Okay, let's - let's not do that Crip. Is
there any stars visible - is Antares still around?
CC No, and my information is there should be
no stars visible. For your information the other day Antares
was about 1.2 and we were estimating the center of the
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Time: 21:31 CST 36:03:31 GMT
12/20/73
nucleus on the comet at three. And there should be a Delta

of about so that it should be around two for this pass
tomorrow. Do you understand about we gave you a maneuver
if you can _ step 18, if you can't see it that you can
go ahead and just book that in.
SPT Treat it like a JOP 13?
CC Basically yes. And then we -
SPT Use the star.
CC Reg. And use the star tracker and we
gave the star tracker information - it's only good for one
GMT and it you don't get it in at that time you need to
go ahead and do the motion comp for ever how late you are.
And we talk about that there.
SPT Okay, I'ii take another look at that.
I see it here but I have not thought about it in great
detail. I_iI talk some more about it tomorrow.
CC Okay. Bill Lenoir will be glad to run
over it with you in the morning.
SPT Thanks very much Crip for all your hard
work on _
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Time: 21:42 CST 36:03:42 GMT
12/20/73
CC - We'll be glad to run over it with you

in the morning.
SPT Thanks very much, Crip, for all your
hard work on it. Sure appreciate it. I just hope we -
CC I
SPT get you some good data.
CC Okay, I'm sure you are, and it's - l'm
not doing very much. There's a lot of guys down here at
ASCO that's about to pull out all of his hair for it.
SPT Yes, I guess there's a whole pile of
troups down there working hard on this one. Hope the data comes
through,
PLT Crip, a (garble) report on the comet.
Tonight it looked a beck of a lot brighter than it did last night.
At least, just to the eyeball.
CC Okay. Here we're looking at last night's
report on 05, and we see 23 is the frame count last night.
PLT We had 17 logged for last night.
CC Okay. Must have been our error, then.
CC Night guys. Merry Christmas. Happy
perihelion.
SpT (Garble)
PAO Next station acquisition is in 14 minutes.
Chances are we will have no con - no conversation with the
crew at that time. At least that's what the Spacecraft
Communicator Crippen indicated a moment ago. We're 3 hours
44 minutes into the new day. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-I167/I
Time: 05:50 CST 36:11:50 GMT
12/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

50 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has just come within
range of the Tananarive station. CAP COMM Bill Thornton
will put in a call to the crew at this station. We'll stand
by for that call.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. We'll
be LOS here in about a minute at Tananarive.
PLT Okay, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, we need you to change out
the teleprinter paper this morning so that we can get up pads
over Hawaii. And we want you to check that you have onboard
two each of general message 17.
PLT Okay. I'll take care of that right now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Tananarive has
had a loss of signal. Next station will be Hawaii in 34 minutes.
At 12 hours Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 06:33 CST 36:12:33 GMT
12/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 33 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acquisition through
the Hawaii station.
CDR Okay, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston, standing by.
CC Hawaii for 12 minutes.
CDR Roger, good morning, Bill.
CC Good morning, and that's 4 minutes AOS
we have here.
CC And Skylab, we're sending up some teleprinter
messages at this time. And if you could give us the word that
you've received them over Vanguard_
CDR We'll do it, Bill.
CDR And Bill, we did get the two copies of
general message 17.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 minute. We'll
have you again at Vanguard at 13:02. Also we'll be dumping
the tape recorder at Vanguard.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Hawaii station right now. The next station
will be the tracking ship Vanguard in 21-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours
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TIME: 07:01 CST, 36:13:01 GMT
112/21/73

i minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the tracking ship Vanguard now.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes at
Vanguard. We'll be dumping the tape recorder here.
SPT Good morning, Bill.
CC And, SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC On the JOP 18-D overshoot compensation
the ground calculates that 0.95 vice 0.97 as calculated
on board. That's for both axis.
SPT Thank you very much, Bill,
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Bill_ can I make a request that when we
have on the pad to turn the 56 HIGH VOLTAGE POWER OFF that
the following pass that we use the displays we have another
request to turn them back on.
CC Wilco, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC We copy that. SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead,
CC Could we have the DAS for a short period
here?
SPT Certainly, Bill; go ahead.
CC And, Ed, could you confirm that the
teleprinter messages got up after the paper changeout
all right?
SPT Yes they did, Bill; they look good.
CC Thank you.
CC SPT, the DAS is all yours now.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we'll be going LOS here in about
a minute. We'll have you again at 13:26. I'ii bet it
isn't as cold up there this morning as it is down here.
PLT What's the temperature down there, Bill?
CC Oh_ it's not really that cold, but it
feels that way. It's in the 20's this morning. The east
got a good dowsing of snow which you may have seen.
PLT That's pretty cold for Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. Tananarive will pick up Skylab in 13 minutes.
Skylab Science Pilot Ed Gibson will put his experience in
pointing the battery of solar telescopes to use this morning
as he once again searches for the comet Kohoutek now just
30 million miles from the Sun. Although the comet was
invisible on Skylab's television monitor, designed to assist
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the astronauts in their solar studies, when Gibson hunted

for it yesterday he could not find it on that monitor. However,
scientist in Mission Control have expressed confidence that
the visible light telescope recorded good photographs. The
television monitor is inferior to the camera in showing
detailed or faint features. The star Antares with a magnitude
of 1.2 could be seen clearly on the television pictures
transmitted to Mission Control. During this morning study
of the comet more extensive photographs are scheduled than
yesterday's run, or Wednesdays run rather. Four instruments
will be used today, the white light coronagraph, S052, the
ultraviolet scanning polycrometer spectroheliometer, SO55,
the X-ray telescope, SO56, and the extreme ultraviolet
spectrograph, SO82B. The project which will permit Bill Pogue
to observe and assist in the complex work at the control panel
includes two orbits from 09:49 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. central
standard time. The white light instrument will take 30
photographs of the comet invisible light adding to scientific
data on Kohoutekts densityp brightness_ and shape. Continuing
photographs will make it possihle to define the comet's life
history in far greater detail that ever before. Using
Skylabs ultraviolet scanner, which records electronic signals
that will be returned to scientists in Mission Control before
the next planned comet observations, Gibson will gather
data that may detect elements composing the comet and reveal
the effects of solar radiation on them. With a special load
of high sensitive filmp the XUV spectrograph will take
seven photographs in the extremely short wavelengths of
ultraviolet - -
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PAO - comet and reveal the effects of solar

radiation on them. With a special load of high sensitive film,
the XUV spectragraph will take seven photographs in the extremely
short wavelenKths of ultraviolet light. The photography in
extreme ultrav _let can not be duplicated from the Earth's
surface. Such short wavelengths are scattered and absorbed
in the outer atmosphere. Only space vehicles can obtain
photographs of the invisible light emissions which can reveal
details of the comet's chemical makeup. Although X-ray photo-
graphy was planned for Wednesday's joint observing program
on the comet, the crew did not complete the single long
exposure. Today, they will open the lens for as long as
possible - more than half an hour in an attempt to detect
X-radiation and its effect on the very thin matter that
composes the comet. This observation, too, is impossible
from the Earth's surface which is protected from X-rays by
the particles of the upper atmosphere. Although the comet
Kohoutek is a subject of growing interest, activity on the
face of the Sun could prove the real highlight of today's
scientific research. The Sun's active side has now rotated
into full view of the Earth and changes occurring today have
raised hopes that a major flare is about to erupt. Tremendous
increases in temperature and radiation have been seen in
active region double zero, now near the center of the solar disk.
The heightened activity on the near side of the Sun has more
than doubled the velocity of the solar wind from 700,000 to
1.7 million miles an hour. The high speed particles flowing
out from the Sun in great waves have already produced visible
effects on Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini-
tration has alerted power companies in the far north and the
military communications personnel to expect a geomagnetic
storm with communication blackouts and possible power inter-
ruptions. The solar wind storm should produce a visual display
known as the northern lights or aurora borealis. While the
particles continue to strick the outer reaches of the Earth's
atmospkere. Active region double zero, an area estimated at
75,000 miles across, nearly i0 times as wide as the Earth,
also has a number of sunspots associated with it. One of the
spots is cooler and darker than the intense atmosphere of the
active region and is by itself as large as the planet Earth.
Data provided b_ satellites indicates that the region's X-ray
output has more than doubled since it came into view on the
Sun's eastern edge. Normally, higher radiation counts are
received when an active region is viewed edge on as it reaches
the Sun's limb. If the unstable and unusually formed region
does erupt, it could produce the most spectacular flare seen
_n the 7 months Skylab has been in orbit. Skylah now 7-1/2
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minutes away from acquisition at Tananarive. At 13 hours

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range
now of the Tananarive station.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're at Tananarive
for 6 minutes.
SPT Morning, Dick and purple team.
CC Good morning, sir.
PAO This is Skylah Control. The CAP COMM
now is astronaut Dick Truly. Flight Director, Phil Shaffer.
CC Now, SPT, Houston. The cold weather
down here this morning has done in Dr. Lenoir. He has a
slight case of the flu and we're going to have a simulated
Dr. Lenoir at the next pass in a form of Owen Garriott. So
I'm sure you'll enjoy visiting with Owen here this morning.
That comes up at Hawaii next pass at 14:10 Zulu.
SPT Very good. Look forward to talking with
Owen. He hasn't had too much experience with the area, but
I imagine he can get up a (garble).
CC Well, he's trying hard this morning. He's
hustling around here.
LOS Tananarive. Hawaii comes up at 14:10 and Owen will be
talking to you there on ATM conference and I'll see you after
that pass at Vanguard at 14:41.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger. See you around there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of Tananarive's antenna. The next station will be
Hawaii in 35 minutes. At the Hawaii station there'll be an ATM
science conference with scientist astronaut Dr. Owen Garriott of the
second Skylab crew. We'll come back up just prior to acqui-
sition at Hawaii. At 13 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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9 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is nearin_ acquisition
through Hawaii.
SPT Good morning, Owen.
MCC Hello, there, Ed. How are you this
morning?
SPT Very good.
MCC Fine. Coming through loud and clear
a little bit early, here. I'll just (garble) right up and get
all the information that I've selected sent along quick.
SPT Very good. Go ahead.
MCC First. On Kohoutek or Kohoutek, Bob
McClee and Dick Monroe tell me that you shouldn't be surprised
if you don't see the comet on your display. The brightness
is just not all it might be, and so they really think it's unlikely
that you will be able to see it on your TV monitor. And, of
course, if you don't see it, after that first maneuver, then
go ahead and - can't use your overlay, but go ahead and use
the can numbers to make your second maneuver for SO55 and
82 observations. Over.
SPT Say, Owen. What I thought I might do
is try to move it down and give it (garble) 070 and (garble) octal.
I thought I might try to move it over to a position a little
further out so I could see it. And if I don't see it, I'll
just (garble) command and pick up from there.
MCC Okay, Ed. And - We copy that. It just does
look like with the present brightness observed from the ground
that you will not have sufficient brightness to see it on
the screen even if you do have it positioned properly.
SPT Oh, okay. Fine. Thank you.
MCC Let me talk about ATM now for a little bit.
I think it's the last orbit for the day, you'll find you've
got some observations on prominence 61, 61, which was supposed
to be nice and stable off the east limb. It now turns out that
prominence 61 has disappeared. You won't be able to see it
there, at least we don_t believe. And the back room will be
thinking about alternatives for observations in that period
and should have some recommendation for you a little
later in the day before it's time to be looking at P-61.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. I'll next talk a little bit about
the Sun. As you can probably tell better than we, active
re_ion O0 is the biggy for the day, Should be just about at
central meridian, and maybe you have the neutral limb pinned down,
but I'll give you a couple of comments about it. Joe Hyman
was telling me that they were able to count up to 40 small
Sun spots in that active region today. It has been growing.
There has been increase in a plage brightness. Within the
last 24 hours there has been as many as eight small flares with
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one of the up to a Charlie 8. So active region 00 is clearly

