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SL-IV MC-1300/I
Time: 17:25 CST 39:23:25 GMT

12/24/73
PAO a quarry of red tape on board the

spacecraft: so the Christmas tree made of items on board
the spacecraft by the crew in the last several days using
excess food can retainers. Excess, when the crew uses the
good up tile can - the retainers are either placed in the
racks back in the stowage lockers or placed in the in the
trash airlock.
PAO The crew does have colored tape in addition

to the red white and blue packagings on board. They have
green tape, red, and silver, and gray tape. So a first in
space a onboard space Christmas tree for the crew of
Skylab IV. Next acquistion in about 2 minutes through
Honeysuckle, we'll hold the llne up for this Honeysuckle
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we got you for about a
minute through Honeysuckle. And in answer to the PLT's
question about hooking up the CCU there. That is done
tomorrow, and it's on page 1.2-14 of the checklist. If you
hook it up tonight it will put power on the thing and we
don't want: to do that.
PLT Roger Hank, thank you.
CC And itVs - and itVs not hooked into
217 gill, it's hooked into 225.
PLT Oh yeah, I thought that's what it said.
CC And Skylab, Houston, as we're going over
the hill here we need a MPC inhibit.
CC We'll see you at Texas at 59, and that's
about 28 minutes from now.
CDR Roger Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 23
hours 31 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle, next
acqusitlon in 27 minutes 25 seconds will be Goldstone, Texas
tracking station. On this stateside pass we'll have the
final few minutes of the TV81 from the crew their Christmas
Eve Eve special TV. Commander Bill Pogue - Commander
Gerald Carr and Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill
Pogue going through their EVA preparations for tomorrow.
Several hours this evening spent - will be spent going over
the equipment to be used for tomorrow's EVA as well as reviewing
procedures for the crew. The Christmas EVA to - primarily
targeting at Comet Kohoutek and reloading the ATM cameras.
Next acqu_stion in 26 minutes 20 seconds, at Greenwich mean
time 23 hours 32 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1301/I
Time: 17:56 CST 39:23:56 GMT
12/24/73

hours 56 minutes. We will have acquisition through state-
side pass beginning at Texas in about 2 minutes. The remainder
of the onboard television for Christmas Eve is scheduled
to be dumped through the Texas tracking station. We'll hold
the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield on this stateside
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Texas and
Bermuda for 16 minutes and we'll be dumpin_ the recorder here
at Texas.
CDR Roger Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, for info we had a
optional HHI70 scheduled tonight but we've got a lazy laser
and it's :not lasing so you can forget about it.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we would like to be the
first to wish you Merry Christmas since you're operating on
GMT, the old clock just rolled over to Christmas.
CDR How about that.
SPT Thank you Hank, and Merry Christmas to
all you folks.
CDR Hank, we have a special greetin_ for the
Skylab Program Director Bill Schneider, if you're ready to
copy.
CC He's listening.
CDH Okay, we'd like to wish Bill a very happy
birthday or maybe we should say a merry birthday and a
happy Christmas.
CC He's grinning from ear to ear now and
he appreciates it very much.
CDR Roger.
CDR I hope he has many more years as succeeful
as this one.
SPT I wished he could be up here for a little
while to enjoy a little of the fruits of his labor.
CDR Hey Hank, you got a little thunder storm
action down your way?
CC I think the activity is a little bit
east of us now, we had some come through earlier in the
day.
CDR We see real rip rip snorters going on
out there. I guess it's out to the east of you all right.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDH Hank, in about the last 1 minute we think
maybe the:re was something vented or something dumped or some-
thin_ like that around the spacecraft because right here just
past the terminator we were suddenly enveloped in a cloud of a
SL-IV MC-1301/2
Time: 17:56 CST 39:23:56 GMT
12/24/73
million little fire flies and it's really beautiful. We're just
wondering if one of the systems somewhere along the line just
belched or burped.
CC Roger, we'll check.
SPT Must have been something impulsive Hank,
because the first time we saw it they were really whistling by,
coming from the aft end and then they slowed up, I guess it's
just the slower ones comin_ by now.
CC And Skylab for info, all three of your
families are in the viewing room now watching the play back
of TV81.
CDR Very good.
SPT Very good, Merry Christmas to them all.
Even the little guy.
PLT And Merry Christmas to the Pogues.
CDR I bet they sure are jealous of that tree.
CC How did you make that tree, Jer?
CDR Say again Hank.
CC How did you make that tree, what did you
use?
CDR We made it out of herring bones out of the
food cans,
CC That was a real neat tree.
CDR Thank you, hey the entire area - New England
area is clear as a bell. New York City you just can't lose.
PLT Not just New York City Hank, but the old
hometown of Buffalo is wide open.
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SL-IV MC1302/I
Time: 18:09 CST, 14:00:09 GMT
12/24/73
CC And Skylab, Houston, I'm just informed

that there's some Christmas cards in your mail boxes.
SPT Say again, Hank, you dropped out in the
middle of the sentence?
CC Roger, I think there's a Christmas card
in your mail box.
SPT That's right Hank.
CDR I heard the woodpecker a minute a go if
that's it?
PLT Are you reading us Hank?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay, on to the point in the checklist
where I ought to be stowing a DAC in the airlock module.
You mentioned something about using transporter 7 and
shooting up the film. Were you planning on us stowing that
in the morning?
CC What we're going to do Bill, is thread
up a new magazine on that transporter and we were just -
wanted you to shoot up that film.
PLT Okay.
CC But thattll be done in the morning.
That info will be on your thread pad tonight.
PLT Okay.
SPT Hey, Hank, for the past few nights when
we_ve been going over the Great Lakes and look up north, and
there's an awful lot of light up there. So I figure the
old guy is really been working hard and he's got lots of
help. So maybe my kids have got some hope but they better keep
in line at: least for another day.
CC I think they're getting the message.
CDR Merry Christmas to all the Carr family.
CC CDR and SPT, Houston, could you give us
a progress report on your prep?
SPT Yeah, Hank, I'm just finishing up doing
a rather meticulous job greasing up all the zippers and the
0-rings. l'm just about done with that now, and I'ii press
on for the - ought to move fairly quickly from here.
CDR Okay, and I just got finished sampling
the fungus that's among us.
CC We copy. (Laughter).
CDR Hank, I found a couple of tiny colonies
of fungus that we hadn't got before - the mildew. I sampled
those, and they're in vile number 15 Echo. And we've got it
stored ambient in the wardroom for 7 days.
CC Roger, we copy, 15 Echo.
CDR Right. And the location's on tape.
Oh, by the way Hank, the suit I got it off of was the Weitz
suit.
CC Roger, copy.
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Time: 18:09 CST, 14:00:09 GMT
12/24/73
CDR Tell B.J. he was dirter than most.

CC Okay, I will do. (Laughter).
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you at Madrid at 20.
SPT Okay, Hank. No real concern over the
fungus on the suits. We got the moths working on it. They're
cleaning up great.
PAO Skylab - - Skylab Control, Greenwich
mean time 16 minutes after the hour. A very lengthy state-
side pass, and a very long line of discussions with the ground
from the crew, possibly the most conversation had in the last
several weeks with the crew of Skylab IV. A happy birthday
and a Merry Christmas from the crew to William C. Schneider,
Director of the Skylab Program, who turned a half a century
old today. The Mission Control Center had a _ had observed
his birthday earlier this afternoon with a cake in his honor.
And the crew wished him a Happy Birthday. The crew reported
seeing suddenly vehicle was enveloped in millons of little
fire flies. They questioned whether some (garble) may have
occurred during this stateside pass. Flight Director Charles
Lewis checking with his EGIL, and the G&N officers here at
the Control Center. Each reporting they see nothing in the
telemetry which indicates venting of any sort. The EGIL
officer however, however reporting it could that there was an
ice buildup on one of the vents which suddenly let go from
aft apt end. The radiators for the refrigeration system is
on the aft end of the vehicle and has possible ice buildup
from here. This area may have broken loose causing the
millions of fire flies described by Science Pilot Ed Gibson.
The crew explained how they built the Christmas tree on board,
made of the herring bone cans as described by Science Pi -
Gerald Carr. All the crew members wishing their families here
at the Control Center a hap a Merry Christmas as they passed
over the state, The GMT clock here at the Mission Control
center is now saying December 25th has arrived. 18 minutes
after the hour, December 25, at Greenwich mean time. Passed up
on this pass through the states was the 25 (garble) card. A
Christmas greeting from the team of flight directors, flight
controllers here at the Mission Control Center. Bronze team
headed by Flight Director Charles Lewis. Christmas card designed
by Crystal Lynn Hartman, age 26, a technical illustrator
with NASA, here at the Johnson Space Center. Miss Hartman
also had a hand in the original design of the crew patch for
S kylab I_, as well as assisting Science Pilot Ed Gibson
in the _ his book The Quiet Sun. Next acquisition in 12
seconds will be Madrid. We'll hold the line up for this pass.
SL-IV MC-1303/I
Time: 18:20 CST 40:00:20 GMT
12/24/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9

minutes.
CDR Hello Hank.
CC Go ahead.
CDR And I'd like to thank you and all the
bronze team for the beautiful Christmas card. Got some
good thoughts in there and it's very well done. Thank Cristy
Hartman, too, for working it, appreciate it, Merry Christmas
to you all.
CC Thank you Jet, and she's listening.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you now
we broke lock there for a couple of minutes.
PLT Rog, Hank, PLT, I am on 1.2-7 and finished
my activities for today on the EVA prep.
CC Roger, we copy Bill_ good work.
CC Skylab, Houston, welre about 45 seconds
from LOS, we'll see you at Tananarive at 42.
PAO Skylab Control, 21 - 29 minutes after
the hour Greenwich mean timeclock now recording December 25th
in Greenwich, England. At Mission Control Center it's still
Christmas Eve. As the spacecraft crosses over the African
coast, spacecraft now in its 3240th revolution of the Earth.
The crew acknowledged receipt of the special Christmas card
sent up on the teleprinter through the stateside pass.
Science Pilot Gibson thanking the ground for the remembrance
and calling special attention to the designer of the card
Crystal Lynn Hartman a technical illustrator here at the
Johnson Space Center who designed the card for the bronze
team under the leadership of Charles Lewis, Flight Director.
Still no exact word what caused the millions of fireflies
described by Science Pilot Gibson on the previous stateside
pass. Theory here at the Mission Control Center is it's
probably the ice buildup on one of the vent lines at the aft
end of the vehicle, more than likely the refrigeration system
radiator at that spot in the vehicle had ice buildup and the
ice just fell off the vehicle causing the fire flies. Next
acquistion will be through Tananarive in i0 minutes and 40
seconds, At Greenwich mean time 31 minutes after the hour
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1304/I
Time: 18:40 CST, 40:00:40 GMT
12/24/73

minutes after the hour. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
at - in about i minute 55 seconds. On the previous television
dump through stateside, the ATM from JOP 18 the television.
The ATM science officer here at the Mission operations
control room advises us that the planet Mercury viewed on the
picture would be at 3 olclock on the picture, and Comet
Kohoutek was approximately 7:30 - 8 o'clock on the picture.
Earlier the crew was advised that they had some handheld
photography tonight of the laser beam out of Green Belt,
Maryland, however, the laser beam will not be turned on tonight.
So that photographic opportunity was scrubbed. Earlier on the
previous across the States, the crew had the opportunity to
take photographs of - of volcanoes in Nicaragua area. Three
separate vo _ volcanoes which have also been the target of
the EREP cameras on previous EREP passes down through Central
America. Those volcanoes were the Pacaya volcano, the
Acatenan_o and the Santiaquito volcanoes in Nicaragua. Next
acquisition through Tananarive voice relay station in 40
seconds. We_ll hold the llne up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Tananarive for
7_i/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we may drop out a little
early here at Tananarive. We'll see you again at Honeysuckle
at 01:06.
CDR Rog, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, 49 minutes after the
hour. Loss of signal through Tananarive tracking station
as Skylab's space station on its Christmas Eve flight around
the world, on revolution 3,240. The crew completing their
pre_EVA preparations for tomorrow. They will retire tonight
at i0 p.m. central standard time. Next acquisition in 15
minutes and 50 seconds will be Honeysuckle. At Greenwich
mean time 50 minutes after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1305/I
TIME: 19:05 CST, 40:01:05 GMT
12/24/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

i hour 5 minutes° Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
tracking station in 50 seconds, we'll hold the llne up for
CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC SPT, Houston did you get ED41 done last
night.
SPT Negative.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT PLT to CDR did, also I have some comments
on ED72 on tape.
CC Okay, we copy and we're about 40 seconds
from LOS, we'll see you again at Goldstone at 35 and that's
about 26 minutes.
PLT All right.
SPT Okay Hank.
CC Skylab, did you squeal.
SPT Hank how do you read?
CC Okay a little better now. Was getting a
loud squeal there.
SPT Yeah, this MDA is kind of bad too when
you got three of them in here. You probably didn't get
ED41 done last night as I was all set up to do it and then
we switched recorders around and I could never get two
record lights or at least even one record light showing so
rather than go through that exercise and not get it recorded
I just skipped it, I'ii be glad to do it though, it'll be an
easy enough thing to pick up.
CC Okay, we copy, Ed, we'll get back with
you at Goldstone.
PAO Skylab, Control Greenwich mean time
i hour 12 minutes, loss of signal through Honeysuckle,
next acquisition in 22 minutes and 30 seconds will be
Goldstone. There was a slight mix up here at the Control
Center and there was one call up on this pass that was
missed, we'll play that call up now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
2 minutes.
CDR Rog, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston did you use the VTR?
CDR Negative.
PAO That concludes the Honeysuckle pass,
next acquisition in 21 minutes and 45 seconds through
Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time i hour and 12 minutes,
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SL-IV MC-1306/I
Time: 19:33 CST 40:01:33 GMT
12/24/73

hour 33 minutes. Acquisition through Goldstone in 50 seconds,
we'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, for info we'll be
commanding the detectors off in S055.
PLT Rog Hank, PLT, how do you read?
CC I'm reading you loud and clear Bill.
PLT Hog, I'm working ATM here I keep getting
a SCAN SPECT light which is apparentely associated with the
door. However I have a grey talkback, I can get the SCAN SPECT
light to go out by closing the door and then opening it
again. I just thought maybe you might let the people down
there think about it.
CC Okay, we copy Bill.
PLT And that occurred in grating 3 scan. I
moved it around to (garble) zero and shut it down.
CC CDR, Houston, are you and the SPT about
through with your EVA prep?
SPT Yes we are Hank, we're just having a
little dinner right now and talking over Command Module
procedures. And we're going to be thinking a little bit more
about the procedures tomorrow after we get done here.
CC Okay, thank you and one other question.
Have you disconnected the VTR power cable?
CDR No, we have not Hank, is that in the
checklist and is that function that should have been performed?
PLT Yeah, you disconnected it.
CC Okay, I guess it's on the checklist this
evening we thought maybe you might have been clearing the
hatches for tomorrow.
PLT They - that's been done Hank. And that's
why there won't be any video downlink.
CC
PLT That was left over from the 557 prep
the other day and it said not to go any further than step 6
in that completion procedure so we left it strung through
there until the EVA today - our prep for EVA today.
CC Okay Bill, we got a small problem here.
We still have a little bit of data on the VTR that we need to
get down and -
PLT Stand by, I think I can take care of it.
CC And Bill, as a caution note there after
you reconnect the cable, be sure you wait 15 seconds before
you throw the power on.
PLT Thanks for the reminder. You should
have power now.
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Time: 19:33 CST 40:01:33 GMT
12/24/73
CC Okay, it looks good and we'll clean it

up and le;: you know we're through with it.
SPT Say Hank, is there any VTR time available
tomorrow at any time?
CC We'll check.
CC Roger Ed, it should be available tomorrow.
We ought _o get it cleaned off tonight.
SPT Okay, thank you very much Hank.
PLT Hank, I have the ATM frame count if you
want to copy.
CC Stand by 1 Bill.
CC Okay, Bill you can go ahead with the
frame count.
PLT Roger, 1991; 8291 and it failed to decrement
on the last exposure. 527 2219 1233.
CC PLT_ Houston_ in regard to the scanning
SPECT light what we think happened here is we were running
unattended OPS and it is possible that if you came up and
selected a mode different from what we had commanded and then
went in parallel that it could cause the instrument to do
funny things there - causes it perhaps the detector tripped off
and gave you the alert light there.
PLT Okay, how do you avoid that when you
come up from unattended? I went through the little unattended
operations power up from unattented (static)
SPT - - clear out the mode.
PLT I'ts no big deal, I think you can get it
squared away and tell us later.
SPT I think it might be the same command that
we have on the JOP summary sheets clear off the gratin_ advance
by the third switch, 40134 or something like that.
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SL-IV MC1307/I
Time: 19:45 CST, 40:01:45 GMT
12/24/73
CC gkylab, Houston, through Bermuda for

5-i/2 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. Did you run your last
pass a rev early?
PLT It sure looks that way, Hank.
CC Okay, it just had us confused here for a
little bit. And I think - I about got my head straight what
happened here, on that cue card powerup from unattended is
built for powered up after unattended operations. And not
during unattended operations which we were doing. The flare
prep for unattended brings you up if we are running unattended.
Now the difference is if on - if if you do this takeover
there, you've got to enter a DAS command to - to stop SO55 and
get it configured properly. And I think that maybe what
caused the problem you had there with the alert light.
PLT Yeah, that's a (garble) on me, because I'm
just a flat hour off, that's what I'm - that's what was wrong.
SPT (Garble), we're not getting ahead of the
time line. Hank?
PLT Usually arrives to close there on time,
Hank, l'm just looking at the minutes. Express my apology
to the guys in the backroom for screwing up their observations.
CC That's no problem Bill. And we're talking
about now what we want to do here on the next rev. Skylab,
Houston, we're going into keyhole, be in about a minute and
back out again.
CC PLT, Houston, we're back with you again.
And _ and we were wondering if you would mind running building
block i over again, on the next rev. And with the only change
beinK omitting the 82A ops looks like we're about out of
film on that one.
PLT I'd be delighted to do that Hank. Again,

tell them I_m sorry about that.
CC No problem, don't worry about it.
CC And SPT, Houston, I guess we don't want
you to bother with the ED41 this evening. If you do you'll
have to do _ undo some of the EVA preps you've done. And we're
trying to understand this recorder thing a little bit, if you
turn on the recorders up at panel 204 like it calls for there,
when you take that switch up to the ZPN/EKG, enable, that
disables the recorder light down in the workshop. And I don't
know whether those were the ones you were referring to or not,
that you couldn't get on.
SPT Yeah, that's it Hank, I guess I just never
understood that thing, and I was trying to rush through it,
and I really didn't have time to psych it out. Knowing
that now, it _s no problem. I could turn them on from down here
but I should not expect a light. Is that correct? That is I
could turn them on from the OWS panel but not expect a light.
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CC That's affirmative.
SPT - - them. Go ahead.
CC You're absolutely correct with that
Ed, that's true.
SPT Okay. Tell old Cathy I'll get her some
data in another couple of days or so.
CC Okay, we'll schedule it. And we're about
20 seconds from LOS. We'll see you at Canaries at 57, with
a recorder dump.
hour 53 minutes. With loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 3 minutes and 30 seconds through Canary Island
tracking station. As Skylab begins it 3,241st revolution
of the Earth since launch from Cape Kennedy, on May 14th.
Crew of Skylab IV concluding their 39th day in orbit. A day of
performing more photography of Kohoutek Comet Kohoutek
which tomorrow will receive the attention of the crew as they
go outside the vehicle to install three separate instruments
to record data on the comet. The cameras will be put out
during a scheduled 5_i/2 hours extravehicular activity,
with Commander Gerald Cart, and Bill Pogue exiting the
spacecraft:, while Scien - Science Pilot Ed Gibson remains
inside monitorin_ the extravehicular work of his two fellow
astronauts. His position will be at the Mul - at the MDA
Apollo telescope mount control and display panel, monitoring
the systems and supervising the checklist as the crew goes
through their work outside the vehicle. Next acquisition in
2 minutes through Canary. We_ll hold the line up until this
pass,
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SL-IV MC1308/I
TIME: 19:55 CST, 40:01:55 GMT
12/24/73
CC Skylab, Houston we're through the Canary

Islands for 8 minutes and for the PLT, just to make clear what
I said a while ago, we would like for you to I said building
block i, but we would like for you to do everything that's
on that pass except the 82A ops.
PLT Rog, understand Hank.
CC And for the SPT, there's one more funny
with those recorders, if you turn them on down there in the
workshop, you got to turn them off down there and likewise
if you turn them on in the STS, that's where you have to
turn them off.
SPT Okay, Hank, thank you.
CC PLT, Houston since you got the nuZ update
on the last rev, we won't need this rev coming up.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC And we're about a minute from LOS,
Tananariw_ at 17.
2 hours, 7 minutes. Loss of signal through overlapping
acquisition of the Madrid and Canary tracking stations.
Next acquisition Tananarive voice relay station in
9 minutes and 25 seconds. The crew about completed their
evenin_ meal at this time. Today is one of the 28 days
during the mission, the crew has the high density food bars
on their menu. For the evening meal the crew had pork loin
with dressinK, mash potatoes and one of the chocolate bar
high density items aboard the spacecraft. Next acquisition
in 8 minutes and 50 seconds through Tananarive. At Greenwich
mean time 2 hours, 8 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1309/I
TIME: 20:16 CST, 40:02:16 GMT
12/24/73

2 hours, 16 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Tananarive voice relay station in 35 seconds. We'll hold
the line open for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive
6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank I just finished taking the
233 photos and Kohoutek is not looking like our old pretty
graceful-looking blue-white comet anymore. It's getting so
close to the Sun now that the tail is fanning out, it's very
short. I think, I can't see the rest of the tail just because
it's so light. But what I can see behind the comet now, the the
actual nucleus is getting quite large and bright and the tail,
all we cain see is a fan behind it. And we're beginning to see
some reds and some yellows in it.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Let me change my terminology Hank, this
nucleus isn't getting any bigger_ the coma is getting bigger.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Incidentally CDR, that's the last $233
we_ll be doing until post perihelion.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston for info, we've been
pouring over our data back here in regard to your comment about
the fireflies. And we can't find anything wrong, we don't
see anything on the momentum, we don't see anything in the
command module or in the workshop, The only thing that we
could find that could possibly be related is that about 2 min-
utes approximately before your call of the mol be - mol sieve
bed cycled and of course you know that vents the new bed to the
outside and it's just possible there could have been something
from that you saw.
CDR That might have been it, Hank because it
was coming from that direction and it was very small particles
and some of them stayed right with us. Some of the slower ones
ended up Just followin_ along with us and I think we were just
it was coincidental we were just at the right kind of Sun
situation at the terminator there where we could really see
it.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about i minute from
LOS, we'_l see you at Honeysuckle at 42 and we'll be standing
by for the evening status report there.
SPT Okay_ Hank. Hank I got a question about
the r Hank you still with us?
CC Roger.
SPT On page 2_2, 2.2-5 on the EVA Checklist
talking about the S020 exposures_ are those supposed to be
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12/24/73
above 400K and also the one for 60 minutes we could never
get in one dayside. How do they propose to plan - how do we
propose to carry that one off?
CC Okay, I'ii try to get an answer for you
at Honeysuckle.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 2 hours
25 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive, next
acquisition in 16 minutes and I0 seconds will be the
Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia. Christmas messages
continue to go up to the crew. The most recent one is from
the Mission Evaluation room and Glynn S. Lunney who is in
addition to being head of the ApolloSoyuz test project here
at the Johnson Space Center is also manager of the Apollo
Spacecraft Program Office at the Johnson Space Center. The
message reads: "To the three crewmembers of Skylab IV, you
guys are doing a great job up there and givinK Santa a run
for his money. So here is a Christmas wish for you from the
MER and Lunnet. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all
that kind of jive from all of us here in Building 45.
Building 45 is right next door to the Mission Control Center
here at the Johnson Space Center. Another message being
prepared for relay up tonight to Skylab-IV crew, specifically
Pilot Bill Pogue is a message from his family. One from his
18-year-old daughter, a simple "jingle bells, jingle bells,
fa-la_fa-la, fa_la° We opened all you Christmas presents
ha, ha, ha." Signed Lana Pogue, 18-year-old daughter of
Pilot Bill Pogue. Another message signed by Mrs. William Pogue.
Tom 16_year-old son of the Pilot and 20-year-old son Bill
and again Lana Pogue reads as follows. To Bill (Wilbur),
we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas,
we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." And at
the bottom is a little caricature saying "Go Cowboys."
Apparently Pilot Pogue is a fan of the Cowboys. Next
acquisition will be through the Honeysuckle tracking station
in 13 minutes and 55 seconds. At Greenwich mean time
2 hours and 28 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI310/I
Time: 20:41 CST, 40:02:41 GMT
12/24/73

hours 41 minutes. Coming up over the Honeysuckle tracking
station in 50 seconds. During the Tananarive pass Commander
Gerald Carr commenting on the Comet Kohoutek, he was advised
that this will be the last time that the $233 experiment,
the camera used through the command module window, will be
used until[ post perihelion of the comet. This will come af
at - in early January. The next scheduled opportunity for
use of the $233 camera, through the command module window
is January 7th. We'll hold the line up for this Honeysuckle
pass. This pass will be devoted to the evening status report
by Commander Carr. CAP COMM is still Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle
for 9_i/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. It's coming at you with the
evening status report.
CC Ready to copy.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 5.0, 5.0 heavy; SPT,
7.0, 7.0 iheavy; PLT, 7.5, 6,5 heavy, 1.0 light. Volume: CDR,
2000_ SPT, 2250; PLT, 1800. Water gun: CDR, 7720_ 3256; 9453.
Body mass: CDR, 6.292, 6.292, 6.294; SPT, 6.370, 6.370, 6.375;
PLT, 6.248, 6.247, 6.247. Exercise: CDR, Alfa, minus 2
minutes; SPT, minus Bravo and Foxtrot, those are the methods;
PLT, no clhange. Stand by. Okay, correction on the SPT,
exercise it's minus Alfa and all the rest is standard. Okay,
medication: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as directed.
Clothing: CDR, one pair of socks; SPT, one pair of socks and
shorts, and a T-shirt; PLT, none - correction PLT, one shirt.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list: none.
Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
Food log: CDR, salt 9.0, deviations, on - plus one tea, plus
one strawberry drink, rehydration water, plus 1.0; SPT, salt
packs, 5.5, deviations, one grape drink, and plus one tea,
rehydration water plus 8.0; PLT, I0.0 salt, no deviations,
minus 2.0 water. Okay, getting back to the SPT food deviations,
change the plus one grape to plus one cherry drink. Okay, Photo
log: 16_millimeter, we haven't done it yet but we're going to
shoot up at transporter number 7 that's in the back, that's Charlie
India 74, 12, Charlie India 72, we're going to burn that up
so that'll be reading 00 when we're finished, and it'll be
under documentary photos, Christmas activity. Nikons: I, Charlie
X_ray 36, 15; 2, Bravo Echo 04, 43; 3, Charlie India iii, 30;
4, Bravo Echo 08, 38; 5,, Bravo Hotel 05, 52. The 70-millimeter
is Charlie X_ray 17, frame count is 157. ETC no change. EREP
no change. Drawer A configuration: AI, through 144 no change;
the back 07 Charlie India 74, 00, Charlie India 72. And that's
it Hank.
CC Okay, Jer we got it.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1311/I
Time: 20::46 CST 40:02:46 GMT
12/24/73
PLT Hank, PLT here, would you ask the ATM

people if they'd still like the VTR in 3 minutes?
CC Will do.
CC Yeah, we'd like to get that Bill and after
we get that dumped we can - we'll let you know.
PLT But you would like to go ahead and do
it, okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've had our funny
occur again with all our multiplex system there, we'd like to
get someone up to panel 200 in the STS and under instrumentation
system, that's on the bottom row right, open the TRANSDUCER
group i plus 5 VOLTS circuit breaker. What we're going to
do is leave that open for about a minute and see - and then
close it again and see if that'll cure our problem. And if
it doesn't cure the problem at least it'll give some insight
into, we think it will, what's happening.
PLT Okay Hank, I copy 25 volts, I think you
said 5 volts, is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, 5 volts, plus 5 volts.
PLT Okay, I_ii go do that one.
PLT TRANSDUCER group I plus 5 volts, circuit
breakers open.
CC Okay, thank you Bill, and if you'll stand
by we'_ll want you to close it here in a minute.
PLT Okay, I'ii go over there and wait, I can't
use the 131 box I have it configured for the EVA right now.
CC Okay, PLT, you can go ahead and close the
c_rcuit breaker again.
PLT Rog, that's complete. Oh, yes, this works
all right.
CC And Skylab, Houston, in regard to VTR,
I guess we might as well leave that hooked up tonight and get
it in the morning, we want to dump the ATM stuff and we also
want to redump TV81 to make sure we got it. We're about 40
seconds from LOS, the next site is Hawaii at 02 and that's
your med conference.
PLT Okay Hank, and there's no reason to power
down that VTR, it was using that same power cord or outlet
tkat the 518 was using - a 512.
CC Okay, we copy.
hours 52 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle the last
pass for the crew through Honeysuckle for this evening in their
wake period. Next acquisition will be 9 minutes and 20 seconds
tkrough Hawaii, this will be their evening medical report with
the FliKht Surgeon Doctor Gerald Hordinsky. Next acquisition in
9 minutes at Greenwich mean time 2 hours 52 minutes this is
Skyla5 Control.
END O_ TAPE
SL-IV MC1312/I
TIME: 21:12 CST, 40:03:12 GMT
12/24/73
PAO Skylab Cqntrol, Greenwich mean time

3 hours 112 minutes. We'll have acquisition through the
Goldstone, California tracking station in i minute. During
the Honeysuckle pass, Pilot Bill Pogue was asked to throw
a circuit breaker- open a circuit breaker in panel 200 and
the structural transition section of the workshop. The
ground had received some degraded data during the
Honeysuckle pass and an attempt was (garble) to switch some
circuit breakers in an attempt to see if -clear that data up.
The switch was thrown however at the close of the Honeysuckle
pass, the data was still degraded, the ground is still looking
at this problem. However, the data did come in it's just
not as clear as it should be and further attempts to clear
this data reception up will be made through the stateside pass.
Acquisition through Goldstone, the last pass for the evening
for the crew of Skylab IV, Christmas Eve. We'll hold the
line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank we've been sitting here
waiting wondering when you've got some news for us.
CC Okay, I got a little news for you, I got
a couple of other items on the - first if you don't mind
on the ATM panel, wetd like to get the H-alpha 1 to two frames
per minute. And S056 high voltage beryllium and aluminum off.
CC And Skylab, Houston I wonder if we
could get someone to support one little bit more of troubleshooting
on that multiplexer problem we got at panel 200?
PLT Yeah_ stand by Hank I'll go right up.
CC While you're going up there, SPT for you
got an answer to your S020 question. We' - We're only
interested in day to - total daylight time so you don't have
to worry about the 400 K and in the exposures we want
accumulated time so you can start an exposure and then just count
the daylight time and when you go into darkness, of course
that time doesn't count then pick it up the next sunrise and
if EV 3 would we'd have him call out the exposure start
and stop t lhnes and the sunrise and sunset so we can get the
exact f±gure on the total exposure.
SPT Okay, Hank thanks very much. I'ii be
EV 3_ I was wondering whether they had to do anything in the way
of closing the shutter but I guess there's no way to do that
unless you advance one of the plates. So that makes it clear.
Thank you.
PLT Okay, Hank PLT standing by to help you
on the multiplexer.
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TIME: 21:12 CST, 40:03:12 GMT
12/24/73
CC Okay, Bill last time we opened that

group 1 plus 5 volt this time we' like to open group 2 plus 5 volt.
PLT Okay, group 2 plus 5 volts open.d
CC Okay, thank you Bill.
CC Okay, Bill if you're still there we'd like
to get group i plus 5 open, now that'llget both of them
open.
PLT Group I plus 5 open again?
CC That's affirmative, group i and group 2
now will be open_ plus 5 volts.
PLT That's the present configuration, just
did it.
CC And for SPT Houston, just a few more words,
Ed you're absolutely correct. (Garble) close the shutter, go
_nto the S position_ just move the slide out of the focal
plane there and for our purposes, we'll just leave it at
frame and Let the Earth do the occulting for us and just keep track
of the time.
SPT Okay, Hank that's - that's very good, I'Ii
do the bookkeeping tomorrow and let you know how we're coming
along. Thank you.
CC Okay, PLT you can close both breakers now
and that'ill do it for now_ thank you very much.
PLT Okay, Hank they're going closed.
CDR Hey Hank we cantt stand the suspense anymore.
We're going to open up our Christmas present now.
CC Okay, you really want to do that, Huh.
Skylabp Houston we're about i minute from LOS, we'll see you
at Bermuda at 25 and for info, we got the wrong message in
the pool and sent up a message on the 5A forcast 4033 and
that wasn't the final version and we're uplinking 4033 alfa
right behind it so you can disregard the first.
SPT Okay, Hank will do.
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time 3 hours
21 minutes. Loss of signal through the Goldstone tracking
station. Next acquisition in 3 minutes and 40 seconds will be
Bermuda, Another attempt to clear up the data problem aboard
the spacecraft. The ground is still receiving partially
degraded data from some systems. Pilot Pogue went back to the
STS panel number 200 to switch some circuit breakers in an
attempt to clear up the problem associated with the multiplexer
system. Multiplexer is a device for sharing of a circuit by
two or more coincident (garble). The signals may be separated
by time division, frequency division, or phase division. This
problem first was noticed at the Honeysuckle pass. Attempts
to throw circuit breakers on panel 200 were made through
Honeysuckle again and again through the Goldstone station.
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Time: 21:22 CST, 40:03:22 GMT
12/24/73
another package on board. Personal gifts for the crew,

however, apparently they did not open that particular
package before retiring for the night.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1312/3
TIME: 21712 CST, 40:03:12 GMT
12/24/73
_GIL offi_zer reports to Chuck Lewis on the second attempt here

throuKh the States no joy. They will continue to look at the data
through the Bermuda pass and hopefully come up with a
solution before the crew is put the-put to bed for the night
through Ascension. Next acquisition in 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1313/I
Time: 21:22 CST, 40:03:22 GMT
12/24/73
CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda for

