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CC (garble)
PLT Well, it'll probably just delay us about
15 minutes because I have the PSS ready to come out now so
I'Ii go ahead and put in the charging station which only
takes a couple of minutes. And you tell him we'll Just have
to wait, huh?
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay Bill, it turns out we'll get
reconfigured all right, and just press on.
PLT Okay Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 3
minutes to Guam. Ed, when you get a chance and there's no
hurry on it, check the teleprinter messages to see if we
have to schedule you some heading cleaning time tomorrow.
SPT Story, it all came out looking pretty
well except for the if - no EREP alternate for the CDR,
everything else came out exceptionally well.
CC Okay.
PAO Space station Skylab now out of range
from Carnarvon. About i minute away from reacquisition
through Guam. Ed Gibson reporting that the teleprinter is
working all right, messages are coming out clear, they had
some problems with that yesterday. Also, Pilot Pogue
reporting that he's changing one of the propellent tanks on
the M509, nitrogen gas tanks to provide propulsion for the
M509 unit. He said it'd take him about 15 minutes to get
that changed out, so we're probably moving into the second
run of the M509 experiment today. That uses a portable
oxygen tank instead of an umbilical cord, and that run will
last about 20 minutes. Now about 30 seconds away from
acqusition. Flight Director Milton Windier and Dr. Royce
Hawkins will be ready for a change-of-shift briefing in the
briefing room in building i at 4:15, that's Flight Director
Milton Windler off going Flight Director and Dr. Royce
Hawkins. On coming Flight Director is Phil Shaffer and
his Spacecraft Communicator is Dick Truly. Off going
CAP COMM is Story Musgrave. Now about I0 seconds from AOS
through Guam, we'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for
i0 minutes. And no need to acknowledge Bill, but disregard
your voice record light flickering on and off.
SPT Story, the last look at it showed a bright
knot of material still out at around 3 solar radii which
was one of the primary trailing pieces of material.
CC Okay Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 16
minutes to Guam. And Ed, we'd like you to press on with
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S054.
CC And Bill, Houston.
SPT He's listening.
CC Okay, just a friendly reminder, tell
him when Jer gets on to the SOP to to get on with
page 17-10, to go there with a limited life time in the SOP.
It's just a friendly reminder, no change.
SPT 17-10, thank you.
CC That's it.
PAO Skylab Control. 21 hours i minute
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of the
tracking antenna at Guam. Pilot Bill Pogue should have
changed the nitrogen tanks and the battery for the M509.
They expect to use four nitrogen tanks for this afternoon's
run, and two batteries, these batteries have a life of 50
to 60 minutes when astronaut maneuvering unit is being used.
They provide electrical power for the hand controller and
for the rate and control moment gyros. Earlier this morning
Commander Carr reported that he took some handheld pictures
as they crossed the lower tip of Baja California. He says
he took two frames of the horizon with the Hasselblad and
the 100-millimeter lens. He got Guaymas in the foreground
and Isla Tiburon in the background. And he says the Sun angle
was quite low and that the pictures will probably be useful
in fault zone detection. Guaymas in the foreground and
Isla Tiburon in the background. And he says the Sun
angle was quite low and that the pictures will probably be
useful in fault zone detection. Next acquisition 13 minutes
from now, that_ll be through Goldstone, California. 21 hours
3 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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CC Roger.
PLT What we've done, we've delayed the CMG
baseline just a tad here, actually we're right at the tail
end of limb motion.
CC Roger Bill.
CC And PLT, Houston. Could you give us the
voltage on - on the battery?
CC PLT, Houston. I think I got caught in
a handover. We're requesting a voltage on a battery, if
you got a chance.
SPT Okay Dick, I copied your request that you
faded in the background for a building block 2 at 23:56, and
I'll go ahead and do that.
CC Okay Ed_ thank you very much.
CC Rog, and that request was strickly for
a truncated 6 minutes of observing time, Ed.
SPT Roger_ I understand. You don't want
to get me some information later on for the other experiments,
GRATING position then for 55 and 54.