the most important. And I think you already do have aboard
the message which increased its flare probability for the
X class up to 20 percent. So it's the only one of that sort
of a probability for today. Now one word that might be of some
help to you. Either all, or almost all of these small flares
have been occurring right to the east of the double spots
which lead the plage. There is a double spot right at the
west edge leading edge of the plage and the spots - or the
small flares have been occurring just to the east of those double
leaders there. I guess they You can see that Ed?
SPT I was looking at that this morning.
And that, clearly is a maximum in oxygen 6. It's up around
about 40,000 or so when I happened to look at it. I think it's
slightly east, and slightly north.
MCC Okay. That sounds like a pretty high
count in oxygen 6 to me. So it must really be brightening.
And you're finding this brightness, as I understand it, Just
to the east of those leading spots?
SPT That's right. Pretty much where it was
just specified, only slightly north.
MCC Okay. Well that sounds fine. Looks
like you've already identified that and that's where NOAA thinks
it will continue to be most probable for the future flare activity.
Next, let me just mention building block 15, which is now
finally been rescheduled and I believe it's going to be the
first time it has been scheduled on the flight or on your
mission here, Ed. And this is information mostly for Jerry,
because building block 15 will come along on Jerry's turn
at the panel. And we looked back at some of the film - or
some of the photographs from our mission and have been able
to identify the Earth's horizon coming into view. So that's
provided us with the timing that's required for building block
15. So you'll notice sometimes on your pad, which are a
little unusual and which may not fit exactly with the visual
reports that you made the other day. And so the intent of
running building block 15 here for SO52 is to start it when
the time remaining clock reads ii seconds, In other words,
0 plus Ii seconds remaining. And to stop it at 0 plus i0.
That'll give a l_seoond manual exposure. And this is
essentially based on the film re - recordings that I brought
back from SL-III. So, Jerry should be alerted to that.
And if there's any question about, why, perhaps this will
straighten out the logic behind it. Over.
SPT Were you able to make a correlation
between the time remaining and the Beta angle. Because I've
been watching it on the white light coronograph this morning
and I found that the Beta angle has come down here. (Garble)
back off maybe 30 seconds or 58 before we start to see a
significant blooming in the white light display. (garble).
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MCC Ed, apparently the answer is at this

point we have made no correlation, but we'll continue
to think about that and if there is a possibility, why, we'll
have to get it up to you later. But, at least at the moment,
why, that check's not been complete.
SPT Okay. I think there a relatively
significant (garble) on Beta angle (garble) look at that.
If you'd like Jerry to watch the TV display at the same time,
before we initiate the exposure (garble) we don't try it.
MCC Okay. I didn't quite hear you on that
one, Ed. Understood you thought it might be Beta angle
dependent. But, at least for today, those times I gave you, and it
should be on the pad of ii seconds on, i0 seconds off, should
be used. Over.
SPT Okay. (Garble) (Garble) sunlight from the
Earth's atmosphere.
MCC Okay. And incidentally, it's a little
off the subject, but it's related subject, but not on the ATM
observations, we definitely can see some scattering in the
upper atmosphere from our handheld photography, looking at
the sunrise/sunsets. So these are the sorts of things Larry
Dunkleman provided us with a picture of before we left. You
probably remember them, a little white/blue transitions in
the top of the atmosphere and those will of course correlate
with t_e stuff that's coming down with the - hope we see on
the SO52 photographs. Over.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. One other item on the comet.
You_ll notice there are two orbits, of course, just ahead
of you here for Kohoutek maneuvering. And the first
one does not have any VTR operations for the comet in it
because Jerry will be doin_ a TV 78. Now if we should be
wron_ and there should have been any visual signature on
your television monitor of the comet during the S052 portion,
we_d llke, if all possible, to at least get a short segment switched
over to the ATM, just switch over to it
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MCC Over (?).

SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, one other item on the comet. You'll
notice there are two orbits, of course, just ahead of you
here for Kohoutek maneuvering, and the first one does not have
ant VTR operations for the comet in it because Jerry will
be doing a TV 78. Now if we should be wrong and there should're
been any visual signature on your television monitor of the
comet during the S052 portion, we'd like if at all possible
to at least get a short segment switched over to the ATM, Just
switch over to which ever monitor you've got so that we can
get a little bit of the comet video on the tape during that
first orbit even though it's not called for in your Flight
Plan, if you can do that. Over.
SPT Okay, we'll make a mental note of that.
CC And then one last item which may be of
interest. We've had a report of considerable magnetic dis-
turbance here in the Earth's environment for about the last
24 hours. The magnetic activity has really increased substantially,
which suggests that there might very well be a good opportunity for
getting handheld photography of the aurora. Now your dark
portion of the orbit comes at northern latitudes. Your southern
latitudes are of course in daylight. And the only opportunity
then would be somewhere near the northern auroral zone. Looking
at the phase of your orbit_ your best opportunity for photography
will be somewhere near bedtime because the Earth's magnetic
pole as you know is just off towards Greenland, and you'll need
to wait until you're near Greenland which occurs in the evening,
or in our Houston evening near your bedtime. So if you get
a chance to be looking out your STS windows were the ones that
I found was the best. Your STS windows near the time you're
passing up Canadian or Greenland areas, why, you should have a
good chance to get some aurora tonight. Over.
SPT Okay. We looked at it last night as we
were going over the Great Lakes_ and we saw a good i0 minutes
or so worth of good aurora activity. And we put something
on tape to describe it and asked SO63 to give us some
exposure time spell and so forth because we had not received
that as yet.
CC Oh, very good. So you already caught
it and you know just those times. And that's the right spot.
I'ii double check to make sure you get those times set up
And we get some good photography on our color interior film.
I_ii make sure - doublecheck to make sure you got exposure
times for both 2485 patch black and white as well as your
color interior. Well, we're down to about 30 or 40 seconds before
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LOS here, Ed. I'm just trying to find the right clock. It
looks like it's going to be i0 or 15 minutes til we can
pick you up down around Vanguard. And Phil just corrected me -
22 minutes till we're AOS at Vanguard. Over.
SPT Okay. The corona for today, the slight
which is - the streamer which is above - well it's at 03,
make that 300, maybe 290. It's a very sharply slight one, that
is it's not wide and it's got a fairly significant flight
to it much more so than yesterday. It goes out to 1-1/2
solar radii before it starts to fade out significantly. The
one on the west limb has (garble) significantly and it seems
to be without form.
CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you, Ed.
CC Good luck to you fellows. Glad to talk
to you again.
SPT Very good. Thank you Owen_ appreciate
your help. Looking at the active regions 3 and 4 they appear
to increase in intensity relative to the background. As a
matter of fact, all of the active regions relative to the
background have increased intensity. Their position and so
forth (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has loss
of signal. Vanguard will pick up Skylab in 20 minutes. During
this Hawaii pass Dr. Owen Garriott, who was the Science Pilot on
the last Skylab mission, has been conferring with Science Pilot
Ed Gibson concerning Kohoutek photography today. Also ATM
operations. Active region 00 on the Sun is becoming extremely
active, and all of the solar physicists are on the lookout
for perhaps a major flare within the next 24 to 48 hours. Gibson
reported the crew has already reported the aurora borealis
on video tape. They did that last night in the northern latitudes.
At 14 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at the Vanguard
for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Helle, Dick.
CC Hello there and good morning to you. We're
going to be dumping the data/voice recorder here.
PLT Dick, PLT here. I got a couple of questions.
CC Roger, Bill; go ahead.
PLT Roger. Reference to that MDA checklist, and
the first question has to do with page i-i. Have them verify the
first step there; I missed step number i. Just check that and make
sure they want that done the way it's written. And also on
page i0-i step 7, I'd like a verification on that.
CC Okay, the first page was I-i step i. Is
that correct? And the second one was i0-i step 7. s that
right?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, Bill; stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. On the second part of your
question on page i0-I step 7, the answer is affirmative. We
do want that one done as as it's printed. There is - We're
wondering why you're asking the question, there is one note.
There is a teleprinter change to this checklist, that change 2
that went up last night that Im assuming you got in which
is the VTR prep for M518 operation. That does add a step A
just prior to that step 7.
PLT Roger. And I guess the question there had to
do with channel Bravo. Did you want channel Bravo or channel
Alfa?
CC Roger, Bill. We do want channel Bravo
and that is for telemetry purposes. And Bravo is correct.
PLT Okay, thank you very much.
CC And on step 1 I mean page i-i step i,
we're still looking at that one.
PLT It sort of - I think it means down there,
I - instead of up.
CC Could PLT, Houston. In either case we
certainly want it closed. And we are checking the panel
configuration now.
PLT I'm sorry. I was almost positive, but
I wanted to ask anyway.
CC Nope, good question; no problem.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. On the - On the ATM
request H-alpha, two frames per minute. We don't see it running.
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PLT You're right, it wasn't.

CC Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 15 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii comes up at 15:51, 1'11 see you there.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. The next station
will be Hawaii in i hour. At 14 hours 50 minutes Greenwich
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii is about to acquire
Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
3 minutes. We're looking at the bird. Everything looks
pretty shipshape to us and this is the first time that I've
talked to you since you were scheduled to put all the infor-
mation or take a look at the JOP 18 pad. I've got my JOP 18
summary sheets put together per the pad so if there're any
questions we'll be more than happy to entertain them. Other-
wise, I_m standing by.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you. Looking at the
display, I can see a very faint object at 070 in X and 130 in
Y.
CC Roger, Ed.
SPT Okay, Dick. It shows up on both displays.
So I think we are getting a look at it. But it's right at
the very edge of the display. So we'll have to be careful in
the maneuvering so we don't lose it.
CC Okay, Ed. We're taking a quick look
down here to see if it could be another object. But Roger
on that.
SPT Let me correct that position. It's
plus 130 in Y and plus I00 in X.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS
Hawaii. Vanguard comes up at 16:19 and for the CDR, Jerry,
sometime in these next couple passes prior to you doing the
CM HK7, I need to have a word with you. I'll - We can talk about
it either at Vanguard or Ascension after that.
CDR Okay, Dick. Later, the better and con-
cerning your message 3647, we already - I guess we anticipated
you a little bit. There's a request on tape, time tagged 13:00 Z
this morning.
CC Thank you, Jer. We'll look it up.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has
loss of signal. Vanguard will acquire Skylab in 25 minutes.
Control.
minutes. Hawaii had a delayed loss of signal. There was
a few seconds of conversation after the normal loss of signal
of time. We've got about 15 seconds in tape. We'll play
that now.
SPT Dick, the object does disappear when we
go to the CAMERA mode in 52. So we are looking at something
external.
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CC Roger, Ed. Thank you.

