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SI,-I l I MC360/1
Time: 07:40 CDT, 09/12:40 GMT

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

41 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for communications
with Skylab through the Honeysuckle, Australia station.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle
8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston, I've got one item
for your EREP PREP this morning.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, when you get in your prep there
sometime we would like to get the rate gyro six pack powered
down. Turn all six of the gyro switches off there on the
little control panel and then get the utility power off.
That'll help us on our powez situation during the EREP.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hank, the EREP was a good opportunity
to get some more data on the voltage that come
out of that six pack during Y-axis maneuvers. Apparently
you'd rather get the pwer off.
CC That' s affirmative. And G&S is real
happy with the data we got the other day; it looked real
good.
SPT Do they think that' s adequate about
all axes?
CC Owen they're real happy with their data.
They say they don't want any more testing. And incidentally
we won't be turning these gyros back on for a while. This
is a one time turn off.
SPT Okay.
CC And SPT, Houston, we'd like for you
to hold off on your scheduled ATM work that's coming up
shortly. We've got a discussion going on here now. We
are considering some troubleshooting on the ATM with
regard to the electrical problem we had the other day.
SPT Roger.
SPT I understood yesterday, }lank that the
ATM work today was all scrubbed until further comment
from the ground, so I hadn't planned to do any.
CC Roger, that's good.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Hawaii at 02.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CDR Hey, Hank if you could check with the
flight planners not tomorrow but the day after tomorrow and
see if we can set aside about i hour where all three of us
are together where we take that - those three deactivation
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checklists and bring them up to speed. We got a lot of

changes to them today. We won't be able to do them
today or tommorow but we might get to them the following
day if we'll set aside an hour to do it where all three of
us are together.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And we' re not going to be able to get
to that food storage tonight I don't think. So they should
set it aside where maybe two men for about an hour do
that. Maybe they can get it done in that hour. We got a
lot of food and we want to put it in cans mark it neatly
and record it so that we -- everybody on the ground
will be aware of where it is and what it is.
CC Okay, we've got that scheduled day ii.
CDR Good, thank yu.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
does have loss of signal. Hawaii will acquire Skylab in
10-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours 51 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL III MC-361/1
TIME: 08:00 CDT 09/13:00 GMT
8/5/73

Ol minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Hawaii.
Flight Director now is Milton Windler. The CAP COM is
astronaut Sory Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we have you through Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See
you over Goldstone in 2 minutes.
|'LT Okay, thank the EREP fellas for putting g-zero
on the C&D pad. That was quick reaction.
CC Okay, I'Ii do it.
PLT The ETS Fad, I mean.
CC Roger.
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SL-III MC-362/I
Time: 08:11 CDT 09/13:11 GMT
8/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of

range at Hawaii. We'll be within range of Goldstone in about
a minute and a half. We'll continue to keep the llne up.
Stand h,y for Goldstone.
CC Skylab, wet re back with you over Goldstone
for 7 mlnutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR He's listening, go ahead.
CC We'd just like a verification that you do
have both maneuver pads.
CDR He doesn't know, but he'll check; just a
second. He's doing the bat test.
CC Okay. And we're not sure you do, that's
why we' re asking the question.
CDR Wai= one.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll
see you over Bermuda in 4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone does
have loss of signal. Bermuda will acquire in 3-1/2 minutes.
The maneuver pads referred to by Capcomm Story Musgrave concern
the maneuvers to the proper attitudes for the two Earth Resources
passes this morning. We'll keep the llne up and stand by for com-
munication through the Bermuda station
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Time: 08:22 CDT, 09/13:22 GMT
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CC Skylab, we're AOS Bermuda for 9 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We show your startracker unlocked. We
need that locked up in the next 10 minutes.
CDR You were cutting out, Story.
CC We show your startracker unlocked. We
need that locked up prior to Ascension so we can update
Nu Z for your EREP pass.
CDR Okay, l'il go right up and get it.
CC And we do not think you have the first
maneuver pad. We'll be passing that to you at Canaries or
at Ascension and we'll be seeing you at Canaries in 3
minutes.
CDR Okay.
PLT You're rIBht Story, we only have a
second maneuver pad.
CC I think you only have the second, Jack,
and that was - that maneuver begins at 16:02:00.
PLT That's affirm. We need the first.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds to LOS
here. I'ii pick you up over Canaries in 2 minutes and give
you the pad then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. The Canary Island station will pick up in
less than a minute. There's overlapping coverage with the
Ascension Island station. This will be a fairly long pass
through both those stations. We'll keep the line up and
stand by.
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TIME: 08:35 CDT 09/13:55 GMT
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CC Skylab, we're AOS, Canaries and Ascension

for 15 minutes.
PLT Say, Story. There's your star.
CC Okay, thanks. We're showing it's a
good star down here.
CC And in the next 13 minutes, I'd llke to
pass up a maneuver pad to somebody.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ready to copy, Jack.
PLT Go ahead.
PLT We're all ready, Story.
CC Okay. ZLV MODE, 14 23 00, maneuver
time, 52,030, 50,036,that's 30 minutes. Fine maneuver
52,021, 51,003, 51,002, 50,001. No star available. Maneuver
time, 52,030, 50,012, i0 minutes, Sl MODE at 15:09:00. Remarks.
EREP number 3, maneuver to ZLV, starts 165 degrees after
orbit noon. Over.
PLT Okay, Story, I got the time for ZLV
maneuver is 14:23. Time to put in is 52030, 50036. Fine
maneuver is 52021, 51003, 51002, and 5 triple balls i. No
stars available, next (garble) put in for a SI maneuver 52030,
50012, SI maneuver 15:09. And 165 degrees after orbit noon.
CC Okay, that's all correct and we're sorry
we didn't get that up to you.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
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Time: 08:47 CDT 09/13:47 GMT
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CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll see

you over Carnarvon at 14:14. And Jack, no need to acknowlege,
but the maneuver pad that I called up to you is now in the
teleprinter. And your nu Z has been updated.
range at Ascension. The next station will be Carnarvon in
22 minutes. At 13 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-III MC-366 /i
Time: 09:13 CDT 09/14:13 GMT
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13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on
the Carnarvon station. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, we have you through Carnarvon
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. We want to verify something on
this EREP downllnk box if we can.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR We've got this EREP box hooked up to the
blue dots per the other day. And we started powering up
192. We have not - it is still on the blue dots, although
Jack indicates that we ought to maybe move it over to the green
dots. I don't know. That's the question. And in what position
would you llke the selector in to begin with? According
to our book, it's 7.
CC Stand by one.
CC I'm just fixing to get that and check it.
CC AI, that's green dot position 7.
CDR Okay. And I gather it's okay even though
we're warming up 92 to remove the plug from the blue dot and
put it over to the green dot.
CC That's affirm, AI.
CDR Okay, we'll sure do it.
PLT Okay, we turning J2 120, 192 modes to
check. I think we can hack that. Voice record T6. T6
is running at 66 percent. You can time her for i0 minutes.
Okay, that's what we got to do. Minus I0 activity, okay.
PLT That's right. The minute - what you do
the minute you went to - have you already started the maneuver?
CDR Go auto again and see if you can catch the
start. (garble). You catching the start? Okay, just leave it
there. It will unlock, it will do everything you want it to do.
CC Skylab, we're LOS in 30 seconds, e'll
see you over uam in 7 minutes, and we're reading you on vox.
PLT Okay, everything is working good today,
Story. We fired a couple of (garble) it looks like.
CC Okay, we'll give you a count when we
get it.
CC Going over the hill here. We haven't seen the
(garble) down here yet.
CDR Okay, when it unlocks it'll - the little light
came on. It was minus Y I believe.
CC Okay.
PLT What they would like to do is keep it
as long as they can. It won't hurt to just let it go.
CDR When it unlocks we'll do it.
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PLT In :my what.

SC (garble)
CDR You only want to close if you want to -
show me on that pad. It's only if you want to get - Yeah.
You don't have any of that, so just leave it in auto as
long as it will hold.
SC (garble) auto.
CDR Yealh, that's after you get - if they give
you a come (garble) angles. You go those things but that's
(garble) separate subset. There aren't any, so just let it fly
with (garble). When it unlocks then you- it'll go -
PAO This is Skylab Control. IIoneysuckle has
had loss of signal. We've had loss of signal with Iloneysuckle.
Guam will acquire Skylab in 4-1/2 minutes. There will be
no flight director change of shift briefing this morning. No flight
director change of shift briefing this morning. To review events since
last evening, the crew had an uneventful night. Controllers
here on the ground did detect a small minus Z torque of about
0.35-foot-pounds in the space station during the night, and later
saw a i/I0 of a pound per square inch decay in cabin pressure.
They suspected a tiny leak through the antisolar scientific
airlock. That is what it was and that has been corrected.
When the crew got up about 6:00 a.m. central daylight time,
AI Bean was asked to check out the airlock. He reported
the airlock hatch had been left in the vent position open
just a crack. And when the hatch was closed out, the leak
stopped. Science Pilot Owen Garriott asked about how the
sleep monitoring experiment was going. He has been wearing
the cap. The report was that the biomedical people have
been getting good sleep monitoring data from Dr. Garriott.
The crew was interested in the weather for their two
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SL-I I I MC367/]
TLme: 09:26 CDT, 09/14:26
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PAO . .. two Earth Resources runs today

informed that the weather is acceptable. Some areas have
4 to 7/10 cloud cover; others have 0 to 3/10. The ATM
situation has not changed since a momentary short circuit
was experienced the night before last. No Apollo telescope mount
operations are scheduled today. The experts don' t think
any of the experiments have been affected but they want
to check out the electrical system thoroughly before powering
up for operations. The elements of ATM that must be powered
up for tomorrow's EVA will be checked out later today during
tile extravehicular activity preparations this afternoon.
The Earth Resources passes are scheduled for - the first one
beginning at 9:55 a.m. Central daylight time, ending at
10:09 a.m. The second one starting at 11:31 a.m., ending
at ]2:01 p.m. those are Central daylight times. And we
will have more information on those passes after the Guam
pass. We are coming up on Guam less than a minute to
acquisition. We'll stand by for communications there.
SC (garble) that was time for me to go
do the alinement check Jack. Take my hat off and go do it.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam for
6 minutes. The maneuver's looking good.
PLT (garble)
CC Skylab, no need to acknowledge but we'd
like the star]racker shutter closed.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you
over at Hawaii in 6 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
PLT Yeah, everything's done.
CDR One thing is not done. (garble) switch
to record. Now we're too early; I' ii wait. I'll do it
this way, though. Okay, I just did the friendly little
192 alignment check and I got for the visible 82 left,
65 right. For the thermal I got 47 right, and in the
X micrometer I read it 546, in the Z micrometer it's 491.
I did not adjust either alignment. They both seem to be
the same as before and that's about it. CDR out.
CDR And that's done, Jack. Minus i0 go to record.
This door opened at 5. Alignment starts at 1462.
PLT Big 0 is always watching this panel. You
got that door open big O?
SPT Ta-ra, we got that all hooked up.
PLT Good.
CDR The other TV is downstairs.
SPT l'w.• got one (garble)
CDR Should be one down there.
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CDR Yeah.
SC (garble)
CDR Yeah. It's not.
SC (garble)
CDR Maybe net. Only the first rev. Let
me look at the second rev, okay. You' re right • he
second rev you got it.
I'AO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out
of range at Guam. llawai[ will acquire the space station
In 7 minutes. At 14 hours 37 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL III MC-368/I
TIME: 09:41 CDT 09/14:41 GMT
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PLT 286, 385, 4 is 72, 5 is 30, 6 is 56,

7 is 40 and that's it.
PLT We'll do it next time, okay. Dick. I'ii
now voice record again, B-7 is 30, B-8 is 01, B-7 is 55,
B-6 is 57. B-7 greater than 80, cooler off.
PLT B-7 was not greater than 80. So everything
is okay.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii
for 6 minutes. We're hearing your VOX and your maneuver
looks good.
CDR Okay. Everythings going good here, Story.
CDR B minus 5, VTS door coming open, Jack.
CDR Okay, that's it. 192, let's see where
it is. And it's 62.
CDR MODE to READY. 92 to READY. We'll wait
for 5 minutes, if you don't mind.
CDR llello there Story, how do you read the
kid on VOX?
CC l'm reading the kid loud and clear, and
we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over Goldstone in
9 minutes.
CDR Okay. How about asking the VTS troops
there this question. The Washington DC target requests a
uniform area near the city. he city will appear to be
uniform itself. Would they like me to put the PIPA right
on the city? Or would they like me to pick a forested
area somewhere else outside the city limits?
CC We're working it.
CDR Okay, thank you.
PLT (laughter) That's pretty good.
CDR Is the door open, Jack?
PLT I can't see nothing yet.
PLT Don' t see any stars out there.
CDR See, [n the dark.
PLT ]t's the re, though.
CDR lluh?
CDR Sun' s just coming up. I can see tile
light on the door.
PLT I'11 wait.
CDR That's probably why. Look we haven't got that
box turned on down there.
PLT What box down where?
CDR Is that turned on there?
PLT The TV? Yeah.
CDR Okay, everything's good.
PLT Okay, I'ii turn it on.
CDR Coming up on 47. Steady there.
CDR You make a maneuver back to get back,
don't you?
PLT Yes Sir.
CDR Okay.
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TIME: 09:41 CDT 09/14:41 GMT
815/73
PAO This is kylab Control. Hawaii has

loss of signal, and we would caution any newsmen in the
JSC News Center, who are relying on the LOS/AOS clock on
their television monitor that those clocks are completely
out of synchronlzation with actual AOS/LOS times right now.
(:oldstont, w[ I l acquIre Skylab in about 5-1/2 minutes. Shortly
al:tt.r that Skylab wlll begin the first of two Earth Resources
passc, s tills morning. Tile first one along ground track 61
wil 1 begin uv,-r Montana just as Skylab crosses the Canadian
Border and follows a track over North Dakota, Minnesota,
Maryland, the District of Columbia, Chesapeake Bay, and out
into the Atlantic Ocean, ending about 3360 nautical miles
south of Bermuda. Studies of Chesapeake Bay are one of the major
activities in this first run. Thirty- seven task sites are
included in this first pass, which will begin at 9:55 a.m.
central daylight time and run for 14 minutes. The data take
track is 9,000 nautical miles long. This will be the third
of 26 Earth Resources passes planned for this mission.
Thirty-one scientists are scheduled to receive data from
this pass that's coming up shortly. Skylab about 3 minutes
away from acquisition. We'll keep the line up and stand by
for communications there.
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SL-III MC369/I
Time: 09:49 CDT, 09/14:49 GMT
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SC Is your door open Owen, babe?

SI'T That's affirm (garble)
CDR Yes, and I can't see out it though.
_; PT ( ga rb 1 e )
CDR Okay.
PLT I'm over a heavily clouded ocean.
About 9/10 coverage out there in the Pacific today.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear
on VOX. We got you through Goldstone 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, great.
CC Jack, for Washington D.C. we'd like
uniform city area.
PLT Okay, understand the site is right
on the city.
CDR Okay, EREP to start, Jack. Tape motion
is working.
PLT Let her fly, AI.
CDR Stand by for auto cal in 3 seconds.
PLT Here we go.
CDR i VTS AUTO CAL.
PLT MARK, AUTO CAL.
CDR Okay.
PLT Lights out.
CDR All right.
CDR Tape is in motion
CDR We could even run it without the 92 on
today for a while.
CDR And 55 is the next big event.
PLT Going to be making a pass over my home
state, the wolverine state, Michigan for me.
CC And you have good weather up there, Jack.
PLT Yeah, we took a look at it last pass
around, looks pretty good. Get to say hello to all my
Michigander friends.
CDR We can see all the Great Lakes; see
Detroit, see Windsor, Toledo, see the St. Lawrence River,
Boston, Long Island, New York, it was clear.
PLT Looks llke the new scans will be coming,
hitting the Michigan coastline at about Lovington and coming
down over between Mount Pleasant and Claire, Michigan and
then over Flint.
CDR Okay, coming up 55. 55, 193 S ON and
193 R ON. 194 MODE to MANUAL. Think we can do that?
READY ON, Jack. Supposed to be on at 5620 for you. Forget
RAD/SCAT GIMBAL angle flickering, nothing to do there.
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PLT Okay, in a few minutes I'll pick up a nadir

swath there.
CDR Okay.
PLT Lots of clouds over the northern border.
CDR Look at the - I' ii watch for 5620 for
you, Jack.
}'LT Ok ay.
CDR Things are sure looking good at tile moment.
CDR Okay, 4 seconds to ready light ON, Jack.
PLT Okay.
CDR Ready light should be coming on. It is on.
Okeydoke things are going good. And go mode to AUTO on 190
in a few moments. How's it look out there?
PLT Well, we're coming over the clearer
area now. Must be over Minnesota.
CDR Hey Story, ya'll getting the information
back from the downlink VOX?'
CC Affirmative AI.
CDR Okay, we're going to be changing it
around here before too long.
PLT Well, I guess we're crossing the
northern border in the U.S. right about now, over Montana.
Border over Montana coming down through North Dakota and then
Minnesota.
CDR It's going to mean a big sweep, Jack.
CDR 5846
PLT (garble) going on down down there?
CDR Okay.
CDR It'.,;pretty.
PLT Okay, we're coming up on some clouds
now. We got the nadir swath to going.
CDR 5846 gain.
PLT About (garble) seconds.
PLT Okay, now we're starting to approach
some clouds. MARK, this must be the trailing end of the
experiment we're going to look at. Now she's about 9/10
coverage to complete overcast.
SC (garble)
CDR Okay.
PLT Camera coming over the clouded area still
over the clouds.
CDR Okay, 5846 MODE AUTO on 190.
PLT READY light is ON.
CC We'll be losing you for a minute here
until we hand over to exas, Skylab.
PLT Yeah, I'm going to keep the VTS running
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a little more because we overlap the clouds yet. It

looks like the front moved a little more east than every-
body thought.
SC Oh, boy.
CDR Got a circuit it for that earlier. Man alive'
SC Taking some good plcs with the cam
here. 192 mode to READY in approximately 3 seconds. Okay,
that's it. Mode to READY. Recorded a malfunctlon light
momentarily in tape in motion. 50, 190 on shutter
speed to FAST.
PLT Okay, we'll take some data right in
the middle of Lake Michigan here. Off of Ludington -
between Ludington and whatever is on the Wisconsin Coast.
CDR Okay, we Just got the 190 shutter
speed FAST, Jack.
CC We're back with you for Ii minutes,
Skylab.
CDR Okay, we got everything working along
okay. We just put the shutter speed fast on 190.
PLT We'll take a shot off the coast
Chicago there. Okay, there's a little bit of tracking
in Lake Michigan just east of Chicago. We're back about
25 miles east of Milwaukee. Take some tracking out in
Lake Michigan.
CDR Okay, 193 SCAT OFF, and 193 RAD OFF.
And then SCAT ON, and then RAD ON. Everything's okay.
CDR Stand by for - -
PLT Okay we'll (garble) run another tracking.
CDR - - S to STANDBY. 13. SCAT OFF, RAD OFF.
ALTIMETER ON, and RAD OFF. S OFF. That's number 250A which
(garble) stand by, range 75. 258. Okay, all those are complete,
Houston. We're standing by for 258.
CC Okay.
PLT Finally got a little data on Lansing
for you Houston. I'm not sure let me check my map.
CDR 58 coming up. (garble) 258.
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Time: I0:03 CDT 09/15:03 GMT
CDR 258 okay, stand by and go to range 75. It's

there. And 93 on at 315. Downlink box is position 5. We're
going to change that for you in a minute, Houston. Okay,
downlink box going to position 5. You got it?
CC Roger.
CDR Altimeter unlock light comes on frequently.
No strain. It's blinking now, still blinking. Yeah, it's
very intermittent now. It's on, off, on, blink, it's off
now. I won't report it any more. It's staying out now, it
blinked on again, but it's out again. Putting downlink to 4.
PLT Okay, we' re around the metropolitan area.
CDR Where ?
PLT Wash ingt on.
CDR You got Washington, huh. Take some good
data there, Jack.
PLT I rather call that Baltimore.
SPT Okay, call it Baltimore.
CDR 440, position 4. Okay, downlink box posi-
tion 4. That IMC working today? It was drifting down and
right yesterday? It was a pain. 510, shutter speed to
medium on 190. We're going to position 8 in a minute. Okay,
we're in position 8 on the downlink box.
PLT Okay, and we're tracking the frontal clouds
out to sea.
CDR (garble) across the states wasn't it?
PLT Okay, Story. I got the front - -
CDR Just a minute. A192 mode STANDBY. 30 out on
190.
PLT We've got the frontal clouds from 5723
to 5052. That was data 12 number i. Down Lake Michigan
they have several points in it. One right on track, one out
in the lake a little bit east of Chicago, one east of the
lake a little bit of Milwakee, and then back to on track.
Then I had a - I believe I got a short shot of the lamping
site. And then I got Baltimore, and now l'm picking up
nadir swath on the frontal cloud out to the sea in the Atlantic.
CDR That's 48.
CC Copy, Jack.
CDR 373, 657A on. 7A on. Okay, that's done.
93A is back on again. (garble) cooling in here until - -
PLT Okay, that's the end of the frontal cloud.
CDR VTS to auto CAL, Jack. I'Ii give you
a mark, 2 seconds, i, MARK. Auto Cal - -
PLT Auto Cal is - -
CDR At 8:30 I'm going to go 194 mode manual.
Make that (garble) Think that could have moved you over there?
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|' I,T Huh ?

CI)R That: - -
PI/I' I don't know. I was working it so fast -
CDR The other day, Story after we finished the
pass I was looking at the IMC s we went through South America,
and it looked like with IMC on at all angles it was drifting
fairly rapidly down and to the right. I wanted Jackto check it
this morning before we did anything about it.
CC Okay, thanks AI. We're showing you about
i minute to the SI maneuver, and suggest you get on putting the
maneuver time in.
CDR Okay, that's a good idea.
PLT We're doing it. I'm doing ti right now.
CDR Jack was there as a matter of fact. He just
left the area. He' s down there right now.
CC Okay, Just thinking of you.
CDR Thanks, a lot (garble) where you can.
PLT We need all the help we can get.
CDR Appreciate it, Story.
CC Yes sir.
PLT Don't be afraid to speak up my friend.
1 like the maneuver time.
CDR Okay. Did you put it in?
PLT It 's in.
CDR Okey doke.
PLT 1509. Where's my little cue card.
There it is.
CDR 928.
PLT At 1509 go to SI.
CC And the maneuver time looks good.
CDR Okay, thank: you. 928.
PLT Okay.
CDR 28 days, stand by.
PLT 5 seconds. There is the switch right
in front of me there, and I'm watching the clock on the STS.
MARK. Solar inertial here we go.
CDR 928. We've got to go A to stand by.
PLT Monitor the other 2 to the rate. Star
tracker manual acquire. Okay we'll try to get that star tracker
In here on the maneuver somewhere.
CDR Got a star on the way back?
PLT No. I said we'd try to get it on the wayback.
CDR 28. 928 we go to standby. 7, 8.
PLT We' re maneuvering back, O.
CDR Stand by ready.
CC We're looking at it and it looks good.
CDR Okay, thank you Story.
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CDR The fellas that figure that all out seem to

know what they are doing.
PLT We haven't had a bit of problems.
CDR Get's there when you say. It doesn't fire
too many (garble) Did you ever figure out if it fired any today?
CC Fired 2 going to ZLV.
CDR Okay.
}'LT Story, in trying to pick up that (garble)
site, ran a little behind in getting set up for the Washington-
Baltimore (garble) and I'm pretty confident I got Baltimore instead
of Washington. So that was my alternate site and hope you
take it. You got it anyway (laughter).
CC That's fine, Jack, fine.
P LT Ok ay.
CDR Okay, that's done. Downlink band box.
Switch position off, EREP is at stop.
PLT We got a little bit of a data on Delaware
Bay too, although I didn't get a good track on the
wet lands on the west end of Delaware Bay because there just
wasn't enough time. Although I did see Delaware Bay
go through the - -
CDR (garble)
PLT - - view llnder. The camera was on hut don't
think I had
the data button depressed. Although seemed to get a
little data
on it anyway if they're able to sort it out.
CDR (Garble) record B7. B7 is 30 percent. 192
door closed. Light on in 60 seconds. Let's get our little
watch running. Closing latch 190 window cover. Okay there come
the 190 window, big Jack.
PLT All right.
CDR Maybe you can catch the latch over there
just about ready to go..
PLT I' ii get it for you.
CDR Okay, that' s closed.
PLT Closed. Okay it's latched.
CDR Okay, turn off the record switch.
PLT Okay, it's off.
CDR EREP Cal follows. We don't have one
following as far as I can tell.
PLT Is t.his the first back to back pass in the
history, Story, or did Pete's crew do one?
CDR Probably did a lot.
CC It will be when we get it done, Jack.
And we're i minute to ]LOS. We'll see you over Ascension in
13 minutes.
CDR Okay.
PLT 00 to gimbal angles. Doors coming close.
(garble) watch that come closed.
CDR (garble) 191 auto Cal, no.
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CDR 190 mag depletion no.

PLT (garble) To the maneuver O.
SPT Hey, did we ever turn off those rate
gyros? Better turn them off.
CDR Story ?
CC Go ahead.
CDR We just turned off those rate gyros. Rate
gyros inside.
PLT (garble) door. Here she goes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. ermuda has
loss of signal. Skylab is 8 minutes away from acquisition
at Ascension. The crew i still in the Earth Resources pass.
We'll come back up before Ascension. At 15 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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8/5/73
PAO Thin is Skylab Control at 15 hours

18 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by through
AscellS ion.
CC Skylab, we' re got you through Ascension

for 6 minutes. Show you back in SI in good shape and only
2 minutes for the total maneuvers.
CDR Okay. tlello Story.
CC Skylab, Houston. On AM BAT 6, we've got
a meter problem. It's erroneously indicating a lower
state of charge than tile actual state of charge. You may get a
BAT charge low caution and warning. If you'd prefer, you
can INHIBIT on panel 207, BAT 6 low charge.
CDR (garble) Story, we're reading about 66/55.
CC We copy that, and we'd like a star tracker
lock on in about the next 25 minutes prior to getting to
Carnarvon.
CDR Give it to you now.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Carnarvon at 15:51 and we show you locked on
to a good star.
PAO This; is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the scension station. The next station to acquire
Skylah will be Carnarvon in 23 minutes. The second Earth
Resources experiment run will be conducted on this revolution
the next time Skylab comes over the United States. And an
oceanographic fact finding mission will be coordinated with
this next Earth Resources pass, which will be on track
number 62. That pass scheduled to start at i1:31 a.m.
central daylight time and end 12:01 p.m. The portion in
the northeastern Gulf of Mexico will attempt to relate
stocks of sport fish to ocean features detected by advance
sensors carried aboard orbiting spacecraft and specially
equipped aircraft. NASA will coordinate the activities
of Skylab and two of it's Earth Resources aircraft that
will sweep over a 200 mile radius of the Gulf conducting
experiments and taking multiple measurements which can
determine such ocean characteristics as chlorophyl content
of the water, salt content, water temperature and color
gradient. Under the cooperative direction of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric. Administration, the same kind of
data will be collected at the surface of the Gulf by 127
research boats and fishermen in the study area. The
fishermen will| keep careful records of all fish sighted,
hooked and caught. We presume that also includes those that
get away. After Skylab splashdown, the satallite data will
be coordinated and compared with the data collected by the
aircraft at lower altitudes and the vessels at sea. And
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when the three sets of information are compared, scientists

hope to see what amounts to a blueprint of the marine
region, displaying currents, temperatures, upwellings,
concentrations of plankton, the clarity or opacity of
water, and other factors that apparently relate to the
presence or absence of fish populations. The second EREP
pass will start off the coast of Washington and end in the
Atlantic Ocean about 200 miles south of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Skylab about 20 minutes away from Carnarvon. We'll
come back up prior to acquisition there. At 15 hours
31 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylah Control at 15 hours

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be within
range of the Carnarvon station soon. We'll stand by for
communications over there.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Carnarvon for i0
111|11 llt es .
CDR Okay. We were looking over the EVA

chan_;es and one thing we noticed on the uplink was we got
EVA change 2, (garble) change 2 and 3 and we don't know
where ] is, so we don't know if we got that, and I'm trying
to figure out whether these changes are all to the book, or
if you're going to send up additional ones for the cue
cards we use, or maybe the cue cards have not changed.
CC Copy, AI, we' ii get with you.
CC And AI, on our change list number I is
0325 and in the EVA checklist, it's on page 6.1-i, and it's
moving the (garble) restraint from the top of the film vault into
the AM.
CDR You're right. The clear empty plenum bag
in AM, moved to OWS. Okay? We have got it. Thanks.
CC Okay, and the purpose of that was, in
case for some reason we're out there with all twin pole
equipment and we can't get it deployed, then you've got
a big bag to stow it all into.
CDR Not a bad idea. Who gave you that quick
answer, Bob Kain?
CC Windler gave you that one.
CDR Fine, tell Milt thanks.
CC Roger.
PLT Tell Milt best regards to Friendswood
City Council.
CC He says thanks.
CC He also says your house is still dry.
PLT I think next time I'll build me a boat
and just anchor it to a tree, then when the water rises, it
won't be a problem.
CDR You can tell Jack's a Marine, everybody
else was tied to the tree.
CC They say Noah did that and it worked out
fine.
PLT He didn't make it for 59 days, though.
CC AI, no need to acknowledge, but we have
not sent you up any changes to your EVA cue card. All the
changes are for the checklist.
CDR Okay then, I understand that we just
continue to use the cue cards and they're correct.
CC And Skylab, we're going to update your
Nu Z so stay off the DAS for a while here.
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PLT Okay, how about lettlng me know when we

can have it. I got to put these priorities in my maneuvers.
CC I'ii do it, Jack.
CC Okay, Jack, the DAS is yours.
PLT Okay, she's loaded and ready, Story.
CC Looks good from down here.
I'LT Okay.
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CDR Testing I, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, i.
CC We're reading that test loud and clear.
We're i minute to LOS here. We'll see you over at Guam
in 3 mlnutes.
CDR Hey Story, could you set up a private
comm for me and my wife tonight about next time maybe (garble)
the med report or somewhere around there (garble)?
CC Okay, there's an awful lot of noise
in the background. It's probably the cooler running. Say
again the tlme.
CDR It could be the time the Med pass
is taking place or somewhere, around therej the CDR.
CC Okay, we'll do it AI.
SPT Guam and how many minutes did you
say Story?
CC About 3 minutes.
SPT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Guam
station in about 2 minutes. We'll keep the llne up and
continue to stand by. During this last pass there was a
little byplay between the ilot Jack Lousma and the Flight
Director Milt Windler who was assisted by CAP COM Story Musgrave
concerning the area where Lousma and Windler llve. They
had a problem with rising water drlng heavy rains several
weeks ago. We'll stand by for acquisition through Guam.
SC 93A mode 2. 72.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear.
We've got you over Guam for 9 minutes.
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CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear.

We've got you over Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay Story. Just went through the
preop configuration - correction ready verify and they're
all just right.
CC Rog
SPT IIey Story, let me give you a little
information on tile ETC frames used.
CC Okey-doke.
SPT We started with the camera setting on
a hundred and - 116 on the frames used. Used up three single
frames at the leader and at the end of the first segment
on the last pass, namely at 1500 hours, we had 142
frames used. At the end of the last pass we had 179. That's
where I'm picking up for this EREP pass. And earlier you
had asked a question about which can the film came from.
I'll confirm again, it was Charlle Tango 03. nd on the
last pad, I noticed that you went from AUTO to STAND BY
for 1 minute in order for me to change the shutter speed
and the frame rate. Fifteen seconds is enough if that's
if you would like to get the cameras readied again. Just
a very brief interval to change the shutter speed is all
that's required and you can make later pads with only a
15 second interval if you prefer.
CC Okay. Thank you Owen.
PLT Have you got the SAL door down there
open , wen .
SPT I' m ready.
SPT Got it.
CDR We got it.
CDR Okay, we' re minus i0, Jack. l'm going
to go to record momentarily on this VOX. A little bit
before minus I0, but I'll read all the readings That'll
make everybody happy.
CDR Okay, the CDR is now getting ready
to read all the readings on this gauges. Here we go.
starting with A, 155, 259, 386, 471, 564, 60. That completes
that one. Now we go to gauge B.
CC Before you go on to the next one, we're
going LOS in i0 seconds. See you over Goldstone in 15
minutes at 16:30.
CDR Okey-doke. e' ii be there.
CDR Okay, B, 142, B-256, 376, 472, 572, 655,
730, 810, 958. (garble) -
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in 14-1/2 minutes
and _ylab will start it's second Earth Resources pass of
the day over the United States on the next pass. At 16 hours
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28 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acqui-
sition through Goldstone. We expect to receive live television
through this pass over the United States. And we expect the
subject will be Science Pilot Owen arriott operating the
Earth terrain camera. We'll stand by for the first call.
PLT (garble) pretty soon.
CDR Jack, put a piece of tape on here to
keep this from getting kicked around.
PLT Okay.
CDR 54 go to the EREP start, Jack. I'ii give you
a VTS auto Cal in about i0 seconds.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 17 min-
utes. You're in ZLV, the maneuver looks good, and we're getting
TV and reading you loud and clear on vox.
CDR Okay. Sounds llke everything is going
well.
PLT Okay, tory. This pass is going to bring
us up the coast line coming over Seattle, over Casper, Wyoming,
over Lander, Wyoming the home of the one-shot antelope hunt-world
famous hunt. Down over Wichita, Kansas, down over Little Rock,
and hitting the gulf at Pensacola, Florida.
SPT How's your TV, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
SPT How's your TV?
CC Beautiful, Owen.
CDR 3145, 190 mode auto, Jack. Let her rip.
3254 is going to go out.
PLT Say Story, on that last EREP pass, where
I thought I got the Lansing site. I think I got it, but I'm
not confident enough of it, nor did I get enough time on
it to scratch it off the llst. So I think you better leave
it on there for another day.
CC What pass was that.
SPT The last pass.
CC At what site?
SPT Trying to pick up the site of Lansing
Michigan.
CC Okay.
SPT Site number 535. I didn't get enough
time on it to get enough data for the experimenter, and I
didn't get enough time on it to be confident that I was exactly
centered on it.
CC Copy.
CDR Ready out on 190 mode to stand by.
Shutter speed to FAST, frames to 40.
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PLT Okay, we're coming down over the mountains

through Washington, Idaho, and Montana• Cross into Wyoming
soon. I've got some clouds. The weather is not forcast to
be too good in the Wyoming area over the site we're interested
in today.
CC Green Mountain is supposed to be .4 to
• 7, Jack.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CDR 3340 should be ready on for 191. It is.
And about 34 when it's 193 pol i. Okay, 193 polarization i.
SPT MARK. 3415.
CDR 3416, 190 mode Alfa. Mode Auto. 37, it's
coming up.
PLT Pretty cloudy down there• (garble) north
of the site. I'm glad I got it. I got it.
CDR Hey, way to do Jack.
CDR (garble) strikes again.
PLT It' s klnda cloudy.
CDR Tell Lee Belew and Ken Kleinknecht this
isn't a bad space station they've got here. EREP seems to
work real nice.
PLT Okay, we're not getting as many cumulus clouds
down there at the moment.
CDR Standby and 93R to stand by. Mode cross the
_rack continuing• Right there. (garble) 190 intervalometer I0.
124, 192 mode ready• Okay, mode ready• 730 S on and R on.
3820. (garble) real nice.
CDR Hey Story, it's got me doing tape depletlon,
but we're going to have tons of tape left the way it looks•
I just took a look at the tape recorder box and it wasn't
even half used up yet•
CC We're planning to use it all up AI.
CDR Okay, we'll give it a go.
CDR 933 to stand by and R to stand by. 193
angle O. S on and 3238. Okay, 3857, 190 intervalometer 20•
657.
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CDR 357.
CDR 20
CDR 928.
CDR You about to shoot those things out in tile
(;ulf , Jack? Still in the middle of the States.
I'LT Can't find my air field.
CDR Oh, oh. 3928 S to STANDBY. Okay it is.
PLT Can't find the air field due to haze
and a few clouds down there, Story.
CDR Look up into the left, that thing
may llave drifted on you Jack.
CC The visibility is very poor in that
area, 2 to 4 miles due to haze and smoke.
PLT Yeah, that's for sure. I feel like
I'm right over it and right on it but I can't find it.
CDR 190 interveloclty R on.
PLT (garble) the Mississippi River and all the
bends in the river but no air field.
CDR (garble) 4040 which is A ON. 3 R OFF. 40 is A
on. B 4040 is complete.
PLT (garble) across the coastline over the Gulf.
CDR Okay, see if you can help those fisher-
men down there would you Jack?
PLT Check.
CDR And Story, we - this (garble) box we've
of course, still got it in the line on off. Do you want us
to take it off at the end of this run or Just leave it
where it is?
CC Leave it where it is AI.
CDR Okay, kind of thought that's what
you wanted.
PLT (garble) cutting across the Keys.
Florida Keys, we just passed them.
PLT Water area clear of clouds. It's particular
clear of clouds down there I notice. Guess I better
get this off. It's off.
CDR Okay.
CDR We had a long run here Jack.
CC AI, did you go to check on 192?
CDR That's affirm.
CC Okay.
CDR Thanks for checking me, I did it in
4130.
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CDR That's the one to watch.

CDR 5 I'm going to go 193A to STANDBY.
That's right there. 4411 R to STANDBY, there.
4417 S ON and R ON. ON, R ON. 4430 DTS AUTO CAL Jack
so stand by. I'ii give it to you in 6 seconds.
PLT Okay.
CDR MARK Okay 193A range 68. Okay, now
we're standing by for 4505 we're getting it done. There's
STANDBY and - -
PLT There's a place I know well.
CDR Is it? What is it? Just some place, huh?
PLT Take a look.
CDR Can' t. 505 start.
I>LT (garble) as much.
CDR 4505. S to Stand by R to STANDBY. R to OFF.
4519, 93A ON. 93A ON. 93 pol 4. 653 MODE AUTO to 190.
CDR 3 Jack. MODE AUTO on 190. Got a
maneuver coming up? We're getting a - -
PLT No, not for a while.
CDR Okay.
PLT I remember it well. (garble) MODE AUTO.
CDR Ready? 3710.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. e'll
see you over the Vanguard in ii minutes and all looks good
from here.
CDR Okay, thank you for the help Story.
4727 okay stand by.
PLT (garble)
CDR You got it ?
PLT Yealh.
CDR Great.
CDR S ON, R ON.
CDR Ready 4755, 92 is running, Jack.
range of the Merritt Island station. The next station to
pick up Skylab will be the Vanguard tracking ship in about
9-1/2 minutes. We had live television throughout that
stateside pass of Science Pilot Owen Garriott operating
the Earth terrain camera, part of the Earth Resourses
experiments package. This Earth Resources pass still
continuing, scheduled to end at 12:01 p.m. Central daylight
time about the time - should be still into that pass when
we acquire at Vanguard. At 16 hours 49 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Vanguard tracking ship for almost a 5 minute
pass. We' ii stand by.
CDR See acrcss the lake.
PLT All I got is clouds out there right now.
CDR 193 to S_AND BY. MARK STANDBY.
PLT Well, it's about time for the kid to
get with it.
PLT Turn this maneuver on.
CC Okay, the kid's with you for four minutes
over Vanguard. We're reading you loud and clear.
PT Hello
CDR Okay. Everything went just perfect. One
other request from the EREP Flight Planners. If they could
put on the C&D pad, also right along in the time line, the
time when we should start making the maneuver back. The
VTS operator does it, but this way that would make two of
us watching. And you'd make three, Story. (garble)
CC Okay, we got it.
CDR You're right. We've used up almost all
of the tape. It's way down and wobbling around about
25 percent indicated, which I understand is pretty near
empty.
CC Roge r.
PLT Okay, I've put in the maneuver time now,
Story. 52030 check enter flash. Clear. 50016 check enter
flash, clear.
CDR S to STANDBY, R to STANDBY. EREP to
STOP. That's the end of it. Time to go over to the post.
Okay. That's C&D post. Then do tape recorder depletion.
Will do it. Push record B-7. Okay, B-7 is indicating a
mere 30, 30. 192 DOOR to CLOSED.
CC Copy that, you got a good maneuver time.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Closing latch 191 tll after the next event.
PLT Okay.
CDR We out over the water, Jack.
PLT Yes sir.
PLT Okay. St MARK. Going back to SI. Here
we go. 14 minutes.
PLT Rate-s are coming up.
CDR Doors locked, Jack.
SPT Very well, Hey Story I notice we don't
have an ETC stow on the pad. I wonder how long you plan to
leave it out.
CC Stand by i, Owen.
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PLT MODE to AUTO.

PLT Okay. Let's secure this EREP business.
CDR Frames 04.
CDR MARK i t.
CDR Intervalome ter 2.
PLT I believe I got the mine all right, in
Wyoming, Story, but just could find the Mississippi River and
all the bends in all right places but I just couldn't see
the ground - objects on the ground well enough to find the
alrffeld and the cotton field.
CC Okay, I copy that Jack, we're 30 seconds
here to LOS. We'll see you over Goldstone a little over
an hour at 18:07. And Owen, we didn't get that on the
Flight Plan, but we will need a stow tonight, so you can
do it anytime.
SPT Okay. about what I figured. Thank you.
CC Thanks for reminding us.
SPT You help us, we'll help you.
CC Yes Sir.
SPT Okeydoke.
CDR Mark TR depletion as required by pad.
Yeah, that's what we got if required by pad. We'll do that.
TR fast forward ON momentarily. Okay, fast forward light
ON, end of tape light ON when tape depleted. Okey-doke.
Fast forwarding it, Jack.
PLT Very well.
CDR Got a recorder malf and an end of tape.
That kind of makes you it end.
CDR Okay. EREP to START.
PLT ERE]? is START. When did we ever turn it
off?
PAO Thi._ is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. The next station to pick up Skylab will be
Goldstone in i hour 3-1/2 minutes from this time. Skylab
now in the orbits which puts its track too far west to be
picked up by either the Australian stations or Guam. So,
we'll be out of touch with Skylab for the next hour. At
17 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Con tro i.
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6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range
of the oldstone station. We'll stand by there. The crew
should be having lunch about this time.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone
for 9 minutes.
PLT Hello, Goldst one.
CC Are you all eating up there?
CDR Yeah, we're Just finishing chow, Story.
CC Okay, I' ce got some stuff for you here.
We're looking forward here toward your EVA tomorrow. And
because of the short that we've had in the ATM, we're going
to have to work over some things here with you this afternoon while
you' re doing your prep. We think most likely the failure
occurred in the power transfer distribution box probably be-
tween TM bus 2 and TV bus 2. But there is a lot of other
things that go through that box which might have been damaged
also. And what we want to do this afternoon is power up
the ATM nd run through the same sequences that we're going
to have to tomorrow, such as canister roll, door open door
close, and site in from the cameras to see if the film is
in correctly.
SPT Okay.
CC And I've got a couple of things that
we need done at the ATM panel right now if someone is ready
to copy.
PLT The big 0 will be up there in a jiffy.
CC Okay.
PLT I just saw him leave the area.
SPT Okay, we're all set to do anything you
want to, Story.
CC Okay Owen. VA auto door switch to storage.
SPT Affirm.
CC And do not touch the sink generator
switch that should be verified at off. And we suggest
maybe you'd want to put some tape over that switch. The
sink generator switch selects both TV bus i and TV bus 2
simultaneously. So we don't want that switch touched. Leave
it in off.
SPT Okay, it is in off. And I'ii put some
tape over it either now if I got a moment or when you get
through the instructions.
CC Okay And the only other thing we have
for you this time is do not select bus 2 at any time for
any purpose.
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SPT Okay. Well I've got ACS counters on

bus 2, power systems on bus 2, and orbit phase on bus 2 riRht
11OW,
CC Yeah, sorry Owen. That's TV bus 2.

SI'T Oh, okay, TV bus 2.
SPT Story, I'm not sure we have any way to
scle_:t TV bus 2 anyway. Which switch are you talking about?
CC You'd have to use a DAS to get that, wen.
SPT Okay, understand.
CC And that's it for now a the ATM panel.
SPT Okay. And it does sound like you will
plan a (garble) check (garble) all right to cycle the doors and
all that, cycle the experiments for which we replace the
film tomorrow.
CC This afternoon we're going to run the
ATM through everything that we'll do with it tomorrow.
SPT Good.
CC And there is no need to reply, Skylab.
But you'll be helping us out with some of these procedures,
but we're going to get as many of them done from the ground
as we can, and we'll be starting right about now.
SPT Okay. And does it look like you can
select either of the sink generators from the ground by that without
turning them both on at once? Or maybe you haven't tried yet.
CC At present we're thinking we can never use
TV bus 2 again. And we can command TV us i on from the
ground or you can do it through the DAS.
SPT Okay, fine. Thank you.
PAO TV bus i is on the llne. And EGIL reports
it looks good.
SPT Story, you still there?
CC Yeah, we'll be here another 6 minutes.
For your information, we've got TV bus i up and we're in
experiment pointing, and all looks good.
PLT Okay, that's good news. We wonder if there
is another hasselblad site somewhere on board besides the one that
attaches to the camera in the command module?
CC Stand by one.
CDR Also Story, as soon as we finish dinner
we're going to start doing the prep for the normal EVA, then
we're going to start working on all these other items on
the EVA. And my suspicion is that we're going to run into
some problems trying to find different items, particularly
tethers. So I'm hoping someone down there who knows where all
the tethers are all over the spacecraft will be available
so we can say, hey we're looking for the tether to do such
and such and he'll know right where to go.
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CC Okay, we copy that AI. We'll try to stay

ahead of you. And while I have you here, you're set up for a
conference with your family over Guam at 02:00.
CDR Okay, how long is that pass, by the way?
CC It's about i0 minutes.
CDR Good. Thank you tory.
I'L'L' Story, you can set me up for tomorrow night
on that if you would, please.
CC Yeah, ack. Do you want a family conver-
sation set up for tomorrow night?
PLT Affirmative.
CC Will do.
CC Jack, the ring site is located in F-527.
PLT Okay, I'll go look for it, thank you.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 13:18 CDT 09/18:18 GMT
8/5/73
CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. e'll

see you over the Vanguard at 18"32. We'll be dumping the
tape re(:orders at that time. There are eight wrist tethers in
B-422 a,d you can reenable the BAT charge low of BAT 6
oll pan_, I 207.
I'LT Say again the AT charge information,
._to ry.
CC If you inhibited the BAT charge low, that's
AM BAT 6 on panel 207 you can re-enable that.
PLT Roger.
CC And so far the TM checkout has gone
nominal.
PLT Sounds great.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Texas has had
loss of slgnai. The Vanguard will pick up Skylab in 9-1/2
minutes. During this pass over the United States, the
Apollo Telescope Mount TV BUS i was brought back on the
line. It looks good. And we've started a series of
checkouts of the functions in the ATM that will be required
during the extravehicular activity tomorrow. The initial
checkouts, the ones we were able to accomplish before loss
of signal at Texas, went very well. Soon after crossing
the west coast of South America on this - a few minutes
and just prior to acquisition at Vanguard the kylab
space station will begin revolution number 1200. At
18 hours 12 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Con t rol.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC380/1
Time: 13:31 CDT, 09/18:31 GMT
8/5/73

31 minutes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard about to acquire
Skylab.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Owen we're working along here on the
reconfiguratlon and check out of the ATM. Now, when we
get done with that we'll have three things for you to do
and we'd like you to do all three of them over a station.
The station we - the next one that we could do this after
Vanguard would be Goldstone at 19:47.
SPT Now what do you want?
CC Number 1 is ATM experiment checklist
change number 002. And that's a modification of the ATM experi-
ment power up and checkout and that modifies the TM
experiment checklist.
SPT All right you want to read me a change
or do you want me to go get a change that's uplinked on
the teleprinter? I'm not sure what you meant Story.
CC Now we put this one up several days
ago.
SPT Okay, and what do you want me to do
with it?
CC We'd just llke you to perform this
over the next station when we can watch you doing it.
SPT Okay, fine. I'ii go check to make sure
I've either got it or probably already incorporated.
CC Okay, you may have done part of it.
And after completing that also over a station we would like
you to roll the canister to plus and minus 7200.
SPT What rate do you like?
CC That would be low - low rate times
two, Owen. And the last thing we'll have you do also over
a station will be to cycle the VA lights on panel 316.
SPT Okay, that'll be fine. I'ii go check
that change number 2 and make sure that we're ready.
CC Okay, and after we've done all that
and seen it over a station and it looks good we'll have
you powering down the ATM by ATM xperiments checklist
5-3 through 5-5.
SPT Okay.
CC And I've got one other thing for any-
body up there, and that's on panel 217 to reconnect the
SUS gas separator.
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SPT I'ii do it right now.

CC Thanks.
SPT SUS gas separator is connected.
CC Okay.
CDR What'd you decide about the primary
coolant loop this morning, really was cold?
CC We're still looking at that AI. We
haven't made a firm decision yet. We'll be going LOS here
in 20 seconds. See you over Goldstone about an hour and
15 mlnutes. That' ii be 19:47.
CDR Okay, see you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. We'll now have another long LOS until
Skylab gets within range of the Goldstone station in about
an hou and 5 minutes. Over that station Science Pilot
Owen Garriott will perform some more checkout of the Apollo
telescope mount procedl, res for that we sent up to him
here at Vanguard. We asked him to wait until he was over
a station to perform those procedures so that the ground
can watch them. t 18 hours 42 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-381/I
Time: 14:45 CDT, 09/19:45 GMT
8/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 19:45 Greenwich

mean time, a minute and a half, according to the AOS clock
to tracking station Goldstone, final stateside pass of the
day, brief pass of less than 4 minutes and a tropical storm
near the ground track will be pasted up to the crew, however,
may be too late for them to get cameras unstowed because it
is towards the end of the Goldstone pass and they-tlme they
will pass over the storm.
CC Skylab Houston, we've got you through
Goldstone for 4 minutes, and CDR or PLT.
CDR Go ahead Story.
CC Okay, AI, you are directly over a tropical
storm at this time, you've her for another 4 minutes,
out the EREP window or another 4 minutes out the wardroom window
and I've got a photo PAD for you.
CDR Okay, we'll sure get it, we've got our cameras
and it should go.
CC Okay that's your option, it's HDCOI, that's
got a - C by ii external color, it should have 38 frames
remaining and it's either at the wardroom window or F525.
CDR Okay, got any good settings for it, we
think we got it set, but what do you recommend.
CC That's your option, AI. Or, F-f1 exposure
1 over 250.
CDR Okay, that's what we had, we've already
got two pictures, how's that for reaction time?
CC Can you see it?
CDR It's a very patchy one sap Owen whose
taking the pictures, it doesn't look very much llke a tropical
storm maybe a weak one.
PLT Either that or the scale is so large, you
really stretch it from horizon to horizon.
CC And when available, we need the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, a - at your convenience and we would
like it as soon as possible, you can get started on the ATM
powerup checkout.
CDR Okay, got a couple of thoughts on somethlngs
here, Story.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, we got out the 2 BCUs and the SPT
will be using 013 and the PLT 010 and those were the ones that
were in the containers, also when we got out our UCTAs we
got the three that we brought over from the command module, we
wanted to verify that that is all okay.
CC That's good AI.
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SPT Ah, now Story, you first wanted me to do achange

two of the experiment changeout ATM checklist and data book,
now all I'll got is change one and I%e not been able to find
change two and I wonder if this is something at you can tell
me in real time or will you have to send it up on the teleprinter
or what ?
CC It's - t's quite lengthly and it would
be about a - be about a- i0 or 12 inches on the teleprinter.
SPT Can you call it off, and I'ii do it as you
call it.
CC Okay, 1'11 be able to follow you along
on i-i and we're about oh 30 seconds from LOS here, we'll pick
you up over the Vanguard at 20:09.
CDR Okay, and we got that storm, Story, it's
got a nice spiral effect and it Just doesn't look very strong
yet, Just llke they say in the book so one direction has a
lot more clouds than the other, let me see which way we're
headed. It's a - I'm not sure which way we're headed right
now Story, but the most clouds are in the direction that we
are not headed, so we past over the maximum cloud area of the
spiraling storm.
CC Roger, and Owen, let's meet at the ATM
panel over Vanguard at 20:09.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of signal
through Goldstone, Skylab space station nearing end of
revolution 1200 for this station, upcoming tracking station
is the good ship Vanguard in 16 minutes. Out the wardroom
window, the Skylab crew reported being able to see the
eye of the tropical storm, not too powerful looking according
to Bean. ack in 16 minutes for Vanguard at 19:52 Greenwich
mean time, kylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC382/i
Time: 5:08 CDT, 09/20:08 MT
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PAO This is Skylab Control 20:08 Greenwich

mean time acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in about
30 seconds. Standing by for this pass which will be a lengthy
discussion on changes to checklist aboard Skylab space
station. Start of revolution 1201 coming up as this space
station crosses 70 degrees beg your pardon 80 degrees west
1on glt ude.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, Owen we're Just going to run through
the things that we need to do tomorrow llke roll a canister
and cycle about five experiment doors.
SPT Go right ahead with your instructions.
CC H-ALPHA 1 AUTO switch to OFF verify and
then OPEN H-ALPHA 1 door.
SPT AUTO is OFF and H-ALPHA 1 door has been
cycled OPEN and talkback is white.
CC Roger.
SPT Now grey.
CC Roger.
CC And you can close that door, Owen.
SPT Closed.
SPT Barber pole.
CC Roge r.
CC We're working it Owen; be right with
you.
CC And how about cycling the SO56 doors, Owen.
SPT 56 is coming open.
SPT It's grey.
CC Okay, you can go ahead and close them.
SPT Barber pole.
CC Roger. Cycle the doors on 82A.
SPT Grey.
CC Okay, close the doors and then go to
82B.
SPT Grey.
CC Understand 82B is open.
SPT 82B is grey. 82A is barber pole.
CC Okay, you can close 82B.
SPT Barber pole.
CC Okay, now open S055 door. So or verify
that that's open and then close it.
SPT Okay, it is verified open and it's
coming closed now.
SPT Barber pole.
CC Roger.
CC And OPEN 55, Owen.
SPT Grey.
CC Okay, let's try rolllng the canister
Owen, using low times 2. The most expeditious way get to
plus or minus 7200 that's the maxlmun ... - -
SPT Is that experiment roll or canister roll?
CC That's the canister roll.
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SPT Okay, canister roll a plus 7200.

CC And then back all the way to minus
7200.
SPT Okay, now 'm on minus 5582 right now and
I assume I have to roll through the South Pole not the North
Pole, is that correct?
CC Yes, it would be quicker to go to minus
7200 first.
SPT Roger.
SPT Story_ I'm rolling to 7 - minus 7200
now, but I' ii not be able to roll to plus 7200 via North
I' ii have to roll that way via South which I presume
is what you want.
CC Are you looking at canister roll, Owen?
SPT I'm looking at experiment roll minus
about 6800.
CC Okay, it's canister roll we wanted. We
just want to exercise the canister through the full range
of its roll.
SPT Probably going to take the most of this
pass to complete this, Story is there anything else after
this.
CC We' re looking at that right now, Owen.
PLT Hey, Story, on the EVA prep we got
the TV set up and installed the LOCK. Does this mean that
we won't be using the DAC or are we suppose to use - set up
the DAC also.
CC Jack, I - -
PLT I'm going on the assumption that it's
either TV or DAC and we got the TV set up.
CC The TV will be fine, Jack.
PLT Good.
CC And Owen, you can stop roll ROLL now.
SPT Okay, do you want to go back the other
direction?
CC No, we'll like to finish exercising the
canister at the next pass which will be Goldstone at 19:47.
SPT Okay, go ahead what's next.
CC The only other thing we'll have after
ex - finishing exercising the canister will be exercising the
EVA lights on panel 316 and after that we'll have you do the
experiment and console power down, pages 5-3 through pages 5-5 and
that does not have to be done athe site.
SPT Okay, that's fine.
CC So, we'll pick you up at the ATM panel
at Goldstone at 19:47.
SPT Would you check that time again?
CC That's Hawaii at 21:17.
PAO This is Skylab Control loss of signal
through the tracking ship Vanguard 57 minutes away from next
station at Hawaii. Science Pilot, OwenGarriott going through
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Time: 15:08 CDT, 09/20:08 GMT
8/s/73
PAO
(CONT'D) some rotations of the ATM canister so that it could be
watched on telemetry on the ground during the station pass.
This will be continued over Hawaii they want to exercise the
canister for its full rotation as part of the ATM checkout.
Sometime this afternoon there'll be a change-of-shift briefing
with the Flight Director Milt indler_ but time is uncertain
at the moment. It'll be one of these short-notice affairs
as soon as we have an estimate we will come up on the loop
with it. He also plans to bring one of the EREP people
with him to describe today's two EREP passes. Returning in
56 minutes for the Hawaii pass at 20:21 Greenwich mean time
Sky lab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-383/I
Time: 16:16 CDT; 09/21:16 GMT
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mean time. Coming up now in 50 seconds for Hawaiian Island
tracking station; Skylab space station mid-way through revo-
lution 1201. We're estimating a change-of-shlft briefing
with Flight Director, Milt Windler and EREP Controller, John
Llewellyn, at 5 p.m. central daylight time in the Houston
news room.. (Garble)
CC Okay, we're with you Owen, over Hawaii
for 9 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders at Hawaii
and to expedite things you can use roll rate high times one.
SPT Okay, I'ii go on over to minus 7200 and
then back to plus 7200.
CC That's affirmative. Just exercise the
canister complete, limit the roll and then prk it at plus
2057 experiment roll.
SPT Okay, plus 2057 and tell me again the
roll rate you had Just agreed to.
CC That's HIGH times one.
SPT HIGH one. Roger.
CC And Owen, that plus 2057 is CANISTER ROLL.
SPT Okay, I'll change it.
PLT Hello, Story, this is Jack. Got two
questions.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay. I don't see anything up here up
here that tells me what S149 cassette to get out
and install. And number two: I ot a - in my flight plan
tomorrow, during the EVA, at present it just says photo,
and I don' t know what that means.
CC Stand by i.
CC That's cassette number 1 on S149.
PLT Number i.
PLT Okay, those are the ones that l stowed
the other day apparently.
SPT Okay. Only two other things left there
Story, and do you want me to start power down now or what?
CC Okay, we got a couple more things, Owen.
Could you cycle the UV monitor doors OPEN, and then CLOSED?
SPT They' re gray.
CC Okay, and now close them.
SPT Barber pole.
CC Okay, the only other thing we need here
is the EVA lights to cycle ON, and then OFF on panel 316.
After doing this and you do not need station coverage for
your ATM experiment power-down, complete 5-3 through 5-5 in the
experiment power-down.
SPT Rog. I just glanced at that a minute ago
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and are you interested in all of the frames remaining -

readings? I noticed on the checklist it wasn't recorded
and if you do I'ii Just give them to you now.
CC Okay, we'll take them now.
SPT Okay. On Bus 2 909, 1882, 2 all zips,
6394; S055 doesn't count, and 5554.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, no need to acknowledge but delete
the word photo from your flight plan, it's TV only.
CDR We were Just attaching the foot restraint
to the adapter. And we put the pin in that goes to the
foot restraints through the adapter. The one with sort of a
hex bolt on top. Hex - The astro pin and - the way we
found that it works - we want to verify that we did it correctly.
If we put it in, expanded the little Jaws that it has and then
backed it out counterclockwise so it was real tight against
the plate. As we did it pulled the two plates together,
and looks like it made it nice and secure, hen we of course
put in the other new flange and two bolts. We wanted to
make sure that we did that astropin right.
CC That sounds real good, AI.
CDR Okay, good. Doesn't look like too much
good, but it - the instructions weren't that specific.
CC Okay.
SPT And Story, there are three EVA lightings
which is that they are all cycled ON and then back OFF.
CC Owen, could you cycle those again and give
us a MARK when you turn them ON?
SPT There is no headset and speaker box near
panel 316. I can do it on TIME or something if you want.
CC Okay, go ahead and do it now, and we'll
be looking Owen.
SPT Okay, It'll - I'il start at - ah - 30 seconds
from now and I'll do every 5 seconds.
CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS.
We'll see you at the Vanguard at 21:47.
CC And we need the MPC roll INHIBITED and
reenable the startracker and press on with your ATM experi-
ment power-down 5-3 to 5-5.
SPT Ah, Roger, and I gave you the Light
CC Okay, and one other thing as we're going
over the hill. Do not touch the CBRM SELECT switch.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of slgnal
from the Hawaii tracking station. Space station Skylab
heading southeast along the - across the mid-Paclfic nearing
the end of revolution 1201. Next station in 20 minutes will
be the tracking ship Vanguard. Slightly - or shortly after
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Vanguard LOS, off-going Flight Director, Milt Windler will

appear in the Houston newsroom for a change-of-shlft briefing,
accompanied by EREP Controller, John Llewellyn, to describe
this morning's two EREP passes. We're estimating at or about
5 p.m. central daylight time, plus or minus a few minutes.
At 21:27 GMT and 19 minutes to the next station, this is
Skylab ontrol.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-384/I
Time: 16:46 CDT, 09/21:46 GMT
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mean time, i minute away from acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. Space station Skylab will be at the start of
revolution 1202, over this station. Next station after Vanguard
will be Hawaii, almost an hour after OS Vanguard. We have
acquistion or beginning to get acquisition at Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS over the Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay rip.
CC Rog, and if the CDR is available or any-
body we would appreciate an update on your EVA prep.
CDR Okay, coming at you right now, we just
got all the gear out, we put the bate plate adaptor onto
the foot restraint and fQund that we needed to unscrew the two
locking pins that hold the feet in the foot restraint inside
but nobody is in the suit so we got a Phillips screwdriver
and took those pins off and now the plate looks real good,
looks llke the one we practiced with, next we got all the
tethers hooked on the thing, we're now up there with the two
poles, the two sensor poles, and that set of poles one of the
poles has a helic or spiral of gray tape on it, and then all of
the rest do not, we were trying to figure out if that's the
spare pole or the first pole.
CC See if we can get you an answer for that.
CDR Yeah, I think that might be an important
answer, too because I suspect there's no way they could
have checked all poles to each other, but it looks llke using
that as the key, either as the first or the last you could make
sure that you connected the poles together in the way that
they were connected preflight to insure they were okay. We
were going to double check - check them but I'm not sure that
we want to take them out and take chance of damaging the
bungee but we're going to look at it, but I think if we could
get an answer there we could know which way to go.
CC Okay, we're checking that. Now could
ask you another question, last night when you were reconfiguring
the command module, on the - in this quiescent state, subsequent
to that we noticed that you had a drop in your PSM oxidizer
manifold pressure of about 12 psi, if you can recall, we'd like
for you to run through the secquence of switching that you did
when you separated from the quads to PSM.
CDR Okay, we went, we go through it the same
way every time, w turn off - turn off the one - we turn off the
one - the quad and then turn on the PSM so that is exactly what
we did.
CC Okay.
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CDR And we ended up with two PSM on, mainly

A and C but the helium valve and the propellant valve closed.
PLT ....islation .. .
CDR That's the manifold isolation - is the name
of it I believe, but it's essentially propellant.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CDR Okay, and how's the pressure been holding
since then?
CC Okay, it's been solid since that drop,
no problem with it.
CDR Yeah, we switched them exactly like the
procedure and it didn't appear to be any problem at the time.
Okay, we'll wait for your information on these poles, we need
them because we can't go ahead witbout them.
CC AI, from what you said, do you think there's
any possihillty at all, you could of connected the DSM to
either quads, Bravo or Delta?
CDR Definitely not.
CC Okay.
CDR We were Just trying to think through how
you could do that if you to.
CDR I guess you would just have - to do it
if you wanted to you'd[ reach over and just turn PSM either
B or D on, that's the only way you could do it as far as I
could tell.
CC That' s affirm.
CDR We sure in the devil didn't do that.
CC Okay.
CDR We were trying to figure out if there was
any back door way to do it, that we could have done it
accidentally. We know we followed the procedures precisely
but - we were just thinking if there was any other possible
way to do it, the only way is kind of a direct connection.
Which doesn't sound too clever. So we know we didn't
do it.
CC Rog.
CDR And we were also careful never to have a
quad and aPSM open at the same time. So we didn't shift
any fuel around we don't think.
CC Okay, very good. In answer to your question
about the poles and the tape. All of the poles have been
interch - interchanged, so there's nothing special about
that. They all fit with one another. The only thing about
that one that was taped up, that was used on Pete's flight
for the fast deployment so you can disregard the tape.
CDR Okay and I understand we have two
spare poles, one in each rack, is that correct?
CC That's afflrmatlve. And A1 could you
clarify for us whether you have got into the pre-prep called
out for in your cue cards and checklist.
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CDR We - we finished the pre-prep, the

normal pre-prep EVA; that's complete We are now working on
this special thing, Jack's here working on 149 he Just taped
up the wrench handle and he's got 149 assembled but he does
not have the collector on it yet, h's going to go up and
stash that in the AM and Owen and I are working on the poles
getting everything set with it, so those are the only things
we lack but it looks - looks llke it's going be - to take a
little time to get it squared away and then we want to set down
and talk about the procedures and the sequence we are
going through. Now, oOne thing I noticed that didn't
come up on the pad or maybe it's somewhere else, is the exact
sequence you want us to do it. Unless this morning
when you said twin pole 149 and 230 and then regular ATM
or maybe it's different. Tell me now and I'II write it down
and make sure we do it that away.
CC Okay, I'ii get it for you in just a second.
CC Skylab Houston, in answer to your question
now, number i is twin poles, then go into your normal EVA.
And at the end of the normal EVA you' ii get to the S055 ramp
removal. Then get S149 and then $230. We're about
30 seconds from LOS, we'll have you again at 22:55.
CDR Okay, understand that. And I guess
somewhere in here, although I haven't seen it, there is a
procedure that says - tells me which angle to go to so Jack
can get the 55 ... very easily.
CC Okay, that should be in your pad and
you can pick up looking at quads Bravo and Delta wherever
you think appropirate.
PAO This is kylab Control, loss of signal
through the tracking ship Vanguard next station in 35 minutes
tracking station on the Hawaiian Islands 34 minutes from now.
That can't be right it's 56 minutes. AOS clock is on the
fritz, 56 minutes to acquisition at Hawaii and it looks llke
our estimate of a 5 p.m. change-of-shift briefing may go
down the drain, and he somewhat later than that inasmuch
as the off- going flight director hasn't gone off yet. He's
still here in the control room. So we'll slip that briefing
time in real time asthey say 34 minutes until Hawaii, at
21:58 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 17:26 CDT, 09/22:26 GMT
8/5/73

mean time 28 minutes to next station at Hawaii. Flight
Director Milt Windler accompanied by EREP Controller, John
Llwewllyn, from the maroon team, are now entroute to the
Houston newsroom for the change-of-shift debriefing; should
arrive in about 5 minutes. Hawaii pass will be taped for
delayed playback if the press conference runs past that
station pass. To repeat estimate 5 minutes until start of
change-of-shift debriefing with Flight Director, Milt
Windier and REP Controller John lwewllyn,, in the Houston
newsroom. At 22:27 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 18:06 CDT, 09/23:06 GMT
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PAO Time 19 minutes away from acquisition at

tracking ship Vanguard, during the just completed press
conference some 6 minutes of alr-to-ground tape was accumulated
during the Hawaii pass. We'll play back that tape now and
come up again for Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Hear you, Crip, things are going well, got
a question on one procedure here. Hold on.
CC Okeydoke.
CC And CDR, while we are waiting on that
question, if the SPT is available, I ould like to ask him
about ATM ops.
CDR Okay, he's up there listening to you, go
ahead.
CC Okay, you are - have a GO to operate that
ATM pass which is scheduled at around 00:24 think, if you so
desire. If you don't want to we'l] go ahead and do a unattended
ops from here.
SPT We don't know whether we are going to get
finished, we are working on this and if we get finished I think
he wants to do it but we got to get this thing done tonight.
So we'll - we don't know right now. We're just getting every-
thing squared away.
CC Roger undrstand and if he does operate it
the only restriction we've got is that we don't want to
turn on anything that we didn't check out earlier and about
the only thing that we know of that falls into that category
is the TV so we would want him to hcld up on turning on the TV
until he got over a station and we're going to have a Guam
pass at about 00:25 which Just about in the time he gets involved
in it.
CDR Okay, my guess is he won't be able to do
it. But we'll, we're pressing on here.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT By TV, do you mean the monitors, Bob, or what?
CC That's affirm. Turning on the monitors
the cameras associated with them.
CDR Okay, I'm looking here on page 6.2-14 at
the end of the twin poles deploy, it says pick up with normal
EVA procedures starting with unstow VS Tree. But I think
you mean unstow S149 is that correct?
CC Stand by i on that AI.
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CDR And while they are thinking about that,

let me get them to look on page 6.2-2, the last paragraph for
EV-I on the left, it says, attach base plate to clothesline
clip on F-6 handrail by use of base plate tether. Okay, we
know how to do that. Next line says, attach tether to clothesline
clip on F-6. Now we suspicion (sic) that's just redundant and
we ought to strike out the second part but we want to make
sure we understand the situation.
CC Okay, AI stand by on that one, too, please.
CDR You bet; I'ii be upstairs working.
CDR Another thing while you are waiting, Jack
indicates from looking out the window that the $230 doesn't
have a red or a blue or a white handle - that they sort of a] l
looks the same out the window, and we're going to ]lave to
Bet you to send that change up again that talks about attaching
it to the red handle, or the white handle or whatever, to attach
it to the one clearest the - nearest the FAS or the one
fartherest (sic) from the FAS whichever he wants, instead of going
on color code we would like to go on ones that are the closest or
furtherest (sic) from the FAS area.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, on your first question, you are
correct and after - instead of getting the VS Tree you're supposed
to go back and get 149.
CDR We found the procedures for 55 ramp and
we got those in and they're ready to go, I just wrote in a
little note right after that for Jack to look at quad B and
D from his vantage point there on the Sun end, once he is around
at the transfer work station not the front end work station,
I just wrote in observe B and D quads and then pressing on
from there with the rest of the VA which is 149 and 230.
CC Okay, did you copy my answer to your first
question? That you were correct about when you were suppose
to go get 149?
CDR Sure did.
CC Okay, and you're correct on your question
on page 6.2-2 that is redundant that you can scratch the lines
that say attach tether to clothesline cllp on F-6.
CDR Okay.
CC And AI, on the S230 we are going to send up
up a pad that tells you which handle to get in relation to
the FAS, but for your information those color codes are just
small strips on the white handle, it's about 2 inches long
color coding. But we will send you up the other information also.
We're about 45 seconds from LOS and we'll have you again at
Vanguard at 23:27 and we will be doing a data recorder dump
there. Also we Just sent you up some more EVA changes that
are in the teleprinter.
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CDR Okay, and what you might do is over Vanguard

if you know which is nearer or farther I'll get out my book
and Just read that sentence to you and you can say, okay that's
the near one and I'll just write it in, and let (garble) pad and
it'll certainly be a lot quicker.
CC That sounds llke an excellent idea.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that completes
playback of the Hawaii alr-to-ground, final Hawaii pass of
the evening. Next station in 13 minutes, tracking ship
Vanguard. Space station Skylab nearing end of revolution 1202
at Vanguard, we'll begin revolution 1203. 23:12 - 23:13 GMT, back
in 13 minutes, Skylab Control.
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8/5/73

mean time coming up now on tracking ship Vln - Vanguard in
about 45 seconds and after Vanguard we'll be picking up the
Ascension Island station for the first pass this evening.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Bob, Owen here, we haven't eaten
yet and we're still working on the prep so it looks like
y'all are going to plan for an unattended run on the next orbit.
over.
CC Okay, we plan on doing that Owen.
CC And if AI, or somebody is standing by
I can go through these 230 handle colors for you.
SPT Okay, just a minute, we're both stowing
rods in the airlock right now, in Just a minute he can get
to a box.
CC Okay, there's no rush and if you don't
want to get it I can give it to Ascension we got coming right
up right after this Vanguard pass.
SPT Okay, he's on his way right now.
PLT Go ahead, Bob, 'm listening.
CC Okay, Jack I can either go through it
in a checklist with you or I can Just more less Just sort of
describe what's out there.
PLT Yea, we want to go through the checklist.
CC Okay, you get on page 21-18.
PLT While we're looking it up I got the 149
put together and the way it says in the checklist and in the
last step it asked me to verify that the plates will open up without
interference and it seems llke to me that's something you guys
should have verified on the ground already.
CC Roger. We did verify that on the ground
hut we Just want to make sure that it was connected up right
when you guys did it there.
PLT Okay, I got it connected up according to
the procedure with the handle pointed the same direction when
they're unfolded and all that and the only way I can run it
(Garble) is to open it all up but I presume he doesn't want
me to do that.
CC In your estimation when you look at it,
does it look llke it will open up?
PLT Well, I'ii have to play around with the geometry
a little bit.
PLT Go ahead on the $230.
CC Okay, have you got page 2118 opened up?
PLT Yes sir.
CC On the right hand side, the right column
there it says attach wrist tether to FT30 collector with a red
handle, okay that's in one - is going to be nearest to the FAS.
P LT Ok ay.
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CC Okay, right below that you should have

attached it to the white handle which is going to be the
furtherest (sic) FAS.
PLT Okay, that's the white handle?
CC That's affirmatlve.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. And you got a change in down
there that talks about - translate to- $239 and remove the
clip and put the clip on the blue handle. And we should have
had also had the change - should have wzitten in furtherest from
the FAS.
PLT Okay, furtherest from the FAS. Is there a
red handle, white handle, and blue handle, is it red and blue
or red and white?
CC Okay, Jack there's actually four units
out there and there's one wrapped on top of another on - in
two places. We've got a red handle, on the top one of the
one nearest FAS, a white handle on the top one of the one
furtherest away from the FAS, and you are going to pull both
of those off and then the blue one is the one that was under
neath the white one and it's furtherest away from the FAS.
PLT Okay, that's very good that makes it very
clear, I understand now.
CC l'm glad you understood that Jack.
PLT Say again, rip.
CC Never mind. (chuckle).
PLT Well, anyhow it's red, white and blue, right?
CC Nothing llke being patriotic.
PLT Hey, Crip I was Just glanclng through
our schedule for tomorrow and I was noticing that you managed
to get t worked in after our EVA.
CC Roger. Think you'll need it?
PLT We expect to get a little PT done one
way or the other.
CC I would assume so.
CC Pete did a lot of peddllng after the EVA.
PLT Back or forwards?
CC (Chuckle) I'm not .,_ure which.
CC Skylab, Houston, we have sent what we
hope is the last of your EVA teleprinter messages up and
it deals with inspecting an area that we've suspect that
short occurred in on the ATM.
SPT Okay, I Just heard it chugging away up
there. We'll go take a look at it.
CC I'd llke to comment on one thing it was
men - i mentioned earlier about having Jack inspect QUADS A
and B from the transfer work station. Corrections B and D
and we don't think that you could see BRAVO from the transfer
work station and we mentioned in this message a place Ehat
we thought you might be able to take a look at it.
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SPT Okay, thank you good point.

CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS we'll see you again at Ascension at 23:41; 2341.
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS racking
ship Vanguard, 5 minute gap across to the Ascension Island
station on revolutlon 1203. We'll be back at that time and
at 23:36 GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time, some 50 seconds away from acquisition at tracking
station on Ascension Island. From Ascension to Guam will be
about 39 minutes. Guam Island station will be the next pass
after Ascension, very brief low elevation angle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Ascension for
8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip, I took a good look at S149
and a- it'll open up, no obstructions.
CC Okay, Jack, I guess that the concern was
that that bracket that you installed for the thing could be
put on there backwards and would stop that a - one a - part
Beak (?) from coming down.
PLT Right, I put it on backwards one time Just
to verify that I had it the wrong way and then I put it right.
CC Fantastic, you Marines are really thorough.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Guam at 00:26, 00:26.
through the Ascension Island station. Guam Island in 37 minutes.
Science Pilot, Owen Garriott apparently is gotten somewhat behind
in the activity onboard and requested that the ground conduct
the ATM, Apollo Telescope Mount pass that's schedule at 24:15
Greenwich mean time, now on a unattended basis. The crew
presently in the mist of their meal, evening meal. At 23:48
Greenwich mean time, returning in 36 minutes for Guam, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-III Mc-389/I
Time: 19:25 CDT, 10/00:25 GMT
8/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 24 minutes after

midnight Greenwich mean time. pace station Skylab coming
up on the first Guam Island pass of the evening. Very low
level pass, just barely peaks over the horizon, some 2.7
degrees as seen from the Guam antennas for a total pass time
of 3 minutes and 40 seconds.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Guam 3 minutes.
PLT Okay doke, Crip, we decided to sit down and
have something to eat.
CC Sounds good, you still got some more EVA
prepens to do?
PLT Yeah, a little blt, a few details to clean
up, we got to a sterilize (garble) two deals there but that's not
going to take too long.
CC Okay, sit back and enjoy dinner.
CDR And Crlp, I'll be dumping the condensate
tank in just a few minutes, I haven't heard anything about it
today, but I assumed you wanted it dumped.
CC Roger, A1 you got a GO to go ahead
and dump that at your - whenever you' re ready for it.
CDR Okay, the one thing I've been wondering
about on this EVA tomorrow, we got it all stowed up there
in the AM and with exception of Just a couple of items, putting these
changes in the checklist and looking at some of those, looking at
where we want to see for those burned areas, which we haven't
had a chance to do yet, trying to get in our exercise, hit the bed,
I guess we're 2-1/2 hours away from that right now it looks llke.
When we get ready tomorrow, are we sort of GO to get g - to
go on out or do we have to wait for a certain time to go?
I've forgotten the rules.
CC Stand by i on that.
CDR Yeah, we'll be keeping you informed as
we go along, you know, how we are doing you'll be able to
tell because we will be coming up on VOX and all that, but I don't
know it will be a certain time.
CC AI, whenever you are ready to go out, you've got
a GO to go.
CC Okay_ and I noticed we were getting up
an hour later this morning, I think that's a good [dea, too.
We've a - We've been hustling and we've never been about to
get the bed on time since we got here. And it looks llke
it's going to be close today. So we will Just see how it
goes.
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CC Okay, that was put in there pre some dis-

cussion that - been had earlier regarding not being about to
get pt om and so forth for you so I think they allowed for you
going an hour late tonight and getting up an hour late tomorrow
morning.
CDR That's great and I go for the idea of the
pt afterwards, too. We've finally got this place ship shape
and we're ready to start cranking out. And I think we're going
be ready for that one tomorrow.
CC Sounds great. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS now and we'll have you again over the Vanguard, 01:03,
01:03.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through the Guam Island station, next station Vanguard tracking
ship in 33 minutes. And during that brief pass, the crew had
a question about whether they EVA should begin on the nominal
time in the flight plan or whenever they got ready and the
word back through the spacecraft communicator Bob Crippen was
that when they're ready to go on out through the hatch. Inltia]]y
the twin pole sun shield erection will be the first Job of
the crew, following that the normal EVA that would be scheduled
such as the TM film retrieval and refurbishment. And while
at the sun end of the ATM they launch lock or ramp as it's called
will be removed from the S055 shutter or door, next item on the
EVA list is attaching the S149 experiment to brackets, so that
it looks at the sun for gathering particles. And the final item
will be the $230 experiment removin}; some prepared samples that
had been placed prelaunched and are scheduled for removal during
the various Skylab manned visits. That also is a particle col-
lection detector using foil cuffs,that attached to the ATM struts.
30 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard, at 32 past midnight,
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-390/I
Time: 20:02 CDT; 10/01:02 GMT
815/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:02 Greenwich

mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition, racking ship
Vanguard, start of revolution 1204 as it crosses 80 west
meridian. Tenminute pass here at Vanguard and another
i0 minute across Ascension. And next rev we'll start picking
up Canary and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. OS through the an-
guard for i0 minutes.
SC Okay, how're you doing tonight?
CC Pretty good. And you guys?
CDR Oh, we're making it.
CC You sound llke you've been working pretty
hard today to get all ready for that VA.
CDR We got it all stowed. Jack was just
cleaning up the 230 things and Owen and I were putting in
the changes in the entry checklist and the EVA checklist
and the cue cards and all those other things. The only
ones we still lack - we're not fln[shed with the ED-8, but
we'll have them done in 30 minutes or s, and the only other
we'd lack is these long ones for the deac checklist, which
I guess they're going to schedule for a couple of days from
now. That's Just too long to (garble).
CC Yeah, I've been sitting down here doing
the same thing myself.
CDR Incredible, huh?
CC I can't believe all those changes. And
Just to keep you happy, we've also got an entry checklist
change that we're going to zap up to you tonight, too.
CDR I was telling Owen tonight, they just
feed them a little by little. Which is okay, though. Some-
body's got to work them all out and that's not done instantly.
CC We don't want to flood you all at once.
CDR Yeah, they look good. They make sense.
CDR Nice to have Vance and the gang working
on them down there. Phll haffer, I'm sure has been doing
a lot of work on it. I don't know.
CC Yeah, those guys have really been hitting
the paperwork pretty hard, going through it and reviewing
these things.
CDR Well, we know it and appreciate it for
sure. We know that those things don't just happen.
CDR One thing we haven't got is this - for
tomorrow night, condensate dump for a permanant general
message, number 1. I don't have - haven't seen that one.
Wait a minute, maybe I have.
CC Yeah, we've - -
CDR Yeah, that's - that's the one I've got.
CC Roger.
CC I've got it. No trouble.
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CDR That's the one I've been using.

CC I'm sitting here with a small amount of
news that I'd be glad to read up to you. It's nothing very
significant tonight, but I'd be glad to shoot that up now
if you'd llke.
CDR Sure would, Crlp.
CC Okay. They informed me that the news
media today reported the details and plans for deploying
the twln-pole sail above Skylab on Monday - Tomorrow, rather.
And there's several other chores that you've got planned
for extravehicular activity. And man, there are lots of
chores, iso extensive coverage of the twin EREP passes
which you guys apparently did a very superb job on. Some
131 fishing boats and 500 deep sea fishermen participated
in the EREP pass over the Gulf of Mexico. Also, apparently
arahella was also in the limelight and her deployment
carefully followed.
CDR She hasn't done any spinning yet, though.
CC No spinning, huh? Well, give her time.
CDR Maybe tonight.
CC Maybe if she gets hungry enough. In
the news world, Palestinian terrorists tossed hand grenades
and fired shots into a crowded airport lounge today, in
essence, killing two Americans and wounding dozens of other
persons in an unsuccesful bid to hijack an airplane. Not
much really going on except perhaps in the news. hey got
a surprise winner for the Westchester. Came out of the -
from way behind - Bobby Nicklaus, who hasn't won a tournament
in three years, won the Westchester Golf Classic. e had
started a 509-hole six strokes behind and pulled it out.
The Astros fell to Cincinnati yesterday, 7 to 6, and then
lost again today, 7 to i. And I don't know if we got any
horse racing fans up there or not_ but riple-Crown winner,
Secretariat lost the Whitney Stakes at aratoga today to
Onion. Secretarlat's bit fell short in the stretch and
Onion won by a length. Trying to fig_,re out who nion is.
CDR That's another long shot I uess.
CC And i, we'd kind of like to know how
the overage food transfers went today if anybody can give
us a word on it.
CDR We have not - I' ii tell you what we did.
We moved the food in as you know the other day. We took
the overage food upstairs and back. We've had no time today.
We've been hustling on this EVA, and we still are. MY guess
is overage food is going to have to be set aside like I
requested the other night something llke an hour or
an hour and a half for two men, as soon as we can on the
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schedule. And it's - we got a pretty - pretty good bit of it

up here as you can guess. And we want to be sure and label
it and put it in cans and seal it and everything and put it
in the right place so that Jerry and Ed and Bill can find
it when they get here.
CC Okay, we copied that and we'll get it in
the flight plan.
CDR Yeah, we'd llke to get it scheduled fairly
soon so we can get it off. It's a - quite a bit of it's
hanging around upstairs. And if we do get any spare time,
which we're not tonight, for sure, we'll - we'll get it put
away, but it doesn't look llke that's going to happen for
a couple of days anyway.
CC Okay. Real fine.
CDR Might mention one other item since we've got
a little time here. (garble)
CDR The strawberries up here - I've had them
a couple of times over the last three or four days and I -
they don't tare too good. And I'd llke to have the fruit
people if they would run some tests on those strawberries
down there under mission conditions and whatever else. They
really not only taste bad, they Just don't taste healthy.
So, maybe we ought to - kind of hold up eating strawberries
for a couple of days until they had a chance to think about
it maybe they ran some tests previously and found they taste
that way but don't hurt you.
CC Okay, we'll have them look into that.
Can't image those wouldn't taste good with the vanilla ice
cream,
CDR That's what I had tonight and couple of
nights ago and then my favorite Skylab food on earth but
up here it's got sort of- I don't think it's the environment
either it's got a very acidic taste to it and it even leaves
a little feel in your mouth after you finish --
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CDR Acidic taste to it and it even leaves
a little feel in your mouth after you finish eating them. I
felt uneasy on eating both of these packages.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Another thing you might ask the food
pebbles when you talking with them, Malcolm Smith or whoever,
ask them Jack would kind of like to get a couple more drinks
right now, the restriction is 2 extra per day and he'd llke
to have like one or two more than that, sometime he wants
an okay to do that.
CC Okay. I would image Jack would like a
few extra steaks onboard too_ wouldn't he?
CDR Yes, you know he - (chuckle) another
thing you might mention to them we're all eating on the menu
now and we're eating i00 percent of it or _re so we're
standing by just to get back on the protocol and start
taking the supplement and all that other - we're just - we
haven't received any supplement messages even though we've
been sending back what we ate so we're standing by and we're
ready to go when they are.
CC I'm informed that the mid status did have
some supplements to take on it.
CC Also, if we could get somebody to go
up to the ATM C&D panel we copy that the main high voltage
switch on $055 is in override and we supposedly changed that
to put it in enable now.
CDR Okay, we hadn't (garble).
SPT Are the - as I recall I'm up checking it
again right now but this checklist page on powerdown had
a insert in it that requires to he put into OVERRIDE. I'II
double check it right now.
CC Okay, Owen, I'ii try and get it clarified
down here for you.
CC Okay, we're i minute from LOS and
we'll see you again at Ascension at 01:16 and I guess that's
where we will be standing by for your evening status report.
CDR Believe it or not we got it ready right
now.
CC Okay, don't believe we got quite enough
time to get it right now, though.
SPT Hey, Crip you can tell my good friend
Don Lind that we gave his $230 - gave it a good scrub down
with (garble) and rinses and we got them secure in the air
lock where they won't dangle around. Looks llke its about
as clean a job as we can do.
CC Okay, I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that.
PLT Yea, Bob on page 3-3 there's a pen and ink
insert that there's main high voltage override. ['iI put it
back to enable now.
CC Okay, we'll get that clarified for you,
Owen.
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through tracking ship Vanguard AOS in a minute and a half
at Ascension Island tracking _ation, where the evening
status report has scheduled. Crew food consumption,
medication, water intake, all the items that go into the
crew status report. Medical conference tonight will be at
Guam at 02:00 which is the upcoming Guam pass about 45 minutes
from now or some 35 minutes after LOS Ascension. We should
be getting ascqusition momentarily through Ascension Island.
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Time: 20:16, 10/01:16 GMT
8/5/73
CC Skylab Houston, we are AOS Ascension

now for I0 minutes.
CC And, Owen, I think maybe I can- clarify
that checklist change for you now, if yon want to go over it.
SPT Okay, that was change i checklist change
I put it back to enable, what would you like.
CC Okay, we would llke it in enable
and did you say that you did it on page 3-3.
SPT That's correct.
CC That 3-3 is the close-out for flare prep.
SPT I'm sorry. Let me check again, I should
have said 5-3 1 believe but let me look it up again.
CC Okay, on 5-4 is where you should be.
While you look at that, I can check. I'm standing by to
copy the vening Status Report.
CDR Okay, here it comes Crip. Urine volume:
78; 135; 153. Drinking water gun reading: 4700; 7753;
5635. BMMD: 6.238, 6.223 no, let me say it again, 6.238, 6.238,
6.239; 5.988, 5.986, 5.987; 6.965, 6.967, 6.974. Exercise: none
for anybody yet and if we get some, we'll tell you the last
pass of the night. Medication: none. Sleep: 6 good;
6 good; 6 good. Here comes the Food Log: CDR, 14 salt packs,
and no deviations, rehydrator for water extra 8 ounces and
an extra one extra strawberry drink so, one extra strawberry
drink and one extra 8 ounces; we got SPT, 9 salt packs, and
add one appple drink; PLT, 8 salt packs, add one grape drink,
to yesterday's menu and today add one apple and one strawberry
drink. Photo Log follows: 16-milllmeter: ETC prep Mlbl,
CT18,62; BTS track 61 and 62 D, DL0_60. Okay, here comes
the 35-millimeters: CX28,19; 70-millimeters, CXlIO- let me
go again, CXII,063; GBC, CP03287. Here comes EREP, 8 set
8099; 0292; 7818; 7198; 8968; 7870. Drawer A configuration:
no change. Okay Flight Plan deviations, past time nothing
new there; shopping list accomplishments, nothing new there;
I got the - no go ahead that's okay. Inoperable equipment,
we have already talked about the strawberries and we talked
about Jack's extra drink. Unscheduled stowage items location:
one full can of apple drink from overage moved down to the
wardroom and we' ii gradually comsume that. And that' s the
end of the Evening Status Report.
CC Okay, we've copied all of that. And
and did Owen have a chance to look on page 5-4 of his
ATM Experiment Book.
SPT That was where I was talking about,
Crip, the change 1 had it going to override and I put it
back to enable now.
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CC Okay, that should be a - that change should

have said MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE switch to ENABLE.
SPT Did I miss copy it or was the teleprinter
update incorrect.
CC Okay, I'ii have to go back and double check
that Owen, my a- my current stuff shows that it's a- that
it did say enable.
SPT Okay, I'd appreciate it and I'ii go correct
my book.
PLT Incidentally, Bob, there were a whole slew
of changes just llke that and I think they all were to put
that high voltage to override, that same correction did show
up on page 3-3 and then in a number of places throughout the
book.
CC Yeah, I was suppose to put them to override
in some places and to enable for the others. Basically when
they leave for unattended I think they wanted to have it back
enabled and when you are operating it they want it in override.
SPT Okay, I'd appreciate it, if you would send
up that change I again, on the teleprinter and I'Ii double
check and make sure I've got it in my book correctly.
CC Okay, that was our message 0335, and we'll
send it up to you.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Another request, rip.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Each night, I'm going to be dumping this
condensate each night, do you suppose you could get me an
estimate of the time that it takes, or will take each
day as a general rule that I should leave it in the dump position.
Right now there is no real rule, except going up there every
so often and checking to see if the bellows have moved to the
end. Now there must be some number that we could use every
day that would be a lot quicker and could Just set it on the
timer and when that times up go up there and hook it up to
the vent and vent in. I know the vent's 18 minutes, so that's
pretty can (?). Maybe we can get a can other numbers they
we'd be able to move out a little b_t better on it.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CC CDR, Houston, on that time, we recommend
i hour, i hour.
CC And CDR, we're about i minute from OS here,
we're going to have you again at Guam at 02:00 at Guam we'll be
set up for the medical conference and also AI for you we a -
we got your phone call set up. And if anybody can give me
a run down, did you find the med status report about the pills
and when your suppose to take them, appreciate it before we
loose you here.
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CDR Okay, Owen's working on that problem.