8 minutes. Got
a few words of news, if you'd like to hear it.
SPT Hank we opened up the little
package we found under the tree. And all I could say is
never have one when two will do. Never ha_e one - ne_er
have two. (Laughter) Let Jerry tell you. (Laughter)
CC I don't know - but you - you - maybe
you better start over. (Laughter).
CDR No, we got two Christmas trees, Hank.
We'll put our new one on the downlink for you, on the VTR.
CC Okay, good show.
SPT You'll have to tell Bruce that there
won't be any more room in here to run the 509.
CC All right, I'ii pass that on.
SPT Sure would like to hear some news if
you're ready Hank.
CC Okay, I'ii shoot a little to you here.
Shepherds watched their flocks by night and the armed Israeli
troops patrolled the hills around Bethlehem tonight as
Christmas came to the town where Jesus was born. Jewish
security forces kept watch over hilltop the hilltop town
in case of Arab guerilla sabotage as Christmas began with a
midnight mass in the grotto where tradition says the manger
of Jesus was located on that first Christmas. Here in the
U.S.A., a 5-year backlog of Christmas gifts awaits an Air
Force Colonel Vernon Ligon tomorrow. The presents, clustered
around the family tree date back to 1968, the time when
his plane was shot down over Hanoi. "There will be quite
a few gifts for all the family," he said. We have a
5year backlog. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger spent
some time with President Nixon today reporting on the openin_
of the Mideast talks. He said he and Nixon had a full
discussion on the Middle East, and that he'll meet the
President again on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, the first
family are back in Washington. They returned this morning
from Camp David. The President will spend a quiet Christmas
Day with family and friends after exchanging gifts in the
morning. Nixon is expected to spend at least part of the
day working in his office. The 750,000 residents of the
District of Columbia now have limited home rules. The
President signed legislation to that effect today. The
District now will elect city officials; however, Congress
still retains control of the spending budget. And there's
more bad news on the oil front, Kuwait's oil minister warned
that the Persian Gulf nations that only yesterday doubled
their posted per barrel oil prices, may hike them again in
the sprin E, "The decision taken in Tehran on Sunday covers
only the first quarter of 1974, said Abdnl Atiki, the Kuwait oil
SL-IV MC1313/2
Time: 21:22 CST, 40:03:22 GMT
12/24/73
minister. The Nort_wood, North Dakota, City Council has

given its residents an unusual Christmas present - free
electricity. Every consumer in the town received a $25 dollar
credit on bills due January ist. If the bill comes to more
than $25 dollars, the consumer pays the difference. The
city auditor estimated that the total deduction would be
approximately 7000 dollars in savings to the community
residents. In Tallahassee, Florida, they bi - did a big
pot bust down there. The state and federal co - police
confiscated more than 25 tons of marijuana. Officials said
it was the largest seizure of its kind in this country.
Police placed a 20-million-dollar value on the seized pot,
and arrested 13 persons in connection with the raid. And
there's very little sports news today. But the odds showed up
in the paper the Mi - Miami Dolphins are rated favorites to
win the American Football Conference over Oakland. And they're
saying Dallas and Minnesota are a tossup. And that's about
it.
SPT Okay, Hank, thank you very much.
CC Unless you have anything further for us
we're going to let you go for the evening here a little
early; that's appropriate. I want you to leave out your
cookies and milk for Santa Claus now and no getting up and
peeping during the night, or he won't come. We'll say good
night to you and Merry Christmas and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
SPT Merry Christmas to you Hank, and the
whole team down there. Thank you very much for - for sticking
with us today. And we'll see you tomorrow.
CDR Good night Frank - Hank, and give our
regards to Fran, and Judy and Keelie.
CC Okay, will do. Thank you Jerry. And as a
reminder to you, you have a private comm coming up here at
Canaries at 34. And it's left to right.
CDR Okay.
hours 33 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. The crew
was given an early good night from CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
They reported that they - they found - they opened their
packages early tonight, Christmas Eve and found another
Christmas tree aboard. They said they'll add that to their
other one and put it on the downlink - TV downlink to - for
tomorrow. The Christmas tree they found aboard was 3 by 3 feet,
3 feet across and 3 feet high. A tree made of Beta cloth,
flameproof, fireproof Beta cloth, green in color trimmed
with gold and silver ornaments. The tree was ma - made by the
Crew Systems Division here at the Johnson Space Center and
secretly packed aboard the command module before launch, on
November 16th. The cr - the crew was also advised there's
SL-IV MC-1314/I
Time: 21:35 CST 40:03:35 GMT
12/24/73
PAO The crew is scheduled for wake up call

tomorrow norning, 6:00 a.m. Christmas morning, December 25
for a full day of operations aboard the spacecraft including
an extravehicular activity to gather data on the celestial
visitor comet Kohoutek. EVA is scheduled for - to last 5-1/2
hours with Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue exiting
the spacecraft while Science Pilot Ed Gibson remains at the
ATM control and display panel in the MULTIPLE DOCKING ADATPER
monitoring and assisting his 2 crew mates as they deploy
three seperate scientific instruments to record data on the
Kohoutek comet as well as retrieving ATM film and resuppling
ATM film for the solar telescope cameras aboard Skylab as
well as retrieving the S149, partical collection experiment
which the crew deployed on the first EVA on mission day 7
on November 22, Thanksgiving Day. They will also make certain
repairs, pin open one of the ATM aperture doors as well as
work on the SO52 filter which became stuck several weeks
ago. The crew will attempt to dislodge the filter and once
again make the camera fully operational. Wake up tomorrow is
at 6:00 a.m. central daylight time. As the Skylab space
station enters its 225th day of operation tomorrow and the
crew of Skylab IV begins its 40th day in orbit. We are waiting
the report: from Dr. Gerald Hordinsky, Skylab Flight Crew
Surgeon. Upon receipt of that report we'll close the Public
Affairs consols down. At Greenwich mean time 3 hours and 37
minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1315/I
TIME: 21:45 CST, 40:03:45 GMT
12/24/73

3 hours 45 minutes. We have the medical report from
Dr. Gerald Hordinsky which reads as follows: The crew
remains in excellent health. The are definitely cleared
medically for tomorrow's Christmas Day EVA. Reflectin_
the crew's good mood, the three astronauts have spruced up
their Skylab home to be more Christmas-like and also shared
their deeper feelings about the season in their Christmas
message. Signed Dr. Gerald Hordinsky for Dr. W. R. Hawkins
director of Medical Operations Life Sciences Directorate,
Johnson Space Center. Troubleshooting for the problem of
the multiplexer system aboard the Skylab, similar problem
yesterday on day - mission day 38 developed while the crew
was sleeping. This apparent transient glitch disappeared before
the crew awoke, however the noisy data, the crew - the ground
received yesterday morning reappeared here this evening as
the spacecraft crossed over Honeysuckle about 1 hour ago.
Two attempts were made to switch circuit breakers, however
both times failed to alieiate and remove the noisy data
problem, This is causing no major concern to flight controllers
here at Mission Control Center. Data will continue to be
analyzed throughout the night and this will not affect tomorrow's
EVA, At Greenwich mean time 3 hours, 46 minutes on Christmas
Eve, the Public Affairs Console will close down and reopen
at 6 a,m. central standard time_ Christmas Day.
END 0F TAPE
SL-IV MC-1316/I
Time: 05:47 CST 40:11:47 GMT
12/25/73
PAO Merry Christmas. This is Skylab Control

at Ii hours 47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab in acqui-
sition at the Vanguard tracking ship, and CAP COMM Bruce
MoCandless thinks he probably will put a wakeup call in to
the crew at this station. We'll monitor and
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Van-
guard off station off the coast of Argentina this morning; to
support your EVA, wishing you all a very merry Christmas for
real this time. Since although we've been wishing you a merry
Christmas for a couple of days, today's the day. Over.
CDR Good morning, Bruce. Merry Christmas to
you.
CC And we got a couple of little messages
should be showing up in your teleprinter. I guess they're
there right now for you. No rush.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 15-1/2 minutes through Tanana-
rive at 12:11. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. The next station is Tananarive in 14 minutes.
Crew up and shortly will be_in preparations for their Christ-
mas Day EVA. At ii hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1317/I
Time: 06::11 CST 40:12:11 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours i0

minutes Greenwich mean time. Tananarive is acquiring the
space station. We'll stand by now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
for 4-1/2 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 37-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 12:54. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range now of the Tananarive station. Hawaii will be the
next acquisition in 37 minutes. At 12 hours 17 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1318/I
Time: 06:53 CST 40:12:53 GMT
12/25/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 53

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab moving up into range
of the Hawaii station antennas now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for i0 minutes. There'll be a data/voice tape recorder
dump at the Vanguard, your next site. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 22-i/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at sea at 13:25 with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.
CDR Rog, by, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Next acquisition will be the Vanguard tracking
ship in 20_i/2 minutes. At 13 hours 4 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 25
minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking ship Vanguard is
about to acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Van-
guard for 10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We got a little
over 2 minutes to LOS, and we're in the Vanguard-to-Vanguard
cycle here so we have about an hour and a half until the next
site, so if you have any questions to ask us about, CMC POWER
UP or anything of that sort, this would be a good time to do it.
And for the SPT, we just want to remind you that you're
changing stars in the star tracker update today. You're
using a new star, Acamar, Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC We see you were successful in using Canopus
this time but later on today it won't be available.
LOS. Next station contact in 1 hour and 29 minutes through
the Vanguard at 15:03. Out. And merry Christmas to all,
and to all a good night.
CDR See you, Bruce.
CC And looking at CMC and workshop data as
you go over the hill, everything's looking good. Out.
CDR Roger.
CC And for the SPT, the Conopus star tracker
update was satisfactory. You don't have to repeat it now.
SPT Okay_ Bruce.
CC Roger_ out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss osignal. We'll go one complete revolution of the
Earth now prior to the next acquisition, which will also be
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Time: 06:53 CST 40:12:53 GMT
12/25/73
at Vanguard, in i hour 27 minutes. Here in the Mission Con-

trol Center Flight Control team handover is taking place.
The Maroon Team Flight Director Milton Windler is coming
duty. The CAP COMM will be astronaut Story Musgrave. Pre-
parations Crew preparations for the extravehicular acti-
vity scheduled to start in about 24 minutes, 8 am central
standard Lime. Between now and then Skylab Commander Jerry
Carr will powerup the command and service module for use
on a standby basis durin_ the EVA.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1319/I
Time: 07:36 CST, 40:13:36 GMT
12/25/73
PAO - - activity scheduled to start in

about 24 minutes at 8 a.m. central standard time. Between
now and then, Skylab Commander Jerry Carr will power up the
command and service module for use on a standby basis during
the EVA. A tiny sphere of material streaking toward the
Sun at more than 200,000 miles per hour will capture the
undivided attention of the Skylab astronauts for at least
a portion of their 5_i/2_hour space walk for today. The
chunk at the heart of the comet Kohoutek, a visitor believed
to have started it's journey several trillion miles from
the Sun, is now closer to the Sun's intense heat than any
object in the solar system, less than 20,000,000 miles.
And although the comet's core is a hunk of ordinary substances,
only about 25 miles in diameter, the tremendous energy of
the Sun has already generated a bright cloud of gases more
than 500,000 miles across and streaming outward for some 15
million miles. The appearance of the bright dust and gasses
blown from the nucleus has changed rapidly during the past
few days. Science Pilot Ed Gibson estimated Sunday that
Kohoutek was as bright as Mercury, with a magnitude of minus
0.5 and a tail that was generally long and straight. But,
last night on Christmas Eve the Skylab Commander, Jerry
Carr, told the Mission Control that Kohoutek's color and
shape has undergone great changes. Kohoutek is not looking
like our old pretty graceful blue-white comet anymore, Cart said,
after recording the comet's brightness and shape with the
35_millimeter camera. It's getting so close to the Sun now
that the tail is fanning out. It's very short. Cart told
flight controllers in Houston that the comet's head was very
large and bright but the tail had fanned out and changed
from blue,white to multicolored. We're beginning to see
some reds and yellows in it, he advised scientists. Despite
the growing brightness expected to peak on December 28th as
the comet loops just 13 million miles from the Sun's surface,
earthbound observers will miss the comet's most exciting
moments. Only from an orbit far above Earth's light-scattering
atmosphere can men watch, photograph and study the comet as
it is seared and remolded by the tremendous energy of the
Sun. Working outside the Skylab space station, Jerry Carr
and Bill Pogue will take more than 50 photographs of the
comet, wkich could change unexpectedely as it sweeps around
t_e solar inferno. Scientists admit they know very little
about the nature of comets and predictions are made very
cautiously. So far, however, the comet Kohoutek appears to
have grown in brightness with a pattern much like that of
Arend_Roland, a comet that appeared in 1957. While Kohoutek
may become as bright as Venus in the next few days, it will
d_m very rapidly. Only space cameras will capture the maximum
brightness as it slips by the Sun. Earthlings will have to
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Time: 07:36 CST, 40:13:36 GMT
12/25/73
wait until about January 5th to view a dimmer, but still quite
visible, Kohoutek. Whether the comet will survice the close
brush with the Sun is by no means certain. The Sun's energy may
strip the nucleus to nothing, blowing it away into space.
Such was the fate of the Comet Ensor in 1906 and the Comet
Westphal in 1913. Still other comets have increased tremendously
in brightness, becoming visible in daylight as they neared the
Sun. The quick passage by the Sun may produce unusual shapes,
knots or circles or streamers, in Kohoutekts tail. By using
Skylab_s special comet camera, $201, and a 35-millimeter camera
designed to record very tiny amounts of matter in the vacuum
around the orbiting space station, this third team of astro-
nauts to work aboard the laboratory this year may give
scientists another key to unlocking the secrets of a very com-
plex univers. Skylab now 1 hour 21 minutes from acquisition
at Vanguard. At 13 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-IV MC-1320/I
Time: 09:02 CST 40:15:02 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours

2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is back at the Vanguard
after one full revolution of no contact. Crew should be about
midway through their EVA preparations. EVA scheduled to start
at i0 a.m. central standard time. We'll monitor through the
Vanguard pass and see how the EVA preparations are moving along.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanugard for
i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story.
CC Merry Christmas, Jer.
CDR Thank you. Hey, Story, we got a question
for you. Housekeeping 90A, I presume that's to be done before
and after the EVA. Is that affirmative?
CC Stand by I.
CC Jer, can you confirm that that's house-
keeping 90 Alfa. We show that as EREP powerdown, you don't
need to do that today.
CDR How come that came up in a general message
for housekeeping?
CDR Story, the problem is, we got a general
message 4036 that just, as far as we can see, was nonsense.
The only reason we could see for doing an EREP housekeeping
90A, the EREP powerdownp is just a power conservation thing,
while we're EVA.
CC Yeah. Jet, that message is for general
scheduling during the mission that some of those housekeeping
things may appear in the pre and post sleep periods, gut,
they're not to be done in ever pre and post sleep period.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And, while I got you. How'd the work in
the command module with CMC work and all go?
CDR No problem at all. How does it look to
you folks?
CC Jer, it all looks good down here. We
can't see that B MAG number i POWER is ON. And, of
course, your T20, so that we can't look at Tephem. We would like
a verification that you did a update Tephem.
CDR B MAG POWER is ON and I verify the Tephem
and it checked out okay.
CC Okay, good. Thatts probably instrumentation
now we're going to be bringing down the primary loop here and then
bringing on two pumps and you all will get a caution and warning
also we_ll be turning the MDA WALL HEATERS OFF.
CDR Story, I just looked out the wardroom window
and we're right along the Falkland current. And, it's very
perculiar looking today. There's a lot of red in it, a brownish
red. Wonder if these folks down here ever get anything llke the
red tides?
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Time: 09:02 CST 40:15:02 GMT
12/25/73
CC Thanks, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and
about 4 minutes to Ascension. Be dumping the data/voice
there.
CDR Roger, Story. And, we're jumping in our
suits right now.
CC Okay, thanks, Jer.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has had
loss of signal. Ascension will pick up Skylab in less than
2 minutes. We'll continue to monitor. Jerry Carr reporting
just before Ascension loss of signal that they were getting
into their p_essure suits. EVA officer is assessing the
t_me line now. We'll come back with a report on how the
crew is moving alon_ in these preparations as soon as he gives
a report to the Flight Director.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1321/I
TIME: 09:15 CST, 40:15:15 GMT
12/25/73
PAO Skylab AOS ascension for i0 minutes to

be dumped by the data/voice here.
PAO This is Skylab Control, the EVA officer
estimates hatch opening now for 10:30 a.m. central standard
time.
SPT Jer or Bill I know you're getting in
your suits but I got a question for you some time in about
the next 8 minutes.
CDR Go ahead.
SPT We're looking at inhihiting a momentum
dump here and we're thinking you'll probably depressurize the
hatch somewhere around 16;30, that's about an hour and
15 minutes from now and if you're estimating about an hour
and 15, too, I will not inhibit the momentum dump at this
time, I_ii let it get a dump in. If you think you'll get
out much before that I will go ahead and inhibit the momentum
now.
CDR No, that's okay. Go ahead and - and
don"t _nhibit it this time. I think it'll take us probably
an hour and 15.
SPT Okay Jer.
SPT Skylab, we're I minute to LOS in about
35 minutes to Guam. SPT Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Ed, when you get a chance you might just
check on the EVA checklist 1.2-11 that those switches on
panel 203 are in the right configuration. There's some
conflict with that and the housekeeping 98 that Jer might
have performed. That's just those panel 203 switches.
And just make them like the checklist says on 1.2-11. That's
panel 203.
SPT Okay Story, I'ii do it now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. The next station will be Guam in
33 and 1/2 minutes. The best estimate now is that today's
extravehicular activity will begin at 10:30 a.m. central
standard time. About an hour - just a few minutes over
an hour from now. At that time Skylab will be just a few
minutes away from acquisition at the Vanguard trackinR ship.
We'll get a better update on the preparation time line at
Guam in about 33 minutes. At 15 hours 28 minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1322/1
Time: I0:00 CST 40:16:00 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours Greenwich

mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through the Guam
station.
CC Skylab. AOS Guam 9 minutes.
SPT Okay.
PLT Yes, I think we're - there we go.
CDR Okay.
PLT How do you read, Ed?
CC And Houston's reading you loud and clearp Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Let's press on with this stuff. Hel-
met's on and then go PRESSURE SELECT to BOTH. I'll watch you.
CDR Here you go.
PLT Just a second. (Garble).
CDR I can't see the alignment.
PLT Yes. Just a second.
CDR I'll tell you what. You put my helmet
on, I'll put yours on.
PLT Okay.
CDR Right between mine and I'll lock it.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay?
PLT Now take it to that hole way over there.
CDR Got it.
PLT Gee. Look, I'll get it (garble). I can't
see the alignment mark either.
CDR First, prop the (garble) front of the SEVA.
PLT Okay. Take that. Take this (garble)
Okay, we're in business and your
CDR Might they ought to put my SUIT PRESSURE to
FLOW?
PLT Yes, I will, stand by.
CDR Okay.
PLT (Garble)
CDR I believe it should be BOTH.
PLT Yes. Stand by.
CDR Okay?
PLT Okay. I'll put your (garble) on down here.
You're slightly off alignment. Does it bother you?
CDR No.
PLT Okay.
CDR Put your foot back in there. Okay?
PLT Got a good snap on t_e helmet_ Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT It's in good shape. Okay.
CDR Okay.
PLT (Garble) on my throat.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Ed, Houston.
CDR Okay. I think you got a good one.
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Time: i0:00 CST 40:16:00 GMT
12/25/73
PLT Okay. That's it. I'm going -

CDR It's a whole lot easier when you have the
SEVA off.
PLT Sure is.
CDR Okay. Just a minute. Hold still. There
we go. There.
PLT Okay. All right. Stand by i.
PLT All right. PRESSURE SELECT to BOTH, we've
got. Verify 02 FLOW; we have.
CDR Verified.
PLT REG 1 LOW FLOW light, OFF.
CDR Mine's out.
PLT All right. LOW VENT FLOW light, OFF.
CDR It's out.
PLT Lower SEVA protective visor.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About
30 minutes to the Vanguard.
CDR Roger.
PLT And PCU checkout.
CC And, Bill, your heart rate output is a
little erratic. You might try pushing through the suit under
the sensors if you get a chance.
PLT Okay. I'll push on them right now. Howls
that? Okay?
CC We'll take another look at them over the
Vanguard. It's no problem. And, Ed, no need to acknowledge,
on your SO20 ops and your T025 ops use the exposure sequences
that are in the EVA Checklist. Disregard those that are in
the Cue Cards for both those, and I'll give you another reminder
over the Vanguard.
PLT No. Note, cuff gage in - Can you read me, Jer?
CDR Yes, I can. You're a little weak, but
Okay.
PLT Okay. Cuff gauge in (garble) Minus 0.15 psi
(garble) MAX. Nominal plus or minus 0.04, psi (garble).
REG i, LOW FLOW, and LOW VENT FLOW light, nad 5-seconds delay
Okay. PRESSURE SELECT to REG 2, then we will get a tone, REG 1
LOW FLOW and possible a LOW VENT FLOW. Okay! PRESSURE SELECT
to REG 2.
CDR Okay. Mine's in 2.
PLT REG 1 of LOW FLOW. There's REG i LOW FLOW.
CDR I got mine.
PLT No LOW VENT FLOW, yet.
CC And your heart rate looks good, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
SL-IV MC-1322/3
Time: i0:00 CST 40:16:00 GMT
12/25/73

of signal. The Vanguard will pick up Skylab 29 minutes from
now. Crew Commander Jerry Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue going
through wuit checks as we lost contact at Guam. We expect
that the extravehicular activity will start about the time
we get Vanguard acquisition. Perhaps a minute of 2 earlier.
This EVA's scheduled to last 5 hours and 30 minutes. As the
crew operates three special instruments to record comet
Kohoutek information, and then changes out film in five of the
solar cameras, retrieves the micrometeorite particle collection
experiment, pins open one of the faulty doors on a solar
experiment, and then Jerry Carr will attempt to fix the S054
filter door, the filter door for the X-ray spectrographic
telescope which is hung up between filters, it is believed now.
He'll try to move that around to an open position. At 16 hours
13 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1323/I
TIME: 10:38 CST, 40:16:38 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 0 at 16 hours

38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about a minute and
1/2 away from acquisition through Vanguard. The crew has
gone to the waste operated microphone mode of communications,
and could be talking as we come into acquiaition so we'll
come up a little early. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart has
joined Story Musgrave at the Cap Comm console. We'll stand
by for first communications at Vanguard and see whether the
EVA has started yet.
CDR Okay, I'm looking at your pressure too, Bill.
PLT And it's good, and I'm gonna - got an SOP
FLOW and SUS 1 is open again. SOP is out.
CDR You want me to do the same thing, right?
PLT Okay, fire away.
CDR All right?
CDR No, I don't think you need to. Let me see,
I don't think I can see your (garble) it's probably can. I think
you're gonna be on the wrong side of me.
PAO The hatch is not open yet.
CDR Okay, this is SUS 202 supply that's gonna
come off. Here it goes now. I got good pressure, got an
SOP FLOW light. Going back to open. And it's opened and
locked.
CC Skylab we're reading you loud and clear
through the Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, let me do his first. Bill_ can
you move to your right? We're jammed up. Move forward.
All right If you'll just do furerate - a (garble) toward me.
That grain looks real good. All right.
PLT Let me look at my rings here. That's good,
CDR All right. Now let me check your PCW plugs.
All right the three are lock. Your water plug is in good.
All right now the thing left to look at is wrists. Okay, my
right wrist is good.
PLT My wrists are good.
CDR Okay.
PLT Let me take a look at the (garble)
CDR All right.
CC Ed, Houston.
CDR Okay, looks good.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, on the S020 ops and the T025 op use
the exposure sequences that are in the EVA Checklist as
opposed to the Cue Cards. Don't use the Cue Cards.
CDR Okay, Ed, all of the neck rings, wrist rings
have been checked and the PCU valves are all checked and locked.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, Say again the pressure.
CCR 3.6 Okay.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay.
SL-IV MC1323/2
TIME: 10:38 CST, 40:16:38 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Roger. Now I got that, we got her.

CDR Notice what the bias is now Ed it's
slightly biased before you start. Yea, just kind of mentally
record that bias.
PLT In work.
PLT I should hold at 375. Jer, how did you
read?
CDR Loud and clear.
PLT Okay.
PAO Airlock module pressure coming down now.
CDR 03.8
PLT It's in here right now. We'll just wait
and see how good.
CDR That's quite clear.
PLT What?
CDR Did you say it's heavy?
PLT Oh yeah, it's - it's pretty - pretty solid.
CDR I got the wrong light - oh yeah you're
right.
PLT Do we still have (garble) Nothing.
Yeah, it's still dropping.
CDR Oh yeah, (garble) be able to do it on a comm
cable there. There - You should have a comm cable rooted from,
I believe, 102 or 126 over to where you are so that you don_t
have to reach over to a comm box to VOX. That's part of the clues
sent up. Look at the drawing in there that shows the clues and
I think it'll show you where your Mike key is and what it hooks
up to. (Garble) we're about 2.75. It's a good garbage collector
doesn't it?
PLT Yeah.
CC Skylab, we're hearing you discuss the
comm management and we think you should have a CCU (garble)
hooked up to 102 and then he can hit the transmit part of that
PCU to talk to us.
CDR Right. That's what I thought. He's
checking that now.
PLT That's in work, Story.
CC Okay, if you need a page number 1.2-3.
PAO Airlock pressure 2.3 now.
CDR Okay.
PLT Actually it - it sort of (garble)
CDR I'd say what - 75 to 80 percent of it's
covered now.
PLT Yeah, at least.
CDR It's about a 1/8 inch (garble) all the
way around the outer edge of the screen if it's still clear.
And one little hole on - about half way - that's about a
quarter of an inch in diameter.
PLT Yeah, it's starting to shrink away now.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1324/I
Time: 10:49 CST 40:16:49 GMT
12/25/73
PLT I've 1.7 now.

SPT Pressure now about a pound and a half.
CDR How's the old coolanol system looking,
Houston?
CC It's looking good, Jet.
CDR I sure can't see how we could appreciate
this water cooling. I'd hate to be going out gas cooled.
CC Roger that. Skylab, we're 30 sec-
onds to LOS and about 6 minutes to Ascension.
CDR Roger. See you then.
SPT Houston, how do you read EV-3?
CC Ed, that's good.
SPT Thank you, Story.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard's had
loss of signal. Ascension will acquire Skylab in 5 minutes.
We'll keep the line up, continue to monitor in to the Ascen-
sion pass. At loss of signal we're showing 1 pound per square
inch pressure in the airlock. The SO20 X-ray ultraviolet camera
will be used for the first time during this extravehicular
activity. S020 originally was to be operated through the
solar airlock, but the necessity of deploying the Sun shield
through that airlock has prevented operation of the experiment
thus far in Skylab. Pilot Bill Pogue is scheduled to mount
the S020 camera on the far side of the Apollo telescope mount
truss in the fixed airlock shroud area. The camera will be
aimed at the Sun and several exposures are planned for varying
times of from 1 hour to 1 minute. As many of these exposures
will be made by Pogue as possible during the course of the EVA.
Purpose of the S020 experiment is to record on photographic
film the detailed energy spectrum of X-ray and ultraviolet
radiation from normal and explosive areas in the solar atmos-
phere. The principal investigator for S020 is Dr. Richard
Tousey of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington,
D.C. Skylab about 3 minutes away now from Ascension.
CDR Okay. Let's go.
PLT (Garble) Ed, three.
SPT Yes.
PLT Unlock. Stand by. Open.
CC Okay, copy that, Skylab, and we're AOS
through Ascension, Canary in Madrid here for about 14 minutes.
SPT That doing, Bill?
PLT Ed, did you read?
SPT No, you're going to have to talk louder,
Bill.
PLT Okay. Go turn the VOX up. We fought this
problem last time.
CDR Okay. Now hold it open while he's engaged.
PAO Hatch open time was 16:55 Greenwich mean
time, 10:55 a.m. central standard time.
SL-IV MC-1324/2
Time: 10:49 CST 40:16:49 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Okay. EV-I is complete.

PLT Now do you read me, Ed [?]?
CDR Okay. EV-2 is complete and I'm reading
3.65.
PLT EV-I is reading 35.
CDR EV-I going to EVA NORM now. EV-2 to EVA
NORM. Do you want verified? 3.6.
CDR EV-2 is reading 3.65, right now.
PLT I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, i. - -
SPT (Garble)
PLT (Garble) now.
CDR i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, i. Normal
volume, okay.
SPT Sounds good.
CDR Okay. Good. Thanks, Ed.
CC Ed, you up in the command module now?
If so we got a couple circuit breakers for you to check.
CDR Yes, he is. Go ahead. He's listening.
CC Okay. For Ed that's on panel 8. The
left of the commander's couch. In the upper lefthand corner
of panel 8, STS, AC-I, that circuit breaker ought to be closed.
If it's not, go ahead and close it. The next one is also on
panel 8. That's STS systems MAIN A, that's right to the left
of the floodlight switch.
SPT (Garble)
CDR Stand by, Story. Let him get the first
one first, Story.
CC Okay.
CDR Start all over, Story. And read give him
enough time in between there. He's going to zip it.
CC On panel 8. STS, AC-I. Check if that
circuit breaker's in. If it's not in, push it in. That's
on the upper leftmost corner of panel 8.
CDR Okay. It's in.
CC Okay. The one other to check is STS
SYSTEMS MAIN A. That's on the third row just to the left of
the floodlight switches. STS SYSTEM MAIN A.
CDR Okay. He's checking that. The first - -
Right.
CDR Okay. Both circuit breakers were in.
CC Thank you. And that's all we've got for
you in the command module, Ed.
CDR Okay. Are the B MAGs okay? Is B MAG-I
1 okay, Story?
CC We've still got the indication that we've
got no spirt - spin motor on B MAG MAG-I, but we're looking
at it.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 10:49 CST 40:16:49 GMT
12/25/73
CC And no need to acknowledge, but we're

not planning any troubleshooting on that. That's a backup
to the backup.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. This is the EV-2. When we opened
the hatch, we saw a lot of contamination move out, but I
don't see any now. Bill, do you see any?
PLT I just did see a few (garble) around
(garble) I don't I don't think I see more than three particles.
CDR Okay.
PLT That's (garble).
CDR (Garble) Just a minute, Bill.
PLT Okay.
CDR All right. (Garble).
CDR Okay. EV-I, is that the foot restraints?
It works. Okay. Stand by. 9 feet.
CDR There's i0 coming up. See it.
PLT Yep.
PLT - - what that 7 is over there?
CDR That's the number of your umbilical.
PLT Yes.
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SL-IV MC-1325/I
Time: Ii:01 CST 40:17:01 GMT
12/25/73
PLT - - what that 7 is over there.