CC And as we go over the hill, those units
you gave us, Ed, make us think that that probably is the
comet you're looking at. A very small point in error would be -
sould go along with those numbers.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end
of the tape. Skylab is 20-1/2 minutes away from acquisition
through the Vanguard. At 15 hours 58 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
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18 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
acquisition through the Vanguard now.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick, we've maneuvered into the
center using my scale factor correction and starting out
at about 124 on the X axis. We're now just finishing up
the 4 minute exposure and we're going to start into the - the
longer one on 82B, and we're looking for it on 55. So far
no luck.
CC Roger, Ed.
CC And, SPT, Houston. For your information,
you are just getting ready to pass through the South Atlantic
anomaly so you may see some sperious counts due to that.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, as I read the pad the 82B would like
to make this exposure 12 minutes more as long as possible.
Is that affirm?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. The purpose - Stand by 1
please.
CC SPT, Houston. The original intent of
the way we built the pad was - was 3 exposures, one 4 minutes,
one 12 minutes, and one as long as possible. Now we've taken
another thought about the matter and we would like the second
exposure - we'd like a total of two exposures, the second one
being as long as possible. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick; very good. The second one
will be an 18-minute exposure.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
SPT Dick, we could not see anything in the
H-alpha display which was no surprise. But we did get
a TACS firing and it showed up very clearly in the white light
coronagraph, just a short flash.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; again for the CDR.
Not pushing you, Jerry, we still have 3 minutes left here
at Vanguard, and then I have another opportunity to talk to
you at Ascension coming up, oh, 6 or 7 minutes from now, and
that's about a 10-minute pass.
CDR Okay, Dick, we can do it now. I tried to
do TV78-1, and I'm afraid this is the wrong pass to be doing
it on. We ought to be doing it on the next pass which crosses
the confluence of the Falkland in the South Equatorial currents.
I got a few shots down around the Straits of Magellan and the
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Falkland Islands. And I put a little bit of narriation with

them. I think now and for the next few minutes I'm going to
do a little classroom work essentially with charts and show
with some drawings what we're doing. And then about 18:00 Z,
during the noon meal, I think we're going to have a lot
better pass in that area, and I'll take some more TV out
the window.
CC Roger, Jerry. There's one problem there
that we'd - which is - we think is more important. That
18:00 is about the time that we had set up for Rusty to get
on the phone with you and discuss the EVA checklist changes.
We will take a look at the geometry of the passes though and
see if there was a problem there. But we would prefer to
get that EVA checklist discussion out of the way.
CDR We were much too far south and east to
get any good pictures of the blooming that goes with the
current.
CC Okay, we still have a couple of minutes
here. Can I talk to you about a couple of paperwork changes?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all, Jet, on the this
upcoming HK CM7 that you're going to do here in a little while.
There are two checklist changes, depending on whether you
use the cue card or the Systems Checklist, but you ought to be sure -
They came up last night very short, deleted a couple of lines.
Systems checklist change 006, and the cue card change 002.
Prior to doing the CM7 today y'all have those changes in.
There is one thing we want you to do first thing prior to
doing HK CM7 up there. That's panel 382 SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER
PRIMARY GLYCOL valve to FLOW, and then leave it there.
CDR Okay, understand. You want the SUIT HEAT
EXCHANGER PRIMARY GLYCOL to FLOW?
CC That's right, SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY
GLYCOL valve to FLOW. We're about 45 seconds from LOS. I'll
give you a call at Ascension about 4 minutes. The second
thing I have for you, Jerry, is on your summary Flight Plan
today, at a time of about 20:15 Zulu, there's an M509 Delta
and Bravo scheduled. We'd like to change the Delta to an
Echo. The reason is is that a topoff in its present con-
figuration is more efficent than a charge. So that ought to
read M509 Echo and Bravo. One more thing for you. Your
phone for planning purposes is set up this evening at Carnarvon
at 23:48.
CDR Okay, 23:48 at Carnarvon.
CC Roger. And M509 Echo and Bravo.
CDR Right, I got that and I got the checklist
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changes done this morning.

CC Outstanding; thank you much. See you guys
at Ascension.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard
has loss of signal. Ascension will pick up Skylab in about
2-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the line up for the Ascension pass.
Skylab Commander Jerry Carr reporting during the Vanguard
pass that the attempts to record the Falkland current on
the video tape recorder on board he does not think were too
successful this time Skylab being too far south and east.
The next opportunity would be on the next revolution. However,
that is the time scheduled for the conference between the
crew and astronaut Rusty Schweickart to discuss changes to the
extravehicular activity planned for Christmas day. Skylab
about a minute and a half away now from Ascension. We'll
stand by.
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PAO The next opportunity would be on the

next revolution. However, that is the time scheduled for
the conference between the crew and Astronaut, Rusty Schweickart.
to discuss changes to the extravehicular activity planned
for Christmas day. Skylab about a minute and a half away
now from Ascension. We'll stand by.
CC Hello, Skylab. We've got you at Ascension
for i0 minutes.
CC And we're gonna be dumping - -
CREW (Garble)
CC Hello there. And be advised we're going
to hedumping the data/voice recorder here at Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got one comment
here for the CDR and also one for the PLT. There's no response
required. Jerry on the - on your discussion about the EVA deal
with Rusty that's scheduled on you details at the next Ascension
pass at a time of 18:10 Zulu. What really, Rusty wanted
to discuss with you was not the checklist changes themselves
but the two messages that we sent up last night entitled
54 technique and 54 geometry, which have to do with positioning
the filter wheel in S054 during the EVA. So he sure prior
to then to at least have smoked over those two changes and
so you can get on with that discussion. Also, for Bill.
Later on_ Bill, you have a HK8 Alfa scheduled this after
noon, which is fixing up some urine hags. And we realize
there's not enough time there to do all 24 bags. You
are going to be scheduled for some time again tomorrow
to finish that job. So don't worry about it if we've cheated
you on a little time there.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, Dick. I can give you the star
tracker angles. We're not using them, of course, for the
calculation, but at 16:30 star i, we've had an outer of minus
626 and and inner of plus 545. At 16:38 number 2 was
outer of plus 1631 and an inner of minus 180. And that's
after we had made one correction for (garhle) for star for
common motion.
CC Okay, Ed. Thanks for the data.
LOS Ascension. I'll give you a call at Guam at 17:19.
SPT So long, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. As you go over the
hill, we see you've loaded the maneuver time for going out
of the maneuver. Remember that you may have some more motion
maneuver compensations to do at the comet rise again. So,
don't forget that. You might ought to reset the maneuver time
to zero, rather than
CDR All right, Dick. Thank yon.
CC Roger.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out

of range of the Ascension station. The next station will
be Guam in 35 minutes. At 16 hours 43 minutes Greenwich mean
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Dick, is there any possibility
you getting the VTR rewound back about say, I0 minutes or so
on dump?
CC Roger. We were just talking about that,
Jerry. Stand by just a second.
CDR Okay. We've run the VTR to the end. We
got 9 minutes of the JOP 18 and I guess if there was only
13 minutes on there, you only got 4 of mine.
CC Okay. Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. Before we make a decision
on the VTR, say again your estimate of how many minutes of JOP 18
Delta you have put on it already.
CDR 9 minutes.
CC Okay. That's what I copied. Thank you
much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're happy with the
TV we've gotten on JOP 18 Delta so far. We're gonna delay
dumping the VTR until we get our stateside coverage, so we'd
like to scrub the TV - the ATM TV that's scheduled about now
and also the one at 19:00. We're satisfied with what we
get and we'll dump the VTR in a systematic manner over the
States and get back with it after it's dumped.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We do not see M518
running. If Bill, if you have a chance, if you could give us
the status to how far you got in that setup there.
PLT Rog, Dick. It's been all ready to go
for, oh, I guess over a couple hours and l'm waiting for the
vacuum to get down.
CC Okay, Bill. Could we could we get a
readout from you on the vacuum, if you get a chance?
PLT Okay. I'ii go up there right now. It was
getting close a moment ago. So I'ii run up there and give
it to you.
CC Okay. Real fine.
PLT It's reading 0.6 torr, Dick.
CC That's 0.6 torr. Is that right?
PLT That's affirm. I'm waiting for 0.5.
CC Okay. Okay, Bill. Thank you very much
and we suggest you do wait until you get that like you say.
Incidentally, I failed to get up an answer to you while ago
on the circuit breaker but you - you caught that correctly.
Those circuit breakers are closed in the position that's
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away from the nomenclature, so if you - if you were in I-G

and did a backbend and looked at them straight toward the
nomenclature that would be down and not up.
PLT Yeah, that was okay. I caught that one.
I was pretty sure that they - but i just wanted make certain
in the other prep. In the operational prep, it caught that -
CC Rog. You were - -
PLT (garble)
CC That's right. You were correct.
PLT Okay and I'm going straight for the
checklist on this vacuum and everything. So I'll give you
a report later on on tape on when I started it and so forth.
CC Okay. Real fine. Thank you, sir.
PLT I thought that gage was broken there for
a while. It took so long for it to start down, I was just
about ready to give you a call. It finally started down.
It's been over a couple of hours since I had everything ready
to go.
CC Roger. Understand.
CC Roger. And we're about a minute from LOS.
Next station contact is Ascension at 18:10. Rusty will be
standing by there. And for the SPT, we want to make sure
that we get the maneuvers started back to solar inertial
right on time. We're very close to dump commence at that time.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. The Vanguard tracking ship has been released
from the network for the next two revolutions and will not be
up on this pass. So the next station will be Ascension
Island in 43 minutes. Solar scientists here in Mission Control
and elsewhere, still anticipate that an extremely active
region in the southeast quadrant of the Sun, near the center,
will develop into a major flare. The area of activity is
approximately 200 arc seconds across or about i/i0 the
Sun's diameter. That's roughly i00,000 Earth miles. This
afternoon, beginning at 2 p.m. central standard time, Skylab
Commander Jerry Carr will man the Apollo telescope mount
console for three data taking sessions. He will spend about
3-1/2 hours total on the console between 2 and 8 p.m. and
he will be looking at the spectra of the active region and
be on the lookout for any fluctuations in the activity in
that region. The crew has been instructed to go into high
rate data take if something of consequence is seen. But if
it subsides, they'll go back to the routine data take mode.
Solar scientists are extremely interested in the crew trying
to catch the rise of a flare if possible. They are in
hopes of adding more data to what they know about what causes
flares to erupt. Active region 00, which is the
identification of the region of activity, it's now approaching
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the halfway mark as it crosses the Sun from east to west.

It will take about 7 days for that active region to reach
the western limb of the solar disc. The activity now tha - -
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PAO The activity now being produced by that

region has already had noticeable effects here on Earth.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has allerted
power companies in the far north and communications organizations
to expect a geomagnetic storm with accompanying communications
blackouts and the possibility of erruptions of electrical power.
The crew did observe increased activity in the visual display
known as the northern lights or aurora borealis last night
just prior to retiring. And flight controllers have asked
them to take black and white and color photographs of the
phenomenon this evening when they are north of Greenland. The
increased activity of the northern lights is caused by particles
from the solar windstorm striking the Earth's atmosphere.
Skylab 40 minutes away now from acquisition through Ascension.
Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin a long pass
acquisition at Ascension Island and through Canaries with
overlapping coverage through Madrid. During this pass, astronaut
Rusty Schweickart will have a conference with the crew concerning
the Christmas Day extravehicular activity.
MCC Skylab, Houston here through Ascension
Canaries and Madrid for the next 18 minutes.
CDR Roger.
MCC And, Jerry, if you got time to listen here
during your eat period, I've got a lot of words for you.
CDR Roger. Go ahead, Rusty.
MCC Okay. I guess I'm going to assume, Jerry,
that you've had a chance to look at in particular the two
messages regarding S054 called geometry and 54 technique, which
do the basic explaining, and I'll be talking basically around
those messages with showing material.
CDR Okay, Rusty, I've got them in front of me
and I got a note tablet open and ready to copy.
MCC Okay, have you had a chance to read them,
Jerry, and if you have do you have any questions before we
start down here?
CDR Yes, I have, Rusty. The only question I
might have is in the area of paragraph number 3 there under
geometry. These five parallel surfaces I assume, are the surfaces
are parallel to the filter wheel?
MCC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay, and these distances are the distances
down from the shutter plate.
MCC That's also correct. The shutter plate
is the surface you see when you look in there and those distances
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are all measured from that surface.