Here's another question, which VHF antenna you want me to use
at Guam?
CC VHF right.
CDR Okay, that seems to be a problem with
a comma couple of times, I think we can solve it, if we just
know which one to use, okay, we'll have it on right.
CC Okay doke.
CDR Owen's looking it up right now.
CC Okey doke.
from the Ascension Island tracking station, next station will be
Guam in 33 minutes. The flight surgeon's medical conference
with the crew will take place over that station. We'll have
the circuit up in case the air-to-ground loop is handed hack
to Cap COMM. For the normal operation and at the same time
on VHF Skylab 3 Commander A1 Bean will have a telephone
patch rigged up on VHF down-llnk with his family. Back
in 32 minutes for whatever is left over from Guam from the
surgeon medical conference, at 01:28, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition at Guam Island
station most of this particular pass will be the Flight
Surgeon's medical conference with the crew, however, in
passed evenings on this mission the loop has been handed back
to the Control Room here to the Spacecraft Communicator.
We'll stand by for the duration of this pass in case that
happens. Concurrently with the crew medical conference with
the Flight Surgeon, A1 Bean will be on VHP through a phone
patch here in the Control Center to his home talking to his
family. Standing by for the Guam pass and any possible air-
ground in the open, this is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston l've got you for about
a minute and a half here over Guam and for the SPT we have
put up that ATM experiment checklist change through the tele-
printer.
SPT Okay, thank you Bob. I'ii take a look
at it again and Arabella has still not shown any sign of
activity. She's still hanging on the side of the cage where
she was this morning, so we'll give her a chance to work
tonight.
CC Not being very cooperative.
SPT Not at all.
CC We've got about one minute until LOS and
we'll see you again over Vanguard at 02:40, 0240.
SPT Okay, Crip thank you.
SPT Say, Bob you might ring up the home folks
for me tomorrow night after Jack is through.
CC Okay, we'll set it up.
midway through rev 1204 through the tracking station in
Guam Island. Next pass, the final one through the tracking
ship Vanguard 29 minutes the loop was handed back for about
2 minutes at the end of the pass from the Flight Surgeon
to CAP COM. AI Bean made a phone call to his family and
the other two crewmen will make similar calls tomorrow night.
Next station is Vanguard in 28 minutes 02:11 Greenwich mean
time Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC394/1
Time: 21:39 CDT, 10/02:39
8/5/73

mean tine. Final pass through tracking ship Vanguard coming
up in 50 seconds. This likely will be the final pass of
the evening. However, if enough conversation requires it,
for sign-off tonight, we'll go across into the Canary Island
-Madrid stations, if necessary.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the
Vanguard for the next i0 minutes.
CDR Couple of quick questions, Crlp. I was
going over the EVA Checklist tonight and noticed that I had not
written down that I had done change 3. I suspect I have.
So if you have got a change 3 there anywhere, how about
reading me some specific part of it and I'ii check my book.
CC Stand by i.
SPT I got another one too, Crlp.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT I noticed that the LSU of the BSPCU up in the
airlock, has got the lights on in it. Now that we
turned the air lights off, you can see the lights of the PC ...
that powers the umbilical and I think we ought to get that off
there before tonight because I don't want to go throw up
circuit breakers. So, maybe we ought to power it down.
CC Jack, I'm sorry. I can't make out what
you're saying. Got an awful lot of feed back there.
CC Skylab, Houston. While I'm researching that
question, and Jack's trying to get his VOX squared away, A1,
I'd llke to talk to you about that primary coolant loop red low
llght you got this morning.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. After you got the light, the people
got together and did a little bit of research in St. Louis and
looking back at some data that occurred prior and we have
concluded that we've got a leak in both the primary and the
secondary coolant loop. And we're still looking into the
problem right now, but what our initial tests tell us, that
we've got about 16 days left on the primary loop and about
60, 60 days left on the secondary loop. We're pretty sure that
the leak has got to be outside because it would're been obvious
if it was inside. And if - -
CDR Yes, we've seen nothing about it.
CC Yes, and it's a - tests show that it's
been going on since - oh, since launch on the primary and
secondary and since - oh, somewhere around the middle of
SL-II for the secondary. Okay. All I'm doing right now
is just giving you our initial information. We- we are stl] ]
looking into the problem and we' re probably going to ask you
to do some kind of visual inspection tomorrow when tile guys
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CC
(CONT'D) are outside to see if, if we can see anything. And
we'll get together some details on that for you.
CDR Sounds good.
CC And it won't be - won't be a big deal
because we just don't have time to get too much procedures
and that kind of thing for you.
CDR That's Just what I was thinking.
CC Okay. l've got - l've got that change 3
I can give you- -
CDR Start right at the top.
CC Okay. Have you got the checklist handy?
CDR Just a second and let Jack tell you his problem - -
CC Okay.
CDR - -and then I can give you the thing... - -
CC Okay.
CDR I'Ii let him talk first.
CC Rog Jack. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, Crlp. We turned out the lights up
there in MDA to get ready for bed and I noticed that
the lights in the PCU up there are on. And I just didn't want to
go throw circuit breakers and - to cut off the electricity -
do it. But I think we ought to secure the power on that PCU and
that SLC (sic) up there and, - LSU, rather in the MDA, so if you
could a break, I'd go throw it.
CC Okay. We'll che_:k it.
CDR Okay. Go on the checklist Crip.
CC Okay. Let's see on page 1.1-7.
CDR Okay, I'm there.
CC Okay. This is where we asked you to
paste in a bit that should tell you about unstowing a wrench -
seven-slxteenth wrench.
CDR Okay. I've got it pasted in.
CC Okay. That's the change. So you' ve got
it, if you've got that.
CDR Okay. I've written it down on the cover.
Thank you.
CC Okay. You can also check on page 2.1-15.
And we had you also paste in a bit there about - this is where tile
ramp removal procedure for S055.
CDR Roger. We talked about that where your
remove to the one opposite the stop and then the one on the
ramp. Let me ask you another question.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. I'm looking at change number 4 to
the EVA Checklist. Section change number 5. Okay. Down
near the bottom, it says, about the second change from the
bottom, it says, page 3.1-6. Let me know when you have that one.
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CC Okay. I've got it. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. It says, "Delete lighting inertial
switch variable." Okay. We did that. Then it says, "Add
prime Sun sensor door switch OPEN. Talkback OPEN. Then sun."
Okay,"MODE experiment pointing switch, experiment pointing
talkback experiment, after startrack shutter DB OPEN or
START." In other words, you want me to add those two
sentences after the sentence that says "Star tracker shutter
talkback OPEN, or star?"
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay. Let me make a request. We screwed
that one up at first, and then went back, looked. The format
on all these checklist changes, is they say, for example:
"Sun truling activation." No, bad example. Left column:
"Prior to -" It tells you what to do and then tells you, you
know, then tells you the words. That one threw us a little
bit because it gave us a bunch of words and then told us what
to do with them. And we were, normally on Earth wouldn't
confuse us. But we're trying to get it right. So if they -
if you could stick to that format a hundred percent o the time,
it'd sure make it simpler for us.
CC Okay. Concur. I had the same problem
myself.
CDR Okay. No sweat. It's just - we can't afford
a mistake and that's, that's conduelve to it.
C C Ok ay.
CDR Did you have any luck on that PCU power?
CC We're still researching I think. We got
an answer. Just one moment.
CDR Okay. I'm Just wondering, maybe Pete's
crew actually had that , that way in their preprep, too, and
just _otlced it. Jack happened to be up there and noticed
it .... he must have hooked it up with power on it too
since he didn't - there weren't any switches particularly
after that.
CC Okay. Jack, if you're stl]l around there,

or AI, on panel 200, audio systems CCUA, you can secure that
and it should turn it off.
CDR Okay. Audio systems PCUA. We'll try.
We' iI turn it off.
CC Okay. It's CCU, Charlie, Charlle, Uniform.
CDR Okay. CUA. Will do.
CC Okay gentlemen. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS and the next pass is going to be there at your
bedtime, so I probably won't give you a call, unless you
want it, and that's at 03:00 over anary.
CDR Give us a call. We're all up exercising.
We haven't gotten to bed yet.
CC Will do.
PLT That was the one, Crlp; it's off.
CC Very good. hank you Jack.
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8/5/73
PLT Thank you.

PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through the tracking ship Vanguard. Start of revolution 1205.
This is the normal start of the sleep period. However,
the crew at this time are running through their exerciese
period and asked the Spacecraft Communicator ob Cr_ppen to
give them a call at Canaries, they'd still be up. Give them
a call. Crippen also passed up some information that has
been sorted out on the ground regarding two long-term potential
problems in the primary and secondary coolant systems aboard
the space station. The two coolant loops have rather small
leaks. One, which apparently has been leaking since Skylab I
or space station launch back in May, is predicted to be
inoperative and 16 to 20 days from now. The secondary loop
which is calculated to begun leaking in the middle of Skylab II,
that's onrad and company mission. Has a predicted lifetime
of about 60 days and they're not certain where it is leaking
but the crew has seen no evidence of the cooling fluid, called
coolinall. So the conjecture is the leak is probably outside.
The pressure shell of the space station calculations on the
primary is up 0.i of a pound per day. And on the secondary,
.074 pounds per day, of cooling fluid. And there's a - outside
chance that the two systems would have to be reserviced during
Skylab IV. That is additional Coolinall placed into the
plumbing, rew Surgeon Dr. Paul Buchanan, issued his nightly
bulletin following the crew medical conference over Guam
last pass. That bulletin reads as follows: "The crew of
the second manned Skylab mission, continues to report good
health and optimistic outlook. They have, however, asked
the crew surgeon to i-vestigate the possiblilty of increasing
their menus to match their growing appetites. Their fluid
intake and output is now optimal. M[neral suppliments are
being recalculated to cover 2 days l._st to a misunderstanding
of the early recommendations. This is not compromised the
crew health." That's the end of the medical bulletin. Standing
by and - or back again in 6 minutes _or the Canary Island
and Madrid pass. At 02:54, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 21:59 CDT, 10/02:59 GMT
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mean time, i minute from nominal bedtime for kylab III crew
however, they're still up and asked CAP COM to give them
a call that they'd be there on this upcoming pass across
Canary Island and Madrid tracking stations revolution 1205.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS through Canary
and we've got about 14 minutes.
SPT Okay, we're still up.
SPT Say, Crip can you guys find your check-
list somewhere to get this CCU breaker on tomorrow, please.
CC We'll inform you about it tomorrow I
guess verbally if you like or we can figure out someplace
to put it in which ever way you'd like to work it.
SPT Yea, probably figure out a way to pu -
plug it in.
CC Okay, we'll tell you a place to put it
on the checklist.
SPT Hey, Bob, did you ever see that TV show
about a week ago when they showed the little minnows swimming
and - inside loops quite a bit.
CC I heard your conversation on it, never
did get to see it
SPT It sort of commented particularly for
Dick 0- Dr. Dick Simmons over in Building 37 he's a little
link he's still going to be doing t_e same thing. They've
still haven't become fully adapted to the zero g apparently and
they'll still swim the insides loops, tracking the outside
loops everytime you stir up the little container that they're
in, however when they're placed against the wall for rather
long periods they will more less stay oriented with their
belly against the wall and as if gravity was down in that
direction.
CC Okay, that's very interesting.
CC By the way - -
SPT (Garble) I was doing that too when I first
got here too'.
CC You're not going to tell me there's any
relationship between marines and minncws are there?
SPT Just last longer fcr them.
CC You' re right, By the way Owen we have
got your phone conversation set up tomorrow and it's going
to be around 01:17.
SPT Thank you.
PLT You got one set up for me tomorrow, r_p.
CC That's affirmative yours is set up for
about 00:30.
PLT Okay, is that through the Vanguard again?
CC Let me check that. Trying Vanguard
haven't been to hot.
CC That's Ascension for you so let's hope
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it would be a little better.

CC Skylab, Houston since you gentlemen are
exercising late tonight the medical people would appreciate
it if you would give - through the exercises onboard for record
so we can get it later.
CDR You want it right now?
CC AI, if you've finished exercising and
you think I can get it in a minute and a half, press.
CDR Okay, the LT did number - ah wait a
minute. SPT did 2000, 1 minute, 60 A-is and 30 Bs.
CC Copy.
CDR And the PLT did those number 2 that
are leg on your ergometer for 30 minutes 6,250 watts and
worked on the MARK i for i0 minutes, 50 As and i0 Bs.
CC Okay, Copy that and Jack with your
concurrence we' re going to pass up to you when to turn that
circuit breaker back on tomorrow morning. We're about 1
minute from LOS. I'ii go ahead and say good night now if
you guys want to talk we're be over Guam at 03:41, that's
0341 and have a happy EVA.
CDR Okay, thank you Crlp, see you tomorrow.
CC And if anybody else does any exercise
before you go to bed we'd appreciate it if you'd put it - voice
record it for us.
through adrld and Canary Islands final conversation of
the evening 25 minutes to Guam. Science Pilot, Owen Garrlott
commented that his pet minnows were still swimming in outside
loops except when the plastic bag that they're contained in
held against the wall then they assume that wall is either
gravity or the bottom of their pond and they swim with their
belly toward that wall as if it were gravity. Crew is
finishing up £heir exercise period toward the end of that
pass and read down the numbers that the biomedical people
are interested in. At 03:16 Greenwich mean time and slgnlng
off until 6 a.m. Central Daylight tomorrow this is Skylab
Con t rol.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 22:01 CDT, 04/03:00 GMT
8/5/73

mean time. The Science Pilot, Owen Garriott came back on the
line here at Conny - Honeysuckle Creek, Australia and had
some words for the ground about disabling the M133 sleep
monitoring cap in the morning which might interfer with
communications. There was about 3 minutes of tape recorded
we'll play back that tape at this time.
SPT Hello, Houston, Skylab are you there?
CC Yes we're here, go ahead.
CC Hello, Skylab, we're here, go ahead.
SPT Okay, Bob, Just one thing l'm calling
you from the bedroom back here and in my sleep cap. And
you know in the point in our 3 EVA checks, I disconnected
this 133 experiment from channel B PTT. I obviously had
to reconnect it in order to get you any data down tonight
but I expected it'll mess up our comm or our data if I leave
it pluged in tomorrow morning. Since we've already passed
that spot in our checklist, could you put a note for
reminder from the ground tomorrow morning before we close
up the workshop that I disconnected M133 experiment again and
leave it like it was so that we will be all set for the EVA.
CC We copy that, and Owen we're showing
that the ESS is on. Is anybody available to secure that
for us .
SPT Yeah, we probably left it on, on the
bicycle when we were running it over there, is that - -
CC That's fine.
SPT We'll check that.
CC Okay, we'll appreciate that.
CC Okay, and -- Okay appreciate you turning
off the ESS, thank you very much.
SPT Can you confirm that your biomed is getting
that telemetry on the sleep experiment.
CC That's affirmative. We got it.
SPT Okay, I'ii try to give you a little sleep
data.
SPT I was Just telling AI and Jack this
will make 22 hours of work today.
CC Only 22, huh?
SPT Including the first experiment underway.
CC We're going over the hill, that was
a good days work, guys, good night.
CDR Same to you'll down there, Crip.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that completes
play back of the tape from Honeysuckle Creek. The crew is
finally gone to sleep, we hope. And at 4:02 Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control. Out.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 06:55 CDT 10/11:55 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 55

minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 10. Skylab is
a couple of minutes away from acquisition at Honeysuckle
where the Capcom astronaut Bill hornton will put in a first call
of the day. The crew allowed to sleep in an hour later
today after the EVA preparations of yesterday afternoon
and last night. Today's entire crew schedule is devoted
to the extravehicular activity. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
and Pilot Jack Lousma will go outside the space station.
The hatch opening scheduled for 9:10 a.m. central daylight time.
They will spent up to 3-1/2 hours outside erecting the
twin pole sunshade over the presently installed parasol.
Replenishing the Apollo Telescope Mount camera film. And
taking a look to see whether they can locate the leaks in
the primary and secondary coolant loops. There is nothing
new since the news conference early this morning on that
situation. Experts on the ground are continuing to analyze
the long range effects and what corrections might be poss-
ible. It's believed that these leaks are outside the
space station and Garriott and Lousma will attempt to find
them. This morning they will also take a look at the two
reaction control system quads on the service module and
, see if they can see anything that might be relevant to that
problem. Skylab coming up on Honeysuckle now. We'll
stand by.
CC Good morning, Skylab. AOS for 9 minutes at
Honeysuckle.
CDR How you doing }lank, you don't sound the
same this morning.
CC It ain't Hank here.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we want you to dump the condensate tanks
per the permanent general message number i. We want you to
do that right away because we've lost pressure on that and
we need to establish a negative pressure before you hook up
the suit loop at 14:20 and it takes almost 2 hours.
CDR Okay. I did that last night. Did we lose
it in the middle of the night.
CC That is affirmative.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Correction. Hatch
open time is ii:i0 a.m. central daylight time. ii:i0 a.m.
central daylight time.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We would also llke for you to pull the quick
disconnect at panel 217 during the period of the dump. It
will have to be reconnected later.
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CDR Okay, do you think that's where the tank

vacuum went?
CC Well, the leak rate markedly increased. It
went up about four times after the connection was made, and
so there's some suspicion.
CDR Some suspicion what?
CC That it is leaking.
CDR Okay, you want me to disconnect it at 217
and do the dump. I'Ii do it again, okay.
SPT Hello, Bill, are you there?
CC We're here. Go ahead, Skylab.
SPT Okay. I've disconnected the M133 input
connector from the speaker box in my sleep compartment and
turned the channel B off. And that's a preparation for the
EVA. You probably have a note on your desk to remind us.
I just wanted to let you know that I had made that reconfig-
uration prep for the EVA.
CC Thanks, I was going to call it up on LOS.
Also for information, the star tracker pad that's on board
is good for today in case you should need it. And the ATM
DC control of the star tracker is inhibited.
SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
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8/6/73
CDR Okay. I turned on the heater and I

disconnected the condensate holding tank from the llne to
the vacuum - correction llne to the condensate system, and also
disconnected it at 2:17. So I'Ii be ready to dump in
probably another 12 minutes and I'Ii dump it out. And then
you might get me a new estimate of dump time. Last night
they said an hour. But you may be able to cut it down today,
it you want. ext question is, did it start up at the
correct vacuum and then just run out faster?
CC Stand by half.
CDR Yeah. I was wonder if the Delta P,
when I put the tank on the llne was correct last night.
CC Our readings are, that it was brought
down to a normal pressure, was leaklng down at the normal
rate and when that QD was added it increased it's leak rate
by four times.
CDR Well, we didn't have that QD last
night after the dump. We added that QD I think yesterday
early, or the day before.
CC Our interpretation of it's wrong, then.
We watched
CDR I don't think we fooled with that QD
yesterday, if we did it was earlier in the morning or the
previous day later. And ah - so the - you can check that
leak rate against what you had towards the end of the day
before we dumped the tank. I was wondering, we've got all
these EVA umbilicals and everything connected in now. Maybe
in some fashion it's leaking through there in some way.
CC Okay. We'll have another look.
CDR Yeah, that doesn't make sense cause that's a
different loop, but the only thing that I can think
was different. I Just inspected the holding tank and the
llne, they all looked precisely llke they should.
CC Okay. We're going LOS here in a few
seconds, we'll have you Hawaii in about i0 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of Hawaii
in i0 minutes. The discussion during this pass concerned
the condensate system, which the crew has been trouble-
shooting for the last several days. We'll come back up
prior to Hawaii. At 12 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC- 399/i
Time: 07:17 CDT 10/12:17 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 17 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii is about to acquire kylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger. Still trying to figure out when
the leak started, when did they notice it? After we connected
the condensate tank at night. Did it have a high leak then
or did it hold for a while and then start a high leak?
CC AI, just looking at the graph here, it
started at 18:00 yesterday. And they feel fairly certain -
they feel fairly certain that you connected something at that
t line.
CDR Let's see, 18:00 yesterday would be our
time up here about 13:00. I went the wrong way. That would
be about 23:00, and that would be about 3 or 4 hours from
sleep. I don't think we connected that one though, but we were
connecting up all the EVA things. Maybe you mean 18:00 your
local time.
CC Negative. That's 18:00 Zulu.
SC It might have something to do with one of
these PCUs. I don't know.
CC And by the way, AI, it's going to take
an hour and 45 this morning to dump that thing and then suck
the diaphragm back. I believe you asked earlier.
CDR In other words you want i hour and 45
minutes in the dump mode. And then we put the 18 minutes
on it in the vacuum. Is that right?
CC No, that was an hour 45 total.
CDR Okay. I guess then I'ii put i hour and
- see I need 18 minutes worth of vacuum so that would be about an
hour and 30 minutes a dump. Last night they said 1:30
I mean i would always do it at least.
CC No, what they are saying is an hour to
dump, and then 45 minutes to suck the diaphragm back.
CDR Okay, the checklist has 18 minutes, but
I'ii do it for 45.
CC Okay.
CDR Also I noticed when I was up at the STS
panel that the condensate correction the primary coolant loop
low light is on again.
CC We copy that, AI.
CDR Hey, Bill.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We've been talking it over here, and we
think that was probably the time you told us to connect the
filter to the EVA loops. I thought it was earlier, but {)wen
and Jack think it was about that time.
CC Okay, we copy that, A1. Thank you.
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8/6/73
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. We'll have you

at Goldstone at approximately 2 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range at Hawaii. Goldstone will pick up the space station
in less than a minute. We'll continue to stand by at Goldstone
acquisition.
END OF TAPE
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CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for 8 minutes.

PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone has
had loss of signal. Bermuda will acquire Skylab in about
3 minutes. We'll continue to keep the line up and stand
by for Bermuda acquisition.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-401/I
TIME: 07:38 CDT 10/12:38 GMT
816173
SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead, Skylab.
SPT Bill, I just want to confirm with the biomed
people, I've already checked it in my food log, but the
coding on our supplements are in the following order. Calcium,
phosphorous, sodium and magnesium, and potassium, in that order.
CC We'll confirm that for you in a moment, Owen.
Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
CC That was the correct order that you read
them down.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in i minute and there
have been some slight revisions in the time of dump on the tank.
The best estimate now is an hour and 25 minutes to dump it,
following your usual procedure of finding the position of
the diaphragm and the estimate for bringing the diaphragm
back is now 18 minutes.
CDR Okay, now, I've found the diaphragm. I've
been dumping for about - well, I'm not looking at my clock -
but dumping for say i0 minutes. It doesn't take but about
30 minutes for this diaphragm to get all the way over against
the other end of the tank, so I gather you want me to get it
over to the other end of the tank and then leave it there
for another hour and 15 minutes.
CC Stand by I, AI. We'll-
CDR Okay, it was about a third of the way back
a little while ago. I haven't checked it lately.
CC AI, whenever it has bottomed out, you are free
to go ahead and suck it back up to the other end.
PAO Bermuda has had loss of signal. Canary will
pick up within the next few seconds. We'll continue to
stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Flight Control
teams here in the Mission Control Center in the midst of a
shift change. The new Flight Director is Milton Windier.
The new spacecraft communicator is Astronaut Story Musgrave.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 07:54 CDT 10/12:54 GMT
816173
CC Skylab, we've got you through Canaries

and Ascension for 16 minutes.
PLT Okay. Good morning, Story.
CC Good morning to you, Jack.
CDR We enjoyed hearing from Bill but missed your
voice this morning. I don't plan to eat any more of those straw-
berries until they have run those tests on the ground. I got them
this morning and I was thinking of substituting peaches for them
if that's okay with the biomed world.
CC We're checking, AI.
CDR We don't know what we' re going to do when
we get back, Jack is hooked on this apple drink, we think.
CC Well I understand he's going to be on it
for another 18 days after he gets back.
CDR I don't think that will be enough.
It's Just going to bother the habit. It's Just going to give
him a bigger monkey on his hack, I'm afraid. He can't leave
it alone.
CC Okay.
PLT That won't be enough to have a drink left
after that.
CC Skylab, we Just handed over to Ascension.
And the peaches are fine to substitute for the strawberries,
AI.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Canary station
has just handed over to Ascension. There is another 7-1/2 min-
utes through Ascension.
CC Skylah, we Just handed over to Ascension.
And the substitution of peaches for strawberries is fine.
CDR Hey, that was so easy, Jack wants to know
if he can substitute some ice cream for bread?
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Time: 08:01 CDT, i0/13:01 GMT
8/6/73
CDR Houston, Are you still there?

CC Yes, sir, for another 2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Got a llttle information for the
blomed people. Jack found out, you know, you sent a change
up for us to hold down on the urine bag, while we take the
sample to cut out the number of bubbles and fill the bag
better. Well, Jack found out that if he - if he sloshed
the urine back and forth in the bag, slowly, so it didn't
make bubbles, he had a lot better luck. Now, I haven't been able
to develop his technique, yet. But he seems to get very
good samples that way. Now he does - in addition to
that he does the squeezlng down hard. So that might be
something to pass back to Jerry Carr, and Bill, and Ed in
their training.
CC Okay. We copied that, AI.
CC And, Jack, for today, I guess you'll have
to keep eating the bread.
PLT Okay, Story. I've been eating it for
the last i0 minutes. It's almost down.
CC Copy that. Is everybody reading me up
there, right now?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. When you' re outside the vehicle,
we'd like you looking for coolanol the same way you looked
for hydrollc fluid on the T-38. You ought to see some yellow
and brown paper deposits, partlcularly around the surface
areas of the STS and the MDA. Might look for SL-2 reports
of discolorations on MDA radiators, on ATM surfaces facing
the MDA. Now, of particular interest to us today, is above the
EVA hatch, looking toward the STS area.
CDR Are you going to send that up on the
teleprinter pad, so that I can stick it in the book, and then
when it comes the time, I'ii read it to Jack, and he can
look at that. Put them for us, in a nice little list.
CC Okay. We can certainly do that.
CDR You llst the directions, and I'Ii just
read it off, okay, look towards STS, look above door
what ever else, if you see anything, and then he can report It.
CC Okay. And we'll see you over Carnarvon
at 13: 33.
CDR I'm still shaking this urine. We each
found our profession up here. Owen troubleshoots the ATM,
I dump the condensate tank, and Jack shakes the urine.
PAO And with that report Skylab has loss of
signal at Ascension. Next station to aeqire will be
Carnarvon in 25 minutes. Capcom Story Musgrave passed up
some locations for the two EVA crewmen to observe on the
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exterior of the space station, today, looking for locations

for the coolant loop leaks. We'll also send that informa-
tion up on the teleprinter as a checklist for A1 Bean to
use during the extravehicular activity. There's been no
change in the coolant loop situation since the news conference
early this morning. The experts here on the ground are
continuing to analyze the long range effects, and what
corrective actions might be possible for that problem. The
discussions between A1 Bean and the ground earlier today,
with Capcom Bill Thornton, did not concern the coolant loop leaks.
Those discussions were on the condensate tank, which
again, lost vacuum. And AI Bean is in the process of dumping
that tank again, reworklng it, and building the vacuum back
up. This condensate tank problem popped up several days
ago, and the crew has been dumping the tank and rebuilding
the vacuum every day, since that time. The suspect in the
condensate tanks, today, when vacuum was lost faster than
normal, is a quick disconnect on the line that the crew
hooked up yesterday. We'll come back up Just prior to
Carnarvon. At 13 hours ii minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-404/I
TIME: 8:32 CDT 10/13:32 MT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 22 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has acquisition. We'll
stand by.
PAO The estimated time for the change of shift
news conference with Flight Director Chuck Lewis is 9:30 a.m.
central daylight time in the JSC News Briefing Room. We
estimate 9:30 a.m. central daylight time for the change
of shift news conference with Flight Director Chuck Lewis
in the JSC News Briefing Room.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay Houston, CDR. Time's up on that dump.
I went over and checked the bellows. It's completely against
the bottom. You want me to now start putting the vacuum on
it or you want me to continue in the dump mode for awhile.
CC Put the vacuum back to it, AI.
CDR On the way.
CC And PLT, we'd like to talk to you and your
EVA checklist.
PLT I'm indisposed at the moment Story, just a
minute.
CC Okay.
CDR The condensate tank is being vented at the
momen t •
CC Okay, thanks, A1, and I'm going to be passing

a message to Jack later on. Anyway, for you, do not connect
the water gas separator on panel 217. We're going to delay
that as long as possible to keep that Delta P up.
CDR Had a feeling that's what you were going to
say. Okay, anything else?
CC Could you verify that you have not set the
DAC up for today.
CDR We have not set up the DAC. We set up the
good TV camera, l know they're both good but the one we
never had any problems with. Could you tell me again the
serial number on the one that we did have the problem with.
So that I can verify that we did it right.
CC Okay. I'ii get that for you. And we are
calling that number 2. We're going LOS here in about
20 seconds. See you over Hawaii in 15 minutes at 13:57.
CDR You're calling the one number 2 that you did
not ever have trouble with or did have trouble with.
CC That's the one you named number 2 and we
never had trouble with it.
CDR Okay. That's what I thought. We were
talking about it yesterday and lJust wanted to make sure.
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8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle had

loss of signal. Skyla5 will be within range of the Hawaii
station in 15 minutes. At 13 hours 42 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 08:56 CDT 10/13:56 GMT
8/6/73

56 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by at Hawaii
for communications with Skylab.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 5 minutes.
CC If that was AI, you're one up on the
Capcomm today. The good TV is number i, and it's serial number
3002.
CDR We checked it out, and we got it there.
CC Great.
CC No need to acknowlege,Al. A general
message concerning external inspection for coolanol is in
the teleprinter.
CDR Thank you.
see you over Goldstone in 7 minutes.
CDR Are you there, Story?
CC Barely, but yes.
CDR Okay, I've got the EVA checklist (garble)
if you tell me where it's at then I'll get on it.
CC It's on page 1.2-9. We'd better catch
the rest over Goldstone in 6 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Goldstone
station in about 5-1/2 minutes. At 14 hours 3 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-406/I
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8/6/73

8 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
Goldst one acquisition.
CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 20 minutes.
SPT Take a brief message here, Story. I've
got to get up in the command module for some picture taking.
But our friend, Annabella did some good work last night.
She's got very unusual webs spun around all the four
corners of the box, with some of the stringers even from
corner to corner. So she had to do a lot of improvising,
but she did get her net out at any rate, and apparently
standing by and waiting for some prey to float by.
CC Okay. That's great news, Owen. And,
give her our congratulations.
SPT Copy that.
SPT It's interesting, Story. She doesn't have very
much of the main web in the center. She's sort of got
fillets in each corner of the box, within a few radials, and
that' s it.
CC Considering that she get's stranded when
she gets in the middle of the box, I guess that's understandable.
CDR It sure is. I guess she's just (garble)
some prey isn't going to go through the middle, and hope
they take the short cut around the edges. If they do, she'll
catch them.
CC She's about as smart as we are.
PLT Okay, Story. We're ready for the EVA
checkllst.
CC Okay. That's page 1.2-9. I - above the
317 panel SUS-I pump right above that note, and the call
is panel 217, connect SUS water separator QD.
PLT Connect SUS water heaters, did you say?
CC That's connect SUS water-gas separator
gas QD.
PLT Okay. I know what you mean.
CC And that's panel 217.
PLT Anything else?
CC No, sir. Not now.
SPT At the moment we've got a beautiful
site out the window. We're across the coast between Portland
and Seattle, and there's a lot of snow in them there bills.
And looks according to our map, we're going to go up across the
border Just north of Winnepeg.
CC Copy.
SPT Cover a lot of ground (garble) at 4 miles a
second.
CC Couple of revs from now, you'll be
passing fairly close to Houston. We've got good weather
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down here. And you should have good visibility from out-
side the vehicle.
SPT Good. And if you don't mind, we'll take a
little time to look around.
CC Be fine.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to a l-mlnute
dropout here while we handover to Texas. We're not seeing
any Delta-P in the condensate holding tank. And we'd like
you to press on with that procedure.
CDR We'll check it again.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone
has loss of signal. Texas will acquire in about i minute.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-407/I
TIME: 09:15 CDT 10/45:15 GMT
8_6_73
PAO Seventeen year old Judith Miles of Lexington,

Massachusettes will be happy to learn about the progress
of her experiment starring Arabella the spider. Science
Pilot Garriott reporting that Arabella has started to spin
webs. This is one of the student experiments aboard Skylab.
CDR I don't understand. It should have been pulling
a vacuum for about 10 minutes.
CC A1, we Just dropped out between Goldstone
and Texas. Could you say again the last minute.
CDR Okay. I just went up and checked. I thought
I'd been pulling a vacuum for 10 minutes or so and it
looks to me like we have. It's connected to the SAL, the
SAL's in vent, partially open, connected to the SUS valve
on the thing and it's open and the other valves are closed.
So it should have been pulllng the vacuum for about i0
minutes.
CDR The only think I can think of is it didn't
get a complete dump, although we dumped long enough. I could
go back and redump some more if you don't see any, but it
should be working properly. Let me go see where the bellows
is now. The bellows has been against the end. I'ii check
and see where it is now.
CC And A1, we may be ahead of you on that. We
won't be able to
see the Delta P until you complete step 6.
CC I put that last one up in the middle of a
handover, AI. Maybe we're ahead of you here. We will not be
able to see any Delta P until you get through step 6.
CDR That's just exactly what I thought. You don't
have any instrumentation on the tank. Only when I connect
it up.
CC That's correct Sir.
CDR Okay. That should relieve my mind a bit.
Okay, it looks to me llke it's not completely evacuated yet.
Probably about 8 more minutes.
CC Okay. We're going right, AI.
CDR Okey-dokey.
PLT Story, we Just passed over my old stomping
ground of Michigan and you can look down there, and it truly
does look llke a great big mitten. You can see clear from one
side of the state to the other side of the state, almost in
one view plus a lot of Illinois and Wisconsin and Canada and
it looks just like it does on the map. It looks llke a great
day down there today, too.
CC Okay. You're making me wish I was there.
PLT We're coming up overBaltlmore and Washington
now and I can still look back and see clear over to the other
side of Lake Michigan.
CC Roger.
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PLT Not bad when you can see all the way from
Washington over to Chicago in one view, huh?
CC Not bad at all.
PLT Lot of car trails down there and it looks
llke ther' re all heading for New York and Washington.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The change of shift
news conference with Flight Director Chuck Lewis is now
scheduled for 9:45 a.m. central daylight time. 9:45 a.m.
central daylight time for the change of shift news confer-
ence with Flight Director Chuck Lewis. That conference
will be in the Johnson Space Center News Briefing Room.
PLT We Just got another nice view of the coast,
east coast, Atlantic coast, Story. You can see all the
way from Boston way down past Cape Hatteras.
CC Roger.
PLT Don't worry. We're going to work now.
CC I wash' t.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:23 CDT 10/14:23 GMT
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CDR We're pulling the parasol now as close

to the surface as we can.
CC Roger.
CDR We're pulling it in 8 inches, not as close
as we can get it. So we'll move it in 8 inches.
CC Yes sir, 8 inches.
CDR We Just got a primary coolant flow caution
and warning. It didn't stay on though, Story.
CC Yes sir. I probably should have warned
you on that one. We turned on the second pump in the primary
loop.
CDR Okay.
CDR It looks like we could bring it in more
than 8, but we're going to bring it in the 8 as requested.
CC Okay.
CDR It's in 8 inches and locked.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you
over Ascension in 8 minutes.
of range of the Bermuda station. The Ascension Island station
will acquire in 8 minutes. The crew is now in the extravehicular
activity preparation part of the flight plan. From Jack
Lousma's description, a large part of the United States is
clear today, and the visibility is practically unlimited,
from his description of the Michigan area and the east coast.
At 14 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:36 CDT, 10/14:36 GMT
8/6/73

Ascension.
CC Skylab, AOS Ascension for 7 minutes.
CDR We're letting it pull a little more
vacuum. I'll connect it in about 5 minutes. Then you can
see your dump speed.
CC Okay. Thanks. We'll be looking.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Fllght Director,
Chuck Lewis, is on his way to the news center for the change
of shift news conference. That conference should get under-
way right after loss of signal atAscension, in about
6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. I'm at the point of the
checklist where I'm suppose to connect the SUS gas water
separator QD on panel 217. Everything all right to
go ahead and do that?
CC We've got to get the big tank squared
away first, Jack. Al's working on that right now.
PLT Okay. I'll omit that step. I'd llke you to
remind us of it. And I'm going to go to panel 317 and get SUS 1
pump on, and so forth. Is that all right?
CC No, sir. All that stuff is dependent
upon getting the water-gas separator hooked up. Just stand
by one on that. Al's working on the blg tank.
PLT Okay.
CC We'll be going LOS here in about a minute
and 20 seconds. Jack, whenAl is done with his procedure
and you're sure it's showing a good Delta-P, then go ahead
with your procedure there.
PLT Okay.
CC We're seeing the Delta-P coming up now.
CDR Delta-P's coming on now, Story.
CC We're seeing it.
CC And Jack, as we go over the hill here,
you've probably got it straight. We'd Just llke another
reminder on panel 217. Connect the SUS water gas separator
gas QD prior to moving on with the steps panel 317 SUS-I
pump, et cetera.
PLT Okay.
CC And, we'll see you over Carnarvon at
15:08.
range of theAscenslon station. Carnarvon will be the next
station to pick up Skylab in 22 minutes. The change of shift
news conference with Flight Director Chuck Lewis, will begin
momentarily. We'll turn this llne over to the news center for
that conference. At 14 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-410/I
Time: I0:i0 CDT, 10/15:10 GMT
8/6/73

i0 minutes. We're up live at Carnarvon.
PAO Carnarvon has had acquisition for a
couple of minutes. There was some brief conversation at the
start of the pass. That was taped. We'll play it back as
soon as possible. We'll continue to stand by llve through
the rest of the pass.
PLT (Garble) Story. On the checklist on the
water pump in the LSU. (Static) EVA i light.
CC Okay. We copy that Jack. It's similar
to what happened on the first mission. And we're showing
the OWS heat exchanger fans are still on. Thatts in your
checklist right about your condensate dump. That's panel
390.
PLT Rog. We'll get that.
CC Rog.
CDR Okay. We've disconnected the holding
tank now from 393 and capped it.
CC Okay. And you may get a caution and
warning on that. That'll be the condensate tank Delta-P.
CDR I'm trying to understand one thing, Story.
Is the plan during EVA to dump the holding tank a couple
of times, otherwise it's going to fill up. Is that the
plan? Not the holding tank, but the condensate tank?
CC We're not concerned with that at all
during the EVA, AI. We're just going to leave it as is.
CDR Okay, you don't think it's going to
finish, it's going to pull that little vacuum in the tank
down, huh?
CC We think it will pull it down. And
we're not concerned.
CDR Hey, that's great.
CC And, no need to acknowledge. It's down
now.
PLT Looks llke the condensate tank Delta-P
is going to stabilize at 3.6, Story.
CC Okay. And we showed it going back up
from there to zero and we don't understand that.
PLT Yeah, it's down about 3.3 now.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you over uam in 3 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape
recorders over Guam. And, Jack, coming up over Guam, we' d
llke a verification that all of the steps under OWS ventila-
tion deactivation on page 1.2-7 have been complete. We'd
llke to talk to you about that over Guam.
PLT Say again real quick, Story. I wasn't
within earshot.
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CC Okay. We'd Just like a verification

that everything under OWS ventilation deactivation has been
completed or that you're working it.
PLT It has been completed.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Guam will acquire Skylab in less than 2 min-
utes. We'll continue to stand by and keep the line up for
Guam acquisition. We have about 2 minutes of taped conversa-
tion from the Carnarvon pass and we'll play that after Guam
loss of signal.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 10:19 CDT 10/15:19 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab -

CC We've got you through Guam for 9 minutes,
and looking at the condensate system down here, we are
happy with it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The estimate is
that the crew is essentially on time with EVA preparations
for an 11:10 hatch opening.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 10:27 CDT 10/15:27 GMT
8/6/73
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds.

We'll see you stateside at 15:47. And we're not expecting
to get any TV. There won't be too much to look at at this
point. But we will be configured to receive TV stateside.
CDR Roger.
CDR There won't be much to look at then,
Story. We've just got it sitting in the launch port.
CC Yeah, that's what we thought. That' s
your option on doing anything.
CDR Roger. We'll probably just press on
and let you have good TV next pass when we're outside.
CC Okay, that will be fine.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Goldstone will acquire in 15 minutes. We'll
play the tape from the early part of the Carnarvon pass at
this time.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Car-
narvon for 9 minutes. And we're looking at SUS 1 being up
and the Delta P at 4.
PLT Okay, I turned the pumps on and I did
the procedure for turning them on - turning them off, kind
of creeping up on them. And they made some (garble) noise
and off again, on again (garble) some times quiet and sometimes
loud. And now seems like it's sitting down to a low hum.
CC We copy that, Jack.
PLT Okay. Now we're on page 1.2-7 of the
condensate tank dump. Do you want us to go ahead and go
through that dump procedure?
CC That's affirmative, Jack. Continue with
the checklist right there.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end
of the tape. Today's extravehicular activity is the fourth
EVA in the Skylab program. And it will begin as the scientific
station as over the Atlantic Ocean south of Bermuda in the
early part of revolution number 1213. Approximately 3-1/2
hours are blocked out in the flight plan for EVA. However,
the EVA flight controllers will not be surprised if 4-1/2 hours
are required for the Job. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott, and
Pilot Jack Lousma will spend about 2-1/4 hours that is expected
in deploying the twin pole solar sail, the Sun shield. Garriott
will have the designation EVI, Lousma EV2. They are also
scheduled to replace film and cameras in the Apollo telescope
mount, install the S149 particle collection experiment, retrieve
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samples from the $230 magnetospheric particle composition

experiment, and remove part of the S055 experiment door.
Following that they will make a visual inspection of the two
troubled quads of the command and service module reaction
control system. They will look for discoloration which may
be a clue to the coolant loop leaks. And they will take a
look at the Apollo telescope mount power distribution box
looking for scorched spots which may have occurred during
the short circuit a couple of days ago. The extravehicular
activity is scheduled to begin at Ii:i0 a.m. Indications
that Guam LOS, the crew is on a timeline which would
put them out some where between ii:i0 and 11:15. The EVA
will start with the depressurization of the alrlock module
from which Garriott and Lousma will leave the vehicle. Egress
will be through a modified Gemini spacecraft hatch. The crew
commander, A1 Bean, will monitor the EVA procedures from a posi-
tion inside the airlock module. He will be suited but will now
be wearing helmet or gloves. Installation of the twin pole
shield is the first item for the EVA. Garriott will leave
the spacecraft first and stand in the fixed airlock shroud
work station, referred to as the FAS, a well-llke compart-
ment from which he will assist Lousma in deployment of the
Sun shield. The shield is composed of two 55 foot long
poles. The pole is in 5 foot sections. Apex of the two poles
will be attached to the Apollo tele_cope mount and the poles
will extend over the solar side of _he workshop.
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PAO A series of lines and pulleys will be used

to deploy the sunshade over the poles much like raising a
flag or raising a sail of a sailboat. This work is expected
to take up the bulk of the EVA time. The sunshleld assembly
was launched aboard Skylab II in May, and is one of three
solar shields fabricated for Skylab after the loss of the
mlcrometeorold shield at the launch of Skylab I, the
workshop itself. Garrlott will assemble the poles in the
fast work station and pass them up to Lousma who will be
working at the Apollo Telescope Mount center work station.
Lousma will place the poles in a baseplate that he has
attached at that area. He will also have attached some
foot restraints at that area to aid him in this job. The
sunshleld is 22 by 24 feet. The second step in the EVA
will be the replacement of cameras and film in four of
the Apollo Telescope Mount experiments. Lousma will load
film in the SO56 in the H Alfa experiments at the center
work station, and then he will load new cameras and film
into the S082A and $082B experiments. He will then remove
the door latch from the S055 e_perlment by loosening a pair
of bolts and removing the 3 by 3 inch ramp. It will
be returned by the crew and sent to the Marshall Space
Flight Center for evaluation. Removal of this hardware
will not interfere with the SO55 operation. At the con-
clusion of the Apollo Telescope Mount work, Lousma will
have fixed the S149 particle collection experiment to the
rim of the ATM near the double hand rail. The $49 was
planned for use both in the solar and antlsolar scientific
alrlocks. Since the last Skylab mission the anti - the
solar scientific alrlock has been blocked by the parasol.
Deployment of S149 will provide the principal investigator,
Dr. Curtis Hemenway of the Dudley Observatory, Albany,
New York with data from the solar side of the workshop.
Lousma will attach the experiment to the ATM by means of
an L-shaped extension rod. Collection of foll from the $230
experiment will be the last item in the EVA, other than
the inspection of the quads and checking for the leaks.
This is the experiment which has astronaut Don Lind, a
member of the backup crew for this mission, as co-lnvestigator
The purpose of this experiment is to measure the flow
and composition of the precipitating magnetospherlc ions
and trapped particles. The visual inspection of the
reaction control system quads, the ATM power distribution
box and observation of the surfaces of the multiple docking
adaptor and the structural transition section for any
discoloration will wind up the EVA. The crew will be
looking for yellowish brown vapor deposits indicative of
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a leak from the coolant fluid. Of particular interest is

the surface area above the EVA hatch. We don't expect any
television on this next stateside pass that will begin in
about 5 minutes. We would expect live television on the
succeeding pass over the United States. We're about 4-1/2
minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone. We'll continue
to keep the line up and monitor any communications through
that station.
END OF TAPE
SL-IIIC 414/1
Time: 10:43 CDT, 10/15:43 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone is

acquiring now. We'll stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We are ready
to receive television, should there be any. We're not
really expecting it but we - -
CC And we have you stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Roger.
SPT And we're just about into our LCG's with
electrodes off.
CC Copy that.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-415/I
TIME: 10:50 CDT 10/15:50 GMT
8/6/73
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We're coming

up on a 43 minute LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon at
16:47. All your systems are looking good down here and
you' re GO for continuing on the EVA.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:04 CDT, 16:04 GMT
8/6/73

loss of signal. Carnarvon will not acquire for another
42 minutes. That will be the next station. Capcom Story
Musgrave informing the crew at LOS that systems look good
and that they do have a GO for EVA. The EVA controller
estimates the crew is now behind on the preparations time-
line. He can't asses how much behind. He has not seen
that much data. But, he believes that they are behind.
However, he says that he expects that they will be outside
by the time we acquire at Carnarvon. He believes that the
time was lost due to the change arounds of the sus loop
connections - the suit umbilical system loop connections with
the condensate system. We'll come back up a couple of
minutes prior to Carnarvon. At 16 hours 6 minutes Greenwich
mean tlme, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-417/I
Time: 1:46 CDT, 10/16:46 GMT
8/6/73

46 minutes. We have acquisition
PLT Okay, it's locked. All the way over.
PLT i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 9, 8,
7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,
i. Higher in.
CDR Okay. There's a little bit of squeal
on there now somewhere.
PAO The airlock module has not yet been
depressed.
CDR You gotta get it lowered.
PLT And okay, now we put those DACs back off.
CDR Probably turned off the
PLT Ready for the PCU check out down here, AL.
for 5 minutes. We're looking at the biomed data. It's
good and all your other systems are good.
CDR Okay. How do you hear me, Story?
CC Loud and clear.
CDR Okay. We're Just getting ready to go
through the EMU integrity check, and we're pressing from there.
CC Roger.
SPT Hello, how do you read us on OX?
CC Loud and clear, Owen.
SPT Very good.
CDR Okay. (Garble) .
SPT It says here, we've got to have a PCU
checkout first, AI.
PLT Cuff gage inaccuracy, plus or minus .15 psi
max, wen. Nominal is plus or minus .04, psi, reg i, low flow,
and LOW VENT FLOW lights have a 5 second delay.
SPT Say, I need a little more sensitivity
in the VOXs llnk, AI.
PLT Okay, here's what we do, O.
SPT Okay. Go.
PLT Pressure selector to reg 2 and you're -
standby, you're going to get asuit press. A reg one low flow
and a possible low vent flow.
SPT I've all ready got a suit press. Let's
go to reg 2
SPT Rog. I'm in reg. 2.
PLT Same here.
SPT Got suit press, now reg 1 looks - -
PLT REG 1 LOW FLOW for me.
PLT And is possible low fl - low vent flow
did not come on.
SPT That's rlght.
PLT Okay. Now we want to go to mode select.
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Delta-P.
SPT Okay.
PLT Monitor the cuff gage and verify your
suit pressure light is off at 2.8 to 3.1 psi and the
low vent flow is off.
SPT Okay. I go up slowly.
PLT That's right.
SPT MARK. Mine is off at 2.9.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Mine's off at 2.85.
PLT Okay, Owen, 2.85. And mine's regulating
at 3.4 on the money right now.
SPT And mine is not stable yet.
SPT Okay. My suit's regulating reg 2 at 3.4.
SPT Okay. And the next thing to do is
verify the cuff gage is stable at 3.2 to 3.5, which we've
done. Okay. Now, note, in the next step the cuff gage
will decrease and cycle before stabilizing. 5 psi, so we're
going to go pressure selector to reg 1 in the tee 1 low flow
light will go off. And it's going to oscillate. Okay. So
let's go to mall reg I.
P LT Ok ay.
PLT She goes down at 2.9. Back up 3.8, 3.35,
reg 1 low flow is up, 3.75. Stable at 3.7.
SPT Okay. On my suit it did Just like it did
over there on the ground (garble) before, it went off-scale low,
below 2.5. Now it's still oscillating.
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SPT And that's about stable at 3.8. And

our friends in the EMU world assure us this won't happen
in a vacuum. It doesn't oscillate that much.
PLT Okay.
CT Go ahead, AI, Comm Tech.
SPT Okay, we're working on that now.
PLT Okay, 0 now. We verified our cuff gage
stable 3.6 and 3.9.
SPT The kit just got knocked off there. I
don't think it's going to hurt anything.
SPT It's pretty hard to snap that little
thing back. Yeah, just the maintenance kit.
PLT Better learn how it likes it in the helmet
(garble) .
SPT Very well, huh. S12.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you over Guam in 8 minutes. All systems look good and
you' re clear for depress when you get there.
SPT Very good, Story. Yeah, I think we're
up to the mode you left select absolute here, Jack.
PLT Okay, pressure selector to both. Verify
no change in the cuff gage or the displays. Okay?
SPT Okay. Where are you? Okay, excuse me, yeah.
PLT Okay, lets go to both and make sure
nothing changes.
SPT Nope, still 38.
PLT Okay, nothing changed here. Now the EMU
integrity check. Next sequence (garble) 02 flow to the suit.
Reg i low flow and low vent flow lights will light. Monitor the cuff
gage for a maximum (garble) of 0.8 psi and 1 minute. So I go
to watch here. Okay, now we' re going to go to off, Owen,
on my mark.
CDR Okay.
PLT Stand by now for your full select off and then
the pressure select off.
SPT Both (garble).
PLT Okay, stand by. MARK.
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of Guam in
7 minutes. The airlock module has not yet been depressurized.
Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma were beginning their pressure
suit integrity checks as we acquired at Carnarvon. This
EVA is getting started late. The accessment of the coolant
loop situation is continuing both here at the Johnson Space
Center and at the Marshall Space Flight Center. A status
report and a news briefing on the coolant loop is expected
later this afternoon in the JSC News Briefing Room. We'll
come back up Just prior to Guam acquisition. At 16 hours
55 minutes Greenwich mean time D this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-419/I
TIME: 11:59 DT 10/16:59 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is SkylabControl at 16 hours

Guam.
PLT (garble) on.
SPT That's it.
PLT Five feet that ought to be enough.
SPT But you're supposed to leave it in the aft
compartment.
PLT 15 feet.
PLT Okay, I got the hatch loose now. That's
something they didn't put in the checklist.
PLT Well, there's a lock behind the hatch (garble)
get that.
SPT All right. There I is.
PAO The alrlock module is still pressurized.
CC We're through Guam for 5 mlnutes.
SPT Looks llke we got everything here moved out
of the way, AI.
SPT I'm going to have to open the door here and
(garble) a little bit.
PLT (garble) to me -
CC Jack, we're reading you loud and clear,
through Guam for 3 more minutes.
PLT Okay, The hatch handle is verified to be
open. Hatch is coming closed.
PLT (garble)
PLT lhaven't got to - up to equalized pressure
yet.
SPT There, I can't get that handle to go up to -
PLT Okay, that's where we are. We're in equalized
pressure and now to unlock. There we are. Okay.
PLT (Garble) closlng.
PLT No, no that's not in the way, the doors are -
Are you sure we're supposed to have the handle in equal lock
before we close it? It won't work that way, because the dogs are
hitting on the edge when you do it that way.
PLT Okay, it's in open.
PLT Now the dogs are down flush.
PLT Yeah.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see
you over Goldstone in 17 minutes. That's at 17:23. All
systems are looking good and you're GO forDEPRESS.
CUR Okay, Story. Understand. Thanks.
CC And while I got you AI, you might be coming
to page 6.2-12 over Goldstone.
CDR Okay, I understand.
CDR It's a long way off at the moment.
SPT I'm not having much luck with this hatch here,
AI.
/
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SPT That's where it is. It's open.

PLT No, there's one handle that has open, equalize
pressure, and close.
PLT When you get the hatch closed and you try
to dog it over the -
SPT Need me to hold your feet down,Jack.
PLT Yeah. well, no let's leave (garble) for a
minutes all right.
PLT Yeah, the hatch is closed.
PLT That's the part I haven't been able to do.
CC Skylab, as we go LOS here, we're probably
over the hill, but we're hearing you work in the OWS hatch.
Just a reminder, there is a lock at each (garble) on the
handle.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has had loss
of signal, and we at that time still showed on telemetry
that the alrlock module was still pressurized. Jack
Lousma working with the hatch between the alrlock module
and the orbital workshop. Goldstone will acquire in 15-1/2
minutes. At 17 hours 08 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-420/I
Time: 2:21 DT, 10/17:21 GMT
816/73

21 minutesGreenwlch mean time. We're standing by through
Goldstone for Skylab acquisition. And we're ready to
receive television during this pass over the United States.
PAO Airlock pressure's down to 2 pounds.
PAO Depressurlzation in progress now.
Airlock is down to 1.8 pounds.
SPT (Garble)gage reads also.
PLT Ice builds up in the middle of the
screen and - -
PLT The edge around it remains free.
SPT Looks like it's because the heat conductivity
- heat (garble) the outer screen edge.
PLT That must be it (garble).
CC Skylab. We've got you AOS, stateside
for 13 minutes. We're seeing the alrlock depressurizing.
All systems are looking good.
SC (Garble) .
SPT Now, we've got a little cap with a screen
over our depressurization valve, now, Story, in order to
catch this ice. And it's working very nicely. About half
covered with ice. Little ice crystals. Jack, and I were
just talking about it. It looks like the ice forms principally
in fact, if does form principally in the center 1/2 area. And
the outer half area remains without ice crystals. We
presume due to the greater conductivity to the valve on the
out - -
CC Okay. Good observation. Sounds llke
you got a good fix.
SPT I'm not sure I'm triggering VOX all the time.
I guess I'm
PLT You're cutting out, Story. You might
let us know so that we can adjust it.
CC You are cutting out. Both of you.
CDR Okay. We show in the lock compartment,
Story, about 7/10, in the workshop we show about 5.2. And
in MDA we're showing about 5.3 I'm going to go and adjust
the VOX right now, a little bit better. That's panel 9,
correct?
SPT Turned on. (Chuckle)
SPT Okay, testing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, - -
Bring it up, there it is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, I. 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, that sounds about right to me, A1.
CC Okay - -
PLT AI, you got all the speaker boxes turned
down, in there?
CDR Couldn't be. I'm in the workshop and
there's no mike open down here.
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SPT About a half.

PLT Okay.
SPT Yeah, I think so. It's pretty stable
right in here wouldn't you say, Jack.
PLT Yeah, it's been hanging on there for a
long time.
SPT Okay, we'll give that a try.
PLT There it is, you got it off.
CC Skylab, it sounds like we're getting
all your calls at this time.
SPT You see that little piece there.
CDR I readjusted the box there,Story. So
I think it ought to work.
SPT I tried to catch it and it wouldn't go.
PLT Here comes another little one.
SPT Okay, we're reading about two tenths. I
don't know how much lower we'll be able to get it.
CC And AI, the next 9 minutes prior to LOS
llke to meet you on page 6.2-12.
SPT Go any where.
CDR Okay, go ahead, I'm there, Story.
CC Okay. We've looked at the various EVA
trail. The best time for Jack to take a look at that power
transfer distribution box that we have a problem with. And
we're seeing that when he goes out to the dog bone to tie
down the reefing llne, his reefing llne that that's an excellent
place for him to take a look at that distribution box in
quad Bravo. So if you'll put in that checklist right above
where he attaches his reefing llne, if he'd would look beyond
the CMG to the next hay on the rack that big box in there
is the power distribution box where we had the short the other
day.
CDR Okay, what I'll do is write it in right
under, under the - just as soon as he finishes tying in the
reefing llne because he's got them in his hands he ain't holding
on so good then I'ii say look beyond, give me those words again
and I'ii write them down exactly.
CC That's look beyond the bay that the CMG
is in, and it's the next bay over. And that will be the
power transfer distribution box. It's a great hlg box on that
next bay on the rack.
PLT We looked up the drawings and we know right
where it is, Story.
CC Great.
CDR And we've got the drawings in the MDA so
we'll be able to do it. Okay, and we're going to go back to
where we were.
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CC Roger. And have him take a look at

quad Bravo at the same place. It looks llke a good place.
CDR Ok ay.
PLT Test i, 2, 12.
PLT Okay it is loaded to engage. Putting
it on the end of the hatch. Starting open. Okay now,
I've got it - (garble) clockwise. I got that latch retainer.
PLT Now he's got her open. That a boy, O.
PLT You can't keep down an Okie.
PLT Wait a minute I've got to get that retainer
rod.
PLT (garble) there ain't any safety divers out
there , O?
SPT That's good.
CDR Where are we over the ground right now,
Story?
CC Say again, AI.
CDR What coast are we crossing?
CC That's about Laredo Texas. And it looks
like you' ii be coming up into the Gulf.
SPT But the hatch doesn't want to go open
quite far enough to get this retainer rod in. Okay.
PLT Maybe you can klnda get sideways and put you
back against - that a boy. Now you're doing it. Okay, do you
want to go to absolute, AI? Your rate dropped from about 39
to 36.
SPT Yeah, mine is down to 355. This thing is
still retained there, isn't it?
PLT Yeah.
SPT And EVA norm.
SPT Stable 36. And the kit stable here at
3.6 now. I llke that. It's very pretty out here incidentally.
It's beautiful as a matter of fact. (garble) what a view.
PLT If you'd only get out of the way, I could
look.
SPT Give me Just a minute and I'ii be out, Jack.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got a couple of
circuit breakers we need open on panel 200.
CDR You give them, I' Ii open them.
CC Okay, instrumentation system transmitters
B circuit breaker open, and C circuit breaker open.
PLT Let me give you a little of rope there,
Owen.
CDR (garble) for that?
CC Thank you.
CDR Why?
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SL-III MC-422/I
Time: 12:35 CDT, 10/17:35 GMT
8/6/73
SC Oh, what a view.

SPT What'd we do that for, Story.
CC That's because our recorder's full and
we can't dump it.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Well, we've to the Big 0 out there on
the foot restraints, AI.
CDR (Garble).
PLT I don't know, I'ii see if he will. Will
you do that, O?
SPT As soon as I get back here.
PLT My feet's back here somewhere. I
don't think you can get it to mine.
PLT Whoops. There's my feet right there.
Cut out there.
PLT No cut out. It's only in the water.
SPT Yeah.
PLT Can't see the bubbles.
PLT Okay. He's got it clamped, AI.
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay. The Sunend extended 6 inches.
SPT The hook is folded.
SPT Next.
SPT We don't check the boom, huh?
Okay. Okay, I'm working on that, AI.
SPT Tethers ?
PLT Okay. The (Garble) i tether there is
the way we llke it, I'm going to (garble) that beauty before
we do anything with it.
CDR Okay.
SC (Garble).
PLT I believe that guy's in there eating
lunch, and we're out here working.
SPT Yep.
SPT Taught to not talk when he was eating.
see you over Vanguard in ii minutes. And, for your informa-
tion, although we're only getting real time TV over the states,
we will be recording TV on the ground at the other stations.
CDR Okay. We'll be putting the TV Out
before too long, Story.
CC Thank you, sir.
PLT Things are going smooth - ly.
PLT Okay. I got that hooked up. We'll hook it at
the other end (garble) get it over.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal at Texas. The Vanguard tracking ship will acquire
Skylab in about i0 minutes. Jack Lousma should very soon
be mounting the television camera on the handrail near the
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Apollo telescope mount, outside the fixed airlock shroud work

station. These handrails are color-coded and numbered to
help coordinate EVAprocedures. Also, during the first
early part of this EVA, Garriott and Lousma, will be trans-
ferring the twin-poles, the sun shield, and associated
equipment from the airlock module out to the fixed shroud.
And Jack Lousma will install the twin-pole base plates and
the foot restraints, on which he will stand, while deploying
that sunshade. The EVA clock here in the Mission Control
Center started at hatch opening. We've copied the time
the clock started as 17 hours 32 minutes 3 seconds. That
clock now shows 8 minutes 37 seconds. Flight Surgeon reports
at hatch open time, withSclence Pilot Owen Garriott doing
most of the work, his heart rate was 105. Pilot, Jack
Lousma's heart rate 80. Those are their average rates. This is
the first of 3 extravehicular activities scheduled for this
mission. This EVA originally had been planned for day 4 - -
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TIME: 2:41 DT 10/17:41 GMT
8_6/83
PAO Planning for day 4 of the mission has been

delayed because of motion sickness problems the crew experienced
and the time it has taken them to adapt to the wieghtless
environment. As of this time there has been no change in
the scheduling for the remaining two EVAs. One is scheduled
for mission day 28 and the third on mission day 54. There
are no immediate plans to change that schedule. We'll
come back up in about 5 minutes, Just prior to Vanguard.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SI III MC-424/I
TIME: 2"47 CDT 10/17:47 GMT
8/6/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition at
the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll stand by.
PLT So we hook it on with the tether that's on
the base plate.
PLT Okay, Owen. I got it hooked to me. And
where's the hooking knob.
SPT Right up there next to the hand rail, where
the clothesline clip is.
PLT I ust want to make sure this little loop
he's got is satisfactory for the place he's going to put
it.
PLT I think it is.
over the Vanguard for 9 minutes.
PLT Got you floating down these foot restraints.
CDR Well, they've taken out the two poles so far.
They took out the sall bag. They're in the midst of taking
out the (garble)
CC Copy, A1.
CDR Every things going smooth.
CC And your systems are looking good.
CDR Thank you.
CDR There's tethers all over. There ain't no
way for anything to get away.
PLT Think this little red thing is next, I believe.
PLT Okay, get the red one and we'll leave the
tethers inside on this one.
SPT Got it. ot it tethered to me.
SPT Want to ask about those EVA lights, A1.
CDR Houston, we were wondering if the EVA lights
were on now.
CC Stand by 1.
CDR We were klnda looking at them, I asked them
to look at them outthere, and they said they didn't look
on at the moment. But, it's so bright out there, it might
be hard to see.
PLT Stabilize before you go. There you go.
PLT (garble)
PLT Try to reach it. atta boy.
PLT Okay. I'm unhitched from it. You put that
there and I'll go get the green one.
SPT That's way back in the corner here.
PLT (garble) Don't want to, my friend.
PLT Got the green one hooked to me.
CC AI, we got no way of telling from here whether
your EVAlights are on or not. They should he turned on
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according to the checklist. We did check them out yesterday

because they do run through that power transfer distribution
box. We've got no way of telling down here whether they're
on or not.
CDR You all commanded them on though, earlier
or what ?
PLT Owen, that thing is going to be upside down. Does
that matter to you?
CDR We got it switched but we didn't know
whether you commanded them or not.
SPT I think I'd better change it.
PLT Okay.
CC Yeah, it's going to be pretty obvious to you all
in about 14 minutes whether they're on or not. And that's
a switch that you throw on the airlock. So Owen could get in
there and do it if you donWt have them on.
CDR Okay. We'll Just check it. We Just wanted
to be ready.
SPT Okey-doke.
PLT You mean they're all off?
SPT No, they're all on, A1.
PLT We're rearranging something here a little bit.
SPT Too much confidence in it. We're working on it.
PLT atta boy.
PLT Well, we've got it blocked.
PLT It's not going to work out right s AI.
PLT (garble) one on the bottom, A1.
CDR Go backwards?
PLT No, it's not going to work that way. You
know the problem? This hook is oriented differently than
the one in the water - the two trainers. 180 (garble) So it's
going to wind up with the red one on top. So what we got to
do is put the green one on first and then go.
SPT Well, now let's see if I flip -
PLT Yeah, we're going to wind up with the red
one on the top at the moment.
PLT No, the green one's going to be on the bottom.
PLT I remember that old hook on the trainer, Owen,
I think it's oriented 180 different.
PLT That's - you tether to that one and IS ll give
you this one.
PLT Okay, if you've got that one right there, I
wonder if you Just can't put it on.
PLT Well I'm (garble) the red one tethered to me.
PLT Yeah, I think we can.
PLT It'll take about three intermediate transfers.
PLT Makes it hard to get the things on too, because
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you get them squashed beneath the - bags are in the way
of getting them out of the hook.
SPT Press that button down for me there.
PLT Yeah, the button's down.
SPT That's good.
SPT Yeah, very well. Now we want this to go
under it Just like this.
PLT Okay. That one's on there, Owen. I'm
going to hang on to it while you put the other one on.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Other way, other way.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd llke you to close those two
circuit breakers that you opened up before at panel 200.
instrumentation systems, transmitters Bravo and Charlie
closed.
CDR Okay. losed.
CC Thank you.
CDR If you've been listening, apparently the
hook on the outside of this hatch _s reversed (garble)
in the EVA water tank. So we'll probably want to pass
that word on to Huntsville sothey can change it in the tank,
so that Jerry Cart and his crew will have it correct.
PLT The open part is facing down toward the
(garble) around the FAS, instead up toward the hatch.
SPT Okay, here we are, AI. We're sitting here
with the green one on top and the red one on bottom.
PLT The hook is locked and the ropes are pointing
outboard so they're going to be easily visible when he picks
them out.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds toLOS. We'll
be seeing you in 1 hour and 5 minutes over Goldstone at 19:03.
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SPT It's on. A little lower.

PLT (Garble).
CC And as we go over the hill here, we'll
be getting live TV over Goldstone, would llke a verification
that EVA lights are on.
SPT They're on.
CDR They are on.
CC Thank you.
loss of signal. And Skylab starts a long period when it
will not be in range of a tracking station. The next sta-
tion to acquire will be Goldstone in i hour 5 minutes. That
will be a relatively short pass at Goldstone, Just under
5 minutes, about 4 minutes 50 seconds. Over the Vanguard,
the crew reported that tht twin poles, the sall bag, and the
base plate, equipment for the deployment of the Sun shade
were out of the airlock module in the fixed airlock shroud
area. There are 25 EVA lights located on the exterior of
the workshop. Five are located in the fixed alrlock shroud
work station. Eight are located along the EVA trails and
twelve are dispersed at the Apollo telescope mount work
stations. We would expect, as we come into Goldstone, in
a little over an hour, that Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott
would be well along with the deployment of the Sun shield.
This 22 by 24 foot Sun shield is made of aluminum - aluminized-
mylar film, which has been sprayed with a special thermal
coating, designed to reflect about 75 percent of the Sun's
energy. The coating utilizes a specially treated zinc oxide.
The twin pole was designed and fabricated at the Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. We'll come back
up a couple of minutes prior to Goldstone. At 18 hours
1 minute, this Skylab Control.
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I minute Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has acquisition.
We will get some TV here when we get a good lock on Goldstone
an tennaes.
SPT No, I think we ought to press ahead, i.
over Goldstone for 5 minutes. We're getting the TV down
here, and aIlsystems are looking good.
CDR Thank you. Let me give you a little
recap of what's going on,Story.
CC Go AI.
CDR Okay. They've got six poles assembled.
Everything is transferred down. Here has been the problem.
We got the little gromits as you know on the end of the poles,
and so as Owen has been pulling the poles off the rack, the
little gromits tend to roll down like they're going off the
end. Now we haven't been able to break the elastic, it's
really tough. So there's no way to break it, so he's been
having to maneuver very carefully both - -
PLT Just a minute Just a minute. The other
end of that is between your legs here. You've got it. Okay?
SPT Yeah.
PLT There you go.
CDR He had to maneuver the poles very carefully
out of the rack to keep from losing the gromlt. Now it's
just taking time, and it looks like he's going to get it. I
suggested one alternative which doesn't sound too good, but
it's a possibility in case he gets tired. Mainly come back
in the lock, bring the poles in, repress the lock, cut the
elastic with the scissors, depress the lock, go out and finish
the job. Owen seems to think he's going to have it made,
it's just going to take a little bit longer than he thought.
PLT I think you bumped the TV there, O.
SPT Yeah, you' re right.
PLT Just pull it this way. I think you've just
got one axis, that's all.
CC We copied, AI.
CDR Okay.
PLT How does that picture look down there,
now, Houston?
CC That's a good picture, Jack.
PLT Is that a satisfactory position for the
camera?
PLT Story, is that satisfactory?
CC Like it a little bit lower down, below
the ATM.
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CD]¢ You mean away from the Sun?

CC Towards the Sun.
SPT Well, it looks llke we're whistling down
the west coast there, Story.
SPT Is that better, Story?
SPT How is that, Story?
CC We're looking. That's getting better.
SPT Yeah, I look off to my right and I can
see - Do you want more?
CC More in the same direction.
SPT I can see Los Angeles, and ImperlalValley,
and the Salt Sea. And we're coming up on Baja. Well, that
must be San Clemente down there too.
CC A little further in the same direction,
Owen. Right there.
PLT They are looking pretty close to the Sun
now O.
SPT Is that satisfactory, Story?
CC Iguess we had better llft it up in the
opposite direction. The AGC is cutting us out because of
the Sun.
PLT Tilt it up a little bit.
CC Try that right there.
PLT Okay.
CC That looks as good as you're going to do.
PLT Okay.
SPT The way I'm standing up here, Story, I'm
heading backwards, but I'm standing upright looking down at
the Earth. And over on the right now of course we're over lots
and lots of blue Pacific and clouds. Off to my right side over
there I can - we're halfway down the BaJa peninsula now, and I
can see up to L.A. and almost up to Frisco.
PLT San Francisco.
SPT Right. And I can see Salt Sea, and it's
just an all-around beautiful site. The curvature of the Earth
is very apparent up here, and the Earth truly is round, and-
CC Okay, we're copying all of that. That's
great, Jack. We're going LOS here in i0 seconds. We'll see
you over the Vanguard at 19:25. And we'll be dumping the
tape recorders then. And there are some scissors in a pouch
in the airlock.
PLT Okay. Thank you Story.
PLT Hey O, I'ii fire this up to you and you
can put another one on there.
SPT A little higher.
PLT What about the (garble)
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had loss of signal after a brief pass in which we did get
live television showing Skylab Pilot Jack Lousma hanging up
side down in the foot restraints looking at the Earth and
giving us a brief description of what he was seeing. This
twin pole Sun shade deployment going much slower than antici-
pated. The crew Commander, A1 Bean reporting that theScience
Pilot Owen Garriott, who is assembling the poles then will
hand them to Lousma reporting that he is having to be extra
careful to avoid losing the elastisized gromits on the end
of each section, 5-foot section from which the pole is assembled.
Ti_ese gromits are 3/16 of an inch in diameter. They are
designed to keep the sections from becoming loose and backing
off from the other section once they are screwed together.
The EVA is proceeding, but at a slow pace. Vanguard will pick
up Skylab in 14-1/2 minutes. We won't be able to get live
television from Vanguard, however that tracking ship will
be able to record the television that is received aboard
from Skylab will be sent back to Houston later. We'll come
up a couple of minutes prior to Vanguard. At 19 hours
ii minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab a couple of minutes away from
acquisition at Vanguard. The Flight Surgeon reports that
short look he got of data over Goldstone provided these
averages on heart rates and metabolic work load. The
Science Pilot, Owen Garriott, heart rate 107 and 1300 Btu's.
Pilot, Jack Lousma, heart rate 71 and 960 Btu's. he EVA
Flight Controller estimates the crew has close to two more
hours of work to do in deploying the twin pole sunshade
and after that another hour and a half to complete the
rest of the EVAfilm retrieval. Total EVAtime remaining
by his estimate would be about 3-1/2 hours. The EVA clock
right now shows 1 hour 52 and a half minutes since hatch
opening. We'll stand by for communications.
PLT Oh, my Gosh (garble)
SPT It's swinging back and forth out there.
PLT About a 4 second period, isn't it.
SPT No you best - yeah.
PLT I'd Just leave it.
SPT Yeah, Just put a hand damper on it and that
will take the energy up better than anything.
CC Skylab, we've got you over the Vanguard
for ii minutes. Reading you loud and clear.
SPT Okay, we Just got the first ii section pole
out there, Story, and passed it on out to Jack. Maybe he
didn't know you're not - maybe you don't have any video, of
course, but the ii section pole is now being clamped to
the base plate and it's not oscillating to badly at all.
It does oscillate at about a 4 or 5 second period, really
a slow one. And oh, I'd say the amplitude at the moment -
when I passed it out to Jack was more than plus or minus
three feet. So it's too big an oscillation. Stable right
now. It's already staballzed, Jack says.
CC Okay. Great. You've made a lot faster
progress since the last station than you made before. Are
you doing something different.
SPT Yeah, as a matter of fact, I m. In order
to get these rods out. I kick out of one foot restraint,
my right one, drop it up against the F-4 hand rail, then
lean back and tug on it as hard as I can, keeping the rods
away from the rack so that the grommet doesn't drag. Then
lhave to twist it off through an elastic band while bracing
my foot against F-4, so it's sort of a complicated procedure,
but really you do learn a little bit by trial and error.
CC Okay. Understand. Looking at the grommet
on theTV, we thought we saw some grommets on the locking
nut. Are they on the collar of the rod or on the locking
nut?
SPT Well, now on the rods themselves, the grommets
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are right behind the locking nut.

CC Okay, that's where they ought to be and
I guess you found the twisting motion helps retract the
rod.
PLT Oh yeah, l've been through all that.
SPT The elastic bands are really something.
CC Okay. We've solved another problem, you
beat us to it. If we can be of any further of help, let us
k n ow.
SPT Okay, we'll let you, Story. I think the
next rod will go a little bit faster, probably_ although
what we're going to do is to - Jack's going to come back
and then we will turn this section of rods over so that
the next array is also facing upward to me, so that I can
see them as I pull them out. Otherwise, I'm afraidI'll
drag more across the rack and could pull another - almost pull
another grommet.
CC Copy.
SPT Holy cow, what are we over here, AI? Is
this South America or what?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Boy, look at those mountains covered with
snow on them.
CDR Called the Andes.
CDR Our green pole is pointed right down there
at the Andes.
PLT Buenos dias senores and senoritas.
PLT Well, Story_ we've got this one green pole
in place and it's sitting there Just as pretty as you
please, no oscillation whatsoever.
SPT Do you want to come up and fllp this thing
over, Jack? You could release it up on that S-10 handrail
r.hen I can pull it out and keep to tend it the whole time.
PLT Wait a minute, et me look at this pole
now, and make sure my hook's in place.
PLT I think they are.
PLT There're around this hook through one time.
SPT Okay.
PLT Hey there's the hook with the white ring.
The double ring is on the other side of the pole and it's
going to come to me next before it goes through the end -
opposite end. Okay,lthlnk we've got that straightened
out. Now I'm going to come down near Owen and to help
get those plates turned over. Okay?
PLT Got to come under it llke so.
CDR How does spacecraft's systems look Story?
CC They're all great AI, all great.
CDR Okay_ what's new in the condensate area?
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CC AI, the Delta-P of course, is zero and

we've got no problem there.
CDR Okay.
PLT Uh_ could you let go a little bit, Owen?
Oh yeah_ sure.
PLT Enough? I can give you some - -
SPT No, let me have some more.
PLT Okay.
SPT There're the - Once you pull these tethers up
they don't want to - (chuckle) release. Well I'Ii tell you
what we can do here, Let's see, you're going to have pull
that out of there aren't you?
PLT Yeah. I could release my end if you want to
leave yours in. Is yours still tethered?
SPT Yeah_ it's still hooked up.
PLT Okay, you want to pull it out your way.
PLT Have you got enough stability? Well, I can
he ip.
SPT Well, it's not going to come out this way yet.
SPT Oh.
PLT Well_ if I pull this thing off we'll - would
you- pull it out, don't you think?
SPT Yeah_ I think we can slide the corner down
around our right.
PLT Okay.
SPT Slide it down- push it to your left? That's
the only way we're going to get it out?
PLT Ugh½ A little more?
SPT (Garble) a little further?
PLT No, Just push it down to your left there.
We' Ii get it out under that way and then rotate it over.
SPT All right.
PLT Okay, Just let me have it Owen. I got it.
SPT All right.
PLT Turn it that way. Now let' s turn it over -
llke this. Pull back up further over the top.
PLT Attaboy, there you go.
PLT Now we've got it turned over. Now let's just
slide it under there and don't let me tuck it out. Coming
up at you there.
SPT Okay.
SPT There. All turned around.
SPT Okay. Let me take my end there.
PLT All you gotta do is tie it down now there and
we're back in business.
PLT Yeah.
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SPT Yeah.
PLT Ah, it's going smoothly, Just have to
take our time.
SPT (Garble) out here, you know (garble) llke
someone said.
PLT Oh, there's i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, i0,
(garble). There's a couple of these and I was kind of wonder-
ins, the elastic is on the wrong side of the grommet.
SPT Oh, that's bad.
PLT Only one of those.
SPT Let me try to - I see which one that is.
Let me try to llft it over.
PLT Yeah.
SPT Well, that's - -
PLT We might, and we might not. But I think
it's easier to do that.
SPT You got it.
PLT (Garble) ad a while ago.
SPT Can you pull on it down here?
PLT NO, no, no, don't do nothing to it.
SPT Okay.
PLT I'm Just rotating it. There we are.
SPT Now, the elastic ought to be up on the
collar, if we can get it there.
PLT Yeah.
SPT That's the hard part.
PLT Yeah.
PLT The best I can do is to tighten these all
up SO it doesn't sllp down in a little crack.
SPT Okay. I'm not sure I can get them off.
But I'll try.
CC Skylab, we' re a minute and a half to LOS.
We'll see you in about an hour over Hawaii, at 20:34. You know,
Owen, we're not getting it real time. We are getting TV
on the downlink.
SPT Okay. Thanks, Story.
PLT Okay. Owen the only thing I can suggest
is to - -
SPT See you in an hour or so.
CC Okay, and Plt, Houston
PLT Okay. (Garble). What'd you say, there
Story?
CC We show you getting most of your cooling
through airflow, Jack. In order to conserve your sweat, may-
be you'd want to run a little cooler on the dlverter valve.
PLT A little cooler water flow, you mean?
CC Yes , sir.
PLT All right.
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SPT I can get them all right.

PLT Okay. And holders, there's a couple
more of them here llke that. --
PLT Thank you, Story.
SPT - - I think I can get them all right.
Those came off welleenough. I can Just pull them right off.
PLT Okay. I think you're all set up.
SPT Okay. I do too. Let me get back out here
in my favorite position.
PLT That's one thing the (garble) don't do is
set the Sun.
SC Oops. Stradle the pole.
PLT I'll put a little oscillation into it.
(Laughter) .
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now
out of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. Another long
LOS period. Hawaii will be the next station to acquire
Skylah in 57 minutes. If the EVA goes as the EVA officer
predicted a short time ago, that is another 3-1/2 hours, this
will be the longest period outside the workshop in the Skylab
Program, todate, he longest EVA n Skylab-II, the first
manned mission, was on mission day 14 when the Commander,
Pete Conrad, and the Science Pilot, Dr. Joe Kerwln, spent
3 hours and 23 minutes outside Sylab, while preying the
workshop solar array wing. Science Pilot, Owen Garrlot, who
is referred to as Big 0 by the Commander, Alan Bean, and
Pilot Jack Lousma, have been in this EVA since 12:32 central
daylight time. The EVA clock showing 2 hours 6 minutes, now.
The EVA officer may revise his prediction as a result of
information gained here at Vanguard. Lousma and Garrlott
seemed to have picked up a fair amount of time between Goldstone
and Vanguard. At Goldstone, only 6 of the five foot links
for one pole had been assembled. When Vanguard acquired, the
report was that one pole was fully assembled and installed,
and the other pole is being assembled. If there is a revision
to the prediction, we'll come up and give you that. At 19 hours
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!rime: 15:31 CDT, i0/20:31 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control_ 20:31 Greenwich

mean time, 2 hours 59 minutes into the EVA one Pilot Lousma
concludes the twn pole deployment he's has been asked to
transfer two QUADS to his right in order to get a good look
at the ATM power distribution box, actually this puts him at
a better vantage point to view the two trouble RCS QUADS,
BRAVO and DOG. Following this inspection, Lousma will pick
up with resupplying film to four ATM experiments the H-ALPHA 1
and the S056 in the center work station of the ATMand the
SO82 A and S082 B at the Sun end of the telescope mount.
Still to be completed in the EVA is installation of the S149
experiment on the Sun and the ATM removal of the S055 door
latch and retrieval of samples of the $230 experiments.
Standing by for AOS Hawaii 2 minutes on the clock, however,
when they're in the VOX mode voice actuated EVA they frequently
get acquisition the very moment they pop over the horizon so
we'll stand by here.
PLT Left hand around the pole.
PLT Now how is it?
PLT Okay, now it's clear at your end. How's

it down at the other end?
PLT Twist out the far end now slightly.

PLT Which one - is the one in my right hand
(:lear?
SC Yep.
PLT See it more clear now.
PLT Are they clear now, both of them.
SPT Negative.
PLT Okay, which one is clear.
SPT Neither of them, I don't believe are clear
now .
PLT Where would I have to rotate the bolt to

clear them?
SPT Clockwlse. Try that.
PLT As I see it.
SPT I think so. The other way then, _,our

other clockwise.
SC Now that you' re pulling too hard I

can't turn it.

over Hawaii for 8 minutes, ii systems are looking good down
here.
SC Thanks, Story.
CDR We've got both poles out Story and - -
CC Good.
CDR And when we got the second one out it was
in the dark we had to wait until the Sun came up to look and
see if the line was straight, the llne had a 180-degree
twist in it or at least it appeared to which is a little confusing
should be an increment to 360 we thought. And so, we've
taken that pole down. Owen presently has the end, Jack has it
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over his shoulder and they are straightening out the llne.
Essentially the pole assembly is done but we've got to
get the line straightened out.
SPT . .. some more Jack.
CDR Copy, AI.
SPT (garble) I can't rotate it.
SPT Okay.
CDR They've been working real easy so they're
not tired everything's going okay.
PLT Fllp any of them off the end or can you
tell where any of them are_ O?
SPT I can clear this left one, but the right
is still going to have about a 70 twist or so. I wish I
could llft this grommet; Just rotate it. Can't get that
grommet back out.
SPT Bring me another pole up there.
PLT What you want to do, O?
SPT I want to bring it in toward me and I'm
going to disconnect.
SPT No you keep those lines right where they
are.
PLT Okay, I got them.
SPT Take it straight all beyond that now.
PLT (garble) do you know what way to rotate
them now.
SPT I rotate it so that it's clear up above
me.
SPT Check when I get there.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Yea, go ahead.
CC How much of a twist do you have out there?
PLT Well, the right pole hasn't gotten any
the red - the green pole hasn't gotten any twist in it at all.
SPT Rotate a little more here.
PLT The red pole I put it out and the
rlghtmost llne was clear, but the leftmost llne had a 180 in it.
CC Did you try exercising the llne to see how
much friction you had in it?
SPT No, there wasn't any frlction.
CC Our feeling is that you could probably
put the sall on it even with up to 360 twist and you won't
have so much friction that you couldn't run it on out.
SPT Yea, we're just trying to make sure, we
have plenty time. r
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, AI how are you doing?
SPT Well that didn't - looks to me like it was
straight.
CDR We're going to do it right for Rocko.
CC Okay, he's here listening to you.
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SPT I don't know I've got to check now. Do

I have any twist above me Jack?
PLT Nope.
SPT Okay, let me see about that.
PLT Oh, I'Ii hold this llne out and you hold
that one out.
PLT llard to tell when it's close to the pole.
PLT Got a hook behind the - in the tree
the re, O.
PLT Now there - there you go.
PLT Okay, let me hold this side out Owen, and
you hold the other one out and see how she looks.
SPT Still have it twist out at the far end.
PLT Which one.
PLT Are they both twisted?
SPT Take the pole one way rotate the pole
clockwise.
PLT Not my clockwise.
SPT Okay, then the other way.
PLT Okay, how's that.
SPT Okay, that's pretty good jUSt hold a
minute .
SPT Completel_, free, no twist up there.
PLT Okay, now look at your end.
SPT Okay, I've got some twist up here,
sorry.
PLT Yea.
SPT I think I'm going to have to go down and
loosen that connection again. The problem is you want to make
sure - get to -
PLT Hey , O.
SPT Yea.
PLT Just a minute.
PLT We got them as free as we can on the
other end.
SPT They are they are completely free
beyond you.
PLT No, on your end.
PLT Looks like you can take that one that
you had in your other hand and flip around the bottom.
SPT Tried that.
PLT No, the other one now.
SPT You mean this one.
PLT Yea.
SPT And I' ii hold it out.
SPT Now, hold the other line out; I'll
hold this one.
SPT Okay, there you go. Now is your line
got a twist or not.
PLT No, but this llne has a twist in it.
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SPT Okay, it's got a twist behind you

there too.
SPT Well that's the one I'm talking about

there's no twist beyond you everything is free beyond you.
|'LT Okay, on both lines, huh?
SPT No.
SPT There's this one twist right in front of

my nose.
PLT Right, now see Houston that's the queer

thing we got one line that goes all the way out with no twist
and the other line has got a 180 in it.
SC Yea.
PLT Hold, it out there, Owen let me take a
look at it.
SC (Garble) .
PLT Yea_ I agree with that now let me take a
look at your end there O. I'll tell you exactly where to
put it.
PLT I can't see it.
SPT Just: a minute AI. Just a minute, AI.
SC Okay, now, you just - twist your thing
around here until it's clear. I'll hold this.
SC There attaboy. Now let's - quick zap it
to her. Now bring here back - -
CC Skylab we're 20 seconds to LOS ere as
we go over the hill all systems are looking good we'll be
dumping the tape recorders over Vanguard. See you there in
20 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CDR Looks llke they got it now.
PLT Okay, A1 drop it in the nearest (garble).
SPT Not yet Ijust want to check to make sure
that it's all - it's all.
SPT Okay, you've got her.
PAO This is SkylabControl; loss of signal
through the Hawaii tracking station Lousma and Garriott at
this time still erecting the twin pole sun shield. They have
the second pole out and in place. However, the clotheslines
appear to be wrapped around it at least 180 degrees and they
were attempting at the time to disconnect one of the bayonet
fittings where the sections of poles mate together and by
twisting the entire pole would remove the wrapped lines so
that they slide freely through islets on the end of the poles
for hauling out the sail. And to quote one of the crewmen
he said "we're going to do it right for Rocko" referring to
the Director of the MarshallSpace Flight Center, Dr. Rocco
Petrone. And at LOS they were still struggling with getting
the twist out the people on the ground anticipate no friction
even with the fairly significant twist in the llne around the
55 foot long pole. When fully deployed the twin pole the
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22 x 24-foot Sun shield will stretch to about 4 feet from

the end of the workshop. The Sun shield will lay over the
parasol which is placed out through the solar scientific
airlock during the first manned visit in May. The parasol
was lowered this morning to within 8 inches of the workshop
skin this was accomplished by Pilot Jack Lousma by withdrawing
the extension rods from within the workshop. Next station in
18 minutes will be the tracking ship Vanguard and 3 hours and
13 minutes in the EVA and 20:45 Greenwich mean time. Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 20:57 Greenwich mean

time, and 3 hours 25 minutes into the Skylab-III EVA. At
4:30 p.m. central daylight time in the Houston newsroom,
there will be a press briefing on the subject of the coolant
system aboard Skylab, withProgram Director, Bill Schneider,
and Mr. George Hardia, who is Chief of the Marshall Spaceflight
Center Systems Integration Office. That's at 4:30, shortly
after loss of signal through tracking ship Vanguards coming
up in 5 minutes. That is the acquisition is in 5 minutes.
The briefing's at 4:30. At 20:58 Greenwich mean time, back
in 5 minutes for Vanguard, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-431/I
Time: 6:01 DT; 10/21:01 GMT
7/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 21:01 Greenwich mean

time; coming up in about 2 minutes tracking ship Vanguard.
We've been having early AOSs, inasmuch as the EVA crew is
on volce-actuated communications. At the Vanguard they will
have completed 2 revolutions in EVA and will begin their
third crossing past the tracking ship Vanguard. They've
been out now 3 hours 29 minutes at this time. The sall that
will be unfurled as they pull on the halyards, up the twin
masts weighs about 35 to 40 pounds in Earth weight. And it's
folded back on its self many times much llke packing a para-
chute. The cords used to deploy the sail are made out of
a flre-proof substance called PBI, which is a 8-cylinder -
an acronym for an 8-cylinder chemlcal name which I won't
attempt to pronounce at the time. Standing by for AOS Van-
guard.
SC I hink so.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear over
the Vanguard for 8 minutes.
SPT Okay Story. Would you llke to talk to him,
Jack, or should I - -
SPT It's going kind of slow up here, Story. The
reason is is because the folds are stuck together. And had
to reef it back in some - pull it back in to unstick the glue.
CC Okay.
SPT Both poles are fully - both poles are fully
deployed. He's just getting the sall out on themnow. In
fact, it's been all out once and he's got it back in again
working on the pleats.
CC I understand the sail is stuck together in
p laces.
SPT Yes.
CC And you did get the twist out the lines?
SPT All complete.
CC That's another thing we solved and you beat us
to it.
SPT How did you solve it?
CC We broke the pole in half between the two - the
two pullies and moved the line. It had a 180 in it. Through
the break and then reconnected the poles.
SPT That's Just how we solved it. Congratulations.
CC Thank you sir.
CDR What's happening is, apparently, at the front
edge, Story, and at the back edge of the sail, where that
white material is, it's sort of stuck together. And we broke
that apart manually. And then kind of fluffed up the main
sall material and sent it out. But the rigidity of the poles
is such that the - the - folded-up material tends to pull the
poles together about as much as the poles tend to pull it
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apart. In fact exactly as much, I guess. But the whole

point is it doesn't completely come out when it's out at the
end of the pole. We've now got the sail back and sort of
slippin it a little bit to make sure it's not sticky in any
one fold. In other words, no two phases of the fold are
completely stuck together but they're all going to accordian
equally. Then get it out to the end again, tie down the two
end places, and I guess the Sun will eat it up and cause the
poles - forces to expand it tll it's finally level. Do you
think that's true?
SPT It looki_ great now.
CC Okay. Sounds llke you got that work under
control, AI. And I'ii try to get you an answer on the folds.
And is there anything we can do for you down here?
SPT I just yanked it all back in, Story, and took
the folds apart as much as I could. And it looks like it's
doing better now.
PLT We can o1_ly one plate. In fact, it's Just
opened up partly now. All plates are partly expanded. It's
just (garble)
CC Okay, great and when you deploy the (garble)
lines out the dog bones out there, that'll help to pull those
poles apart, too.
SC Got you Story.
CDR Everything's going and good up here. They're
working at a slow, steady pace. And nobody's tired, so I
have a feeling that the last half is going to go a little bit
faster. And we were most concerned about this one because
we didn't want to lose any parts.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay,l got it clipped off, AI.
CDR (Garble)
PLT Yeah.
CDR (Garble)
PLT There're all the way to the end.
CDR Okay, now - - (garble)
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. AI, the temperatures in the TV camera
are climbing up here and we'd like for it not to run during
the next hour when we'reLOS. And it's easier for you to do
that and then - for them to turn the switch off in the airlock
module by opening the circuit breaker and that's on panel 202,
television power AM. You might open that until the next
station passage.
CDR Good idea. Will do,Story.
CC Okay.
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CDR Story, did you - -

PLT He Just opened it.
PLT Is there any downlink video being recorded at
this time?
CC That's affirmative. We don't have real time
TV here but it is being downllnked.
PLT Okay, if the pictures's any good, why - or
[lot any good, well I can adjust it for them up here. I just
didn't know what the quality was.
CC Okay. I will get a call for you as soon as
we can.
CDR Okay, now I thought you wanted that circuit
breaker open now. Do you want me to leave it in now until
we go out of contact?
CC You can leave it open now, AI.
CDR Okay, it' s open.
SPT Okay, AI, I'm ready to go down to the dog bone.
CDR (Garble)
CDR How're theEVA lights out there, Jack?
PLT Huh ?
CDR Are there adequate EVA lighting out there?
PLT Well, if there's not I'ii just stop.
CDR Okay.
PLT All right_ Idldn't rotate this down now.
Maybe fought to rotate it just a little bit.
CC And we don't mean to hurry you, PLT, but down
here it looks like you'be got about a minute and a half of
day remaining to take a look at that power transfer distribu-
tion box.
PLT Well, I'm not going to make it this time around
buddy.
CC Okay.
PLT Yeah, but I think we ought to put - Okay, we
will, but Ithink what's going to happen is we're taking a
chance on getting it all the way down and then - then when
we go to reef it - catching it on something. Well, maybe not.
(Garble)
CDR (Garble)
PLT Well, I' ii tell you, you already have it
right now, because one of the fishing rod poles did not
extend, as you know, on the parasol_ and that means that the
forward edge of this leading edge has been raised up and it's
resting on the pole right now.
CDR (Garble)
CC And, Skylab. We're at 30 seconds toLOS.
We'll see you at Hawaii at about an hour and 7 minutes, at
22:10. All your systems are looking good.
PLT Okay,Story. Thank you.
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CDR Okay. Understand.

PLT Made out of my (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of signal through
tracking ship Vanguard. Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott at
this time deploying tile sail were having some difficulty
with tile pleats in tile sail, as it was stowed in the bag,
having a tendency to stick together and was set to them.
They had both poles out a_d had removed the twist from the
lines by, coincidentally, doing the same procedure that was
worked out here on the lower level front floor of the control
room with another training model of the sail, by breaking
the connection at a bayonet Joint in one of the poles, passing
the twisted line through and then rejoining the pole. A1
Bean from his vantage point, looking out through the small
window, commented to the ground that nobody's tired and
they're working steadily. Next station, Hawaii in 55 minutes.
Reminder on the briefing on the Skylab coolant system status,
with Skylab Program Director, Bill Schneider and George Hardie
of Marshall Spaceflight Center, on or about 4:30 p.m. in the
Houston newsroom. Any station passes taking place during
that briefing will be transcribed or recorded on tape for
delayed playback. Three hours, 43 minutes into the EVA now.
And at 21:15 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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8/6/73
PAO This isSkylab Control, 22:08 Greenwich

mean time. Four hours and 36 minutes into the EVA for erecting
the twin pole Sun shield. Changing out film in the solar
observatory and retrieving an experiment which was stowed aboard
the truss of the telescope mount at launch, or prior to launch.
So called $230, magneticspheric particle composition experiment,
which consists of sheets of collecting foil of aluminium, aluminum
oxide, and platinum, which are mounted on theATM deployment
assembly truss. Each piece of foil is a rectangle of about
35 by 48 centimeters, It is mounted on a flexible backing
material and formed into a cuff that is wrapped around one
of two spools on the truss. The cuffs are used - two cuffs
are used per spool with one cuff being covered by the other. Two
of these cuffs are retrieved during today's EVA. The
other cuffs will be retrieved during Skylab IV. This experiment
is similar to the solar wind experiment deployed on the lunar
surface during Apollo and in fact, the co-lnvestigator for
this experiment is Dr. Johannes Gels of Baron,Switzerland.
SPT I .. _ Now pull out - Walt' ii I come out.
flow do you read there, Story?
CC Reading you loud and clear through Hawaii
:for i0 minutes. How'd you know we were here?
SPT I heard some noises.
CC Okay.
CC And, AI, to get us some TV here we'd like
on p02, television power AMclosed.
PLT Okay, Story, I'm hanging out here - I've
done the work at the VC on the ATM. And Its hanging out on the
side here by this box you wanted me to look over. And I see
no evidence of discoloration. And see no evidence of any
residue around those vent forks whatsoever. This box that
you wanted me to look at looks very much intact. I'm
looking at the command module now. Sure is neat to hang out
here breeze with one arm and just kind of drift along with
this thing as it streaks across the ground.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT I oticed on the command module itself
there is - and on the whole spacecraft for that matter,Skylab -
everything that is exposed to the sun is turning tan. Very
much a tan color. That which is not exposed to the sun
is still white. Now the command module is starting to turn
tan a little bit also. Some discoloration on the part that looks
at the sun. And then there is a darker brown line, not dark brown
but a darker tan, that runs underneath the hatch circumferencially
over to a point near Al's rendezvous - the docking window and
his side window and then it runs up between those two windows.
And then back around circumferencially along the top of
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PLT the hatch over to my rendezvous window. Now

it's pretty hard to see quad B as well as quad A. ] notice
that both A and B the quad package itself appears from this point
to he tinted. And it appears to have been heated rather well
on the sort of cubicle structure upon which the thrusters are
mounted. The skin around quad A is blistered and some of it has
flaked off, that's Just the outer layer. I'm unable to see the
skin at quad B because it's Just around the edge a little bit.
Let's see - anything else you want to know about the quads.
There's a little bit of paint missing around the quad, quad A
that is. That's pretty much the way you expect it to be. I
notice the SPS engine bell appears as though it's been heated
rather well which it has. Outside is dlscolored and brown and
kind of black and the paint's come off. But that's also to be
expected. Let's see anything else you want to know about the
command module from this vantage point before I whistle around
the other end.
CC Okay, stand by on that, Jack, and
we're showing that you have rolled the canister g2A and B
doors are opened. Have you finished at the Sun end?
PLT Oh, no, we have to go to the front end yet.
CC Okay.
PLT If you haven't got any more for me to
do in this area, I' ii get to the Sun end.
SPT The center work station checks are complete,
Story, including the checkout of the H-alpha and S056 magazine.
CC Okay, you can press on, Jack.
PLT Okay, and in working around here it's
probably worthwhile to compare working in the zero g here with
working in the water tank. And probably the biggest thing
I've noticed in comparing the two is that it's one heck of
a lot further to the bottom of the pool.
CC Copy that. We'll tell them to make it
bigger.
SPT Digging our music?
CC No we're not getting that?
SPT Earlier.
CC Don't hear it, but I guess it was a Space
Odessey was it?
SPT I was better than that.
CC Okay, we haven't heard it today•
PLT Here I am. Okay. Well, like I said the
whole side facing the sun is a little bit tan and the right
- notice that there is some exterior brown spots right
behind the Joint where the ATM has butted up against the
• .. structure. They're sort of triangular in shape, probably
about 4 inches by 2 inches, and there are just a few spots - about
four or five of them- where the discoloration is greater. There
than the rest of the vehicle.
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CC Copy that, Jack. And while l've got you

there just a reminder that when you're cranking open the S149
to do that - -
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816173
PLT - - rest of the vehicle.

