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PAO Skylab Control. We have acquisition of


signal at 14:04 Greenwich mean time. We're now at Carnarvon.
Bill Lenoir is here for the ATM conference with Ed Gibson.
The medical run, now, is at its maximum level on MO92, that
medical run being performed this morning, has been working
properly, all the data coming in already at Mission Control.
And we're now live for Bill Lenoir and the medi - and the
ATM science conference with Ed Gibson.
MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference
for 4 minutes.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We don't have very long here.
We've got a 6-minute gap between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
and then Honeysuckle for 1 minute so I'll get cracking. Not
too much to say this mornin_:_out the Sun. It looks active,
but it isn't. Kind of reminds me of some old girl friends,
really. Today, we've got a couple of comments on the plan
here for today. We sort of assume that that's going to keep
you happy as far as ATM time goes here for a while. You've
been asking for more and we really did it to you today, didntt
we.
SPT Sure did. Looks like a good day.
MCC Okay. Good. Understand that there was
some confusion here as far as the previous orbit being
the synoptic orbit goes and just wanted to clarify that what
we think you did, was you went ahead and completed the normal
part of the orbit that was scheduled next, the JOP 21 BB35.
And on the orbit that will be coming up shortly, you will
pick up the synoptic and then go on into the JOP 7, and so
on. Is that true?
SPT Yeah. That's affirm, Bill. Jerry had
what he had done folded over and looked at the synoptic and figured
that was the first orbit that had been done and pressed into
the second one before I'd looked at the time.
MCC Okay, fine. No problem there. Some
words from S055 on the active region 14 surges you gave them
a couple of days aKo. They're really ecstatic about that
and are very very happy with what they got and they think that's
just great. Some words on H-alpha i, which is now working
as you well know. H-alpha i has plenty of film. In general,
they'd like to run aat two frames per minute. On periods of high
activity four frames per minute would be just fine.
SPT Better take a look at it again. I think
it froze up again this morning and I turned it to off and
I then turned the camera power off. We'll work that again
after we get done with the conference. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We may be playing mickey mouse
with that thing here for a few days. ATM conference, tomorrow,
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on your crew day off, Jim Milligan will be talking to you.


Basically he will discuss activity results to date, which
experiments have gotten what, and how happy they are and what
we want to do next, may - basically for the next week. So
Jim will talk to you tomorrow.
SPT (Garble) talking with Jim.
MCC Good. One last thought, here. On next
Monday, each experiment is going to have a representative
at a meeting where we're going to discuss shuttle-type planning
for facilities like ATM. What kind of things we might do now
to give us a little bit more insight into that. We've had
several discussions here on board. The types of things that
are running through our mind is we've been giving you a lots
of ops time, we really ought to give Jerry and Bill some
ops time. I know they would like some. We'll probably
do that, as part of an experiment give you several consecutive
orbits of ops time to let you plan your own program and do
what you want. And on one extreme is really to put the
summary inputs in for the day and then where the planning
session would go ahead and schedule those out, pass those
on up to you and see what you can do with those. We'd
probably want
SPT I'd look forward to taking that approach.
MCC Okay. Well what I was going to ask was
for you to think about it between now and Monday morning,
really. I'ii talk to you Saturday morning again and Monday
morning. Right now, Owen's coming in Sunday to talk to you.
But on Saturday and Monday, we can discuss it and, what I
would llke to do is to take your inputs to that meeting. And
now we've got
SPT Okay, we can get a little more definition on
that and I would also like to get some people to schedule
maybe about an hour or so for me to debrief the ATM panel
itself. I think we've all been working it and we've all got
some thoughts on, if we were to do this whole thing over
again, Just how we would approach it. And I think we ought to do it
while it's fresh in our mind.
MCC Okay. We'll put that input. We're
i0 seconds to LOS. And I guess you'll have to give us your
words on the Sun, later throughout the day. But it is
important. It turns out most of the ground-based observatories
are socked in by weather. So we lean heavily on you and
Jim will be talking with you tomorrow. Out.
SPT Okay. I'ii go ahead and do that. I've
got a few things to talk about. While we're going over the
hill, let me ask you a little bit about the observations
which were done yesterday on the limb looking for loops.
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Now, as I reported, I think I was able to find some and I'm


wondering whether what I pointed out in terms of locations
and angles from local/vertical were actually what was observed on
the ground from observatories.
MCC Okay, Ed. We'll look into that. And
you're disappearing in the static here.
SPT Okay. (Static) orbits (inaudible)
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours i0 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
of Carnarvon. 6 minutes i0 seconds to acquisition at
Honeysuckle. That was the morning conference on solar activi-
ties, with Bill Lenoir, the scientist astronaut. This
morning the M092 run reached its maximum level. That run
has now been completed, experiment being performed on Pilot
Bill Pogue today with Commander Jerry Carr acting as the
observer. The M092 run did reach its maximum level, although
the temperatures are rather warm in the space station, which
often does have an affect on M092, the lower body negative
pressure run. Today there is a medical conference underway
to determine the fitness of the crew for a continuation of
the mission into the 10th week. The crew will complete
their 9th week in the morning at about 9 o'clock central
daylight time. 5 minutes to acquisition at Honeysuckle,
this is Skylab Control at ii minutes after the hour.
PAO Skylab Control at 14:14 Greenwich mean
time. We're now coming into range of the tracking antenna
of Honeysuckle Creek. The pass through Honeysuckle is a
very brief one lasting only a little more than a minute.
We'll bring the line up live though for spacecraft communica-
tor, Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, back with you through Honeysuckle
for 2 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS here.
See you in about 30 minutes at Texas at 14:45.
PAO Skylab Control at 14:17 Greenwich
mean time. We're now out of range of Honeysuckle Creek,
space station just south of New Zealand. 27-1/2 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal at Texas. At this time,
the experiment MO92/MITI, medical experiments that combination
being performed on Pilot Bill Pogue., has moved into its
rest period, as crewman gets out of the M092 and relaxes
before going on to the bicycle ergometer to test metabolic
activity, the pilot's ability to do work in space. That's
expected to be completed on schedule. It should be over
about 15:15 in about an hour from now. Mostly today's
activity includes solar observations. There's nearly 8 hours
of totar total observation time on the solar experiments
as scheduled. And also, this afternoon, a run of the M509
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astronaut maneuvering unit with commander Jerry Carr acting


as the test pilot. That run takes a great deal of time,
nearly 5 hours of the afternoon for 2 crewmembers or a
total of i0 man-hours has been extensively tested on this and
on the previous mission by Skylab astronauts. And, also,
today a science demonstration this morning, performed by
pilot Bill Pogue, some time set aside just before he began his
MO92 run this morning. And later on in the day, time is
set aside for TV-36. That should put about 27 minutes, alto-
gether, on the video tape recorder today. 26 minutes to
our next acquisition of signal. 19 minutes after the hour,
this is Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control at 14:44 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station now over the Pacific Ocean
is about to be acquired through the tracking antenna at Texas.
This pass through Texas, Merritt Island, and Bermuda is a
lengthy one; it should last a total of almost 17 minutes.
We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground across
the U.S. as the space station crosses Baja, California, Northern
Mexico, and the Central United States. The spacecraft communicator
is Story Musgrave. The flight director on duty is Milton
Windier.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC And, why don't y'all call off that laser
rendezvous that's coming up at 14:54. The weather is not
satisfactory enough to do the test.
SPT Will do.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, we'd like you to operate H-alpha i
regardless of the frame countor the ready light indications,
You're not going to hurt anything even if the camera is Jammed
but it's possible we got a readswitch or a logic failure. And
you can be getting good data even though you don't have good
indications.
SPT Okay, Story, at the beginning of this
orbit I tried it again and I did get good indications here
and it worked for about five counts or so, two of them in manual
and three of them in auto. But then it appears to have hung
up again, atleast from my manage - vantage point. But I will
go ahead and continue to operate it 2 frames per minute.
CC Yes, sir; be fine.
CC Skylab, is Bill doing some instrumented
PT now?
CDR That's affirmative. He's going to do a max
effort.
CC Okay. And, thank you.
SPT Story, I wonder if I could make a couple
of remarks and one question on ATM ops and then get into describing
the Sun a little bit?
CC Okay, go, Ed.
SPT Okay, number one is as you know we don't have
the beryllium count up here on the counter, and I would llke
to have the backroom give us a call whenever they see the
beryllium count go up significantly above background or when
they show a significant rise in the background level whether
we're on the panel or not. That would hold for this time where
we have the active regions on the disk probably for the next, oh_
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7 or 8 days. Secondly, yesterday during some observing


time I looked at some loops on the limb and I gave some
description on tape, and I believe mentioned last night
something about the - where I saw them. And I'm wondering
if this correlated with what the people had seen in the green
line in the corona. And in particular I saw a - in oxygen VI
what appeared to be a loop edge on extending out in the
north part of the region pretty much perpendicular to the
disk or along the local vertical, and then one in the
southern portion of the region inclined around 12 degrees in
the local vertical towards the south. Both of them were
seen in oxygen Vl about 130 counts or so, maybe 50 or so off
the disk. Thirdly, a - getting into what we see from up
here, the white light coronagraph shows that the corona has
not changed greatly in large scale features but some of
the finer features have. Over at 280 and 295 they're pretty
much unchanged except maybe the strength of the one helmet
streamer 280 has increased. There's a diffuse emission around
- going from maybe 265 up to 280. It looks - it could be
part of that streamer, perhaps not. It's just a very diffuse
(static) and no central - no centralized or localized emission.
Over at 060 we see a faint streamer which we did see yesterday.
It appears perhaps a little bit stronger today. Over at 080
we still see the fairly localized but relatively weak
emission from a streamer. We do not see any of the weak
emission from say 080 down to 090 which we did see yesterday.
There is a fairly prominent streamer starting to come out at
about 095 which continues on over to 105. It's not anywhere
near as strong as the helmet streamers over on the east limb,
but it is significantly decreased over and above what it was
yesterday. The faint streamer at 220 we saw yesterday is
just barely discernible today, but is still there. The XUV
monitor shows certainly a wide belt of plage all the way across
the southern - southern hemisphere low latitudes, and we see
that the brightest plage are in active region 21 and the 16/26
complex. The next brightest is - and then we have to use inte-
grate to s_e all of these now, is in the 18/23 complex and then
there is a new one Just coming around the corner at 280 right
at the llmb. It looks fairly small and I imagine most of the
limb brlghteningthat makes it show up so well. The largest
extent of plage is in 21/24/20 complex of activity. We do not
see real significant coronal holes except north/south and a ifttle
bit around, say, above active region 18 and 25. Filament channels,
perhaps there is one coming up from the - about a region of 200
extending northeastward up toward active region 20, when it
terminates very abruptly of the edge of the plage. I understand
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observatories are socked in. So, in looking at H-alpha I'm afraid


I'm at a little disadvantage because I'm remaining Sun center
here and I can't really get over and look at the active
regions in detail. But the plage in general, both the brightness
and the extent are pretty much parallel to what I_ve described
in the XUV monitor. The plage around active region 16 and
26, in both XUV and H-alpha is fairly extensive. And up there
18, 23 is also fairly bright. Over at 21 and 24, 21 is the
brightest. It's not too - it's not anywhere near as extensive,
however, in H-alpha a what you see in XUV.

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SPT - because I'm remaining readings Sun center


here, and I can't really get over and look at the active regions in
detail. But the plage in general, both the brightness
and the extent pretty much parallels what I've described in
the XUV monitor. The plage around active region 16 and 26
in both XUV and H-alpha is fairly extensive and up there
at 18, 23 is also fairly bright. Over at 21 and 24 21
is the brightest. It's not too it's not anywhere near
as extensive, however, in H-alpha as what you see in
XUV. The filament up at 340 is filament 76 it's probably the
by largest and most extensive on the disk, and in terms of other
general features. Sunspot at active region 20 stands out very
well in H-alpha. I've not really had a chance to go over
and look at any of these regions, however, in detail. And
that's it, Story. I'd appreciate any feedback from the ground
on activity which they may see on the especially on the X-REA.
CC Okay. Thanks very much, Ed.
CC Ed, we show you in mechanical reference
on your mirror auto raster there, and you'll need to go to
grating 104.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC Yes sir.
CC We'll be dropping for a minute in the
keyhole, Skylab.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS
here. 5 minutes to Madrid. They_ll be looking to dump
the data/voice at Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control at 15:03 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station has passed out of range of
the tracking antenna at Bermuda. 3-1/2 minutes to acquisi-
tion at Madrid. The upcoming Madrid pass will last about
9_i/2 minutes, and we_ll leave the line up here as the space
station crosses the North Atlantic where no tracking anten-
nas are within range of the vehicle.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Madrid for 8 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice here.
SPT Hello, Story. I have a question for the
ATM folks.
CC Go ahead_ Ed.
SPT That is active region 25, which is
a relatively high latitude. Is that reverse polarity? In other
words, is that from the new solar cycle?
CC Ed_ Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, as best we can tell we don't think
active region 25 is rever reverse polarity, indicating
a new phase of solar cycle.
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SPT Thanks, Story.


CC And, we're seeing entirely normal ops
down here of H-alpha i, and our best guess right now is that you
got a read switch failure and all that affects is your - is your
frames remaining count and your ready light and nothing
else. It in no way affects the camera logic. We're seeing
normal ops down here and press on.
SPT Hey, that's good to hear. Thank you.
CC We can see the shutter operating and
you can't.
SPT Just as long as it's working.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
13 minutes to Tananarive at 15:27.
PAO Skylab Control at 15:16 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now over North Africa
out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid. Our next
acquisition 11-1/2 minutes away will be at Tananarive.
This is Skylab Control. It's now 16 minutes 15 seconds
after the hour.

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PA0 Skylab Control at 15:26 Greenwich mean


time. We're now coming within range of the tracking
antenna at Tananarive_ 54 seconds to acquisition there.
An unusual change on control moment gyroscope number 2 was
observed by the guidance officer over Madridp but wheel
speed has now come back to where it was a day and a half
ago after the transducer apparently had reduced its normal
level to 8850. Readings of 8912 are now seen at the Ma-
drid station and that's still unexplained but no other
associated anomaly with it. The temperature variance re-
mains as it was and no change in current; however, the
wheel speed has come now back up about 60 rpm to the level
that was considered normal until a day and a half ago when
that new lower level was reached. We'll bring the line up
live now for air-to-ground at Tananarive.
CC Skylab, got you through Tananarive for
5 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're kind of dropping out
here. We got about 2 minutes to LOS. The next one is
Honeysuckle in 17 minutes at 15:52.
PAO Skylab Control at 15:37 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of
Tananarive. Our next acquisition is 15-1/2 minutes away.
That will be at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. No data is
available through the Tananarive stations so we have no
information on the wheel speed on CMG 2 after we did see
a return to its previous nominal level during the Madrid
pass just completed a short while ago. The next acquisi-
tion will give us data as Tananarive is only a voice relay
station. 15 minutes to that next acquisition. 37 minutes
27 seconds after the hour; this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now a
little less then a minute from acquisition of signal at the
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking antenna. The pass
through Honeysuckle'll last a little over 5 minutes and
we'll bring the line live now for alr-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, we got you through Honeysuckle
for 5 minutes. Bill, Houston.
CDR Go ahead. He's listening.
CC Okay. This pass we'll be shipping up
a procedure to help us get some more flow across the
heat exchangers and get you all a little bit of cooling,
and if possible I'd like Bill to get that done during this
housekeeping block that he's got coming up around 16:30.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And Just a quick note of explanation
on it. We'll Just have him replace any fans that he finds
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inoperative. If he doesn't find any fans inoperative we


think there's several fans that are probably degraded. It's
the only explanation for the low flow we can come up
with now and that's why if he finds no fans totally inoper-
ative we're having him replace all that he can in the time
allotted.
CDR Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say, Story, on this last JOP 7 we Just
did going through midnight, I was looking at the white light
coronagraph display and at around 6 minutes remaining the
TV picture dimmed and the only thing reamining at about
15 seconds was a bright spot, then at about 5:30 we started
to get some light coming in from the upper right-hand quadrant,
which I assumed was the airglow. So at that point then
I gave 52 at - some 9-second exposures followed by 1-second
exposures at 5 minutes, 4 minutes_ 3 minutes remaining, and
then as called out two 130's, one 30 seconds remaining and
at zero. I'm not sure whether they anticipated the com-
ing in quite that early_ but seeing as we don't get a chance
to do this very often I thought I'd take advantage of it.
CC Okay, thanks; and we're about i0 seconds
to LOS. Goldstone 24 minutes at 16:20. And $052's real
happy with that, Ed.
SPT Very good, Story. Hope the data looks
good when we get it back.
CC Yes sir.
PAO Skylab Control at 15:59 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now moving out of the range
of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle Creek. Our next
acquisition is 21 minutes and 39 seconds away at Goldstone.
During this pass over Honeysuckle that wheel speed indica-
tion on the second control moment gyroscope was again confirmed.
We yesterday during - during the sleep period for the astro-
nauts, about a day and a half ago it now, the wheel speed
had dropped to 8850 and for a short period of time below
that level and moved back up to 8850, and it was believed
to be due to an anomaly in the transducer that measures
wheel speed, not in the - in the attitude control gyroscope
itself. That anomaly had stabilized at 8850 rpm and stayed
at that level for almost a day and a half. However, during
the Madrid pass the speed moved back up to the 8912 level
about 1/2 percent faster and it has stayed at that level.
It again stayed at 8912 during the Honeysuckle Creek pass,
so that's still being investigated. There does not appear
to be an anomaly, no increase in current and no substantial
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change in the temperatures on the bearings. So that's


being looked at now, but no indication of exactly what it
is, whether it's merely a signal of the failing - possible
failure of that transducer that is used to measure the
speed of the second control moment gyroscope. 20 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal and 25 seconds after the
hour. This is Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 20 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now
56 seconds from acquisition of signal at Goldstone tracking
antenna in California. This pass across the United States
will have us in acquisition at Goldstone for the first
I0 minutes, and immediately after that we'll have an interruption
before we're picked up at Bermuda. We'll bring the line
up live now for air-to-ground across the U.S.
CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC Ed, when you get the chance, float on over
there and open up the cabin pressure REGs A and B.
SPT I'm floating and they're open.
CC Okay, and they're confirmed.
SPT Actually, Story, from this position you
really don't have to float very much at all. If you just
put one foot in the triangle below the ATM you can reach the
VTR all the way over to the circuit breakers panel 200.
CC Okay, next time I'ii say reach over there.
SPT Very good. Think one g.
SPT Say, Story, I'm beginning to see a slight
increase in the XUV monitor activity around active region
21. Is the X-REA activity going up at all?
CC I'ii get with you.
CC Not now, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Say, Story, Just out of curiosity I'd llke
to ask why we're looking at active region 20 rather than 21.
Is this expected to be developing faster than 21?
CC Ed, that's a good question, and the reason
we're doing that is because active region 20 is near Sun center
and the instruments do better there. And when 21 gets near
Sun center we'll run the same program on it.
SPT Okay, very good. Thank you, Story.
CC We're about 30 seconds to LOS here; about
4 minutes to Bermuda at 16:33.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 31 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now over
North America but out of range of the tracking antennas in
the United States. 2_i/2 minutes to our next acquisition.
Have an announcement from Skylab Program Director, William
C. Schneider. Program Director William C. Schneider reports
that the third Skylab mission, now in its 63rd day, has been
given a 7-day extension. Approval for the mission to continue
until at least January 24 follows review of the inflight medical
data and the recommendation of Dr. Charles A. Berry, Nasa Director
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of Life Sciences and an evaluation of the Skylab consumables


and hardware status. That concludes the announcement. Again,
that's the weekly medical conference to give approval for
the coming 7 days of the Skylab mission. That will continue
through the end of the 84-day planned mission which concludes
on February 8. We'll keep the line up live now for air-to-ground
through the tracking antenna at Bermuda where we have a
6-minute pass. We're about a minute and 30 seconds from
acquisition there.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Bermuda for 5-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, when you're ready I've
got a dissertation on loops over active region 14.
SPT I'm ready; hit me with it.
CC Okay, it's about what I'm going to do,
and these refer to the loops that occurred yesterday; that's
mission day 62. Lyman-alpha shows a single loop and an
inclined linear structure. The loop dimensions are
given in the picture. The structure to the north of the loop
is inclined and about 30 degrees to the limb. Oxygen VI loops
are seen, but only roughly correspond to Lyman-alpha structures.
They're generally higher by a factor of 1.5 than the Lyman-alpha
magnesium X data shows only diffuse structures not well
correlated with the lower temperature material. The images
show oxygen VI loops orientation mostly east to west which are
mainly vertical in the southern portion and inclined in the
northern portion. This is the reverse of your downlink that
occurred yesterday about 20:00 GMT. However, the correlation
betwen rasters and voice report is fairly good. In other
words, it looks like maybe you confused north with south, that
you said north but meant south. Sac Peak Observatory reports
that active limb programs have been run on the west limb over
active region 14 using a 40-centimeter coronagraph, but they
don't have the film yet.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. No, I don't
think I confused north with south. The only reason - the only
way I was able to pick them up at all as far as the orientation
was to go at two different heights, find out where the peaks were, and
then try to - just on the basis of (static) just draw a line and
assume that I was looking at the same feature. And that probably
was not ture. In other words, I started looking at one feature
in low altitude, and another feature at a higher altitude. I
really didn't have time to map the thing out in detail.
CC Okay.
SPT Yeah, thanks for that information, Story,
and time permitting I might be going back there today. I looked
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at it this morning and found some (garble) diffuse structures


in magnesium X, but there (garble) were peak. And I think
if I go back and look in maybe Lyman-alpha I'll be
able to find a more pronounced peak, or if they'd like to
to work in oxygen VI I could do that. If they have any
suggestions on which lines they'd like me to peak up in, and,
say, roll orientations for a particular orientation, you know, to
get 82B the best exposures, I'll be glad to do it.
CC Okay, copy, Ed.

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SPT - (garble). If they have any suggestions


on which lines they'd like me to peak up in and say, roll
orientations for a particular orientation, you know, to get
82B the best exposures I'ii be glad to do it.
CC Okay. Copy, Ed.
CC And we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes
to Canary.
PAO Skylab Control at 16:41 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now over the North Atlantic.
Our next acquisition is 2-1/2 minutes away at Canary Island.
We'll keep the line up live now for air-to-ground through
Canary Island. This pass will last approximately 9-1/2 min-
utes.
CC We're back with you through Canary for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. See you
over Tananarive in about 13 minutes at 17:04, and Bill, we
don't get any data over Tananarive. We won't see any data
for about 40 minutes. How's your OWS heat exchanger fans
procedure going?
PLT Okay, Story. I got one replaced already
and our biggest problem is (garble) tied up in one of the
science demos.
CC We think we're done with TV-101 if you
want to take that, Bill.
PLT I think Ed has a few more things he wants
to do there and I'm getting by with it the way it is. It's
just taking Just a tad longer.
SPT I'll work it with him, Story.
CC Okay, and understand, Bill, you are
going to you're in work on changing out all four fans?
CREW That's affirmative.
CC Okay.
CREW In work.
PAO Skylab Control at 16:54 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now over Africa, i0 minutes
and 20 seconds to acquisition at Tananarive. Some discus-
sion there about cleaning the heat exchangers for the space
station trying to get the air conditioning working at its
absolute maximum level to keep the temperatures as low as
possible. They have - had temperature indications during the
last couple of days rising because of the high Sun angle.
Recent temperature on the space station's approximately 80
degrees overall with some variation from one location to
another with the highest temperature reading in the space
station in the experimental compartment ceiling, which is
reading 82.8. The lowest temperature in the workshop area,
78.8, and the - in the inlet to the experiment compartment.
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So temperature right around 80 degrees in the space station


now in the workshop area where the crew spends most of their
time. Yesterday astronauts spent a very busy day photo-
graphing the Earth. A number of things reported on the tape
recorders by - that are transcribed here in Mission Control,
including commander photographing the southern end of
Sakhalin Island, just north of Japan. He said that he tried
a number of times to photograph Sakhalin but had found it
cloud-covered and yesterday again it was 90-percent covered
with clouds but the southern end was visible. He took a
number of photographs. He said they should provide stereo
photography of that island. And he also took an oblique
photograph across the Aleutian chain of islands attempting
to show the effect of the islands on winds and clouds, very
clear eddy patterns visible downwind of those islands which
stick up through the sea just off Alaska's coast. And pilot
Bill Pogue took a number of photographs yesterday including
pictures of the northern coast of Mexico, BaJa, California,
southern Nevada, the Arizona/Grand Canyon area, and southern
Wisconsin including Milwaukee, and some offshore flow
patterns in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Pilot
went into some detail to discus snow melting in the
eastern and northeastern Colorado. Photography of Colorado
again was handheld photography yesterday. The pilot said that
there's a lot of sugarbeet farming and that sort of thing
up in the eastern part of Colorado where he's been a visitor,
and he said that very unusual melt pattern was visible in
the snow. That is to say the snow is melting in a rather
unusual way. He said he thinks he got a good picture of
that and that it might be of interest to people who are
doing studies of the water resources of that area. Said that
he'd been in that area and that weather is a very critical
factor in the farming, although they'd probably Just as soon
do all their irrigat - irrigating by artificial means, and
he also said that he could see some indications of either
topography or another unusual bit of snow melting in another
part of Colorado where a long dark streak peered through
the - through the snow cover. And the pilot also took some
pictures of North Africa yesterday. A dust cloud visible
off the shore of the coast of North Africa; took his first
picture from Gibraltar looking across the Sahara to the south-
east, and then later a picture of a dust cloud or a dust ball
that he described as being about 35 to 50 miles long Just off
the coast near Algiers. Said it was translucent mass of more
or less cylinder shape, approximately 5 or i0 miles in diameter,
a very gigantic dust cloud blowing off the coast of Africa out
over the Mediterranean. That's part of a very extensive program
of visual observations and photography being conducted by the
Skylab - -

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Time: 11:56 CDT, 63:16:56 GMT
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PAO - - cylinder shaped, approximately


5 to 10 miles in diameter, a very gigantic dust cloud
blowing off the coast of Africa, out over the Mediterranean.
That's part of a very extensive program of visual observations and
photography being conducted by the Skylab crew. They've
been reminded that they have nearly 2000 frames of film
available to them for that purpose. And they're not
using that up as fast as they might. So they have been
increasing the amount of photography during the last few
days. 57 minutes after the hour. 6 minutes to our next
acquisition of signal at Tananarive, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 3 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're now coming within range of
the tracking antenna at Tananarive. This pass through the
voice relay station there will last about 6 minutes. And
we'll bring the llne up live now for air-to-ground. Story
Musgrave is the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for
3 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. Take a look at the data, all
four fans have been replaced.
CC Okay, thanks, Bill.
CC Understand you didn't find any individual
fans that were failed.
SPT That's negative_ Story.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab_ we're a minute to LOS. About
20 minutes to Honeysuekle_ 17:28.
PAO Skylab Control at ii minutes and
47 seconds after the hour. WeVve had loss of signal through
Tananarive. Our next acquisition is 16 minutes away at
Honeysuckle.

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SL-IV MC2207/I
TIME: 12:27 CDT, 63:17:27 GMT
1/17/74

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 27 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the tracking antenna at
Honeysuekle Creek. This pass through Honeysuckle Creek will
last 9-1/2 minutes. The spacecraft communicator is Story
Musgrave. At this point in the schedule the crew should be
should be just about ready to sit down to eat with science
pilot first to sit down to the dinner table, but all three
of them getting an opportunity to eat here before the M509
astronaut maneuvering unit runs that'll be done this afternoon.
Test pilot for that is commander Jerry Carr. That runs from
18:30 to 23:30 extended 5 hours with observer for the run
pilot Bill Pogue. We're live now for air-to-ground at
Honeysuckle Creek.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for
8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story, and I'd like to ask a
question of the food people.
CC Okay, go, Jer.
CDR Okay, I'd like to add a mashed potatoes
to my menu tonight. I think there's enough in overage.
CC That all?
CDR That's it.
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer. While
I got you, on your M509 prep, use SOP number 13, that'll save
you a trip up to the command module.
CDR Okay, SOPI3.
CC And, that's in the experiment compartment
E632.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about
12 minutes to Hawaii, 17:47. Be looking to dump the
data/voice there.
CC And, Jer, on the mashed potatoes we'll
get you an answer as soon as we can, the food people are
out to lunch right now.
PLT You're a prophet.
PAO Skylab Control at 17:38 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of Honey-
suckle Creek. Our next acquisition is 9 minutes and 40 seconds
away at Hawaii. During this pass over Honeysuckle commander
Jerry Carr asked if he could have some mashed potatoes with
his dinner tonight out of the extra food aboard Skylab. And
after checking with the medical personnel here in the Mission
Control Center, Story Musgrave reported that couldn't give
him any report on food because the food people were all out
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TIME: 12:27 CDT, 63:17:27 GMT
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to lunch. 9 minutes to our next acquisition, this is


Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 47 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now
55 seconds from acquisition at Hawaii. The pass through
Hawaii will last i0 minutes. It's the beginning of a long
series pf passes taking up most of the coming hour. We'll
bring the line up live now for air-to-ground at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for i0 minutes.
Be dumping the data/voice here.
PLT Rog, Story.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, you got some observing time here.
If you want to look at active region 14 loops during this time
S055 suggest peaking up on oxygen VI and obtaining spectra.
82 would like shopping list 12. However, both these experiments
and the rest of them I want to leave the choice of target
and the ops to you.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. I'ii be going
over there and taking a look. I thought I'd get the building
block 28 done first and then I'd know exactly how much longer
- make sure I got that in and then I'd know how much I have
for observing.
CC Okay.
CC Jerry, Houston.
SPT He's listening; go ahead.
CC Okay, the simple addition of the mashed
potatoes pushes the calcium above the limit, but we got
two alternatives to get them on. He can either have the
mashed potatoes and drop the peas, or have the mashed potatoes
and the peas if he'll delete the grapefruit drink and add
a free-calorie drink.
CDR Okay, I already had the grapefruit,
so let's drop the peas.
CC Okay, copy, Jer.
CDR Thank you.
CC That's the best we could do. Thank you.
CDR I was afraid you were going to ask me
to drop the chicken and gravy.
SPT They're both bitter because I was the
one who got the prime rib tonight. They have no sense of
fairness.
CC You guys keep catching me without words,
but you know how I feel.

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SL-IV MC-2208/I
Time: 12:56 CDT 63:17:56 GMT
1/17/74

CC We're a minute to LOS, 3 minutes to Gold-


stone.
PAO Skylab Control at 17:58 Greenwich mean
time. We're presently out of range of Hawaii, but Just about
to be acquired at Goldstone. One mih fired according to
guidance officer here, and he said he didn't know why yet,
but he'll look into it. We're about to be acquired there,
and we'll keep the line up live now for air-to-ground across
the U.S.
CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone
for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 5 minutes
to Bermuda.
PA0 Skylab Control at 18:08 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now over Canada, out of
range of the tracking antennas at Texas and Merritt Island.
We'll get acquisition at Bermuda about 3 minutes from now.
The pass through Bermuda will be a 9-minute one. We'll leave
the line up for air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, we're with you through Bermuda
for 9 minutes. And Ed, we need the DAS for outer gimbal
backup.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, would you ask the 54 folks if they
will accept the long exposure with a movement of 2 arc seconds
either way during the middle of it? I'd like to give them around
a 24-minute exposure, but every 8 minutes or so I'll be changing
the pointing by 2 arc seconds.
CC Okay, get with you, Ed.
CC Ed, that'll be fine on the S054. If possible
keep that movement down to a max of about 2 arc seconds.
SPT Okay, Story, will do. I'm doing a shopping
list 12 along with some grating and mirror auto rasters for
55 and long exposures for 56.
CC Okay, thanks. And the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Ed, we show you running a grating scan
off the limb. You need to be in mechanical reference to get
a reset.
SPT I just noticed that passing through 6,000.
Thank you.
SPT At about 40 arc seconds off the limb, Story,
I was able to get oxygen VI count of about 130, 140 and a
(garble) with around 5 arc seconds. I don't really have the time
to map out the feature, so I'm just going to take some spectra
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Time: 12:56 CDT 63:17:56 GMT
1/17/74

and try to get a grating auto scan in as well, or a mirror


auto raster.
CC Copy, Ed.
CC And we're a minute to LOS, 2 minutes to Canaries.
CC We're back with you through Canaries
and Ascension for 16 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 27
minutes to Carnarvon at 19:03.
PAO Skylab Control at 18:38:32 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now out of range at Ascension
after a very long period of acquisition of signal. It began
back over Hawaii nearly an hour ago. 24-1/2 minutes to our
next acquisition of signal at Carnarvon_ Australia. This is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2209/I
Time: 14:02 CDT, 63:19:02 GMT
1/17/74

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 2 minutes


and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on
range of signal now at Carnarvon, we'll bring the line up
for 5-1/2 minute pass. Spacecraft communicator is Story
Musgrave and the flight director on duty in Mission Control
is Milton Windler.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll
see you over Hawaii in 16 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 12 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is over Australia,
but is passing out of range now of the tracking antenna at
Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition a little less than
15 minutes from now will be at Hawaii. Skylab crew having
a busy day today, although they are not making any maneuvers,
because of the high temperatures they encounter now as they're
in constant sunlight Astronauts Carr, Gibson, and Pogue
have been given medical approval for another 7 days. Skylab
program director, William Schneider announced that earlier
today. Weekly evaluations of crew health, space station
hardware and supplies will continue through the remainder
of the planned 84-day mission. The record breaking Skylab
crew is schednled to splash in the Pacific Ocean soutwest
of San Diego on February 8_ 3 weeks from tomorrow. Today
the astronauts are performing medical experiments and exten-
sive solar investigations. Space station continues to be
in constant view of the Sun, an unusual condition which
aides solar studies_ but which has also increased the tempera-
ture in the orbiting laboratory to 80 degrees. A week ago,
the Skylab was a much more confortable 71. This morning
Skylab_s number 2 gyroscope went through another short
period of erratic performance. Since then it has settled
down and seems to be working well once again. Also, this
morning that change in the transducer performance the total
rpms yesterday reading 8850 has modified itself once again.
It's back to 8912, which has been the nominal speed indi-
cation on the gyroscope over most of the mission. We have
reentry events now identified for us by the Flight dynamics
officer for our February 8 splashdown. The undocking will
occur at 10:31 Greenwich mean time. At that time the orbit
of the Skylab space station and command module will be 240
by 232 nautical miles. And the undocking will occur at
33 degrees 32 minutels north, 53 degrees 54 minutes west.
That's approximately within range of the Bermuda tracking
antenna. Separation will occur 26 minutes later at 10:57
Greenwich mean time. The orbit for separation is 239 by 231
nautical miles. Separation burn has a velocity change of
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Time: 14:02 CDT, 63:19:02 GMT
1/17/74

5 feet per second. It's a 12 second burn using the reaction


control system jets. Separation occurs at 38 degrees south,
14 degrees east. Shaping burn with a change in velocity of
268 feet per second, an ll-second burn on the service pro-
pulsion main - service propulsion system main engine. The
shaping burn occurs at 11:29 Greenwich mean time. That burn
will put Skylab command module into a 232 by 90 nautical-
mile orbit. Shaping burn occurs at 0 degrees south on the
equator and 145 degrees east. The deorbit burn with the
Delta V change of velocity of 190 feet per second is an
8-second burn of the propulsion system main engine. It
occurs at 14:33 Greenwich mean time and it puts the space
station in a 232 by minus ii nautical-mile orbit. That orbit
burn appears at 9 degrees north 106 degrees east. Entry inter-
faces at 46 degrees north, 148 degrees west. That occurs
at 14:58 Greenwich mean time. Blackout begins at 15:00
Greenwich mean time. Exit from blackout is 15:04. The
drogues should be deployed at 15:08 Greenwich mean time. The
mains at 15:09 and splashdown should occur at 15:14 Greenwich
mean time. The point of impact predicted at this point is
29 degrees 44 minutes north, 120 degrees 21 minutes west.
That splashdown point is southwest of San Diego. That
data will be available in the news room shortly. And of
course it is predicted on - based on the present orbit. There
will be some modifications for that reason, no seconds have
been given yet. When modifications are possible after the
orbit is more clearly defined for reentry we'll give those
to you at that time. 10-1/2 minutes to acquisition of signal
at Hawaii. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2210/I
TIME: 14:26 CDT, 63:19:35 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 19 hours 26 minutes Greenwich mean time.


Space station now nearing acquisition through tracking stations
on Hawaii. Commander Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue should be
involved in tests with the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit
right now. And Command Carr - excuse me, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson at the ATM C&D console looking to the Sun. He's
scheduled for some television recording of whatever events
are taking place on the Sun.
CC Skylab, we're with you through Hawaii
for 4 minutes.
PLT Okay,, Story, Jer is fitted and we're
getting ready to don the FMU.
CC Okay, Bill.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, you're scheduled for a TV downlink
here over Hawaii. If you can wait until Goldstone it'll be
at 19:39, we'll get that back a lot faster.
SPT Okay, be glad to do it. Just give me
a call.
CC Okay, give you a reminder there.
CC And, we're a minute to LOS; 9 minutes
to Goldstone at 19:39.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
the tracking antennas at Hawaii. Control moment gyro number 2 -
data from the Hawaii tracking site indicates that that gyro
is right on the dot, 8912 rpms. Temperatures are nominal
and the current is nominal. Next acquisition is about
3 minutes from now, that'll be through Goldstone. We'll
have a stateside pass, Goldstone, Texas, MILA, and Bermuda.
At 19 hours 35 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2211/I
Time: 14:38 CDT 63:19:38 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 19 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean time


now less than a minute away from acquisition through Goldstone
California. Temperatures inside the orbiting workshop vary
from 77 degrees in the coolest part of the workshop to
83 degrees in the hottest section, that's the experiment
compartment ceiling. Of course we all know that the ceiling
is normally the hottest place anyway. Now about i0 seconds
away from acquisition, we'll hold the line up for this
stateside pass.
CC Skylab, got you through Goldstone for
5 minutes. Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC NOAA just picked up an eruptive
prominence on the northwest limb. Like for you to interrupt
what you doing and do a JOP 8 Alfa, and that lifted off
Just 6 minutes ago.
SPT Thank you.
SPT You said the northwest limb?
CC That's affirm.
CC And it's over active region 14.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, we forgot to direct you to it, but
according to the SAP and all, miss steps 1 and 2 of 8A go
right on to step 3 that's Sun center.
SPT Okay, Story. I wish you would have said
that in the beginning. I can see it in the XUV monitor, I'ii
go Sun center.
CC Okay, we should have.
CC Skylab we dropout for a minute in the
handover, we're still with you for 12 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, when you get a chance, we'd like
some TV downlink of WLC and XUV.
SPT Okay, I'ii give it to you in a minute.
SPT You called it well Houston. There is
a beautiful one in the WLC at around 2 solar radii out,
exceptionally bright transient, very compact knots of
material and the whole corona in that region at that angle
looks disturb quite a distance out.
CC Okay, thanks Ed.
SPT Looks something like a spear head moving
out maybe i0 degrees or so across in the back and maybe
a 90 degree point at the front.
CC Copy.
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Time: 14:38 CDT 63:19:38 GMT
1/17/74

PLT Houston, Skylab.