CDR Okay. Are you reading me okay? I've
got a headset on. I'm kind of off in a corner here.
MCC Yes, I can read you a little bit weak,
but I do read you, Jer.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
MCC Okay, before I get in with this we'd like
to CLOSE the H-ALPHA 1 DOOR. We see the temp's coming up
so I guess Bill may still be up there or Ed, and if they can
take care of that.
SPT Got it.
MCC Okay, Jerry - ()kay, Jerry, let me say
a word here about the present condition of the filter wheel
as best we understand it. We have positive indication that
at left position 5 on the way to position 6, and after that
it never arrived in position 6 on our telemetry. So we think
that it is somewhere between position 5 and 6, but as I'll
explain in a minute there are really two conditions that
can be present. In other words, when you look in there, you
may see filter 5 almost in position. You may see filter 6
almost in positoin or anywhere in between. Now in the EVA
procedure which you may or may not have had a chance to look
at yet_ we have one branch point, that is, there are two basic
failure modes. One is a mechanical jam, or a relay failure
but just think of it as a mechanical jam. And in that case
you have to manually rotate the filter wheel using the screwdriver
technique. The other option
CDR What that does, Rusty, then is destroy
each one as you go through it until you get three.
MCC That's affirmative, but since we will not
be using anything other than 3 from here on out in any
case it doesn't make any difference. All it does is leave
a few beryllium chips around, and we take care of that by putting
the shutter override mechanism on the magazine that's going in.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, the other failure possibility there
is that we have a 5-volt ground line that may have opened up.
In that case we would get the same telemetry indications,
however, any time we have power to the filter wheels, that is,
if the selector is in any position 1 through 6, the wheel will
continually rotate. And so when you look at the EVA procedures
you'll see that when you first get out there you'll be looking
down inside, we'll go to filter 1 just to get power on the
filter wheel. If it starts to rotate then we've got the 5-volt
return problem and then your task is simply to shut off the
power when filter 3 gets in the right position. That is you'll
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be giving Bill a GCA when to go to STORAGE with the switch.

CDR Okay, I copy that. Where are these EVA
procedures coming up? I've got, so far, geometry and technique
but no procedures.
MCC Negative. Last night we sent up quite a
long message which had the EVA prep and post and - excuse me,
and in the middle of that are the EVA procedures themselves.
If it will help, I can give you a message number on there.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, it's 3637 is the message number.
Okay, and that's through Alfa 9. Okay, what we expect is
the most likely condition is the mechanical jam in which case
when Bill puts power on the wheel, you will not see it move,
and you'll have to go in with the screwdriver and rotate manually.
CDR Okay, understand that.
MCC Okay, if I can quite coughing here, the
next item I got for you is sort of a good news/bad news job.
The good news being that the task that we're asking you to
do here on 54 is a piece of cake. The bad news is that it's
a piece of cake the second time you do it. The first time -
The trick in this thing is to be able to know what you're
looking at when you look down in there with that mirror_ and
flashlight combination. And in order to help you do that
we sent up that geometry message. What I'd like you to do
with that if you can find the time, and we're going to try to
open it up so that you will is, take a pen and pencil, or rather
a pencil and paper and actually draw what we've described there,
and I think in drawing or trying to draw that - this scale
that'll probably illuminate any questions in your
mind, and you can come down with them and we can give you
the answers.
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MCC - when you do it. The first time The

trick in this thing is to be able to know what you're lookin_
at when you look down in there with that mirror and there's
a flashlight combination. And in order to help you do that,
we sent up that geometry message. What I'd like you to do
with that if you can find the time, and we're going to
try to open it up so that you will, is take a pen and pencil, or
rather a pencil and paper and actually draw what we've de-
scribed there. And I think in drawing or trying to draw
that scale, that_ll probably illuminate any questions in
your mind and you can come down with them and we'll try to
give you the answers.
CDR Yeah. I kind of had decided that was
what I was going to have to do, if I was really going to
picture it. I've read your geometry about three times and I
discover something new each time I read it. I think it's
going to take a drawing. I think youlre right.
MCC Yeah. There's a lot - That Is high
information density in those two messages. Okay, just
a comment here. The checklist change including the EVA
procedure was addressed to the PLT. And - So Bill may have
that. Okay, another thing that will help you, Jerry, I
think, is to look to look at one of the old 54 magazines
and that'll also give you a good idea when you slide back to
your little protector plate, there, that'll give you an idea
of the X-ray aperture and what it looks like, Thatls not quite
elipthieal like the plate that it goes against, but it's pretty
nearly the right shape. O -
CDR Yeah. That's the race-track shaped one.
Right?
MCC Yeah. If you slide back that protector
that's spring-loaded there, it's got a couple of little
bars across it. But it's basically elithical. And that's
what mates with the elipse there in the shutter plate. We're
going to drop out here in about 3 or 4 seconds, for about a
half a minute. And we'll be back with you.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, Skylab. We should be back with
you at this time through Canaries.
CDR Loud and clear.
MCC Okay.
CDR I've got that EVA procedures in hand now.
MCC Okay. Fine. If you'll look back there in
the - in the big asterisked box, you'll see the EVA procedure
and we've got the 54 malfunction procedure there as steps 1
through 12, And step - The end of step 2, you'll see that
branch point. And you and Bill can just coordinate that.
It's just him putting power on the wheel to if it rotates
while you're looking in with the mirror.
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MCC Okay. Let me say a = a word here about

scheduling during the EVA. We've got the TO25/SO20 and
$201 operation first. We get them out of the way and
then we go to normal filter rather a normal film remove
and replace, including the new 54 magazine, which_ as you're
going to notice in going through the prep procedures we have
you put the shutter override butterfly on it - the shutter over-
ride mechanism. And following the film remove replace, then we
go into the 54 malfunction procedure. Now the reason we have
it in that order, and that means you're just going to take
out the magazine you just finished putting in - in the film
remove replace. But there are two reasons for that. One
is that we want to put the lowest priority item _ which we
consider the 54 filter fix, last in the EVA, in case for some
reason we have to terminate early. And secondly, when you put
the new magazine in with the shutter override mechanism on it,
it automatically opens up the shutter blades on the shutter
plate there. And they will stay open even after you pull the
magazine out. That gives you access to the filter wheel.
CDR Okay. Understand.
MCC Okay, now. If for some strange reason,
Jerryp the shutter blades are closed when you look in there_
what I want you to do then is to look at the shutter over-
ride mechanism when you're installing it on the magazine
pre EVA. And you'll see there are two little buttons that
stick out at the i0 o'clock and - rather the ii o'clock and
1 o'clock position to the elipse - to the opening. Those
two little buttons press on two buttons that are located
on the shutter plate. So in case the shutters are closed,
all you've got to do is take the screwdriver vertically and
just push down on those two silver buttons and the shutters
will swing open and stay open. We don't expect you_ll have
to do that.
CDR Okay. I think I understand. I'll get
a hold of the - one of the cameras and look at it.
MCC Okay. And when you look in the schematic
book it also shows that to you.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay. When you do look in with the mirror,
the filter wheel description I did not go into too much
detail on that. I want to cover just a couple of things here
with you on it. Paragraph 5 in geometry describes what you're
going to see when you look in there. And I want you to realize
that the worse case condition is when you have a filter
centered. And now you want to stick the screw driver through
the next filter to the left. That is not to the one that's
centered. But you want to stick it into the next one so
you can pry it into position.
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MCC And the worst case of course, for seeing

the next filter is when the present filter is centered. If
the present filter has moved at all to the right, then the
next filter is going to be more accessible. And so we want
to emphasize that what you need to do when you go in there
is stick the screwdriver into the next filter to the left from
the one that you're going to see most of when you look in.
Did I make that - Did I confuse you on that one?
CDR Negative. I understand that.
MCC Okay. Now, the filter wheel itself, there
are no really good drawing on board which show it to you. The
elongated octagon that I mentioned there is the shape of
the filter pretty closely. And where the filters come
closest together, that is toward the inboard section of the
pie, the filter wheel, the web is only about 3/8 inches thick.
Of course, as you move toward the rim of the filter wheel
that web increases in thickness and as you get toward the
outter portion of the filter wheel, there is a lightening
hole about 3/4 of an inch in diameter which is a hole drilled
right through the filter - the aluminum portion of the filter
wheel. So when you look in there you may see that round
hole toward the outboard edge of the filter wheel.
CDR Okay. Understand.
MCC Okay. We've got another handover coming
up. Stand by just i.
MCC Okay. We're back with you again, here.
Jerry, the other thing to help out in our knowledge of what
we have on the present film that's out there for 54_ we would
like a description of what you see when you first look in
there so if you can sort of mentally jot that down. We'll
know whether the web is in the middle or whether it's almost
in - fully on the filter or whatever you see there. And
then as you rotate the filter around, we'd like you to count
how many half - if you can do this. Count how many you
rotated in order to get to filter 3. And that will assist
us in knowing where we were for the present magazine.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay. Just a reminder that we keep talking
about filter 3. Filter 3 really is a nonfilter. That is,
it's a hole a filter wheel the same shape as the filters.
But there really is nothing there. And I just want to
make sure that you recognize it and you'll see that as it
comes into position.
CDR Okay. Understand that.
MCC Okay. And the last item I've got here is
that - and I mentioned that also in the techniques. But
you'll find out as you pry the filter wheel around, using
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the screwdriver, there is a crowbar that - when you move the

screw driver the handle as far to the left as you can, thereby
prying the filter wheel to the right, you will move the filter
wheel slightly past the center position. That is you will
move the filter, through which you've got the screwdriver,
past the center by probably i0 degrees of rotation on the
filter wheel. So that when you are ready to move filter
3 into position, if you can tell ahead of time that that's
the one that's coming up, you_ll probably want to go a little
bit less than full throw. Now in case you go full throw
thereby getting it over center, you're going to have to
rotate your right wrist. You're doing this with your right
hand and you're going to rotate your right wrist counter-
clockwise 180 degrees, that is, thumbs down, grab the screw-
driver and then move the - pry it on the right side to move
the filter wheel back. I point that out because you can't
hold the screwdriver naturally, because your gloves prevent
you from prying to the right.
CDR Okay.
MCC All right. Now that's all I had planned
on here. We've got another minute before LOS. Our next
contact is going to be Guam in about 27 minutes. That's
at 18:54. And at this point I'd like to ask you to go ahead
with any questions. And if you come up with any between now
and the next couple of days after smoking this stuff over,
feel free to pass it down and we'll draw up a list and give
you some answers.
CDR Okay, Rusty. I think I have the general
picture here. And I think it'll prob - -
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MCC because your gloves prevent you