CC Copy that Jack, and while I got you there
just a reminder when you're cranking open the S149 to do
that extremely slowly because there's a tremendous gearing
down coming from the motor to the mechanism and the motor
speeds up very rapidly when you're cranking that experiment
open .
PLT Okay. I really can't see any evidence

of any of glycol streaming,Story, l'm beside of the MDA.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
PLT (Garble).
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, we're getting a good TV picture
right now, we wonder if you could pan the TVplcture out in
llne with the hatch moving out toward the command module
where the thermal shield meets theSTS.
SPT I don't think I can move it very far
because we don't have much c:able on it. We got it all taped.
I can give it a try but it _on't move very far.
CC Leave it where it is Owen.
SPT Okay, we don't have more than nearly
6 inches of cable on it. I don't see anything that looks
llke a leak on the side of the MDA or anywhere.
CC Okay, we'll get this stuff the next EVA.
SC No, I don't.
SPT Yea, let me go around over the top.
SPT Three six no lights.
SPT Oh, I got the same.
SPT Okay, you got my umbilical there oh - -
PLT Yea_ you're coming fine.
SPT I we.nt over top, whereever that is.
(Laughter) .
SPT You're over the top in the water tank.
PLT Boy, the big O's really doing a sterling Job
here today he's got a brand new llve one (garble) thousands
of senior citizens all over the country. Chuckle).
SPT That's great, that's great.(chuckle)
PLT I'm trying to figure out how to return
compliments.
SPT You' ii think of one.
CC Yea, I couldn't answer that at all.
PLT Maybe you'd like to walk back for it AI.
PLT Want to get these umbilical snaps here
or cut excuse me.
SPT Okay.
CC And,. Skylab we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Vanguard in 23 minutes we'll be dumping the
tape recorders overVanguard and AI if you can open up that
circuit breaker television power AM on panel 202 for us it
would be fine.
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CDR Okay.
CDR Give you a little appropriate music to the
effort that they did out: there today, I believe.
PLT That a boy, O.
Mus i c.
CC Okay, we're getting the music now
troops.
PLT I know (garble) is looking for that.
PAO This is SkylabControl; loss of signal
from the Halls of Montezuma as Space station Skylab went over
l-he hills from Hawaii, C_wenGarriott and JackLousma still
outside. Been outside now for 4 hours 49 minutes. Lousma was
moving back up top of the ATM, the Sun end, saw no evidence of
resude from the short circuit on the electronic boxes on the
ATM QUADS A and Bthe structure for those two RCS QUADS re
on the service module appear to be fitted and he could see
no apparent leak of coolant on the side of the MDA where the
radiators are exposed to space and he was atLOS translating
around to the Sun end to change film magazines the H-ALPHA 1
film magazine weighs 15 pounds the SO56 weighs 16 pounds.
And the SO82 is - involves a 31 pound camera and a 23 pound
film canister for a total of 54 pounds. SO82 B as a 33 pound
camera and a 23 pound film canister for a total of 56 pounds.
One of the final activities for the EVA Science Pilot
Garriott and Pilot Lousma will be the installation of the
S149 on the Sun end of the ATM an investigation in the size
and capacity of micrometeorites and near earth orbit. This
experiment was deployed through the antl-solar scienfitic
airlock during the first manned mission by means of the S073
extension mechanism which was jettisoned 2 days ago. The
experiment package is a cube shaped about 8 x 8 inches in size for
a total of 4 panels which deploy automatically each of the
four panels contain 2 sets of detectors plate for a total of
8 S149 was deployed through the anti-solar airlock prior to
the end of Skylab II and then withdrawn by the Skylab IIl
crew earlier in this mission. New detector cassettes have
been placed in the experiment. Micrometeorites which strike
the plates leaves craters from which Principal Investigator
Dr. Curtis Heminway of the Dudley Observatory _n Albany,
New York, hopes to determine mass size and velocity micro
meteorites. The experiment has been attached to an L-shaped
aluminum extension rod. Pilot JackLousma will attach the rod
to the ream of the Sun end of the ATM near the double hand
rail. It is scheduled to be retreived on one of the subsequent
EVAs during this mission. Next station in 18 minutes which
will be tracking ship Vanguard. And at 22:24 Greenwich mean
time. Sky lab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II] MC-434/ 1
Time: 7:39 CDT; 10/22:39 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This isSkylab Control, 22:39 Greenwich mean

time, 5 hours and 7 minutes into the Skylab-lll EVA, 2 minutes
to nominal acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard. Should
get further comments from the crew on how the EVA is going.
Although Skylab-lll crew at last pass at Hawaii did not re-
port it, flight controllers here are confident that the
twin-pole sunshield has been deployed. CAP COMM, Story
Musgrave, will ask the crew to confirm that_ in fact, the
shield has been successfully deployed. A final step in
deployment of the S149 experiment will be for Lousma to
crank out the experiment panels. The four panels deploy
like pedals of a flower. Coming up now on tracking ship
Vanguard. And changing rev numbers from 1216 to 1217.
PLT Well, I think I probably can. It depends -
yeah I probably can work on it there. That' s all right.
There's a couple of good places for it.
PLT Okay? All right. It looks like you're just
a - barely a little hedge there when you close it right and
there's a- just before - it - it's on the ramp - just be-
fore it hits the stop it goes a little hitch. In coming loose
the same way. It seems to stick up a little bit, but I -
[ want to be able to save enough to hang up the door.
SPT Yeah, there's a little hitch.
CDR (Garble)
SPT Yep, we got that.
CDR (Garble)
SPT Opposite _top. All right, that's this one.
CC We're reading you loud and clear through
'Vanguard for 6 more minutes.
CC And AI, for the TV, on panel 202, TV power
AM CLOSED.
CDR Okay. That's done, Story. We ran through
the - -
CC Thank you.
CDR Had a couple of funnies here. We ran through
the 82-A and B checks and although everything seemed to work
right except we got no READY light for either one. Now we
realize that we weren't in experiment pointing, so I went
into experiment pointing momentarily to see if I cold get
it. I could not. I came back out again. However, it ap-
peared to take a frame, in that the frame remaining on UV
spect is 200 where it was 201 and the EV slit is 1607 and it
had been 1608. Now maybe those just click off frames whether
you take a picture or not as long as you operate the START/
STOP switch, but we got no ready lights on either of those
came ras.
CC Thanks a lot, AI. We're working that.
CDR Okay. And all the rest of the things have
gone strictly nominal.
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PLT This screw's going to come all the way out.

You might say I've got a screw loose up here, Story.
CC As long as it's only one, you're okay.
CDR (Garble)
PLT (Garble) Okay, I'ii try that.
CDR Jack's working hard now, but he reported that
when we operated the 55 door several times, that it looked
like it had a slight hangup right at the very last motion
before it went into the stop, both coming in and going out.
He didn't know whether he could count that as enough to
hang it up or not, but that may be the problem. Now, he'll
have to say whether he thinks it was the ramp itself, or just
something behind it that made it appear that the ramp was
doing it. We think.
CC Copy that:.
PLT Well there are no scar marks on the top part
of the ramp. All I can think is maybe it's a little -
hanging up on the - on the hottom side of the ramp. I noticed
that the ramps on some of the other doors - the - got a little
more of - of a wear mark than this one. This one's very
clean on the top. But it may be on the bottom that it's
sticking.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jack and could you verify
that you pushed the sail against the OWS?
PLT Yeah, I can verify that. The leading edge of
the sail is - the pole is about i foot above the skin of the
workshop and the - the end of the pole is down on the workshop
at the aft end the pole on the right, whatever one that is, is
- the end of it looks like it's resting on a - on that big
boom down there in the end of the workshop.
CC Okay. Is there any curving of the
sail against the workshop? Cr bowing of the rods?
FLT Well, I can't see it right now. Oops, there
goes the Sun, too.
CDR I' ii tell you what we did Story. We finished
doing the - -
PLT Shine your light up here AI.
CDR Yeah.
PLT Could you turn it - Sun end lights ain't
working.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Are you still there, Story?
CC Yes sir, for a couple of minutes.
CDR Okay. Here's what we did. We (garble) We
finished that job at night and we still had about 20 minutes
night to go, so we left the foot restraints down there and
we put the poles and sail down there as snug as we thought
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it should be, best we could see at night, and then we went

off and did these other jobs. Now, as Jack comes back from
the Sun end, he passes right by that spot, he's going to stop,
trim it up, hopefully, the sall has expanded further because
of the last Sun on it you know, as we talked about the ac-
cordian problem, push it down and adjust it just llke you
want it, and then that'll be the end of he hall game. We' Ii
we'll put it inside. Now here's a question. Do - did it
sound llke we had it in the right position - the position
you want ?
CC Yes. That sounded good, AI. We just wanted
to verify that we did have it down tight against the work-
shop to avoid any TACS impingement on it.
CDR Okay, the message we have received was we wanted
to move it down until the poles just touched the leading
edge of the parasol. Now the parasol was not presenting a
horizontal line to the poles because as you know, one of the
parasol poles didn't extend fully. It was up in the air.
We pushed it down until the poles were level with the - what
we'd - looked like the apex of the parasol and the one pole
t.hat did look like it deployed fully.
SPT I think all the lights are on.
PLT Well they're not on on the Sun end. We
only have switches with the AM- -
SPT Well they must have burned out last time.
PLT EA- the deployment assembly of the ATM and - -
CC Okay, AI. That sounds good with the sails.
As long as the rods are pushed hard enough against the OWS
to bend the poles and make a curve in the sail, you do not
have to attract the sail.
CDR Okay, now what - when the next sunrise comes,
Jack's going to stop there and he'll push them down so that
they're bending and touching the workshop, as you said.
CC And if they're like that you don't have to
retract them where you're seeing the parasol. That'll be
fine.
CDR Okay. We can do it either way.
SPT Boy it gets dark out here. You know that?
There's nothing but me and the lights of thePCU. There's
the Moon. We've got a half Moon up here, Story.
PLT Apparently the EVA lights are burned out at
the Sun end.
CDR (Garble)
SPT I only see these one row of switches.
CDR Story, do you suppose there's a circuit
breaker that's in here that could somehow be cutting the
Sun-end EVA lights out and have the rest of them working
okay ?
CC Okay, we'll work that too. We're about 15
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seconds toLOShere. We'll pick you up over Ascension in

9 minutes at 22:58 and we'll work both the 82A and B and the
light problem.
CDR Okay. I checked both EVA lights and circuit
breakers and they're both IN.
CC Okay, In going over the hill here, we'll pro-
bably have you repeat the (garble) on page 2. 1-14 sequence
when we can see it over Ascension.
CDR We'll be ready.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, A1 - -
CC And open up the television's power AM circuit
breaker, please,Al.
CDR Okey doke.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Just pointing out to you. You did describe the
(garble) - you're taking two single frames on each camera.
PLT Hey, AI. This is really something. You know
]i'm out here and there's nothing except a little bit of light
reflecting off the solar panels, a few stars and a half Moon.
SPT It doesn't seem like it.
CDR (Garble)
SC Oh, I feel good. How do you feel?
PLT I eel fine, but we're going to break 7 hours
at this rate.
SYT I can't see my hand in front of my face and
that's about it. That's no kiddin. That's literal. (Chuckle)
SPT I don't think we'd ought to have been going
to experiment pointing with a man on the canister end.
SPT Well, what else do we have to do? We don't
have that much to do? We've got 49 and 230.
SPT Well, neither one of those -
PAO This isSkylab Control; loss of signal, tracking
ship Vanguard. Extremely brief pass coming up at Ascension
in 6 minutes. Only i. 7 degrees maximum elevation for a 3
minute 44 second pass along the southeastern edge of the
Ascension circle. The crew confirmed that the sunshield has
been deployed. The leading edge of the sail is about 1 foot
above the workshop skin. The ends of the poles are down next
to the workshop itself. However, on the way down from the
Sun end of the ATM, Jack Lousma will trim the sail and put
additional pressure on the poles to force them down even
farther. As they went into darkness - po - during the Van-
guard pass, Lousma was having some difficulty seeing what
he was doing and asked Bean to find the proper circuit breakers
and switches to turn on the lights on the Sun end. There
are four around the perimeter of the un end of the ATM and
one in each of two camera apertures or camera openings.
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Time: 7:39 CDT; 10 /22 : 39 GMT
8/6/73
Wetll leave the line up for this brief gap between Vanguard
and Ascension. Standing by at 5 hours and 22 minutes into
the EVA and 22:54 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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SPT The only other thing Ican think to do

is to yank the thing back down, and spread it out some more,
maJ or ly .
CC Skylab we've got you through Ascension for
4 minutes.
CDR Okay, you go ahead and shoot.
SPT Okay, Story, little word on the sail
while we're standing here in the dark. Yes. Okay, go ahead.
Oops, there we have some lights. (garble)
SC (garble)
CC Okay, we sent the command to ENABLE the
logic for those lights.
CDR I'ii be (garble) Why isn't there a wrench
in here?
SPT Jack's wrench in, how about telling me -
just check if you want me to pull it.
CC Okay, AI, could you tell us if you've got an
OPERATE light on 82,A or B?
CDR Bid not get an OPERATE or a READY light.
Everything else seemed to work correctly.
CC Roger. And will not be getting any TV this
time, AI. You can leave that television power in circuit
breaker open.
CDR Okay, now I'ii tell you one reason why we're
probably not. I just flipped the lamp test switch in all positions
and got no lamp test. Now, I didn't throw any circuit breakers
up here or anything else because of our problems so I'm Just
standing by for a suggestion,
CC Okay, that sounds good. Allan, we're
going to do no further troubleshooting on that. We think since
you did get a frames decremert on both experiments that every-
thing is good.
SPT They sure loaded smoothly and the
flags were clearly visible.
CDR Okay, then, one more thing, Story. We're
going to be losing you again. We're going to come out in the
light and we're going to go down and look at the poles again
after we do 149. We had no procedure aboard that mentioned
anything about retracting the sail in the event it didn't
set down flat.
CC No, notto retract it but to Just pull
it back so it's a flusher, nearer to you than the parasol.
But it's not necessary. Just push the rods down toward the
OWS so that there's a slight bend in the rods and a slight
curve in the sail.
CDR Okay, one other thing. Jack and Owen
both pointed out that in no place does the twin poles parasol
cover the twin pole sall cover the parasol and that it's not
fully extended. It still has a little - I mean, it's fully
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extended out to the end of the poles but the accordian pleating
is keeping it from going the maximum width that the parasol is.
SPT So it never extends beyond the parasol.
CC We copy that.
CDR And we're then going to then push it down to
make sure fits like you want it, tighten it up, put on the locks,
send in the thing and then do 230. How long before our next
contact?
CC We're going to lose you here in about a
minute here. And we' ii be picking you up at Vanguard after
1 hour and 17 minutes.
SPT (Laughter)
CDR Okay, we hope to back inside by that time.
SPT We'll be finished by then.
SPT (garble)
CDR Hey, Story, one thing more, would you
mind if I ran through that procedure on 2114 and make sure
decrements even one more frame.
CC You don't need to do that,Al. It'll
be all right.
CDR Okeydoke.
SPT l've got one bolt out here. Try to stick
it on this thing.
PLT Okay.
SPT (garble)
CC Okay, troops, I got to hustle here, I got
15 seconds here. One other suggestion is lift the booms up and
then spread them out and then lay them down. Just a reminder,
be sure you bring the foot restraints in. All systems are
looking good. You' re cleared when you get done to enter the
airlock and REPRESS. And with you're permission I'll slip your
family comm. They're about an hour and 20 minutes away now.
SPT What time is it anyway, AI?
CC We're still with you. It's about 23:02:53.
Or 6 p.m. here.
SPT He_s early.
SPT Day's really gone fast.
SPT Well, all of you will remember this day
for a long time.
PLT Does it seem tedious in there, AI.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS of signal
through Ascension. An hour and 15 minutes to the next station
Vanguard tracking ship again. Apparently they have the lighting
squared away, and are continuing with the remainder of the EVA.
And were given a go right at LOS to repressurize - get back inside
after adjusting the sail. Pushing the boom - twin boom down
against the workshop itself to where there's a curvature in the sail.
A final EVA task will be the recovery of two samples of the
$230 magnetospheric particle experiment. Two cuffs of the
experiment will be taken off. The experiment is located on
one of the trusses between the FAS, which is the fixed alrlock
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shroud and the multlple docking adapter. By next station

pass In an hour and 14 minutes the crew will likely will
be back inside. Capcomm StoryMusgrave mentioned that he
would sllp the or postpone the crew telephone calls that
had been scheduled later tonight. He slipped those accordingly
because of the late EVA. Which to now, has run for 5 hours,
and 33 minutes. Back in an hour and 14 minutes for Vanguard.
Skylab Space Station on revolution 1217 crossing the continent
of Africa with another 115 minutes remaining till coming out
into sunlight. 23:06 Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC436] i
Time: 19:18 CDT, II/00:I8GMT
8/61.73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 18 minutes passed

midnight Greenwich mean time. A minute and a few seconds
away from acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard at which
station we should get confirmation that the EVA which started
6 hours and 46 ago has indeed been completed. Space station
Skylab starting revolution 1217 beg your pardon 1218 as it
crosses 80 west 30 seconds to AOS standing by.
CC Skylab Houston through Vanguard we've got
you for 10 minutes and you - we show you are repressed and
inside the workshop.
SPT You're right there, Story.
CC And if you could spare a moment could you
tell us what you got done.
SPT Yes, that's all it's going to take is
a moment we got it all done.
CC Okay.
CC Understand the ramp came off all right.
SPT Yep.
CC And you got the - -
SPT S149 went out okay and so did 230.
CC Okay and you got the reefing lines attached
allrright.
SPT Yep.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab is everybody reading me?
CDR I think we are.
SPT Yea, Story go ahead.
CC Okay, I've got a message for you from
Vice President Agnew.
CC Your fellow Americans and people of all
nations applaude your courage and ingenuity. Every generation
has it's heroes but not since the age of the great terrestrial
explorers has any one group captured so well as the astronauts
the imagination of mankind. Just as all generations now honor
the memory of those early pioneers, future generations will
honor the accomplishments the explorers of space. My very
best wishes on your historic mission which proves that man's
potential for achievement is as limitless as space itself.
Vice President Agnew.
SPT Go ahead AI.
CDR Story, tell him thank you and that of course
we represent just the small head of a huge iceberg that's visible
to the whole world right now which is our nation's space
p-_gram. We like to think that the whole iceberg itself is doing
gs that are good right now and are good for the future of
_d.
Copy, AI.
- - heeklist ob Cane, oh.
And Scott Millican.
___ John David.

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SPT And there's another guy by the name of

Anderson, wasn't it.
CDR I think so.
CDR Hey ,Story.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR How about sending our thanks to Bob
Cane, Scott Mllllcan.
SPT Warren Anderson.
CDR Who else?
SPT John David.
CDR And John David. For the mighty good
checklist work mlghtly good training, it really helped us
t oday.
CC Okay, they're sitting next to me.
CDR Okay, and of course everybody down there
in Mission Control that's kept an eye on things and helped
us out with the very few prcblems we had. We really appreciate
it. I think we did the job.
SPT Hey, AI, there's one more guy whose name
-. last name I forget but flr_t name is (garble).
CDR What are the guys names in Huntsville that
run the water tank?
CC Oh, you got Jim Splawn and Charlle Cooper.
CDR Okay, well be sure and thank them, would
you. That training down there was also pretty pretty
i nva luable.
CC .Yes sir.
CC CDR,Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC What time did you close the hatch?
CDR We closed it at about 12:01, Story I
had by my watch, 6 hours and 31 minutes of EVAaccording to
the checklist there.
CDR Did you copy?
CC Okay, at 12:01 or down here I guess it
_as 00:01Zulu.
CDR Okay, 00:01 you're right.
CDR And the comm may be a little funny we still
haven't changed it, from the EVA comm yet; it's a little bit
].ate r.
CC Okay, and I've got another thing for you.
Panel 217 disconnecting that sus water gas seperator connector
and we'd llke that done before thePLTgets to the 393
connections on 3.1-5.
CDR Okay, I'll go disconnect that thing now,
and then when he starts going through his procedure then he'll
have it - I' Ii go disconnect it right now.
CC Okay, and you all be interested to know
that we have seen a lot of temperatures dropping off.
SPT Hope we've got enough warm clothes, Story.
CC Okay.
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8/6/73
CC We're 30 seconds to LOSand we'll see

you over Ascension at 2 minutes.
CDR Okay, that's disconnected and if you want
me to do is go down there and connect the 393 to the condensate
tank, I can do it.
CC Stand by i.
CDR Okay.
CC Why don't you just follow the checklist on
that, AI let the PLT get it..
CDR You bet.
through Vanguard however, we're less than 2 minutes away
from acquisitionAscensionlsland we'll stay up for that
pass the estimated hatch closing time was about 31 minutes
ago at 7:01 Central Daylight Time. Bean said that the elaspe
time of EVAhis estimate was 6 hours and 31 minutes however
taking the hatch close time and subtracting it from the
time of EVA start we come up with 6 hours and 29 minutes.
We have AOS Ascension will pick up again with post-EVA
activities of the crew of S_ylab.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-437/I
Time: 19:32 CDT; ii/00:32 GMT
8/6/73
CC Skylab, we'reAOS Ascension for i0 minutes.

PLT Story, you got anything time critical on that
post EVA or can we go ahead and get some chow first?
CC We're working that. Just a second.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead Story.
CC Okay. We need to get the recorders off and
we'd like to get you down to page 3.1-5 up to the LSU dis-
connect prior to eating.
CC And we're also working on a plan to transfer
about an hour to an hour and a half of your post EVA to
tomorrow mornlng.
PLT Okay. We like that too. Thank you.
CC And one other thing. On the private comm
we're working out a scheme to get you better time on the
private comm which would involve us talking on VHF and you
on S-bands, but we need a little more time to work that out
and we could do it better tomorrow night than tonight, but
what's your feellng?
PLT Why don't we have our standard VHF calls
tonight? We're already one or two behind on them anyway.
CC Okay, we'll do it tonight.
PLT Story, as long as we've got you there we
might as well give you our BRG -D readings instead of re-
cording them. Owen's is 19035 and mine is 07073.
CC Copy.
PLT And I corrected Owen's to 19 to 033.
CC Got it.
you over atGuam in 34 minutes at 01:17 and we'll be dump-
ing the tape recorders over Guam.
PLT Okay, Story.
PAO This isSkylabControl; loss of signal
through Ascension Island; 33 minutes to Guam. The EVA
tasks that were assigned to Skylab-lll crew were - we got
it all done as the call back from the crew during the Just
concluded Vanguard pass. Vanguard and Ascension. Repeat
again, the hatch closed time estimated to be 7:01 p.m.
central. And according to AI Bean's elapsed time estimate
6 hours 31 minutes total EVA time. The record for orbital
EVA was set on Skyla5-11 on day 14 for deploying the solar
panel, 3 hours and 23 minutes. The second EVA on Apollo
17 was the longest lunar EVA of 7 hours 37 minutes, and on
Gemini-12 there was a standupEVA 2 hours 29 minutes and
an umbilical of 2 hours and 6 minutes. Back again for
Guam in 31 minutes. At 45 minutes past midnight GMT, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC438/I
Time: 19:48 CDT, 11/00:48 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 47 minutes

passed midnight Greenwich mean time. We have a rather short
notice estimate on change-of-shift briefing with the Flight
Director, Milt Windler and CAP COM Story Musgrave from
today's EVA shift 8 p.m. 8 o'clock in about 12 minutes,
Houston News Room. To repeat again change-of-shift briefing
with Flight Director, Milt Windler and CAP COM Story Musgrave
at 8 p.m. plus or minus a few minutes. At 48 pass midnight
GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 439/1
Time: 20:02 CDT to 11:01:02 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This isSkylab Control, 01:02Greenwich

mean time. Change of shift briefing, will start momentarily
in the Houston Newsroom with flight director Milt Wlndler
and Capcomm Story Musgrave. Change of shift briefing to
start momentarily in the Houston News Room. Any alr-to-ground
taking place during the change of shift brelflng will be
taped for delayed playback, This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC440/I
Time: 20:30 CDT, 11/01:30 GMT
8/6/73

mean time. During the just completed change-of-shift press
conference we recorded theGuam Island tracking station pass
of Skylab space station which we will play back at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Guam 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, hello there Crlp Just for the record,
we used PCU number 15 - 015 on theMDA this time.
CC Okay, very good, Jack you guys put in a
hard day's work today.
PLT Oh, it went by pretty fast.
CC Well, g_od to hear that.
CC I'd lik_. to talk for a few minutes about
our schedule passes for this evening we've got your phone
calls currently set up, we delayed them a little bit from
what our original setup was. Currently got yours, Jack set
up for about 02:17 over Canary if that's satisfactory. And
Owen's set up at 02:55 atGuam.
PLT Sounds good to me.
PLT Sounds good for Owen, too.
CC Okay, very fine I'm sure the gals are
looking forward to hearing from you. This pass was set up
to be the evening status report if you have got it we can
take it if not we'll get it later.
PLT Okay, we don't have it ready, Bob.
CC Okay, what I would recommend then is at
Canary pass at 02:17 would b°- a good time ifAl could give
it to me then. That's plenty of time I believe such that
maybe you can get it set up. The next pass coming up at
Vanguard at 01:57 is still scheduled to be a med pass if that's
satis factory.
PLT Yea, those are both fine.
CC Okay, very good. We're still puzzled
a little bit about what went on with the EVA lights out and
I was wondering if the Big 0 could tell us when you're Sun end
lights were out were could he see whether the center work
station lights were on or not?
SPT Okay, Bob, I Just got over to the
squawk box and I understand you want to know if the center
station work lights were on?
CC Yea, were they on or off when the Sun end
were off.
SPT Well now, l'm not going to be able to
give you a firm answer. We noticed that a number of the
running lights around the EVA rail were on and all of the
three switches in the airlocks were on. But when the Sun end
lights came on I remembered my attention was attracted toward
the center work station as well as if the lights over
in that area had just come on at the same time so I have the
impression that they only came on when you commanded it
although we did have plenty of other lights around the EVA
trail before then.
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CC Yea, those at the center work station

at the Sun end are the only ones controlled by that command
and sounds like that was the situation.
SPT Okay, I'd agree with that.
CC Okay, sit back and relax and I'Ii try not
to bug you anymore this pass.
SPT Okay, let me bug you for a moment. On
- I have $230 in its pair of bags now and the EVA checklist
calls for me to Just put it back in dome 416. I had the
recollection that they were suppose to g in a cooler or
a freezer. Could you check the dlsosltion of these two
bags, please, $230?
CC Checking into it.
PLT Crip, one other item I got to a point in
my checklist where I'm suppose to check the tool sieve heat
exchanger out and temperatures there are 46 degrees and right
now it's about 24 degrees so there're a couple of steps that I
dan ' t do.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT That's page 3.1-5.
CC Owen, the correct place to store $230,
you' re absolute correct the_ do want to keep that cold is
in W756 so one of the freezers in the wardroom.
SPT Okay, fine W756. Thank you.
CC Roger, they was suppose to have been a
pen-and-lnk and to pick that up but apparently it's not in
your book or something.
SPT I thought I--
SPT I thought I put all the pen and inks in
there. I do now see a pen avd ink at the bottom that says
W756 that must be it right there. So it has been pen and
inked correctly_ thank you.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 30 seconds
from golngLOS next pass is at Vanguard at 01:57 and that
will be your medical conference and I' ii have you again at
Ascension at 02:14. 01:56 reed conference 02:14 Ascension.
See you later.
CC And I got some procedures that allow
you not to have to do all of your EVA stuff tonight and I'll
get those to you as soon as I get you again.
SPT Okay, Bob, and thanks to everybody down
there for all their voluntary work that they do. Over.
CC 0keydoke. You guys did quite a bit up
there yourselves.
PAO This is Skylab Control that completes
playback of the Guam Isalnd tracking station pass earlier in
this 1218th revolution of Skylab space station next station
coming up is the good ship Vanguard in 20 minutes and that
will be the medical conference but in past experience we
frequently get the air to ground loop back from the Flight
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Sur-geon before LOS so we'll stand by during that pass.

The following pass atCanary Island at Just after Vanguard
we'll have the delayed evening status report that should
have been at this pass - Guam pass and also at Canary Jack
Lousma will have his family phone call and at the next
(;uam pass after that Guam Island Garriott will make his
family call. Back in 19 minutes to stand by through the
tracking ship Vanguard pass at 01:37 Greenwich mean time,
Sky lab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 441/1
Time: 20:56 CDT to ii:01:56 GMT
8/6/73

mean time. About 20 seconds to nominal acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard. Medical conference scheduled for this pass.
However, the loop might be handed back to CAPCOMM after the
surgeon has completed his conversation with the crew. This
will be final track this evening that goes over the Vanguard
tracking ship. We'll stand by for this particular Vanguard
pass. The wardroom temperature is fluctuating on the telemetry
from 78.5 or 6 up to 79.4, 79.4, 78,9, variations in the
telemetry. It will take several hours for that temperature
to come down. Now that the additional sunshield has been
placed over the workshop. Pressure in the habitatlonal area
of the space station 5.12, ibs. per square inch. Some 8 minutes
and 50 seconds remaining in this Vanguard pass. There will
be a 7 minute gap over to Ascension, Canary and Madrid.
Standing by at Vanguard, Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houstom. I've got you for about
3 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crlp.
CC Say, Jack, can you give us an idea when
you think you're going to get that EVA checklist tonight. We
can shorten it up and leave you some out of it to do tomorrow, if
you guys think you can get all the way through it, fine and dandy.
PLT AI says we're going to get it finished.
CC Okay, when the boss speaks troops obey.
I'd llke to pass on to CDR that the condensate dump on the
holding tank is not required tonight, sure he'll be happy to
hear that.
PLT Uh, the SO55 guys might be interested to
know that, uh, that the ramp that I took off, l'm just looking
at it now, uh, the top part of that ramp didn't show any
marks on it at all, so, uh, after getting it off and inside I
looked at the underside of it. The ramp really works on both sides
and underneath there's a scar about - or a gouge about 3/4
of an inch long by a little over of an eighth of an inch
wide. It runs from the ramp, 3/4 of an inch back and it's
all shiny and silver so apparently it was wearing in there
fairly good and could possibly have caused the problem.
CC Okay, I'm sure they'll be pleased to hear
that. Did you copy my comment about the condensate holding
tank not being required to dump it tonight.
PLT No, I didn't hear that.
CC Okay, if you'd pass that on to AI, I'd
appreciate it.
CC And, uh, is the CDR available.
PLT Uh, A1 is listening, and for tile record
SOY 016 has a pressure of 6000.
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8/6/73
CC Roger, on 60_0. Okay, what I want to

tell A1 was that tonight when he goes up to purge the fuel
cells we've reached - amend the QDM and we want to switch over
our cryo tanks and can you copy down some positions or I can
get you later.
CDR Give me about 10 seconds to get out of
here.
CC We've got about 30 seconds till we're
going LOS and I'm - I'll - we'll get you at the next pass.
It's at Ascension at 02:14. Thatts also when we'll be standing
by for the Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay, I've got that in hand; I'll be ready
to copy the message.
CC Okay, thank you sir. And if you're
copy we need right on the VHF antenna.
PAO This is Skylab _ontrol, loss of signal
at tracking ship Vanguard. Final pass of the evening over
that ship. Next station in 6 minutes, wtll be Ascension
Island, lapplng over into Canary and Madrid. For the Evening
Status Report over the Canaries. Jack Lousma's home phone
call to hls family over Canaries. And then the following
Guam Island pass wtll be a Sclence Pilot Garrtot's call.
Back in 5 minutes, at 02:08, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC442/I
Time: 21:12 CDT, 11/02:12 GMT
8/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 02:12 Greenwich

mean time acquisition in a minute and 50 at Ascension Island
continuous across Canary and Madrid for a total of about
17 minutes. Evening status report deferred from last Guam
pass to this Ascension Island pass. Standing by for acquisition
here at Ascension, Canary and Madrid.
CC Skylab Houston through Ascension for
about a minute and a half.
CC Skylab Houston through Ascension for
about another minute and a half.
CDR Is this where you want that night report.
(Music).
CC Yea, I tell you what A1, we're going to
drop out for about 30 seconds here in about a minute so why
don't we hold up on that and let me go ahead and give you
this switch positions for changing over the cryo tanks.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, on panel 2, 02 heaters i AUTO, 02
heaters 2 OFF, hydrogen heaters i OFF, hydrogen heaters 2
AUTO, hydrogen fans I OFF, hydrogen fans 2 AUTO, and that's
all of it. This switches from - over from OX tank to 2 to
i and hydrogen I to 2.
CDR Okay, I'ii do that immediately after the
fuel cell purge, okay?
CC Okay, we're going to drop out here for
about 30 seconds to a minute and I'!i give you a call and
for Jack we'll be set up for his home call on this pass over
Canary on the HF using right antenna.
CDR He's on the way.
CC In about a minute.
CC Skylab Houston through Canary for
12 minutes and we're standing by for the evening status report.
CC Skylab Houston we're standing by for
the evening status report, when you get it.
CDR Just getting it here, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Okay, here we go. Urine volume 117
140 165. Drinking water gun readings: 4736 7823 5661.
BMMD: 6248 6248 6245. SPT: 5985 5983 5986. 6959 6958
6964. No exercise, no medication. Sleep: 6-1/2 G, 6 F to
G, 7 G. Okay, food log: we don't - aren't able to give
you that at the moment we're - haven't eaten anything yet
and we'll try to give you that the last pass of the night
or if not early tomorrow morning. We'll give it last pass
tonight if you'll stay up that late.
CC We'll stay up a long time for you.
CDR Okay, next comes the photo log: 16
millimeter: MI51, EVA prep post CI18. Just a second
we didn't put that down just get that in a minute. Let's
go to 35 millimeter CX28 frame count 24. EREP same as yesterday.
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8/6/73
(garble) CI18 had 13 percent remaining 13. So now let me give

you Drawer A configuration: A 1 same as yesterday. A 2
03 CI18 13 CI17. A3 and A4 are the same as yesterday.
And the rest of the business is not applicable.
CC Okay, great we copied all of that.
CDR And we'll give you the rest of
the information later tonight.
CC Roger, is Dr. Okay, happen to be available?
CDR He's resting, he's taking a picture of
his spider's web.
CC Great, I've heard we finally got one spun
last night. We had a couple of items here, I was wondering
have you closed down the ATM C&D yet, or is Jack going to
do that later?
SPT Bob, I believe that's on the PLT's
checklist, isn't it, for the post EVA.
CC Roger, it is. I was wondering if maybe 1
could tell you about a couple of items that we'd like to get
because he's up there on a phone we don't have to get them now
but I Just want to make sure that they get done later.
SPT If you could wait until the next pass,
I'd appreciate it.
CC Okay, we'll do that.
SPT AI, said that he'll copy, if you wait
a minute.
CC Okay, tell you what, I've got one I
could give to AI and maybe he could accomplish it for me we
do need a - to get a re_ adjust in and if you're standing by
I'ii go ahead and read it.
SPT That's sounds like the ATM panel.
CC No, No, I'm going to hold up on that ATM
panel.
SPT He - -
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Time: 21:23 CDT; 11/02:23 GMT
8/6/73
PLT - - not like the ATM panel.

CC No, no, l'm going to hold up on that ATM
panel.
PLT He's on his way to the MDA, so he'll talk to
you more up there.
CC Okay, fine.
PLT (Garble) got the spider - - They've got the
spider cage open right now and one eye up in that direction
to make sure we don't have spiders running around in the
(garble) spacecraft here.
CC Better watch out if they get out.
CDR Okay, Crip. I'm up here ready to go what
you had in mind.
CC Okay, well, since I've got you thee, I've
a couple of things we can do. The - we're a littl bit con-
cerned about that - the fact that you didn't get an 82A and
B light out there and we would like you to - on the ATM
panel, to put your alert status to VARIABLE on the lighting.
We're assuming it's within fix.
CDR Actually, unless somebody changed it it's in
OFF right now.
SPT We assumed that was the only problem Bob. We
had all those lighting switches off.
CC Oh, okay, we were trying to figure out what
the problem was. Well, did you cheek it after you turned
them back on?
CDR No, we haven't done it. We've - you know,
you said don't bother the panel unless we did do a procedure.
I'ii turn them on right now if you want me to.
CC Why don't you - if you'd go to VARIABLE and
give us the lamp test we would appreciate it.
CDR Well, I went to VARIABLE and got no lights
at all at any of them for status.
CC Okay. Roger, but did you take the lamp test
select below that and switch it to STATUS?
CDR Yeah, now we've got everything. I hadn't
turned the variable up enough. It was full down. Answer is:
they all work.
CC Okay, we're going to assume I guess that that
was the problem then. Could you confirm for us down on your
console power distribution that you've got both circuit
breakers on status lightlng backup pulled?
CDR That's affirm. Both pulled.
CC Okay, appreciate that. Could we get you to
go to panel 206 and do a REG ADJUST for us?
CDR I'm right there, ready to do it.
CC Okay, if you've got something handy we'd klnd
of like to mark the current position of those REG ADJUST pots.
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CDR Give me just a second.

CDR They are MARKED.
CC Okay. Very good. What we wanted to do is
to turn them both down simultaneously and looking on PCG
total, if you would decrease adjust i - or correction - PCG
total i by 3 amps and PCG total 2 by 9 amps and do that
simultaneously for us please. About 20 degrees counter-
clockwise should do it.
CDR How does that look to you? It's hard to
read 3 and 9 up here but that was kind of a guess at it.
CC Okay that's - we'll take a look at it and
could you give us your readings of - for PCG total now on
amps?
CDR Left 40. Right 37.
CC Roger, copy. 40 and 37. And now on the
- we need to get under ATM the amps reading. Bus amps.
CDR To the transfer bus we're getting about 15
from the ATM on I and i0 on 2.
CC Okay, I understand a minus 15 and a minus i0?
CDR That's right. It's headed towards the trans-
fer bus. In other words coming from the ATM.
CC Roger. Very good. Okay. Appreciate that.
We had some other items on the ATM C&D closeout but I'II
get those to Jack later after the phone call.
CDR Okay, no trouble if you want them done now.
I'm just standing here.
CC Okay, well, one thing we need to do is to
check the mol sieve A heat exchanger in and out readings.
Jack was having a problem with that on his checklist a while
ago.
CDR In and out on A is 65 and 36.
CC Roger, copy. 65 and 36.
CDR 64 and 25 on B.
CC Okay. You can tell Jack when he's ready,
that he can press on in that checklist. That those readings
look good to us. He was hung up there a while ago.
CDR Okay, I guess they're still out of limits as
far as the checklist is concerned, but you're satisfied.
Is that correct?
CDR I'll sure tell him.
CC Okay, we're reading above 48 on that out
temps. And 46 was
46 was- cut off.
CC Okay, we're about 1 minute from LOS currently,
and we'll have you again at Guam at 02:55 and that'll be
set up for Owen's phone conversation.
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of signal through
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Madrid tracking station. As the Skylab space station crosses

over northern Greece and Yugoslavia. On revolution 12:19
next station in 24 minutes. Final call at tracking station
Gram tonight. At 02:31, Skylab Control.
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mean time. One minute and a half away from acquisition at Guam.
Five minute gap across some islands in the sea to Honeysuckle Creek
Station after Guam. Meanwhile, the mission surgeon's report
has come out. Bulletin after having talked to the crew during
the medical conference. Bulletin reads as follows: The
reports from the crew of Skylab III after the 6 hour 31 minute
EVA revolves around moderate fatigue and hunger. We discussed
possible additions to their diets and they were advised to
relax the rest of the evening and enjoy a meal. We have
requested physical training or exercise from the Commander
only. Signed, Dr. Paul Buchanan. Acquisition at Guam coming
up in a few seconds and we're standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Guam for
about 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR We been kind of chatting down here, Crip,
because it seems a lot warmer down here than when we left this
morning and now it's cooling off again, or what?
CC Well, I'ii see if I can get a reading
for you on that now.
CDR What islands are we over, are we over Guam
right at this minute.
CC That's affirmatlve.
CDR I didn't know, it was so big. It's a big
one .
CC Uh, you got - probably looking at the

Philippines out there also.
CDR Could be, yes. there are quite a number
of big islands.
CC AI, we're speculating that you should
start cooling down now that you got the heat exchanger fans
back on. They were off for a good period of time there.
CDR Maybe that's it. We speculating too that
we're going to start being cooler down here now with this
configuration, than we were just previously with just a
parasol.
CC That's what we speculate yes. AI, while
I've got you here on the loop, can you tell us what time you'd
like to wake up tomorrow.
CDR Yeah, I think we're going to get to bed
about - let me - let me go look at the flight plan and l'l|
tell you at the next station, okay?
CC Okay, that'll be fine. Normally this wo. ld
be about your going to bed time. I imagine you're going to
be up a little bit late. Uh, (cough), you can do that, well
uh, we got you over Honeysuckle shortly after this and you can
tell me there, at about 03:07.
CDR Okay, we, uh, we're probably going to be
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up another 2 hours - be my guess.

CC Okay.
CC And do we have Jack up at the ATM panel,
AI?
CDR No, Jack's down here putting up some EVA
equipment, but maybe Owen's up there. Owen's on the phone,
Jack's down here and he's listening.
CC Okay, I wonder if I could have him make
some notes for us. We've noticed that he has been doing some
stuff with the ATM panel. And on closeout tonight we'd like
to get the experiment roll at minus 5400. And we also want
to make sure that MPC is INHIBITED. And we also want to
verify that the EVA outer doors are in storage.
CDR He's got them.
CC Okey doke, _ry good.
CC Skylab, Houston_ We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again at Honeysuckle at 03:08. And
we will be giving you a call at Hone_ysuckle.
CDR You might keep calling us for the next
hour or so, Crip.
CC Okay, I'ii call until we decide not to -
till you dec - till you tell me not to. And Skylab, we're
not really sure where you stand on that ATM C&D panel reconfig.
For your information, on the star t_acker, we do have a - a
computer control inhibited on the star tracker. So it wouldn't
be working properly and we want to leave it secure tonight.
PAO This is Skylab C_ntrol. LOS Guam, 4 minutes
to acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek. Guam station would have
normally been the final conversation of the evening but since
the crew is so far behind in getting their meals and getting
the EVA - the post-EVA checklist items taken care of, they've
asked to remain in contact with the ground for the next hour
or so. Space Station Skylab midway through revolution 1219.
We'll leave the llne up for this 3 minute gap between tracking
station at Guam and at Honeysucle Creek, Australia station.
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CC Skylab Houston we're AOS Honeysuckle

for about 4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Crip, I didn't get the message on the
fine sun sensors.
CC Okay, it was from the star tracker I was
talking about. We've become a little bit concerned about
the thing getting unlocked at night and a couple of times
the shutter has a close force probably so we're going to
set a standard procedure where we have you manually close
the shutter and we want you to do that tonight to take the
star tracker shutter to close and we'll go ahead and re-
enable computer control and this is going to be a nightly
occurrance just to make sure that we maintain a good star
tracker for EREP ops and so forth.
SPT Okay, star tracker shutter to close.
CC Roger, we'll be sen - sending you a check-
list change to make _ure this is gets done in the future. And
you got the other changes on the ATM C&D for the closeout
didn't you?
SPT Yea, we got that and I guess I
was experimenting rolling when mine 54 (garble) it that right?
PLT Okay, that's all done.
CDR Okay, it looks to me like the best
vantage is to get up an hour later, Crlp.
CC Copied one hour later.
CDR Roger, That'11 just flip everything that
can - we can take that out and still not - we don't want to
miss the ATM and we don't want to miss the MO92 and but
maybe we could pull it out of there somewhere else and we'll
work on that other stuff and if we don't make it you can
do (garble) two days from now. We'll try to get that tape
recorder change but we don't know if we can or not.
CC Okay, we concur with that. If you like
we can make a recommendation on hcw you rates around or we
could leave it to you.
CDR Make a recommendation on what? How to
move it around?
CC Roger, we've klnda of talked about it
(garble) logging some stuff off the front there.
CDR Okay, y'all make your recommendations
and we'll sure follow them.
CC Roger.
CDR Well, we just whistled by the continent
of Australia pretty doggone fast. You can see it in one
fell swoop here.
CC Roger, you're getting ready to come up
over New Zealand.
CDR Yea, kind of looking out for it, didn't
see it.
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CDR A great barrier reef or something is

usually visible from up here multi - multi shallow water
reef that you can see from up here.
CC Roger, that's great diving country out
there over the Great Barrier Reef like to try it sometimes.
The - we're are getting ready to go to start unattended ops
and you guys stay off the DAS for us, we'd appreciate it.
We got about I minute left until LOS our next pass is going
to be at Canary at 03:55 and would you llke a call from there?
CDR Right. We probably just getting finished
and getting ready to hit the pad.
CC Okay, I will give you a call at Canary
at 03:55.
CDR Thanks, Crip.
at Honeycre - Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Next station
Canary Islands in 42 minutes lapping over to Madrid.
The crew commented on being able to see the entire sub-
continent of Australia nd the great barrier reef, shallow
water between the Mainland and the barrier reef. AI Bean
said he was keeping an eye open to watch the Island of New
Zealand sail beneath they're staying up somewhat passed their
bedtime and mine. They'll be talkin B again over Canary and
Hadrid in 41 minutes at 03:13 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
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mean time. Space station Skylab coming up in a minute and
40 seconds on Canary Island tracking station and Madrid,
Spain. On revolution 1220, running somewhat behind in their
post-EVA checklist and pre-sleep activities. And about a
revolution and a half past bedtime for them, which would have
been at i0 o'clock. Standing by for acquisition here on the
dual stations at the Canary Islands and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Canary
for 13 minutes. We'll be doing a data voice recorder dump,
and we've also using a DAS to enable computer control in the
star tracker.
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC And is CDR available for an update on
that discussion regarding the AM coolant loop for us now?
PLT Yeah, he's listening. Go ahead.
CC Okay, as I indicated to you at that time,
what we were giving you was our earliest analysis of the
problem that we were going to refine it further. Currently
we still feel that you have a leak in the primary loop. How-
ever, on the secondary loop if we dc have a leak it is much
less than the amount that we originally thought. And there-
fore it should not affect either your flight, SL-III, or
SL-IV.
CDR Good news.
CC Roger, I concur.
CDR Crip, one thing we've wondered about is
we're drying out these LCGs. What do we do with them when
we finish drying them? Are we going to ever wear them again
or just stow them for emergencies - need them sometime in
case one of our others doesn't work?
CC Stand by i.
CC While we're trying to find an answer to
your LCG question, if Owen's around I could - listening, I
could give him an answer regar - that he had on the ETC frame
count yesterday.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. All we require from you is down-
linking the ETC frame count. If you do dual passes we need
the ETC frame count from each pass and - which is what you
did, and what we'd like is that information should be downlinked
in the evening report.
SPT Okay. Just on the evening report. You
don't need it on channel B or real time?
SPT Very good. Thank you for clearing that
up.
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And l'm wondering if you're planning at any time to send us

up, like fairly soon, the report on the new ATM anomalies?
Such things as loss of ATM Bus l, the (garble) mess configura-
tion for our lighting and display switches and any particular
commands like the one B buses that we should avoid so we can
get into command list and mark those do not use?
CC Stand by i.
SPT For example, Bob, I've still got a piece
of tape across that CBRM ra - or SELECT - SLIT rotary and
we'd like to know what you're thinking - if I still need to
keep that there and whether or not we will be able to use
the power system for monitoring purposes.
CC Roger, Owen. I appreciate what you're
what you're saying. Their probably the two biggest dealies
you got on your panel there. That CBRM SELECT and the sync
generator switch and currently we do not want you to use either
of those, primarily on that power thing. The fact that it
- it did kick off the regs that time. So, currently you
are unable to use that panel for your normal power monitoring.
Our normal procedure for updating you on anomalies and the
criteria for handling them is - on the night before your day
off is when we usually zap them up and that's currently our
plan. If that's not going to be satisfactory for ATM or any-
thing else, we can try to give you an update on that earlier.
SPT I think we ought to have one for the ATM
because I didn't know when our day oEf is coming and since
we're starting sort on the FULL/SCALE ops tomorrow, I'd to
at least know shortly thereafter is it possible what things
we could use and what we cannot. No_, I do have tape over
those two items you just mentioned and I do understand that
the - you select the appropriate syn¢ generator from the
ground and perhaps just leave it on. Is that correct? And
then we won't have any use for the switch. But I think we
had ought to have that list there so it doesn't rely on Just
one man's memory and all three of us will know about it.
CC Rog.
CC Owen, we understand your request and we'll
try to put something together to satisfies your request.
SPT Okay, thank you a lot, Bob.
CC Rog. And in answer to Al's earlier ques-
tion on the LCGs. We would like them stowed in Dog 424, up
in the dome 424 and they are planned to be reused.
CDR Didn't know that. Now let me get something
straight about this if I can, the command module configuration.
The only two switches I've really changed were the 02 heaters
and I reversed them. That is, I put heater i to _TO and heater 2
OFF. The other four were already in that position. By that
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position, I mean the position you gave me.

CC Okay, I guess - we're a little bit con-
fused here right now on that we dld not expect them to be
in that position.
CDR Let me tell you the position they're in
at the moment. 02 heater i AUTO, 02 heater 2 OFF. Now I
changed those so that that's how they are at the moment.
Right Just like it says. Now the ones that were always llke
this and still are llke this are: H2 heater i OFF, H2 heater
2 AUTO, H-I fan OFF, H-2 fan AUTO.
CC Okay, that's what we read up to you and
that's what we wanted. We'll try to look into the problem
of why they were different then we thought they were.
CDR I think you should look into it because
we certainly don't go around changing those heaters and fans
because - you know, you're controlling the whole thing. All
I can imagine is they've been that way since day i. We just
never changed them and perhaps somebody sent a message or
thought they did to tell us to chan_e them and it never occured.
CC Okay, we'll look into that AI.
CDR Okay, I don't have my systems book out
- it would be interesting to know what the quiescence con-
figuration the systems checklist calls for. I bet it calls
for just those four that - as they are now, so they did them
thls way.
CC Roger, AI. Why don't you just don't
sweat that and we'll look into it and see if we got any pla-
- we don't see any big problem wlth _t. And I could talk
a little blt about the flight plans for tomorrow _d our
recommendations for modifications.
CDR Let me get It in my hand.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. On what w m're recommending is
to leave the overage food transfers that we have scheduled
for you and Jack at 14:00.
CDR Good suggestion.
CC Okay, and we know that Owen really wants
to get into that ATM so, what weVre recommending there is to
leaving out that housekeeping period he's got scheduled it -
oh, I guess it's about 14:15 and that won't give him the
full hour to catch up but it doesn't look llke hls post-sleep
activities are going to be too crowded and he can Just go
ahead and get on that ATM activation at the time we got
scheduled. And then if he's got any catching up on his post-
sleep he can take it out of that housekeeping tlme at [4:15.
CDR That didn't make sense. He cuts the
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housekeeping time and then said if he has any making up to do

he can do it in the housekeeping time. But it doesn't make
any difference, you're right. We'll get up - wake us up like
we said and we'll get up and do these - er - what you just
said.
CC Rog, AI. What I was just saying was that
we have no housekeeping scheduled in that period and since
the ATM activation and checkout is going to be timed to sunrise,
it's required to be done at that time or - it's either that
or losing an ATM pass and it - that's really your choice.
CDR Well that means he has to make the pass
at 13;15 or whatever it says on this pad.
CC Yes, sir. That's correct.
CDR We'll be there.
CC Okeydoke and we're about going LOS here.
Crow is going to be 04:35 and do you want a call.
CDR Yeah, that'll be the last one and we'll
tell you about our food there, too. And then we'll hit the
pads.
CC Okeydoke, that'll he fine.
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS Madrid, and
they'll be still up and talking about their food cons tmption
at Carnarvon in 25 minutes. And we'll be here to listen to
them. At 04:09 Greenwich mean time, back in 25 minutes, Skylab
Control.
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mean time minute - a minute and 40 seconds away from Carnarvon
tracking station. Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek midway through
revolution 1220 the crew still awake at almost 2 hours
beyond the schedule sleep period start standing by for
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through
Carnarvon for 14 minutes.
SPT And it ain't going to be long and I'm
going to be A - LOS for about 6 hours, my friend.
CC Getting a little tuckered, huh.
SPT Got to get ready for tomorrow.
CC Right, that's a good idea, I know you
guys have been going at it long and hard and wouldn't be
surprised if you're already in the rack. We did have one
question if somebody's available we were - are intested in
determining what the mol sieve A heat exchanger out temperature
is because there was quite a disparity between your reading
and the ground is anybody can give us just one more reading
on that are you all tucked in?
SPT No, I'm on my way up there now.
CC Thank you very much.
CDR Okay, here's the evening food report.
CC Go ahead.
CDR CDR; i salt pack, deviations add cherry
drink add peaches subtract strawberries chicken and rice
and a biscuit. Okay, SPT; 9 salt add an apple drink
subtract a pork and potato a biscuit a strawberries and a
lemon pudding. (Music). PLT; 4 salt packs omit all noon
meals plus mashed potatoes add 3 apple juice.
CC Roger, when you said plus mashed potatoes
means that he did not get it, right.
CDR That's right.
CC Okay; copy that. And did you gentlemen
have a chance to get any exercise other than your EVA?
CDR Not a single bit.
CDR We just got finished putting _i the
gear away.
CC Sorry about that.
PLT Hey, Crip that's reading 25 degrees.
CC Understand; 25 degrees.
PLT Yep. What are you reading?
CC Jack, you're cutting out there I
understand 25 is that correct?
PLT That's affirmative, Crip.
CC Okay, that's about half of what we're
getting. We don't understand that at all.
CC CDR, Houston, last night I think maybe
couple times previously you've expressed some concern
over the - your mid-course 2 being 8-1/2 feet per second
and Willy got some (garble) for you on that is we're
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still looking into it we're not sure the complete story

ourselves we would like to know if you - what your chart
solution was?
CDR I don't have it here I can look it up
tomorrow but it was something like 3 feet per second forward
compared to A I don't remember the up and downs.
CC Okay, but there was a considerable
disparity between the two is what you're telling me.
CC Okay.
CDR Well, not only that but the fact that all
of a sudden after a good PTI and a good bit course i it pops up
with 8 when I really expects something like eight tenths or
something.
CC Roger.
CDR l'm not sure that I didn't put in 8
forward and immediately turn around and have to break it out
that's something funny there, but I don't know what it is.
CC Okay; copy that and if Jack hasn't departed
the STS area could he give us mol seive B?
CC If he's -
PLT Now what do you want me to do, Crip?
CC Jack, if you're still in the STS area
we would like to get mol sieve B heat exchanger out and
if you have already departed the area forget it.
PLT I'ii get it.
PLT Read 25 degrees also.
CC Roger; understand 25 also.
CC Try tapping on your meter or anything?
CDR We hit the meter but it's still 35A,
25B.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC You are reading 50, 50 on both of them?
PLT Well, there's something strange.
CC Skylab, Houston we're _out 30 seconds
from LOS our last call for tonight w_sh you good night if
you need to talk to us we'll be over Bermuda at about 05:24
the crimson team won't be around tomorrow but we'll see you
on execute day after tomorrow.
SPT Okay, Crip thank you for all of your
good work, have a good day off.
CC Hope you guys get a good nightIs sleep
after all that hard work.
PLT Ah, we enjoyed it Just llke telling the
guys riding a white horse at the top of the world.
SPT Kind of Peter Pan reminds me of.
CC Sounded llke a tour guide there going
over the Indies.
SPT Yea, we really _me up on something
spectacular now too look at my map and see if I can figure it
out.
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PLT That's New Zealand.

SPT (Garble).
CC Roger, you're over New Zealand.
PAO This is Skylab Control; space station
Skylab immediately over the island of New Zealand and
the crew preparing to get a probably a 7-hour sleep period
they sleep in an hour later tomorrow. Next station
Mila in 33 minutes however, there's no plans for any
further communications with the crew therefore at 04:51
Greenwich mean time signing off until 6 a.m. central time
tomorrow, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-448/I
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8/7/73

utes Greenwich mean time on mission day number iI. Skylab
is within a minute of acquisition at the Canary Island station.
Capcomm Bill Thornton will put in the first call to the crew
for today at that station. The crew was allowed an extra
hour this morning of rest following a late bedtime as a result
of the EVA yesterday. The first extensive manned operation
of the Apollo telescope mount is planned today. About 3 hours
and 45 minutes of operation on that experiment which studies
the Sun. The cameras are all replenished with film following
yesterday's activity. We'll stand by for the first call.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 14 minutes at
Canary.
SPT Good morning, Bill.
CC Good morning.
CDR Say Bill, the teleprinter didn't work
today. And we went up there and looked at it and it looks
like the friction drive, the rubber - looks almost like about
a 5 inch - no, no - i inch washer slipped off its little drive
shaft. And we're up there fixing it now, and so just as soon as we
get it fixed, you're going to have to send up most of the
teleprinter messages that you sent up this morning because
they kind of overlapped one another as they printed - -
CC We copy that AI.
CDR - - tell you in a minute which was the last
good one.
CC Copy. And when you have a moment, we have
a couple of messages here for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead, then we'll work on the
printer.
CC Okay. We understand that the cryo tank
configuration is as follows: the H2 number i heaters off,
H2 number i fans off, H2 2 heaters auto, H2 2 fans auto. And
if this is the case, we want you to configure it as follows:
H2 i heaters auto, H2 i fans auto, and H2 2 heaters and fans
off.
CDR Okay. I'ii sure do that. In other words
you want the H2 i heaters and fans auto, H2 2 heaters and fan_;
off. Now that was real funny last night because when ya'll
called up and asked me to configure them the way you sald
we were - should that you just read first. That's the way they
already were. And we didn't for sure go up there and change
them around without EGIL telling us to no, no EECOM
saying so. So somebody must have told us to do it and whoever
did it didn't log it or something is all I can guess.
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CC AZ, the indications that we have is there

may be a wiring reversal and we're in the process of checking
it out.
CDR That would be something wouldn't it. Okay,
now I'm going to go up there and configure them right now and
then get back to work on the teleprinter unless you have something
elso.
CC We need the DAS for a Y-2 gyro compensation.
CDR You've got the DAS, we haven't bothered
it.
CC And A1 if you got any good teleprinter
messages, we need to know the number of the last good one.
CDR Okay. Jack has got them and he'll probably
say in just a second. He's gone to the command module for
a minute.
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CDR Okay, Jacks got them and he'll probably

say just a second. He's gone to the command module a
minute.
CC Copy.
CDR As a result of this teleprinter problem
you're either I suspicion you'll want tothlnk about sending up
another spare with (garble). Even though we're not using their
spare, I don't know how long this one will last. Now one
thing we need to know. The little rubber grommet, I'm going
to revise the distance of it. It's about three quarters of
an inch long and about three eights of an inch in diameter.
The drive - the paper roller, slipped to the left as you
view the paper roller. Now what we plan to do is look at it
and move it back into position, but it may be that you'll
want us to take it off again and reverse it and then put it
back on so that it'll hold tighter. I don't know. We'll
just put it in a temporary position here so it will work and
you can think it over and we'll do what you want.
CC We copy that and we'll get you an answer
on it.
CDR Okay, the last good pad that came up was
sheet i, I guess you'd call it, or sheet 2 - no sheet 1 of the
ATM schedule, in other words it's - hereIs the code 11271 i15 ATM
schedule 11/219. Now when it got down to the next plate, where
it said 11272 ATM 11/219, that's where it quit working. They sort
of overlap. Anything after that.
CC We copy that, Al.
CDR The SW$ cue cards, for example, overlapped,
didn't work and then there's probably some other things that
just didn't even print. We're going to go back up there and work
on it.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT SPT. Go ahead.
CC What time do you plan to make your first
ATM pass, Owen.
SPT Whatever time the schedule says. I thought
it was 13:15 or something like that. I haven't looked at it
yet.
CC Okay. And are you free to copy solar
activity update at this time?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Active region 85 at 9/.4 has produced a
subfaint flare at 02:58 Zulu and a subnormal with CI X-rays
at 07:30 Zulu. There's a slight decay in the leader plage active
region 86 at 25/.8 have an arch filament system present (garble) with
occasional point (garble). That's all.
SPT Okay, I've got it Bill, thank you.
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Time: 07:16 CDT, 11/12:16 GMT
8/7/73
CDR You still there, Houston?

CC Go ahead, Skylab.
PLT Okay. We've got the teleprinter fixed
Bill. And you can send the message. The rubber roller
at the top of it had slipped off and was binding against
the case and tearing up the rubber - two rubber chips laying
around. But we squared it back in again, and it looks like it's
going to work all right.
CC Very good. We'll be sending a test
message up.
CC And this test message is going to be an
ATM schedule. However, discard this message. Do not use
this ATM schedule that's coming up. It's simply for test
purposes.
PLT Okay.
CDR You still there, Bill?
CC That's affirmative. Go ahead, Skylab.
CDR I thought there was nothing new in
the world, until I floated by the head a little while ago,
and I looked in there and Jack was using the urinal upside
down. Seemed to work pretty good.
CC (Laughter) We copy.
CDR (Laughter). That's a marine. It takes
a lot of guts to do it that way, but it seems to work.
CC (Laughter). Copy.
CDR He claims it's the most natural attitude
now that he's looked at it. Anatomically speaking, it
seems to work a little better.
CC We'll run an anthropometric study
on that one.
CDR Ask your backup pilot to check it out
on the ground. We don't want to keep doing it space unless
they can do it down there.
CC (Laughter) Okay. We'll have to find
another Marine, I guess.
CC Skylab. Could you check the teleprinter
uplinks, and see that they're coming through all right at
this time?
CC And we're going to be LOS in approximately
I minute. We'll have you again at Carnarvon at 12:48.
CDR Coming through real fine, Bill.
CC We copy. Thank you.
CDR Now this is the one, though, that when when
we get it finished, which it looks like it's almost finished,
you want us to just throw it away. Is that correct?
CC That is affirmative. That ATM schedule
we want discarded. And we'll get the rest of them up as
fas as we can.
CDR Okeydoke.
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CDR Bad news. It jammed again. We'll

take this head out and replace it wlth the other head. Because
it's the head drive, then we'll take a look at the little
rubber grommet and see what we can do about it.
CC Copy that, AI.
CC That spare, AI, is located in M202, in
case you don't have it.
CDR (Garble) We'll find it. Yeah. The
little rubber is coming off again. What we're going to have
I:o do, I suspect, is take it down in the workshop and take
that rubber off and try to find some sort of adhesive material
and (garble) the little rubber grommet back on again. Otherwise
it just isn't going to work (Static, garble).
CC Copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Carnarvon is the next station to acquire in
25 minutes. Crew reported a problem with the teleprinter.
The drive mechanism not operating properly, causing strike-
overs on the teleprinter messages going up to the crew from
Mission Control. First attempt to fix the mechanism has not
been successful. There is a spare teleprinter head on board
the Skylab, and if repair attempts fail, that spare will be
installed. We'll come back up just prior to Carnarvon. At
Control.
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Time: 07:49 CDT 11/12:49 GMT
8/7/73

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has acquired
Skylab. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Morning.
CC Morning to you sir.
CDR The teleprinter is ready to go on your
command. And then we'll go up there and check the first message
and see how it came out. The little rubber grommet slipped
down again. And if you could give that a high priority, we'd
like to get some sort of repair on it, because that was our
only spare that is in there now.
CC Okay. Thanks for getting that teleprinter
right up. We'll be sending stuff to you right now.
CDR Okay. And it seems to me that the funda-
mental problem is going to be keeping this little rubber
grommet on the metal shaft that it's on. It moves to the left, to
the viewer's left as it prints out. I mean, it spins around as it
prints out normally, but in this case it moves to the left
and engages the frame of the case. And it sort of distended
the left end of the grommet, so that the grommet no longer is
a perfect cylinder but rather a sort of cylinder with a flare
on the left end as you view it. Now it seems to me we've got
some sort of glue or something we might be able to put up
here on it and then slide it back on, but we won't do it. We'll
wait til we hear from you.
CC Okay. That's a good description, Al, I've
got it.
CDR It looks like it's printing okay, so far,
Story.
CC Thanks AI.
CDR The print on the left hand side of the
page is much lighter than normal, but the right hand side is
okay. We can still read both halves, and maybe the left will
improve, but essentially the left is printing a little bit
lighter than the right.
CC Copy.
see you over Hawaii in 14 minutes. And Owen, during the night
we selected primary motor only on the S055 door, and we're
seeing normal operations on one motor.
CC And as we go over the hill here, Skylab
Y-2 may fail the integral test, and no action required.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of the Honeysuckle station. Hawaii will acquire
the space station in 12-1/2 minutes. In addition to the
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8/7/73
manned operation of the Apollo telescope mount today, several

runs of medical experiments are scheduled. The M092 lower
body negative pressure and M171 metabolic activity, two runs
scheduled on each of those experiments today. Jack Lousma
is the subject, and A1 Bean is the observer on one and on the
later one today Bean will be the subject and Lousma the observer.
One run of the M131 on the human vestibular function experiment
is scheduled - -
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SL III MC-452/I
TIME: 08:02 CDT 11/13:02 GMT
8_7_73
PAO One run of the MI31, the human vestibular

function experiment is scheduled today with Lousma the
subject and Bean the observer. Garriott will also prepare
the SO63 experiment today, the ultraviolet airglow horizon
photography. He will set this experiment up, but it will
not be placed in the scientific airlock until later. Dr.
Donald Packer of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
D.C. is the principal investigator of that experiment. The
crew has changed out the teleprlnter head, has put the
spare in and they have asked the ground to give them some
advice on what they might be able to do to fix the head that's
inoperative. As it is now, they're without a spare
teleprinter head. At 13 hours 3 minutes, Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-453/I
Time: 08:11 CDT, 11/13:11 GMT
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ii minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by through
Hawaii.
CC Skylah, we've got you through Hawaii
for 8 minutes. We're coming up on a i minute key hole here in
about 20 seconds. And we see you did get a caution warning
in the Hawaii Y-2 failed interval, and we hope you got our
call on that prior to leaving Honeysuckle.
PLT Yes, sir. _We did, Story, thank you.
CC Okay.
SPT The (garble) is running on signal
right now. And (garble) caution and warning, of course,
is an ATM alert. And, also, I'd like to know where the ATM
fellows would like for me to pick up on the ATM checkout.
What page on the ATM checklist in their data book would they
like us to begin at? Over.
CC Be right with you.
PLT I've got a couple of words for my friends
and colleague, Don Lind, on his experiment, if he's around,
or if you want to relay it to him.
CC He's in an altitude test at the Cape,
I'ii give it to him.
PLT Okay. Placing his clip on his experi-
ment, it all came off all right, but I thought he might
want to know that the placement is as follows: When you're
laying along the truss, with your head toward the command
module, the i cllp is about 3/8 of an inch to the right
of the test pattern. And the other cllp is about 3/4 to
i inch to the left of the test pattern. I wasn't able to
get that one right on the edge of it, because of the little
(garble) in the bracket that holds the barrel of the thing
together, it wouldn't clip over that. So, I had to move it
right adjacent to it. And that put Jt 3/8 of an inch to the
right.
CC Okay.
CC And, Owen, you should have an ATM
schedule pad there that'll tell you where to pick up.
SPT Well, the latest ATM schedule pad that came
up. I'm Just looking at it right now is a 14:58, which
starts the nominal experiment work. And I was wondering
about this first rev coming up next, for checkout, C&D, I
think, called on my Flight Plan. And that one, I do
not have an ATM schedule on, I don't believe. I show an
activation and checkout on my Flight Plan, and that's not on
the ATM schedule.
CC We thought we sent you up a checkout
pad prior to the teleprinter fail, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'Ii see if l've got one. IOm
not sure whether ah - it's in my ledger, or not.
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CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC I've got that ATM pad here in front of
me, Owen, if you'd like for me to read parts of it to you,
to get you started.
SPT Ah, no, I think you're talking about
11:27, and I do have the first half of that that looks okay,
starting at 13:26, the TV downlink.
CC Okay. That's what we need.
SPT Okay. About the first 8 or i0 inches
of that looks okay. Maybe I can even read a little further than
that.
CC Okay. Have you got down through that
9 minutes of day remaining, observation observing time,
down on through earth horizon light and fine Sun sensor.
SPT Yeah. I've got that.
CC Okay. That's all there is, we sent the
rest to you.
SPT Okay. Fine. I see the others a
repeat. That's fine. Thank you.
see you over stateside in 4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Are you ready for the
EVA auto door to come to enable, and for me to go ahead and
open up all the doors. That sort of stuff's not on this
pad. But, I assume you're ready for me to go ahead with
all of the normal power operations.
CC That's affirmative, Owen. You can press
on as normal.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has
loss of signal. Goldstone will acquire Skylab in about
3 minutes. We're scheduled to receive llve Apollo telescope
mount, television during this Goldstone pass, The message
that Jack Lousma passed down for Astronaut, Don Lind con-
cerned the S230 experiment. Dr. Lind is colnvestlgator on
that experiment, the magnetospherlc particle composition
experiment. Lousma retrieved some loll from that experiment,
yesterday, to bring back to Earth. Don Lind is a member
of the backup crew for this mission. The purpose of his
experiment, is to measure the flow and composition of pre-
cipitating magnetospherlc ions and trapped particles. We
should be acquiring at Goldstone very shortly. We'll
continue to stand by for acquisition there.
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SL-III MC-454/I
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PAO Skylab's current orbit is 23B by 235 nauti-

cal miles, and the orbital period is i hour 33 minutes 12 sec-
onds.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger Story. And active region 85 really
looks like itts ready to produce a little activity.
CC Okay. And we'll be looking for some TV
over Goldstone. And on your CBRM select switches we need tape
on both the rotary and toggle switch.
SPT Okay, I'ii put it on the toggles as well.
CC Thanks.
SPT How many of the toggles?
CC Just the CBRM select toggle.
PAO TV coming in now.
SPT Story, I'm giving you _wnllnk television
of the ATM display. Would you tell us when you can see it
from down there.
CC We're getting it now_ Owen.
SPT Okay. That's H Alfa 2 you're looking at
right now. I want to give you a white light coronagraph.
Let me adjust it for a minute.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, you can see the corona_w, I assume.
CC Yes sir.
SPT Okay. Now when I powered it up maybe
30 seconds ago Just as I was giving you that first call, there
was a very bright blob up at abo_t 130. And I saw it and it
was very likely contamination that had come out and drifted
into the pressed portion of the telescope there. But just
as I started to give you a call it's now slowly drifted off
the screen. So it could be that it was something out there
in front of the telescope. It looked like it was going to be
a permanent fixture for a while. But at any rate it drifted
on out of the field of view now.
CC Okay.
CDR Was it in -
SPT And now Story can you see the little jitter
on H Alfa i at this point?
CC Yeah, we've got it Owen. And just as you're
doing we'd like you to cycle through all the things you can
send us on TV.
SPT Okay. I can probably give you a bit
of XUV mon also although l've not powered it up yet. 1'11
do it right now.
SPT Active region 85, which is down there
about 6:00 on your display right now, when you turn the
brightness way down shows a series of very bright points.
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817173
Four to 5 more or less arranged vertically in the present view.

And they are very small points right along the neutral line, or
even perhaps on either side of the neutral line. And they
really look much brighter than the surrounding plage.
CC Roger.
CC And we're going LOS here, Owen. WeIll
see you over Mila in 1 minute. And wetll be dumping the tape
recorders over Mila.
SPT Okay, I'm going to give you a little
XUV mon in the last few seconds here.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-455/I
TIME: 08:32 CDT 11/13:32 GMT
8/7/73

loss of signal. The Merritt Island station will pick up
Skylab in about a minute. We'll continue to keep the line
up and stand by for acquisition through Merritt Island.
CC Skylab, we're back with you over Mila and
Bermuda for 12 minutes.
SPT Okay, how do you read _, Story?
CC It's about 4 by 5.
SPT Okay, fine. I got a head set rigged up
here with the transmit button taped down. Just wanted to make
sure I was coming through all right.
CC And we got about three integrations on
the XUV monitor and that's where we went LOS, Owen.
SPT Okay, now are you getting downlink at this point,
TV?
CC Not yet.
SPT Okay. Let me know and I'ii give you some
more interesting mon.
SPT Okay, while we're waiting on that, I want
to give you some panel configurations _ you'll know exactly
where I'm at. I got on my display panels, all four switches
to BUS 2. On my lighting panel, I'm running integral fixed,
numeric fixed, and alert status, l'm also going to put down
in fix.
CC Copy.
SPT And I've put the EVA AUTO door to ENABLE.
And, of course, (garble) switch, the power system _RM select
rotary and the toggle switch, and everything else. Okay, on
my console power distribution, _i of my experiments are
selected up to the experiment BUS I numeric lighting BUS position.
All the circuit breakers are closed except status lighting
back up. That circuit breaker is open.
CC We copy that, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'm standing by for more integration
here, when you got the TV.
CC And Owen, we're GO for the TV now.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, that ought to be enough.
SPT I have (garble) Is there anyth_rg else that
you want in particular at this point? More important than the
other.
CC We're working that, Owen.
SPT Okay. l'm starting on the S056 power up check-
out on page 1-7 at this time. If Milligan and crew would like to
watch it from down there.
CC Owen, if possible we'd like some more TV
on the XUV monitor. We only got three blips.
SPT Oh, I gave you a lot of them.
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TIME: 08:32 CDT 11/13:32 GMT
8/7/73
CC I know, we're just not getting them.

SPT Blip, Blip, Blip, There's a long one.
We'll get the corona out there.
SPT Bllp. That's ready to go. I see the
corona. Blip. Blip. Blip. How about those?
CC I can't see it on the screen, Owen.
We're picking that up in Mila, but we're not real time here
in ffouston.
SPT Okay, How about that H Alfa? That's a
nice steady picture. You see that one in Houston?
CC The TV's Just going to_la, Owen. We'll
get the playback later.
SPT Okay. Understand. I Just didntt quite
understand what you were telling me before.
SPT Okay. They ought to plenty of XUV mon
now on the tape down there then.
SPT Okay. Want to press on with the rest of
your stuff.
SPT Incidently, let us know when they have
already passed in the other procedures, wouldn't you llke to have
the H Alfa camera power on now so we can start taking H Alfa 1
pictures? I'll need to go H Alfa 1 camera ON and H Alfa 1 to AUTO.
CC Okay, Owen. I guess we'd Just like you
to keep going on the checklist.
SPT Okay.
CC And if you've got a pencil and paper,
I've got an update to your mineral supplements today.
SPT Go ahead.
CC CDR 2 phosphorus, one magnesium, two
potasium. SPT, 3 calcium, one magnesium, 2 potasium. PLT
four calcium, two phosphorus. Disregard the other items
on the current med status pad.
SPT Okay, we'll go Just by the one you sent
up now.
CC Thanks.
SPT Incidently, when you call them up, if you
could give a five digit code. That: way we wouldn't have to
worry about keeping track of which element and stuff.
CC I should have done that. Thanks.
CC Disregard all the other items. Not just
the supplement items on that med status pad.
SPT Disregard the whole pad?
CC Yeah.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay Story. I've got SO56 down through
that first set of procedures. I don't get my ready llght.
CC Copy.
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TIME: 08:32 CDT Ii/13:32 GMT
8/7/73
CC Did you get the lights on H Alfa, Owen?

SPT No, because - no I did not.
CC You got any ready operate lights on any
of the panels?
SPT Negative to that. Okay, now I've got it.
I've got to go to alert status variable out of fix.
CC Roger.
SPT And I have my SO56 ready light, but not
my H Alfa ready light. I don't have my H Alfa i camera
power on.
CC Roger.
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Time: 08:43 CDT 11/13:43 GMT
8_7_73
SPT Frames remaining 5998 on S056.

CC Got it.
SPT And the Milllgan machine is running.
SPT The next one is one we had some discussion
about whether or not it was supposed to have been deleted or not.
And that is the do not power up beryllium or aluminum high
voltage until 24 hours after EVA. We have completed at least
approximately that now_ and I'm wondering if they are ready
to have the beryllium aluminum high voltage power turned on?
CC We're ready, Owen. Youlve got a go.
SPT Thank you.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here_ Skylab.
See you over Ascension in 7 minutes.
SPT Okay. Do you want me to wait for Ascension
before turning the high voltage on?
CC We prefer you wait until Ascenslon_ Owen.
SPT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Ascension will pick up Skylab in 6 minutes. At
13 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time_ _is is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-457/I
Time: 08:51 CDT, 11/13:51 GMT
8/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control _ 13 hours

acquisition through the Ascension Island station.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension
for i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And, Owen. We'd like a dariflcation
on your light status there. On your alert status light,
was it going from variable to 6 that got you the light?
SPT The ready lights came on when I went
from 6 to variable.
CC Copy.
SPT My SO56 door is closed at this time.
And, l'm going to put high voltage aluminum switch on, now.
SPT Okay. That count's remaining appropriately
low. I'm going to go ahead to the beryllium switch, now.
CC Owen, you going to need the DAS, now?
SPT No. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We'd like to reconfigure the
Y gyros.
SPT Good idea. We'd appreciate that.
SPT Okay. Here comes the door.
SPT Okay. Those counts look reasonable,
and we did step automatically to position 2 on both the
beryllium and the aluminum. And there are all sorts of
transients going across the white light coronagraph now.
Be nice for you to see those. They're mostly just ah -
They look like little out of focus balloons drifting across
the field of view of the coronagraph. There are not too
many of them, but I've seen a half a dozen since I've been
talking about them, here.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Story, as I was rolling the canister
to minus i0 800, the white-llght coronagraph picture, which
I was looking at at the time, moved off the display to the
Ii o'clock position, and Just disappeared. I'm also looking
at H-Alfa 2, and as well as the cross pointer needles
on S052. And, the canister was staying very close
to Sun center. And at this point, I do not have a white-
light coronograph display. Little considerably (garble)
about this time. Okay. Now it's back.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Now I've got it.
CC CDR, or PLT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, A1. On your VTR electronics
changout on page 4-10, disregard that note on real time TV.
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8/7/73
CDR Okay. Understand. Got it in sight. I

was just reading the book.
CC And when you're done with your change
out there, from the ground we'd like to do a fast forward
and rewind. And then we'll be looking for some TV over
Goldstone at about 15:04. And as a reminder in your check-
list there, channel B has been fllp flopped _r channel A,
of course.
CDR Good point. And, another thing, I'm
not sure we're going to get on it right now, but this
procedure looks a little bit longer than 1 hour, so we'll
get after it and see what happens.
CC Okay.
CC We're going LOS here in 15 seconds,
Skylab. We'll see you over Carnarvon in _ minutes, at 14:24.
And we're running on rate-gyro Y-l, with redundancy manage-
ment enabled.
SC Roger.
range now, of the Ascension Island station. Carnarvon,
Australia will be the next station to acquire Skylab in
22 minutes. A1 Bean and Jack Lousma have started the change
out of the video tape recorder. That tape recorder failed
several days ago. There is a spare aboard, and they are
now in the process of replacing the faulty tape recorder.
If that procedure is accomplished, soon enough, we hope to
check out the new video tape recorder over Goldstone on
this revolution, hopefully with television of Arabella, the
lady spider. That is dependant upon the changeout of the
tape recorder being accomplished in time. Science Pilot Owen
Garriott is working with the Apollo telescope mount. Active
region 85, referred to by Garriott, has been described by
scientists on the ground as an exclting region. It's located
slightly below the center of the Sun. This area has under
gone rapid development in all parameters, and has produced
a series of moderately interjetic Sun subflares. More activity
is expected in this area. Today's Apollo telescope mount
operation is the first manned observation of the Sun during
this mission. Two hundred and five hours of manned opera-
tion is scheduled during the next 48 days. One hundred hours
of manned operation of the Apollo telescope mount was
accomplished during the first manned mission. Today's
initial activity being performed by Science Pilot Garriott,
is primarily a checkout of the Apollo telescope mount experi-
ment and control and display panel. Another hour of this
activity is expected and the operation of the experiment
will continue at times throughout the day. During yesterday's
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extra vehicular activity, Lousma and Garriott reloaded

four of the Apollo telescope mount experiments with film.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-458/I
Time: 09:23 CDT 11/14:23 GMT
8/7/73
PAO At 14 hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean

time - -
23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon is about to acquire
Skylab. We_ll stand by.
CC Skylab, we've got you loud and clear
through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. On that first rev I got
only Jlp B of building block 1 complete. And we need a little
more information about it. On 82 Alfa I gave both of the
time exposures, and our 82 (garble) the 1 minute exposure
but not the 4 minute exposure. As far as your last comment
about the time on H Alfa 1 begins to drift _ the horizon
light I never did see any drift on H Alfa 1 or 2 until the
time remaining counter had counted out and the H Alfa doors
closed. So there was no effect of any light into the fine
Sun sensor. Looking at the white light coronagraph on several
occasions I did notice there is a rather bright disk about
one half solar radius in diameter which drifts through the
field of view. It's not something external it is rather
sharply in focus, it's like a reflection from something.
And it will drift across normally around the _rlphery of the
white light coronagraph image. And it's _t me puzzled at
this point. I don't know what sort of artifact it is. But
I'll keep on the alert for it, and when itls possible, why maybe
I can give you a picture of it. Z|ow I'm proposing Just to pick up
at 14:58 with the pad as scheduled. One other thin E that was
not complete again was the S054 power up. I delayed doing
the image dissector and so on until we were in AOS. And do
you want to wait until the Sun is up or can we do some of that
powering up here over - over Australia? Over.
CC You can do it right here, Owen.
SPT Okay.
SPT Image dissector switch is going to enable.
X-rag image switch to enable, photo multiplier to enable.
Image threshold is at 256. Photo multipller is reading very
erratic of course at this point, lO0's, 20Ors, around that range.
Image intensity count is around I0, I0 to _ and _mewhat oscillating
We still have no televlsion scan on the X-ray image. Bright-
ness control is full clockwise, and I can see no TV sweep.
I have not got the timer installed yet, but we will get that
timer installed so we will get that checked out as soon as
we can. Okay, I'm going to go GRATING IN again. And it is
shown in, back to out.
CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
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Time: 09:23 CDT 11/14:23 GMT
8/7/73
CC Now to get that X-ray image Owen, on the

console power distribution, you need the X-ray spect switch
to bus 2.
SPT Okay. It's down.
PAO Thls is Skylab Control. The change
of shift briefing with Flight Director Chuck Lewis will begin
in about I0 minutes.
CDR The ATM folks put together this teleprlnter
upllnk (garble). Explain to us sort of the situation on tile
ATM and the strategy of operating from now on so that we know
what is good and what's bad, and klnd of _at's going on. Right
now we're a little blt in the dark.
CC Understand you want a summary pad, Owen
on the ATM?
SPT We discussed thls with Crlp yesterday
and asked for it and the ATM people are supposedly putting it
together. My guess is they Just haven't had reaction time
yet, but Crip and Adam and the back room there probably know
about it.
CC Okay. That's from the general messages
004 and it should be up there.
SPT Okay, we haven't seen it yet. Maybe it
Just came up this morning or something. We'll check the
teleprinter right now - again. (|kay, Just came off the tele-
printer, Story. Thank you.
CC Sure.
SPT Boy, that's quick response.
CC We aim to please.
SPT Yes slr.
CC And we sent up 2 copies of that, Owen.
SPT Okay, thank you.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-459/i
Time: 09:31 CDT 11/14:31 GMT
8/7/73
SPT Story, I don't see that image (garble)

at the top of the screen in image threshold position I. Is
that supposed to be present even with the door pinned open.
CC Stand by one, Owen.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director
Chuck Lewis is on his way to the JSC News Center at this time.
We estimate the Change of Shift News Conference will begin
in about 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're i0 seconds to LOS here.
We'll be picking you up over Guam in 3 minutes.
SPT Okay Story. And there's a possibility
that you might want me to do chip B on building block 1 at
the beginning of the next orbit or right after those alignments
instead of the planned activitie3 for this next rev. And if
that's - if you should want to do that Just let me know by
voice and I'll modify it and do that.
CC Okay.
SPT I'm going to be away from the comm here
for about 15 minutes.
CC Start right _n at 14:58, Owen.
had loss of signal. Guam will _quire in about 2-1/2 minutes.
The Change of Shift News Conference with Flight mrector
Chuck Lewis will start about that time. We'll tape the Guam pass
and play that back at the earliest opportunity. At 14 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-460/I
Time: 09:52 CDT, 11/14:52 GMT
8/7/73

52 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is 11-1/2 minutes
away from acquisition at Goldstone. It does not appear that
the video tape recorder will be changed out by the time we
reach Goldstone. However, we've asked the crew to try and
give us live television of Arabella at Goldstone. So we
will be expecting that. There was 4 minutes of conversation
in total over the Guam station. We taped that during the
change of shift of news conference and we'll play that for
you now.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam
for 9 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Now, we'd llke for you just to press
on on the 14:58 pad, when you get there.
SPT Thank you.
CC And why don't you try looking at the
X-ray image and using the counter test. You ought to get
a 4 by 4 image on the two.
SPT I do get that one.
CC Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston,
CDR Story, CDR. Did you call?
CC Yes, sir. Wondered how you were coming
on the VTR electronics changeout.
CDR Well, we've got the old ones off. We're
getting ready to put the new ones on. One funny, out of MDA
tool kit, the 3/16ths inch long, Allen wrench, I put it in
the screw and it started using the ratchet on it, and I
was ratchetlng it, and it sounded good, but nothing was
moving. I looked up at the tool itself and this ratchet
tool had been jammed up a little bit, not the ratchet but
the 3/16ths Allen. Instead of Just having a plain straight bar
it's got a bar with a pin and a sleeve surrounding
it. It sorta (garble) up. The only problem was that the
coupling between the sleeve and the Allen is broken, so
when you turn the ratchet, it doesn't turn the Allen bit.
So that's a failure of that tool and you need to have
Jerry and them bring up a new one, 3/16ths long _len bit
in the MDA tool kit.
CC Okay. We copy that. We were planning
on using Arabella as a model to check out the VTR, coming
up over Goldstone here in about 20 minutes. It doesn't
look llke you'll be ready for a VTR checkout, but we wonder
if you could give us some handheld TV of Arabella over
Goldstone?
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Time: 09:52 CDT
8/7/73
CDR We'll sure give it a go.

CC And we'll need the bypass connector
hooked up for that. And we'll need Owen to go to TV video switch.
CDR Two problems there. One, we don't know
what the bypass connector is, and the second one - I tell you
what we can do, we can get this thing rigged out, some kind of
frame to start running it with the power cables disconnected llke
they are. Why don't we wait until the next time around and
we'll give it to you then.
CC Okay. Be fine.
CDR Yeah. We got all this power discon-
nected, and circuit breakers out and everything. I'd sure
hate to start fooling with it now.
CC Okay.
CDR We'll give it to you the next time.
CC Roger.
see you over Goldstone in 15 minutes.
CDR What we did, Story, now, is take the
3/16ths long Allen bit out of the spare tools locker down in
the experiment comaprtment, and we're moving that one up
to the MDA, so we'll be sure to have a good one up there.
CC Got it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the
end of the tape. Make one correction on the earlier
announcement. Arabella television will be the next pass at
Goldstone, not this one coming up in about 7 minutes. The
next revolution over Goldstone, we hope to see Arabella, the
spider, on televlsion. We'll comeback up Just prior to
acquisition at Goldstone. At 14 hours 56 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-46111
Time: i0:01 CDT 11/15:01 GMT
8_7_73

1 minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be in contact
through the Goldstone, Callfornla tracking station very
shortly. We'll stand by for communications there.
CC Skylab_ we've got you stateside for 16 min-
utes.
SPT Okay, Story. How do you read me?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT Okay. I Just completed the S055 mirror allgn-
ment. The llmb with the bias in was reading 1027. I allgned
the mechanical crosshair at 1025. And there was a lot of
change down, bring the (garble) retlcle a long way down,
to make that align. I'm just now getting started on the
4 limb coalignment. And you can expect these first few
alignments on the first few days here will probably take a
little longer than they will after they get organized better
a little later. I Just checked our friend Arabella on the
way up and she did completely spin a new web last night.
And she is a very fast learner indeed. This time the web
is essentlally at first glance llke one you would find on
the ground. It has the radials to all 4 sides of the box
approxlmately converging on the center with the circumferential
lines spiraling all the way out, at least most of the way
out. It would be a very satisfactory web on the ground I
would think. And we'll do what we can to get some photographs
of it later. And I think the other two fellas are _ing try
to get the hand held TV on the next pass. Now I should also
be feeding you some ATM TV at this time if you got any video
capabillty right now. Jack says he's pulled the circuit breakers
for that however, so I guess you're out of luck at the moment
for anybody.
CC Okay. You have no TV this stateside
pass_ Owen.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'd like a star tracker locked on.
And the pad you've got up there now should be good.
SPT The one from 2 days ago?
CC Yes sir.
SPT Okay.
SPT AI, Jack says he's got what ever you were
hooking up hooked up now.
PLT AI, what I've got _ I found a way to
bypass the VTR. I've got the COAX connectors hooked up
(garble) How about turning it on real time to the ground.
CDR If you want, it's okay with me, but dontt
work on anything while you're doing it. Just hook it up and
stand away from all that gear.
SL-III MC-461/2
Time: I0:01 CDT 11/51:01 GMT
8/7/73
PLT I will. I've got _ all connected.

CDR Okay. But don't fool with any box the
connector is in.
PLT I won't.
SPT Okay, Story. Jack thinks he's got the
hook up completed now. And we should be sending you down some
real tlme TV.
CC Okay, we'll take it.
PLT Hey Story, we ought to have a picture
of the mad professor working on the ATM panel there. Have
you got it?
PLT Story, we're right in the middle of the
VTR hook up, but we've got the bypass COAX hooked up. You
should be getting some real time. Let us know how it comes
Out.
CC Okay. We've got a circuit breaker for you

to close on panel 202, television ATM video.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, it's closed now.
PLT Okay, it's closed now. I noticed the
TV atrlock module circuit breaker is out _so.
CC And we're getting you right now, Jack.
We're taking a look at you.
PLT Okay.
SPT Now you should have your star.
CC It looks like you've got a good star there,
Owen. Stay off the DAS a while, while we update NuZ.
SPT Okay.
SPT On the other point the two-limb Sun Is
very clearly visible -
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-462/I
TIME: I0:Ii CDT 11/15:11 GMT
8/7/73
SPT Yeah, llm going to give you a little

TV of the H-alpha as I'm performing this four limb coallgn-
ment, Story.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Okay. Can you see the H-alpha there?
CC We're looking at it.
SPT Okay. I'm on page 2-i and I'm
putting a reticle on the inner llmb. See the spicules
sticking out above the top of the - over the top of cross
hair there. _
CC Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Reading is plus 1002. Jack's _cture
ATM people down there are reading also.
SPT Okay. I'm going to give you a picture of
the flip now also, so you can see how wide these lines really
do look.
SPT Plus 997. Mark that.
SPT (garble) H-alpha i reticle, right in the
same spot.
SPT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC That you, AI,
CDR Yeah, he's listening.
CC Okay, when you get to running M092,
delay the vent if possible beyond 15:47. That's after
dump commence. Looking at the time line, that's probably
no problem for you. And prior to disconnect in the bypass,
be sure to open up on panel 202, the same circuit breaker
you closed there. That's television ATM video. And also
on panel 202 our television power AM circuit breaker you
can close that to get us back in a nomlnal configuration.
CDR Okay, Then I get them all closed
when we're finished, right?
CC That's right. And complete the VTR
changeout procedure per the checkllst.
CDR Wilco.
CC CDR. Houston.
CDR Go.
CC Could you clarify_at part of the
teleprinter you exchanged.
CDR I had to tele - change the whole big
box. Because the drive wheel that failed was the black one.
It's part of that big box as opposed to the little red one that's
part of the little head. So that's why I mentioned that
we changed the last one we got up here.
CC Okay. We understand that. Thank you.
CDR It's a shame to lose that big electronic
box Just because of that little rubber wheel.
SL III MC-462/2
TIME: i0:ii CDT 11/15:11 GMT
8/7/73
CC We're working on the grommet.