PLT It's 28-1/2 volts on battery 7 which is
in the pack now, it was battery 6 I used first, I was trying
to read the number at a bad angle here from across the room.
CC Roger, 28.5.
PLT That's affirm and that's bat 67 which is
in the ASMU now, and we've just completed limb motion.
CC Roger.
PLT Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Rog, we have actually skipped the base-
line CMG in favor of doing the limb motions to wait until
you came up on the ground tracks in contact, because we think
if you run the battery down prematurely_ and I was wondering
if you if we could go ahead and omit that first baseline CMG
and press on with the procedure SOP portion of the procedure.
CC Roger Bill, we're trying to get you an
answer right back now, I'ii be right back with you.
PLT Okay.
PLT We also ran the first PSS downs quite
prematurely.
CC Roger, are you on SOP now?
PLT Negative, we're waiting to get reading
from you.
CC Roger.
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the last M509 run one of the batteries went down to 23 volts.
And the astronaut maneuvering unit continued to operate.
So we don't know quite yet what's going to happen. They
should be in the third run with the M509 right now. That's
where Pilot Bill Pogue will be tossing a tumbling portable
water tank at Commander Carr who will then try to attain
a tumble attitude himself and then try to stabilize the
water tank. Temperatures inside the workshop are now
about 80 degrees, between 80 and 82 depending on where you
look. And the temperature in the multiple docking adapter
should be considerably cooler. Air leaving the command
module multiple docking adapter air duct is at 72 degrees.
So the command module is probably the coolest place on
the space ship. Some comment during this change-of-shift
press briefing about CMG 2. It currently is operating
nominally. We're told by GNS officer here that a temperature
difference of between 2 and 3 degrees is nominal for the
control moment gyros. That's a temperature difference
between the two bearings of the gyros. Last bearing
temperatures were 74.8 for bearing 2 and 77.3 for bearing
i, more than 2 degree difference. We were also told that
if the current is between 1.005 and 1.025 amps, that's
nominal. Last current reading was 1.006, almost right at
the minimum. We're also informed that we shouldn't trust
the wheel speed indicators too much, as they have a plus
or minus 200 rpm accuracy. So the wheel speed indicator
could be off by as much as 400 rpm_ although over Bermuda
it indicated 8901 or ii rpm off from what it should be if
it were running perfectly. Next acquisition is 5 minutes
from now and that will be through Carnarvon, Australia. At
Greenwich mean time 22 hours and ii minutes, this is Skylab
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SL-IV MC-2219/I
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what we suggest is you cage the CMGs and then CMG power
switch off and then move to page 17-14 and to the base-
line direct maneuver.
PLT We've already done that Dick and the
battery now is down below 26 so I think we're going to have
to can the run.
CC Roger Bill. We're going to go LOS here
for about i0 minutes. I'll call you at Guam.
PLT Okay.
PAO 22 hours 24 minutes Skylab Control.
Space station now out of range of the tracking site in
Carnarvon, Australia. We're informed that we do not have
Guam for this upcoming pass. Next acquisition then will be
at 22:53 Greenwich mean time, that'll be through Goldstone,
just about 29 minutes from now. Apparently some problems
with the M509, astronaut maneuvering unit. The batteries
are being depleted a lot faster than anticipated here. The
problem with one of the batteries is explained away by the
fact that it wasn't recharged sufficiently. They were pulling
the batteries off the unit if they dropped below 26 volts.