CC Go ahead Bill.
PLT Rog, could you redesignate a recorder
for me? I need voice recording capability.
CC Stand by i.

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SL-IV MC-2212/I
Time: 14:53 CDT 63:19:53 GMT
1/17/74

CC Bill, experiment i recorder is running.


All you need to do is record.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Story I Just got another look at it on TV.
It's about 2-1/2 solar radii out. There still is the wedge
shape at the very front arrowhead if you will, well and it's
exceptionally bright. Must be a lot of material in there and
off the north end of the - the trailing edge of that wedge
where the material which foes only down to the occulting
disk. And that's also exceptionally bright.
CC Okay, beautiful, Ed.
SPT Surprisingly though Story, I don't see any
material around it swelled out or pushed away, if you will,
as we've seen many transients. This material jsut appear
to be moving out. There is some disturbance out - immediately
out in front of it but it doesn't appear to be pushing the
material out to the side.
CC Okay_ thanks, Ed. And Ed, keep S054
running.
SPT Will do, Story. Their timer got started
a little after their experiment.
CC Okay. We're a minute from LOS, i0 min-
utes to Ascension.
SPT It looks like a great orbit to inhibit the
limb momentum dump, Story. We're going to be able to follow this
all the way out.
CC Roger, Ed. And going over the hill,
we'd llke a mirror auto raster, Ed.
PAO Skylab Control 19 hours 59 minutes.
Space station is now out of range of Bermuda. Next acqui-
sition will be 7 minutes from now. That'll be over Ascen-
sion. This is Skylab Control at 19:59 Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2213/I
Time: 15:06 CDT 63:20:06 GMT
1/17/74

PAO Skylab Control. 20 hours 6 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition
through Ascension. Commander Carr now inside the
astronaut maneuvering unit, this is a fully suited run,
however, it's using a simpler umbilical card than was used
before. This umbilical contains oxygen only, no cooling loops,
no biomedical sensor loops, and no communication loops.
CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension
for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger Story. I got one more look on the
TV and put it on the VTR. Got to give 82A I exposure just
before 400K here.
CC Okay, and while we're on the subject of 82A,
we did have a JOP checklist change. It omitted it after the
first orbit, we'd like to leave that one to your Judgement,
if you see something very bright in the XUV monitor go
ahead and run it the second orbit.
SPT Okay, would they like to have the
exposure times increased if we do run it?
CC I'ii get you an answer to that, and as
per the JOP, for you planning purposes, the next orbit will
be run in building block 17, and on the third orbit we'll be
going to building block 32.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 25
minutes to Carnarvon at 20:37.
SPT Story, the arrowhead now has become a
little more elongated, movement is out to 4 solar radii,
And the material which is lagging behind is stretched and
the major part of it is around 2-1/2 solar radii and is still
exceptionally bright.
CC Okay Ed.
CC And Ed, we'll need about 27 minutes for
the 36 Bravo, that's the M509 VTR, but if you see something
important that you'd like to put on it go ahead and use it.
SPT Okay, I've been putting about i minute's
worth at the time so it's just little snapshots.
CC Okay, and if in your judgement you want
to run 82A on the second orbit, you can double the exposures.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control. 20 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of the
tracking antenna at Ascension. Commander Cart, Pilot Bill
Pogue using the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit, a nitrogen
gas powered gyro stabilized flying machine. This machine
has three modes of operation, all three of which are controlled
by a hand controller. This control moves in a 360 degree
circle to translate the astronauts attitude desires into
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actual attitude changes in the unit. The first mode is


called direct and that turns on the nitrogen Jets as long
as the hand control is held in a particular direction. And
the attitude control in that mode is by eye only. If an
astronaut held his control in one direction for long enough
he would start to spin in that direction_ the only way to
stop the spin then would be to reverse the direction of the
hand control until he slowed down and then to stop it. The
second mode is rate gyro mode. The astronaut maneuvering
unit has three rate sensing gyros in all three axes, X, Y_
and Z. And under the influence of no hand control input the
gyros will stabilize the M509 to within a plus or minus 4
degree position in all three axes and will keep the change
rate down to plus or minus 2 degrees per second within that
8 degree box. At the point where an astronaut decided he
wanted to change his attitude in the rate gyro mode_ he
would move the hand controller in the direction that he wished
to be in and when he stopped the rate gyros would sense
where he stopped and would maintain his attitude in that
position. The maximum rate change that an astronaut could
use in the rate gyro or direct mode is 20 degrees per second
of attitude change. There's also a third mode, a CMG mode
which uses three pairs of scissor gyros who's spin axes are
antiparallel to each other. And according to our M509
expert here, Astronaut Bruce MeCandless, mode 3, the CMG
mode, will hold you like a rock. In order to change position
in mode 3 the hand control unit sends electrical-torque
changes to the gyro motors and in effect torques the motors
to create the new attitude that the astronaut wishes to be
in. The maximum rate change in that mode is only 5 degrees
per second and that apparently is not as high as they wanted
it to be, but is the maximum rate change that they could get
using existing torque motors. Turns out that i0 to 12 degrees
per second is about the optimum rate change according to the
astronauts who've used the unit. Commander Carr will be doing
three runs, three different runs with the M509 this afternoon.
He should be in the first one now. And part of the first one
is a series of ca -

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SL-IV MC-2214/I
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ii17174

PAO - - three different runs with the


M509 this afternoon. He should be in the first one now.
And part of the first one is a series of calibration maneu-
vers in a single axis using all three modes; the direct
mode using the nitrogen gas only, the rate gyro mode using rate
sensing gyros to stabilize the astronaut maneuvering unit
through the use of nitrogen gas, and the C_G mode using
the control moment gyros to actually change and stabilize
position. He'll be doing single axis calibration maneuvers
in all three of those modes. He'll then be doing limb
movement exercises to see how well the astronaut maneuvering
unit maintains its attitudes when the commander has his arms
and legs flailing about. And then he will be doing what's
called a baseline maneuver, which will take him for a total
distance of about 75 feet in five different directions, one
of which is circular. This baseline maneuver was designed
after an actual EVA procedure. It includes maneuvers that an
astronaut would be doing should he be outside performing work on
the spacecraft using the M509 unit to propel himself about.
Commander Carr is completely suited for this run, has his
pressure suit on, helmet and gloves. The umbilical, however,
that he's using is less stiff than the normal umbilical.
It contains oxygen only. Normal umbilibical contains an
oxygen line, two cooling lines, an input and return water
cooling line, a biomedical sensor electronic line, and a
communications line, all of which are held together by a
very stiff nylon tether. Turns out that the tether is too
stiff actually for the proper assessment of the use of this
M509. So today he's going to be using a lightweight oxygen
only umbilical. He sould be in this first run for about
30 minutes. The next run he will not be using the umbilical
cord, he'll be using a secondary oxygen pack which will be
strapped across his legs, and he will also be performing
the same baseline maneuver. This time he'll be reversing
the position of the modes, however. In the first maneuver
he's going to it l, 2, 3, straight as they come; direct mode
first, rate gyro mode, and then CMG mode. The second run
he's going to take the rate gyro mode first, the CMG mode
second, and the direct mode last. The secondary oxygen
pack, which he'll be living from during this period of time,
has about 19 to 20 minutes worth of oxygen in it, and the
run shouldn't last longer then 20 minutes. The third run
of the day he will reconnect his umbilical cord. This run
will last from 30 to 40 minutes, and the object of this
maneuver, or run, is to see how well he can actually perform
different functions using the astronaut maneuvering unit
as a part of himself. Bill Pogue, during the third run,
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which will be much later today, about 2 hours from now


Bill Pogue will take one of the portable water tanks which
are 4 feet by 8 inches in diameter and weight from 50 to
60 pounds, course the weight is not important in space, but
the mask is important - Bill Pogue will be taking one of
these portable water tanks and setting to spinning. And then
Commander Cart will follow the spinning, tumbling water
tank and achieve an attitude much the same as the water
tank, setting himself to spinning and tumbling. And then
when Commander Cart can see that both he and the water tank
are tumbling together he will grab a hold of it with one
hand and with the other hand on the hand control of the
M509 he will try to stabilize both himself and the water
tank to see if he can't bring the tank and himself to a
stop and then change the direction. Also scheduled during
this last run Commander Cart is going to set a pair of foot
restraints up, and then he's going to back off and approach the
foot restraints as though he were coming in for a landing
to see if he can't fine maneuver himself right into the
foot restraints without any trouble. He'll also be backing
off with a line in his hand, unreeling the line as he backs
off, and then when the line is completely unreeled he'll
move forward again reeling back in the line. The object of
that run is to see whether or not the manip - the astronaut
maneuvering unit is sensitive enough and can be controlled
easily enough by an astronaut so that he doesn't get tangled
by the line. If he gets tangled then that means either the
machine itself is too complicated or not sensitive enough.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson using the S082A extreme ultraviolet
coronal spectroheliograph looking at the extreme ultraviolet
wavelengths of the Sun. Sun's active region is now facing
Earth. About i0 active regions on the Sun right now, almost
all of them just south of the Sun's equator and all in a
line from the east_west limbs. Next acquisition will be Ii
minutes from now, and that'll be through Carnarvon, Australia.
At 20 minutes excuse me, 20 hours and 25 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 15:36 CDT 63:20:36 GMT
1/17/74

PAO Twenty hours 36 minutes Greenwich mean


time, Skylab Control. Space station now nearing acquisition
over Carnarvon, Australia. Commander Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue
about one-third of the way through their astronaut maneuvering
unit test run today. Commander Cart is the test pilot and
Bill Pogue at least for part of the run will be his nemesis.
Now about 20 seconds from acquisition we'll hold the line
up for this pass over Australia.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, could yo_ pick up the next solar
orbit at about 20:40.
SPT Okay, l'm doing it right now. It
looks in the bond and it's looking pretty good so we're
going to start continuance right now.
CC Ed, we'd like for you to hold off till
20:40. Start all of them then except 82A and wait until
20:46 on 82A.
SPT Okay, you don't want me to hold off on
the WLC. We're getting a good image on the TV, so they
ought to be getting a good picture.
CC Okay, that will be fine Ed.
CC And there is no problem with starting
S055 now of course.
CC Bill, Houston.
SPT Okay, Story. We carried the observations
right up to just about as far as I could for each instrument.
We got the last STANDARD MODE in for 52 at 20:21, which is
a little past the 250 K-time. At 20:23 we finished up the
54. I left that time out even though that was a little past
250 K also. Fifty-six we gave a controlled SHORT at the very
end, and finished up just about 250 K. And that for the
JOP 7 we'd unroll at 26 minutes remaining and at around
5 minutes remaining they rolled their running - I gave them a
little more continuance after that STANDARD MODE. And then we
ran some of the JOP 7 plates at 3 minutes, 2:30, 2 so forth
and every 30 seconds on down to, well it was 3 minutes after
time T is equal zero which came out to be around 90:30 time
remaining. And we gave 9 seconds and one second exposures and
you saw us to start up again.
CC Okay, Ed. And we're looking into
inhibiting a dump on the next pass. We don't know if we
can do it, but we're going to take a look at it and see if
we can.
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SPT Sure would be could - good if you could


Story.
SPT the usual look at (garble) again most of
the primary head is out of the field of view. But there is a
lot to be seen in the wake of it. There is still some material
which is trailing and still in the field of view.
CC And Ed when you get a chance close
82B door, that's warm enough.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go Story.
CC Bill, we're running out of space on
the tape recorders here. We're wondering where you
progressed in M509. Is there a convenient place in here
where you'll be changing out a PSS bottle or you're running
on the SOP now?
PLT You must be psychic. Just getting where
I was just starting my first steps in the PSS changeout
right now. So you can go ahead and redesignate right now.
CC Okay, we'll take it.
SPT Story, on the last orbit 82A exposures
were taken at around 49 minutes remaining 34 and 20:30
which was still about a minute above 400 K.
CC Okay, Ed.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Yeah, Story.
CC Bill, we'll need Guam also to dump
the tape recorders. What it's going to do to you if you
hold off about 15 minutes from now to 21:01 to start the
next run.

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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.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2217/I
Time: 17:00 CDT 63:22:00 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 22 hours Greenwich mean time, Skylab


Control. Space station is now south of the Cape at Africa.
Next acquisition will be almost 16-1/2 minutes from now.
That will be through Carnarvon, Australia. During this
preceding stateside pass Ed Gibson reported that he had
performed JOP 7, that performed once each day and that's
visible and ultraviolet pictures of the scattering effect
of the Earth's atmosphere, that's part of his ATM viewing.
Temperature aboard Skylab now range from 77 degrees in the
wardroom to 87 degrees at scientific airlock number i.
Experiment compartment temperatures are between 81 and 82
degrees. We have 6 minutes of recorded alr-to-ground which
took place over this previous stateside pass which we're
going to play back for you now.
CC - from the purple gang_ we're with you
for 16 minutes, stateside.
SPT Hello purple people.
CC Hi there.
CC And Ed, Houston. A couple of suggestions
on the ATM.
SPT Go ahead Dick.
CC Okay, you'll notice coming up at that
where (garble). We'd like if possible to get a building
block 32 just prior to and also another one right after
the - that building block 35 at 22:34. And you can start the
building block 32 at a time of 22:20.
SPT Okay Dick, copy 22:20, building block
32 and then building block 35 and another 32.
CC That's correct. One more request, which
is strickly your choice. At a time of around 23:56 which
is the middle of your PT and PH period, if we could we like
to get about a 6 minute building block - truncated building
block 2, about a 6 minutes observation.
CC Skylab, Houston. I copied a scratchy
thing, but didn't understand it_ say again please.
PLT How do you read Dick?
CC Loud and clear that time Bill.
PLT Rog_ we're running a little bit shy
on battery power here in the M506 run and we wondered if
they wanted us to complete this B and C baseline as a means
of conserving battery power. I put the battery 6 back in
and I've got it up to charge right now.
CC Stand by.
PLT Battery 7, rather.
CC Roger_ battery 7.
PLT And battery 7 went down very fast.
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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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Time: 17:06 CDT 63:22:06 GMT
1/17/74

CC Roger. Are you on the SOP now?


PLT Negative, we're waiting to get a reading
from you.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, and if you could give me a 400-K time.
CC Roger, stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. What we'd prefer that
you do is on page 17-10 do the SOP cal maneuver with the
fresh PSS on the SOP.
PLT I got caught trying to talk to Jer there
through his helmet, say again Dick.
CC Roger, we'd like you to do the SOP
cal maneuver on page 17-10 in the checklist Bill, with a
fresh PSS on the SOP. And it is okay to skip that first
baseline CMG that you've already passed by.
PLT Okay on the PSS it's Just been installed;
it's got Just a few squirts on it, so I'm going to go ahead
and use it.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. I have your times for you.
400_K is 21:46, 250_K is 21:53. Be advised we do intend to
go ahead and inhibit dumps again. Itts possible that you
may get some desat or you can expect some desat firings.
And there is an outside chance you might also get a gimbal
on the stops, but we don't think so.
PLT 21:46 and 53. Thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 22:17p see you there.
PLT So long Dick.
PAO Twenty_two hours, 7 minutes Greenwich
mean time. That concludes recorded air-to-ground which took
place over this previous pass over the United States. Some
discussion on the ground here now about the M509 run. Apparently
they're having problems with the batteries. They're using
two batteries for this. Normally each battery will last
about 50 minutes. Battery 6 the first one that was used
for the first hour of the M509 run, which included two runs,
two different runs. The first one a calibration run completely
suited with the umbilical cord. The second one a baseline
run with the secondary oxygen pack strapped to the commander's
legs and no umbilical. Battery 7 should have been changed
out then. Or battery 6 should have been changed and battery
7 replacing it. Apparently the voltages on these batteries
are going down faster than anticipated, and if the voltage
drops to 26 volts the corollary officer here has indicated
that he would like to terminate the experiment. Although on
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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
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2219/I
Time: 17:15 CDT 63:22:15 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 22 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time,


this is Skylab Control. Now about a minute away from
acquisition through Carnarvon. The EGIL here in Mission
Control informs us that should the crew desire to take
showers tomorrow, the action of taking a shower will raise
the relative humidity of the space station i0 percent, it's
currently 39 percent relative humidity, that'll make it 49
percent tomorrow, if they take a shower. We'll go live
air-to-ground now through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Carnarvon
for 5 minutes.
PLT Rog. I've got a little status report on M509.
We're really having to patch this together because of the
repeated changeout. And I put the first battery back in -
battery 6 and recharged it while I was using the second
battery and now I've got 6 back in, I have 7 in but I haven't
started charging it yet. We got number 6 back up to 29
volts but our expendables are sort of fouling up the run.
CC Roger Bill, thank you for the update.
PLT Yeah, they'll probably see all kinds of
funny things in the telemetry but that's because we had to
interrupt a lot of runs and -and make PSS changeouts and
battery changeouts prematurely.
CC Roger, understand. I may have a question
for you here in a second, stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. Just a couple of things.
First of all we want to make sure that you are using the
batteries down to the 26 volt level and then also real
quickly could you let us know where you are in the procedure?
PLT Yes we are using it down to 26. And we
are in a baseline CMG right now with umbilical sort of
picking that up, we changed that one to start with. And
we done a baseline rate gyro on the SOP, we did the SOP
cal, and we started the baseline in CMG and had to
terminate it because of SOP depletion. We did not get an
SOP baseline direct. We have not gotten down to the third
sequence of baseline, that's what I would call it, down
about two-thirds of the way in the summary on page 17-1, I
would call the present maneuver that he's doing a sort of
a catchup on the original CMG baseline.
CC Okay Bill, thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're coming up on
a minute to LOS, Guam comes up about I0 minutes from
now at 22:31, see you there.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 15
seconds here. Bill, suggestion to save electrical power,
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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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about 82-degree temperatures at 49 or 50 percent humidity


for about 4 hours. If they don't they'll have about 40
percent humidity at about 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Next
acquisition is through Goldstone. 22 hours and 27 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2220/I
Time: 17:52 CDT 63:22:52 GMT
1/17/74

PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 52 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Early into the M509 Astronaut
maneuvering unit experiment. Experiment ended about 22:10
when the battery which was in the unit at the time, battery
7, depleted. Normally these batteries hold a charge of
from 29 to 30 volts. And it seems that there was nothing
wrong with the batteries. The problem was that the experiment
was progressing slower than anticipated, and the batteries
were experiencing high loads for longer periods of times
than scheduled. So we got roughly two-thirds the way through
the M509 - M509 run, the first run and half of the second
run. The last run which was scheduled was scrubbed because
of battery problems. We'll go live air-to-ground through
Goldstone now.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS stateside
for 13-]/2 minutes. And be advised we are going to enable
momentum dumps here, so that will effect the time remaining
clock.
CDR Okay, Dick.
SPT Dick, a couple of ATM questions. One,
my GRATING POSITION is that reading 1654 right now? And I
also assume that in this building block I should be playing with
H-alpha 2 instead of H-alpha i.
CC Stand by.
CDR Dick, for the M509 guys, we're pretty
disappointed. We just didn't get very far at all, the consumables
just ate us alive.
CC Roger Jerry, sure sorry about that. And
for the SPT, we would like you to point with H-alpha i. And
we're showing a GRATING of 1594.
SPT Okay, that's that's a surprise to me
on 94 because I was Just tweaking it up to 54, and I got
jilt in the reading, I thought it was only the reading. Okay,
I assume that seeing we're doing MIRROR AUTO RASTER we
wanted to center the MIRROR AUTO RASTER on active region
20.
CC Roger, stand by.
CC SPT, Houston, we are pointing with
H-alpha i because we are running 82 Bravo here. And we talked
to the 55 folks and they're satisfied with that.
SPT Okay we're not running 82B because we
really don't have fluctuating bright points.
CC Okay, with that input then we'd say
use H-alpha 2.
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SPT Thank you.


CDR Now Dick, I'll get it all on tape in
a blow by blow. Bill's narration is all on tape. Essentially
what happened is the changeout of consumables got all out
of phase, and we ended up sitting running on the battries
while we were changing out other things. And Just got our-
selves into a position to where everything just fell apart
at once all of a sudden. We ran out of SOP in the middle
of a run, and ran out of battery, and just didn't have enough
to do the job.
CC Okay, Jerry if you'll put that blow by
blow on the voice recorder will help it. And we'll take a
look and we'll squeeze what data we can out of the run. Thanks
much.
CDR Okay.
CC And SPT, Houston. I do have a little
more information for you on the building block 2. We
want you to run it at 2356 on the GRATING.
SPT Okay, Dick go ahead.
CC What we would like for you to do is to
run the building block 2 as shown in JOP 8 with the 54
GRATING IN and the truncate at 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, I got that. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Dick, during the nightside pass while
I was down working the M509 trying to get some TV, after I
came back up here, it turned out we had gotten one of the experi-
ment doors closed as though we had gotten a night signal some
how. Either that or off attitude although we looked good
when I got back and I didn't see anything that would cause it.
I was wondering when you looked back in the telemetry will
you let me know what happened?
CC We'll certainly do that Ed. Thank you
for warning us about it.
CC And SPT, Houston, on the GRATING we see
on TM 2334. The pad is 2434.
CDR Okay, I'm reading 2434 right now. So,
apparently we got all out of sync here. Must be related to
the last problem we had although it sure doesn't make sense
to me. I'II go around back to REF and start over.
CC Okay, it is kind of confusing.
CC SPT, Houston, when you got a second.
SPT Yes Dick, go ahead.
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CC Ed, it turns out with beta just coming


off the peak from yesterday, we had our first 40K sunset
we think here on this pass. And that more than likely was
what caused the experiment doors to close. That is a
preliminary evaluation though, but it looks like that's what
happend, nothing is wrong.
SPT Okay, very good. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, I wonder if you folks would give
me a prediction as to whether the cabin will be relieving
pressure anytime this evening during our sleep period.
CC Okay, stand by.

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SL-IV MC-2221/I
Time: 18:05 CDT 63:23:05 GMT
1/17/74

CC SPT, Houston. Answer is negative, we


do not think it'll relieve this evening. We're about 4/10
of a psi below the relief pressure and we think it'll go
all night without relieving.
SPT Very good Dick, thank you. I had moved
my - my cot up into the airlock because of the thermal problem
down in my sleep compartment, my head would be located 3
feet from that push relief valve, and I Just wanted to make
sure.
CC Well I think that's a good thing to look
ahead and wonder about, I'm sure if we'_e wrong and it does
relieve, you'll let us know in the morning.
SPT It won't be in the morning.
CDR He'll let us know too.
CC Roger. Incidentally, we've been having a
problem - the INCO's been having a problem with attaining
some of our data here recently, we were scheduled for a
data/voice recorder dump here at Texas. We have slipped that
to the next Vanguard pass, which is the next pass, that AOS
time is 23:18.
CDR Okay, I'ii try to get a quick recap of
the events on 509 and then more detailed debriefing after
Vanguard.
CC Okay Jerry.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS,
Vanguard at 23:18.
CC And SPT, Houston. Could you give us a
reading on S055 GRATING, please.
SPT Yeah, now its 1634 I thought I'd
moved it to 54.
CC Okay, we're now in sync with you, thank
you very much Ed. Incidentally, in preparation for 509 the
relief valves in the airlock module were closed off and
we're going to leave them that way until the pressure gets
down. So the only active relief valve that we do have now
is up in the command module.
SPT Thank you.
PAO 23 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of tracking antennas through
Merritt Island Launch Area. Next acquisition will be 9
minutes from now and that will be through the Vanguard
tracking ship. The M509 experiment was terminated early due
to extreme use of the batteries. Pilot Pogue reported
earlier that the "expendables were fouling up the run" and
then after the run was terminated Commander Carr came back
and probably put the icing on the cake when he said the
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consumables ate us alive. What happened was it was taking


Commander Carr and Pilct Pogue longer period of time to
perform the scheduled runs, the calibration runs, the base-
line runs than anticipated and the batteries Just ran down.
They will only hold the charge for about 50 minutes and
apparently the crew was having a more difficult time with
the M509 than anticipated and they Just ran into the red
line of the batteries. Both batteries according to Bruce
McCandless were not doing anything unusual, they Just ran
down sort of like leaving you_ lights on in a car. So
that's it for the M509 experiment today. The commander was
halfway through the second run which involved the use of
the secondary oxygen pack instead of the umbilical, and that
run was cut short as he ran out of oxygen, and then after
that they ran out of electrical power from the batteries.
Over this preceding stateside pass communications people
here in Mission Control were having some difficulty getting
real-time telemetry data transmitted from the spacecraft.
One of the AM transmitters was not functioning properly, they
are still trying to weed out what's wrong with that. Next
acquisition will be just over 6 minutes from now through
the Vanguard tracking ship. 23 hours ii minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2222/I
Time: 18:17 CDT 63:23:17 GMT
1/17/74

PAO Twenty-three hours 16 minutes Greenwich


mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition over the
tracking ship Vanguard. Should determine this pass whether or
not there is something wrong with one of the transmitters on the
space station. Science Pilot Ed Gibson just finished up his
last look at the Sun today. He's scheduled for some physical
training for the next hour and half, physical training and
personal hygiene after which he'll eat dinner. We're about i0
seconds away from acquisition. We'll go live air-to-ground now.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Vanguard for
i0 minutes. And we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here.
CDR Okay, Dick give me about 1 minute.
CC Okay, let us know as soon as we can
dump it, please Jer.
CDR We'll do it.
CDR Okay Dick, go ahead.
CC Okay Jerry, we'll do that. Thank you
very much. Incidentally, the problem that we're chasing
in that system is that we're able to get data only through
transmitter A on the 2-watt. We're unable to get it
either Bravo or Charlie so we're hustling down here to
see if we can figure out what ts - what's the matter. I have a
couple of notes for you Jerry. At 23:53 on you details
when you whiz up to the command module to do you sextant
work. We'd appreciate it if you'd do the procedure to
relieve quad Alfa only while you are up there.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC Also one other thing_ the last thing
that Bill told us about the 509 battery was that battery
7 was in the charger but not being charged. Assuming
you haven't gone ahead and charged it. We just soon you
not charge either of the batteries until we have a look
at our data.
CDR Okay, Dick it's not being charged.
We tried to throw 6 onto a charge while we were using
7 because we knew we were down on batteries. And we
got it up to 29 volts but it just wouldn't hold it. So
we gave up.
CC Okay. Well, there is no problem with
that. But why don't we stand pat with what we have until
we get a chance to try to understand the whole run.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston, information only.
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We do have a gimbal that's getting fairly close to a stop.


You might get some desat firings, no action required.
CC Or reset.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're still looking
at the gimbal situation. We do not want you to take any
action here. We are in a dump and we want the if we get
a reset we want it to happen so we can go ahead and get
this dump complete.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And we did just get a reset. We were
watching it.
SPT Dick, I tried to get some good M509
data on the VTR. It got just pretty much lined up and
the battery failed. So then we had to call it quits there.
So you'll find a little flying on it, but not to much.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute to LOS.
We have a low pass coming up at Tananarive at 23:46. In
event we should miss that, the Gold - next pass is Goldstone
at 00:33, and that's you med conference. See you at Tananarive.
PAO Twenty-three hours 28 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station now out of range of the Vanguard
tracking ship, midway in the ocean between South America
and Africa. Next acquisition may be 17 minutes from now
Tananarive. Not sure at this moment whether or not voice
relay station on the Malagasy Republic is up for this coming
pass. If not acquisition will be little over an hour from
now, that will be through Goldstone again. During this pass
Vanguard pass seemed to have no problems with the transmitters
aboard the space station. Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie transmit-
ters sending recorded telemetery information down. The
problem was with realtime telemetery information. INCO
here in Mission Control indicates that we sould probably
have an answer to what's happened with the transmitter before
the Goldstone pass, which is little over an hour from now.
Next acquisition possibly 16 minutes through Tananarive.
We'll inform you if that station is down. 23:29 GMT this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2223/I
Time: 18:45 CDT 63:23:45 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 23 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time.


About i minute away from acquisition of signal through
Tananarive voice relay station. We're told this may be
a noisy pass as the antenna at Tananarive never gets off
its mechanical stop essentially looking at the horizon as
the elevation angle from the space station to the tracking
antenna is 4.1 degrees for this pass. 132 pound-seconds
fired over Vanguard_ that was a desaturation burn as two
CMGs had been stopped on their gimbal mounts. Now about
i0 seconds away, we expect this to be a noisy pass. We'll
go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive
for about 3 minutes. Just in case we have an early LOS,
Goldstone comes up at 00:33_ and that's your med conference.
Also one note for Jerry, no response required. You might
expect, Jerry, to have to look in the telescope to find the
stars when you go up to the command module, we have a
change in nuZ.
CDR Roger.
CC And bone up on your star gazing this
evening maybe.
PAO 23 hours 5 - minutes Greenwich mean
time. Space station now out of range of Tananarive voice
relay station. Next acquisition is 40 minutes from now
and that'll be over Goldstone, California. That'll be the
evening medical conference. Now about 40-minute loss of
signal period. 23 hours 52 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2224/I
Time: 19:32 CDT 64:00:32 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space


station Skylab now less than 40 seconds away from acquisition
through Goldstone. This pass will be the evening medical
conference. We don't expect any air-to-ground. This pass
will also give flight controllers here in Mission Control
an opportunity to see if the transmitters aboard the orbital
workshop are working properly. Some problems for the past
hour and a half with real- time telemetry data from the
Skylab. We'll hold the line up although we don't expect
any air-to-ground as this is the evening medical conference.
PAO 39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space
station now out of range of Goldstone. Just catching the
edge of the antennas horizon there. We'll bring you this
evening's medical report when Dr. Jerry Hordinsky completes
it and brings it to the console here. INCO reports that
the transmitters aboard the workshop are operating nominally.
They're going to keep watching them though through Vanguard
to see if something develops. Apparently that was a
transient event, they can't explain it yet and they don't
see any indication that it will happen again. Next
acquisition 15 minutes from now over the Vanguard
tracking ship, that'll be the evening status report. At
39 minutes Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 19:53 CDT 64:00:53 GMT
1/17/74

PAO - - 54 minutes Greenwich mean time. This


is Skylab Control, now about 50 seconds away from acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard. This pass will be the
evening status report. Also, we expect this pass to confirm
the Goldstone pass, which indicated that all communication
systems aboard the workshop are functioning nominally. Ap-
parently the malfunctioning of one of the transmitters earlier
in the evening, about 2-1/2 hours ago was a completely transient
event with no cause and no consequence. Now about i0 seconds
away from acquisition of signal. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for Ii minutes and I didn't get to warn you, but this is the
site for the evening status report and I'm standing by for
that, and also the results of the sextamt check.
SPT Jer's busy, cleaning up chicken and gravy
off the dome; he'll be right down.
CC Roger.
PLT Roger,Dick. Photo log. Mlbl - 16-millimeter,
MI51, Charlie India 79, 35 percent, Charlie India 126. M509,
this is transporter 02, Charlie India 80, zero percent, MT08;
Mike Tango 08. M509, transporter 05, Charlie India 94, 30
percent, Charlie India 128. Status on Nikons: i - Nikon i,
Charlie X-ray 41, 53, the remaining, or 53 the frame count.
Nikon 02: India Romeo ii, the count is 41. Nikon 03:
Charlie India 115, the count is 21. I only got a chance to
take two photos of Jer today. Nikon 04: Bravo Echo i0, 300,
still hasn't been used yet. Nikon 05: Bravo Hotel
06, count's 31. 70_millimeter: Charlie X-ray 50, the count
is 139. ETC: no change. EREP: no change. Drawer A
configuration: Alia 01, transporter 02, supply has been
moved over to the takeup. ItVs Charlie India 80. Alia
2 is transporter 05, Charlie India 94, 30 percent, Charlie
India 128. Alia 03 is transporter 06, Charlie India 79, 35
percent. Charlie India 126. PLT out on the photo log.
CC Roger, Bill.
CDR Okay Dick, on the evening status. Sleep:
CDR, 6.5, 5.5 heavy, 1.0 light; SPT, 6.0, 3.0 heavy, 3.0 light;
PLT, 6.5, all heavy. Volumes: N/A tonight. Water gun: CDR,
8634_ 46652 0858. Body mass: CDR, 6.319, 6.317, 6.317; SPT,
6.371, 6.371, 6.371; PLT, 6.260p 6.260, 6.266. Exercise:
CDR, no change_ SPT, standard, minus Alia; PLT, no change.
Medications_ CDRp none; SPT, one Dalmane tonight; PLT, none.
Clothing: CDR, none; SPT, socks and shirt; PLT, socks and
shorts and shirt. Food log: CDR, 2.5 salt, deviations, minus
cream peas, plus mashed potatoes, plus Apollo grape drink,
plus one lemonade, plus one butter cookies, rehydration water_
plus 1.5. SPT_ 14.0 salt, plus ni - plus two butter cookies,
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plus one biscuits, plus one lemonade, no water. PLT, zero


salt, plus one grape punch, minus 1.0 water. Flight Plan
deviations: none. Shopping list: none. Inoperable equip-
ment: none. But we do have a question. That is, what are
the results on the heat exchanger fan changeout? Unscheduled
stowage: SOP number 13, PCU number 13, and the light-
weight umbilical have all been stowed in F - Foxtrot 550.
Okay.
CC Roger, Jerry. Anything else?
CDR Well, let's see. I owe you some data
on the sextant. Alphard: shaft 158.8, trunnion 12.8.
Regulus: shaft 86.2, trunnion 23.7. And with the lighting
the way it is there's no sense in even trying. If it doesn't
come up in the sextant, I'ii never see it, because there's
so much scattered light going into the telescope that it's
useless. I can't even see the reticle.
CC Okay Jerry, that's a good input. In-
cidentally, your question about the heat exchanger fans you
changed out. We didn't see any change at all on the
telemetry, so we still donlt quite understand it. We may
have had a TM shift. Also, we need to get the duct fans
back on after you get the 509 run.
CC One other thing_ Jerry. At the moment,
all our comm gear is back working okay_ and we don't have
any explanation for the funnies that we saw on the transmitters
while ago, as of now.
CDR Roger, I hope we don't lose them
wholesale.
CC Boy, you're right

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SL IV MC-2226/I
Time: 20:00 CDT 64:01:00 GMT
1/17/74

CC - - and we don't have any explanation


for the funnies that we saw on the transmitters while ago,
as of now.
CDR Roger. I hope you don't lose them
wholesale.
CC Boy, you're right there. And also Jerry,
while I got you there. I'm not sure whether Ed is listening,
the detail shift CAP COMM doesn't get to read up the news,
however there two or three items I thought you all might be
interested in this evening.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay, for Ed Gibson. In the current
issue of Physics Today, there's a very faworable review of
your book, Ed, that you wrote on the Sun. I'll be sure and
put it on your desk so you can read the whole thing. It's
about two pages long. But it says some very good words about
the book. It does offer some constructive criticism in two
or three areas, but those are quite minor. And all of the
reviewing, the guy who reviewed it thought it was an excellent
job. Just thought we'd pass that up to you.
SPT Thank's very much, Dick. Appreciate the
good word.
CC Okay. Also, for Jerry, you might be
interested to know that the Marine Corps Enlisted Pilots
Association is having their semiannual meeting out at Tustin.
I got this word from Jack Lousma, and that's this coming
Saturday night. So if there's anything you'd like to pass to
those guys, I'm sure Jack would be glad to do it.
CDR Okay. Is Jack going to be there?
CC I'm not sure. He passed this on to Story,
and I haven't talked to him yet. I was going to wait until
I talked to you and then call him up.
CDR Roger. Let me think about it a little
bit.
CC Okay. Also, one item out of the news
that I just can't help but read up to you. It turns out an
elevator in a Chinese housing project was hijacked Wednesday
night. With two passengers aboard the elevator stopped
abruptly between the second and third floors. The trapdoor
in the roof opened and a hand holding a blue steel revolver
emerged. Following instructions, the passengers gave up the
contents of tbeir wallets totaling 27 dollars, then the
trapdoor slammed shut and the elevator began to rise, out
of control of the passengers. After ascending several floors,
it returned to the second floor and opened its door permitting
the passengers to get off.
CDR That's beautiful, Dick.
CC Did you hear about the Judge out in Maul?
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CDR Yeah. We heard that one. That was funny


too.
CC (Laughter) Right.
CDR That pun's almost as bad as Gibson's.
CDR I did tell the M509 guys that I still
owe them a detailed debriefing and I'ii get it to them
tonight before I go to bed.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like the H-alpha
NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL. We're about a minute
from LOS. Next site is Tananarlve at 01:20. See you there.
CDR See you Dick.
SPT Say, Dick. A note on the ATM. After
that last building block 2, which I did at the beginning of
the orbit, I went over and looked at the region where the
transient originated, right close to where the loops were
above active region 14, and there was Just hardly anything
there in oxygen VI at all. I could Just barely get a couple
of counts of 30 or so at the most, 40 arc seconds off the
limb. So I put the 55 -(static)
PAO One hour 6 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station over the hill. Ed Gibson was cut off as he
was reporting on the Sun's active region 14. We now have
the evening medical report from Dr. Jerry Hordinsky, which
I'ii read to you. "Crew health remains good. The increased
temperatures have not proved a significant problem thus far
and the operational guidelines available should keep them
from becoming one. The science pilot, who has the hottest
sleeping area, will exercise one such guideline by moving
his sleeping gear to the multiple docking adaptor. He will
also take a sleeping medication to maximize his sleep to-
night." Temperatures in the sleep compartment aboard
Skylab are 82 degrees, 81 degrees in the experiment com-
partment, and 70 degrees in the command and service module,
and multiple docking adaptor area. It should be pretty
cool for Ed Gibson. Also a question to the crew on whether
or not changing out some heat exchanger fans caused any
improvement in the airflow. Ground indicated that there
might be a telemetry problem. Current flow of air through
the heat exchanger is 135 cubic feet per minute. Nominal
air flow would be 160 cubic feet per minute. And also a
comment from Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly that Ed
Gibson's book on the Sun received good critical acclaim.
I'm sure Ed Gibson will appreciate that. Probably write
a second chapter or second book when he gets back. Next
acquisition will be ii minutes from now. That'll be
through Tananarive. One hour and 7 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2227/I
Time: 20:18 CDT 64:01:18 GMT
1/17/74

PAO i hours 17 minutes Greenwich mean time.