from prying to the right.
CDR Okay.
MCC All right, now that's all I had planned
on here. We got another minute before LOS. Our next contact
is going to be Guam in about 27 minutes. That's at 18:54.
And at this point I'd like to ask you to go ahead with any
questions, and if you come up with any between now and the
next couple of days after smoking this stuff over, feel
free to pass it down and we'll draw up a list and give you
some answers.
CDR Okay, Rusty, I think I have a general
picture here, and Ithink it'll probably crystalize a little
more once I get busy and do a drawing and think about it
some more. And I may have some more definite questions
for you later. Right now I think I have about what I need
in order to get started and to get to thinking about it.
MCC Okay, Jerry; fine. We'll be standing
by for anything like that. I'd like to remind you you got
a thing on your detail pad coming up here which is state
vector update for the CMC coming up at Guam. And we're going
to want you to go to PO0 (garble) and ACCEPT there to pick up
the state vector.
CDR Okay, what time is Guam again?
MCC 18:54.
CDR Okay, good enough.
CDR Thank you kindly, Rusty, appreciate all
your work.
MCC Okay, feel free to fire the questions
at us.
CDR Sure will.
MCC Jer, as we go over the hill here, we'd
like to know if you do want us to schedule any more time to
look at this stuff or for another Q&A session, just let us
know.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Guam will acquire Skylab in 25 minutes. Throughout
this pass that began at Ascension Island, Skylab crew commander
Jerry Carr has been consulting with astronaut Rusty Schweikart
on the - some of the Christmas day EVA activities, primarily
the S054 experiment, the X-ray spectrographic telescope. There
is a - believed to be a filter misalignment in that instrument
and the activity they were discussing concerns procedures for
lining up the proper filter. At 18 hours 29 minutes Greenwich
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to be acquired
through the Guam station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 9-1/2 minutes.
You got a crimson CAP COMM on with the purple gang.
CDR How.
CC Hidi, hidi. Bill, do you have time to
cover a few notes for your upcoming ATM pass?
PLT Okay. Give me about 30 seconds.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT Say, Crip, all the hard work of those folks
down on the ground I think paid off. We certainly got pretty
close to it if not right on top of it. We could not see it
in 55 but if it has any appreciable halo and light malf at all,
I'm sure he could (garble).
CC Very good. Ed, can you verify for us
that you did do - perform step 36 where you reenable a bunch of
stuff by the DAS the star tracker.
SPT Stand by.
CDR You got POO and ACCEPT, Crip.
CC Copied PO0 and ACCEPT. Thank you.
CDR Your color combinations down there
makes me think of my lunch combination up here. Raspberry
crispy bars and spaghetti.
CC Ugh_
CDR No, Crip. That 36, I did not get - I'll
get it right now. Reason being, as soon as I got back
I got distracted by noticing we want to - right into a
the gradient Delta as soon as I get the SI switch or
immediately thereafter. And I was still thinking about that
one. I'll go ahead and get 36 right now.
CC Okeydoke. Very good, Ed. Would like a
comment from you, Ed, or all the total group about two people for
JOP 18D for the future ones. Do you still think we require to ley
two people to be scheduled? Jer, we're not showing that you're
in ACCEPT. Would you reverify that for us, please?
CDR You're right. I'm sorry.
CC Okay. We got it. Thank you.
PLT Crip, you know, I think - I think we do,
primarily for the areas of where we make the maneuver out and
perhaps maneuver back all the rest. No real problem. If we ever
have to use the star tracker and make some of the calculations
based on 55, hopefully we have someone here in the check and
balance. I don't think for the total duration of it though
the guy is require.
CC Okay. We have not beeD scheduling some-
body there two people there on the maneuver back. Previously - -
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SPT No, I don't think that's required, Crip.

for the maneuver back, don't you think. Perhaps the maneuver
out and getting on the comet, I had hoped we would have two guys.
Bill certainly was helpful today. After that, during
the long exposures, I don't think we need two people, certainly.
CDR Crip, I think a scheduling for here would
be to assign things like housekeeping, stuff that are absolutely
nontime critical that when the - the guy that's right - riding
shotgun on this thing sees that he's got a few minutes to
spare, he can wish off and do it.
CC Okay, Jer. We copy.
PLT And, Crip, PLT's ready to copy any notes
you have on the coming up ATM pass.
CC Okay. First thing, before you get the
doors open, we'd like to get the grating off of 574. Move
it about i0 or 20 steps at least. So - It happens that
detector 1 is pretty sensitive to Lyman-alpha on the Sun which
is the configuration we used for the comet. We'll probably
be getting a JOP 18 changeup to reflect that to have the
grating moved.
PLT Okay.
CDR It's done Crip.
CC Okay. Very good and like to remind you
Bill, you did have a VTR downlink scheduled - or VTR for TV
on the ATM schedule this time. But we've cancelled that due
to the fact we've already got enough TV.
PLT Okay. That's scratched.
CC Okeydoke. And for Jerry, you can go
ahead back to BLOCK and powerdown the CMC. And for Bill again,
active region 00 is looks like it's developing up pretty
good. It's got a new polarity field northeast of a strong
leader spot and this makes a very complex configuration with
C gradients and the chances for the next class flare has in-
creased in the last couple hours. We expect the flare loca-
tion 30 arc seconds east of the leader spot and the ribbon,
northeast southwest with secondary peaks possible north and
east of this ribbon. And we would like, Bill, if during your
observing time if you could to perform a shopping list 26
on the bright points during this upcoming daylight cycle. And
I can go back over those flare locations for you a little
bit slower if you'd like.
PLT Yeah, hit the ribbon again.
CC Okay. We expect it to be 30 arc seconds
east of the leader spot in the ribbon northeast to southwest.
We expect secondary peaks north and east of that ribbon.
PLT Okay, that - let's see, the ribbon that
runs northeast, to southwest.
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CC That's affirmative. And that ribbon -
PLT I've got it; thank you.
CC Okeydoke. Hope you get one.
PLT Thank you.
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SL-IV MCI182/I
TIME: 13:00 CST, 36:19:00 GMT
12/21/73
CC and that ribbon -

PLT We've got it. Thank you.
CC Okeydoke. Hope you get one.
PLT Thank you.
CC And, CDR, Houston. Jer, will you verify
for us that you put the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER valve to FLOW,
please?
CDR That's affirmative, Crip. I put it to
FLOW but you know it rides right back to where it wants to
go.
CC Would you clarify that a little bit for
us, Jer? How far does it ride back?
CDR It seems to be self modulating and it
goes back to about 30 percent of the distance from - between
FLOW and BYPASS.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CC Jer, one item on that making that valve
ride back. If you would check panel 2, the SUIT circuit
HEAT EXCHANGER switch to make sure that it's off.
CDR Okay, it was in BYPASS, that's the problem.
CC Okeydoke.
CC And after you - after you turned this
off would you reset the valve to FLOW, please?
CDR Okay, we're in FLOW.
CC Very good.
CC Okeydoke. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next
station contact is going to be over Canary in 51 minutes
at 19:54.
CC And, Jer, you've got a GO to power down
the CMG anytime you're ready.
CDR Caught me in the act.
SPT Hey, Crip, one more data flight on the
maneuver during ETC. When we got back the - and when we
just first came up now I looked at the difference between the
location of H-alpha and in SI. And it looks as though when we got
back there were about 0.3 degrees up and to the right, say
45 degrees from the location nominally in SI. That was
probably an error that we encountered during the maneuver.
CC Was that before activating the SUN SENSOR?
SPT That's affirm, Crip.
CC Okay, copy.
SPT And it looked like the ACQ Sun sensor had done
all its thing, and our rates were zero.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Guam station now. The Ascension Island station
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TIME: 13:00 CST, 36:19:00 GMT
12/21/73
will pick up the space station in 49-1/2 minutes. During

this pass the CAP COMM, Astronaut Bob Crippen, passed up some
additional information from the solar scientists here in the
Mission Control Center. They see increasing indications
of the possibility of a flare. And pointing information
and monitoring information was given to Pilot Bill Pogue,
who will be manning the Apollo telescope mount console
starting about now. We'll come back up just prior to
Ascension acquisition in 48-1/2 minutes. At 19 hours
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SL-IV MC-I183/I
Time: 13:53 CST, 36:19:53 GMT
12/21/73

53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acqui-
sition through the Canary Island station with overlapping
coverage through Madrid. And one of the viewers in the
viewing room now is Santa Claus, sitting on row 1 of the
viewing room.
CC Skylab, Houston, We're AOS tkrough
Canary. We have you for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bill.
CC Rog. For the PLT, Bill, we notice that
518 is heating up. Could you give us the GMT of when you
started that, please?
PLT 19:00.
CC Thank you, sir.
PLT Just on tke hour.
CC Very good.
CC And for tke SPT, Ed_ if you've got a
moment, I'd like to ask you about the comments that you made
as we were going over the hill there about apparently being off
a little bit in attitude, observing it in H-alpha. If you're
crowded getting ready to go into 131, we can get that later.
SPT I can give it to you now, Crip. We're
just working our way though 131. I - Itll wake up Jerry
and get in the chair when we get done kere. When - Just when
we finished up before we went - hit tke Sl switch, that's
(garble) before the gradiant Delta started and before we hit
the SI switch when we were still in CMG ATTHOLD that we came
back. The Sun - I drew a little picture of where it was
relative to the crosshairs. Essentially it was in the upper
right hand quadrant in the display. It was not quite touching
the horizontal crosshairs and it intercepted the verticale
crossharis about half way between the center and the top.
That was the first (garble). When we came back around after
the dump and before we went to experiment B, the acquisition
Sun sensor, as far as I could tell, updated the strap_down,
I didn't see any rate or any attitude errors when I looked at
it. My afterthought was - at a different (?) into position
and I don't have the (garble) down here with me. But my
conclusion was it was about 0.3 degrees down and to the left
of my previous position, which is about 45 degrees essentially,
or as I stated earlier, the error was at 0.3 degrees up and
to the right.
CC Okay. One thing you're saying there is
confusing me a little bit. I understand that you observed it
there when you're- the mode was still CMG ATT HOLD, in
which case the Sun sensors haven't come into play yetp because
you haven't gone back to solar inertial. Is that correct?
SPT That's my initial observation. That's
correct. And then after I hit SI, right after that it went
into the dump. And I had hoped to observe it that time to
see where it would come in. But the dump started right away
so we had no opportunity and I had to wait for the next orbit.
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Time: 13:53 CST, 36:19:53 GMT
12/21/73
CC Okay. Got that one straight. So it