CDR That's the number of your umbilical.
PLT Yeah.
PLT Okay. My umbilical is connected and
EV-I has got 3.6 and all lights are out.
CDR Okay. EV-2 is 3.67 and all lights are
out.
CDR All right, let me get 20 first and then
read that stuff again.
PLT Down by your left leg.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, I have 20 in my hand, Ed. Now read
me the other words again.
CDR All right_ that's in work.
SPT Tell me when, I'll give you the 15 seconds.
CDR It's in VENT.
SPT Okay. Stand by.
SPT MARK. 15 seconds.
CDR Continue on, Ed.
CDR Okay, stand by.
CDR That's verified, Okay. That's in work,
Okay, it's in OPEN. In work. That little bitty knob is
murder.
CDR Okay, it's uncovered.
CDR In work.
PLT I will, when I get it.
PLT Okay, just a sec° Tether that.
CDR There's a handle underneath for you. Let
me turn it over. There you go.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay. He's _ot it tethered to him. Now_
what's next, again?
PLT Hand me that (garble) I want that on the
other arm. That didn't work, Ed. Okay, I'm going to have to
take it off. Now, I got it into position. Yeah, just a second.
I'm tightening it down. Okay, I can take the tether off now.
I got it tightened on truss, I don't want to looae this tether.
(garble)
CDR Okay, what's next?
PLT It's in work.
CDR Boy, that thing really reflects the light_
doesn't it, Bill?
PLT Sure does, that's for sure.
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Time: ii:01 CST 40:17:01 GMT
12/25/73
PLT Okay, Ed. I may have to make an adjust-

ment on the clamp, that's on the truss. I tried to get it
as smooth as I could. (Garble). Okay, now just I'm gonna
have to come out of my foot restraints for that. That rotates
in Just a couple of minutes. Just hold on.
CDR There you go.
PLT All right get it to center. That ought to
do it. (Garble)
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, we're hearing your S020 pointing comments
and you got about 5 minutes of day remaining here. You'll be
managing the exposures on that and when we come over stations,
we'd like to keep up with you on the exposures_ maybe we can help
you out some there.
SPT I'm getting quite a bit of interference
You might just do it again. Okay, Story. We'll try and sure
and try and keep you posted where we go. I notice that the highest
priority exposure is the 60 minute one. And, I assume that
that's the one you wanted to start first so, I have the event
timer set up in here. And, I just plan to get the event timer
count down at 60 or count down from 60 and cut it off whenever
we have to go into darkness and pick it up again whenever we
come into light. And, I plan to use the 40K time, which we have
on the event timer is the cage for that. And, I wonder if that's
satisfactory to those folks? Like, right now, I show we have
exactly 4 minutes
SPT MARK, remaining in day.
CC Ed, that sounds like a good way to go on
S020.
PLT (Garble) doggone. It's like flying
and not moving
SPT Okay.
CDR I'm going to have to test it once more.
CC And, Ed, in case you need to reconfigure
the primary coolant loop for any reason when you're LOS. We're
presently operating on INVERTER number 2 and PUMP B and C,
Bravo and Charlie.
SPT INVERTER 2 and Bravo, Charlie. Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Boy, I barely have the - I don't quite
have enough freedom of travel in that ball joint to get the
thing exactly centered.
CDR Ed. What's my next experiment to get
ready? 25?
CC Skylab, we're 40 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over at Guam, in about 27 minutes, at 17:38, be
dumping the data/voice there.
SPT Okay, Story.
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Time: ii:01 CST 40:17:01 GMT
12/25/73
PLT Okay, just about got her. It's an awful

lot of twange in this thing.
CDR Sure is. It's really twanging.
PLT Just about got it. That (garble) is
what I had a bit ago there.
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SL-IV MC-1326/I
Time: 11:12 CST, 40:17:12 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now

out of range of the Madrid station. Guam will acquire in
24-1/2 minutes. As we had loss of signal, Jerry Carr and
Bill Pogue were adjustinK and pointing the SO20 experiment.
It sounded as if they were about to get that experiment
lined up with the Sun. The next order of business after
installing $020 is installing the TO25 experiment, which will
gather information on the comet Kohoutek. This experiment
originally was to be used to photograph the amount of light
scattered by particles from thruster firings and waste dumps
and was to have been mounted in the solar scientific airlock. The T025
has been modified for use during the EVA to photograph Kohoutek.
During the EVA on November 22nd, the crew had a problem with
the knob that: makes the exposure settings, and after 5 expo-
sures, the experiment was discontinued. That has been modi-
fied. During today's EVA, Bill Pogue will install T025 on
the Apollo telescope mount truss in the fixed airlock shroud
area and he will attempt to make as many exposures of the
comet Kohoutek as possible. Some 40 exposures are scheduled
during the course of this EVA. The camera will be set on
stop 2 during all exposures. And exposure times will
vary from 80 seconds to I/i000 of a second. A series
of 16 filters; are to be used. Each one exposing a different
wave-length. And Bill Pogue will make the filter changes as
called for in the exposure table. This experiment is essentially
a 35-millimeter camera with the series of filters. We're
21-1/2 minutes into this EVA now. The Flight Surgeon reports
that as the EVA started, the Commander's heart rate was in
the 80's, the Pilot's heart rate in the 60's. The highest that
he has seen so far is a peak. Jerry Carr has gone up to 120
at times. And Bill Pogue has gone up to 106. We're 21 minutes
away from Guam acquisition. At 17 hours 17 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1327/I
Time: 11:36 CST 40:17:36 GMT
12/25/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. We're 41-1/2 minutes into the
extravehicular activity. Skylab is about to be acquired
through the Guam station.
PLT Coil the umbilical around you.
CDR All right.
PLT (Garble one 36 0 clockwise.
CDR All right.
PLT (Garble) keep on turning clockwise.
CDR Okay.
PLT There you go. (Garble).
CDR Let's put it down under my feet.
PLT Okay. Okay. Now - - Don't jerk on it
yet.
CDR Okay.
PLT There you go. Now you're clear. And
I'm going back. 31 feet (garble).
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear
through Guam for 7 minutes.
PLT (Garble).
SPT Rog Story. We've got the S020 and T025
out, not completely aligned and Jer's workin_ his way down
to the VC, and Bill trying to get the S020 and T025 taken care
of on the next stateside, and Jer's going to be working down
there at the VC when we get (garble).
CC Okay. Thanks, Ed.
CDR Okay. I'm in the VC foot restraints.
CDR Okay, It'll be done in a second.
PLT Okay, one thing we didn't do with the DAC
was set it.
CDR Oh, that's right.
CDR Bill, can you swing my (garble) shoe so it
will (garble) me.
PLT Just a second.
CDR Okay. Got it.
PLT (Garble). No, It's only the one setting.
I warn you this is not documentary.
CDR Are you eating in there, Ed?
CDR Oh, I see. I was going to say, if you're
going to eat in there don't let us know, okay? Oh, you dirty,
rotten -
PLT F-II and 7-D.
CDR Boy, there's sure lots of light in this
working area. The center work station.
PLT Stand by. Got the thing set right.
CDR Yes, it is, but it's not aligned. It's
off about 6 inches.
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CDR Okay. I think I'll do that. I'm going

to turn the POWER PRI and SEC ON. Okay. Alright. Roll is
enabled.
CDR Okay. It's in work.
PLT Okay. It's aligned now.
CDR Roll it in. This one rolls nice and
smooth. Boy, these canister lock - This lock things are
sure heavyl; aren't they? (Garble) launch locks, I guess.
CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS
here and about 7 minutes to Honeysuckle at 17:52, and Ed,
did you get: a CMG RESET?
SPT That's affirmative, Story. I'm showing
it 9 on the alert code. We got a CMG light.
CC Okay. Thanks.
CDR Are we bumping TACS?
CC 22 mibs so far?
CDR I'd like to see that sometime. I'll
have to keep my eye peeled.
SPT Story, was led to believe we ought to
inspect that from time to time here.
CC That's affirm. No problem.
SPT Okay.
PLT (Garble) I'll get (garble) on the S020
as soon as (garble). I guess I can get (garble)
PLT Okay. EV-I, all the lights are out and
I'm reading about 3.6.
CDR Okay, EV-2. All my lights are out and I
got 3.6 (garble).
of signal. Honeysuckle Creek station will acquire in about
4 minutes. We'll keep the line up, monitor to that station.
Short pass at Honeysuckle, about 3 minutes. This EVA appears
to be going very well.
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SL-IV MC1328/I
TIME: 11:48 CST, 40:17:48 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This EVA appears to be going very well.

22 mibs, or minimum impulse burns, of the thruster attitude
control fuel used so far during the momentum dump on the
CMGs, control moment gyros. Each mib equals about 5 pound -
seconds of gas. The backup Skylab Commander, Astronaut
Vance Brand, is in the control center during this EVA. We're
coming up on 55 minutes of EVA time so far.
CDR I (garble) rubbernecking lookin_ at all
the - all down the workshop and see where the wing's torn
off and wire bundles hanging out there.
PLT Beautiful - beautiful, now if I just don't
screw it up. Tight because I don't to bu - I got her boresighted
right on now. Just a second, llve got to tighten it down.
CC This is Skylab_ reading you loud and clear
through Honeysuckle for a couple of minutes.
CDR Roger.
PLT (Garble) Okay I'm gonna leave it that way.
If I don't touch it we'll be in business, Jer, I know I have.
CC Jer, we're looking ahead for you here.
Underatand there is an interface problem between putting the
S054 down past TO25. We're thinking maybe yOu_ll bring S054
out early. We don't want it left out in the Sun for too long.
CDR Okay. We're not for sure there is an
interf _e problem. Looks like it might go by.
CC Okay, we just didn't want the exposed
S054 out in the Sun for too long.
CDR Okay. Well -
PLT Yea!
PLT Yeah, I got her right on almost dead center.
Oh gosh. Just say close to dead center. Oh, gosh, I just -
just a second. Try and look at it. It's highest slightly
toward 51 XXX, and it's dead on and in Y. And that's, l'd
say, about a half of one graduation which is, I think, is one
(garble) It's well - well inside the - l'm real pleased with it.
CC Skylab, a minute from LOS. 25 minutes
to the Vanguard at 18:19.
PLT Stand by, I'll give you a mark. ONE. It's
on storage now.
SPT Story, when you get a mark out of Bill
we're gonna be starting the 60 minute exposure and Itll get
the event timer goin_ simultaneously.
CC Yes sir.
PLT Are you ready?
CDR Ready.
PLT MARK. i and I'm gonna reject 20 (?)
you. You better try to stop the rotation.
CDR No, that's okay_ it's got an hour.
PLT Oh, we're in good shape on the attitude -
on the alignment.
CDR (Garble)
PLT That's correct.
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CDR Okay, it's vibrating some Bill. If you

can touch it you might be able to stop it, I don't know.
PLT I don't think it makes any difference on
S020, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR By the way Bill, I snapped off those two
initial frames in that camera. So you're sitting on
frame number 1 right now.
SPT Okay, you're gonna have to give me a few
minutes on this one too.
CDR All right, Ed.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of Honeysuckle now. Next acquisition is tracking
ship Vanguard in 22-and 1/2 minutes. Activation of first
experiment S020 has started. That's the X-ray ultraviolet
photography of the Sun. T025 is in place and Bill Pogue is
scheduled to install the $201 for ultraviolet electronigraphic
camera is the third item of business during this Christmas
day extravehicular activity. This camera was built by the
Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. It is designed to
record light wavelengths that are too short to be seen by
the human eye. These shorter than violet light wavelengths
are scattered and absorbed by Earth's atmosphere. So
ultraviolet cameras cannot be used effectively from the
ground. The far ultarviolet electronigraphic camera was
prepared for Skylab by Dr. George R. Carothers during a
three-month crash program for use on this last Skylab mission.
It will be mounted to the Apollo telescope mount truss in
the fixed airlock schroud area. A maneuver we - will be
performed by Skylab to place the camera in the shade of
a solar array panel during camera operations. The direct
rays of the Sun would burn the photocathaode tube records the
electron image of comet Kohoutek on this experiments film.
An extremely thin-base film with a neuclear track imulsion
will record the electron image of Kohoutek. The film records
the image in black and white, During the operation period
3 photo sequences will be performed. Each sequence runs
for 3 minutes and 25 seconds. And all that is required
of Pogue during the operation is to turn on the sequence.
A total of ii photos will be taken during each period with
exposures varying from 5 seconds to i minute. Each sequence
is expected to provide at least 8 valid photographs for a
total of 24 valid photos during the total camera operation.
The camera - that's aboard Skylab now was originally the
backup camera for the far UV camera carried on the Apollo si -
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SL-IV MC-1329/I
Time: 11:59 CST 40:17:59 GMT
12/25/73
PAO - - The camera, that's aboard Skylab now,

would originally the backup camera for far UV camera carried on
the Apollo XVI mission, to the Moon. When John Young and
Charles Duke placed a similar camera on a tripod in the
shadow of the lunar module to photograph the Earth's upper
atmosphere, geocorona, solar wind, galectic clusters and other
hydrogen enriched astronomical subjects. This camera will be
searching for hydrogen in the comet. The Skylab crewmen have
also used the camera several times to photograph the comet
through the antisolar scientific airlock in Skylab. And_
$201 is scheduled to be used on future space walks in Skylab
to photograph comet Kohoutek. Principal Investigator for
$201 is Dr. Thornton Page, who is here at the Johnson Space
Center. EVA time so far out i hour 6 minutes. Skylab is
18 minutes away from Vanguard. Number of NASA management
officials are in the Mission Control Center during this EVA.
William Schneider, the Skylab Program Director of NASA
headquarters. Kenneth Kleinknecht, the Skylab Program Manager
here at Johnson Space Center and Lee Belew_ the Skylab Program
Manager at the Marshall Space Flight Center are all here.
Dale Meyers, the Associate Administrator for Manned Space
Flight, NASA Headquarters, is here. Astronaut Donald K.
Slayton and JSC's Deputy Director, Sigurd Sjoberg° The
Director, Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., was in the Control
Center a short time ago. At 18 hours 2 minutes Greenwich
mean time, tlhis is Skylab Control.
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through the 'Vanguard tracking ship. Flight Surgeon reports that
the heart rates over the past couple of stations, Jerry Carr's
heart rate has been running from 88 to 92, Bill Pogue's from
78 to 83.
CDR I feel like I'm up in the crow's nest of
an old sailing ship.
PLT l've got your (garble).
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 6 min,
utes.
CDR Roger, Story. Loud and clear.
SPT Hey, Story. We've got 35 minutes re-
maining on the S020, 60-minute exposure, and we're working
right now on frame number 12 for 25.
CC Okay. We copy that, and that 60-minute
exposure on $020 is a high enough priority. I - We would
like you to finish that up the next stateside pass.
SPT Rog. We understand that, Story. Thank
you.
PLT We're trying to. I'm ready. Got it.
Stand by.
PLT MARK. Closed.
CDR Okay.
PLT Charlie 3.
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CDR Okay. We're coming up on the coast of

South America it looks like.
PLT Charlie 3, we have it. Get ready -
Chilean coast.
PLT MARK.
CDR Got it.
PLT Okay. I'm standing by (garble) Got it.
Okay. Going to close now. All right. Charlie 4_ we have.
CDR What's next.
PLT Wetve got it.
CDR (Garble)
PLT Now all I've got to do is put the shutter
speed knob (garble) Okay (Garble) Stand by. Now once - I
got a good position here for changing that filter (garble)
CC Okay, Jer. Like to be looking at it myself.
CDR I can see the whole southern end of the
outer (garble) I can't quite make (garble)
CDR Story, I'll tell you. It's really clear.
I can even see the little town of (garble) without using the
binoculars.
CC Okay.
CDR (Garble) The northern half of the (garble)
is very clear.
PLT Okay, that was Bravo, was it, Ed?
CDR There's some hashed up looking brown just
to the east of where the northern part of the fault zone drops
into the ocean. It's kind of busted up in there. It's one
Well, no, there three rivers or canyons that are almost per-
pendicular to it. It looks rather strange. I suspect they're
cross (garble)
PLT Bravo 1 is installed. All right. (Garble)
No, Standby wait a minute. Okay, I'm in time, I'm ready to go
(garble)
CDR Okay.
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Time: 12:24 CST 40:18:24 GMT
12/25/73
PLT MARK.
PLT MARK. I'm ready.
CDR Got it?
PLT What do you have? What's next?
CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS.
About 15 minutes to Canaries at 18:38. Be dumping the data/
voice at Canary, and for Ed. You may get a CAUTION SECON -
DARY TEMP LOW, why you can punch it out and ignore it.
PLT And, Story, you may tell the people there
this boom is very, very steady. I don't see any oscillations
at all. They were concerned about it.
SPT Okay, Story, understand. And what about
if we get a RESET somewhere along here during one of these
long S020 exposures. Is there anything we can do to terminate
that exposure and pick it up again later?
PLT Bravo 2. Stand by. And I'm standing by.
CC Ed, we are not expecting a CMG RESET.
If you do, just stop the experiment and stop the clock and
pick it up after you're stable again.
PLT Well all I know is to go to STORAGE, but
you told me -
CDR Story, to stop the experiment, though,
we donot have to advance to a new plate.
CC Yes. You want to go to STORAGE to stop
the experiment.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
Vanguard's range now. The next station is Canary Islands in
11-1/2 minutes. Operations with the S020 and T025 cameras'
going well. After the - all of the T025 exposures have been
taken, the $201 experiment will replace T025 on the ATM truss.
Visibility apparently very good according to description by
Skylab Commander Jerry Carr. The weather is clear. Coming over
South America he gave a brief description of the (garble) Fault,
a geological fault in that area. This extravehicular activity
has been going on now 1 hour 33 minutes. Planned for 5-1/2 hours.
At 18 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1331/I
TIME: 12::36 CST, 40:18:36 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

36 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin
a pass starting at Canaries and extending through the Madrid
station.
PLT You just stow it on that handrail, just
inside the hatch.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through
Canaries and Madrid for 14 minutes.
CDR Roger.
SPT Okay, Story, T025 ops are complet e .
The only think we got all the good exposures that they were
after. Oil frame number 28 though, they requested a 1/16,
we gave them a 1/15, but that's the only thing the camera
will allow. I believe that's probably what they wanted
initially also.
CC Okay, got it. Or you've got us.
PLT l'm takin_ the filter gate in first.
SPT Story, Bill is going to move the T025
assembly into the airlock and then we'll be set up to start
the film transfer, and we still show 15 minutes remainin_
on the first S020 exposure.
CC Okay, confirmed.
PLT Hey, Story, whatts our groundtrack over
Europe.
CC Yeah, looks like Spain, Southern France,
and Switzerland from down here.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CDR How much more night time? Yeah.
CC We're showing 7 minutes from down here.
It's 7 minutes more of day.
CDR Okay, let's not have Bill distracted so
that he can't close that shutter. Maybe you ought to just
wait. Thought he said he had to go to STORAGE.
PLT That's all right, we go off attitude.
CDR Oh, okay. Story, again, I've been using
the ATM clock here which is a 40 day time. Is that ampel
accuracy for them?
CC That's affirm and you do not have to go to
STORAGE on that experiment, you can just let it point by
itself during the night.
CDR Roger; we copy.
CC Okay, we'd like you to go to STORAGE on
S020.
CDR (Laughing) Okay, we copy Story. Somebody
chan_ed Story's story.
CC More than once.
CDR Variety is the spice of life, Story.
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CC That's affirm.
CDR He's just taking T025 off of the strut.
PLT No, that was taped on, Story. And - -
CDR No, that's, Ed, you're talking to (garble).
PLT I don't think I can. I - I'm -
CDR Ed, just let him stick it in there and
tether to the nearest handrail and I'ii take care of it when
I get back. Right. Just Just tether it near by Bill. Don't
go thrashing around in there.
PLT I will not.
CDR Okay it's about time; we're getting close
to sunset_, Bill. Okay.
PLT I think what Jerry's talking about is we
got to go to STORAGE.
CDR Yeah, and Bill is - you know half way in
the locker right now.
PLT Yeah, I'm - -
PLT Okay, I'm standing by to go to STORAGE.
CDR Let's just wait and rest. Yes, you're
doing a very good job.
PLT It's darkl Till you get the lights on.
That's affirm. To the aft compartment. Real good peinting.
I'm proud of that. Boy that was hard to get. He can tell
me cause it's not all I gotta to do is to twist this knob
from 1 back to Ed.
PLT Got it, STORAGE.
SPT Story, I assure we have 7 minutes 59
seconds remaining on the 60-minute exposure?
CC Okay, Ed.
PLT Well, okay, would you read it once again
reset the handrail and all that stuff. All right. Yeah, let's
just get on with the transfere now.
CDR Well, don't you have to roll for 201?
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Time: 12:48 CST 40:18:48 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Though don't you have to roll for 201?

CDR Well, your maneuver pad ought to. Oh it
doesn't. Well, see you can't do it this pass because we've
still got T025 to go. I mean TO S020. There's nothing we can do. We
might as well get on with the transfer. At least at the center
work station.
CC Skylab, you can press on with the maneu-
ver right now.
CDR Hey there, why do we want to do that?
We still owe S020 about 7-1/2 minutes, or 8 minutes.
SPT Yes, Story, we have quite a few
exposures to go on S020 and also, we've not done a nominal H-gage.
CC Ed, we'd like you to follow the maneuver
on this this pass, and we'll get 201 and then we'll pick
up S020 later.
SPT Okay. Do you want a nominal H-cage
though at this time?
CC That affirm. Per the pad, Ed.
SPT Okay. That should to be done l0 minutes
ahead of time and the ATTITUDE HOLD should be done from a
timer remaining at night of minus 7 minutes so that says we
have to wait till 17 minutes remaining at night to execute the
nominal H-cage. Is that what you are planning on?
CC Yes. That_ll be fine, Ed.
SPT Okay. At 17 minutes remaining we'll
start the maneuver pad. Okay.
PLT That's complete. It's complete. That's in
work. In work. Aahh. Just a minute. I picked up the
wrong - -
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About
30 minutes to Carnarvon at 19:21.
CDR Roger, Story.
PLT You - You do use the last knob; right? I'm
trying to get 54 out of here.
CDR Okay. You got to you got to. Push
the button down and you take the handle and rotate it to
unlatch. Rotate the handle. Okay. There you go.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will be the next station in 27-i/2
minutes. This EVA now I hour 58 minutes old. At 18 hours
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SL-IV MC-1333/I
Time: 13::19 CST, 40:19:19 GMT
12/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours 19 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up on acquisition at
Carnarvon_. followed by coverage of Honeysuckle Creek. The
extravehicular activity now 2 hours 24 minutes old.
SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon
for 4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Let me tell you about our
nominal H--cage. At 17 minutes ago in night, we entered a
52023 fa (?) nominal H-cage. Around 1 minute later, we got a
warning for cluster high rate. We were greater than 0.3 degrees
per second in that and increasing. We got out to around 40
degrees. And they're not slowing down, I took a couple of
actions. One to TACS ATT HOLD for a short while to bring
our H down, one to stand by, entered a 20_minute maneuver time,
went back to SI. And that's what we're returning to now. I
show we're 16 degrees out and coming back at 0.033 degrees
per second.
CC Thanks, Ed. We're looking at it.
SPT And we've also got ACS MALF indicating a - -
CDR Take it away, Bill.
SPT - - CMG SAT a couple of times during that
maneuver.
CC Okay.
SPT On the EVA, we're pressing on with the
ATM film retrieval. And I imagine when we get back to SI
here, we can take up the S020 operations until we get squared
away for that maneuver again.
CC Okay, Ed.
CDR Okay, Ed. The new H-alpha is in. I've
got a white flag. It's locked well. The lock button has been
pushed. And I'm closin_ the door.
SPT Okay. (Garble)
CDR That's in and I1ve got a white flag on
the door.
PLT Good work.
CDR Okay. ROLL ENABLE. Okay. Stand by.
CDR Rolling to the right.
CDR Okay. We're aligned with Sun end and
roll is inhibited.
CDR Okay. PRIMARY, SECONDARY, INHIBIT.
CDR I'm real clear.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and 2 minutes
to Honeysuckle.
SPT Don't forget your visor, Bill.
PLT I got it. Thank you.
SPT Okay, Story. We're picking up on 2-2 or
2.221 on the checkout on one - panel 130.
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CC Okay. We're with you, Ed.

SPT Okay.
SPT Good show.
CDR Ed, the solar image is startin_ to come in
on S020.
CC We're back with you through Honeysuckle,
for 8 minutes, Skylab.
SPT Roger.
CDR (Garble).
PLT Okay, Stand by.
PLT (Garble)
PLT I've got infinity at f-16.
PLT Looks like we're almost there, Ed. SO20_s
almost thinner (?)
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go.
CC Bill, how is the alignment on SO20_ when
you went into stowage on it at the end of the last daysite
pass?
PLT It was precisely as I had pointed earlier,
with the very slight bias of the large circle, out toward the
minus X.
CC Okay.
PLT And it looks like itts almost where it
was now. And Ed's telling me we're still just a little bit out.
PLT This is almost where it was. Just looks
real close.
PLT Okay. I'ii buy that. I'ii wait for your
mark.
CDR Okay. I'ii Just go on out there now.
CDR Okay. Stand by.
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PLT Okay. I'll just move it out there now.

Okay. Stand by -
PLT MARK. Okay. Story, we're just crossing
the southeast coast of Australia.
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay. Tasmania down there, I think. New
Zealand can't be far away.
CDR Right. What's new in New Zealand? I got
to turn around here in rubber neck for a little bit.
PLT Yes. It's a great time for it.
CDR Don't get to do this often enough. Holy
cow. What: a view.
CC Skylab, we understood you started S020
again and until we get regrouped on your APCS we'd like you
to proceed on with the Sun end film replacement.
CDR Okay. Will do her. Any guesses as to why
that happened, Story? Bill, do you suppose New Zealand's
under those clouds right there?
PLT I've lost my sense of direction right
along in here.
CDR Well, - no we're still too close to
Australia it's right up there.
PLT Yes. It use to be a head of us a little
bit. It does look like there's an awful lot cloud cover up
there, theugh.
CDR Yes. Oh, I see it. There it is.
PLT Yes. I got it.
CDR Hello New Zealand. Beautiful country.
PLT Yes, it is. It's an awful pretty place.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, and about
35 minutes from Bermuda at 20:09. Our best guess is now,
Jer, that we have seen the problem building up momentum in X
now we think the maneuver was probably going all right and
we didn't tuff it out long enough, but we're still working it.
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay, Story. We got pretty far out in
in X and a pretty high rate, larger than I'd expect for a
nominal H-cage. Certainly in the attitude deviation. And
all of of the cameras that I checked out real well that's
finished all so far and we're moving on to the Sun end.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll catch you over Bermuda
on that discussion of the attitude.
CDR Gosh. All the mountains are all clouded
over.
PLT Yes. Cloud lining some valley in there?
CDR Yes.
PLT Very picturesque.
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PLT Oh, wait a minute now. This is not a

regular EVA DAC. This is not (garble). That's correct.
Okay, you see, I'm going to have to take it off slowly.
I've got :it all set (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Skylab will be acquired by Bermuda station in
34 minutes. The crew has bypassed experiment $201 temporarily
due to the situation that Ed Gibson was describing. They
have proceeded to go ahead with the film changeout on the
Apollo telescope mount and will continue that activity in
addition to finishing up the S020 photography. It's anti-
cipated that 201 activity will be rescheduled for the next
revolution. And the ground will talk to the crew over Ber-
muda aboul: the situation described by the Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, who reported it at - when he went to a nominal H-cage,
which is the procedure for resetting the control moment gyros.
He got a cluster high rate warning, and the space station moved
out of attitude up to 40 degrees when he stopped it with the
TACS. The Skylab was moving back into solar inertial attitude
as we acquired at Carnarvon. The expects in the Control
Center are looking at the situation. Now a preliminary
outlook from the Guidance and Control Officer is that the con-
trol moment gyros may have had a great deal of momentum stored
in and that this was a norm - nominal, or normal maneuver
for resetlting with as much momentum as was stored there. He
thinks that it's possible the space station could have gone
out as far as 60 degrees and then started coming back into
normal and at the end of the maneuver may have been stopped
too soon. However, that's a preliminary look and the ground
will talk to the crew about it over Bermuda. $201 will be
rescheduled and will be accomplished during this extravehi-
cular activity. In the meantime the crew is jumping ahead
and replacing the film in the solar telescope cameras. Sky-
lab now 31-i/2 minutes away from Bermuda. At 19 hours 38
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 14:08 CST, 40:20:08 GMT
12/25/73

8 minute 9 3 hours and 13 minutes into the EVA here on
Christmas Day. We'll have acquisition through Bermuda
in 45 seconds. CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave.
CDR Hey Bill, there's Puerto Rico out there
I believe. Towards the the end of the solar panel.
CDR (Garble)
PAO Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear
through Bermuda for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. We can see Puerto Rico and
all the Virgin Islands. That's affirm.
PLT Okay.
CDR Frame 3. Story_ you know what I feel like?
CC No, but go ahead.
CDR Do you remember the - did you ever see
the Cinerama picture of the guy that was the wing walker
on on the top of the biplane flying through the canyon?
CC I can understand the wing walking but
where are you finding the canyon?
CDR Well, there ain't any canyons up here but
man, drop your handkerchief Story and I'ii pick it up with
my teeth. Yeah. I did. Yaw hoo. Man, I'm standing up
here looking at Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, all the Virgin Islands.
SPT Okay Story_ we finished up the ATM film work.
We just checked out the Sun end 82A and it works good. No
problems we've finished up the 60 second or the 60 minute
30 minute exposures so far on S020 and we're gonna pick up the
8 minute exposure on this side here. Then we've got the 15
minute and the remainder to go.
CC Okay, that's (garble).
SPT And Story, I've been doing a little thinking
if we accumulated a lot of H and X probably we could build up
to some pretty high rates but coming up unexpected like that
I - not having the time to sit down and calculate anything
I think I had no other alternative. What does it look like
down there?
CC That's exactly right Ed. We think you did
just the right thing there. We do think the system was working
right and we did expect it to have a large excursion in that
CMG reset due to the build-up in X and we're a little slow
down here not getting it up to you that that might happen.
SPT Okay, you want to give it a go the next
time around 17 minutes remaining we'll hit another nominal
H-cage and this time I'ii just run around and push out
(garble) lights and keep an eye on it all.
CC Now we're working that and we need the DAS
now to change some biases on X Ed.
PLT Okay, it's yours.
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TIME: 14:08 CST, 40:20:08 GMT
12/25/73
CDR I'm sure enjoying it, I'ii tell you.

Okay. Okay.
PLT Golly. What's all that?
PLT I don_t know. What did you do Jer?
CDR I don't know. Did it come from me?
PLT It's radiating out from what appears
to be the center of the ATM- business end.
CDR I think - I think it's coming from me.
No, it's a bunch of pieces of something that looks like rubber
or - or maybe my hose is scraping it off the side of the
(garble) That's what it is.
PLT Mine sure did go out every which direction.
CC Ed, Houston.
PLT Okay.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, the DAS is yours again and the next
nightside pass here I'll go ahead and perform the nominal H cage
at the right time. You can delay the ATT HOLD CMG, until it's
settled out.
SPT Okay, thank you Story.
PLT Anyway EV-I got - has 3.6 and no lights.
CDR Okay, EV-2 got 3.67 and no lights. Okay,
let me get to the (garble) station first.
CC And, Ed the maneuver pad you got on board is
good. You'll need to reload the maneuver time at i0 minutes.
SPT Roger Story, was just getting to it.
Thank you.
CDR Okay Bill you can send the boom out.
PLT Stand by. It'll take me just a second
here. I was doing a little rubbernecking of my own.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Stand by.
CDR That's good. Stop. Stop. PLT Did it go
too far.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over Madrid in about 4 minutes. Be dumping the data/
voice there. Maneuver time looks good. And Jer you might
want to get a little more water cooling as opposed to air
cooling.
CDR Okay. Am I look - looking a little warm.
I feel quite comfortable.
CC Yes sir, we're sure you're comfortable we
just like to see you cooling a little more with water if that's
okay?
CDR Sure. Be glad to. Okay, Bill it's
attached.
PLT Ready to (garble)
CDR Yep.
PLT Okay. Okay_ I'm gonna stop the boom and
get out here.
SL-IV MC-1335/3
Time: 14:08 CST 40:20:08 GMT
12/25/73
18 minutes. 3 hours and 23 minutes into the Christmas Day

EVA. As the crew crossed northern South America. Describing
a view of the Caribbean. Commander Carr likening himself to
a pilot riding on top of a plane through the Grand Canyon.
Science Pilot Gibson reporting that the ATM film work has
been completed. The S020 30 minute exposure has been completed
and now they're working on the next series of exposures,
on the S020 camera. Follows a 15 minute an 8 minute, a 5
minute, and 5 - i to 5 minute exposures are yet to be
accomplished with the SO20 camera. Next acquisition will
be through Madrid tracking station in 1 minute and 25 seconds.
We'll hold the line open for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1336/I
Time: 14:19 CST 40:20:19 GMT
12/25/73
PLT Okay. I'll see you at the (garble).

CDR Okay, Ed. Whatts next.
through Madrid for 9 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice
here.
CDR Okay. Why don't I (?) Hold on.
PLT Okay. Jerry, just have to wait just a
minute here.
CDR Okay. Yes.
SPT And lock (garble)
CDR And lock.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC What was the status of the 82A door and
have you pinned it?
CDR That's affirmative. It was open and almost
completely up on the rim when I found it, and I have pinned
it open and fixed the latch. So it's open. Open forever.
CC Okay, good. And Jer, when you pinned it
shut with the Sun end worked there, prior to pressing on
with the S054 filter wheel repair we'd like you to stow the film
back in the airlock and we'd like to get this maneuver and
the 201 ops done prior to starting the S054.
CDR Okay. I'll just head back for the VF and
stay there. Okay, (garble).
PLT Let me try and get a shot of this, Jer.'
CDR Okay. Tell me when you're ready.
PLT Jer, I'm ready. Could you see the green
light flashing? Look around and (garble).
CDR Yes, I can.
PLT Beautiful. Okay; start the transfer.
CDR On the way.
PLT Man, it's hard to always button down.
CDR Hello, (garble)
PLT I'm (?) grinding away, just move right on
up in the field of view. That ought to do it.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Okay. Hold off just a second.
I've got to put this pack back (?) a ways. 5-minute operation
right there.
CDR Boy, it sure is. (Laughter).
PLT Okay, Ed. Press on.
CC And Jer, we're still showing just about
2 degrees Delta T (sic) on your LCG. Have you got the (garble)
a little bit?
CDR Okay. We'll do it again. If I can find
it.
PLT I doubt that.
SL-IV MC-1336/2
Time: 14:19 CST 40:20:19 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Okay. Bill, as I go by, I'd like you to

look me over very closely. I don't know where all those
particles and things came from. I think we ought to look me
over first.
PLT Okay. I will do. I think you're right,
though. I think it's the paint, because I noticed when I
shove them I - an awful spray of (garble) particulates out of
the - -
CDR Well, it looked a whole lot like pieces
of - of a clear adhesive of some kind, or _poxyp or putty com-
pound.
PLT Yes.
CDR And I didn't think it was from me, but
every time I moved it would - it would float out. See any-
thing?
PLT No, you look pretty good. I mean I don't
see any
CDR Very strange. Front door, (Laughter)
CDR Boy. Ed, I don't know how you could say
that. It's graceful as a gazelle. (Laughter)
SPT Where is it? Here it is.
CDR Oh, go away_ Ed, and quit nagging. Nag_
nag, nag. I'm doing the best I can on what I got to work
with.
CC We'll get him off your back a second
here, Jer.
CDR (Laughter) Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
CDR Ed, he wants to talk to you. Go ahead,
Story.
CC Ed, on the next maneuver we're expecting
an excursion somewhere around 35 to 4Q degrees_ and you_ll
probably also get the - the cluster high rate caution warning
and we just want you to protect that 60_degree number. So
we're expecting out around 40.
SPT Okay, Story. I don_t understand your
phrase, 'protect the 60_degree number _
CC We - it - we - from all we know you did the
right things the last time but just hold off until you get
out to around, oh, 55 degrees or so, approaching 60 degrees.
SPT Oh, okay. I see. Very good. Will do,
Story.
PLT Ed, Jer's inside and l'm (garble) the
(garble) stuff for whatever it is.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. About 25
minutes to Carnarvon at 20:54.
CDR Okay. Ed_ if you are - if you _ if you
will, read me the procedures on putting away T025 and I_ll get
that out of our way.
SL-IV MC-1336/3
Time: 14:19 CST 40:20:19 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Next to 323.

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 20
hours 30 minutes. Skylab IV crew in 3 hours and 35 minutes
into today's EVA activities. Pilot Pogue and Commander Gerald
Carr still discussing the floating particles in their work
area. The crew expressed the theory it's particles being
scraped of the exterior of the vehicle and not emanating from
the pressure suits themselves. This is the second EVA for
Pilot Pogue. He and Science Pilot Gibson performed the EVA
on Thanksgiving Day. This is the first EVA for Commander
Gerald Carr. If this EVA is concluded nominally_ Science
Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue will again exit the
vehicle on December 29 to conclude the comet Kohoutek acti-
vities. That's 4 days from now. Next acquisition in 23 min-
utes through the Carnarvon tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time 20 hours 31 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1337/I
Time: 14:51 CST 40:20:51 GMT
12/25/73
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

20 hours 51 minutes. Three hours and 56 minutes in today's
extravehicular activities for Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot
Bill Pogue. We'll hold the line up for this Carnarvon pass,
a I0 minute pass. Acquisition in 2 minutes and 25 seconds.
CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
PAO Skylab space station should be maneuvering
for the $201 photography of comet Kohoutek. Following this
activity, the crew will continue the S020 exercise, and then
go on to the S054 filter repair project.
CDR See the cloud shinning - Sun shining into
the cloud.
CDR Yeah, there's a star. I think Kohoutek's
right near that. Boy, sure popped out of there.
PLT Sure did.
CDR As I remember from taking my last Kohoutek
pictures, it was near that star.
PLT The bright one, that's just rising?
CDR Yeah.
through Carnarvon/Honeysuckle 15 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Bill and I are just standing here trying
to see if we can see Kohoutek rise.
CDR It ought to be up by now,
PLT Yeah, I think the lights up here in the FAS
have (garble) there.
SPT Okay, Story. I entered the maneuver but
we did not go to ATT HOLD CMG. We tried it in SI and I real
quickly want back to SI and the rates are steilling OUT and
as soon as we get back to SI we'll be going there again.
CC Copy Ed.
PLT That airglow undergoes some beautiful
color changes.
CDR Yeah.
CDR I sure can't see Kohoutek.
PLT Yeah. I didn't.
CDR Better get your visor down.
PLT (Garble).
CDR Got 201 properly shaded.
PLT Yeah. No, no, it's not for the maneuver.
CDR Turn it anymore?
CC Ed, Houston.
PLT Ho - how long we have to go for the
maneuver, Ed?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, verify you never went to ATT HOLD CMG.
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Time: 14:51 CST, 40:20:51 GMT
12/25/73
SPT That's verified.