Space station now nearing acquisition through the voice
relay station at Tananarive. Pilot Bill Pogue should be
just finishing up his evening meal. He's scheduled for some ATM
Sun watching about 3 minutes from now. Science Pilot Ed
Gibson in the evening meal and Commander Cart working to
recharge the nitrogen gas units for the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit. Controllers here at Mission Control
indicate that the transmitter problem earlier was a completely
transient event. This last pass over _anguard provided
the second station of completely nominal operation for the
transmitter, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with space
station communications at the moment. Now about 5 seconds
from AOS, we'll go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive
for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello Dick. Did you get the comments
on ATM as you were going over the hill before?
CC Ed, we got I think about 95 percent of
them and you finally did drop out. The last thing that I
copied that you said was the fact that you were pointing
at about 40 arc seconds off the limb and then - it sounded
like you were going to make one final comment, and I didn't
get the very last one.
SPT Okay, the only thing that I added is
that after that we put 55 over on the limb at a GRATING
position 772 and let them take a look at what might
be reforming if anything, seems like a reasonable thing to be
looking at I don't know whether we'll have much time here
on out however to do it, I don't know what may happen.
Playing for the unattended, but there was just hardly any-
thing left there in oxygen 6. So that thing really blew
it out, sometimes they tend to reform and that might be an
interesting thing to watch.
CC Roger Ed, copy. That must have been
really co some site to see. Incidentally we uplinked
several teleprinter messages last site, including the
agenda for the science conference tomorrow evening. And
we were wondering if you guys - we sent up a message about
the status of the thermal situation last evening and we
just wanted to make sure you got it and if you had any comments
about that, we'd be happy to entertain them.
CDR Roger Dick. We read that with interest
and don't really have any comments at all.
CC Okay, we'll keep you posted and did you
turn off any speaker intercom boxes? How are you working
that problem?
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CDR Yeah, we had turned almost all the ones


we're not using regularly off and them Just turn them on
when we need them. I'll get you a list of the numbers by -
well sometime this evening.
CC Okay, that'd be interesting but it's
certainly not - not a big thing and you're welcome to voice
record it if you want to, Jerry. Also I can't find any
record you've been reminded, so excuse me if I remind you
again but your family comm this evening is Vanguard at
02:33 and that's - probably be our last pass of the evening.
CDR Okay, I was going to ask you because I
hadn't heard yet. Which antenna?
CC Hang on.
CC Jerry I don't I can't seem to find
it in front of me right now, but I'll - I'll get it. Ah ha,
it's the right antenna, Jerry, right.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Skylab, Houston. Like to speak to
somebody about a format thing on the maneuver pads a little
trapped, we think we have found and want to suggest a
slight change to it.
PLT Whose maneuver pad was that?
CC Well Bill, actually you don't have it
up there, it's a pad that's addressed to - actually to you tomorrow.
With the days of the year at 24 or less when we put the
days on there it can easily be confused with an hour. And
we don't see any sense in listing the day with the GMT, and
since the potential of misreading it and confusing it with
sn ho - with an hour is, we'd just like to drop the days
from the times that are listed there for the maneuver
entry.
PLT Yeah, it's been bothering us, I've been
marking it out with my marker pencil already anyway.
CC Well, I'll tell you what, why don't
we save you the trouble of marking it out by not uplinking it
and we'll start that with these maneuver - this maneuver
pad that's coming up this evening. And we'll try to pass
it along to continue to do that.
PLT That's a very good idea, we whole-
heartedly concur.
CC Okay.
PLT I just about got bit on that the last
time - was on my last maneuver pad.
CC Roger, consider it done.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a couple
of minutes from LOS here at Tananarive, next station is
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Time: 20:18 CDT 64:01:18 GMT
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Hawaii at 02:04, and we're going to be dumping the data/


voice recorder at Hawaii.
PLT Roger Dick.
PAO i hour 29 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station Skylab now over the hill from Tananarive.
Some comment from Dick Truly over this pass as to how
many speaker intercom assemblies they've t_rned off. That's
part of a procedure which was uplinked yesterday to
help the crew cool the workshop down somewhat. Current
temperatures inside the workshop range from 78 degrees in
the sleeping compartment to 71 degrees in the multiple
docking adapter to 83 degrees in the experiment compartment.
The procedure which was uplinked last night requires both
pumps in primary coolant loop to be turned on and requests
that the crew minimize power usage inside the workshop,
turning off as many speaker intercom assemblies as practical,
reducing their lighting and eliminating the use of high-
intensity lamps except as required by Flight Plan. For
tomorrow's Flight Plan each crewman is scheduled - -

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SL-IV MC2228/I
Time: 20:30 CDT 64:01:30 GMT
1/17/74

PAO - - Reducing their lighting and eliminating


the use of high intensity lamps except as required by the
Flight Plan. For tomorrow's Flight Plan each crewman is
scheduled for a shower. We were informed earlier that if
they all take showers tomorrow the humidity will rise
lO percent inside the workshop. From 39 to 49 percent
relative humidity, and the temperature will go up about
i degree for an average of about 81 degrees inside the
workshop. Workshop will cool back down and dry itself
out then about 4 to 5 hours after the shower. And Dr. Jerry
Hordinsky has indicated that the crew hasn't been inhibited
by the increased temperatures. However, Ed Gibson will be
sleeping in the multiple docking adapter this evening.
That temperature is about 71 degrees as we said. Next
acquisition will be 32 minutes from now and that will be
over Hawaii. Greenwich mean time i hour and 31 minutes
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2229/I
Time: 21:03 CDT 64:02:03 GMT
ii17174

PAO Two hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time


this is Skylab Control. Space station is now nearing
acquisition through the tracking station on the Hawaiian
Islands. This pass will last about 7 minutes. All three
astronauts are now in their presleep period, having finished
their work for today. Thirty seconds from AOS we'll go live
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii for
7-1/2 minutes. We're going to dump the data/voice recorder
and ASCO would like to make a command. We'd like to have
the DAS.
PLT Rog, you've got it Dick. I could
give you a frame count if you'd like.
CC Okay, go ahead.
PLT 9910, 1177, ii0, 169, 2174, 5198.
CC Okay Bill. Thank you very much. The
only note I have was the next site while Jerry's on his
phone call. We are - that is our last site of the evening.
We are going to be uplinking an informational message on the
entry checklist. It is not a checklist change. But I
just thought I would let him know so he'd be sure to pick
it up out of the teleprinter, if he wanted to and take a
look at it. And if he has any question tomorrow or when
ever just ask them.
PLT Okay, I'm sure he heard that.
CDR Roger, Dick. I got that and we've been
kind of giving a little occasional thought to deactivation
here lately. And I would sure like to have some people go
back to the guys working the deactivation checklist, and look
it over again, and see what more can be put on a shopping
list in order - the things that we can get done well before
deactivation time. Sort of piece mill and start sending
that information up on a shopping list as well as what we
already have up here.
CC Okay, Jerry. Be advised there is a good
bit of work going on. Looking ahead to the deactivation
now. And that checklist l can assure you is being review.
I'm not sure it's being reviewed from that point of view,
but it's a good input and we'll make it to the guys.
CDR Yeah, if we can avoid any last minute
rush it would certainly be better all the way around. And
just make sure we didn't forget anything.
CC We sure agree with you, and we'll do that.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, the DAS is yours.
CDR Got you, Dick.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds


to LOS. Vanguard comes up at 02:33. And another reminder
that's right antenna for Jerry and his phone call, 02:33.
CDR Roger.
PAO Space station now over the hill from
the tracking antennas on the Hawaiian Islands. Two hours
and 12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Next acquisition will
be through the Vanguard tracking ship. And that will be
21 minutes from now. Commander Carr indicated earlier in
this pass that he hopes that ground planners are giving a
little though to deactivation some 20 days from now in
order to preclude any last minute rush in the workshop.
At 2 hours and 12 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2230/I
Time: 21:32 CDT, 64:02:32 GMT
1/17/74

PAO 2 hours and 32 minutes Greenwich mean time.


Space station is now nearing acquisition through the
tracking ship Vanguard. This pass should be the good night
call up to the crew as they're significantly into their
presleep period, just about 28 minutes away from bedtime.
Both remaining control moment gyros aboard Skylab are performing
quite nominally right now and have been for the preceding
dozen revs of the Earth. Some problems this morning with
them. Now about i0 seconds away from acquisition of
signal, we'll go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes.
PLT Roger Dick. Jer's up getting his
phone call, and I have a message l'd like to read down for
you.
CC Okay, go ahead Bill.
PLT A message for Jack Lousma to relate to
the Marine aviators in Tustin. Greetings from the Marine
on the 85_day FAC mission. I'm up where the FLIGHT can't
get me and I can see everything. Have a great evening, super
(garble)
CC Okay Bill, I'ii talk to Jack awhile ago
and I can assure you that message will get out to him. And
tell Jerry thanks very much.
PLT Okay_ thank you Dick.
SPT Say Dick, for the next couple of nights
that l'm sleeping in the alrlock I would like to turn off
the ATM C&D coolant loop pumps.
CC Okay, let us think about that one real
quickly Ed.
SPT Okay, thank you Dick.
CC Also, real quick for you. There's a
general message that's going to be coming up during this pass
that tAlks about the our plans on the 82A sequence that
you'll be talking with Bill Lenoir tomorrow during the
science conference in case you want to smoke it over this
evening and it'll be in the teleprinter.
SPT Thank you Dick.
CC And SPT, Houston. You're GO to turn
off the coolant loop ATM C&D coolant loop pumps just
don't forget to turn them back on in the morning prior to
starting ops.
SPT Rog, will do Dick, thanks very much.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We have a couple of doors
open we'd like to get closed, it's 82 Bravo and H-ALPHA I.
Also since you're going to be sleeping forward tonight, we're
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going - we're planning not to uplink those pads that we


have left until in the morning and primary - everything's
on board primarily except med status and the EREP pads and
there's plenty of time to get them up after you wake up in
the morning so we'll try to keep that quite also.
SPT Okay, I appreciate that Dick, but if
you have something to send up don't hesitate to do it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from
LOS, we'll be giving you a call in the morning at about at
Carnarvon at about a time of 13:20, so you guys get a good
night's sleep and see you tomorrow.
SPT Good night Dick.
CC Good night.
PLT Good night Dick and purple gang.
CC Good night Ed, see you.
PAO Loss of signal from Skylab as it goes
over the hill from the Vanguard tracking ship. 2 hours and
43 minutes Greenwich mean time. This was the last call up
to the crew this evening. They're roughly 17 minutes away
from sacking out. Tomorrow's wakeup call will be at 13:20
Greenwich mean time, and that will be over Carnarvon,
Australia. Crew getting an extra 20 minutes according to
our Flight Plan as they were scheduled to wake up at 13:00.
Ed Gibson is going to sleep in the multiple docking adapter
area of the workshop this evening. His sleep compartment
apparently is the hottest of the three_ however, his sleeping
in an area other his sleep compartment is one of the options
that the crew has during this hot period for the workshop.
Sleep compartment temperatures are about 79 degrees now and
the multiple docking area temperature is about 71 degrees.
Ed Gibson getting a 8 degree break. Coming up tomorrow,
day off for the Skylab crew, total of only 9 hours and 18
minutes worth of science scheduled whereas there were 28
hours and 12 minutes worth of science performed today. Ed
Gibson the record holder today with i0 hours and 45 minutes,
most of which was looking at the Sun. For Commander Carr
tomorrow, he's scheduled for some physical training first
thing in the morning and then a shower, i hour being allotted
for the shower, then a science conference at 17:00, all three
crewmen are scheduled for that. That will take place over
Honeysuckle, Hawaii, Goldstonep Bermuda_ Canary and
Ascension. The first two stations of which will be concerned
with ATM for solar experiments. The Goldstone pass will be
concerned medical, the Bermuda pass will deal with corollary
experiments, the Canary pass will deal with visual observations,
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SL-IV MC2231/I
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PAO The Bermuda pass will deal with


corollary experiment, the Canary pass will deal with visual
observations and the Ascention pass will deal with the now
almost completely invisible Comet Kohoutek. Following the
science conference all three crewmen are scheduled to eat.
And then all three crewmen are scheduled for some documen-
tary photographs. Tomorrow they'll be taking pictures of
a crewman putting trash in a bag and then disposing of it
in a trash airlock, and also a picture of how the speaker
intercomm boxes are used by each crewman to communicate
with the ground and with themselves. Following that all
three crewmen are scheduled for an Earth resources pass
tomorrow. This pass is on track 19, and begins at iii degrees
longitude west, which is almost directly over Great Falls
Montana. The pass goes over Rapid City, Omaha, St. Louis,
Paducah, Atlanta, Savannah, and over the Bahama Islands
and then stops just short of South America near Trinidad.
Tomorrow's targets are the Black Hills of South Dakota where
the snow cover is the subject. And also continuing into
Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois. EREP officer here in Mission
Control says that the United States is almost completely
socked in east of the Mississippi River, so there won't be
much data taken over that section of the country. Once the
space station is over the ocean the Puerto Rican Trench
and the Blake Escarpment which is a cliff off the continental
shelf will be measured, photographed. Commander Carr is
scheduled for 3 hours 40 minutes of off duty time tomorrow.
Most of his afternoon will be spent off duty. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson has no time off tomorrow. Apparently
opting to look at the Sun instead of taking time off. He
will be spending a total of 3 hours, what would be off
duty time for the other two crewmen at the Apollo telescope
mount control and display panel looking at the Sun. He'll also
be envolved in the science conference and the EREP run,
and later in the afternoon he is scheduled for his shower.
Pilot Bill Pogue is scheduled for some off duty time in
the morning followed by physical training and clean up
period. Then he will participate in the science conference
with the other two crewmen. Following that he will be
eating then taking document photographs with the other
two crewmen and participating in the EREP run. He will
be operating the visual tracking system. Then after the
EREP Pilot Pogue is scheduled for his shower and then he
has several periods of off duty time tomorrow afternoon.
His total off duty time is 3 hours and 24 minutes. Should
the crewmen opt to take the showerp they don't have to
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they'll raise the humidity of the space station approximately


i0 percent. It's currently 39 percent relative humidity.
They'll raise it up to about 50 and they'll raise the
temperature which varies back from about 80 degrees in the
experiment compartment to 71 degrees in the multiple decking
adapter. They'll raise the wardroom temperature about
1 degree, the back portion of the space station. However
that will cool off in about 4 hours. So by the time they
go to bed tomorrow evening the space station should be on
the cool side again. We'll going to bring the line down
now. We'll be back with you tomorrow morning just prior
to crew wakeup time, 13:00 Greenwich mean time, 8:00 a.m.
central daylight time, have a nice evening. At 2 hours
and 49 minutes this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2232/I
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1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 13


hours 16 minutes. Wakeup coming through the Carnarvon tracking
station in approximately 4 minutes as the Skylab IV crew begins
their 64th day in orbit. They were given the go ahead yester-
day by Program Director William C. Schneider for another week.
Splashdown still scheduled for February 8. Splashdown in the
Pacific southwest of San Diego at Greenwich mean time 15 hours
and 14 minutes on the morning of February 8. New Flight
Director here this morning, Milt Windier reviewing with his
flight controllers the status of the workshop Skylab space
station. EGIL officer reporting the temperature at 80 degrees
Fahrenheit. This is 1/4 of a degree above what the vehicle
temperature was at this time yesterday morning. The highest
temperature yesterday was 81.3. We had our first
glimpse of a nightside pass earlier this morning at Greenwich
mean time 12 hours and 30 minutes, a very brief pass. It's
reported that the science pilot has been sleeping in the multiple
docking adapter, having moved his sleeping bag up to that
area because of the excessive heat in the wardroom area.
Another glitch in the control moment gyro number 2. G&N officer
reporting to Flight Director Windier that at 09:30 Greenwich
mean time 09:30, there was another momentary glitch shorter
than the one yesterday. The one yesterday lasted approximately
95 minutes during one revolution of the Earth, where bearing
temperatures and wheel speed - bearing temperatures rose
and wheel speed dropped. G&N reports that today's EREP pass
looks good for the maneuver, i0 mibs scheduled to be used today
for the EREP pass later this afternoon. We'll hold the line
up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave on the wakeup call.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you for 2 more
minutes through Carnarvon.
PLT Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Bill. Happy day off.
PLT It started out that way anyway.
CC Yeah, and thank God it's Friday for some
people.
CC And if Ed's not awake yet, he's going to
be awake pretty soon.
CC And we're 30 seconds from LOS here, about
6 minutes to Honeysuckle.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle
for just 1 minute.
CC Jer, Houston.
PLT He's listening, go.
CC Okay, tell him his rendezvous with the
stars there, the sextant activity in the command module, move
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that onstation time up to 13:52 instead of 14:00.


PLT Roger. 13:52.
CC Yes sir, Bill. And cancel your laser
rendezvous at 14:02 on everybody's details. The overcast is picking
up and it's not even worth trying
PLT Okay, will do.
CC And one more thing I need to get to you
here, have Ed crank up the ATM C&D coolant loop by turning on
pump Charlie prior to starting his ATM pass.
PLT Roger. Pump Charlie prior to ATM.
CC And while we're getting the pads up to you,
I don't know when you take your food supplements, but none are
required of anyone today.
PLT Oh, thank you.
CC And we're going LOS here. See you over
Texas in about 30 minutes at 14:01. We're planning on dumping
the data/voice there.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 13 hours
34 minutes. Skylab IV crew, a day off today. This will be
their seventh day off in their mission to date, as they begin their
tenth week. Today is, although a day off, is a semi day off for
the crew. Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue were awakened
at about 8:24 a.m. today. Temperatures inside the orbital
workshop in the low 80's and are expected to get slightly warmer
today before the orbits get out of the 24-hour a day sunshine
mode, although we did have a short nightside pass earlier
about 4 hours ago, 1 hour ago at 12:30 Greenwich mean time.
Orbits will begin to have periods of darkness later today and
throughout the weekend. And the spacecraft will be shaded
by the Earth, and temperatures are expected to begin to go back
down. A number of off-duty periods are scheduled for each
crewman today and they can also take a shower if they so
desire. An Earth resources pass is scheduled along with some
on-board documentary photography, a science conference with
scientists in Mission Control, and several periods of solar
study by the Apollo telescope mount instruments. Today's
Earth resources pass is scheduled for 3:37 p.m. as the space-
craft passes over the northwestern United States, across the
Central Plains and across Georgia into the Atlantic and over
the West Indies. The pass will last 14 minutes and cover a
groundtrack of nearly 4,000 miles. Data will include looking
at storm fronts and clouds, mapping in Wyoming and Montana, forest
insect damage in South Dakota, ground water in the Central Plains
states, and land use classification in Montana, Nebraska, Iowa,
and Georgia, wetlands ecology of the Georgia coastline, in
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the Atlantic in the vicinity of the Puerto Rican trench for


determining the feasibility of the accurate determination of
the global geod of the oceans. In the event the EREP pass is
canceled, more solar viewing time will be substituted for the
crew. Documentary photography of general wardroom activities
and medical items are scheduled at 2:00 p.m. today. Medical
items include photos of one crewman giving an ear and mouth
examination of another crew member and closeup shots of one
member of the crew looking through a microscope. It's the
crew's choice if they want to record something on the video
tape recorder and it's their option as to what they will televise.
The science conference will begin at 12:00 and last for I hour,
just prior to the crew lunch hour. The conference will be
during passes over tracking stations Honeysuckle, Hawaii,
Goldstone, Bermuda, Canary and Ascension if necessary. ATM
console duty today is still - all assigned to Science Pilot
Ed Gibson at the present time. He will be looking at the coronal
layers of quiet and active regions of the Sun making synoptic
observations. During each pass he will make determinations as to the
more interesting features of the Sun, and study those features. On
the first pass of the day, Gibson will do a short JOP II, Joint
Observation Program ii of the ATM looking at the sunspot umbra
in active region 21. The crew will be doing some T003 experiments
aerosol analysis at various times throughout the day. The ob-
jective of this experiment is to measure the size, concentration,
and composition of particles in the atmosphere inside the vehicle
as a function of time and location. A number of optional photo
targets are on today's Flight Plan. The first is at 10:43 a.m.
is the San Andreas Fault zone in California, the second a fault
zone in Morocco at 11:04 a.m. Ice flows in the North Atlantic is
the subject of a photo option at 12:30 p.m. At 12:45 another
option to look at the fault zone in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains.
Lake circulation patterns and lake ice on Lake Ontario will be
the subject of optional photos at 2:0

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SL-IV MC-2233/I
Time: 08:38 CDY, 64:13:38 GMT
1/18/74

PAO - - (garble) in California, the second


a fault zone in Morroco at 11:04 A.m. Ice flows in the
north Atlantic is the subject of a photo option at 12:30 p.m.
At 12:45, another option to look at fault zone in the Morrocan
Atlas Mountains. Lake circulation patterns and lake Ice and
Lake Ontario will be the subject of optional photos at 02:03 p.m.
Another opportunity to photograph ice plumes and packed ice
formation in the Sea of Okhotsk near Sakhalln Island off
the Pacific Coast of Russia will be at 6:33 p.m. Three options
to photograph a laser beacon navigation station at Goddard
Space Flight Center outside Washington have been cancelled
due to extensive cloud cover in that area. A total of
8 hours and 5 minutes of science are scheduled today. Gibson
is assigned the bulk of the ATM with 4 hours and 5 minutes.
Pogue is assigned 2 hours 1 minute and Cart 1 hour and 59 minutes.
Crew's day is scheduled to end at 10:00 p.m. this evening.
Commander Gerald Cart will be the duty officer tonight in
any event it's necessary to awaken the crew. Next acquisi-
tion in 22 minutes through the Texas tracking station, on
this the start of the 10th week of Skylab IV Crew. At Green-
wich mean time 13 hours 39 minutes this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
14 hours. Acquisition coming through Texas tracking station,
as Skylab concludes its 3594th revolution of the earth since
launch on May 14. CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave. We'll
bring the line up for this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for
16 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, we'll be dumping the data/voice
here.
PLT Roger.
PLT How's the weather in Houston, this morning,
Story?
CC Surprisingly we had a pretty pleasant night
last night and it's clear this morning, also. It's really the
first clear morning we've had, and it seems like 2 or 3 weeks.
PLT Good show.

CDR Story, I've got your star sightings.


CC Go, Jer.
CDR Okay. Alphard 167.5,15.8, Regulus is 9.15 and
2.14.
CC Thank you.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Could you turn on pump Charlle in the
ATM C&D coolant loop?
SPT Got it.
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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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Utilities in Hartford, Conneticut. This gives greater flexibility


in the use of peak generating equipment which is more costly
to run. The Utah Power & Light Co. made a survey some time
ago on the effects of Daylight Saving Time and concluded that
it would save less than i percent of pwer use. A spokesman for
the utility said there has been no savings in power since the
time change, probably because of unseasonable warm weather
through most of this winter. Burlingame, Bing Crosby,
recuperating from lung surger, was moved out of intensive care
unit Thursday and was able to sit up and walk around and eat
a soft diet, the hospital said. Two-fifths of the singer's
lef_ lung was removed Sunday because of a growth which
initial tests indicated was cuased by a rare fungus.

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CC a spokesman for the utility said there


has been no savings in power since the time change, probably
because of unseasonable warm weather through the most of
this winter. Burlingaame Bing Crosby, recuperating from
lung surgery, was moved out of the intensive care unit
Thursday and was able to sit up, walk around and eat a soft
diet, the hospital said. Two-fifths of the singer's left
lung was removed Sunday because of a growth which initial
tests indicated was caused by a rare fungus. St. Charles,
Missouri, the first young woman nominated to the Air Force Academy
has been rejected because of the school's policy of admitting
only males. Representative Hungate, Democrat of Missouri, said
Thursday the application of Karen Dwyer, 18, of St. Charles was re-
turned to him with a note saying that "established Air Force
policy limits admissions to males only." Hungate said the
Air Force indicated it would accept young women after July,
1975 if clarifying legislation is enacted. Karen is an honor
student and a member of the high school Air Force Junior ROTC
Honor Guard. Karen said at the time of her nomination: ""Even
if I'm not accepted, l'm going to frame the nomination letter."
And that's about it for this morning.
CDR Thank you, Story.
CC Yes, sir_ any time.
CC And, Bill, you want - you may want to
spend a little more time studying over in your site book
your VTS site number 365, that's a new one to you. You've
had no training at all on that one. You may want to spend
some more time on it.
PLT Okay. Thanks for the suggestion.
CC And it's probably snow covered and there
may be some clouds also. So it's - it's going to be a tough
one even with good training.
PLT That's okay. I like a good handicap.
CC Okay. We'll be rooting for you.
CC Ed, we'd like to do outer gimbal backup
here_ need the DAS.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay.
CC You got the DAS, Ed.
SPT Thanks Story.
CC And we're a minute from LOS_ 5 minutes
to Madrid.
SPT Say_ Story, I missed the fact that that
was a TV downlink as opposed to the VTR. So I got some
information on the VTR for the ATM folks, Could you
give me a call next time and let me know that you're up and
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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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Have you got any idea on that?


SPT Probably be about another 2 or 3 days, at
least until this place starts to cool down, Story.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, one thing I was really interested
in the people at Houston getting a look at was that transient
that we put on the VTR yesterday. Have you dumped that
yet or is that still sitting on our VTR here?
CC No, sir. We reviewed that all ready. It's
beautiful.
SPT Very good.
CC One of the first things we did when we
came on shift this morning.
SPT There's a lot of material moving out fast
there. It sure was interesting to watch.
CC Yes, sir.

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1/18/74

SPT There's a lot of material moving out


fast there. Sure was interesting to watch.
CC Yes, sir.

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SL-IV MC-2236/I
Time: 09:43 CDT, 64:14:43 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


40 minutes. We had a loss of signal from the Mission Control
Center to building 1 with the air-to-ground through Madrid.
We had 45 seconds. We'll play that tape and then bring the
line up for the Madrid pass.
CC Of those three stations. We can call
the that's the quickest way to get it back here whether
it's real time TV or VTR downlink. We can call up lines
and get the VTR that's been done - dumped to them also.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC One other point on that while we're on
it, after gettiog station 0S AOS, we use i minute to warm up the
FM transmitters and the wide band transmitters in the command
module. So we can't get real time TV until 1 minute after
AOS.
SPT Okay. That I didn't appreciate. Thank
you.
CC And, Ed, while I've got you, we're
working on the Flight Plan for tomorrow. M133 people are
interested in how long yon may be sleeping up in the MDA.
They're looking at a possible procedure to get data - M133
data while you're in the MDA. Have you got any ideas on
that?
SPT Probably be about another 2 or 3 days
at least before it starts to cool down, Story.
CC Okay.
PAO - in Australia. At Greenwich mean
time 14 hours 54 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
PA0 Skylab Control Greenwich mean time
15 - 8 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
tracking station in 50 seconds (garble) the start of a
day off with just 9 hours of science data time today. We'll
hold the line up for CAP COMM Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're through Honeysuckle for
a short pass, about a minute.
CC And, Ed, if you're ready to copy, I
can hurry along here and give you some shopping list items
that the PI's and experiments recommend.
SPT Go ahead, Story. Ready to copy.
CC Okay. S052, shopping list i, in building
block 32, 54, shopping list 33, end of 32 occasionally to
normalize the data. S055, shopping list 26 Bravo on the
brightest regions, 56 SINGLE FRAME, LONG exposure; 82, shopping
list 7 and/or 12 on fluxuating bright areas in active
regions, especially near the limb.
CC And we're going LOS here, we'll see
you over Goldstone in about 27 minutes at 15:37.
CDR Got that. Thank you, Story.
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CC Okay. But they sure want you to use


your own discretion, Ed.
SPT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
15 hours 13 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 23 minutes 40 seconds will be the
Goldstone tracking station. Skylab crew in a day off
Commander Gerald Carr has a block of time -

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PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 15 hours


13 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition in 23 minutes 40 seconds will be the Goldstone
tracking station. The Skylab crew in a day off. Commander
Gerald Carr has a block of time presently for physical training,
exercise, using any one of the several exercise devices aboard
the spacecraft, the treadmill, poor man's treadmill designed
by fellow Astronaut Dr. William Thornton. A device placed on board
to give the astronauts more exercise in the legs and torso.
Other exercise devices include the bicycle ergometer and several
modified exercise devices taken up in the launch of Skylab I.
Science Pilot Gibson at the ATM console control and display
panel. A total of i hour and 50 minutes set aside today for
data takes of the solar instruments. Pilot Bill Pogue in his
off-duty period for today. Next acquisition in 22 minutes
and 30 seconds will be Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time
15 hours 14 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Ctonrol, Greenwich mean time 15 hours
30 minutes. Due to a technical difficulty, the Madrid and
Tananarive pass was not relayed through Building i. We'll play
a total of 5 minutes and 35 seconds of accumulated tape for
those two passes and bring the line up for the Goldstone pass.
We'll play that tape now.
CC Skylab, wetre back with you through Madrid
for 8 minutes.
SPT Story.
CC And, Ed, we did receive at the site real
time TV and what you put on the VTR, but of course, we don't
get the voice real time.
SPT 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 use 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 I called, Ed, that's
the quickest way to get it back here whether it's real time
TV or VTR downlink. We can call up lines and get the VTR
that's been dumped to them also.
SPT Thank you, Story.
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CC OnZy one other point on that while we're


on it. After getting station AOS, we use 1 minute to warm up the FM
transmitters and the wide band transmitter in the command
module. So we can't get real time TV until i minute after AOS.
SPT Okay, that I didn't appreciate. Thank you.
CC And Ed, while l've got you, we're working
on the Flight Plan for tomorrow. M133 people are interested
in how long you may be sleeping up in the MDA. They're looking
at a possible procedure to get get data, M133 data while
you're in the MDA. Have you got any idea on that?
SPT Could be about another 2 or 3 days at
least until this place starts to cool down, Story.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, one thing I was really interested
in the people at Houston getting a look at was the transient
that we put on the VTR yesterday. Have you dumped that yet,
or is that still sitting on a VTR here?
CC No sir, we reviewed that already, it's
beautiful.
SPT Ah, very good.
CC One of the first things we did when we
came on shift this morning.
SPT There's a lot of material moving out fast
there. It sure was interesting to watch.
CC Yes sir.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
13 minutes to Tananarive at 14:44.
SPT Story, I'd like to take the next three
ATM orbits. If the folks in the backroom have any suggestions
other than over and above what's already on the pads here I'd
appreciate it.
CC Okay, got that.
CC I'll catch you at Tananarive. We're
going over the hill here.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Tananarive
for 7 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC And sometime in the next 4 hours I've
got a change in the CDR's Detail Flight Plan.
SPT He's listening, Story, go ahead with it.
CC 0kay_ at 19:37 EREP C&D pad that's
a warmup, change that to 19:32.
CREW (garble).
CC And for everybody, there's a very active
Aurora reported in the Northern Hemisphere. If you want to
take any photos today, refer to permanent general message
18 Bravo, that's 18 Bravo.
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PLT Roger, 18 Bravo.


CC And Ed, everyboday is very very pleased
with the superb operations on the coronal transient of yesterday.
It appears to be a very unique event and the coverage was
really super. It was excellent.
SPT Story, I think what was exceptionally good
about it is that we learned about it from the ground and apparently
the whole seems be working real well from observatories
all the way through the chain on up to here. To catch some-
thing that quick I think speaks well for the system.
CC Yes sir, we think it was Huan Aloa (?) that
first observed it. We had a total transit time from there
up to you all of 6 minutes.
SPT As a result of all that I think we got
some real good data on the film.
CC And out of that 6 minutes, 3 minutes was
because we didn't have AOS yet.
SPT I'm wondering if the folks in the back
room today could work up about an M5 out of active region 21.
CC Okay Ed_ we'll get the ATM down here to
send a command out to the Sun to get you just that, but we don't
want to tell you when because we want to surprise you.
SPT I guess you can just do anything if you put
your mind to it.
CC Thank you.
CC And we're a couple of minutes from LOS
here, see you over Honeysuckle in 18 minutes at 15:09.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 15 hours
36 minutes. We'll have acquisition through Goldstone on a
stateside pass in 30 seconds. The spacecraft now in its 3,595
revolution in an orbit of 241 by 231 nautical miles. The space-
craft traveling at a speed of 14,859 nautical miles per hour.
We'll bring the line up for Dr. Story Musgrave.

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CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside 17 minutes.


CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, while I got you I got a Flight
Plan and question for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Bill is prime on M479, but we're planning
on running - that takes 9 hours of crew time in a single
day. We're planning on doing that the day after EVA. Bill's
got to be subJeet on two medicals, 131 and MO92/MI71 and
observe do two duties as observer on MI31. We're wondering
if it's okay with you if we schedule you for that the day
after EVA.
CDR That should be no problem; and what's
EVA day going to be?
CC It'll be day 80.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out here for
about a minute as we hand over to Bermuda. The VTR's yours.
CC And we're back with you for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, Nikon 02 has got about 41 frames
of IR film remaining, and we recommend that this film be
expended on extra handheld targets of opportunity; your
option.
CDR Very good, we'll try to make good use
of it.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes
to Canaries. We'll be looking to dump the data/voice at Canary.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
15 hours 58 minutes. Next acquisition will be through the
Canary tracking station in i minute 35 seconds. Explanation
here at the Mission Control Center concerning the brief loss
of release - PAO release line, to building i earlier on the
last pass through Madrid and Tananarlve. Comm Control reports
that the problem cleared up as they were checking the lines,
however, no explanation of what caused the problem is forth-
coming from the Comm Control Center at this time. Dr. Robert
McQueen, principal investigator for the S052 while light
coronagraph experiment will be in the Building i newsroom
at 1=30 to conduct a briefing on the solar prominence of
yesterday. This will be Dr. Robert McQueen, Principal
Investigator for S052 in the Building i newsroom at the
Johnson Space Center at 1:30. We'll hold the line up for
CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave through the Canary tracking
station.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Canaries for 8 minutes. We're dumping the data/voice here.
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CDR Roger, Story.


SPT Story, would you ask the ATM folks to
see whether they are aware of any loops above the limb at
around 285? I'm able to get about an oxygen VI count about
130 or so, I arc minute off the limb and I can see what
looks like either the start of a prominence with two feet,
or the start of a loop; it's kind of hard to tell right
in that region.
CC Okay, Ed, we'll take a look at it.
CC While I got you, you got a phone call
over Vanguard at 22:35; it's antenna left. And we'll remind
you the pass before.
SPT Thank you story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about
12 minutes to Tananarive at 16:20.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
16 hours i0 minutes. Loss of signal through the Cananarive -
Canary Island tracking station. Next acquisition in 9 minutes
55 seconds will be through Tananarive. On the next Honeysuckle
pass beginning at Greenwich mean time 16:45 and followed
by the Hawaii pass, the scientist, ATM scientist, will
discuss with the crew today the ATM program during the -
today's science conference. The observations will be of the
active regions, discussions with the crew of observations
of active regions. This will be conducted by J. Milligan
as well as astronaut Bill Lenoir. During the Goldstone pass
at 7 - Greenwich mean time 17:16, Story Musgrave will discuss
with the crew some of the medical experiments, specifically
the taste and aroma test which the crew have been conducting
throughout the mission, as well as the M092 cardiovascular
experiments, the MII0 hemoglobin experiment, the MI31
motion sensitivity test as well as the MI71 metabolic
analyzer experiment. Through the Bermuda pass at Greenwich
mean time 17:28, astronaut Dr. Robert Parker will discuss
the general corollary experiments, including the S063, the
TO20, the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit, the science
demonstrations, student experiments, and accomplishments
so far, and the outlook for the remaining mission. At the
Canary pass at Greenwich mean time 17:37, the visual observation
program will be - discussions will be conducted by astronaut
Bill Lenoir. These include emphasis planned for the remainder
of the mission, discussing known results that have contributed
significant new knowledge to various dieipline as well as
plans on postflight use of the data gathered during the mission.
During the Ascension pass at Greenwich mean time 17 hours
and 47 minutes, the crew will discuss with the ground the
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comet Kohoutek, specifically discussing the sketches which


the crew passed down via television, the ATM observations
near perihelion of the comet Kohoutek, ground-bases observations,
theories, and future plans and operations remaining on comet
Kohoutek.

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PAO television. The ATM observations near


perihelion, of the comet Kohoutek, ground-based observations
theories and future plans and operations remaining on comet
Kohoutek. Crew's first comet comment on the comet came
on November 24 when Pilot Bill Pogue reported at 11:26 central
standard time, that he saw a fuzzy spot. He wasn't at that
time satisfied that that could've been the comet. The crew's
comments went on for many days through the mission and the
last comment from the crew concerning the comet, was on January
9, at 8:50 in the evening, when Commander Gerald Carr reported
to the CAP COMM Bob Crippen that he said, "The comet is still
out there and it's about - the tail is about 5 degrees long,"
and he said, "It's really hanging in there." He reported that
it was not as bright as it had been in the past. He did say
it's getting a little dimmer but it's every bit as long and
once you get dark adapted to the spacecraft, you can see it.
At that time, Commander Cart asked the CAP COMM Crippen if
they were able to see it on the ground yet. He had received
a negative response from CAP COMM Crippen on that report.
Next acquisition will be through Tananarive in 5 minutes and
50 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours and 14 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 19 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Tananarive
tracking station in 50 seconds. During this block of time,
Commander Jerry Carr has the option of taking a shower this
morning. However, whether or not he has, the ground does not
know at this time. Pilot Pogue performing his physical training
exercise for the day while Science Pilot Ed Gibson is at the
control and display panel of the Apollo telescope mount. We'll
bring the line up to this Tananarive pass. A 7-minute 41-
second pass. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, we got you through Tananarive
for 5 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, as you requested yesterday, we're
playing on the Flight Plan tomorrow to give you an hour to
debrief the layout of the ATM panel. And at present, we have
you scheduled to do that while Jer is operating it, if that's
all right. Or if you need it to - need to have the panel
yourself.
SPT No, that's all right. I can just go on
off in the corner and _ as long as I have it visually to refer
to_ I can do that. No problem.
CC Okay. We'll have an hour for you tomorrow
then.
SPT Thank you.
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CC And in the area that you described around


285, there is a small prominence there but it's not associated
with active region 27. We didn't put that on the SAP.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. I'ii talk with
you more in a minute.