looks llke you had about 0.3 of a degree error maneuvering
back to solar inertial and you did not have a chance to observe
it, take it out after you hit the SI, because you went to a
dump right immediately.
SPT That's affirmative, Crip.
CC Okay. Appreciate it. I just looked back
into the viewing room over my left shoulder there and I see
a jolly little man with a red suit and a white beard.
SPT Yeah. We saw him working last night, Crip.
CC Yeah. You were talking about all those
lights. Goodness, gracious what have they done to our boards?
SPT I_iI tell you. He really had help.
CC Yeah. He does good work. Like you guys.
CDR You're turning into a Santa Claus, yourself,
Crip.
CC Oh, yeah.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Next station contact is over Honeysuckle in 33 minutes.
That's at 20:42, 20:42. And for your information, the Flight
Plans are all on board.
CDR Thank you, Crip. Talk to you later.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station now. Next acquisition at Honeysuckle,
Australia in 34-1/2 minutes, Skylab crew continuing to keep
a close watch on the Sun's active region 0 0. The
magnetic fields in the vicinity of this region are becoming
more complex, according to solar observers. National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration has noted a large intrusion,
some 30 arc seconds northeast of the leading sun spot in the
region. This intrusion is about 14,000 miles across and is
surrounded by the leading polarity in the region. Normally a
series of small flares errupts in an area of this nature, but
no evidence of these small flares has been seen so far. This
leads solar scientists to conclude that maybe an indication
of a possible flare buildup with the probability of a large
flare in the making. Skylab now, some 33 minutes away from
next acquisition through Honeysuckle. At 20 hours i0 minutes
Greenwich mean tlme_ this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-I184/I
Time: 14:43 CST, 36:20:43 GMT
12121173
CDR Crip, on the nuZ update would you check the

outer and inner gimbal angle or do I just use the same valves?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle.
We have you for 8 minutes.
CC Okay. We'll look at it.
CC Okay, Jerr, we're showing you off Sun center
would you CLOSE the 52 DOOR.
CDR You're right. Sorry.
SPT Hey, Crip. One more JOP 18-D item.
CC Okay.
SPT I wondering if, in the future you could
put down at the very end the time in which you'd have dump
commence. You called it pretty close this last time and had
I know where we stood, I might have done things a little
differently.
CC We'll try to do that.
CC Try a bigger negative number on the
outer gimbal, Jer. We can't help you much better than
that on the star tracking thing. Try minus 1200, somewhere
in that area.
CDR Okay.
CDR Still no dice.
CC We'll get you another nuZ, time, Jer.
It looks like the window's closed now.
CDR Okay.
CC Jer, if you can_ we'd like to go
ahead and put the 54 and run shopping list 31 on it.
CDR Wilco.
LOS. We'll see you again over Bermuda in about 37 minutes.
That at 21:26, 21:26.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Jerp we'll give you a new nuZ
time over the states.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
20 hours 50 minutes, with loss of signal through Honeysuckle
tracking station. Next acquisition in 35 minutes will be
Bermuda. On this pass through Honeysuckle, Science Pilot
Gibson discussing with the ground the next JOP 18, joint
observations program 18, which is orienting the ATM cameras
to aim at the comet Kohoutek. JOP 18 is scheduled for
Sunday and Monday again for the crew of Skylab IV. Next
acquisition in 34 minutes 35 seconds. At Greenwich mean
time 20 hours 51 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI185/I
TIME: 15:24 CST, 36:21:24 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

21 hours 24 minutes. Acquisition coming through Bermuda
tracking station in approximately 1 minute. We'll hold the
line up for CAP COMM Bob Crippen for the Bermuda pass, which
should last about 6 minutes 45 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda. We have
you for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Regarding your getting the
startracker locked OFF another nu-Z update. When you go on
console again with another sunrise the star should be
available. And our recommendation for the outer gimbal is
around a minus i000; about minus 1015 specifically.
CDR Okay, I'ii give it a try.
CC And that is an guestimate. For the SPT,
Ed, you got a moment to talk here or would it be better to
wait for upcoming Canary/Madrid pass about 6 minutes away?
SPT Go ahead Crip. Now's good.
CC Okay. A couple of items I wanted to run
over with you, in regard to that 3/10 you estimated you were
off after getting back to what should be solar inertial
before initializing the strap downs and so forth, if you'll
look at the pad or if you still have it handy. We normally
only give a course maneuver in going back to solar inertial,
so we don't try to get back real accurately because we know
as soon as we go to so - select solar inertial mode and get
the sun sensors in_ that they're going to go ahead and take
out any error. Now we haven't confirmed it but it's a - 3/10
and error could be considered normal for that.
SPT Oh, yeah, you're perfectly right Crip, it
certainly could. I guess the question is whether that 3/10,
when you're figuring out the angle, turns out to be in the
right ball park for where we should have been.
CC Okay, and I think we can take a look at
the data on that and try to compare it. One other item, been
meaning to try to talk to you was going to get to it last
night and didn't quite get around to it. The other day after
the first 18D, when you got into the reset routine?
SPT Yeah.
CC Okay, we've been looking at that data and
trying to puzzle out exactly what happened. And I don't know
if _ l_m sure it's a couple of days old and not too fresh in
your memory, but if you could go through the sequence of
operations that you preformed there, we would appreciate it.
SPT Yeah, okay as best I can recall Crip,
Hank said something when we went over the hill which I did
SL-IV MCI185/2
TIME: 15:24 CST, 36:21:24 GMT
12/21/73
not fully understand. And I was operating Sun center and all
of a sudden I saw it moving off of Sun center. And apparently
e had not gone into reset at that point, We did not have a
CAGE. We just - it started to drift off and I saw the outer
gimbal 2 and then was up against a stop. And our Hg was relatively
low. It was not - we are not saturated well not factuated.
What I did was to put in a 6-minute maneuver time and a zero
angle maneuver. But what I should have done was gone to ATT-HOLD
and go to do it. I did it in SI, and of course the gimbal logic
is not active as in SI. After that I guess I had to give it a
little bit of mix (?). Does that initial part clarify what you
were trying to find out?
CC Okay, copy that. I guess it was after you
the reset routine occured that we were looking at the data,
and we were puzzled by exactly what was going on. You
said some words about having selected ATT-HOLD in solar
inertia. Did you do that after the reset routine commenced?
SPT Yeah, it's a little ways back. As back
as I can recall, Cripp, what I ran into there was after the
reset routine was over. And rates were checking out. We were
still not going back towards Suncenter. And as I recall I
thought well I probably had put that maneuver in, so what I
did was put in the ATT-HOLD and then go back to SI, I think that
was it. I think I had figured I had probably put an off set
into SI, and I had to get rid of it.
CC Okay. And that
SPT And as I recall maybe you can see on the
record. I tried just switching and just going hitting the SI
switch to take out the biases and that for some reason did not
seem to work. So I went to ATT-HOLD and then back into SI, and
that did work.
CC Okay, that's - that's what the data said.
I guess what we really didn't understand was after the reset
routine that and the rates were killed that for some reason
the error was not. And there doesn't seem to be any logic
for that and none of your action would have caused it. I
guess one item, we got about 30 seconds till LOS. And we're going
to pick you up over Madrid and I guess we can talk a little
bit more there if you like and that's at 21:37 in about
5 minutes and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there. While we're going over the hill though, I guess normally
if you"re going into a reset routine like that and it's
obviousp it's prohably best to just go ahead and let it do
itts th4ing. In fact we'll go ahead and secure the it'll
go out of experiment pointing for you even after it gets
out passed about 1.2 degrees.
SPT Yeah, it looked obvious to me that it was
because we had not gotten the cage talkback. And I though
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TIME: 15:24 CST, 36:21:24 GMT
12/21/73
we were just drifting off attitude the same way we have without
going into a reset routine. What I didn't realize is we're going
to ATT-HOLD mode as such with SI, and that's different
CC Okay, it - it actually would not go into
it until it - until you got out to about 5.2 degrees, just
be the place where that's activitated.
SPT Okay, that was what I was - had known that
number and I though it drifted off kind of far. And I thought
all I had to do was get that other gimbal lined up and go
back in business.
CC Okeydoke, we'll talk to you a little bit
later here at Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you
through Canary. And there was a mistake in there, I didn't
think we had Canary, we do and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump in about 3 minutes over Madrid. And Ed
appreciate the words, I think we're still puzzling as to why
you did not after the reset routine - why the thing didn't
return to attitude. And we'll - we'll just have to think about
it a little bit more.
SPT If I'd put a bias in SI whould it not go
back to that biased attitude or would it reset routine null
the biases.
CC Well it would go, as soon as you selected -
no - it would go to the bias attitude, but you said you put
in zeroes.
SPT Yeah, that's true but let's see I had put
that maneuver in when we were off attitude.
CC That that wouldn't have made any difference.
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SL-IV MC-I186/I
Time: 15:35 CST, 36:21:35 GMT
12/21/73
SPT Yeah, that's true. But let's see, I

had - put that maneuver in when we were off attitude.
CC That - That wouldn't have made any
difference.
SPT Okay, then I'm puzzled too.
CC Welcome to the club_ I_ii let you get
on to your exercise, which is more than I can say that l_ve
been doing.
SPT I'd say that by getting your exercises
on JOP 18D, it looked real good shape.
CC Well, you can - That's All the grand
and glorious applause goes to ASCO for working so hard on it.
He and the ATOM guys.
SPT Sure worked smooth and I - I think
we probably got some data and I hope it_ll be along the
line that we're really interested in. Good spectra
of the comet.
CC Rope so.
SPT Hey, Crip, let me ask you about that
particular instance we ran into though, where HG was
relatively low. We just had a outer gimbal on a STOP.
Could that be cleared by say, going to STANDBY and back into
SI?
CC That would activate the - the outer
gimbal to have logic and - bu - would probably clear it up.
Yes, sir.
CC That would just initiate a maneuver
for whatever your maneuver time is - back to SI and - and
it would be in the maneuver logic for - for the duration of
the maneuver time. And the first minute thereof it would
activate the outer gimbal (garble) logic, which should get the
gimbals out of the problem, which is the reason the thing
was drifting off attitude.
SPT Wouldn't that be a better solution,
then, rather than going to the RESET, which uses TACS.
CC Let's get back to you on that one, Ed.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you.
LOS. We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 26 minutes.
That's at 22:10 and in case I've given up the mike by that
time, I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas from the
crimson team even though the "purple gang's" flight
director is looking at me. I didn't get to do that last
night. Also, your secretary, Sylvia, sends greetings.
Happy perihelion.
PLT Merry Christmas to you, Crip. Thanks for
all your good words.
CC Bye-bye.
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Time: 15:35 CST, 36:21:35 GMT
12/21/73
CDR Thank you, Crip. We'll see you.