CC Okay.
CDR Hey, look at - at all that crud coming out.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Everywhere I go it seems to be flying.
There's more.
PLT Like there's nothing abrading on your
suit or anything else, the only thing I didn't look at was
the soles of your shoes. Watch the cable there.
CDR There went another piece.
SPT Yeah, they're clean.
CDR Another big piece just floated down
in the - -
PLT Looks like ice.
CDR What?
PLT Looks like ice.
CDR Ice?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Oh, it's coming from the ALSA.
PLT Yeah. I don't know I couldn't get
any to come out of mine. I couldn't get any pressure coming
from inside the spacecraft.
CDR True. It's kind of yellow ice, though.
PLT Yeah, it is.
CDR Could it be a - wonder if it could be water
leakage from - well no.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1338/I
Time: 14:59 CST 40:20:59 GMT
12/25/73
CDR You know, it could be LCG water. But

it would ihave to be leaking right at the ALSA.
PLT (Garble), look at that huge hunk there.
SPT Story, we're getting back there pretty
slow. How about if I change the maneuver time and go stand
by and then SI again?
CC Stand by one, Ed.
PLT It's a nice terminator.
CDR Yep.
CDR For Austrialia?
CDR Yep.
CC Ed, from here, we don't think there's
any way to speed the maneuver up.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, part of that those ice flakes
problem were - down here, we're looking at an 02 inlet temp-
erature of about 35 degrees on you. And you're probably
just condensing some water out of the system. Any excess
LSU that ]you have out, you possibly could restow.
CDR Okay, it's all in the FAS with us now.
Okay. Yeah, it's out, it's pointing - -.
PLT Just wanted to see if we got it pointing back
in the FAS to protect us. Got 15 degrees right. We're - we're
well off with 15 degrees, but
CDR Yeah, that's what it is, it's ice.
CDR I'm surpised it's not whiter_ though,
it's more yellow.
CC Okay, Ed, it's looking good from down
here.
CDR Don_t sweat it_ Ed.
PLT Yeah, we shouldn't have been distracted
talking about the 201.
CDR But it was over the Virgin Islands. We
ought to probably come up over someplace like Del Rio or
somethin_ like that?
CDR Bill, while we're waiting here, why don't
you just ease on out, and take a look around?
PLT Sounds like a good move. Let me make
sure I'm on the right - Okay.
SPT Okay.
CC Jerp we don_t see any problem down here
but could you give us a feel for the gas the - your inlet
gas temperature?
CDR Oh, it's quite - quite comfortable as
best I can tell. And I can feel it clear to my seat. Nice
SL-IV MCi338/2
Time: 14:_59 CST 40:20:59 GMT
12/25/73
and cool in the LCG is good and cool. What seems to be the
problem?
CC We're just reading with your comments on
the - the ice flakes and we're reading 35 degrees on your
inlet 02 temperature. Has it changed any in the last hour or
two that you know of?
CDR I don't think so. I haven't noticed it.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm trying to stow some of this hose back
in the umbilical or in the sphere (?) l've got 40 feet pulled
out, so I_'ii put a few feet back in. That's been done.
PLT You're goin_ to have to wait to do all
this, Ed, cause I - I have it in position. I have it aimed
back in the FAS. I'm waiting for the shadow to come into
the FAS. Okay? Now - I haven't done it, but I want to keep
them closed here until I get ready to use them.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1339/I
Time: 15:13 CST, 40:21:13 GMT
12/25/73
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay.
CDR All right I can get 0316, right? Well, I'm
right here. I can get them. Okay, lighting at a AM at DA,
right? Okay. ATM's off, DA's off.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
32 minutes to Texas as 21:41.
CDR Man, am I throwing out the ice crystals now.
PLT Are we waiting for night or are we going
to do this in the daytime? Okay, I was just wondering how -
I'm going to do the comet.
PLT Yeah.
PAO Skylab, Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours ii minutes. Loss of signal t_rough the Carnarvon/
Honeysuckle tracking station. Next acquisition will be in
29 minutes and 20 seconds through the Texas tracking station.
EVA now 4 hours and 16 minutes. The maneuver for $201 still
underway with Science Pilot Ed Gibson performing the activities
associated with the maneuver inside the multiple docking
adapter at the Apollo telescope and control and display
panel. Additional discussions by Commander Carr and Pilot
Pogue concerning the ice flakes floating around the - Commander
Cart's pressure suit. ALSA, which is the Apollo life support
assembly, which consists of the pressure suit, the secondary
oxygen pack, the LSU, the Life Support Umbilical, the 60-foot
long umbilical which provides air and water coolant for the
suit. The discussions with the extra-ve extravehicular
activity officer here at the control center indications are
that this is water freezing condensation from the suit valve
freezing and being dislodged at the vent valve. Commander Carr
was advised to put part of the umbilical back inside the
airlock module. He estimated he had 40_foot out of the 60-foot
long umbilical line. Next acquisition will be in 27 minutes
and 40 seconds through Texas tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time 21 hours and 13 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1340/I
Time: 15:39 CST 40:21:39 GMT
12/25/73

hours 39 :minutes. Acquistion coming through Texas in i
minute 35 seconds. EVA now 4 hours and 44 minutes in duration.
EVA office still estimating completion at the 5-1/2 hours
mark, in about 45 - 50 minutes from now. We'll hold the
line up for this pass through stateside Texas and Bermuda
passes, approximately 15 minutes in duration. CAP COMM Dr.
Story Musgrave.
PLT (garble) what have you got that hinges
out into the command module? I fixed onto that_ there's the
command to met. Their the - back on the service module really.
SPT I don't know I_Ii have to look.
CDR Might a I see a little antenna and I
see a blade, the (garble) antenna, is that want you're
iookin_ at?
PLT No.
PLT Two little gold things on the command
module? Little hemispheres in that black area black
hemispheres, right here by two rows. Okay_ ready to go.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear_ stateside
for 14 minutes.
PLT MARK. LIGHT flashing.
CDR Okay, we're on our third $201 exposure, and
we can not see the comet, there's just too much light up
here.
PLT Okay, the way we did the pointing Story,
do you read?
CC Yeah, we're here Bill.
PLT Okay, we got over to the attitude and we
could still see the Sun, so I sort of directed Ed until we
got shadow on the area here where the 201 is located. We
got shadow and we tweaked the maneuver so that the Sun was
occulted by the ATM solar panel. And then I stood at the
$201 siting and we looked and looked for the comet, there's
no way we're going to see it. So then I centered the stand_
off eye sites there or siting mechanisms so that it was just
off of tangent, see with the ATM solar panels at the closest
point to the Sun, and of course no Sun in the field of view.
And also I had to move it to get get it out of FAS to
get the spurious reflections. I didn't know the FAS structure
here with this swift exposure or not. But the way it is
it should have fairly pure exposure but sort of a rough guess
where the comet should be. No we canTt see stars here either.
CC Bill, we thinks that's excellent, we think
that's as good as you possibly could have done on the comet.
PLT Oh good cause we have just finished the
third exposure here in sequence. Ha Ha.
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Time: 15::39 CST 40:21:39 GMT
12/25/73
SPT Story, we ended up with a depth of minus

19 degrees in X as opposed to the 15. We did a little tweaking
once we got out to minus 19 and found that to be optimum.
CC Okay Ed.
CDR I sort of feel like Pigpen, I'm carting
around my own contamination with me, little particles flying
all over the place.
PLT It does doesn't it?
CDR Ha ha.
SPT Story, when we finished this exposure we're
going to be moving back to solar inertial and then we're
going to stow 201, Jerry's going to get lined up for the SO54.
And on the next stateside we'll also pickup on the SO20
exposures.
CC Okay, Ed, that's great.
PLT If you'll give me a little warning when
that sequences times out I'll be prepared to move the 201 so
it's pointed back at the FAS.
PLT Okay_ the (garble)? Okay Okay, turn it
away, you're in good shape. Jerry is power off?
SPT Got your power off Jerry?
CDR Power is off.
PLT Okay, all right.
PLT Back it won't take me but a second to
take that off, and I'll just hand it back to you Jerry.
CDR Okay_ our trouble is that I've been robbing
umbilicals, I've taken two umbilicals for the tools I've got
now. They're not umbilicals, they're tethers.
PLT Tethers.
CDR All right.
PLT Okay, you can start maneuver and I've got
the 201 protectors down.
CDR Okay.
PLT 201is going back in the airlock now.
CDR Just a minute Bill.
PLT Okay,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1341/I
Time: 15:48 CST, 40:21:48 GMT
12/25173
CDR If you hold that for a second I'ii try

to get this cover back again.
PLT Okay.
CDR I did such a good job at tethering it
I may not be able to get it off.
CDR I don't believe this.
PLT What's the matter?
CDR These (garble) - screws are just
something - terrible.
PLT Oh, yeah. You know if you get two diagonally
opposite ones you'll be in business.
CDR (Garble).
CDR Okay. Now Ed tell me again where this
201 goes?
CDR 313, huh?
CC Bill, if you got 2 screws in on that
$201 and they"re on a diagonal that'll suffice for now.
CDR Okay, we got them,
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, Bill hand it in. I'm going to put
it back on 318 - 390.
PLT Okay.
CDR That's more out of the way.
PLT And we got utility power connector to
go yet toe. But you go ahead and tether it first (garble)
power conmector.
PLT While you*re doing that I'll get the other
screw.
CDR I don't think it's worth fooling with,
Bill.
PLT I'm sure we got a good enough (garble). There's
no doubt in my mind on that.
PLT Ah, the (garble) popped up again. Let
me get those or they'll break off.
PLT Can you push toward me on it?
CDR Sure can.
PLT Okay. Now okay, just another second,
okay, it's locked now. Fix some up pretty (garble).
Now get this utility cable here.
CDR Okay, it's back there.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, I've got my 2 tools, I'm ready to
head out. Okay. That's done. That's done. Okay.
PLT Okay, is the (garble)(g_rble)
CDR Yeah.
PLT All right.
CDR Okay.
PLT Man, he's moving fast today.
CDR Yes, indeed.
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Time: 15:48 CST, 40:21:48 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Okay. I'm in position.

PLT Stand by i, I'm sorting out the DAC here.
CDR Okay, 3.67 and no light.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes
to Madrid at 21:59.
CDR Roger. Okay, power switches are going
ON. Roll ENABLE. I'll go to the right. Okay, I guess I got
to go left:, it stopped. That's what I'm saying I had to go
right because apparently I got to a roll STOP.
CDR Yeah, I was thinking I could continue
going to the right to get to it but I can't. Okay.
PAO Skylab, Control, Greenwich mean time 21
hours 57 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 2 minutes will be Madrid tracking station.
Now the crew now 5 hours and 2 minutes into today's scheduled
5 hour and 30 minute EVA. Flight Director Milt Windler
indicatin_ - based on EVA officers report that the crew
is now getting ready to do the work on the SO54 filter. The
filter is first problem developed on the SO54 filter on mission
day ii, on November 26th. The crew has a detailed procedure
to work out and - in an effort to free the stuck filter in the
camera. This is the operation the crew believes the crew will
be - the crew will be getting into shortly. Followin_ that the
crew is given a 20 minute period for closeout. So, with 5
minutes and 3 minutes - 5 hours and 3 minutes into the EVA,
it's estimated now the EVA will run longer than the 5
hours and 30 minutes originally planned.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1342/I
Time: 15:59 CST, 40:21:59 GMT
12/25/73
PAO Based on the crew discription, the prin -

principal investigator, Dr. Thornton Page, is very happy
with the crew's discription of the operation of the $201
camera. Although the crew did not visibly see Comet Kohoutek,
the cam_a does have a 20 degree field of view and estimates
here on t]_e ground as the - the crew aimed the camera directly
at the area the comet should be located. We'll hold the line
up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CDR Okay, the - the shutter plates are not
open. That's right. Yup.
CC Skylab, we copied tkat. Wetre - You've
got you through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, tell him the shutter plates are not
open on S054.
CC Got that.
CDR No - the the blades are closed.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Take your screwdriver there and press
down on those buttons - they're quarter-inch diameter buttons
at about as you view of about ii and 1 o'clock. And the
shutter plates ought to open when you push down on them
either one or both.
CDR Okay.
SPT Story, after Jerry removed the camera
we got a decrement by 1 frames on the remainin_ for S054.
We're now reading 5993.
CC 0 Okay, Ed. And we think that's
normal.
SPT Roger.
CC And could you verify that you do have
the butterfly on that new S054 camera?
CDR Yeah, he does.
SPT That's verified. Jer and I both put it
on last night.
CC So - Okay.
PLT Where do I look?
CDR Okay, I got the shutter blade open now.
CC Okay, Jer.
CC And as we see a CMG reset coming up here.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story.
PLT And I can verify the butterfly's on.
SC (Garble)
CDR Okay, just let me position myself again
there.
CDR Okay, there appears to be a _ I see the
silver - silver filter down there and I can see the lightning
hole in the web next to it. So there's a - there is a
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Time: 15:59 CST, 40:21:59 GMT
12/25/73
silver filter down there covering.

CC Okay, Jer. Thatts probably confirmation
that you're between a couple of filters and probably 5 and 6.
CDR Yeah, I can see a on the righthand
side, I can see about half of the lightning holes and the
filter is not completely in place. Yeah.
CC Okay, Jer. We suggest you press on to
try to work that around. We've only got about a minute and
40 seconds to LOS to discuss that with you.
CDR Do you want to work it manually or do
you want to try the electrical check first?
CDR All right. Go ahead.
CDR Yes.
CC Yeah, follow the procedural electrical
check first.
CDR Okay. I see nothing moving.
CC Okay, now go manually.
CDR Okay. No, the filter all (?) does not
rotate, Ed. Yeah. Okay.
CC And, Skylab, we're a minute from LOS.
And about 25 minutes to Carnarvon at 22:33.
CDR Okay, Story. It's apparently a definite
mechanical jam. Ed is reading me the geometry and the
techniques and then we'll get going.
CC Okay, fine, Jer.
CDR We're just going to take our time on it.
Okay, Ed.
CDR Yeah, I can see that.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time,
22 hours, 7 minutes. EVA now 5 hours and 12 minutes since
the crew opened the hatch of the airlock module. Commander
Gerald Carr at the top - Sun end of the ATM working on the
filter of the S054 camera, describing what he sees. Apparently
it's a mechanical jam jam. The way he described it, the
ground estimates that the filters are stuck in between
filter number 5 and 6. He will now go through the checklist
of procedures passed up to him on 4 days ago. Detailed
description also a geometry sequence from which he drew
a sketch of the procedures from which Science Pilot Ed Gibson
is following the work from inside the MDA with the sketch of
the filters. Next acquisition in 24 minutes and 25 seconds
through Carnarvon as the Skylab IV crew continues the EVA,
now 5 minutes and 14 - 5 hours and 14 minutes old. Estimates
on the ground here at least another 45 minutes to go in the
activities before hatch closing. Acquisition in 24 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 22 hours and 9 minutesp this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1343/1
Time: 16:31 CST, 40:22:31 GMT
12/25173

22 hours and 31 minutes. Acquisition coming through
Carnarvon in 1 minute and 30 seconds. EVA clock now showing
5 hours, 36 minutes with still possibly another 45 minutes
of activities remaining for the crew, On the last pass,
Commander Carr was beginning work on t_e S054 filter at the
center work station of the ATM. Attempt to prepare the stuck
filter which has been inoperative since mission day ii, on
November 26th. EVA now 5 hours 37 minutes long. We'll hold
the line open for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Got bad news, Story_ While I was in
there maneuvering the screwdriver down to start moving the
filter the shutter blades closed on me and they're deformed
now and tlhey won't open.
CC Copy, Jer.
PLT You mean you want to go back to 3? Wait a
minute now, I though we only got 8_i/2 7-i/2 minutes,
Okay. Tell me when. Okay.
CC Jer, what techniques have you used to
try to get the shutters open?
CDR Well, I tried pushing on the buttons
again, but it won't budge. I pushed both buttons and then
I reached in with the tip of the screwdriver and gently
tried to :get ahold of the web and move it to the side and
it wouldn't move. It's jammed solid. The shutter blade
looks like it's pretty flimsy material. It flexes quite a
bit when I touch it.
CC Copy.
CC And, Jer, you might try putting the fresh
meg in with - with the butterfly on it of course and see what
that does.
CDR Well, the thing is the - the shutter -
the shutter blade itself is bent. It's deformed. And I don't
think it's going to open if it's supposed to stay in one
plane.
CDR Relative to the plane of the shutter plate,
Story, I would say that the shutter blade is now bent downward
about 15 degrees.
CC Okay, Jer. We_ve got nothing to lose here
by forcinl$ the shutter open. Now we plann to apply that
experiment with the shutter open all the time.
CDR Okay. I'Ii give it a bloody go. Which
way should I push it? Should I push it to the right or to
the left?
MCC CDR, Houston here. Looking at tke
shutter b2[ade in the closed position, there should be a rib
a raised rib on the shutter blade and the question is: does
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that come down the right-hand of the elipse as you look at it

or the left-hand side?
CDR It's coming right down the middle of it,
Rusty.
MCC Okay, then you should be able to see the
edge of the shutter blade. Is that correct?
CDR That's right. I can fold the shutter
blade back, Rusty, and that would (garble) the aperture, but
you would still have part of it anyway.
MCC Are you saying CDR, that you cannot
under any circumstance push it sideways?
CDR No, it's much much too fragile. It just
folds up.
MCC Okay, we've got a unit down here. We've
just set the shutter blade the same way and stand by. Wetre
bending - We're trying to bend it a little further.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here
and about 6 minutes to Honeysuckle. 22;45.
CDR Okay,
MCC Okay, CDR, we just bent the shutter blade
on this one down - in as far as we could and I'd recommend
you go on ahead and do that. It will actually clear the
aperture if you do that. So just go ahead and bend it
down and up against the side,
CDR Okay. Will do.
PLT (Garble) sound like they're (garble) on top
of us.
CDR Boy, if I had a pair of long_nosed pliers,
I could reach in and get it and pull it out.
CC Yeah, as per your dental training, Jer.
CDR Yeah,
MCC CDR, did you have any opportunity to try
and move the wheel at all?
CDR Yeah, I tried to _ Well, no, it was on
the first thing, Rusty.
CC Okay, fine -
CDR I went in (garble) I went in with the
screwdriver, lost by footing - had to pull the screwdriver
out again. And then got my footing and went back in and
that's when I hit the shutter blade. I've got the shutter
blade pushed all the way against the back toward the center of
the canister and it's rotated about 30 degrees and I'm looking
at the edge of it. And that's why I said if I had a pair of
long-nosed pliers, I could just tear it out.
MCC Okay, is the shutter blade completely
below the plane of the shutter plate?
CDR Yes, that's affirmative.
MCC Okay, perhaps you could turn the screw-
driver over and use the handle and shove it _ well_ you've got
the tether on that end. That probably won':t work. But if
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you can just push it

CDR Yeah.
MCC - - to the side as far as you can, Jet,
that's as good as we can hope for and then I suggest just
going ahead with the rotation of the wheel.
CDR Okay. I'li keep fiddling with it a little
bit here and try to get as much of that shutter out of the
field of view as I can.
MCC Okay, if you are inclined, you might want
to try a finger.
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SL-IV MC1344/I
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CDR That's a good idea, I think I'll try.

I'm going to find out.
CDR If you hear an ouch Bill, you might have
to come out and extract me from this aperture.
PLT Yeah, I'll paste you up good too.
CDR (Laughter), yeah, bring some grey tape.
We'll, no - no way of getting the right hand in there. Now,
if I had Rusty Schweickart's arm I could reach that.
CC CDR, you may be able to rotate the
canister to a more favorable location to try it.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time 22
hours 43 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon as
Commander Carr describing a problem he had - has cropped up
in trying to free the SO54 filter. He said the shutter blade
was stuck and became deformed and would not open. He's now
been told to try to bend the shutter blade back into a _ so
the camera would have a free free open aperture. Pilot
Pogue commenting following Rusty Schweickart describing some
of the procedures he commented, "you fellows are really on
top of it." Here at the Mission Control center a group of
management personnel including Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, Skylab
Program Manager, here at the Johnson Space Center, William
Schneider, Director of the Skylab Program, from NASA Head-
quarters, Deke Slayton as well as the backup pilot Rusty
Schweickart as well as backup Commander for Skylab IV Vance
Brand. Everybody crowded around the flight directorVs console
with a mock up of the S054 camera with filter wheel, trying to
workout a troubleshooting procedure for Commander Carr. We'll
hold the line up for this pass through Honeysuckle. The plot
board here at Mission Control center now becoming a Christmas
color, red and green. The plot track showing red, and the board
all green. We'll hold the line up for this Honeysuckle pass with
CAP COMMs Rusty Schweickart and Dr. Story Musgrave,
CDR Okay, what I'm doing now so far is I've
centered that filter.
SPT Yeah, but it's got a hole in it.
CC Jerr, we're showing filter 5 down here
now keep on going until you get to 3.
CDR Okay, Story, 5 is now centered. I wondered
if there might be anything gained by trying to move to 3
electrically.
CC CDR, if you move in that direction you go
back to the jam. That is it_ll go from the present position
towards 6 again. We prefer manually smoothing it on around
to 3.
CDR Okay. Now let's - I got 5 centered up now
it's got a hole in it. But see if I can get - get us back to
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number 4.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, our momentum is building up in X
again, we'll need a nominal H-cage here. And you'll probably
get excursion down to 40 to 45 degrees.
SPT Okay, would you like it right now?
CC Yes sir.
PLT Okay, what about - -
CC Skylab, we're i0 seconds to LOS. See you
over Texas in about 30 minutes at 23:15. Be dumping the data/
voice there.
CDR Okay. Do you see enough filter position?
CC We're looking.
PLT I'm ready to go to storage.
CC Still 5 CDR.
CDR Okay.
CC You have to go way back into that left-
hand rear corner angling the screw driver in order to get it
through position 4.
PLT That's storage effort. We maneuver now?
hours 48 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition in 26 minutes 50 seconds will be Texas tracking
station. Commander Carr continuing with the troubleshooting
procedures for the S054 ATM camera, at the center work station.
The EVA now 5 hours 53 minutes in duration to this point.
It will will - has already run pass the 5 hour and 30 minutes
originally scheduled, still about another 30 minutes to go
in activities at the SO54 and the closeout procedures. The
EVA on Thanksgiving Day was 6 hours and 33 minutes in duration
with on mission day 7. 6 hours and 33 minutes was duplicated
on SL-III mission, Seventh EVA in the Skylab program, 3 on
SL-II, and 3 on SL-III. The first seventh EVA on Thanskgiving
Day and this makes the 8th EVA for Skylab mission. Next
acquisition in 25 minutes and 35 seconds through Texas. At
Greenwich mean 22 hours 50 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1345/I
Time: 17:10 CST 40:23:10 GMT
12/25/73

and i0 minutes. Acquisition in 5 minutes through Texas tracking
station, change-of-shift breifing in the Building 1 News
Room will occur with Milt Windler Flight Director, Dr. Story
Musgrave Capsule Communicator, and Bill Bates EVA officer.
This will - change-of-shift briefing will take place 15
minutes after close of hatch. Discussions here at the Mission
Control Center concerning the EVA, Flight Director Milt Windler
taking the position that if the crew was - was unable to
remedy the SO54 filter he'll advise the crew to come back on
in. We'll look at the procedures, we have another EVA in 4
days. We'll take another look at possible troubleshooting
for that filter problem on the SO54 camera. They're also
looking very closely at the - the parameters here at the
Mission Control Center on the inlet and outlet temperatures
of Commander Carr's suit. His inlet temperature oxygen
inlet temperature is 30 degrees below that of Pilot Pogue's.
Pilot Pogne is 62 degrees inlet temperature. Commander Carr
is 32 degrees. The inlet temperature outlet temperature on
Pilot Pogue's umbilical system is 73 degrees_ while Commander
Carr's is 61 degrees. Flight Director Windler hopes to find
out what is causing this problem and if the SO54 filter is not
corrected as the crew comes over stateside pass, Windler takes
the position more than likely they'll be advised to come on
back in and will look at other procedures and other tools on
board the spacecraft in attempt to correct that situation on
the next EVA. The feeling here at the Mission Control Center
is not to rip off the - the filter thatts covering the camera
for fear that the beryllium cover filter might break up and
just float around and degradate the possible pictures the
camera could get. If they did rip the beryllium filter off
it might fracture and float around in pieces inside the camera
at that - Acquisition coming up in 2 minutes through Texas.
EVA now 6 hours and 18 minutes long. The previous EVA on this
mission was 6 hours and 33 minutes in duration on Mission Day
7 on Thanksgiving Day. The previous EVA Skylab record was 6
hours and 31 minutes established by the Skylab III crew.
During the repair of the gyro 6 - 6 pack during the Skylab III
mission. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story
Musgrave for this stateside pass. The EVA now 6 hours and 18
minutes in duration.
CDR I see some ground coming up. Do you
recognize it Bill?
PLT l'm (garble) Jer_ I can't see anything.
CDR Oh.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Hello Story_ what filter do you see?
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CDR The filter I see is very very shiny, silver

shiny. And I'm hoping that's filter number 4.
CC It should be and we show you between
filters now.
CDR Okay. I_m going to try to get to 3 now.
CDR (Static) You got problems you better talk
to him.
SPY On H cage we got out to around 30 degrees
waiting for the TACS to kill off the rates, it did, waiting
for the CMGs to take over - stand by,
SPT Waiting for the CMGs to take over and
they started to and then we got a (garble) for automatic
nominal H cage. We got out to 40 some odd degrees and
with some 30 high rate, and about that time I took it over.
The TACS had tried to fire and started bringing us back to
correct the (garble) attitude error. I put in - well first of
all I cut off the TACS which were firing and they were really
belching out, I think we might have had some power down there.
Then I went to stand by, loaded in 24 minutes and started
the maneuver back and we had to fire some TACS of course
to get going. We got close to being back fairly quickly
because the TACS had already turned us around in maneuvers
got a high rate coming back. At around 5 minutes our
loaded maneuver time around 5 minutes when we were 4 degrees
out and just creeping back. Our setting was buildup any -
as much gravity grating as possible or keep the gravity
gradient down as much as possible. So we're setting here
saturated now in Y. Would you like to try one more nominal
H cage?
CC Copy that Ed, and let us take a look
at it for awhile.
SPT Okay, I also show an innergimbal CMG
number 3 (garble) full scale low. I've not seen that meter
problem before and I'm not sure whether itts an anomaly with
the meter or a real.one.
CC Okay Ed, and we're showing filter 3 down
here Jer.
CDR Okay. I see a black hole down there.
CC That's what you ought to see.
CDR You happy with that?
CC Yes sir.
CDR I'm ecstatiel Whee}
CDR And I think l've got most all that
shutter blade out of the way so it won't be too much vignetting
by that anyway.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay Wilhelm let's have the film.
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PLT It worked.
CDR Hot dog. Let's get everybody in close to
the CG so Ed won't have so many problems.
CC Not a bad idea.
PLT On it's way.
CDR Okay, Bill's sending down the film now.
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SL-IV MC-1346
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CDR We're over the U.S., Story?

CC Go ahead.
CDR Are we over the U.S?
PLT Say when, Jer.
CC Yes, sir. Over Mexico.
CDR Good show. That's fine, Bill.
CDR Take it back, Bill.
PLT Okay. RETRACT.
CDR Okay, Ed, before I do anything else, am I -
before I put the film in, am I supposed to do anything else?
CDR All right. I'Ii freeze I'ii freeze
until you catch up.
CC Ed, we show you close to SI now. We'd
like another nominal CAGE.
CDR (Laughter) Rots of ruck, Ed.
SPT Okay, Story. Coming up now.
CDR Shall I hold on tight?
CC And keep the CMGs inhibited_ Ed.
PLT Hear that Ed?
SPT Would you clarify that, Story? We're in
gear CAGED right now. By inhibited, you want me to go
into the DAS?
SPT I think they're having a little drop-out
problem.
CDR We now have filter 3 centered up, Bill or Ed.
CDR Okay, that's the way it's supposed to
be, yeah.
CC And for Ed, we - like what we're seeing
now, Ed.
SPT Okay, Story. Your call on keep the CMGs
inhibited, I did not understand. You want me to go into the
DAS, inhibit CMG control?
CC Stand by one.
SPT And also, when going through the MALF here
for 54, I now have a setting of filter in storage. Is that the,
I believe the final configuration?
CC That's affirm, Ed.
SPT Okay, then is Jer cleared to put the
camera back in?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay Okay, we got TACs 1, 3, and 5
firing at i second intervals here.
CC Copy.
SPT Okay, the green flags says latched over.
White and black button is up and the alignment's stripes are
lined up. The film is in. It started - would you like us
to cycle 1_hrough a 54 checkout, which involves the single
exposures 16 or picture rate of SINGLE and exposure rates of
16 and wa1:ch it decrement 6.
CC That's affirm, Ed.
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SPT Okay.
CDR Stand back.
CDR Okay, I'm back. Wait just a minute. Let
me close the door first. Okay. Door is CLOSED.
CC Ed_ continue on with the a nominal H CAGE
after it settles down, we'll give you a GO for CMG control.
CDR No. No, I can't see out that way. I
ought to be able to see some sparklies though.
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SL-IV MC1347/I
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CDR How many more exposures you've got to do

Bill?
PLT Several I don't know, I have -
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC After you get the SO54 installed we've
got two other EVAs to collect, SO20 data, so we don't want
you to send any time on that, just complete the EVA for the
checklist and rap up SO20.
CDR Okay. the 54? I hope so you tested it
didn't you? Yeah, as best as I can tell I'm complete.
SPT Story, the S054 is installed and from the
inside here we've checked it out and it looks good.
CC And it looks good down here.
SPT Okay, what do you want to do with our
momentum configuration. We're still in cage. And we got
a reasonable rate going in X .03.
CC Stand by i_ Ed. Ed, you can go back to
CMG control at this time.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay, Jer, I'ii get pictures of you coming
back.
CDR Okay.
PLT In fact I think I'll just take a good (garble)
(garble) right here.
CDR Okay, you ready to run?
PLT Yeah, just a second.
CDR Okay. As soon as the Sun comes up let's
get one of you.
PLT (Garble)
PLT Man, it's hard to push that button, I -
I can't believe how
CDR You Ready?
PLT Ready.
CDR Okay, here I come.
PLT Did you see the green light flashing first?
CDR No, I don't. I think it's on the side
of the camera where -
PLT Now I got it.
CDR Now I see it.
PLT Come on.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and five
minutes to Madrid.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay. Give me the camera Bill.
PLT Okay.
CDR You can hook that to my right - right
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thether ring right there. Just put it through the metal D ring.
Okay.
hours 33 mintues. EVA still in progress, EVA clock now
showing 6 hours 38 minutes, surpassing the first EVA already.
Already by 5 minutes, first EVA on Thanksgivin_ Day was 6
hours and 33 minutes in duration. And the crew still has
some time yet to bring back some more equipment and make
closeout. The work on the S054 filter successful accordin_
to Commander Carr. He was able to pull back the - pull back
and get the filter 3 in position. And he was very excited
as he did this. Science Pilot Gibson reporting attitude
problems. The vehicle was - had a problem in the Y attitude
saturated in the Y attitude he had to go to CMG control,
there was extensive TACS firings - present estimate close to
600 TACS firings during this prior to and during the stateside
pass. Next acquisition will be Madrid in 2 minutes. The
changeover presently in progress here at the Mission Control
center. Offgoin_ Flight Director Milt Windler, the on-
coming team of headed by Chuck Lewis - Fli_ht Director
Chuck Lewis.
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SL-IV MC1348/I
Time: 17:35 CST, 40:23:35 GMT
12/25/73
CDR Trying to get there without losing the

tools.
PLT Yeah, that that's a sharp (garble)
that screwdriver.
CDR It is. I worried a little bit about
poking myself with it. Now just a minute while I disconnect
this tether from me now, and attach it somewhere in the
spacecraft.
PLT Yeah, there's no sense in getting in
any hurry, I mean, we're understanding.
through Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. We're pickin_ things up
and coming in now. We got the camera in we're working on
SO20. And we have T - $201 to go, plus a couple of trees.
SPT Story, just to let you know where we
stand on SO20, we got a 60 minute exposure, a 30 minute -
a 13 and 40 rather than 15 because of that nominal H CAGE
we had to put in. And a 7-1/2 minute rather than the
8 minute, so we don't have their priority 5 and 6 item done,
but we got the first 4,
CC Okay, copy, Ed.
CC And Jer, prior to repressing the airloek
we'd like you to remove your PCU deflectors and examine the
PCUs for any ice formation.
CDR Will do.
CC And also verify the composite connector's
hard mated to the PCU.
CDR Okay. All right Bill I'm ready for your
next little present.
PLT Okay, let's see, I'ii just give you the
PS3 here.
CDR Okay, I got it.
PLT (Garble)
CDR Okay, I haven't done that but I will.
All right it's a point, just a second now. All right I got
the VS tree in and latchedp let me go up here and do what I
can with SO20. Okay, hit me with the words again, Ed.
CDR Okay, that's in work. Okay, Back in -
that valve is closed. Now work on the boresighter. Oh, that
little bitty knob again.
CDR I'm afraid the boresighter is going to
have to stay open. Yeah. That little knob, I just can't get
a hold of it to lift it up out of the notch and close the
boresighter. Okay, what's next Ed? No, it's the VS so far.
Okay.
PLT Didn't work,
CDR Okay, the VA - C tree is in place and
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locked. Right. 201's in. 20 is in, yes.