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CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 18 min-


utes to Honeysuckle, and you'll have an ATM conference with
Dr. Milligan at that time.
SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours and 30 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition through Honeysuckle will be in 14 minutes
and i0 seconds. That Honeysuckle pass will be the start
of today's science conference beginning with James E. Milligan of the
Marshall Space Flight Center who is principal investigator
for SO56, dual X-ray telescope experiment, discussing
yesterday's prominence. Yesterday planned ATM observations
were interrupted at Greenwich mean time 19:40 when the
ground notified the crew that the prominence erupted from
active region 14, which is located over the east limb of
the Sun. The crew picked up the transient event on the
SO52 white light coronagraph television cameras and reported
it to be very bright, shaped llke a spearhead and
it was extending out 2 solar radii. Two successive orbits
using Joint Observation Program number 8 capturing coronal
transients were conducted on this event. This is the first
time the third crew This is the first time that the Skylab
IV crew has seen this type of event. This will be discussed
Dr. Milligan of the Marshall Space Flight Center
during the Honeysuckle pass, a 9-minute 20-second pass,
which will begin today's back-to-back science conferences
which will begin at Honeysuckle and end at the Canary tracking
station. Next acquisition in 12 minutes 25 seconds will be
Honeysuckle. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 32 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
16 hours 43 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
in 50 seconds. This will be the beginning of today's
science conference with James E. Milligan, Marshall Space
Flight Center and Astronaut Bill Lenoir discussing with
the crew ATM operations. This will be a 9-minute pass through
Honeysuckle. We'll bring the line up for this science conference.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes. And here's Dr. Milligan with your first ATM
conference.
MCC Hello, Ed.
SPT Morning, Jim. How are you? Good to talk
with you.
MCC Just fine and you?
SPT Good. Thank you.
MCC Okay. The first thing, I guess, is a
news item. Let's see - CAP COMM has been reading up news
everyday, we thought we ought to too. This week's issue of
Aviation Week has a big spread on the Sun with all kinds of
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ATM pictures in it, S054 picture on the front page. There's


also an editorial on the Sun. The main thing in the editorial
is, that they recommend everybody read your book.
SPT (Laughter) Very good.
MCC Okay. The first item this morning,
I'd like to answer some questions to you that you raised
about the active region 14 and about some other things on
the Sun. On AR-14 - -
SPT Okay.
MCC On AR-14, NOAA said that they're sorry
about the fact that weren't able to predict anything. It
turns out that the region we didn't start getting active
until it went about west 80 and as a result they just couldn't
see enough of the growth on the ground to predict what was
going to happen.
SPT Okay. That's understandable.
MCC Now, the other one is on the fibrils
that you talked about in AR-21 the other day. It turns out
on reexamination of the NOAA data that AR-20 is old 00 not
AR-21. And AR-21 is just ahead of old AR-2.
SPT Okay. So it's 20, which is on the old
00.
MCC Right. And the spot's right on top of
the old 00. And that's why you're getting the fribils this
time because AR-21 is really a new region.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, now, about four comments on the opera-
tions, if that's okay. We'll Just take them one at a time;
I'll talk about them and then let you comment if you
want to.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. The first one is on the flare wait
program that we went into on area AR-20 and 21 on the llth.
you know when they were over on the east llmb. You guys did a
super job over on that activity. I don't know how much of
it we got up to you from the ground, but that whole day,
the X-REA and the PMEC were running about a factor of 2 or 3
less than a class C event. We had several type 3's and
you know we had a couple of flares go off. The one flare
that you missed onboard, NOAA has not been able to identify
anything on the ground with it. And the other flare, you
did a very good job of starting into the JOP - you know the JOP 3
program and stopping it when the flare went away. We really
want to compliment you on it. We think 55 and 56, particularly
got excellent data in that time period.
SPT Okay, Jim. As I recall, it was just
coming out of a building block 32 at a time and I had been in a
flare wait I think we could have picked it up earlier.
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MCC Yeah. But anyway the observations were very


good.
SPT Well, that's good to hear.
MCC Okay. The next thing is on the
mini-MARS and the bright point observations and some of the
comments I'll make refer to some questions that you voiced
down about the mini-MAR operations.
MCC It turns out that SO55 is seeing some
time correlation on intensity changes on the chromospheric,
the transition region line and the coronal line. And the
time period is in the order of a minute or so. There has
been no evidence in the data as yet on the 5-minute oscillation
the people are looking for. And, hence, this is the
reason why they're going into the mini-MAR operation so often
recently.
SPT Oh, okay. That I had not realized.
That's a interesting thing, potentially very useful. What -
Is the grating position in order to pick up those lines
at different altitudes a grating of zero the best one for
them?
MCC I think that's affirm.
SPT Okay. I noticed they've been using
772 alot, recently, also.
MCC Okay. Now your question. You asked the
question the other day on running a stop mode because the
mini-MAR operation was getting your fingers tired out. 55 is
making the suggestion that if you do get tired running the
mini-MAR, what might be worthwhile is to run the a spectral
scan where the oxygen VI is high. Because when you do this
they're picking up a lot of ions of lithium, aluminum and
sodium and other things that they don't get otherwise.
SPT Okay. What I was There wasn't any
real problem with the fingers getting tired, what I was looking
at though in the active region was the fact that the intensity
was changing so rapidly that is over a period of 30 seconds
that if they were going to get a mini-MAR, which looked at
a time scale of i or 1-1/2 minutes the way we actually run
it, they were going to be missing it. So I thought - -

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MCC Okay. Now your question - you asked the


question the other day on running a stop mode because the
mini-MAR operation was getting your fingers tired out. 55
is making the suggestion that if you do get tired running the
mini-MARs, what might be worthwhile is to run a spectral scan
where the oxygen VI is high. Because when you do this - they're
picking up a lot of ions of lithium, aluminum and sodium and
other things that they don't get otherwise.
SPT Okay. What I was - there wasn't any
real problem with fingers getting tired out. What I was looking
at though in an active region was the fact that the intensity
was changing so rapidly that is over a period of 30 seconds
that if they were going to get a mini-MAR which looked at a
time scale of 1 or 1-1/2 minutes the way we actually run it,
they were going to be missing it. So I thought they might be able
to get relatively short time-period changes by just working
in a stop mode or the MLS.
MCC Okay.
SPT (garble)
MCC Okay. That's a good suggestion. We had
not seen that yet down here in the data.
SPT Okay.
MCC Now the other thing is that they would
like to get an occasional grating scan over regions where
oxygen Vl peaks out in the active region, too, because they don't
have a great wealth of that kind of data.
SPT Okay. I'ii I'ii try and do that. I've
been trying to get more grating auto scans in on wherever we
maximize now.
MCC Okay. The next one's on the AR-14 limb
event that you guys looked at the other day. I guess we voiced
the message up to you and I guess the Commander looked at it.
This is, you know, when we had the surges and the loops over
there. According to 55 people, this is the best surge data
they've seen in Skylab and it's really excellent. There results
are extremely exciting. Of course, they've only been able
to look at the preliminary data. They're getting good color
temperatures and densities. The densities look like they're
ranging in the i0 to the 9 - i0 to the 10th and i0 to the llth
region, electron densities that is, they're about a quarter of a
million degrees. The very interesting thing about it is that they're
seeing very fine, very fine structure in the chromospheric and transi-
tion region line. The line like magnesium X is just showing
a great big glow with only a few bright points and doesn't
show nearly the structure that the transition region lines show.
SPT Okay. Yeah, I think from looking at
their data before, I would expect that.
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MCC They were a little bit suprised by it.


SPT Oh, really?
MCC Yeah.
SPT Okay, maybe there's something that's more
subtle there I don't understand. I'ii talk with them when I
get back.
MCC Okay. An addition on that event, Sac
Peak reported they saw very, very little in calcium XV at that
point in time.
SPT Okay. What exactly - what mission day
was that, Jim?
MCC That was the NRL cal rocket day. That's
the only thing I can remember right now.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Now, I'd like to give you some
grating positions for that kind of an observation if you
want to go into it on your own in the future.
SPT Okay. If you would give me the grating
position that - and also the feature that your you feel
you're most interested in with these grating positions.
MCC Okay. This is for the limb events like
surges and things of this sort. Okay - -
SPT Okay. That would not include loops, though,
would it?
MCC I think it would.
SPT - - that includes dynamic events.
MCC Yes, it would include the loop.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. The first grating position is all
balls, and of course, that's just a polychromatic position. You
got that one?
SPT Yeah. Just go ahead, fire away Jim. I'Ii
write it down real quick here.
MCC Okay. Then second position is 772, this
gives them alignment continuim in neon VII line. The third
grating position is 1042 which gives them the oxygen V and
the iron XVI line. Third position is 1652 which gives them
the oxygen V plus another line.
SPT Okay.
MCC 1654, not 52. I'm sorry.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Now the other day when we read
those up to you, we gave you two other grating positions. Those
turned out to be not so useful. 574 was one of them. They
were hoping you'd see some resonant scattering in that position
but it didn't work very well. So they don't think they'll
get much out of that one. And grating position 2434 was
apparently just giving them redundant data. So it's these four
that I read up to you that's giving the best data.
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SPT Okay. I'll make a little note and I have


another little - an extra little cue card here.
CC And we're about a minute from LOS, Skylah.
And Hawaii's coming up in ii minutes. Bill Lenoir will have
the second ATM pass and you can press on till going over the
hill.

MCC Okay, Ed. I only - only one other thing


to talk about this morning and that is that you guys did a
great job on that transient yesterday. 52 is particularly
happy about it. One thing that you may not have heard about
is that we did have increased X-ray activity up in the PMEC
and the X-REA. They're up about a factor of i0 above background.
I'll have Bill read up some comments to you about the S052
operations because of all the film we used yesterday on the
Hawaii pass.
SPT Okay. I could not see anything in the
XUV monitor after the initial surge from the surface. I
could see that going out. I looked about an arc minute or so
above the surface and inclined about the same direction the
material was moving. And I think inltially_ because of the
call, I was, I thought that perhaps - -
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle tracking
station. Next acquisition in 9 minutes and 20 seconds, will
be through Hawaii where Bill Lenoir, astronaut Bill Lenoir,
will continue the ATM science conference with Science Pilot
Ed Gibson. James Milligan of the Marshall Space Flight Center,
who is PI for S056, the dual X-ray telescope, spent the last
8 minutes or more discussing with Science Pilot Gibson the
ATM operations. He commented the crew on the great job they
did yesterday on the transient event which occurred at about
Greenwich mean time 19:00 hours. This has been reported as
being the best surge yet seen in Skylah by the ATM scientists
here at Mission Control Center. This has been the first time
the crew has seen an event of this type during this mission.
Next acquisition in 8 minutes and 20 seconds through Hawaii.
At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 56 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


17 hours 3 minutes. We will have part 2 of the science
conference through the Hawaiian tracking station, the 9-minute
and 47 second duration pass during which time astronaut,
Bill Lenoir will discuss with Science Pilot Gibson the ATM
operations during this weekly science conference. We'll
bring the line up for this 9-minute pass.
MCC Skylab this is Houston with the rest
of the ATM conference. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay. Jim is still here if you've got
any more discussion you'd like to carry on with him. We
could do that now and if not I'ii just press on to my agenda.
MCC 0 - -
SPT No, I think I understand my what informa-
tion Jim gave. It was most useful and I'ii try and follow
it through, especially working on that area I just was this
morning.
MCC Okay. Fine. Now let's see. The first
thing I want to talk about real quick was what Jim didn't
quite get time for and that's the 52 film budget. Their
frames remaining now dictates the following policy and if
you'd like, when I'm finished you can ask us and we can send
you a note on it. The first really, is Just telling you
how they'll operate. They'll operate in option B and every
evening synoptic building block i. They will cancel a proposed
JOP 9 and they will reallocate those frames into their transient
reserve. There is sufficient film remaining for continued
BB32's, quickies, that is, every manned orbit and for their
continued unattended operations on - during your sleep
period. They now have sufficient JOP 7 data and desire no
further JOP 7, the atmospheric extinction. And the big
message here is, should another transient occur, they would
very dearly desire as complete operations as possible just
like yesterday. And they're very encouraged about that and
are not at all unhappy about reallocating their film for that.
Over.
SPT That's good to hear. I hope we can
have another opportunity like that for them.
MCC Okay. Fine. So do we. Now the next
thing is the 82A sequence. You got a general message
up last night and I guess the first thing I ought to do is
to let me ask you ask me some questions about it, if you
have any, and then if not I'll ask you some about it.
SPT Okay. Let me just go right on down
the couple of things I noted here. One was talked about
them running two auto modes during the unattended. And I would
prefer, if anyone is available at all, to just come on up
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here and run off an exposure of 1 minute or 20 seconds, whatever


they would desire. And rather than have them ( garble) in the
auto mode, which apparently 50 percent of that film is completely
overexposed. So if at all possible, at least whenever I'm around,
I sure would be glad to do that. But just let the planners try
to work that in wherever possible. Just take about a second to
come on up here and run off those (garble) a minute or 20 seconds.
Secondly, they asked whether we could ref this program which is
laid out here down to - well, while you're doing say 35 - building
block 35 or 34. You can, I would say down to around a time of
8 minutes remaining at that point you could not pay any attention
to the other experiment, just because you're down (garble) 30
seconds making a 20-second exposure. The - One of - Running
these other experiments while wetve got the - at least 2 minutes -
between there 6 minutes is probably no problem. When you get
down to 2 minutes, we can run the 82A, but it's going to be hit
or miss as to whether we get the other experiment turned around
in time. For example 54, when we get them started with out a
wait period in there of maybe i, 2, 3 minutes. Selecting a new
grating position for 55 can be particularly bothersome. Because
that requires your full attention sometimes for a minute or 2,
if you don't want to miss the grating position. And same for
56, giving them repeated active i longs there might be some good
wait periods in there while you're making sure you don't miss
the 82A exposure. So it can be done as long as they put the
prime emphasis on 82A and the other experiments understand that
they might not get turned around as quickly as they would like
under normal conditions.
MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks for that. And we'll
take that under advisement here and discuss it again with all
of the experiments. Regarding your suggestion, of if at all
possible, let the crewmen take it rather than doing the unattended
with the auto too, as you know, that's the only command they
have. So, it does necessarily waste film that way. We're
very pleased for your offer. Obviously the thought had
occurred to us but we were hesitant to ask about it. And
we're quite happy that you initiated it.
SPT Well, we don't have many frames left.
And that really gives useful data. Each frame is valuable,
and I hate to see us waste it. Another question there was
JOP 3. Could you run that sequence during J0P 3? Now, that,
I didn't quite understand that question. Certainly if you
had a flare going, I don't think we could be running a
20_second exposure every 30 seconds and expect to pay proper
attention to the other experiment as well as monitoring the
progression of the flare.
MCC Yes. That was the real question there,
is that as the message states 82A would like for this particular
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sequence to be initiated at crewman's discretion at the


beginning of an orbit when the activity looks high and
ideally if you could look ahead at times, and could predict
flares, that's when they would like it the most. So if you
have been successful at picking a highflare probability
orbit, you'll always have to address the question of what
happens if we get a flare during this? Obviously that says
that we go into JOP 3. 82A, if they were the only experi-
ment operating that day, would like very much to continue
on through their sequence here with the exception of Jumping
ahead to the 30-second exposures during the most active period
picking up the other exposures later. Obviously that's
inconsistent with the operation of JOP 3 and attention
to the other four experiments and I guess our main question
there concerned over and above what we could guess and that
is that in the 30-second frame interval, obviously there's
a severe conflict. And JOP 3, we're not going to be able
to ignore the other experiments so that 82A would have to
take what they get there and I guess, our real question is,
what do you think we could get there and how much problem
is this going to be for you?
SPT Well, I think, once the flare starts,
if we really want to catch one, we're going to have our eyes
glued onto the XUV monitor. And I think we could probably
spend the time to start and stop the 82A every 30 seconds
for 20-second exposures, if we weren't doing much else
except looking at the XUV monitor. But once we get into
the flare rise itself, that's another ball game, because
you've got to get everybody else running, make sure they're
in their proper mode and monitor the flare. And that -
During that time period I don't think we could continue to
give them 20-second exposures every 30. We could give it a
go, but I don't think it would come out anywhere near as
uniform a series of exposures as we could otherwise if they
would like.

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SPT - - and the time to start and stop


the 82A for 20 every 30 seconds for 20-second exposures and
we weren't doing much else except looking at the XUV monitor.
But once we get into the flare rise itself, that's another
ball game, because you got to get everybody else running
and make sure they're in their proper mode and monitor the
flare. And that during that time period I don't think
we could continue to give them 20-second exposures every
30. We could give it a go, but I don't think it would come
out anywhere near as uniform a series of exposures as we
could otherwise that they would like.
MCC Yeah, I concur just having thought about
it here. It sounds like what we're saying is that in essence
this 82A sequence and JOP 3 are incompatible in that you
cannot do them both and do each of them well. And what we'll
do here on the ground is to take a look at it again with
all of the experiments represented and get some words up
to you as to guidelines as to how to operate; to press on
with 82A or to terminate and go to JOP 3. Is that reasonable?
SPT Yeah, I think so. Or if they'll settle
for a more sporatic timing on it, that's fine. I also
I'd like to say yes on that but I existing realities of it
say that I know it wouldn't be possible.
MCC Right, we - we can - -
SPT - - the other ones during the periods
of high activity, that is when we have fluctuating bright
points and, you know, the X-ray counts drop and so forth but
we really didn't have a flare. There I think we can go ahead
and continue on with this sequence if they would like it
initiated.
MCC Okay, I'm sure they would there. And
we concur with you wholehearted that we certainly don't
want to do two things poorly simultaneously when we could
pick one thing and do it very well. And we're i minute from
LOS. Goldstone is next in 3 minutes. And Dr. Musgrave
is taking off his CAP COMM hat right now and putting on his
medic hat; he'll be talking with you then. And we've got
another 40 seconds here.
MCC Okay, Ed, well that was basically about
all I had here other than to remind you to think some more
about the shuttle-type planning as we discussed yesterday,
and I'll talk with you tomorrow about that. And I guess
for now we got 20 seconds left. I'll sign off and say I'll
see you tomorrow as ATM and I'll see you in about 45 minutes
as visual observations.
SPT Okay, thanks very much Bill. I haven't
had a chance to talk a little bit about what I see this
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morning on the Sun, but I'ii do that when we get a free


pass.
CDR Hey, Story the VTS has got some stuff
on it; you might want to dump it over Goldstone.
CC Okay, Jer.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
17 hours 15 minutes; loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be through Goldstone in 30 seconds. Repeat:
The Dr. Robert MacQueen, Principal Investigator of ATM
instrument, will be at the Johnson Space Center newsroom
at 1:30 central daylight time for a briefing on yesterday's
prominence observed by the crew. That's 1:30 in Building
i newsroom, Dr. Robert MacQueen.
PAO Part three of the science conference
will be conducted during the Goldstone stateside pass with
Dr. Story Musgrave discussing with the crew medical
experiment operations. This is a 7-minute pass, we'll
bring the line up for this stateside pass science conference.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Goldstone for 7 minutes here. We're rewinding the VTR and
then we'll get a dump on it. And in the medical world
before I get into my agenda and all, have you got something
for me?
SPT No, I don't think so, Story. We're
looking at the agenda you had lined up and it sounded
pretty good. Why don't you go ahead?
CC Okay, before jumping right into it,
the M070 series people want to thank you very much for
a superb job in managing your diets for the sparing use of
of the extra foods containing minerals and proteins. You've
stayed within very close day-to-day limits on the key nutrients
The collection of urine for 36-hour periods in no way impacts
M071, but it does somewhat the M073, of course, because they're
looking for circadian variations in the excretion hormone.
SPT That's too bad, Story.
CC And, moving on to the taste and aroma.
The results of all those tests, as far as smell goes they're
seeing no evidence for changes there. So, they are seeing
changes with respect to taste that Joe mentioned last week.
And all the comments from here on refer to taste as opposed to
smell. The changes we are seeing are highly individualized for
each crewman. For Jer, he had no change in his threshold of the
four basic flavors. He did show a - he increased his ability to
detect aromatically, that is to an orange, but remained unchanged
in threshold for the aromatic flavors of onions. So, overall for
Jet there's no overall dramatic change in flavor spots, comparing
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his inflight to preflight responses. For Bill, he showed an


increased sensitivity to salt and a very diminished sensitivity
to both the aromatic flavors orange and onions. The other
flavors remained essentially unchanged. These tests would
suggest that foods would taste somewhat differently to him
inflight than preflight. As for Ed, he showed a marked enhance-
ment and ability to detect sweet things, and an associated loss
in ability to detect the bitter foods. This is coupled with
enhanced ability to detect orange flavor; other flavors
remained unchanged. These also suggest that foods might
taste sweeter and different to Ed inflight. So these findings
are supporting the need for inflight condiments so an individual
can season food to their own taste preferences which may change
from preflight to inflight. And they'll - these Pls will
appreciate any further observed changes in your appetite for food.
CDR Roger, Story. We agree with the condiments
idea that we've still got a few things to - wrinkles that
need ironing out in the way of dispensing the condiments,
but we'll talk about that on the ground. And thanks for
the information on taste and smell. I was just about to ask
you a day or so ago about - if they'd give us any results.
CC Okay, and I just gave those to you in
summary. He's got another, oh, dozen pages beyond the summary
and I just don't have time to get all that information to you.
CDR Well, what you gave was fine. Thank you.
CC Okay, and MO92 there's no really significant
changes. You're all hanging in there even closer to preflight
now than you were about a month ago. Again the only really
significant things are the extreme changes that we're seeing in
venous compliance or the leg volume changes with respect to lower
body negative pressure. Both Ed and Bill are pretty much
stable now, and Jer, you've gone a little further in that.
You're down to about minus 15 to minus 18 percent on that
once we crank in the new cal curves for that CJ legband.
SPT Okay, what - what am I down in in terms
of percent?
CC For Jer on mission day 57 you were minus 18.5.
CDR That's in venous compliance. Right?
CC That's in the total, the venous compliance
plus any fluids. In other words, filtration of fluids out of
the vessels into the leg. That's the total calf change.
CDR I see and I'm not using the Charlie Juilett
legband, l'm using Charlie Sierra.

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CDR Okay, what am I down in in terms of percent?


CC For Jer, on mission day 57, you were minus
18.5.
CDR That's in venous compliance, right?
CC That's in the total - the venous compliance
plus any fluids. In other words, still tracing the fluids
out of the vessels into the leg. That's the total calf change.
CDR I see. And I'm not into the Charlie Juliett
legband, I'm using Charlie Sierra.
CC Okay, that's affirm, and we concur with
that. That's fine, Jer.
CC Okay, that's it for M092. The MIIO is showing
a lot of interesting data, we appreciate the good work on that.
In general, your results of course showed an initial rise in
hemoglobin due most likely to a reduction in plasma volume.
early in the mission. And then you've showed a general
downward trend throughout the mission probably due to a slight
loss of circulating red blood cells. Ed showed the most
variation in that. Bill has shown the least in terms of
variation. The trend that was seen there was very similar
to what we saw on SL III.
CDR Roger. We've had a lot of talks to Dr.
Hordinsky about that, too, and we're pretty well up on the
hemoglobin situation.
CC Okay, let me skip on over to MI31 then
since you're up on that. The PIs there are taking a look
and trying to do some kind of analysis and come up with
some experiments not not for your mission but future
experiments on the correlation between the significant role
that fluid shifts and other types of inputs besides the
vestibular system may have on motion sickness. However, they
do still put a lot of emphasis on the vestibular system due to
their ground-based studies. And things like is it possible
to make people motion sick that do not have vestibular systems.
They are coming up with, you might call it a one time good deal.
A test on mission day 73 or 74 in which you'll run standard MS
mode and after about 1 or 2 minutes of rest in the chair, if
you don't have any symptoms, they will run another MS mode with
a reverse rotation. They're thinking that maybe you adapt
somewhat to the stimulus during during the chair actually
itself a short duration adaptation and you should have a
aggravated response on the second run.
CDR Well, sounds like it's worth a try.
CC Yes sir, and I'll be able to get more
to you on that. I'm about going LOS here. And the next one
coming up will be corollary with Dr. Parker of Commuters in
about 5 minutes. Your next day off it looks like about day 72,
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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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CDR Roger, Bob. We'll get those two together.


MCC Okay. As I say it's in work coming up.
I hope it answers the questions that Bill had. On T020, the
PIs were especially pleased with the debriefing. I guess
I might say that one of the reasons that they probably especially
pleased, is the fact that it is enough to convince people to
give them a second unsuited run as you suggested. That run
right now we're trying to get on mission 70. And I might say
that following your comments in the debriefing we're planning
on deemphasising the nonrigid modes, and sticking pretty well
with the rigid modes, We'll be sending you updates on that
later on in the next couple of days. Over.
CDR Okay, that's very good, Bob. I really
do feel like we owe them more data and there is more data
to be gotten. And I agree wholeheartedly the rigid system is
the way to go.
MCC Okay, and on to the next maneuvering unit,
M509. Even though we didn't get all of the things that we
planned yesterday, they are quite pleased because it turned
out that we got the highest priority items anyway. And things
are fitting pretty well in with the stuff we got on AI Bean's
run.

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MCC the thing - it's in work, coming up.


I hope it answers the questions that Bill had. On TO20, the
Pls were especially pleased with the debriefing. I guess I
might say the one of the reasons they're probably especially
pleased is the fact that it was enough to convince people to
give them a second unsuited run as you suggested. That run,
right now, we're trying to get on mission day 70 and so I might
say that following your comments in the debriefing, we are
planning on deemphasizing the non-rigid modes and sticking pretty
well with the rigid modes. We_ll be sendin_ you updates on
that later on, the next couple of days. Over.
CDR Okay. That's very good, Bob. I really
do feel like we owe them more data and there's more data to
be gotten. And I agree wholeheartedly, the rigid system's
the way to go.
MCC Okay. And on to the next maneuvering
unit, M509. Even though we didn't get all the things that
we planned yesterday, they are quite pleased because it turned
out we got the highest priority items anyway and things are
fitting pretty well in with the stuff we got on AI Bean's run.
In terms of Bill's run, which is coming up on Sunday, we've
gotten his comments on checklist modifications and they're
going to try to avoid confusing construction that happened.
The Bill's run, they're going to try and streamline a bit
to redo some of the calibration maneuvers which you got so
well yesterday, Jerry. And they'll try and schedule all the
CMG work early so that the power problems should not be as
severe as they were yesterday. The emphasis in Bill's run,
his suited run'll probably be on the exploratory and discri -
discriminatory tasks and those sort of maneuvers. Over.
CDR That's excellent, Bob. I think there's
some good information to be gained there and I think we ought
to give it a little priority. One question: Do the folks down
there think that our battery capacities are beginning to
diminish considerably?
MCC We've had bitter discussion on that and I
guess I'd really like to defer on that. The general feeling
right hera at the moment, though, is that the batteries are
performing as expected and wetre not terribly concerned about
them. But there is some discussion still going on and let
me take an action item and have somebody give you an update
on that tonight or tomorrow morning when we get more data in.
We had a little bit of trouble getting data back from the sites
yesterday afternoon so we're a little slow on getting those
facts for you.
CDR Okay. Well, we'll just have to do a better
job then of consumables management. Wet11 get all cranked up
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and then try to be a lot more efficient.


MCC Okay. Let me say before I forget it,
that on the comet people today, it'll be Stan Fields who's
another one of fellows who's been working with Bill Snoddy.
Bill's back in Marshall today and so Stan'll be giving you
your report.
CDR Roger.
MCC On the - on the science demos, people
down here, as all Pls are extremely pleased with the results
to date. I guess one particular thing we might mention.
Apparently, Ed, you sent down a question last night about was
there anything left to do with the liquid floating zone and the
only comment from the people on that was that the - they might
be interested in putting a solid cylinder with its axis perpindi-
cular to the liquid axis, if you get that picture. But with an
end in contact with the liquid, hoping to reduce this C-shaped
instability which sometimes occurs when you were spinning
it, particularly fairly rapidly. Over.
SPT Yeah, I didn't quite get the picture
there. The geometry of what they were trying to come up with.
MCC Okay. We're talking about another cylinder
this time, a solid one though and I'm not sure what they're
suggesting. But with its axis perpendicular to the long
cylindrical axis that runs through the whole mechanical affair
and with that axis perpendicular, but one of its end faces
in contact with the liquid floating zone.
SPT Okay. That would be rigidly hooked up
to one of the plates on the end?
MCC IVm not sure about that. Let me get them
to get me a solar picture on that one. Either that or a
sky hook.
SPT Okay. Why don_t you have someone put to-
gether another story on that one. That instrumentation of
(garble) dismantled and I've started to work on spheres.
MCC Okay, I've just gotten word that they're
saying just floating in the middle, not attached to anything.
But if we get anymore info, we'll send it up to you.
CDR Okay. We gave them one with a little ice
floating in the middle and that, of course, went to the center.
MCC Right. On the - we hope to get some more
of those in, but I might just comment that those are shopping
list items and I might push on beyond that to a comment that Jer
sent down a couple of days ago on getting more time for shopping
list items. In general, things that are on the shopping list,
are items that we don't feel as strongly about scheduling as the
items that we scheduled in the Flight Plans. And therefore, if
we get a, what we would down here call a successful science
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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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divided up between some visual observations and EREP. Owen being


the chief mover here. Dick Wilmarth and I have been planning
the visual observations presentation. We're recommending a paper
entitled something like, "Man's Roll in Earth Observations from
Space," and with your permission, we'd like right now to submit
an abstract for you guys with you three as the coauthors. If
your schedule doesn't permit you to actually deliver the paper,
I can do it for you since I'll be there for another one. But
abstract deadline is today, so I needed to talk to you about that
today.
CDR Roger, Bill go ahead.
MCC OkayS, we'll do it. Another thought thinking
ahead toward postflight. We haven't done anything officially
other than thinking that we would steal some time from EREP on
postflight debriefing time. We have been thinking the
kind of things that we need to do. Which is really to
spend a significant amount of time we think with each of
the investigators and go at it area by area looking at

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MCC The EGU spring meeting in Washington


in April has got a day that's set up half EREP and half
ERTS. The EREP half is being divided up between some
visual observations and EREP. Owen being the chief mover
here. Dick Wilmarth and I have been planning the visual
observations presentation. We're recommending a paper entitled
something like "Man's Role in Earth Observations from Space,"
and with your permission, we'd like right now to submit
an abstract for you guys for you three as the co-authors. If
your schedule doesn't permit you to actually deliver the paper,
I can do it for you since I'ii be there for another one.
But abstract deadline is today, so I needed to talk to you
about that today.
CDR Roger, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We'll do it. Another thought
thinking ahead for postflight, we haven't done anything
officially other than thinking that we would steal some
time from EREP on post flight debriefing time. We've been
thinking the kinds of things that we need to do which is
really the exsend a significant amount of time, we think,
with each of the investigators and going at it area by
area, looking at the transparencies that have resulted. We've
asked for EREP's postflight debriefing to be as late as we can
so that we can get as much of the film developed and have
time to assess it beforehand. And also to look at it in
realtime with you. And we would hope that we could get
enough time here to do this area by area. Wondered if you
could do some thinking about this and come back with some
recommendations on your part as to how long you think we
ought to request of management for that debriefing?
CDR Okay, Bill. We've already given that
some thought. We think that - We agree with you that it
ought to be done late, so that all photographs are have
been developed and are ready to go and I think we ought to
very definitely lay aside some time for Earth observations
debriefings and it's going to take some time if we get with
each different PI. I would suggest a minimum of a couple of
hours with each one.
MCC Roger. That's what we were thinking.
And when we start adding that up, it looks on the order of
day or two type timing.
CDR Yeah. That sounds about right.
MCC Okay. We'll put the input in. Okay.
Now getting back to the first part. The things that we will
be emphasizing here in the future over the next 2 weeks are
the oceans we'll be looking at the Falkland Current, the
New Zealand Current area, the interesting area that you have
found upwelling off of Mexico and island wakes. These are
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all as Sun becomes available over these. We'll contlnue


our lakes and ice investigation. The message we sent you
on river deltas, we will not be scheduling. Anytime you
happen to be looking out the window and spot one, just
click off a shot or two of it. Again, we will be scheduling
lots of dunes. We prefer the photographs first, observation
second on those. Similarly, we'll be scheduling snowcover
in the Cascades in the Kings River and Salt Verde River basin
areas. What we would like there is 300-millimeter Nikons
of the edge of the snow cover. Presently you may not know
that the northwest United States up in the Washington,
Oregon, northern California, and Idaho range are having severe
floods right now. I mention this to you on a target of
opportunity basis. You might get some photographic coverage of
that. Geology will be concentrating on the Africa Rift, the
San Andreas Fault and the Romanche Trench extension. The
119 Alfa we sent up will be hitting rangeland, metropolitan
complexes, dim light. We will not be scheduling any atmos-
pheric sites, because we don't know where they are. We_ll
have to depend on that as a target of opportunity. So you
can see we'll be quite busy scheduling these things. We
don't anticipate getting anywhere near as much as we would like.
But anything we get here is really just great. On some
of the results that we have gotten so far, going back down
pretty much the same type of the list here, oceans, the
Falkland Current area is very much new. Until 1967, they
did very little fishing out there. Just not knowing the
potential. In 67, Russia moved in and took 61,000
tons of fish. The following year, Argentina declared
200-mile coastal limits for their nation and they're now
taking several i00 thousand tons per year. They just don't
have the scientific or technical capability to do the kind
of things that will enhance the potential. All of your
observations around New Zealand on the current and the
upwelling is all new. It just was totally unknown prior
to the flight. We're anxious to look somemore at the ups
welling that you discovered off the Gulf of Tehuantepec in
Mexico there and begin to try to take this apart and see
if there's a local upwelling, if it's like you suspected a
confluence of an equatorial counter current with the California
Current, or just what is it. In addition, the information
that you gave us much earlier in the mission, I believe
Jerry did it on the Sakurazima volcanic eruption clouds gave
us unique information on the size, the distribution downwind
and the color variations of the plume. And we're anxiously
awaiting the photography that was taken of that. In the - -
CDR Roger. There seems to be some very
strange winds down there too. I notice how the smoke moves
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all in one direction in kind of a straight line and then


just suddenly it plumes off to the side like there's a good
shear wind.
MCC Okay. Good.
SPT By the way, I'm looking out the window
right now at the Coast of Mauritania and they've got one heck
of a dust storm going on. The wind's blowing from the
northeast and blowing dust out over the ocean.
MCC Okay. Good. If you get a chance give
us a good observation and put it on the recording and we'll
take a look at it. We've got one - -
CDR Just got two H - HDC photos of it.
MCC Okay. We've got lots of film. And
what we would we would prefer on any sites in the future
is to take a minimum of 3 frames of whatever it is and
try to get a stero of virtually everything. We've got
all sorts of film left.
CDR Good show.
MCC Okay. A couple of other inputs here
on accomplishments, the fire that was discovered in
Australia was new and unknown. We turned that over to them.
We recently made perhaps a connection between the dust
storm that you discovered several weeks ago up off of
Algeria with dust that is appearing in the Caribbean that
is brought in on the northeast tradewinds. We wonder if
there's any connection here. We'll be looking at it on
the ground side. If you see any evidence of dust borne
in the northeast trades, get us some pictures of it. Similarly
the geologic feature that you pointed out to us in Wisconsin
appears to us to be just fortuitous that it appears like a
feature. Although, of course, we raise our eyebrows and
say, well, we better go back and look at that. Perhaps you
have discovered a feature that's real that's previously
undetected. So that's kind of a broad brush example across
our various regions here as to the types of real contribu-
tion that has been made to date just based on the words with-
out even looking at the pictures. And I've also tried here to
give you an idea of what we'll be concentrating on in the
next 2 weeks. And obvious, I'm giving you a list of 300 per-
cent of what we can really get done and we_ll just do what
we can on it. And I'ii turn it over to you for a comment
or so here. And then when you're finished_ we_ll turn
it over to comet.
CDR Okay, Bill. The last 30 seconds
were - you dropped out so we missed all of that.
MCC Okay, I was just carrying on here, wasn't
all that important probably not worth repeating. If you
don't have any further comments, we'll turn it over here
to Stan Fields for the comet.
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CDR Okay, hello Stan.


MCC Hello. I'd like to take the next few
minutes to discuss with you the comet. First of all I want
to tell you how we appreciate the sketches you prepared for
you and also the descriptions you gave. These have been
very valuable to us and Maurice Dubin points out that your
sketches and descriptions may make it possible to form the
bases to one of the best scientific publications to come out
of our entire observations ops - observational programs. Also
I'd like to point out that we believe that on mission day 50
when you saw the violet color in the white tail, you were
probably seeing the gas tail, Ed, we agree with you that
JOP 18 has been very successful and the ATM observations
around perihelion plus your sketches and descriptions are
going to be very valuable.
SPT Stan, it really doesn't say we were looking
at the dust tail because - or the gas tail because it appeared
to be pretty much coinciding with the dust tail up to that -
to where we - the point we could still see the dust tall and
I expected to see them diverge.
MCC 0

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MCC - very valuable.