CC And Skylab we're coming up here on a
42 minute LOS. We'll see you _er Carnarvon at 16:02. And
Owen, on the caution/warnlng panel, ACS malls, we'd like you
to enable the rate gyros.
SPT Roger.
CC And during the LOS here we'll be on Y-I
only, redundancy management enabled.
SPT Y-I with redundancy management and
rate gyros enabled. Okay. They're enabled.
CC And during the dumps if you have any
kind of failure which in unlikely, all you need to do is
put Y-I back on the line.
SPT Okay, put Y-[ back on. It is on now,
of course.
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay.
had loss of signal with Skylab. Carnarvon will acquire in
41 minutes. We did have television over a portion of this
stateside pass of Science Pilot Owen Garrlott operating the
Apollo Telescope Mount control and display panel. And also
television of the Sun from the ATM instruments. Hopefully
we'll get a chance to take a look at Arabella, the lady
spider on the next Goldstone pass. At 15 hours 21 minutes
Greenwich mean time. This is _ylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-463/I
Time: ii:01 CDT 11/16:01 GMT
817173
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours l min-

ute Greenwich mean time standing by for communications with
Skylab through the Carnarvon station.
for 7 minutes.
CC And CDR, from what we can see down here,
it looks llke the VTR procedure is complete.
CDR That's right. I think we've got it all
changed, Story.
CC Okay. Understand we're clear to do some
commanding on the VTR.
CDR Just a minute. Let me (garblez).
I'm not sure what they've all done. Okay, the mswer is yes,
Story.
CC Okay. And I've got a couple of things
for you here, Owen. The test dot on the X-ray image is dif-
ferent than the flight vehicle and in the simulator. All you get
is some random dots around the 12 o'clock position of the CRT.
And if the brightness is turned up at all that will preclude you
seeing those test dots.
SPT Oh, that's interesting, so I'Ii try that
again. And I'ii try to do my debriefing on the _al time
here on this pass instead of on channel B. Go ahead with
anything you got up for us first.
CC The med pad that you got up there is good
except of course the supplements which we called to you. And
delete paragraphs 4 and 6.
SPT Okay, Just a minute I've got to pull it
out and see what it is.
CC Rog.
SPT Are you talking about med status 11057
CC Affirmative.
SPT Okay, down in remarks I see a paragraph
4. I don't see a paragraph 6, Maybe you've got a different
message than mine.
CC It's buried down in there, about the last
4 lines. It's concerning ED63.
SPT Nothing in the med status report.
CC Yeah, med status. That's right.
SPT Okay, my 1105 is best figured it's got
a bunch of preflight information on it. My 1105 Alfa 2
has more med status M192 and then some remarks. Remarks
are i through 4 with some stuff down there for A and B. I
don't see anything llke 4 and 6.
CC Okay. You don't have a II05A3.
SPT Okay, I'ii have to go look up Alfa 3.
Stand by. I tell you, I'ii look it up later and remember to
mark out. I'ii put it on my note pad to delete paragraphs 4
and 6.
SL-III MC-463/2
Time: 11:01 CDT 11/16:01 GMT
8/7/73
CC Or we've got an updated _d down here we

could send you, Owen. You can just use that one.
SPT So I can throw all my 1105 and Just keep
your 1105 Alia 3?
SPT Okay. Let me go ahead with this update
here. I think the ATM information on that last rev. Now
I managed to do all of step 6. I did not do step 7. On the
coalignment I had to actually repeat that about 3 times.
That took up the extra time. It turns out that the H alpha
image is slightly larger in diameter than the white light
image on the XUV thresh display. I'd say it's couple of arc
seconds in radius, and 4 arc seconds in diameter _rger on
H-alpha, even accounting for the double llmb. The double limb is
clearly apparent and I'm not talking about the outer llmb,
I'm talking about the inner llmb. And so I have to shave
it a little bit on the on the H-alpha 1 and 2 or
H-alpha 1 alignment to make it agree with the XUV drift position.
And the following numbers are the ones I got for the 4 llmb
coalignment going down the blocks that you will find in our
pad. Alia i is plus 1002, plus 997 plus i001 minus 893
minus 895. I skipped H-alpha i. 82B is mlnusgl4, minus 915,
plus 973, and the coalignment is still at rep/down is aligned
0832, very close to what it was (,n the station i actually
identical. Now - -
CC We're coming up on 15 seconds to LOS, Owen.
We'll see you over Guam in 7 minutes. We'll be dumping the
tape recorders at Guam.
SPT Okay, I've got a little bit more informa-
tion on the experiments S055 detector trip out, S054 last
frame might have been a little below 400 kilometers. S055
had some good mirror line scan in the last few minutes, and
some good JOP 7 data.
CC We copied them.
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of _e Guam
station in 6 minutes. At 16 hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-464/I
Time: 11:15 CDT, 11/16:15 GMT
8/7/73

range of the Guam station now.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam 7 minutes.
CDR Hello.
CC Who's that?
CDR CDR, just calling this (garble).
CC Okay, AI. And over Golds,one we'd
like to check out the VTR. We'll be - We'd llke about
4 minutes of real time TV and VTR record. We can command
all of that from the ground. Then we'll _terrupt real
time TV and dump the VTR, to check it out. So, in the
next I0 or 12 minutes, here, we'd llke you to do either
TV 59-C or aim the TV camera at anything of your _tlon and
turn it on.
CDR We're working on 92 now, so wetre not
going to be able to do anything optional. But, we do have
the TV setup pointing at the ATM panel. Owen will be up there
in a minute so you can get some shots of him (garble) work.
CC Okay. That's fine.
CDR Okay. And I'ii go power up the TV right
this minute, and we'll be running when it comes over the
hill.
CC Swell.
CDR We changed our minds. We'll give you
that kind of TV, later. We'll glve you a little effort of
Jack in the tank, here. We're going to pump him down,
see how he does. You can watch hLs veins (garble) and that
sort of thing.
CC Okay. I'ii be looking. And all you
need is to aim it at something like that and turn the
power on. We'll do all the commanding of me VTR from down
here.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Stand by.
CC Okay. You can disregard the med pads
you've got up there. We're sending right up now, 1130-1 and
ll30-Alfa 2.
SPT Thattll supercede all the other stuff, right?
CC Yep, forget all the other stuff and
we'd llke the DAS here for a few minutes _ update Y-2.
SPT You got it.
CC And, while I've got you, Owen, we've
been noticing down here that during the night portions of
orbit, that you're leaving the MPC in roll enable. And
we'd like to have those in inhibit during the night portion.
SPT Very good. Just forgot. Thank you.
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Time: 11:15 CDT, 11/16:15 GMT
8/7/73
SPT We changed our minds _aln. Wetre going

to give you the grand variety show. We'll _ve you every-
thing we got all at once.
CC Okay. We'll be waiting.
CDR Hey, not all at once, but in a row.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-465/I
TIME: 11:21 CDT 11/16:21 GMT
8/7/73
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See

you over Goldstone in 17 minutes at 16:40.
SPT Say, Big O. also glance out the
window if it looks good I'Ii take it over to _e window and
point it out and you can shift it down here.
GDR Okay, that'll be fine.
SPT Give them the old montage effect.
CC We're still reading you loud and clear.
SPT Are you reading us on intercom, Story?
CC I heard that last call.
SPT No, I've got a hot mike, Story. So you're
reading me, but AI hasn't (garble) so you only heard one half
of the conversation.
CC I heard AI too.
SPT Uh oh, well, I don't understand that.
You press transmit, AI?
CDR Can you hear me now, Story.
CC Loud and clear.
CDR Somehow we got this whole thin8 hooked
up where intercomm is being transmitted around.
SPT Maybe we never had it reconfigured from EVA
yesterday.
CC We don't mind listening to you.
SPT Say again.
CC We don't mind listening to you, Just
wanted you to know that we were.
CDR (garble) I'm glad you told us, Story.
Say uh - how about (garble) hooked up this way (garble).
CC We're going LOS. See you over Goldstone.
CDR Okay.
SPT The only thing Ican figure out, AI, is that
it's something up in the (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have had
loss of signal at Guam. Goldstone to acquire in 15-1/2
minutes, at which time we'll have live real time television.
We'll also check out the new video tape recorder for
several minutes during the stateside pass. Crew Commander
A1 Bean has promised us the grand variety show. We're
not certain what that is, but the Flight Director sure hopes
it includes the space spider, because he's never seen one
of those. At 16 hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-466/I
Time: 11:38 CDT, 11/16:38 GMT
8/7/73

38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab nearly within
range of the Golds,one, California tracking station. We're
standing by for communications and the grand variety show
on live television through Goldstone.
PAO Television coming in now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Got you AOS stateside
for 15 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story. And we figured out why
we were cutting down the intercom a while ago, we got it
straigntened out.
CC We straightened it out too, but you
beat us to it.
CDR Okay. What was your solution?
CC We thought 'cause you had the intercom
taped there and you were hot miked that anyone else that was
ICOMing the same channel would transmit.
CDR Fantastic.
SPT You caught us in the act. Caught me
with a mistake.
SPT Have you up with our TV down there, Story?
CC Wetre looking at you, Owen.
SPT (Garble).
PAO That's a picture of the Sun, now.
CC And, Owen, we'd llke some more color
on the TV to check out the VTR. So we'd like to go back
to looking at you.
SPT Done.
CC And we've got it.
SPT And, Story, I'm going to send the TV
down to the workshop where the - where Jack and A1 are
getting set up for MO92 run.
CC No. We'd llke to stay right here, Owen.
Okay. Go ahead. That'll be fine.
SPT Okay.
PAO Picture of Jack _usma in the lower
body negative pressure device.
SPT Okay. I think I mentioned on the
last rev that the S055 detectors kicked off _ one point.
I don't know how soon I caught it. I think not too long
after it happened. But, I'm starting another mirror auto ras-
ter now with all 7 of the detectors on. So, if you see it kick
off, be sure to let me know and I don't know that it was
detector 5, but I suppose the probability is that that's
what it was.
CC Copy, Owen.
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Time: 11:38 CDT, 11/16:38 GMT
8/7/73
SPT There. So you're slit pointing above

this active region for about 4 frames before I noticed it
had turned you off.
SPT You want 4 frames on quiet - or on quiet
background, why you probably have 4 frames on it right now
the first 4 of your auto sequence.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-467/1
TIME: 11:48 CDT 11/16:48 GMT
8/7/73
SPT (garble) a time there so it's a pretty bright

point apparently.
SPT Another comment of operation. (garble) It does
appear to peak up very nicely. As I Just moved back and forth,
no more than 5 arc seconds as near as I can tell from the
H-alpha 2 monitor. The counting rate increased markedly, so
it's a fairly (garble)
CC We don't have you on real time TV. And
Owen, I understand when the high voltage detectors kicked
off, they all kicked off.
SPT That's affirm.
SPT And I might say high voltage is still enabled,
it's not in override.
CC Okay. Have you got ATM experiment
checklist change number 001?
SPT I havechange 1 incorporated that's right. But
last night when we went back to this configuration, you wanted me
to go back to override, after - correction, go back to enable, so I
left it there. Now page 1 is incorporated in this book, which
I think does call for the override. Is that what you're
getting at?
CC Yes Sir.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Looking at your momentum, AI, we show
there has been a vent fairly recently. Did you use the
main vacuum valve or anything to check out the M092
regulator?
CDR We did not use the LBNP vent. The only
thing we've done is the trash alrlock handle happened to be
in vent instead of press, and so we pressed. We didn't vent.
CC Okay.
CDR And that's thruugh the tank. That
shouldn't bother anything. We haven't touched any of the
air so far. We've turned on the mass spectrometer, but that
isn't a vent. It uses vacuum, but it isn't enough to worry about.
CC Okay.
CDR Okey-doke.
CDR Are we cleared to go ahead and continue
with the LBNP?
CC Affirmative.
CDR Say again.
CC That's affirmative, AI. Press (garble)
CDR Say again.
CC That's affirmative, AI, press on.
CDR Okay. I don't know where your vent
came from. Trying to think about it right now. We haven't
touched the valves, and the only thing we've -
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see you over the Vanguard in Ii minutes and all systems
are looking good.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Merritt Island,
Florida station has loss of signal. The Vanguard tracking
ship will acquire Skylab in about 9-1/2 minutes. We did have
both live and recorded television during this stateside
pass. We did not have the opportunity to see Arabella,
the space spider, however. The crew was busy. A1 Bean
and Jack Lousma conducting the MO92, lower body negative
pressure experiment. We had pictures of that. And Owen
Garriott busy at the Apollo Telescope Mount console. We
had pictures of that and also some of the Sun. The report
following the checkout of the video tape recorder is that
it is good. The crew changed over to the spare recorder
this morning and that spare recorder is working properly.
At 16 hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the
Vanguard acquisition now, we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, we've got you over the Vanguard
for 8 mlnutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Is your number 2 tape recorder in the
B position, AL?
CC And, we're getting good data, now, Al.
CDR Okay.
CDR What happened, Story, is we got - the
knob apparently is loose and was half way between 2 and 3,
the knob was, but it was really on three. Looked good, but
wasn't we'll fix it.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR If you're getting good data, Story, I
won't bother to take in the back up data. How does it look
to you?
CC It's looklng_od to me, AI. Let me
check with the blomed.
CC AI, we've got good data down here.
CDR Good. Let me tell you something I
put on the tape recorder that could probably save us some
time. I recorded the leg bands on Jack. And then Owen and
I did ours the other day. We're going to try to use the
same leg bands all the time. We've got about 20 pair up
here and they all look the same, unless you search around
and try to find these numbers. And we've got all sorts
of different rules about using letters and numbers. So, if
these legbands, which we think satisfy the rules are okay, then
we're Just going to keep using them. Would you see if that's
an okay thing?
CC Okay. We'll put the band numbers and
the data together and get that to you as soon as we can, AI.
CDR I've got to make an adjustment here In
a second, but as soon as I do, I'll read you the band numbers.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, did you get a second grating
auto scan after you rolled the canister?
SPT I thought I did. Didn't show up on
the telemetry? Have they dumped it yet? Or, were you look-
ing at it then?
CC We saw a mirror line scan when we had our LOS.
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SPT Okay. Well I think - Oh, that's right.

I left it in MLS and then switched it to grating auto scan.
And I did give you another grating auto scan on the end of
that. So building block 36 was completed as scheduled. Since
then, I've also picked up item 5 on the shopping llst and
done one of those, and I'm now picking up building block
i0 and running it as it was omitted in the earlier preceding
rev. And, so, I've repointed to another spot in the active
region 85. And I'm doing a building block i0 to complete
thls orbit.
CC Okay.
SPT Incldentlly, I've also given 55 several
other - well at least one other set of mirror llne scans
across the neutral line in active region 85. Couple
of minutes of MLS across the neutral line pointed at the
bright spot.
CC Copy.
SPT The pattern of brightness is changing
here almost from minute to mlnuta. The brightest element
in the whole active region is the one that I did the build-
ing block 36 at. And it has been the brightest all along.
However, say, five minutes ago, there was another bright
region right next to the Sun spot, that rose in intensity.
And now it is decayed down to more or less the same level
as the plage in general. So, all of these bright points
are Just sort of continually changing their _ntrast with the
plage in background more or less_th time contents like
5 minutes or so. Over.
CC Okay.
SPT Looks llke we Just got another trlpout
on S055. I'm going to leave detector 5 off this time.
CDR Okay, Houston. Let me give you those
cuff numbers entitled the cuff letters, so you can check
them out.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR CDR, CH and BU, CH left and BU right
is the (garble).
CC Okay.
CDR SPT: AX AND BU, AX, BU.
CC Got them.
CDR PLT: AD and CV, AD, CV.
CC Owen, we'd like to inhibit Y-1 redundancy
management. Then I've got 2 DAS numbers for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC 52 015, 50 020.
SPT 52 015, 50 020.
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CC That's correct.
CC And we'd like that before the next
dump .
CC And that's because we're venting, Owen.
CC And we're going LOS here, Skylab. We'll
see you over Goldstone in one hour and 3 minutes at 18:17.
SPT Okay, those (Static, garble).
PAO This is _ylab Control. Skylab is
beyond range of the Vanguard tracking ship now, starting
a long LOS period before contacting the next station,
Goldstone, California, in 1 hour 2 minutes. At 17 hours
15 minutes Greenwich mean time, _is is Skylab Control.
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acquisition of the Goldstone station. We'll stand by for
communications.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone and
Texas for ii minutes. And we'll be dumping the tape recorders
over Texas at 18:24.
CDR Story, when you say tape recorders, does
that include the experiment tape recorders?
CC That ESP is working again now. Where are
you with the spect MI71, AI.
CDR We're Just getting ready to start. We
took a break for dinner.
CC Okay, we'll hold off the dump, and you
all press on.
CDR Okay. I gather that when you say dump
you mean dump the experiment recorders and the voice
recorders. Is that correct?
CC That's usually the data voice recorder
when we call a dump, A1.
CDR Okay. The 2 data voice recorders, huh?
CC Just one.
CDR Oh, okay. I thought when we selected
two different recorders here experiment 1 and experiment 2
we were getting two different recorders.
SPT Hello, Story. I'm Just completing building
block 7 of this particular pass. And it looks to me llke
we've got a little subflare, essentially no x-rays up to
the northeast of the main Sun spot in active region 85. It
just brightened up say the last 5 minutes, and it's pretty
bright right now, but it may even be demlnlshlng again.
It's Just another one of those occasions I was mentioning
earlier where the whole intensity keeps changing almost
from 5 minute interval to the next. I would appreciate
it if the NOAA people could confirm that this is just a
subflare up in the northeast of the main spot in active
region 85. And I'm Just starting to pick up on my building
block tens, all of which are supposed to be done at the
same pointing. I think I'll not pick up this little bright
region at the moment because it doesn't seem to be the spot
most likely to have a flare even though it's the brightest
in that active region right now.
CC Copy Owen. We'll get you an answer.
CDR Story, is there a sharpening stone or
whet stone aboard Skylab some where?
CC Boy, I sure don't remember one, but I'll
check for you.
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CDR We sure need one. I guess that ought

to be on Jerry's list, to bring up a small one for himself
I suspect we didn't put one on because we didn't want to get
shavings, but itIs kind of ridiculous now that we've been
here. We ought to have one up here.
CC Okay.
CDR There's little particles and big parti-
cles and everything and they never seem to _c in your eye
just as they donlt when they blow in the wind down on Earth.
Ever once in a while they might, although I've never seen
anybody with anything in their eye here yet.
CC Okay.
SPT Did you say this is a Goldstone pass,
Story?
CC That's where we are right now.
SPT Do you want some TV video from the ATM?
CC Stand by one.
CC Owen, we'd have to call up all the lines
and all. Why don't you Just press on with the Plight Plan,
thanks any way.
SPT Rog.
SPT And how does Adam think the panel looks
at the moment?
CC Say again, Owen.
SPT How does Adam say the panel looks?
CC Okay, we'll get that work from him. And
NOAA does report that there was a subbright flare in the
area that you mentioned, and also an (garble) in the south-
east corner.
CC And the panel is go, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CC PLT or CDR.
SPT Houston, one comment about roll. I've
rolled to about minus 5500 on the experiment roll, in order
to get 82B fllp more or less uniform. I noticed the pad says
roll 10800, so after this one building block 10 I'm putting
the roll to near 10800 but I'ii not get the 82B fllp with uniform
material in it this way unless I hear otherwise from you.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Okay, another comment about the comm.
Are you still with me, Story?
CC Yep, got another minute.
SPT Okay. Apparently this switch on this
headset had been taped down in transmit for quite some time.
None of the three of us did it, so it's probably been left
that way from SL 2. Now the channel B was normally placed
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in sleep. But any time of course we put it to I COMM/PTT

that will mean that the ICOMM gets transmitted in real time.
We are wonderln E if perhaps the fact that this has been taped
down for the last I0 days might have _d something to do with
some of the comm funnies that we've been unable to explain up
to this point.
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CC Which switch was that taped down, Owen?

Was that the CCU?
SPT Yes. It's the CCU switch, which I
have to my headset and plugged into channel B on panel 131.
CC Okay. But the selector for B was off,
right?
SPT Well, normally it was in sleep, or off.
But, from time to time I expect we put it to ICOM/PTT in
order to use the headset. And we don't remember, of course,
all the times we happen to put it to ICOM/PTT.
CC Roger. Good observation. We're
going LOS, here. We'll see you over the Vanguard in
14 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Texas has
loss of slgnal. The Vanguard Tracking Ship will pick up
Skylab in 14 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott back
on the Apollo telescope mount console, operating the
experiments, which are examining the Sun. The other
two crewmen, A1 Bean and Jack Lousma, should be finishing
lunch about this time. Wet11 come back up Just prior to
the Vanguard. At 18 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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CC Okay, Skylab, we got you through the

Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay Story, still pressing along on the
four building block tens here and I've rolled around to
about minus I0 800, let's see that's about i0 400 here and
it should be a real good position for SO5 mirror llne
scan. It's cutting right across - Oh at three or four
bright points along - more or less parallel to the neutral
line. And they have been brightening alternately all the
way along. Almost every time you look back at the panel
it's a little bit different structure and the 82B sllt is
not in a particularly good configuration. I have been giving it
an extra auto on each of these sequences however, they
might want me to stop that. If they call it up I can cut
one of them out. But other than that chugging right along.
Let me know about the panel, please.
CC Okay, thanks, Owen,
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is in
acquisition at the Vanguard. We had an early AOS this pass.
SPT Some of these little bright points might -
right along parallel to the neutral llne - might he Ellerman
bombs in through here and _f so the SO55 line scan at the moment
is cutting right across several of them. One of them some-
what left to the center position now. My guess would be
something like about column 20 or so and they might take a
look to see if they're H-alpha picture and the mirror llne
scan configuration corresponds to passage through some of
these. I would appreciate it if Noah could confirm whether
or not these numerous small bright points along more or less
parallel to the filament in through here are Ellerman bombs
or Just brlghtenings of the plage. Over.
CC Okay. They're working on something for
you, Owen and we'll get that question answered for you.
SPT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go.
CC Owen, we'd _ike an 82A wavelength long
exposure i plus 20 is in the pad at roll, minus 1080.
SPT Okay. I was just going to give it to
them. I'm essentially right there right now and I'm going
to give them a 120, it's already set up on the panel.
CC Okay.
SPT Wouldn't think of forgetting them.
CC Roger.
SPT But I do appreciate the reminder.
Incidently, you know, we Just Bot another little brightening
upward to the northeast of the sunspot there again. Up
_re that subflare was.
CC Okay.
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CC SPT, Noah reports that a flare is

beginning in active region 85, at this time.
CC And, no flare mode, SPT.
SPT Okay.
SPT It's triggered the preset levels down
here, Houston. The image intensity counter's up about 30.
And beryllium aperture is in position - position I.
CC Yeah. And we are in the SAA, also, STP.
SPT Yeah. I'm aware of that. But, the
Hmlpha signature looks pretty good, also, as well as all
of our indicators, which are normally insensitive to the
South Atlantic anomaly.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Owen, we copied all you said and
we'd like you to go into flare mode.
CC Did you copy my GO for the flare, Owen?
SPT That's right. We're in there right now.
CC Okay.
SPT However, I'm not as enthusiastic about
it as I was. Because, if anything it's at peak or
decaying again now. I'm still inclined to think it was an
X-ray emitting region. But, it didn't particularly develop
very far.
CC Okay.
SPT That should have been a particularly
good one for SO55, as well as both X-ray instruments, because
we've been looking at this active region all through its
development and the 55 line scan was sweeping right along
parallel to the neutral line there, and should have picked
up several of the most intense portions of the active
region.
CC Copy.
SPT I also note that we had an ACS, an S055
alert light. So, one of their detectors triggered out here
might have been during the intense part of that X-ray burst,
and I turned off detector number 5 at the time, so it might
have been in another one of the detectors. I'd appreciate
your advice on _ Ich one of those we ought to leave enabled.
Whether you want to go back to enable on 5, or try turning
another one off and see if we can eliminate some of these
trlpouts. Over.
CC Okay. We're a minute from LOS. I'ii
get that as fast as I can, Owen.
SPT Good. Thank you.
CC Okay, Owen. Detector 4 tripped out
first, and then just shortly ago, 5 tripped out. And they'd
like for you to use all the ones you can.
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SPT Okay. I'ii try to keep them all on.

CC We're going LOS, here in 15 seconds.
We'll see you over Hawaii in i hour, at 19:52.
SPT Okay. Fine, Story. See you later.
CC Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard
does have loss of slgna] with Skylab. Science Pilot, Owen
Carrlott, has the Apollo telescope mount experiments trained
on active region 85, of the Sun. This is the region where
activity is expec - had been expected to develop. It's
located slightly below the center of the Sun. Flight
controllers and meteorologists are looking at a planned
Earth resources pass for tomorrow, starting off the coast
of Portland, Oregon, across the United States, over the
Houston area, and then down over Columbia and Brazil and
South America. More than 20 ground targets in the Houston
area test site are being considered for this fifth Earth
resources pass of this Skylab Mission. Cloud and storm
conditions over the United States, Gulf of Mexico, South
America, and the South Atlantic, are also candidate targets
for this pass, which is along the same ground track
number 34 of the first ERE? pass last Friday, on Mission
day 7. During this first Earth resources pass data was
gathered over portions of Utah, Colorado,New Mexico and
Texas. In addition, sensor data was gather over Latin
American Countries to provide the basis for photo maps of
unmapped remote areas, geological anomalies, resources,
environmental quality, and vegetation. Tomorrow's pass
will cover many of the test sites covered in the first
pass. Skylab is 57 minutes away from acquisition at the
next tracking station, which is Hawaii. At 18 hours 55 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time, 2 minutes away from acquisition at tracking
station Hawaii on revolution 1229. Standing by for acquisition
through tracking station Hawaii.
CC Skylab, we got you through Hawaii for
6 minutes.
SPT Okay, one thing to get started on then
I have several other things to bring up with you Story. When
Iame around to look at the Sun this time S056 door
presumably got normal door open signal but the door flag went
white and never fully opened. I then gave it another door
open waited awhile, gave it two doors closes and no change so
I wanted to wait and maybe let you folks try it two motors
from the ground or something llke that. But as far as I know
this is the first time S056 had a hangup and it's still sitting
white on my panel.
CC Okay, Owen we've had S056 door hang up
twice before.
SPT Good you want to take care of it from the
ground then and see if you can open it here?
CC Okay, we'll work on it from the ground
then. That flare you had last pass was active region 85 of
course it was classed as a C-3 flare.
SPT Very good. I was pretty sure it had
an X-ray signature. As a matter of fact I Just asked you that
question on channel B. So, that's fxne, I think we got the
best timed history of the development of that thing than we're
had before and that we should ever expect because we've been
sitting on it there watching little variant regions - active
regions come and go for a full orbit or so and we're sitting
square right on the best spot at the time of the event so
that should be very interesting things to look at.
CC Yea, looks good. In 1400 millihertz
we had 90 flux units; in 2700 millihertz we had 27 flux
units. And those small bright spots along the filament that
you queried us about we consider that was part of the flare
surge.
SPT Okay, fair enough, sounds fine. I wasn't
certain because they looked a little larger that I had expected
Allamand (?) bomb_ to be. A little beyond the resolution
in other words larger than the resolution in the instrument
so I thought very llke - I wasn't certain _ ether or not it
would be interpreted as a bomb or Just part of the flaring region
so appreciate your information. Incidentally while I'm on
here also immediately following the flare a dark filament formed
to the north side and could be seen actually moving off to
the right and by the time sunrise came around here again it
completely disappeared so during the nighttime interval
that large dark filament blew off to the north.
CC Okay.
SPT And now on the first of building block 2
and JOP 6 I didn't catch it in time at the switch from grating
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out to in on the SO54 so I took that first set of exposures

with the grating in. Now on the second set for S054 I already
had a pen-and-lnk to change that to filter number 3. Since
I didn't get that one with the filter in I wonder if 54
would like to change one of their later exposures to filter
in and so if you would voice that up to me I'ii change
the pad accordingly.
CC Okay; got it. And on your WLC image
dropout during your checkout Owen, we think possibly that
was the AGC dropping it out when we got pointed off a llttle bit
off sun center during the roll.
SPT Well, maybe that's right. It hasn't happened
since. I just made a 90-degree roll looking at the monitor
and there was no problem there I haven't had any recurrence
of it since that first rev this morning.
CC Okay. And if you can stay off the DAS
we'll update your NUT.
SPT Fine, and don't forget 56 door here, if
you would so I can go ahead and get that working.
CC And, Owen, try opening the door in
SO56?
SPT Okay, I've already got a grey barber pole -
grey flag and ready light. So it looks llke it's already
open normally.
CC We think that's a false indication and
llke you to command it open, Owen.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, it went white then grey and I got
a ready light again so I assume I'm okay this time. Thank
you much.
CC Okay, and we're showing it open.
SPT I don't know wh_ you're talkbacks work
accurately the ones up here do not I guess it's a different
pick off point.
CDR Hello, configurations of the active region
have changed since we've looked at it on last orbit.
CC (Garble).
CC And could you put the video switch to ATM
i Owen, and give us some XUV?
SPT Okay.
CC It's you're DAS Owen, and as far as the
grating goes on SO54, just follow the pad from here on.
SPT Thank you. And I'm running a little bit
behind here with the little things we've been talking about
so I'Ii not be able to finish up all the scheduled building
blocks here. The last part of Baker or Charlie.
CC Okay, we're I0 seconds to LOS so see
you over the Vanguard in 22 minutes and be dumping the tape
recorder there.
SPT Is this real time keeping?
CC It's real time only over Hawaii and we'll
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be getting it later.
SPT Okay, I'm giving you several XUV MON
photos ...
CC And we saw some of your TV of the EVA,
yesterday from Hawaii; looked great.
SPT All right.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of slgnal
through the llawailan Island tracking station next tracking
station will be the good ship Vanguard in 21 minutes and at
19:59 Zulu this is Skylab Control.
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mean time, a minute and 50 seconds away from acquisition
at the tracking ship Vanguard_ as the Skylab space station
ends revolutlon 1229 and begins 1230. Acquisition coming
up shortly.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Okay, fine, Story. We're going to com-
plete all of the scheduled activity on this dayside pass
and I've got about three short things for you. First of
all I'd appreciate a new message 002 from day 07 for day
of your 215. That's the message which relates to the
installation of the S054 timer. We do have that manned
now and I'd like to go ahead and get that mapped on the
panel if you'd send me up that message again please. Next
item for the 82A experimenters. Exposure 193 is going to
be a nice long one in short/short. I didn't move the
switch out of time for a moment there. In fact, I lack 2
or 3 minutes, so you'll have one long exposure on 193
before going ahead to give you that sequence in AUTO i.
And SO54 filter 2, I didn't catch the change to filter i,
so you'll still have that filter 2 as it is on the JOP
summary sheet. And a couple of my comments about detectors
on S055 wouldn't make much sense now as it is, because
I'd forgotten that we've gone to high voltage override
so therefore the detector do trip off Just one at
a time and it does llke it's filter 5 that keeps tripping
off. It did trip off one more time and of course the
others kept working. I reset 5.
CC Copy.
SPT How does Adam like the panel?
CC Stand by i.
PLT And we want to thank Joe Harryman and
Jeff Smith back of - back in the ATM science room there from
NOAA for predicting this flare activity so well today.
They were right on the money.
CC Okay, I'm sure they're reading you,
Owen, and they llke your panel and they'll get another
copy of that 002 up.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC Owen, what information did you want
from ATM experiments checklist change number 2?
SPT I thought that change number 2 described
the installation on the X-ray spec timer. On my checklist
I've got that little note lald down in there and I thought
if there was any instructions for the way in which it
should be installed I should take a look at them again.
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CO Okay, I can give them to you if you

got the thing right there.
SPT I have it in hand.
CC Okay, we can give it a try. Tape timer
to panel adjacent 2 and right of SO54 door switch, route
timer cable vertically along panel seam over top of the
console to the left, over duct entering console on the left,
and down to utility outlet I on panel 134.
SPT Okay.
CC And verify utility outlet 2 switch
is off.
SPT Okay.
CC Connect timer cable to panel 134 re-
ceptlcle.
SPT Go.
CC And then turn utility output power
switch ON.
SPT Okay, that's fine. Thank you.
CC Okay.
CC CDR and PLT, I would like to wait here
until we get LOS prior to starting M092, MI71. We need
to dump the tape reccorders.
PLT Okay, well1 hold, Story. How long's
that going to be?
CC Be 4 minutes and ll seconds.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, we're all through with the
scheduled activity for the day on the panel - or for this
orbit on the panel, Story. And I did want to point out
I took a look out at the filament on the east llmb awhile
ago at the start of this orbit and it stands out very
nicely on the H-alpha displays.
CC Copy.
SPT Prob - probably 20 or 30-yard seconds
from the chromosphere..
CC Okay.
SPT And I'm seeing a lot of small bright
spots within the plage area at this time. How about
asking NOAA if they would identify any of these as
Allamand bombs.
CC Okay.
CC And Owen, they say there's a slight
subflare in progress, but not an Allamand bomb.
SPT Okay, fair enough. I'm seeing a lot
of just small points scattered around through the plage
that are brightening, but it - nothing llke the subflares
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that we had before, or the class - C of course. And also

I'm checking with my detector number i intensity. I
can't get intensity counts on detector number i. Oh, oh,
I'm still at grading position 2665, that's my reason.
CC Okay, and CDR, PLT, you're cleared to
go with M092 and MI71 and check your tape recorder posi-
tions.
CC And Skylab, we're i minute to LOS.
We'll see you in about an hour at 21:26 over Hawaii.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is SkTlab Control; loss of signal
from tracking ship Vanguard, as space station Skylab went
over the horizon from that ship. Next station in 56 min-
utes, tracking station at Hawaii, returning at that time.
And at 20:30 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control; at 20:35 Greenwich

mean time. We're estimating a fairly sudden change-of-shlft
breifing coming up here in about i0 minutes to 4, Houston
time. With the off going Flight Director, Milt Windier, who
with his maroon team of Flight Controllers are going to
celebrate their day off tomorrow at a local pub after the
press conference. Change-of-shift breifing with Flight
Director Milt Windier, in about 15 minutes in the Houston
News Room. Back again in 50 minutes for the Hawaii pass
at 20:36 GMT this is Skylab Control.
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$L-III MC476/I
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mean time acquisition at the tracking station Hawaii in about
50 seconds.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii,
Go ahead Owen.
SPT Hello, Bruce I Just came up to the panel
Just a few minutes ago to take another look at the Sun here.
While I was doing S063 and I'm unable to get a picture on
the tubes. Could you check to make sure both of those sync
gens Jets are not turned on?
CC Okay, we'll check on that. Hold on, please.
CC Skylab, this is Houston we show no power
on TV BUS i. I request you stand by and not change the
configuration until we can correct this down a little further,
over.
SPT Okay, I'Ii tell you the only _ing that I did
in accordance with permanent general message number 004. I
was putting the console power distribution switches from
Bus i down to their Bus 2 position. I was doing that at night after
the last pass and that's the only panel power reconfiguration
that was done and perhaps this turns off the sync gen of
power in the process of switching down to Bus 2.
CC Okay; we copy that and will have an
answer for you momentarily.
SPT Okay.
PLT Bruce, you guys doing something with
the recorders.
CC Roger, Jack, we're dumping the data
voice recorder at this time, sorry about that.
PLT Okeydoke, I'ii wait.
PLT Will you let me know when it's ready,
please.
CC Roger, we'll give you a call.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for the SPT, we
request you stay off the DAS for a few moments here we're
going to up-linking a command of force to continue the
momentum sample since we believe that the vacuum venting on
MO92 has upset your normal mometum profile, over.
SPT Very, good I'm clear of it.
CC Hey, Owen this is Houston, we're finished
commanding and we have about 3 minutes left in this pass for
your general information.
SPT Okay, any thoughts about when TV Bus
power went off?
CC We're still looking at it.
SPT Okay, I'ii Just stay clear of the panel
until you give me a call I'ii go back down and work on
S063 for awhile.
SPT I'm reasonably certain that it happened
when I switched the H-ALPHA Bus from Bus i to H-ALPHA switch
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from experiment Bus i down to experiment Bus 2 there was still

the TV lines showing on the television monitor until that
switch was thrown down to Bus 2 and from the corner of my eye
I noticed a complete flicker on the monitor tube and after
that there was nothing visible. That was one of the reasons
I came back up so that's the place to look would be on the
H-ALPHA switch when it goes from Bus 1 to Bus 2.
CC Okay, understand that you had one of the
electronic (garble) showing or you had a full raster untll
that time_ over.
SPT Well it was a full raster except my
brightness level was very low so that I could only see it around
the edges but it was a full raster until I put H-ALPHA on -
I'm pretty sure it was H-ALPHA down from Bus 2.
CC Okay, thank you, Owen.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS
next station contact through Vanguard at 21:58 in 23 minutes,
over.
PAO This is Skylah Control; loss of signal for
the final pass through the tracking station in Hawaii. Next
station tracking ship Vanguard in 21 minutes. Science Pilot,
Owen Garrlott experiences some dlfficulities with the television
power systems for the ATM monitors. It is assumed that one of the
TV busses is damaged by the short circuit earlier in the mission
and the Flight Controllers here at the Control Room are not
certain at this time why the second bus does not stay on line
to provide power to the television system for pointing the
telescopes in the ATM 20 minutes away from tracking ship Vanguard
and at 21:38 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean tlme and 1 minute away from acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. And there will be a long dry spell of communications
after the LOS this pass. Next station after this will be
Vanguard again. One full revolution out of contact for space
station Skylab. Meanwhile on the ATM television bus problem
it has been - -
CC This is Houston through Vanguard for the
next 7-1/2 minutes for the SPT. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, say again please.
CC Okay, Owen, with regard to your TV problem.
The way things are wired up, the TV monitor sync generator
switch draws it's power from the H-alpha experiment sub bus.
And since the switch is in the off position and is taped in
that position, whenever you power the H-alpha bus up from a
power down configuration as you did by switching - the switch to
experiment bus 2, you initiate a pulse out on the llne from
the center position of that switch which commands both TV
bus 1 and TV bus 2 off. We're going to examine and rework
the procedures and permanent general message 4 to see if we
can work around this. For the time being, you can expect that
whenever you perform that action you will lose the TV bus power.
I'd llke you to go ahead and use the DAS command which is
10131, I repeat 10131 to reenable TV bus 1. Over.
SPT Just a moment. Okay, 10131, 10131 will
reenable power and one way around this, I suppose, would just
be to leave H-alpha 2 in the bus 2 configuration permanently
also. Would you llke for me to do that until you think about
it further.
CC Roger, Owen. We concur with that for the
interim and your DAS command readback is correct. Also,
for your information, we are going _ reenable the- reenable
gyro Y-2. So you will be in a Y-l, Y-2 with redundancy
management enable configuration. And our next station is
Vanguard, 4 rev from now. And since we lack a daylight
site or rev we're going to be in solar inertial between
Vanguards rather than experiment pointing. Over.
SPT Okay, now, do you want to use the DAS
for that right now or am I clear to go up and frame - turn
one the TV bus power now.
CC We're sending that command right now.
Where are you located.
SPT I'm down in the forward compartment, working
on SO63 so it'll take me - well, 15 seconds to get up there.
CC Say, Owen we don't need you to turn TV
BUS 1 on - at any particular time. You may do it at your
convenience and also the H-alpha switch to bus 2 at your
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convenience. Over.
SPT Okay, I'd just llke to get them out of
thy way. So I'll go up now and get the H-alpha to bus 2 first,
and then put in the DAS command.
CC Okay, Owen, we're not quite finished. Give
us a call when you get to the ATM and we'll give you our status.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, I'm up at the ATM panel now, and haven't
put H-alpha into bus 2,
CC Okay, and the DAS is yours and you can
command TV bus i back on 10131. Over.
SPT 10131 is entered in.
CC Okay, and telemetry shows TV bus i to have
been reenergized.
SPT Thank you very much, Bruce.
CC Roger; thank you. You caught us on that
one.
SPT I don't know how anyone would ever object, but
that's the way it's wired up. But anyway, it's - just glad to
have some fellas in the back room there who can figure it out
and I just seen the TV come back on now on the screen. And
for the moment, I'm going to put a piece of tape across that
H-alpha experiment bus switch. So we'll permanently leave
that down in bus 2.
CC Okay, have you got something_her than
a red tape, you might make it gray tape or something.
SPT They're all grey tape on the ATM panel
at the moment.
CC Okay.
SPT Maybe I ought to make them red though,
over on those power switches and the sync rood but they're
gray at the moment.
CC Yes, you guys might think -_ii whatever
is most convenient for you all, you're up there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have a
little over 1 minute till LOS Vanguard, next contact is Vanguard
in an hour and a half. One thing we'd like to check on
some time this evening, we'd llke to ensure that you get
pressure suit number 2 drying commenced at your convenience.
And also the LCGs should have been hung out to dry rather
than being trashed. We show that the location in EVA Checklist
D424 is wrong, it should be D422. Your EVA post-cue card
has the correct data on it. Over.
SPT Okay, the LCGs are out hanging to dry right
now and I'll make sure we're started on the second suit.
CC Okay, thank you, Owen.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS tracking
ship Vanguard. Vanguard again in an hour and 28 minutes.
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At this time the pilot, Jack Lousma, _ observing Commander

A1 Beau in the final run today of the MO92, inflight lower
body negative pressure and MI71, metabolic activity; medical
experiments. There was some discussion with _p COMM Bruce
Mackenlls and Science Pilot Owen Garriott on the difficulty
that Garriott had experienced over Hawaii in powering down
the ATM and he lost his ATM television BUS number I. And BUS
number 2 is suspected to have a short in it. And therefore,
it has been deadfaced but to avoid energizing that particular
BUS the power has been - is being routed through another circuit.
And it turns out that that BUS is wired into one of the experiment
buses, and in powerins down it sends an off signal over to
TV BUS number I. Garzlott was advised that by using the DAS,
or Digital Address System. He could reenable TV BUS number 1
and he did over Vangua:d and the telemetry showed a good
solid 28 volts on that BUS. Detailed procedures will be
worked up on the ground and teleprinted up to the crew for
making the workaround utilizing the one good television BUS.
Wardroom temperature, atmospheric temperature registered during
the Vanguard pass, 76 degrees Farenheit. Back again in an
hour and 25 minutes for the next Vanguard pass, the orbital
track on this particular rev starting now 12:31. Misses all
the stations. Misses Ascension, misses Guam and Hawaii, skims
down across the central Pacific probably the loneliest orbit of the
day for the crew of Skylab. Back in an hour and 25 minutes
at 22:11 Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 23:35 Green-

wich mean time, acquisition in about 30 seconds at track-
ing ship Vanguard. First tracking station in one whole
revolution for the space station Skylab in an hour and
a half.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Van-
guard for i0 minutes. Out.
CDR How're you doing, Bruce?
CC Oh, not a great deal for you Alan.
I was Just checking in for a 9 minute pass. I guess you
all are eating supper about now.
CDR Well, I'm eating and Owen's upstairs
fixing S063 and Jack's up in the forward - up in the MDA
I guess it is, doing some last minute thing there.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR We had a little problem with this
Nikon. We've got a brand new Nikon up there and we were
loading it, we had trouble loading it the other night and
finally got it loaded with visible. Now we're loading
it with dim light stuff. We finally Just gave up and
took out the film and looked inside, and on the bottom -
and you know this bottom part that engages the little
buttons and causes the inner cam to rotate?
CC Yes, I do. Open the cas - yeah, that's
the cassette opening mechanism.
CDR At the back of the cassette-openlng
mechanism was some epoxy that had dropped in there so it
wasn't allowing the - the film - film cassette to seat
well enough. It seated well enough to look llke it was
in there, but it Just wasn't enough to rotate because
then it would push it against the lens you know. So
we scraped it out with the ole' pocket knife and it works
llke a charm now. I don't know how it could get epoxy
in there. At least it looked like epoxy.
CC Okay. I understand you fixed it with
Swiss Army knife serial number 001 or something llke that.
CDR That's about it. Have them put it under the
ole' housekeeping tab. Say, let me mention a couple of
things about the housekeeping pads. I did this - I don't
have my book with me hut the - I mean it was 4-C. The
only ones that you ever clean in here are in the other -
in the - Doc Hudson ought to rewrite those procedures.
You clean the screens in the waste compartment. But
you don't turn off the fan when you do it because if you
do all the stuff falls out. So you leave the fan running
and clean that one. You clean the big screen up on the
top of the dome because it collects most everything up
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there. And then you clean the little screens that are
with the - the fans in the MDA - the individuals ones, you
know, llke the one blows the - in the CSM? And there's
two other little individual ones. Now, the ones that go
into the MDA heat exchanger, whatever the name of that is
exactly, and the ones that go into the 0WS aft heat ex-
changer - the mesh is so big that it never catches any-
thing there. So those should just be removed from the
cleaning and then you'd end up with three categories. At
least in that group. The head, the main screen in the
dome, and then there's the little screens up in the _[DA
on those three fans up there.
CC Okay, we copy that. And I guess you -
you do wind up with debris in the solids traps when
you change them out. Is that correct?
CDR Yeah. Ehose are - those are a
different housekeeping number. You sure do.
CC Roger. I understand.
CDR And well, I'm thinking only of this -
chose particular cleaning tssks that I had today. Some
of them could be removed from the checklist. They just
don't - they're not real.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
CC And for the PLT if it's convenient.
We have two small tasks for you. Over.
PLT Go ahead_ Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. Panel 207, we'd llke to
reenable the following cautlcn and warning inhibit switches:
sieve A gas flow, sieve B gas flow and sieve A the PPCO.
111 run that by again. That's sieve A gas flow, B gas
flow, and A partial pressure CO2. Over.
PLT Okay, that's done. What's next?
CC Okay. On panel 206, on your reg adjust
Bus 2 pot. That's the big knob I believe. We want you
to adjust it clockwlse approximately 20 degrees, untll
the Bus amps PCG totals 2 current increases by i0 amperes.
This is for Bus 2 only. Over.
PLT Okay, I increased it from 30 to 40 amps
on the PCG total 2 and that moves the dlal from 2:30 to
3 o'clock.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC And for the information of the SPT, we're
81ng to reenable the experiment pointing during this pass.
CDR He heard you and said "okay." Thanks
for the information. As soon as I finish eating I'm going
to go up and run that PT 02 troubleshooting procedure.
And I'Ii probably be giving you a call then, - not after
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too many more passes with whatever occurred as a result of

it.
CC Okay, we'll he standing by. Just for
your information, the pass at 01:13, which is third pass
from now, will be the evening status report - fireside
chat.
CDR Okay, thanks Bruce. How long is that
from now, you say - time?
CC It's about an hour and a half. It's
the next time over Vanguard, which welre over now.
CDR Good enough. We'll sure be ready.
CDR I'd llke to pass some information to
the flight planners if I can, Bruce. Namely that Owen is
still working on 63 and he hasn't had a chance to eat yet,
nor do his VT. Ne's got an ATM pass coming up here, and
he's going to do that. And then he's going to eat (garble)
but I guess it's a plea. The first time we do any of
these things like S063 or anything else for the first
time - we talked about this, but they're never - we're
never able to complete it the first time on time. Once
we've done it once and found all the parts, then it's
okay, we can . .. those squares but boy, you Just can't do it
the first time. You just have to hunt all over for things.
CC Okay, we copy that, Alan. And do
you have any feel for percentage increase or anything
like that? We have a hard time keeping track of exactly
how much time you've spent on something on board. Over.
CDR That's true and that's our fault. We
don't always keep you informed. My guess is before we
launched it was something llke 30 percent. My guess right
now, the first time you do a_ything you ought to have
closer to a hundred percent more time. And then once
you've done it it can go right then, immediately back
to the - whatever the can number is. In fact I think
one of the mistakes that we made on planning our flight
as it's going at the moment, is asking them to start us
out llke Pete was on day 16. The thing that we ought
to realize, and I realize it m lot now, is that by day
16 we'll be going like nobody's business up here. But
you sure can't pull that off on day 2, 3, or 4, because
you Just don't - you lose things, you don't know where
to stand, and you don't even know where your triangle
shoes are and they're not adjusted right. And there's
a million things that come into play at the same time
you're trying to do an experiment that you know, that delay
the experlments. And after you' ve done it once you' ve
located them all and you've spent 30 minutes trying to
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get your triangle shoes adjusted off and on, you know,
and finally you get them right and then you quit foolin E
with them. But when you first get up here, all that stuff
Is - -
CC Break, break. Okay, we've got 9 seconds
to LOS, A1. We'll be dumping your tape recorder over the
next site, which is Ascension. AOS Ascension in 5 minutes
at 49:25. We can continue there if you llke.
CDR Okay, Just talking. Bye.
CC Roger. Sorry about that.
from tracking ship Vanguard and we're about 2 minutes out
from Ascension Island. Skylab Commander A1 Bean grousing
a little bit about how long it takes to do some of the
tasks onhoard the space station early in the mission un-
tll they find and recall where everything is and where
to stand and how to go about accomplishing these tasks
then they begin to pick up speed. Standing by at 1 minute
and 40 seconds away from acquisition Ascension. Be a
lO-mlnute pass across Ascension with about a 36-minute
gap to the next station at Guam.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 18:48 CDT to 11:23:48 GMT
8/7/73
PA0 Any further questions? Thank you.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension.
We've got you here for the next i0 minutes and standing by.
CDR Let's talk a little bit more about what
we were talking about a second ago. It sort of turned out
that because you don't have any morning and noon and evening
up here. It's - And inside you're really sort of isolated.
You can end up, you know, around lunch time you just keep
working because you want to finish something and in about
three hours later you suddendly discover it's 3 o'clock or
it's 3:30 and you haven't even eaten lunch yet. Same thing
wltil dknner, and it really fouls up your digestion and fouls
up tile medical experiments. So you really - What I've found
out has occured a little bit, is except for some sort of an
emergency that the two things that are holding the highest
priority are excercise and eating on time. (Laughter) And -
And all the time the flight plans don't fit it. Now if you've
got an EREP pass you go ahead and make it but the minute it's
over and you shut the equipment down, before you unload it
or anything else, if it's pass mealtime you run and eat. Because
you've got to get that noon meal around noontime. You've got
more than enough work to work straight through to sleep and
never eat. And if you don't watch yourself you will. We did
the first three or four days. We were eating at crazy hours
and all sorts of things, and it really is something that you've
got to watch very closely, I think. And now, we're trying
to eat meals kindaof on time, at least between 12:00 and i:00
or 6:00 and 7:00. Just find a break point and just break and
eat, and then when you've finished eating go back to where you
were and get on it again. But whatever you do don't miss
the three. And in somehow getting in some exercise before you
go to sleep. And if those things are out of the way, then the
rest of the time we've been u_ing - has strictly been doing
experiments or, you know, cleaning house or something.
CDR The living up here has been a lot different
than I personally imagined it. It's - One it's a lot more fun.
But there's Just a lot more housekeeping to do. You end up
with all sorts of cans. You know this can place where we
put all the empty cans. We end up emptying all six of
those cans once a day, Bruce. And I guess in my mind I thought
we were going to do it about once every three or four days.
And you've got about four or five bags of trash every day.
It's just fantastic the total amount of housekeeping you do.
Makes you appreciate your wife.
CC Roger, Alan. We copy all that and
we'll pass that on. You know, we got somewhat the same
problem down here. We can't see the sunshine from outside
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the Control Center either. So we occasionally send somebody

outside to see if it's daylight out. Over.
CDR That's right. And I suspect if you' re
not careful, you can get your meal schedule fouled up and
then you - you know, and then it just doesn't work right. You
got to have something kind of timed so that the rest of it
falls into place.
CDR I tell you another interesting thing.
I think - I think I personally had more fun on this thing
than the lunar mission. It's been a lot more fun. You're
- you do things repetitively, and flying around inside this
workshop is really a ball. The command module zero g is
okay. But there's no where to go, and you can't zoom along.
Here when you can zoom 40 feet and that's what you do normally,
like when we were EVA prepping the other day, it - it's quite
fascinating. And you get row where you don't - you don't ever
go by handhold anywhere. _ou always grab and push off, kick off,
or something llke that. And you don't try to be too accurate
I've noticed. You just tend to head in that direction and then
if you don't quite make it you just kind of ricochet off, you
don't bump into it but you _Ise your hands or your feet to
kind of give you a mid-cour[_e correction or two. And so you
end up headed towards - head first sometimes and then feet
first and then by the time by the time you get there you kind
of belly towards it. And it seems to be very natural and it's
a lot more fun, because you can sort of utilize all the
space that's here. The whole three dlmenslons. You
can cover and go to the top of the water tanks and then down
to the wardroom and then back up to the MDA all in
just a matter of 20 seconds. And it's easy and a lot of fun
to do.
CC Roger; we copy that, AI. And it's really
great to hear you guys talking like that as opposed to the
way you were feeling a few days ago. Looks llke we got a
real fine mission coming up.
CDR Yeah, we think so. We were feeling awful
poor for about three days here. But we knew that it's bound
to get over with and it did. And, yes, we're having a ball.
Okay, I got to get back to work.
CC Roger; out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two minutes to
LOS. We have completed dumping your voice data tape recorder.
Next station contact is through Guam at 00:34 in approximately
36 minutes. Out.
CDR See you later then, Bruce.
CC Roger; Roger.
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through _ tension Island station. A1 Bean's comments across
Vanguard and Ascension have got to be some kind of new record
on length of time a person has talked continuously over a
ground station in Earth orbit. Next station coming up in
33 minutes will be the Guam Island station. And at midnight
Greenwich mean time this Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC480/i
Time: 19:32 CDT, 12/00:32 GMT
8/7/73
PAO This is Sky lab Control; 32 minutes past

midnight Greenwich mean time. Acquisition at Guam in about
a minute space station Skylab now crossing over the islands
of Japan about midway through revolution 1232. Standing by
for Guam.
CC Skylab this is Rouston through Guam
for 9 minutes out.
SPT What are you guys doing to my spacecraft?
CC You tell us and we'll try and answer
your question, over.
SPT Sorry, Bruce, I meant to be asking A1,
I Just got the wrong button.
CDR Okay, Bruce let me tell you the results
of this troubleshooting on the PPO2 sensor.
CC Fire away, we're listening.
CDR Okay, question i: visually inspect
sensor receptacle using flashlight for (garble) connectors
pins or damaged metal, . .. Everything looks good on both
the sensor and in the little receptacle I've used more than one
sensor to make sure it wasn't the sensor problem and none
of the sensors will rotate in that particular position 2
Okay, number two is self explanatory. Number three: it works
and the unrotated position, I do notice however, sensor i
shows 3.6 is the partial pressure, 2 and 3 show 3.4. Four:
if sensor functions properly leave in place. Tape in place
if required; record sensor serial number now I
can do that no trouble. It says if sensor 2 does not function
properly panel 225 02, N2 control system monitor switch 3.
Now the monitor has been in i and 3 - all right it has
been in control 1 monitor 3 since we had the problem and
that's where it is now. Do you want me to return it to 2
even though this is a little unusual?
CC Okay, we're working, I'ii be right back
to you.
SPT Hello, Bruce -
CC Hey, AI, answering your question that's
affirmative. We'd like to be sensor i control, sensor 2
monitor, over.
CDR Okay, and I'ii tell you a little bit more
about it in a second.
CC Okay, go ahead, Owen.
SPT Some information for the ATM people
I keep ... on the panel I guess about oh well 20 minutes
ago and took a look at active region 85 again as soon as we
keep around on the sunny side. And the configuration again
has been changed with the one dark spot nearest the west edge
and then three trailing spots off to the west or off to the east
rather. And there were a number of bright points scattered
around particularly the center of those three trailing spots
in sweeping over them with detector number 3 on SO55, there
were extremely large contrast as where as the count was llke
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i00 off the bright point it was as high as 5000

just a few are seconds away on top of the bright point.
So I interpret these very small points as Allemand bombs.
If they weren't I'd appreciate them telling me what they are.
And I proceeded to take some data on them what I did first was a
couple of mirror llne scans for 55 across this bright spot and
they can see the contrast there. Then ran a grating auto
scan and then in abbre - abbreviated mirror auto raster to
cover the entire region there. At the same time I took one
frame of 82B number 1520 2.40 - 2-minute and 40-second short
wavelength exposure for 82B. So I think they might
find that data quite interesting and I'd appreciate hearing
their comments about it after they have the time to look it
over. Now the other thing- -
CC Okay, Owen, we're relay that to them and
do you have anything further on the 02 system, AI.
CDR - - isn't that important. What I did was change
sensor from 3 to 2 to see if it still indicated 3.6 there
and it does. So I'm going to go ahead and put sensor - let me
tell you I'm going to rearrange the sensors and then I'ii
tell you which is in where, by serial number just a second.
CC Okay, Owen, while Al's working on the
serial numbers, if you want to continue we're all ears down
here.
SPT Nope the only other thing that I had
in mind was letting them know that I'm not on the standard
filament 23 working the - program JOP at this point.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Okay, this - I'm swapping these around
so there's going to be a change or two, from what I gave you
the other day when we did it. Sensor i is going to be
number M031.
CC Roger.
CDR Sensor two is going to be number 39.
CC Say again the number please, and for the
ATM operator we have a Y-2 gyro factor ready to come up if
you'd stay off the DAS for a minute, please.
SPT We' ii be clear.
CDR Okay, number two is going to be serial
number 39.
CC Roger.
CDR And number three will be serial number
50.
CC Okay; we copy.
CDR And for the fellows EGIL who's familar with
how these looks. They are - on the end it faces outdown -
outward where the - I assume that as the oxygen is ascends
there's a little plastic X or cross that sort of protects
it. When I inserted number 50 the other day I broke the
little cross it didn't appear to have any effects on the
sensors ability to sensor 02 or anything llke that. How - I
put it in two then because two wasn't being used what I did
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now is I'm moving it to three since it doen' t like we're using

three at the moment but it looked to me llke it functioned com-
pletely normal - normally.
CC Roger; we copy, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're through with the
iI_ad [or Y-Z the DAS is yours again. We have 2 minutes
uut[I LOS at (;uam next station is Vanguard at i plus 13
where we will he expecting the evening status report, over.
SC Roger.
through the Guam Island station 29 minutes to tracking ship
Vanguard and the evening status report. And from the air
ground communications it sounds as though Science Pilot
Owen Garriott must have talked Pilot Jack Lousma out
of his turn at the ATM. Lousma was scheduled on today's
flight plan to be running this ATM pass, Garriott has done
four previously today and had another one scheduled just
before sleep time and if he does it, he will have done six
ATM passes today. And in 28 minutes we'll back for tracking
ship Vanguard and carry over through Ascension, Canary and
Madrid at 45 minutes past midnight Greenwich mean time.
Skylab Control.
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mean time. In 30 seconds, coming up on tracking ship Vanguard,
_nd the Evening Status Report. We'll stand by for this pass
a,d we have acquisition now it seems.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard
for approximately 10-1/2 minutes. Standing by for
the Evening Status Report. Over.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Urine volume:
CDR 102; and 050; 140. Drinking water gun reading 4754; 7860;
5669. BHHD readings 6.236_ 6.239, 6.237; 5.962 - -
CC Skylab, this is Houston.
CDR - - 5.962, 5.961 - -
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston.
CDR - - 6962, 6956, 6955.
SC Say, AI, they're trying to interrupt.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two of you
are talking at once. Somebody's got a key button taped
down. Can you go over and pick up again after the drinking
water gun readings?
CC Skylab, this is Houston. (garble) If you
copy we were getting two of you transmitting at once. Sounds
like someone has a button taped down. Can you pick up again
with the CDR body mass measurement readings. Over.
CDR Okay, just a second. We're going to
try to work out the comm thing here for you, Bruce. Just
a second.
CDR Okay, here goes the BMMD again, Bruce.
CC Go.
CDR 6.236, 6.239, 6.237; 5.962, 5.962, 5.961;
6.962, 6.956, 6.955. Exercise - so far we've got a couple of
171's one on me one on Jack. You know the protocol there.
Nobody else has exercised. Now let me give you a couple
of other things that Jack's done so far. He's over there
exercising right now. Here it is. 2/25/5000, and that
includes the 171 work. Next, 3/20/ mark i, and here's our
mark i for you. 50 A's, 20 D's, 20 B's, and 20 back bends.
Medications, none, and here's the sleep, 4-1/2 G; IF. That's
for the CDR. SPT, is 6-1/2 G. PLT, 6 G. And comes to
the food log. CDR, 3 salts, and the only deviation was to
add a strawberry drink. SPT, only deviation was to add the
coffee. And PLT, omit the bread and tuna and add two apple
drinks. Here comes the photo log.
CC Stand by on the photo. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, photo log: H51 - this is 16-milimeters-
H516-i. C139, 00, CI13. M487-4E, CI18, 00, CI17. MIbI-MO92-
17], C124,00, CI19.
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CC Roger t we got all that.

CDR Okay, 35-milimeter: CX2817, 70-milllmeter:
CXlI076. No ETC today, nor EREP. Drawer A configuration
as follows: 02, C124, 00, CI19; 03, CII8, 00, CII7, 06CI39, 00,
CII3, 05, C141, 19 - that isn't very right, let me do it again -
05,CI41, 99, CII6. And at the back we had 07, C140, 95, CI09.
CC Okay, we got all that, AI.
CDR Okay, here comes - Flight Plan looks good
for us tomorrow, we're going to be ready to get that EREP.
Everything else is copasetie, looks llke we had some exercise
planned that we can make tomorrow too and that's good. I want to
tell you what the sensors are again so that we don't get it fouled
up, 02 sensors. In 1 it's 31, in 2 it's 50, and in 3 it's
39. Now I thought about running the 02 sensor verification
gas that's housekeeping 60 or 70 or something like that, but
[ did not because I wanted to check with you. Thing like that
might be rather a suspiciouB thing to do under the circumstances,
but I'll just wait until you decide for me to do it or not.
CC Okay, we copy 131, 250, 339. This is
different from what you voiced down to us last time. Over.
CDR That's right. I rearranged it so we had
the two that agreed the closest on 1 and 2 that's the ones
we' re going to use.
CC Okay, we've got 4 minutes till LOS and
if you' re through with the status items we have some questions
for you.
CDR Let me give you a couple more. The shopping
list accomplished today. One was the teleprinter change
output with the forms. Inoperable equipment with the tele-
printer. Lunch scheduled stewage item changes were three
strawberry drinks, from 5:50 - to drink it.
CC Roge r.
CDR Go ahead now - go ahead.
CC Okay, first question concerns the teleprinter.
And what we'd llke to try to do is find out - a little more
about failure mode. The rubber grommet which is the drive
grommet for the cartridge is mounted on a bushing, which in
turn is mounted by set screws on the drive shaft. The rubber
is made to the bushing via a sernated edge and is also glued
to it. I guess the question - there are three of them really -
One of these is - one of the above type situations - -
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CC - - glued to it. I guess - the ques-

tions - there's three of them really. I guess it's - one
of these - it's a one-of-the-above type situations. Is
the rubber bushing itself, loose from it's bushing, or is
the bushing with the rubber attached to it loose on the
shaft so it can slide on the shaft, or is the shaft itself
loose so that it is moving from side to side within the
teleprinter mechanism? Over.
CDR The rubber bushing has come loose from
its serrated whatever you call it. In other words, the
rubber itself looks llke the glue broke free or wore out
alld then the rubber bushing just moved off its serrated
ed_e. Now we pushed it back on the serrated edge and it
worked for about half a pad, but then it just unwound
again and ran into the case itself.
CC Okay, realizing that you probably don't
have anything onboard to do the _job, if you could glue it
would that be affixed? That is, is that the proper mech-
anism to address. Over.
CDR I would say that's exactly right. We
moved it on and - it looks like if we could have glued it
on and let it dry real good it would have worked. But
you're right, no glue at the moment.
CC Okay, I was just trying to make sure
that we were talking the same language here. For the PLT,
it was stated that he had noted in his checklist the ad-
justments he made during the thermal alignment on S192.
When he as a moment and is off the bike and everything,
we'd like you to record this information on channel B so
we can retrieve it later.
CDR Okay, we'll have him record that, Bruce.
And I think he heard it. I'ii go tell him if he didn't.
And the next thing - Owen, and I don't think it was all
in fun, said shedding that material that he has that he
puts on his sleep cap, because that acts llke glue in his
hair. And it may be that stuff is pretty good glue.
CC Okay. We'll check it for you. In ref-
erence to the dry swabs. The four large 6 by I0
metal foil outer patches each containing - pouches each
containing 25 prepackaged swabs were launched on SL-II.
How many of these large packages are still unopened? Over.
CDR I'd have to go up and look for that one
for you, Bruce.
CC Okay.
CDR I'ii look and tell you later.
CC Right. Don't go - -
CDR My guess is about half of them. And it
seems to me that we opened a new one to work on the
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teleprinter, - I mean not the teleprinter, but the EREP

Iapu, and they had dry ones in it but let me go work the
problems a little bit.
CC Hey, don't go look at it just now, AI.
We've got about 30 seconds to LOS. Next station is
Ascension with an AOS 6-1/2 minutes from now. What we'd
like you to do when you do look at it is see if - okay,
the reported dry squabs - swabs, are they from the large
6 by I0 metal foil pouch previously opened on SL-II,
or from the ones that you opened on this mission? And I
guess if you opened more than one package the answer to that
would have to be yes. And do the swabs become dirty when you're
attempting to clean . .. ro]lers with them even though they
are dry. Over.
CDR The answer to the last question is
they become a little bit dirty but you have the feeling
that you're just rubbing them with dry swabs where if
you had some nice material in the swab you could do a
much better joh of cleaning.
CC Okay, we'll see you over Ascension.
CDR (Garble) You bet.
from tracking ship Vanguard and the evening status report.
And while A1 Bean was talking on the air-to-ground you -
one could hear the bicycle egometer being peddled madly
in the background by Pilot, .lack Lousma, doing some late
evening physical training exercise. Five minutes to
next station at Ascension. And there's no real need to
shut down the line for that short of gap when compared
to Apollo transearth and translunar coast when we left
the line up for hours at a time. Standing by for Ascension
acquisition.
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PAO Skylab Control; we have acquisition at

Ascension .
CC This is Houston, through Ascension and
Canary for 14-1/2 minutes. How do you read over?
CDR Read you real well, now. Here's the answer
to the question. I went up there and there was one pouch
open. There were two pouches closed. The one we've been
using according to Jack Lousma were the pouches that had been
open before however each individual swab is sealed so I
opened one of the other two pack - other two bags, opened the
swab in there and found them to have some moisture on them. I
don't how much they should have but these are slightly moist
not very though.
CC Roger, AI, we copy and was the cleaning
of the tape recorder accomplished strictly with dry swabs or
did you have some moist ones and in conjunction with that, do
you feel that it's satisfactorily clean for the EREP pass
tomorrow, over?
CDR Answers that it is satisfactorily cleaned.
We used much more swabs and elbow grease than we normally
thought we should that's why we commented about the swabs.
However, tomorrow before we run the thing I think Jack has a
tape load tonight or maybe tomorrow and we'll give it another
cleaning.
CC Okay.
SPT (Garble) .
CDR Is it nice and clean, Jack.
PLT Yea.
CDR Okay, I guess you heard that, Bruce.
CC Roger, we copy Jack saying yes on Q and
I guess in the future if you've located some that are at
least slightly moist why you can use them until we make up
our minds what to do about other procedures to help you out.
Over.
CDR All right.
CC And another - -
PLT So far I've found are the ones in the
data pouches that were launced are wetter than the ones that
were brought up later.
CC Roger. And for Jack what was the uature
of the difficulty was it mechanical or procedural. With
the OWS forward hatch during yesterday's EVA. And how did
you solve the problem? Over.
PLT All right. It was not mechanical and
we solved the problem procedurally and the hatch is in good
shape.
CC Okay, we copy. And-
CDR About ready to proc - -
CDR Say, Bruce I got a little ahead on the
procedure and I read it to him out of step which caused him
to get those handle sequences out of step. I then went to
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the procedure that you use when you finish EVA we put it
in the configuration it should have been after EVA and then
we went back to where we were and went through it properly
so he was following my instructions I Just got them out of
order.
CC Okay; we copy. We Just wanted to make
sure there wasn't some sort of mechanical hangup that we
ought to get cracking on developing a workaround for down here.
And another couple of questions this time on corollaries.
What is the status of the M509 battery number 7 check and
did you complete 509 bottle top off today? Over.
PLT The M509 battery check was positive and
that was put on the tape recorder last night and the only
other item that I was ab - unable to get accomplished today
was the 509 battery top off and so you're going to have to
plan it tomorrow or some other time.
CC Okay, we'll do that. That's not a time
critical item. And for the SPT, have you operated the
Polaroid camera and the persistent image scope if so would
you comment on their usefulness break - break we got 30
seconds to hand over, so why don't you hold your answer
until I call you through Canary. Over.
SPT The answer is negative. Not yet. That'll
take care of it.
CC Okay, we got it,
CC And after hand over I got some questions
on the pole operations.
CDR Okay, we'll be here.
CC Okay, here we are back again through
Canary Island. It says a relative distance - relative to the
22-foot diameter of the OWS. Would you estimate the distance
between the pole tips at the leading edge, i.e., the aft
OWS end of the sail. Over.
PLT Now, say that question again. What points
do you want to have estimated, Bruce?
CC Okay, in relation to the 22-foot diameter
of the workshop how far apart are the poles tips at the far end.
That is near back toward the refrigeration system radiatior.
Over.
PLT I'd say they're 20 to 22 feet I couldn't
detect any bend in the red pole and the right pole might have had
a slight bend in it but it was almost imperceptible particularly
since the pole was also bent in the longitudinal direction to
hold it down against the workshop.
CC Okay, so you figure they're about the
distance equivalent to the diameter of the workshop apart
out is that correct?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, do the reefing lines keep the
sails spread out that the trailing edge that is the edge
up toward the ATM satisfactorily. Over.
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PLT Yea, it looked llke to me that the

reefing lines spread it but it could have stood some more
spreading if we could have got them out at some point
that was wider. Wider in diameter.
SPT Just a second, Bruce. Jack could I
refresh your memory or ask you again. Seems llke when we
were out there you were commenting about the fact that there
was a little more of the parasol showing up at the OWS
end than there was up by the alrloek module end, and _f that
is so then it would mean that it was probably not quite a
workshop diameter.
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CDR for the parasol showing up at the OWS

end than there was up by the airlock module end. And if
that is so, then it would mean that it was probably not
quite a workshop diameter. Remember that?
CC Okay, we copy that down here on the
ground. Another question, were the reefing lines cinched up
so that some tension remained in the lines? This should tend
the pole tips apart if they were bowed together. Over.
CDR Yes. We cinched them up tight as we could
get them at the time, Bruce.
CC Okay, and that left some tension in them. Did
the sail appear to be symmetrical about the center line of tile
workshop as you looked down it. Over.
PLT I thought it did, the parasol was a little
caddywampus underneath it. It appeared to me that the parasol
was just a little bit wider - covered a little wider area
than the sail did and that on the leading edges on my left
as I was looking aft, you could see about 2 to 3 feet of the
parasol extending beyond the sail. And on the right side
on the leading edge it appeared to be about even. On the
trailing edge the sail overhung the parasol by a foot or two
on the right side and on the left _ide on the trailing edge,
the parasol seemed to underhang the - the - or extent beyond
the sail about 1 to 2 feet, maybe Owen's got some more numbers
on that.
CC Okay, we copy that. To what extent did
the poles have a tendency to cone when you were handling the
55-foot length and also when you were trying to insert them
into the base plate. How did that go? Over.
PLT I didn't notice any coning at all and
they went in very smoothly - It was just like sticking a
broom stick down in a hole.
CC Okay, great. Could you compare the
dynamics in handling of the poles in zero g with the tests
set up you observed in Huntsville, with the poles suspended
on a strings? Over.
PLT I thought the demonstration at the - at
the Marshall in that regard was very worthwhile, although
we put a lot more dynamics into the pole there in that test
than we ever got in the - in the pole up here. And Owen was
watching the pole was able to see it as it was moving than I
was so he's probably got some comments on it.
SPT Actually, the pole dynamics did not get
out of hand by any means at all. Jack was very slow and very
careful so there was never any appearane of any large angle
coning. It was clear that he could have done so if he had
wanted to. But he was being careful _ avoid it, and what
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there was, he could easily damp by just holding his hand

rigid and that damped out the energy in the pole very
quickly.
PLT I think it's also noteworthy to ploint out that
when we lowered the sail down on the parasol that part on
the leading edge of the parasol when it was blooming up and not
covering the workshop, came down and forward so that it exactly
covered the - the foil - as if it - as its original intent was.
CC Okay, we copy that. That winds up the
evening questions. Standing by for any comments from you or
I have a news summary I could read up to you in the 4-1/2
minutes remaining at Madrid. The next following station,
I'ii update you again on this, is Guam for your private
medical conference. Over.
CDR Okay, we understand. Bruce, let me give
you one other tidbit. You sent up in a message today that
you wanted to know how we liked the handlebars on I the bike.
CC Yes , sir.
CDR The answer is, we like them real well.
The reason is it allows you to position your body= relative
to the pedals anyway you want. You can lean forward and
pedal for a while, you can lean back and pedal for a while,
if you want to pull up tight you can move into a position
where you keep your arms slightly bent. If you want to
extend them, you can move to another position. Probably
the thing though is - we've been asing a wire tray on the ceiling
for a headrest - putting some put the pads between our heads and
that headrest, without those arm extenders that would not
be possible - or it would be poss£ble but not nearly so
convenient. So all in all, I think we've got the riding the
bike problem licked. We haven't had a bit of trouble riding
it. We ride it and sometimes we ride it without hands and
so - I think they can quit worrying about that one.
CC Okay, we copy your comments and I guess you'd
permit us to say that's using the old head. Over.
CDR The old what - -
CC Say again.
CC You ready for the news?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, cost of living council has announced that
phase 4 plans will allow all companies to boost prices about a
month before major firms. Break. A "don't-buy-anythlng-day"
boyscot - boycott sponsored by several consumer groups is
foundering. In the beef department the problem is simple, there
isn't much to buy. Break. The first phase in the Watergate
hearings ended today. The committee will resume hearing
testimony some time in September. Break. The Justice Department is
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investigating major oil companies who own discount stations

that compete directly with independent operators. Scientists
report success with the first implanted heart pacemakers
that can be recharged weekly through the skin. The rechargable
device is the result in part of the space-related technology.
I guess that was a commercial. The Agriculture Department
reported that the retail food prices could average 20 percent
higher this year than in 1972. Federal Power Commission
issued a new rate schedule today that will
double the price of natural gas produced in the Permaln Basin.
And wheat prices have moved above 4 dollars a bushel for
the first time in the history of the Chicago Board of Trade,
that's a 150 year history. The Commerce Department announced
that more than half of the 1973-74 U.S. wheat crop has already
been sold for shipment abroad. At Stanford, California
a controlled experiment showed that children who took massive
doses of vitamin C experience significantly less illness
than fellow students who took fake pills. And then an item
for Jack, the Friendswood City Council passed a special
resolution late Monday which will allow them to vote on the
community's 400,000 dollar water, sewage, drain system and
park land resolution. Dr. Kraft will forward your vote to
Mayor Elflow and a notarized statement on receiving it from
you over air-to-ground. The City of Houston still has most
of its revenue sharing money from the U.S. government. Only
2.3 million dollars and nearly 19 million has been spent.
In Taylor Lake approximately 6 million fish appear to have
been killed. This may have been caused by a chemical spill,
which may have killed algae resulting in a reduced oxygen
in the lake water. Spring Valley residents in Harris County
are promised that a flood control project will be launched
soon in Harris County and i0 more are eligible for
unemployment assistance. In Monday night pro-exhibition
baseball game the San Franslsco 49er's beat the Cleveland
Browns - excuse me - In the pro-exhibition game the San
Fransisco 49er's beat the Cleveland Browns 27 to 16. The
United States won their round with Chile in the Davis Cup
zone finals. In the longest set in Davis Cup match history Sta,
Smith and Eric Vandella won 39 to 37. The record-breaking _L_t
took 3 hours and 43 minutes. Break. Six new names have
been added to Baseball Hall of Fame and they are: Warren
Spahn, Roberto Clemente, Monte Irvin, George Kelly, and
Mickey Welch. Umpire Billy Evans was also inducted into the
Hall of Fame. Baseball last night, the Astros beat the
Cincinnati Reds by 5-4. Houston club is 13-1/2 games off
base, and leading the division are the Los Angeles Dodgers.
We've got 12 seconds to LOS. Next station is Guam for your
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private medical conference at 2 plus ii. Over.

CDR What's the space news?
CC You guys are still up there and feeling
a lot better and everything is coming along ticklboo as Pete
would say.
CC 25 minutes to AOS.
station at Madrid. Next station in 25 minutes will be the
tracking station on Guam Island, for the evening medical
conference. 24 minutes from now and at 01:46 GreenwLch
J
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 02:10 Green-

wich mean time, coming up on Guam Island tracking station
which is scheduled to be the flight surgeon's medical
conference with the crew. We'll stand by in case the
loop is handed back to the operations room. Standing
by at 02:10 Greenwich, Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
SPT Read you okay, Bruce. We couldn't get
the 56 door open again.
CC Okay, we copy. One thing we'd llke
you do is we're showing a possible leak through the M092
vent valve. We're showing decrease in thruster pressure
and PPO2. We'd like you to check that. We have about
25 seconds to LOS. The ATM TV down-link that we were ex-
pecting to receive over this site was not coming down
apparently because you have the switch in OWS instead of
ATM.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Let me tell you. The
MO92 valve's closed. I've dumped about 5 things out the
trash airlock within the last 30 minutes. Do you think
that could account for it?
CC We don't know. We'll take a look at
it. We've got 6-1/2 minutes until we get you over at
Honeysuckle. If you have a second you might check the
LBNPD vent valve and we'll see you _here°
CDR We checked it. It's closed.
CC Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've got about
a 5-mlnute break here between Guam LOS and Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia AOS which likely will be the final pass
of the evening if the crew observes their normal bedtime.
Space station crossing over New Guinea and will cross
over the very northern tip of the north island of New
Zealand on this pass during the mid-point of revolution
1233. We'll leave the line up for AOS Honeysuckle.
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PAO Skylab Control; about a minute out from

acquisition at Honeysuckle. Fairly brelf pass across
Honeysuckle only 2 minutes 49 seconds inasmuch as maximum
elevation is only 5 degrees. Standing by for Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Honey-
suckle short pass 2-1/2 minutes over.
CDR Okay, how's the pressure these day?
We checked both of our rate of climbs and they look good. We
(garble) there was a trash airlock dump.
CC Okay, we'd like you to confirm that
there is nothing in the mius Z cell the doors closed and the
valves are closed and all that. What we are showing is
consistent with something leaking out in the minus Z direction.
Ore r.
CDR Well, it's possible I finished dumping
the condensate tank a minute ago and l'm putting a vacuum
on i t now.
CDR I had noticed that the other night, every
night that I dumped the vacuum which has been oh every night almost
except last night there has been no comment.
CC Roger; we copy. And for your information
if there is someone at the ATM panel we will turn off the
power of the S056 doors and then reenable the primary motors
via ground command and then you'll go to reopen the door.
Ore r.
CDR We're all here -
CC Say again.
CC Say again.
CDR Go. Go ahead.
CC Okay. And also for your information we
have spun up Z-I and Y-3 rate gyros Y-3 is looking favorable
but we don't want to commit yet. Z-I is still no good.
CDR Okay, that's good. May I suggest
that - make a request.
CC Suggest to what?
CDR Okay, we got a message up herethat discuss
where to put the displays before display switches, at night or
during the day. We understand it. And also discuss the console
power distribution switches eight of them- that's eight of them
and where they should be. We'd like someone to send up a check-
list change to the unattended ops cue card both power down two
unattended and power from unattended. Address themselves to tile
12 - I mean those 8 switches there on console power and also the
lighting that tells us exactly how they want them because the
message is a little bit ambiguous.
CC Okay, we'll do that and I think we can
also Judge the flare from unattended cue card.
CDR That' s another good [dea.
CC We got 21 seconds until LOS next station
contact is tilrough Vanguard it will probably he tilt, last _me
of tile evening unless you want to stay up late. It's at
52 :49.
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PLT Okay, Bruce one other thing, Owen and I

are going to sit down and revise the dimensions of the sail cover_
and it would be helpful if you could tell us something on the
parasol. We thought it was maybe 24 by 22 and we think - I
think maybe I told you this the sail covers are a little more
than it really does.
PLT You compounded (garnle)
CC Okay, we've got the door commanding done
to the ATM and you should command the door OPEN as soon as
you're through with your data take box and we didn't catch
you on all that Jack if you're still up we'll get it at
Vanguard.
PLT Okay.
PLT Well, just before you turn in the numbers
on how much sail covers let them give you some more word on
them will you, I got to sit down and think back a little bit
I think that cover is quite 20 feet.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
from Honeysuckle one brief pass of 4 minutes and 23 seconds
coming up at tracking ship Vanguard. Final Vanguard pass of
the evening and likely the final call from the crew for the
evening as they begin their 8 hour sleep period. Seven and a
half hour sleep period correction. We'll be back for that
pass at 2:29 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
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mean time, 40 seconds away from acquisition, final pass
for the evening over Vanguard and the final conversation
with the crew. Meanwhile the Flight Surgeon, Dr. Paul
Buchanan has issued the nightly medical bulletin after
his medical conference which reads: "Skylab-lll crew
remains in vigorous good health and free of medical com-
plaints. The Commander, Captain Bean stated that he com-
pleted his M092 run today to a maximum Delta-P of 50 mil-
limeters as planned. The morale of the - all three crew-
men remains high.
CC - - read me? Over.
CDR Loud and clear here, Houston.
CC Roger, Skylab. This is your last pass
of the evening. To set your mind at ease on the apparent
cluster leak, the pressure drop has been less than i/i0
of 1 psi over the last 8 hours. You're cleared to go
ahead and turn in on the schedule. We were just tryinK
to isolate things when we were talking to you last station.
Also for this evening we have two gyros in the Y-axis with
RM enabled, so we'd llke to go ahead and inhibit the ACS
malf rate gyro switch on panel 207 up in the STS. And
in answer to your question regarding lighting for trouble-
shooting procedures. You can go ahead and use the head-
lamp from the IMSS kit if you so desire. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I don't know who had
that question. But, we'll inhibit that rate gyro and
did (garble) someone asked about using the headlamp?
CC That was an input from the surgeon
down here.
SPT All right.
SPT It's got me puzzled.
CC Roger, Owen. And I understand that's
the rate gyro switch on panel 207 caution and warning
inhibit. Over.
SPT Yeah. I understand, understand
PLT Bruce. ()wen and I got our heads to-
gether on what the sall is really doling out thL.re and we
decided that at the far end it does cover about 20 feet.
And at the near end it covers a little bit less - m_lybc
more like 17 to 18 feet. And it turns out that if there
was a wider place to which to put the reefing lines, you
would probably spread it out a little bit wider in the
front end, but it seems like it's not necessary. Because
when we put the - when I pushed the sail down - it squashed
the parasol out just as it would - the parasol would like
to be when it was initially deployed such that the parasol
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is now flat. And it covers any area that the sail doesn't
cover. So between the two of them - they' re either cover-
ing each other or covering the exposed area of the work-
shop.
CC Okay, we copy, Jack. Thank you very
much for the details.
PLT And we laid her down so that the poles
are touching the workshop at the far end and are bent a
little bit such that there's a clearance of about 8 inches
to a foot between the workshop and the poles, at the lead-
ing edge of the - the - of the parasol or sail.
CC Roger.
CDR Story, as far as I know, we've made no
input about using the surgeon's light for anything, although
I see it stashed over here by the metabolic analyzer and
has been since we came here. I assume Joe set it there.
CC Okay. Our understanding was that y'all
made the statement that you had inadequate light for
troubleshooting and we're merely saying that that piece
of hardware is available for your use as you dig into nooks
and crannies and whatever else you want to use it for,
should you desire to. Over.
CDR Oh, I get it now. That makes sense.
That's a good idea. Maybe that's why Joe had it out.
CC Well, I don't know. He was an M.D.
CDR Yeah. I'd asked Paul about - he was
asking about disability in here and I told him that it's
okay unless you want to get down and look at something
very fine and then it's hard to find a place with enough
lights. And I guess he came back and said that's one you
could use. So that's good. That's nice of him. Say,
another thought. How's the Delta- how's the cabin these
days - pressure?
CC We're coming up on LOS here. Cabin
pressure's okay. You only had a tenth of a psi drop in
the last 8 hours.
CDR Okay, well, now another question. 1
discontinued that condensate tank dump. How does the
Delta-P look now on the water plates_ et cetera?
CC Okay. Looks okay. Canary' s a[ ] I:0_.
Give us a call if you want to talk to us. Or do you w_.t
us to call you?
CDR Call us.
CC We' Ii do that.
CC Delta-P is 4.0 if you're still reading
US.

ship Vanguard. Canary and Madrid coming up in ll minutes.
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We'll be back at that time for the continuing conversation

from Skylab space station. At 02:59, Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control; at 03:10 Greenwich

mean time Canary Island and Madrid coming up in about 30 seconds
for a total pass time for about 16 minutes. And the
loquacious crew of Skylab space station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 14 minutes, out.
CC For your info the condensate tank Delta P
last pass was 4.0 psi.
CDR Sorry, Bruce I was riding the bike I
couldn't hear you, say again.
CC Oh, we didn't mean to interrupt you.
You had asked about the condensate tank Delta P near LOS and
the Delta P reading is 4.0 pounds per square inch. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you. That ought to last
until tomorrow night, I guess.
CC We certainly hope so.
CDR Wonder what's the highest Delta P they've
seen since we've been using this holding tank. Does anybody
remember?
CC We'll check.
CC Our records indicate 4.1 A1.
CDR Roge r.
CDR Hey, let me give you some additional
exercise.
CC You going to give us some exercise or
information on your exercise.
CDR Information on mine.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Two - this is in addition to the
171 run. 2, 15, 208, 3, i, 05, and that's 2 - what's 75 times 5?
CC One hundred and sixty five.
CDR That' s 425.
CDR And then I'm going to do 50 - this is a
type 3 MARK 1 take about i0 minutes and I'm, going to do 50 A's,
20 B's, 20 D's. So that would be my exercise for today. (Music).
CC Okay. We got that and 35 times 5 is
175 instead of 165.
CDR No, no, 1 mispronounced. I meant 75 times
5.
CC Oh, sorry about that.
CDR I do that arm exerciser on the pedal.
CC Right.
CDR Yea, you' re right is 375.
CC 375 , yea.
CDR Will be in a few minutes.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Madrid
1 minute and 30 seconds until LOS. This will he the final
station contact of the night unless you want to call us in
which case you can put i0,000 on the DAs do not enter we
will call you over Hawaii in the morning at 11:00 for your
nominally scheduled wakeup. For your information we are
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planning a tape recorder dump through Bermuda at 04:42 no

other dump scheduled during the evening so unless you have
something else to give to us it's time to say goodnight, Dick.
PLT Okay, Bruce thank you and in that dump you'll
find all the EREP dope that the guys wanted on the S192
alignment.
CC Roger. Thank you.
through the Madrid tracking station as the Skylab crew
signed off to sleep per chance to dream. Next station
Honeysuckle in 27 minutes. Signing off until 6 a,m. central
daylight time tomorrow at 03:26 Zulu, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours

50 minutes Greenwich mean time on Mission day 12. Skylab
is less than a minute away from acquisition at Hawaii. Capcom
Dick Truly plans to put in a wakeup call to the crew toward
the end of this pass, Just prior to loss of signal at Hawaii.
At about 6:00 a.m. central daylight time. We will come up
now and standby through the Hawaii pass, in case the crew
is up and wants to glve us a call here. Busy Flight Plan
for today. Earth resources pass number 5 scheduled, track
number 34 for that EREP pass, beginning off the coast of
Portland, Oregon, crossing diagonally down through the United
States over the Texas Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, into
South America . Five manned Apollo telescope mount opera
tion periods in today's Flight Plan, Commander A1 Bean
conducting 2 of them and Science Pilot Owen Garriott, 3 of
them. Also several medical experiments, the MI31 experiment
that studies the human vestibular reaction with Owen Garriott,
as the subject and Jack Lousma as the observer. And a run of the
MO92, 93. Ninety two is the lower body negative pressure. Ninety
three is the vector cardiagram measurement of the electrical
activity of the heart. This experiment also utilized the
bicycle ergometer. Garriott is, again, the subject for
this experiment, and Lousma the, observer. Couple of periods
set aside for troubleshooting of the condensate system and
mol sieve B fan. And the first activity today after presleep
activities, after breakfast and clean up, is a fire drill
and an emergency drill for a rapid drop of pressure in the
space station. I've got 7 minutes left in this Hawaii pass.
We'll stand by and see if we get a call from the crew before
Capcom Truly calls them. The Flight Director on this shift
is Phll Shaffer.
PAO This is Skylab Control. This morning's
Earth resources pass is scheduled between 10:51 and 11:26 a.m.
central daylight time.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had
loss of signal at Hawaii. Capcom did not give them a call
there, obviously. Goldstone acquires in about a minute and
a half. We'll continue to stand by. That call will be
going up at Goldston AOS.
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CC Good morning, Skylab, Houston. We're

AOS at Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over
Goldstone for 7 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
SPT Say, Dick. Are these temperatures
inside getting cooler today?
CC Roger. Let me check what we're reading
on our TM, I think they have cooled down since you got the
new shade out. Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. The
temps are coming down. They dropped about 2 degrees while
you were asleep. And the present average temperature around
is about 75 degrees.
SPT Okay. It sure seems that way. Last
night, I crawled into my sleeping hag for the first time
since we've been up here. Prior to this, I've Just been
sleeping under the straps, without being under any covers.
And alon E about the middle of the night, I got up sort of
chilly, so I crawled inside the sleeping hag for the first
time.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We're going to dropout for about 3 or 4 minutes
and I'Ii give you a call at Bermuda.
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had loss of signal. Bermuda will pick up Skylab in about
3 minutes. We'll keep the llne up and stand by for acquisi-
tion there. Science Pilot, Owen Garrlott, reportlnE on this
pass that he got chilly last nlght and for the first time
slept inside the sleeping bag. Prior to this he has Just
been using the restraining straps in the sleep compartment.
Average temperature inside the workshop, now, 75 degrees,
showing a drop since the twln-pole sun shade was deployed
during the extra vehicular activity Monday. We'll stand by
for Bermuda acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for
3 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab.
from LOS, Bermuda. We're going to drop out for a couple
of minutes, and I'ii call you at Canary.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary

and Ascension for 14 minutes.
CDR How you doing, Dick?
CC Real fine, and you? You've all been
busy since I've been on the console.
CDR Yeah. We've missed you.
CC Well, this team's been off and we've
been working some of those procedures, that we've probably -
(chuckle) you've been swamped with in the last 2 or 3 days.
CDR Well, that's okay. Everything went
well. We thought of a good special for TV for the people
down on Earth. Particularly the U.S. We'll show ourselves
eating steak later in the day.
CC That's a good idea.
CDR A little nastalgia.
CC Roger.
SPT Power dump's complete. Enable off.
Execute off. Real time back to Bravo, MARK.
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8 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
communications through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle.
We've got you for about 7 minutes. We are going to have a
keyhole that's going to start in about i minute and it will
last for about a minute, so I'ii give you a call out of
the keyhole.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston we're out of keyhole and
we still got you at Honeysuckle for the next 5 minutes. Not
sure what you guys are up to now, but at one of these passes
I've got 2 or 3 notes for the CDR.
CDR We were up to having breakfast but I'm
standing by to copy the notes.
CC Roger, AL. It's really just a couple
of questions for you. One is the subject of the overage
food transfers. You've asked a couple of times for some
time and we' re going to give it to you tomorrow a couple
of hours to get squared away on the overage food. And what
we were - in looking back over some of the transcripts we
were just interested in - in whether or not the time that you
had requested was just generally to get squared away because
of the funny menus that we've been forced to implement over
the last few days or if it was in response to a general
message that we sent up concerning the overage food transfer
for the extended mission days 57 and so forth. Over.
CDR It's the former_ but as we do it we'll
take care of the latter. So, what we really need to do is
have two men at least an hour together and that way it goes
a lot faster. It would take one man 3-1/2 hours to do it
I believe, but two men together could probably get it done
in an hour or hour and a half.
CC Roger, AI. We were - we were just trying
to understand so we can help you back - help you out about
that. And if there's any - I don't think there is, but if
there is any other help from us on that we'll - you'll get
it and you'll get the time tomorrow afternoon. Next thing
is you're detail pad today calls for S015 heater control
switch about the middle of the day, I'm not looking right
at it to be placed to off. And we'd sure appreciate your
noting the time when you do that and calling it down to us,
and that's for the biomed officer.
CDR Will do, Dick. Say, we been doing some
thinking also about our day off that comes up in 3 days, and
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CC Skylab, Houston, We're about 1 minute from

LOS. We're going to see you down at Carnarvon at 12:06.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC See you there.
PAO This is 8kylab Control. Ascension has loss
of signal. The Skylab crew rather quiet since the
wakeup call. They're busy with post sleep activities. They
sound in good spirits and ready to begin today's very busy
Flight Plan. At ii hours 39 minutes Greenwich mean time
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wanted to pass the word now so the flight planners can be

thinking about it. We thought what might accomplish our
aims and also be pretty good too is to - if there's an
EREP pass to do that, and then the rest of the day to do
ATM. And then try to do nothing else and then we'll take
a shower if we can and we'll get the place shipshape and then
we'll take a little time off too. If that's not possible
just let us know what the alternatives are. But it seemed
to us llke maybe we could - we're not behind an EREP but
we could make up some ATM and then get a little bit ahead
in EREP.
CC Roger, AI. Thanks for the input and
we'll get back to you on it. Incidentally we have been doing
some more thinking about those midcourses back in the
rendezvous and I have a couple of words for you but we have
a couple of questions we want ask too. And sometime today
you might whiz up and get the rendezvous book and help us
out. Stand by i, please. At any rate it turns out that
the mldcourse two Delta-V was almost exactly that that
would have been required to correct for about a 1.5 sigma
midcourse I. And our best guess at this time is based on
your reports and our monitoring the data is that the
midcourse i was somewhat in error. We can think of two
sources based - for this error based on what we think we
saw. First of all we saw 8 sextant marks and 5 _HF marks
for the first mldcourse. If it - if it turned out that
these were taken three sextant and then 5 each alternating
sextants and VHP the correlation is too tight by the time
the VHF comes in and errors result. So the first question
we have is do you remember your premidcourse 1 mark sequence?
The second possibility is_ if the midcourse 1 was not com-
pletely executed then the combinatio_ of M - midcourse
1 reslduals plus a midcourse 2 nay errors should produce
the midcourse 2 you computed and burned. SOs the next question
we have is what were the midcourse 1 post maneuver residuals?
And furthermore if you have the time we're wondering if
you could read us down your chart solutions for midcourse
1 and 2 and with this information we think we really can
nall it down. And Phil's team is on this shift and we'll
be getting off oh, about an hour and a half from now, so
if you could get that information this morning and get it
down to you we can get back to you on - on it.
CDR Okay, Dick. In response to that first
thing about the marks on the (garble), I really don't remember
that one.
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CC Break, break. Skylab, Houston. We're going