Apparently using the batteries below 26 volts would cause
a rupture in the battery. So we're not sure at this point
whether or not the M509 run is being continued, although it
looks like it probably will be canceled due to electrical
power problems with the batteries. Two batteries are being
used, battery 6 and battery 7, both of them insufficiently
charged or being depleted faster than anticipated. Bruce
McCandless the M509 expert here indicated that he thought
that they were in the CMG mode too long, that's the maximum
electrial depletion mode as both the rate gyros and the control
moment gyros are being powered by the battery. In the direct
mode - or the rate gyro mode only, the electrical power is
mainly for the hand control unit or in the case of the rate
gyro to power the rate gyro sensors. To finish up something we
started to say earlier. Should the astronauts take a shower
tomorrow the interior humidity of the workshop will go up i0
percent and the temperature will go up about 1 degree. Flight
surgeon indicates that he doesn't think that will be any
problem, as the benefit of the shower for each crewmember far
outweighs the discomfort that they would experience if the
temperature went up i0 percent. And he doesn't feel that they
will experience any discomfort. EGIL informs us that it will
take about 4 to 5 hours for the temperature index to go down
again to about 40 percent after the last crewmember finishes
his shower. So if they all take a shower tomorrow they'll have
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CC Thanks.
CC Skylab, I've got some news down here
for you. You may want me to stand by until Ed gets off of the
ATM there's plenty of other open periods. Let me know.
SPT No, go ahead Story, that's fine.
CC Okay. CAIRO, Cairo radio broadcast the
news Thursday of the agreement between Egypt and Isreal on a
disengagement of forces along the Suez Canal. It gave no
details. The announcement climaxed intensive negotiations by
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who travelled repeatedly
between Egypt and Isreal to bridge differences over how the
disengagement could be achieved. Kissinger conferred with
President Sadat at Aswan over the past week of shuttling back
and forth between Egypt and Isreal. The Secretary of State
is scheduled to fly to Egypt again on Friday but for all
intents and purposes his role as a mediator on the disengage-
ment issue appears to be over. He'll also visit Jordan and
Syria before flying back to Washinginton on Sunday. The
basic agreement is 8 miles east of the Suez Canal to Egypt,
the next 8 miles moving east will be occupayed - occupied by the
U.N. And Isreal will occupy 8 miles to the west of (garble)
Mountains. It's on the east side of the Canal. ALGIERS,
Algeria has increased the posted price of its crude oil from
about $9-1/2 to $16 a barrel, the Ministry of Industry and Energy
announced Thursday. The ministry said the increase was ordered
Wednesday by the President and is effective for all exports
starting last January i. The ministry said the increase followed
the price hike decided by oil-producing countries in December
in Tehran and was set on the basis on the new prices now effective
in the Persian Gulf and taking account of the freight advantages
and quality of the Algerian oil. The prices of Algerian oil was
$3.60 a barrel before increases began last October. The nation
used less power for the week ending January 12, the first full
week of Daylight Saving Time, than it did during the same week
a year ago, according to the Edison Electric Institute. But
utility companies in an Associated Press spot check agreed
that it was too early to say whether the savins were due to
warmer weather, or the time change or conservations efforts
by consumers. Power output in the 48 continental states
was under 36.6 billion kilowatt hours during the week, said
the institute, which collects national power statistics.
That was 4.1 percent less than a year ago. Under normal growth
conditions, the institute said, the electrical output would
have been 7 per cent higher this year instead of 4.1 percent
lower. So that was about ii percent savings. "What you do
now is transfer part of the peak load in the afternoon to
the morning," said Gene Sturgeon_ spokesman for Northeast
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ready to receive?
CC Okay. We'll do that, Ed. And Ed, we'll
try to give you a reminder on that but we're always ready to
receive TV.
SPT Okay. That, I didn't realize. Thank you.
CC There's times we don't have lines called
up so we don't get it real-time back here in Houston. But
the site is always ready.
SPT Okay. Now which sites are those?
CC That's all of them except Tananarive.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
SPT Which (garble) gets it back to Houston fastest?
CC I missed that one. I'll catch you at
Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
14 hours 21 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in i minute 25 seconds, will be through Madrid. The
crew beginning their 54th day, starting their 10th week in
orbit. A day off for the three crew members. The day begins
with breakfast. Commander Carr has on his menu for this
morning, scrambled eggs, coffee with sugar, bacon, bread, and
Jam. Science Pilot Gibson has an instant breakfast drink,
grapefruit drink, tea, and bread with jam. Pilot Bill Pogue
has coffee cake, sausage, orange drink, rice krispies, and
coffee. We'll have acquisition through Madrid in 40 seconds.
CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid
for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, Ed, we did receive at the site real-
time TV and what you put on the VTR. But of course, we donVt
get the voice real_time.
SPT Okay. You got it back in Houston real-time
you mean?
CC No, sir. We just get it at the site.
We didn't have the lines called up.
SPT Oh_ okay. Which is the quickest way for
the people back in Houston to get it?
CC We need to call the lines up and the only
three sites we used for that are MILA_ Texas, and Goldstone.
So we can get real-time from them if we have the lines called
up. Otherwise, the sites have to mail the images in.
SPT So in most cases, the VTR will get them
there quickest unless the lines are called up.
CC Those three stations - -
CC - - the MDA. They're looking at a possible
procedure to get data, - M133 data while youlre in the MDA.
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and I'ii be able to finish up that MI31 and MI71 at that time.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 17 hours
24 minutes. A brief loss of signal as the spacecraft crosses
the northern limits of the U.S. out of acquisition of Texas and
MILA. Next acquisition will be through Bermuda in 2 minutes
and 50 seconds. CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave completing the
medical part of the science conference today, a conference
which occurs each day that the crew has off. Passed up work
to the crew the doctors here at the Johnson commend the crew
for the manner in which they have managed their menu. Also dis-
cussed the apparent change in the crew's taste and (garble),
one of the tests on board, and one of the detailed test objectives.
However, not assigned an experiment number, it is referred as
a taste and aroma evaluation, a project of Dr. Norman Heidelbaugh
of the Life Sciences Directorate here at the Johnson Space Center.
Dr. Robert Parker, scientist-astronaut will conduct the corollary
science conference with the crew during this Bermuda pass.
We'll hold the line up for this pass which is scheduled for
8 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Bermuda
for 8 minutes with Dr. Parker and the corollary. We got
5 minutes off the VTR. You got 21 minutes of recording
time on it between now and the next stateside pass.
MCC Afternoon, Skylab.
MCC Skylab, Houston, do you read?
CC Skylab, apparently we're getting up to
you, but we're getting your voice at the site_ but we're not
getting you back in Houston.
CDR Roger. How do you read now, Story?
CC Loud and clear. Here's Bob.
CDR Hi Bob.
MCC Afternoon.
PLT Hello, Bob.
MCC Hello. Afternoon Skylab. Let me say first
of all, we had intended to have an S063 message up to Bill
answering some of his questions. It's still in work, it
should be up today sometime I hope. In general let me say
that it - it emphasises the Pls' concern about the use of
reticle to tract the airglow layer itself. And is a response
to some comments you sent down a week agop Bill. If - let
me say, if it doesn't answer all of your questions, don't
hesitate to pump us again and we'll try and do better next time.
Or a suggestion that I might make is that Ed has seemed happy
with the procedures, you might - the two of you might try and
work out something with you as well. It's better to talk between
the two of you onboard than to try and get this sort of limited
communication between us on and you up there. Over.
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Flight Plan with not too many holes in it, we're more happy
having those individual items accomplished than the items
that are on the shopping list. Some items are on the shopping
list hoping to get them done, items which are due a long time
in advance. M478 is - is in particular one of those. And if we
don't get those done, by the time they need to be done, we'll
take them off the shopping list and schedule them. So the
shopping list really has to be, if we don't take the word
too seriously_ lower priority items which we'd like to fit
in if we can. But ones we don't feel as strongly enough to
interrupt say an ATM pass or an S063 pass. Over.
CDR Okay. I understand that. I see documen-
tary photos are being treated that way too. We've seen them
on the shopping list, then they've dropped off and shown up
on the schedule.
MCC That's exactly right.
CC And we're going LOS here. See you in
Canaries in about 1 minute. Be looking to dump the data/voice
there and it'll be Bill Lenoir with the visual ops.
CDR So long, Story.
MCC Skylab, Houston with the visual observation
conference followed by the comet conference for a total of
16 minutes and I understand I've got about 9 minutes here.