SPT Yeah, I was hesitant to say we were
really looking at the dust tail because - or the gas tail
because it appeared to be pretty much coinciding with the -
with the dust tail up to that - to where we - the point
we could still see the dust tail, and I expected the two to
diverge.
MCC Okay, we just thought from the the
color description there that there was some possibility.
Now then I would like to tell you a little bit about what's
going on down here. First of all, l'd like to report to
tell you the detection of a new molecule since the last
time we talked to you_ that's hydrogen cyanide. Also during
the last conference we told you somewhat prematurely about
the detection of water from the comet for the first time.
This, however, has now been confirmed by other groups. Also
just this morning the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
reports the observance of CH in radio emission. The importance
of this is that it's the first observance of a molecule in
radio emission that has also been observed in emission in the
visible regions. There's been a couple of rocket launches
since their last conference. The John Hopkins University on 5
January obtained a spectrum in the UV and identified the
Lyman-alpha and atomic oxygen. Surface brightness was estimated
at 80 kilora rayleigh in Lyman-alpha and 4.5 in OH. This
observance occurred near the time that you were performing an
SO19 operation. An RL on a rocket on the 8th of January with
three Carruthers cameras onboard observed the cloud in Lyman-
alpha which was nearly spherical in a central region out to
about i/9th degree, then the intensity dropped rapidly with a
cloud distorted in the antisolar direction. In this period you
made several $201 observations which should prove very
interesting in following the development of the cloud. The image
in the 1230 to 2000 angstrom, range had a 5 arc minute diameter
and integrated brightness about the same as the star Eta Capricorn.
The spectrum showed atomic oxygen at 1304 angstroms and atomic
carbon at 1657 angstroms. The carbon emission was about four times
stronger than the oxygen. Also, some
SPT Very good_ go ahead.
MCC Okayp on some photographic results,
the University of Minnesota reports IR observations with
an antitail beginning about - observed through 4 January.
The coma and regular tail showed the silicate structure
identifed in Comet Bennett, whereas the antitail showed
irregular black body spectrum cooler than the coma and
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consistent with the presence of larger particles. The


joint observatory commentary research at South Baldy, a
mountain in New Mexico, has been photographing the comet
daily. The latest report on 15 January, gave a gas tail
measured of 25 degrees long with a distinct curvature
at the end, and a dust tail i0 degrees long; also an antitail
1/2 degree long. The visual observations these days are
estimating tail lengths approximately 6 degrees.
SPT The antitail, which exact direction was that?
Was that still solar or what was the orientation?
MCC Yes, that would be solar.
SPT So that would correlate with what we
were able to see visually for the first 3 or 4 days after
perihelion.
MCC Yes, that seems to agree. Also, the
comet magnitude is not as bright as weed hoped it would
be at the time. As you remember, prior to perihelion, we had
given you some visual ops to compare with the curve you have
on board and those magnitudes were running i to 2 magnitudes
below the Arend-Roland curve. The postperihelion visual
ops at this time seem to show the comet being 3 to 4
magnitudes below the Arend-Roland curve. Incidentally, we
did observe the comet here at Houston for the past three
nights and this has been the first time we_ve been able
to see it since perihelion. From the astronomers point of
view there is no reason for disappointment in this low visual
magnitude of Kohoutek. In factp we're waiting the opportunity
to correlate the data gathered on the ground with the Skylab
observations. There are a number of theories as to why the
magnitude of Kohoutek has not lived up to its advanced billing.
Some astronomers theorize that Comet Kohoutek is a new comet
not previously effected by solar radiation and that the head
of the comet is covered by a low vapor layered crust that in
some way inhibits the brilliance that could otherwise be expected.
Others believe it is - it is possible that Comet Kohoutek
consists of a highly volatile gases that vaporize soon after
the comet was discovered leading to a prediction of a higher
brilliance that finally occurred. Additional theory holds
that Kohoutek approached perihelion _ - as it approached
perihelion, the Sun quieted down considerably thus producing
less effects on the comet. However you know that comets are
very unpredictable. And in wrapping up here, I'd like to say
that starting about mission day 71 we do plan some more comet
observations with the corollary experiments. Thank you.
CC And we're 20 -
SPT Thank you very much. Excellent rundown
Stan. Appreciate it.
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CC 25 minutes to Carnarvon, at 18:19.


PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
17 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension tracking
station with the close of the off day science conference
with the crew. This pass with Bill Lenoir discussing the
visual observation program instituted for the final Skylab
mission. A plan of the crew taking handheld photography
of selected natural phenomena around the world and at the
same time giving visual description of what they see on the
onboard tape recorder. Specifically the crew has called
attention to the Falkland Current and advised their
description and photography will be very helpful in determining
the ocean currents of this area. Astronaut Lenoir telling -
advising the crew of the increased amount of fishing being
done in this Falkland current area. The crews attention
was called to the serious flooding in the northwest U.S.
and asked if they had opportunity in the next several days
to observe as well as photograph this area. Today the crew
was advised, if time, to take photographs at Greenwich mean
time 19:06 in about an hour and a half from - an hour and
15 minutes from now of the Connecticut and Merrimack River
ice damage in northeast United States in the New England
area. The crew has been advised that considerable damage
to surrounding land has been done by ice in the Connecticut
and Merrimack Rivers in New England northwest of Concord
New Hampshire. Although EREP coverage is planned in this
ar area. However the crew has been told to effectively
cover the time variations they've been asked to supplement
the EREP coverage with handheld photographs. Detailed
observations however, are not necessary but the ground would
be interested in what can be detected from the orbiting
Skylab space station. The final portion of the science
conference today was conducted by Stan Fields of the Marshall
Space Flight Center. Co-worker of the - on the Comet Kohoutek
in the corollary area. The crew was commended for their
sketches. These were described as one of the best scientific
contributions in the program. The finds of the comet by
groundbased observations together with the crews observation - -

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PAO The - on the Comet Kohoutek in the corollary


area the crew was commended for their sketches. These were
described as one of the best scientific contributions in the
program. The finds of the comet by groundbased observations
together with the crews observations currently being evaluated on
the ground. The latest information on the comet was passed
to the crew. The crew was also advised on mission day 71
additional corollary experimentation of the comet will be
accomplished. Photography of the comet with the corollary
instruments. Next acquisition in 22 minutes and 25 seconds
through the Carnarvon tracking stations_ at Greenwich mean
time 17 hour 57 minutes.
PAO A briefing with Dr. Robert MacQueen,
Principal Investigator of one of the ATM instruments who
will discuss the solar prominence of yesterday at 1:30 in
the Johnson Space Center newsroom. Dr. Robert MacQueen at
1:30 at Johnson's Space Center newsroom. At Greenwich mean
time 17 hours and 58 minutes this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
18 hour 19 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon.
A 4-minute pass, as Skylab space station in - now in its
3,597th revolution since launch from Cape Kennedy. The
crew's in its 912th revolution today, on this the 64th day
of the mission. We'll hold the line up for this Carnarvon,
Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger Story.
SPT Story do you have an ear for listening
to what the Sun looks like from up here?
CC Say again Ed.
SPT How would you like to hear what the Sun
looks like from up here.
CC Yes sir we're always interested in
that.
SPT Okay, we'll start out with the white
light coronagraph. And the region where we saw the
large activity yesterday has not changed greatly in the
appearence from what it was originally. There was a -
there is a few small changes, I'll go through those.
First off all there is a very faint streamer still visible
at 060; narrow, very faint but goes out quite far in the
display. Maybe out to, say, 3 solar radii.
CC Okay.
SPT Fine. No real prominence streamers
imbedded in that. Yesterday at 095 there was a streamer which
extended out quite far.
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Now this whole region isjust diffuse emmision. The largest


change is over on the opposite limb over at 280 where we use
to (garble) streamer. Now we've got a very intense bright
streamer which goes out about as far as the helmet streame_ did.
But the sides are now straight but still converging slightly.
But it looks exceptionally intense, especially in the display
itself, the photograph doesn't show it quite as well. The
other streamer which was over there, a helmet streamer which
looked to be behind it or at least the two were superimposed
to a degree at the basis. That's at 295 that is now exception-
ally faint and can barely be seen. The XUV monitor shows the
active region not changing greatly from yesterday except due -
due to rotation. We see the active region 23 over on the disk
- over on the limb and even though it is on the limb it's not
enhanced at all. Active region 25 shows up fairly faint. Sixteen
looks relatively bright and large, a couple of arc minutes or
maybe 3 arc minutes or so in the XUV monitor. And the active
region 21 and 20 is the most - the largest and by far
the brightest. The new regions which they would talk about
active region 28 shows up as a faint region about, oh, i arc
minute or so 1-1/2 arc minute diameter. The active region
29 also shows up, but it looks almost like a bright spot
than an active region. There is another one going
farther right out to the northeast, about 2 arc minutes
which looks to be about the same intensity, maybe a little
bit smaller than active region 29. But without the labeling
here, I would not be able to say one was the active
region and one wasn't. They both appear to be about the
same. That is if you go from active region 28, 29, and
then about almost an equal distance maybe two-thirds
of the distance between 28 and 29 you find another bright
spot. Active region 27 shows up on the Limb. It's rotated a
little bit off the limb. And it's not anywhere near as bright as it
was yesterday. In looking at the active regions in oxygen 6
this morning everything looked pretty quiet. There was
not too much - not very many high gradients in the intensity,
and there was no real bright points. They were up around a
thousand to a thousand and a half or so in the two regions I
looked at or three regions at 20, 21, and 16. So that is why
this morning I elected not to work with the active regions but
rather to look off the disk and see what I could find there.
This last orbit I looked off the disk again at about 285
and used Lyman-Beta to look for the prominence. And I
Just found a very diffuse area of emission all the
way out to around - l_m guessing now because I didn't take
the figures exactly. But they were about 60 to 70 arc seconds
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where the (garble) dropped off quite rapidly. So maybe we


do have something there in the way of a prominence. Although
I was able in the pxevious orbit to find fairly distinct
local maximum in oxygen 6 which I didn't take data on. This
past orbit I took data on oxygen - or'on Lyman-Beta
MIRROR AUTO RASTERS and 82B wavelengths long exposure, hoping
that if it was relatively cool material we could see that.
And the next orbit I think I'll go on back and start looking
at the active regions again. That does it.
CC Okay, Ed. Thanks a lot. And we'd like
a stop on S055. We saw the grating running with the door
shut.
SPT Rog, Story. I was trying to light it
up to get it close to zero again, and got talking and just
forgot about it. Thank you.
CC Okay, and thank you. And we're about
30 seconds to LOS, about 15 minutes to Hawaii at 18:43.
And for everybody, Goddard is totally clouded over. We
would like to cancel your laser runs at 19:05 and 20:42.
That's for everyone, just cancel on your details 19:05 and
20:42.
SPT Thank you, Story.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
18 hours 30 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in ii minutes will be through the Hawaii
tracking station. The briefing at Building i newsroom
at the Johnson Space Center with Dr. Robert MacQueen,
Dr. Jay Gosling, co-PI of S052, Dr. Neil Sheely S082
co-Principal Investigator, and Joseph Hirman of the NOAA
organization is scheduled to begin in the briefing room
momentarily. We'll record the Hawaii and stateside pass
if the briefing is still in progress at that time. And
we'll turn the line over to the newsroom Building 1 for
the briefing on yesterday's solar prominence activity on
the Sun. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 31 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


19 hours 18 minutes. We have 15 minutes of recorded
conversation with the Skylab IV crew through the Hawaii
and stateside pass. We'll play that tape and then bring
up the Ascension pass following the completion of the
tape playback. During the Hawaii pass the crew was advised
o£ a disk transient in filament 81 which is the first time
this has occurred. It's never been seen before in a Skylab
mission. Filament 81 is approximately at the center of
the Sun. The crew was asked to put JOP 8A into initiation.
That's joint observation program 8A. The crew was also
advised during that pass that the probability of a flare
in active region 21 has risen to approximately 75 percent.
We'll play this Hawaii and stateside pass and then play
catchup through the Ascension station.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, it's our lucky day again. We're
seeing a disk transient in filament 81. Like you to
perform a JOP 8A step 5, that's a building block i0.
SPT Say again location.
CC It's filament 81. That's at 270, .2 radii.
CDR Story, you never did talk to us about
MI71 today. And I would propose that sometime after it gets
cooled down here a little bit, Ed and I still plan on
giving you one more fully instrumented with the MA max
effort, and I would suggest that we do it in lieu of a 171.
Sometime and let us call it, when we're scheduled for 171 we'll
just let you know that that's going to be a max effort, it'll
be about 30 - 35 minutes of heavy pumping. Houston, CDR.
CC Yes sir, I got it Jerry. Just working
it over here. We were flight planning that type of run
around mission day 78 or 79 but we're not yet sure that we
can do that in lieu of an MI71.
CDR Okay.
CC And if you're not using the VTR, we'd
like to rewind it here at Hawaii for a dump stateside.
CDR Okay, we're through with it. And Story
I think I prefer that we not Flight Plan it, that we go ahead
and let us try to get it ad lib as best as we can.
CC Copy, Jer.
CDR We'll try to do it on a day when you
give us 171 plus PT PH afterwards.
CC Okay.
CDR It certainly would seem to me a whole
lot more efficient to let us do a regular exercise routine
in lieu of a 171.
CC Copy Jer.
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CC And while I've got you, I've got two


changes to your EREP C&D pad.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC I'm going to get with Bill shortly about
doing another thermal alignment. And pertaining to that
for you, S192, POWER ON at 19:33.
CDR Okay, 9:33 instead of - 19:33 instead
of 19:37.
CC Yeah, bring it up at 19:33 and then at
20:00 S192 to CHECK.
CDR Okay, 19:33, S192 POWER ON, 19 - 20:00
would be MODE to CHECK.
CC That's affirm and is Bill right there?
CDR Okay, he's ready to copy.
CC Okay, the alignment he did, we got an
excellent visible alignment. The thermal alignment all we're
seeing in terms of data was noise, so we'd like him to
perform an align check for thermal only at 20:06 and
voice/record the meter reading.
PLT Hey, Story you seem to dismiss the
thermal. I thought I got a fairly good one, but I'ii recheck
at 20:06.
SPT Story, would you confirm that I got the
right pointing. It doesn't - nothing - the numbers don't quite
agree with what I'm seeing.
CC Okay, Ed. That's just an align check,
Bill.
PLT Roger, align check.
CC And regardless of what you get, go ahead
and GO for the data.
PLT Roger.
SPT Story, could you confirm we got the
right pointing. The numbers don't quite correspond to what
I see on the disk.
CC We're checking. Okay, Ed, go right 200
and leave UP - DOWN where it is and you ought to be right
on it.
CC Okay, go to 200, UP - DOWN the same as
it is,
it ought to be there.
SPT Story, that's just about what I was on.
Moving out from sub Sun center, there are two filaments.
Is it the one furtherest out or the one close to the center?
CC Closest to the center, Ed.
CC And as you're reading, 21 has got
flare probability of about 75 percent now.

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CC Go ahead, Jer we're just coming up on


Goldstone.
CC Go ahead, Jer, we got Goldstone for
5 minutes.
CDR How do you read, Story.
CC Loud and clear, how're you reading me.
CDR Okay, reading you okay now. I repeat,
permanent general message number 7B that just came up on
the food excess situation, in paragraph 2 of free calories
does not list butter cookies. Is it an oversight or have we
now eaten up the excess and the only butter cookies left are
for planned menus.
CC WeWll get you an answer on that Jet.
CDR Thank you.
SPT Story would you confirm the filament w
which I was was - now has lifted off, would 82B and 82A,
like to continue on in the building block i0 which I plan to
run the_ consecutively now?
CC We'll get you the answer to that and you're
probably not seeing it because it did lift off, Ed.
SPT Yeah, I understand that now Story, it
was still on the disk at the time when we got over there.
CC Okay.
SPT The same question goes for 54 also, Story.
CC Okay, Ed take data on S054 and just take
you probably taken them already, we want just one frame of 82A
and one of the 82B.
SPT The 82A got one frame, the 82B got what
was called for in the building block, wavelength SHORT for 20
and 240.
CC Okay, you can leave her right there.
SPT Excuse me that was i0 and 240 that I got.
CC That's good, Ed.
SPT Story your instruction was one more or to
continue on in the whole sequence.
CC Let's continue on, Ed.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS, about
3 minutes to MILA.
CC Ed, in terms of the pointing now, you
think you got the correct RIGHT/LEFT but you ought to move
up to 300.
BPT Okay, Story I sure will. That's-for
H-alpha i_ that's where I saw it when I moved over there.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
MILA and Bermuda for ii minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about i0
minutes to Ascension, 19:21. And Ed, that's the first disk
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TIME: 14:26 6ST, 64:19:26 GMT
1/18/74

transient the Skylab program. And we had a 4-minute-response


time from observation down here until you started the experiments.
SPT That's very good, Story. Sorry it took
a longtime up here, I had to do a weird roll in there and
I was trying to figure out exactly which one of the two it
was.
CC Yes sir.
SPT And tell the planners to delay the flare
if it's going to occur until after the Z-local vertical pass.
CC Okay, but there may well be some action
when she falls back in.
CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension
for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS about
24 minutes to Carnarvon at 19:54, be looking to dump the
data/voice there. Ed, you got 18 minutes on the VTR.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 31 minutes. Completion of the playback of the
tape on the press conference and the conclusion of the
Ascension pass. Next acquisition in 22 minutes through
Carnarvon tracking statlon. At Greenwich mean time
19 hours 32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 2251/1
TIME: 14:53 CDT, 64:19:53 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours, 53 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 56 seconds
away from acquisition of signal through the tracking antenna
at Carnarvon, Australia, the pass through Carnarvon will last
10-i/2 minutes and the Spacecraft Communicator is Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for i0 minutes,
we're dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story. Story on the S190 film
advance sequence, I got a malfunction light on camera number
6, all the cameras did advance three frames however.
CC Copy, Jer.
C CC And whenever you get the S192 align
check, we'd like the reading 8n the right meter on panel 136
there, When you get the switch in the TRERHAL position.
CDR Okay, we'll let you know, it's a little
early yet.
CC Yes sir.
CC And you got a good maneuver time, Skylab.
PLT Okay, Story Just so you'll know where we
started, just taking the readings On left and right thermal,
left is reading 17, right is reading 12.
CC Thanks, Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, we won't
have Guam this pass, so the next one will be Goldstone in
about 30 minutes at 20:33. And Jer, we'd like after the
align check we'd like to get the readings on Alpha 5 and Bravo 5
as well.
CDR Okay, Alfa 5 and Bravo 5.
CC Thank you.
PAO Skylab Contrel at 20 hours 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab apace station now over northern
Australia, has passed out .of range of the tracking antenna
at Carnarvon. Our next acquisition is a little less than
28 minutes from now, that will be at Goldstone antenna in
California. At that time the Skylab crew should be in final
stages of preparations for the Earth resources pass. That
pass covers a 4000-mile-long track, it begins near Helena,
Montana and end west of Martinique Island in the Caribbean.
We'll be back in 27-1/2 minutes, when the Skylab crew will
begin that Earth resources pass.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2252/I
TIME: 15:31 CDT, 64:20:31 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 31 minutes


Greenwich mean time, The Skylab space station is now
coming within range of the tracking antenna at Goldstone.
Skylab crew should be preparing for their Earth resources
pass at this point. The pass is a 14-minute one that
begins north of Helena, Montana and ends the southeast
of Puerto Rico. Follows track 19 and 20 today. Change-
of-shift briefing should be about 4:15 if everything goes
smoothly during the Earth resources pass. That's Flight
Director Milton Windler, for a change_of_shift briefing about
4:15 in the Building 1 briefing room. He does put the
condition on that that if there are problems on the Earth
resources pass, it may take him a little bit longer to get
out. We'll bring the line up live now at Goldstone.
CDR - - minute for READY, ON.
PLT Be seeing the coast here pretty soon.
Yeah, I see clouds on that sea. Okay as you pick up Van
Vancouver is clear, we should pick it up about 33-1 - that
must not be clear.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and
clear down here and got you stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story Alfa 4 is 92, Alfa 5 is 35,
are those the two you wanted?
CC We wanted Alfa 5 and Bravo 5.
CDR Okay, let's see Bravo 5 is 54.
PLT And Story the alignment worked out about
14 to 15 on the left and about 64-1/2 on the right.
CC Okay, sounds good, Bill.
PLT Bat the readings were down. When I
opened up and checked the alignment, they were reading
17 and 12. Left and right respectivly, I guess that left
would read 17 instead of 14 And - when we maxed out the
readings. And for the people there on the ground, I had -
the focus had been all the way to the extreme position.
And that's the only reason - possible explanation I can bive
for the fact that the the good reading I gave fell off. I
backed off from the extreme travel away from the micrometers.
I was all the way away from the micrometers. I backed off from
that about almost three-quarters of a turn about 5/8 of a turn.
CDR MARK. S191 READY lights ON, going to
to REFERENCE 6.
PLT Let me get that reading.
CDR At 35 even) stand by
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER) ON, RADIOMETER,
ON.
CC Okay, and Bill for your VTS trackings,
a special 01 the clouds_ you'll have 0.8 A to overcast,
SL-IV MC2252/2
TIME: 15:31 CDT, 64:20:31 GMT
1/18/74

that ought to be good. You're 365 is clear but probably snow


covered and your special 02 is slightly doubtful, we'll call
in about a 0.8 to an overcast on that one.
PLT Okay. That's a snow cover, anyway. Maybe
I can find a place between the clouds. MAIN DAC coming on.
- Even. Man, you're getting - -
CDR Okay, we're coming up on 36:03 -
PLT MARK.
CDR - - with an ETC POWER ON.
PLT DAC OFF.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. ETC POWER ON.
PLT A minute until 36:40. Stand by -
PLT MARK. DAC off. Okay going from the lead
or lead or whatever it is. There is the Black Hills. There
are the Black Hills.
CDR Okay, on my mark it will be 37:03 with
the ETC to AUTO on 190 -
CDR MARK. 190 is in AUTO and ETC should be
in AUTO. Next mark at 37:40. Hey I got a MALF light on
camera 6. Okay the next mark is 37:40. Stand by -
CDR MARK. M192 MODE to READY. Got good
TAPE MOTION. An occasional flicker in the TAPE MOTION light.
PLT Okay, I got the target, how about that
sports fans. DAC ON. - - Data, I wouldn't have bet money on
this at all. Sun center, you know that analogy I drew between
the (garble).
CDR Yeah.
PLT That's how I caught it. (Chuckle)

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2253/I
TIME: 15:38 CDT, 64:20:38 GMT
1/18/74

PLT Just made my whole day. The DAC


okay, DAC OFF, going for special 02 any late up date, Story.
Okay, I'ii just wait here and see what I can find.
CC No sir, nothing new here.
PLT Okay.
CDR Still got our MALF light on camera 6.
PLT Okay, 02 at 39:20. Now (Garble) l've
never seen so much snow. Not the way it looks there.
CDR Okay, my next mark is at 39:40.
PLT Okay, it's all snow.
CDR Stand by
CDR MARK. 193 POLARIZATION to 4. At 50,
all right at 50 A-5 is 40 correction 37, B-5 is 54, C-3 is
88 and Delta 3 is 83.
PLT Now I can see the ground. Don't see
any snow, that's unusual.
CC And when anyone get a break up there,
don't forget to load the new maneuver time for going back
to SI it's 21 minutes or 50, 025.
PLT Thank you. Okay, I've missed the
snow cover, I'm going to the Blake Escarpment. Mark is
44:36, that's in a couple of minutes. Now there's a break in
the clouds I'm going to go for something.
CDR Okay, at 41:10 we're looking for a
S190 READY out. Still got my MALF light.
PLT Okay, I'm going to take data lines
Single hole that you can spot through the clouds, it's not -
got snow cover on it.
CDR Mark at 12, 190 READY light went out,
ETC ought to be in STANDBY, now Ed, 190 MODE to STANDBY,
setting up frame 45, 41:30 is my next mark, stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT Okay, 44 - -
CDR Story did you copy those monitor read
outs at 39:50.
CC Yes sir, got them Jet.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Story would you check maneuver time
please?
CC Yes sir, clarified correct.
PLT Thank you. 2246(?).
CDR Okay, coming up on 42:53. 42:53 stand
by
CDR MARK. $190 to MODE AUTO. Okay, my next
mark is at 43:28. Stand by
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
SL-IV MC2253/2
TIME: 15:38 CDT, 64:20:38 GMT
1/18/74

CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Yeah, I


said STANDBY instead of OFF. How about that?
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON. At 45 Ed, we
want ETC POWER ON, stand by -
CDR MARK. 43:45. Okay, I turned ALTIMETER
ON, instead of the SCATTEROMETER, I've got it ON now and -
RADIOMETER is OFF and the SCATTEROMETER is OFF, RADIOMETER
went to STANDBY I should say. SCATTEROMETER went to STANDBY,
the RADIOMETER went OFF. 44 the ETC should have been AUTO.
193 ALTIMETER is ON at 44:19.
PLT Okay, it's got coast is out.
CDR Okay, I guess I blew some SCATTEROMETER
data there at 51 then. 41:30 ETC to STANDBY. The DOWNLINK
switch is going to 7.
PLT MARK.
CDR There's 7. Next mark is at 45.
PLT Okay, I've got the data slot started
that at 44:36 on time.
CDR Stand by for 204500.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape speed is
up, 45:10.
PLT It's about like about i/i0 or 3/10
coverage complete.
CDR Alfa 5 is 36. Bravo 5 is 40, 54,
Charlie B is 88, Delta 3 is 83.
CC Got them.
CDR 46:01, the next one.
PLT Standing by for 46:06. On the
Blake Escarpment nadir swath, clouds vary from clear to
the swath -

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2254/I
Time: 15:45 CDT 64:20:45 GMT
1/18/74

CDR - - 01, the next one.


PLT Standing by for 46:06. On the Blake
escarpment nadir swath, clouds vary from clear in the swath
to about -0.3.
CDR TAPE MOTION light's flickering still
got a MALF light on 6_ got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light going
to STANDBY on the ALTIMETER at 55.
CDR 46:01 Ed is ETC STANDBY.
CDR MARK.
PLT Stand by for 46:06.
PLT MARK. DAC off,
CDR Okay the ALTIMETER is going back to ON.
Looking for 46:30 next. Stand by.
CDR MARK. 191 REFERENCE is 2, 47 is next.
PLT Okay, I got some good data here on one
of the Bermudas I'm going to go ahead and take. It's for
my i0 seconds of clear film.
CDR Got an altimeter UNLOCK light ready
light is still good. TAPE MOTION is flickering.
CDR 47:00 coming up, Stand by.
CDR MARK. DOWNLINK to position 9.
PLT Okay, IVm going to pa -
CDR Need a VTS AUTO CAL at 47:30, Bill.
PLT Okay, I'ii get it. I'm now (garble) in a
lagoon in one of the Bahamas.
CDR Still got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light,
still got a READY light. TAPE MOTION is flickering.
PLT Okay, I'm starting to lose (garble)
CROSS-TRACK. Okay, what time is that 47
CDR 30, 8 seconds.
PLT Roger.
CDR Stand by.
CDR/PLT MARK.
CDR Okay, coming up on 47:40. Stand by.
CDR MARK. DOWNLINK to position i.
PLT (Garble) some - -
CDR 47:55 is the next mark. Stand by.
CDR MARK.
CDR SCATTEROMETER - correctionp ALTIMETER to
STANDBY. MODE number 5; RANGE 62.
CDR 48:20 ALTIMETER ON.
CDR MARK. It was 6 seconds late. DOWNLINK to
position 4. 48:85 coming up next.
SL-IV MC2254/2
Time: 15:45 CDT 64:20:45 GMT
1/18/74

CDR TAPE MOTION light is out. 48:45, Ed. ETC


power On. MODE to MANUAL on 194.
CDR 49 coming up, Stand by.
CDR MARK. DOWNLINK to position 5. ETC to
AUTO Ed. At 49:40 is the next one. (Garble TAPE MOTION
light. Looks like we are are out of tape. No_ itts still
turning. 49:40 coming up. I got it Bill.
CC Skylab, wetre a minute to LOS, 43 minutes
to Carnarvon at 21:32. Looks like you'll have a good trip back
to SI.
CDR Roger. DOWNLINK position to 6 at 49:40.
Wait for a READy light on 191. We still have tape, and it's
still moving. But I have no TAPE MOTION light.
CDR S190 READY coming up in about 7 seconds.
CDR MARK. 190 READY, went out on time.
CDR ETC to STANDBY Ed. 50:32 is my next
one. Stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 to STANDBY 190 to STANDBY.
51:00 is next. All right, I'm going to turn off the ALTIMETER
early. The READY light went out. It apparently been out for
some time while I was busy doing other things. DOWNLINK switch
position is going to OFF, and EREP, STOP.
CDR Okay, Story, I don't have to do a
tape recorder depletion.
CC Okay, we're still with you.
CDR Tape recorder done shot its wad.
PLT My X-rate looks awfully high there
Story, how about taking a look at it.
CC What's high?
PLT My X-rate.
CC Okay we're looking.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 2255/1
TIME: 15:51 CDT, 65:20:51 GMT
1/18/74

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.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 2256/1
TIME: 16:18 CDT, 64:21:18 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 18 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Milton Windler has just
unplugged this headset from Mission Control console and he'll
be on his way over very shortly to Building 1 for the
briefing. He was completing a graph before he left Mission
Control and wanted to finish it before handing over to
Phil Shaffer. He should be there in approximately 7 to
i0 minutes. And we have a brief announcement today on the
comet Kohoutek which is still reported to be visible. Hawaii
observation reported by this Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory indicates that the total magnitude of the comet
is now between 5 and 6, which means that is areas where the
sky is clear it should be possible to visit to view it.
Of course the lighted areas around cities are not considered
to be good areas for viewing relatively dim objects. And
also, while Skylab has been focusing it's dozen instruments
on the shorter wavelengths of the comet, including the ultra-
violet light which is absorbed in Earthts upper atmospherep
the huge 200-inch telescope on Mount Palomar, in California,
has been looking at the longer wavelengths. Today, Professor
J. L. Greenstein of Cal Tech reports that perhaps 200 pre-
viously unpublished cometary emission lines have been
recorded at wavelengths higher that 6700 angstroms, that's
the red visible wavelength. On - on acute image tube specto-
grams. That was done with the 200-inch telescope at
Mount Palomar on the 13th and 14th of the month. And the
range of the spectograms, Professor Greensteen Greenstein
reports through the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
is between 5600 and 8300 angstroms, that's visible to infra-
red range. So the comet Kohoutek_ although it did become
rather rapidly dim, it's still apparently visible, at least,
faintly visible and is being studied from the Earth now as
Skylab is avoiding the study for a while because of high
temperature problems. The Skylab observation of the comet
will begin again in the next few days. 12 minutes before
our next acquisition of signal. Milton Windler now preparing
to leave the Mission Control Center for that briefing in
Building i. This is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2257/I
TIME: 16:45 CDT, 64:21:45 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours, 45 minutes.


We're about a minute from acquisition at Guam. We did make
about 5 minutes of recording over the Carnarvon station.
We'll start playing back and playcatchup over the Guam
station.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple
gang. We're at Carnarvon for 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed. You guys having a good day
today?
SPT Certainly are. Enjoying it and doing lots
of useful things.
CC Good show.
SPT Dick, could you please give me again
the time and the - the antenna for the phone call?
CC Yes, sir. It's left antenna. It's
Vanguard and the time is 22:35.
SPT Thank you.
CC Incidentally, Ed. Since EREP is fresh
on your mind and the ETC, longtime ago you guys told us that
you were going to take care of the ETC desiccants and - and
make sure that they stayed dry and we haven't heard much about
it. Just to make us feel warm we were wondering how that had
been going. How often have you had to replace them and how
many blue ones do you have on hand now?
SPT Put one in today, Dick. And we have
completed (Static) everytime we replaced one up there.
SC (Static)
PLT - - And the use the 190 Alfa.
CC Guys, right after I asked that question,
we - we dropped out on the downlink and I did not hear the
answer.
SPT Okay, the answer was, Dick, I just
replaced one today and that was the last blue one we had.
And it's about the third one or so that I've put in.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, I missed the first part. Did - that
also applied question also apply to 190 Alfa.
CC We're intere - it really didn't. I had
asked it about ETC but we're are interested about 190 Alfa,
You might as well tell us and then I won't have to ask you
again later.
PLT Okay, we've been - replacing them, you
know, on a rotational basis about ever second or third pass.
And sometimes they seem to last longer than others, but_ it's
no big problem. We ju - we've just been taking care of it on
as necessary basis.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you much.
SL IV MC-2257/2
Time: 16:45 CDT 64:21:45 GMT
1/18/74

SPT Dick, have the people down on the ground


seen effect of the filament which blew off?
CC I haven't gotten a real recent word.
Let me check again real quick, Ed.
CC SPT, Houston,Negative. We haven't seen
anymore - anymore observations of that filament since it blew
off. We'll let you know if if we do.
SPT Okay, Dick. I think I'd like to work
it next orbit and then I'ii leave that following one unat-
tended. And then I think I have a scheduled one after that.
CC Okay, let me make sure I understand
that. You're going to work the upcoming one. And then the
following one after that we're going to do unattended and
then you'll get the scheduled one later on. Thank you.
SPT Thank you_ Dick. If there's anything
in particular they'd like for me to do this orbit, I can
go ahead and do it like a STANDARD MODE Sun center or any
other mode.
CC Okay_ we'll certainly give it some
thought - thought and if we have anything to get up to youp
I'ii do that. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Guam comes
up at 21:47. Just about 7 minutes from now.
CC Andp SPT, Houston. Our druthers are the
optional pad that we sent up to you last night.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger, I was just telling Ed on this
upcoming daylight pass that what we'd like is that optional
pad that we sent up last night.
PLT Rog, he read.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger that.
CC SPT, Houston. No response required, but
in response to the discussion you had earlier today about
TV-IOI during the science conference, I think that we have
uplinked a general message entitled GMTV-IOI. It's number
6441 and it came up today. You might take a glance at that
and see if that clears things up.
SPT Okay, Dick thank you.
CC Okay.
PAO We're now live at Guam for the next
minute and a half.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2258/I
TIME: 16:51 CDT, 64:21:51 GMT
1/18/74

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS,


Goldstone comes up at 22:10 and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Goldstone.
PAO Skylab Control at 21:54 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now over the North Pacific,
out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam as it moves
to the east of the Islands of Japan. 15 minutes to our
next acquisition at Goldstone. During thls last pass over
Guam, Science Pilot Ed Gibson asked a question about TV-IOI,
and had that answered by Dick Truly. TV-101 is a liquid
floating zone television, some of which has been televised
already by the Skylab crew. The instructions sent up in the
general message to the crew and specifically directed to
Science Pilot Gibson, instructs him on the setup of a
perpendicular cylinder to allow the photography of liquid
floating zones, and includes the little sketches of how the
floating zone is to he set up between two sockets using
a cylinder. Among the other things to be used in the
experiments are the electropaste container, that's the
cylinder to be used from 133 which is the sleep experiment.
That electropaste is used to - to make the electrodes operate
properly. The paste is put on the electrodes, it keeps them damp.
And they also use Krytox oll and some visual flow ops
aids which are - includes frayed rope and onion and other
things are suggestions. Skylab crew busily occuppied
today with some observations of the Sun. That Earth
resources pass completed during last trip across the
United States. 13-1/.2 minutes now to our next acquisition
at Goldstone. This is Skylab Control at 56 minutes after
the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2259/I
TIME: 17:09 CDT, 64:22:09 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours, 9 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now
56 seconds from acquisition through the Goldstone tracking
antenna in California. This pass through Goldstone, Texas
and Merritt Island, is a pass lasting about 16 mintues.
Spacecraft Communicator on duty now is Dick Truly, we_ll
bring the line up live for air,toe,round across the
United States.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at stateside for
15 minutes and we need the DAS, we_re going to do a nuZ update.
CDR You've got it.
CC All righty.
CC And a couple of other things Skylab,
we're dumping the data/voice recorder here at Golds,one and
also wetre taking the VTR here and we're going to start into
our dump sequence.
CC Skylab, Houston the DAS is yours.
CC SPT, Houston we believe on H-ALPHA
you need NIGHT INTERLOCK to OVERRIDE.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, we have a fairly decent view of
Houston today.
CC Yes_ it has been a little bit better
today. The kind of broken clouds but very clear. Looks
like the rain stopped for a little while I hope. E1 Paso
was pretty this morning.
PLT Yeah, we just took a look at White Sands.
CC CDR, Houston one note for you. In the
event you have not already done HKCM7 today, when you do
we'd like you to pass down to us what the entry batts are
reading if you've already done it and don't remember don't
worry about we'll catch it next time.
CDR No I haven't done it yet, I'll do it a
little later.
CC Okay, when you do, if you'll just jot
down the numbers and tell them to me, I'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we're a minute from LOS,
Vanguard comes up at 22:35 and a reminder for the SPT, that's
your phone call, Ed and the antenna was left.
SPT Thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 22:26 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now over Central America.
8-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition through the tracking
ship Vanguard. This is Skylab Control, it's now 26 minutes
30 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC 2260/1
TIME: 17:34 CDT, 64:22:34 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 22:34 Greenwich mean


time. Skylab space station is now over central South America.
52 seconds from acquisition of signal through the ship
Vanguard. Pass through Vanguard will last a little less
than i0 minutes. And we'll bring a line up live now for
air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston_ AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. Sometime this afternoon
I'd like to get back to the case of the butter cookies with
you. I have a couple of questions before I can an - answer
your question directly.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Yeah. Okay, first of all, of course,
the butter cookies appear on your q on your menu cue cards
with an asterisk on them. And we think _ that the butter
cookies on board are just enough to satisfy that requirement.
However, we'd like you to verify in locker F563 - in the rear
of it we think that there are some small cans numbered 22-26
through 22-32. And you might have a look in there and we'd
like to verify that those butter cookies have been removed.
If they have been removed, then the answer is there are no
overage ones. If there are any in those cans and the numbers
again were 22-26 through 32, then those would be overage.
Over.
CDR Okay, l'm pretty sure we got those out
but I'ii check. That locker again was 67?
CC 56 F563.
CDR 563. Okay, I'ii check but I think
we've already used them.
CC Okay. Incidentally, this there's
another item here and before I tell it to you IVd like you
to know that it really doesn't make much of a a hill of beans
to us but you reported 21 grape punt - grape punches in
Apollo packages and it turns out we never had that many. We
we had some grape punches and some grape drinks. The quanti-
ties that we sent were 9 grape punches and 18 grape drinks
and so if you ever run into them again and would like to tell
us how many of each we'd be appreciative to hear it.
CDR Okay, I noticed that, oh, a day or so
ago, that they were two different things in therep not just
grape punch.
CC Well, that's no big thing. Also be
advised of the message you sent yesterday evening I did get
it from Bill and it has been transmitted and the guys I'm
sure will appreciate it tomorrow night. Thank you.
CDR Okay.
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1/18/74

CDR Well, Dick. I guess I need my sad


music for this report.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Well, there aren't any more butter
cookies, I guess. And I guess by this time tomorrow, Ed'll
be in withdrawal.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Understand. Would
you like to pass any special message to Bean's crew and
Conrad's crew on the subject?
CDR I don't have anything but Ed might.
CC (Laughter) Okayp well, sorry about that.
CDR Roger. Give him a sedative tomorrow
night.
CC Okay_ take care of him.
PLT Ed says he'll take a piece of fruitcake ins
instead.
CC Okay.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS Vanguard. We got about an kour to go to Goldstone
at 23:47. And_ Jerryp and, Bill, if Ed can't hear me, you
might just remind him to please close out for unattended this
ops because we're planning on running unattended next daylight
cycle. See you at Goldstone.
SPT Roger. I'm finishing the closeout.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 22:45 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now over the South Atlantic_
out of range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. Our next
acquisition is more than hour away at Goldstone. This time
the Skylab crew - participating in some _ousekeeping activities
and Pilot Bill Pogue_ about to sit down to get something to
eat. During this pass_ Commander Jerry Carr was talking
with the ground about the butter cookies. Dick Truly said
there may be some located in one of the Skylab lockers.
Jerry Carr went back and made a check of it and he said we've
got some bad news there are no butter cookies left and
by tomorrow night Ed will be in withdrawal. Butter cookies
have become a medium of exchange in space_ Earlier Commander
Carr had kidded that Ed Gibson was going to have to pay him
i0 tins of butter cookies to use the solar instruments for an
extra pass. Our next acquisition_ more than an hour away,
at Goldstone. It's now 46 minutes after the hour and this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2261/I
Time: 18:46 CDT 64:23:46 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 23:46 Greenwich


mean time. The Skylab space station over the Pacific
Ocean is about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal
through the tracking antenna at Goldstone. This pass
through Goldstone will be an 8 minute pass. The spacecraft
communicator is Dick Truly and the flight director on duty
is Phil Shaffer. The pass through Goldstone will last about
8 minutes, will be followed by a pass through Texas for
about 4 minutes. We'll bring the line up live new for
air,o-ground through Goldstone and Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone
for ii minutes. We do have a keyhole coming up in about
in about 45 seconds for about a minute. And I'ii give you
a call out of keyhole.
SPT Hello Dick. Do we have any VTR time
available?
CC Let me check Ed. Stand by.
SPT Thank you.
CC That's affirmative, Ed. It's available
and it's clean, you can have it.
SPT Thank you very much.
CC Hey Ed, incidentally on you question
on ED61 and 62. We decided that since the plant growth
have been so good lately the objectives of the experiment really
have been met. We do have ii frames of
35-millimeter film left in our film budget for that experi-
ment though. AndSo what we we're planning on doing was
scheduling some photos at opportune times on the photo pads
based on your reported observation.
SPT Okay that, thank you. I think I'll
go ahead and let it get a little more light also.
CC Ed, stand by on that one please, let
me get an answer.
CC SPT, Houston. Our receomendation
rather than moving it closer and putting more light on it, that
since they've - we've had that light on it so far and they're going.
And they've been growing under those conditions if we leave
it as is and see what happens from here on in.
SPT Okay, will do.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Sometime when you get
a chance and can talk to me, I've got three or four question
from the EREP people concerning the end of tape light and
the events surrounding that little event at the end of
the EREP pass today. It's no particular hurry, but it's
the last mission note that I have hear in front of me.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like a DAS to
do a command. Also up in the ATM we'd appreciate it if
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somebody could give us MPC and MPC ROLL both to INHIBIT.