LOS at Honeysuckle. We'll see you at Hawaii.
of range of the Honeysuckle station now. Hawaii will pick
up the space station in 11-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours 17 minutes
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28 minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii is about to acquire
Skylab. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab , Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
about 8 minutes. And for Al's information, I lead him
right into that LOS after I got up my questions about the
rendezvous. We went LOS immediately and l'm not sure you
got my call. I didn't hear anything of your response.
CDR Okay. We'll give it to you in a minute.
We're working on something else, Dick.
CC Okay. No problem. The only other
note, AI, that I have is back to the subject of your day off
on mission day 14. The only thing right now, that we had
planned all ready to try to schedule for you is one trouble-
shooting procedure on the refrigeration system flush, on
the secondary system. And the reason we had to put it on
that day, was because we - because of the way the pass
coverage goes, and - cause we want to watch a small portion of
that procedure during STON coverage. But, other than that
we'll Just take your inputs and go from there.
CDR Okay. That sounds good, Dick. We just
like to keep - We don't want to mls_ any of these EREP passes,
because they're going to go away here before long. And we
need to get this ATM caught up. So we're going to keep
doing this on our day off. And then that still leaves us
plenty of time, individually, to take a shower and writing a
book, or get our personal effects shipshape, and things
llke that. So we'll get plenty of rest. At the same time,
I think we can get those things done, which are the - for as
time critical.
CC Roger. Understand.
CDR Okay. Let me give you the information
on the mid courses.
CC Okay. Go aLead.
CDR By the way, I went up and put in the
computer the pads you sent up this morning for verb 46, 45 -
correction 44. But I did not - I did Just as it said, but
I - When we do housekeeping today, I'ii do it over a sta-
tion and you all can check it, per the pad also. But I Just
thought I'd just have it in all day.
CC Okay. Real fine.
CDR Okay. Here's TPI-I, CMC solution, that
was TGI, let me give you mid course. Okay. Final comm,
minus 2.5, plus O, plus 610. Now, I don't remember what I
burned out of that. I know I burned that solution. But I
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assume I must have burned it down to 2, or 3, or 4 tenths,

you know, tried for 0.2 but it moves around a lot. So,
somewhere in that neighborhood, 2 to 3 or 4 tenths. I tried
to get it 2 and it may, you know as I punched it off, it
may have jumped to 4. Because, you think you've got it at
one number and then put it - Just as your pro in, it Jumps to
another. Sometimes it helps you and sometimes it doesn't.
TPM-I charge solution was plus all zeros minus 9. That
didn't appear too favorably with the plus 0.6 I had.
Okay. TPM-2 plus 8, plus 0.6 minus 3.0. So, thetis
80, 6 and minus 30. The charts were plus 35 minus 25.
CC Okay.
CDR I'd also like to know what you calculate
my closing velocity to be at each of the range gages.
The breaking ranging gages.
CC Roger, AI. Our tracking can give us
absolutely no data on that one. So we can't help you out
at all.
CDR Okay. I didn't know whether somebody
went back and looked at the thruster odd time, and things
llke that and said, well he was going this fast at that -
you know at that point or they had CSD data that would let
them know, or VHF would be in downllnk, because it was
working. Just - Just wondered. Got another request.
CC RoE. One more thinE, though. Do you
have any - Do you remember at all about the marking schedule?
CDR Let me get the Big O. He and I both
remembered, but it's hard to think back on it right now.
Seems llke a little while ago, that the first mark that went
in was a VHF mark. Now that may be wrong, but he mentioned
it and I kind of agree with him. I kind of remember it.
But, normally it isn't that way. Normally we get the sextant
mark first, and then get to the procedure of verb 87. But
let him talk. He's in the head in there.
SPT No. I'm upstairs now in the experiment (garble).
That's about the way I remember it Dick. It's pretty vague
at this point, but I seem to recall on the first mldcourse
the first marking was a VHF, and on our second mldcourse,
the first marking was a sextant. But, thetis only a recol-
lectlon from 12 days.
CC Roge r.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess the first thing
that comes to our mind there is, if the VHF mark was the
first one, we're wondering why there were only 5 VHF marks
compared to the 8 sextant marks, and how that got out of
sync?
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SPT That was something that I was wondering

about when you called it up a minute ago, Dick. I don't
know, but 8 sextant is about the right number. And of
course, we have no control over the VHF. And I don't know
why it would have stopped at 3 to 5 there, whatever you said.
CC Okay. Well, we got your answer anyway
even though it was several days ago. And what was your
question, AI?
CDR We'd appreciate if the ground could send
up once a week - take a look at the film we have on board
for out-the-window photography in the - both in the Hasselblad
and in the 35 millimeter, and also in the 35 millimeter for
interior with flash, and send us a little pad about once
a week that says, not the total that's left, but says, if
you shoot this many per week, next week and on through the
rest of the time, it would end up just right at the end of
the mission. We keep asking ourselves everytime we want to
take a picture out the window or inside or something, whether
or not we're ahead or behind the nominal. We don't want to
run out too soon, nor do we want to have a bunch left at
the end. And it seems that it might be a small matter for
the photo folks since they get the data every night. Once
a week, you send us a little pad and say take 8 out the
window in the Hasselblad this week, or however many it is.
And then we can kind of keep - You know, we'll kind of have
something to feel, some feel for the problem. Right now
we've sort of lost feel for how many we could take. We want
to kind of evenly space them.
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CC Roger, CDR, we'll sure do that and if the -

we'll think up some kind of a format, send it up to you and if
you'd like to improve on it, Just let us know. We're about i
minute from LOS in Hawaii and we'll see you at Goldstone
at 12:41.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii had loss of
signal. Goldstone will pick up in about 2 minutes. We'll
continue to keep the line up, stand by for acquisition to
Goldstone for this next pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for
6 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We've been looking over this new message.
Permanent general message number 5, and we're always in a
quandary when it says llke, pack your sample day 12. Now,
today's day 12, but we're sampling urine of day ii. Now, I
wonder if today's a half sample. Should we take a half
sample today or one tomorrow?
CC CDR, Houston. Today is the day to take the
one-half s amp le.
CDR Okay, Dick. We'll do that. Now this is
again exactly the opposite of the ground rules that we
worked out the last time we went through this thing.
Because on day 12 we'd take day ii samples. And we'd store
what we get today in the slot for day 11. And I'm not sure
that the - that everybody's on the same llne of thought on
what these messages mean. And we'll take half day samples,
half samples today, but it doesn't seem to match right.
CC Roger. Stand by i, please.
SPT One of the samples has already been complete
for today. The PLT has already made a full sample, which
was the original plan.
CC Roger, Owen, stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS at Goldstone. We're going to drop out for about
4 minutes and I'Ii call you at Bermuda, and we're continuing
to pursue the urine sample question now, and I'ii get back
with you as soon as we're AOS.
SPT Okay, keep in mind the fact that the PLT
has already got one full sample.
CC I understand, Owen.
CDR Yeah, Dick, and also if we days start ca]linp,
them certainly and putting them in slots with other days, it's
going to be a little funny, too.
CC Roger. I understand.
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range of the Goldstone station. Too far north for Texas
and Merritt Island. Bermuda will be the next station to
acquire in about 3 minutes. We'll continue to keep the
llne up and stand by for communications through Bermuda.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda for

i0 minutes. And for today's urine sample, Owen, we would
suggest that all three of you go ahead and take a full
sample since one already has, and that will certainly give
us time to consider your - there's a little bit of confusion
on the drawer and we'll have it squared away today, and we'll -
prior to tomorrow's sample. Take a full sample today.
SPT Okay, we'd appreciate that and also we notice
that the message requires a lot of reorganization of the
spacers of things in the cabinet. We would appreciate the
minimum reorganization in the stowage cabinet, as well as
clarity in the message regarding which days sample and
which day it is being taken upon - taken by.
CC Roger Skylab. We copy that and if you'll
take a full sample today, we'll have clear instructions
up there before tomorrow morning.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC498/I
Time: 07:57 CDT, 12/12:57 GMT
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CC Skylab, Houston, The startracker has

apparently wondered off some bright object and sometime
in the next 40 or 45 minutes we'd appreciate if one of you
guys goes by there if you'd reacqulre for us. The star tracker
pad that you have onboard is good. And we're really not
serious about really needing update until in preparation
for the EREP.
PLT I'ii go do it now.
CC Okay.
PLT Say, Dick, I was Just kind of wondering
if they've gotten any of their pp back from the sites yet on
the EVA?
CC That's affirm, Jack. We have, we were
playing a good bit of it back tonight and we saw some
yesterday and looks real good.
PLT Oh, I'm glad to hear that, thank you.
SPT I was wishing we could have taken the
TV out and given you a picture back along the workshop because
it was really a pleasant view - and be good to give you a good
info on how the sall went out but I was afraid we'd (garble) it
up, break the wire or lose it or something.
CC Well, it sure sounded llke a lot of fun.
And you guys sure set a long record that'll be a while to be
broken I reckon on staying out there.
SPT Yeah, we were out there quite a while
but seem to take all that time - We didn't want to hurry
and we thought if we'd rush through we'd have messed up
something and maybe only saved i0 minutes. So, I think
we were best off Just to take our time and make sure we
got everything right.
CC Roger. Certainly no doubt about that
it was a full working day outdoors.
PLT Okay, Houston. How do you like that star?
CC Looks like a good lock on. Thank you
very much. We're about i minute from LOS at Bermuda, and
we'll see you at Ascension at 13:08.
loss of signal. The next station to pick up Skylab will
be Ascension Island in 5-1/2 minutes. At 13 hours 2 minutes
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Ascension now.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS Ascension for
about 9 minutes.
PLT Well, good morning Crip°
CC Good morning. How are you doing, Jack?
PLT Very well.
CDR He says with a mouth full.
PAO This is Skylah Control. CAP COM now is
Astronaut Bob Crippen, and the Flight Director is Don Puddy.
CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC Good morning AI. How are you doing today?
CDR Everybody's doing great. We're getting
ready to do this EREP thing (garble). We suspect that on board
there's another power cable for the TV. We got two of
them presently connected to TV. We wanted to find the
third one if it's here, and connect it to this downlink box
for EREP and then we can leave it connected and save that
much time. We sort of looked around and couldn't find it.
Maybe somebody down there knows if there is, in fact, a
total of three up here. This is not counting the one in
the command module, which won't work, I think, down in the
workshop.
CC We' re looking at it.
CDR So far the only other stowage item that we're
a little bit mystified about. We found everything except
the other two bottles of vitamin pills. And nobody has
seen the second two. We remember getting the first one
out. We didn't see any second two - any second or third with it.
CC Okay, Got that.
CDR Certainly you sent us that information on an
uplink, but we can't find it.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can location for you.
CC CDR, Houston. On our first look here, it
would appear that all you've got are two TV cables in the SWS,
and the one in the command module, which of course is not
compatible with working down in the SWS.
CDR Okay, that's too bad. I thought maybe Pete
had left one up here when he left, cause we - maybe that's
what we did, maybe we only brought one and then we used tile
one he left. But in any event, I think that's some-
thing that SL IV crew is probably going to want to bring up
is an extra TV cable. It will give them capability in case
they break one, in addition to that it will work all the
time on the downlink box.
CC Okay. So noted and regarding your vitamin
pills, it would appear that those other two cans are in W-703
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in a regular drug can and it should be so listed on the

outside of the drug can.
CDR That's kind of what we thought. Good deal.
We figured it wasn't with the one. Bye Bye.
CC Correction on that. It was 706. In W-706.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
See you again over Carnarvon at 13:41. 1341, and we'll be
doing a data voice recorder dump there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has loss
of signal. The next station to pick up Skylab will be
carnarvon, Australia in 22 minutes. There will be no
Flight Director change of shift news conference this morning.
No Flight Director change of shift news conference this
morning. The afternoon Flight Director conference is still
scheduled. Skylab and it's crew had an uneventful night,
with the possible exception of Science Pilot Owen Garriott
who reported after he arose this morning that last night
was the first night he had crawled into the sleeping bag.
The temperatures are down low enough now that he got a
little cool and got into the sleeping bag. Up to last night
he said he had Just been using the restraining straps.
Average temperature in the workshop now is 75 degrees
Fahrenheit. The crew has started a busy day, which will
include an Earth Resources pass starting at 10:51 a.m.
central daylight time, lasting for 35 minutes. Data will
be taken from the Oregon coast, across the United States,
across the Texas Coast, out over the Gulf of Mexico, the
Carribian and South America. Track number 34. Also
scheduled today, 4 hours of Apollo Telescope Mount manned
operation.
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PAO - - and several medical experiments,

experiments on human cardiovascular and vestibular systems,
and on the electrical activity of the heart. Owen Garriott
the subject for all the medical experiments today, with
Jack Lousma the observer. A fire drill and a practice of
emergency procedure for a rapid drop in space station
pressure is also scheduled right about this time. Following
that, Owen Garrlott will begin the first solar observations
of the day, and Bean and Lousma will start preparations for
the Earth resources - Earth resources run at 10:51. Flight
Plan also will contain a couple of blocks of time for some
troubleshooting, one on the condensate system and one late
today on the mol sieve B fan. At 13 hours 22 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC501/1
Time: 08:40 CDT, 12/13:40 GMT
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40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for communications
with Skylab through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for
about i0 minutes and we'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump.
PLT Okay, Bob. And I got one for the film
guys. This is the first time I've unloaded the transporter
and put new film in and the question is where do I put the
used film cassette used 400 foot magazine. And what I'm
doing is just to replace it into the place where I can get
the new one out of. So this morning the used ones are on
C6 and C7. If that's not satisfactory let me know. You'll
have to tell me where to put the old ones because I don't
remember where they came out of and I - there's no point
in looking it up.
CC Okay, we'll get - we'll get word on you.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bill.
CC And if AI can listen I can give him
the story on those TV cables.
CDR I'm listening.
CC Okay. The original word I gave you was
correct. There are Just two SWS TV power cables on board.
One of them was originally launched with SL-I, and Pete
carried up one. And you only carried the one in the CSM.
So, you've got two SWS cables and one CSM cable.
CDR Okay, I think it'd be good if Jet brought
another one.
CC Okay, we'll (garble). By the way, we
got something on the South Atlantic anomaly and horn time.
Due to the fact that we're not doing any trim burns and
some computational error prior to flight, the times that you've
got on board are incorrect. And the ones you have for today
should be - Just substract ii minutes from them to make
them correct. And we're planning on giving you future
updates on your flight plan where we've got the EREP
slider map information and the onboard trajectory delta
time if that is satisfactory.
CDR I don't think that'll do the Job, Crip
because every time you want to know what's happening you
not only got much of one piece of paper, you got to get
out another one and try to substract off to see if you got
the problem. By then if it were a flare you would muff
it. I think we ought to think about the importance of
catching flares and not making mistakes with substractlon
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or addition or something and maybe think about sending up

at least one of those pads per day llke we planned preflight
before somebody got the idea and put them on board. In other words,
just lift them out sort of like we ha_e and we' ii post them up
so everybody'll see them, otherwise it's going to be pretty
rough.
CC Okay, I guess we'll take a look at what
it would mean to send up one, either I per day or i per week
or something like that for you.
CDR Okay, it may be that they all just move
every five days and you can if you can send us five days
worth and then we'll recycle them. I don't know about the
crew but maybe some - something like that.
CC Okay, sure no need to wo - we'll look into it.
CDR Yeah, we already realized that anomaly
happened this morning because we had the alarm go off. Owen
raced up here and I went and got the piece of paper and I
said well, it looks like we're not supposed to be in the
horn for another 7 or 8 minutes but maybe we Just got there
early for some reason. And I assume that what you Just pointed
out is what occurred.
CC Roger.
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CDR - - And we Just had a fire drill and

that came off okay. I think that these are worthwhile things to
do. We're going to have a rapid Dlta-P drill, although, we had
a real one about day 3 of the mission. And we'll see how
that goes. But it's worth it because things are a little
bit different up here, finding the cards and moving the
hatches around. Quite a bit different than the l-g trainer.
And there some differences that make the whole thing worth while.
CC Okay. Sounds good. And if we could get
you to stay off the DAS incase any body's in that area for
a little while, we're going to enable C&G auto reset per
our new criteria.
CDR Crip, got another suggestion for Jerry
Carr, Bill Pogue, and Ed Gibson, is ah - You know these
2 rings, one ring of female Velcro squares and one ring of
male Velcro squares. Those have turned out to be one of
the finest things we've brought up. And, I suggest that they
bring up double that amount. It doesn't weigh anything
and they sure are handy.
CC Okay. We'll make that recommendation,
also.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're about 15 seconds from
LOS. We'll have you again at Guam at 13:55. And Jack, I'ii
try to get a good answer for you on your restowing your film
back in the film locker there.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Crip.
had loss of signal. Guam will acquire Skylab in about
2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue to keep the line up and
stand by for communications through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're having our rapid Delta-P
drill, in case you've got that on the caution and warning
there.
CC Okeydoke. And we copy that we think
you're going through that mol sieve mal, is that correct?
CDR Jack was changing out the solids strap.
CC Okay. We still copy.
CC And Jack, if you've got a moment, I'ii
go through that film (garble) stuff with you.
CDR Okay. Wait a minute. We're in this
drill. We'll call (garble) for a while.
CC Okay. Understand.
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SL III MC-503/I
TIME: 08:59 CDT 12/13:59 GMT
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See you again over Goldstone at 14:20. 1420 and for your
information, you are GO for your EREP pass today.
SPT Hey, that's good news, Crip. One thing
that puzzles us a little is we went through these equalization
valves. We notice that two cabin pressure release valves are open.
We thought only one should be. And the two that are opened are the
one in the STS section on the forward compartment and the
other one in the aft compartment. We thought one of those -
only one on orbit was open, but maybe we're wrong.
CC Okay. We'll get you an answer to that
over Goldstone.
PLT Okay. Maybe it's Just one of them is closed.
And two of them are opened, but anyhow that's the configura-
tion. The lock's closed and the other two are open.
CC Okey-doke.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss of
signal. Goldstone will be the next station to acquire
Skylab in 15 minutes. At 14 hours 5 minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-504/i
Time: 09:19 CDT, 12/14:19 GMT
8_8_73

19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on a pass
over the United States. We'll stand by for acquisition
through Goldstone.
Goldstone across the states for about 18 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. I was Just noticing on the
solar disc, a spot that's not reported on the SAP over
about 080.9. I was wondering if that might be a newly
emerging region? Or one that - that's simply not been
assigned a number. You might ask the science room please?
CC Okay. We' re looking at that. And we' 11
be going through the DAS to inhibit dump for this upcoming
EREP pass.
SPT Okay. I'll stay off the DAP or the DAS.
CC And, Jack, at your first opportunity
I can talk about that film drawer. But there's no big
hurry on it.
SPT Jack is indisposed at the moment.
CC Okay. Good deal. Just call me when you
want it.
CC And, Owen, I'm still looking at that
active region. I've got a SAP update that I can give you,
anytime that you'd like it.
SPT Okay. Just a minute.
CC I'm sorry, Owen. I couldn't copy. Did
you say you wanted it now?
SPT No. Just a minute. I was just scanning
the llmb of the (garble) here, looklng for prominence activity.
Just a minute.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT Okay. The best prominences activity we've
got are still over between 090 and i00 on the limb. And I'm
ready for the update.
CC Okeydoke. Active region 85 has leveled
off in growth, but remains in 10ths and magnetically com-
plex. It has produced a few subflares including a small
class B type during the night. The southern portions of
prominences 23 have been active and that's 0500 Zulu, a portion
of the prominence lifted off to a .05 solar radii. Other
regions on the disc have been quite.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And, Owen, we've lost the star due to
a big rotation about the Nu Z and we're going to need you
to lock it on so we've got a good pointing data for this
ZLV pass.
SPT Do it now.
SPT Bob do you always have real time TV from
Goldstone, and how many times a day?
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CC Let me check that, Owen.

CC Owen, we don't get real time TV. And
we haven't got it this pass unless we've got it scheduled it.
And we do those at specific times during the day.
SPT Okay. Now you got TV downllnk at 14:20.
But apparently, that is not in real time. It's only for tape
recorded, video tape on that at the ground station.
Is that correct?
CC Rug. Say, you go ahead and dump it
real time, and the site records it and we get it later.
SPT Understand. Thank you.
CC Owen, as best as we can determine,
that area you called out, at 80 degrees and 0.9 radii is
probably Just some plage left over from active region 76.
SPT Uh, we've got about 3.1 degree orbital
plain area, which is bigger than we've seen before. I guess,
that's accounts for about 200 arc-minutes.
CC Roger. Did you copy my comment about,
we think that what you called out earlier is just some plage
left over from acquisition 76?
SPT Yes, I did, thank you.
SPT How much longer will Goldstone be able
to receive this TV. I'm Just now getting setup to downllnk
the TV to them.
CC Checking on that, Owen. We've already
passed Goldstone. We might be able to get it at Texas or
Mila though.
CC Okay, Owen. We can get TV for another
7-1/2 minutes going across Mila.
SPT Okay. Fine. I'll be downlinking the
TV then to the other stations, Mila or Texas.
CC And, Owen. We're going to update your
Nu Z ourselves this time, so if you'll stay off the DAS.
CC And, SPT we still need the DAS for another
minute or so. We're going to be updating the Y 2 drift for
the - this LV pass, also.
8PT Okay. That's Just for the downlink TV.
CC Copy.
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CC And Skylab, we've finished commanding and

the DAS is yours once more.
SPT Okay, and would you verify for me that the
SO 56 door is open.
CC Checking.
CC We show the door open, Owen.
SPT Okay, thank you. S052 is taking pictures
in the standard mode, but I've not got either a ready or
an operate light this morning.
CC Rog. Understand. Neither a ready or an
operate light on 52.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS at
this time. We'll have you again at Carnarvon at 15:18 and
Owen we want to make sure that in your last mirror auto raster
that you are in the grating position 426.
SPT In the last one or in this one.
CC We copy you're already in this one.
SPT I'm sorry. I didn't go purposely to grating
zero and not Just auto but it dropped these into the wrong slot.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Skylab's next acquisition will be through
Carnarvon in 39 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott busy
at the Apollo Telescope Mount console. The other two crewmen
A1 Bean and Jack Lousma getting ready for the Earth Resources
pass, which will begin near the end of this current revolution
number 1241, start of data take for Earth Resources, 10:51
a.m. central daylight time. At 14 hours 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC506/1
Time: 09:58 CDT, 12/14:58 GMT
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58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 20 minutes
away from acquisition through Carnarvon. The 5th Earth
Resources pass of this mission begins in less than an hour;
at 10:51 a.m. Central daylight time with the Skylab space
station taking data 2400 miles off the coast of Oregon,
crossing the United States over the Gulf of Mexico and then
to South America. The 8400 nautical mile pass into the
edge of Brazil 240 nautical miles south of Sao Paulo. In-
formation along track 34 is being gathered for 23 scientists
from the United States and Brazil. Data from today's EREP
activity will also be furnished to one of the 25 student
investigators whose experiments have been assigned to Skylab.
All of the six EREP sensors will be used during the 35 minute
run. Imagery data will be collected for scientists investi-
gating agricultural, metals exploration, water resources,
oceanography, atmospheric conditions, regional planning,
cartography and development of remote sensing techniques. Over
Brazil data is being collected along the Amazon Basis - Basin
for mapping purposes and to serve a natural resources in
the Basin. Other investigations toward identification of
crop areas will also be carried out. Principal Investigators
in the Amazon area are Dr. F. deMendonca and Dr. Luiz Henrique de
Azevedo. Joseph B. Zmolek of Oshkosh, Wisconsin is the student in-
vestigator. He'll receive data from his experiment EDII,
atmospheric continuation of energy. Data for his experiment
will be collected with the S191 infrared spectrometer as
the space station passes over the four corners area of
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, the only point
common to four states in the United States. Zmolek, a high school
student, also will be provided data from the S191 as it crosses
HATS, the Houston Area Test Site, nineteen South Texas counties
combined into one large ground test site. This EREP pass
is along a track which will carry it over Oregon, Idaho,
Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, across the tip
of the Yucatan Peninsula, Ecuador and Brazil. Five air-
craft are supporting todays Earth Resources activity. Four
of them will stage from Houston's Ellington Airforce Base
and one of them will be from Forbes Airforce Base at
Topeka, Kansas. In agricultural Dr. J. R. Eagleman of the
University of Kansas is using microwave data to identify
moisture in soil, specifically in Olkahoma and Texas.
Dr. H. L. Jensen of the University of Utah will interpret
sensor imagery to identify fractures and other features
looking toward mineral formations. Water resources studies
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are being conducted by Dr. Victor R. Baker of the University

of Texas. His investigation today is to study stre - stream
network of the Guadalupe River in Texas. Oceanographic
investigations are scheduled for three investigators,
Dr. Willard J. Pierson of New York University, Dr. Larry Korb
of the Johnson Space Center, and Duncan Ross of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Atmospheric studies
including data on culumus clouds over the Continental
United States, Gulf of Mexico and South America are being
conducted for four investigators, William Shenk of NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. 'Tom Barnett of the Johnson
Space Center, Dr. Peter Coon of NOAA and the student
experimenter, Zmolek. Sensor technique development
studies will provide data to investigators from the Skylab
program office at the Johnson Space Center and to Dr. R.K.
Moore of the University of Kansas. Another Johnson Space
Center investigator, R. Bryan Erb is scheduled to obtain
data on regional planning from 6 sites in the Houston area
test site area. Other regional planning investigators
scheduled to recleve todays data are Robert Alexander who
is studlng a group of U.S. cities for census work and Dr.
Roger Hoffa of Purdue University., who is studying forest
cover and range lands of the San Juan Mountains in southwest
Colorado. Imagery of Latin America from todays pass will
be provided to the Interamerlcan Geodetic Survey. Several
test sites today are also for the U,S. Department of Interior.
This is the fifth of twentyslx scheduled Earth Resources
passes in this mission. Another Earth Resources pass is
being evaluated for tomorrow. We're 14 minutes away from
Carnarvon. We'll come back up Just prior to acquisition
there. At 15 hours 4 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS through Carnarvon
for 9 minutes. And AI, I need to give you update to your
EREP C&D checklist - correction, pad.
CDR Go ahead. Standing by to copy.
CC Okeydoke. Down at time 15:07:00. Can
you find that where you've got an S190 Intervalometer 20?
CC Correction, that was - -
CDR I've got one at 16:07.
CC That's correct. I'm sorry, it's 16:07:00.
CDR Okay.
CC That's suppose to be 16:07:05.
CDR Okay. Anything else?
CC Okeydoke. Down below that at 16:09:12.
CDR Okay.
CC Just above that where you've got S193
SCAT to STANDBY, put a time beside that of 09:10.
CDR Okay. I've got that.
CC Okay. At 16:16:00 you have an EREP start.
CDR Okay. 17:16, I do.
CC Correction, 17:16. Just prior to that
put an S190 standby. And time is noncrlticle, Just as long
as it's before EREP start.
CDR Okay. I've screwed that one up. Let's
go through that, agaln. That's - That is 16:16 and now it
says EREP start. Now go ahead and say again.
CC Okay. Just above EREP start, put in
S190 STANDBY.
CC And the S190 STANDBY is nontlme critlcle. It
just must be done before EREP start.
CDR All right. 1'11 sure do it.
CC Okay. And hopefully the last one, down
toward the end of the pad where you have a ready out for
S190. That time - -
CDR Okay.
CC That time is - is noted as 25:33. That
should be 25:13.
CDR Okay. Got that correctlon.
CC Okay. And that is all of them. For
your information, we're running as noted on your pad 190A.
to film depletion. Also, we're running an ETC to fllm
depletion. So, you may be getting a mall light on 190A and
film depletion light on ETC. And you can Just ignore those.
CDR Okay. Thanks for telling us that, it
keeps us from getting distracted. That's a good thing to know. Maybe
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they ought to start putting those on the (garble) remarks, or

something like - or operating remarks is probably where
those notes ought to go.
CC Okay. Sorry we had so many last minute
changes on you there. That should make for a good EREP
pass (garble).
CDR Yeah. It looks llke a good one. And
how's the weather?
CC Okay. You're going to find it pretty
cloudy when you come up over the first part of the states.
It's about 8/lOths coverage to overcast over the - coming
over Washington. And then it's going to clear up across the
mid section of the country, until you get down to about Texas.
That first VTS pass for Jack, should be in good shape. How-
ever, when he gets down to around Houston, we're running around
7/10ths coverage right now, 4 to 7/10ths. So it's going to
he pretty cloudy.
CDR Okay. That Rio Grande Reservoir is
toughest site we all have. So I hope it's clear there.
Because that's tough anyway you look at it.
CC That one should be very clear. Should
be no sweat on that one at all. South America, the northern
half of it's going to be pretty cloudy, but the southern
half looks pretty clear.
CDR Okay. By the way, Crlp, how about
setting up a personal phone call for me to my Mother in
Fort Worth, tonight.
CC Roger. To your Mother, tonight. And
we'll set up a time for you.
CDR Okay. And Sylvia has the phone numbers
and all that other business. And by the way tell her hello. We
could sure use her up here, I'ii tell you.
CC (Laughter) Okeydoke.
SPT Bob, SPT. I did get the ready operate
light stuff straightened out, no anomalies there. And
as for information on channel A for the Flight Planners,
particular the reference to the time it takes to do Chip A,
they ought to get that off the tape recorder sometime today
and look at it.
CC Rog, Owen. Hit me again with which -
You got your ready operate lights on 52 squared away?
SPT Well. Yeah. They're all squared away,
except the ready light is still intermittent the way it
was the last few days. But outside of that, every-
thing else is okay.
CC Okay. Operate light is normal?
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SPT That's correct. And on SO56.
CC Okay, Owen. And we'll need you to stay
off the DAS, for a moment here, while we enable momentum
dump.
SPT Okay. That's Jack up there now. I'm
down here the ETC.
CC Okay. Sorry. Jack, you copy?
CDR Okay, Crlp. We'll stay off the DAS.
CC Okay. Thank you, AI.
CDR How's that maneuver look to you, by the
way?
CC It all looks good down here, AI.
CC And the DAS is your's. I'm going to
drop out here in the keyhole in about 30 seconds.
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TIME: 10:27 CDT 12/15:27 GMT
8/8/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.

See you again over Guam at 15:32. 1532.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has loss
of signal. Guam will acquire in about 3-i/2 minutes. We'll
keep the llne up. Stand by to pick up Skylab through Guam.
All three crewmen preparing now for the Earth Resources
pass. Science Pilot Owen Garriott will leave the Apollo
Telescope Mount console to operate the Earth terrain camera
during this pass.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS once more through
Guam for 8 minutes.
CDR If that bothers you, let's move it. It
looks like it does. It looks like it's in the wrong
position. I don't know how it got over there.
PLT Good show.
CDR Right. Let's get it away from here. You have
problems with your (garble). Turn around over here. Right there.
Here. Near that box like that. There. That'll get it out of your
way. You might get (garble) battery. Ready.
CC And AI, we are copying you too.
CDR Okay. good.
CC Your VOX is a little bit weak, but still
readable.
CDR Okay. I was helping Jack with something
there.
CDR (garble) Okay, Jack, 38. (garble) I0 minutes
(garble).
PLT (garble)
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CDR (Garble) to 4, Jack. Okay, Houston we're

going to give you all our readings here. And if you go
out of contact of course they'll be on record, I'ii just give
them all.
CC Okay, we got a - we got you for about
3 minutes.
CDR Okay, gage A starting with i, 56 59 86 72 65 0
and that was 6 (garble) 7, 8, and 9 and 0 no count. Okay,
going to gage B starting with 1 42 56 76 71 73 51 31 1 58
that was number 9, 58.
CC Roger. We're going to drop you in the
keyhole here for 20 seconds.
CDR Okay, I'ii wait.
CC And we got you back again for about
a minute and 16 seconds.
CDR Okay. (static)
CC Okay, we dropped you a little bit there.
CDR 86 85 72 14 58 40, that was 7, 40. Now
let me read you the ones that they call out special.
CC Okay, AI. We' re going LO - -
CDR 27, 30 38 i C7 56 D6 58 and C7 was not
greater than 80 so everything's okay, We're standing by
for 5 minutes.
CC Okay, going LOS. See you at Goldstone
15:56 and we missed some of those readings due to bad comm.
of range of the Guam station now. Goldstone will acquire
Skylab in 15 minutes. The crew has gone to the VOX mode
on communication voice operated microphone for this EREP
pass. We'll come back up Just prior to Goldstone. The
crew will have started the Earth Resources data take a
couple of minutes before acquisition there. At 15 hours
42 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 10:55 CDT, 12/15:55 GMT
8/8/73

55 minutes Grrenwich mean time, standing by for acquisition
through Goldstone. The crew should have started this Earth
resources pass some five minutes ago.
CDR 6:23. There's Houston.
CDR 56:23 mode auto. Jack, ready on in
56:40. 1'11 give you a call.
PLT Okay.
CDR Five seconds to READY ON. Ready is ON.
PLT Okay.
PLT 58:32. Waiting for that.
CC Copying you through Goldstone, AI, 14 minutes.
CDR Okay. Good. Everything's going Just
about perfect.
PLT How do you read the kid, there? Okay.
There's some off-shore coastal clouds.
CDR All right.
PLT (garble)
CDR Okay.
PLT Take some data on them.
CC Reading you loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT How come this thing is drifting on me? Are
we still maneuvering?
CDR I have no idea, Jack. Let me look back.
CDR Let me look back.
cdr Okay the X Y Z looked good. No, it's
probably not maneuvering. But that ah - -
CDR It was suppose to compensation for the little
bit (garble) it was the other day.
PLT Yeah. It is too. I haven't seen it
drifting downward on the - -
CDR (Garble) right it went to (garble)
PLT Very great rate.
CDR That's going to make it tough to acquire
these targets.
CC The maneuver is complete.
CDR Jack must be at the same image motion
compensation problems I had the other day namely that the (Garble)
was moving down and right all the time. And I think maybe
somebody ought to troubleshoot that one. See what we can
do, because that's going to make it a lot harder to acquire
these targets.
PLT There is a minus i0. The first one's
complete. Now it changed to 125th. That's done. And I
(garble) up through 45 and right 0.8.
PLT My go time is 1:40. I'm there, okay.
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PLT Now, let's see what are we over here.

PLT Okay. I'm looking for the San Jawannii
Reservoir. Know a guy that shot an Elk not more than 5 miles
from there, a year or so ago, looks like the mountains have got
clouds over them, _ouston.
CDR Looks better up ahead, though, Jack. I
can tell.
PLT I hope you're right.
CDR (garble) big city down there. I can look
through your legs underneath the 190.
PLT Okay, 1:40 my GO time.
PLT Might be going over Salt - there's Salt
Lake. We're over Salt Lake, Houston, right over the Bonneville
Salt Flats. We can rap that one today very simply. But wouldn't
have been set up for next one. I guess we got good enough data on
that one.
CDR Okay. Shutter speed medium on 190, right
nOW.
PLT 1:40, the time.

PLT It was clear over Salt Lake.
CDR For your information, Houston. On this
downlink box, we have positions i through 0, as opposed to
I through I0. So, where it says I0, I'ii Just stick it into
zero plate.
PLT Ah, shoot. We' re coming up on broken
clouds. Come on let's get over them.
PLT MARK, 1:40.
CDR That's where I am (Garble) make sure it doesn't
move on you.
PLT Broken clouds over the site.
CDR Okay. 192 is in READY.
PLT I got it.
CDR Good boy on the IMC.
PLT I've got it. All right, hanging in there
n ow .
CDR Good.
PLT They got the San Jawannle Reservoir.
CDR You got it, impossible shot.
PLT Okay, 7.
CDR Downlink box 7.
PLT Five degrees and (garble) for us.
A little cloud there, and we'll get away from the cloud.
CDR Downlink box 9.
PLT Say hello to my friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Benney, down there in the San Jawannie Reservoir, from Emporia
Kansas.
CDR 15, 192 mode check. Okay 192 is in mode
check.
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PLT Hey we're running out. That's it. We

got one, l_ouston.
CDR Nice Job, Jack. That's a toughy. (Garble)
PLT (Garble) .2.
CC Nice Job, Jack.
PLT Just barely saw that. Nice targeting
there, Houston. You did a grand Job on that. Looks llke
it came up a little bit shy of the target, the site rather.
CDR Stand by. Stand by (Garble) plus 30.
PLT Okay. Now we're shooting for Lake
Somerville. No, wait a minute. Here come the clouds, again,
Houston.
CDR 424.
PLT Rat link. Lake Somerville, and Rosenburg,
San Bernard Basin (garble). Stand by for 448. You're
right. You do have clouds down there, Houston.
CDR 424, 192 mode ready.
PLT 440, 193.
PLT Okay nothing but clouds and brown.
MARK 440. Let's zoom in and see what we've got.
CDR Zoom in.
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TIME: 11:05 CDT 12/16:05 GMT
8/8/73
PLT (garble) very briefly down there_ Houston.

PLT (garble) all of Lake Somerville.
PLT I don't see no Lake Somerville, Houston, I
got some kind of a road structure, but looks llke a freeway
around a city. Looks llke around Brenham. I'll bet it is.
Bet that's the highway around Brenham.
CDR Now malfunction light three is on. But we'll
Just keep pressing on.
PLT (garble) louse you up Out to the
coast. There's nothing out on the coast.
CDR You know when they invented this pointer they
ought to invent a radar pointer.
PLT Coast is completely clobbered.
CDR You could point with a tipper like a - in all
kinds of weather. Have an offset.
PLT There's the city of Houston.
CDR 92 go to check. 652.
CDR Maybe that camera three didn't really run
out of film. It had a real, who knows.
CDR Okay. 192 to check.
PLT There's the Corpus Christi area. Houston,
the whole coast is cloudy and I can't get the Shell power
plant or St. Bernard either one. They're all under the
clouds. Solld clouds in this case. It's completely
overcast out there.
CC Afraid of that, Jack.
CDR Intervalometer 20 ATS to AUTO CAL. Get in AUTO
CAL, Jack, when you can.
PLT All right.
CDR Keep going.
PLT Houston, looks llke you're homed in on Brenham
there. I'm not sure, but there's a town with - You homing
in on a city with a freeway around the south side of It_
looked like it was an outer belt or south loop, half of a
loop, from west to east around the south side of some city,
and I don't know if that was Brenham or not, but it might
have been.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CDR What do you think of this camera three?
Do you think it really ran out of film or we had a malfunction.
CC It's kind of early to run out of film. We're
looking at it.
SPT Yeah, all I can maybe guess was it had a sick
base film or something crazy llke that.
CC Okay.
CDR You finished Jack, or you got another site.
PLT No, that's it, dog gone it.
CDR Why don't you take this lld off and take a
look at three.
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PLT No, I don't want to expose the back side.

CDR Oh. Okay.
SPT Maybe you can sneak a peak in the upper
right hand corner. Oh, that's right. Because it's liable to
bother the exposures taken.
PLT Yes.
CDR You' re right.
CDR No Sir. No we're not, I've got
another 25 minutes or 15 minutes or so.
PLT No, I don't know what that town was you
homed me in on there, Houston. If it was Brenham, I went
back to try and get Somerville, but there wasn't any
Somerville there, so it must not have been Brenham, must
have been something else.
CDR Stand by for READY OUT, Jack.
CDR 9, i0. Your READY OUT should be OUT, okay.
PLT It's out.
CDR I mean that that's me not you. I'm sorry.
CDR Stand by OFF. R OFF. SCATs ON, R ON. 09:38.
Told them where we were or something.
PLT And Houston, I saw a little bit of the
road from San Anton into Houston. Highway 610, and I went
from- I identified the point in the road where either the
Brazos River or the river to the east of Brazos crosses
the highway.
CDR 191 READY ON now, Jack.
PLT I went directly from there and the salt
dome area was obscured by clouds. I was unable to see it.
CC Okay, Jack.
CDR 190 shutter speed slow. 930. Intervalometer 10.
30 993. CROSS TRACK CONTIG 130. 90 to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. We start in 16 minutes.
CDR Okay, Owen, we're kind of coollng it up
here for about 5 minutes. Then we EREP start again. We
must have (garble) over the water.
CDR Let's take a look at that camera three, Jack.
Unless you got something to do.
PLT Okay.
CC A1, we'd llke to check the Circuit breaker
on that 190 for camera three.
PLT Letts llft it up this way, AI. No need to
take it all off.
CDR All right, go ahead.
PLT Circuit breaker is closed.
CC Okay.
CDR Why don't you take it off and remount it.
Let me take it off and remount it.
CC We're going LOS in about 30 seconds.
PLT Don't take that off.
CC Vanguard at 16:22. Jack your re clear to use
the VTS across South American plain with or without IMC if you'd
like.
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CDR And we looked at K-3 camera, took it off

and it had no film in it, so apparently it did run out.
CC Okay. Copy.
CC Vanguard 16:22.
CDR Thank you, Jack. Excellent. That a way
to do, Jack. Somebody should have known that was going to
run Out.
PLT (Garble)
SPT I'll Just bet you that thatts a thick base
film.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Merritt Island
station has loss of signal. The Vanguard tracking ship
will pick up Skylab in 10-1/2 minutes. The crew will still
be in the Earth Resources pass, which started when the
Earth Resources sensors were turned on at lattltude 167 degrees
west over the Pacific Ocean about 240 nautical miles south
of the Four Mountains Islands in the Aleutian Chain. The
S193 radiometer scatterometer was the first scanner turned
on. This instrument remained on throughout the pass over
the Pacific and across the United States, was turned off
after Skylab crossed the Yucatan Peninsula, and it's due to
be turned back on again as the space station crosses Brazil's
Amazon Basin. The S190 camera system was on throughout the
largest part of the pass over the United States. Thatts
the one with the malfunction light and we heard the crew report it
was out of film. The S191, infrared spectrometer - stand by
Just a minute please - There*s only one of the six cameras
in the S190 camera system that had film depletion. The
other five did not. And they will be used again over the
Amazon Basin. The S191 infrared spectrometer was switched
on 600 miles off the coast of Oregon. Turned off at the
coast and back on again from the Great Salt Lake to the
Texas Coast. The S192 multispectral scanner was turned
on when Skylab passed over Colorado and left on until the
pass ends at the Brazilian coastline. We're 8 minutes
away from acquisition through Vanguard. At 16 hours
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Time: 11:21 CDT, 12/16:21 GMT
8/8/73

21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now
on acquisition at Vanguard. We'll stand by.
PLT Must be a lower - we got 657, we got
no IIC.
CDR How's the - -
SC Beryllium? Beryllium is only 2 volts at
aperture 4. Oh, we're in the horn already. We're in the SAA.
We're coming to SAA now.
CDR Yeah.
PLT We know that. We know that. It's right
over South America.
CDR On the other side. 430, 194 mode (garble)
the old Vanguard.
CC You're right, we've got you for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're whistling alon E . We Just
came into the South Atlantlc anomaly apparently because we
had a little master - I mean little tone and all 6 film advance
lights are - film advance. Malfunction lights are on now,
the last two just came about 3 seconds ago. Apparently we've
finished with 190. They may want me to turn it off right
now, I don' t know.
PLT And Crip, the IMC on the VTS does drift
and I started out with a - at 45 up in zero and Just went IMC
on on that MAX zoomer trying to track an object on the ground.
We're Just letting it track by itself. It's not holding on
to any object on the ground, it seems to be drifting down
onto the right say at about a 150 degree angle from 12:00
and it looks like to me on the ground that it's at max zoom traversing
about 1/4 of a mile per second. And it's a little bit
intermittent. It gets down to about a minus 15 degrees
and then the - it seems to sometimes track straight
down from there as opposed to that 120 degree angle. I
don't think it's going to cause us to close up the shop
but it's going to make things a little trickier. May have
been the reason that I never saw Lake Somerville there. I
should have seen Somerville because the clouds weren't as
bad right there as they were around RosenburE. And I'd
appreciate it if somebody could identify for me a town in
that area that's got that freeway around - can strutted around
the south side of town; maybe it's a bypass or something.
CC We're io - we're looking at it Jack,
trying to identify it. And we copy what you say about the
IMC.
PLT Okay. Few fires on the ground down
here; quite a few now. I guess at one time I might have
6 to i0 of them in the viewflnder at minimum- at max zoom.
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Must be burning off some sugarcane or something llke that

down there.
CDR Jack, you're supposed to start the
SI maneuver in 12 seconds or so.
PLT Well, why don't I Just go back here and
start the SI maneuver.
CDR Let me put it on (garble) they're okay.
PLT Are you all secure there?
CDR It's done here. 16:26 right now is
the maneuver tlme, Jack.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, let's park this thing. Do 190
magazine deplete and do tape measurement. Well, we - did
it itself; but we'll do it anyway. Okay, let me get out
the old postcard, voice record BT, Okay, one of my favorite
recordings. 30, B7 is 30 for the record.
PLT Okay, we're on our way back, Houston -
to SI - - And we never did seem to get a star locked up
on that pass there, Houston.
CC I think it locked up and then we lost
it. We expected that.
PLT Oh, I see, okay.
CDR That's what happens sometimes. Okay, close
the latch 190, record switch to OFF. EREP CAL follows.
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8/8/73
PLT EREP cal follows. No. Auto cal monitor

mag depletion. EREP START, then stop after i0 seconds.
PLT Back.
PLT Okay. We'll get the star tracker ready
here. And I copy plus 3399 outer.
PLT Outer, you dummy.
PLT 19 and minus 728. 1900 D plus 1900 and a
minus 728, that's right down here.
CDR Houston, I've got a question for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Things a little crazy, but on this
190 (garble) depletlon, which we suspect is all ready done. I
went mode auto, ready light on, frames 99 air valometer 2, EREP
start and stop after 10 seconds. It says when camera sound
stops, repeat all previous steps. Now the camera sounds
we're listing for they - cameras keep making noise. So, I have
to wait for 99 sounds.
CC Okay. And, Jack. Looking at the townp
it really looked llke it should have been Brennum. St
possible could have been Brian, although Brian has a loop
that sort of goes up to the north of it, too. And I copied
that you only had one on the south, sort of southwest.
PLT Yeah. St was on the south.
CDR What should I do about 90, do you think,
trip.
PLT _ looked - -
CC Stand by, AI.
PLT Yeah. Cause otherwise it looks llke we
Just keep running this thing until ah - -
CC AI, we concluded that you've already
extended all the film. So you can press on.
CDR Okay. Well, I was Just thinking about
this checklist. I want to change it. Says when camera sound
stops, that isn't what you mean, I don't think.
CC Okay. We'll look - -
CDR I think it ought (garble) - -
CC AI, we'll look at that. We're going LOS
here in 30 seconds, and have you again at Goldstone at 17133
CDR Okay. I'm going to go to standby on
multispectral camera. Is that right7 Okay.
CDR That's wrong.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, Houston. On that 190 completion
check. I'd like you to send me a checklist change or what-
ever - Just verbal one. I think you want me to rephrase
the sentence on that card to say, when all lights on -
When camera sound stops, or all malfunction lights on, mode
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standby, wait 2 seconds, power off. Seems to me, that's

what we really want to do.
CC Copy, A1.
CDR All right. I thought you would.
lost contact with Skylab. Be a long period without communica-
tions now until Goldstone acquires the space station in
1 hour 2 minutes. At 16 hours 32 minutes Greenwich
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SL III MC-514/I
TIME: 12:18 CDT 12/17:18 GMT
8/8/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab has been out of contact now
about 45 minutes since leaving Vanguard. Still another
15-1/2, 16 minutes to Goldstone. The IMC referred to by the
crew during the Earth Resources pass is part of the S191
infrared spectrometer experiment alignment system. Pointing
of the $191 is accomplished through use of the vlewflnder
tracking system referred to as the VTS. The VTS is a tele-
scope which magnifies the ground image to facilitate fine
pointing of the experiment. Jack Lousma was pointing the
$191 using the telescope when he reported the IHC or the
image motion compensator, which aids in compensating motion
of the spacecraft over a fixed target was drifting about
4 miles off to the right. A site is picked out ahead
of the vehicle track by use of the VTS and upon acquisition
of a selected target Lousma activates the IMC which then
should remove most of the target motion as seen on the
telescope. The EREP officer here in the Mission Control
Center reports that this drift should not degrade the
experiment data on this pass. Jack Lousma's reference to
the San Jawani reservoir was to the S191 site number 275 in
the San Juan mountains in Colorado. The proper name of the
reservoir is the Rio Grande Reservoir. It is in the San Juan
Mountains. And the S190 early film depletion was in camera
number three, that's one of six cameras in this multispeetral
camera experiment. Each of the cameras has six film cassettes
which contain 100 feet of 70 millmeter film. Camer number
three contains verichrome infrared type EK-243 film. At
17 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Control.
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SL-III MC515/1
Time: 12:33 CDT, 12/17:33 GMT
8/8/73

33 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the
Goldstone station. Crew Commander A1 Bean should be in
a malfunction procedure on the condensate system checking
out that system. The procedure calls for Bean to take
- take an optical cleaning glove, that's a rubber glove
used in cleaning the space station optical system, attach
it to the water gas separator quick disconnect line in the
condensate system. If the rubber glove expands llke a
balloon the system is not leaking, if the glove collapses
it indicates the water gas llne has a leak. We first started
having trouble with this condensate system 5 days ago. We're
getting real time television at Goldstone too, Apollo tele-
scope mount.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
States for about 13 minutes.
SPT Don't have any real time TN at this
point, do you Robert?
CC We're looking at it snowing out there
on the 52 right now.
SPT Okay, well I'm Just going through that
alignment and A1 is making a condensate dump at this time,
and you can see the effects of that. I don't know whether
you're worried about that or not but you can see there the
streaks are so bright it affects video level and the ATC
takes over. At least it does on my monitor, I assume it
does on yours.
CC Rog.
SPT Okay, I am now at the up right -
correction up 8 are seconds right, 16 arc seconds position
on the pointing error sensors and l_m now going to center it
so that the refraction rings appear to be symmetric.
CC Copy
SPT Okay, live reduced my scope to low
contrast and incidently the dump is completed this time.
As you can see the rapidity with whi=h the contamination particles
decrease.
CC Roger.
CC And Owen would ycu- for your information
if you stay off the DAS boards we're going to power down line 3.
SPT Okay, I'm going to stand clear.
CC Owen, you got time to answer a little
question for us?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. The 55PI has requested for you
to observe filament contrast between sunrise noon and sunset to
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see if you see a thermal or a Doppler shipaffects on H-alpha

structure visibility. And he'd like you to check both
H-alpha 1 and 2 if possible.
SPT H-alpha 1 and 2 and does he think looking
at network on the disc or filaments I guess, was the word
that you mentioned - filaments on the disc is the appropriate
or the best thing to try to make this comparison with. Is
that right?
CC That was the recommendation, yes. Use
the filament.
SPT Okay, and can you get any word about
how they like the symmetery of the downlink picture a_ this
point7
CC We're checking that one.
SPT Okay, I believe it's about the best.
It's Just - I'll go ahead and assume that that's correct.
Now by pointing error (garble) sensor at this point is reading out
up i0 arc seconds. I have to go to the times ten scale and
it's reading to the right at about 96 arc seconds at this
particular point.
SC Up i0 and right 96.
CC Okay, we think the symmetery looks real
good here.
SPT Okay, and that's the completion of this
test and I'll go ahead now with picking up on JOP 28-6. I
have the other numbers incidently which I'll read down to
you a little later whenever I've got some time on the fine
Sun sensor and M -PES comparisons.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT (garble)
SPT I'll leave you _ith that coronagraph
picture as long as I can here, til I need to get started on the
other JOP.
CC Okay. And Owen whenever you get a chance
we'd llke to know whether you managed to complete building
block 1 this morning.
SPT I got al! that information on channel A,
but I would like to mention to you the revised building block
1 which is revised for our flight, way to complete chip A
in those 7 minutes. It took me a little over 20 minutes
although I did have some extra complications involved. It's
about a 15 minute chip. And so it's the extra 82 A and
B time exposures all have to be done sequentially and it's
going to stretch that chip A out to no matter what else
could be done. So I'd llke the flisht planners to take that
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into account in scheduling. I did work up to the first

truncation point and the rest of the information is on
channel A.
CC Copy.
SPT JOP 12 Delta was not done either but
that was done last night on the last pass of the day. And
I think perhaps that's adequate.
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SC Okay we got that.

SPT Okay, we'll get you a WLV off right now,
and let you take a look at H-alpha while we go over there and
take a look at 85
CC Okeydoke .
PLT Character changes almost from hour to hour,
doesn't it?
CC It does. That's a pretty picture.
CDR Okay, Crip. You might tell the flight
planners that we're doing MS09E while we do the condensate
dump check and we'll have all three of those bottles charged
by another 30 minutes.
SPT Okay. There's your position for the
photographs.
CC And Owen, we did not rewind the VTR, so
you can Just pick it up for recording if you want to, after
we go LOS.
SPT I dontt think I'll have anymore need for
recording here unless you want something recorded.
CC No, we were Just letting you know it's
available for you.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you very much. And I
can see - you've turned it off now, haven't you?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Thank you.
CC AI, could you give us an idea as to whether
that - you got a good seal with that glove or not? With
that condensate mount.
CDR I got what I thought was a good seal,
although I looked at the glove and I don't see a particular
amount of vacuum being pulled in there. Let me look at
the Delta P, I haven't looked at it lately.
CC Yeah. We indicate it's dropping off.
CDR It sure is. It's down from about 39 to
where it is now. Now the thing that you wanted me to seal
is right around the hose dismount. The hose side of the
quick disconnect.
CC AI, did you try peeling back the loll to
tape that down or did you Just tape it around the hose?
CDR I taped it around the hose per instructions.
I could sure peel back and work on it some more.
CC Stand by i.
CC Understand it did not suck the glove down
at all. Is that correct?
CDR That's correct, and I'm putting some
more grey tape on it now, instead of that red. We'll see
how it does now.
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CDR May have significantly more volume in

the glove than you do in the tank when it's bottomed out,
for all I know.
CC Would expect it to - see it pulled down a little
bit anyhow.
CDR Well, it would be hard to see a little bit,
Crlp. You know, the glove is llke a kind of a limp baloon,
it's got that much air in it and right now it's hard to tell
whether it was less llmp than it was before, because it hasn't
gone completely evacuated and it hasn't blown up, so it's
you know, it's in the area where itts difficult to tell whether
it really has taken much of a vacuum.
CC Yeah_ we appreciate that.
CC Okay, AI, about the only suggestion we've
got is to see if we can torque that B-nut on the back of
that connector down some. And to do that it would take the
9/16 inch wrench backed up by the cresent and a 140 inch
pounds is max torque on the thing. If you think you
can do that, we'd appreciate it if you would give it a try.
CDR Okay. Now this is the B-nut on the connector
that has the glove on at the moment,
CDR Well now, let me do some thinking along with
you. 1'11 go do that in a minute. The thing doesnlt look
like it's leaking there.
CC Yeah, we appreciate that, but what you were
saying about your volume there is also correct.
CDR You want me to dump the tank again and put
some more vacuum and do it maybe two or three times and see
if it ever sucks the glove down?
CC Okay, AI, we,re going to go LOS here in about
30 seconds. We don't want you to get off your Flight Plan.
If you can't finish it forget about it. If you can tighten
it and go ahead and suck it down on the tank again and try
getting a better seal and you can do that by peeling off the
foil, we'd appreciate that, but again, don't get behind on
your Flight Plan and wetre going to have you again at
Goldstone at 18:00.
CC Okay. We're seeing 82 A and B advancing, but
no change in frame count. Can you give us an update on that?
Correction. 82B only.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Texas had loss of
signal of Skylab before we could get an answer for the ATM
officler. Vanguard tracking ship will acquire Skylab in 12-1/2
minutes. At 17 hours 47 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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PLT Roger.
CC And, gentlemen, we show that we've had
another Y-axls rate-gyro discompare. We're going to update
the drift on Y-2 and go back to Y-l Y-2 control. So if you
will give us the DAS for a couple of minutes, please.
SPT You have it.
SPT Boy, if we were trying to handle them
up here, it'd be a full-time Job for 2 of us.
CC Full-time Job for several people down
here.
SPT Incidentally, as far as I know, we've
never an interrupt on S056. Can they confirm that their
experiment has never been interrupted, prematurely?
CC Checking it.
CC Okay. We show that we've had no inter-
rupts, which is a good deal.
SPT One of those positive switches for a
change.
CC Ro E .
PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours Greenwich
mean time. Skylab is in contact through Vanguard. Vanguard
acquired more than 2 minutes ahead of the AOS clock.
SPT - - 2-19, there are 5 pairs of numbers
that I want to read you relatively to the FSS PES calibrations.
First pair is, all zips/ plus 80, number 2 is all zips plus 8,
third number is plus 70/ plus i0, fourth one is plus 72/plus 81.
And the fifth one back at the center, I'm Just recomparlng
rechecking for you now. Stand by and I'll give you the fifth
pair.
CC Owen, we're not showing the frames
remaining decrementing on 82B. Can you give us the latest
switch you got reading on that?
SPT 82B is 1486.
CC Okay. That looks good. I think we've
got a
telemetry problem here, it looks llke it's working okay.
SPT Okay. The up/down, left/rlght, when we
are back at O0 on the pointing - on the align pointing is
plus 36 up, plus 45 right, and that completes all the numbers
that you need for that calibration. And I'm now putting
the fine Sun sensor bias, back in.
CC Copy.
CC And, Owen. You think - You got the
DAS back.
SPT Thank you.
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CC Owen, can you verify for us on your ATM

schedule whether you've got passes set up for 18:56 and
20:36?
SPT Affirm. The ATM schedule has 18:56,
20:36, Just as you say.
CC Okay. Thank you.
SPT 55 is getting an extra mini raster
of active reglon 85 here.
CC Rog.
CC Say, Skylab. We're 1 minute from LOS,
here. We'll have you agln over Hawaii at 19:08, 19:08.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has had
loss of slgnal - -
CDR Tell them to brin E up another roll of
gray tape, apiece. I think (static). And they need to
bring up another complete roll of red tape. The little red
tape rolls from the MDA is missing and all we have is the OWS
red tape. So what they could do is Just bring up a roll
and they'd be in good shape.
CC Gray tape, red tape. Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control Vanguard does
have loss of slgnal now. We acquired early and lost late
there at Vanguard. Next station will be Hawaii in 59 minutes.
Control.
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818/73

6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Hawaii.
We'll stand by there.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS through Hawaii
for 5 minutes.
CC CDR I know you ,re busy there at the
ATM panel, if you get a moment between stuff I'd llke you to
give us a call and I can update you on a couple of items.
CDR Go ahead now I'm Just ro11ing.
CC Okay, AI, when you get a chance we'd
appreciate a report on the condensate system. We see a
pretty good delta-P there and wondered if we did anything
different. And I need to mod your ATM schedule pad for
your next pass.
CDR Okay, Just a second.
CC CDR, at your first opportunity we'd
appreciate it if you'd reacqulre the star per the
star tracker pad.
CDR The situation on the condensate tank
is this, I dumped it two times, that was the third and I
been watching the glove and I haven't seen a lot of change
in the glove. I peeled back the tape and then underneath
that is the other tape that I peeled back. Underneath that
is the big rubber thing which I did not peel back, because it
looked llke it was sort of bold.
CC Okay, it looks llke the tank is holding
pretty good for a while. Do you have time to copy a couple
of ATM scheduled things?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, if you got your pad out there, on
the 2036 we want to make that Just to run a normal building
block 4. And where it says 4-B in the 56 change to exposure
normal to exposure long, scratch all that. Want to complete
buildlng block 4.
CDR Okay, so you - first we have a 4-A and
then later on we Just have a 4.
CC Negative. Need to scratch the A off
there and Just say do a building block 4, cause we want
you to go through all the steps.
CDR Okay, so now I got a JOP 2-A (garble)
buildlng block 4 and then Just go through all those steps.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
CC AI, we show 56 out of configuration.
We'need you to go back to patrol I, correction patrol normal
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and start the thing over to reselect the mode.

CDR As far as I know I haven't started
anything yet.
CC You won't get it unless you reselect
that patrol though. We're going LOS. We'll see you over
Vanguard at 21:14 and we'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump there.
CDR Okay, you mean I've got to select patrol
between each thing. I haventt started anything so I Just
wondered why.
CC Roger. Correction on my AOS time it's
19:36.
of range of Hawaii. The next station to pick up Skylab
will be the Vanguard tracking ship in 21-1/2 minutes. Crew
Commander A1 Bean now at the Apollo telescope mount console
for the first of his two runs of the day there. Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott has already conducted two manned operations
of that experiment today and has another one scheduled
this evening. Garrlott and Pilot Jack Lousma are in a
brief housekeeping task, housekeeping tean which is the
test of the fire and pressure alarms, those alarms could
be heard in the background during the alr-ground. In very
shortly we'll be starting the MI31 experiment. A news
briefing on crew medlcal status is scheduled for 3 p.m.
central daylight time today in the JSC News Briefing Room.
Participants will be Dr. Lawrence Dietllen, Deputy Director
of Life Sciences, Ed Michel, the Principle Investigator
for MI71 and Dr. Michael Whittle, Principle cognizant
Scientist of the M070 series. To repeat a briefing on
crew medical status will be conducted in the JSC News Briefing
Room at 3 p.m. central daylight time today. At 19 hours
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TIME: 14:33 CDT 12/19:33 GMT
818173
PAO This is Skylab Control at 19:33 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard at the
end of revolution 1243 coming up shortly here in about
2 minutes. And in about 25 minutes, we'll have a medical
status review on the crew health Dr. Lawrence Dietlein,
who is Deputy Director of Life Sciences at Johnson Space
Center, Ed Michael, the principal investigator for the M171
experiment and Dr. Michael Whittle, the M070 experiment PI.
This is at 3:00 central daylight in the Houston News Room.
Any air-ground taking place during that conference will be
taped and played back on a delayed basis. We should have
acquisition momentarily through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across the
Vanguard for i0 minutes, i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, I'm running - I'll Just glve you
the real time (garble).
CC Break, break, Skylab; you're unreadable
right now.
CC AI, you were breaking up on that and I was
completely unreadable. Wait until we get a good lock here
and I'll call you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We had lost the down-llnk
on you there for awhile and I think we got you back and I
missed your previous comments, AI.
CDR Okay. I didntt give you that real time
while ago for the down-link, so I put it on the VTR.
CC Okay, that's fine and the call I gave you
going over the hill back there at Hawaii was kind of fouled
up. What had happened is, apparently 56 had got stopped
sort of in between filters and we needed you to have cycled
out of patrol mode and then back in to get back into filter
i. But I don't know whether you managed to get that or not.
CDR I Just went ahead and did it on faith. I
didn't really understand why, in fact I called Owen and said
that's something new. But I guess it is something we Just don't
seem to figure out because nobody knows if you get caught between
filters.
CC No. What had happened was apparently it
looked llke on Owen's last pass, we were getting - he gave
us a couple of extra pictures and it got stopped, apparently
by turning off the camera, which froze it up in between
filters and then when the camera was turned - camera power
was turned back on it was not at the proper filter position.
That was an abnormal configuration.
CDR Okay. That's good. I'll tell you, there's
one funny maybe the back room can help on. On this building
block - I mean this step four, it says peak detector three
on zero which I did. And it turns out detector peak - detector
three peaks greatly from a normal level of about 2 or 300 up
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to about 1400 what looks to me like right on the exact llmb

of the sun. If I come further in on the disk it decreases
if I go further out in the corona it decreases. Now thetis
why I'm taking the data on it I'm Just wondering if thetis the
place because I noticed as I went out further along the
prominence away from the edge of the sun it decreased it didn't
increase on three. See if you think that's the right spot.
SPT While he's checking on that let me glve you
some other word back to the S056 people. The way the camera
got in that configuration was during item number 13 which
requires camera power to g_ off and then turned back on and
start_ stop. So yould better take a look at the procedures
on item 13 to make sure that they are satisfactory and
will not hang up the camera.
CC Okay, Owen. Appreciate that.
CDR And I gather also next step 4 which I'm
getting ready to start right now I Just started it should be
done on the same spot and that the same pointin E instructions
apply.
CC Okay, AI, we concur - -
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8/8/73
CDR (Garbl e) .
CC Okay, AI. We concur with what where
you were talking about on detector 3. It should peak out
on the llmb.
CDR Is that really where you wanted it?
CDR Is that true with all prominences or
did I - What's the story, there?
CDR Okay. I'ii see if I can get you a good
story on it. And for Jack, or you Owen, on this coming up
92 run, I guess, you all had a comment about leg band cals.
And I can give you our latest word on that, if you'd llke.
SPT Well, we think we're straight on it.
And I hope it's not different from what we've got. But
we've got a couple of - - We've got le_ bands lald out now
for everybody. Is there any change that we have to make?
CC No, not really, Owen. My understanding
was, apparently, you gentlemen had a question earlier this
morning about whether to perform the cal with the LBMPD closed
or opened. The recommendation here is to go ahead and perform
it with the LBMPD open so you can verify circuit integrity.
But - And when you close it gently it shouldn't affect the
calibration at all. However, if you don't find that is
true, well you can go ahead and do the cal after the LBMPD is
closed.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you. That's Just
the way we had planned to do :It. And I - It's a good
procedure. Thank you.
CC Okey doke.
CDR The problem is, the idea that it doesn't
affect it is not true. And no matter how close - carefully
you close it we've noticed on all of it in all these different
ones, it changes it about 0.15 percent. And so we had to
go back and recal. And we knew that the reason it was being
done open is so we could verify circuit integrity. We haven't
had problems along those lines. So, it turned out that, I
think the best for everybody if we close it and then go
ahead and cal. Now, if it turns out we have circuit problems,
we can open it up again and begin working on it. But that
hasn't been the problem. It's been the fact that you had
to ca1 it then twice. First one didn't really do any good
for you.
CC Okay, A1, we copy that, and that's fine
with us.
CDR We think we can get him better data, I
think Owen was asking you, I phoned down yesterday, and
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mentioned the exact leg band we were going to use for the
rest of the time, if we possibly could. And wanted to know
if those were okay. We thought they were on the approved
llst, but there's about 5 lists floating around, and I assume
they are because we didn't get a NO answer.
CC We understand what you've got laid out
and that's fine. You can press on llke that.
CDR Okay. One other point, we decided to
use two blood pressure cufls. We - the maximum number of
people you run per day is two. This way, we don't end up
grounding out the second person's other blood pressure cuff.
So, we- we're going to use the one that's been used all along,
and then I broke out one the other day, which Jack read down
and I used. And so those are the two we'll be using. So
the equipment ought to stay the same unless something breaks
or you find out it doesn't _ork.
CC Okay, that's fine AI.
CDR It's funuy. This prominence I'm working on
is very small in H-alpha, and the one further up on the
disk as you view it with this attitude is much bigger.
However, on the XUV MON, if their Just the opposite, you
can hardly see the H-alpha one that's large, and this one's
very large in the UV.
CC Okay A1. Copied small on H-alpha and
large on XUV MON on the one you're working on.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going over the
hill in about 30 seconds, see you again in Hawaii at
20:43. And AI, that condensate depth plate is already dropped
all the way out to us. I guess it's down about 0.6 now and
you can go back to your original configuration, you know,
when you get a chance we did not find the leak.
CDR That's right. You tell me that V-nut,
I'Ii torque it again for you and I gather we're going through
a some anomaly right now. Got a high X-ray, but nothing
on the beryllium, or lit (?).
CC Okay. You're right in the South Atlantic
anomaly.
CDR Cut, so everything else is okay. The
what was the torque on this V-nut? I'ii - I'ii check it.
CC 140 inch/ounds. But, okay.
CDR Okay. I'ii get it later, not now. By the
way, we charge all the bottles - bottle 2 is 3 ... 3 ...
from tracking ship Vanguard. Skylab space station now in
revolution 1244, next station in 56 minutes will be Hawaii
Right down the middle of Hawaii with a 90 degree elevation
angle, straight up. Crew medical status review at 3 pm
central, Houston newsroom and Dr. Lawrence Dietlein, Ed
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Michel, Dr. Michael Whittle, Houston newsroom, briefing room.

Small briefing room. Hawaii pass and any other air-to-ground,
taking place during the medical status briefing will be taped
for delayed playback. At 19:47 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
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mean time. Time for the crew medlcal status review in the
Houston newsroom. Dr. Lawrence Dietlin, Ed Michael on MI71,
Dr. Michael Whittle on M070. Starting momentarily in the small
briefing room, JSC News Center. All news men fall out.
42 minutes to Hawaii. That pass will be taped for delayed
playback. At 20:00, Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. A minute and a half until acquisition from
tracking station Hawaii. This pass will come right down
the middle of the Hawaii station llne of sight, 90 degree
maximum elevation and you can't hardly get any higher.
Commander AI Bean should be in the fourth ATM study session
at this time. We'll stand by for air-to-ground communications
across Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS through Hawaii
for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip. Everything's going okay. I
went down and looked at a wrench to work on that condensate
discussed it. It doesn't look like a B-nut. It looks llke
a stud that may be welded on or something. I couldn't see
anything to hold onto to torque the other nut.
CC ...
CDR It doesn't looks like a ... you know, double
nut B-nut.
CC No, it's not a double nut B-nut. What
it is, is the back of the QD itself. It's - got a hex on it
and that's where you have to put the crescent wrench on. And
then - -
CDR Where do you hold it when you turn? You
mean, you mean it's screwed into the - the tube itself? What
part do you hold when you torque that?
CC Okay. You want to torque? The B-nut
that's on the hose, and you want to hold the QD with the
crescent. And the back of the QD has got a hex on it that
you could put the crescent on.
CDR I saw that, but I didn't see any B-nut
on the hose. I only see the one hex on the back of the-
of the connector.
CC Okay. The connector, itself, has got a
big hex on it. The physical, it's about an inch in diameter.
CDR That's right. An inch and an eighth.
CC Okay. Right behind that, should be a
B-nut for the nine-sixteenth inch wrench.
CDR I don't see it. I'ii take the hose
stuff off and look.
CC AI, no, no, no. AI, don't sweat it now.
We're going to try reschedule the time later to troubleshoot
this thing, AI.
CDR Okay. I wasn't worried about it, I just
wanted to - it just didn't look like ... Okay.
The hose - the hose that goes to the sensor or the water
sensor . ..
CC That's affirmative. The one that goes
right in the middle.
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CC That was affirmative Alan. It's the one
that's - one's right - connects right in the middle. Right
behind that door.
CDR That's right. That's the one. Okay.
CDR Houston, are you dumping the VTR,
we're using it also.
CC Stand by i. You say you' re using the
VTR?
CDR Yes, we're doing that 131.
CC RoE. Our problem was, we ran out of tape.
We're rewinding it.
CDR Okay. I understand.
CC And we're recording the real-tlme stuff
on the ground. So we aren_ t losing anything.
CDR Okay. What I had peaked out to do, the
(garble). (Garble) is - it was brighter than all the rest,
even though it's very small. And I peaked up detector 3
and it was up in the 6 and 700's where the others were down
in the 2 or 300's. So, it's pretty bright UV spot anyway.
CC Roger AI and we did understand that was
right on the LEM. It wasn't off the LEM, right?
CDR No, it looked to me, that unless you know,
alot of times when those prominences - filaments cross the lens
right on the LEM, it's hard to find exactly which is prominent
and which is - LEM if it's sort of a long - if you see the
long edge of it. And it lock to me like it was right on
the LEM. Now, the only way I could check it, was to move further
inside the LEM to see if the detector went up or down. As I move
further in the LEM, the detector went down, so I had a feeling
it must be what you're looking for.
CC Okay. You checked it off the LEM, right?
CDR Well, it was right here on - right on
the edge. It's a toss up. I'd say it had a chance to be an
ON or it had a chance to be an OFF. It was right on the
margin there and it's not that clear. There's a very clear
demarcation line when you haven't got a filament or a pro-
minent. But when there is one, you know, when there is one, it
sort of blends together there.
CC RoE. Understand. Then my question was,
whether you had tried to taking it above the LEM to see
what it does - detector 3 fall off there.
CDR It did fall off. Now, it's conceivable
that I didn't go far enough. I went as far as the - it
showed on H-alpha, but you know, the XUV was awful big out
there. Perhaps I should're scanned all around even where I
couldn't have seen it on H-alpha tried to find something.
CC Okay. We copied that AI. We were trying
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to get you a story about - we would're suspected it that

the peaking would're been above the LEM.
CDR Okay. I suspect what I should've done,
is gone out and maybe and just kind of scanned around until I
happened to a bright UV place. Maybe the H-alpha spot
that I used wasn't really that bright in UV.
CC And AI, would you stay off the DAS for us,
we're going to update that Y-2 drift. That thing's still running
around on us - swirling on us.
CC We're some whatconfused with what's going
on with the PD TV now. Are you still recording 1319 .
CDR Jack was recording 131 and he asked me
to turn on the TV, which I did. Then I said you left
our drive wheel motor on. He said, well, it may be dumping.
And I said well usually they tell us but, so I checked with you
and apparently you were dumping. Now, maybe they're sending it
down to you real time.
CC Okay. But have you completed the TV
for 1319. That's what - really what my question was.
CDR The answer is yes from Jack. He must of
Just finished.
PLT Yeah, we gave you an OGI instead of an
MS , Crip.
CC Roger. We'll be dumping the VTR over
at the Vanguard next site coming up at about 1 minute to LOS
right now and we'll see you again at - over the Vanguard at
21:15. 21:15 and then we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump
there.
CDR Right. Yncidentally, I tried the image
enhancement scope, but didn't have a lot of luck. Now, maybe
l'm operating it incorrectly, but I couldn't get any action out
of it.
CC Copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Hawaii.
20 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard. Some lengthy discussion
there from the ATM console by commander AI Bean describing
some of the features of the surface of the Sun that he's been
observing through the telescopes and the bore-sighted TV monitors
that see essentially the same field that the astronomical
telescopes and cameras on the ATM record. Back again for
Vanguard in 20 minutes, and at 20:54 Greenwich mean time,
Skyl ab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time 2 minutes according to the clock worbler going
off here in the Control Room to alert people that we're
2 minutes away from acquisition tracking ship Vanguard. End
of revolution 1244 and start of revolution 1245. Standing by
for the first call through Vanguard. Change-of-shlft under
way here in the Control Room handover, Flight Director Don
Pudy handing over to Neil Hutchinson. And Spacecraft
Communicator Bob Crippen will be relieved by Bruce McCandless.
We have acquisition now at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over the Vanguard
for 9 minutes doing a data voice recorder dump and we have to
take - get you off the DAS for a minute to get that Y-2 drift
update in.
CDR Got it Crip.
CC Thank you.
CDR Okay, we've finished with the planned program.
I might give you a little shopping list item 4 of a chromospheru
network here near this active region if I can find one that
will fill the SLIT.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Say, Bob we just completed MI31 and I gave you
some OGI instead of motion sensitivity to begin with but we
went out through the whole run and also pieced together enough
of the sensitivity to fill the square so looks like we knocked
off TV 19 and 20 both there - like for you to tell me how they
turned out so we'll know whether or not we got it all.
CC Okay, we'll try and keep you updated on that
we had a little bit confusion on the dumping and recording
back there awhile ago over Hawaii but we'll get it straightened
out.
PLT Okeydoke, thank you.
CC And CDR, for your information we've got your
phone call set for about 00:30 tonight.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Okay, I think I've got one of these channels -
I mean one of the network boundaries, I'ii see if I can peak
it up.
CC Okay.
CC And we've completed commanding. The DAS
is yours once more.
CC And Skylab we're - have got the VTR pulled
right now and we got a little problem trying to find a good
dump site so if you record anymore you're just going to wipe
out what you have already recorded so it would be advisable not
to use the TV until you get another GO.
CDR Okay, Crip, and I wasn't able to pull off that
shopping list item I ran out of time. We're down to ESS now
so I'ii get to it.
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CC Copy.
CDR I can get it to pick up a little on
detector 3 not at all on detector i. And for your information
I went back there and fooled around with that connector and
there ain't no - none on the other side of the big one.
Looks like it just welded in there or something.
CC Okay; we copy that, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston, we are - need to ask you about
those leg bands you laid out apparently there's some
confusion as to whether the the ones you laid out are the
ones that were specified in general message number 6. Is
that so or not so?
CDR Well, we laid out the numbers and sent them
down to you all so you can check and see if they were
satisfactory there's been a lot of numbers come up that
said use these some that said no we changed our mind use
these others. So we thought maybe better approach would
be to send you some numbere that we thought were okay and
ask - letters - and ask you if you agreed if they were okay
so that's what we did.
CDR I can go down there and look at them and
read them off again to you Crip.
CC Well, we're going to have LOS in about
i minute. We're probably not going to be able to get that in
let me see if I can get a course action for you. We'll have
you again shortly, just a second.
SPT Crip, let me give you a letter. On my left
leg we did used Alfa X-ray, on my right leg Bravo Uncle.
CC Roger, copy thank you very much, Owen.
CC And we're going to LOS in one minute -
we'll have you again in Hawaii at 22:25, 22:25.
CC Those are good leg bands. We concur with
the numbers.
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS tracking ship
Vanguard. Next station grazes down the - ground track
grazes down past the edge of Hawaii in a lower elevation angle
of 3 degrees. Final Hawaii pass of the evening that will be
in one hour from now. As soon as the Commander, AI Bean,
completes closing down the ATM run he goes into a period of
housekeeping aboard the Space station and then as just
before his pre-sleep activities he has physical training or
exercise scheduled. The Science Pilot and Pilot are still
involved in their run of MO92/93 medical experiments.
Back in 59 minutes for Hawaii at 21:25 Greenwich mean time
Skyl ab Control.
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mean time. 51 minutes to Hawaii. Estimated glme of change
of shift briefing with flight director Don Puddy is on or
about 5:15 Central Daylight in the building i briefing room.
The Johnson Space Center News Room. 5:15 with flight
director Don Puddy. Which is approximately 48 minutes from
now. Would you believe 43 minutes. 50 minutes to Hawaii,
that pass will be taped in case the press conference is still
under way for delayed playback. At 21:34 Greenwich mean
time, Skylah Control.
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PAO Skylah Control, we had early AOS at

Hawaii.
CC Through Hawaii for 2-1/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Roger, we're all busy medical experimenting
here and exercising -
CC Okay, copy that transmission. You're loud
and garbled.
SPT We can't hear you above the roar of the
bike.
CC Okay, it's a Mexican standoff, I can't
hear you above the roar of the bike, either.
SPT ... the - okay - Okle from Oklahoma has
completed another M092 successfully.
CC Roger. We'll forward that to the Guiness
Book of World Records.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 17:24 CDT to 12:22:24 GMT
8/8/73
PAO This Hawaii pass is rather brief, only

2-1/2 minutes total time.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Above the roar
of the bike we have one minute to LOS. Next station contact
will be Vanguard in 26 minutes. It is possible that you
may get a CMG desat firing or two here. We're showing
88 percent on the momentum, it's nothing to be really
concerned about but we thought you ought to be aware that
you may get desat and possibly some alarms along with it. Over.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS, Hawaii for
the final time this evening. Midway through revolution 1245.
Next station tracking ship Vanguard in 24 minutes. Change
of shift briefing to start immediately in the Houston News
Room with flight director Don Puddy and EREP controller
Richard Koos. Any station passes taking place during the
change of shift press conference will be taped for delayed
playback . At 22:28 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. A minute and a half away from tracking ship
Vanguard. We've been getting early AOSs compared to the
AOS clock here in the last 2 or 3 stations. Space station
ending revolution 1245 and starting 1246, obviously.
for - for approximately i0 minutes. We're going to be forcing
a contingency momentum sample, so, we'd llke you to stay off
the DAS.
CDR Okay Bruce. We're all downstairs.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Say, Bruce. Did they dump the VTR yet?
CC Negative, Jack. You're full up on board.
PLT Okay. lhank you.
CC Basically Jack for the IS quality dump
we're planning on dumping the material you currently have
on tape over the States. And if you could look at the orbit
track while you're about 180 degrees out of stage with the state
right now. So, it'll probably be well under your sleep cycle
before we get around to dumping it. Over.
CC Okay, it was MI31. And we kind of pieced it
together. But I imagine they can cut it up and put the hack end
on the front and all that sort of thing so they can come out
right.
CC Yeah. We can make it come out very nicely
there. No problems and as point of fact, if we did dump it
through Vanguard, why, we'd probably have to wait on the mail
to send the tapes back to us so we wouldn't be able to see
it in real time anyway.
PLT Right. Understand. I had thought we were
suppose to do the OGI and turned out they want motion sensitivity
so rather than cutting off th_ OGI, we Just did both of them.
But, we had to piece it together to get it all in.
CC Sorry. We copied that about a rev
ago also, I believe.
PLT And I'm going to work on this mol sieve
fan B malfunction procedure.
CC Okay.
CC And Jack, this is Houston. While you're
up there in the vicinity of the ATM, it looks like the MPC
was left ENABLED and also the roll switch was left ENABLED. We'd
like to get them both put to INHIBIT to keep the actuators
from heating up over a period of time, when you have a chance
of it.
PLT How do you like that?
CC We like it.
PLT Hey, Bruce, turns out going through the
malfunction procedure in that fan that the circuit breaker
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did not open, so the assumption is, there's something wrong

with the fan and we'll go ahead with the fan replacement.
CC Okay, Jack. Mighty fine. We got
i minute and 30 seconds left here at Vanguard. We will be
dumping your data voice tape recorder at the next sight, which is
Ascension. AOS at 6 plus 17 in approximately 5 minutes. And
press on with the fan replacement. Out.
PLT Okay. I probably won't get it done
before LOS.
CC Well, I don't see why not. You got a
minute.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS tracking
ship Vanguard. Three minutes to Ascension. We'll hang in here
for that brief gap across - between the two stations. Standing
by at 23:03, GMT.
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Time: 18:04 CDT to 12:23:04 GMT
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CC Skylab, this is Houston through Acsenslon

for 9 minutes. We are dumping the data voice tape recorder
this pass. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce, I'm, starting this tool sieve
fan replacement. I noticed I got to a yank some circuit
breakers on page 9-32 of systems checklist. I was wondering
if that was going to mess up your tape recorder dump or
anything else.
CC Stand by. We'll take a quick peek.
CC Hey, Jack, we show that you should be
in housekeeping procedures on page 9-32. Is that correct, over.
PLT Yes, sir. That's where I am.
CC Okay, press on, no problem. And for
your information, the SO56 door is hung up again. So we're
going to turn the motor off and then reenable the primary
door motor. Over.
PLT Okay, probably should have yanked that ramp
off there too, huh?
CC Say again?
PLT We probably should have yanked that ramp
off there too, huh?
CC I can't agree with you on or disagree
with you on that one right now. We'll have to work it around
the back rooms.
PLT You know, there, Houston, welre
trying to find out how many ATM passes we're supposed to have
after dinner. So far it looks like we only got a ... for
one starting at ... 01:i0.
CC Okay we show just the one starting at about
01:00 Zulu for the SPT.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute till
LOS. Next station contact is through Guam at 23:52 in
approximately 37 minutes. Out.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal through the Ascension Island Station. Next station
upcoming will be Guam in approximately 35 minutes. And at
23:16 GMT, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. A minute and 40 seconds approximately to
acquisition at Guam Island tracking station as Skylab space
station makes its first track down across that particular
station on revolution 1246. Sounds like we're AOS and we
have a positive elevation angle on the table.
SC Hello, there, Bruce.
CC Okay, I'm sorry I didn't read you there,
other than the fact that you came back. Over.
SPT Sorry, Bruce we Just had a MASTER ALARM and
it was sieve flow. I swapped that fan and now nothing
happens. When I turn it on why it doesn't run; it won't
even blow the circuit breakers.
CC Okay; understand in mol sieve B secondary
fan, you swapped the fan and now when you - with the circuit
breaker closed you select secondary, not only does the fan not
run but the circuit breaker doesn' t open either. Is that
correct?
SPT You' re exactly right.
CC Okay, we copy and what master alarm was that
you just had. You said that it was a sieve flow was it B.
Over.
SPT I don't know which one is was Bruce, it was
either (garble) to distinguish itself and we came up and
we didn't check to see which one it was.
CC Okay, and we'd like you to reselect the
primary fan on sieve B and button it up.
SPT Yea, I already did that. Thank you.
CC Okay.
SPT Hello, Houston what is the next time for
sunrise.
CC We'll ha_e it for you in just a second, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CC Owen, sunrise at 40 kilometers is 01:05 Zulu.
Over.
SPT Thank you Bruce.
CC And for you or the PLT, we'd like to stabilize
the mol sieve B configuration by opening the mol seive B
fan secondary circuit breaker on panel 200, when you have a
chance. Over.
PLT Yea, that's already open, Bruce.
CC You're a couple of miles ahead of us tonight,
Jack.
PLT What?
CC You're way ahead of us.
PLT You better keep watching me.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute and 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact will be Vanguard at 00:29:40
we'll be coming up with a telephone call for the Commander,
if and when you get through during that station pass. We'll
be standing by down here the pass itself is approximately
II minutes in duration. That's at 00:29:40. If you're through
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with the running PTs we'd like to get the ESS turned off and
for the SPT, be advised that the S056 door OPENed normally
in response to the automatic signal this pass sunrise and
for the PLT, just so that he doesn't feel left out there is
a note in the SWS system checklist on page 9-33 regarding
the fan starting or not starting and basically it's says;
if the fan doesn't start when you select it turn the switch
OFF wait 30 seconds and try again. And we're wondering if
you went through that procedure and still were unable to start
secondary fan sieve B over.
SPT Affirmative. He tried it and it wouldn't
start.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal through
the Guam tracking station. Next station will be tracking
ship Vanguard. A fairly long pass of ii minutes over that
station and it turns out that the fan malfunction procedures
and molecular sieve B which involves replacing the bulky fan
with one of the onboard spares apparently has not worked
yet. The Pilot, Jack Lousma involved in that replacing of
the fan said that he had been unable to get the fan to come
on and at the same time it would not pop the circuit breaker.
So that ought to keep him busy for awhile. At midnight
Greenwich mean time back in 28 minutes for a Vanguard this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC531/I
Time: 19:27 CDT to 13:00:27 GMT
818173
PAO This is Skylab Control, 27 minutes past

m|dnlght Greenwich mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. On the end of revolution 1246, upcoming in a minute
and 50 seconds. We'll leave the llne up for the succeeding
passes over Ascension, Canaries and Madrid, for combined
length of probably 20 minutes. Things are looking up for
the ship as the orbit continues to preeess, back on to
the range earlier in the day. One minute from acquisition
from Vanguard, standing by.
for 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce, is now the hour for Al's
phone call?
CC This is Houston, say again, please?
PLT Is now the hour for Al's phone call.
CC Yes, indeed, he should be in the command
module working - it's on the VHF.
PLT Okay, he's on his way. Tell them not
to give up.
CC Okay, we got the other party on the line
down here. We're hanging on.
PLT Okay, he'll be configured in a couple
of minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston still through
Vanguard. We have 2 minutes until LOS. You might pass that
on to AI for his information_ Next station contact is through
Ascension in a little over 4 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. We' ii be there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS tracking
ship Vanguard. Ascension Island in about 2 minutes. Skylab
commander Alan Bean was back in the command module on VHF
talking through a telephone patch to his mother in Fort Worth,
Texas. We'll stay up for the brief gap across to Ascension.
And following through the next two stations overlapping, Canary
Islands and Madrid.
END OF TAPE
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CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension

for approximately 7 minutes. We'll be followed by Canary and
Madrid in short order, so I'll almost continue this pass here
for about 20 - 25 minutes.
CDR Hello, Bruce. Are you there?
CC Yes, we're here. But we have very low
signal strength. We're going to drop and reacquire. Would
you stand by, please?
with 4 minutes to LOS. How do you read? Over.
CDR Hello, Bruce.
CC Loud and clear, Alan.
CDR Could I get you to send up - let me look.
Let me make sure I phrase this right, hold on. How many total
general messages did you send up - permanent general messages?
CC Stand by, Alan. We're checking.
CDR Okay. The reason is, a lot of times
we take these general messages, put them somewhere, to used
there. For example the one on the urine the other day. We
had to put it in the head, but we'd still llke to have a
copy for our book. So that if someone says go look at
general message such and such, we can go in there and look,
and otherwise, we've got to run around all these places and
look on the walls to see if that number was the one they
called about. I got one and two in the book. I wish you'd
send on the teleprinter tonight as soon as you can, a copy
of all the other general messages besides 1 and 2. And make
it a procedure to send up two copies of each permanent general
message. I'll put one in the book and then the other one at
the appropriate place.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll go out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute
to LOS at Ascension and 1 minute and 45 seconds to AOS at
Canary, that's a 40 second dropout.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Back with you
through Canary and Madrid combined for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
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Time: 19:56 CDT to 13:00:56
8/8/73
CC SPT, this is Houston. Just a reminder

on your ATM ops coming up at 01:i0 Z on chip Alpha on
building block i; you' re to delete all of 82B - that's all
82 Bravo operations from building block i in order to give
you more time for operating the rest of the hardware. Over.
SPT Okay, I'm still not in the workshop,
Bruce. Did this come up on want a pad or something or
where did that - is that Just a voice of modification?
CC That's a voice modification. I believe
it was sent up once earlie_ today. And we're Just reminding
you about it since you're faced with the situation coming up
here in Just a couple minutes.
SPT Okay, fine, I appreciate that. Because
I was not aware of the change.
CC Right. That's 82B drop out of chip A
of building block I.
SPT I remember it well.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute until
LOS. Next station contact will be Vanguard at - delay that -
next station contact will be Guam at 01:27, this will be the
Evening Status Report and we will be dumping your tape recorder
at Guam. We've got quite a lot of conversational traffic for
you at Guam, so we'll try and get everything in. In the mean-
time, two of the questions that we will be asking are what
saddle settings are being used for each crewman on M092; and
what is the amount of film remaining in CX28 cassette and
where is it currently located. We suspect it may have been
used up and removed. But you can be checking on these in the
meantime. Over.
SPT Okay, Some of that LBNP stuff was sent
down on the channel A. But it will only take a moment to
repeat it I expect.
CC Okay, see you over at Guam.
through Madrid. Ground track of the Skylab Space Station
shown crossing just across - just below the toe of the
Italian boot over Greece and the Black Sea. Next station
Guam, final Guam pass at which the Evening Status Report
is scheduled. At 01:03 Greenwich Mean Time back in 24
minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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818173

mean time acquistion at Guam Island tracking station upcoming
in about a minute and 50 seconds Evening Status Report from
the crew due at this station. Reports of food eaten and/or
not eaten, water consumption, medications. The medical
conference with the Flight Surgeon, is scheduled the next
Canary Island pass which immediately after Vanguard coming
up. The Guam Island pass coming up and the Vanguard will be
the final passes over those two stations this evening.
SPT Hello, Bruce.
CC Roger, reading you loud and clear. We got you
for the next 9 minutes and 47 seconds standing by for the
Evening Status Report. Go.
SPT Why don't you open the SO56 doors for me
while you doing it please.
CC Okay, we'll go ahead and do that for you.
We can't open the door but we'll disable and reenable the
motors.
SPT Thank you.
CC CDR, this is Houston through Guam for 9 min-
utes and 20 seconds standing by for Evening Status Report.
CDR I was Just taking some desslcants out of the
drier in there, Bruce. We finished drying suit number 2
we're getting to start drying suit number 3 tonight. So, . ..
and take out the old.
CC Okay.
CDR Here's comes the report. Urine: 104, 125,
150. Drinking water: 4777; 7930; 5669. BMMD: 6.224, 6.224,
6.222 5.978 5.980 5.977 6.958 6.959 6.966. Exer - let
me catch one of these that's squawking.
SPT Are you ready for TV down-llnk now, Bruce.
CC Affirmative, go ahead, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Okay, let's talk about exercise.
CC Go.
CDR They are A2, 23, 3023. 15375 and that was
using the ergometer for arm exercises. In addition to that there
were 15 minutes of MARK i 50A, 20B, 20C, 20D, 20E. Okay now for SPT:
he did 60 rep of A, 40 of B, 30 of D and he's going to do some
ergometer later tonight and he will pass that word before
he goes to bed. PLT; 220 4050 325 MARK 1 50A, 20B, 20D, and
20 backbends. No medication. Here comes the sleep 6G,
6-I/2G, 6G. Here comes the food log: CDR, 13 salt packs and
an extra strawberry drink,; SPT, 4 salt packs, did not eat
pork ioln, and he weighed it and it was 2.187 on the SMMD
that's the part he did not eat. PLT: 4 soft juice and from
yesterday now, add I apple drink and subtract i orange drink
that was from yesterday. Today he ate it all. Okay let's
go for photo log.
CC Stand by please.
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CC SPT, Houston. Over.

SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, we got your door motor disable and
then our computers went down here down here on the ground if
you want to DAS in 40113 that will reenable the primary
motor and you can open the doors then with the switch. Over.
SPT 40113. Thank you.
CC Roger. Readback correct. And we're standing
by for the photo stuff, AI.
CDR Okay, coming at you. 16-milllmeter: VTS-TK34D,
CL01, 45, no information on the takeup, for there isn't one.
CDR MI31-1, C142.
CC Okay, we copy; MI31-1 C142.
CDR Okay, just a second we got a hole here.
CDR Okay, here we go we got it. M131-1, C142,
50, C124; M487-4A, C142, 28, C124; M487-4F we have not done
yet but will do later and that will use some more of C142. I'Ii
report that later because I got - I'm Just collecting the
trash now, Jack is getting it all in shape. A35-mi11imeter:
CX28, 14, 70-milllmeter, by the way, on that 14 we haven't
looked at our flight plan for tomorrow but if we have S063
on it then we will have shot up all 14 frames. If we do
not have it for tomorrow we probably still have the 14 frames
on there we're trying stretch that until we do S063.
70-milllmeter: CXI0098, ETC: PT0393, that 93 was at the end
of the EREP pass and there were three single exposures and then
ran the film out so essentially the film's all gone for the
ETC. Now, EREP: Set F; 8276, 0469, 7992, 7375, 9145, 8047
and as you know we used set F today although we have not been
instructed to unload. Drawer A: A-l, 02, C142, 30, C124;
A-2 same as the morning. And A-3 and A-4 are same as before.
CC Okay, AI and we copy all of that. We have
i minute to LOS coming up here next sight will be Vanguard
at 02:08 and we will require Vanguard for use for the
evening fire side we didn't get around to the questions this
pass. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll have time to get them on the
next one after that and I also need to glve you some flight
plan deviations, shopping list and that sort of thing.
CC Okay, fire away.
CDR I'ii do it then.
CC Oh, we got 30 seconds if you want to give me
some of them now, or whatever you want.
CDR Okay, SPT exercises; yesterday was done after
everybody - after the report last time; 2152100; A, 50 reps;
B, 30 reps; D, 20 reps. Shopping list items accomplished today:
we charged the 3 509 P (garble), and we have dryed the second
suit and dessicant. Inoperable equipment is presently the
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mol sieve B secondary fan as you well know.