So I'ii just start right in if that's okay.
SPT Press on.
MCC Okay. One thought, today being the crew day
off, we're wondering if we're going to have another bunch of
film like last crew day off and one thought we wanted to get
up to you in case that was the case, is we have a lot of
infrared film that we must shoot up today or else we'll be
rewinding it and not taking pictures on it. I believe it's
llke 51 frames. We recommend that you take those on target
of opportunity basis out the window based on your training
and you know as well as we do what infrared is best for and
the optionals in schedules that we've given you other than
the Connecticut River ice probably aren't very good for
IR but lots of things out the window should pop up for IR today.
CDR Roger, Bill. One of the best targets we've
had today has been the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It's very clear
there and we got some very good photography of the ice, polynyas
and leads and all the rest of it there.
MCC Okay, good. Now getting into the agenda
for today, let me if I could here let me start at the back
and talk about the post flight because I don't want to miss
that. I have to get an answer from you on this. The AGU
spring meeting in Washington in April, is got a day that's
set up half EREP and half ERTS. The EREP half is being
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PLT - - My X rate.
CC Okay, we're looking.
PLT Okay, it's coming back down now.
CC We're getting outer gimbal drive.
We think it looks good, Bill.
CDR Okay - - You scared me there for a minute.
CDR Bravo 7's 35 percent. S192 door going
to CLOSED.
PAO Skylab Control at 20:52 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of the
tracking antennas over the U.S. and Bermuda. Our next
acquisition is 40 minutes away. During this U.S. pass, an
Earth resources experiment package survey was underway.
That survey covered a number of sites in the United States
and some of the coast of Puerto Rico. At the very end of
the pass, Bill Pogue and a slight amount of panic in his
voice, indicated that he thought he was getting very high
rates in X, an indication that perhaps the attitude was not
being controlled properly on the space station. And he was
a little concerned perhaps that we might get some substantial
TACS firings, however, the guidance officer here in Mission Control
checked it and said that it looked like we were getting
some OUTER GIMBAL drive which is - would give a high X-rating
for a very short period of time. And by the time we had lost
signal there, the drive had brought the readings back down
to where we would expect them to be. There is no problem
there with the attitude and that was the assurance given
by Story Musgrave to Bill Pogue. So everything looks fine
for the maneuver today. We do expect to have a little bit
of TACS firing during the return to solar inertial and also
some TACS firing for desaturating the gyroscope system that's
normally used to maintain attitude control. However, every-
thing did seem to work very smoothly during the Earth resour-
ces pass and attitude control is being maintained very well
aboard the space station and as we lost signal there at
Bermuda. Milton Windier says he'll be available for a Qhange-
of-shift briefing about 4:15 today. That's about 20 minutes
away in the Building 1 briefing room. Phil Shaffer has
now come into Mission Control and has taken the handover
from Milton. And at this time Dick Truly is about to accept
the handover from Story Musgrave as Spacecraft Communicator.
38 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. That will be
after the press conference. This is Skylab Control.