And also on 82B we'd like you to command the DOOR OPEN and
then get an open indication and the command it CLOSED.
SPT Well, that's done Dick.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you very much.
CDR Okay, Dick go ahead with the EREP questions.
CC Okay, real quick. The - during the
EREP data take did the END OF TAPE light ever come on?
CDR Negative it didn't.
CC Okay, the second question. You reported
that the tape was depleted at EREP stop, and also you
reported about 1 minute before EREP stop that it was moving.
Did you happen to notice if the tape was depleted at any
time prior to EREP stop?
CDR No it didn't look like it Dick. The
reel was still moving and it looked like there was about
oh, a centimeter to go. And what I did was I pick - picked
up the lid and peeked under there just to see how it was going,
and it was still moving. It looked like it was still threaded
through all the rollers so I assumed that there was still
tape on it.
CC Okay, here's another one. Did the tape
recorder READY light ever go out?
CDR Negative it did not. And when I did - did
the tape depletion, that is went to fast forward and it probably
couldn't have turned more than 3 or 4 times, then we got an
END OF TAPE light.
CC Okay, one - one final question Jerry.
Did the tape recorder MALF light blink when the tape
speed changed? It should do that normally, we wouldn't
expect you to report it, but we were Just wondering.
CDR Yeah, it sure did.
CC Okay, Jerry sure appreciate it. Thank
you very much.
CDR Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2262/I
TIME: 18:55 CDT, 64:23:55 GMT
1/18/74

CC Skylab, Houston we're a minute from LOSp


Vanguard comes up at 00:14, we're going to dump the data/voice
recorder at the Vanguard and also I'ii be standing by for
the evening status report there.
CDR What time is that Dick.
CC It's about 13 minutes from now, Jerry,
at 00:14
PAO Skylab Control at Greenwich midnight,
we're now ii minutes and 30 seconds from our next acquisition
at Vanguard. And just out of range of the tracking antenna
at Texas. This is Skylab Control, it is now midnight
Greenwich time.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2263/I
TIME: 19:10 CDT, 65:00:10 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at zero hours l0 minutes


and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now about a minute and a half from acquisition at
tracking ship Vanguard. We've been informed that there
will be some blockage during the early part of this transmission
so we don't expect to get communications with the spacecraft
for about 2 minutes. This pass through Vanguard should
last about 9-1/2 minutes. Spacecraft Communicator is Dick Truly.
At the present time Commander Jerry Carr is scheduled for
some off duty time. He'll be able to relax a little bit
before he prepares for sleep and he's expected to go to sleep
at 3 hours Greenwich mean time, that's just a little less
than 3 hours from now or i0 o'clock central daylight time.
And during the same period of time Ed Gibson is finishing
up his meal and ready to sit down at the solar telescope
for our final passes this evening. And Pilot Bill Pogue
is doing a little bit of off duty time right now, has some
housekeeping left before he can prepare for sleep and he
does have a good more off duty time left. We'll bring the
line up live now for air-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes, we're going to dump the data/voice recorder here
at the Vanguard and I'm standing by for the evening status
report.
CDR Okay, Dick I'Ii be right with you.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, the photo log's first. 16-millimeter;
no change. 35 millimeter number i, Charlie X-ray 41_ 40;
2_ India Romeo ii, 34_ 3, 4, and 5 no change. Charlie X-ray
50, 165; Charlie India 12, 073. EREP; Set Yankee 9390, 8728,
9603, 9595, 3140, 0464. Drawer A configuration, no change.
CC Okay, Jerry got it, thank you.
CDR Okay, Dick on the sleep: CDR 7.0, 7 heavy;
SPT, 10.3, 10.3 heavy_ PLT 9.0, 8.5 heavy, 0.5 light. Volumes:
175_ 140; 170. Water gun: 8670; 4683; and 0991. Body mass:
CDR, 6.318, three times; SPT, 6.365, 6.372, 6380; PLT, 6.245,
6.243, 6.237. Exercise: no change for all crewmen.
Medications: none for all crewmen. Clothing; CDR, socks
and shorts; SPT, socks and shorts and shirt; PLT, T-shirt
and shirt. Food log: CDR, zero salt, minus a lemonade,
minus a coffe with sugar, plus 1.0 water; SPT, 11.5 salt,
zero deviation, zero water; PLT, 7.0 salt, plus one butter
cookies, and zero water. Flight Plan deviations: none.
Shopping list accomplishments: TVI07, 2-1/2 hours by the PLT,
2 hours by the SPT. All housekeeping. Inoperable equipment:
none. Unscheduled stowage: none. And mad hours spent looking
out the window about 7_i/2. CDR out.
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TIME: 19:10 CDT, 65:00:10 GMT
1/18/74

CC Hey, that sounds good, that last one.


And I got - we still have about 6 minutes here at the Vanguard.
CDR Yeah, that last part makes the whole
day off.
CC Yes sir.
CDR I tell you Dick, we did not get as much
IR film taken as we should have and the reason is we're just
out of the habit of reaching for that other camera. And
every time we see something we either grab the Nikon or we
grab the Hasselblad. We have a third camera down here with
IR in it and we just keep forgetting to grab it.
CC Roger, Jerry.
CDR So we'll try to get at it tomorrow.
CC Rog.
CC And Skylab, Houston for your information,
the film thread pad is on the way up.
CDR Thank you Dick.
CC Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2264/I
TIME: 19:19 CDT, 65:00:19 GMT
1/18/74

CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from


LOS Tananarive at Tananarive is at 00:37. Just in case
we miss that pass the next pass is Hawaii at 01:22 and thatts
the med pass.
CDR Roger, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours, 22 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now out of
range of the tracking ship Vanguard. 14 minutes to our next
acquisition at Tananarive. We understand there has been some
problem with the release line in transmissions to New York.
We're going to attempt to play those back for you at the
earliest possible moment. This is Skylab Control at 23 min-
utes after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2265/1
TIME: 19:36 CDT, 65:00:36 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at zero hours, 36 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now coming
within range of the tracking antenna at Tananarive, we_ll
bring the line up live for a pass here lasting about 9
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Tananarive
for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick_ and on those batteries Alfa is
35.0, Bravo is 34.3 and Charlie is 36.2.
CC Okay, Jerry sure appreciate t_at,
incidentally while l_m talking to you_ I have some good
news and some bad news. Good news -
CDR Slip it to us.
CC Okay. Good news first, when we did the EREP
today, quad A really did cool down which means that we are
not going to have to relieve it this evening. And as a matter
of fact, it cooled down enough that we may - may not have
to relieve quad A anymore. And the bad news is that you
know how we lie so we may be asking you to relieve it tomorrow
night.
CDR That's neat. (Chuckle)
CC Thanks for the - thanks for entry batt
stuff.
CDR Okay and also this test systems test 9 Bravo
was 1.3 and 1.4 is suppose to be the minimum.
CC Okay, thank you. We'll get back to you on
that one.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston we have one request for
amplification on the evening status report, did you get around
to doing a documentry photos today?
CDR Not yet, Dickp we'll try to catch it later
on this evening.
CC Okay, thank you much.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from
LOS, Hawaii comes up at 01:22 and that's your med conference.
Following that pass, I'ii talk to you again at 01:49 at
Vanguard.
CDR Roger, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 46 minutes
and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now out of range of the Tananarive tracking antenna.
Our next acquisition 35 minutes from now at Hawaii is the
private medical conference for the evening. And we do not
expect to have any conversation between the ground personnel
here in Mission Control and the crew of the Skylab Mission.
That private medical conference should take the full 6 minutes
at Hawaii. Our next acquisition at which Dick Truly should
SL-IV MC2265/2
TIME: 19:36 CDT, 65:00:36 GMT
1/18/74

be talking with the crew is at Vanguard. That's a little


more than an hour from now. That's 1 hour and 2 minutes
from now. This is Skylab Control; it's 47 minutes 15 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2266/I
Time: 20:47 CDT 65:01:47 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control, at 1 hour 48 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now
55 seconds from acquisition of signal through the tracking
ship Vanguard. The pass through Vanguard should last about
9 minutes. We'll bring the line up live for air-to-ground
there. The spacecraft communicator is Dick Truly, and we
understand this is expected to be the final pass of the
evening, Hawaii station does not have voice communications
at this point, and we do not expect to get voice at Hawaii
on the following pass. So this will be the final pass of
the evening at Vanguard_ Dick Truly the spacecraft communi-
cator.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at the Vanguard
for 9 minutes, and we're dumping the data/voice recorder
here.
PLT Roger.
PLT Looks like Ed may be finishing up
something.
CC Okay, stand by.
SPT Dick, I just finished up, go ahead
and take it.
CC Okay, thank you very much Ed.
CC Incidentally guys it's a little bit
early this evening, but we thought I don't have a single
left this evening. Since it's day off I figured we might
make this the last pass of the evening, if that's okay with
you. I do have a couple of pieces of information to give
you though, you might jot down.
SPT Okay_ go ahead Dick.
CC Okay, there are two more passes that
are available to talk before 03:00. I'll give you the times
I thought, Tananarive at 02:14 and Hawaii at 02:56. Be
advised that Hawaii pass we've given up the S band for
another commitment so if you need to call us there you
can call us on VHF, we'll be listening. Also Ed, I'm
assuming you're going to sleep up in the airlock MDA tonight.
And assuming that's the case we'll stop uplinking the teleprinter
messages after this pass.
SPT Okay, Dick I'll appreciate that.
Although I won't be getting in there for about another
2 or 3 hours, so press on if you like.
CC Okay, well we may very will with that
input then uplink some stuff at Hawaii at 02:56.
SPT Yeah_ that would be fine.
CC One - -
CDR - - Okay Dick, on the great grape great
punch grape drink controversy. There are three Apollo grape
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1/18/74

punches left and 15 grape drinks right now.


CC Thank you Jerry. Also we still have
about 7 minutes left here and if possible we wonder if we
could go ahead and close out the ATM so we could see it on
the downlink at this site.
SPT Okay_ will do. And at around 01:i0
we got outer gimbal on CMG number 3 on a stop. And
took us off Sun center for around 6 minutes or so we got
on to 7 degrees. And in the usual of 3 minute maneuver
time stand by and back to solar inertial.
CC Roger Ed. As a matter of fact GNS
had about decided that something like it- that had happened
because he did notice that the maneuver time had chan_ed back
there when we were AOS Hawaii and you were talking to the Doc.
SPT Let me give you the frames remaining here
real quick.
CC Okay.
SPT 9790, 951, 106, 167, 2007, 4946.
CC Thank you Ed.
PLT Dick I worked on the OWS heat exchanger
cleaning problem again today.
CC Roger.
PLT I modified the crevice tool. And I took a
lid off of one of the food cans and bent it around there so as
to make it a 90 degree end point that which I extended to go in
to the - the crevice tool out until it was more than 90 degrees
at the end. And then I wrapped some Mosite around and extended
it about an eighth of an inch beyond the metal. I was able to
get down flush next to the heat exchanger vanes all along. I
was pulling all kinds of crud out with it, and I got so much
water in the vacuum cleaner stopped working. I can I wondered
if you noticed any change in the flow, and also the fact
that I got water out here sort of makes me a little bit
concerned there. Because those only condensive heat
exchangers. However if the flow is slow enough I guess it
could - could stagnate and then get water.
CC Roger_ Bill. We're looking at the flow
now, and I'ii get right back to you.
PLT About a half cup of water total l'd say.
CC Okay.

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SL-IV MC2267/I
TIME: 20:54 CDT, 65:01:54 GMT
1/18/74

CC Bill, we looked at the flow and the


transducers show that the flow is not any better than it
was but if you got the crud and the water out of there
it's bound to have helped, so we appreciate it.
PLT Okay, well there may be some more in
there, when I get the time tomorrow Itm going to take
four vacuum cleaner bags and use one on each one of those
heat exchangers because it was - I could tell I was getting
stuff out of there. I was opening holes that hadn't been
opened since we've been here. You know in between the
little things.
CC Okay, sounds like a good idea. And Ed, you
get an A plus on the closeout, looks good to us, thank you.
SPT Thank you_ Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston we're a couple of
minutes from LOS, your wakeup station in the morning is
right at Ii:00 so we should be able to wake you up there
and Ed based on what you said, we are going to use the next
couple of opportunities to - if we need to to uplink all
the teleprinter messages this evening. This is the last
good night that the purple gang gets to say for the Skylab
program. We do have a few more good mornings to go. And
one other reminder, we'd like you to be sure and turn
off the ATM C&D loop if you want to before you go to bed,
that's okay with us. But this is our last goodnight for
the program and so everybody say "good night Dick."
SPT Good night, Dick.
PLT Good night, Dick.
CDR Good night, Dick. Good night Phil.
Good night purple guys.
PLT Good night, Phil.
MCC Good night crew. Y_all drive careful
hear?
SPT We will Phil, good night all to all the
purple people.
PLT Good night purple gang.
CC And Mrs. Callabash, wherever you are,
say good night to Bill.
MCC Nighty night_ Bill.
PLT That's the kind of CAP COMM to have.
MCC You're right.
PLT Seems like live been it wrong all these
years.
CC Well y'all sleep tight see you in the
morning,
PLT Okay.
SL-IV MC2267/2
TIME: 20:54 CDT, 65:01:54 GMT
1/18/74

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours Greenwich


mean time. That concludes the pass for the evening. Our
final pass for the purple team of flight controllers here in
Mission Control. They got a good night from Dick Truly and
also a good night from Flight Director Phil Shaffer and a
good night too from one of the girls who works here in
Mission Control as a messenger and secretary. The 100-Delta
was launched tonight from Kennedy Space Center at 9:38 p.m.
eastern standard - eastern daylight time. It carried a
British Skynet communication satellite. Our - We have
no more acquisitions during the evening, a final good night
was said to the crew although we have an opportunity later.
We have the private medical conference report from
Jerry Hordinsky, the surgeon on duty. "The crew remains in
good health, no medications are being are currently being
used. The crew got an obvious psychological lift from
the rest and relaxation afforded by the day off." Signed
by Dr. Hordinsky for Dr. Hawkins, the Medical Operations
Director. That's the mission surgeon's daily report on
crew health following the Hawaii private medical conference.
Very busy day on Skylab, although it was called a day of rest,
the Skylab astronauts are planning on a full day of
scientific research tomorrow. Including an Earth resources
survey that covers an 18 county Houston area test site and
several other sites across the U. S. Today's schedule in
addition to the time set aside for rest and relaxation allowed
the crew to continue their studies of the Earth and Sun.
Chief Scientist Ed Gibson pointed Skylab's telescopes at an
unusual event, a long mass of cool material tearing
through the Sun's atmosphere into space. Photographs of
the filament are the first ever gotten of the entire rise
period of filament. Ed Gibson got to the console just minutes
after that begin. And also today an Earth resourcess pass made
across the central U. S. It began just north of Helena,
Montana and concluded to the southeast of Puerto Rico over the
Caribbean Sea. That included the Puerto Rican trench a depression
in the surface of the ocean caused by an underwater feature in
that area, it also included a number of sites in the mid U. S.,
Black Hills forest area included among them. And also
a number of land use projects from Georgia to Nebraska.
Skylab will be up and awake again at 6 a.m. central daylight
time tomorrow or Ii:00 Greenwich mean time. Until then
this is Skylab Control at 2 minutes and 50 seconds after the
hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2268/I
Time: 05:56 CDT, 65:10:56 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time


I0 hours 58 minutes. Wakeup call expected through the Honey-
suckle tracking station in approximately 1 minute. Skylab IV
crew's 65th day aboard space station Skylab, will have a total
of 26 hours 52 minutes in man hours focused on scientific
investigation. Solar physics, medical, and astronomical
experiments and Earth resources survey fill today's Flight
Plan. A total of seven Apollo telescope mount passes, four
by Science Pilot Ed Gibson, 3 by Commander Gerald Carr, and
one by Pilot Bill Pogue, will add to the fund of information
gained about the Sun during this and previous Skylab missions.
Scientific airlock experiments scheduled for operation today
are the S063, ultraviolet airglow horizon photography, and
the S073 Gegenschein/zodiacal light instrument. We'll leave
the line up for our CAP COMM Bob Crippen for the wakeup call
on this, the 65th day mission of Skylab IV.
CC (Music: Air Force Song, "Anchors Away,"
and the "Ear Spliting Louder Boomer" by Steppinwolf)
CC Morning gents. We're with you through
Honeysuckle for about 5-1/2 more minutes. The Air Force song
there was for Bill this morning and I had to get him a little
bit of Anchors Away in behind it this time just to make him
feel better.
SPT Hey, Crip, Where was the Civilian March?
CC I'm still hunting for something appropriate
for you, Ed.
CC I thought the last little stuff was quite
appropriate for a civilian march too, though.
CC Ed, I would think that the last stuff was
quite appropriate for a civilian to march to, but you really
think you're civilian up there with a Marine and an Air Force
guy taking care of you?
SPT I feel like I've Just gone through boot
camp. CDR runs a pretty tight ship.
CC Everybody needs a good marine, behind (?)
to take care of him.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Next station contact in 32 minutes through Texas and then at
about 11:44, at that time, we'll have a little news for you if
you'd like to hear it. Also, Ed, reminding on your ATM pass
this morning, youtll need to turn the ATM C&D coolant loop
back on pump Charlie.
SPT Thank you_ Crip. So long.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time ii
hours 13 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition in 30 minutes will be through the Texas tracking
station as the crew begins their 65th day in Skylab space station.
SL-IV MC2268/2
Time: 05:56 CDT, 65:10:56 GMT
1/19/74

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.

END OF TAPE
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PAO diverse site tasks as land use in western


Washington, northwest Oregon, and Pacific Northwest Coast
in general. Snow cover map mapping as an aid to 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 viewfinder tracking system and Science Pilot
Gibson operates the S193 Earth terrain camera through the
scientific airlock. Medical experiments today are the M092
lower body negative pressure device, MI71 metabolic activity
with Gibson as subject and Carr_ the observer. Optional
handheld Earth photography sites are lake ice and circulation
in Lake Onterio, sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Connec-
ticut River ice, drifts and falls in east Africa, the Swiss
Alps, the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the Gulf of Mexico
current, and again, the Goddard Space Flight laser emitting
red light at one watt continuous output. Yesterday, the
laser experiment had been - was cancelled due to cloud cover
in the Greenbelt, Maryland area. Next acquisition in 25 minutes
and 45 seconds through Texas tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time ii hours 18 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
ii hours 42 minutes. Acquisition coming through Texas/MILA
tracking station on this stateside pass lasting a total of
about i0 minutes. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Bob
Crippen. Flight Director is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Texas. We
have you for 13-1/2 minutes. Ed, we show that the ATM C&D
coolant loop is not on. Could you give us pump Charlie please?
SPT You got it.
CDR Hey, Crip - -
CC CDR, Houston. Jerry, you cut out there.
Would you say again, please?
CDR On channel B now. That - it's about 6
beats per second and it's been with it for about the last
day and a half. It kind of corresponds with when we had our
little flare up of communications problems with transmitters
and things like that about a day and a half ago.
CC I'm sorry, Jet. For some reason, nearly
all of your conversation was cut out. Would you say again
please?
CDR How are you reading now, Crip?
CC I'm okay now. Could you repeat again,
please?
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CDR Okay. We have a beat frequency on channel


B running about 6 beats per second and it's been with us for about
a day and a half now and it kind of corresponds with the
communications difficulties we had about a day and a half
ago when they were switching transmitters and things around.
CC Okay. We got that. Is it a very loud
kind of thing or just in the background?
CDR Well, it's in the background and it
depends, of course_ on your volume setting and it sounds about
like tapping a pencil on a piece of paper that's been stretched
over a glass or something like that.
CC Okay. Appreciate that input. We've
got you for about 11-1/2 more minutes here. You guys in-
terested in hearing any news this morning?
SPT Crip, let me ask you. Is the VTR available
now for TV?
CC We're dumping here and we're going to be
through MILA in about - oh, 7-1/2 minutes and we can give it
to you then, Ed.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
PLT We're ready for the news, Crip. Hit us.
CC Okay. Well, I - I brought in a professional
newscaster this morning since I keep fouling the things up and
I'm going to turn you over to our own superside, Dr. Robert
Parker to give you a little bit of update on Skylab.
MCC Morning, Skylab.
PLT Hi_ Bob.
CDR Hello, Bob.
MCC I wanted to catch up on the last night of the
agenda yesterday which I didn't get through and thought I'd
sneak in a little extra goody here this morning. As far as where
wwe stand in the mission what the outlook it, let me give you
a sort of a brief rundown by areas. The area that's turning
most at the present time on the mission is EREP and we're
working our best to get as much EREP as possible considering
the circumstances. The constraints that are currently bothering
EREP are twofold, really. One's the weather and two_ is the
restrictions that we're operating under for momentum because of
the two CMGs. But given these constraints, wwe're currently trying
to do our best to bring EREP up to a reasonable par for the
mission. Of interest, you might note that coming up on the
next - oh, let's see - it's day 66 and 67, 67 and 68, we've
got thermal passes early in the morning, going over the western U.S.
in darkness with the new X-5 detector which is one of the reasons
we changed the route. As far as ATM is concerned, ATM's doing
quite well, and we're expecting to get them something like
300 data_take hours. On corollary, you'll be seeing the next
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couple of weeks, less S019 time than you might expect


compared to the others, particularly S183, which we're trying to
emphasize. S019's done so well, it's strictly piggybacking
on its Kohoutek maneuvers 9 that since we finished out its
MRD requirements, and even though there's still film onboard,
we're emphasizing 183, S063, and S073, to bring them up to
MRD requirements. We will be emphasizing them over S019.
S183, our assessment of the carousel at the present is that
they're presently about ii good frames of stellar film left in
the canisters, and we'll be trying tto get through those ii frames
during the rest of the mission. The comet is coming back
for our - your observations in Skylab begin about mission
day 71, and we'll probably be running through at least i set
of observations per instrument there during the mission day
70 through 75 timeline. As I said, at the beginning, we are
right now looking down toward Just about two weeks of experiments
left. We can see the light at the end of our tunnel down
here, and we're trying to put things together fairly well to
see what the whole end of the mission's going to looks like.
Guess I might say one thing and that is, in terms of 509, we do
see limited performance of 509 here but not a great deal of it
between now and the end of the mission. So it won't be coming up
to what we had hoped in terms of the number run premission.
The big constraints as I said before that we're operating on
right now, are the momentum situation for EREP, Kohoutek, and
the SAL experiments is the 2-CMG operation is still reducing
our operation in - for those three areas to some degree and
particularly the sometimes exceptionally foul winter weather
we've been having particularly

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Time: 06:50 CDT 65:11:50 GMT
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MCC And, we'll probably be running though


at least one set of observations per instrument there during the
mission day 70 through 75 time line. As I said at the beginning
we are right now looking down towards just about two weeks
of experiments left. We can see the light at the end of
our tunnel down here and we're trying to put things together
fairly well to see what the whole end of the missions going
to look like. Guess I might say one thing and that is in
terms of 509, we do see limited performance of 509 here, but
not a great deal of it between now and the end of the mission.
So it won't be coming up to what we had hoped in terms of
the number of runs premission. The big strength as I said
before, that we're operating on right now, are the momentum
situation for EREP, Kohoutek and the SAL experiments. The
two CMG operation is still producing our operation in for
those three areas to some degree and particularly the some-
times exceptionally foul winter weather wetre been having
particularly in the eastern U.S._ is certainly also presenting
a constraint to EREP. Over.
CDR Roger, Boh. What's the problem with
509? Just lack of crew time available?
MCC Roger on that. Unfortunately when we
try to schedule something, it takes 3 hours or to 4 hours for
two men, that's a pretty big block of time, particularly at
the same time we're trying to do EREP, and medicals and ATM
so it's kind of one of those things that it's hard to fit in
because of it's size and it's probably just not going to get
all 8 runs that we thought about.
PLT Bob, how did 192 thermal look yesterday?
MCC Everything that we've seen so far looks
good.
PLT Thank you.
MCC And, unless you have other questions,
I'll let you go on those accomplishments and we'll keep you
up to date, as I say we got about 2 weeks left and we can see
the end of the tunnel and things look pretty good running
out towards the end of the mission. Over and out.
CDR Thanks a lot, Bob. We appreciate you
coming in and tuning us up on this.
MCC Okay. I'll turn you over to your amateur.
PLT Thanks, Bob.
MCC Out.
CC Amateur. I really wanted to make him
read the rest of the news. Ed_ we show that H_alpha is not
on. You might take care of that for us please. And also,
before I go on, let's see, Bill that you're going to be
preping S063 here shortly. If you could, what we'd like you
to do is to give us the position of the of the rotation,
and read out the position of the alignment mark on the
rotation knob relative to the index. And if that alignment
mark is not aligned to the index after you do your first
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operation today we would like you to align it and then give


us what the rotation reads with it aligned.
PLT I'm sorry, Crip. I got the last part
would you say the first part over again.
CC Yeah, all we want you to do is, this
morning, when you're preping it, is to report the AMS rotation
read out and the position of the alignment mark on the rotation
knob relative to the index.
PLT Okay.
CC And, then if it's not aligned, that is
if the alignment mark is not aligned to the index, after you
do your first ops today, we'd like for you to go ahead and
align it and then report what the rotation read out is with
it aligned.
PLT Okay. Well, all those indexes and alignment
marks are what we put on there and that's what you referring to
aren't you?
CC Yes, sir. That's what I'm referring to.
We're just trying to find out if anything had slipped.
PLT Okay. We had one on there, we've already
erased that one and we've got a new one on. Jerry's got it
set and l've got it set.
CC I think that might have done away with
Corollary's good idea.
CC Okay, Skylab, we just handed over to
Bermuda then_ we've got you for about another 3-1/2 minutes
here. I can read yon a little bit of the news. In that
amount of time I can't read too fast though. Suez Cairo
Cairo Road, Egypt: Egyptian and Israeli generals signed an
American initiated agreement today that separates combat
forces on the Suez Canal front and sends Israeli troops into
new positions well back into the (garble) desert. While
hundreds of journalists and soldiers looked on under bright
but blustery skies, Lt. Gen. Mohammed Gamasy and David
Elazar, I suppose, opposing chiefs of staff, indicated
the disengagement pact at a tent at kilometer i01. Hours earlier,
the chief architect of the agreement, Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger took off for Aswan in upper Egypt for a meeting
with President Anwar Anwar Sadat. St has taken a week of
intensive diplomatic maneuvering and commuting between the
two countries to win an acceptance for both ideas - both sides.
Bulletin; Saigon: "Fighting broke out today between South
Vietmese and communist chinese forces in the - (laugh) in the
disputed Paracel Islands, 250 miles off the South Vietmese
coast and warships exchanged fire," the Saigon commander said
(laughter). I've got too many guys trying to help me read the
news, (laughter).I offered it to you awhile ago, Robert.
Super (garble) wants to read it now,(laughter). Seattle:
Rain storms and winds that raked 5 Northwest and Pacific
Coast States during the week have begun subsiding leaving -
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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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TIME: 06:58 CDT, 65:11:58 GMT
1/19/74

CC - - the program in the permanent orbit


has failed; and I guess I'm going over the hill. And the
VTR belongs to you guys as we go over the hill.
CDR Thanks, Crip.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
ii hours 58 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 2 minutes and 50 seconds through the Madrid
tracking station with CAP COMM Bob Crippen reading up the
morning news report to the crew, preceded by mission scientist,
Dr. Robert Parker, scientist/astronaut, reviewing with the
crew the outlook for the remainder of the mission in various
experiment areas. He said the area hurting us the most is in
the EREP. This is caused by two constraints. He explained
that the weather for one and the maneuver problems associated
with the one - with 2-CMG control. He said they'll do their
best to play catchup and get the rest of these EREP passes
in. There are two early morning thermal passes on mission
day 67; mission day 68 later. He expected that 300 manned
hours of data take with the ATM will be accomplished on the
mission. Also then on mission - between mission day 70 and
75 additional photography of the comet Kohoutek will be
attempted by the crew. Two weeks remain in experiments
area according to Mission Scientist Dr. Bob Parker. He
reported that he can see the end of the tunnel. Hopefully
the remainder of the schedule experiments can be performed
in the remaining 20-some days left in the mission. Acquisition
through Madrid in 1 minute. We'll bring the line up for this
Madrid pass 8 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Madird.
We have you for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, do you have a moment
to answer a quick one for us, please, sir?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, last night after we left you alone
around, oh, 04:00 a little after that, we saw that our 82A and B
POWER DOOR switches were - were placed ON and then we later
found out that the - the inner door on 82A did - was opened.
And it looked like that what happened was that the switch
had been put back to OFF before the thing had made a complete
transit. Can you confirm that that's (garble)?
SPT Yeah, Crip, I got up and I was looking
at just trying to see what the activity was and it looked
as though something was brightening it up but then it didn't,
and so I had things opened up and then I closed it all down.
And apparently that's what happened.
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CC Okay, we figured you were up there


keeping - keeping the old eagle eye on the Sun to find out
what was happening.
SPT Okay, what was the problem, Crip? I
closed the door, and what else was there to do?
CC What the deal on that is that it had
not - the door apparently had not got completely opened
and consequently the door then did not - did not indicate,
I guess, closed.
SPT How do you get around that?
CC You have to go ahead and wait and make
sure that you got a good - your talkback on the door indicates
gray, and then go ahead and give it the closed signal.
SPT Okay, we don't have that talkback up
here.
CC Oh, that's right, that's right. Yeah,
it's about a 15-second duration, and I guess you have to
allow at least that.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from
LOS. Next station contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes at
12:36. And, Jer, if you got one moment I'd like to confirm
on what you reported earlier about the beat problem that was
on channel B. And we'd like to find out if you hear it
on both air-to-ground and intercom.
CDR Yeah, we could hear it when (garble) transmit
button is not punched, and we could also hear it layed over
your conversations from the ground. We cannot hear it,
though, when we transmit.
CC Okay, fine. I'm being told that that
was a problem we saw on last flight, and it just went
away.
CDR Well, we had it for a little while at
the beginning of this flight, and then it went away, and
now it's back.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR But it seemed to coincide with when you
were having some COMM troubles about a day and a half ago
when they said they had a - the only transmiter they could
use, or something, I think, was a 2-watt.
CC Yeah, right. Okay, over the hill.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
12 hours ii minutes pass through Madrid. Next acquisition
in 24 minutes 45 seconds will be the Carnarvon tracking
station. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours ii minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2272/I
Time: 07:35 CDT 65:12:35 GMT
01/19/74

PA0 Skylab Control Greenwich mean time


12 hours 35 minutes. New Flight Control Team in process of
changing over here at the Mission Control center. Oncoming
Flight Director Milt Windler and his team. The G&N officer
has reported that 08:22 Greenwich mean time, 4 hours ago,
a transient glitch occurred again in CMG number 2, described
as a normal anomaly following the same signatures of previous
transient events in the CMG. The solar science room, ATM
room, here at the Johnson Space Center reports, maybe there
may be some small flares on the Sun today, however they
expect nothing as spectacular as occurred in the last couple
of days. Yesterday, portions of a disk - disk transient
or a lifting filament we're observed by the
CC AOS Carnarvon, we have you for 521/2
minutes.
CC And, PLT, Houston. Bill, if you have
an opportunity this pass I'd like to give you a couple of
corrections or additions to your PLT details.
CC SPT, Houston. We show H-alpha is done
2 frames a minute right now and we're kind of to hit a little
deal on you. We stuck in the SAP that we would like to go
ahead and run that at 1 frame per minute now, because of our
indicator problem. And, then use 4 frames a minute for flares.
SPT Got it, Crip.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Bill. How me?
PLT Okay, I read you 5 square, now, I
guess you weren't reading me awhile ago (garble) said
something about details.
CC Rog; if you got some time I'd like to
make a couple of corrections to your detail.
CC (garble)
PLT Ready to copy.
CC 0keydoke. If you look at about 15:57
we talk about the S063 photos of an noctilucent clouds and
we tell you to use a permanent general message 2 Alfa; that
is incorrect. You should use the S063 H-ops message that we
sent, number 6525, last night.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay. Also, on your details at just
before 23:00, I believe, about 22:57, we have an M509 F7 Bravo,
we would also in addition to that, like to do a - an M509
F4 Alfa. We're going LOS here, and we'll have you shortly
in about 6_I/2 minutes at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honey-
suckle and we_ve got you for a real long pass of about a
minute and a half. Next station contact is over the States
at Texas in 30 minutes at 13:18. We_ll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there, we'll also have handed you over to the
maroon team by then.
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PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time


12 hours 51 minutes. Today's activities on the Sun according
to the NOAA scientist here at the ATM support room,
they report possibly some minor flares may occur today.
However, nothing as spectacular as the crew has been witnessing
the last several days. JOP 21, joint observation 21, studying
variations in the Sun's corona will occupy 5 orbits today and
the rest of the AT observate - ATM observation time will be
spent on synoptic observations under the planned JOP 2C,
the specifically homing in on active region 21 on the Sun.
EREP pass today number 26 - 27 for the mission, will begin
at about 240 miles northwest of Portland, Oregon along
track 34. Data take will end as Skylab space station crosses
into the Gulf of Mexico. Data take stopping at 300 miles
south of Galvestonp Texas. Next acquisition in 25 minutes
25 seconds through the Texas tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time 12 hours 52 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2273/I
Time: 08:17 CDT, 65:13:17 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time


13 hours 17 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Texas
tracking station in 50 seconds. Here at the Mission Control
Center, Flight Director Milt Windler polling his Flight Con-
trollers, checking status of vehicle systems and crew acti-
vities for the day. CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave. We'll
bring the line up for this Texas pass, a 10-minute 47 second
pass.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Jer.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer°
CDR Roger. Does S056 look like it's hung on
the 6 filter?
CC That's affirm, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC Looking good now.
CDR Yeah, I just hit stop.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay Story. We're at the sextant star check
we got it for Alphard shaft 174.8 trunnion 22; Regulus 107.7
for shaft, trunnion 18.3; and regulus is awful, awfully faint.
and without getting dark adapted, it sure is hard to see. If
you come up with a little - a little better one than that
in the future, it sure would help. They were both offscale.
CC Okay. We'll try, Ed.
SPT Say, Story, check the star angle differences
there and make sure I was looking at Regulus, because Jerry
tells me that that is supposed to be brighter than Alphard and
I - what I was seeing was awful faint. I had to go offscale
to find Alphard and l'm not sure what direction Regulus was
so I had to do a square search and took the faint star that
I found.
CC You want to give us the trunnion again
on Regulus? We were thinking it should've been about 17.7.
Did you get 180.3?
SPT 18.3.
CC Okay.
CC And Jer, S054 would like a little bit of
data in here.
CDR Okay. They don't care about fluctuating
bright points or anything like that then, huh?
CC Not on 54, Jer.
CDR Okay. I see what I'm doing. I'm running
56 when I shouldn't be.
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CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About


5 minutes to Madrid. We'll be looking for dumping the data/
voice at Madrid. And that star data looks good, Ed and at
present, those are the best two stars we can get you.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC It won't work in a thermal and humidity
kind of stuff. Could you tell us how many showers you took
yesterday?
SPT 3 showers, Story.
CC Okay. That's what we figured.
SPT That's 3 apiece.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
13 hours 36 minutes as Skylab space station beings its 3609
revolution since launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14. Skylab
crew now in its 923re revolution of the Earth. During this
stateside pass, the biomed officer reported that the ergometer
was showing activity, utilizing the ergometer for his exercise
period this morning. In about i hour from now, Science Pilot
Ed Gibson will be the subject of the M092 lower body negative
pressure and MI71 metabolic analyzer medical experiments.
This will be the eighth time that Science Pilot Gibson has
performed the MI71 experiment and sixteenth time he has
performed the M092 experiment calls for 26 performances
by each crew member, the MI71, 12 performances by each crew
member throughout the 84-day. Acquisition will be coming
through the Madrid tracking station in i minute and 50 seconds.
We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Story Musgrave under the
direction of Flight Director Milt Windier.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Madrid for
7 minutes here. We see you using the voice recorder so we'll
delay our dump here in Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jer_ we're seeing a slight, but unexpected
change in momentum here. Are you doing anything up there that
might cause a vent? Is there any indication of a vent?
CDR Negative. Not that I know of. Bill's
on the ergometer, Ed's talking on the recorder and l'm working
ATM.
CC And is M509 - 7 Alpha been started yet?
CDR That's affirmative. It was started on
time.
CC And Jer_ we'd like the DAS for a NuZ
update.
CDR You have it.
CC The DAS is yours.
CDR Roger. Thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. TananariveWs
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got circuit problems. If we pick them up, it'll be in 15


minutes. We'll probably see you over Honeysuckle in about
40 minutes at 14:25. Our momentum analysis shows you may
have a slight vvent through the minus Z SAL. We'd like you
to check that area and then close that vent valve.
CDR Roger, Story. We'll check it out.
CC And we show the present configuration
there'll be the door closed with the vent door open and
through this long LOS, after checking it out looking for
leaks, close that vent valve.
CDR That's complete.