CDR Bill
PLT 230 or whatever it was.
CDR The 201 (garble) I guess perpendicular.
CDR Yeah, T025 is in and latched down.
Yeah, tethers we're short of.
PLT FAS area are you talking about or is it
the
CDR Where was it Ed?
PLT Hey, it was a good point because here
it is. Here's Don man's cover.
CDR Yeah.
PLT Okay.
CDR All right we sure will. Lightning
flashes.
PLT Yeah. Oh, no, no, that's from the
close line. Get that out.
PLT No, it looks pretty clean out here.
I haven't forget this one (garble). get to the hatch
Before we get back in, I think we have a little umbilical
or does that come up in that full umbilical?
CDR Yeah, let's get some of this umbilical
out of the way. We got a whole bundle of it out.
PLT Okay, now see this is fine here.
CDR Okay.
PLT Take yours. Let me unhook it.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 15 minutes
to Tananarive at 23:59.
CDR Okay.
PLT Gather all the lines down here. You can
start shoving yours back there in the aft airlock.
CDR Right.
CDR Slow and easy. That a way. Okay, Bill
let's get yours in now.
PLT Okay.
CDR Slow and easy.
PLT Let me get down out of the way.
CDR Got a great big metabolic load just tr_ing
to stow umbilicals. That's right Bill, do a 180 to the right.
Very good_
PLT Okay, I'm looking at all of the Dogs.
Back through okay (static)
hours 46 mintues. Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue
in the process of reentering the airlock module_ stowing
equipment, getting ready to complete the EVA. The EVA clock
now showing 6 hours and 51 min - minutes and still counting,
The longest Skylab EVA to date. Previous record 6 hours and
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33 mintues, established by this crew of Skylab IV on Thanksgiving

Day. G&N officers reports usage of over 610 mibs during
this return to maneuver following the use of the $201
camera, and reorientin_ the vehicle following this lengthy
EVA. 611 mibs approximately 3,000 pound-seconds of TACS
propellant used, more than i0 percent of the remaining
propellan_t on board the spacecraft. As of yesterday
approximately 26,000 pound,seconds of propellant aboard.
Chance-of--shift briefing with Flight Director Milt Windier,
Dr. Story Musgrave, CAP COMM, and William Bates, EVA officerp
scheduled for Hou Houston building i news room at hatch
closing plus 15 minutes. It's possible when we have
acquisition at Tananarive the crew will be back in the space-
craft and the hatch clos - closed. This is acquisition in
about 12 minutes. The crew reporting in S020 they were unable
to complete steps number 5 and 6 in the exposure protocol,
however, the crew was able to get the other exposures.
So approximately 60 percent of the experiment protocol
completed during this EVA for the S020 camera. The crew
entering 1_he spacecraft as we loss signal through Madrid.
Next acquisition will be the Tananarive voice relay station
in ll minutes and 20 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 23 hours
and 48 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1349/I
Time: 17:51 CST 40:23:51 GMT
12/25/73

hours 51 minutes. Re-evaluation currently underway here at
the mission operations control room concerning the use of
mibs, minimum impulse burns, use of TACS. G&N officer now
reports it's possible that the that number of TACS, 611 -
611 mibs were not actually fired. The ground data shows that
the mibs were fired, however Science Pilot Gibson had reported
he had inhibited the TACS firings. So with computor inhibit
the TACS would not fire but they could register firing however
they were inhibited not to fire. So it - G&N office reports
to the flight director that it will take a couple of hours
to reconstruct the data. So it's likely that the 611 mibs
registered on the ground were not actual firings but Just
impulses but the TACS thrusters did not fire. Acquisition
coming in 6 minutes and 45 seconds through Tananarive. At
Greenwich mean time 23 hours 53 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1350/I
Time: 17:57 CST, 40:23:57 GMT
12/25/73

23 hours, 57 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Tananariw_ voice relay station in i minute and 50 seconds.
The crew should be in the spacecraft at this time when they
come across Tananarive. They were entering the airlock
module when they - when we lost contact at Madrid. EVA
clock still counting, showing 7 hours and 3 minutes. We'll
have acquisition in 1 minute and 20 seconds. We'll hold the
line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CDR Be it ever so humble there's no place
like home.
through Tananarive for 4 minutes.
CDR Roger. We just opened the OWS hatch.
CDR Home sweet home.
CDR Yes, sir. And after you climb out of
your suits, Jer, wetd like you to leave the PCU connected
to the LSUs and leave the LSUs connected to their respective
panels in the airlock. Maybe after dinner we'll run through
a little bit of troubleshooting looking for a water leak.
CDR Okay, we sure got ice on my
connector, my composite connector.
CC Okay, thanks, Jet. And also on - on
Bill, we did lose his ECG the last part of the EVA when he
takes his suit off and all he might be - might take a look
at his OBS sensors.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Story. Okay, Bill I'm down.
PLT Allrighty. Ala mode. Excuse me.
PLT IVm watching it.
CDR You got to watch it when it grabs you.
PLT The great big magnet in there. Okay, do
I look clear now, Ed?
CREW Okay.
CDR Christmas tree coming up on your left.
PLT Yeah, I'm goin_ to say "Hi" here. l_m
just going around.
PLT Okay, is my umbilical clear?
CDR Yep, it's clear.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, PRESSURE SELECT OFF and doff one
glove.
PLT Okay.
CDR Mine's off.
PLT Mine is off now.
CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes to LOS
about 20 minutes to Honeysuckle at 00:23.
CC And we got a feeling for how hungry you
are. If you have any trouble finding that fruitcake, in
A2 locker behind the film vault, it's wrapped in foil and
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also stored in clear plastic. Maybe that'll help you find

it.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Story. I'm looking
forward to that.
CC So am I.
CDR Better kill the umbilical power, Bi - Ed.
CDR Yeah, we're all through. We got our
helmets and gloves off now.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. 7 minutes after the
hour. Change over here in Mission Control Room. Maroon
team turning over reins of the control center to Flight
Director Chuck Lewis head of the bronze team. Milt Windler
telling his flight controllers we had - was pratty wild at
times today, but you all did a pretty good job and saying
why don't you all take the rest of Christmas day off.
Re-eval - Re-evaluation still being made of the TACS firings
during the maneuvers at the close of t_a EVA. Ground data
shows 600 611 mibs bein_ fired_ well over 300Q pound/seconds
of TACS propellant. However, G&N officer feels that since the
computer had inhibited the TACS system, these firings may not
have occurred. We'll know after several hours review of it -
the ground data. The crew back in the spacecraft. EVA clock
showing stopped counting at Greenwich - at 7 hours elapsed
time. The crew has not indicated at what time they actually
closed the hatch because it occurred between Madrid and
Tananariw_. With acquisition at Tananarive they were in the
spacecraf_ taking off their helmets and gloves. Later on
during ew_ning status report it is felt we'll get a better
handle on the exact hatch-closing time. Flight Surgeon,
Dr. John Zieglschmid reporting to Flight Director Milt
Windler that after 172 minutes of monitoring of the two
crewmembers outside the spacecraft the pilot average was
715 btus per - while the commander, Commander Gerald Carr,
had i000 btus. Actually the comman the commander does
more work movin_ outside the spacecraft. The pilotp
Pogue worked from the EVA hatch area. Commander Cart working
from the center work station at the ATM as well as the rim
the Sun end of the ATM. Change of s_ift briefin_ with
Flight Direct Milt Windler, CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave and
the EMU officer Bill Bates, external mobility unit, the EVA
officer at 6:30 in Building 1 Newsroom at the Johnson
Space Center. Next acquisition in 12 minutes and 50 seconds
through Honeysuckle at Greenwich mean time I0 minutes after
eight - tlhe hour. This is Skylab Control.
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19 minutes after the hour. Flight Director Milt Windler in
route to 1:he Building 1 Newsroom along with Dr. Story Musgrave
and Bill Bates, EMU EVA officer. On the last pass through
Tananarive the crew was given the location in the lockers to
find the fruitcake onboard the spacecraft. This will supple_
ment their meal for this evening. The crew had the option of
changin_ around their menus for today in order that the - they
might have turkey and gravy on Christmas Day, However, they
chose not to do this and they are on menu 3, which although
not a Christmas meal, is a - a more than average diet,
much better than the food bar supplement diets the crew had
yesterday. For Command Gerald Carr today, he_ll be having
pork loin. tomatoes, shrimp, strawberries, coffee with sugar,
and ice cream. Science Pilot Gibson has on his menu prime
rib, green beans, roll, pears, and orange drink. Pilot
Pogue has filet mignon, mashed potatoes, asparagus, orange
drink, and vanilla wafer. The EVA clock here at mission control
center, still reading 7 hours. A refined time will come later
when the crew has a chance to talk to the ground and go over
the EVA - the actual hatch closing time. Today's EVA of
7 hours plus the 6 hour and 33 minute EVA previously recorded
gives the crew a unofficial total of 13 hours and 33 minutes.
In two EVAs they've logged more time outside the spacecraft
than the Skylab III crew, which had a total of about 12 hours
and 45 minutes in 3 EVAs. Skylab III crew of 12 hours and
45 minutes in 3 EVAs and the Skylab II crew on the first
mission accumulating 5 hours and 34 minutes in 2 EVAs and
i standup EVA. Next acquisition at Honeysuckle. We'll hold
the line up for this Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for
i minute through Honeysuckle and it calls out in your check-
list there to record on the recorder the PCU number. We_d
like an addition which LSU was connected which PCU.
CDR Okay, Hank. LSU 7, PCU i0. LSU 12,
PCU 13.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you.
CDR And my PCU number 13 was the one that was
throwing 1:he ice and inside here now there's sure enough
a lot of water around the composite.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS. See you
at Goldstone at 52.
PAO Skylab Control. 25 minutes after the
hour. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next acquisition
in 25 minutes and 30 seconds will be Goldstone tracking sta-
tion. We'll take the line down now for change of shift
briefing at the Building i newsroom with Flight Director
Milt Windler.
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PAO - contact through the Goldstone tracking

station. We'll play the initial acquisition and then play
catch-up as we pass over the States on this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone for
ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Did you find your fruitcake?
CDR No, we haven't got to that yet, We just
got out of our snow suits and we're kind of doing what we have
to do before we can sit down and eat.
CC Skylab_ Houston_ we've got gimbal on the
stars and we're slowly losing attitude. We may get a reset. And,
Jerry, you can disregard our earlier call about the PCU LSU.
You can go ahead and disconnect it per checklist.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Just to sort of fill
you in on what we're looking at down here. We're - we've
got a llst of things that we're proposing to delete here
this evening, to make your even - evening here a little more re-
laxed since the EVA took a little longer than we had antici_
pated. And also, later on in the evening when you get down
to the taking the - taking the CSM back down to the quiescent
set again, we have a couple of things we want you to do
there in the power down over a station site so we can look
at it. For one thing looking at the computer while it's in
POO and also looking at the BMAG problem we had.
CDR Okay, Hank. We got the fruit cake
locker out.
CC Skylab_ Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Be a dropout for about a minute and back
with you through Bermuda.
SPT Okay, thank you, Hank, I would appreciate
it sometime tonight or maybe tomorrow to find out the situation
we have there on the TACS usage and the (garble) that we
were getting.
CC Roger, we're - we
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, we have some net too, Ed. We're
trying to get all the data back. It will be a while til
we get it all back in and - and look at it. Wetre - we're
curious ourselves as to exactly what happened.
SPT I think the ground roll which was
given a way to get 50 degrees out of attitude before we
do something. I think that number perhaps is high as I think
we might ihave taken action somewhere around 30 or so, we_ll
have a cooling off without burning much gas.
CC That's a good point. WeVll certainly
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re-evaluate our rules.

CC Skylab, we b - we're through Bermuda for
5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS. Madrid
at 14.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time i
hour i0 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
aequisition will be Madrid in 3 minutes. The crew advised
some of their routine housekeeping chores may be deleted this
evening since their EVA ran 90 minutes longer than planned.
CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield telling the crew that some items
will be deleted in order that they get their dinner and get
to bed on time this evening. Commander Carr did report find-
in K the fruit cake in the locker. This will be their sole
Christmas gourmet item for the day. They chose not to change
their menu around as the Flight Surgeons indicated earlier.
They could have the opportunity to switch menus and have
turkey dinner today. They, however, chose to stick to their
menu - standard menu number 3 which calls for pork and
dressing and filet mignon. Next acquisition will be Madrid
in 2 minutes. We'll hold the line up for this Madrid pass
with CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
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CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8

minutes.
CDR Hank, on your message about disconnecting
the LSU and PCUs I was back behind the film vault at the
time. You said it was okay to go ahead and follow the
checklist didn't you?
CC That's affirmative Jer,
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, I don't how - how you're -
what you're doing I guess you're getting ready to eat or if you
haven't already but you think we ought to go ahead and get
our proposed deletions out of the way so we know what we're
working through this evening?
CDR Yeah, I guess that_ll be okay. All of
our dinners were frozen Hank, so they're thawing right now.
We've all had a little snack and now we're just kind of messing
around getting things done while we're waiting for our food
to thaw.
CC Okay, well you could -
CDR We're getting multiple mibs now.
CC Roger_ we're getting that reset we thought
we were going to get earlier. And -
CDR Okay.
CC The kind of thing we're looking at
here is for you deleting the S149 stow_ that will save you
30 minutes. And on the TO25 just through the camera stow
only and put the film in the film vault. And also we - this
applies to both you and the PLT will delete the housekeeping
2A, 2B, 2C, and IIA, that'll save us some more about 45
minutes. We'll delete the ATM pass for the SPT and we'll also
delete his M133 we'll do that later. Oh correction on that,
we want to do that tonight, if he's willing. On the PLT, we
would like to delete the filter stow from the SO20. And we're
going to have to put it that just saves us having to
put it right back in on the next EVA since we'll be using
that. And also when you get to the part where you stow the
PSU, at your option PCUs at your option you can just
secure them to the floor rather than trying to put them back
in the containers, if that makes things a little easier on -
just be sure all the caps are replaced according to the check-
list.
SPT Hank, that M133 is no prohlem and I think
on the ATM maybe if we can just pick them up a building block
IJOP 6 that would do it, I think that synoptic data is fairly
important.
CC Okay, Ed, if you can work that in that'll
be fine, just a reminder you'll have to reconfigure the panel
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according to the EVA checklist.

SPT Okay, I won't be doing that right now it
might be another orbit or so before we get this place squared
away, but I will plck it up before we get into the bed - into
bed tonight.
CDR Okay Hank, let's see if I got it all now.
We're going to delete housekeeping 2A, B, and C and IIA, the
149 stow, the T025 stow except for the camera which we'll
put away, the S020 filter stow, and PCU stow except we'll cap
them off.
CC Skylab, how do you read?
CDR Read you loud and clear now, I guess you
dropped out, did you copy what I had?
CC Ro_er, and you read it back correct and
the only other thing we have is when you get to the part where
we are powering down the CSM to quiescent we do have a couple
of thinks we'd like to do over STDN and I guess itts
best to talk those through when you get to them. And and
basically it's when we get down to step 2 there on page 6_23
in the powerdown, we would like to run a little check on the
BMAGs, and we'd also like to get a couple of minutes looking
at the computer while it's in (garble) to look at some parameters
there on PU that are not on the P20 down list.
CDR Okay Hank, let':s think about that, I_ii
probably get to that in another hour or so, maybe right after
dinner but let's spend one of these passes just working at it.
CC Okay, just give us a call when you get
to that and over what site and we'll work it out.
CDR Okay Hank. And Hank, I don't know if I
made it clear out there on S054 what I originally saw when I
looked in there. But it appears that that first camera full
of film that we had was taken through I guess three-quarters
of filter 5, and the other 25 percent of it was occulted. I'd
say looking in the aperture there three-quarters of filter
5 was - was showing.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I just disconnected the composite on PCU
number 13, and I got a whole ball of water in the face. The -
it's yellow water out of the LCGs out of that system. And the
electrical connection there is completely soaked in water_ I
think we better leave it open tonight and let it dry out.
CC Roger, we copy, and I guess we'll leave it
that way for the time being, we'll think about it. We're about
30 seconds from LOS, we'll see you again at Tananarive at 34,
and that's about ii minutes.
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CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time i
hour and 123 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. The
crew advised of deletion of four seperate housekeeping tasks
tonight to give the crew a little more time after this lengthy
EVA. EVA officer still standing by the unofficial time of 7
hours. The exact hatch closing time will not be known for
several hours while ground controllers review dump data. The
crew has not been asked to confirm the time. The ground_is - .
confident that 7 hours will hold up at this time. Discussion
concerning the equipment used during the EVA which produced
ice flakes around Commander Gerald Carr_s spacesuit. Caused
apparently by a leak, a loose fitting in the O-seal of the
umbilical. The ground will evaluate the use of this equipment
and make a thorough study of the results before the EVA scheduled
for Saturday. G&N officer reports an additional 26 mibs,
minimim inpulse burns were made with the TACs thruster attitude
control system. During this last pass this was expected as
the refined attitude of the orbit was made using CMGs and TACs
followin_ the 7-hour EVA. Still no word on the total usage
of mibs during the EVA, however ground data indicates 611 or
more than 3000 pound/seconds of TACs may have been used during
the EVA. However the computer had inhibited the TACs from
firing bull the computor also said you should fire, but
Science Pilot Gibson said he had inhihited the TACs. So
therefore until the data is reviewed it will not be know
whether 6111 mibs were actually fired. Kohoutek
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PAO - had inhibited the TACS. So therefore

until data reviewed it will not be know whether the 611 mibs
were actually fired. Kohoutek PIs here at the Johnson Space
Center are very happy with the EVA. Dr. J. Mayo Greenberg_
Principal Investigator for T025 K, the T025 instrument to
record the Comet Kohoutek said he_s very happy with what they've
got, referrin_ to the crew's activities getting the photographic
data with the T025. Dr. Thornton Paige, Principal Investi-
Kator for the $201 experiment, said that it was unfortunate
that they were not able to get all of tke data_ otherwise
everything went beautiful. He says he kope we can do the
same thing on the 29th. He said that itts too bad we - the
crew did not see the comet, however_ hers confident that the
way the vehicle and the camera was pointed it certainly should
have the comet and images on the TO the $201 camera. Next
acquistion 6 minutes and 40 seconds through the Tananarive
voice relay station. At Greenwich mean time 1 hour 27 minutes,
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SL-IV MC-1355/I
Time: 19::32 CST, 41:01:32 GMT
12/25/73

1 hour, 32 minutes. We will have acquisition through the
Tananarive tracking station for the last time of the night
for Chris1:mas day for the crew. Skylah is in its 3255th
revolution of the Earth since launch from Cape Kennedy on
May 14th. The crew of Skylah IV, Gerald Carr, Science
Pilot Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue now in their 40th day in
space. Establishing a Skyla5 record today, spending 7 hours
outside their orbiting space station in the longest weightless
work session in the Skylab program. Scientists at the
Johnson Space Center happy with the apparent success of
aiming the instruments, T025 and $201_ at the comet Kohoutek
today, although problems did crop up during the EVA, a minor
leak in a space suit and problems with maintaining attitude,
flight controllers are happy with the overall success of the
7 hour EVA today. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Hank
Hartsfield on this Tananarive pass.
CC Skylab, Bouston through Tananarive
7 minutes.
SPT Hey, Hank, (garble)
CC Roger, Ed. You are - have Honeysuckle
at 36 - 03:36.
SPT Okay, what about Jerry and Bill?
CC Okay, Bill at 02:31 in Goldstone, CDR is
at 03:56, Hawaii. All of them right to left.
SPT Okay, Hank, I copied for Bill Okay,
I copied for Bill, 02:31, for Jerry, 03:56 and for myself,
03:36.
CC That's correct, and Ed, while I've got
you, there is one error in the checklist for the powerup the
ATM panel. On page 3.1-9 on the white light coronagraph,
S052, after you bring the main power to stand by, you'll
want to go then to ON because you're going to operate.
SPT Okay, very good. I think Bill's got
that.
CC And, Skylab, also might point out to you
that we - we're stowing the S020 with the EVA bracket on it
so the in F597 so the the lid will be partially open there so
you probably should exercise a little caution in moving
around that area and not bang it.
SPT (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll see you at Honeysuckle at 59 and we're
scheduled to dump the recorder there. That's about 17 minutes
from now.
1 hour, 43 minutes. Loss of signal through the Tananarive
voice relay station. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle
tracking station in 15 minutes, 30 seconds. At Greenwich
mean time, 1 hour, 43 minutes, this is Skylah Control.
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12/25/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time I

hour 57 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Australian
tracking Honeysuckle, as Skylab crosses the South Pacific.
Acquisition in 40 seconds. We'll hold the line up for
CAP COMM Hank I{artsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle for
1/2 minutes and we'll be dumping the recorder.
CC Skylab, Houston, could you give us an
idea where: you are now in the post EVA?
PLT Okay, the CDR is puttin_ the suits
back together now. The PLT is in the CTA drain, page 3.1-11.
CC Okay, I guess Bill, we don't see the
ventilation back up again, and it could be since we got
into that 90 Alfa this morning we may ha - we got something
out of configuration. We might ought to verify the steps
in 90 Bravo would inspect some of the circuit breakers
there. And step 7 and 8 in specific that gets our fans
and everything going again.
PLT Okay, Hank, thank you.
CC Step 6 and 8, correction on that on
tanks 2-16 under SWS systems.
SPT Hank, I'm just about ready to stow the
film in the command module.
CC Okay. and we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you in Hawaii at 19.
hours 9 minutes. Loss of signal thronRh Honeysuckle, as
the crew is in midst of the post EVA activities, hanginR
their snowsuits_ as Commander Cart described them, hanging
their spa¢:esuits - snowsuits up to dry. Preparin_
generally puttin_ things away prior to settlin_ down for
a well diserved hot meal before retiring for the evening.
Although they're not eating a traditional turkey and gravy
Christmas Day feast today, they will have the traditional
delicacy of fruitcake for dessert for tonight; the
fruitcake left over from the first Skylab mission, Skylab
II, and stowed away in the food lockers. The crew was advised
where it was stowed, and they confirmed on the last pass that
Commander Carr said he did find the foo fruitcake and
they will have it on their dinner table tonight. Next
acquisition through Hawaii in 8 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 2 hours and 10 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO $kylab Control, Greenwich mean time 2

hours 17 minutes. A 9 minute and 40 second pass through the
Hawaii tracking station. CAP COMM is Hank Hartsfield. As
the crew is in the midst of completing their post-EVA activi-
ty prior to settling down for a well deserved hot meal for
the day. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 9_i/2
minutes. PLT, Houston. When you get a break this evening,
we'd certainly appreciate if you could get us a reading on
the (garble) reservoir.
PLT Alright, Hank, I_ii give you one before I
go to bed.
CC Okay, appreciate it, Billp any time.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hank, I've got a question about the stowage
for the ATM film. Right now, I have my H-alpha and 54 in the
command module. And also the 36. I know there was some
concern earlier about getting it out of the command module
when we first got up here. Now, the instructions are to show it
there. (Garble) And reorganize the stowage before we come back.
Would you check to make sure that's really where they want
all that film?
CC Okay, understand you have H-alpha 54 and
56 in the command module? And we'll check it out.
SPT Thank you, Hank, it's exactly as printed
on page 3.2-2 of the EVA cue cards post.
CC Okay.
SPT And also, SO52 is going down to F551.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston. You - your next site's your
private comm and you may acquire a little early. It's sched-
uled for 30, but if you're ready, you might - might get VHF
picked up about a minute before that.
PLT Okay, Hank, thank you very much.
CC And CDR, Houston. Do you think you might
be into that CSM powerdown on the next CONUS?
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Roger, we're about a minute from LOS. We'll
be seein_i you at Goldstone at 30. And that's scheduled for
the evening status report and right after that we got a
8 minute pass at Bermuda and we were wondering if - if that -
that site we could run through the CSM powerdown?
CDR Well, there'll be no status report. I h -
I'm no where ready to give that. I'll go on up there at
Bermuda though and we can do the CSM together.
CC Okay, whenever it's convenient. If -
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if you've not ready, evening status, that's no big deal.

We could do it at Goldstone for that matter if you want to
do the powerdown there. Are - are you eating now?
CDR No, huh_uh, I'm doing (garble). What's the
next pass now, Hank? The next station.
CC Okay, we have Goldstone coming up right
now in about another couple of minutes. And then there's
Bermuda after that.
CDR And will Goldstone be - -
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time 2
hours 29 minutes. Loss of signal through _awaii. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in 1 minute 40 seconds. We_ll
hold the line up for this stateside pass.
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CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone for

7 minutes. And you're right Jer, I forgot about PLT's private
comm, we'll have to wait until Bermuda and that'll he coming
up at 42.
CDR Okay, fine, Hank, I'ii meet you there at
42.
CC Hey, Jerry, the comm tech says he's having
trouble raising Bill. He is up in the command module, isn't
he?
CDR Yeah, he's up there Hank. He's probably
trying to figure out the reconfiguration.
CC Okay. They got it going now, Jerry.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're i minute to LOS.
We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 42. And for the SPT_ the
stowage as outlined in your checklist there is correct for
the film.
SPT Okay, Hank, thank you.
hours 39 minutes. We've loss of signal through Goldstone. Next
acquisition in I minute and 50 seconds will be Bermuda
tracking station. Skylab space station currently in an
orbit of 244 by 226 nautical miles.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda for
7 minutes.
PLT Hank, this is the PLT. I just checked
the SUS i reservior and I would think for all practical
purposes it is empty.
CC Roger, we copy. And CDR, we're standin_
by, as soon as you get in the command module give us a call.
CDR Okay, I'm there.
CC Okay, Jerry, first thing we'd like for
you to do is give us PO0 we can go ahead and be lookin_
at those frames on T20.
CDR Okay.
CC And the next thing we'd like for you to
do is up in the tunnel there's enable caution and warnin_
10 Alfa.
CDR Roger, i0 Alfa.
CC And while you're down that way, over on
panel 229, we'd like to verify that the EPS group 2 MAIN A
is CLOSED.
CDR Hey, Hank, say our problem BMag 1 is in
warm-up.
CC Roger, copy, in - in warm-up.
CDR No it was nice and warm, but it wasn't
doing much.
CC Could you turn it on for us and we'll just
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take a look?
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, that's all we need then.
You can go ahead and do a normal powerdown.
CDR Roger, Hank. I'm glad that's all the
problem was.
CC So are we. Skylab, Houston, has
housekeeping 90 Bravo been accomplished step 6 and 8? We
still don't see the heat exchanger fans and everything
going.
PLT It's in work right now, Hank.
CC Okay, thank you Bill. CDR, Houston,
I guess when you get through with that powerdown we'd want
to go back and inhibit l0 Alfa again.
CDR Okay, good enough.
PLT Hank, what fans and everything are you
referring to?
CC The OWS heat exchanger fans, Bill.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, if it's convenient for
an answer now, in regard to the PCU that you you were
wearing Jerry that was leaking so bad. I wonder if on the
first EVA who ever was wearing that, did they notice any
unusual amount of water or ice or anythin_ around that
connector?
CDR Hank, I was the guy who broke those
-_CD_ - the PCUs down at the end of that EVA and I don't
remember seeing any water around them at all.
CC Okay, we copy. And we're about i
minute from LOS. Next site is Canaries at 51, and that's
scheduled for the med conference.
CDR Roger.
PLT Hank, are you still there?
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Check the fans now, they should be
running, l've reconfigured.
CC Okay, looks good.
PLT Thank you.
2 hours 49 mintues. The crew will shortly be in the midst
of their Christmas Day meal. Commander Carr having pork
loin, tomatoes and shrimp and stra_ erries. Science Pilot
Gibson having prime ribs of beef, green beans_ pears and
rolls, while Pilot Pogue has filet mignon, mashed potatoes,
asparagus and orange drink. They will top this off with
some extra fruitcake left behind by previous crews. Although
the Skylab-IV crew had the option of eatin_ turkey and gravy
today, they chose to stick with today's tasty menu of
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pork loin, filet or prime ribs. One of the reasons

festive and more traditional Christmas meal was not aboard
for today or for that matter Thanksgiving is the fact the
food for Skylab and each crew member over all crew menu
choices were made more than 15 months ago, in October 1972.
And the food for the three Skylab missions was loaded aboard
the workshop of February of this year, i0 months a_o, lonp
before it was ever decided that Skylab astronauts would be
orbiting the Earth on Christmas Day. We'll hold the line up
for this Canary pass.
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PAO This Canary pass is being devoted to the

med - the daily med-conference with Dr. Gerald Hordinsky
presently discussing the medical status of the crew. We'll
have a summary of that discussion as soon as we can. We'll
put it on the line. We'll hold this line up in the event
the crew does come hack up and talk with CAP COMM Hank
Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you for
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay Hank.
CDR We're just sitting down to eat now.
CC Okay, I wonder if I could get one of you
to make a note on a couple of switches we need on the ATM
panel the next time you go up?
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, on TV we need the XUV MON power to
on and on the S054 we need the IMAGE DISSECTOR to ENABLE.
CDR Okay, Ed whistled up there to do it right
now.
CC Well, he could have waited, we didn't -
it wasn't that urgent. I just didn't want to io- we would
need it - he would need it when - if he did this last pass,
I don't know whether he's going to do it or not.
CC In any event we would need it tonight.
CDR Say again Hank, we were talkinK on
intercomm and missed you.
CC Nothing important.
CC How was that fruitcake?
CC Sklab, Houston, we're about i minute
from LOS, the next site is Honeysuckle at 36 in about 29
minutes and as a reminder that's the SPT's private comm.
SPT Roger, copy.
PAO Sklyab control, Greenwich mean time 3
hours 6 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension, next
acquisition in 29 minutes and 20 seconds will be Carnarvon
tracking station. As Skylab space station begins its
3256 revolution. Next acquisition in 28 minutes at Greenwich
mean time 3 hours and 7 minutes this is Skylab control.
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hours 35 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Carnarvon
tracking station in 45 seconds. This will be the last pass
through the Honeysuckle tracking station for the crew today.
We'll leave the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank, and when's the first pass
after 04:00?
CC Roger, it'll be Goldstone at 04:08.
CDR Okay, I'll try and have an evening status
for you by then.
CC Skylab, Houston, for whoever's free. We'd
like to get a nuZ update now.
CDR Okay. Bill's on his way.
CC PLT, you might try outer gimbal minus 250
and inner gimbal minus 580.
PLT Okay, I think I got it on minus 87, you
might check and see if I got the right star.
CC Okay, it looks good here, Bill.
PLT (Garble) 84.
CC That looks good.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 20 seconds
from LOS. The next site is Hawaii at 56, and that's the
CDR's private call.
CDR Rog, Hank.
hours 45 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition ii minutes 25 seconds will be Hawaii tracking
station. Evening medical status report reads as follows:
"Heart rate and work rate during today's EVA were very
nominal. The commander and pilot felt very comfortable durinF
EVA. Some residual but minimal tenderness was noted in
the fingers after donning the gloves. The pilot will take
a decongestant to preclude any earblock." Signed by
Dr. Gerald Hordinsky for Dr. W. R. Hawkins, director of
medical operations of the life science - life science director
at the Johnson Space Center. Skylah space station now in its
3256th revolution in a orbit by 244 by 226 nautical miles. If
Skylab IV runs the entire 84 day mission, this comin_ Friday
morning at 8:35 central standard time, that will be the halfway
mark in the 84 day mission, that will be day 42 for the crew.
_At 8:35 a.m. central standard time Friday will be the halfway
point in the 84 day mission. Next acquisition in 9 minutes
and 30 seconds through Hawaii. At Greenwich mean time 3 hours
47 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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3 hours 55 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii
tracking station in 15 seconds Crew concluding their
post-sleep activity as far as scheduled retirement for the
day at Greenwich mean time 4 o_clock. However -
CC CDR, Houston. You're coming down on
S-band also.
CC And Skylab, we're with you through
Hawaii for 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Rog, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. It looks like it's going
to be a little late to try to get it in an ATM pass, so fix us
us up for unattended at night. If you could give us minus 5400
on the experiment roll, we'll be all set.
SPT Hey, Hank, I'm going to be up here for
about another 30 - 40 minutes or so finishing up that EVA and
ought to be coming into the Sunlight again. There's no reason
why I can't get myself a block i now on 71 Bravo 2.
CC Okay. It's your choice, Ed.
PST Thank you, Hank.
SPT It's going to be good for a change to be
taking some S054 data row you're really getting something good.
CC Hey, that's right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 6 seconds
from LOS. See you at Goldstone at 09 with a recorder dump.
PLT Okay, Hank.
4 hours 6 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition through Goldstone tracking station in 2 minutes
35 seconds. Inadvertently, the Commander Jerry Cart's private
family conversation, the first few seconds of it_ came down
on the air-to-ground loop. This was - came down on the S_band.
Inadvertently, he apparently flipped the wrong switch in the
command module as he was holding his private conversation.
It was one-sided. Next acquisition will be through Goldstone.
We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre through Goldstone
for about 8 minutes and we'll be standing by for evening
status. So whenever you're ready, CDR.
CDR Okay, stand by_ Hank.
CDR Okay, Hank. You got your pencil ready?
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CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, half
light; SPT, 7.5, 7.3 heavy, 0.2 light; PLT, 7.5, 7 heavy,
half light. Volume: CDR, 1750; SPT, 2200; PLT, i000.
Water gun: CDR, 7786; SPT, 3347; PLT, 9568. Body mass:
CDR, 6.290, 6.289, 6.289; SPT, 6.350, 6.349, 6.352; PLT,
6.251, 6.251, 6.254 Exercise: none for anybody.
Mediations: CDR, chloral hydrate last night, Sudafed tonight;
SPT, none; PLT, Tinactin as directed and Oranade [?] tonight.
Clothing: CDRp one T-shirt; SPT, one pair of shorts; PLT,
none. Food log: CDR, salt 3.0, deviations, minus two
coffee with sugar, minus lemon pudding and plus fruitcake,
rehydration water plus 1.5; SPT, zero salt, zero deviations,
zero water; PLT PLT, salt 1.5, plus one fruitcake and
rehyrdation water zero. Flight Plan deviations: none.
Shopping list: none. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Okay, here's the photo log:
16-millimeter, documentary photos EVA, Charlie India
78, 60, Charlie India 74. Nikons - we have a TO25 we owe
you a reading onthat. And we'll give that to you tomorrow.
70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 171, 75, ETC, none. EREP,
no change. Drawer A: Alfa thro - Alfa 1 through Alfa 4,
no change. In the back 07, Charlie India 78, 60, Charlie
India 74, all the rest of the Nikons, no chan_e.
CC Roger, we copy Jet.
CC CDR, Houston, I understand that you
didn't find all the Christmas goodies. The - the presents
were right in the same PPK with the Christmas tree.
CDR Oh, we're supposed to open the whole
bag, huh?
CC Well, I'm exactly sure how they were
stowed. The little Christmas tree was in there with the -
in the zipper bag attachment, it should have been three
small presents in there with it.
CDR Okay, I think I know what you mean then.
We found a bag with a zipper bag on the side, but we did
not open the big bag. We just opened the zipper ba_.
CC Well, we understand that's where the
presents supposed to be in the zipper bag.
CDR No, the zipper bag only had the tree
in it, that's about all there was room for in that little
zipper bag. We'll go conduct a search though.
CC Okay, what you're lookin_ for is about
say dime size.
CDR Dime size?
CC Little tiny things. And G&S says go
easy, he doesn't want his mementum missed up again. And
we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We could say good night
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to you here or if you want a little news, Bermuda will be

coming up in about 4 minutes.
CDR Want you give us some news at Bermuda.
CC Okay.
4 hours 15 minutes. Loss of signal through Goldstone
tracking station. Next acquistion will be in 3 minutes
through Bermuda. Apparently, Science Pilot Ed Gibson did
not have his Christmas Day fruitcake. Pilot Po_ue and
Commander Carr, however, did. In the evening status report
the only deviations to the food menu was the fact that
Commander Carr reported that he and Pilot Pogue did add
the fruitcake to their menu. And no mention in the Science
pilot menu report of having added the fruitcake to the menu.
Also a search currently underway aboard Skylab. A search
for three missing Christmas presents, the crew apparently
did not find them when they opened the package containin9
the tree yesterday. These packages described by the
CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield as dime size, were in the same
pocket of the APK, the astronaut preference kit, aboard
the command module. The crew is now apparently searchin_
for these three missing Christmas presents floating somewhere
in Skylab. Next acquisition in i minute 40 seconds. We'll
hold the line up for the Bermuda pass. CAP COHM Hank
Hartsfield promised the crew the read up the daily news
during the Bermuda pass.
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12/25/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you through