CC Okay, we're coming right up on LOS now.
It was the 509 PSS top off drying the suit and mol sieve
B fan inop and we'll see you over Vanguard.
CDR Thank you very much. Bye-bye.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal through
Guam next station in 29 minutes will be the tracking ship
Vanguard pick up the balance of the evening status report
shopping list items several other topics that AI Bean, wants
to voice down to the crew. The pass after Vanguard will be
the medical conference through Canary and that loop will be
handed back to CAP COMM more than likely before the end of
Canary and Madrid combine passes and that likely would he the
normal time for the crew to sign off for the evening. That
remain to be seen Judging from the past several nights.
At 01:39 Greenwich mean time back in 28 minutes; Skylab
Control.
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8_8_73

mean time. And about a minute and a half away from acquisition
at tracking ship Vanguard, final Vanguard pass of the evening.
And resumption of the Evening Status Report. At Canary is
scheduled the evening medical conference with the flight
surgeon and normally according to the time for start of crew
rest period, the Madrid pass will be the final one of the
evening. Standing by for AOS Vanguard.
for 8 minutes. Over.
CDR While it's clear let me give you a couple
of additional reports before you give us the doctor.
CC Doctor is next pass, go ahead with your
additional reports for we do need some conversation. Over.
CDR Okay, M4- this is 16-millimenter-
M487-4 F, C142, 23, C124. Drawer A configuration then -
I want to make a correction to A-I and that would read 02,
C142, 23, C124.
CC Okay, we - -
CDR Another quickie.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We have a DAC power cable the insulation
broken and the shielded cable frayed at the base of the DAC
connector plug due to insufficient mending radiant. We
replaced it with another one and stowed the plug in the same
place we got the - we placed all of them up there among the
camera equipment, I don't remember the number of the compart-
ment. And that's the correction, so send him by to talk
would you.
CC Okay, for you first off, during command
module housekeeping 4 at 02:30 Zulu, we need to get read outs of
helium tank i and 2 quantity and pressure. So if you'd
give us a call when you start that. We show AOS Madrid after
the medical conference at 02:31.
CDR Will do. I'ii be right over there waiting
for you.
CC Roger, and that _:hould be hydrogen instead
of helium. And for you or the SPT up on panel 130, when you
first noticed the problem with AC BUS i for the ATH C and D,
were the lighting integral and numeric BUS - numeric parts
adjusted when you noticed this to see if possibly the adjustment
to the low setting could have been the problem. And what is
the status - or what is the setting on these parts at this time.
Ove r.
SPT Okay, that happened about a week ago.
Bruce, and I don't have the vaguest idea what the position
of those spots or switches were at that time. Now, I can
give you the - I'm Just now powering down for the night. And I
can tell you where they are at this moment, if that's your
question.
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CC Okay, if you would please. Do you recall

fiddling with them or wiggling - moving them around trying to
get AC BUS i to give you the lights. Over.
SPT My recollection is following the checklist
and we'd have to go through the checklist and see what that
calls for and I followed that, nearly as I can recall now, right
down the llne.
CC No, we can go through the checklist, Just
tell us where they are now.
SPT Okay, integral switch is off and the
POT is counterclockwise. The numeric switch is - at the moment
it's fixed and POT is counterclockwise. Alert status switch
is in variable and- and the POT is fully clockwise. That's
the three. Over.
CC Okay, thank you very much, Owen. And we
have a question again for the Commander on the CX28, 35-
millimeter film. For the past sew_-ral days, Day 9 we got
19 , Day i0 we got 24, Day ii we got 17, tonight we got 14.
The numbers that we should be getting down are the readings
on the frame counter and these are going up and down and
we're wondering whether maybe some days you're giving us the
number of exposures you took and some days you're giving us
frame counters. Over.
CDR It's possible we errored, very easily.
Right now the frame count is a little bit less than 14, so I
don't know whether to call it 14 or 13.
CC Is that what the counter on the camera
is showing?
CDR That's the counter on the electric part.
As you know the one that's on the manual, the one on top,
we should not use according to preflight discussion.
CC Okay, so that's the one that's counting
down, so in setting you've got 14 frames left, is that
correct?
CDR That is correct.
CC And your plan is to change this out
prior to S063, on its run tomorrow.
CDR That is a fact, and we'll shoot them up
to zero and then we'll change it out.
CC Okay, we're making progress here. For
Jack, he had a question on how you're handling the 16 milli-
meter film in drawer Charlle. Basically the cassettes that
have been exposed and returned to the drawer should be on
the left as you look at it then there should be one or more
empty slots and the virgin, unexposed film should be on the
right. So when you need to get a fresh cassette to load on the
transporter you take one from the right of the slot, you
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load it on and you take the exposed film and you put it into
the left of the slot and you have a sort of a moving empty
slot that goes from left to right across the first row and
then it proceeds from left to right across the second row.
PLT I understand that, Bruce, but there's
no way to keep track of what's in where. So when
we go to unstow the thing you'll say go to C-2 and give us
C148, C148 and it may not be there. Is that right?
CC No we're not going to say go and get
C148. We had the same thing on SL-II, the exposed or the
used up exposed film is not in strict sequence but it is
to the left of the slot. Everything to the right of the
slot should be in strict order. On your return - -
PLT Okay, I'ii do it that way.
CC Okay, on your return you'll be directed
to take the stuff out of Drawer Charlie to the left of the
slot type thing and bring it back or check what's left against
our checklist.
PLT Okay, that's fine. Thank you.
CC Okay, we're standing by for the saddle
setting that are currently being used for each crewman on
M092. And wish you'd give us a call or put on channel B
the time at which the S015 heater control switch is turned
off this evening. We'd appreciate that. Over.
CDR Okay, and the settings are 6, 7, and 8; CDR,
SPT, PLT, in that order. And I was going to turn it off
when we were over the station at 14 - or no, 02:31.
CC Beautiful, we appreciate that and we'll
be watching for it. Also, a couple of days ago, we sent up
a question pertaining to the IMSS flight stainer trying to
establish the amount of alcohol that was remaining as an
option for the tape recorder head cleaning. Have you all
gotten anything accomplished on that? Over.
SPT I recall a question about a slide stainer
on a message that was later - there was a message came up
to the delete paragraphs 4 and 6 and I thought that was
one of the paragraphs deleted and then after that you sent
up a whole new replacement message which had that paragraph
ommlted. Now, am I thinking of some other paragraph?
CC We think you're thinking of permanent
message 4 in some other paragraph. When you have time we are
interested in getting the information on how much alcohol
remains in the slide stainer in those two reagent containers.
SPT Okay, and that's a new one for me there.
I'ii have to go and check. I'd have to remember that.
CC Okay, a couple of quick ones on EREP.
We'll have to catch you again later. We got 30 seconds left
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in the pass. Your next pass is private medical and that

will be at 02:27. And you have a new condensate tank water site
dump only procedure sitting in the teleprinter waiting for
you, if you can get that out you can use it on the dump
tonight. And I'm going to hold these EREP questions because
we're running out of time. We'll see you when you're
through with the medical. Probably through Madrid. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll go look because we're in the
midst of that dump right now.
CC Okay, it leaves the hoses and everything
set up when you're through with the dump since we're doing
it on a daily basis until we get all our condensate tank
problems striked out at which time we'll probably modify
the procedure and unrig.
CDR Sounds good. We've had a them rigged
since day i.
CC Like I said earlier tonight. You' re
way ahead of us.
CDR I don't know about that but I'ii - -
through Vanguard tracking ship. The final pass of the
evening. Canary Island station overlapping Madrid starting
in ten minutes. We' ii come up for the Canary Island pass
however the early part of that pass will be devoted to the
medical consultation between the crew and the flight surgeon.
At 02:17 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control; acquisition within

30 seconds at tracking station Canary Islands. However, the
early portion of this tracking station pass will be devoted
to the medical conference between the crew and the flight
surgeon. We'll stand by, though, for whatever is handed back to
the Spacecraft Communicator, Bruce McCandless for operational
business. Standing by for Canary and overlapping Madrid
pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canary
with 30 seconds to handover and then we got you through
Madrid for 8 minutes and I0 seconds.
CDR Okay, I'ii stand by in the command module.
CC Okay, if you're standing by in the command
module we would like to get a readout of quantity and pressure
on the hydrogen tanks number i and 2. Over.
CDR Okay, hydrogen tank i quantity is ii and ...
20 is 5 . ..
CC Hey, AI, we're right in the middle of handover;
better start over.
CDR 021 is 76.
CC CDR, Houston we lost that in the process of
handover could you read the hydrogen quantity and pressure
again, please.
CDR I sure will, I'ii give you the hydrogen;
i quantity, ii percent, ii percent. Hydrogen tank 2 quantity,
53, 53 percent. Let me give you the pressure; hydrogen tank i
pressure 220, 220. Hydrogen tank 2 pressure; 250, 250.
CC Okay, mighty fine, we got that. And for
the PLT, on EREP the VTS pad for today had an error in the
cross angle instead of reading left 002, it should have
read left 020, at 45-degree pitch, the values of 30 and
zero were correct but I believe this is on the Sommerville
site, may have explained your problem for acquisition.
Also, for the CDR in connection with EREP, early depletion
of the S190 Alfa, station number 3 is believed to be
result of a short led - load of film approximately 5 feet
short we're still in the process in checking this out.
We'll keep you posted on it put we don't believe it was
any hardware malfunction involved. For the PLT, stand by.
Ore r.
CC For the CDR, we see your DAP load. It's good
and you're cleared to go back into standby.
CDR Okay, I just got POO. I can get you to
read my DAP just on a down-llnk, huh?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, that's good enough. Let me mention
something else I agree with you on that EREP business
because we took a look at that camera real quick and it was
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CDR
(CONT'D) empty. So and then we stuck it back on again so we presume
that sure enough that it was either a short load or a thick base film
we didn't know which. Glad to hear the information.
CC Okay, and we're sending you up a change to
the EREP post cue card. You'll probably get it tomorrow
doesn't affect you immediately since you're not doing film
depletion tomorrow. For the PLT, on your VTS image motion
conpensatlons drift could you tell us if you were using the
high or the low gain position of the switch with IMC and
what - was the drift any different between the high and low
position to the switch. Over.
PLT No, Bruce I tried it in both positions
and it was the same in both.
CC Okay. As you looked through the view finder
was the scene drifting to the bottom right of the field of
view or was it the crosshairs that appeared to be drifting
to the bottom right with the scene stationar? Over.
PLT It was the latter.
CC Okay, if you consider the scene stationary
area the crosshairs were drifting to the bottom right about
1:50 to 12 o'clock.
PLT Yea, if you consider the scene stationary
8rea the crosshairs are drifting down to about 5 o'clock.
CC Okay.
PLT Wait about 4 to 5 o'clock, Bruce. It all
depended - it was a little bit intermlttent seems like when
it got around to minus i0 degrees then it kind of straightened out
and sometimes went towards 6. It didn't always drift at
the same rate either. It kinda of was at that varying speed.
CC Okay, we copy. For the SPT, has the S054
timer been installed at the C and D console and is it operating
satisfactory fashion. Over.
SPT It has been installed and is operating
in a satisfactory fashion. And we put it up in slightly
different location and on the front of the panel it was I think
obstructing too much of the panel at that point but we've got it
right at the rlght-hand end of the panel mounted on one of
our clipboards and it does appear to be functioning properly
there.
CC Okay, that's up where one of the monitor cue
cards would go up in that area.
SPT No, it's on one of the clipboards that we
have on the rall these little (garble) clipboard that we clipped
on to that tall for our pads and so forth.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And for all three of you we have been
instructing the crew every evening on the solar activity pad
not to be too cautious in initiating JOP 8 and 16 for coronal
disk transients because we are quote super anxious end quote to
catch one. Rather than put this message in the teleprinter every
evening - -
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CC
(CONT'D) we would llke to save paper and emphasize to the crew
this point now and subsequently delete it from the ... Over.
SPT Sounds llke a good idea, Bruce and we're
all triggered to go for transients and all the ones that
I've seen are related to that condensate dump discharge
and I didn't think that our friend at HAO wanted any pictures
of that.
CC No, I a_ree with you Owen, I don't think
he does. For your summary Flight Plan pad tomorrow llne ii
changes to the post sleep activities should read: SO63
stow at 14:27 I believe that's instead of 14:17 that's just
a i0 minutes sllp. Over.
SPT I'd never notice it in the noise level.
CC Beautiful. And -
CDR Do you want to get a mark when I turn off
the SO15?
CC Stand by please.
CC For the SPT, we need storage on the EVA
auto door switch and the panel closeout and did I
copy the commander saying that he turned the S015 heater off.
CDR I'm going to g_ve you mark when I do it.
That's kinda what I thought you wanted here.
CC Oh.
CDR MARK. Turned off.
CC Okay, we got it. And for all of you, you
need to give us some information if you put any special
voice on the command module DSE so we'll know when to dump
it. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. That -
SC (Garble).
SPT And incidentally the requested roll for
unattended minus 750 could not be reached straight (garble) hit
the mechanical stop a little ways before we got here.
CDR And we have not been putting any voice
on the CSM tape.
CC Roger, Alan and we copy that Owen and you're
going to have to close the experiment doors before you go
into the storage position on the switch.
SPT Thank you. Thank you.
CC Okay, 1 minute to LOS here at Madrid.
Next station contact will be Honeysuckle at 3 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Nominally you'll be asleep by then the
way things are going do you want us to give you a call.
CDR Would you please.
CC Will do it.
CC That's approximately 34 more minutes.
CDR Okay, we purged the 02 in the fuel cells
we're standing by for the heat to come up so we can do the
JOP on the hydrogen.
CC Okay, glad to hear that everything came
out all right.
CDR Okay.
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through Madrid next station Honeysuckle Creek, Australia in
33 minutes. The crew has not signed off at the nominal time
and they're being the night a_ain owls tonight. And asked for a
call again at Honeysuckle, which is about 15 or 20 minutes
into their sleep period. We'll still be here. At 02:43
Greenwich mean time back in 32 minutes Skylab Control.
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mean time. A minute and 40 seconds away from acquisition
at Honeysuckle Creek in Australia. As the space station
Skylab comes over that station for the first time. While
we're waiting for AOS we have here the medical bulletin from
flight surgeon Dr. Paul Buchanan which reads as follows:
The Skylab cow - crew of Bean, Garriott, and Lousma still
report only good health, good appetites, and good spirits.
They did remark that as they catch up on some of the
troubleshooting and housekeeping it is becoming comfortable
and "homey" up there. And that this is adding to their
sense of well being. End of bulletin. 40 seconds to acquisition
at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 7-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Hello, Bruce, add one apple drink to my
menu today will you, please?
CC Okay, one apple drink, that's beginning
to sound like the old Lousma.
SPT Say, Bruce, I'm just putting on my 133
cap, I am supposed to wear that tonight am I not?
CC That's afflrmative, and speaking of
sleep and wake up, we don't have a site at exactly ii:00
Zulu tomorrow morning to wake you up with. We offer you
the option of calling ii minutes early or 25 minutes late
with ya' ii setting your onboard timer. Over.
CDR Call us ii minutes early.
CC Okay, we'll do that through Canary at
10:49:54 tomorrow morning.
SPT Say, sometime tomorrow, Bruce, would you
set up a pad or something the frequency at which I'm - I'll
be wearing the 133 cap - how many r_:vs for the missinn here.
CC Okay, we'll get that for you, Owen.
Okay, Owen, the answer to that is every third day and it
just goes on llke that for the rest of the mission.
SPT Okay, every third day, thank you.
CC And if you all are interested, I've got
some news clips I can read up to you. I don't want to prevent
you from sending any information down to us if you like.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, a former jockey, singer, and stand-
up comic one Bob Forsche is departed from Bar Harbor, Maine
on a ballon flight to Paris. Nearly I000 spectators watched
the 37-year-old ballonist leave in a ninestory red, white,
and blue bag. Forsche said he expected to be in Paris in 5
days. Unsuccessful transatlantic ballon flights have been
tried in 1873 and later years. The gondola of the present
baloon could be -
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converted into a boat. In other aviation news since you've

gone, the first flight of the wingless X-24B modified lifting
body research vehicle was successful. It flew on August ist
by NASA pilot John Mankey, it lasted 4 minutes ii seconds
after it was dropped from an altitude of 40,000 feet. Mankey later
said the flight was highly successful, the landing speed of
200 knots. Near Albuquerque, New Mexico police are trying to
locate a little boy who has been broadcasting police for
help on a citizen's band radio since Tuesday. The ten-year-old
says his father is dead. Search officials are going on the
theory that the plea for help is a real one. Some 12 million
residents of six subsaharan-Afrlcan nations are severly affected by
drought conditions according to Red Cross agencies. In Mall
and Mauritania about 80 percent of the population is in desperate
need of assistance. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is
listed in satisfactory condition following corrective
vascular surgery. Cattle rustling and illegal deer hunting
are having an affect meat prices in the deer population. Ranchers
are guarding cattle 24 hours a day. Hijackings have become
common across the nation and deer poaching is up as much
as 60 percent in Pennsylvania. In area and regional
highllghst, - stand by - milk prices are going up in the
Houston-Metro area and the exact increase is yet to be
determined. The environmental protection agency may take
action against an Amarillo smelting facilities soon that
have been given permission by the Texas Air Control Board
to proceed with smelting processes. The EPA action could
close the plant down. Governor Dolph Brlscoe says he will
lead a trade mission of Texas based firms to Japan in early
September. And the city of La Porte has filed a suit against
a the Southern Pacific Railroad and Dalstrom Corporation to
stop construction of a railroad switchyard. Well, last
night you asked about world press reaction to your mission.
The RCS quad loss, the coolant loop situation, and the quote,
""stomach awareness problem" kept Skylab on the front pages.
Dr. Kraft's conversation with you over the alr-to-ground
was widely used verbatim in many press accounts. Anomalies
in the CSM and OWS bring the news media into action. The most
interesting long running normal Skylab item has to do with
Arabella. She is getting as much attention as homosapiens
aboard. Television carried some of the good TV footage of the
sail deployment that went so well. And the European press
have been giving Skylab a great deal of space. As well as
the Australian radio stations. A quick look at the sports
scene, the Astros take on the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight.
Don Wilson stopped the bucks on 4 hits last night for a I0-0
win. University of Oklahoma has been slapped with 2 years
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probation the school is barred from TV appearances and ball

games for 2 years as a result of recruiting violations in
football and basketbal. Although Tom Weiskopf didn't win
the Weschester Classic last weekend he did move into second
place in 1973 money winnings. So far Weiskopf has won $220,000.
le_.ng the pros this year is Bruce Compton Cramption
who has collected 245,000. Jack Nicholas is Just over 200
k for the year. Over.
SPT You got to watch these Okies (garble)
CC Yeah, I'd put him on probation, too.
SPT I'll change the subject then if you
interested in Arabella. She did spin another nice web last
night we got some photos of it on board and we'll let her go
to work again tonight.
CC Okay, very good. Floating around the
pool down here somewhere we're debating methods of feeding the
spider we may have something for you in the next day or so and
before you turn in we'd like for you to verify a panel 207
that the RATE GYRO switch is in the inhibit position and
we got about a minute and 15 seconds until LOS here at
Honeysuckle. Over.
SPT Did you get the message on channel A
relative to ED52?
SPT It had to do with just that subject of
feeding and so forth.
CC Negative, Owen we have not yet copied
that message it may be down here we_'ll go back and screen
the tapes again.
SPT Okay, just had some questions and had
some suggestions in there on what we might want to do.
CC Okay, we'll look for it.
SPT Incidentally, I hope that you been no -
you notified Miss Judy Miles the student investigator
for the web preforming experiment all about the information
and how things are going and I'm sure she'll be involved in
discussions of how we might want to proceed from here.
CC I'm sure that's being accomplished, Owen.
And we'll check on it.
CC Time to say good night, Dick.
through tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Austrila next
station in 34 minutes will be Bermuda for the first time tonight
however the crew is signing off or has signed off for their
8 hour sleep period, 7-1/2 hour now since their about a half
hour beyond the normal start of sleep period and Skylab
Control is going to do likewise. Back at 6 a.m. for the
start of tomorrow's work day aboard the space station at
3:24 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours

39 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 13. Skylab
is nearing acquisition at the Canary Island station. CAP COM
Dick Truely does plan to put in a call to the crew sometime
during the Canaries pass. An early Earth Resources pass
this morning then the crew will get to work a little bit
early. Track 47 for today's Earth Resources survey. A
data take scheduled to begin at 8:41 a.m. Central daylight
time, extend to 9:17 a.m. Central daylight time Track 47
the data take portion of that track starts off the Coast
of British Columbia, crosses the United States over Chicago
Cape Hatterus out into the Atlantic. Manned Apollo telescope
mount operations also scheduled on today's flight plan. And
a run of the MI31 human vestibular function experiment is
scheduled with crew commander A1 Bean as the subject and
Pilot Jack Lousma as the observer. We'll stand by through
Canaries here and wait for the first call of the day. Flight
Director on that shift is Phil Shaffer.
CC Good morning Skylab, Houston. You're
about a minute from LOS at Canary we're going to see y_
AOS at Honeysuckle and we're about i0 minutes before the
normal wakeup time and that's an early EREP this morning.
CDR Okay, Dick; thank you.
CC Roger, see you _here.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Canaries has

had loss of signal. First call of the day going up at
5:49 a.m. Central daylight time with CAP COM Dick Truely.
A response from the Science Pilot Owen Garriott. Crew is
up and will start getting ready for the Earth Resources pass
scheduled to begin at 8:41 a.m. Central daylight time. The
next station to acquire Skylab will be Honeysuckle in 33
minutes. At I0 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at II hours

23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
acquisition through Honeysuckle for 8-1/2 minutes. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 8 minutes.
CDR Dick, were ya'll able to teleprinter
up last night an additional copy of all permenent messages after 2?
CC AI, I didn't copy what the message was.
Say it again, please.
CDR I asked yesterday one of the problems
we have is these permanent general messages is usually we need to
take the message and put it somewhere, whatever it applies
to. Stick it either in the head if it applies to waste or
put it up by the ATM panel if it applies to there which does
not allow us one copy for the permanent book in there so we can
find it when we need to go by message number instead of by
subject. So I said from now on send up two general messages
and send us one general message of - from 3 on as many as
you send because we've got all those 3 through whatever it
is stashed around the spacecraft.
CC Okay, we'll get them in the pool, AI and
get them up. I don't think they're on the teleprinter tonight.
We are however, reviewing right now a message that's going to be
up to you today that summarizes all the checklist changes and
the permanent general message and numbers that we've sent up so far
so you can do a little book work this afternoon and make sure
you're up to date.
CDR Okay, we think we're in pretty good shape
except for putting the changes in the deact checklist. That
big list that was sent up about a week ago and they were
going to give us some time to do its we're still cooling
our heels on that one.
CC Okay - -
CDR Hanging on the wall waiting to be -
CC Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. Just like yesterday
morning we need to get the startracker - a little help from
you to get the startracker acquired at your convenience.
We see a little Z-axis drift that we'd like to get squared
away. We need the startracker to do that. No hurry.
CDR Houston, give me the latest and greatest
gimbal angles for Canopus.
CC Roger, AI. Let me look at my startracker
pad.
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CC CDR, Houston. Outer gimbal best one

right now is plus 1800 and - but it will not be available
until day plus 46 minutes. So we - we made a mistake on
that call. I should're let you know about that.
CDR Okay, what's the inner glmbal?
CC Inner gimbal is minus 0725.
CDR I think we'll get it whenever (garble).
CC Roger, we're going LOS. We'll see you
at Hawaii at 11:46.
range of Honeysuckle now. The next station will be Hawaii
in ii minutes. At ii hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 44 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for communications
with Skylab through Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston. Hawaii for 9 minutes.
$PT Hello Dick, if you don't have anything else
coming up for us for a couple of minutes here, I'll take
about 2 or 3 minutes to update you on the web formation
experiment. Over.
CC Roger. Go ahead. We'd like to hear about
it.
SPT Okay, Dick. This is the fourth day our
friend Arabella has her web formed. It's not entirely
clear whether this fourth web is any different from the one
yesterday. It might actually be the same web, although, it's
my understanding that that's not the nature of their habit is
to keep the same web but then to eat it and respin a new one each
day. But, reviewing things, the first day we let her out, she
opened the vial, the little capsule she was in, she didn't
come out at all. And the next day I had to more or less
tap and shake the spider out of the little vial to get her
to move around in the cage. And when she did come out, why
she went through the normal reactions of leg flopping and
bouncing from wall for a few moment:s, till she finally got
over to the screen and hung on there. However, the
very next day she had a rudimentary web formed and more or
less from corner to corner, without the normal circular pattern
at all. However, by the second day she had learned very rapidly
and starting from the corner to corner stringers, she had
then gone from stringer to stringer and begun to get the
radials out and then formed a more or less normal radial
pattern. And by the third day, even that had been improved
upon, because she had seen the front of the cage had
been opened and she spun her normal web rather close to the
front of the cage, then tied some other stringers toward
the back of the cage and pulled the web away from the front.
So, it seemed that she learned very rapidly in zero g without
the benefit of any previous experience and simply working
on her own, she figured out a very nice solution to the
problems of zero gravity. Now, we of course, have some
photographs of all this and we'll be bringing them back for
the experimenters to work on. And the student experimenter
here is Miss. Judith Miles, from Lexington, Massachusettes,
and she is certainly to be congratulated for a very out-
standing concept, a very interesting idea and one that might
very well have some application in studies of how animals
and even men think and behave when placed in a brand new
environment. So these are the things that are our first
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impressions. And we'll be bringing back photographs for

more detailed and thorough study when we come back home in
about 6 weeks from now.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for the
update, and I'm sure that Judith will appreciate your
compliments and we'll pass them on to her.
SPT Fine Dick, thank you.
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Time: 06:50 CDT, 13/11:50 GMT
8/9/73
CC And, Skylab, Houston. First for Owen.

I have a note for you that has to do with the spider that
I'm sure that they will appreciate. Tonight after your meal
when you have filet mignon, we would appreciate it if you
would share a small piece of red or pink meat about the size
of a housefly with both Arabella and Anita. When Arabella
is stationery in her cage, carefully place her piece near
her legs. And carefully place Anita's portion in her vial.
Over.
SPT Okay. We'll do Just that. And, of course,
you'll want to take proper account of this. In our daily
tallies, caloric intake for the SPT, but certainly won't
mind sharing a couple of housefly-size pieces of my filet
with Anita, especially, since she hasn't had a very large
horizon at this point, as well as with Arabella.
CC (Laughter) Roger that. While I'm
talking to you, there's sort of an interesting solar activity
update, I'd like to pass on to you. At about 10:59 Zulu,
which is a little less than an hour from now, the south
portion of filament 27 that is anchored in active region 84,
again lifting slowly, and material begins streaming over
the west limb. The remainder of filament 27 now appears
to be lifting slowly along its entire length. Over.
SPT Roger. Looks llke I'ii not have a
chance to look at it until after this EREP SO63 pass.
But please keep us informed, It sounds interesting.
CC Roger. Understand.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS, Goldstone at 11:57.
SPT See you there, Dick.
CC Okay.
loss of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about
2 minutes. We'll continue to keep the line up and stand by
for communications there. During the Hawaii pass, Science
Pilot Owen Garriott gave us an updated report on Arabella,
the spider. He says she has figured out, on her own, the
problems of spinning a web in zero gravity. And he passed
on his congratulations to the young lady from Lexington
Massachusetts, Judith Miles, who originated the concept of
this experiment. It is one of the student experiments
aboard Skylab. Miss Miles is 17 years old.
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SL-III MC543/I
Time: 06:57 CDT, 13/11:57 GMT
8/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone for 6 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. I imagine you've
already made your trip up to the teleprinter to get the
morning messages. We are uplinking here at Goldstone and
I think it's already onboard. A cue card change for atleast
a piece of paper to tape to 3 of the 6 menu cue cards that
tells you what additional items are available to you to eat
for those menus. And you might want to go ahead and get them
and take a look.
CDR Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
passed out of range of the Goldstone station. Too far north
for Texas and Merrltt Island on this revolution. So, Bermuda
will be the next station to acquire in about 2-1/2 minutes.
We'll continue to keep the llne up and stand by for
acquisition through Bermuda.
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Time: 07:06 CDT 13/12:06 GMT
8/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda

for about the next 9 minutes. And we'll be giving you a
nav update here at Bermuda.
SPT Dick, give us a call when it's ah - when
we can lock up the star, please.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. The star will be
available within the next 3 or 4 minutes. And certainly
by the time I give you a LOS call here at Bermuda.
CDR Thank you.
from LOS. We' re going to drop out for a couple or 3 minutes
and 1'11 call you at Canary.
CC I believe at the Canary pass, there's
going to be very low level and we're not going to bring up
S-band. So I'ii call you at Ascension. And that time will
be 12:25.
loss of signal. The next station will be Ascension. The
elevation angle is too low at Canaries during this revolution.
Ascension will pick up Skylab in 6 minutes. At 12 hours
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Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for i0
minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We got your startracker
locked on.
CC Roger; thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. While we' re on the
subject of the startracker and we appreciate you locking
it up for us. One thing we wanted to visit with you about
we made a change a couple of days ago to the unattended
OPS cue card and asked that Just prior to going to bed
that each night you secure the startracker and Just after
getting up you lock it on. And we're not real sure because
the of the way it unlocked last night as to whether or not
you actually did that or not. And since we don't know
whether not you've made that change to the cue card yet
just wanted to remind you about it for tonight's activities.
CDR Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR Did that thing come up as a checklist
change or Just a message.
CC That was a checklist change to the
unattended OPS cue card. I can get the checklist change
number if you give me about 30 seconds here.
CDR You got 30 seconds, okay. We've noticed
that on the ATM particularly, unless we're not getting them
or something, that we have a lot of information come up
on messages on what to do but we haven't received very
many checklist or cue card changes and such. We never
change our cue card until those come up because we don't
know whether you're just thinking about it or trying it
for a couple of days or what. So, we always wait for the
exact change of the cue cards or checklist. It seems to
work okay but a SWS systems deact and those others, but the ATM
seems to - we get the message but we don't seem to get
any checklist changes.
CC Roger, Al. The change that that one
came up was to the unattended OPS cue card and it was
message 1129 which doesn't make much difference it was
change 2. We are uplinking this checklist status cue
card, so this afternoon when you go through the deactivation
hook you might take the time just to review which of the checklist
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changes you do and don't have and we'll - we'll uplink any
that have got lost in the mill. One thin E on this particular
one you sure better write little because I had to really
cram it in here to - to get it here on this cue card which
is the best we could do.
CDR Okay, well tell them to quit naming the
checklist changes general messages then. That may be what's
screwing us up.
CC Very good point and we'll try to do
better.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Okay, I've got them right here, Dick.
They - We had them stuck under a thing here and hadn't
incorporated it. We'll get them in there.
. CC Okay, real fine.
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TIME: 07:33 CDT 13/12:33 GMT
8/9/73

range at Ascension now. The next station will be Carnarvon
in 22 minutes. At 12 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time.
This is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going A -
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SL-III MC-547/I
Time: 07:56 CDT, 13/12:56 GMT
8/9/73

56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
through the Carnarvon station. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through CRO
for 9 minutes and we'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump.
CC And, gentlemen, we need the DAS for
a couple of minutes while we enable star tracker updata
Nu Z. And for your information, we're going to put
both doors on SO56, both door motors rather.
CDR Okay. I need it back fairly soon to
make this maneuver.
CC Rog. We'll give it right back to you.
PLT Good morning, Crip. I was Just noticing
about the PCTs, that ampoule intergraters on PCT 5, 6 and 8
are not equal. And that the state of charge of number 6
is pretty far down. Any fast story on that?
CC Ah, Jack, been informed that that is
the anticipated drift that we expected premission, that they
would be llke that and not be together.
PLT Okay. Did they expect a Bat charge
low on BATs 6 for this EREP pass?
CC Skylab, the DAS is yours again. You
can go ahead and set up for your maneuver. And, Jack, informa-
tion for you is, the batteries are charging very well. No
problem with that. And we did not anticipate you getting
a bat charge low during the maneuver.
PLT Thank you, Cripo
CDR How does the maneuver time look?
CDR Hey, Crip. Dick and I were talking
about these (loud squeal) this morning.
CC I'm sorry, AI. I couldn't copy that.
Would yousay again, please?
CDR Dick and I were talking about some general
messages, changes, and things. I looked through our permanent
general message file and found that we have i, 2, 3, 4, and 6. 5 - I
need another copy of it, and anything that we have after
6, I need another copy of. And of course, from now on y'all are going
to send two copies of each, which is okay and that looks
(drop off) squared away all ready. One of the other comments
we had was the fact that, particularly on the ATM, we're getting
no messages telling us what to do As far as we know,
we never get the checklist change to implement it. Let
me give you an example.
CC Okay. Waiting.
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CDR Permanent general message 4, number 4,

the display switch 4 to Bus 2 and console fire distribution
switch 8 to Bus 2 for ATM CDR OPS. As far as we know, we do
not have a cue card change to implement that. Then, B
switch should be turned off when panel is not being used.
The lighting numeric switch, bypass for this conflg, it should
also be off. The (garble) Beta should be BUS 2. All that informa-
tion appears there. But as far as we know, it's not on our
checklist change. So I guess we ought to somehow get that on the
change, or else tell us where it is and we'll try to find
it.
CC Okay, AI. We copied on your general
message thing. You haven't got 5, and anything after 6
you haven't got, and you want two copies of them, and we'll
comply with that. Regarding the ATM, especially on the
lighting there, that was the message that Owen had requested
and the lighting thing we consider very temporary. Today,
we've got setup a trouble shooting procedure to do on the
ILCA and we were going to try to hold up until we determined
exactly what the configuration of the buses in the ATM C&D
were before we gave you a checklist change. But we should
know before the day is over. And we will comply on that
also. We're going LOS in about 1 minute. We'll see you
again at Guam, at 13:12, 13:12.
CDR Okay. Thank you. We're going to try
to make sure that we handle (garble). I notice it takes
us several days from the time the message arrives before
we really get to doing it right. We're going to try to cut
that down to the same day. If you'll do the other part,
then this'll help us too. I think we'll have this thing
configured llke you want it, this time instead of like you wanted
it 2 days ago (garble) and stuff llke that.
CC Okay. Understand. Unfortunately, it
seems like it's still a pretty dynamic situation as far
as checklist changes go. We'll try to get it all squared
away and work with you to make it a little bit easier on
you.
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TIME: 08:06 CDT 13/13:06 GMT
8/9/73
CC Okay. Understand. Unfortunately, things

like this are still a pretty dynamic stiuation as far as
checklist changes go and we'll try to get it all squared
away and work with you to make it a little bit easier on you.
CDR Okay, and we will do the same to get like
you wanted it at night.
CDR Okay, we've begun the maneuver.
CC Rog.
CDR And our biases are in.
CC Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has loss
of signal. The Guam tracking station will pick up Skylab
in about 4 minutes. At 13 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean
time this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC549/I
Time: 08:11 CDT, 13/13:11 GMT
8/9/73

ii minutes. Skylab about to be acquired through the Guam station.
Guam for 8 minutes.
CC And Jack on reviewing which of - the status
of battery 6, we do recommend inhibiting the caution and warning
of bat charge low on number 6.
PLT You say disable it for a while, Crlp?
CC Roger, inhibit it.
PLT Okay.
SC (garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. Could hear you calling.
Couldn't understand you.
PLT Sounds good, AI.
CC And Skylab we're going to send battery 6
discharge limit inhibit so they won't kick off.
CDR You copy us on right now, Crlp?
CC That's affirm. I got you on VOX.
CDR Okay, good. Want to make sure it was
working. We' re ready.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Say, would you ask the flight planners
how the time that they're giving us to get ready for EREP
compares with what Pete was doing to get ready for the EF -
toward the end of the mission. I'd llke to get a feel for
that.
CC Okay, we copied that. Would you like a
quick summary of the weather across the states?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay, it's coming up on the western
portion it's going to be clear to scattered - example in Montana
right now it's running around ii00 scattered. You're going
to - then it's going to increase cloud coverage around 4 tenths
to 7 tenths. Minnesota right now you're running around
2500 scattered with scattered alto cuw. And time you get into
Southeast Winconsin it's overcast with that funnel system
that's noted on your VTS pad and that runs down through
Illinois, goes to broken in Indiana on Ohio, West Virginia
breaks out scattered again, (garble) sound area around Cape Hatteras
(garble) reporting fog with a reduced visibility but no clouds.
CDR Hope it lifts in time.
CC Roger, we hope it burns off.
CDR Yeah, that's an easy target to get if
the weather' s good. One of the easier.
CDR It's kind of patchy in that area. I think you'll
be able to see it.
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CDR Yeah, It may be Just setting over the

water, or it may just be setting over the land. Either way
we might be able to find it. Hope so. Say, were you able
to get the answer from the flight planners? Who is the
flight planner today, by the way?
CC We started out with an hour and a half
on Skylab II and finally reduced down to about an hour.
Right now we've been giving you guys an hour and a half.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going to maintain that hour
and a half until you tell us otherwise.
CDR Right. I'm thinking about telling you
otherwise. I got to consult with the friendly PLT here and
see what he thinks.
CC Copy. We're going to go LOS in i minute.
We'll pick you up again over the states at Goldstone at
13:37; 1317.
CDR Okeydoke. I have 1319 right now. My
watch must be out.
CC 13:37, 37.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay space fans this is Jack on channel A.
The subject is EREP.
CC Copy you, Jack.
PLT Okay, I'm going to record some information
at this time with S192 and check the Dog 6 meter is
reading 57 percent. Okay, here's the meter readings for
you. I'm Just going to read them all because it's easier
to read them all than to read voice record stop. Alpha 2
60 percent. Alpha 3 86 percent. Alpha 4 71 percent. Alpha 5
65 percent. Alpha 6 0. Alpha 7 - -
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SL III MC-550/I
TIME: 08:21 CDT 13/31:32 GMt
8/9/73
PLT Alfa 6, 0. Alfa 7, (garble) Bravo 2.

PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has had loss
of signal. Goldstone will acquire Skylab in 15-1/2 minutes.
And the Earth Resources pass will start shortly after that.
CAP COM now is astronaut Bob Crlppen. He passed up the
weather over the EREP ground track during this pass over Guam.
Flight Director now is Don Puddy. At 13 hours 21 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-551/I
TIME: 08:32 CDT 13/13:32 GMT
8/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 32

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 3-1/2 minutes
away from acquisition at Goldstone. Today's Earth Resources
pass, which will be conducted during this revolution over
the United States, is a data run of 24 minutes, starting
North of Billings, Montana and ending south of Fortaleza,
Brazil. This is the sixth pass of the mission and covers
a ground track of more than 5700 nautical miles. Data
during today's pass is being gathered for 12 U.S. scientists
over 16 test sites. The data take begins at 08:41 a.m.
central daylight time over Montana and ends over Brazil at
09:17 a.m. central daylight time. The S190 multispectral
camera system will be used from the start of the pass, and
will be cut off in the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico.
A frontal system over the Great Lakes is the target for
S191, infrared spectrometer and as Skylab passes over
North Carolina S191 has as a prime site, Durant Island off
Albemarle Sound. This area is being studied by Dr. Charles
Welby of North Carolina State University for water resources.
S192, multlspectral 13-band scanner will be examining test
sites in Ohio and North Carolina. And S193, radiometer
scatterometer_ and S194, the L-band radiometer, will gather
data throughout this pass. We'll stand by now for
communications through Goldstone.
PLT (garble)
CDR Eat on time. Get to bed on time.
PLT Yes, I - (garble) No, I only get 6 hours of
sleep. I got to have
seven. I don't know about you guys, but - -
CDR I got the door open, everything's set, Jack.
PLT Us young people need more rest than the
more mature individuals.
CC Don't rub it in, Jack.
PLT There he is. Down there again. He's
listening., doggone it all. We were Just (garble) how
we got a little more rest last night and we feel a little
better today. I don't know about the O, he's not saying
much.
SPT I'm working while you' re lollygagging.
PLT He had to wear that cap, but I was Just
saying that everybody thought we were going to get by on a
lot less sleep, but (garble)
SPT I see some funnel clouds.
PLT Okay. We're out to sea. SCAT and altimeter
to STANDBY. This will be another classic pass down there, Crlp.
CC Okey-doke. Weather looks real good. It's
cleared up now just about all the way to Wisconsin and
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around Albemarle Sound it's visibility of 20 miles.

PLT Okay. That's good news, too.
SPT Okay. 5 seconds to begin here.
CDR SPT, you got your door open.
SPT MARK. Actually, I got my altimeter to STANDBY.
CDR Let's go. Run the vidlo checklist.
PLT That was a big deal, to wait for another 3
minutes and 30 seconds.
CDR Got to warm it up. (garble) run a line off- -
PLT Doors are open. I can see light coming in
the window. How's the VTS working?
CDR Good. I haven't checked the IMC.
PLT We ought to check the IMC early to see if
it's better before it warms up.
CDR Okay. I'Ii check it.
PLT -- then it is later.
CDR IMC high is tracking real well. IMC low
is tracking real well right now.
PLT Maybe after it gets warmed up, it gets
worse, Crip.
CC Copy.
CDR I'm looking straight down, and that's where
it's usually best anyway.
CDR Hey, I've got a nadir swath on 43.
PLT How about the star,racker?
CDR The startracker- I closed the shutter
while ago.
PLT Heyj no star, huh? Star I take it.
CDR You take it right.
PLT Okay. That's a shame. All them stars out
there.
CDR B57.
PLT Checked the S192 alignment, just for the
beck of it, Crlp, and I put it on the recorder, but just
for the interest of the EREP fans down there, visible was
reading left,83 percent, right, 65 percent. Thermal was
reading 46 percent.
CC Copy.
PLT 20:30, I can't wait for 40:30 to get here.
CDR Snow on the mountains down there, Jack.
PLT We did not get any film advance malfunctions
on our new load of film this morning when we did the
sensltometry. The present S190 camera readings are as
follows, Camera number i, 7561, number 2 is 6898, number
3 is 7773, number 4 is 7768, number 5 is 1311, number 6
is 8629, and each of those advance 40 frames to get the
present readings. So S190 is working llke a champ.
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PLT Less than a minute to go.

CDR Lot of rivers down there, Jack.
PLT Must be coming right across - right across
northern Washington.
CDR No, even up in Canada. I don't think we
are in -
PLT Okay, space fans, our EREP pass today
brings us across the northern border of the 1J.S. and
Montana. We go across Bismarck t North Dakota, over
Minneapolls, between Milwaukee and Chicago, over Columbus,
over Richmond, Virginia, and finally over Cherry Point,
North Carolina - home of the famous Marine Corps Air Station.
40:30, getting ready to start.
PLT MARK. Start tape Motion light is ON,
recorder mall is OFF. VTS AUTO CAL, STANDBY.
PLT MARK it. There, hers got it.
CDR Okay, done.
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Time: 08:40 CDT, 13/13:40 GMT
8_9/73
PLT Lights out. 40:53, 190, mode to auto.

Scat on, RAD ON.
PLT MARK. AUTO on 190.
CDR Weather is clear up here.
PLT SCAT ON, PAD ON. 194 mode to HANUAL.
Done. 42:15 coming. Okay, everything is apparently working
good; 193's got READY lights.
PLT Sitting there in CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS
at zero, and POLAR i. 190: 40 fine FRAMES, INTERVAL 20,
all set. So far, we llke it.
CC In a minute, I'm going to lose you for
about a minute.
PLT We're going to miss you, Crip, but we'll
see you.
CDR IMC is moving slowly down now, Jack.
PLT Ah, crap.
CDR Slowly, straight down.
PLT Slowly straight down.
CDR Not to bad.
PLT Okay. What's your left/rlght?
CDR Left/rlght is _ero.
PLT Okay.
CDR I'm going to get my target out here,
which is going to be left, zero. Okay. So that's going to
be just like my target. If the weather's good there, we'll
zap it. It isn't so easy.
PLT Wasn't no hurt. Target to come.
CDR Looking for 43 - -
PLT POLAR 4 on i - -
CDR - - Jack.
PLT 193, Just for fun.
CDR Looking for 43:57.
PLT Slipped over the POLAR 5 for a moment,
back over the POLAR 4. Okay. 42:50 next, interval i0.
CDR Weather looks good. Scattered clouds.
PLT Glad the (garble) I hope you can get them.
CDR Sort of a STRATO cu (mulus) or sheep's
back, as it's known - Alto cu, I guess you might call them.
Alto cu, no big - -
PLT MARK. INTERVAL I0 on 190. Standing
by for READY ON. Everything is hunky-dory with EREP.
CDR Clear now, Jack.
PLT Good. There's my friend Crip down there,
again.
CDR Passing right over a big city. That's
your - -
PLT MARK. The READY light is on 191, right
on time.
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CDR 43:57, standing by.

PLT SCAT to STanDBY.
PLT MARK. SCAT STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY, INTRACK NON CON-
TIGOUS is now set; RAD, POLAR 5.
CDR Coming into a front - -
PLT 193 S, on.
PLT MARK. PAD ON.
PLT MARK. 53 - 43:54 coming next, INTERVAL
to 20.
CDR I'll start a little bit - -
PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20 on 190; 44:50 - -
CDR Now (garble) it's taking pictures like it
should.
PLT You down there, Crip?
CC Affirm, for about 9 minutes.
PLT Okay. Is my friend Hilt Windier in
this morning?
CC No, I've got Don Puddy here with me.
CDR Funnel cloud, Jack.
PLT 44:52. Stand by for 44:50. And we've
got infrared intermittent rad scat gimbal lights, but we
expect that.
SPT Hey, stand by for S063 UV photo start.
PLT Okay.
CDR Getting funnel clouds by the bunch.
SPT MARK. UV PHOTO START.
PLT Okay, Owen, we hear you. Standing by for
S190 to shutter speed, medium.
PLT MARK at 50.
CDR Okay, 44:52, OFF. SCAT at 35 - 46:35.
(garble) up and left, zero.
PLT MARK. SCAT STANDBY, 2-second delay.
PLT MARK. RAD to STAND BY. Okay. SCAT and
RAD, ON; SCAT ON, RAD ON; 45:30 seconds for S192 mode to
READY.
CDR Stand by for camera in IMC.
PLT I'm going to stazt tape burner, here in
a moment. Momentatily, 45:30 coming up.
SPT 46:35, I want to go that.
CDR 64:25 (garble) - -
PLT MARK. MODE READY. Malf light on, motion
light on, INTERVAL's to I0.
PLT MARK. INTERVAL's to i0 on 190.
SCAT, STANDBY, RAD, STANDBY 42. SCAT, STANDBY.
PLT MARK. 2 seconds, RAD STANDBY. Okay,
46:15 next we've got a long wait here.
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Time: 08:40 CDT, 13/13:40 GMT
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CDR 6:35. Little hazy down there, Crlp.

Better get better, haven't seen the ground, lately. 36:35.
PLT Okay, stand by to get the tapeburner
back to check here. Looks like we're reading 62 percent of
Charlie-H - -
CDR Better get a lot better fast. Looks
like it is. t
PLT 25 - -
PLT MARK. 192 to CHECK, tape motion light
back on.
SPT 36:35, I'm loading 4 - -
PLT 46:30 next.
CDR 46:35. I think we're gonna get it,
Crip; I think we're going to get it.
PLT MARK Altimeter on.
CDR Altimeter' s on.
PLT Attaboy.
PLT My old CDR's hanging in there. Alti-
meter unlock light. It's ON - and OFF- ON.
CDR Got altimeter.
SPT Stand by for a S063 UV photo.
PLT Be quiet for a minute. I want to speak.
SPT Start.
S PT MARK.
PLT Attaboy, O. Altimeter unlock light is
flickering on and off, on and off. Off now, i second on,
5 seconds off--
CDR Can't find it, it's right in there some-
where under the clouds.
PLT 47:10 coming, mode to READy. The old
tape burner's going to get rolling in here.
SPT Up here - down here, there it is, we've
got it.
PLT MARK. 192 on. mall light on and off
tape motion light on.
SPT 192's ready, 48 next. Attaboy. Old
eagle-eye over there's got them locked on. - -
CC Good show, AI.
PLT (Garble) there' s a pipper.
CDR Doesn't look right. Looks like the
wrong plates. It's the wrong plates.
PLT Standing by for 48.
CDR Okay. Let me move it and get over
here and get it. Gotta be under there somewhere.
PLT At 47:06, you can go to ah - -
CDR Right.
PLT 30 and 0.7. - -
CDR There it is' I got her again.
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PLT Attaboy.
CC Good deal.
PLT 192.
PLT MARK. MODE to STANDBY ON 192.
CDR We've got it.
PLT Tape Motion light is on - again. 48:15
standing by.
CDR Little b/try plate.
PLT This is a short pass. They cheated us
today, AI.
PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20 on 190. 49:50 next.
Is Milt Windier only on? Or do you have another - you work-
ing with the same flight controller this morning?
CDR I need to set this up for 48:30 - -
SPT Who's the man who's running the mission
down there, Crip?
CC Ro E . Don Puddy running. You've got
the Crison team on.
PLT Hello there Don.
SPT Stand by for a 5063 UV.
PLT - - Skylab-2 crew. Better by quiet,
y'all want to - -
SPT MARK, Start the S063 UV.
PLT ATTABOY, o; speak up.
PLT i minute here A]tlm's monopolized the
conversation up here, as you've noticed.
SPT I can tell. 48:50.
PLT Charlie 8, 56 percent. Tape recorder's
running fine. 49:50 next.
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CDR ... thing locked on way left. My guess is

it locked on somewhere up there around Portsmouth.
PLT Mark. Altimeter is STAND BY. Mode is
going to 3. Mode 3 range 72. Not sure. i0.
CDR Been a good day for 190B.
PLT Mark. Altimeter on. Got a long wait here.
Say Crlp, did the EREP guys get all those 192 STAND BY (garble) UV?
STP Alignment (garble)
CDR Be quiet for the O.
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Mark. 63 UV. I meant the stuff I put
on the recorder the other night regarding the initial
alignment.
CC Yeah, we got that too.
PLT Okay, good. Hope they can decifier it.
CDR Say, Crlp, you might pass to the EREP
targeting fellows, it looked to me llke it locked on all
the way up when I went to IMC and locked on up at around
Portsmouth as opposed to down around (garble) which is a
long way off.
CC Copy.
CDR Yeah I did.
PLT That's just an easy one to miss.
CDR Working on it right now. I'm working on seeing
some sargassum down in there somewhere.
PLT Sargassum, Sargassum Bay.
CC How's the Sara_osa Sea?
CDR An exotic weed of amazing potency.
PLT Sailor's delight, huh?
CDR Performing (garble).
PLT Can you see some sargassum down there, AI?
CDR No, but I'm performing sort of a running
square search.
PLT Understand that's what sargassum does.
CDR Nice to fine some would it? All I can see
is blue and then white clouds. I don't see anything green
or even a different shade of blue.
PLT I wonder when they're going to let us take
our okle down there off of probatlon<
CC LOS 1 minute. A_cension 14:04.
CDR You're still on probation, O.
SPT Okay, stand by for a UV mark.
SPT Mark. Okay. That was a 2700 angstrom UV mark
with 8 second time exposure. And it looks llke we got one
extra visible photograph on the retrace there because we
hadn't gone over the cam lock. So it's just kind of an
visible photo, a freebie, a freebie that's right.
PLT Not many of those left O.
SPT 5320 standing by. Mark right on time 190
is out. By golly. STAND BY for 190. 54 next, I'm going to
give you a maybe give you an AUTO. (garble)
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loss of signal. Ascension will pick up Skylab in about
10-1/2 minutes. On this Earth Resources pass crew Commander
A1 Bean is on the viewflnder tracking system, the VTS, to
sight in the S191 infrared spectrometer instrument. Prime
target was the Island of Durant Just opposite Nags Head on
the Coast of North Carolia. Bean remarked it looked like
it locked in up closer to Portsmouth. Pilot Jack Lousma
gave a running commentary on the geography Skylab was to
pass over. Science Pilot Owen Garriott was operating the
SO63_ the ultraviolet airglow horizon experiment during
this pass. This experiment consists of two 35 milimeter
cameras designed to determine the amount of ultraviolet
light that's absorbed by the O-zone layer. One of the
objectives of this pass, after Skylab crossed the North
Carolina Coast_ was data gathering on the Gulf - on the Gulf
Stream and a search for sargassum weed in the Saragosa Sea.
It's a type of seaweed. This is a_ investigation of the
NASA Lewis research center. When we have contact at Ascension
the pass should be completed. The Earth Resources officer
here in the control center reported that commentary on this
pass was excellent as far as the EREP people were concerned.
We'll come back up Just prior to As=ension. At 13 hours
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819173

Greenwich mean time. Skylab a couple of minutes away from
acquisition through Ascension. We'll stand by for
communications there.
SPT B and the visible camera and I still was not
able to drive back to the same target. Itsimply moved beyond the
field of view by the time I had a chance to get back there.
So I did take an extra UV at 3200 angstroms of another
target as near as possible, but I'm sure it was some miles
beyong the first target. And we'll, of course, have an extra
visible of that same shot since the trip - the levers have
not driven over the cam to release that trip mechanism.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension
for 5 minutes. And Owen, I take it you were doing some recording
there on your ETC pad.
SPT That's affirmative.
PLT Okay, and there he is down there. In that
magic voice. Charlie (garble)
CC Hey, Jack.
PLT Yeah, go ahead.
CC I was just going to tell you that all the
guys down here, all the EREP people: really appreciate your
commentary coming across there. It makes it much easier
on the guys down here to follow and understand what was going on.
Really good job.
PLT 53 STANDBY. MARK. 53 UV. Okay, thank you
Crip. We'll try to keep them all informed. They've done
a good Job. Also I want to give a good pat on the
back to the guys that made our checklist and these cue cards.
The cue cards are working great and the checklist is in
good shape. It's got the info in there that we need. So they
did a really dandy Job on all that. And I hope the data
comes out very well. And Charlie A at this point is reading
49 percent.
CC Copy and we'll pass it on.
PLT Tape recorder power OFF.
CDR 191 door is slow and it seems to Just creep
through the field of view.
PLT That's supposed to take a minute and 48, I think.
CDR Okay. I'm timing it now.
PLT Good. Notice that a little bitty yesterday,
down there EREP fans. That 190 door seems to be slow. I didn't time
it, but it seemed to jerk a little bit, which concerned me,
so we're timing it for sure today and watching it very
closely.
CDR Doesn't seem to be jerking today, Jack.
SPT STANDBY 63. MARK UV PHOTO. START.
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PLT Okay, EREP fans, l'm measuring the tape

on the take-up reel, the distance to the tape I measure
15/16 of an inch. 15/16 of an inch open space remaining on
the take-up reel.
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8/9/73
PLT - - to the tape I measure 15/16ths of

an inch open space remaining on the takeup reel.
PLT How long did it take, AI?
CDR About 1:55, Jack.
PLT 1:55 on EREP door closing, so it looks
llke it's going nominal.
CDR Okay.
PLT Really (garble) up there--
CDR Also, Crip. Doing some thinking about
that site end. I don't think it was Portsmouth I was on, I
think that it was a good site end. And what I zoomed in on,
was Roanoke Island. Because there's an airfield there. So
I think that probably the pointing quantities were good.
And I don't think I got the target. I think I zoomed in
on Roanoke Island for a while.
SPT Okay. I'm Just setting up to get the
(Garble) exposures now on 63 UV. One comment on the first set of
80 - 8 second exposures back at 13:52, I believe they may
have been i0 second exposures instead of 8, because the
little marker on this cam has a bright edge. And the
light glinted off the leading edge of that through
the window here. I probably sent it on the leading
edge rather than the white mark. And that would add
just about 2 seconds to each end. 1 guess, that would
make it a total of 4 second exposure increase on the first
set of 8 second exposures. Now after that, I'm sure I've
got it on the center mark. But I wanted to look into that
possibility. I'm Just coming up now, on the first of
the 8-second - second set of exposures 40830. Stand by
on the 63 UV.
SPT MARK.
PLT Okay. We' re going to power this beauty
down.
SPT Okay. Expect the PI would be
interested in the accuracy of the tracking. My estimate
is that we can hold the target down there to within plus or
minus 2 or 3 miles, or something like that. Judging by
the size of the cumulus clouds, which I think, to be 2 or 3
maybe 5 miles across these little indavldual cells. That's
sort of the ability to hold the target with this manual
tracker.
CC Rog. Copy. Going LOS in 30 seconds.
See you again at Carnarvon at 14:35. And AI, at that time
we'd be interested in hearing a little bit more about your
VTS.
CDR Okay.
PLT Say, A1 you got everything powered down there,
so I can power down the panel. I guess you've got the door
°
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closed, camera off and all that, right. Okay. I'm going
to turn the whole thing off. Display off, Bus i and Bus 2 off.
Okay, O, we're leaving up the recorder for you. When you're
finished with it you can knock it off.
SPT Okay. It'll only be up for another
4 or 5 minutes.
PLT Okay. It's yours.
SPT Stand by for the 3200 exposure.
loss of signal. Carnarvon will pick up Skylab in 24 minutes.
Over Ascension, A1 Bean says he now believes the site he
got was Roanoke Island, not Portsmouth, but Roanoke Island,
instead of Albemarle. We've asked him to give us his
comments when we get to Carnarvon concernin E the VTS, the
view finder tracking system. At 14 hours ii minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:33 CDT, 13/14:33 GMT
8/9/73

acquisition through Carnarvon. Roanoke Island on which
A1 Bean thinks he marked during the EREP pass instead
of Durant Island in Albemarle Sound is approximately 8 miles
from Durant Island. Carnarvon' s acquiring now. We' ii
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over Carnarvon
for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And Jack, you got a moment?
PLT I'm listening.
CC Okay, looks like we got a little conflit
on our flight planning for today. We've got you scheduled
for doing some ILCA ATM C&D lighting troubleshooting
procedures for us at the same time that we got a jop 12 that Owen's
doing and those are going to conflict with one another. We're
wondering if you'd mind switching that ILCA up where you've
got housekeeping 81 Golf schedule? Just reverse the two.
PLT I'ii do it.
CC Okay, fine and dandy. We appreciate
that.
CDR Crip, CDR, I think I may have some
information on that (static)
CC Say again, AI.
CDR Let me give you a deal from what I think
occurred now that I've looked at the map and thought about
it a little bit.
CC Okay.
CDR Although I'm not sure. My guess is the
pointing put me right on Roanoke Island which would be
excellent pointing. I'm not sure of that, but that'd be
my guess. And then when I zoomed in there to move down I
didn't see any - I didn't see anything there. I didn't
see any islands around that could be the island that I
wanted so I said to myself it must not be Roanoke it must
be Portsmouth which is too far off to be reasonable. That's
where I made a - the fundamental error. I should have said
it's got to be around here somewhere, I'II Just have to
look around some more. Anyhow I then moved down to the
south and east as I would from Portsmouth. When I did I
think I ended up down in the south end of (garble) Sound
on the northern northeast most tip of land or the - (garble)
two little tips of land there. One is sort of northeast
and one is sort of northwest. My guess is I probably ended
up on one of those two, where as if I'd have Just stayed
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where I was and maybe gotten a little bit closer I could have
seen it better and zoomed in on the right place. But I
kind of got ahead of myself and thought I was at a different
point. So my guess is it was good pointing and then I didn't
get the target but I don't know.
CC Okay, very good. We copy that and
appreciate the information, AI.
CC $PT, you got a moment to talk about
your ATM schedule?
SPT Yes, Crip. I started the maneuver back
to Sl about 16:20 or so.
PLT One more place on those schedules Crip.
At (garble) is a mol sieve fan replacement. What do you want me
to do, put the old one back in where I replaced the new one
last night?
CC Negative, Jack. We just noted that
and understand that you had already done it so that's a
free housekeeping period.
PLT Okay, I'Ii throw that one out then, thank
yOU.
SPT Go ahead, Crip, I'm here.
CC Okay Owen, we've got on your - you've
got ATM OPS around 1510, 1515 so - and your pad starts at
15:25, what we'd like you to do is go ahead and initiate
OPS at 1510 and fill in the rests o_ it 'with shopping llst.
SPT Okay, and this TV - have you got some
down-llnk capability there?
CC We'll check that.
SPT Okay, never mind. I've got to hurry
up and finish stowing 63 so I'll gi_e you some downlink
TV with whatever capability you got.
CC Okay, we'll play that in real time.
CDR Apparently I haven't checked the ATM
schedule. Are there any of these Jop 12's with calibration
rockets today?
CC That's affirm. (garble)
CDR Thank you.
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TIME: 09:43 CDT 13/14:43 GMT
8/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Have you again over Guam at 14:48. 1448.
PAO Thls Is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range at Carnarvon now, but Guam will pick up Skylab in
about 3 minutes. We'll continue to keep the llne up and
stand by for acquisition through Guam.
PAO The checkout pass for Pilot Jack Lousma
that was moved on the Flight Plan concerns the integrated
lighting control assembly at the Apollo Telescope Mount
console. On the published Flight Plan that occurs at the
same time that Science Pilot Owen Garrlott Is operating the
ATM so that was moved up earlier so that both men would not
be at the console at the same time. Guam should acquire
very soon. We'll continue to stand by.
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TIME: 09:49 CDT 13/14:49 GMT
8/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for

8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC And for Owen, there's no need to acknowledge,
but the SO63 PI thanks you for a mighty fine run. That
I0 second exposure setting was no problem. The timer
actually governs the length of the exposure, not that
setting on the mlcroswitch. That OFF setting the micro-
switch is Just to shut off the visible camera at about a second
or so early, and that won't be noticed at all. And we
estimate from your tracking area that you gave us, it was
about a half a degree and if you could tel_ us whether
that coincided with the half degree tic mark on your
reticle, for comparison we'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay. I'm thinking about those half degree
tic marks right now and let me see, how many degrees - how
many tic marks do I have across the scope there - across
the face of the reticle? Do you remember?
CC I'ii check on that and give you a good
number.
SPT Is that about a i0 degree field?
CC I'm not for sure of that. We're going to
check it for you.
CC And if you guysI will stay off the DAS for
us for a moment. We're going to ENABLE momentum dump.
SPT Okay.
SPT And for the S063 PI, might mentioned about a
week ago, I had a very interesting view of the southern
auora, which I'ii send down on channel A as soon as I get
a chance. I'Ii try to do that some time today. There was
no time for any hand held photography, but it was a very
beautiful aurora.
CC Okay. I'm sure the packers appreciate
that. Thank you.
CC And the DAS belongs to you guys again.
We'll see you again over Goldstone at about 15:14 and Owen
we'll get some detailed information to you on that 63
reticle back, probably Just ask you to discuss that on the
evening status report.
SPT Okay, and I'm not sure I ever notified you
or mentioned that on the S055 intensity data, when we put
that to BUS I, the upper half of the numerals are blank
and the lower half of the numerals are very dim and
so for that reason, we always put the 55 (garble) data
to BUS 2 not to BUS i as is on the cue card.
CC Yeah, that's normal with the current
configuration we got.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed

beyond the range of the Guam station. Goldstone will acquire
Skylab in 15 minutes. At 14 hours 58 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-559/I
Time: 10:12 CDT, 13/15:12 GMT
8/9/73

12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on another
pass across the United States. We'll have acquisition
through Goldstone, then Texas, then the Merritt Island
Florida station. Goldstone will acquire in about a minute.
When Skylab gets within range of the Merritt Island station,
there's possibility we'll have some real time Apollo tele-
scope mount television through that station, looking at
the Sun. We'll stand by for acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone
down across the states for about 15 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. And you might ask NOAA, or
the other fellows with an H-Alpha camera in hand, to take a
look at active region 0B01.0. It's got a potential for
some surge activity right at the present time. And possibly
even a little x-ray activity. I'd llke their comment on it.
CC Okay. We'll take a look at that.
Could you verify for us that S055 experiment 9 interlock is
in normal?
SPT Hey, Bob. It is now. It wasn't when
it got to the panel.
CC Okeydoke. Thank you.
PLT And, Bob. If you want a little real
time TV on S - MI31, why it's running and set up.
CC Okay. We're set up right now to get
ATM TV downlink from Owen, if it's available.
SPT Yeah. I'ii give you some as require
on the pad.
CC If you guys want to coordinate it, we'll
take the 131 until you're ready to set up for that. What-
ever way y'all want to work it.
PLT We Just got a little 131 to do. So
if you want any of it, why you can catch it now and - or all
Sun, whatever you want to do.
SPT I'ii give you the 131 right now, because
I'm not ready to go to Sun center for a little bit.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT And that was active region 84, I wanted
to direct the ATM (garble) up to.
CC They're looking at it, Owen.
CC Owen, at your convenience, we'd appreciate
it if you could reacquire star for us. That's no big rush.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Television
is presently being recorded at the Goldstone tracking
station. We do not have lines up between Houston and Gold-
stone at this time. It's being taped there and will
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be sent to Houston later.

SPT If you have real time TV, I'ii give
you a little view of active region 85 and 84, right now,
and they can use that instead of their own R-Alpha.
CC Roger, Owen.
CC Owen, on this TV. We're recording it
at Goldstone right now. In about 2 minutes or so, we're
going to be able to pick it up live, over Mila.
SPT Roger. Let me know what you've got
live.
CC Okay. And we concur, what you're looking
at is active region 84 with filament number 27 should be
up above it.
SPT Okay. I Just would appreciate their
evaluation, whether or not that's an especially interesting target
to deviate from the planned program, I don't see the surge right now,
in my H-Alpha, but it's a much brighter spot than it had been yester-
day, it's the brightest thing on the Sun right now. And
there's a potential - I think deviation at this point.
CC Okay. We copied all that Owen. And
they're investigating it for you.
CDR Are y'all dumping the tape recorders,
Crip?
CC Stand by one, A1.
CC Okay. Missed call on that. We are
dumping across Texas, herep AI. And, Owen, we do want to
go ahead and get building block i. That's goin E to take
priority. You should have some time for some shopping llst items
and I guess we'd recommend item 5.
CC And_ Owen_ for your information we're
still getting that 131 stuff on TV, rather than the monitor.
CC Okay. And we've got the H-alpha picture,
there.
CC Owen, we interpret that as ah - - Owen,

we interpret that as - your crosshalrs are on 85 and 84,
setting out there on the limb, down at about 8 o'clock.
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TIME: 10:24 CDT 13/15:24 GMT
8/9/73

Have you agalnover the Vanguard at 15:40. 1540 at about
I0 minutes from now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Merritt Island
station has loss of signal. The next station to acquire
will be the Vanguard tracking ship in about 9 minutes. At
the White Sands test range in New Mexico, the countdown is
in progress now for the launch of a calibration rocket. This
was referred to a short time ago in conversation with the
crew as the CALROC. CALROC is an instrumented Black
Brant 5 Rocket, which will be launched in support of the
SO55A ultraviolet scanning polychromater, one of the Apollo
Telescope Mount experiments aboard Skylab. Purpose of the
CALROC is to measure the intensity of the Sun in a
prescribed area. The instruments will measure at 4 arc
seconds square in support of S055. The Sun is 32 arc
seconds in diameter. When CALROC is launched the crew
will be advised to aim the ATM at the same region of the
Sun at which the CALROC is Instrumated to calibrate. The
specific observations will be made by the SO55 instrument
of the CALROC target area. Dr. Edmund Reeves of the
Harvard observatory is the principal investigator for this
experiment. There's a 30 minute launch window that CALROC
will be launched between noon and 12:30 p.m. central daylight
time today. The S055A experiment gathers photometric ultra-
violet observations of the solar atmosphere near or above active
regions on the solar disc. Data obtained will yeild information
about composition, structure and processes involved in both
quiet and active solar phenomena. During the end of the
Earth Resources pass this morning, just before we lost
communications through Bermuda, the crew commander AI Bean
was discussing the Sargoso Sea and attempting to locate
some Sargassum weed, one of the objectives of that EREP pass.
The objective here is to attempt to inventory sargassum which
is a high protein sea weed. Attempts have been made by
ships to do this but the air potential is believed to be
much greater, by surface inventory than by orbital inventory.
Inventory of sargassum is important to access the potential
of the seaweed as a marine resourse for conversion into
fuel, food and to assess the interaction of the sargassum
weed in pollution in the open sea. During the pass a
Woodshole Oceanagraphic Institution vessel was in the area.
taking ground truth data in support of the Skylab data. Dr.
Wy Su of the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio
is the principal investigator on this experlment. At
Control.
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Time: 10:38 CDT, 13/15:38 GMT
8/9/73

38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab should be about
2 minutes away from acquisition through Vanguard. We've
been getting early acquisition at Vanguard the last few
days, so we'll stand by there.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard
7 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The crew is
busy during this pass. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott at the
Apollo telescope mount console. The other two crewmen
with the vestibular function experiment. There won't he
a lot of conversation if any at this station. The ATM
officer here in the control center reports that his telemetry
data shows the ATM pass is going well.
SPT Hello, Houston. Information for the
ATM science room.
SPT Hello, Houston. Are you there?
CC Roger, Owen, go ahead.
SPT Okay, I gave chip A a minus 5400 approx-
imately in roll and chip B at 800 rather than the other
way around, unfortunately. I'd rolled that way for the TV
and didn't take time to roll back. I think that makes the
most difference to 82A. And I did give them their 2 plus
40 exposure at the minus 5400 approximate roll. Not as
good a orientation as it would have been in 10800. I held
up their i0 second exposure until now and I'll give them
their i0 second exposure at a more favorable roll.
CC Okay, we copy that. And I've got some
CALROC pointing information, but I'm Just going to hold
it for you and give it to you later when you're not busy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll have you again over Goldstone at 16:50, 1650 -
that's a little over an hour away. And, Owen, I just want
to verify that you did understand that we had both door motors
on 56 enabled now.
SPT That's correct, I did hear that earlier.
Thank you, and why don't you go ahead and give me that CALROC
info now I've got - -
CC Okay, it's roll - I'm going to hold
up on it, Owen. We' re dropping in and out too much to give
it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has -

has loss of signal. Skylab begins a long period now, an
hour and 3 minutes when it will not be within range of a
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tracking station. The next station to pick up Skylab will

be Goldstone, one hour 2-1/2 minutes from now. At 15 hours
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48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now within
range of the Goldstone station for the final pass over the
United States today. The calibration rocket is now scheduled
for launch at 12:30 p.m. Central daylight time from the
White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. At launch Skylab
will be located over the South Atlantic Ocean having Just
lost signal a few minutes ago with the Vanguard tracking
ship. The workshop will be on revolution number 1257. The
CSM revolution will be number 177. The CALROC is being
launched by the two stage Black Brant 5 rocket, a 35 feet
high solid propellant launch vehicle. The scientific payload
will be boosted to an altitude of 280 kilometers, about
175 statute miles, and will operate for 5 minutes and 50 seconds.
CALROC is supporting the SO55A experiment aboard Skylab,
one of the Apollo telescope mount experiments. We should have
acquisition at Goldstone, we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone
for about 12-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello there, Houston. I'm beginning to
think 85 is a pretty good number. Maybe that didn't register.
Has the ATM science room told you anything about a flare
about an hour ago?
CC No. Okay_ well now they - now they're
telling me.
CDR I'd guess about an M somewhere. Have
they - Can they give you a classification on it?
CC Mike 2.
CDR Mike 2, not bad. (garble) ... the -
give them the information. At about 15:51 to 15:52 we
transltioned from building block i. We approximately
reached the (garble) point at time 20, transltloned into
a flare mode, went over and pointed at active region 85 and got
on to the flare before it had reached this peak I'm reasonably
certain. The peak numbers we were reaching on the image
intensity counter were about 220. The PMEC was in excess of
700 and the beryllium count was saturated aperture 1 and
over 4800 for quite an interval of time. The while flare
lasted less than i0 minutes from rise to finish. We actually
had it down to nearly normal levels by the time sunset ap-
proached. And so it's Just about the last i0 minutes of the
orbit we officially caught almost all of the whole flare.
And the - we were running in flare mode on 82A and B for a
short interval of about 4 or 5 minutes and everybody else
was running in their normal flare modes. I'm continuing now in
the manned mode instead of being in unattended OPS in the
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second orbit phase. The extended standard for SO52, I did

check the TV and the corona and it's possible that there is
some alteration of the coronal structure well above active
region 85, possibly a little buldging in the corona that
I could not have identified before. But no pronounced transients
are at this time available. And if you have any real time
downllnk I could give you a little picture of it now. Over.
CC Okay, we'll check that out and Owen
could I get you off the DAS for a minute here? We're going
to inhibit momentum for this rate gyro maneuver we got coming
up. And also we're going to try to update rate gyro Y-2.
SPT Okay we're off the DAS. Now a question
for you, Crip. On this rate gyro - these are the rate gryos
that are already running, these have nothing to do with the
ones we brought up. Is that correct?
CC That is affirmative.
SPT Okay, and another one. Are we going
to keep the - Canopus I gather we're going to keep locked
on all the time.
CC That's affirmative also, AI.
CDR Okeydoke, and I'ii be back at 17:10. I
got to go work on the command module.
CC Okay, while I got you there I - Stand
by i. Okay, you asked a question on the relief valves yesterday
in the lock and according to what we got right now 313, panel
313 is supposed to be closed and the ones on 300 and 391 are
supposed to be open.
CDR Okay, well we got it right, good.
SPT Obviously I'm not going to make that
TV61 schedule on my flight plan either, Bob. I'ii try and
pick it up later tonight and get my PT done after supper.
CC Okeydoke. When - I've got some words
for you on the TV the 461 on the PT and whenever you think
you're going to get it in well I'ii give it to you.
SPT Okay, it looks like it'll probably be
after supper.
CC Okay, we'll try to get it in this evening.
SPT I'd appreciate any comments the back
room has about whether or not to continue on this program
or would they like to go unattended for the last little
bit of the orbit.
CC Okay, I'ii check that out. You got time
to write down this pointing for the CALROC now?
SPT Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay, roll will be minus 10,800. The
up i0 plus i0 and left is minus 450.
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SPT Okay, roll is minus 10,800. Up plus

i0, left minus 450.
CC That's affirmative and we want the
XUV sllt bias should be in.
PLT Roger. Crlp, I've got the report on
that ILCA troubleshooting.
CC Okay, I'll stand by to copy that and
we are recording TV at Goldstone in case Owen wants to
give us any.
PLT Okay.
CC Talk to me about ILCA, Jack.
PLT Okay, step number 9 of the trouble
shooting procedures you sent up asked me to report the status
of the interval (garble) status lighting. The status of the
interval lightingat the end of the test was that there was none,
no interval lighting. Status of numerics were as follows: All the
numerics were off except H-Alpha-i frames remained. The status
light, the only status lights on were the three CBRM number
3 light. Over.
CC Okay, we copied that and we're going
- going to have a malf procedure we_ want you to run.
PLT Okay.
CDR Crlp I've got a question for the CSM
troops. When I select manual radiator 2, I don't get a
little 2 in the window it still stays grey.
CC Understand. Mauual radiator 2 you don't
- your window still stays grey, right?
CDR That's right. Haybe that's the way
it's supposed to be in quiescent but I don't know.
CC Okay, we'll check that one out for
you, AI.
SPT We're just whistling down the west
coast as you know here, Crip and we're halfway down the
Bayou Pennlsula but we can still very easily see back to
LA and San Diego and clear up to the coast to - probably
up to Vandenburg.
CC Roger, sounds llke a beautiful sight.
CC Jack, have you got a moment I want to
tell you a little bit about the ILCA malf thing.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, what we'd like you to do is to
get the ATM malf book and run C&D number 9, which is loss
of AC i. An exception to that is that on that console power
distribution we do want to keep H-alpha in BUS 2 right
now.
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PLT Okay, ATM malf C&D number 9, loss of

AC 1 leave H-Alpha in Bus 2.
CC Okay, and we do want you to stay on your
time line and probably should try to work that some way so
that - -
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PLT Okay. ATM malf,C&D number 9, loss of AC i,

leave H Alfa in plus 2.
CC Okay, and we do want you to stay on your
time line and probably should try to work that some way so
that it doesn't intefere with what Owen's doing.
PLT Okay, I'ii wait til darkness and he'll
probably power down for unattended.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Rog. And Owen does have a GO to continue
with his manned op, so I'm guessing he probably won't be powering
down for unattended.
SPT Okay. I'm inclined to think Crip, that
we're going to see nothing else out of the corona and I'ii
knock this off and pick up some shopping list items for the
next 30 minutes unless the backroom prefers that they get the
second orbit of post flare.
CC Rog, Owen, shopping list sounds good. Why
don't you continue on with that and we don't want you to miss
too much of that PT. Got to get your exercise, man. l'm
going to out run you here on the ground.
SPT I wouldn't doubt it. You did before I left.
PLT Crip, I got a few requests.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Three cf them are for PAO. All
concern Jackson, Michigan. Today is my sister's birthday,
and I'd llke her to know that I'm wishing her a happy birthday.
Jim McDivitt went over to explain to my father the other
night, who also lives in Jackson, Michigan, Just what the
problem was with the command module and I want him to know
that I appreciate that very much. Thirdly, Scout Troop number i
from Jackson is at the Jamboree in Pennsylvania and I want
to wish them well at the Jamboree and their future scouting
activities. And then, fourthly, I'd like you to set up a phone
call with my wife this evening.
CC Okey-doke. I think we got all of that and
we'll work on your phone call.
PLT Thank you very much, Crip.
PLT Oh, by the way, my sister's married name is
Judith Gertz. G-e-r-t-z.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Okay, guys. We're about to go over the hill
here. We got i minute til LOS. We'll have you again over
Vanguard at 17:16. That's about, Oh, 14 minutes from now,
and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump over Vanguard.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Texas has loss of
signal with Skylab. The Vanguard tracking ship will pick
up the space station in about ii minutes. Jack Lousma
sending down several messages during this pass over Texas.
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Related to his home town of Jackson, Michigan. Wished a

happy birthday to his sister, Mrs. Judith Gertz, her
birthday was yesterday. He also expressed his appreciation
to Jim McDivitt who visited Lousma's father in Jackson and
explained to him in detail the command module problem. That's
the reaction control system, service module reaction
control system. Jim McDivltt is a retired astronaut, a
retired Brigadier General in the Air Force, former Apollo
spacecraft program manager here at the Johnson Space Center.
Last fall he returned to his home town of Jackson, Michigan
to enter business there. And Lousma also sent his best
wishes to boy scout troup number 1 from Jackson, which is
now attending the Jamboree in Pennsylvania. At 17 hours
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TIME: 12:12 CDT 13/17:12 GMT
8/9/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the tracking ship Vanguard. The report from
the Apollo Telescope Mount support room here is that the
flare recorded by Owen Garriott appears to be of about
the same magnitude as the flare that was recorded during
the first manned Skylab mission. Today's solar flare was
in region number 85, occurring at about 15 hours 52 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Dr. Garriott has continued to work
at the Apollo Telescope Mount console, skipping his exercise
period. He reported that he'll get in his physical training
tonight after supper.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for about 7 minutes, and we'll be doing a data
voice recorder dump.
SPT Okay, Crip. And obviously, we're not doing
our maneuvers because Owen is working the ATM panel. We'll
do the maneuvers some other time today that you point out. We'll
stop and go up and do them.
CC Stand by i.
CC And because you're not doing the maneuvers,
if you'll stay off the DAS for a moment, we're going to
reenable dump, and A1, because of that previous problem
you reported when you selected RAD 2, we got a couple of
items we'd llke you to check. You can either get them now
or later. If you'd write them down, I'd give them to you.
CDR Okay, I'm in the command module right now.
My trusty PLT says that I should not get a 2 if I select
a manually. Only if it goes to control or 2 automatically,
so he seems happy. But go ahead, I'm in the command
module.
CC Okay. (garble) The EGIL down here didn't
seem to think so. I'd llke you to check on panel 2 that
you did have the ECS RAD FLOW control in manual select mode.
CDR That's affirmative. It is.
CC It was there when you tried to select it,
right?
CDR That's affirm. It stays there as it's
quiescent phase.
CC Rog. We thought so. Okay. On panel
5 we want to check that the ECS primary PAD control MAIN A
and B are closed.
CDR They're both closed.
CC And also on panel 5 that the ECS primary
radiator control EC-I and 2 are closed.
CDR They're closed also.
CC Okay, that's all the ideas we had. I guess we'll
take the PLT's recommendation under advisement and look at
it again.
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CDR Okay, I'd sure llke to know. I'm sure that
(garble0 would llke to know, too.
CDR Okay, we're running the secondary loop now.
And so it's been running for about 15 minutes, it'll be
running another 45 minutes, then we'll come back and
shut it down. We're also pumping out the surge tank and it
needs a little pressure. The repress tank is higher than
the others - the service module tanks, so we haven't been
pumping it up.
CC Okey-doke. And if Owen is listening, we
can tell him that his CALROC looks GO for a 17:30 launch.
SPT Very good. Thank you. And I'ii debrief
this on channel A. This orbit here.
CC Roger.
CDR And I've got housekeeping 7 and 7A. I
wash' t exactly sure what 7A was.
CC Stand by i, AIo
CDR Okay. I know what it is, if it's not a CSM
7A, hut rather a OWS 7A.
CC Roger, AI. That wasn't very clear on your
Plight Plan. It's supposed to be an OWS 7A, which is water
cleaning.
CDR Okay. I'ii go scrub up down there.
PAO This is Skylab Control with additional
information on the flare. The flare abserved by Science
Pilot Garriott is not quite as large as the flare which was
observed during the first manned Skylab Mission by Pilot
Paul Weitz. Today's flare in active region 85 has been
given a designation of M-2 compared to the Skylab II flare
rating of M-3. The M series means that the flares are of
medium magnitude. X is the largest magnitude. The M-2
flare today way located on the west limb, about 2/3 distance
from the center and slightly north of center.
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TIME: 12:21 CDT 13/17:21 GMT
8/9/73

See you again at Hawaii in about an hour at 18:25. 1825.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has had
loss of signal with Skylab. The next station to acquire
will be Hawaii in 58-1/2 minutes. The calibration rocket
should be launched at 12:30 central daylight time. Flight
Director Don Puddy has Just been informed that the count
is on time for a 12:30 liftoff at White Sands. And here
in the Mission Control Room, a couple of minutes ago during
the Vanguard pass we experienced a complete loss of power
for a few seconds. The emergency generators have picked
up the task of supplying power to the Control Room. The
report is that all the computer memories are in good shape.
No loss to the computers during the power drop. We're
presently still continuing to operate on the emeregency
generator. At 17 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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Time: 12:31 CDT, 13/17:31 GMT
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31 minutes Greenwich mean time. The mission operations
control room is now back on regular power. The switch over
to emergency power generators ocassion by power spike in
connection with a thunder storm, now in the Johnson
Space Center vicinity. Skylab is 53 minutes away from
acquisition at Goldstone. And we've Just gotten the word
that the calibration rocket launch was successful and on time.
Control.
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55 minutes Greenwich mean time. One of the two detectors
aboard the calibration rocket apparently did not function
properly. However, the report is, that 75 percent of the
required data was received. The calibration data was tele-
metered to ground stations and recorded at the White Sands
test facility. The payload was retrieved I00 miles down-
range. The Skylab Apollo telescope mount experiments will
now be aimed at the same Sun area that the CALROC was
focused on. This activity with the Science Pilot Owen
Garriott at the Apollo telescope mount control and display
console, will begin during this current revolution. And
the crew will be advised of the CALROC information when
Skylab acquires contact through the Hawaii station about
27 minutes from now. The CALROC data tapes will be
forwarded to the Harvard Observatory, and then compared with
the Apollo telescope mount data returned by Skylab. At 17 hours
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8/9/73

23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
through the Hawaii tracking station. A few minutes ago,
at 1:14 p.m., central daylight time, Science Pilot Owen
Garrlott was scheduled to aim the SO55A experiment at the
northwest quadrant of the Sun, near the equator. This is
a relatively large quiet area. Location was uplinked up to
the crew about 2 hours prior to the calibration rocket
launch. The purpose of this activity is to calibrate the
S055A experiment with data taken by the calibration rocket.
SO55A data is telemetered to the ground and will be com-
pared to the data tapes from CALROC. Hawaii should
be picking up here in the next few seconds. We'll stand
by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii
SPT Very good, Crip. And, what was the
launch time of that rocket?
CC 17:30:58. It was all good. They
lost one detector, was the only problem.
SPT Okay. Well, we're plugging away right
down the planned JOP right now. And the back room might
check to make sure they llke the panel.
CC They're taking a look at it.
CC Everything looks good, pointing's real
fine.
SPT Very good.
CC Okay. We're going LOS in about i minute.
And we'll have you again over the Vanguard at 18:52, 18:52.
And that's about 25 minutes from now.
CDR Okay, Bob.
had loss of signal with Skylab, after a very short pass.
The tracking ship, Vanguard, will be the next station to
acquire in 24 minutes. At 18 hours 28 minutes Greenwich
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TIME: 01:50 CDT 13.18:50 GMT
8/9/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is a couple of minutes away
from acquisition through the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip. Say I wonder in that phone call
tonight, if I could make it at the Canarles-Madrld pass,
which comes up about - I worked it out - just a minute.
CC That's 01:40 something, that's where we got
it set up.
PLT Oh, good deal, thanks a lot. I got 01:44.
CC That's right. That's 01:44 is the time and
we've got it all set up for then and if we give one to the
Marine Corps, you were right on that talkback in the command
module, about manual select on the radiators.
PLT Okay. What's the score?
CC I guess Marine Corps one, EGIL nothing.
EGIL doesn't think that's right.
PLT I don't think so either. I think it's more
than one to nothing.
CC Can you tell us about - did you ever -
break, break. Owen we need to get the detectors 6 and 7 on for
this pass, please, for 55.
SPT In this particular grating position.
CC Stand by i.
CC Belay my last, Owen. They did not want
detectors 6 and 7 on.
SPT Yeah. I didn't think they did, however I
didn't want to point out to the 55 people that on the
preceedlng scan on grating position 2665, I did erroneously
turn on 6 and 7 and I'm sure they'll want to take a look at
the results.
CC Okay. We got that. And Jack, can you tell
us if you did get a chance to run through that malf on the
ILCA?
PLT I ran through the pad you set up but Owen
had that CALROC coming up and I didn't mess around with the
panel, so I'ii wait until he's finished on his next night pass,
I think it would work in good there, and it looks llke to me
you want me to set all the switches to BUS I before I start
the malf, right?
CC That's affirm. Except that we don't want
the H-alfa switched over. We want to leave it on BUS 2.
PLT Yeah. Owen's got a pad lock on that one.
CC Okay. The problem with that one of course,
is that it's sneaky one that goes through that sync gen it
turns off the TV BUS.
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PLT I won't touch it.

CDR Have you thought of a new time to do these
calibration maneuvers, Crip?
CC Okay. Right now, AI, we're looking at a
22:00 Zulu to 23:00 Zulu time frame.
CDR We can do it then. But I'ii wait to hear
from you before I plan on it.
CC Roger. We need to coordinate it here, AI,
to make sure we got a star available and a few other things.
We'll give you an update on that.
PLT Say, Crip. Tell the EGIL he's doing a
great Job. We're just getting a little cocky up here.
CC Okay. I'm sure he appreciates that.
PLT Who is the EGIL on your shift, Crip?
CC Joe Moon.
PLT Know him well.
CC And Jack, is there any chance you've gotten
in to doing that housekeeping 70 XI early?
PLT Yeah. there's a good chance I did. It'll
be over within an hour and a half.
CC Roger. We were Just copying the CO2 low
there and I just wanted to make sure that's what was going
on.
PLT I whistled by there and stuck it in at 16:30.

CC Very good. See, you can see EGIL, EGIL's
on the ball.
CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to discuss
the general message number 7, which is dealing with your
South Atlantic anomaly and (garble) times.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Rog, AI. I understand what we're going to
be doing is sending - we're planning on sending up two
one to post around the ATM panel and another one down in
the workshop someplace. And I guess the real question is,
according to the directions you got early this morning, do
you want a third so that you can put that in your general
message book, or what?
CDR No, no, the general message - the only
ones that we keep are permenent messages. So just two
permanent messages. Any messages that's just a general
message, you know, one time, perform this check or some-
thing, just one of those is enough. Just the permanent
ones -
CC Rog. We've been titling this South

Atlantic anomaly thing a permanent general message, cause
we're going to send you up one shortly that's going to
last for a week, and we had put it down as general message
number 7, you should have gotten one of those last night,
for a couple of days. You can thing about that for awhile
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We're going to go LOS here in about 30 seconds and we'll

see you again in about an hour over Hawaii at 20:00.
CDR Okay. Only the permanent ones. The ones
you think are going to last the whole mission. The others
Just call them general messages. And we will keep them
around for enough days to do the Job.
CC Copy.
PAO This i3 Skylab Control at 19 hours 03
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah out of range of the
tracking ship Vanguard. Next station will be Hawaii in
57 minutes. At 19 hours 03 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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mean time, we're AOS Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS over Hawaii for
about 10 minutes and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump
here.
SPT Okay Bob, I'm on the second pointing in this
particular JOP and I'd be interested if the S055 troups could let
me know how detector 7 and 6 looks.
CC Roger. And is Jack available to talk
for a moment.
SPT They're down there throwing food in every
direction, I'm not sure how long it'll take him to get to a box.
CC Okay, no sweat.
CC Okay, Owen, we do show detector 6 and 7
off as they should be in the scan and we'll keep a watch on
for when you get them back on again.
SPT I know I was - I knew they'd turned off.
I was wondering about their performance, whether their
sensitivity appeared to be normal or not.
CC Owen, we can see no degradation on them,
appear to be working good.
SPT Fine, thank you very much.
CC And Owen_ one item, if did Jack manage
to get through the C&D malf regarding the ILCA.
SPT No, he did not because we've been working
sort of fiddled with the panel too much. Throw a lot of
power switches while we were in the middle of this CALROC
cross calibration.
CC Okay, copy. The end of that mall, wetre
just going to leave a breaker pulled out that we wanted put
back in but we'll get that to him later after he does it.
SPT Okay.
SPT And the blomeds might be interested to
know that I got all my ergometer work in between runs here.
CC Okay, did we get any TV 61 in.
SPT No, l'm saving that, that's arm exercises.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll have you again over the Vanguard at 20:31 in about
22 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob and I just might mention it,
if Ed Gibson is running around in that part of the country.
Might spend one pass talking to him this evening about ATM
activity, or tomorrow night if tonight's not a good one.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can set that one
up.
SPT Are you still there Bob?
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CC Going over the hill now, lots of static,

get me later.
at Hawaii, space station Skylab nearing the end of revolution
1258, next station in 20 minutes, will be the tracking ship
Vanguard. We have an estimate of Change of Shift Briefing,
for 5:30 p.m. central. With Flight Director Don Puddy and
EREP Controller Richard Koos, 5:30 p.m. Houston News Room,
any changes in that time estimate will be passed along. Science
Pilot Owen Garriott still involved during this Hawaii pass
with the ATM runs scheduled at this time. WeVll be back in
19 minutes at Vanguard, at 20:11 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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Time: 3:29 CDT, 13/20:29 GMT
8/9/73

mean time. Acquisition within a minute and 50 seconds of
through the tracking station ship Vanguard. Revolution 1258
ending and 1259 beginning. Those are space station orbits,
not command module.
PAO Change-of-shlft handover starting in the

Control room with Flight Director Milt Windler taking over
from Don Puddy and the new spacecraft communicator replacing
Bob Crlppen will be Story Musgrave. And we're estimating
a change-of-shlft briefing at 5:30 central with Don Puddy
and EREP Controller, Richard Koos in the Houston newsroom.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Okay Bob. I've given you all the CALROC

calibration information that was asked for on the ATM
activity pad. ATM schedule, excuse me. And I'm over on
here on active region 84 now. I'll give you a little
bit of item number 3. And the question I started to
give you at the end of the last orbit, was for Ed Gibson, I'd
appreciate a little feedback relative to that M2 flare this
morning. There's such things as the time of start, time of
various instruments getting into operation, and what in
generally the quality of the data looked llke on that flare
this morning. If they had had a chance to look up some of that
I'd appreciate a little info_matlon on it.
CC Okay. We.'ll try to get that for you. And
Owen, while I've got you here., if you've got a moment and
sometime, we don't need it right now, but on the caution
and warning panel, we'd llke to get REENABLED the batt charge
low for batt 6. We had it INHIBITed this morning for the
CLB p as s.
SPT Okay. I Just REENABLED it for you and should've

said active region 86. Not 84. That's where I'm at now.
CC Rog. On 86. And while I've got you here
also, yesterday we had a little bit confusion about the
filter on S056 and you're concerned that item 13 might have
fouled the thing up. And I believe it was a little bit
misunderstanding on our part as to what the telemetry was
showing. So at the currently, we don't believe there was
any problem with the procedures set up on that item 13.
SPT Thank you very much. I appreciate that
feedback. I was curious about it.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Like to inform you
that your Flight Plan for tomorrow are onboard - are in
your teleprinter.
CDR Thank you.
CC And Owen, have you got time to listen to a
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8/9/73
(COHT'D) little bit on how we'd like the TV for 61, if you
get a chance to do it this evening.
SPT Yeah, go ahead.
CC Roger. Since you may not have a chance to
do all of TV 61, we'd like to be sure that you get the MARK 1
and MARK 2. If you don't get the ergometer, we're going to
schedule it later, since you've already done ergometer on
(garble) case. And we - we prefer if you wouldn't use Just
one view for both MARK i and MARK 2. To use a wide view for
1 and a zoom in for 2.
SPT Wide for mark 1 and zoom in for mark 2.
CC That's affirm. Appreciate that. Thank you.
SPT Okay.
Have you again over Hawaii at 21:38. Story should be talking
to you at that time. We' ii see YOu manana.
SPT Roger Bob. Had an interesting day today.
CC Yeah. Flare was pretty exciting. Hope you
get a few more of those.
SFT So do weo Jack was planning on getting the
big one, so looks like you're going to have to go for X.
CC Okeydoke,
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal through
tracking ship Vanguard. Next station upcoming in 57 minutes
will be Hawaiij final Hawaii pass of the day. Change-of-shlft
briefing at 5:30 central with Flight Director Don Puddy and
EREP Controller Dick Koos. Balance of the crew activity today
involve transfers of equipment and overage food to the proper
stowage locations, Several period - each man has a period
scheduled for personal hygiene. Returning in 56 minutes, at
tracking station Hawali_ at 20:41 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 16:36 CDT, 13/21:36 GMT
819173

mean time acquisition at Hawaii in about a minute and 40 seconds
Dr. Edmond Reeves of the Harvard College Observatory who is
]Principle Investigator for the calibration rocket launch from
White Sands Missile Range, earlier today in support of the
$O55 Spectroheliometer ATM experiment has reported the
:instrument carried aloft by the black brant rocket did point
to the correct region of the Sun. The payload was recovered
about a half hour after launch. The sequence camera film
has been developed to verify correct pointing other data
was telemetered to the ground. We should AOS Hawaii at
this time we' ] 1 stand by.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story, CDR here. We're getting
:ready to run this channel B coma checkout. And according
to our piece of paper here it says ... all thumbwheels settings
are correct on panels 9 and 6 using page 4-9. Now 4-9 has this
CSM configured for A down-link, B record and we got it
configured just the opposite. But I understand you want us
to go ahead and configure the thnmbwheels as if we were
operating normally is that correct or not?
CC Let me get that verified, AI.
CDR Yea, looks like somehow we have things
backwards.
CC AI, we got an answer for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Use the thumbwheel settings on page 4-12
under OA alternate.
CDR That's a good idea, we'll do it.
CC And thank you for bringing it to our
at tention .
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, we expect to have Ed Gibson over
here to talk with you about tile flare data seen on the ground
and also a critique of how you ran the flare over Canaries
at 00:09.
SPT Close to midnight, thank you.
CC That's Zulu.
SPT That's midnight in Greenwich.
CC Okay. And I got an addition to the
malfunction procedures on ATM C&D, that's on page 1-27 but
I just got one addition for you to do when you get done with
th a t.
SPT You think you want me to just do it on
the voice link now instead of up on the teleprinter?
CC Yes, it' s a simple little thing. You
can copy it anywhere.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Panel 130 circuit breaker main inverter
slant LCA one close.
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819173
SPT I'm sorry would you repeat it once more.