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SL-IV MC2274/I
TIME: 08:48 CDT, 65:13:48 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


13 hours 49 minutes. We've had loss of signal through Madrid
tracking station. Next acquisition in 13 minutes and 20
seconds will be Tananarive. Gean Anauster reporting to
Flight Director Milt Windler that the apparently is venting
aboard the spacecraft. The antisolar scientific airlock
vent apparently opened. The crew has been advised to close the
vent. The venting has caused the usage of about 4 mibs
during this pass, and this causes no concern at this time.
However, during this long LOS here the crew has been asked
to close the vent to to prevent further mibs firings at
this time. Next acquisition in 12 minutes 35 seconds through
Tananarive. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours 49 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
14 hours i minute. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds. When the crew awoke this morning at a little
after 6 a°m. the temperatures aboard the workshop were
averaged 79 degrees. We are not expected to go above 82 today,
highest temperatures. The beta angle has decreased now and
these higher temperatures. We may have seen the last of these
high temperatures in Skylab. We'll hold the line up for
CAP COMM Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we got you for 5 minutes through
Tananarive, and we're expecting marginal comm here.
CDR Roger; you're pretty weak.
PLT How do you read, Story?
CC We're reading you guys 5 square.
PLT Okay, Story, I found the problem in
minus-Z SAL. I left the purge (garble). It's removed and it looks
okay.
CC Okay, thanks, Bill.
CC And, Bill, _ you haven't already, you
can open up the SAL vent valve.
PLT Right, Story. I got (garble) that was a
good call.
CC We still got 3 minutes with you, but in case
Tananarive drops out Honeysuckle's next at 14:25.
SPT Roger, Story.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
14 hours i0 minutes with loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquistion will be Honeysuckle tracking station in
15 minutes and i0 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich
mean time 14 hours i0 minutes.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2275/I
Time: 09:24 CDT, 65:14:24 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time


14 hours 24 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for this pass, i
minute in duration through the Honeysuckle tracking station.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle
for about a minute and a half.
SPT Roger, Story.
CDR Got any theories on this beat frequency
yet, Story?
CC Say again, Jet.
CDR You got any theories yet on this 6_cycle
per second beat we've got going?
CC Nothing yet, Jer. We're working it.
CDR Roger. It's pretty aggrivatlng.
CC And we're going LOS here in about 15,
20 seconds. See you over Goldstone at 14:54 and we've got
a procedure here that'll get us some of that 6 CPS here.
CDR Okay.
CC On - In the CSM on channel on panel 9,
go to INTERCOM TR and we'll run a (garble) the DSC and
that'll get it to us down here.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
14 hours 28 minutes. A brief pass through Honeysuckle as
Skylab crosses over New Zealand on its 3609 revolution.
Commander Carr asking if the ground has any theories on the
6 beats per second in the onboard tape recorder which they
use to put comments on observations which is later then dumped
over a tracking station. Commander Carr at 11:45 Greenwich
mean time today, reported this beep frequency - 6 beats per
second. He said it's been with us for a couple of days and
on this pass, he asked CAP COMM Story Musgrave to relay any
theories they may have. The crew has been instructed to go
to the command service module panel number 9, throw some
switches the ground could get that beep on the next pass and
thenytll analyze the heep and see what steps can be taken to
correct it. No concern, however Commander Cart expressed it
is aggrivating noise as they put information on the tape recorder.
Next acquisition in 24 minutes and i0 seconds through Goldstone.
This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 14 hours 29 min-
utes.
PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time
14 hours and 53 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone
in 50 seconds. The biomedical officer advising Flight Director
Milt Windier who - he anticipates data coming through on the M092
experiment being performed by Science Pilot Ed Gibson, while
Commander Gerald Carr serves as the observer of this experiment
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Time: 09:24 CDT, 65:14:24 GMT
1/19/74

designed to measure the cardiovascular condition of the crew


members, We'll bring the line up for this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for
16 minuteS.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And Jer_ a friendly reminder on a check-
list change we sent up a couple of days ago, that event time
15 run t Bo to AUTO 250 on the BTMS mode. That's just before
starting level 2 on the MI71.
CDR Okay.
CC And Bill, for information only, on CBRM 5,
you_'ll see the CHARGER BATTERY light go out. We're going to
start charging that battery.
PLT Roger.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Houston, Skylab° How do you read?
CC Okay. I'm back with you, Bill. We just
dropped out during the handover. I've got some ATM stuff
for you.
PLT Go ahead.
CC 56 looks hung up again, or maybe you stopped
it.
PLT Negative.
CC And on your schedule pad opposite time
remaining 48 there, it was pretty unclear to us here, too.
You want to omit 82A in 52. Omit them at any ease. 82B and
56, you want to operate them only at a fluctuating bright
point. So in this case, we'd like 82B and 56 not operating.
PLT Yeah, I figured that out after I started
56, and I was going to go ahead and let it finish the sequence. But
I'ii stop it. Okay. I put it in STOP. Okay. I got a good
READY light, so it should be all right now. Also, since I'm
(garble) MIRROR AUTO RASTERs, I was wondering what I would do
to make Alpha 1 (garble) pointing, H-alpha 2?
CC Stand by i.
CC In the pointing, Bill, we'd like the
up/down at plus i00.
PLT Roger.
CC And Story's, story's changing again, How
about plus 150, Bill?
PLT Okay. Plus 150.

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SL-IV MC2276/I
TIME: 10:08 CDT, 65:15:08 GMT
1/19/74

CC In the pointing_ Bill_ we_d like the


up/down at plus i00,
PLT Roger.
CC And Story_'s storyts changing again.
How about plus 150_ Bill?
PLT Okay, plus 150,
CC Skylab_ we're about 30 seconds to LOS
here, and about 5 minutes to Madrid. And, Bill, the reason
for using H-alpha i here is to align to 82 Bravo which we'd
be using if we had a fluctuating bright point.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
15 hours 13 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda
as Skylab space station begins its 3610th revolution. Acquisition
coming in 2 minutes and 50 seconds through Madrid tracking
station. The GNN officer reporting another normal anomaly
on the CMG number 2. Wheel speed decreasing to about 8870
rpms. Bearing temperatures rising again and current also
increasing in the control moment gryo number 2. This is
the third CMG anomaly in the last 30 hours; one earlier
today at 08:22 Greenwich mean time, and one which was recorded
starting at about 15:01 Greenwich mean time today. Again the
GNN officer describing these anomalies today as within the
range of previous anomalies that come and go. And they think
the problem now exists because of the high Beta angle. The
GNN officer reports that this could be the end of the present
series due to the fact that the Beta angle is decreasing.
He said he should know a little more on this within the next
30 minutes as the Skylab station crosses through Madrid
and Canary tracking stations. We'll bring the line up for
this pass through overlapping acquisition Madrid and Canary
for a 8 minute 50 second pass.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid
for 9 minutes.
CC And, Bill, S054 would like some data
here.
PLT Okay, I was just trying to space it
evenly.
CC We're a minute from LOS; about ii minutes
to Tananarive at 15:36.
PLT Roger, Story.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
15 hours 26 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 9 minutes which will be Tananarive tracking
station. As Science Pilot Ed Gibson near the completion of
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TIME: 10:08 CDT, 65:15:08 GMT
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MI71 run for the day. Commander Carr serving as observer


on this dual medical experiment, the cardiovascular condition
of each crew member and also determine his work efficiency
riding the bicycle ergometer and the MITI metobolic analyzer
test. Pilot Bill Pogue presently at the ATM. Commander
Carr will transfer to the ATM control and dis - observation
period beginning shortly after Greenwich mean time 6 - Next
acquisition in 8 minutes and 20 seconds through Tananarive.
At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 28 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2277/2
TIME: 10:35 CDT, 65:15:35 GMT
1/19/74

CC Okay, instead of T-25 use T-37. That's


located in D-420. And load that into tape recorder number i.
CC And, that's got a hundred feet of
lapping film on it that you'll need to remove. It's colored
white so you'll have no trouble seeing what's lapping film.
And there are some scissors and tape located in M-130 to
help you.
CDR Okay, let's see D T-27 vice T-25, and I
can find it in location D-420.
CC Yes, sir. And get that lapping film,
that hundred feet of lapping film off it before loading.
CDR Okay.
CC Bill, you up in the STS or near the ATM
panel?
PLT Rog. l'm doing the notilueent cloud
photography. What do you want, Story?
CC We'd like to know that the CBRM select
switch is in OFF, and the position of the rotary switch
there. In commanding to 5 we got some crossover into
CBRM 3. And we got 3 minutes to LOS here, and we've got
some commanding to do.
PLT Okay, what switch was that again?
CC That's on the power system, CBRM SELECT
switch. Is it in off in the position of the rotary switch?
PLT It was not in off; it is now.
CC Was it in i through 12, Bill?
PLT Yes.
CC And was the rotary in 3?
PLT Yes, it was; 3/15.
CC Okay, we're in good shape.
CC And while I got you, Bill_ we'll be
running those building block 35's all day for you and the
other crewmen. I know you're trying to help us out with
spacing out those MSOL64's on SO54. Just go ahead and run
them consecutively; as soon as one gets finished, start
the next one.
PLT Okay, will do.
CC You've about got to do that anyway
to get four of them in each pass.
PLT Okay.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about
12 minutes to Hawaii. We're looking to dump the data voice
at Hawaii.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time
16 hours 12 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 8 minutes 25 seconds will be Hawaii.
This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 16 hours
12 minutes.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2277/I
TIME: 10:35 CDT, 65:15:35 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


15 hours 35 minutes. We will have an 8-minute pass through
Tananarive beginning at about 35 seconds. We'll bring the
line up for this pass through the Tananarive tracking station.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for
5 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab_ we're a minute to LOS; 7 minutes
to 17 minutes to Honeysuckle at 16:01.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
15 hours 46 minutes with loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition will be in 15 minutes and 15 seconds through
Honeysuckle. In about an hour the crew will be - has a
lunch period scheduled for today. The crew of Skylab-lV
today on menu number 2 according to the flight surgeons
menu plan. For lunch today Commander Carr will have chili,
pears, orange drink, and biscuitsp while Science Pilot
Ed Gibson has veal, peaches, grapefruit drink and biscuits
on his menu. The lunch menu for Pilot Pogue includes
tomatoes_ salmonp butterscotch drink _ butterscotch pudding,
and grape drink. Yesterday's medical report shows that
calorie intake for the Commander yesterday was 2900 calories;
2800 for the Science Pilot, and 3300 for the Pilot. Yesterday
the crew was commended for the - by the flight surgeon,
doctors for the manner in which they've been managing their
menu with the remaining food stuffs aboard the spacecraft.
Next acquisition in 13 minutes and 40 seconds. This is
Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 15 hours 47 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
16 hours. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle in
50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for this pass scheduled
to last 9 minutes and 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, you finished up with the MI71 now?
CDR Yeah, we finished it up and Ed is
starting right now on instrumented exercise and max effort.
CC Okay_ and we_ve got a tape recording
cleaning general message up to you there_ maybe youtve
got it all ready. The next housekeeping period you got
coming up here or the EREP tape period around 19:40 might
be a good time to do it.
CDR Okay.
CC And, if you got if you can copy some-
thing now we've got a tape change to use on your EREP pass.
CDR Ready to copy.
SL-IV MC2278/I
Time: 11:20 CDT, 65:16:20 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time


16 hours 20 minutes. Acquisiton coming through Hawaii in
50 seconds. Commander Gerald Carr at the ATM console while
Science Pilot Gibson performing his exercise period for the
day and Pilot Bill Pogue doing some preparations for the
M509 scheduled to be flown again tomorrow. We'll bring the
line up to this Hawaii pass, 9 minutes and 50 seconds in
duration.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 8 minutes.
Dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger_ Story.
CC Jer, by chance, did you get that ICOM
for TR on panel 9?
CDR That's affirmative, Story.
CC Okay and one other question for you.
We're tracking this 6 cycle per second noise here. Did that
happen to come on when you turned some SIAs off for our thermal
problem?
CDR Not that I know of, Story. I think it
was more associated with the transmitter problems we had.
CC Okay. And could you clarify one other
thing that you did turn off those SIAs at our request or
have you been off all along?
CDR No, we turned them off and I taped down
the numbers where it was going to be left off.
CC Yeah, we've got them here.
CC Jer, we need the DAS for momentum bias
update.
CDR Roger. It's yours.
CC Okay.
CC DAS is yours, Jer.
CDR Roger, thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 3 minutes
to Goldstone.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 32 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition Goldstone in 1 minute. Temperatures currently
in the experiment compartment where the Science Pilot Just
concluded a pair of medical experiments is averaging 80
degrees - 81 degrees in that area, in experiment compartment.
The sleep compartment now registering 80 degrees. Skylab
space station, currently in a 241 by 25073 nautical mile alti-
atti orbit_ traveling at a speed of 2573 feet per second.
We'll bring the line up for this stateside pass through
Goldstone and Bermuda. CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC We're back with you through Goldstone
for 7 minutes.
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Time: 11:20 CDT, 65:16:20 GMT
1/19/74

SPT Roger, Story.


CC Jer, we're showing he outer gimbal on
CMG 2 is on a stop. You may get a canister cage.
CDR Okay, thanks Story. I'ii keep an eye
on it.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Suggest you get that gimbal off the stop.
just so to STANDBY and we show you've all ready got a 3-minute
TAL loaded, then go back to SI.
CDR Okay. The cam - the canister just unlocked
while you were talking.
CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS. 5
minutes to Bermuda.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 41 minutes with loss of sgnal through Goldstone.
Next acquisiton in 2 minutes through the Bermuda tracking
station as the spacecraft flies above the reaches of the
Texas and Merritt Island tracking stations. Biomed officer
reporting to Flight Director Milt Windier that the physical
training exercise PT for Science Pilot Ed Gibson just con-
cluded at 16:40 Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2279/I
Time: 11:42 CDT 65:16:42 GMT
01/19/74

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time


16 hours 41 minutes with loss of signal through Goldstone.
Next acquisition in 2 minutes through the Bermuda tracking
station as the spacecraft flies above the reaches of the Texas
and Merritt Island tracking stations. Biomed officer report-
ing to Flight Director Milt Windier that the physical train-
ing exercise PT for Science Pilot Ed Gibson just concluded
at 16:40 Greenwich mean time. Commander Gerald Carr still
at the ATM console. Discussion with him during this pass con-
cerning steps to be taken to uncage the CMG. These steps were
taken as they were talking, this was corrected. Next acquisition
in 2 minutes through Bermuda. We'll leave the line up for
this Bermuda pass, 7 minutes and 38 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda
for 7 minutes.
CC We're a minute to LOS, 2 minutes to
Canaries.
CDR See you later.
CC We'll be here.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 52 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 45 seconds will be through Canary and Ascension,
combined pass of about i0 minutes. The spacecraft Skylab
now in revolution 3611. Command service module and the
crew of Skylab IV in it's 926th revolution of the Earth. We'll
hold the line up for this Canary, Ascension pass.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Canaries and Ascension, 16 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
half an hour to Honeysuckle at 17:39. And, Jer, chasing this
6 cycle per second, we'd like a verification of the switch
positions on command module panel 9 and I0. We think the
easiest way for you to do it is to meet us in the command
module at 17:39, and give us a real time readout, as opposed
to chasing any checklists or writing it down.
CDR Okay, fine. I'ii see you then.
CC Yes sir, about 17:39, Honeysuckle.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
17 hours i0 minutes, with loss of signal through Ascension.
Next acquisition in 27 minutes and 55 seconds will be the
Carnarvon tracking station.

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SL-IV MC-2280/I
Time: 12:38 CDT, 65:17:38 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


17 hours 37 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Carnarvon
tracking station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the live up
for this pass scheduled to - a very brief pass of i minute
and 40 seconds through Carnarvon.
PAO And then a back-to-back with Honeysuckle.
This pass should run about 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle
for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. I'm in the command
module.
CC Okay. When you're ready, give us a
configuration of panels 9 and i0.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. On panel 9, the S-BAND and the
INTERCOMM are in TR and we're in I COM PTT. On panel 10, we've
got S-BAND on, INTERCOMM to TR and everything else is off.
CC And, everything else, other than what
you read out, was off on panel 9, wasn't it, Jer?
CDR Yeah, unless you want to talk about
power, audio tone, audio control and all that stuff.
CDR Panel 9 is AUDIO CONTROL is NORMAL and
the POWER is in AUDIO TONE.
CC Okay.
CDR Correction. It's in AUDIO.
CDR Okay. On panel i0, AUDIO CONTROL is
NORMAL and POWER is in AUDIO TONE.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Jer. That's it.
CDR Roger.
CC And we've got a change to your details
here. You're scheduled for the laser about 19:49, you can
cancel that. And you've got the laser on an optional for
everybody at 18:12, cancel that for everybody.
CDR Okay. How about the one around 20:00?
CC Yeah. That one's cancelled too. Goddard's
overcast.
CDR Okay.
CC That's listed at 19:49 in your details. No
need to acknowledge.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, we can't work the fruitcake into
your menu cycle_ there's too much potassium in it.
SPT (Laughter) The best news I've had all
day, Story. I'm not a big fruitcake man.
CC Well, we got the word, you were going to
replace the butter cookies for that.
SPT Tell you what. I'ii donate some of my
fruit_cake to the other two crewmembers_ if I get a few butter
cookies in return.
SL-IV MC-2280/2
Time: 12:38 CDT, 65:17:38 GMT
1/19/74

CC You'll have about the same problem.


CC I guess you're just going to have to go
cold turkey on the butter cookies.
CC Skylab, a minute to LOS, about 14 minutes
to Hawaii, 17:59.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
17 hours 49 minutes. Next acquisition in i0 minutes through
the Hawaiian tracking station. During this Carnarvon, Honeysuckle
pass, discussion with Commander Gerald Carr, who was in the
command module, attempts to check out the system as to what's
causing the beep frequenye in the onboard tape recorder.
The recorder, which the crew referred to as the channel B
recorder, the one, which the crew puts their comments which
are then dumped to the ground. Commander Carr, earlier
this morning, had reported this beep frequency at about
6 beeps per second. This has been plaguing them for the last
couple of days. Commander Carr was asked to go to the
command module and check panel 9 and i0, which has audio
control - audio control that - panel 9 and i0 recon-
firmed their configuration that the switches are in.
Reconfirmation of the switch locations has not cleared the
problem up, apparently. And the INCO officer and his people
here at Mission Control Center continuing to look at this
problem. An annoying one, however, does not degrade the
data that does come on these tape recorders. A light-
hearted discussion between Science Pilot Gibson and CAP COMM,
Story Musgrave concerning Gibson's request to swap some of
his fruitcake for the butter cookies. Apparently the
supply of butter cookies, aboard the spacecraft has been
exhausted, partially due to the fact that on the first
mission, Skylab II, Commander Pete Conrad had a liking for
butter cookies, as did Pilot Jack Lousma on the second
flight. The supply of butter cookies are exhausted and
CAP COMM advised the Science Pilot Gibson that the flight
surgeon requested that he not eat the fruitcake, because
this contains too much potassium and this would upset the
mineral balance study of the M070 series of medical experiments.
Next acquisition in 7 minutes and 40 seconds through Hawaii.
This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 17 hours
51 minutes.

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SL-IV MC2281/I
Time: 12:58 CDT, 65:17:58 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time


17 hours 58 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Hawaii
tracking station as Skylab space station is on its 3611
revolution crossing the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii pass is
9 minutes in duration. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM
Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii, 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 4 min-
utes to Goldstone.
PLT By the way, Story, I have a quick
question. You know when I was operating ATM and you
said we'd like to have 54 running, I had reinitiated 54
about a minute prior to your call and while this (garble),
that is, I've now researched, convinced myself that (garble)
13-minute sequence. Do they know when the machine when that
54 is operating there, can they tell?
CC That's affirm, Bill.
PLT Okay, then. I must not have initiated
it properly. It must not have hit the switch all the way
up to START.
CC Bill, the best guess is here that you
the ATOM was passing the message on to get it going and between
that and my getting it up to you, you all ready got it going.
PLT Okay, I - I think I initiated it before
that and (static)
CC Yeah, welre going over the hill here.
See you in about 3 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
18 hours 9 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition in i minute 55 seconds through Goldstone on a
lengthy stateside pass. Today's EREP pass number 27 for
Skylab IV, will begin west of Oregon and some of these sites
which Pilot Pogue will be viewing through the viewfinder
tracking system, for the S191 instrument, are Great Lake -
Great Salt Lake outside of Salt Lake City_ Utah_ the Rio
Grande Reservoir in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado_ the
Great Sand Dunes National Monument outside of Pueblo, Colorado.
In addition - weather permitting, the VTS will be aimed at
the Eagle Lake Somerville Reservoir, Rosenberg, and wetlands
in the San Bernard Basin on the Gulf coast. Today's data
will be gathered for Pls, principal investigators, including
Dr. R. K. Moore of the University of Kansas, James Barnes of the
Environmental Research and Technology Incorporated, Dr. Keenan
Lee, Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Roger Hoffer of Purdue
University, Dr. Victor Baker_ University of Texas, as well
as John C. Alishouse of NOAA. We'll have acquisition in
30 seconds through Goldstone. We_ll bring the line up for
this stateside pass.
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Time: 12:58 CDT, 65:17:58 GMT
1/19/74

CC We're back with you through Goldstone


for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 5
minutes to Bermuda. Be looking to dump the data/voice at
Bermuda.
SPT Okay, Story. I'll try to fill you in
on what we're seeing up here on our displays at that time.
We haven't had much of a chance this morning. And also,
I'm wondering is 56, that one I operate, because they
would be operating in the active 1 long mode. Would they
like some long exposures while wetre sitting here or are
they getting a little film limited?
CC We'll get with you, Ed.
SPT Okay and also, the mode which we're
going through now for 55, your mark was made at - we're
doing this so they can try to locate the feet of the loops
which were seen previously on the limb. I'm wondering, were
they actually able to see the loops in their MIRROR AUTO
RASTERS or was it perhaps my own observations or some other
source which they saw the loops?
CC Okay. Got it and we'll get back with
you in about 3 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
18 hours 18 minutes with loss of signal through Goldstone.
Next acquisition as the spacecraft crosses over the Great
Lakes will be the Bermuda tracking station in 2 minutes and
25 seconds. Up to date, the Skylab IV mission in the EREP
area has accomplished 18 of a scheduled 23 task sites to be
accomplished. 23 task projects which did not gather - which
data was not gathered on Skylab II or III of the 23 scheduled
for the mission, 18 have been accomplished to date. Those
remaining - yet to be accomplished include areas in Mexico,
Veracruz area where highway engineering and regional planning
data was being looked for by the Mexican government as well
as geology in the Central America - the Tibesti Mountains
of Chad to determine if the mountains are located at
two major fracture systems. In agriculture, range forestry
disciplines, Atlanta, Georgia was a data source yet not col-
lected in Skylab IV. Principal investigators looking for
forest and land use classification in the Atlanta, Georgia
area. Another site yet to be accomplished is the work in
Iran, Earth resources data to provide information for developing
resources on nonproductive or inaccessible areas of the world.
And the fifth site yet to be accomplished in the mission is
the cotton fields in the Greenville_ Mississippi area. Data
gathered here, hopfully would provide crop pattern recognition
SL-IV MC2281/3
Time: 12:58 CDT, 65:17:58 GMT
1119/74

as well as provide a system of being able to forecast cotton


crop yields on an annual basis. Tke Earth resources pass today
scheduled to start west of - off the coast of Oregonp follow
along ground track 34. Data take starts at 4:28_ and lasts
for 9 minutes. During that period, the spacecraft will
travel approximately 2000 2100 miles gatherin_ data for
various disiplines atmospheric geology oceanography. We'll
hold the line up for this Bermuda pass, i0 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, wetre back with you through
Bermuda for i0 minutes. And we_ll be dumping the data/voice
recorder here. And, Ed, that's a good call on S056p go ahead
and take some long exposures. We are film limited, but go
ahead and take some long exposures. Use your own judgement
on how many.
SPT Okay, thank you_ Story. Maybe we can get
feelings from them on just how film limited they are because
(static)

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SL-IV MC2282/I
TIME: 13:23 CDT, 65:18:23 GMT
1/19/74

SPT Story, let me tell you what we see in


WLC in the XUV monitor.
CC Okay, Ed, just before you do that, after
the next - after you finish up the S054 that's running I'd
like you to point at active region 21. Down here we show
you between 24 and 20.
SPT Yeah, I was doing that so that their
mirror auto raster would cover a little more activity. Because
of the size of their mirror auto raster I thought they'd
be able to cover it all. If they want that square in the
center of the frame, we'll go ahead and do that.
CC Yeah, it was S055 that wanted you to
repoint to 21.
SPT Okay, good. I was - looked like there was
a lot of activity over on the other side which they can be
picking up as well, but if they want the center IIll go
ahead and do that.
CC Okay_ and you do have 2000 usable frames
left on S056.
SPT Okay, thank you.
SPT Okay, Story, in the WLC we see a very
small change if any at all. The enhancements, if you will_
are very - very small streamer we had at 080, or 075 is
still there although it's fainter yet than it was yesterday.
Down at the region from i - from 85 on down to around 105, that's
decreased in intensity and does not extend out as far. The
fairly strong and wide streamer which we had around 280 is
still there and about as strong. XUV monitor shows up just
about all of the active regions which have been called out.
And there sure is a whole host of them, but they're very
small ones. The one which they have not given a number to
which is at 00.3, that one shows up as a fairly sizeable
plage relative to some of the others which we have named, in
particular 30 and 31 are relatively small. The two brightest
ones, of course, are still 21 and 16. That - most of the
plage is around 21 running east to west. And 16 just appears
bright, I think, because itts getting closer to the limb
as is 20 - 25. Just a quick look at the active regions,
the H-alpha and in oxygen 6 shows that there'll still be
pretty much static around 1-1/2 thousand counts is about all.
And I can't see the field gradients from up here, but it
looks as though things have pretty well smoothed out. There's
not going to be there's not much happening right now anyway.
CC Okay, thanks a lotp Ed.
CC Skylab, about 30 seconds to LOS here and
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about 7 minutes to Ascension, 18:37.


PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
18 hours 32 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition will be Ascension in 4 minutes and 50 seconds.
CC Skylab, AOS through Ascension for i0 minutes.
SPT Story, I wondered if I could get an
answer to a question about some information which was on the
solar activity pad this morning.
CC Okay, go ahead, Ed.
SPT About the filment 81 which lifted off
yesterday, and it said a minor sympathetic flare followed in
active region 21. I'm wondering if they could tell me
what time that was and what was the magnitude of the flare.
CC We'll get that for you.
SPT I was trying to keep pretty close tabs
on that active region after that. I sure never saw anything.
CC Ed, that sympathetic flare out of active
region 21 was a subfaint. It occurred at 19:50, which
was on the dark side and this was just prior to beginning
the EREP pass, that's why you missed it.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. They made a
good call on - that something was going to happen. I wish
(squeal) _ -
CC And, Ed, could you reach on over and
turn the cabin pressure regs off?
SPT I_ve reached and theytre off.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about
23 minutes to Carnarvon. And, Ed, your ATM conference
will be coming up then.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC And S054 needs another start_ Ed.
SPT Story, we got a problem with our timer
box up here (squeal) because I started that thing exactly
at the time we started the experiment and it still hasn't
timed out.
CC Okay, the box is a little conservative.
It takes a little longer to run out than the experiment.
SPT That hasn't really been the casep Story.
I've found it the other way around a couple of times.
PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time
18 hours 50 minutes with loss of signal through Ascension.
Next acquisition in 20 minutes will be through the Carnarvon
tracking station. Flight Director Milton Windler receiving
a briefing currently here at the Mission Control Center on
the scheduled EREP pass for later this afternoon, which is
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scheduled to begin at 4:28 p.m. central daylight time. This


is the 27th EREP pass of the mission. The weather report
although not totally favorable, has not wiped out the EREP
pass as yet. However, Flight Director Windler still re_
ceiving weather briefing. Weather west of the Cascade
Mountains from the coast of _ from the coast of the Cascade
Mountains is very cloudy. However east of the mountains it's
clearing up until the spacecraft would be crossing into
the Texas panhandle area presently under cloud cover. And
the Houston Area Test Site, one of the elusive targets in
the EREP program. Weather officer reporting very little
chance at all of this weather breaking up permitting total
data take of the Houston Area Test Site. Texas has two
sites in this EREP pass. One is the Guadalupe_ Colorado
River basin and the second is the Houston Area Test Site.
Track 34 which is the scheduled EREP pass for today has
only two more opportunities where track - two - 2 - 34 would
come into play in the remainder of the Mission. So today
will be a decisive pass for EREP, either we get it today
or there's two more chances to catch it later on. There
are i0 desirable sites in today's pass, two of which are
mandatory - in - in addition to 2 which are mandatory - total
of 12 sites in todayts EREP data take. Next acquisition in
17 minutes and 50 seconds through Carnarvon. This is
Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 18 hours 53 minutes.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2283/I
Time: 13:08 CDT, 65:18:08 GMT
1/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time


19 hours 7 minutes. After a thorough review of the weather
conditions in the Texas area, Flight Director Milton Windier
has just informed his flight controllers, he does not get the
impression this pass is worth the use of TACS and crew time.
He said he cannot justify this pass. Weather reports it's
very unlikely the Texas area will clear in time for the pass,
which begins - scheduled to begin about 4:27 - 4:28 this
afternoon. This again loses the Houston Area Test Site
again to the EREP investigators. Of the three Skylab Missions,
Houston Area Test Site has been the object of EREP instruments
only one time. That's when the weather cooperated. So once
again, we use the lose the HATS area to the weather. The
crew has an alternate Flight Plan however_ for this afternoon.
Flight controllers now reviewing that Flight Plan, which calls
for an additional ATM period for the commander, Gerald Carr.
Some additional housekeeping chores and operation of the SO73
instrument. We have a pass through Carnarvon in approximately
1 minute. We'll bring the line up for this pass, where the
crew will be informed of the cancellation of the EREP pass for
the day.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
And before we get on with the ATM conference, I've got about
three things for Jer.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. There's no EREP. The weather for
that track was very poor. The EREP has been canceled. We'll
be moving into the alternate Flight Plan.
CDR Okay.
CC And Ed can be looking over the ATM possi-
bilities and discuss those with Bill during the ATM conference.
And we need another sextant check on our nuZ here due to our
momentum still being a little bit off. We haven't been The
dumps haventt brought it back in, after that vent this morning.
Let me know when you're ready to copy that.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC The window is 19:29 to 19:36. The stars
are the same. Alphard 176.8 and 24.8, Regulus 112,5 and
17.4. And that's shaft and trunnion respectively.
SPT Okay. the window 19:29 to 19:36. Alphard
shaft 176.8, trunnion 24.8, Regulus 112.5 and 17.4.
CC Okay. And we're going ahead with the
EREP tape transfer and the head clean. And here's Ed for the
- Bill for the ATM conference.
SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. I've got a couple of goodies
here for you. A couple of them are related to the no EREP.
On the Sun, today, it's generally continued to decline although
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it appears late - just recently there's been a little bit


more activity. There is some good news for the JOP 21 that's
in progress. We've noticed moving magnetic fields in and
around the spots that's in active region 20, filament 81
appears to be reforming slowly. Just recently at 18:42
which is like a half an hour ago_ Boulder reported a
subnormal flare in active region 31. Thatts at north 6
west 20. We had no X-ray indication of it at the time.
So we can't rate it there. And subsequent to that there
is a bright surge that is going northeast that, again has
been detected by Boulder. The only thing of note today,
is the JOP 21 and a
SPT Bill, you said that was at 30 - active
region 30 it came from?
MCC No. That's active region 31, which
should have been on your update this morning. In any event_
it's at north 6, west 20. It was on our plans for this
morning. It looked so unimportant to us that by this
afternoon we dropped it from our planning package, but we're
obviously going to have to stick it back on.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. And then today, we've got the
JOP 21 going on and continuing in next orbit with the potential
for the 82 Alfa nested sequence to happen here. l'm ready
to talk to you about the message that went up on that, if
you would like to and with the no EREP alternate_ let me
point out a few possibilities. One is that you can perform
your 19:33 orbit as advertised and Jerry can do the 21:06
EREP alternate as advertised. Should you electp based on
the activity to initiate the 82A nested sequence this coming
orbit, we would then recommend that the orbit you would have
done at 19:33 would slide into the no EREP alternate. Let
Jerry do that and just forget what we planned as the alternate.
That's the second possibility. A third possibility would
be for you to do the planned orbit this time and perhaps
Jerry might elect to do the nested sequence on the EREP alternate.
So there's 3 possibilities there. I bring this to your
attention because we have only one full pass tomorrow that
would be appropriate for the 82A sequence in its entirety.
And that's some time in the mornin_ and Bill has it. So, in
the event that we don't get through that today, we may well
have to take it tomorrow, independent of what welre looking
at. Let me see now if you've got any questions on the message
itself or any of the things l've just said. Over.
SPT Yeah. The way you put it, it looks
like you ought to have a go at it today. Unless you could
forecast that you're going to see more activity tomorrow. The
problem is that we start this thing at 48 minutes remaining, and
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you really can't tell whether you're going to have significant


time rates of change of field. The only t_ing you can tell is
whether the counts are up a little bit in oxygen VI and we_ve
got some building blocks remaining for 48 minute remaining.
So you really don't have much time, evenp to get in there
and do that. So the only way we're ever going to start this
thing and have confidence that somethingls happening is
something happening on the previous orbit, or that the whole
day has been one in which you've seen a lot of activity in
the region. If you've seen activity now, then that's probably
the best indication we have that we ought to go ahead and get
the thing done. l've looked it over and I believe I understand
what's going on here. Wouldn't want to saddle one of these
other guys with start from scratch on it. If it's going to
give us better data, though, if we were assured that it - we -
tomorrow's going to be a better day than today_ then we'll go
ahead and wait and I'ii brief them on it. My own feeling is,
though, maybe we ought to just get going on the thing.
MCC Okay. That's sort of in concert with
our feelings here, although we feel you've got the best
perch to be looking at this from and to make the final
decision. And I concur with what you have just said, that
basically, it's a weather forecast kind of a thing. If it's
raining today, it'll probably rain tomorrow, is the best
way to do it on what's next orbit going to do, well, I
to have to look at the past orbit. But, it's too long,
really to see what's happening on an orbit and then initiate
it. So it's totally your option. If you do do it on this
coming orbit, have Jerry do the originally planned 19:33 orbit
as the EREP alternate and forget the JOP 2 Bravo on the
EREP alternate then.
SPT Okay. Is there any way I could get
the thing done tomorrow?
MCC Not unless the Flight Plan winds up
changing significantly between now and then. We have a
couple of orbits that you might get part of it in. But wetve
only got the one full orbit tomorrow that w - it would fit in.
Right now that's scheduled for Bill.
SPT I see.
MCC Okay. Just continuing on _ere_ briefly_
we've got 2-1/2 minutes left here and if Bill ever has an
answer or a question that he wants 9 just have him break in
and I'ii have him talk to Story here - -

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1/19/74

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.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 14:49 CDT 65:19:49 GMT
1/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 49 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now 56
seconds from acquisition through the tracking antenna at
Goldstone. This pass through Goldstone_ Texas, and Merritt
Island will last about 17-1/2 minutes. We'll bring the
line up live now for air-to-ground. The spacecraft comm_
unicator on duty is Story Musgrave and the flight director
is Milton Windier.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Roger Story. I got so busy working on
this darned tape recorder that I missed the star window.
Can you give me another window?
CC I understand you want another window and
some different angles.
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay. We'll get them.
SPT Story, you asked for a building block
35. I've gone ahead and operated 56. If they would select
a dropout let me know. Also I've got some hangups in their
operation i on a patrol short, filter 6, and also in active
I long and filter 3.
CC Okay, Ed.
CDR Story_ we got a new sound now. You got
rid of the six beats per minute thing and now it sounds like
somebody's rattling a bag of marbles at six rattles per second.
CC When we played it back down here, Jer,
we sure heard the four to six cycles and we got a lot of
sympathy with you. We also heard an owl in the background.
CDR We're not getting the howl.
CC Okay. While we're on the subject, if
you get a chance go back to panel 9 in the command module
and get your intercom switch off center, otherwise, the
DSC will pick up the med conference tonight.
CDR Okay.
CC That's panel 9, intercom switch to
OFF CENTER.
CC And Ed, both 54 and 56 want a run.
SPT Thank you r Story.
CDR Story_ going to OFF on that intercom
switch on panel 9, got rid of the rumblep but now the clucking
is back.
CC Okay. And we've got some evening questions
concerning that noise problem that we'll put up tonight, or
any time it's convenient.
CC If you didn't hear me during the hand-
over there, Jer, we got an evening question on the noise
problem that we can get up to you this evening or right now.
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CDR Go ahead with it now.


CC That problem with the six beats per
second noise occurred only on audio channel B, and not on
channel A.
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay. On intercom, when the transmit
ICOM button is pushed, does the noise disappear from the
SIA speakers on all SIAs on channel B?
CDR Negative.
CC One more. Was t_e decrease in overall
audio level on channel B noticed in association with the start
of the six cycle per second noise problem?
CDR Negative. We didn't notice any decrease
in audio level.
CC Okay. We'll keep working as hard as we
can. Now, we know what you're putting up with now, we've
heard it.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed_ I got a change to page 2 of that
thing you're running with 82A now, on general message 6557
Alfa i.
SPT I'm working on 6557 Alfa 2. Go ahead.
CC Okay. That's fine. We'd like you to
terminate at 02:30.
SPT Okay. Last exposure at 02:30.
CC Okay. And to use up those extra frames
that we lost down there. Start the 30-second intervals up
there at 9. In other words, after i0 you'll run one at 9,
then 08:30, then 8, then 07:30.
SPT Okay Story. Start at 9, and then - we
start at i0 and then 09:30.
CC No, you can start at 9. Make it start
at 9,then 08:30, 8, 07:30.
SPT Okay, we go I0, 9, 08:30, 8, 07:30, so on.
CC Beautiful. Thank's Ed. And we're 30
seconds from LOS here. We'll see you over Carnarvon about
20:48. That's 40 minutes, and we're intending to dump the
data/voice recorder at Carnarvon.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2286/I
TIME: 15:08 CDT, 65:20:08 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at 20:09 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of
Bermuda. Our next acquisition is 39 minutes away at
Carnarvon, Australia. At the present time the Skylab crew
will be moving into their alternate flight plan - that flight
pPlan to replace the Earth resources pass cancelled earlier
includes ATM activity for Commander Jerry Cart and also some
housekeeping activities for Science Pilot Ed Gibson and the
Pilot will be doing some stowage and preparation of S063 and
S073 instruments for later operations. There is an operation
scheduled for S073 at about 22:00 today. This is Skylab Control,
38-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition, it's not i0 minutes
after the hour.