Bermuca for i0 minutes.
CDR Hey Hank, there really is a Santa Claus.
CC Hey, did you find him?
CDR Yeah, that rascal left us some goodies.
CC How about that.
CDR All gaily wrapped with Christmas paper
and ribbon and the whole bit.
CC Yeah, I was a little puzzled the other night
when you called down and said you hadn't - one present to
put under the tree. And then I was so puzzled why you said
only one.
CDR Yeah, we didn't even see this other one
it was laid right back in the pouch and didn't pop out when
the other one did, and we didn't look in it for anymore.
SPT We really don't think it was here before
Hank, someone must have put it there.
CC Maybe it was a midnight skulker.
CDR Hey Hank, that Nikon is 02, and the film
in it is Bravo, Echo, 04, and there's 2 frames left.
CC Roger, we copy. Are you ready for a run
down on the news?
CDR Roger Hank, hey, tell my wife I'm delighted
with my present and your authorized to give her one hug.
CC Okay, I'll take you up on that.
CDR No more, just i.
CC Okay, today President Nixon spent part
of Christmas Day workin_ in his office. He talked by telephone
with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on possible future
moves in the face of the continued Arab embargo on oil
shipments to the US. The first family exchanged Christmas
gifts in the morning and had turkey dinner in late
afternoon.. They had the same schedule I did. Pope Paul VI
exorted men to follow the infant Christ as their saviour
Tuesday and then _ave his traditional Christmas blessin_ in
12 languages. Television carried his annual message across
western Europe. An estimated 30,000 Romans and tourists
crowded into St. Peters square to hear it in person. Two of
the Skylab astronauts made a Christmas Day space walk and
focused cameras at the colorful Kohoutek comet in a quest for
knowledge of creation. Astronaut Gerald P. Cart and William R°
Pogue worked outside Skylab while Edward G. Gibson stayed
inside to relay instructions and control the space station.
During the record setting 7 hour space walk the astronauts
aimed special cameras at Kohoutek, changed film in Skylab_s
telescopes and fixed the stuck filter in one of the cameras.
Personnel at Mission Control were extremely pleased with the
results of the days activities. Government weather men reported
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Tuesday that astronomical conditions would generate unusually high

tides on Earth on January 8, and February 7. If the feared Atlantic
storms combine with these conditions extreme flooding might
strike low-lying areas along the east coast. On those two
days the moon not only will be full thus causing high tides,
but also will be closest to the Earth. Also the Moon and Sun
will be in a relatively rare alignment. Whippin_ winds continue
to spread the biggest brush fire in Argentine memory. The
Blaze has destroyed more than i000 miles of rich pampas
grass lands in the last i0 days. Hundreds of cattle and
wild animals have perished but only one human death reported
so far, a rancher suffocated by smoke. Some fire fighters
said only a thunder storm or change in wind direction could
control tile fire. Back at home General Motors has quietly
conceded that the wankel rotary engine will not be
available under a Chevrolet hood in September but should be
ready for 1975 models. General Motors has invested close to
100,000,000 on researching patent rights. As Isralii troops
stood guard some 4,000 pilgrims and tourists celebrated the birth
of Christ with song and prayer Christmas Day in Bethlehem,
(garble) where Jesus was born. Millions of Christians
throughout the World gathered at religious services to pray
for peace and good will in a world racked with conflict. The
Arab states promised to increase the flow of oil by i0 percent
in January to Japan, France, Britian, and Belgium. But they
said the United States and the Netherlands have remained too
friendly to Israel so their announced reductions in oil
shipments still stand. The gasoline shortage allowed must
service station operaters to eat turkey at home instead of
pumpin_ gas for Christmas. Many motorists decided today it
was better to stay home themselves rather than risk running
out of gas. Auto traffic was light and some motorists
found themselves stranded on the highways and traffic accidents
seemed to be fewer than usual for a holiday. That's about
all the news I have here. I guess from our viewpoint you
guys did a real great job there today.
CDR Thanks a lot Hank, we appreciate it.
PLT Hey Hank, how about passing the word along
to Helen that I got the present and I appreciate it very much.
CC Okay, I'ii do that Bill.
SPT Say Hank, the same for me and (garble)
goes double.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey Hank, no hugs are authorized though.
CC Okay, I copy.
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CC FAO is bugging me to tell you I've started

the count down on my rocket. They really slipped one up on
me last night. This is the last shift for the bronze team
this year guys. It's sure been fun working with you this
week, and we'll say Happy New Year to you and see you in
January.
CDR Thanks a lot Hank, and all you guys on
the bronze team, we appreciate all your hard work.
SPT Good working with you. So long.
PLT And have a good time off or vacation or
whatever your going to call it.
CC Thank you. Hey if you want to I guess
you can take tomorrow off.
CDR We'll have our answering service up
tomorrow.
CDR Ed's goin_ to go fishing for a flare
tomorrow.
CC I sure hope he gets one.
PLT Yeah, we do to, he's a lot easier to live
with.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS, good
night to you.
SPT Good night Hank.
PLT Good night Hank.
CDR Good night Hank.
PAO Skylab Control -
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Time: 22:29 CST, 41:04:29 GMT
12/25/73

4 hours, 29 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda,
with a gocdnight call from CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
The crew found their Christmas gifts from their wives. CAP COMM
Hartsfield was advised to call the families and thank all
three wives for their three crew members. Tomorrow will be
a day off for the crew of Skylab IV. They'll sleep in
late. Wake-up time, 8 a.m. Central Standard Time_ tomorrow
December 26th, Wednesday. 3 hours of ATM observations
tomorrow for the crew, And generallyp a day off for
three Skylab crew members on tomorrow, their 41st day in
orbit. Public Affirs Console will close at this time
and reopen at 8 a.m. central standard time, Wednesday,
December 26th. At Greenwich mean time 4 hours and
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SL-IV MC-1365/I
Time: 08:03 CST, 41:14:03 GMT
12/26/73
PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control at

14 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is over the
Pacific. The decision has been made to delay the wake-up
call for another 30 minutes. That call will be put in at
the Ascension Island station. Acquisition there 30 minutes
from now. Skylab astronauts will observe a quieter Sun and
discuss their scientific ventures and photograph several
features on the Earth's surface as they take some time to
relax after a record-breakinz 7 hour 1 minute spacewalk
Christmas Day. After the crewmembers awaken, eat breakfast,
and prepare for the day, five scientists on the ground will
brief them on recent developments on the investigations they
are conductin_ aboard the space station. Dr. Rober Parker
the astronomer-astronaut, who is Skylab program scientist,
will discuss the general scientific aspects of the mission,
and will review several of the miscellaneous or corollary
experiments underway. Dr. Story Musgrave a physician-astronaut
and one of Skylab's spacecraft's communicators will review the medical
experiments with the crew. Dr, William Lenoir, another
scientist-astronaut will brin_ the crew up to date on visual
observations. With their planned 84-day mission nearly half
over, the crew has photographed and described more than 200
features on Earth, Dr. A1 Krieger, an investigator on the
X-ray spectrographic telescope, S054, which was repaired by
the crew during that spacewalk yesterday, will discuss Skylab's
solar investigations. After a period of moderate activity
on the Sun, most of the remaining active regions are due to
pass out of view by the end of the week_ Active region 05
produced a very small flare during the night_ but no violent
erruptions seem likely. Some surges visible as the region
passes around the edge of the solar disk may occur from 05 and
from 00, which produced several medium-size flares during the
past 2 weeks. The only prominent feature still remaining on the
surface of the Sun that faces Earth is a _iant sunspot.
That spot associated with active region 00 is more than
20,000 miles across, large enough to contain several planets
besides the Earth. Comet Kohoutek, due to loop the Sun at
a distance of 13 million miles Friday mornin_ will be discussed
by William Shoddy, Kohoutek project manager for Skylab, who's
from the Marshall Space Fli_ht Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The Skylab astronauts may make visual observations of a
half dozen separate subjects on Earth. At 8:43 a.m. central
standard time they_ll pass over the Congo River, City of
Kisangani, Zaire, a city which was formerly known as Stanleyville
is one of 20 being observed as part of a study of metropolitan
development patterns. Less than 2 minutes later and some
500 miles to the northeast, the space station will cross one
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of the largest swamps in the world, the E1 Sudd Swamp in

Sudan is the source of masses of floating weeds called sudd
in Arabic, that obstruct navigation and cause flooding alon_
the White !Nile River. The astronauts _ handheld photographs
should help define vegetation patterns and floating masses
in the swamp, which covers tens of thousands of square miles
in the extreme southern portion of Sudan. At 10:21 a.m. with the
science conference underway, the crew will have another chance to
observe the sand dunes north of Lake Chad. Usin_ a Hasselblad
70-millimeter camera, they may photograph the region shortly
before sunset. The late afternoon lightin_ may provide a
better view of certain topographical features in the drou_ht-
stricken country. The astronauts are aidin_ in the search
for new water sources. Their observations are recorded on
Skylab tape recorders and transmitted to scientists engaged
in active research on the ground, allowin_ rapid application
and evaluation of their findings. Pilot Bill Pogue has some
time set aside to photograph volcanic activity on the Galapagos
Islands in the Pacific Ocean, 700 miles west of the
coast of Ecuador. These islands, home of the giant sea
turtles provide a unique laboratory for studies of biology_
geology and the weather. The Falkland current and swirling
ocean patterns off southwest Africa may also be observed
later today. In an addition to visual observations and hand-
held photography, Science Pilot Ed Gibson will install the
large Earth terrain camera in the space station's airlock.
The camera will take a series of oblique photographs across
Paraguay. These photographs will help to fill out a set of
pictures to be used in making detailed topographic maps of
the South American nation's more remote areas. The Flight
Director on duty now is Milton Windler_ the CAP COM is Dr.
Story _us_rave. Skylab now 23 minutes away from acquisition at
Ascension and the first call of the day. At 14 hours I0 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is S _labControl.
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12/26/73
PAO Skylab Control 14 hours 32 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is nearin_ acquisition at
the Ascension station. The first call of the day will go
up here. We'll stand by for that.
CC Good morning, Skylah. Got you through
Ascension for 9 minutes.
PLT Good morning.
CC Good morning.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and
about 37 minutes to Guam at 15:19.
PLT Ro_, Story.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Next acquisition will be through Guam in
35-1/2 minutes. At 14 hours 44 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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minutes Greenwich mean time. The Guam station is about to
acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 7 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, I got an update to your film thread
pad when you're ready to copy.
PLT (Garble)
CC Okay. Download the BH05, from Nikon 05,
and stow it in F-510. That's a J bag,
PLT Roger. Download BH05, that's Bravo Hotel 05,
and put it in 510, and that's Okay, in the J bag.
CC Yes, and that's from Nikon 05.
PLT Roger. Nikon 05.
CC And I got a couple of small chores here
for anyone that's free.
PLT llm ready to copy from here, Story, We're
sort of getting up and getting around, l_m eating. Go ahead
and talk, S_ory. I'ii copy it down.
CC Okay, I got just this one. We can delay the
others. Transfer urine trays numbers 9 and i0 from the re_
turn container, that's S-519, to the wardroom 2 freezer_ W756.
And the reason for that is we're preconditioning those heat
syncs prior to putting them in the urine freezers.
PLT Okay. That's transfer urine containers
numbers 9 and i0 from S-519 to the wardroom 2 freezer, W-756.
CC Yes, sir; and that's it and in case today you
try to get caught up on any of the things that we delayed
from yesterday, things like housekeeping 2A, 2B, 2C, and IIA,
we're going tO scheduled those for tomorrow. So don't do
those today.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And while I got you, one other chanKe
here. We don't have a Vanguard pass today. We will not have
Vanguard until we let you know. So we'll be delayin_ the
med science conference until some time later_ So we won't
have that Vanguard pass at 15:56. We_ll pick up the other
science conferences as scheduled.
PLT Roger; understand. You'll let us know
when the med science conference+s coming up.
CC Yes sir.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We don't
expect to see you at the Vanguard at 15:56_ We_ll see you
over Ascension at 16:10 for the Kohontek conference, and we
are running unattended ops on the ATM. We do see someone at
the panel up there.
CDR Roger. Understand Story.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss of

signal. The next station will be Ascension Island in 44
minutes. Science conference will start at Ascension. At
15 hours 26 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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through Ascension, Canary, and Madrid. The science confer-
ence will start at this station.
CC Skylab, we got you through Ascension
here for 8 minutes, and here's Bill Snoddy on Kohoutek.
MCC Good morning, fellows. Want to try to
bring you guys up to date on things in terms of the comet
and in terms of the observing program, some of the philosophy
we have there. First of all I just might say the - all the
comet Pls are just simply delighted with the way the opera-
tion's been going. As far as the status of the comet is
concerned, you're the only people getting much data right
now so I can't really report to you very much in terms of
new information since you're the only guys getting it, almost.
As you know, the comet is in a dynamic period as it approaches
perihelion. The tail should be fanning out. As a matter of
fact, Jerry, I believe the day before yesterday you reported
that you were observing this. During the next several days
the tail w_ll be trying to in effect move around in front
of the comet. This will take quite a few days in fact for
this to occur. The tail actually more or less reforms so
that it is in front of the comet. The gas tail does this
much faster then the dust tall does. So you may in the
photographs that you take, we may see the blue gas tall out
in front of the comet and the dust tail still lagging behind
it. As a matter of fact, there's a period of time around
the ist of January when the dust tail will probably be both
in front of and still from our point of view appear to be
behind the comet as well, so this is a rather dynamic period.
As we go through perihelion then we will of course be in the
period where we have the maximum excitation of the molecules
and the free atoms so the metal lines, if they show up,
should show up at this time, have only been observed in two
other comets and never in the UV so we're quite anxious and
hopeful that on 82B, 55, and so on we_ll get some of these
metal lines. Especially 82B. And this is also the time
when the comet might split, if it's going to, and this will
he quite interesting because this will expose the interior
surfaces of the comet and - and we'd llke to see what kind
of spectrographic data we get there so we're hoping to get
data at regular intervals, so if the comet does split we'll
have that data automatically. I'm not sure how quickly we
would know from the time it split until it would be observed,
so if we just take data every day that we can and then if
this does occur we'll hopefully have tkat data. There's a
meeting up at Smithsonian this morning, Professor Kohoutek will be
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there. They're going to be meeting with some of the scien-

tists who look at the data that's been gathered so far and
they are going to let us know the outcome of that. In fact,
Kohoutek himself will be here the day after tomorrow and
he'll be able to bring us up to date on the speculation and
thin_s that are occurring and we'll naturally pass on to you
any interesting developments that we get out of this. I
don't believe you - okay. I don_t believe you'll be able to
see the comet out of any of your windows, Itm afraid_ because
of obstructions and so forth until maybe around January the
8th. But you'll get a good view at that time because the
comet will be quite near Venus and Jupiter. As a publication
of one of the highly concerned groups about this comet
coming, (garble) the comet will be seen to consort brazenly
in the darkness with Venus and Jupiter so you_ll have a good
view of that. Then_ let's see. On ATM, this is of course
their prime per - their prime period of operations. Tomorrow
evening the comet comes into the field of view of $052 and
while it's in a Sun center position and so they'll start
operatinK unattended tomorrow evening and operate continually
for 24 orbits as the - first the nucleus passes through the field of
view and then as the tail comes through it behind it. They"ll
be looking at the dynamics between the Sun and the comet,
especially the inter actions with the tail. On the morning
of mission day 42 will be at a period of a minimum elongation
when the cGmet will be within the field of view of 82A, which
will be observing it in the for UV and looking for
thin_s such as helium and so that_ll be a very important
period. That's the only time 82A will be able to get data
on the comet. Also 82B and 55 will be observing not the nucleus
but the coma at that time. After you've gone to bed at - tomorrow
evening - -
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MCC - - and so, that'll be a very important

period. That's the only time 82A will be able to get data
on the comet. Also, 82B and 55 will be observing not the nucleus
but the coma at that time. After you've gone to bed at
tomorrow evening, we'll pass through perihelion. That'd
be about 10:30 GMT, where the comet of course will be given a good
thermal kick and we'll be wanting to see the results of that
kick during the EVA on mission day 44, and - with T025 and
201. Compare that results with the results that we got
yesterday, which by the way the Pl's are just delighted with
the way things seem to have gone. And, if later in the day,
there as time allows we hope that perhaps we can schedule
an observation with 82B and S055, to try to catch the comet
as near perihelion as possible. Since perihelion occurs after
the minimum elongation, our chances of looking at the comet
near perihelion are better after perihelion than they were
before perihelion. The corollary airlock instruments will start
observing again around the ist of January and it'll be a
different :mode of operation now, the comet's on the other
side so, we'll have the situation where the Sun sets first,
and then the nucleus and then the tail. This will make thing
perhaps not quite as hectic. You won't always be worrying
about the Sun coming up and messing up the last exposure.
We'll have the Sun out of the way before you start looking at
the comet and then we'll also get a good fix on the tail and
we expect to start trying to make some of our observations
on the tail. We haven't really been doing that too much,
up until now, but we'll be making observations after the
head of the comet sets. Interest in the comet is still quite
high, in fact, you can even get a Kohoutek T-shirt, if you
want too. (.Garble) Smithsonian reported to me this morning,
(laughter) _ Smithsonian reported this morning that the most
popular question they get from the public in their discussions
is one of the most popular questions is in connection with
the comet is "What are the astronauts doing," so you fellows
are certainly in a central role here. That's about - I guess
the report I have. I give you guys a chance to talk.
SPT Thanks, Bill, for the update. I tried to
look for it this morning, but I could not see it, and I was
wondering whether it had moved behind the solar panel or not.
Or, whether it's just because of the light scattering that
we just can't dark adapt enough in order to see it. If
that it has moved behind the panel, I'm wondering, whether
anytime we make a maneuver you can tell us at what point during that
maneuver we might have a chance to see, we'd certainly like
to make some visual observations and give you some real-time
information if at all possible. And, secondly, as far as
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usin_ the ATM. We'd like to make sure that we don't miss any
opportunities up here, in order to get that done. So, you
just tell us what time certain observations are best
performed and let us try and work out what can be done.
MCC Great. We really appreciate that attitude.
Yeah, I'm afraid that it is behind the panel now, and that's
the reason that I don't believe you'll have a really good
view of it until around January the 8th or so, but we're
reworking that right now, to see if there's any possibility
at any time that we can get a good view of it and, if we
can come up with anything, during any of the maneuvers, or
anythinK of that sort, we'll certainly pass it on to you.
SPT Okay, and I - apparently we're goin_ to
be hearing more about which type of JOPs, JOP 18 Alfa, Bravo,
Charlie or so forth, we're going to be doin_ over the next
few days. It would be interesting to get a summary of that
and start thinking a little bit ahead.
MCC Okay, we'll sure do that. Bill Lenoir will
be talking about these things to you, daily, too as well,
but we'll get that to you.
CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. About
2 minutes to Canaries and Bill Lenoir with the visual ops.
And, when we come up over Canaries, I'll need someone at the
STS for some switch throwing.
SPT Okay, Story. Thanks very much, Bill.
MCC Thank you (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. Short dropout
between Ascension and Canaries. Should have acquisition
throuKh Canaries in about 20 seconds. The briefer from the
ground, on Kohoutek conference, was William Shoddy, the
Kohoutek project manager for Skylab, from the Marshall Space
FliKht Center, in Huntsville, Alabama. Scientist-Astronaut
Bill Lenoir will be next with
CC AOS Canaries/Madrid for i0 minutes. And,
someone up in the STS?
CDR On our way.
CC Okay.
CC And, while you're on your way up there.
What we're seeing is on 1-minute cycles, 5 seconds before the
even minute, we're seeinK a decrease in the ATM C&D coolant
flow.
PLT Okay, Story. I'm up here.
CC Okay, Bill. Panel 203, ATM COOLANT PUMP,
C, OFF; and then D, ON.
PLT That's complete.
CC Okay, and did you hear any noise or any
chan_e in the noise when you did that?
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PLT Negative.
CC Okay, here's Bill with visual ops.
MCC Hi guys.
SPT Good morning, Bill.
MCC Okay, let me just start off here with a
couple of quickies about the Falkland current area, Want to
emphasize what we said last time and that is that the obser_
vations you're giving us are very good data, It's new infor_
marion. The ground experts here are presently analyzing all
of the words and details that you have passed down to see what
we ought to do next. We don't yet have a good total answer
to your question, yesterday, on the red coloration that you
saw. We'll include that with the regular analysis and you
will certainly be among the first to get our answers. A word -
SPT Tell them we didn't see it as heavily today, but
there's still sort of a tint of it.
MCC Okay. Good. I hope you voice record your
total observations on that, because those are really excellent
descriptions you're giving us. The TV show you gave us was
excellent. We're sorry as you are that the tape ran out
when it did. We'll be trying again. It looks right now,
like we're going to be getting a Z-LV EREP pass on your next
day off, New Year's Day. That primarily is for the African
drought area up over the inland delta in Mall and Niger
And, we will be going, early, into Z-LV and we will be taking
the full complement of EREP instruments over the Falkland
current area. Hopefully, with TV on the VTS. So, that's
something I wanted you to be aware of, to know that that was
coming. Shortly after that, llke a week or so, we_ll be
loosing Sun in that area, as the precesion of the beta angle
causes your Sun line - Sunset/Sunrise to move further up
in the ascending part of your orbit, We will be returning
in Sun, to that area, late in the mission. In general, any
comments that you have on southern hemispheric current, in
particula_ the circum_Antartic current_ are more than welcome
and almost certainly fill a void where very little is known
at this time. And_ here again_ we will be losing Sun in
that area and not picking it up again until late in the
mission, and by that I mean late January, Some general
thoughts. The low Sun angles in ascending tracks, I have
just mentioned, we have apparently lost most of our opportunity
for the Okavango Swamp until later in the mission. Not so
much by Sun angle, but because that your passes over that
now occur early in the morning prior to your getting up.
So we'll be concentrating on looking at the inland delta
region now, up by Niger and Mall. Coming back to the
Okavango swamp later in the mission, when we can catch
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it on descending track. The comparisons and contrasts that

you should be thinking about now, and again, we'll get you
a better pad on this later, would concern the vegetation, water,
and things that you can see, that are apparently different
or would matter when you will be looking at the swamp later.
One very good thing that Ed has been doing that we'd like
to encourage everyone to do is to estimate distances, compared
to how you see the distance between a fixed landmark,
between two points on the ground. I know this doesn't work
out over ocean_ but it certainly works in when you can see
the - see land. We also want to say that the scheduling that
we pass up, both the scheduling and the optionals, are really
totally your option. We don't object strongly when you miss
a scheduled any more than when you miss an optional or anything.
We're getting far more than we had in our best moments
hoped for, as far as your targets of opportunity. So, when
you miss an opportunity of this nature, don't feel bad, we're
getting an awful lot and realize that it's like taking a
drink out of a fire hose here. The - -
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MCC - (garble) So when you miss an

opportunity of this nature, don't feel bad. We're getting
an awful lot, and realize that it's like taking a drink out
of a fire hose here. The film situation is that we have
plenty of film. So don't hesitate to shoot up film. We're
givin_ you lots of observations, only mainly to concentrate on the
verbal description rather than the film. And I've got Bob
Parker here looking over my shoulder saying it's corollaries
time. So I've got about 14 seconds here if you've got any
questions.
SPT No real questions, Bill. Just a comment.
The past couple of days, we've not been able to pick up as
many optionals as we'd like. But_ that's not because of
lack of interest, but because we have been running pretty
hard. So keep them coming up. And don't slow down on that
score.
CC Okay - -
PLT One point, Bill. On the Okavango Swamp,
that thinK's going to have to be taken early in the morning
local time. Because everytime I look at that it's cloud covered
when we get over to about the middle of the day or late aft
MCC Okay, Bill. We copied that on the down-
link before. And again, Ed. Don_t feel bad about missing
them. We'll pass you up a pad on Elmina a little later. And
here's Parker.
MCC Good morning, gentlemen. Let me start
off and talk about S020. I've got about 3 minutes here,
so I may be a little bit rushed. The PIs are extremely
pleased to have their science data. Particularly - It's
sort of a classic case of overcoming the loss of a solar SAL. On
top of that, they're extremely pleased to let you know that
it looks like they got the rise portion of a small flare
yesterday during their observation. So it's sort of a
super bonus on top of everything else. They would be
interested in you lettin K them know sometime how easy the
pointing of S020 was and also whether S020 was shaded
when you made the maneuver to shade $201. This might have
implications for extra viewing time on the other EVAs. $201
wants to answer one of your questions about the exposure
when you had sunlight flooding in the wardroom window. The
answer to that is that the calcium fluride window for
half of the exposures is essentially filler blind. So
for this reason_ to get as long a solar comet viewing time as
possible, they have been runing, sometimes a couple of
minutes in the sunlight portion of the orbit. The other
day, you were forced to terminate one of the targets, T-14
as you remember the number, early to get on to the next
target. That, indeed, is the way we need to have you operate.
A lesson to be learned, which the PI intends to follow from
now on, is to allow more time for tilting rotation changes.
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So we're trying to - constantly down here to work in such things

and to straighten ourselves out. I know you know about
SO19, the problems we had the other day. I'Ii just pass
up to you from Carl that, presently, he doesn't hold out
much hope for straightening out that magazine. The
experience here on the ground seems to be that once one jams
itts jammed essentially for good. So we'll be using only
the other magazine for the rest of the mission. As far
as the week ahead, let me point out that as you well know,
we're primarily concentratln_ on Kohoutek for the next week
or so. We don't really have too much in the Flight Plan
except for a few corollaries sprinkled here and there and
medical runs and ATM both from the Sun and Kohoutek. And
that's really just about the total substance of the week
ahead. There was a TO20 which we were planning to run on
_[ission Day 45. However, that has a possible conflict with
JOP 18 Delta in that we've got extra crew motion going on that
we're trying to avoid. So it looks llke TO20 will be flipped
temporarily, because of this conflict on that day. Now,
Bill mentioned the EREP pass over the Falkland Current and
the Mall drought area on your next day off. That'll indeed
be the next EREP pass we're looking at. And the first one is
the EREP window begins opening up for January. I have about
30 seconds here, if you have any comments down. Over.
SPT On SO20 at what point which exposure
was that flare? And also would they want longer exposures
next time in addition - along with the ones they got this
time, or do they want to finish up the 5-mlnute one?
MCC Okay. We'll talk to them and get an
answer for you. Thank you, Ed.
CC And we're 20 seconds from LOS. About
25 minutes to Guam at 16:54. Be dumping the data voice
_here.
SPT Okay. Let me reemphasize the point I
made before about being able to see Kohoutek during the
maneuver. If there is any time during the maneuver where
we can get a look at it, we sure would appreciate having
that time and information.
MCC Okay. We're sure to look at that. I
might just let you know that we aren't anticipating any
large maneuvers except for some 18 Deltas towards the end
of the month in about 4 or 5 days from now. Other than
that, of course we won't be going to EREP or rolling for
the corollaries.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range at Madrid now. Next station is Guam in 25 minutes.
During this pass through Ascnesion, Canaries, and Madrid
acquisition the crew has had a science conference with
William Shoddy on the comet Kohoutek, with Bill Lenoir on
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visual observations and with Bob Parker on corollary experiments.

At 16 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching acqui-
sition at Guam.
CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 9 minutes,
and Jer, when you get up to the MDA we got some switch
throwing in the STS.
CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 8 minutes,
and Jer, let me know when you're up in the MDA.
CDR Roger, Story. Will do.
CDR Houston, CDR. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Up in the STS, Jer?
CDR Affirmative.
CC Okay. This'll be on my mark. I will be
turnin_ on panel 203 ATM COOLANT PUMP B, OFF, and at 30
seconds later I_ii give you a mark on that. We_ll turn it
back on again.
CDR Okay. That's pump pump Bravo. Right?
CC Yes. Now, I'm looking at the display. Wait
for my mark. I will be turning it OFF on my mark and then
about 30 seconds later back ON on my mark, Okay - -
CDR Okay.
CC Stand by.
CC MARK. Bravo OFF. Any time will be fine
here for OFF on Bravo.
CDR Say again, Story?
CC Did you get that coolant pump OFF?
If not, stand by and I'll give you another mark.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Right now'll be fine. That's
panel 203 ATM COOLANT PUMP Bravo OFF now.
CDR Okay. It's off.
CC We're seeing it.
CC Okay. In about 5 seconds I'll give you
a mark for :Betting it back on.
CC MARK. Back on.
CDR Okay. It's on.
CC Okay. Thanks. And I got two other cir-
cuit breakers for you to check. It's on panel 200 and it's
the lower right-hand corner of panel 200. CONTROL PROGRAMMER
COMMAND and CONTROL ELECTRONICS COMMAND. Check that they're
both CLOSED.
CDR That's affirmative. They're both CLOSED.
CC Thanks. That's all I got for you now.
CDR Okay. The COOLANT PUMP look okay on
B?
CC It looks good. We're just checking this -
this little drop in flow that occurs on 1-minute cycles just
5 seconds before the minute.
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CDR It does on B and C, huh?

CC Yes sir. Have you noticed - can you
hear any sound up there, any cycling once a minute?
CDR No. I'll listen for it, but I haven't
heard any yet. Actually it's kind of hard when you're in
the MDA to hear it because you got the rate gyros right
behind you and they're kind of noisy, too.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See
you over Canaries in about 53 minutes at 17:54. And the
medical science conference has been rescheduled for Canaries
at 19:34.
CDR Roger, Story.
of signal. Canary Island station will acquire Skylab in
49-1/2 minutes. At 17 hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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minutes Greenwich mean time. The network controller reports
that the Vanguard tracking ship appears to be able to sup-
port this pass. We're about 30 seconds away from acquisition
at the Van - Vanguard. We'll stand by there.
CC Skylab, the Vanguard's back with us.
We got you AOS for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Story, I got the ETC working. There's
a we don't ever get the film light; all seems to be working
very well. We're suppose to be taking some pictures of Paraguay
but we got an awful lot of clouds. If you want me to continue
and press on or - (garble) just a few isolated spots that (garble)
cloud cover?
CC Ed, press on. It's a high priority pass
for you. Get what you can.
SPT Okay. And the other information on the
ETC checkout is on tape
CC Okay. And we're about a minute from LOS,
about 12 minutes to Canary; 17:54.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard
has loss of signal. The Canary Island station will acquire
the space station in ii minutes. Flight Director Milton
Windler would like to update a statement he made yesterday
during the change of shift news conference concerning the
S054 experiment. During the news conference he indicated
that the filter wheel, which was moved to an OPEN position
by Jerry Carr yesterday had been stuck. He indicated that
it appeared that the filer wheel had been stuck in an inter-
mediate position and that the data that had been taken since
between the time the wheel stuck and - and Carr fixed it probably
would not be very useful. He has just received the report
from the Apollo telescope mount experts in the back room
which reports that the filter wheel was approximately 75
percent of the FILTER through the filter 5 position prior to
being moved to filter 3, and as a result the following state-
ment can be made relative to the S054 data taken between the
time it became stuck and the time it was fixed. "On flares,
since the FILTER 5 was primarily designed for flares, this
data is excellent. Active regions, the data is somewhat de-
graded but still valid, synoptic data, significantly degraded
and will require extensive analysis." Skylab now 8-1/2 min-
utes away from acquisition at the Canary Island station.
At 17 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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at the Canary Islands. This pass will carry through Madrid
station.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries, Madrid 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Would you check and see how
much time is left on the VTR?
CC Okay.
CC It's clean, Jer. About 30 minutes.
CDR Okay. We never did get that TV picture
of the Christmas present we got from the guys on the ground.
CC Okay.
CDR That'll only take about 3 minutes or maybe
even less. And, I'm taking some VTR now off the MONITOR i.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, PLT, here.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger. I have a task at 18:15. Stand by i.
PLT (Garble) timing check and my question is,
mark at time of opening and what does opening mean? Is that
when this thing starts motoring and making noises?
CC That's affirm, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CC At 18:25:26 is a nominal time for that.
PLT Okay, thank you very much.
CC Bill, if you got a couple of minutes here,
I got some questions pertaining to the EVA, if you're busy
we can get tlhem some other time.
PLT I just finished my workout. Fire away.
CC And, CDR, could you verify that H-alpha is
in AUTO?
CDR That's verified.
CC Okay. Bill, did you find it necessary to
dry the suits - are you drying the suits?
PLT Jerry started that last night. We went
ahead and (garble) dry them anyway.
CC Okay, and the DAC film you got yesterday,
did you do tlhe DAC documentary?
PLT Yes. That's what I was trying to do. I
did 24 frames a second and I tried to get Jer on his transfers.
It was - the reason I didn't shoot it all up, is it was extremely
difficult to hold the button down in a suit, and I could have
used the mount, but I didn't think l'd get near as good a
pictures of the transfer.
CC Okay. Do you think we need to reschedule
that for Saturday's EVA_ or the final EVA?
PLT Yes. I think we ought to get some more of
the other two guys and - on one of their EVAs. I don't think I
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got enough really to satisfy the requirement.