CC Panel 130 that's the ATM panel, circuit
breaker main inverter slant LCA one close.
SPT Is that suppose to go with the malf
procedure number 9 C&D?
CC Yea, that's affirmative when you complete
that malf just close that circuit breaker.
SPT Okay. That's at the end of the procedure
now .
CC Yes six'.
SPT And this is a permanent change to be
incorporated in the book. Is that right?
CC No, that's a one time good deal.
SPT Okay, well we got it in there, Jack's
got it out.
PLT Hey_ Story, I'm looking around for the
WMC fine filters is - called out in page 9-21 of the systems
checklist.
CC We got the page could you state the
question again, please.
PLT Yea, where is the WMC debris fine filters?
CC Okay, we'll hustle on that one. We're
about 30 seconds to LOS.
PLT Oh, plenty of time.
PLT Knowing you guys how fast you are you
can do that in a flick of an eyebrow.
CC We're I0 seconds to LOS here. I will see
you over the Vanguard in about 24 minutes at 22:09.
SPT Okay, I'm just putting your solar data on
the VTR right now.
CC Okay.
CC B432, Jack. B432.
CC That's where the fine filter is.
PLT I know you can do it, thanks.
through Hawaii for the final time today. 23 minutes to tracking
ship Vanguard. In about 40 minutes until about change-of-shlft
briefing in the Houston News Room with Flight Director, Don
Puddy, EREP Controller Dick Koos. And at 21:46 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-573/I
Time: 17:07 CDT, 13/22:07 GMT
8-9-73

mean time. About a minute and 50 seconds away from acquisition
at tracking ship Vanguard. Change of Shift Briefing coming
up in about 20 minutes in the Houston News Room with Flight
Director Don Puddy, fully equipped with a spider cage, and
EREP Controller Richard Koos, 5:30 Central in the Houston
News Room. Puddy is also bring a mockup of the - another
student experiment, ED-32 In-Vitro Immunology. And Richard
Koos, the EREP man is bringing some of the data files, that they
use in planning EREP passes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got you through the
Vanguard for i0 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
here.
SPT Okay, Story, this is a quick question,
has Adam down there said any thing about a little activity
in the active region 85?
CC He hasn't yet, Owen.
SPT Okay, we just had another smaller flare
down there, at about 21:46 and it was high enough to - go to
berrylium position number I in about a 3500 count. I did not
interrupt my program because we were just completing
the CALROC mirror auto rasters. But I did happen to record the
XUV MON for essentially the whole duration of the flare and
it should be on the tape recorder right now. I sort of
would be interested in what NOAA ha to say about the X-ray
classification, it wasn't as strong as the one earlier today
but that definitely was a X-ray emitting region.
CC Okay, I'ii get some information up to
you on that one, Owen.
CDR Story; CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Ran - Jack and I ran those two comm
checkouts. Essentially on the first one, doing all of the
different things that were discussed, we found no difference
in volume, no matter which one of the amplifiers we turned
off. Now let me rephrase that silghtly, everytime we turned
off a buffer amp, the volume dropped significantly and we turned
it back on, the volume would come up. We'd turn off the other
one, it would drop the same amount, when you put them both
back on then come up. You had the feeling that the
both buffer amplifiers were operating the same way. Same
is true for all the rest of the tasks we ran. We did the
(garble) 2, also were recorded on the tape and that should be
on the tape now in time 22:00, that's the time we ran the task.
One thing is still puzzling us, we have problems with
channel A, yet we're testing channel B, or we think we are.
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8/9/73
CC Okay; I copied that AI, anymore for us

on that?
CDR Nothing I can think of, Just kind of
wondered, are we really checking A on that test or B like we
thought? And if we're checking B, why are we checking B,
with problems with A? I thought. Maybe our problem's with
B and it won't tape record. I think maybe that's it. We got
a problem wlth B and it won't tape record and that's what
we are trying to check?
CC The last thing you said is correct, AI.
The problem i_ with B.
CDR Okay, had forgotten it. Okeydoke.
CC And thanks. SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Before I forget it, we need the star tracker
locked on.
SPT Okay, same old numbers?
CC Yep, the ones you got on board and that
flare you were looking at, we'll call it a subnormal optical
and a peaked out at 2144 and we didn't want to interrupt your
CALROC JOP.
SPT I didn't interrupt it, but I've got
almost the whole history of it on the XUV MON on the VTR. So
when you get that back to Houston, you can see the way you
look at XUV from that.
CC Okay, thanks and I've got a small change
to your rate gyro calibration pad that we passed up yesterday.
SPT Maybe we don't need to copy that. Why
don't you just put it in the next pass.
CC That's coming up at 23:14.
SPT Okay, just a second, Story. Let me get
it out. Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, I've change the maneuver times there.
Tbe first one, 17:10 change that to 23:14:00.
SPT Okay, 23:14.
CC Okay, and after that one just add
5 minutes to increment all the other maneuver times 5 minutes.
Like the next one, 17:15 will be at 23:19:00. And the
third one, 23:24:00.
SPT Okay, got that.
CC And you understand the last warm maneuver
you increment them up 5 minutes also. Oh, I can
read them to you. The one at 17:25:00 is 23:29:00.
And the 17:30:00 is 23:34:00. The 17:35:00 is 23:39:00.
And the last one is at 23:43:00.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. We'll pull it
off.
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Time: 17:07 CDT, 13/22:07 GMT
8/9/73
CC Thank you.
CDR Just for laughs, I thought l'd tell you
this, I looked in the book and found that the comm settings
for both the normal and that alternate are the same. The
switches aren't but the thumbwheel settings (lauBhter) are
the same. So we would have been okay either way.
CC We should have seen that too.
CDR And we got all of that stowage done,
Story. It took I'd - my guess would be between 4 and 5 man hours
to do it. We got it all stowed and we sent the information down
on chan A records so Reader and anybody else that's interested
in the food and where it is you can get it. Before we leave here
some 50 days or whatever it is from now, we'll a - we'll
go up there and inventory everybody. That way they will
have some good handling.
CC Gee, thanks, AI. And whlle I got you there
with that pad, do not put in the 13 minute maneuver time
until you have gone to SI mode with the switch. That's
right at the end of the pas_.
CDR Got you, thanks.
CC And we're a minute until LOS here. Will
see you over Ascension in 4 minutes.
tracking ship Vanguard. Four-minute gap across to Ascension
Island, will leave the line up for that brief period and
immediately after loss of signal at Ascension, Change of
Shift Briefing in the Houston News Room with Flight Director
Don Puddy accomplied by spider cage and EREP Controller
Richard Koos. Estimated time of 5:30 p.m. CDT or after
Ascension LOS. Standing by for resumption of communication
through Ascension Island station.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC574/I
Time: 1720 CDT, 13/22:20 GMT
819173
PAO Skylab Control. Getting acquisition now at

tracking station Ascension Island. Stand by.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension for
7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. I'm starting to work on the
ILCA mall.
CC Okay Jack.
you over Guam in 37 minutes at 23:08.
PLT Okay. Story, in working through this malfunction
procedure, one thing I noticed on the time remaining counter,
is that all the elements in the lower half of the time-remaining
counter which are now being used to count down the time, are
very, very dimly lit. The ones in the upper half which are
not being used, are not read at all.
CC Thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal from
Ascension Island tracking station. Next station, Guam in
35 minutes. Change-of-shlft press briefing coming up now
with Flight Director Don Puddy, EREP Controller Richard Koos,
and a duplicate of Arabella's home. Should the press confer-
ence last through the next station, that pass will be taped
for delayed playback. At 22:32 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-575/I
Time: 18:17 CDT, 13/23:17 GMT
8/9/73

mean time and 28 minutes away from tracking ship Vanguard.
During the Just completed Change of Shift Press Conference
some 2 minutes and 55 seconds of alr-to-ground was recorded
over tracking station at Guam Island. We'll play back that
now.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story, I did have something in my
checklist here I wonder if my billfold or pocket I was going to
call down to you. That's the amount of alcohol down there
in the flight's data kit and George Green which is the
alcohol, the plunger is setting at about 6 millimeters,
but there is a large bubble in the alcohol and I really
think there is no more than about 3 milliliters of alcohol in it. IN
W-l, William I, a container of ethanol which might be also used, the
plunger sets at about 7 milliliters remaining, but yet another
large bubble is in the container and I wouldn't estimate
more than about 3 milliliters of fluid are in the container.
Over.
CC I copy, that Owen. I mean I've got a -
Go ahead.
SPT Story, we'll be ready to go in 23:14.
CC Roger.
CDR We've gone over the checklist on E-2,
I'ii tell you which ones we fixed. We think we got most
of them, but some of them we're not sure that we've logged,
like we' re logging them now so we want to make sure that
we got them in there. So let me read the ones that we need.
And you can send them up if you would.
CC Okay.
CDR Skylab stowage book change i; SWS systems
checklist 5 and 6; ATM experiment checklist 2; Biomed
checklist and log i; student experiment checklist i; ATM JOP
summary sheet change, i; DECAL change, 1 and that's the urine
DECAL, we have already got it. Rate gyro package cue card
change i; ETC cue cards, i; and that's it. All of the
rest we verify are in and noted.
CC Okay, thanks.
CDR If you could get those up sometime this
afternoon, or this evening we'd get them done this evening
then it would be in good shape.
CC Okay, we' re working. And no need - -
CDR Okay, we've just switched to CMG mode.
CC Okay, we're looking at a good maneuver
time, AI.
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Time: 18:17 CDT, 13/23:17 GMT
8/9/73
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; we'll

see you over the Vanguard in half an hour.
PAO This is Skylab Control; that completes
the playback of the Guam Island tracking station pass, back
again in 24 minutes for tracking ship Vanguard and the
following Ascension Island and Canary Island tracking station
passes, 25:21 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC576/I
T_me: 18:44 CDT, 13/23:44 GMT
8/9/73

mean time in a minute and 30 seconds away from a four barrel
pass beginning at Vanguard on through Ascension Island,
Canary Islands and the edge of Madrid. A brief dropout between
tracking ship Vanguard and Ascension but we'll leave the line
up for - through that gap and the first Canary and Madrid
passes of the evening. Standing by for acquisition at
tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we're AOS over Vanguard for i0 min-
utes.
SPT Hello, there Story.
CC You guys are eating now.
PLT No, we're Just getting ready to I guess
we're doing our exercises and our checklist changes.
CC Okay.
PLT Is Milt Windier, down there today, Story?
CC Yes sir he and all the maroon team.
PLT Okay, have him - have the honorable Mr.
Windier pass under the Friendswood City Council my appreciation
for permitting me to vote in the Flood Control election and
I vote for no floods and all control.
CC Okay.
CDR And Story, completed the rate gyro task and
on time and it's back in solsr inertial.
CC Yeah, we're looking at them and it looks
good AI.
CDR Story, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Is tomorrow our day off, we were looking
at our flight plan and we welen't doing any EREPs or ATMs to
speak of?
CDR Okay, didn't know that I thought it was
2 more days from now. Okay.
SPT Say, Story, I've got the monitors set up to
the TV-61 after supper and I'd like to know how much paper
there is left on the VTR and about how much time you would
have used?
CC Okay, Owen you got 23-1/2 minutes left
and you also going to get some ATM stuff later on so probably
you ought to spend only i0 minutes on TV 61.
SPT Okay, and let's see did my flight plan
have some ATM tonight?
CC Stand by i, Owen.
SPT Set up yet? 1427.
CC Skylab, Houston, we dropped out there
for a couple of minutes.
SPT Okay, I had two questions for you, did
you get them both?
CC Owen, we're going to run that TV from
the ground?
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8/9/73
SPT Okay, the ATM TV you're going to run from

the ground? So I'ii put about i0 minutes of TV 61 on and
I was wondering also have you had general message number 1427
already setup?
CC It's on board.
SPT Okay, I haven't seen it yet so I guess
it's still up in the teleprinter.
CC It went up about 2 minutes ago, Owen
and I've got the S063 reticle I can describe that to you at
your convlence anytime tonight.
SPT Go ahead right now.
CC Okay, you might want to copy that down
on a little pad that you can paste next to the experiment.
Okay, the horizontal lines that's normal to the flight pass
the centermost DAS there is i degree all the blank spaces going
out away from that center one are .5 degrees and the little
dashes going out away from the center DACS is also .5 degrees
when you get outermost on that horizontal line don't - the
outermost dashes are i degree the entire field of view is
12 degrees.
SPT Okay, thank you Story and that'll mean
that the total amount of jitter as far as my tracking during
the photograph is concerned is on the order of a few tenths
of a degree and I'Ii get a m_re accurate estimate the next
time I run it but the packers will probably llke to know -
at least my first estimate is on the order of a few tenths of a
degree.
CC Okay, thanks. And the vertical lines as
you look at it the first - the spaces are 2 and a quarter
degrees and the vertical lines are 2.5 degrees.
SPT Okay, 2-1/2 degrees apart is that
right on the vertical lines?
CC From the center DAS to the line is
2 and a quarter degrees and the llne itself is 2.5 degrees.
SPT Understand. Thank you.
CC And one more thing the little tick marks
are a quarter of a degree .25 degrees. The tick marks on
the horizontal line.
CC Skylab we're going LOS and we'll see you
over Ascension in 2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-577/I
Time: 18:58 CDT, 13/23:58 GMT
8/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; we're 30 seconds

way from reacqulsitlon through tracking station Ascension
and we'll hang in all the way through Ascension, Canary
Islands and Madrid.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Ascension and
Canaries for 17 minutes and we'll be dumping the tape recorders
here.
CDR Okayj Story.
CC And did you all get a lock onto a star,
Skylab.
PLT Say again, Story.
CC Did Owen get locked onto a star?
PLT Right now, he's locked onto a steak.
SPT I think it's pretty good, but A1 says that
he locked onto a star up there a little bit ago.
CC Okay, good. We needed one for that
maneuver and we're showing now in the middle of a dump that the
shutter is open and we would like someone to close it.
SPT Okay, it will be closed, now did you get
your updat e adequately? Or do you know?
CC We got to dump the data and then get it
back, we can't tell you right now.
PLT Okay, well a - Okay, I hope this is about
the ri t gimbal angle, so it should have been Canopus. And
he's on his way to close the shutter.
CC Okay, thanks.
CDR Right, Story, after we made the first
maneuver I used those angles that you gave, locked it on,
and it stayed locked on for all maneuvers including Doctor SI.
CC Okay.
CDR One thing, that's been puzzling me a
little bit, last time I couldn't control the star tracker
until I got all this system powered up again. I wonder
if there's one special switch I could throw here that would
give the a- get the star tracker to close.
CC We're working that, AI. AI, it ought only
to take the star tracker shutter to close.
CDR Well, maybe my little talkback is stuck. It
doesn't seem to want to go close.
CC Copy.
CC And we're not seeing it closed either.
CDR Doesn't much want to close, does it?
CC No, we're about to pass you up some angles
that we can park it at and then let it stay open.
CDR Okay, I'ii sure put it there.
CC Okay, AI, that's INNER minus 1800 OUTER
plus 4200.
CDR Roger.
CC And once you've got those glmbal angles
in AI, turn the power OFF on the star tracker and get back
to the steak.
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CDR Okay, Owen came up to watch it, so he's

now doing it.
PLT His steak went away while he was gone.
CC And we know who got it.
SPT That INNER does not want to drive beyond
minus 720.
CC We copy that. That' s the INNER will
not go beyond minus 720?
SPT Affirmative.
CC Okay.
SPT Well the OUTER is not the (garble) drive
either.
CC And we're looking at it.
SPT Okay, (garble) the procedural I didn't have
the star showing in the window.
CC And we see it moving okay now, Owen.
SPT Okay, it's powered now.
CC Thanks.
SPT And the shutters still shows OPEN on the
flag.
CC Roger, and we like the way it's pointed.
SPT Anything else I can do for you up at the
panel?
CC I guess not.
SPT Yeah, I better run downstairs and protect
my interest.
CC Yes sir and you better hurry.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC578/I
Time: 1911 CDT, 14/00:11 GMT
8/9/73

be looking for the Evening Status Report over Guam in 25
minutes at 00:43.
SPT Okay. What happened to big E? Didn't he
make it over tonight?
CC The big E is working feverishly and he'll
probably be getting with you about an hour or so.
SPT Okay. Maybe I can get my steak finished
by then.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Eighteen minutes
past midnight, Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through
Madrid tracking station. Next station in Guam, the
Evening Status Report and later this evening, the crew is
scheduled to have a round table discussion debriefing as
part of M487 experiment - habltabillty/crew quarters. And
item 2-A of that experiment_, is where all three crewmen sit
around and discuss the objectives and the habitability of
the space station. How it was designed, whether one cabinet
or locker should be somewhere else. How the crew quarters
or wardroom is laid out from a subjective standpoint. We'll
be back in 23 minutes for the Guam pass and at 20 past midnight,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-579/I
Time : 19:41 CDT, 14/00:41 GMT
8/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 41 minutes

past midnight GMT, acquisition at Guam Island coming up
in a little over a minute. Scheduled for this tracking
station pass will be the Evening Status Report. Detail
tally of how many steaks they have eaten tonight, other
food consumed during the day, water, medication, exercise,
we'll stand by for Guam.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Guam for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we may have dropped out on my
call, we're AOS Guam for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, Story, I've got my nightly report
here.
CC Okay, AI, I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, urine : 78; 170; 180. Drinking
water gun: 4825; 7984; 5669. BMMD: 6.238, 6.236, 6.238;
5.988, 5.990, 5.987; (garble)
CDR Starting there, 2, 15 (Garble)
CC Stand i, please, AI.
CDR He'll give you more later.
CC AI, we dropped out after the BMMD on the
third column.
CDR Okay, I'ii go through the third column
again, make sure that you have it. PLT, 6.970, 6.967, 6.960.
Exercise: CDR, I'ii give it to you later, I haven't done
it yet; SPT, 2/15/2000, and he'll g_ve you some more later
he's not finished. PLT, 2/30/6303, 1/05/0586. And that
was peddling with his arms on the ezgometer in addition to
that he got 3/25/11 and here's what they are: 50A, 20B,
20D, 20 backbends. Sleep: a- no medications. Sleep:
7-g, 6-f, 6-I/2-g. Here comes the food log: CDR,
10.5 salt packs used, one extra strawberry drink, and as
usual I substituted the (garble) jui_e for the strawberry
and will continue to do so, until Ow_n has evaluated all
of the strawberries down here and I probably just won't
mention it anymore. SPT, he omitted asparagus, he added
peanuts and apple drink, Ii salt used. - For steak that's
2 extra salts, 2 extra salts. Pilot, 5 extra salts,
he omitted the tuna spread and bread, he added one
tea and one apple drink. Photo Log ne.xt.
CC Okay, got it.
CDR Okay, 16-milllmeters : BGF, TK47D, CLOI,
25; 35-millimeter, BVI3, frame count 23. CX1239, CX2300,
70-millimeters, CXI0102; EREP, set t, 7615, 6952, 7827, 7822,
1365, 8683. No change in drawer A configuration from last
night.
CC Okay.
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CDR Flight Plan deviations : that we finished

the overage food stowage, and we all - which took about an
hour, but we also configured days 56, 57, 58 for prep which
took another 2-1/2 man hours so they ought to add that on
there. Two man hours for the stowage and 2-1/2 prep 56, 57,58.
Shopping list accomplishment: the type-3 light bulbs in the STS
section they were burned out, inoperable equipment,
just those light bulbs that I mentioned. Unscheduled
stowage: I gave a lot of stowage information as a result
of the transfer of the food on channel A recording and so
that will, that can be gotten off there, as opposed to doing
it again, it's quite long. Unschedule stowage items change
towel, 736 to 831, 5 red, 3 white, 6 blue of them. And
a little note last night's exercise, I couldn't remember,
Owen exercised late and couldn't remember if we gave it
to you or not, here it is: add what we gave you add this
to it, 2/15/2000. That's about all we have. I notice that
we got pretty slow flight plan tomorrow, I gather that
not much of it's time critical so we'll probably just get up
when we want or do you plan to wake us up?
CC We're working that, AI.
CDR Yeah, we'd a - If it doesn't make any
difference, we'd just as soon get up late if it turns out
if it is a day off, which it looks like, we'd just as soon
to get up late. That's probably the best thing. Since we
could get all of that done pretty e_sy plus some others.
Believe it or not, Jack claims he's going to do TO02, he's
been trying to get to it every nighu and has never made it.
CC AI, the HK84M needs to be done over
a stateside pass and it is a time critical item, we need
to get it started on time.
CDR Okay, we could do it then, but maybe you
can take a close look at the plan since it's so loose and maybe
just pick out another time and we'll do it then.
CC ]i'm working something right now, stand by
one.
CDR Okay, if it doesn't come out, we can do
i t then.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, that HK84M is the only time critical
thing we got here. Maybe you could jump out of the rack and
get right into that and delay the PSA activities and the Mll0
until after that HK84M.
CDR That's a good idea, if you don't hear
us, if we don't put something on the call, how about calling
and waking us up about 30 minutes before that, because we
sure aren't going to sleep that late.
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CC Yes, that's a couple of hours extra there.

CDR Sure we won't be that long, we'll probably
be calling you but that's good, just call us then and if
we're not already out, I'ii go up and do that, and then we'll
do the MII0 and all of the other. But we'll get it done.
CC Okay, we're LOS here in about 20 seconds,
and I will be coming up on your med conference at the Vanguard
at 01:23. And a reminder to Jack, his family conversation
will be at Canaries at 01:43.
PLT Okay, which antenna would be best for
that Story? Right or Left?
CC We're going LOS here, what did you say?
PLT Which antenna will be best for that,
right or left?
CC Left.
PLT Thank you.
CC Get the best one, we don't have an
answer for you.
PLT Okay.
from tracking station Guam. That's the final Guam pass of
the evening. 29 minutes to next station acquisition which
is will be the final pass through the tracking ship Vanguard.
At Vanguard is scheduled the medical conference with the
Flight Surgeon Doctor Paul Buchanan, we'll come up to monitor
that pass when or if the line and circuit is handed back to
CAP COMM. And at 55 minutes past mkdnight, GMT, this is
Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control; 01:23 Greenwich mean

time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in about 15 seconds.
However, the medical conference is scheduled this pass and
likely the Cap Comm will not get back more than about the
last 2 or 3 minutes after the Flight Surgeon has completed
discussing with the crew the state of their health. We'll
stand by though for the 9 plus minutes over Vanguard. Standing
by at 01:24, Skylab Control.
PAO This i_ Skylab Control. We've had loss of
signal from tracking ship Vanguard with the medical conference
taking up that entire pass. Eight minutes to Canary Islands
almost directly overhead at Canaries, 83 degree elevation
angle, lapping over into Madrid. Back in 8 minutes at 01:34
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PAO This is Skylab Control; 01:42 Greenwich mean

time. Skylab space station acquired now by Canary Island
tracking station. The start of revolution 1262. Stand by
for Canary and Madrid.
SPT Hello Story.
CC Hello. Say Owen, I got a bunch of stuff for
you down here and then
SPT Go ahead, Sroty.
CC Hello.
CC Skylab, you reading Houston?
SPT Hello Story.
CC Hello. You reading us on S-band Owen?
SPT Hello Story.
CC Reading you loud and clear. How do you read
me?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, I've been reading you loud and clear.
And we got AOS Canaries and Madrid for 12 minutes.
SPT There's been no up-link. I was going to mention
the fact that when I heard the S-band lock up, but I wanted
to make sure that you didn't misunderstand what I meant about
the quantity of alcohol remaining. Those quantities that I
gave you were in the SL-II dispensers and there are still
two more cans of unopened dispensers for SL-III. And maybe -
well, and maybe SL-IV. Mainly, there are two cans that are
labeled reagents. I'm not sure how many vials or bottles
of alcohol there are in them, but those are still unopened. So,
that's in addition to the stuff that was left over from SI-II
that I reported earlier.
CC Okay. We did know that and thanks Owen. And
I've got Ed here to talk some solar physics with you. I've
got about 6 things to pass up to you, prior to giving you to
Ed since I've only got one more pass before you go to bed.
So you ready to copy?
SPT Ready for -
CC This
CDR a little later, you can pass them up
later if you want, Story.
CC Okay. Let me just get the things I need
now then.
SPT Go ahead.
CC MPS switch to INHIBIT and the ACS malf thL_
RATE GYRO on a caution and warning. We don't know where that
is, but you'd probably want to go to INHIBIT on that in case
Y-2 fails, redundancy management will wake you up.
SPT We' Ii get them both.
CC Okay. Over Madrid, we're getting up the
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(CC CONT'D) condensate dump procedure that you're missing

up there and the rest of the night, it'll take us about the
rest of the night to get the rest of the things to you.
SPT Okay. That'll be fine. We'll take a look
for it after Madrid.
CC Okay. And guess I can catch the rest of the
things at Honeysuckle and here's Ed. You got another I0 minutes
here.
SPT Very good. Row are you Ed?
MCC Hello, Owen. Hello AI. Hey, you folks have been
doing a
great job in catching a few flares. You got some
fairly happy Pls down here.
SPT That's great. You got a few a happy crewmen up
here too, Ed. We were very pleased to have such good fortune
and I'm sure that a lot of it is due to the very good forecasting
that Joe Hireman and . .. Smith have done for us.
MCC Yeah, well we've got a report from those folks on
the flare today, if you'd like to know what it looked like
from down here. Unfortunately, we still do not have the
information from the experiments themselves. That's going
to take one, perhaps two days before we get a good handle
on that data.
SPT Okay. Well, I was interested in sort of the
timing of how our setting it in operation, as compared to
the start and peak phase. I'm pretty sure we had it
before the peak but if so, how much and that sort of thing.
But if you don't have it yet, whenever you do get it, why
you might let us know.
MCC Okay. I can give you a quick run down on
what it looked llke from down here. It was a sub-normal flare
optically, and it started around 15_47. The X-rays started
at 15:49 and there was an M-2 and at. max, both of them maxged out
around 15:50 and ended around 16 - z little after 16:00.
You got some good radial bursts at 6 centimeters. Went from
20 flux units on up to around 1000-1/2 flux units. It was located
between two spots of opposite polarity in the follower of
active region 85 and possibly, you had a Delta existing there.
You had a - a very rapid rise. They had some emissions in
the off band in }I-alpha 1 - one angstrom or so of the red and
blue. But somewhat less intensity than on band. The flare
was proceded by less intense flares at the same location.
Had some at 14:18 Z. You had a C-2 at 12:01 Z and another
C-2 in a couple previous to that. The flare - of which
you saw was also followed by sub-normal flares, a C-3 at
around 21:44 at the same location.
SPT Now that's the one that I reported. I had
called it at 21:40.
MCC Rog.
SPT And early at beginning at the start, because
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I had my eye on it while we were over the - doing the

JOP 12 and I could see the whole thing and we watched the rise
on the beryllium and the IIC. The whole phase didn't
reach it's peak until after 21:46 and the X-rays, which we
had direct monitor onboard. And that's the one that I
mentioned is also on the VTR with the XUV mon being recorded.
So, it should make a very interesting display there, I
think when you get that down-linked.
MCC Real good. That was a question we had down here.
Just which displays you were able to see, both the M-2 and
the C-3 which you saw the other day.
SPT Right. Well, this was apparently another
C-3 at 21:46 and I could see that very clearly on the XUV mon.
And on your VTR, you should have a little bit of H-alpha 2,
a little bit of H-alpha i and then about 90 percent of it
being XUV mon.
MCC Rog. Do they 0oth show up on the X-ray image?
SPT I can't verify the second one at 21:46 did; I
dind't have to look. But it certainly did on the first flare
the M-2, showed up on also on all displays very clearly.
And of course, it was clear where the M-2 occurred in
the middle of those trailing spots and then the whole config-
uration has been changing all day. Almost on an hour to hour basis.
MCC Okay. We've get some general comments and
a few questions. First are the comments. On 52, the white
light pointing, white light coronagraph pointing looks pretty
good down here. You're right on what they want, so, don't
change your procedures at all.
SPT ...
MCC In the shopping list, 82B. When you' re
looking at active regions and Ellerman bombs and bright points,
it would help if we get some short exposures, llke i0 to
40 seconds or so.
SPT Okay. I presume you're talking about short
wavelengths, i0 to 40 second exposures on 82B.
MCC That's affirm. All right. In order to help
us plan on what kind of capabilities you folks have up - -
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CC That's affirm.
MCC In order to help us plan
on what kind of capabilities you folks have up there could
you tell us a little bit about the XUV mon and how the camera
and the scope are working out. Now for an example can you
locate bright points and do you think you could do any pointing
on your own for either bright points or coronal holes.
SPT Well, I 'm not really giving it a good
try yet. We've only really been working three days and we've
been so busy doing the main tasks plus our shopping list
in my case that I really can not say that we've properly
evaluated how well that hood and camera are going to perform
so I'ii just have to delay that until later. Now I did do a
little bit of prominence study on the shopping llst item
and for that I used the XUV mon with the integrate switch
to indicate where in the corona the brightest portions of
the prominence were located and it can certainly be done
that way. The flares obviously stand out very clearly now
bright points we can not see at this point - right now I've
not seen a bright point in plage without integrating
and then when you do integrate why of course it brings the
whole plage up quite a bit. I think by intergration along you can
define where the coronal holes are located I'm not too optimistic
about being able to pick up bright points on the XUV monitor
however, I think if we can just find out their general
location and determine what sort of an H-ALPHA signature
they have then we can go right to i_: on H-ALPHA and peak it
up very easily with detectors i or 3. On several of these
cases when we were trying to peak up on bright points in
the plage the contrast on detector 3 especially is so
great by factors of i0 or 20 or 50 to I that you can peak
up quite readily with the detectors so all we have to do is
get the general locality we'll since say 5 or i0 arc
seconds. Find the H-ALPHA signature that corresponds to
the XUV bright point and then we we can go there.
MCC Okay, that sounds good, thanks for that
description. The 54 timer has that helped you?
SPT Yes, I've been using it all day today
and it's much more convenient than keeping track of it on a
piece of paper which I'd been doing on the first day. So
it is a significant help and we're using it regularly.
MCC Okay, the 55 CALROC worked today. They
got some good data back. Another question: do you see any
changes in prominence 23 yesterday, apparently it listed off
the disks?
SPT I'm sorry, Ed, I was distracted here
for a moment could you repeat the question.
GIBSON Did you see any changes in prominence 23
yesterday it listed off the disk?
SPT Yeah, it's gone today.
MCC Roger, okay, apparently you were not
there at the time that we should lift it off.
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SPT That's correct I did not notice it

lifting.
MCC Okay, we've got another 2-1/2 minutes
or so here. The flare C3 which you saw on day 219 there's a couple
of observations on that. One is that is - was apparently
very bright as - in terms as active regions and the flare
increased by factor of i0 and magnesium i0 and all wave lengths
increased together in magnesium i0 continue to rise and was
rising when most of the other lines were at their peak or
started to fall. They're (garble) gimbal the speed time transients
down here is i0 to 15 seconds durations. There were a lot
of many flares associated with it most likely associated with
mi - Ellerman bombs. The mirror auto rasters has shown that
active region 85 has especially in magnesium i0 has an extensively
loop structure running east-west from the spot to the active region
edge and we ought to get some good veiwing at the LEM in
about 2 days.
SPT Okay, that's sounds fine. I've given you
a quite a few extra mini rasters of active region 85 usually
accompanied by grading auto scan on the particular feature
of most interest or the brightness at the time so you ought
to keep on a lookout for the shopping llst items they turned out
to be most useful to me at any rate and I think active
region 85 it outht to be very thoroughly studied and it has
been a real help to get some of thi_ active region flare data.
MCC Very good, one question which you won't
have time to answer anyway in it's fully right now but as you
go along could you give us some suggestions on timing which
we specified in the ATM schedule pad and some of the jops
that have been used in the choices of the areas studied in
other words do you think you have seen things more opportune
up there at any igven time and if so when and how might we
change the scheduling to make our optimum observing of what's up
there.
SPT Okay, fine I'ii do just that, in fact I'ii
try to do it in real time while it occurs to me hecause there's
no way to do it in retrospect and I' _.l just make some comments
about you know this other active region or prominence looks like
we ought be be taking a close look at it and in fact I've already
done this in one case suggest that maybe I ought to cutoff
here and go look at that. And so if you be - expecting some
questions and developing a technique for quick response why
maybe we can work out some of those.
MCC Okay, we're around i0 seconds from LOS and
you folks are doing a great job and keep it up.
SPT (Garble) We appreciate those comments
and apparently you're reasonable happy with the pointing and
so forth through the flares and we' ii just keep working with you
and the way we have the last three days it's been great sport.
MCC Very good we'll get back with you on some
more details on this flare when we get the information.
SPT Thank you.
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CC We're going LOS here Owen, see you

over Honeysuckle in 34 minutes at 02:32.
SPT Okay, Story.
through Madrid rahter lenghty discussion through that pass
between Skylab 4 Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Skylab 3 Science
Pilot Owen Garriott, aboard Skylab on some of the aspects
of solar physics being observed through the Apollo telescope
mount ray of sensors and telescopes and cameras. Flight
Surgeon Dr. Paul Buchanan has issued the nightly medical
bulliten following his conversation with the crew over
Vanguard earlier in this revolution, bulletin reads as follows:
from all reports received from the Skylab 3 crew and from
our evening report we think that the crew remains in
excellent health and certainly in excellent spirits they're
having some nasal congestion as we noted in the Skylab 2
crew but they insist that this is not uncomfortable or in
any way disturbing. End of bulletln; 32 minutes away from
Honeysuckle Creek Australia which normally or which nominally
I suppose you'd say would be the final pass of the evening
before beginning the 8 or 9 hour sleep period, however, the
crew seem to indicate during the Canary and Madrid pass that they
would be up later than that and we eager to talk to the ground
back in 31 minutes for Honeysuckle it 02:00 Greenwich mean
time; Skylab Control.
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8/9/73

mean time. Acquisition in a minute and a half at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia tracking station. Standing by for
acquisition.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle
for 7 minutes.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We're here for 7 minutes AI.
CDR Okay, good Story, we're in here working
on our 47-2A.
CC Okay, and I've got something for
someone concerning of the use of M092 legbands.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Did you get the message that we sent
up on the legbands to use?
CDR We sure did.
CC Okay, I guess that there was some
question on which ones we were using but anyway the
general message that we sent up, uhe permanent general
message that' s the one to use. And the reason for that
is that on the left leg, we would ]ake bends with lower
sensitivity or a flatter slope, because the legs are increasing
quite a bit to the lower body negative pressure. And on the
right side, we would like bands with higher sensitivity to
pick up the changes in the thermal and the water in the
can.
CDR We've planned t_ use the ones, if we can
find them, and there is no reason to believe that we won't
be able too. The one's that were sent up on that pad until
told otherwise.
CC ()kay, that' ii be fine.
CDR I think that for the SL-4 crew, they ought
to pick out the bands before hand and it ought to be in
their checklist which bands to use so that - there is a whole
bunch of them up here and they all look the same as you
know and there is no reason to have to scout around. Just -
they define the ones, we'll use them.
CC Yes, sir. That's true.
CC And did you get IV61 done?
SPT Story, we've got some of that.
I've got Jack on there, I'm not getting (garble) of myself
on there yet and I was going to throw back to ATM MON 1
as soon as I've got my other end inside the next 30 to
40 minutes. Is that soon enough for you?
CC Yeah, that's be fine.
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CC Is the PLT busy now?

SPT What did you say Story?
CC Is Jack busy now?
PLT Here I am, Story. I've performed that ATM
malfunction and I suppose that's what you want to here about.
Is that right?
PLT ()kay, I performed it Story, and I wound
up in block 5 of that malfunction procedure. I forget what
it was right now but sensory said AC bus failed or short
circuit and here are somethings that I noticed, coming out
of step 3 the answer was yes and I saw one exception is a very
light illumination in all of the unused element on the lower
half of the time remaining display and the intensity data
display and there is a frequent intermittent flash or
rapid brighting of the lower and some of the upper unused
elements in both of these displays. That's the time remaining
in the intensity data, except for I made a note that the
time remaining display, still there?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Except for I made a note that the time
remaining display goes out except for very light illumination
of the lower elements. The (garble) element is the elements
to the center digit are the brightest and that's when
the switch was placed DAS orb phase. DAS ORB PHASE
switch to bus one. When you go to numerics to fixed or
off, why these dim lower half elements go out. I noticed
also the malfunction procedure and the prerequisite
column the only switch that doesn't call out there, that
I thought would be necessary is one of the 8 switches on
the console power distribution, it does not call off the
ACS switch light on the ACS switch. And so it is off as oposed
to being in bus 2. But I did the reconfiguration
after the block 5 of failure, that's where it's setting
now except for we went through the operate unmanned unattended
ops power down.
CC Okay, thanks, and how was the fidelity
of your conversation with the family tonight?
PLT It was good over Canaries, but seem llke
when I got to Madrid, they heard me all right, but mine came
in real garbled. I had to have them repeat several times
what was said and some cases I didn't get the conversation
at all. But Canaries was great, seemed like it must have been
over Madrid that it was terrible.
CC Did you switch from left to right on
the antennas?
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PLT Yeah, I did that but it didn't seem to

make any difference.
CC Okay.
PLT But, thank you for sending it up and
most of the conversation came through pretty good and not
as good as it was, but it was Just good to talk to everybody
and most of what they said was intelligible after having
it repeated several times, although they claim that they
were hearing me loud and clear.
CC Okay, thanks Jack and for your information
only, due to analysis of EREP down-link data and your comments
will be doing a S192, thermal alignment the total procedure
will take an hour, we will be uplinking that to you.
PLT You say you'ee going to do a thermal alignment
and a 192?
CC Yeah, and we'l_[ be up-link that procedure
to you.
PLT Could you tell me briefly what's wrong
with the one we've got?
CC Yeah, l've got 20 seconds, I can't do
it right now, I've got one other question for the comm,
channel B audio test when you switch to panel i0 in the
command module, did you have to readjust the SIA volume?
PLT l'm going to have to let AI fill that
one and he's busy conversing on 487 at the moment but
he handled it in the command module so I'll get him
on the next station.
CC Okay, I'm running out of time here, the
next one's Bermuda at 37 minutes frcm now, do want to call
in or you going to sleep?
PLT No, we'll still be up but that ought to
be the last one, I guess. We're getting ready for bed right now.
CC Understand you want to call or not. It's
37 minutes from now.
PLT Affirmative, make one more call.
CC Okay, be Bermuda at 03:17.
PLT c)kay, I'ii still like to know what's wrong
with the thermal alignment. Probably that'll be apparent but
I'ii go ahead and do the procedure, obviously, but I
would like to know what they are look for in make it better.
CC I'ii let you know then.
PLT ()kay.
mean time. Skylab crew still plan to be up at the next station
which is Bermuda for a very brief pass, 3-1/2 minutes which
begins 36 minutes from now. Normally this would be the
final call of the evening. But as the next pass there staying
up a little later. And we'll be back in 36 minutes at
02:41 GMT, Skylab Control.
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mean time 40 seconds from acquisition at Bermuda for about
3-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab we've got you through Bermuda
for 3 minutes.
PLT ¥eah, now I'm comin_ in the mike.
CC Okay, we've got a very low elevation
pass here, we'll probably break it in and out.
CDR What you want to know about that corn
check today, Story.
CC Okay, A1 if Bermuda doesn't work out
you will be getting to Canary in 2 minutes.
CDR I'ii just wait to.
SPT Are you there Story?
CC Yes, loud and clear at this time.
SPT Okay, for my exercise add 50 A's and 30 B's
and Jack wanted to know what you found out about EREP.
CC Okay, we're working the EREP, we'll have
it for you in a couple of minutes.
CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds until LOS we'll
see you over Canary and Madrid in 2 minutes.
SPT Okay_ Story.
PAO Skylab Control; in a brief gap here between
Bermuda and the Canary Islands overlapping with Madrid.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Canaries
and Madrid for ii minutes.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Jack -
CDR What do you want to know about that com check,
Story?
CC Okay9 A1 the question is on channel B
audio test when you switch to panel I0 in the command module
did you have to readjust the SIA volume?
CDR No, everything seemed to work okay.
CDR You mean by going to backup?
CDR Yes, now when we went to backup it
worked -you couldn't even tell that you've gone to backup
Owen went in and flipped it and I had to ask him if he'd gone
or not. He had and then we tried going to backup on the
other one which was panel 6 and it completely cut out you
didn't hear anything then which is - 1 guess logical to
helieve. No, I set all the sensitivities just like you -
the book said and in fact they're still that way they're
sitting in there now we've had very good comm. I could
find no difference in any of - Anything that we tried was
different from the thing that we were using at first. I saw
no changes as such.
CC Okay, and I got one more thing for you,
AI. On the OWS on the pressure suit drying station is the
locker door that's out in the blower do you leave that open
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or closed?
CDR Leave it open all the time we were using the
blower but we shut it down tonight and put the dessicants in
the last suit and we were thinking about moving the suits
up to the MDA tomorrow. All three suits are down in the
workshop dried with dessicants in them and we left the door
open all the time because that's a hot blower.
CC Roger. And Pete said that the blower
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CDR - - M/)A tomorrow. All three suits are down

in the workshop now dried with dessicants in them and we left
the door open all the time because that's a hot blower.
CC Roger. And Pete said that the blower got
hot. Did you ever notice that the blower temperatures got
hot?
CDR It got warm. I didn't think it was - it
was never too hot to touch it. But it - I always had the
door open. I imagine if I had closed the door, maybe when
I opened it, it would have been hot inside the compartment
but as it was, I thought it was satisfactory.
CC Okay. Are you riding the bike now?
CDR Yes, I was a few minutes ago.
CC Okay. I've got a couple of verifications
on the Evening Status Report. If you're riding the bike
we can get it tomorrow.
CDR Okay - no, I wouldn't mind doing it. What's
on your mind?
CC Okay. We'd llke you to verify cassette C23,
the 35-millimeter. The prelaunch records show no C23 35-
millimeter cassette. But there is a C33 and a C13.
CDR Owen loaded it this morning out of a drawer F.
Does that give you a clue? We're getting ready to check on
it right now.
CC Okay. And we're looking at the ESS still
powered up. If you're done with it before you go to bed
remember to power that down.
CDR Okay, we will. We've invented what's known
as the last min - which has about five items on. It'll save
you, I think, all this trouble. One's the ESS, one's the
manual pointing controller, the other's the SAL, one's the
trash airlock handle and press and a couple of others which have
been things that have gotten to us over the last couple of weeks.
We think we're going to cut that down to zero. We'd llke to.
CC Hey, that's terrific.
CDR In fact, it ought to be part of - you know,
just a regular checklist that we made onboard, because those
are the things that seem to bother you in the middle of the
night. Somebody kicks the trash air lever in the middle of
the day and nobody notices it or - you know, it's got a lot
of loose parts there so this way we hope to nall them down
before we go to bed.
CC Yeah, and if we can find out what's on that
llst, we'll quit bugging you.
CDR Okay. CXI2 we think is what it is.
CC Okay.
CDR Does that make sense?
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CC I'Ii let you know. And on the 70-milllmeter,

which - what's the ID number of the HDC that the CI0 is on.
CDR HDC that CI0 is on.
CC Yeah, what ID number is that?
CDR The only one we got loaded is CXII. Let me
check.
CDR The camera in HDC01 has got CXII on it. Does
that agree with our pads checked on the photo book up there.
CC I think that answers the question, AI. PLT,
Houston.
CDR He'll be here in a second. He's up in the
film vault right now double checking the books and the numbers.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. We've got a mistake. We gave you
CX i0 but it's really CXII. We've got it written down wrong
in our log. And we've got it right in front of our eyeballs
here, so maybe our eyes are starting to fade.
CC Okay. Understand it's CXII on HDCOI.
CDR That's a fact.
CDR Looks like we did it for a couple of days.
CC Okay.
CDR Got it all straightened out now?
CC Yeah, we're finished with everything except
an explanation on the S192 alignment for Jack.
PLT Here I am. Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. It's simply a verification that
you're peaked down on the alignment. Looking at the EREP down-
link and your voice transcripts, they think down here that
you can get a better alignment and the present one isn't much
improved over SL-II. There's a lot of noise in the 20 cycle
that's excessive and they'd like to improve the signal-to-
noise ratio and the present - with the present alignment they
say it's almost difficult to see a shoreline.
PLT Okay. I noticed in my book they were only
looking for 40's, so I thought that was a good number. Now,
what number are they looking for.
CC We' ii get one.
PLT Okay. It'll probably all come up tomorrow
and I'ii go ahead and do that. I hope I can peak it out to
its max value and I thought I was at them.
CC They're saying as high as you can get Jack, and
possibly as high as 80.
PLT Well, and then we'll try to get it.
CC Okay. Thanks.
PLT How about the thermal, I guess they're pretty
well satisfied with that, huh?
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PLT I mean the visiblej excuse me.

CC The visible's great.
PLT Okay. We'll work it over tomorrow and try
to improve that. I guess I was mislead by the number in the
book.
CC And, Jack, we are going to send you some new
procedures with our recommendations on it.
PLT Okay. That'll be fine. I'ii be looking for
them.
CC And one more before you go to bed, how are
you finding those new exercise devices that we put on board.
So in case we need to send any up on the next mission.
PLT Well, the only one we've been using is the
mark 1, you know, the one that Bill Parks came up with. The
others are kind of backups, but you can wear yourself out
real good with that mark i and exercise about everything you
can exercise on the other exerciser, so unless that one fails
we'll probably just use it. And we'll keep you informed on
how it's doing but it looks like the rope might be fraying
a little bit.
CC Okay. Thanks.
PLT And we got some exercise on the VTR for you
if you want to pick it up.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're 40 seconds to LOS. We'll let
you sleep in in the morning and just a reminder, I'ii be
sure to accomplish the MII0 prior to eating.
PAO This is Skylab Control and with loss of
signal through Madrid the CAP COMM has signed off for the
evening and the crew of Skylab space station is expected to
sleep in late in the morning with their so-called day off.
Next station in 25 minutes will be Carnarvon, Australia.
And signing off until 6 a.m. tomorrow central daylight,
this is Skylab Control at 03:36 Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 586/1
Time: 06:28 CDT 14:11:28 GMT
8/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 28 minutes

Greenwich mean time on mission day 14. Skylab has Just com-
pleted a pass over the United States and is still in acquisi-
tion through the Bermuda station at this time. This is a
modified day off for the crew and we do not intend to put in
a wake up call to them. We'll let them call us today. If
we haven't heard from them by about 9 a.m. we will give them
a call, but we'll allow them one of the traditional rewards
for a day off, a chance to sleep late. Other than some
housekeeping chores and about an hour and 40 minutes of manned
operation of the Apollo telescope mount, the crew will have
essentially free time today to relax, take a shower, gaze at
the Earth. A look at Arabella, the lady space spider, on
television is scheduled for today. Probably the latter part
of the morning. We'll have an opportunity for you to see the
web she has spun without the benefit of gravity. We'll
continue to stand by. And if the crew does put in a call,
we'll bring the line up immediately and brinB you those com-
munications. At ii hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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25 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have not yet heard from
the crew this morning. And we will not call them for another
hour or so. We're letting them sleep late today, a modified
day off. Some Apollo telescope mount operation is scheduled
today, and a fair amount of housekeeping chores. The rest
of the time is available for the crew to relax, look at the
Earth, free time. Skylab has just passed out of range of
the Honeysuckle station moving up toward Guam. If we do
hear from the crew during any of these tracking station acqui-
sitions, we'll come up immediately, but we do not intend
to call the crew before possibly 9:00 a.m. central daylight
time. At 12 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC588/I
Time: 08:05 CDT, 14/13:05 GMT
8/10173
SC Okay, we hear you down there.

CC And we hear you up there. Good morning
Skylab. We got about oh, around 6-1/2 more minutes of AOS.
CDR Okeydoke, the vampire is after us this
morning. We're all getting our blood taken.
CC Okeydoke. Don't let him have too much.
CDR ii cc.
CC You going to give Arahella a little
bit?
CDR She had her filet last night. I don't
know whether she ate any of it yet or not, but she had her chance.
You better get those MD's to take off about oh, i millgram
off my filet weight, it's picking up my calories, Jimmy.
CC Okay, did you weigh that on the SM__D?
CDR Doggone it, I forgot it.
7 minutes Greenwich mean time. The crew has called us
through Bermuda. Still about 5 minutes of acquisition through
Bermuda. We'll continue to stand by..
PAO The CAP COM is astronaut Bob Crippen.
Flight Director is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, I don't know whether you've had
a chance to look or not, but Richard Truely assures me that
we may have beat the - the flreman's pole record this morning.
CDR ¥eah, you bet. We're going to get those
in today. We think we've got them all in, we Just failed
to log them properly. We're going to get them done today.
CC Roger. Looks like a message up.
CDR Yeah, we will. We think it's done,
except for writing it on the cover.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab . .. the Skylab Control.
The fireman pole message reference is to the length of the
teleprinter pad that was sent up to the crew last night.
Several days ago a long teleprinter pad went up. The crew
reported it was longer than the fireman's pole in the work-
shop. The pad that went up last night is extremely long
also.
CC Okay - Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS and
we'll have you again at Ascension at about 9 minutes at
13:20.
CDR Okay, we'll make it there.
CC Sure hope so.
CDR I don't see how we can stop. The last time
I let Jive - Jack drive, we'd Just keep going around and around,
he never wants to stop.
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CC Get dizzy llke that.

CDR Think of the money we're savin S up here.
CC Roger, petrol's cheap.
CDR Not even usinE that, I hope. I'ii have to go
up and check the command module. NOt even polluting the
atmosphere up here.
CC You're right.
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SL-III MC-589/I
Time: 08:12 CDT, 14/13:12 GMT
8/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has had

loss of slgnal. Ascension Island will pick up the space-
craft in about 7-1/2 minutes. At 13 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time _ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-590/I
Time: 08:19 CDT 14:13:19 GMT
8110173

Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension
for about 5-1/2 minutes. And the one active region 84 is
acting up again, and we've got an erruptlve prominence. We
can either handle it here unattended, or you're welcome
to it if you'd llke it.
SPT Bob, I wontt be able to get up there for
about I0 minutes. Why don't - when is the next contact?
CC Okay, we're going to go ahead and take
it here at Ascension, and you can get it after that. The next
station contact is not going to be until Carnarvon at 13:51.
SPT Okay, I'll pick it up after Ascension.
I've got to get this bug in the centrifuge and then I'll be
up there.
CC Okey doke.
CC Okay, Owen. We're goln E to go ahead and
wait for you. 55 is running, and I guess we would recomnend
a buildlng block 16 and Jop 8 and Sun centered.
CDR Heck, I can go run these things Sun
center. Even CDR can do that. I'll go do it.
CC Roger, copy AI.
CC And CDR, I don't need a confirmation of
this, because I know you're busy right now. But on that RF
flash that we're going to do today, we want to do that over
a ground station. We're planning on picking up stateside,
which will be around 14:04. And we'll be doln E some commanding
in front and at the end. And we're going to end up commanding
you back into the primary loop. So I Just wanted to warn you
so you wouldn't get into it before we got there.
CDR Okay, will not. I'm planning to wait
until we come up and go from there. I notice we've got a
scan spec light on reset, if they want it.
CC Roger, copy. And we're going to go LOS
in about 1 minute. And see you at Carnarvon at 13:51.
CDR Okay. Now I guess the ground is going to
quit working 55 at LOS, and then I can start working it.
Is that the deal? Or do they Just leave it running?
CC Stand by i.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay AI, it's yours. We can't see any
reason for the 55 light on right now.
CDR Okay, I'll start running it.
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loss of signal. Skylab will be in acquisition through the
Carnarvon station in about 24 minutes. At 13 hours 27 minutes
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SL-III MC-591/I
Time: 08:49 CDT, 14/13:49 GMT
8/10/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up within range of
the Carnarvon, Australia station, now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon
for the next i0 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC And we need the DAS for a minute so we can
enable C&G reset.
SPT Okay, Bob. You have the DAS. I'm back down
in the wardroom for a quick bite of breakfast between night
pass here. Here's the information. We got started at 13:30,
and there is very definitely a transient in progress. At
the moment, there is a large loop above the west llmb, above
active region 84. The loop extends out to between 2-2-1/ radii,
at the present time. At 13:30 we did start building block
16. The loop feet extends up to a latitude, theta of about
45 degrees, then loop out to 2--1/I radii and are back in
at about i00 degrees theta. Now, I took a quick look Just
before Sunset, at about 13:45, and did not see much change
in those loop structures. But it's clearly a very large
loop that was not there before, and is of the type that is
associated with these transients events. So it's a fairly
slow change, apparently. The next orbit, I'd suggest either a
16 or 17; it's really not changing too rapidly, but you might
still prefer 16. So I'd appreciate a comment from the back
room on their preference.
CC Okay, Owen. Very good. Appreciate that
description. And we'll see if we can get that info back
to you.
SPT Okay. And it's also sort of interesting that
we have a TV downllnk in about 30 m_nutes. I don't know
whether you'll have any real time capability to use it or not,
but I can give you a look at the transient if you do have
any real time capability.
CC Okay. We're looking in at that right now, Owen.
CC Owen, we unfortunately don't have any real
time TV capability when we come up over Goldstone this time.
However, if you'll downllnk it they'll record it and we'll
get it about an hour later. And I'll call you over Goldstone
and let you know one way or the other.
CDR Still there, Crlp?
CDR Okay. I was sitting and watching out the
window a few minutes ago, and watching the terminator approach.
One of the things we've been doing, both in rendezvous and
entry, is using the horizon as a back up cue for proper
attitude. Now, during the NC-I mine that we made, I commented
to the ground that it looked like you flunked the horizon
check by i0 degrees or more. Their answer was, after awhile,
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We think you were using the terminator as an index instead

of the horizon. So naturally, the terminator was i0 degrees
less than the real horizon. And they were absolutely right.
The point is this, I think, that we need to take a look at
it both, for our entry and its checks - horizon checks, because
we made some that - backup burn attitudes or horizon checks.
And also for Jerry Carr's rendezvous. If the terminator
is in the vicinity of the horizon, in other words, it's
Just beginning to be night out there, below you, we're
going to have to use the terminator as the cue, because you
just can't see the horizon. In other words, your space-
craft is brightly lit. When you look out, you cannot see the
real horizon. The only thing you can see is the terminator
moving towards you. Now when you're in the dark, you can look
out and see the horizon. Much the same as being in a lighted room,
and you have - by the way, cockpit lighting, decreasing it won't
help you, because the illumination around you and on the space-
craft is bright. So it seems to me we need to start changing
and writing our checklist so that they look at the horizon
if it's fully day. They look at the horizon if it's fully
night. But the terminators out there in the front of you
during the period that you're making the check, they're
going to have to put that point in. Now, what they may want
to do is say, 9 right, and i0 degrees, terminator at 25 degrees,
or something like that. That way you can have both options.
But as it is now, the check is useless, because you can't
see the horizon. Now, we need to check that for our entry so
we can change our books if that's true. And I suspect it
is going to be true for Jerry's rendezvous, and you need
to change that. So you'll need to get that information over
to the proper fellows.
CC Okay, AI. We copied that. And we'll get
it in work. If you've got a minute, I thing we owe you a
report on strawberries and pork loin.
CDR You can - -
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CDR ...you bet. Go ahead.

CC Okay, we have concluded that the
strawberries are safe to eat despite the off taste. And if
they're completely unpalatable continue to substitute
peaches. And I guess we recommend you not eat pork loln
until we have determined the cause of the off taste. The
substitute we currently recommend is spaghetti and meat sauce.
And if you can give us anymore information about that off
taste on the pork loln we'd appreciate it. Do note that
Jack is scheduled to eat pork loin this evening. And if
we substitute spaghetti that's going to give him spaghetti
for both lunch and dinner. We're currently looking into
that.
CDR Okay, let me get a couple of pork loln
experts to talk wlth you.
PLT This is Jack, I never made any complaint
about the pork loin; [ like it.
CDR I believe that was Owen and I'm not sure
he felt it could be bad that he - I think he Just felt that
the taste had changed enough so that he didn't llke it, but
let him talk for hlmself. Now, Jack's been eating
the strawberries, he likes them okay. And I was really
worried about the strawberries golngbad on us.
SPT (garble) Jack's been eating (garble) without
any complaint (garble) anything like that. It's Just that I did not
want to eat any more of it and I am happy with the change they
recommended - with the change they recommended and I'll give the
spaghetti a go and let Jack work on the pork.
CC Okay, Owen you were partially cut out
there, A1 and you were both talking at the same time. But
understand you definitely did not want to eat anymore of
the pork loln, that you think it taste real bad, and you're
happy with the substitution. I guess we were a little bit
worried about here that there may be something that might
cause you to get ill or something. But we'll look into
it and see if we really conclude whether Jack ought to eat
it tonight.
CDR Okay, as far as I can see there's nothing
wrong with it. Jack has no complaints and so I think we
ought to stick with the -
CDR And I assume_ Crlp that the ground
actually - I was worried about the - not only the taste of
the stuff, the strawberries, but whether they were good
or not but they tested them and say they're g_od, huh?
CC That's what they concluded. However,
if you really don't llke them you're clear to go ahead
and continue to eat peaches.
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CDR They don't taste that bad, it's Just

that they Just had a funny taste - I would throw them
out if I were at home, because I would feel that they were
getting bad. But maybe thatts Just the way the heat is
done up here.
CC Okay, we copying.
PLT Heyj Crip, I never made any complaint
about the pork loinj I llke it. The thing that I decided
that I Just couldn't get down was bread and tuna fish
when they're together.
CC Okay. That's the first time I ever heard
of a bread and tuna fish problem. We'll - we'll - I guess
the concern we got down here was that there may be something
wrong with the - wlth the pork loln. But we'll look into
it and try to give you a go on it the next pass here. Welts
about - -
PLT Oh, you know these Okies, they're not
used to eating pork. They got to have filet and roast beef
and stuff.
CC Roger. You marines are tough, I know.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll have you again at
Guam at 14:04. That's Just about 5 minutes from now. We'll
be doing a data voice recorder dump there.
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SL-III MC-593/I
Time: 09:01 CDT 14/14:01 GMT
8110173

loss of signal. Guam will acquire Skylab in about 2 minutes.
We'll continue to keep the llne up and monitor voice communi-
cations through Guam. During this pass, Science Pilot Owen
Garriott reported a solar transience in progress, a large loop
near region 84 on the Sun. We do plan to record Apollo tele-
scope mount television at Goldstone on this revolution, and
that will be sent back later today. There was a lenEthy
discussion on strawberries versus peaches, and pork loln versus
spagetti with meat sauce. The determination is that the
strawberries are safe to eat even though they don't taste
quite right. The determination of the pork loln is being
made now by medical authorities here on the ground. There
had been a report from Skylab that there was an off taste
in the pork loln. However, Jack Lousma says he likes it, he
doesn't see anything wrong with it. But Owen Garriott has
decided that he'll switch to spagetti. Guam is about to
acquire. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Say, we've been wondering, el Crip-o, about
this S019. Is there only one pass available or only one pass they
want, or what?
CC Stand by on that a moment, AI.
CDR Okay, because it looks like we've got time
to run it more than once for sure.
CC Okay A1, actually you can run it when ever
you'd like. We need a couple of revs warning so that we can
get a pad prepared for you.
CDR Why don't you send us a couple of more
revs of pad. We've got one rev I guess already onboard so
if you send us a couple more, we'll do them.
CC Okay AI, what we'll try to do is to fill you
in for the rest of the day. It will probably take us a couple
of hours to get that prepared, but we'll do that. And I
guess the consensus here is that the doctors would prefer if Jack
did not eat pork loln tonight until we have a full opportunity
to make sure there is no problems with it. We promise we'll
try to get something confirmed on that within about 72 hours.
And we're still trying to find a substitute so that he won't have
to eat spaghetti twice today.
CDR Okay. Here comes Jack again.
PLT I think there must be some misunderstanding,
Crip. The only comment that 0 made was that he didn't care
for pork loln. He didn't say it tasted spoiled or rotten
or anything, he Just said he didn't like it. And I said I
liked it. So I don't understand the concern.
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8/20/73
CC Stand by, Jack.

CC I'm assuming that nobody has - Owen has
not gone back up to the ATM panel. I've got a SAP update
that I can give you at - whatever your convenience is.
SPT How much longer have we got? 1'11 go up
there right now where I can copy it down.
CC Well, let's see, we've got about 4-1/2, 5
more minutes in this pass, and it's about 12 more minutes until
sunrise.
SPT Okay, 1'11 go on up to the panel.
CC Well, there is no rush, Owen. If you want to
wait I'ii get it over stateside a little bit later.
SPT Okay, if it's nothing that has to do with
the immediate ops, why I'ii wait until I get up to the panel. And
I wonder if the backroom has any recommendation on building
block 16 or 17?
CC Okay. We've got a recommendation on what
we want you to run on this stateside pass, plus the SAP update,
which is Just a general thing that really didn't have anything
to do with the coronal transience.
SPT Give me the recommendation.
CC Okay, you want it now?
SPT Right.
CC Okay, we'd like you to do Jop 6 building
block i per the pad.
SPT Okay.
CC We'd like you to delete Jop 2A, step 4
on active region 485, and stay Sun center, doing building
block 2, deleting 82 Alfa and S054.
SPT Okay.
CC And S055 setting will be the same as for
building block i.
SPT Okay. Now S055 still had that high
voltage SCAN SPEC light - alert light on which you apparently never
did understand. And I noticed at Sunset the SCAN SPEC
light went off. I don't know what it will look llke at sunrise
again, but we'll see if we can get it into operation.
CC Okay, Owen. I guess we don't think it'll be
on this time. We concluded that due to the increased
activity, plus we were in the South Atlantic anomaly there that -
we think that is the reason it went off.
CC And Jack, we're still working this food
problem for you. We'll try to get the misunderstanding
squared away.
PLT Okay Crip, thank you.
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8/10/73
CC And Owen, I do have some more general

information about active regions 85 and 84 if you'd llke
to get it now.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, active region 85 produced the
following flares since day 221 which was yesterday at 22:37
it had a C2 subnormal and a C4 subnormal with three X ray
maximum and 2 subnormal. 85 has an enhanced plage east of
the large spot and 2 dark surges occurred. 84 is surging and
has an active prominence.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and--
SPT You may have had an active prominence untll
about an hour ago.
CC Okay, that was - that was the last in-
formation we have which is as of about 10:20 this morning,
so I'm sure it's a little bit dated right now about 4 hours
old. The - we're going LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll have
you again over Goldstone at 14:30 and that is where we're
going to be doing the data voice recorder dump. Also, we'll
be set up to do that RS when we come over - come over the
hill and we'll do that purge system (garble).
15 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range at Guam.
Goldstone will pick up Skylab in 15 minutes. Crew advised
during this pass that they can operate the S019 on any night
side pass during the day, that the Ultraviolet Stella
Astronomy experiment. And Pilot, Jack Lousma putting up a
fight to retain pork loln on his menu. The food experts are
continuing to look at that situation. At 14 hours 16 minutes
Greenwich mean tlme, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-595/I
Time: 09:28 CDT, 14/14:28 GMT
8/10/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
Goldstone for a pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone
for 17 minutes and wetd llke to get into that RF flush, if
you' re ready, AI.
CDR Okay. Ready to go right now. I verified
per your pad, standing by to start on the flush.
CDR Okay. Stand by. We'll see you commanding
prime off secondary on, and we'll also be doing a data voice
recorder dump, here.
CDR Okay. Now my procedures show me doing primary
parentheses, secondary. Now, which system do you want me to work?
CC We're going to only do secondary.
CDR Okay. So, we're going to flush the secondary
involving pulling no circuit breakers.
CC That is affirmative. You can stand by on
that we'll tell you when you're go.
CDR Bob, let me give you some information for
the back room here. First took a glimpse right after Sunrise,
that transient loop, it now is extended out to about 4 solar
radii, definitely moving outward. And - So, instead
doing chip A, which would have required me to roll that
loop right underneath the pedestal. I have done chip B on
building block 1 and 6. And I'm procedlng along on buildlng
block 1, chip B right now. And, I would llke your opinion.
I don't even think I ought to do chip A because, it's
going to eliminate any opportunity to observe this large
loop. And if you have anything other than the extension of
chip B to recommend, I'd appreciate it.
CC Okay. We'll check that and break, AI, if
you'll go ahead and press on on the flush, please.
CDR Okay. I'm going to do this precedure 49.
CC Okay. You can Just step on through it.
SPT Loop is still expanding outward.
CC Say again, Owen.
CC Ro E . Understand. It's still growing.
SPT Do we have downllnk capabillty? Ah for TV?
CC We'll record it, if you'll put it down and
we'll get a look at it in about an hour.
SPT Okay. I'm going to give you about 30 seconds
of it.
CC Okay, Owen. We'd llke you to terminate
your scan on 55 and bring up detector 1 only.
CC Go to stop and go back to 3 scan.
SPT I Just tried it. And the Scan spec light
still stays on.
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CC Okay, Owen. It appears we've got ourselves

little - little out of configuration from going unattended and
what we'd like you to do is turn off all the detectors,
stay off the DAS a moment. We're going to send a stop command
at 55.
SPT Roger.
CC And, A1. In your procedure, wetre not
observing step six, there where you go to tad - roll -
radiator bypass valve circuit breaker, closed.
CDR I'm sure doing it. I'm doing it Just llke
the procedure. Maybe something's funny in there.
CC That very well maybe. We're looking at it.
CDR Check all the switches over here. I'll
Just leave them both on for a second.
CDR Everything looks good.
CC Okay, Owen. I think we've got 55 squared
away. You can go ahead and continue with your grating 3 scan
and detector i.
SPT Thank you.
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SPT Bob, unless I hear otherwise I don't

intend to do chip A of building block i. And also, if the
VTR is available for say 30 seconds at a time every time I
take a look at the corona I'Ii put about 30 seconds of that
information on the VTR if your VTR people will agree that
that is satisfactory.
CC Okay, it is availabe to you.
CC Owen, correction, A1 to give us a chance
to see what is going on with that step 6 would you increase
that wait period from 10 seconds to 15 seconds between steps
6 and 7?
CDR You bet.
CDR Bypass is closed down.
CC Roger, copy AI.
CC And Owen, we concur with you about not
doing chip A. And we're going to get a modification on building
block 2A here. And I'll get it to you in a moment.
CC Okay Owen, we'd llke you to do building
block 2 as previously stated omitting 82A and 54, and follow
that with another building block 2 omitting 82A only.
SPT Sounds llke a good idea.
CC Okay A1, on this flush we'd like you to
go through one more cycle stop at step 7, and then we're
going to disable the secondary and go back to primary.
CC Okay AI_ if there is any confusion there,
we do want you to complete step 7.
CDR Okay, that's complete. We've got both the
radiator by pass circuit breaker, that's controller by pass
valve closed and the logic closed.
CC Okeydoke, and we'll go ahead and do the
commanding.
CDR Okay. How did it look? I only did
about 12 or 13 cycles.
CC Okay, we copied around 12 or 13 cycles. Now
I'ii see if I can get you a status on it.
CDR That's quite a bit different from 40.
CC Yeah, I guess we've concluded that if it
was going to do anything it would do it in the amount that
you did. We wanted to be able to look at all of it.
CDR I've got a commen_ too, Crlp. On this
vent through the water dump valve which is 5093A, they say
obtain sterilization fitting, and put it on the dump llne. The
sterilization fitting that I've got has got a quick disconnect
on both ends and really doesn't have a lot of sterilization
going for it. And it doesn't look llke anything really
dumps through it. You have to have something on the other
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end of it. But I'ii go check again. It may have the wrong
fitting. I guess the object is to slowly dump the atmosphere
in here. It looks like maybe that fitting I have, which
may be the wrong fitting won't do it. I'm going to go up and
check the water panel.
CC Okay, AI. We going about LOS. We'll see you
again at Vanguard at 14:57. And what we want you to do is to
use the purge sitting and message 1439 should tell you to do
that, it was correction.
CDR Okay, I haven't read it yet. Will do.
And when did you come up this morning.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay, next question. Is the RS dump
complete RS in flush?
CC The flush is complete.
CDR Successful?
CC We can't really say it's successful.
Correction on that, we'll see you at Goldstone at 16:06. We
don't have Vanguard.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Merritt Island
Forida station has lost contact with Skylab as Skylab moves
out of range. Almost a complete revolution of the Earth
before Skylab is back in contact with a tracking station.
The next station to acquire will be Goldstone in 1 hour 19 min-
utes. At 14 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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5 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Goldstone. We'll be standing by for some television
through this station. Skylab's current orbit 237 by 235
nautical miles, in an orbital period of 1 hour 33 minutes
10 seconds. Current velocity 25,105.9 feet per second.
CC Hello, Skylab. We're AOS at Goldstone
CDR Been wonderlng where you went.
CC Long time around.
CC Okay, and we're going to be doing a
little repointlng for ATM stuff if you'll stay off the
DAS for us please.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The television
now on the monitors now is being dumped from the video tape
recorder aboard Skylab and is being brought back from Goldstone
in real time.
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Time: 11:13 CDT, 14/16:13 GMT
8/10/73
CC And, Owen, we're getting a chance to look

at some of that VTR you recorded for us last time around.
And for your information, we're sending you up another SO19
pad. And it's for the night pass at around 18 - well, 18:28
is about the time it starts. Also, we've got one more -
one more pad that we're going to send up to you.
SPT Okay, Robert. And did you say you did have
a look at that VTR?
CC Yeah. We're taking a look at it now. I ah -
The coronal transience are fairly on 52.
SPT Rog. Sure is. Very clear indeed. It ought
to be some fast dazing photography, because that's got a
lot better time resolution than the VTR.
CC Rog. That's pretty fantastic. Hey, while
I've got you on the loop here, Owen. The TV people would
llke to thank you for a great Job. You're a regular Cecil
B. DeMill, back there. That mark 1 you gave us last night
was fantastic. Ah - -
SPT Thank you.
CC And when you set up a variety of views llke
that it helps our tape editor to do a very professional Job
on it.
SPT Okay. Fine. I sort of hated to put myself
in the act after Jack's demonstration of MARK I. I didn't
want to make too much of a contrast there.
CC Well, unfortunately, there was a little
bit of a contrast. But you don't have to be a Marine.
SPT Furtherest thing from my mind.
CC (Chuckle) Thee and me.
We'll have you again over the Vanguard at 16:31. 16:31.
And we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there.
CC And we have cleaned off the tape recorder.
It's all your's again on the VTR.
SPT Okay, Bob. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The tracking
station at Corpus Christi, Texas has had loss of signal.
The Vanguard tracking ship will acquire Skylab in about
9 minutes. The conjecture here in the Mission Control
Center is that Science Pilot Ower Garriott is finding the
Apollo telescope mount too fascinating to have been able to
televise Arabella, the spider, yet. We're still hoping
to get some pictures of Arabella sometime today. But we
don't have any idea at this time, when that will be done.
We'll come back up Just prior to Vanguard. At 16 hours
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SL-III MC-599/I
Time: 11:29 CDT 14:16:29 GMT
8/10/73

utes Greenwich mean time. The tracking ship Vanguard will
acquire Skylab very shortly. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard
for about ii minutes.
PLT Okay, Crlpper.
CC Rog, Jack. And I guess we're going to
be doing some ATM executing so I assume you guys are not working
on the DAS.
PLT No sir, we're not up there now.
CC Hey Jack, I wonder if you could tell us
when you're going to get around to that CBI_M switch trouble-
shooting?
PLT Well, I could go and work on it now if
you llke.
CC We'd appreciate it very much.
CC And we've completed commanding through
the DCS so the DAS is yours.
PLT Okay Bob.
SPT We're taking a few pictures this morning,
Crlp. We've had a few areas that are nice and clear. We
got a good picture of Rio, and Sao Paulo.
CC Roger. Just about over Rio now it looks
llke, maybe a little south of there.
SPT Yeah, we're coming over Buenos Aires
and (garble) at the moment. And unfortunately we've got
scattered to broken clouds down there so we won't be able
to photograph. That's unfortunate, but we'll get them another
day.
CC Okey doke. It sounds llke a beautiful
sight any how.
CDR Crip, are you still there?
CC That's affirmative. We've got you for
about 3-1/2 more minutes.
CDR How about setting up a phone call with
my wife some time during the day here on a real long pass.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can do something
about that.
CC Hey AI, while I've got you on the line
there, can you give me an idea if you did get that fitting
squared away and perform that F6 and F3 for M5097
CDR That's affirmative. All the work has
been performed up to this time on the time llne.
CC Rog. Could you give me an idea of about
what time that you did that?
CDR I certainly could. Let me think now.
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If you can remember when I asked you, I did it i0 minutes

later.
CC That's fine. Thank you.
CDR I asked you at the beginning of the pass
when we were doing the refrigeration systems clean up. And
that pass lasted about 8 or 9 minutes or whatever. And right
after that I went over and did it.
CC Rog. We've got it here. Fine, thank you.
CDR I need you to send up a couple of more
changes.
CC Okay, AI. You've got a couple of more
minutes left on this pass. If you think I can get them, why
don't you shoot them on down to me.
CDR Okay, we need you to send ATM experiment
checklist change number 2. We need you to send SWS system
checklist change number 5, and rate gyro package cue card
change number I. When we get those, we will have it i00 per-
cent done.
CC Okay, AI. And those purposely were not
sent up last night because they were no longer applicable.
It would Just be book work for you guys, and they have already
passed. They were things llke that urine activation and that
kind of stuff. So we really don't see any need for sending
them up unless you Just want them to keep your books up to
date.
CDR No, I'll just go around to the book and
write that it is accomplished on the book. That's a good
thought, I Just needed to make sure. That's the same with
SWS systems checklist 5, huh?
CC All three of those.
CDR Okay. Thank you Crlp, we'll straighten
it out. That's it, we're i00 percent done then.
CDR Okay, sounds real good.
PLT Crlp?
CC Yeah, Jack.
PLT I switched the CBRM switch to 5-5/17 and
REG 17 stayed up. I'm supposed to consult with you guys. Do
you want me to lay off and wait and come up again or what?
CC Okay, we're going to go over the hill
here. We'll talk to you about it on the next pass. We'll
have you at Goldstone at 17:47.
PLT Should I leave it at 5/17 or go back to
where it was?
CC Stay where yo,u're at.
PLT Okay, I'm going to quit on it then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard
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8/10/73
tracking ship has had loss of signal with Skylab. Goldstone

will be the next station to pick up the space station in
i hour and 4-1/2 minutes. At 16 hours 42 minutes Greenwich
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SL-III MC600/I
Time: 12:45 CDT, 14/17:45 GMT
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acquisition through Goldstone for the last time this
afternoon. Short pass this time, 4 minutes 2 seconds.
Skylab Just barely cutting through the acquisition ring
at Goldstone. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Goldstone
for a short pass about 4 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston, you there?
CC That's affirm, Owen. We got about 3 -
little over 3 minutes here.
SPT Oh, did you hear my comment?
CC Negative.
SPT Okay, I did mention I'm about to record
a bunch of hemoglobin information on to channel A which
I think will be of interest to the blomeds as soon as you
dump it. And it all looks fine, I'ii put it over there
on channel A.
CC Okay, appreciate that info. I guess
we'd kind of like to know if you are going to plan on running
this Sol9 pad that we sent up which starts around 18:28?
SPT The answer is affirmative.
CC Okay. We're going to need to inhibit
momentum dump and I've got a slight correction to the pad.
SPT Okay, Just a minute. And AI Just asked
if you'd send up another pad in addition to that one for
SO19. And one of them will have to come copy it since
they're going to be running it. Okay, go ahead with your
corrections, Jack's ready to copy.
CC Okay. At - on the second llne of time
of 18:36 for starfleld 401, I need to change rotation to read
321.4 and tilt of 28.7. Okay, and I didn't exactly under-
stand what you wanted. We are planning on sending you
one more pad for the next rev. However, we might be getting
into a problem of how long we can stay up have momentum
dump and inhibit it. And we need the DAS for a minute here
to reupdate Y2.
SPT Okay, you got the DAS and I think Al's
looking for the pad when it comes up_ Understand the possible
problem with momentum dump.
CC Roger, we'll be looking to that. We'll
plan on getting that up to you later. And for Al's infor-
mation I've got a phone call set up for around 23:02. That's
about the best I could do on time. It's about a i0 minute
pass .
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SPT Okay, and you might fix one up for me

after that.
CC Okay Owen, we'll work on it.
CC Owen would you clarify that you did
get that last pad that we sent up on S0197 The one that
has the pass for next - this upcoming night cycle.
SPT That's right, we got it for
something like 18:20. Isn't that the one you're talking
about?
CC That's affirm. Okay, and we'll still
owe you one for the next rev. Very good. We're going to
go LOS in about 30 seconds, and we'll have AOS in about
18 minutes over Vanguard at - stand by i - 18:08.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone
has loss of signal. The Vanguard tracking ship will pick
up Skylab in 17 minutes. At 17 hours 51 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-601/1
Time: 13:06 CDT, 14/18:06 GMT
8/10/73

the Vanguard tracking ship, now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard
for about i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip. My inhibited momentum dump
looks llke Nu Z is minus 3.0. Are you concured?
CC Okay, Jack. Really what we'd llke to do
is get that star tracker locked on so we can get an update
on Nu Z prior to this S019 OPs.
PLT Okay. I'll whistle up there to do that.
You got some angles?
PLT I got a pad. I'll look it up.
CC Yeah. The pad should be good. While you're
up there, you might like to press on a little bit with this
CBRM malf.
PLT Al's going on up there. And l'm going to
stay down here and get ready for SO19. I have that 74 switched the
selector to 17 and nothing ripped off the llne. And I'm
supposed to wait for your direction.
CC RoE. Maybe we can talk A1 into it.
CDR You can talk me into anything Just as soon
as I lock this star on.
CC Okeydoke. Sounds easy.
CDR I'll close them in a minute, Jack.
CDR Okay. I can't get the star tracker to go
to MANUAL for some reason.
CC Copy. It would not go to MANUAL.
PLT I noticed one problem we've been having
as we're running along here all the time in the capsul power
distribution ACS switch off. And if you want to get anything
to work, seems like you've got to put that to BUS 2.
CC Oh, you do? Okay. I guess maybe we're a
little bit lost as to where you'd left those things down
there. Are they currently all in off?
PLT We put them Just llke it says in the configure
for unattended OPs and that says 7 of them off.
CC Okay. That's affirm. And before you operate
the panel at any time, you've got to put them back on BUS 2.
CDR Yeah, I put them in BUS 2 previously, Crlp.
It Just doesn't want to react. We had this problem with it
yesterday.
CC Okay. I'll - -
PLT We've got it now, Bob.
CC Jack, if you're available, I'd llke to
quiz you about doing a 192 alinement today. Understand
that was discussed with you yesterday.
PLT That's affirm. I've got a pad for it and
I'm planning to do it this afternoon, unless you tell me
other wise.
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CC Roger. Okay. We appreciate it.

CC Okay, Jack. That sounds good. The 192
people appreciate that. The only thing that we wanted to
make sure that might not have been quite obvious from the
message, that everytime you do move the focus, they wanted
you to control the X and Z control to make sure you get that
peak.
PLT Okay. I take it they don't want me to
wait five minutes anymore. At least I hope they don't.
That takes a lot of time.
CC Five seconds is a good number.
PLT Okay. That cuts it down pretty well.
PLT Okay. AI got you the star.
CC Okay. We copy that. Appreciate it.
Let's see, I guess, we would appreciate it AI, if you've
got a few minutes there at the panel, maybe we could press
on with this CBRM thing. I think - I'm going to have to
verbally give you some steps anyhow. So you could probably
step in and do what Jack was doing for us if you can.
CDR Okay. Anything a Marine can do, we can do.
So, just speak up.
CC Okeydoke. Appreciate it if you'd give us
a readout of reg current, and the status of your CBRM status
lights.
CDR Okay. First of all CBRM status lights, 3 on 3
are on. All 3 are a yellow on CBRM 3, all the rest are off.
Now let me give you the reg current. 22.5 and plus 4 amps,
on the position is on right now, which is?
CC It should be on 17.
CDR That's right, it's on 17.
CC Okay. Copy. 4 amps. What we'd llke for
you to do now is, to hit the reg switch to off and verify it
does turn reg 17 off.
CDR It did. The light came on and the current
dropped.
CC Okay. Can you give me a current reading?
CDR Yes it shows minus off-scale low, and
the voltage shows at 21.5.
CC Okay. Now would you hit the reg switch back
on, please.
CDR Light out. Everything's the same as it
was.
CC Okay.
CDR Same as it was, initially.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, what we'd like you to do now is, CBRM
select switch is to go to 4/16, that is select 16.
CDR That's complete. Nothing new happened. I'll
read you the voltage. Voltage is 30, current is plus 7.
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CC Roger. Okeydoke. Stand by one.

CC Okay. Now we'd llke to repeat. Hit the
reg switch off, please.
CDR Say it again, Crlp. I was talking
intercom. Go ahead.
CC I'm sorry. We're goin E to go ahead and
turn the reg off, please.
CDR Reg did not turn off.
CC Roger. Understand. It did not turn off.
Okay. Stand by one.
CC And, AI, while I'm getting an update on that,
we're continuing our ground testing of all foods and the
premission guidelines still stands. If the food is exceptable
to you, it's okay with us for you to eat it. If you notice
anything that you consider food spoilage, we would llke for
you to report it to us. And we will perform more exhaustive
testing on that particular item. The port Ioln has proven
stable in food quality testlnE, and extensive micro testing
is currently in work, and should be complete in 48 hours.
Tonight, Jack, has got a go to eat the pork. And we kind of
want you to stay on the premlsslon menus.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. The only thing
was, that we really questioned about was the strawberries.
And you're well aware of that. Okay. Standing by.
CC Okay. Would you go to BAT position on the
power system, for us, please?
CDR Okay. There.
CC Okay. We're going to have LOS here in about
1 minute. We'll have you again at Hawaii at 19:17. And
we'll be doing a data recorder dump at that time.
CDR Okay. I'll be free to help you some more.
CC Okay. We appreciate that help you did us
on those switches.
range of the VAnguard tracking ship. Next station to pick
up Skylab, will be Hawaii in 58 minutes. During this pass
over Vanguard, Jack Lousma got the good news that he can
continue eating the port loln, the rule being if the food
is exceptable to the crew, it's okay to eat it. At 18 hours
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SL-III MC-602/I
Time: 14:15 CDT 14/19:15 GMT
8/10/73

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
about I0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC And if Owen has had a chance to get out
of the shower yet, we'd like to get an update as to whether
he thinks he's going to get the chance to do the TV with
Arabella. We've been anxiously awaiting to see what one of
those spider webs look like.
PLT He's working on it right now.
CC Fantastic.
CDR When is our next run on S019, Crip?
CC Well, we're still investigating this
bit as to whether we're goiug to be able to handle - stand
by one.
CC Okay, we've checked it out. We can handle
three dump inhibits. We should be uplinking you a pad right
now, it should be in the teleprinter for the next night pass.
And time on it's around 20:00.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Hello Crip, if you were in Hawaii I'd
be looking at you now.
CC Well, given my choice of where I'd rather
be right now, I wish you were looking at me.
PLT Well said.
CC And Jack, while you're talking to me here,
next opportunity somebody goes by the ATM C and D we'd like
to go back to select 517 on that switch so you won't be getting
a power system light on the alert panel.
SPT Hey Bob, as long as I'm up here at the
panel how would 82B like to have me press the integrate switch
for them a couple of times?
CC Stand by one Owen. We'd appreciate it.
CC Owen, you still by the ATM C&D?
SPT That's right.
CC Hey, we've got one more little set of
switching we'd kind of llke to do to verify for sure that we
do have ACI out on that. We've got about 2 minutes here. I
think it's adequate to do it if you Just go back - -
SPT Go.
CC Okay. I'd like to make sure you got
all your circuit breakers in except that status lighting back
up 502.
SPT And ACI is out.
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CC Okay, you can go ahead and put it back in.

And then put all your console power distribution switches to
bus 1 except H-alpha and leave it in bus 2. And put all your
display switches, all four of them in bus i. Then put lighting
integral and numeric switches to fixed.
SPT Complete.
CC Okay, have you go integral and numerical
lighting?
SPT How about the alert status. Do you want
that in fixed or variable?
CC You can leave it like you've got it. Do
you have integral and numeric? That's the big point right now.
SPT That's affirmative. I sure do.
CC Okay. Would you - Do you have the event
timer? Will it work?
SPT It is working.
CC Okay, you've got ACI. You can really
stay in that configuration and we'll talk to you about it
later.
SPT Yeah, that's good news. Yeah, I'd llke
to hear more about that. I'd make it good news.
CC Yeah, it sounds good. It sounds llke we
can go back to original configuration. We're going to go
LOS shortly here. We'll have you again at Vanguard at 19:47,
19:47.
SPT Fine.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out
of range of the Hawaii station. The Vanguard tracking ship
will acquire in 21 minutes. At 19 hours 26 minutes Greenwich
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Time: 1446 CDT, 14/19:46 GMT
8/10/73

mean time. Acquisition eminent at tracking sta - tracking
ship Vanguard, about 40 seconds on the so-called Skylab crew's
day off.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Vanguard for
8 minutes. And Owen, if you've got a chance, I'd appreciate
to talk to you for a few minutes. Owen, I realize you're
probably busy. I just want to make a comment that you had
on prevlously when you were going to run TV 59 to get some
of Arabella's spider webb there about rewinding the VTR.
That's not required for you to do. That was primarily because
of the former we had it down to the Flight Plan originally with
the - scheduled with ATM TV. And we've already dumped all that.
SPT Excuse me, Bob. Would you say again what you
said about the VTR?
CC Roger, Owen. I was just going to comment
that you had a note in your details about rewinding the VTR
when you're doing TV 59 of Arabella and that was not required.
That was because it was associated previously with some ATM
TV and we've already down-llnked that.
SPT Okay. I've just recorded about 5 or i0
minutes and I'ii want to record another 5 or i0 minutes, then
I' ii be through with it.
CC Okay. Appreciate that. Say Owen, can
you verify one thing for us when we were going over the hill
there and I said the event timer was working. Can you verify
that it was co_ting?
SPT That's right. I'm looking at it now. It's
counting down.
CC And your orbit phase is also working. Is
that true?
SPT That's correct.
CC Okay. It sounds like AC-1 is working good
and really all we've i8ot, it's going to be variable, numeric
and interval. And everything should work properly off Bus 1
and 6. And we'll get some word to you to clarify your recon-
figuration later.
SPT Sounds great.
CC And if you can give us some good words about
what Arabella's doing and you're (garble) TV at it, we'd appreciate
it.
SPT Okay. I've got some few words on the VTR.
There's nothing much in to report today. She's just still
sitting in the middle of her web. But I'ii try to give you some
VTR with some description of how things are going.
CC Okay, Did she eat her steak?
SPT Say again.
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CC Did she eat her steak?