CC Take care, guys.
CC Skylab, Control. Greenwich mean time,
21 hours, 46 minutes, loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 24 minutes, 15 seconds; will be Carnarvon
tracking station. Discussions with Science Pilot Ed Gibson
and CAP COMM Bob Crippen concerning the slight attitude
error following the JOP 18 maneuver two days ago. This was
not reference to today's maneuver. Science Pilot Gibson
performing his daily 90-minute exercise. The noise in the
background - he was at conversation with CAP COMM Crippen
with the bicycle ergometer; Apparently Science Pilot Gibson
riding the bicycle for his exercise today. Commander Carr is
at the ATM while Pilot Bill Pogue is performing various
housekeeping functions aboard the Skylab space station.
Next acquisition in 23 minutes, 25 seconds, will be
Carnarvon. At Greenwich mean time 21 hours, 47 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI187/I
Time: 16:03 CST, 36:22:03 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time

22 hours 4 minutes. Flight Director Phil Shaffer will
have full day change-of-shift news briefing in the Building
1 newsroom in the Johnson Space Center at 4:30. Phil Shaffer,
Flight Directer, will hold a news briefing at 1 - Building
1 at 4:30. Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 6 minutes
at Greenwich mean time 22 hours 4 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I188/I
Time: 16:19 CST, 36:22:09 GMT
12/21/73
CC Skylab,Control. Greenwich mean time,

22 hours, 9 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Carnarvon tracking station in 50 seconds. Presently a
changeover in progress here at the Mission Control Center.
Flight Director Chuck Lewis taking over from Flight Director
Phil Shaffer. Shaffer will be at the Building 1 newsroom
at about 4:30 for a change-of-shift briefing. We'll hold
the line up for this Carnarvon pass. CAP COMM is Hank
Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston. Helle from the
bronze team. We're with you through Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle for 15 minutes.
CDR Hi, Hank. Got the nuZ on the update
okay this time.
CC Okay, thank you, Jerry.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 20 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you at MILA at 58.
CDR Roger. See you then, Hank.
CC Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
22 hours, 27 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
A length]_ quiet pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
And the crew nears the close of their 36th day in orbit,
start of their sixt week for the Skylab-IV mission. Change-
of-shift briefing in Building I newsroom with Flight Director
Phil Shaffer, Phil Shaffer just left the mission operations
control room on his way to Building I. Next acquisition in
30 minutes, i0 seconds. Will be the MILA tracking station.
That's Greenwich mean time 22 hours, 27 minutes. This is
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MCI189/I
Time: 16:57 CST 36:22:57 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time 22

hours 57 minutes. Acquisition coming throuEh the MILA track-
ing station in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through MILA and Bermuda
for ii minutes. And for info, we'll be dumping the recorder
at Bermuda.
CDR Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR. Could you give me the
time again on my private comm and the antennas?
CC Roger. Stand by i. Okay, Jer, it's at
Carnarvon at 23:48, left to right.
CDR Okay, Carnarvon, 23:48, left to right.
CC And Skylab, we're about 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you at Madrid at 15.
CDR Roger.
hours 12 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda tracking
station. Next acquisition in 2 minutes 55 seconds will be
Madrid. During thia pass, the spacecraft Skylab was maneu_
vered to take yet another look at Comet Kohoutek. This time
using the SO53 instrument in conjunction with the T025 equip-
ment as well as the SO19 articulated mirror system, which
is placed through the anti-solar scientific airlock. Space-
craft remov removed - maneuvered 90 degrees on it's X-axis
to point the camera at the approaching comet. SO63 is
scheduled to be used 19 separate times in efforts to catch
the fleeting comet as it approaches the Sun. The spacecraft
will be maneuvered back to the solar inertial mode in ap-
proximately 28 minutes from now. We'll hold the line up
live for this pass through Madrid. CAP COMM is Hank Harts-
field.
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SL-IV MCII90/I
Time: 17:13 CST 36:23:13 GMT
12/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston, through Madrid for

7 mintues.
PLT All right, Hank.
CC (Garble)
CC CDR, Houston, for info. We're uplinking
to you a _ as ATM pad that will cover the last ATM pass today.
We'd like to change it because P61 is partially lifted
off and that was the area of interest for that pass. And
also, AR00 is really looking like it might be ready to spit
somethin_ out.
CDR Okay, Hank, it looked like it wanted to
try while I was watching it. We had a couple of bright
spots ocillate a little bit, light and dark. But nothing hap-
pened.
SPT Hi Hank, coming up on this next orbit up
I_iI probably have a little bit of time and I might be on up
there. And if they'd like me to carry out any Building Blocks,
I'ii be glad to do it or just observing or flare wait.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC SPT, if you're willing, we'd like to
get a shopping list item number 1 on Sun center, and then
some flare waits.
SPT Okay, Hank, sounds good. I'll have to
clean up after the S063 work put the (garble) away and then
I'll be right up there.
CC Okay, and we won't be able to get that
new schedule pad up for the 01:19 pass until Carnarvon.
LOS. We!ll see you Carnarvon at 48 and another reminder
that's the CDR's private phone call. And_ Skylab, for info,
as you go over the hill there_ the maneuver looks real good
to us.
hours 23 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 24 minutes 35 seconds will be Carnarvon.
CAP COMM, Hank Hartsfield, advising the crew that the maneu-
ver returning to solar inertial attitude following photo-
graphy of the comet Kohoutek with the S063 instrument, th -
the maneuver looked good. Vehicle should be back in solar
inertial attitude in at Greenwich mean time 23 hours 24 min-
uties. Approximately 320 frames of film of the S063 camera
are scheduled to be exposed at the comet Kohoutek, now on
17 - 19 different attempts throughout the mission. Next
acquisition in 23 minutes 50 seconds through Carnarvon. At
Greenwich mean time 23 hours 24 minutes, this is Skylab Con-
trol.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I191/1
Time: 17:47 CST, 36:23:47 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time,

23 hours, 46 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon
in 1 minute, 30 seconds. The crew will be shortly be having
their evening meal today, mission day 36. They have the
high-density food bars on schedule for today. The food
bars, each providing approximately 300 calories each.
Multi-flavored bars are eaten in addition to several -
one or more items of the regular Skylab menu. The crew's
new pad for the ATM for the last run of the
day is will he passed up to the crew shortly advising
them to change their onboard ATM pad to concentrate on
region zero zero, a region which ground scientists here
at the mission control hope will produce a major activity.
Commander Garr is scheduled to spend the last hour of his
day at the ATM this evening. We'll hold the line up for
this Carnarvon pass for Hank - Commander Harts - CAP COMM is
Astronaut Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Carnarvon for
9 minutes.
CDR Rog, Hank.
PLT (Garble) about 35 degrees out, moving
back.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, for info, your ATM schedule
pad for the last pass of the day should be on board now.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.
See you in a couple minutes Honeysuckle at 59.
PA0 Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time,
23 hours, 58 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle in 55 seconds. Ge
G&N officer reports to Flight Director Chuck Lewis that the
vehicle has returned to solar inertial attitude following
the S063 Comet Koheutek photography. He reports everything
looks good. We'll hold the line up for this Honeysuckle
pass. CAP COMM is Hank Hartsfield.
End of Tape
SC-IV MC-I192/I
Time: 17:59 CST, 36:23:59 GMT
12/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you

through Honeysuckle for 3-1/2 minutes.
LOS. We'll see you at Texas at 31 and we'll be dumping the
recorder there.
SPT So long, Hank.
PAO Skylab,Control. Greenwich mean time,
00:03 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition in 27 minutes 30 seconds will be the Texas
tracking station as Skylab concludes its 3196 revolution of
the Earth. Skylab space station now in orbit 222 days since
launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14th. One of the messages
to be passed up to the crew tomorrow on the daily execute
package on the teleprinter will be reference to photography
by the science pilot of the aurora, which he described
following a pass over the Great Lakes last night. Scientists
on the ground after reviewing the dumped channel B tape,
report that Science Pilot Gibson said he spotted a - an
aurora north of Chicago. Very beautiful display as scientists
refer to it between Chicago and Newfoundland. He described
the aurora as a whitish green in color and compared the -
the aurora to streamers much like the spicules which come
off the Sun. The solar spicules the crew has been watching
the last several days on the Sun. The crew will be able to
photograph this aurora between mission day 36 today and for
the next 5 days through mission day 41. The crew has been
suggested to take at least I0 photos per day out the window
of this structural transition section (STS), either window
S-3 or S-4 using a 35-millimeter camera with a 55-millimeter
lens. The cre_ in their final hours of their 36th day in
orbit, a day which has the crew collectively performing
23 ho_rs and 19 minutes of scientific data gathering of the
Sun, of comet Kohoutek, and gathering medical data on them-
selves. Pilot Bill Pogue performing his daily 90-minute
exercise chores, either riding the bicycle ergometer or
using one of the several exercise devices aboard the spacecraft.
Commander Gerald Carr and Science Pilot Ed Gibson are
presently in their evening meal. Commander Carr will spend
an hour at the ATM before retiring. Science Pilot Ed Gibson,
is scheduled to perform the S073 experiment once again with
Commander Carr to take one more picture tonight with the
$233 experiment out the window of the command module using
a 35-millimeter camera taking the twice a day photographs
of comet Kohoutek through the command module window. Next
acquisiticn in 24 minutes will be through the Texas tracking
station. At Greenwich mean time 00:07 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
End of Tape
SL-IV MC-I193/I
Time: 18:30 CST, 37:00:30 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab, Control. Greenwich mean time,

00:30 minutes with acquisition coming through the MILA,
Texas tracking stations in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line
open for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and MILA

and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes and we'll be dumping the
recorder here at Texas.
SPT Hello, Hank. Looks like we almost - I

thought we had one there for a moment. We got a ourselves a
good point brightening in the XUV monitor in H - H-alpha
and we initiated the X-ray experiment in 82A and 82B. But
it was just a sub - subflare. We got the oxygen 6 intensity -
it went from around 20,000 up to 58. But, it was all over
in a matter of minutes and no visual X-rays on it.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT That happened at 23 after the hour.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT And, Hank, by initiating the experiment,

from that as called out for in shopping list item i0, 82A with
the 20-second exposure and 82B with the WAVELENGTH, SHORT
(garble) quarter.
CC We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. On your shopping list

page 8, there on your scorecard, put a fourth one in; we'll
award you one hit, one run, no errors.
SPT Thank you, Hank. Maybe that'll take care

of the two err_rs we had a couple weeks ago. I think 55 got
some real good data on the flare - well, it was a subflare,
from the rise time on that. We were sitting right on the
bright point there - did go.
CC Okay, everybody seems to be real happy

down here, Ed.
SPT Well, it was kind of a tiny one, though,

Hank; not the real one we're looking for. We're still sitting
up a surfboard waiting for the big wave.
SL-IV MC-I193/2
Time: 18:30 CST, 37:00:30 GMT
12/21/73

LOS. We'll see you at Madrid at 53.
SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI194/I
TIME: 18:48 CST 37:00:48 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab Control, 48 minutes after the hour.

LOS of signal through Bermuda, next acquisition through the
Madrid tracking station in 3 minutes 35 seconds. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson reporting we thought we had one this time, activity
on the Sun. The crew and the ground had been hoping, apparently
with little success, that active region 00 in the southeast
quadrant of the solar disk near the Sun's canter might develop
into a major flare activity today. However, Science Pilot Gibson
reporting that apparently was - whatever occurred was over
in a matter of minutes and discribed it as possibly a sub-
flare. However the instruments, the Apollo telescope instruments,
did record the brief activity. Scientists here at the Mission
Control center had hoped this area might produce major activity
today. This area is approximately 200 arc-seconds across or
about i/i0 of the Sun's diameter_ which translates roughly
into 100,000 Earth miles. A new pad for ATM operations, for
the final Sun pass this evening at which time Commander
Jerry Cart will be at the ATM console, has been passed to
the crew. This was done during the previous Carnarvon/Honeysuckle
pass. New instructions on the operation of the ATM console
for possibly capturing this activity in the center of the
Sun. Next acquisition in 2 minutes through Madrid, we'll hold
the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for
6-1/2 minutes. And Skylab Houston for info, we've come to
decision on the managing the hearln_ heater CMG - for CMG 2.
For the reminder of the mission, we will command the heaters
ON to keep the bearing temperature above 68 degrees. All
our problems seem to have occurred when the bearing temperatures
are low, down around 60 degrees or so. So from now on through
the remaining of the mission, we will be ground commanding
the heaters ON in order to get the bearings temps up on
CMG 2.
SPT Sounds like a good idea, Hank hope it works
out.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS,
we'll see you at Tananarive at 16.
PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
1 hour 1 minute. Lose of signal through Madrid, next
acquisition in 14 minutes 35 seconds will be the Tananarive
acquisition station. CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield advising the
crew of Skylab IV that the ground will now take over command
of the control moment gyro heaters. It is felt that the
temperature is a major contributing cause to the frequenct
hiccups or anomalies recorded in the CMGs during the past
week or more in order to avoid any further problems and
SL-IV MCI194/2
TIME: 1848 CST, 37:00:48 GMT
12/21/73
hopefully keep the CMGs out of a stress mode. The ground

will now manage the bearing heaters. EGIL officer reports
that the heaters were turned off during this Madrid pass,
and the plan is to turn the heaters off when the temperature
gets to approximately 80 degrees, then turn them back off (sic)
when they get at 70 or below. Normal operating range of the
heaters of 60 to 80 degrees. It is felt by ground control
of this system it may solve the anomaly that has occured in
the CMGs. The heaters were turned off on the Madrid pass.
At the Tananarive station, we'll have another look at the
CMGs. There was no problem this evening with the CMGS but
this attempt to correct the previous problems was intitiated
during the Madrid pass. So hereafter the ground will control
the heaters of the control moment gyros, turning them off when
the temperatures get to 80 degrees and turning them back on
again when the temperature of the bearings read close to
70 degrees. Next acquisition will be in 12 minutes
25 seconds through Tananarive. At Greenwich mean time
1 hour 23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I195/I
Time: 19:15 CST, 37:01:15 GMT
12/21/73