CC Okay. And, did you ever get the cover
the boresight cover on S020 closed?
PLT Yes. That was after we got back inside.
CC Okay. And, did you find an electrode off
on your operational bioinstrumentation system?
PLT I found one, where the sponge was awfully
cruddy and[ it sort of crushed it up and that was FC. I don't
know if that was the one that was causing the problem or not.
CC Okay, thanks. That's all I got for you
nOW.
PLT Rog.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR HeyStory. My hat's off to Rusty and
whoever the guys were that worked with them on those S054 procedures.
Boy, if they hadn't been written so well, I'd never have been able
to figure out what was going on out there.
CC Okay, Jer. Good, we'll pass it on.
CC And, while I got you, what configuration
did you leave the T025 in? Did you do a normal stow on it?
CDR No, we just put the camera away last night.
CC Okay, If you get a chance today, wetd like
a normal stow on it.
CDR Yeah. We'll go ahead and get the rest of
it put away, shortly.
CC And, per your request, we did send up some
ATM, some optional passes there. They are optional. If you
are going to run them, let us know, so we wontt he running
our unattended ops. And, that ought to be in the teleprinter
now.
CDR Will do.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we still don't show H-alpha operating.
Is the EVA AUTO DOOR switch in STORAGE.
CDR No, it's ENABLED.
CC And, did you get an ENABLED prior to sunrise?
CDR Negative. I didn't.
CC Okay, that's it.
CC And future ref Jer, if you get that switch
enabled after sunrise, you need to give H-alpha a start,
cause it doesn't get the data streak (?).
CDR Yeah. I knew that, darn it, and I forgot
it.
CC Okay.
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CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About

35 minutes to Honeysuckle at 18:42.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the Madrid station. Next acquisition will
be to Honeysuckle Creek in 33 minutes. At 18 hours 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 41 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired at
the Honeysuckle station now.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for
8 minutes. And if you're not using the ATM, we shall use
it.
SPT Story.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Story. Go ahead. What I'd like to do is
pick up the two after the two that I have scheduled.
CC Okay. We did send up an optional pad for
you. We'll go ahead and run it unattended at thia pass.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. Then I can use
those - the pad you have for this one for the first one
after my two scheduled?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS, about
35 minutes to Bermuda at 19:26.
CDR Say again, Story.
CC That's the LOS call, see you at Bermuda
in about 35 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. The next station is Bermuda in 35 minutes.
Today is a partial crew day off. Scheduled activities are
spaced between periods of crew off-duty time. Each crewman
has been alotted time to take a shower. This afternoon,
Skylab Commander, Jerry Carr is scheduled to do some photo
documentations of the shower being used by Science Pilot
Ed Gibson. No specific times have been scheduled for television
today. But the crew may do some TV of their own choosing
during their off-duty periods. Jerry Carr indicated a short time
ago that they might put a little bit of television on the
video tape recorder, which will be dumped later in the day.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson has used the Earth terrain camera
this morning for some more photographs of Paraguay in South
America. That data will be used by map makers. He did report
clouds in the area, but he was requested to go ahead and
photograph what he could. This afternoon, Skylab Pilot,
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Bill Pogue will be taking handheld photographs of the Fernando

caldera volcanic activity in the Galapagos Islands. There's
been a major collapse in the caldera and five erruptions in the
past 5 years. And the caldera is constantly changing.
Pogue has been requested to describe any changes in the form
of the caldera and in the size and shape of any new lava
flows. In addition, he is to describe cloud patterns over
the islands and the location relative to the caldera. Skylab
32-1/2 minutes away from acquisition at Bermuda. At 18 hours
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, AOS through Bermuda, 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about
2 minutes to Canaries, Madrid where I'll be giving you the
med science conference.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries, Madrid, 12 minutes.
And when you're ready I'm ready with the med science confer-
ence.
CDR Go ahead, Story. We're listening.
CC Okay. And as usual Story's got a differ-
ent story. I got just a couple add-ons. Could you say some-
thing about what you consider to be the validity of this
center of_mass measurements. In other words, how accurate do
you think you're getting those? Give us a feel to that.
Are you having any difficulties getting that data?
SPT No, we can get it all right, Story. I
would say at the outside plus or minus a half a centimeter,
maybe a quarter or so. I guess about the best you
could expect out of that. We don't really have a long enough
distance over which to - to pull the other crewmen to actu-
ally see very slight rotation, and I think that's what's your
limiting factor.
CC Okay. I got a lot of smiles down here
on that one, I guess people are very happy that you can get
it in that close.
SPT Again, that's just an eyeball estimate.
I guess we get that by seeing how much we moved it - the
strin_ around your waist and still get a noticeable reflec-
tion.
CC Okay. And on the leg blood flow meas_
urements the data looks good. In general we've had a slight
increase in the blood flow, two crewmen, up;that's CDR and SPT,
and the PLTs down a little bit, but it looks like right now
you're moving back toward the baseline.
SPT That's good to hear, Story. Thank you.
CC And the most important part of those
venous obstructs and venous outflow type experiments is prob-
ably the venous compliance data that we're seeing, and of
course we're collating that it with the data you're getting
from the lower body negative pressure. And the very important
thing seen in your flight and on SL-III was the change in venous
compliance. That is, how much does the - how much do the veins
and other spaces in the legs - how much fluid or blood can
they hold with a given distending pressure, and inflight versus
preflight we're seeing changes like three or four times as much.
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SPT Okay, Story. In one sense that might be

good but in terms of the LBNP it puts a much greater stress
on US.
CC Yes sir, and what we're looking at, those

changes correlate pretty well with orthostatic (garble).
Now what we're seeing the last the last run in that, it
looks like we may have some adaptation to your lower total
blood volume now. And we're seeing those curves tend to shift
down a little bit, which shows some kind of adaptation.
SPT Well, that's good to hear. What's the
prophecy when you get back to one g?
CC Oh, I think you got us you got us pretty
well stumped on that one right now.
SPT Okay.
CC And this is really interesting data be-
cause one of the best simulations we've got of the physiology
that we see in space flight is bed rest_ and all of those
studies do not show significant changes in - in the amount
of blood or fluid that's pooled in the legs in response to some
form of delta pressure like this.
SPT Would you start that last sentence over
Story? You dropped out right in the middle of it.
CC Okay. All the bed rest studies we have
and other studies, hypordynamic studies_ have not shown tre-
mendous changes in the venous compliance or the amount of
fluid which is pooled in the legs in response to something
like a venous cup or lower body negative pressure, so this is -
this is really a new finding, and appears to be peculiar to
space fliFht as opposed to other simulations.
SPT Very good. We'll do lots of head scratching
and see if there's any way we can improve our conditions when we
get back into one g.
CC Okay. It appears that exercise in it-
self is not enough to change this pooling of fluid and blood
and that some other stress or - like lower body negative pres-
sure, which has been shown to be protective in bed rest
studies, may be the only way to do it.
SPT How much time would it take per day?
CC It's really not - not pertinent here be-
cause the studies on the ground have taken, oh_ between 3
and 5 hours.
SPT Yep. You're right. Okay.
CC M093, the vectorcardiograms, which of
course you're enable to see in flight, but there on the M092,
and on the MI71 what we're seeing in your flight is very para-
llel to previous missions at this stage. We see nothing un-
expected. We see no significant arhythmias. The only things
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we've seen in flight compared to preflight are an increase in

the QRS, which means a stronger ventricular contraction during
the MI71, and also an increase in the PR interval, which is the
interval between atrial and ventricular contraction, but nothing
really significant there.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC On the M133, again the data is pretty
much the same as I reported to you on the medical conference
2 - 2 weeks ago. You do have an increase in total sleep
time over the last 2 weeks. The total sleep now is aver-
aging about, oh, 6 hours and 58 minutes, and total rest about
7 hours and 18 minutes, and again you have an increase of - -
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SPT Okay. Thank you.

CC On the M133, again, the data is pretty
mu _ the same as I reported to you in the medical conference
2 weeks ago. You do have an increase in total sleep time
over the lest 2 weeks. Your total sleep, now, is averaging
about 6 hours and 58 minutes and total rest about 7 hours
and 18 minutes. And again, you have an increased amount
of time in stages 3 and stage 4.
SPT That sleeping hurt us.
CC Yes sir. And one other point Dr. Frost
would like to mention is he would like to get two runs at
the end of the mission. So you're the best one to judge how
the electrolyte is going, but he would like a two-run toward
the end of the mission.
SPT Okay. We'll make sure he gets one.
CC The MI51 data, they appreciate the times
you given to them. At the end of the second run inflightp
you have better efficiency, better time than the best pre_
flight time. And also you're still improving on that.
SPT We're trying.
CC That's the 92/M171.
SPT Okay.
CC As far as the exercise go, you know that
you're getting a lot more exercise than the previous two flights
both on your ergometer and on the other devices. As far as
the ergometer goes, you're running, say on the average of
watts - watt minutes per kilogram per crewman. The CDR's
running about 74, SPT about i00, and PLT about 69 for an
average of 82. SL-III averaged 64 and SL-II averaged 31.
We'd like you to discuss your feelings about the quantity
of exercise you're getting. Do you feel a fatigue from it, and
how does any fatigue that you do feel from this exercise relate
to the amount that you were getting preflight?
CDR Story, we're not feeling any fatigue at all.
I think we all feel like we're getting adequate exercise and
probably wouldn't mind taking more if we could. But it's
a matter of time.
SPT And, Story, the reason we're doing this,
of course, is to try and stay in reasonable condition for
the extra long flight. We knew we've got an awful lot of
other things to be doing up here and of course it's how you
divide your energy and your time. If we're - If anyone feels
we're pushing to much on the exercise_ let them speak out,
and we'll think about it again. But again, the reason we're doing it
is not in any way a personal finish at all. It's strictly to try
and keep ourselves in good shape for the long duration flight.
CC Okay, that's really why I raised the question
here. Up until your mission in the amount of exercise you're
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doing, we always thought the more you did, you're better. Now
we're starting to raise the question what is an optical amount
of exercise and we wanted your inputs on this.
SPT Well, right now, none of us are complaining
of any muscle soreness or any fatigue or anything like that
from the exercise. Most of us find the exercise is a good
cobweb clearer. It makes us feel a lot better when we're
finished.
CC And, understand, you don't have a lot of
fatigue even after a hard workout.
SPT Well, immediately after work, yes. But,
it's not one of these things where you can hardly wait to
get to bed that night.
CC Okay. And yon think, maybe it's increasing
your alertness of performance during the day.
SPT I think so, very definitely. I think the
greatest factor in fatigue is what kind of sleep you get
during the night and not how hard you worked during the day.
I think if you can get yourself a couple of hours before you
go to bed to sleep to let the motor slow down and get yourself
a good night's sleep and then you're ready to roar into it
the following night.
CC So_ in general, you like the amount of
exercise that you're proposed to run from here on?
SPT Yeah. That's affirmative, Story. I
think the bigger problem as far as fatigue is concerned is
mental activity and busy work that keeps you uptight and moving
until late into the evening. That's the sort of thing we like
to get rid of and try to have an unwinding time. But I
relax very well at the ATM panel.
CC Okay. And how would you feel about a
temporary reduc _on in the amount of exercise?
SPT We would not be for that.
CC Okay. We were thinking about it just as
a means of gathering some other data points here.
SPT Well_ we'll go along with it for a while,
but I don_t think we should let anybody cap that concrete.
Story, if we were going to do that, I would propose that
essentially, we work out as hard as we always do, on a
particular feature but maybe not do that each night. That is
like I would work the bike every other day and do the other
exercises on alternate days, as opposed to decreasin_ the
exercise that you do on both. I think you really nead a hard
workout when you do it.
CC Okay. Well_ we were real interested in
getting your inputs on that. We've been thinking it over down
here and I_ve got about 20 seconds here to LOS. Enjoyed
talking with you. We_ll pick you up over Carnarvon in about
25 minutes at 20:11.
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CDR Story, I've got one for you to pass on to

the medical people and that is urine sampling situation.
I got an uneasy feeling about urine sample bags, so I took
an inventory last night and I put it on tape at 05:00 Zulu,
but it appears to me that we've only got 87 sample bags
left. And that's running us about 16 days short.
CC Okay, thanks a lot_ Jer. And another item,
not related. Was your LSU still connected, the restraint
hook on your PCU when you came in yesterday?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay. And while we go over the hill here,
Bill's got: a family conversation coming up at MILA at 22:36.
CDR 22:36. Thank you, Story.
CC Yes, sir.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will acquire Skylab in 24 minutes.
The medical science conference being held during the Canaries
Madrid pass_ with CAP COMM Story Musgrave, who is a medical
doctor. Considerable discussion on exercise. The crew
feels that the amount they have been doing is beneficial.
Would be willing to reduce it temporarily to get some more
data points but would not like to permanently reduce the
amount. At 19 hours 47 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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PA0 This is Skylab Control at 20 hours I0

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up on a pass
at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon, Honeysuckle 15
minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And for Ed, active region 05 has produced
several surges and type 3 radial burst in the last 3 hours.
CC (Garble) Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, did you get that M509_F7A started
this morning?
SPT That's affirmative. It's running now.
CC Okay. Do you think it's too noisy to
let it run during your sleep period?
SPT No, it's not making - not making any
noise at all.
CC Okay. And a question on the urine bags.
We're wondering if that count 87 that you gave us, if that
included 20 bags that were transferred at about mission day 20
in two utility bags from command module A-6 into D-426?
SPT That's affirmative, Story. We've already
used those half sample bags up.
CC Okay. Thanks; and you'll be please to
know that here in the MOCR we're enjoying some fruit cakes
from Mrs. Carr.
CDR Hey, that's great.
CC That's in honor of the people that had
to work on Christmas.
CDR Very good. You guys deserve a little bit
of config consideration there. You all did a great job, I
think.
CC Thank you; and I'm about to work on my
third piece.
CDR Hey, Story. My friendly stowage book,
looking up urine sample bags, it says in Delta 426 there's
a 150 of them. In Hotel H23, there's 48 of them. And then
our old nemesis Echo 699 Charlie there's a 114 of them, and I
wonder if maybe the people who stowed urine sample bags got
fooled by that like we did and don't know that that's the
trash airlock, although I don't understand why sample bags
ever went down the trash airlock.
CC Copy, Jet.
CDR On page 1-3 of the Stowage Checklist.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're about 40 seconds from LOS,
about 30 minutes to MILA at 20:58, and we're learning something
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about the stowage book down here, E-69 E-699 and that C
there means that 114 bags had urine in them and those samples
were brought home.
CDR You finally broke the code, huh?
CC Yes, we broke that one. We'll probably
work on a few ot_ers later.
CDR Got a new code for you. W-799.
CC We'll work it.
20 hours 28 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 30 minutes 25 seconds will be the MILA
tracking station° This is Skylab Control.
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20 hours 57 minutes. Acquisition coming in 50 seconds through
the MILA trackin_ station. Temperatures aboard Skylah a
comfortable 72 in the sleep compartment, 75 in the wardroom
area. Skylab space station currently in a 244 - by 226-nau-
tical mile orbit traveling at a speed of 25,087 feet per
second. We_ll hold the line up for this MILA pass.
CC Skylab. AOS stateside 13 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Hey, I've been looking at the limb where
active re_ion 05 is in the H-alpha. Looks as though we can
see some material rising up above the limb. I wouldn't want
to say it's at the base of a loop structure, but it does have
that general configuration. It extends maybe, oh, 15, 20
arc seconds off the limb. Both running to the south there
is a fairly large H-alpha signature and then a wider one but not
quite as extensive going off to the north. When I get some
observing time on the following orbits I think I'll be looking
for the structure in the corona, loop structure using
neon or another line suggested by 55.
CC Copy_ Ed. And we need the DAS here.
SPT Say again.
CC We need the DAS here.
SPT Oh, okay, Story. You've got it.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Bill, when you get to the M560 ops sche-
duled around now,it's non time critical_ but youVll need to -
to get power to the experimentyou'll need to go through MDA
Experiment Checklist 9=8.
PLT Rog. And I'll be looking up the VTR
with that other rig so I'll be sure and turn the power off be-
fore I hook it up.
CC Okay. And I'll remind you prior to your
pass, but on your family comm the antenna's right for a minute
or 2 and then left the rest of the pass.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Story.
CC Skylab_ we're a minute from LOS and
about 4 minutes to Madrid. And Ed, you'll be havin_ your
ATM conference with Dr. Krieger at that time.
SPT Thank you_ Story.
21 hours 13 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 2 minutes 35 seconds will be Madrid.
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CC Skylab, we're AOS through Madrid for 8 minutes

and the ATM conference with Dr. Krieger.
SPT Hello, Milt good to talk with you.
Go ahead.
MCC Hi, Ed. First thing I'd like to do is thank
you guys for the Christmas - that you gave to S054 and invite
you all up to Cambridge for lobster, after the mission.
SPT We'll take you up on it.
MCC Good enough. The - one of the first thing
I wanted to discuss was the scientific implications of the
54 repair. The first point is that the fact that we're now
in filter 3. This means, that from now - from here on in,
we will be getting good data on the active regions, large
scale structures, the bright points, the holes and - every-
thinK, essentially. We'll be able to use the shorter
exposures for the active regions and we'll be able to use
the grating in. The grating works for any compact bright
source, not only for flares. Also, it's now our only means
of getting spectral information, so, in addition to using it
for both flare weight and for all flares, as it's on today's
pad. We'll start to use it extensively for non flare
observation. Watch the pad for this kind of thing and some
permanent changes to building blocks, like building block i,
may come up on a general message.
SPT Okay, we understand that, relative to the
grating and you're also sayin_ that the exposure range will
probably be dropping down, so we'll probably be doin_ a lot
more 64s rather than 256s.
MCC That's right.
SPT Okay. Very good.
MCC Okay, the next thing is the shutter
override. The shutter over ri - the way the shutter over-
ride works is that right after each exposure, the next frame
is moved into position, so it's bein_ exposed in between
exposures. When we're in the high mode or the single mode,
that means that every frame gets a 0.3 of a second exposure plus
whatever the time of that exposure is supposed to be. Now,
in the low mode, however, where there's a 12 second interval
between exposures, we wind up taking a sequence of 12 second
exposures. At least until we get to the 4 and so on, in
other words we take 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 16, 28, 76, 268, and
so on. The results is, that what we'll be doin_ is we want
to start using the low mode 12 second exposures to obtain
time resolutions - to obtain time resolution data on rapid
changes in the core of active regions and also on things like
coronal bright points during in the BB 18 data, from JOP ii, of
last mission. We saw some events taking place, but where we
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think that that high time resolution data can maybe buy
us a lot. We'll be doing that tomorrow, so just wanted to
warn you that you'll see it on the pad even before the general
message comes up - -
SPT Okay, I'm glad you explained that. Looks
like a good opportunity to get time resolution and the
explanation will help, because if we were going to study
high time resolution with low,mode, I think we all would have
wondered.
MCC Yeah,okay, well. Now you know how it works.
One thing I wanted to mention, the procedure should be I guess
to use the 12.8 minute position on the 54 timer. Now if the
building block is long enough we'd like a re-initiate.
So, when the ready light comes on on the 54 timer, hit the STOP
switch to clear the logic just in case the mode hasn't quite
timed out, and then hit the START switch again.
SPT Okay, we'll do that.
MCC Okay, now the - the next topic I wanted
to discuss it was the shutter override what it was the fact that
the shutter override allows long exposure, because of the fact the
shutter is always open. Now the idea here is that by taking
long exposures, we're hoping to get data all the way out
with good microdensitometer of both density, all the way
out to 1-]/2 solar radii where we can get into the 52 field
of view. The point is that X-ray intensity varies in filter
3 goes as _ about T to the T cubed NE squared, whereas the
white light coronagraph goes like N sub E linearly with no
dependence on temperature. Therefore, you compare the data
from the two experiments and that gives you NE and and TE
independently.
SPT That's very good. Did you say you can get
out to 1-]./2 of that if we point off as far as we can?
MCC Well - -
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MCC ments and that gives you NE and

and TE independently.
SPT That's very good. And you say can you get
up to 1-1/2 and that if we point off as far as we can?
MCC Well, what we're going to do is we're
going to put a log - we're going to put a mode called 54
long X into things like the NRL mini limb scan and maybe a
few other building blocks. The procedure is as follows.
What you do is you configure 54 for M, STORAGE, OUT, SINGLE, i.
MSOS i. Then you hit the START switch. This takes four
exposures and advances the film to a fifth frame. Then at
the end of the building block, you hit the START switch again
and it ta _ and it bounces off another three for three blank
frames. So what we'll see when we look at the film is three
blank frames, then a long ex 50_minute exposure, a 45-
minute exposure of something else, and then another three - then
another th.ree blank frames.
SPT Okay. I understand that. would it be of
an advantage to you to take some relatively long, like 5, i0,
15 minutes, if we pointed as far off as possible, and at above
an active region where we can expect and Could see a streamer?
MCC As a matter of fact, that's another one
of the modes we're thinking very seriously of is to put a
15_minute exposure into building block 5 and try that when
there's a region at the limb.
SPT Okay. If - if you send that information up
on the general message send also some information along
on what could be done in the shopping list along that, since it
doesn't use very much film. We'll try and get some of that for
you.
MCC Right. That's exactly the - that's
exactly the kind of thing we were going to do. I do have
one question that I'd like you to sort of think about. The
question is, how to remember to hit the second START command
at the end of the chip. I see two alternatives. If it were
before the mission I'd strongly recommend rewriting all the
building blocks the way it was done for for the SINGLE FRAME
mode. However, that's a little tedious. The alternative
might be a reminder on the pad.
SPT Yes, I like your second alternative and
I'll think about some other ways we might be able to do it
here. But: for the time being letWs stick with the second
alternative.
CC Ed, we're i0 seonds from LOS. See you
over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 21:49, be dumping the
data/voice there, and you can continue.
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SPT Okay, one thing AI, I think you

owe a awful lot of thanks to Rusty Schweickart because all
of the work he put into it. And also being right there
on the spet with the right equipment yesterday, that
really made it all work. We appreciate his efforts
and I think everybody should.
MCC Absolutely, and I agree with you
i00 percent.
SPT Go ahead. Do you have anything else
AI?
MCC Yeah, the planning committee noticed
your comments about the desire to shorten your response
time to changes in solar conditions.
21 hours 24 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. The
pass devoted to ATM discussions with Dr. AI Krieger,
co-principal investigator for the S054 experiment. Yesterday
Commander Carr repaired the filter on the S054 which
had been stuck since mission day ii. The scientist here
at Mission Control Center are very happy that now S054 can
proceed with gathering good data of the Sun. Earlier
Science Pilot Gidson reported seeing some activity in
active re_ion 5, reporting he saw material rising above
the surface of the Sun, and fairly large H-alpha particles.
Next acquisition will be in 23 minutes and 40 seconds through
Carnarvon as the crew continues their day of rest, day off
for the Skylab IV crew. For the rest of today the crew
will be relaxing or doing very little work. All three
crew members, Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson, Bill Pogue have time
alloted for taking a shower_ and several off duty periods
for reading, listening to music, or taking a nap is so
desired. Today's work activities have included at least
one session at the ATM console for each crew member
studying the quite Sun. Handheld photos of a volcano
Galapagos Islands and map making photos of Paraguay with
the Earth terrain camera were taken also today by the crew.
Seven separate opportunities to take handheld photos out
the wardroom window were scheduled for the crew today. The
crew is scheduled to retire at about i0:00 p.m. this evening.
Wake up to begin their 42nd day in space is scheduled for
6:00 a.m. central standard time on Thursday. Next acquisition
in 22 minutes and 20 seconds through Carnarvon. At
Greenwich mean time 21 hours 27 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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hours 48 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon in
50 seconds. CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for 9 minutes,
be dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Any plans yet for PCU number 13 or the
umbilical that it was hooked too?
CC Stand by i. And while we're working that,
W799 is a plenum.
CDR Okay, that's kind of what we had in mind.
CC Jer, on tomorrow's Flight Plan, you'll be
re-servicing the SUS and getting out some spare equipment.
We're not going to use PCU number 13 or its LSU, and no
more troubleshooting on that.
CDR Roger, Story.
CDR Story, also I - I just put away T025
completely and I'm now beginning to have second thoughts.
I'm wondering if we don't have any other airlock activities
with T025 before the next EVA, I think I just wasted a lot
of time.
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story in looking at the white light
coronagraph, you see a large streamer which is evolved over
the past day or so, or a couple days we've not had to much
chance to follow recently. But, it's right above active
region 05, it's at around 4 o'clock or so. We have a very faint
streamer at 2 o'clock, one at 3, and then over there on the
east limb, we have an exceptionally large one which is pretty
much at 9 o'clock, very broad at the base and just tapering
as we go on further out. The one at 4 o'clock looks as though
it's multiple streamers superimposed. On the XUV monitor
we see the normal XUV brightening associated with the active
regions on the west limb which we understand. But there is
also a slight brightening over on the east limb at about
260 or 250. And there's also a couple of bright points on
the disk which one is at around 200 radius of .2 and another
one at around 160 radius of .3.
CC Okay, copy, Ed. And we'd like to update
your TACS thrust (garble) here.
SPT That's understandable after yesterday.
CC And let me - -
SPT Story are they putting the - -
SPT Say again.
CC Go Ed, we'll be using the DAS for that.
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SPT Okay, I was hoping that the folks were

working on trying to figure out where we ran into the
high usage yesterday. And how we can avoid that on subsequent
EVAs. Or in sub - or in subsequent CMG resets?
CC Okay, we've been workin_ that now for about
24 hours. Jerp Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer could you ver - verify that the stow you
did on TO25 was the back side of the TO25 cue card?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, and we'll be using T025 for the
SO73 tomorrow. We think you did the right thing.
CDR Okay, just wanted to make sure we were
going to use it in the SAL.
CC Yes sir, we're going to tomorrow.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS, 2 minutes
to Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. About
a half an hour to Texas. And we will have handed over to the
purple gang_ Phil, Dick and company.
hours 4 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle tracking
station. Next acquisition in 31 minutes will be through
Texas. Science Pilot Gibson reporting exceptionally large
activity on the east limb of the Sun at this time. Multiple
streamers being reported at 4 o_clock and 3 o'clock on the
east limb as well as on the - multiple streamers on the
west limb.. Science Pilot Gibson asked the ground if an
assessment: of yesterday's excessive TACS firings has been
completed. Presently_ here at the Mission Control Center,
the refined figure is 4,434 pound-seconds of TACS was used
yesterday during the maneuvers for Kohoutek. Observations
with the S- S020 and $201 camreas. TACS remainin_ aboard
the Skylab at presently is 21,318 pound,seconds of propellant.
There were 53 full-on firings yesterday at 1 one (garble)
at Greenwich mean time 23:14. A full-on fir firing, is a
full second of thruster firing of the TACS thrusters. It
requires about 7 or 8 mib firings to make a full-on firing.
A mib firing is equivalant to approximately 120 milliseconds
of TACS firing. With 53 full-on firings at one time and 20
full-on firings at another on separate occasions. There'll
be a change-of-shift briefing in the Building 1 newsroom,
Johnson Space Center, with offgoing Flight Director Milt
Windler. No earlier than 5 p.m. today. Milt Windler will
hold a change_of-shift briefing in Building 1 newsroom, no
earlier than 5 p.m. today Greenwich mean time 22 hours and
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Time: 16:33 CST 41:22:33 GMT
12/26/73

22 hours 39 minutes. We had a early callup on this pass.
We'll play that recording and play catchup with the pass
in progress.
CC Skylab, Houston, the purple gang's back
with you. We're stateside for several minutes.
SPT Howdy, purple people.
CC Hello there.
SPT Good to have you with us. Are you
ready for the TV down-link?
CC We're ready. And I have a note for you,
Ed, on the Sun. NOAA has reported a group of type three
radio bursts beginning at 22:05 Zulu. That was about 25
minutes ago, and they had another recent report at 22:24.
And wanted to - for you to be aware of this, so you could
look at the W - the white light coronagraph TV and take -
see if anN' coronal effects and if so, take data for SO52 at
your discretion.
SPT Okay, we just gave a STANDARD MODE and
I'll take a look and give them the TV downlink also.
CC Okay.
CDR Why, it's the lavender over the hill
mob.
CC Yes, sir, back with you. Incidentially,
when you guys were down at Honeysuckle, you made a couple
of calls to us that we did not receive due to a line problem,
so if there's anything important, we're listening.
SPT What I was remarking was that when I had
thought that was the bases of perhaps coronal loops or loops
out of the activation 05 must have been a series of small
surges, because it's changed quite a bit from the last
orbit, and during this past one. And I've spent some time
out there looking at it try to get some time resolution on it.
When I was coming back to Sun Center to see the effect on the
corona, and I didn't know anything about the radio burst.
CC Okay, Ed, copy. Thank you. And one
reminder here, for the PLT, family comm is coming up when we
get AOS at MILA, and that's about a minute and a half from now.
Start on Izhe right antenna for about a minute and then go to
left.
CDR He's up in the command module now.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you.
SPT Comparing what I see on the WLC with what -
a picture I just took 2 hours ago, I don't see any real changes
at all, right now, Dick, but I'll keep looking.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you very much and just
keep an eye.
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SPT Dick, would you ask the SO52 people if

they would like to get a shopping list item 24 to card with
any type 3. bursts which they can call up real time?
CC Stand by. SPT, Houston. In talking to
the SO52 folks, they said affirmativ. They would like a
a shopping list 24 under those circumstances, and we'll keep
a close eye for type 3 bursts and keep you informed.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC And SPT, Houston, just for your informa-
tion, we've got a line up and continuous comm out to Boulder,
so we should have real quick response to you in the event we
need it.
SPT Very good, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
from LOS. I'll give you a call in Madrid 4-1/2 minutes from now.
See you there.
hours 49 minutes. During this stateside pass, Science Pilot
Gibson was asked to concentrate the ATM instruments on the
west limb of the Sun, where he had earlier reported several
prominent streamers exploding through the Sun's corona.
Dr. Robert MacQueen, Principal Investigator of the SO52, Dr.
MacQueen has a high altitude observator in Boulder, Colorado
confirms through ground observations that metric radio surges
are occuring on the west limb of the Sun. These streamers
are surges of high energy electrons traveling at one third
the speed of light, which puncture and plow through the corona.
These radio bursts can penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. And
Solar Scientists are interested in recording the corona as
these surges occur, observe the effects of the surges on the
corona, and also watch the reconstruction of the corona at
after the surge exits through the corona. During the past
24 hours, Solar scientists here at the Johnson Space Center
report a total of eight flares on the Sun in active regions
00, 05, and 99. Today's activity was noted by Science Pilot
Gibson approximately 1 hour ago during the Madrid pass, when
he reported to the ground that he noted exceptionally large
streamers on the west limb - multiple streamers on the west
limb at 4:00 and at 3:00. NOAA has reported active radio
activity on the Sun since that time. And Science Pilot Gibson
has been asked to aim the ATM instruments specifically on
that area, specifically the S052 whitelight coronagraph
experiment. We'll hold the line up for this pass through
Madrid. CAP COMM is astronaut Dick Truly.
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Time: 16:52 CST 41:22:52 GMT
12/26/73
CC Skylab, Houston, Madrid for 7 minutes.

SPT Roger, hello Dick. On the next ATM
pass I would plan to pick up what they originally sent up
for 1846, if that's fine with them.
CC Let me check Ed, stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. The answer to your question
affirmative. We would like you to use that cycle of
information we sent up for 1846, and if you'd like
to change that time the time will be 23:25 in place of
18:46.
SPT Thanks very much Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab_ Houston_ we're 1 minute from
LOS Madrid[. Tananarive comes up at 23:17, see you there.
SPT So long, Dick.
CC So long.
23 hours 1 minute, loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 15 minutes and I0 seconds will be the
Tananarive voice relay station. ATM scientists continue
to look with interest at the corona of the Sun on the west -
west limb which exhibited numerous streamers. These are
reported as high energy radio burst surges plowing through
the corona. Scientists here are interested in observing
this activity and also to observe as the corona re has
reconstructed. Principal Investigator_ Robert MacQueen of
the High Altitude Observatory Boulder Colorado, Principal
Investigator of the S052, is the PI most interested in this
activity. The high radio bursts of high energy electrons
are the type that do penetrate the Earth's atmosphere.
Conformation of these surges and radio bursts did come from
the High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, as ground stations
recorded these radio - this high activity of radio bursts.
We'll bring the line back up at - in 13 minutes and 40 seconds
through Tananarive. At Greenwich mean time 23 hours and
3 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1384/I
Time: 17:08 CST, 41:23:08 GMT
12/26/73

hours 8 minutes. Change-of-shift briefing with Flight
Director Milt Windler is now scheduled for 5:30 p.m. central
standard time, 5:30 p.m. central standard time in Building
1 newsroom, the Johnson Space Center for a change-of-shift
briefing with offgoing Flight Director Milt Windler. Next
acquisition in 8 minutes through Tananarive. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours 8 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1385/I
Time: 17:16 CST, 41:23:16 GMT
12/26/73

hours 16 minutes. Acquisition through the Tananarive voice
relay station in 50 seconds. Pilot Pogue in his 4 hour
block of off-duty time, either reading, listening to music,
throwing darts or possibly even sleeping. Science Pilot
Gibson performing his daily exercise period while Commander
Gerald Carr should be concluding his weekly hot shower
aboard the workshop. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM
Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston, Tananarive for 5 minutes.
hours 22 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive. Next
acquisition in 16 minutes and 45 seconds through Honeysuckle.
Greenwich mean time 23 hours 23 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-IV MC2386/I
Time: 18:04 CST 42:00:04 GMT
12/26/73
PAO Skylab Control, 4 minutes after the hour.