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Time: 05:56 CDT, 65:10:56 GMT
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Wakeup call to the music of first, the Air Force Song, then
"Anchors Away," followed by the tune, the "Ear Splitting Louder
Boomer" by Steppinwolf. This was put in there by CAP COMM
Bob Crippen for the lone civilian aboard Skylab, Science
Pilot Ed Gibson. Beginning the 65th day, the crew woke over
Honeysuckle. Through mission day 64, the crew has provide -
performed the following man-hours on experiments in the
medical area that totaled man-hours applied to the medical
experiments have been 278 man-hours, 266 hours at the ATM,
using ATM instruments on the comet Kohoutek, the crew has
spent 52 hours performing comet Kohoutek experiments with
the ATM instruments. They've spent another 156 hours on
corollary experiments using the scientific airlock list of
experiments, that's including the nonscientific airlock experi-
ments such as the M487 and 509. A total of 91 hours crew time has
been applied to gathering data on the comet using corollary
experiments other than the ATM. Today, the crew will have
their 26th EREP pass. Today's Earth resources pass along
ground track 34, crossing the Pacific Coast, west of Portland,
Oregon and exiting into the Gulf of Mexico near Freeport,
Texas. Included in today's operations for the EREP pass,
is the Houston Area Test Site, weather permitting. This has
been one of the more elusive targets of the Skylab program,
The Houston Area Test Site. Each day - each time this site
has been scheduled, the weather has not cooperated. EREP
pass will gather data on such diverse site tasks as land
use in western Washington, nortkwest Oregon_ and Pacific
Northwest Coast in general. Snow cover map - mapping is an aid
in predicting water resources and runoff in lower Columbia
River basin. Water resources in the San Juan Mountains of
Colorado, geologic mapping in Colorado, cloud characteristics,
the full length of the pass, and remote sensing techniques
development sites on the Oregon coast in the Great Salt Lake
Desert. EREP pass starts at 4:28 p.m. central daylight time
and ends at 4:37. Carr will man the control and display panel
while Pilot Pogue mans the view finder tracking system and
Science Pilot Gibson operates the SI90B Earth terrain camera
through the scientific airlock.
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I think we've been having a little bit of that around here too.
We had a flood out here last night. Leaving thousands of flood
victims the task of cleaning up and counting losses. Flood
damage in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and northwestern
correction, western Montana, has been estimated at over
$I00 million. The weather has been blamed for at least
16 deaths. The National Weather Service said gale-force
winds and rain would decrease in the northwest early Saturday,
with showers expected the remainder of the weekend. Most of
the damage was done early in the week_ but another storm hit
the area Friday. New Orleans, Lousiana: A woman and her
5-year-old son were among about 13 persons still being sought
by rescue teams as darkness fell over the Mississippi River
site of a flaming tanker freighter collision. Rescuers waited
for fog to lift today to resume searching for the missing from
the 551-foot tanker Key, Trader, loaded with 18,000 tons of fuel
oil, gasoline and aviation fuel and the 657-foot Norweigan
freighter Baune, carrying aluminum ore. "Two persons were
known dead but 61 persons, including the woman's husband and
another son were saved Friday after the collision about
75 miles south of New Orleans," the Coast Guard said. The
spokesman said language problems and confusion over how many
were aboard left in doubt the number missing. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. Next station contact is in 4 minutes
over Madrid, at 12:02. See here that Admiral Hyman Rickover_
known as the father of the atomic submarine_ is taken out a
license here to marry a Navy nurse. A top Navy spokesman in
Washingtonp said the 73-year-old Rickover and Commander Ann
Bednowicy, 43p may be married today. The license was obtained
during the first week of January. From the Cape: An attempt
to put an unmanned military communications spacecraft from England's
Skynet 2 program into permanent orbit has failed. And I guess
l'm going over the hill. And, the VTR belongs to you guys, as
we go over the hill.
CDR Thanks, Crip.
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SPT I see.
MCC Okay, Just continuing on here briefly,
we have 2-i/2 minutes left here, and if Bill ever has an
answer or a question that he wants, just have him break in
and I'ii let him talk with Story here. Tomorrow, Owen Garriott
will he in to talk to you on the conference. And a reminder
that on Monday morning, we_ll be having the ATM advanced
planning session where we can shoot the breeze on some thoughts
for some advanced planning. And whenever you've got some
inputs that you want me to make either weak or strong, let
me know, and I'ii certainly take them over for you.
SPT Advanced planning, how far in advance?
MCC What I really mean here is this is
taking a look at the kind of planning we might do for a
shuttle type mode.
PLT Oh, okay, I'm trying to put some things
on tape right now. Specifics on the panel, and then I'ii
try to get into some of those others.
MCC Okay, fine, and I'ii just read them
off the tape. That's the most efficient way of doing it.
Also, just one interesting point here, next week on Thursday
the 24th of January, which is 5 days away now, we have about
a 3-hour session here where the ATM Pls will be presenting
brief papers to us. Talking about the preliminary results
from Skylab as they know it so far. And I will attend that
for you and pass up some interesting comments that come out
of that in the subsequent days.