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SL-IV MC-2287/I
Time: 15:47 CDT, 65:20:47 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at 20:47 Greenwich mean


time. Skylab space station is now 53 seconds from acquisition
at Carnarvon, Australia. This pass through Carnarvon will
last 9-1/2 minutes. We'll bring the line up live now for
air-to-ground. Milton Windler is still on duty here at
Mission Control, but Charles Lewis is about to take over
from him during the next - after the last couple of passes.
And at that time we will also have a change from CAP COMM
who is now Story Musgrave. We're llve now for air-to-ground
at Carnarvon.
CC Skylab AOS througk Carnarvon for 7 minutes
and we see you voice recording and wetll hold off the dump.
CDR Roger, Story and at the termination of
gravity gradient dump with those angles you gave me for Alphard-
Regulus still be reasonably good?
CC They're off about - be off about i0 now and
we're trying to recompute right now and wetve got some new
ones for you. Just stand by 1 on those.
CDR Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Ed we need to get a new nuZ here for
S073 and also to get our momentum straightened out and I've
got some new numbers for you and even they are going to be
pretty far off but we need you to try.
CDR Houston, this is CDR, he's got something
going right now. I'll do it.
CC Okay, Jerry you ready to copy.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, I'm coming up on a keyhole but I'ii
go the windows, 21:03 to 21:10, stars are the same, Alphard and
Regulus. Alphard 176.9 and 25.2, Regulus 113.5 and 17.3.
CDR Okay, the optics are all set up and
ready to go, I should have it within a minute or two after
the old window opens.
CC Okay, thanks. Skylab, we're 30 seconds
to LOS and 5 minutes to Guam.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has passed out
of range of Carnarvon. We're a little more than 3 minutes from
acquisition at Guam. Present time our change-of-shift is
planned for as soon as possible after Milt completes the
handover to Charles Lewis. Milt Windler will be doing the
change-of_shift from here in Mission Control and that will
probably take place within the next 20 minutes, I guess.
Skylab's large number 2 gyroscope went through two stress
periods again today as astronauts Jerry Carr_ Ed Gibson and
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TIME: 15:47 CDT, 65:20:47 GMT
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Bill Pogue continued medical and solar research in their


third month in space. The gyroscopesp one gyroscope one of
two remaining as the space station's primary means of holding
its position stable for the studies of the Earth, Sun and
distant astronomical targets has slowed down briefly from
time to time over the past 2 months. The large wheel
slowed very slightly twice today but it's working fine once
again today. A separate problem caused by an opened vent
in a small airlock for scientific instruments led flight
controllers to cancel and Earth resources survey. Weather
conditions were poor for the studies which was to include
the cloud covered Houston area. The vent created a slight
change in Skylab's orientation or attitude_ but after the
astronauts closed the outlet the space station corrected the
problem. In place of the Earth survey the crew is
photographing the Sun and also studying the background light
from outer space using the S073 instrument, that's the
ge_enschein-zodiacal light experiment. Today the Skylab crew
are in their 65th day in space; they'll pass - complete the
65th day tomorrow morning early. We're about a minute and a
half from acquisition from Guamp we'll bring the line up live
now for air-to-ground through that station, that pass through
Guam should last about 9 minutes and we're still about a minute
from acquisition there.
CC Skylab back with you through Guam for
8 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC I got three things for you, Bill one of
them be a change to your detail, your phone call tonight and
the rest of it will require some copying.
PLT Ready to copy.
CC Okay phone call's Hawaii at 02:13, it'll
be a left to right.
PLT Roger.
CC And in the next housekeeping periods
you've got there, if possible, work in two things we got
for you. One of them is to reclean that OWS heat exchanger
duet, that's the housekeeping 6 Alfa 1 and give that the
first priority.
PLT Roger.
CC And the second one, if you get to it is
a malf procedure on SI90A at station 6 and the malf is on page
i_7, the EREP Malf Book.
PLT Roger understand, do the 1-7 EREP malf on
station 6, 190A.
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CC Yeah and I got some switches here that


will get you up the speed so you can jump right into step i
there.
PLT Press on.
CC Film, drawer L, set Y. Panel - panel
ii0, EREP BUS i, on, EREP BUS 2 on, panel POWER DISPLAY on,
S190 power on and prior to getting into step 7, mark the
film

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1/19/74

CC _ - On. S190 power_ on. And prior to


getting into step 7, mark the film.
PLT Roger, understand, it's set up _ set up
for malfunction procedure on page i_7_ and film drawer
L set Yankee. On panel ii0_ BUS i onp BUS 2 on_ display
on, S190 power on and mark the film before going into step
7.
CC Yes sir_ that's it. And just for your
own planning purposes we may be unable to inhibit momentum
dump, the next run around. And that will cancel your S073 ops
for the first time around_ but we won't be able to make
that decision until stateside. We just wanted to let you
know what we were working.
PLT Okay_ and I put on tape early this
morning I was unable to complete the noctilucent clouds. I
had 3 minutes for the prep_ and also we had that power
problem on the CBRM. However I did pick it up on this last
night pass. I got 9 minutes so welre i0 sequences a total
of noctilucent from the southern aurora area.
CC Okay.
PLT I did not however visually see the
aurora.
CC Copy.
PLT So that brings S063 up to speed on
noctilucent clouds first day anyway.
CC Okay.
PLT Andp Story_ when can you let me know
about the S073?
CC It looks like it_ll be either leaving
MILA which is about 21:41 or at the Vanguard at 21:52.
PLT Okay, that's _ that's great for planning.
Thank you.
SPT Story, what's the X-REA look like down
there?
CC We're down around background, low right
now Ed.
SPT Okay, for the first time in a couple
of days we have seen some kind of action picked up around
4.6000 or so in active region 21_ they're back down now
around 2000.
CC Okay, thanks.
SPT During the last orbit they were up
to around i to 1.4000 and they're still where we (garble).
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
16 minutes to Goldstone at 21:26.
CC And going over the hill you may see
a blinking light on the voice record. It's no problem,
we've changed recorders.
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CC And Jer, we're seeing some enhancement


in the plage in active region 21.
SPT Rog, Story. He's up in the CSM now; l'm
working (garble).
CC Thanks Ed.
CDR Story, I found Regulus at 113.7 and 16,0,
and I'm still looking for Alphard.
CC Okay, Jer got it.
PAO Skylab Control, at 21:12 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station over the North Pacific has
passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam. Our
next acquisition is 14-1/2 minutes away at Goldstone. Flight
Dirctor Milton Windler, said he'd be up here very shortly
for the change-of-shift briefing. We expect it to begin
in the next 3 or 4 minutes, and that will be conducted from
here in Mission Control. This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes
and 15 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2289/I
TIME: 16:29 CDT, 65:21:29 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at 21:29 Greenwich mean


time. We've been recording the beginning of the Goldstone
pass. At this time the control moment_gyroseope number 2
is still experiencing an anomaly that began at 19:49 today.
The usual conditions still apply, it does seem to be calming
down somewhat now that-wheel speed does seem to be coming back
towards normal. We're going to begin the recording at
Goldstone and see if we can't catch up as we go over the U.S.
and we'll start that recording now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and
MILA for 14-1/2 minutes. Hello from the bronze team.
CDR Hello, Henry. Hello bronze guys.
PAO We're now live at Goldstone.
CC PLT, Houston our momentum situation now is
still a little wormy. We want to look at it a little more.
So we're not going to do the momentum dump inhibit, however
we do want to go ahead with the S073 ops as scheduled on the
alternate Flight Plan.
CDR Okay, I'ii pass the word to him, he's
vacuuming; I don't even think he heard you.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from
LOS, Vanguard at 53.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control at 21:44 Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station is now over the northern
part of South America. 8-1/2 minutes to acquisition
at Vanguard. During this pass over the United States
apparently control moment gyroscope number 2 which has been
experiencing a rather lengthy anomaly now appears to moving
back into its normal range of behavior. The temperature is again
at one point the temperatures on the two bearings that serves the
number 2 control moment gyroscope had crossed over the standard as
bearing number 1 on that control moment gyroscope usually
runs about 2 to 3 degrees cooler - or 2 to 3 degrees warmer,
sorry 2 to 3 degrees warmer than bearing number 2 and at
one point during the last couple of hours, bearing number 2
actually became hotter than bearing number i, by about 1.2 degrees,
a very small range actually only a three to four degree change
from its normal behavior. Nowever that is a traditional
sign of an anomaly in those bearings - is that temperatures
converge, a_d, on occasion cross over. In this case the
crossover amounted, at one point, to 1.2 degrees when we looked
back on the tabulation here at Mission Control. At this point
the lowest wheel speed that's recorded on tab that's viewable
here says that it's about 1/2 percent below the nominal range -
nominal speed for that CMG is 8912, it did reach 8870
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1/19/74

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.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2290/I
Time: 16:51 CDT 65:21:51 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control_ at 21;51 Greenwich


mean time. And the Skylab space station is now over Brazil
about to be acquired though the tracking ship Vanguard.
We're 50 min - 50 seconds from acquisition at Vanguard.
This pass should last approximately 8-i/2 minutes and wetll
bring the line up live for Spacecraft Commmnicator Hank
Hartsfield. Charles Lewis is now on duty as Flight Director
here at Mission Control. And in our last reading it appears
that the control moment gyroscope is now moving back
toward its normal performance after an anomaly lasting
about 2 hours.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. The next site is Goldstone a little over an
hour now - from now at 23:04. One quick question, you
said you weren't going to use the S054 auxilliary timer again,
but since about 18:00 when you reported the problem have you
looked at it any time since then, and if so what were the results?
CDR Hank, I've been using it and it's
running about i0 or 12 seconds behind the instrument, but I
haven't noticed any trouble with it.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
CDR I don't mean minutes, I mean seconds.
PLT Hank, I just got through giving the
heat exchangers another treatment. Could you check the
flow before you go over the hill?
CC Okay, it's 147 now. It's up some.
PLT I think it's the water film there. I'm
going to take some towels up there next time.
PAO Skylab Con - Control 22:01 Greenwich
mean time. The Skylab space station is now over the South
Atlantic. During that last pass over Vanguard Bill Pogue
said he completed the heat exchanger cleaning and Mission
Control reported that the flow was improved on the heat
exchanger. That's a primary device for cooling the space
station. And the main problem both Pogue and the ground
agree is apparently there is some water film on the exchanger
plates that would reduce the effectiveness of their cooling
ability. So they will probably make an attempt to keep
cleaning that a little bit more thoroughly in order to
bring the temperature in the Skylab workshop down. The
space station is now believed to have passed its peak.
The temperature currently aboard the space station now ranging
from approximately 77.9 at the inlet to the experiment
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1/19/74

compartment up to about 81.4 at the ceiling of the experi-


ment compartment. That would indicate an average temperature
right around 79 to 80 degrees. That's cooler than it was
the last couple of days. And temperatures are now coming
down as the Skylab space station spends longer periods in
the darkness. This evening the Skylab astronauts will be
sitting down to a meal that's scheduled to begin at about
23:00 which is about an hour from now for Science Pilot
Ed Gibson. At the same time Pilot Bill Pogue will be sitting
down to his meal and a little while later after the commander
has finished his exercise period he_ll be sitting down for
his evening meal. This evening Bill Pogue had some good
news on his Flight Plan, he has some butter cookies set
aside. Earlier in the day there was discussion about the
possiblity of adding additional butter cookies or other
items to the plan - food plan for Ed Gibson. That was given
a negative from the medical personnel here in Mission Control.
Very important that the crew maintain perfect mineral balance
as part of a number of experiments being conducted on their
physical condition. And for that reason he was not permitted
to add certain items to his diet. Normally the procedure is
to evaluate each item and determine whether other things may
be removed from the diet in order to keep the mineral
balance at proper levels. But earlier today that was not
possible. And as we reported yesterday the overage supply
of butter cookies which have been a primary snack for the
Skylab crew have finally run out. All three Skylab crews
have enjoyed the cookies very much. In fact during the - during
second mission there was a report on a contest underway
because of the tremendous number of cookies that the crew
members have eaten. But this evening Ed Gibson has set aside
a meal of pork loin, potato salad, green beans, and orange
drink with some ice cream for dessert. And Jerry Carr will
the eating the filet, potato soup_ aspargus, and pineapple
and he has coffee. And Pilot Bill Pogue has pork loin,
as Just does - does Ed Gibson, with aparagus, peas, pears,
shrimp, orange drink and tea. He also has some bread. This
is Skylab Control. It's now 59 minutes - nearly an hour to
our next acquisition of signal and that will be at Goldstone
in California. It's now 4 minutes and 42 seconds after the hour.

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SL-IV MC2291/I
Time: 18:03 CDT 65:23:03 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at 23:03 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station now over the North Pacific
is about 55 seconds from acquisition through the tracking
antenna at Goldstone, as it skirts the California coast.
The pass through Goldstone should last about 9 minutes.
Immediately after that, we have a Texas pass that'll run
another - approximately a total of 13 minutes. And we'll
bring the line up live now for air-to-ground. Hank Hartsfield
is the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone for
12 minutes. And SPT, we need the DAS for a momentum bias up-
date.
SPT You got it, Hank.
CDR Hank, are you set up for TV downlink?
CC About another 90 seconds, Ed (sic).
CDR Okay, this is Jer_ we're ginned up and
ready for television of the west coast if the clouds clear.
CC Oh, I got you.
CC SPT, the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC CDR, we're GO on TV.
CDR Okay, we got it on wide; we're zoomed
all the way back and we can see the islands off the Santa
Barbara. You can see Catalina Island down there, but it
looks like the Los Angeles Basin's pretty well clouded in.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Looks like I'm going to miss a picture
of my hometown Santa Ana.
CC We're getting good signal down here,
Jerry.
CDR Boy, our Cal_fornia is as clear as a
bell, so we'll get some real good television of that.
CC Okay, real good.
CDR And you ought to be able to see San
Diego.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. Vanguard will be coming up at 30. And we plan to dump the
recorder there.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control at 23:17 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of the
tracking antenna at Corpus Christi, Texas. 12-1/2 minutes to
our next acquisition at Vanguard. Astronauts Jerry Cart,
Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue continue their studies of the Sun
today. They're now in the final active period for solar
observations, this will be the final active period observed
by the Skylab crew. 7-1/2 hours of actual observing time were
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1/19/74

available during the day, in addition to a pair of regular


medical tests on Scientist Gibson, and photographic studies
of Earth's atmosphere and the background light of the stars.
The fourth gyroscope ele - irregularity in the past 2 days
occurred this afternoon. The large wheel used to hold the
space station's orientation to the Earth and Sun has passed
through nearly two dozen brief fluctuations during the past
2 months. Mission Control personnel believe the frequent
slowdowns in the number 2 gyroscope may be associated with
the long periods of sunlight this week. Now that the space
station is now spending time in the shadow of Earth, the
gyroscope may again operate more steadily. This afternoon's
irregularity with the wheels flowing a fraction of a percent,
electric power increasing about 2 percent to compensate for
the slowdown, and the temperatures of two wheel bearings
changing slightly, lasted about 2 hours. The important
system returned to normal about 4:30 p.m. central daylight
time and has been working perfectly since then. 11-1/2
minutes to our next acquisition of signal, this is Skylab
Control at 18:44 after the hour.

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SL IV MC-2292/I
Time: 18:29 CDT 65:23:29 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Sk_lab Control at 23:29 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station is now coming within range
of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. We_ll bring the line
up live for the pass through Vanguard which should last
approximately 9-1/2 minutes. We're coming up live now at
Vanguard with Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab Houston. We're through Vanguard
for 5-1/2 minutes and we're due to dump the recorder.
CREW Roger, Hank.
PLT Hank, just after we passed Baja, we caught
the Galapagos or the Galapagos fairly open and we have
about 3 minutes, maybe 4 minutes on the VTR of the Galapagos
Islands.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And Skylab, for info, the aurora has been
moderately active in the northern hemisphere, if you desire to
take pictures, you can use permanent message 18 Bravo.
PLT Roger. 18 Bravo.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll drop out here for
a couple of seconds.
CREW (Garble) Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you.
PLT Roger. That's clear.
CC PLT, are you free to answer a few questions
now_ or are you busy eating.
PLT I can do both.
CC Okay. If it's convenient to answer, we're
not really sure we understand the changing of the zero reference
on the rotation knob. We didntt understand the rationale.
Wonder if you'd mind running that through again? That's on
the AMS.
PLT Rog. It looks like, and I know the
message to the belt couldn't slip or anything, the drive belt.
It looks like welve got a new zero point on the handle the
crank, and we have marked - made marks on the - the handle and
also on the case so that we can we have a new zero point
for the handle. We're still using the number of rotations and
so forth that are given to us, and that roughly was marked
at 0.0, at this new position.
CC So the counters now read - do they read
0.0 when you've got it lined up to your new marks.
PLT Well, they did until I just did S073's.
They're not quite on zero now_ in order to push (garble) for
the mirror to be retracted, but they're very close.
CC Okay. Do you recall what they do read
when you can retract?
PLT Okay. Stand by. I'll get it for you.
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Time: 18:29 CDT 65:23:29 GMT
1/19/74

CC And while you're there, Bill, if you can


still hear me, how about giving us what the counters read
when you're at the old setting, if you can still see those.
PLT Okay. For the one we_ve been using for
I guess about the last week. When I put it back to that,
it now reads 8.9.
CC Okay.
PLT About a i.i degree shift.
CC Okay, we copy. And wetre about l0 seconds
from LOS. Our next site is Tananarive at 54.
PLT Roger.
CC And Bill, you did get the 7 Bravo terminator,
didn't you?
PLT That's affirmative. And l've also done
the heat exchanger vanes. I did a real good job on those.
Got more water out of them.
CC That was a good show. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 23:37 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station over the South Atlantic is
out of range of the ship Vanguard. 16 minutes and 40 seconds
to our next acquisition at Tananarive. During this last
pass the crew informed the ground that they had done some
television of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South
America. Our recorder instrument here in Mission Control
indicates we have about a minute and a half of TV of
the Galapagos area. Earlier they did a TV downlink over the
Goldstone antenna. Some out-the-window television of the
west coast of the United States with a good view of Santa
Barbara and Catalina Islands. They said the clouds - clouds
were rather heavy over Los Angeles, and they did not have
success, Jerry Carr_ doing the photography, in photographing
his home town of Santa Anna. 15 minutes to our next acquisition
of signal, 38 minutes and 26 seconds after the hour_ this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2293/I
TIME: 18:53 CDT, 65:23:53 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at 23:53 Greenwich mean


time. Skylab space station is now coming within range of the
tracking antenna at Tananarive from the Island of Madagascar.
Pass through Tananarive will last approximately 8 minutes
and we'll bring the line up live now for Hank Hartsfield0
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for
7-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Hey Jerry, we're - we're still wrapped
around the axle on this nuZ business and we're not really
right sure where we are. We're - that looks - based on your
last star shots that we're about i0 degrees away from what we
were this morning. So due to the uncertainty, what we're going
try to do is schedule if - if you can work it in a star
shot during the S073 while we're inhibited and that will
allow you to do it at night and use the telescope to get a
positive ID.
CDR Hey that's a good idea Hank. You're
really flying blind doing it the way we're doing it.
CC Roger, I know the field of view of the
sextant's too small to make a positive identification and
you're sort of lost there in the daylight.
CDR You're not kidding.
SPT Hank, how have the star angle differences
come out, have they been within reason?
CDR That ought to be kind of a validity
check on the ground, can't you from the data we_ve given you
can you get a star angle difference?
CC They look good to us Jerry and we're
frankly very puzzled and that's why we want to get another
one that we know is right and just see if our nuZ has really
shifted by that much.
CDR Okay, Hank no problem, be glad to do it.
CC And I do have the shaft and trunnion
for the stars whenever it's convenient for you to copy them.
CDR Okay, I'm cleaning up right now. How
about next pass, when will that be?
CC Okay, the next pass is at Hawaii and that's
the evening status, we ought to be able to work it in there.
CDR Okay, well Bill says he_ll copy for
me now.
PLT Go ahead and give them to me, Hank.
CC Okay, Alphard, 177.1, 26.2; Regulus
i16.3, 17.3, and they should be available from 01:21 to
01:33 and that's during the S073 ops. And it's also_ I think,
during the - no we got a Tananarive pass after that and if
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TIME: 18:53 CDT, 65:23:53 GMT
1/19/74

we don_t get it down at that time_ when we would like for


you to call us after the 02:00 PSA time.
CDR Okay.
PLT And a readback just for kicks. Alphard,
177.1, 26.2, Regulus 116.3, 17.3, available 01:21 to 01:33
during S073 ops.
CC Good readhaek Bill_ thank you,
CC Skylab_ Houston we're 1 minute to
LOS, Hawaii will be coming up at 00:38 and wetre scheduling
another recorder dump there.
PLT Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylah Control at 1 minute and 43 seconds
after Greenwich midnight. The Skylab space station is now
passing out of range of the tracking antenna at Tananarive.
Our next acquisition at Hawaii is about 36_i/2 minutes away.
This is Skylab Control at 2 minutes after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2294/I
Time: 19:37 CDT 66:00:37 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control, at zero hours 37 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now
55 seconds from acquisition through the Hawaiian Islands
tracking antenna. This pass through Hawaii will be the
evening status report about 5-1/2 minutes long. The
spacecraft communicator is Hank Hartsfield and the flight
director on duty is Charles Lewis. This is the evening
status report and the crew will also get some instructions
on making an update to the navigation of the space station.
They've been having some trouble today exactly locating
the stars and they're going to try to give them the accurate
data to help them make that nuZ update. We're coming live
now at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii for
5 minutes.
SPT Howdy, Hank.
CC And we'll be dumping the recorder here,
and we're standing by for evening status.
CDR Okay, Hank here comes the photo log.
CC Go ahead.
CDR 16-millimeter; Delta Papa 5, Charlie
India 129, 90, Charlie India 78. MI51 of M092/171, Charlie
India 79, 23, Charlie India 126. M487-4 Delta, Charlie
India 94, 18, Charlie India 128. Nikons: number i, Charlie
X-ray 41, 19_ number 2, Bravo Victor 29, 18. Earlier
number 2 had India Romeo ii in it. It was down loaded
with 37 frames remaining. Nikon 03, no change; Nikon 04,
Bravo Echo i0, 41; Nikon 05, no change; 70-millimeter,
Charlie X-ray 46, 025. ETC, no change. EREP, no change.
Drawer A configuration: Alfa 01, is transporter 02 no
supply. Takeup is Charlie India 80; Alfa 2_ 05, Charlie
India 94, 18, Charlie India 128; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India
79, 23, Charlie India 126; Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 81,
99, Charlie India 77. BACK, 7, Charlie India 129, 90,
Charlie India 78. The EREP set have got some frames used,
and they'll be reported tomorrow. They were frames used
in checkout by the PLT. And that's it on the photo log.
CC Okay, Jerry that sounds good to us.
CDR Okay Hank on Nikon 02 that frame count
anticipates 7 frames tonight on S073.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, evening status. Sleep: CDR, 6.0,
6 heavy_ SPT, 6.0, 5 heavy, i light; PLT, 5.0, 3 heavy,
2 light. Volumes: none taken yet. Water gun: 8688;
4764, 1033. Body mass: CDR, 6.314, 6.316, 6.318; SPT,
6.385, 6.386, 6.390; PLT, 6.237, 6.240, 6.234. Exercise:
SL-IV MC2294/2
Time: 19:37 CDT 66:00:37 GMT
1119174

No change for anyone. Medications: CDR, Sudafed at noon;


SPT, none; PLT, Sudafed at noon. Clothing: CDR, shorts,
socks, and T-shirt; SPT, socks, T-shirt, and shorts; PLT,
shorts and shirt. Food log: CDR, salt 18.0, deviations,
minus one lemonade, rehydration water plus 1.5; SPT, salt
4.0, deviations, plus one lemon pudding, rehydration water
plus 20 - 2.0; PLT, salt 4.0, deviations, minus one butter
cookies, rehydration water zero. And on the CDR skip the
deviation of minus one lemonade. That should - that was
last night's. Okay, Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping
list is Delta Papa 55 - was done last night. Did not get
Delta Papa 8 done. We did all housekeeping today plus
housekeeping 6 Alfa-l. Inoperable equipment and disposition:
(garble) malfunction, no lights, changed the batteries and
(garble)
CC Okay, we're going LOS. Vanguard at 01:05
with the med conference.
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 44 minutes
and 44 seconds Greenwich mean time. During that pass over
Hawaii we had the evening status report indicates that the
crew didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night. They
averaged about 6 hours of sleep for the commander and the
science pilot, and only 5 hours for the pilot. Of course
evening before they had longer sleep periods because of the
day off and were allowed to sleep in a couple of hours in
the evening - in the morning. And the status report was
not quite concluded there at the very end of the pass. Some
discussion of the malfunction procedure being run on the
S190A the Earth resources cameras that it apparently
had some problems with the last few days. That will be
checked up on in Tananarive following the medical conference
which is scheduled for the Vanguard pass 20 minutes from
now. Because the next pass is a private medical conference
we don't expect to have acquisition for another 45 minutes
at which time we will have acquisition at Tananarive on the
Island of Madagascar. This is Skylab Control it's 44 minutes
and 45 minutes and 43 seconds after the hour.

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SL-IV MC2295/I
TIME: 20:10 CDT, 66:01:10 GHT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at i hour i0 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Still have about 5-1/2 minutes left
over the Vanguard tracking ship. We have not yet heard
whether we'll get an acquisition here but we believe that
the private medical conference may conclude before the end
of the pass at Vanguard. The medical conference has been
underway for about 5 minutes so we're going to bring the
line up live now for the remaining 5 minutes of the pass
over Vanguard in the event that we do get live air-to-ground
with Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield. We're coming
up live now for the next 5 minutes.
PLT Hank, how do you read.
CC Roger. Read you loud and clear, Bill.
PLT Okay, I'm 30 seconds from starting data
take on S073, you weren't going to change that were you?
CC Well, what I wanted to change was the
rotation from where it reads 7.7 to 3.7.
PLT Okay, I'ii be just a little late starting
then.
CC Okay, I don't think that will effect when
that first exposure is a real short one. The reason for that
was, we're just doing our best to guess on this nuZ till we
get some more data from Jerry. And for info, AM recorder
number i is bombed out and we've redesignated, it won't effect
your operations. We'll talk more about that at Tananarive.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS and Tananarive will be coming
up at 30.
PLT Roger, Hank if you're not gone yet I've
done the EREP MALF. I ended up in box number 13 page 1-7
mag film motion, (garble) drive failure.
CC Roger, copy.
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 16 minutes and
54 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
out of range of Vanguard, 13 minutes to acquisition at
Tananarive. Crew did come back after that private medical
conference over Vanguard for a little bit of discussion at
the very end. Some final instructions on the S073 operations,
slight correction in the rotation for that. The reason for
that is as Hank Hartsfield explained that the exact nuZ update
has not yet has been determined. That requires some navigation
data from Jerry Carr and we've had a little bit of difficulty
so far today determining whether or not the star pointing has
been accurate and that's going to have to be checked out again
later in the evening. And also a failure in the airlock module
recorder _ one of the airloek recorders is reported. That will
be discussed at Tananarive 12-1/2 minutes from now. This is
Skylab Control at 17 minutes 37 seconds after the hour.

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SL-IV MC2296/I
Time: 20:28 CDT 66:01:28 GMT
1/19/74

PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 28 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now a little
less than 2 minutes from acquisition at Tananarive. During
this pass over Tananarive, we expect to have some discussion
of the change-out of one of the airlock module tape recorders.
The airlock module tape recorder underwent failure a short
while ago. We don't know yet whether we've lost any telemetry
data probably nothing of great importance if there was some
lost there. The recorder was scheduled to last 800 hours, in
fact, it lasted for 1446 hours, and so its collaspe was not
unanticipated. There were two other backup tape recorders,
and one of those is now being in - now in use. Those have
been in the past used for experiments, so one of the two is
now being used for gathering telemetry data, itVs also being
used for taping voice - what is previously been called
chanel B, or voice for later dumping. That changeout will
be made probably in the next few days. There are two replacement
recorders that are unused, on board plus some extras that
could be used in the event of that need. The extras
have been repaired, so we'll have some discussion of that.
The average temperature now in the Skylab workshop is 79-1/4
degrees, itVs down about 3 degrees from its peak which was 82
degrees reached 2 days ago. We'll bring the line up live now
for air-to,ground through Tananarive. The pass through Tananarive
should last approximately 7-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Tananarive
for 6-i/2 minutes.
PLT Rog, Hank.
CC I got several things that we need to
get up here. This is essentially the last pass of the evening
and one in regard to the change-out of an AM tape recorder,
and the other is a few comments on the - the photo pad for
the CDR.
PLT Why don't you go ahead and give them
to me, Hank, he_s busy up there with the sextant.
CDR No, it's okay, I'm through, go ahead.
CC Okay, we copied in the photo downlink
that you gave us there, that transporter 02 was in AI. But
our records show that - that transporter 04 is there, could
you verify - verify that for us?
PLT I can verify that it's transporter 02.
I've been meaning to call your attention to that discrepancy
and last 2 or 3 nights, Jer's read it down.
CC Okay, then the correction to the CDR's
photo pad is - where it says in A2 transporter 05, we'd like
to change that to A3 transporter 06.
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Time: 20:28 CDT 66:01:28 GMT
1/19/74

,_ SPT Hank, before the end of this pass, if


you could give me the 82A exposure for the next daylight site,
I'd be glad to pick that up for him.
CC Okay, we'll check it.
CDR Okay, Hank, I've got some stars for
you. I overkilled it. l've got Alphard, Regulus, Denebola,
Gienah, and Spica.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR Okay, Alphard was 177.3 and 26.4. You
guys are real close. Regulus is 116.9 and 17.2. Denebola,
23.2 and 16.8. Gienah, 284.8 and 26.2. Spica, 312.2 and 37.4.
CC Roger, we copy Jer. Thank you.
Okay, Ed, we need a 20 second short on 82A. That's the
info you wanted, and would you please put the wavelength back
to long when you're through?
SPT Will do, Hank.
CC And CDR, did you copy the change to
your MI51 on the photo pad?
CDR Okay, hit it again, Hank.
CC Okay, it says, A2 transporter 05, it
should be A3 transporter 06.
CDR 3 transporter 06.
CC Okay, and I promised you a few more
words on that recorder. We don't know really what data we
have lost till we get the tapes back and look at them. It was
recorder number i. It may be that we've lost an undetermined
amount of data and maybe some voice at 21:10 this afternoon.
At your earliest convenience, and hopefully before the M092
in the morning, which requires all three recorders, we'd like
for you to do housekeeping 80 Romeo on page 5-8 of your
systems checklist. And if you've got a pencil and paper
handyp I've got some serial numbers and stuff for you to copy.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like for you to install serial
number 21. It should be in Dog 438. And the one that's in there
now that you'll replace is serial number 32. And after you replace
it and get recorders back on the line, you'll have to turn them all
off when you replace it, we'd like you to put on the dump tapes
the _ours of operation - they read you in the little window
there on serial number 32.
CDR Okay, Hank, housekeepin_ 80 Romeo, in-
stall number 21 which is in Delta 438, and the old one replace
it with _ that's being replaced is number 32, and you'd like
a voice record on the hours of operation.
CC That's correct, Jet, and I have one
correction for Bill's photo pad, it was an omission that
for his film thread pad. I wonder if you can copy that for
him?
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Time: 20:28 CDT 66:01:28 GMT
ii19!74

CDR Sure, go ahead.


CC Okay, we should have added

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SL-IV MC2297/I
TIME: 20:36 CDT, 66:01:36 GMT
1/19/74

CC I have one correction for Bill's photo


pad, it was an omission that - for his film thread pad, I
wonder if you could copy that for him.
CDR Sure go ahead.
CC Okay, we should have added for him to
strip off 6 feet of film from C186 and cut with the film
profiling tube before threading.
CDR Okay, I'ii tell him.
SPT Hank, could you say again the time at
which you think we lost a voice recording capability.
CC Okay, that was 21:10, we're not really
sure we lost it but it's a possibility.
SPT Thank you.
CC And that recorder we want to replace, just
to make sure we understand, is in slot number I, recorder
number I.
CDR Roger, recorder number l, I'ii get right
on it.
CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS and
wetll keep tke comm up the rest of the evening. We won't
talk to you anymore, wetll say good night to you now unless
you need something later, give us a call. As a reminder to
Bill, his private comm is at 02:13 left to right.
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now passing
out of range of Tananarlve. That discussion of the tape
recorder problem, our airlock module tape recorder number i
failing sometime this evening, may have happened any time after
21:10 this afternoon, they'll be going back through the tape
dumps from the afternoon to determine exactly when the tape
recorder did fail. It failed after outliving its expectations
by nearly double, 1446 hours compared to an expected life
of 800 hours. Two replacements available and Commander Carr
indicated there that he would be making that replacement
very shortly. In the meantime beginning at Vanguard approximately
30 minutes ago, the tape data on both telemetry and channel A
or channel B depending on your point of view. The tape recorded
voice data was switched over to one of the two remaining
recorders which have been used for experimental in indications -
experimental recordings and that occurred over the Vanguard
station about 01:i0 Greenwich mean time. So that would indicate
that the maximum period of loss would be about 4 hours, they'll
be determining later in the evening exactly how much of
that was actual loss. The recorders used for recording both
telemetry information while the space station is out of range
of tracking antennas and also used for recording voice messages
from the crew again as the space station is out of range of
SL-IV MC2297/2
TIME: 20:36 CDT, 66:01:36 GMT
1/19/74

stations. So they'll be checking that out, and there may


be an necessity for the crew to make some re-recordings of
information if anything has been lost. Astronauts Jerry Carr,
Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue spent today observing solar activity
performing regularly scheduled medical tests and photographing
the Earth's atmosphere in background light from space. After
more than 2 months in space, the crew's experience is
proving increasingly valuable as they spend long days
advancing scientific research in dozens of fields. Poor
weather conditions and a small vent which pushed Skylab
slightly away from its precise position for Earth resources
activities led Mission Control to cancel a survey scheduled
for this afternoon. The heavy cloud cover over the mid
U. S. was balanced by excellent viewing conditions for
the study of the Sun. Long periods of daylight on Skylab
and an active solar disk made Sun science a good substitute
for the Earth pass today. Skylab's gyroscope went through
2 periods of irregular behavior today but since late this
afternoon it has been working normally. Sunday's activities
include a 4300-mile Earth survey from the Pacific Ocean
off Canada's Vancouver Island over Bismark, North Dakota,
Minneapolis, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio ending over the
Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean area. We'll come back
up when we have available the health report from the
Mission Surgeon that should be available in the next
15 minutes or so and we'll bring that back at that time.
We do not expect to have additional communications with the
crew tonight as they are preparing for their sleep period.
This is Skylab Control at 42 minutes after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2298/I
TIME: 21:12 CDT, 66:02:12 GMT
1119174

PAO Skylab Control at 2 - 12:27 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station is coming within range of the
tracking antenna at Hawaii. We're going to bring the line
up live here for any possible conversation between Hank
Hartsfield and the crew. They've now determined that the
failure of the airlock module tape recorder number i apparently
caused the loss of telemetry and voice from about 22:37 Greenwich
mean time this evening to 00:37, that's a 2 hour period and
the crew will be required to retape anything that they may
have put on the recorders at that time. That recorder has
been now switched to another recorder, a backup recorder and
a changeout is in progress on the Skylab space station. So
no further problem although the one problem has caused a
couple of hours of data loss on the tape recorder on Skylab.
Wetll bring the line up live now for the pass through Hawaii
lasting about i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank would you like a frame count?
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT 9510, 734, 71, 167, 1875, 4228.
CDR Hank that AM tape recorder has been
changed out.
CC We copy thank you.
CDR Anybody got any wild guesses as to what
the cause of our deep frequency is on channel B?
CC Not at this point_ Jerry. We're still
talking about it and we did listen to those tapes regarding
that recorder failure. And the times that we're missing both
data and voices are at 22:27 to 22 - 23:37 and 23:43 to 00:37.
CDR Okay, it sounds like you probably lost
the voice on the S073 then.
CC Okay, we redesignated so he'd have voice
so it shouldn't be any problem there. The - the way this
thing looks is like this thing is not recording on the front
part of the tape.
CDR Does this new recorder look okay, have you
done anything with it yet?
CC Okay, we'll do that we're dumping now
and when we get through we'll take a look at it.
CDR Okay and the time on that's 03:87.
CC O - -
CDR Hey Hank, one thing you can add to add
to those - to the problem a bit of information here, as I went
around, I turned on now every SIA that I turned off for thermal
reasons and we still have our deep frequencies so I think
we can eliminate the SIA powerdown for thermal reason as any
kind of a cause of the factor here. I'm going to go back
around now and turn them all back off.
SL-IV MC2298/2
TIME: 21:12 CDT, 66:02:12 GMT
1/19/74

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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SL-IV MC2299/I
Time: 21:23 CDT 66:02:23 GMT
1/19/75

PAO Skylab Control, at 2 hours 24 minutes


32 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
is out of range of Hawaii, what will be the final pass for
the evening. Ground does not intend to contact the crew,
and we expect that they will be retiring very shortly.
During this last pass Jerry Carr informed us that he had
made the change out of airlock module recorder number one.
It was replaced and during the Hawaii pass it was tested
by the ground, and it appears to be working very well
at this point. Loss of data does not appear to present
any problems. Two hours of time in which the tape recorder
was not operating properly. It was replaced at 01:i0 or it
switched over to the remaining two backup recorders which
are used for experiment data as well, and then it was
changed out by Jerry Carr during that LOS period before
Hawaii. We have the Missions Surgeon's daily report on
crew health and we will read that for you at this time.
The crew remains in good health. Both Commander and Pilot
got prompt relief from mild congestive symptoms by use of
Skylab medication. The more stable temperature profile
which is predicted for the future mission days may prevent
further congestive symptoms. It's signed by Dr. Eduard
Burchard for Dr. Hawkins, Mission Operations Director.
This is our final broadcast for the evening. Skylab crew
expected to awaken tomorrow morning at ii:00 Greenwich
mean time or 6 o'clock central daylight time. This is
Skylab Control at 26 minutes after 2 hours Greenwich mean
time.

END OF TAPE

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