Acquisition coming through Goldstone in 3 minutes 55 seconds.
We have 1 minute and 40 seconds recorded during the change-of-
shift briefing with Milt Windler. We'll play that recording
now and then go live into the Goldstone pass.
CC Skylab, ouston, we're AOS Honeysuckle.
We're very - we're just about a minute from LOS, very short
pass. Goldstone comes up at 8 minutes after the hour.
SPT Roger.
CC And SPT, Houston, on S054, request a grat-
ing out.
SPT Okay, Dick. Can that be moved to the
middle of a load or will I have to wait for the one to time
out?
CC We'd like you to finish the mode, Ed. And
then do it.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Say, Dick there was a fair amonnt of bright-
ening in H-alpha in the region at 00, northeast of the leader
spot. Nothing of any major significance showed up in XUV
monitor (garble) cleared up rather brightly by H-alpha.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks for the input.
PAO Skylab Control, 6 minutes after the hour.
Acquisition coming through Goldstone tracking station for a
stateside pass lasting about 19, 20 minutes. We'll bring
the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly for this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside for
ii minutes.
CDR Hi, Dick.
CC Hello, Jerry, how're you all doing?
CDR Doing fine, th_nks.
CC Hey, Jerry, I got two or three mission
notes here and the sooner I I get them out of the way this
evening, the sooner I can stop bugging you and a couple are
for you. You got a minute?
CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC Okay, first one is reference a ques - refer-
ence - a question you asked earlier on the M509 battery low
voltage. We do not think that the battery has been damaged
and but we are still looking at the data, but we don't want
you to start charging it until we schedule it on the Flight
Plan. So we'll - keep looking at the data and keep you
advised.
CDR Okay. Are those Nikon batteries?
CC Stand by. Well, I'l] tell you what, Jerry.
While we're getting the answer to that one, I got a couple more.
This really is for most anybody. We haven't seen the TV selec-
tor switch in the portable position today. However, that's -
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12/26/73
it's quite likely it went there while you were LOS. And
early you said you were going to take some extra TV of
the Christmas tree - have you already done that? We're
gonna be dumping that here in about 2 or 3 hours?
CDR No, I haven't done it yet. We'll get on
the stick and get it done.
CC Okay, fine, we'd appreciate it. And
here's one more that has to do with some 02 management.
First of all, let me explain what the situation is and then
ask any questions. Presently, we're engaged in M509-F7A
to reduce the N2 content of the cluster atmosphere. This'll
either require use of (garble) valves which are controlled
by 5 PSA ]pressure switch for termination of this procedure
during the sleep period. In other - in other words, it's
likely if we continue this procedure that we'll automatically
input 02 to the atmosphere when the pressure goes down to
5 psi. A couple of days ago you added 02 to the cluster
atmosphere and what we were wondering is do yon think the
noise produced by this addition of 02 would interfer with
sleep if - if the 02 were automatically added. We're kind
of in a bind as to decide whether to inhibit this procedure
during bedtime or not.
CDR That's pretty noisy, Dick. What other
options do we have? With that oxygen blowing up there
in the MDA, when you're in there, you can hardly hear your-
self think.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, Jer. Jer,
we fefinitely do not have to - to leave this procedure in
work during sleep period, so probably the best thing to do
would just be inhibit it and we can still do atmosphere
management under those circumstances. No problem.
CDR Okay, you mean you want to inhibit this
F7A?
CC Jerry, what it'll involve is before you go
to bed tlhis evening, we'll - we'll have you do one step
which is - close the dump valve for us and then reopen it
in the morning. So later on this evening, I'ii give you a
call when we want you to do that, so it's not a big deal.
Incidentally, on the answer to your question on the 509
batteries is that they are nightcap batteries.
CDR Okay, that's good - that makes us feel better.
Because they're pretty hard to hurt.
CC Hey, incidentally, Jerry, one thing that
I haven't researched completely because I haven't read
through all the air-to-ground notes when - when we're gone,
but the other day they - we sent up that message on selected
housekeeping. And what that was intended to be was an
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Time: 18:04 CST 42:00:04 GMT
12/26/73
answer to your question about flight scheduling about all the

individual selected hi housekeeping items that appear from
various times. Are you squared away and - and understand
that that - what was intended by that message.
CDR Yeah, Dick. It's just when we got it,
we were - we were just in another kind of mental mode. And
when it hit us, we thought we were supposed to do it then.
CC Okay, no problem. I - I could have taken
some time to - before I asked you to read through the whole
thing, but I just hadn't done that yet. Thank you very
much Jer. That's all I had for you.
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SL-IV MC1387/I
Time: 18:14 CST 42:00:14 GMT
12/26/73
CC I could have taken some time to - before

I asked you to read through the whole thing, but I just
hadn't done that yet. Thank you very much Jer. That's
all I had for you.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC I did have a couple of questions for
Ed. However, I notice we're still in daylight, so if it's
if this is not a good time I can get it any time.
SPT No, go ahead now Dick.
CC Okay. The question has to do with the
sleep experiment Ed. First of all about 5 or 6 days ago
on mission day 35, you used a sleep - new sleep cap. And
the question is this the only - is this only the second cap
that you've used during the mission. Over.
SPT That's right Dick. They're more comfortable
when they're broken in.
CC Okay and next question. What was the
fix that ended up giving you good test lights for M133 on
that same day?
SPT Well, two things, one I think I'm not
getting a proper ground initially. I tell you I'm not
sure which one of those electrodes is the ground. But if
I ground myself against something I get good test light.
And if I keep it on for about - have the cap on for about
15 minutes or so then it seems to work properly. So I'm
not that convinced what it is yet, but affirmative, it
gets good data.
CC Okay.
PLT Hank, are you still there?
CC That's affirm, go ahead.
PLT Ro_er, PLT. I was just cranking up the
heater on the M560. My details say 5 (garble) ii through 13.
CC Bill, you were kind of garbled there
just a second. I got the part that you were cranking up
the heater' on the M560, but I didn't get the part about
ii to 13.
CC PLT, Houston. We got caught in the
middle of a handover from station to station. I got the
message about cranking up the heat on the M560, but I
didn't get: the part about ii and 13. Say that again please.
PLT Roger. My detail say step ii through
13 and I only count Ii and 12.
CC Stand by.
PLT I don't have a 13 step listed.
CC Okay, stand by.
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Time: 18:14 CST 42:00:14 GMT
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CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go.
CC Yeah, there is a step 13, but it came
up to you on one of the changes to the checklist. And we'll
be sure to figure which one that was and reuplink it. And let
me read it to you real fast. It says, at any time during
soak period, rotate cartridge TEMP switch to each position,
and voice record temps if possible. Over.
PLT Okay, now read the first phrase first,
again.
CC Okay. At any time during soak period.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, got it. And we'll figure out
which - which numbered checklist change that is. There
are only two that are made to this book, we'll figure out
which one that is and reuplink it to you.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC Yes, sir.
CC And we're about i0 seconds from LOS.
We'll just: have a short dropout here, and then I'ii call
you at Bermuda,
CC Skylab, Houston, we're at Bermuda for
4_i/2 minutes, and I got a quick question for the SPT.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
SPT Okay, it seems like we get to do plenty
of talkin_ this evening about checklist changes. Our spies in
the ATM backroom were watching you doing that building block 35 -
34 and 35. And we uplinked a checklist change to the JOP
Summary Sheets that changed that building block for S056 about
2 days ago. And we suspicioned that - that it is not entered
in your books yet. It was checklist change 15 to the JOP
Summary Sheets, and if you don't have it we'll be glad to
reuplink that one also.
SPT Dick, was that the same one with 18Z
changes? I looked at it gleaned all that went with JOP 18.
And maybe I was wrong, I had not planned on doing that. We
had not got around to making those because I thought they were
all JOP 18. I had plan to do that sometime tonight.
CC Well, I tell you it was interspersed
with a bunch that were JOP 18. But no, this particular
one had to do with JOP 21.
SPT Yeah, I understand but it wasn't
interspersed with the 18. Okay
CC Well -
SPT Let me get it in there. I'll go ahead
and make that chan_e right now.
CC Okay, no problem. Well, I mean it was
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uplinked at the same time as the 18. It was not on the

same message, but as long as you're aware of it. If you
have trouble finding it just let us know, we'll give you
another copy.
SPT Okay, but was not with the same message
that - perhaps I have not seen it yet. Hold on, let's - let
me look around a little.
CC Okay, fine no problem.
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Time: 18:22 CST, 42:00:22 GMT
12/26/73
CC If you have trouble finding it just

let us know we'll give you another copy.
SPT Okay, for the (static) and we have plenty
(static) let - let me look around a little.
CC Okay, fine no problem.
CDR Were the (garble) number 15?
CC Yes.
SPT Okay, we've located it.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
PLT And this is PLT. Will you say again,
I know the creature on the switch is supposed to rotate and
checkdown.
CC It's the cartridge temp switch, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CC And for the SPT, we need a MPC inhibit.
That's a M - MPC roll inhibit, Ed.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay, thank you sir.
to L to LOS. Madrid comes up 6 minutes from now. And we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder at Madrid, see you
then.
hour. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next acquisition
in 2 minutes 35 seconds through Madrid tracking station.
On this the crew days off - the crew's day off, the crew
should be in preparation for their evening meal tonight.
And they're scheduled to end their day at i0 p.m. central
standard time. Tomorrow is a day of medical activity primarily.
More than 7-1/2 hours at the ATM console. Today's menu is
part of the high density fruitbar, crew eating one or more
of the high density fruitbars taken up in the command module in
addition to one or more regular items of the Skylab menu.
Fruitbars come in various flavors, chocolate chip bar, crispy
bar, (garble) bar. Each bar has three different flavors, so
they have a selection of nine different types of fruit bars,
each bar as approximately 300 calories. We'll leave the line up
for this Badrid pass. CAP COMM being Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Madrid for
8 - 9 minutes. And we're dumping the data/voice recorder
here.
CC And Skylab, Houston, for yours for
your information no response required but we're uplinking
another copy of that MDA experiment checklist change to
number 1 for Bill, at this site.
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12/26/73
PLT Thank you, Dick.

SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Yeah, will you flks be through with
the recorder pretty soon.
CC Stand by. SPT, Houston. We're going
to be dumping for less than another minute. I'll let you
know when we're through.
SPT Okay, thanks very much.
CC Okay.
SPT Looks like we got it. Thank you.
CC That's affirm the dump's over.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS.
Tananarive comes up at 00:50. See you there.
PAO Skylab ontrol, 40 minutes after the
hour. We've loss the signal through Madrid. Next acquisition
in 9 minutes and 55 seconds will be Tananarive voice relay
station. Little comm through this Madrid pass as the crew
nears the end of their day off. The 41st day in orbit since
launch from Cape Kennedy on November 16th, Skylab space
station. Now in its 227th day in orbit. It was launched for
the three man visit on May 14th. At Greenwich mean time
40 minutes after the hour. Next acquisition in 9 minutes
15 seconds, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1389/I
Time: 18:47 CST 42:00:47 GMT
12/26/73

hour. Acquisition coming through the Tananarive voice
relay station in approximately 2 minutes i0 seconds. We'll
keep the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston, at Tananarive for 6
minutes.
SPT Rog, hello, Dick. Hey, we're through
with the VTR if you'd like to have it.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're liable to go LOS
here in Tananarive about any time. Honeysuckle comes up at
01:16.
SPT Thank you, Dick, talk to you then.
CC Okay, Ed.
hour. Loss of signal through Tananarive. Next acquisition
will be Honeysuckle in 16 minutes. Skylab Control, Greenwich
mean time 1 hour. Next acquisition in 15 minutes through
Honeysuckle, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1390/I
Time: 19:14 CST, 42:01:14 GMT
12/26/73

hour 14 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle.
As Science Pilot Ed Gibson's at the ATM console, he will be
asked to look at active region double zero - 00. NOAA has
reported a large surge of material leaving active region
double zero and he will be asked to aim the SO52 instruments
at this area of the Sun.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Honeysuckle for 6
minutes. And SPT, Houston. We've got a report from NOAA that
some surge material has been seen rising from active region
00, when you get an opportunity we recommend you go Sun
center an4 take a look in S052.
SPT Okay, Dick, I sure will. I've been
looking at the region right above 5, which is right next to
00. And I think I can faintly see some material in the corona
and was going to take a look at that. I did look Sun center
just a few moments ago and did not see anything however,
I will - I will go back.
CC Okay.
SPT Dick, at the time you called, I had just
given 55 three MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS truncated down to line
20, and I was pointin K slightly off the limb. So if there's
anything moving out_ I_m sure they would have seen it, would
show it. I did see a very faintly something in H-alpha and
I was just about to explore it at the time you called.
So, now going at - going back there after I get finished
with the STANDARD, MODE in 52.
CC Okay,, Ed thank you.
SPT Hey, Dick again, I can not notice anything -
any change at all in the corona, compared with what I've seen
a couple of hours ago, or the pictures that I took around
3 or 4 hours ago.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks anyway for looking.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS. I'Ii give you a call at
Hawaii at 01:37, see you then.
SPT So long, Dick.
hour 25 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition ii minutes and 35 seconds will be Hawaii tracking
station. As Skylab space station on the tail end of
revolution 3,269, for the Skylab space station. At Greenwich
mean time 1 hour 26 mintues, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1391/I
Time: 19:36 CST 42:01:36 GMT
12/26/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 1 hour

36 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii. We'll keep
the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. We observe you, but you're
pointed off the Sun and you're in optical reference.
SPT Thanks Dick, I understand.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston, in this next state-
side pass, when we're in receiving range of - receiving facil-
ity up at the McDonnell Douglas (garble) plant at St. Louis,
we'd like to get some more data and we're still trying to
troubleshoot this telemetry problem that we've been having and
if one of - if it's convenient with one of you guys at about
01:53, I'm going to ask somebody to go up to panel 200 and
pull a couple of circuit breakers and wait a couple of minutes
and then push them back in for us. If it turns out not to be
convenient, we can pick it up at another stateside pass.
SPT Roger, Dick.
SPT Dick, we got a pretty surge goin_ here right
above active region 05 and I'm trying to pick it up with
the 55 truncate it down to line i0 and patrol short. (garble)
CC Roger, Ed.
CC And SPT, Houston. Adam requests you turn
the high voltage off on the SO55, we think you got a false
grating position indication. And, Skylab, we're about 30
seconds from LOS. We're going to drop out just in a couple
of minutes and I'll call you at Goldstone.
SPT Dick, could you explain that one? We're
missing some pretty good data here. I went back onto the Sun
and picked up the (garble).
CC Okay, stand by. Roger, Ed, you're okay
just as is.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1392/I
Time: 19:45 CST 42:01:45 GMT
12/26/73
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Goldstone

for 7 minutes.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Rog, I got stand by at the STS.
CC Okay, Bill it'll be about another
2-1/2 minutes before we want them. But let me tell you what
the circui1: breakers are now. They are transducer group 2
plus 24 volts, and minus 24 volts. They're on the bottom
row kind of to the right on panel 200, and I'll let you
know when we want - want them open. And about 2 minutes
later we'd like to have them closed.
PLT Roger.
CC PLT_ Houston, we're ready for those
two circuilz breakers open. I'll read them again, transducer
group 2 plus 24 volts and group 2 minus 24 volts, open.
PLT Rog, got both of them open now.
CC Okay, thank you.
from LOS. We're goin_ to dropout about 3 or 4 minutes, and
I'll call you at Bermuda. And Bill, about 1 minute from now
we may haw_ lost voice with you, but we'd like those two circuit
breakers closed, and then you can forget them. We want them
closed about a time of 01:55, and thank you very much.
PLT Okay, will do.
CC Thank you, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Bermuda for 7 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Dick, I'd like the food people to check
into the legality of me givin_ my fruitcake to Bill or
Jet.
CC Bill didn't, I mean Ed, I didn't quite
copy - copy. It had to do with food and fruitcake, but that's
about all I got. You were kind of low.
SPT Yeah, I got a fruitcake up here which
I'm not too hot on. And I figure on making good friend in
Bill if I give him my fruitcake, and I'm wondering what the
food people think of it.
CC Okay, Ed, we'll get back with you.
SPT Thank you Dick. His eyes are getting
bigger all the time.
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
PLT Ed's giving me a piece of fruitcake
for some ATM time.
CC Roger, I wish I could give you some of
SL-IV MC1392/2
Time: 19:45 CST 42:01:45 GMT
12/26/73
the fruitcake I've eaten over the last couple of day. You'd
probably gain 15 pounds.
from LOS, Canary Island comes up at 02:08. And we're going
to dump the data/voice recorder there.
2 hours 5 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda, next
acquisition in i minute and 40 seconds through Canary tracking
station. An attempt by ground controllers to troubleshoot
troublesome transducers that are - have been for the past several
days adding noise to some of the data being received here
at the Mission Control Center. The test though as the space-
craft was in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri, the McDonnell
Douglas Plant. Two transducers were switched off in an attempt
to track down where the trouble might exist in the electrical
systen aboard the spacecraft. These two - the noisy data
is effecting 90 parameters here at the Johnson Space Center,
of data received from the vehicle. These systems includes
the airlock electrical power system, the thermal life support
system, as well as the communication system aboard the space-
craft. This is not considered a major problem at this time.
The only _ the parameters being affected range from slight noisy
to severely noisy, and approximately only 30 percent of the 90
are in the severely noisy category. However, ground controllers
are able to extract from the data the exact parameters. These
test will continue, this is the second time a test has been
run. Today the switches were thrown on group 2 transducer
panel 200 in the structual transition section of the airlock
module. We_ll hold the line up for CAP COMM, Dick Truly.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1393/I
Time: 20:08 CST, 42:02:08 GMT
12/26/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Canary for

8 minutes. And SPT, Houston, you are GO to give the PLT
your slice of fruitcake if it isn't too late. The biomed
officer would suggest that he delete two salts, however, that's
a preference item and not mandatory.
PLT Roger, I'll delete two salts.
CC Okay, Bill, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from
LOS at Canary Islands. We have a very low elevation pass
scheduled at Tananarive at 02:31. Just in the event we
miss that one, I'll call you at Honeysuckle at 02:52, and
that's the station for the evening status report.
SPT Okay, Dick, talk to you later.
CC Okay, see you there.
2 hours 18 minutes. Loss of signal through Canary. Next
acquisition through Tananarive, however, a low elevation
pass. We possibly may not have contact through Tananarive.
In that event, next acquisition in 33 minutes and 50 seconds
will be the Honeysuckle tracking station. The attempt
through the stateside pass to track down a noisy electrical
problem causing distorted data coming to the ground from
approximately 90 parameters aboard the spacecraft, parameters
covering such areas as the airlock module power system, the
thermal live vent support systems, as well as the communications
system. Some of the data being received here at the
Johnson Space Center range from slightly noisy to severely
noisy. However, ground controllers - de not feel this is
any problem. They're able to sort out the data and arrive
at the proper parameters of these various systems. Today's
test could be likened to a - a house where the lights are
dim, and you go to the circuit box and turn one circuit
breaker off at a time. And when you turn one circuit
breaker off and your lights come back up again, you know
that the problem is in that particularly circuit breaker.
That's the purpose of today's test to determine where in
the system this problem exists. And finding where the problem
is they'll track it down to isolate it to a certain
individual system. The EGIL officer here at the Johnson
Space Center, on duty now, Charles Dumis, did say this
is not a significant problem. Although one third of the
parameters affected are - due fall into this severely noisy
category. He said this would - you could liken this
problem to static on a radio, or watching TV when someone
turns on an electric appliance in a house, like a mix-
master or electric shaver, or possibly driving down the
road in your car and your - your gas gage starts jumping
SL-IV MC1393/2
Time: 20:08 CST, 42:02:08 GMT
12/26/73
around, it doesn't sit properly on a given number or figure.

They'll continue to troubleshoot this noise problem in the
data. This is the second time this has been attempted,
previous attempt was last night with - with no - with no
luck. The first problem developed several days ago, when
this problem did crop up and just mysteriously went away
again. One one more continual number of transient
glitches, they will continue to assess the problem. Tonight's
test was as the spacecraft passed within range of the
McDonnell Douglas facility in St. Louis, Missouri. McDonnell
Douglas being responsible for the airlock module. Greenwich
mean time 2 hours 21 minutes. Next acquisition in 9 minutes
through Tananarive. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1394/I
Time: 20:30 CST 42:02:30 GMT
12/26/73

30 minutes. We'll bring the line up for this brief Tanana-
rive pass if, in fact, we do have contact with the Skylab IV
crew. Low elavation of 3.3 degrees. We'll hold the line
up for a short time to see if we do get contact.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Tananarive for
just a couple of minutes.
CDR Check.
CC And, Skylab, in case we have a early LOS,
next site is Honeysuckle at 02:53. And I'll be standing by
there for the evening status report.
CDR Okay, Dick.
34 minutes. No contact through Tananarive with Skylab space
station. On this pass, the last pass for Tananarive for to-
night, as Skylab starts its 3270th revolution of the Earth.
Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle in 18 minutes. At
Greenwich mean time 2 hours 34 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL IV MC-1395/I
Time: 20:51 CST 42:02:51 GMT
12/26/73

2 hours 51 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Honeysyckle,
Australia tracking station in 49 seconds as the Skylab IV
crew nears the end of their 41st day in orbit. A day off
for the three crew members, however, Science Pilot Ed Gibson
took advantage of his day off and spent much of his free
time at the Apollo telescope mount control and display panel
viewing some frequent radio bursts and surges through the
Sun's corona. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly
for this Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 8-1/2 minutes, Standing by for evening status report.
CDR Sure enough.
CDR Okay, Dick. Sleep: CDR, 8.5, all heavy;
SPT, 8.0, 8 heavy; PLT, 7.5, all heavy. Volume: CDR, 800;
SPT, 1650; PLT, 2200. Water gun: CDR, 7849; SPT, 3370; PLT,
9597. Body mass: CDR, 6.312, 6.311, 6.312; SPT, 6.348, 6.349,
6.346_ PLT, 6.244, 6.246, 6.245. Exercise: CDR, no Alfa
today: SPT, no change S PLT, no change. Medications: CDR, none;
correction, Sudafed last night. Hang on just a minute.
CC Okay.
CDR Yeah, I reported that last night, so none
tonight. Clothing discarded today: one pair of socks, one
pair of shorts. SPT, no medications; one pair of socks, one
pair of shorts, one T-shirt. PLT, Tinactin as directed; one
pair of shorts, one shirt, one pair of socks. Food log: CDR,
5.5 salt, zero deviations, zero rehy correction, 1.5 re-
hydration water. SPT, 1.5 salt, zero deviations_ no water.
PLT, 6.5 salt_ plus fruit cake, and zero rehydration water.
Let's see, FliKht Plan deviations: tke SPT_s HK7J and the DC9
have been delayed. We_ll get them later this evening. Shopping
list accomplishments: none. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage: none.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, the photo log: 16-millimeter: M487-4
Alfa: Charlie India 93, 00_ Mike Tango 06. Nikons: i, Charlie
X-ray 36, 033 all the rest of themp no change. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 52, 001. ETC is Bravo Whiskey 03, 043. EREP:
no change. Drawer A: Alfa I, no change; Alfa 2, 05_ Charlie
India 93, 00, Mike Tango 06_ and alE the rest, no change.
CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1396/I
Time: 20:57 CST 42:02:57 GMT
12/26/73
CC CDR, Houston. One question on the evening

status report, you reported a deviation for yourself today
in water of 1-1/2 ounces. Was that a plus or minus?
CDR That's a plus.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you much. We'd just
as soon go ahead and put the - our dump valves closing to
bed here for the evening on the environmental control sys-
tems. We'd like somebody to whiz into the head on - on
panel 831 water dump valve to CLOSE. And let us know when
you did that.
SPT It'll be done in less than a minute, Dick.
CC Okay.
SPT MARK, it's done.
CC MARK, thank you.
CDR Dick, you'd like Australia, it sure is a
beautiful country.
CC What was that again?
CDR You'd like Australia, it's a beautiful
country.
CC Boy, I'ii bet. I'd love to see it.
CC Skylab, Houston, weYre about a minute from LOS.
I'll give you a call at Hawaii at 03:13 and I've got some
news here that I can read up there if you like.
CDR Great, Dick.
CC Incidentally, on the subject of all those
hugs that you guys authorized yesterday for the Christmas
present, the CAP COMMs have collected them all.
CDR Very good.
PLT What do you mean, I didn't authorize any.
CC Well, (laughter)
PLT That was your own idea, huh?
SPT The only ones I authorize are the ones you
can give to each other.
CC No, wasn't that kind.
PLT The trouble with TDY, you can't trust
Four buddies back home.
CC Hahl
PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 3 hours
2 minutes. Loss of signal through the tracking station at
Honeysuckle in Australia. Next acquisition in I0 minutes
30 seeond_: through Hawaii. The conversation concerning
authorized and unauthorized hugs by the CAP COMMs referred to
crew;s comments last night - Christmas night when they
finally found the gifts presented to the crew by their wives
placed in the command module prior to launch. The crew found
the gifts and authorized the CAP COMM on duty last night to
give each wife a hug for them, with the exception of Science
Pilot Gibson_ who did not auth - make such authorization
SL-IV MC1396/2
Time: 20:57 CST 42:02:57 GMT
12/26/73
with the CAP COMM. The evening status report given by

Commander Carr showing that Commander Carr last night had
8-1/2 hours sleep, Science Pilot Gibson_ 8 hours and Pilot
Pogue, 7.5 hours sleep, a marked improvement in relation to
the earlier part of the flight. Next acquisition in 9 min-
utes and 20 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 3 hours and 4 min-
utes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1397/I
Time: 21::12 CST 42:03:12 GTM
12/26/73

3 hours 12 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Hawaii
tracking station in 50 seconds. Final Hawaii pass for the
night, for the crew of Skylab IV, with CAP COMM, Dick Truly.
We'll leave the line up.
PLT 15713, 5678, 195, 527, 7777, 5810.
CC Okay, Bill I copied that. And in
return if you guys are listening I'ii be glad to read you
some news.
PLT (Garble)
CC Okay. Two Soviet cosmonauts returned
safely to Earth today after an eight-day flight. The third
longest in Russian space history the Tass news agency said.
Flight Commander, Klimuk and Engineer Lebed Lebedev, two
31 year old space rookies floated to Earth on the parachute
in their Soyuz 13 craft on the plains of Central Asia,
Tass said. The flight was a warmup for the Soviet American
joint space flight in 1975. Since the Soviet Manned Space
program began in 1961, it has been exceeded in duration
only by the 24 day flight of Soyuz ii in 1971. And the
70 - 17 day flight of Soyuz 9 in 1970. So you guys
we're now back down to 3 men in space. Israeli and Egyptian
army officers met for 90 minutes Wednesday in Geneva,
Switzerland, to negotiate troop withdrawals from territory
captured in the October Middle East war. Negotiations were
previously conducted in a tent between Cairo and Suez on
the cease-fire line, but have been snagged for a month. The
talks were transferred to Geneva after the opening of the
Middle East peace conference last week. Traffic fatalities
over the Christmas holiday weekend ran below advance estimates
of the National Safety Council. Counts showed 520 deaths
on the nation's roads between 6 p.m, Friday to midnight Tuesday.
The Council's previous estimate was 550 tO 650. Bad weather
which kept motorists off the road, the economy, as well as
the energy crisis may have helped to reduce fatalities.
Dollar-a-gallon gasoline became a reality for a few drivers
on Christmas Day. At one service station in Chicago_ you
could by $5 worth of gasoline if you were also willing to
purchase a $3 trinket. At a few other stations motorists
frustrated in their search for service stations that was
open on Christmas Day were forced to pay 99.9 cents a gallon.
That's the highest price at present - present pumps will
register. President Nixon, reportedly heartened by a shift
in Arab oll policy, said Wednesday he was working to make
certain we won't have to ration gasoline this winter.
President Nixon secretly boarded a commercial airliner
SL-IV MC1397/2
Time: 21:12 CST 42:03:12 GMT
12/26/73
Wednesday evening and flew to California for a post-Christmas

vacation. The White House said Nixon's trip to Los Angeles
aboard a United Air Lines jet was kept secret for security
reasons. Mrs. Nixon and a party of about 20 aids and Secret
Service agents accompanied the President. Nixon, like all
recent presidents, has made his past trips aboard Air Force
jets. Gerald Warren, the assistant White House press secretary,
said he decided on a commercial flight this time to set an
example for the American public during the energy crisis.
For the second time the wife of Canada's Prime Minister
Pierre. Trudeau gave birth on Christmas day to a boy. Mrs.
Trudeau, wife of the 55 year old Prime Minister, and the
child are in good health at an Ottawa hospital. Their first
son, Justin was born two years ago on Christmas day. Here
are some suggestions for saving energy, submitted by listeners
to radio station around the country: Sleep with a friend
or - a St. Bernard dog, enjoy candlelight, or wear long hair
and beards. You guys sure ought to qualify for that third
one except: for Ed. As the New Year approaches, the country's
largest calendar maker, Brown and Bigelow_ in St. Paul,
Minnesota,. reports: Pinup calendars have kind of gone down
the drain. Sales are way_ way down. Scendry - scenery and
endangered species calendars are today's best sellers. One
final note. If Johnny and his teacher don't spell some words
the same way, the reason may be that they're usin_ different
dictionaries. The National Council of Teachers of English
say that the five desk dic - dictionaries most widely used
in schools and offices in the United States disagree on no
less than the spelling of 2,400 words. So that's it for
this evening.
CDR Thank you_ Dick.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1398/I
Time: 21:20 CST, 42:03:20 G}_T
12/26/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from

LOS. Goldstone comes up at 03:25.
PLT Ro_er, Dick.
CC Roger, and during this next stateside
pass, when we handover to - well I take it back. I started
to say when we handover to Bermuda that'll be the med
conference. However, I see now, there's a gap between
those two stations. So the next one's mine at Goldstone.
See you there.
CDR Okay, Dick.
3 hours 23 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition through Goldstone in i minute 40 seconds. On
this the last stateside pass for tonight, for Skylabr-IV crew
before retiring at i0 p.m. central standard time. Tomorrow,
day 42 for the crew of Skylab-IV, begins at the regular time
of 6 a.m. central standard time. We'll have Pilot Bill
Pogue performin_ the MO92/MI71 run in the morning, and
Science Pilot Gibson performin_ the same medical experiment
later that afternoon. Approximately 7 hours and 30 minutes
of manned operations of the ATM will be performed tomorrow,
in addition to a half of dozen or more opportunities for
handheld photography and visual oN ervations of - _ " the
crew of various targets of opportunity of the world,
including the Humboldt Current off Peru, other ocean currents
around the world, islands and such, including a_ain
photography of Africa, including the inland delta of the
Niger River as well as soil erosion in the Mali and Niger
are - area. We'll hold the line up here for CAP COMM Dick
Truly on the final stateside pass for mission day 41.
CC Skylab, Houston, Goldstone for 4
minutes.
PLT Dick, one quick question on my details
for tomorrow, PLT. It's sort of va_ue in my mind as to
whether or not they want me to do the 561 on the material's
processing? It's listed 561 and only listed it once. And I
didn't know if they wanted me to do the 561 all three of
them witla a typographical error and they want me to
terminate 560?
CC Okay, Bill, stand by I.
CC PLT, Houston. The intent of that was
to get you to terminate M560 which is running now. And
start up 561. Is that clear?
PLT It is now, thank you very much. I
thought that's what it meant but I wasn't sure.
CC Yeah, that's right.
SL-IV MC1398/2
Time: 21:20 CST, 42:03:20 GMT
12/26/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 30 seconds from

LOS. Bermuda comes up at 03:35 and you'll be talkin_ to
the doctor there. And Adam wants me to give you a A plus
on your ATI_I closeout this evening. He's satsified with it
all. Thank you much.
SPT Thank you.
hours 32 mintues. Loss of signal through (dropout) as
Skylab space station crosses over the Great Lakes. Acquisition
will be - Acquisition will be Bermuda in 2 minutes and 15
seconds. However, the Bermuda pass is devoted to the evenin_
medical status report, report. Tonight Dr. Eduard Burchard
Eduard Burohard, Fli_ht Surgeon - Skylab FliFht crew surgeon
will be talkin_ to the crew tonight through the Bermuda
pass. We'll hold the Bermuda line up in the event that the
crew completes the discussions with Dr. Burchard early.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1399/I
Time: 21:35 CST 42:03:35 GMT
12/26/73

47 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda - Bermuda pass
with Dr. Eduard Burchard discussing with the crew their
physical status. We'll have a summary of that report very
shortly, we'll read on the air. Next acquisition in 4 min-
utes and 30 seconds will be the Ascension tracking station.
Greenwich mean time 3 hours 47 minutes, this is Skylab Con-
trol.
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MC-1300/I

Time: 17:25 CST 39:23:25 GMT

PAO a quarry of red tape on board the

PAO The crew does have colored tape in addition

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 23

CC And Skylab, Houston, I'm just informed

CDR Tell B.J. he was dirter than most.

CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 40

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 1

CC Okay, it looks good and we'll clean it

CC gkylab, Houston, through Bermuda for

PLT I'd be delighted to do that Hank. Again,

CC Skylab, Houston we're through the Canary

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 2

PLT Hank, PLT here, would you ask the ATM

PAO Skylab Cqntrol, Greenwich mean time

CC Okay, Bill last time we opened that

another package on board. Personal gifts for the crew,

_GIL offi_zer reports to Chuck Lewis on the second attempt here

CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda for

minister. The Nort_wood, North Dakota, City Council has

PAO The crew is scheduled for wake up call

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Merry Christmas. This is Skylab Control

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours i0

PA0 This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 53

at Vanguard, in i hour 27 minutes. Here in the Mission Con-

PAO - - activity scheduled to start in

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours

PAO Skylab AOS ascension for i0 minutes to

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours Greenwich

PLT Okay. That's it. I'm going -

PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss

PAO This is Skylab Control at 0 at 16 hours

CDR Roger. Now I got that, we got her.

PLT I've 1.7 now.

CDR Okay. EV-I is complete.

CC And no need to acknowledge, but we're

PLT - - what that 7 is over there.

PLT Okay, Ed. I may have to make an adjust-

PLT Okay, just about got her. It's an awful

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 36

CDR Okay. I think I'll do that. I'm going

PAO This EVA appears to be going very well.

CDR Okay, it's vibrating some Bill. If you

PAO - - The camera, that's aboard Skylab now,

CDR Okay. We're coming up on the coast of

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

CDR Though don't you have to roll for 201?

PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours 19 minutes

CC Okay. We're with you, Ed.

PLT Okay. I'll just move it out there now.

PLT Oh, wait a minute now. This is not a

PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time 20 hours

CDR I'm sure enjoying it, I'ii tell you.

18 minutes. 3 hours and 23 minutes into the Christmas Day

PLT Okay. I'll see you at the (garble).

CDR Okay. Bill, as I go by, I'd like you to

CDR Next to 323.