1 hour, 15 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive,
a 5-minute pass in approximately 45 seconds. We'll leave
the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab) Houston through Tananarive for
5 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey, Hank, it just occurred to me when I
was talking to Rusty this afternoon - Rusty mentioned that -
He was talking in terms ol Bill being inside handling
the C&D panel. As I understand it, this ne_t EVA is - is
Bill being EV-I, I'll be EV-2, and Ed's EV-3. Would you
check and make sure everybody's thinking the same way down
there?
CC Okay, we'll do it, Jerry. And we're
about a - a minute from LOS now. We'll see you again at
Honeysuckle at 39.
CDR Okay.
1 hour, 22 minutes. Brief pass through Tananarive. Comman-
der General Carr discussing with CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield
the assignments for the upcoming Christmas day EVA, which
will have the crew putting out three separate scientific
instruments to record Comet Kohoutek's passage, the S020,
T025, and the $201 experiments as well as replacing film
in the ATM cameras, and also retrieval of the S149 particle
collection experiment, which the crew put out deployed at
the rim of the ATM during the Thanksgiving extra vehicular
activity. Christmas day EVA scheduled for 5-1/2 hours with
Pilot Bill Pogue being designated EVA-I, Commander Gerald
Carr being EVA-2. Commander Carr will do most of the activities
outside the vehicle with Pilot Pogue serving from the FAS -
the EVA position in the - outside the airlock. EVA-3 will
be Science Pilot Ed Gibson's assignment. He will operate
within the workshop at the ATM console monitoring operations
and attitude of the vehicle as well as supervising the
checklist for his two crew members outside the vehicle.
Next acquisition in 15 minutes through the Honeysuckle
tracking station. At Greenwich mean time, 1 hour, 23 minutes,
End of Tape
SL-IV MCI196/I
Time: 19:38 CST to 37:01:38 GMT
12/21/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 1 hour

38 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle tracking
station in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this brief
pass through Honeysuckle, approximately 90 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're through Honeysuckle.
We got a short pass, we about a minute from LOS. And we will
see you again at Goldstone at 08 and we plan to dump the
recorder there.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Say active region 00, still looks like an
(garble)
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time i hour
43 minutes, loss of single through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition in 24 minutes 35 seconds will be Goldstone tracking
station. As the Skylab Space Station left the range of the
Honeysuckle Antenna, Science Pilot Gibson reported to the
ground some activity concerning active region 00, the activity
scientists here on the ground were hopeful will produce some
major flare activity today. The message was very garbled.
The ATM officer did not - was not able to determine exactly
what Science Pilot Gibson did report. We will pick up the
spacecraft in 23 minutes 55 seconds through Goldstone. At
Greenwich mean time 1 hour 44 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I197/I
Time: 20:07 CST, 37:02:07 GMT
12/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean

time, 2 hours, 6 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hunt
Goldstone tracking station in 50 seconds. Ground controllers
will take a close look on this pass through Goldstone of the
control moment gyro systems. The ground took control of the
command system for turning the heaters on and off in the CMGs
on the pass through Madrid. This was about an hour and
i0 minutes ago. As Goldstone acquires, the EGIL and G&N
officer will be looking closely at the system's data of the
current CMGs. We'll hold the line up for this stateside
pass through Goldstone, Texas, MILA and Bermuda. CAP COMM
is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylah, Houston through Goldstone for
10-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be right back with you again in about a
minute at Bermuda at 19.
CDR Roger, Hank. You want a quick frame
count?
CC Go.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. 5526, 1467, 23, 553, 3255, 1881.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're back with you
through Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need a couple of
items on the ATM closeout. We need to get the exposure to
256 and picture rates to single.
CDR Okay. I thought sure you'd want it all
set up for flare mode.
LOS. We'll see you at Madrid at 30 and we'll be standing
by for the evening status report.
CDR Roger.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI198/I
Time: 20:26 CST 37:02:26 GMT
12/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9

minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. Got a problem developing.
$233 and S073 both need the remote shutter release. And
I have two choices. We can - three choices, we can cancel
$233, we can delay it until the next opportunity which is about
an hour and three quarters from now, or I can try to take
them timed and not move the camera by pushing the button.
And while they're thinking about that, I'll give you the
evening status report.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6 heavy, 1 light;
SPT, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; PLT, 6.0, 5 heavy, 1 light.
Volume: CDR, 2000; SPT, ii00; PLT, 2300. CDR, 7620, SPT,
3146, PLT, 9256. Body mass: CDR, 6.316, 6.314, 6.316; SPT,
6.347, 6.350, 6.349; PLT, 6.252, 6.253, 6.254. Exercise: CDR,
method Alfa, minus 2 minutes; SPT, no change; PLT, no
exercise today. Medication: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT,
Tinactin as directed. Clothing: CDR, one pair shorts, one
pair socks; SPT, none; PLT, one shirt. Food log: CDR, 2.5
salt, plus one apple drink, plus two coffees with sugar, all
let's see; SPT, zero salt, plus one tea, plus 24 ounces of water;
PLT, zero salt, plus one cherry drink, zero water. The Flight
plan deviations: none. Shopping list accomplishments: none.
Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: nnone.
Photo log: no DAC usage today. Nikon, camera 01, no change;
02, Bravo Victor 43, and we'll give you a frame count later
in the evening after the experiment's finished; 03, no change;
04, Bravo Echo 08, 33; 05, Bravo Hotel 05, and we'll give
you a frame count after 233. 70-millimeter, we'll give you
a frame count later. ETC, no change. EREP, no change. Drawer A:
no change. Did you get all that, Hank?
CC Roger, we copied that, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, since we're shut down
on the ATM now, you've clean to go ahead and cut the pump
Charlie off on the ATM C&D loop.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, I guess we're going to have to
go along with your suggestion to handhold the $233 and us -
do the best you can.
CDR Okay, we've got a lashed down pretty
tight. What I'm going to do is put the shutter speed knob
on T for timed, and do the exposures by squeezing the camera,
And I think I can do a fairly steady job.
CC Okay.
CC And, CDR, while you're up there in the
MDA, the M518 experiment checklist, at the bottom of 11-3 note
that you put the bulkheat vent valve into VENT position for
SL-IV MCI198/2
Time: 20:26 CST 37:02:26 GMT
12/21/73
the night. If you haven't already done that, that's good time
to do it.
CDR Okay, thanks, Hank. The bulkheat vent valve
to the VENT position.
CC That's affirmative.
CC CDR, in reference to the $233, it's a
choose to use a T position, just a little reminder there, when
you press the button it will open the shutter then you'll have
to turn the speed knob to release the shutter.
CDR Okay, turn the speed knob to release the
shutter.
CC Right. You probably remembered that.
You know if you punch the button down it holds the shutter open
until you turn the little - speed knob a little bit and that
releases it to close.
CDR Okay, thanks. I had forgotten it frankly.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. And we'll see you again at Tananarive at 49.
hours 40 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition will be Tananarive in 9 minutes i0 seconds.
Commander Jerald Carr giving the evening status report.
Reporting on suppliments to the crew's diet for the day. Report
on the number of frames of film shot, as well as the change
in the clothing the crew has made for today. Discussion
concernin_ the $233, the Kohoutek 35-millimeter camera bein_
used through the command module window, and the S073. Com-
mander Carr reported that each of the cameras needed shutter
release cable for use, and he would either have to delay or cancel
one. The decision was to use the $233 without the release
cable. Skylab work station, launched May 14 from Cape
Kennedyp will shortly be in its 3200 revolution of the Earth,
that's in about 2 hours from now. Since launch, the space
station will have amassed a total of 71,425,000 miles travel-
ing around the Earth during the past 222 days. Skylab IV
crew -
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-I199/I
Time: 20:41 CST, 37:02:41 GMT
12/21/73
PAO During the past 222 d - days, the

Skylab-IV crew launched from Cape Kennedy on November 16th,
will shortly be in their 515th revolution of the Earth,
having traveled 11,484,000 miles in their 37 - 36 days in
space. Next acquisition will be in 7 minutes, 20 seconds
through Tananarive. At Greenwich mean time, 2 hours, 42 minutes.
END OF TAPE

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TIME: 07:59 CST, 34:13:59 GMT

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 59 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 26 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 45 minutes

later on, once we start working it. Over on 18 delta, I got - I

for the computer to compute the motion compensation the JOP

MCC let's just leave it in wherever

SPT Bill, let's go back to procedures (garble).

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours i minute

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 35 minutes

we'll have something interesting to look at. So that whenever

CC Okay, and Ed, Houston again here. On the

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 7 minutes and

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 17 minutes

PAO The solar astronomy instruments in the ATM

Scorpio. Antares will serve a dual purpose, that is a

CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 44 minutes

a little bit more stable during the maneuver.

PAO - this time there about 27 minutes

PA0 Skylab Control at 18 hours 42 minutes and

pass right here. Thank you.

CC And, Ed, yesterday you commented that the

CDR Yeah, thank you, Hank. We were very

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours i0 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 39 minutes and

CDR Houston, Skylab.

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 57 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 34 minutes and

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours

PA0 This is Skylab Control at 22:00 hours

SPT Crip, at what time was the DELTA P at its

CDR Crip, are those heaters ground command-

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours _I

Thank you for it.

CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Madrid.

place in the coolant loop system. We're 22 minutes away

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours

PAO Next space station acquisition through

PAO Skylab Control at 21 minutes Greenwich

PAO And this is Skylab Control at i hour

PAO Skylab Control here at 1 hour 57 minutes

6 minutes away, and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder

whether you would like big blocks of time altogether or Just

02:41. And that's about 13-1/2 minutes away.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 40 min-

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours 4

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours 32

myself on some bare metals. So, I had a couple little

CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?

CDR Okay, here it comes. Nikon 01, no

wonder if you would have the photo guys to think about

CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through

are 143,000 miniaturized human beings. He says it's up to

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 8 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 32 minutes

CC Hawaii for 6 minutes.

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 45 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 9 minutes 33

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 19 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 52 minutes

wishful thinking more than a guess. However, if it were to