SPT Good, yeah, I sure would appreciate
hearing that. One question I just put on tape was, what is
56 getting with their long exposures in the way of details
on the corona? I never had a chance to see those pictures
before I left. Another question I have is, on the activity
pad, they talked about the loops which had been observed
in active region 21 and that's why we're working on these
two grating positions of all balls and 772. Were these based
on my observations - based on 55 results, or observatories on
the ground or - exactly how many - how have we confirmed that
we really did have loops there?
MCC Okay, my understanding is that's based
on history of interconnection of those areas and 55 and
Story has a message he needs to get up, so I'll be talking with
you Monday. Owen will see you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill, so long.
CC I don't think I have any more except
we're 30 seconds to LOS, and it'll be Goldstone in 30 minutes
at 19:50. And the only other thing is, probably hadn't had
much chance to look at it. Any questions about the alternate
Flight Plan? Bill will be picking up SO63 AS2 - AST2 as
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opposed to ASTI.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 22 minutes. The crew advised of the cancellation of
today's EREP. Alternate Flight Plan will be put into effect
adding another ATM pass for Commander Gerald Carr. Backup
Skylab erewmember, Bill Lenoir, giving the daily ATM conference
with Science Pilot Ed Gibson. Flight Director Milt Windler
announced cancellation of the EREP pass about 15 minutes ago.
He said there's no way based on the weather that he could
justify this pass. This in conjunction with the uneertainity
of the omen - momentum posture right now. The weather coupled
with the momentum situation has caused cancellation of the
EREP pass today, pass number 27 in the program. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in 26 minutes and 25 seconds. This
is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 19 hours 23 minutes.
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at one point during the last two hours. And the current
moved up about - about 2 percent during the anomaly. At
this time the current is back at its normal level.
Wheel speed, the last indication was 8912 however it's been
fluctuating around 8900 so that indicates wheel speed is
now, if not completely returned to normal very near normal
and the temperatures now show the bearing number 1 which
is normally the warmer bearing to be about 7/10 of a degree
warmer than bearing number 2. The normal level for that is
about 2 to 3 degrees warmer so it is not completely returned
to normal but it does seem to be headed in that direction.
That's the second anomaly during the day on CMG 2. One
did occur earlier this morning. And another anomaly was
experienced last night from the same CMG. The control moment
gyroscope anomaly earlier in the day took place at about
15:10. I'm sorry that's 15:01, CMG was operating out of
its normal range of behavior from about 15:01 to about 16:27.
And the - there was an anomaly reported during the overnight
it occurred while the crew was asleep. The anomaly went away
this morning at about 08:22. This is Skylab Control, 5-1/2
minutes to our next acquisition of signal, it is now
47 minutes after the hour.
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1119174
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT Hank, I'ii probably be up long enough to get
one more 82A exposure and if you can give me a GMT and the
exposure duration, I - we - probably long for i minute,
could you give me the earliest GMT I can get and I can go
ahead and you can the plan on it.
CC Okay, we'll check it Ed.
CC And Skylab, Houston we need the DAS for
a nuZ update.
CDR You got it.
CC And Ed, we need a few things to clean
up the panel now, we need the 56 door closed, the 55 experiment
night INTERLOCK to normal, and close 55 - I mean open the 55
door. SPT, Houston on that 82A exposure, the earliest time we
can get it is 03:20 about an hour from now with a wavelength
long i minute exposure.
SPT 03:20 wavelength long, i minute, okay,
Hank I'ii just go ahead and do that. And do they want the
wavelength left in long?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CC And CDR, Houston we've got the new
recorder redesignated into the position number i and it
appears to be working normally, we won't know until we get
a dump from it.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 40 seconds
from LOS, Vanguard is the next site if you need us at 44,
we_ll be standing by. And the DAS is yours.
CDR Roger, Hank.
SPT Thanks Hank, good night.
CC Good night.
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