$PT Well, I'm not sure she ate very much of
it. She kicked it out of the web this morning and it has
diminished in size, but that maybe due to the evaporation of
the water. And so, how much of it she consumed, if any, I
couldn't tell.
CC Okay. We appreciate that information.
CC And of Guam, we're going LOS. Hawaii, 20:53
Okay. Still got you there apparently. We will have Hawaii
at 20:53. That's about 58 minutes from now. We'll do a
data voice recorder dump there.
through tracking ship Vanguard. Fifty-seven minutes away
from tracking station at Hawaii, the final Hawaii pass of
the day. Space station Skylab now into revolution 1273.
At 19:57p Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. Tracking station Hawaii in 36 minutes. Mean-
while, back on Earth at the Houston newscenter, at 4:00 p.m.,
S052 co-investigator Dr. Ernest Hillner will hold a news
briefing on the events on the Sun seen today by Owen Garriott
through the ATM instruments, solar events briefing. At
4:00 p.m. central daylight, Houston newsroom. Any air-ground
taking place during that briefing will be taped for delayed
playback. At 20:18 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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mean time, acquisition at Hawaii in about I minute. Following
loss of signal at Hawaii we'll switch to the Solar Events
Briefing in the Houston newsroom with S052 Co-lnvestlgator
Dr. Ernest Hildner. Standing by for the final Hawaii
tracking station pass of the day.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS over Hawaii
for 9 minutes and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC And is Owen or you or somebody available
maybe to get ATM-C&D squared away back on bus 1 for us.
CDR I believe Jack's up there right by it doing
some alignment on EREP. He'd probably be glad to do it.
CC Okay, what we want to do is get you
squared away on that operating configuration where you don't
have to worry about switchlng back and forth between the
thing.
CDR Sounds good. Is this the status station?
CC Rog; we're going to hold up on that until
our next pass at 21:25. However, we're - we got some questions
for you, however, if you got anything you want to ask down
we're willing to talk about it now, AI.
CDR Nothing except, I thought those sheets
of papers you sent up this morning, particularly one that gave
us some broad picture of how we've done and what we're going
to do next week, the status sheets were really good. The
only part I didn't like was the thought that we would - 80
percent in 25 days, or whatever - 24 days we got to figure a way
to up that. We'll - we'll hussle. We got to get that up
a little bit, somehow.
CC I think you guys have been hussling
pretty good, but we'll all get together on it and try to
increase it.
CDR Yeah, we've got to do something. I don't
think we can accept it there.
CC I think three S019 passes would convince
Carl your doing pretty good.
CDR Okay, we'll be tell me that time the
Status Report is going to take place again, I didn't have
my piece of paper out.
CC I'm sorry AI, okay where it's got a
Vanguard pass coming up at 21:25 and that's about 30 minutes
away from now, so that when we got it planned.
CDR Okay. Did Jack ever come to the panel,
if not I'ii head up there?
CC Haven't heard from him? By the way if
Owens listening, we've got his phone call setup at 00:00.
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CDR He's listening. I think the reason Jack

is not listening on that channel, I be right out I'Ii be
up to the ATM in a minute.
SPT And do you have ED52 on the VTR, Bob.
CC Rog; would you confirm for us that we
are in the portable TV position?
SPT In which position?
CC And the TV on the TV select. No not
monitor I or monitor 2.
SPT O-o-oh, good grief. I'ii better go check
it.
CC Well, Al's going up there, he can check
it.
SPT One switch I'd forgotten to check.
CDR Okay, Bob, go ahead. I'm up here now.
CC Rog. On the TV selector, AI, would you
put us in TV, I think we're in MON i.
CDR Okay, TV it is.
CC Okay, very good. We just needed to get
that squared away for to get a look at Arabella. Okay.
PLT Hey, Bob.
CC Say again.
PLT Okay, excuse me, I thought that would
have affected my VTR recording, as a matter of fact I'm not
sure of what it did.
CC It does.
PLT VTR is going to be recording what ever
we have selected there, isn't it?
PLT So you see, I forgot to put that over
to TV so I'ii have to do it again.
CC Would you llke for us to rewind it for
you?
PLT Why don't you?
CC Okay, we're doing that, we'll let you
know when it complete. AI.
SPT I'ii say one thing he's getting awful
good at it.
CC (laugh) Lot's of practice. Say we
appreciate that Owen. On the ATM-C&D, what we would llke
you to do, basically we're going to go back
to bus i on everything and the only restriction you have
is that you do not have varible integral or varible
numeric lighting. And so we want you to - if you have that
general message number 4 posted on the ATM panel, we want
you to delete item number 4. Copy that AI.
CDR Okay, I was pulling that out. Delete
Item 4, okay.
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CC Yeah, that's the one that basically has

you switching the console power distribution switches off and
then to bus 2 everytime you use the panel. Okay.
CDR Okay, I assume that you'll are going
to send a checklist change up then, right away so we can
put it in officially.
CC Okay, to our knowledge we have not sent
you a checklist change at all to put it any other way than
that.
CDR Maybe that's it, maybe we can get a -

let me see what I've got here. Console power distribution
seven of them off. And later on, console power distribution,
seven of them to bus 2. You mean now there's - we don't have to
turn them off and back to at night and we could just leave
them on llke we used too.
CC That is affirmative. And the one that
you've got H-alfa switch in bus 2 right now, we would llke
for you to go ahead and place in bus i.
CDR You say H-alfa to bus i.
CC That's affirmative. It's going to turn
off your TV bus and we're going to command it back on, once
you do.
CDR Here it comes.
CC Okay, AI. Over on S055 if and when you
want to use it, that intensity data switch you can use in
bus 1 now.
CDR Okay.
CC Like to confirm that all the eight switches
on the console power distribution panel are back in bus i.
CDR There back in bus I, yes.
CC Okay, now all you need to do is any time
leave the panel and don't want the lighting on your integral
you can turn back to off and your numeric can turn
to off. When you want it you can turn it to fix, both on the
integral and numeric.
CDR Understand. And on - on this H-alfa
experiment bus i, that should go - Just should stay there all
of the time but if we want it turn it to bus 2 would that be
okay?
CC Well anytime you do, it's going to turn
off TV bus i, so we would prefer to coordinate that with
(garble) if you do.
CC Okay, we kind of thought so, but we wanted
(garble)
SPT Hay Crlp, I need some clarification on
S192 alignment procedure. And I've very gone on your pad
through 73.3 decrease the thermal reading by 5 per cent down
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SPT to 41 percent. Now 73.4 says rotate the

focus one quarter turn counter-clockwise past the point where
the (garble) was obtained. What (garble) is that? Is
that the 41 percent live got now? Or the 46 percent I bad
earlier?
CC 46 percent. We're goin E to go LOS in
about 30 seconds, wet11 have you again we_ll have you again
at Vanguard at 21:25. And we will have the VTR rewind for
you. One minute from now. We consider 46 the peak on that
Jack and we purposely went over the hill so we can back into
it.
through Hawaii, midway through revolution 1273, next station
in 31 minutes, beg your pardon, 23 minutes will be the tracking
ship Vanguard that pass will be recorded for delayed play
back, we hand the circuit over now to Solar Events Briefin E
with S052 Co-investigator Dr. Ernest Hildner, takin 8 place
in the Houston newsroom. At 21:02 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-606/1
Time: 16:24 CDT, 14/21:24 GMT
8/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; we're within

a minute of acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard nearing
end of revolution of 1273. Standing by for Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we've got you through the
Vanguard for tO minutes.
CDR Hello down there.
CC Okay, AI. I've got about 5 questions
for you regarding teleprinter pads, mission criteria and
that sort of thing.
CDR Okay, we're all listening.
CC What criteria would you like for us to
use as a defination of a general massage? A permanent
general message? we're noticing that some of these although
they are not permanent for the whole mission they may be
good for 7 days or a couple of weeks.
CDR I have those as just plain old general
messages, if you want to writs on the top just say general
message should be kept for 2 weeks. Because the permanent
ones I'm sticking in a file down here with the idea that
they will last until the end of the mission unless it breaks
or somebody fixes it or we found out something new, for
example those South Alantlc anomaly pads has been coming
up as permanent messages, I suspect they ought to be just
messages and we'll be able to see that there useful for
several days. Think that's okay?
CC Okay, and then how will be know down
here, how long you have kept them?
CDR Well the permanent ones, we'll keep
for ever, I guess. And the others a - that's a good question
I think maybe you can write on the second line, useful for
I0 days and we'll keep them for i0 days.
CC Okay, I see and if there worth while
beyond that, we'll remind you or send another one up.
CDR That's a good idea and that way the
permanent ones are - are ones that you know we have on our
mind until somebody changes it, instead of some that just
run out.
CC Okay, and while we are on the SAA, we
sent you up a big one last night, the other alternative
there is to send you up a DELTA time one which will sllp each
time on a 3 to 4 day cycle, which one do you prefer there?
CDR I perfer the one llke you sent up, I
think it's just the right size, it has all of the numbers
there, we've got one down here in the wardroom and one on
the ATM and in addition to that we got just tons of
. . r
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CDR teleprinter paper up here. So we

got no shortage of that, we don't want to put to much wear
on the teleprinter, unti| we get the other one fixed, I guess.
But a - the DELTA would really foul it up. It's tough
enough to read anyway.
CC Okay, and how do you llke the malfunction
llst that we sent up to you, today versus the one on
day 215.
CDR Liked it a lot better, every single
one of those I put in the book because it was something that
meant nothing to us up here that we had to do something about.
So I thought it was a good list.
CC Okay, on something like the sync
generator switch, which we've ask you to tape, we're thinking we
should not send you up checklist changes everywhere where you use
that switch but since we've got an understanding there's
tape on it, to leave it at that. And likewise for
channel A and channel B do you want us to have you change
all the checklist, even though we have an understanding
like you won't use the sync generator switch and you know
you are transmitting it all on channel B.
CDR No I think not, but I'ii tell you what
you should do. If you would, how about sending us a
message tomorrow as a permanent - maybe we already got a
permanent general message, not and yeah we do, it says it's
tape. No I think that's satisfactory, that's satisfactory,
although I noticed I had a couple of changes today of
the ATM systems that struck - fooling with that switch which
is okay also.
CC Okay, and how will it affect your operations
of we delete the message length from the top of the teleprinter
pads.
CDR We'd never miss it if we have too much
information at the top and bottom of those pads and I don't
think that anybody ever reads it. I think the most things
that we read is just the title and the body of the message
and all that other is interesting but I don't think we
ever read it here.
CC Okay, and I got the medical stuff now.
Is Owen reading us now?
CDR He sure is.
SPT I am.
CC Okay, have you seen any structural
defects or damage in the leg bands? The last two runs
you had were real good.
SPT Have we notice any structural defects
no not at all.
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CC Okay and how's the calibration going,

is that going all right now?
SPT The calibration on the leg bands, yes
they've done satisfactory, except for that one time. Now
I was not the observer on those last couple of runs, I think
it was AI. And he could probably answer that question better
than I can.
CDR The csl has been going okay on the leg
bands, provided we close the can and then do it and that's
what we have been doing and it has been workinB out real
well.
CC That's a good idea and AI, your heart rate
hit about 140 at 50-millimeters your last run, did you have
any symptoms then?
CDR Had none, but I was fighting it because
I wanted to make sure that I didn't have any problems.
CC Okay, good. Had you had a change to
take those close up still photos of the face and neck yet?
SPT Sorry, that's on my extra list, but I've
had no time for it.
CC Understand, and we've seen some noise
in VCG down here during M092 and during the exercise, are
you using the same skin prep that you used down here?
SPT That's affirmative., and (garble)
always look real fine and there has always been noise on
the VCG on the 171.
CC Okay.
SPT Excuse me, I mean on the blood pressure,
maybe not on a ECG either, so I don't know of any change there.
CC Okay, th_ data on MI71 is slightly out
of sync, are you hitting the cycle reset, at the exact event
times 1914 and 9?
SPT Well I know one run in which I missed
a couple of those and so I'm at least a partically response-
able for missing part of it. I'm not sure about the other
observers on their runs.
CDR I don't think we have been working
that hard to sync that thing right on because we didn't
think it didn't make any real difference as far as the
data. It Just gives the data - not out of sync, but you know Just
makes it come down a little bit displaced in the print.
CC Now it's a little, a little more important than
that because it starts updating the MA as soon as you
hit that thing and if your been in a period without the
mouth piece or changing a load on your ergometer it's pretty
important to hit that when we have a change in the work
load or putting the mouth piece back in.
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CDR Okay, we'll try to do better on that

and by the way we've a - okay we'll just do better. We'll
be careful.
CC And on the mark i, are you seeing some
fraying in the cord?
SPT Very slight fraying in the cord. We
use did some of those, I don't know what the letters
are [ think they are Dts or E's where you got to move
thu arm out to the side. And it turns out that it scrapes
then on the side of the metal box that causes fraying
Once we notice that, we quite doing that and I don't think
it has frayed very much since then. It's actually in
pretty good shape plus we've got all sorts of that same
sort of roped up here, in case it does give out. Thatts a
great exerciser.
CC Okay, good. And what are you doing with
the vitamin pills, did you find them? Are you taking them
everyday?
SPT We're taking the vitamin pills and let
me talk about a bit about the food for a second. We're taking
the vitamin pills everyday and we haven't gone to look for
the other two now that we_ve found out they were in one of
the cans. I'm sure that they are there, cause it is hard
to get out of those inclosed cans, obviously. Next one is
we have not been using much in the way of spices up here,
but I think we're getting ready to start. At first you know
we didn't want to use them because nobody was feeling to good
and the only thing that l've been doing is putting tobasco
in my chili and I think Owen puts some pepper on his steak
the other night, but wWe're _olng to set down here in the next
week and try to define what we're doing in the way of spices.
CC Okay, we're going LOS and we'll see you
at Ascension in 5 minutes.
PAO This is 5kylab Control; loss of signal
through tracking ship Vanguard. Ascension in about 5 minutes
we'll simply leave the circuit live across that gap and pick
up a brief Asc - a brief Ascension pass of about 6 minutes.
Low over the horizon from Ascension Island. Standing by at
21:35 GMT.
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8/10/73
CC Skylab? We've got you through Ascension

for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay. Standing by.
CC Come back Jack. Let me throw some stuff
at him for a change.
SPT He's busy on S019 right now, Story.
CC Okay. I'll - I'll change and go back
into the medical again. Turn your MI31 OGI runs. Have you noticed
rlght-left oscilation to the llne target? The SL-II crew reported
that they had.
PLT Well, I was trying to think. It's possible
that there was - as a matter of fact_ I think the answer's
yes. I do recall some apparent oscillation. Sometimes
when I first open my eyes, there'd be apparent little oscillation.
Then it would move one way or the other sometimes.
CC How about AI?
CDR No, I don't remember any. I tend to go

to sleep in that experiment and usually when I open my eyes,
it's not focused too great. I'm going to - I'll try to
watch out for those sorts of things though. That's the
greatest sleeping news I've ever seen. Jack and I have felt the
same way.
CC Okay. Does the tension knob on the
MARK 1 exerciser, does it tend to rotate when you're working
the exercises?
PLT Yes.
CC Okay.
CDR Not only does it tend to rotate, if you're not
careful you'll get your foot or toe against the knob and that'll
cause it to rotate too. Because, as you know it rotates all
the time when you pull on it. And your foot touches it - it
tends to slow it down. So the relative position changes.
CC Okay. We've got a suggestion that to
keep some tape plastered right nearby and tape that when you're
using it.
CDR Good idea.
PLT Hey Story, I worked on the EREP.
CC Okay. And how about you. Did you notice
a right and left oscillation in the llne target during OGI, Jack?
PLT No I sure didn't. But I'll look for it
next time. When did it occur, Just that rotation (garble)
rotation or what?
CC Let me find out. While they're working

on that, Jack, did you perform housekeeping 70 X3, 60 X4, and
70 Xb?
PLT No, they weren't assigned to me.

CDR I did them all.
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CC Okay. On the EREP, Jack. If you did

on step 3.1 and 3.2, if you peaked X in Z each timer the
focus was adjusted, we've confirmed that you got the 46 per cent
reading is a peak
number.
PLT I did what the procedures said. 3.1 and
3.0, whatever they were. Let's see if I can find it here.
¥eah. I did 3.1 and 3.2 peak connection Z each time and
it ran down to - but I ran down to 41 per cent, which is
5 percent down below the 46 requested or 46-B peak. And then
I followed the procedure and got the same thing _ had before.
CC Okay. Do you remember the micrometer
settings X and Z after step 3, 3?
PLT Yeah, I've got them. I'ii have to give
them to you in a minute, though. I'm busy on this S019.
CC Okay.
CDR I got a question for you Story. I'm
suppose to run this ATM here in 15 minutes and I can't find
the pad on 22:00.
CC I got a pad for you right here. It's
a new one due to that coronal translent.
CDR Is it going to come up on the teleprinter or
what?
CC I'II give it to you now. You ready to
copy?
CDR Go ahead.
CC JOP 6, step i, building block warning
target from center. Comments: roll minus 1080; omit 828,
slant 82A exposures; 2 minutes and 40 seconds and i0 seconds.
55 detectors all grading all this. And if you're ready, I've
got the next two steps.
CDR Go ahead.
CC JOP 6: step 2, building block 2,
front center; roll minus 5400. Omit 82A, 55 the same.
And for the first step, that's JOP 6, step i_ the Delta-P,
i0 minutes, and for step 2 the Delta-P is 9 minutes. And I
got one more for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 2A, JOPstep 4. Building block 36,
target 85. Omit 82A, $054, filament i, 3, and 6. And we're
going LOS here in 20 seconds and we'll see you over the
Vanguard at 23:02. That's an hour and 15 minutes and AI,
you got a phone call wlth youz family over that station.
CDR Okeydokey, and we'll get this thing in
tomorrow.
CC Thanks a lot.
SPT You still there, Story?
CC Merely, but yes.
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CDR Okay. After the first one-eighth turn,

I had 38 percent. I peaked it up to 43. X was 549, Z was
492. I went clockwise one-elghth turn more. Got 40 percent.
Garble to 41. X was 549, Z, 493.
CC Okay. We're going over the hill. Press
on with step 3.4.
PLT (Garble)
from tracking station on Ascension Island. Next station
Guam in 32 minutes. Returning for the Guam acquisition at
21:48 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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8110173
PAO This is Skylab Control; 22:25 GMT, Normally

we would have a brief pass at Guam Island tracking station,
and we would have acquisition at this tlme_ but since the
elevation angle is less than 3 degrees the network controller
is not scheduling tracking stations when the pass is at
that elevation or lower except those in the States. There-
fore our next contact with the crew will be in 36 minutes
over tracking ship Vanguard. To repeat, even thouEh wetre
within range of Guam there is that station is inactive
at this time. It will be up for the next revolution. And
on the next rev the spacecraft comes almost directly over
Guam. But next AOS will be tracking shlp Vanguard in
35 minutes. At 22:27 Greenwich mean tlme_ Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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8/10/73

mean time. A minute a a half away from acquisition at
tracking ship Vanguard. With a brief dropout from Vanguard
over to Ascension Island. We'll stay up for both stations.
CC Skylab, Houston through the Vanguard for
Ii minutes and we will be commanding ATM so stay off the
DAS, please.
CC Skylab, Houston through the Vanguard for
i0 minutes. If you didn't read me earlier, stay off the DAS
we will be commanding and CDR, Houston?
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we lost two circuits through the Van-
guard and we need to command here so we postponed your
family conversation about i2 minutes to Ascension.
CC Okay, ! guess we're back with you.
CC Did you get my call, AI, that the family
conversation will be postponed until Ascension?
CDR Okay, I heard you. Sorry you didn't get
my call back.
CDR How long's the pass there.
CC It is about 9 minutes.
CDR That's good. That's good.
CC Make it i0.
CDR All right.
CC And you will be on VHF, AI.
CDR Okay, you get a good antenna in mind?
CC It should be left the whole pass.
CDR Okay.
CDR Say again what time that should start.
CC Okay, it's at 23:15:49.
CDR That's close enough.
CC And, AI, who's working the ATM panel about
now?
CDR I'm working it. I'm Just closing out right
n ow.
CC Okay, we're going to need the star tracker
gimbal angles the parking glmbal angles put in and the
power turned off.
CDR Okay, tell me the numbers. I'ii - I ought
to write that down somewhere. You're always giving them
to us. What are the numbers and I'ii write them down and
then we can always do it when you want.
CC Okay. It's inner, minus 1800, and outer
plus 4200, 4200.
CC And before you touch the panel, AI, we'd
like to know what your ACQ AUTO star tracker talkback is.
CDR Yeah, it's probable. I tried to lock on
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when the star was available. I could get a star in the

window but I could never get the auto to stay in auto. I
tried about three different times and then I Just said the
heck with it and let it go. It's got a star in the window
but a barber pole in the auto switch. It's got now - it's
got OPEN in the shutter. I had another funny occur but I
debriefed it on the channel. It turns out that in a mirror
auto raster every time the beam would come back to the zero
position it would increment the counter.
CC Okay.
CDR And so during a - it's much llke a mine scan
would do. I verified that everything was working right by
looking at the position of the beam and then it did appear
AUTO RASTER correctly. It Just counted a bunch of numbers
while it did it. So there's a little funny. Owen thinks
it might be - have something to do with the commands y'all
sent up earlier when you were using it unmanned or unattended.
And then when we came in to it somehow that - that had a
funny set in it.
CC Copy. And are you at the panel now?
CDR Yes.
CC What position did you find the S054 grading
switch in when you started lunnlng JOP 6?
CDR We got an SO55 gradiR g and I found it in
zero. 54 was then - it's filter was in storage.
CC Yeah. Now about the grading position? Was
that switch in or out? Did you have to move it to the out
position?
CDR I see what you mean. No, the grading is
IN and it still is.
CC Okay, you didn't use that switch during -
during your orbit?
CDR I I said the wrong word. I did not use
the switch during my orbit and itSs OUT. All my building
blocks were for out and it was out.
CC Okay that answers - -
CDR It still is out.
CC Okay_ that answers the question.
CDR Okay. Sorry.
CC And I've got one other thing for you, AI,
while I've got you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC That 316 (garble) bit. Did you find that
broken or break it yourself?
CDR Found it broken. I put it in to turn the
screw when we were working the tape recorder and I thought
I kept thinking I didn't have it in the little slot be-
cause I didn't - felt no force on the handle, so it was
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8/10/73
broken when we got here, sometime previous to time we

arrived.
CC Okay, we were wondering about a resupply
and we don't need to resupply one now.
CDR I think you ought to resupply one. That's
the most important tool we've got and only a couple of them
are still around. Only one of them is still around that -
that's long and has the little - kind of ball joint on the
end. The other has the ball joint broken off and then -
I'd bring up a couple of those if I were Jerry Carr.
CC Okay. We'll do it. That's a long one with
a ball joint?
CDR ¥eah.
CC And one other thing. Sometime later on
could you give us the serial number of the DAC power cable
which is broken? Insulation?
CDR Sure will.
CC And no need to reply, AI. But on taking
S056 data below 350 kilometers, you will not hurt the ex-
periment. The data is of interest but it is degraded data.
It's not as good as the data above 350 k.
CDR Okay.
CDR And I'm leaving the panel now unless you
have something else.
CC Not at the moment.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC I guess you're the chief spider-watcher,
aren't you?
SPT Uh, I've been doing a fair amount of that,
yeah.
CC Okay. That's what I thought. Have you
looked at at what Arabella's doing as soon as you get up in
the morning? That's the most likely time when she's probably
spinning a web.
SPT She's been sitting in the middle of that
web every time we've seen her. So, my hopes of getting
you anything with the DAC are pretty small. Maybe you've
seen the television stuff, but I don't think there's any
probability that we'll actually see her during the con-
struction interval.
CC Okay, good. If you put the electronics,
if you make the electronics at 12 o'clock and - what orien-
tation is her head in? Which way is she looking?
SPT Would you believe me if I said up?
CC Okay, yeah, I will.
SPT I don't know which it is right now, Story.
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Which way is up? She wouldn't have any idea. I'ii go

check and see which way it is with respect to the electronics
box.
CC Okay.
SPT Any other questions before I go up to check?
CC Yeah, I got 20 or 30 more.
SPT What - what?
CC I got a lot more, but we're not going to
get to all them.
SPT Well, do you want to give me the questions,
or should - do you want me to go check on which way her
head is pointed?
CC No, I'ii just have you - have you check
that occasionally the next day or two.
SPT Okay.
CC We're about 1 minutes to LOS here. We'll
see you over Ascension in 3 minutes. That's at 23:15. And
no need to acknowledge AI, but you_ll have your family con-
versation then.
CDR And that's power cable Ol that got damaged.
CC 01?
CDR That's affirm and it didn't really break.
It broke through the white insulation, exposed the braided
(garble) so we took it down.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab £ontrol; brief dropout here of about
2 minutes between Vanguard and Ascension Island. Standing
by for acquisition at Ascension. Skylab Commander AI Bean
will have the family call on VHF through Ascension.
END OF TAPE
I
SL-III MC-610/I
Time: 18:14 CDT, 14/23:14 GMT
8/10/73
CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for I0 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story.
CO Was that Jack?
SPT That's right, he's on the bicycle right
now and Al's in the command module and I'm on the Mark i.
Her head is pointed toward the top of the box Story, so
we'll call that 12 o'clock and I don't suppose you've had a
change to dump the VTR yet, right?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay, anything else, sir.
CC I've got a few question, I don't want
to interrupt your Mark i.
SPT Well, better go ahead and get them.
CC Have you noticed any correlation between
the latitude and your (garble) light flashes?
SPT No, we have not been sufficiently
diligent in logging the time and then cross checking to see
where we are. That turns out to take up a fair amount of time
and we (garble) That's right. It's not a complete random distri-
bution of times of occurance. But I don't believe any of us have
had time to log them and then go back and find out were we were
to a - answer your question.
CC Okay. Did you notice any peculiar odors
when you entered the MDA. Is the OWS on activation?
CDR Negative. Noticed nothing unusual at all.
CC And AI we're reading you loud and clear
down here on the VHF possibly try switching antennas.
CC And Owen, if A1 isn't reading me, pass
it up to him to check his (garble) also. We're reading him
loud and clear down here.
SPT Okay.
CC And also the VHF TR switch and the volume
setting.
• SPT l'll'probably have to float up there,
Story. I think when he goes to VHF it probably disconnects
the intercom up there so I'ii have to float up.
CC Okay, tell him that that's affirmative
Owen. Tell him the COM TECH was trying to get things set up there
at VHF is reading him loud and clear but apparently not getting
things up.
SPT Okay, he's tried all of those good things,
so I can't explain it right now. Story do you have any more
questions?
CC Okay, tomorrow we're going to set up any
any calls or even if there all on calls, we'_e going to try
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CC trans even on VHF and try to work those

problems out for you.
SPT Good.
CC Have you noticed any decrease in
peripheral vision caused by distortion of your face in zero g?
SPT Negative, It seems they are perfectly normal
to me and I think any distortion of facial features is
probably minimum. You can't be noticed in a mirror,l think
Jack has suggested to us probably as much as anything Just due to
the like of gravity holding down your cheeks and that seems to
be likely an explanation as any could be, but I don't think
that there is any at alterations to peripheral at all.
CC Okay. How about any differential
temperatures over the body, like cold feet when your sleeping?
SPT Well my feet are right down by the
ventilator and I notice I got cold this morning but so
did the spacecraft. So I don't notice any unusual temperature
differential, the one the one that you would be expected to
see or feel and comparable to the one you feel on the ground.
So if your talking about any circulation variation, I don't notice any.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, CDR. I've tried all of the things
I heard you mention Owen to do and to get comm and it's Just
dead as a door nail, coming up.
CC Okay, AI. And a - and also your dropping out
transmitting down on VHF. Stand by i.
CDR Okay, maybe the reason I'm dropping out
is that I tried several different antennae, well I've tried
the same one several times, I should say.
CC Okay, as I had told Owen_ tomorrow we're
going to set up where we are transmitting on VHF.
CDR That ought to be interesting.
CC Okay, would you like a call set up for
tomorrow and you'll be on S-band and we'll be on VHF.
CDR Well, I've got faith that somebody can
work it out if we can't hit this station maybe we can hit
the next one. Maybe the station not able to key through it
or something. I have faith in Houston COM TECH will eventually do it.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Story, did you hear anymore word on
EREP?
CC Just one thing, did you load the S198?
CDR Yes, sir.
CDR One other thing I took the liberty of
doing on 192 was to continue clockwise on the focus and it
a - it takes a full turn and a half to get it from it's
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PLT present position for it could run out

to the forward stop and I took a couple of readings on the
way to the forward stop and they were lower than the one
where we've had fitting at. So the only other thing
that entered my mind is that perhaps if we had a pattern
that sort of a got (garble) rings several outer lobes or something
like that and they were setting on one of them and maybe
the thing to do is to be to make a square search.
CC Okay, copy that, Jack, is AI right there?
CDR He's here, go ahead.
CC Okay, A - Owen's got the next pass at
Guam that's 00:00 and Sue has got an appointment at quarter of
eight. Our next pass is at Vanguard and that's at 7:40
local time here.
CDR Let's Just go ahead and try tomorrow night
on S-band like you said.
CC Okay, we'll do it for sure and for Owen
we're going to give him the family comm on S-band and it's
very unlikely we'll need to if we have to we'll Just break
in, but we're going give him the S-band over Guam at 00:00.
CDR That's a good idea, because it's sure
good talking this way and that VHF you can hardly understand
anybody. Would that be great.
CC Okay. We're going LOS and Owen's family
comm at that time on S-band.
through Ascension, some difficulty there in arranging
A1 Bean's medicals a family call on VHF. Upcoming family call
for Science Pilot Owen Garrlott will be on the unified
S-band down-llnk through Guam next pass, 32 minutes from
now. Therefore we will not be up until next station beyond
that which will be Vanguard again, in an hour and 12 minutes.
At 23:27 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-I[I MC611/I
Time: 19:39 CDT, 15:00:39 GMT
8/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 39 minutes past

midnight Greenwich mean time. Acquisition in about 50 sec-
onds at tracking ship Vanguard for the evening status report
from the crew of Skylab space station. The pass following
through Canary and Madrid is set aside for the medical
conference with the Flight Surgeon, however, it's not
expected to take the entire two stations. Standing by for
resumption of communications with the crew of Skylah on the
tall end of revolution 1275 and the qtart of 1276.
CC Skylah, AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Hello, Story.
CC Hello.
CC Who's doing the - -
PLT (garble)
CC Go ahead.
PLT Yeah, let me give you a few words on the
instant breakfast. I was Just workin E on one. It turns out
that the way that stuff is put into the container that it
apparently doesn't all reconstitute good or something. Most
of the ingredients stick to the bottom of the container
and I think that we should try to empty one out. You don't
get the full benefit of all the minerals and everything
that's in there so you might have somebody on the ground
look into that and find out how much you're missing by not
being able to get it all out.
CC Okay. Who's doing the magic with the star
tracker up there?
CDR Nobody's in the ATM. What magic?
CC The last thing we called up was to park it
and turn the power off and the last pass we went over where
Owen was on S-band, we see that it was locked onto the
correct star.
CC Somebody had to drive it to a star and lock
it on.
CDR Well, I know three of us who just denied it.
I haven't asked Arabella yet, but that's about the last
resort.
CC Could you verify that you did park the star
tracker, CDR?
CC And Skylab, we are also looking for the
evening status report this pass.
CDR Just a second, Story, l'm parking the star
tracker again.
CDR Okay. 4200 and minus 1800 and power OFF
I'll go get the report.
CC Okay. Looks good.
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8/10/73
CDR Okay, Story, here we go. 094, 155, 187;

4.837, 8.039, 5.683; 6.254, 6.259, 6.255; 5.98, (garble) 5.990, 5.989;
6.953, 6.951, 6.951; 0, CDR; hasn't done it yet, he'll
to do it later tonight; SPT, 2/22/3000; A, 60 reps;
B, 60 reps 40 reps, excuse me; PLT, 2/30/6360; 1/05/0604;
no medication; sleep: 6-1/2 G, 6-1/2 G, 6-1/2 G. (garble)
CDR, 4 salt packs and one of my grape - I was supposed to
have a lemonade and it said lemonade on it but when I drank
it, it was grapefruit Juice, I'm pretty sure. So, grapefruit
juice for a lemonade; SPT, 3 salt packs, everything else
nominal; PLT, 8 salt packs plus two apple drinks. Photo
Log: I'ii read it. 16-millimeter, none; 35: CX28, 30;
70-millimeter, CXlI, 116; EREP, no change; drawer A configura-
tion, no change. Okay. Flight Plan looks good for tomorrow.
Nothing new there. Shopping llst accomplishments. We worked
on them all day long. Okay, we'll read you - we think yon
probably know about them. Let me get the llst. The shopping
llst-list Okay. We did - we did three ATM passes, SO19
we did three passes, ED32 was TV 58 - we did not do, SO63H we
didn't get to, ETC load I was going to do tonight. I am at
that checklist Owen got thr¢_ugh for hemoglobin and for specific
gravity. So we got a lot of those checklist things done.
Inoperable equipment, nothing new. Unscheduled stowage change,
seven apply drinks from E548 to the wardroom where we'll drink
them, three peaches moved to the wardroom out of 550 where
we'll eat them and the strawberry - some strawberry drinks
moved from 550, two of them and a couple from other places
and I'Ii give you that data later. And Owen says that he
doesn't think he's got an ETC load pad available, but he
wants to load the ETC.
CC Okay. We'll work on that.
CDR Okay. He'll probably need it tomorrow morning
early. We'll need the pad tonight so when we have the ETC
tomorrow. Let me give you Jack's additional exercise.
3/25/Mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, and 20 back bends.
CC We need the first BMMD reading on the SPT
and we're 30 seconds to LOS. Your med conference will be
coming up over Canaries in I0 minutes.
CDR 5.989.
CC And also, AI, we need the MPC inhibited.
CC And if you're still with me, AI, we'd llke
an identification on that lemonade.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS tracking ship
Vanguard for the final time tonight. Next station Canaries
in 9 minutes. Medical conference scheduled at Canaries.
We'll stay up across that station and the overlapping Madrid
coverage to be ready when the circuit is handed back to
spacecraft communicator. And at 51 minutes past midnight
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC612/I
Time: 1959 CDT, 15/00:59 GMT
8110173
PAO This is Skylab Control at 59 minutes

passed midnight, Greenwich mean time. Acquisition in 42.7
seconds at the Canary Island tracking station. Medical
conference with Flight Surgeon Dr. Paul Buchanan scheduled
at Canaries and when he gets through talking to the crew
about the state of their health, he'll turn the circuit
back to Cap Comm, Story Musgrave. And we'll stand by for
that.
CC Skylab, Cap Comm's with you for 8 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC And Owen, the start ETC pad is on your
details today.
SPT Okay, fine. I'Ii look for it there. I
just did - forgot where I was, I guess.
CC And on the shopping list on step 5, it gives
you the details for loading the spare.
SPT Okay. Load them both, huh?
CC Yeah, we didn't do that in training, but
I guess we can do it now.
SPT (Laughter) Load the spare is no different
than loading the prime. I _ust hadn't noticed it there on
that shopping list.
CC Roger. While I got you Owen, if you get
to see any (garble) clouds _tnd run the S063 on them?
SPT I have pot had a chance to do that, so
I still (garble).
CC Okay.
SPT Fortunately, that list indicates there's
about a 14 day interval there. It says so. I'ii have some
opportunities but I didn't have a chance today.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR (garble) hear you.
CC Okay. We're wondering if he's using the -
the recent change to the condensate holding tank dump at change 006.
It's a new procedure and it dumps the holding tank into the
waste tank. Is he using that procedure?
CDR Yes, that's the one I'm using but to
be honest with you, I can't see alot of difference between
that procedure and the one that was previously in the book.
Except for the fact that you disconnect the panel 393. I
think it's 393. All the rest, look pretty much the same.
Is there a subtle difference I've missed?
CC I'm getting an answer. And while we're
getting you an answer on that AI on the star tracker there, when
we passed over Vanguard, I requested you to park it and
turn the power off and when we came back around to Guam, it
had automatically locked on to the proper star. Then under-
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(CC CONT'D) stand you didn't touch it?

CDR We've talked about that. I've been -
Owen and I were up at the panel at that time looking at the
Sun. And I'm not sure we didn't get distracted and fail to
park it. I may have failed to park it. I went up there
and parked it immediately there after. I don't think there's any-
thing wrong with it. I think - I Just failed to to park it.
CC Okay.
CDR By the way, we're in the process of
dumping right now, that new procedure.
CC Okay. The new one doesn't involve 393
at all. It just disconnects the WMC water dump llne from
the sterilization sitting.
CDR Let me get it, I think it does. Hold on.
what's the message number, Story?
CC It's 1232-AI and it's SWS system's
checklist change number 006.
CDR Okay. I'll just hold on a second.
CC And it's page 9-57.
CDR Okay. Here it is. Let me Just read it
to see if I've got it right. Housekeeping 6DT. Dumpheaters on.
That's done. Dump heater light on that's 15 minutes. Connect
condensate holding tank dump hose to holding tank condensate
outlet. That's done and to connecter on the floor sterilization
fitting and all that other. Connect sterilzation fitting to
portable tank and all that other - that's done. Now, it
says dump heater H20 light on. Verified. Water dump valve
open with condensate Delta P indicates 4 PSI. One outer
dump valve closed. Dump heaters off and condensate closed.
Not doing anything except fo* one thing. I've been disconnecting
and 393. 393. So the thing to do, must be Just to leave
it connected there. Everything else is done exactly the
same.
CC That's exactly right, AI. You answered
the question for us. We were seeing a little tank go down
alot more rapidly than we expected.
CDR Okeydoke. Let me go do that now. I've Just got
an (garble) - I had an (Garble). What I did is make up front disc
and the one in the book, a little checklist of my own so I wouldn't
leave anything on. And apparently I wrote in a mistake. So I'ii
correct mlne and go do it.
CC Okay. We were just wondering what was
going on. We're going LOS here in about 15 seconds. We'll
see you over Guam in 25 minutes at 01:40.
CDR Okay.
mean time. Loss of signal through Canary Island, as you were
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(PAO CONT'D) Madrid. And next station coming up will be

Guam, just barely above margins for turning on that station
as far as elevation angle. And oh, Guam comes along in about
25 minutes. We'll be back then and at 01:15 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-613/I
Time: 20:39 CDT, 15/01:39 CMT
8/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; we have Acquisition

_3t tracking station Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through
Guam for 4 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. How does the boys in the
back room like the way the ATM is running? I've got a wire that
56 is still with us, kind of been operating for a awful long time
on this patrol loss.
CC We're looking.
PLT It's working, I just saw it jump to Delta-6.
CC Okay and before you leave the panel, we'll
need the video switch in ATM MON I.
PLT I just did it.
PLT (garble) that little timer on S054 timed
out at about 5 to i0 seconds before the fixture jumped.
CC Okay, I'll get you an answer, and the
rest of the panel out. So looks good, Jack.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 20 seconds
and we'll see you over Honeysuckle at 1:49. And we noticed
your observation, Jack. And we can't see anything funny
up there.
PLT Okay, (garble) we'll just watch them.
CC Okay.
for the final time tonight through Guam Island tracking station.
Next station will be Honeysuckle Creek, Australia for the
first time tonight. Space station on revolution 1276, about
midway through. Flight Surgeon Doctor Paul Buchanan has issued
a short and sweet daily health status report after the Medical
Conference, back in Canary as earlier in this revolution.
The Bulletin reads as follows: The Skylab 3 crew of Bean,
Garroltt, and Losusma are continuing in good health and spirits.
They sound rested and relaxed after a day of relatively light
activity. End of Bulletin. Back in about 2 minutes for
Honeysuckle. We'll leave the llne up for this gap across
the space between Guam horrizon and Honeysuckle horrizon or
line of site to the spacecraft. Standing by until 01:47.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:47 CDT; 15/01:47 GMT
8/10/73
CC Skylab; AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.

SPT Okay.
SPT Hey, Story, ask the 56 guys if they're
hung up on active i long. It's supposed to take 15 pictures.
It looks like it's taking 17. Ask them if they want me to
terminate go to ON?
CC Okay, copy.
SPT Okay, it's in HIGH now. I guess my building
block is wrong, must be 18 frames it's supposed to take
instead of 15.
CC Okay, Jack.
PLT Somebody ought to check that, though, so
I can change our little building block.
CC And Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Canaries in 44 minutes at 02:38.
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. Back again in 42 minutes for Canary,
Madrid station passes. Normally would be the final passes
this evening before the crew begins their sleep period.
That remains to be seen. At 01:56 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC615/1
T_me: Z137 CDT, 15/02:37 GMT
8/i0/73
PAO This is Skylab Control;02:37 Greenwich

mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition at Canary Islands
and the tracking stra - tracking station at Madrid_ Spain
lapping over Canaries. Total pass of approximately 13 minutes.
Standing by for AOS Canaries.
CC Skylab, we're AOS. Canaries and Madrid
for 13 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorder over
Madrid at 02:44.
CDR Story, I'm kind of wondering. How long is
cabin purge going to go on where we're dumping through the
wardroom table to consider the atmosphere of the 509?
CC We'll let you know.
CDR Okay. I've got a (garble) if you're ready
to copy.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Back to the CDR, 2314504, mark i,
12 minutes, 58, 20B, 20c, 20B and i0 foot up. Now, I don't
know - I think you've already had the SPT and the PLT, didn't
you?
CC Yeah. We got the SPT and PLT.
CDR Okeydoke. That's it.
CC And Alan, no need to acknowledge, but
the cabin purge will go on at least into tomorrow. And maybe
2 days.
CDR Okay. Wasn't worried about it, Just
wanted to have a feeling so that - wouldn't go to sleep
and really not know that we should've turned it off. I won't be
worried about it then.
CC Is it making any noise?
CDR NO, it's an awful small purge, Story. I
noticed when I bent the waste tank, I mean the holding tank,
that I can hear it. But the one going on out there, has
a couple of three extra screens in it, I guess. And the line
maybe so small, you just can't hear it.
CC That's good observations and it's true
that the cabin regs aren't even fully open yet.
CDR ...
CDR I finally figured out why I was doing
that waste, I mean that holding tank dump wron 8. Cause I
did it right a couple of times. What happened I think was, on
EVA day, we had it to dump it before EVA, and we didn't dump
it that way. We dumped it with it connected at - disconnected
at 390. And I think I must have set a bet in my head that
said, "okay, that's the way we're doing it." But I knew,
I really knew that was just a one time affair, when I thought
about it. When I wasn't thinking about it, I thought that
was the way to do it. So, it kind of made sense. I couldn't
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(CDR CONT'D) figure out why to change back the old way.
CC It looks good and we're amazed you're doing
as well as you are considering how many changes we've had.
And for information Skylab, on the last LOS, we did have a
Z axis integral test failure and we were controlling on Z-2 when
we came up on AOS. And we'll he commanding back to Z-2 and
Z-3.
CDR That's the way the panel looks.
CC And Skylah, we're showing a teleprinter
paper is low down here and we've still got your detail pass
to go up for tomorrow, including EREP/ATM and the llke. ANd
we'd like you to change the paper.
CDR Roger.
CC Yeah, get it after we go LOS here.
CDR ...
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yeah, go ahead Story.
CC Jack, your flight data file is right on
that act 1 long in S056. It should take 15 frames.
PLT Okay. I recorded it at Countdown as I
thought from 4961 to 4443 and I might have read it wrong.
I'ii watch it next time. I probably copied the wrong number.
CC Okay. We're showing the H-alpha 1 and
H-alpha 2 doors still open. They need to be closed and you
need to go to storage position after you shut the doors.
PLT Yeah, you're right. I think I overlooked
those too. Thank you.
CC And no need to acknowledge, while we
will retrieve the data and see how many frames were used.
And we're seeing the doors close.
CDR Story, I hope those flight planners are
working on something to up this prediction of 80 per cent by
24 days or something better than that.
CC You've got a full day tomorrow.
CDR That's true. By the way, I think we
ought to talking with Jack. And I think maybe what we
ought to do is cut our EREP time back - I think they've got
it an hour and a half right now. I think that maybe we
ought to run it back to about an hour and 15 minutes. We'll
run it that way a couple of times and see how we do it. And
if we do okay, we'll shoot it back to - or there isn't a couple
of times, is there. Tomorrow's the last for a while, isn't it?
CDR (garble) the next day so I think probably
(garble) an hour and 15 minutes. We'll give it a try tomorrow
and may cut it back again.
CC Okay.
°
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CC Skylab, we're a minute til LOS. This

is our last call for the night. Looking all over your systems
they're all looking good.
CDR Thank you Story. Enjoyed working with
you today. See you tomorrow.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR I like your technique of saying no answer
required on some of these things_ which otherwise we're con-
stantly singing over the squawk box.
CC I can see you floating down the tunnel
while I'm making the call.
through Madrid tracking station on revolution 1277. Next
station, Carnarvon, Australia in 26 minutes. The spacecraft
communicator has signed off for the evening with the Skylab
crew. Tomorrow will be another busy day for the crew with
considerable amount of observations of the solar disc through
the ATM instruments and two Earth Resources passes. One,
across the United States and South America and the other
one, across Southeast Asia and Australia. Signing off until
6 am Central Daylight tomorrow, this is Skylab Control at
02:53 Greenwich mean time.
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Time: 05:59 CDT, 15/10:59 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

10 hours 59 minutes, as the Skylab-3 crew, of Alan Bean,
Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, begin their 3rd star - the start
of their 3rd week in the Skylab space station. We anticipate
a call from the crew over the Ascension tracking station as
the Skylab space station starts its 1282 revolution. Two
EREP passes are on the calendar for today, one over southeast
Asia, and one across the United States, a total of 4 hours
and 55 minutes is on the Flight Plan for the crew to work the
Apollo telescope mount. We expect a call.
CC Skylab. This is Houston. Your bleary eyed
wake-up crew is wishing you a good morning. You're over
Ascension and we'll be with you for the next 7 minutes.
CDR Good mornlng,Carl, glad to hear from you.
CC Good to be wlth you, guys. We've Just been
watching for the last hour or so, some very nice TV pictures of
Arabella, and also you guys doing aerobatics. Looks like
great fun.
SC (Garble)- -
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CC - - very nice TV pictures of Arabella, and

also of you guys doing aerobatics. It looks llke great fun.
SPT I wasn't sure how those TV pictures would
come out. I guess the handheld was not too (garble)
CC The photos came through Just beautiful.
The sound was a little weak, but your voice did come through.
SPT Yes, that could be cut in or out as desired,
probably, but I was a little concerned about the steadiness of
the handheld stuff sort of out in the middle of the dome.
CC Right. Might be a good idea to hold a
little closer to mouth next time. The only spacecraft event
worth mentioning that happened last night was some problems
with the Z-2 gyro. We had redundancy management failure on
the last three dumps. And it appears that we've had a sudden
shift in the scale factor on that gyro. Corrective action
is in work down here.
PLT Is that Z-2 or Z-3?
CC It's Z-2. They say to expect a redundancy
management failure on that one on every dump maneuver.
CC Skylab, we have LOS in 1 minute. See you
over Carnarvon at 11:33.
CDR Okay. We had 3 good runs of your exper-
iment yesterday, Carl.
CC Hey, I want to thank you guys, and especially
Jack for fine work on S019. I was sure pleased to get ahead
of the game a little hit.
CDR Yeah, and we're going to keep working on
it.
CC Okay, thank you. I take it the pads were

about the right length. They didn't have any problem finishing
them?
CDR Jack is upstairs getting the pads, I'll

check the answer. I missed the last 120 - plus (garble) never
got to his but I think he got all of them over here.
CC Great.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time ii hours 7 minutes. Discussion with the crew on their
wake up concerned the rate gyros. The rate gyro and the
Z-2 axis has been giving the ground some concern during the
evening, early morning hours. It shows a bias when measuring
rate fixes on the spacecraft attitude. It is not oscillating
however as the Y-2 rate gyros have been. Apparently the
ground feels that the gyro is getting hot. And when it does
warm up it does have slight bias in its attitude. The crew
told Capcomm Dr. Carl Henles, astronaut Dr. Henles that they
had three good runs on his experiment yesterday, the S019 ultra-
violent stellar astronomy experiment. This experiment is
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designed to obtain large number of ultra violent spectra of

stars. And Dr. Henies was quite pleased that they had such
good luck with his experiment. At Greenwich mean time ii hours
9 minutes we will have acquisition over Carnarvon in 22 minutes.
This is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC618/I
Time: 06:30 CDT, 15/11:30 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

ii hours 31 minutes we anticipate acquisition over the Carnarvon
tracking station with the crew of Skylab 3 beginning their
third week in the Skylab space station. CAP COM this morning
is Astronaut Dr. Carl Henize, Flight Director, Nell
Hutchinson. We'll leave the line up for acquisition over
Carnarvon°
CC Skylab this is Houston, standing by for 7 min-
utes.
SPT Hey Carl, how many exposures do you have
in your magazine?
CC That's for S019?
SPT Yes sir.
CC I haven't calculated that I'ii have to get
back to you on that.
SPT Okay, I think we're setting up around 38
or 39on serial 5.
CC Roughly speaking I would have said that we
should have used about 40, so that's very close to being
right.
CC Jack, we have a voice update to the EREP
7 C&D pad when you have a moment to copy it.
CDR Houston, are you still there?
CC Roger, we're still with you for another
3 minutes.
CDR Let me talk about some of this housekeeping
for a minute and maybe aid the flight planners and also you
might pass it back to Doe Hutchinson. We've noticed that
many of the housekeeping tasks are Just set up most of which
- almost all of which were thought of pre-flight really aren't
cleaning the things that are dirty some are and some aren't
let me kind of glance at the llst here and maybe mention
so me.
CDR This housekeeping 3C is a good one. We end
up having to clean those fans much more frequently than even
the housekeeping pad call for. So I would suggest house-
keeping 3C be set up every other day.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR 3D is about one every week or once every
2 weeks and the vacuum cleaner replacement is not too good.
Moisture removal 6B dried chiller that ought to he about a
once a week thing. And it is. Bioside wipe disinfecting
the number 7B I would suggest 7B about once every 2 weeks. Most
of the things you clean there with the exception of the fecal
collector seat don't really need it I would take the fecal
collector seat move it over to the one and we may get to it
before we run out which is somehow cleaning and blosidlng
the trash area where we put the food where we put those
cans. That's probably the dirtiest area here yet we get the
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fewest calls up to clene so I don't know the number on it but

the toilet seat and the little trash area ought to get cleaning
and biosiding about twice a week.
CC Okay, we're copying all of that.
CDR Housekeeping 14D which is trash bag doors
clean food chiller, clean urine drawers, and clean the MA
hose. I'd take I'd keep adding - just remove the part about
the trash bag doors and I'd go ahead and remove the part about
the chiller because we'll be cleaning that out - drying it on
a weekly basis that's about all you need. And le - -
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CDR and remove the part about the

chiller, because we'll be cleaning that out and trying it
on a weekly basis. That's about all you need. And leave
14-B3 and B4. You need to clean the hose, and you need
to clean the urine drawers.
CC 0 -
CDR The moisture removal 14-C. I Just cut
that one out all together. There's no water under the table
and drying the (garble) holders, they're not ever wet anyhow.
And then, once every couple of weeks we wash them. So that 14-C
ought to be canned completely, as it's not productive.
CC Okay, AI. You're coming through loud
and clear. And we now have 15 seconds to LOS and we'll see
you again at 57 over Hawaii.
CDR Okeydoke. I think that's about it. I'ii
glance on you. Those are the ones that we do a lot. And I'd
recommend that they reschedule them and rename them for Jerry
Carr's book so that he ends up doing the one particularly over
here where we I never did see it, the one where we clean where we
put our food out every meal.
CC Okay. We appreciate the good info.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean
time ii hours 42 minutes. We've had loss of signal over
the Honeysuckle tracking station. Next acquisition over
Hawaii in 14 minutes. This is Skylab Control. Greenwich
mean time Ii hours 42 minutes.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

ii hours 56 minutes. We anticipate acquisition over the Hawaii
station for a 4 minute pass. CAP COM is Dr. Carl Henize,
astronaut Dr. Carl Henlze. We'll hold the llne open for
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab - Skylab this is Houston for
the next 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by for 4 minutes.
SPEAKER (garble) I'm taking Houston comm tech
net i voice check.
SPEAKER (garble) comm tech net i voice check.
CC You're loud and clear, Nick. Roger, I
cannot raise Hawaii on this circuit•
SPEAKER Hawaii comm tech, Houston comm tech net
1 for voice check•
SPEAKER (garble) comm tech (garble) loud and
clear.
CC Roger•
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We had a
small glitch inthe downlink voice. We have LOS in about
1 minute and we'll see you again at 12:09.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich
mean time 12 hours 3 minutes. On this pass the crew is
finishing their personal hygiene, eating breakfast, getting
the personal postsleep activities out of the way and are
getting prepared to do the EREP pass number 7 over track
number 6 which crosses the United States. The preparations
for this pass will start at 7:51. The actual data (garble) tape
will begin at 8:25 and run for 23 minutes. The second pass
of the day which will be over Southeast Asia will begin
shortly before 10 p.m. this evening. And included in this
pass is an attempt to using the S191 experiment to gather
data on an active volcano off the Islands of Japan. The Volcano
has been given the name Nishino Shima. That's N-i-s-h-i-n-o
S-h-i-m-a, it's an underwater volcano which is presently
spewing pumice all over the ocean. At Greenwich mean time
12 hours 5 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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time 12 hours 7 minutes. We will have acquisition over Gold-
stone tracking station momentarily. We will leave the llne
up for Capcomm Carl Henize's possible discussions with the crew
for today's activities,
CC Sky lab, Houston standing by for 5 minutes.
CDR Hank, we Just got an intermittent sieve
out PP C02 high light, Houston. I'm looking at SIEVE A
in the panel PPC02 IN 5 and OUT 4.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. A quick comment on the
PPC02 outlet sensor. It's been taking a little Jump when
the MOL SIEVE (garble) are transfering. And it's nothing of any
great concern, but if it bothers you today, we'll think about
turning off the caution and warning.
CDR Okay, we'll see how it does for a while.
CC Okay. And we've got i minute to LOS,
and we'll be with you again in about 2 minutes from now.
CDR Where are we over the ground right now?
CC You're Just going out of range from Goldstone
and you'll be over Mila in another 2 minutes. You're some-
where over southern Canada, a little north of Minnesota.
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SL-III MC622/I
Time: 07:14 CDT, 15:12:14 GMT
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PAO We've lost acqulsi_ion over the Texas station

we'll pick up with the Nila tracking s_iation momentarily.
CC Skylab, this is Ho,*ston we'll be with you
for the next 8 minutes and we will be ,lumping the recorders
over Bermuda commencing about i minute from now at 12:17.
CC And Skylab, we hav._ 2 pad changes for EREP.
One is for the Pilot on the Zero 7 C&D pad, one is for the
CDR, on the Zero 7 VTS pad. Let me know when you have a moment
to copy.
PLT Go ahead with Al's, I'm looking mine up, Carl.
CC Okay, AI, this is on the Zero 7 VTS pad on
site 145 that three sets of numbers should be revised as
follows: we had the wrong coordinates in the data base.
Site 145; 2607, 451, R Zero 3 Zero. Second line 2639, 298,
R Zero 32. Third llne 2716, 3 balls, R Zero 28. And for
site 270 also a correction and also for site 270 and the
special pins it says: subtract 4 seconds from the 45 degree
time. That's all for that one.
PLT Was the last one for 270, only?
CC It's says for site 270 and the special
pins.
CDR On ... 270, I subtract .6 from that - would
make it 2853. And in all the special pins I subtract from
4 seconds from the 45 degree time and everything is okay.
CC Owen, I have a couple of quick bits of
information on ATM if you have a moment to listen.
SPT Okay, I'm listening.
CC Right-o, an update on activity during the
night regions 83 and 85 have been decaying and region 86 has
had minor plage fluctuations and filament activity. And
there have been minor prominence activity at southeast
ten that's at a theta at position angle of about 260.
SPT Okay, we've got something coming up over the.
limb there on the eastern limb.
CC Okay, great and also -
SPT I'm asking - -
CC Say again?
SPT I'm asking the question do we have something
coming over the limb in that new active region on the east llmb.
CC The answer to that is negative, there doesn't
seem to he anything major connected with this promenince all
we do is observe a minor promenince a bit of minor promeninence
activity over in that particular section.
SPT Okay.
CC Also regarding - yesterday's confusion
about extra degrading counts for S055, your analysis was
correct. We had a mirror mode and a grading mode going
simultaneously as a result of inadvertent overlap of crew and
ground command.
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SPT Okay. I guess it doesn't hurt anything but

we got to work to try to avoid that wh_n we can.
CC We'll do our best to avoid that in the future.
CC And that's all for ATM at the moment.
CC And Jack when we have a moment I still have
the update to the zero 7 C&D pad.
SPT You know Carl, these little UD detectors that
we had stashed around the workshop for fire detection I've been
meaning to ask for a week or so now. What is it that makes
those things flash fairly frequently Just a little bright flash
comes out of the light detection? You got an expert around on
those things why you might just keep me informed - educate
me on this point.
CC Okay, stand by and we'll see what info we can
get on that on.
PLT Okay, Carl what pad is that on, please?
CC This is on the zero 7 C&D pad.
PLT Well, I got a (garble) 0 7 on it.
SC I got it, go ahead.
CC Okay, stand by a couple of seconds for a
handover, here.
CC Okay, here we go zero 7 C&D pad, first correction
is on the S190 ready out time which is at 34:46 that should
be corrected to 34:50, 3450.
PLT Got it.
CC Next, for the fourth for the earth limb we
miscalculated take usage there and we'd like to change.
Change EREP start time which was 15:54:20 we would like to
change that to 15:57:00.
PLT Got it.
CC And the followwing two lines should be deleted:
That;s VTS auto cal. And ready on fo_ S191.
PLT Okay.
CC Third and last correction, add a post remark.
Quote: leave EREP coolant valve inflow until tape reloads.
That's for cooling off the recorder between passes and the
time with that is 20:00 Zulu.
CC That's the time of the tape reload.
PLT Okay, I got that ... to leave the coolant valve
inflow until the tape recorder feed is complete - the tape
recorder reload and that's at 2000.
PLT Okay, thank you Carl.
CC Sure thing.
SC (Music)
CC Skylah we've got -
CC Skylab we've got 40 seconds to LOS we'll see
you again at 12:37 and we're still working on the winking fire
sensors, Owen still no good a_iswer.
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SL-III MC623/1
Time: 07:28 CDT, 15/12:28 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control 12 hours

29 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have loss of signal
at the Bermuda tracking station. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott
requested information from CAP COM Dr. Carl Henize on a
blinking fire sensor aboard the vehicle. There are numerous
fire sensors scattered throughout the Skylab work station
to alert the crew in the event of anomalies in the spacecraft.
The ground has indicated they will look into the problem
and advise the crew as soon as possible. There is apparently
no problem, no immediate problem with this area at this
time. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 30 minutes we will
have acquisition over Ascension in approximately 6 minutes.
We'll take the line down and bring it up at that time. This
is Skylab Control.
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time 12 hours 35 minutes. Anticipating acquisition over the
Ascension tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston standing by for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston standing by for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, I've got a point of information
on a command that has been sent up recently. In connection
with the suspected leak in the primary AM coolant loop, we've
enabled the group to auto switchover in order to allow the
primary loop to shut down if necessary.
PLT Okay, thank you Carl. I take it that
nothing is running in the secondary at the present time.
Is that right?
CC The secondary loop is up and on, running
normal.
PLT All right.
PLT Carl, is anybody making a prediction as
to when the primary is going to be shutting itself down?
CC We have some thoughts down here that it
may be a couple of weeks maybe roughly mission day 30 if
the leak is confirmed and if it continues at the present rate.
PLT Okay, I take it that the secondary is still
in good shape.
CC Skylab, we'd like to have you keep off
the DAS. We're doing a drift update on the gyros.
CC Skylab, the DAS is yours. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we have 50 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Carnarvon at 13:07.
time 12 hours 45 minutes with loss of signal over the Ascension
tracking station. Capcomm Dr. Carl Henize discussed with the
crew a problem which has been plaguing the Skylab space station
for the last several days. The coolant loop and primary coolant
loop A which has been losing approximately 0.74 pounds of
coolant per day. The vehicle has been operating on a secondary
loop for the last several days. The ground estimates that
the primary loop will operate until mission day 30, which
is 15 days from now. Until that time they will remain on the
secondary loop. This is not a new problem, it is something
they just gave information to the crew, of the problem that's
been going on for the last several days. Today's first Earth
resources pass is along a ground track which crosses the coast
of California and travels over Nevada, Arizona, cuts the south-
west corner of New Mexico and through Mexico ending in Bolivia
south of La Pass. This 23 minute data take will take a ground
track of more than 5,520 nautical miles. Commander AI Bean
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will be operating the view finder tracking system, a telescope

aiming system used for the S191 infrared spectrometer. Science
Pilot Owen Garriott will be manning the Earth terrain camera,
which is located in the scientific airlock in the workshop.
Pilot Jack Lousma will be operating the Earth resources control
and display panel, which is located in the multiple docking
adaptor. This Earth resources pass will start on revolution
1284 at about 8:00 this morning. Greenwich mean time 12 hours
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time 13 hours 6 minutes. We will have acquisition over
the Carnarvon tracking station in approximately 50 seconds.
We'll leave the line up for conversation.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
i0 minutes.
CDR Hey, Carl I've got the PAO request.
CC Skylab, Houston, go ahead.
CDR Roger. Yesterday was one of my favorite
ultcles' birthday and I Just wanted him to know that I hope he had
a happy one he's had a lot of them and I hope he has a bunch
more. His name is Herman Brandt, B-r-a-n-d-t. He lives in
Bethleham Pennsylvania.
CC Roger, we copy.
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 21.
PAO We've had loss of signal at the Carnarvon
tracking station. At Greenwlch mean time 13 hours 18 minutes
we anticipate acquisition over Guam. We'll leave the line
up for that pass.
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Time: 08:19 CDT 15/13:19 GMT
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CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for i0 minutes.

PLT Hello again, Hank. Long time no talk.
CC Right, back with you again. How are things
going?
PLT Very well.
from LOS. Goldstone at 47.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 13 hours 31 minutes
Greenwich mean time with less of signal at the Guam tracking
station. We've had a change of shift here in the mission
control room. The flight director now is Chuck Lewis. Capcomm
is Hank Hartsfield, astronaut Hank Hartsfield. During the
start of the Carnarvon pass_ Pilot Jack Lousma again remembering
his birthdays passed along a happy birthday to his favorite
uncle, Herbert Brant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and commented
his birthday was yesterday. He said he hoped he had a happy
birthday and will have many more to come. At 9:00 a.m. we
will have a replay of 14 minutes of television which was
downlinked earlier this morning. This includes, - that's at
9:15, 9:15 a.m. downlinked television. - fourteen minutes of
Pilot Jack Lousma doing some acrobatics in the workshop, along
with the star of Skylab, Arabella. This will be a replay at
9:15. This morning's Skylah pass which starts at 10:25 off
the coast of California north of Eureka. The weather under
the pass over the United States is clear. Weathermen report
to Flight Director Chuck Lewis that there will be low stratus
clouds over northern California through Nevada. It will be
clear over Arizona, and cloudy again in Mexico as Skylab
passes over Mexico into Latin America, Central America, and
South America. Today's investigations include work in atmos-
pheric studies, storms and fronts off the west coast of the
United States, work and agriculture, forest inventories in
northern California, a mapping natural resources in Nevada
and California, and geology studies. There will be geological
structure mapping in Nevada as well as similiar studies in
California and Arizona. Water resources studies will he
done for Dr. Robert Cowell of the University of California.
He'll be looking for information on vegetation cover and water-
shed in California.
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PAO ... will be looking for information for

on vegetation cover and watershed in California. Dr. R.B.
Morrison will be looking for gulley erosions in South
Central Arizona. He hopes information _athered in today's
EREP pass will be helpful in detecting areas which may be
susceptible to rapid soil erosion. Jack Quade of the
University of Nevada School of Mines is looking for the
ability of space photography to distinguish geological
units. And again there will be other investigations in
metal's exploration in California_ Nevada, and Arizona. As
Skylab passes over the country of Mexico, Mexican Principal
Investigators are looking for, using remote sensing_ toward the -
for the exploration of hydrocarbons. As Skylab passes over
Central America information will hopefully be gained for
the Inter American Geodetic Survey for mapping cartography
work over Bolivia, Guatemala, Hondurus, Central Andes, and
the Amazon Basin. Amazon Basin is also the subject of
investigations along the Central Amazon Basin for regional
plan work. At the close of :_oday's pass, as Skylab passes
over South America, there will be an attempt to take
photography of the Earth limb. This is a calibration
exercise as the vehicle returns from the the Earth Resources
attitude and returns to place the vehicle where the solar
panels are facing directly at the Sun. The SIgOA and B, that's
the S190 multispectral camera facility and sIg0B, which is
the Earth terrain camera will be aimed at the Earth's horizon
in attempt to get photography of =he Earth limb. Again this
Earth Resources pass - this i_ pass number 8 for Skylab 3
pass number 7, I'm sorry, pass number 7. Pass number 8 will
be later this evening over South East Asia. This pass will
begin at 10:25 this morning amd will run for 23 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 13 hours 37 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-III MC-628/I
Time: 08:45 CDT 15/13:45 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control at Greenwich

mean time 13 minutes 45 seconds with acquisition over Gold-
stone.
CC Skylab) Houston stateside for 17 minutes.
SPT Roger. I'ii give you your TV downlink
at the end of chip A on building block i. And I also noticed
that the flight planners have not yet moved 82B from chip A
to chip B on the ATM schedule. It does show 82B omitted. I
presume that really should be for chip B, whereas they have got
it shown as chip A. It's just a detail that they will catch up on,
I'm sure. And did you have any real time TV?
CC Roger, Owen. We'll be set up at Texas, and
that's coming up about 5 minutes from now.
SPT Okay. Well, I may just delay my roll from
between chip A and chip B until your real time and I can give
you white light coronagraph in roll in real time then.
CC Okay. And at Texas we'll he dumping
data record too.
CDR Okay, as soon as you've got it, let me
know because I'ii be through with chip A and anxious to go.
CC Roger. Another thing we're going to
want you to do, Owen. When we get on Texas, we want you to bring
up the a star tracker on Canspus. And that will he at about
13:52 GMT. And then we're gclng to update the NuZ and have
you (garble) it and I'll give you the angles then.
SPT Okay.
CC This is to get ready for the EREP.
SPT Sounds fine.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going
to inhibit momentum dump.
XDR How are you doing this morning, Hank?
CC Real good. How about yourself?
CDR Good, got a request about the sched.
We need to know from the flight planners if the housekeeping
that they are doing tomorrow is the housekeeping that is on our
little schedule for tomorrow. By our little schedule I mean our
flight plan overview that they gave us prior to flight.
CC Okay, we'll check that.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, PLT)
the cabin pressure has decreased a little faster than we had
anticipated and we'd like to terminate the cabin purge in
preparation for the M509. That would be on panel 706 to
close the water dump and then on panel 700 get the heater on.
CDR Okay, that's complete.
CC Thank you sir, that was fast.
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CC SPT, Houston, our data shows that the SO55

main high voltage is not in override and we'd like to get it
there, please.
SPT Okay, the switch is in override. It has
been there every since I powered up from unlnhibit.
CC Roger; copy.
CC And SPT, Houston we're getting live TV now.
SPT Okay, fine. I'Ii go from A to B. A to B.
PLT Hank, for the EREP world, when it called up
to enable and disenable the FMC, I presume that's by a yank of the
number one sticker in the S190 package. Is that affirmative?
CC Stand by. I'ii get an answer on that.
CC Pretty sure that's it, let me check it.
CC That's correct, Jack; pull the cirucuit breaker.
PLT Okay, and one other thing_ I just sampled
the water and - at the wardroom table, and before chilling
the sample, the reading was about 2.5 to 3.0, in that
neighborhood. And after chilling, it made it a little more clear
I guess, down around 10.5 somewhere hut definitely more than
2 so I don't - according to my procedure have to put more
(garble) dye in it at thls point.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC SPT, Houston, our telemetry is showing that the
high voltage is off on all o_ the detectors and we'd llke
for you to enable the detectors, on SO55.
SPT You got a good point there, that's what I
forgot.
SPT Okay, that's the cycle through the whole display
here and (garble) adequate.
CC SPT, Houston, when you get a break there
we'd like you to get you to turn the star tracker on and
acquire Canopus.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, at Canopus.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston, in regard to tomorrow's flight
plan, the housekeeping is as the premission plan you have
onboard, the overview. And the only addition being the
condensate dump.
CC (garble) Change of fan inlet screenw.
CC SPT, Houston, we've enabled (garble) the up-
date and we'd like for you to park your star tracker now
at OUTER, minus 4200; INNER minus 1800.
CC And we'd like for you to leave the power on.
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8/11/73
CC SPT, }loustos. Did you copy the angles

I read up?
SPT Negative. We must have dropped out there
for a minute. I've got your startracker loekup if that's
if those are the angles you're talking about.
CC Okay, well - no we've got nu-Z update
enabled and we'd like for you to close the shutter and with
the switch and park it at outer minus 4200 inner gimbal
minus 1800, and we want to leave the power on.
SPT Okay, that's outer minus 4200, inner
minus 8200_ manually close the shutter and leave the power
on.
SPT Okay, and are you still - - Yesterday
it had been plus 4200 so I guess you are reversing that
outer gimbal angle. That right?
CC That's affirmative. We reversed it.
SPT Okay. And are you still getting any
ATM TV downlink?
CC Say again, Owen.
SPT Are you still getting the ATM TV down-
link?
CC That's negative.
SPT Okay, fine, l'll not worry about that
any more. And just want to make a comment to your ATM
science room that they're SEP comments are acknowledged
and appreciated.
CC Roger, we copy. And we're about 20
seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 47.
And if there was a go over hill like to verify that you did
get the right angles that's minus 4200 and minus 1800.
SPT That's right, outer and inner in that
order and I'ii go park it new.
CC Roger, sir,
PAO We've - Skylab Control at 14 hours
4 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
over the Bermuda tracking station. Next acquisition will
be Carnarvon in 42 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control.
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time 14 hours 8 minutes. On the previous stateside pass we
had a glich in switching here at the control center, and we
lost 15 seconds of air to ground. We'll replay that now
and come back up right now.
CC And CDR, here's one more affect that
housekeeping we are not going to do on housekeeping 3 Charlie
2 and -3 that's vacuum cleaning of the circulation A and circulation
fans OWS heat exchanger fan, it looks clean.
PAO That concludes the 15 second brief dis-
cussion on housekeeping activities in the Skylab space station.
One of the activities scheduled for today is Science Pilot
Owen Garriott working on one of the educational experiments,
ED 32. This experiment is designed to determine the effect
if any weightlessness may have on anigen and antibody reactions.
When antigens in the form of bacteria, bacterial toxants, or foreign
blood cells are introduced into man's system the production
of antibodies is stimulated. The antigen-antibody reaction
is man's continual defense at immunizing his system against foreign
matter and disease. This experiment is the brain child of New York
high school student Todd Meister of Jackson Heights. This
is one of the 25 student experiments selected for Skylab
by NASA from more than 3000 student experiment proposals.
The experiment consists of 6 plates each about the size of
a penny match box which contain selected antibodies. There
are 3 prefilled dispensers of antigen which are inJe,cted into
the antibody plates through holes. And antigen will diffuse
through the plates forming a percipitate which will appear
as a cloudy white ring surrounding these small holes in the
plates. After an incubation period of 24 hours, a crew member
will photograph these antibody plates. Prior to activation
of this experiment the experiment hardware has been kept in
the workshop food chiller. The student investigator will
compare photographs of his Skylab experiment with photos he
has taken of ground control experiment units. Science Pilot
Garriott is scheduled to perform this experiment or begin
preparations of this experiment at the close of the Earth
resources pass, which is scheduled to begin on the next rev
at 10:25. At 14 hours ii minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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8111173

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. We ananticipate acquisition
of Skylab with the Carnarvon tracking station on Skylab lll's
1284th revolution. We'll leave the line up live for conversation
between CAP COM Hank Hartsfield and the Skylab-lll crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon
6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon 6 minutes.
CDR Okay, bow do you read us, Houston?
CC Okay, read you loud and clear now, AI.
CDR Okay, we Just went on VOX for EREP.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Just as a reminder in
case you hadn't done it, AI; you had some preflight notes
in your sight book in reference to site 145.
CDR I keep the track until 5 degrees and then go
up and get that dry lake.
CDR ... reminding me though. I was thinking
about it. Looks like the weather is pretty good there.
I just hope this IMC works this morning, that'll sure help.
CDR And how does our maneuver time look?
Been loaded?
CC Stand by.
CDR Okay, ZLV selected, we're on the way.
CC Copy.
CDR Maneuver time must have been okay there.
We didn't find mib. Next question would be, I asked earlier
this morning about which housekeeping items were going to
be on tomorrow's list and whether they were the same as
our onboard flight plan. It never got an answer.
CC I gave - [ gave the answer up shortly
thereafter, AI. Apparently we must have had a coma problem
or something. We're doing the same housekeeping that was
on the old review with the addition of the condensate dump.
And also we're deleting step 2 and 3 on the housekeeping
3 Charlie.
CDR Sounds good. And we've already got our
housekeeping done for tomorrow so tell us to stick
experiments in there.
CC Roger.
from LOS. Guam at 01.
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time 14 hours 53 minutes. On this pass over the Carnarvon
tracking station Commander Bean was indicating that the vehicle
is getting prepared to go into local verticle attitude, z local
verticle. This is the mode the spacecraft is oriented to for
the up coming Earth resources pass. He also referred to the
IMC hoping they have no problem with it today. The IMC is
the image motion compensator, which is part of the view finder
tracking system associated with the S191 infrared spectrometer
system. The image motion compensator aids in compensating
motion on the spacecraft over a fixed target as it is lined
up with the view finder tracking system. The other day on
an Earth resources pass over the United States the IMC was
drifting at about 4 miles off to the right according to Jack
Lousma. The system works where a site is picked out ahead
of the vehicle tracked by use of the VTS. And upon acquisition
of a selected target the IMC removes most of the target motion
as seen in the telescope. This reported drift of 4 miles was
not degrading the experiment data according to the EREP officer.
We will have acquisition over the Guam tracking station in
approximately 6 minutes. We'll take the llne down at Green-
wich mean time 14 hours 55 minutes.
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PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

time 15 hours 0 minutes we anticipate acquisition of Skylab over
the Guam tracking station this is a very low elevation pass of
about 4 degrees a pass which should last approximately 4 hours and
4 - 4 minutes and 40 seconds. We'll leave the line up for conversa-
tion with CAP COM Hank Hartsfield and the Skylab 3 crew.
SPT A couple of modified items 5 on active region
86 and active region 85. I noticed from their pad for the
rest of the day that we spend most of our time on Job 2C
so I didn't want to look at prominences better - not 2C,
up at 4 jop 4. So I wanted to take a quick glance at the active
regions sometime during the day so those 2 item 5's or modified
versions thereof are vol active regions 85 and 86.c No other special
comments on the last ATM pass, SPT out.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Guam for 4 minutes.
CDR Want to verify one thing if I can, on the EREP
Hank. Down under remarks it indicates -
CDR It's not under remarks, it's just before remarks
it's the data push button at times listed - I don't think it means
at the times listed I think it means when I finally get the
radical below the horizon and keep it held there as long as I'm
tracking. Whenever I start to scan back and do the next sequence
then I should release the data push button that's kinda what
I think they want. Would you verify that?
CC Okay.
CDR And we don't know when the good data is as
opposed to anything else.
CC Skylab, Houston, if you'll go ahead and enter
your ZLV offsets we will uplink our strip correction for the
Z2 gyro.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And SPT, Just as we got AOS it appeared that
you were putting something on a recorder in regard to your last
ATM pass. And we were getting a downlink here.
CDR And we're a little bit concerned about entering
that thing late that it may have restarted our 13 minute
manuver or whatever minute meanuever time we had going.
CC Stand by.
CDR It restarted our 33 minute maneuver time.
CDR Houston, do you think it's possible that we
could use the delta-P from now until we need to be there and do it
again and then arrive there at the right time?
CDR We had the right ray I Just slowed it down
I i,eed to speed it back up again.
CC We think that's right AI, and we've got about
5 seconds until LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at
2:03.
PLT Space con - pa - - okay space men, this is
the PLT, channel A, stand by i
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CC We need TM minute manuever time and the octal

for a - that is 50022 Skylab.
SPT Okay, say em again, Hank.
CC Roger. Octal 50022 18 minute manuever.
CDR Okay. We got that now what should we do about
the fine manuever should we put it in again or what?
CC Negative leave it alone.
15 hours 7 minutes with loss of signal over Guam. The next acquisi-
tion will be over Goldstone, as the Skylab 3 crew begins the 7th
earth resources pass of the mission. This pass begins aproximately
240 nautical miles off the coast of California and will end in
South America below the Bolivian City of Lapoz. At Greenwich mean
time 15 hours 7 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-635/I
Time: 10:21 CDT, 15/15:21 GMT
8/11/73

time 15 hours 21 minutes, with acquisition coming shortly
over the Goldstone tracking station. Here on the ground
flight director Chuck Lewis has been talking to his guidance
and navigation people. Apparently there was a procedural
error during the last pass over Guam in aligning the space-
craft for the proper Earth Resources attitude. This problem
is being discussed at the moment and we'll have live air-
to-ground over Goldstone. We'll hald the line up for con-
versation.
CDR When do you start, Jack?
PLT At 02:5 AI 13 mor minutes. 14 to go.
CDR Should have been - I should have put it
makes it 18 minutes I should have easily put it at 16.
PLT Let's see, we're going to have the altimeter
and the scat running.
PLT It's going to be close, AI.
CDR (garble). Don't take a nadir align.
PLT No, we don't have one.
CDR Okay. Where is the ground? I see a lot of
clouds. Bunches of clouds.
PLT You down there, no Hank?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, we got in that time. As I see it we're
going to probably be there about a minute late. And we will
not have those tenths of a degree biases in. You concur
with that one?
CC We concur and that's okay.
CDR Okay, yeah, that's what we figured. We were
just saying to ourselves we should've taken that 18 and sub-
tracted 1 or 2 right off of it because of the time it takes
to get it in. That's good re_ctlon down there on the ground,
although I don't see any ground right now. All I see is a
bunch of clouds.
PLT Okay, Hank, we got the altimeter to scat and
stand by on time. And stand by to go to EREP start at 25:00.
CDR 2609 is when I've got to go, 2609.
PLT Got old motor mouth back on the panel again.
CDR 2609 is the time - Well it's starting to
break out.
PLT Good.
CDR It's clear_ yeah.
PLT Stand by to start.
CDR 20
PLT Mark. EREP start. 8 motion light. 194 mode
to manual - --
CDR 2609
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PLT 5533 next. 190 to AUTO at 33.

CDR Great, everything's settling out. The
ground know's what they're doing. 2609 is the number I'm
looking for.
PLT STAND BY. MARK 190 AUTO.
CDR 2609 .... 609.
CC Skylab, info only. We're going to reenable
Z-2 and Z-3. We're at R in ENABLED.
CDR 09. Okay, coming 5y with SCAT and RAD.
PLT MARK. SCAT ON.
SC Park Walker Lake right there.
PLT RAD ON.
CDR We got Walker Lake. We're going to get it.
PLT That a boy.
CDR That's it. We're on Walker Lake at the
moment. Nice pointing. I was a little bit to the right but
that's my own problem. Okay, we're taking some data right
now. Everything looks good.
PLT Standing by for 27 here.
CDR RADSCAT got my lights flickering a little bit.
CDR Okay, I'm watching tha angles when I get to
5 I got to move out. We're in good shapr right on the lake.
Right on this lake.
PLT Way to get up there, AI. Old Eagle Eye on
the VTS. Standing by for a medium.
CDR Then when I move to a different position on
the lake I' ii release the button a minute. Okay, putting it
back in. Looking for 5 degree.
PLT Okay, STAND BY. MARK. Medium on Slg0.
CDR Stnading by for mode to READY on 192.
CDR Okay, that's it right there, I've got to
zoom out and find the next one. There's the little thing
you want.
PLT MARK. Mode to READY on the LT burner. Re-
corder malf lights OFF.
CDR Okay, we got
PLT ... light on. That's the way to go.
CDR Zoom in and get it for you.
PLT Stand by for SCAT stand by.
CDR Okay, we're taking data on that other spot.
Everything looks good. Going to be hard to get to that next
one we got listed in there. We're taking data at minus 12.
I'm going to pull out here now, we got plenty of data. Okay,
in zoom OFF.
PLT MARK, SCAT to STAND BY. MARK, RAD to STAND
BY.
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CDR 0.52 right 1.3. 0.52 right 1.5 next. 13 and

looking for time 23 - -
PLT Stand by.
CDR Got 53
PLT Stand by.
CDR Okay, we got that target Houston. We'll
PLT MARK, SCAT ON. RAD ON.
CDR 5 and right 1.3. Stand by for 285S.
PLT Charlie at - -
CDR ... 2853.
PLT 42 percent. Very very small oscillation of
Charlie, Hank, when we got uhe high speed going.
CDR 2853 is what I'm looking for.
PLT 52 I'm standing by for.
PLT Don't run that tape off, it's down at 40 now.
CDR 2853. 2853. (garble) today. Okay.
PLT Plenty of tape they say, today.
CDR Okay. 2853
PLT MARK. SCAT to STAND BY 2 seconds. MARK.
RAD STAND BY.
CDR Now that looks like it's right there. Let's
zoom in and check it out. That's it, we got it.
PLT Stand by.
CDR We have got it.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON.
CDR He was making data on the right leg even.
PLT RAD OFF. STAND BY for mode to check.
CDR The incredible person.
CDR They got some good data here, Houston.
PLT MARK. 192 to check.
CDR Not a lake, it's a dried up pit.
PLT 30 30 next. We'll get them there, A1.
CDR Get those volcanos too, one of them. They're
all
PLT Do you have any idea, Houston, which one of
the volcanoes is the best (garble) since he can only get one
of the three?
CC Okay, Jack, I'ii get you an naswer.
PLT Okay.
CDR ... data. I'm going to move to a different
part of the lake now and take some more data. Okay, still
taking data. Move to a different part of the lake and take
a little more data. Kind of a dark part of the lake. Hay
have a little water in it. I mean - not lake lay - land - -
PLT Yeah, I'm pointing at the water on it. That'll
be a good thing.
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CDR 3/4ths on this one.
PLT Stick by for an AUTO CAL here.
CDR Okay, then.
PLT Way to get them. 2 for 2, right?
CDR (garble)
PLT MARK, AUTO CAL. Ready lights out.
CDR Okay, that's all for that one.
CC CDR, Houston. The best one is Pacaya, that's
one of the primary column at 35:34. 35:30.
CDR Okay, we'll get it. 35:30 we can get in no
sweat. A 45 up and left 2.4. 45 up left 2.4.
PLT MARK. Ready out I second late on 190.
CDR Stand by. Means only 17 on this one. Very
well, interval i0
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811_173
PLT (Garble) l second late on 190. Mode to

stand by. Frames - only wants 7 on this one. Very well,
INTERVAL i0. 32:20 next. Okay, 7 frames, interval I0 seconds.
CDR Set DAC to 1/60, after this. Okay?
After this - If we have time, we'll (garble) a little bit later.
SPT (garble) 20.
CDR Have you got a MARK on that? It says 15:48,
start SI maneuver.
PLT Yeah, I've got it here somewhere, I think.
CDR Okay, remind me in case I'm forgetting it.
PLT Yeah, I've got that one on here.
CDR Set it, it says, to the second. Here, let
me set this thing. Okay, it's now 250. 35:30. That's two more
(garble).
CDR Who calculated that new EREP time, Hank?
CC Okay.
PLT MARK. (Garble) to standby. 192A - -
CC Say again.
CDR Who calculated that new EREP maneuver time
for us, ZLV maneuver time?
PLT Polar is i.
CC That was our asco, Pat O'Neill.
CDR Thanks Pat, that was a good job. We got
right there.
PLT MARK. SCAT on. 93A 3A going - -
CDR 35 :30.
PLT 0 - 05. Range 69.
CC And we appreciate you cycling the ZLV mode
switch. We forgot to tell you that.
CDR No, we cycled that. But we didn't know
for sure if you had to go to SI in ZLV. We thought all you had
to do was just push ZLV again.
CDR Okay, we thought we knew how to do it onboard
anyway, but we had a lot of second thoughts as we watched it.
If you had gone out of comm, we were going to do it any way.
PLT READY on, on 191.
CDR Just making sure we didn't go to the
coarse gyros.
PLT 90 mode to auto coming up.
CDR Okay, we're going - 35:30.
PLT Is the number I keep looking for.
CDR Got a lot of clouds down here right now,
but it may clear off like it did before. We're over a lot of
ground.
PLT 34:43, next, coming up. Stand by.
PLT MARK. 190 mode to auto.
CDR 35:30 is what we're looking for.
PLT Okay, space fans, I'ii tell you, our US pass
today took us crossing the coast at the northern border of
California coming down over Reno, Las Vegas and a little north
of Phoenix, crossing the border a little west of E1 Paso, down
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over Monterey, Mexico and into the Gulf at Tampico.

CDR 34:30
CC CDR, Houston. In regard to your question
about the Earth limb. What I want you to do there is hold
the push button when you position the VTS down just below
the horizon and hold it there for 3 seconds. Then release the
push button and the hand controller and let the spacecraft
motion take it. And then each time you go down just hold
the push button and hold it there for 3 seconds.
CDR Okay, I've got it. In other words they
want the push button pushed during the period when we're not
taking data, or not good data, understand.
PLT MARK. Ready auto on 190
CDR When we' re maneuvering, okay, I got that.
PLT Stand by. Frame 8. Okay, that's the only
one. They are easy to please, this 190 guy. 35:53 next.
CDR Okay, we've got scattered clouds now.
And we're over the water. No, we're not, we're over the ground,
you can't see it too well. No, we're ever 'u1,,_'_:ter. It's
hard to ,_ee. 3530 we're looking for. 3530, that was it.
Okay, now I'm right in the middle of a bunch of clouds. I'II
zoom in, but I don' t have a hope.
PLT Should be coming down over Central America
heading and for Guatamala.
CDR Yeah, but it's hazy and cloudy. I can't
even see the ground through here.
PLT Maybe it will come out.
CDR Much less any volcanoes. No I'm locked on.
PLT (garble) MODE to AUTO. No (garble), Houston,
I
CDR I can't see anything. Little further on, there
is some ground, but in the area we are there is no ground
available for viewing. The clouds are probably right over
the top of it.
PLT We Just crossed into Guatamala.
CDR I"Ii see if I can pick up another one. Okay,
at 30 degreesat 3613. This time we'll let go for 03653.
PLT We're going to hit the Pacific at E1
Salvador. We're going to come into the South American Con-
tinent coast at Ecuador. Caution/ warning.
CDR Okay.
PLT Stand by.
CDR 36:53. (garble) 129.
PLT (Garble) RAD. 94 - -
CDR Okay, we're trying for that one that we
didn't get - got the second alternate. We're looking down at
the ground now. We'll zoom in. Let's see if we can see anything.
Well, I see a lot of ground. It's clear over here, but I don't
see anything that looks llke a volcano. I wish I did.
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CC Skylab, Houston, 30 seconds LOS. Vanguard

49.
CDR Okay, that first site was a bad one, this
third one is as clear as a bell, but too late. I tried to
intercept it at zero degrees but no luck.
PLT Okay, we've got 190 all set up. Frame, 36.
Intervals 20. Stand by for 40:01.
CDR Weather report was - - (static)
time 15 hours 38 minutes. The crew reported that they were
in fact late getting into the Earth Resources attitude. In
fact as they crossed the coast of California they remarked
that it was overcast. However they did lock on their primary
target of Walker Lake, the primary target for the S191 infrared
spectrometer experiment. Walker Lake is in California north
of Sacramento. The comments to the crew proved that they were
trying to locate the volcano in Guatemala, below Guatamala
City. The volcano referred to is Pacaya. They did try to acquire
another volcano in E1 Salvador referred to as Santa Ana. There
was a third volcano they were also looking for in Guatamala
Fuego. Skylab is now currently approaching the coast of
South America to continue the Earth resources which includes
gathering data over Bolivia. At the close of the pass as the
spacecraft approaches the Vanguard tracking station as the
vehicle is reoriented to solar inertial attitude, the crew
has been asked to attempt to photograph the Earth limb with the S190
multispectral camera facility on board. The crew is about
3/4 of the way through the 7th Earth resources pass of this
mission. We've had loss of signal at the Texas tracking
station. Next acquisition will be over Vanguard in approximately
7 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 15 hours
40 minutes.
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Time: 10:45 CDT 15/15:45 GMT
8/11/73

15 hours 45 seconds. Certainly if the crew had been able
to pick up the volcano in Guatemala or E1 Salvador on the
Earth resources pass, it would have made a 14-year-old Kent,
Washington student, Troy A. Crites, a 9th grader at Kent
Junior High School, in Kent Washington, very happy because
it - one of his experiments was educational experiment
number 12, volcanic study. It was his plan to determine if
remote sensing can detect increased thermal radiation from
known volcanoes in order to predictimminent eruptions.
We will have acquisition of the Vanguard tracking station
in approximately 1 minute. We'll hold the line up for that
pass.
PLT 91, EREP stop at 54. Standing by for EREP

stop. Getting around between around 30 percent tape (garble).
PLT MARK. EREP stop. Okay, start the (garble)
maneuvering, now. You got her?
CDR Got it. It's started. Earth limb set up.
PLT Okay. Forgot to do that.
CDR All right. We're ready over here (garble)
operation.
PLT Okay, S190 shutter speed is medium. Frames
is 13 set; intervals are 20. Okay, I got to disable the
FMC. I got to open this up a little bit, AI.
CC Houston with you for i0 minutes.
PLT I'm going to catch the guy who made these
snaps on this 190 thing. Ask him what he's doing for a
living now.
PLT (garble)
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, info, we're going to reenable Z-2,
Z-3 and REDUNDANCY MANAGEMENT.
CDR Sounds good.
CDR Okay, we started SI on time. Everything is
running along cozy at the moment.
PLT And the SMC breaker's been pulled.
CDR We even put in 8 minutes maneuver time.
PLT We got to get this up in your way for a
moment to change my apertures, AI.
CDR All right, while you're doing that I'll kind
of slide up here and make sure that we don't get too far
behind. 15:57, got a little time to go. Okay?
PLT Oh, boy, it's bright out therel
CDR Look at that_
PLT All cloudly. Okay, we're setting our apertures,

16.7. Capping shutters are running - notice. I'm getting
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tangled up in them. Number 2 is on the 6.7. Okay, I and 2,

6.7. Y-3, 6.7. They got a hangup on 6.7. Y-4, 2.8.
CDR I could do all that. 2.8.
PLT Number 5, 4.0.
PLT That detent in there. There it is, 4.0.
Number 6, likewise 4.0. Okay, let me check them. 6.7, 6.7,
and 6.7, the first three. 4 is 2.8, 5 is 4.0 and 6 is 4.0,
they are set. We're going to close this down. Oops, there's
the ground again. Not cloudy all the time.
PLT Okay, S190 is back is its (garble) location.
The pins are in; the knobs are coming down take. Okay, she's
fastened in, now.
CDR Okay.
PLT Did I get everything? I went post operate,
proceed for Earth limb. Set the S190 apertures. Done. No
filter change - they're not changed. Proceed with FMC.
Standing by for 15:57. Oh, man we've got 5-1/2 minutes to
go. We'll update the ground on where we've been since we
saw them last. Across the - in the Pacific off of San Sal-
vador. After coming over Guatemala City and San Salvador,
and we hit the western coast of South America at Ecuador Just
below, just west of Quito. We came down over La Paz in
Bolivia, beyond Paraguay, and we're crossing the, into the
Atlantic coast just a little above the Uruguayan/Brazilian
border.
CDR Looking right down on the beaches. I bet
there's somebody down there today in the sun. Don't see
them, though.
PLT Right now, we're about I minute from the
coast - (garble) coast.
CDR We're there.
PLT Okay.
CDR Nice theze. Nice place to go.
SC Okay, I'll tell you, my friends, Charlie 8
is reading 24 percent. I hope we got enough. You guys on
the ground are so good, I know we must.
CDR Okay, there's the horizon, and we are at a
kind of a cockeyed angle.
PLT No - -
CDR The horizon is sunk.
CDR Well, when we go to SI, we go back to that
roll. So the horizon is not perpendicular to the line of
sight. It's sort of at about a 45 degrees, I wonder what our
beta angle is. What's our beta, Hank? It ought to be right
at our beta angle.
CC (Garble).
CDR Say again.
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CC 29.5.
CDR Say it again, couldn't hear you.
CC 29.5.
CDR 29.5, I'd say that's maybe right.
CDR - - on this, I - that's probably about 30
degrees. Not bad. Hey, this is going to be easy, 15:57.
PLT That's the big number.
CDR Put it below there. Mark it while you' re
doing it. And then let go.
PLT TAC data - look at that TAC data here.
CDR Don't want to go to align op. I'm afraid
that might be - -
PLT Boy, these EREP guys made a good checklist,
and good cue cards. Got all the data you might ever want
in here. Fast forward is 120 inches per second. That's
I0 feet per second. So if we have I00 feet left, that will
take 10 seconds to run it all. We'll Just check them out on
that. Standing by for 57, AI.
CDR Turns out if you put the align on, and get
low sensitivity, and off high, it's better for this arrange-
ment.
PLT Okay. Align ON, huh?
CDR That's got to be good to do. I'll report
the clouds to the (garble). 715 is what I'm looking for.
PLT 4 - 24 percent says we got 1400 feet of
tape remaining. You know these things have 5200 feet of
tape in one of those rolls?
CDR Almost a mile.
PLT I said it wrong. It's 7200.
CDR 72.
PLT 7200'
CDR Don't get it loose in there.
PLT (Laughter). That's almost as much as the
teleprinter updates we get.
CDR Not quite. (Laughter). But they're looser.
PLT They're all listening down there, I bet you.
CC Buzz.
SPT Okay, let me get a word in about the frames
en ETC camera. It's 30 ought frame number 87, after I've
shot up my three single frames after the eompletlon of the
normal flash. That's frame number 87.
CC We copy.
CDR You decide to open the doortoday, 0?
SPT Son-of-a-gun½
CDR Like the last time, huh?
SPT Just like the last time.
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CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we've just

had a third RM failure on this Z-2, Z-3 and so we going ahead
and select the Z-3 only.
CDR Okay, we understand.
CC And that wil] be with RM enabled.
CDR Okay.
SPT I'm glad my initials aren't RH, you know
everybody would get a bad impression.
CDR 57. We're getting ready. We're almost there,
Jack.
PLT Rog. lO seconds to go.
CDR Turn the camera on and leave it on.
PLT Chomping at the bit to get this thing
on. Stand by, start. EREP start. Tape motion light is on.
SPT 715. I'm at 575. I'm coming on with the
camera. I'ii . .. and I will. 57:10.
PLT Oh boy, we're going to run the tape burner.
CDR Cameras on. I'm pushing the data button.
I'm going to release it at 1500. I've just released it. Okay,
we'v got cumulus clouds, no no, stratus clouds we're looking over.
And we're just gradually moving up now to the horizon. Every-
thing is working well.
CC We're about 40 seconds from LOS. Goldstone
will be coming up at 17:03.
PLT Okay Hank, thank you, 17:03.
CDR About 20 minutes.
SPT Okay, it's going above the horizon - -
PLT That's wrong, about 5 minutes. That's wrong
an hour and 5 minutes.
CDR An hour and 20.
CC Now you've got it.
CDR Okay.
SPT And it's almost above the horizon.
CDR Okay we had a left right there. I had a right
of 18. I'm going to put the next one to right 0. Okay. Try that
for size. Right 0 below the horizon. I'm pushing the data
button, I'm getting ready to release it. Release. Okay,
it should glide right up.
SPT Okay, we're getting ready to go to ready
on 192.
time 15 hours 58 minutes. We have had loss of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station as Commander AI Bean, and Pilot
Jack Lousma were concluding the Earth limb orientation of the
Earth resources package. This is designed using the S190
experiment to photograph the Earth limb. Next acquisition
wil I be over Coldstone in approximately i hour and 4 minutes
I r_,,, auw. _kylab Control, (;re_.nwtch mean time 15 hour_
59 ,,,i ,,. t*'_, .
I(ND ltl,' 'I'AI'E

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time 17 hours 1 minute as Skylab is in the - near - ends the
12065 revolution of the Earth with acquisition at Goldstone
coming up. We'll hold the llne open for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone 4-1/2
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info we can go
ahead and reset your caution and warning for that rate gyro
problem we had before.
CDR And Houston, ATM's going along okay.
I got the message on this before it - at the bottom here it
says bottom of the first Jop callout it says 54 change
grating end. Did that mean grading in for all of that
particular building block?
CC That's correct, AI.
CDR Okay, and one other comment on EREP.
I made sure that the, while we were doing the limb scan,
I made sure that the VTS pointed well above not only the horizon
but the air glow. That took a few seconds longer each
time than allowed. So, we started the last data take which
was night sky 1 minute later than planned, but we ran it
1 minute longer than planned. So, I think everything is
Just perfect. But the experimenter needs to know that. I think
he can probably figure it out, it's not on the tape but it's
going to be. Also, the door for the VT did print her. The
door for the VTS took 3 minutes to close which was about
40-50 seconds longer than the other day.
CC Roger, copy. Three minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to the
problem we had a while ago with the maneuver there, the
ATM system checklist and data book on page 2-5 talks about
that a little bit. If we need the Z-LV biases that last
data command should be entered as soon as possible after
the Z-LV mode is selected, and this is because the maneuver
is restarted when you - when you do the center.
CDR We understand it, I goofed it up.
CC Okay, I'll say we came out of that
pretty good though, AI. We calculated we had a 3.3 degree
Y error at the EREP start and we actually reached the
ZOLV a minute and 44 seconds after we should have. We had
9 ETC frames and three 1190 frames taken prior to reaching
ZLV, so we came out pretty good.
CDR That' s great. That was fast reaction
time down there. What I should have done is when you told
me that number I should have subtracted 1 minute off of it
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and entered it. It would have been perfect.

CC Roger. And we' re about 30 seconds
from LOS. We' Ii be coming up on Vanguard at 02:50.
CDR Okay, I'm in chip B of building block 2 -
Jop 2C and building block 5. And everything's cooking along
and right now I'm located on the bright spot of H5 and there's
not much bright spot there but we're right on the edge of
it.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Chip B B is a little amblglous. It
said pointing in roll frame is 5A, and then it says
3.82B for uniform emission. Those things conflict with one
another.
time 17 hours 9 minutes. We've had loss of signal over
the Goldstone tracking station with Commander Bean going
over some of the EREP final activities in the EREP the Earth
limb photography. Next acquisition will be over the
Vanguard tracking station in approximately 14-1/2 minutes.
We'll take the line down until that Vanguard pass. Skylab
Control 17 hours 9 minutes.
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ql.-I It MC-640/ l
Time: 12:23 CDT 15/17:L3 GMT
_/ii/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Greenwich mean

time 17 hours 23 minutes. And the Skylab vehicle begins it
12085 revolution with Commander Bean completing a run at the
Apollo telescope mount and Science Pilot Owen Garriott and
Pilot Jack Lousma preparing for the afternoon meal. We'll
hold the line open for a t:onversation with the Vanguard
tracking station.
CC Skylah, Houston through Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll give us the
DAS we'll reset the caution and warning on the correct tyro.
CDR Okay, you've got it.
CC And understand you had a question this
morning in regard to the fire sensors, about the little flashes.
That's a perfectly normal thing. I guess it's some sort of
radiation that causes a little ionization in there. And incidentally
l saw that all during the ground tests too. Those little
th£ngs will wink every once in a while.
SPT Yeah, I assumed it was normal. I just
wondered what it was that was causing it and thought perhaps you
could answer it. Another subject now. I didn't finish doing the
ED32 with TV 58. And when I went up to turn the VTR off
it had already been turned o_f. And I was wondering how much
of it you got or whether or _ot you turned it off early. Over.
CC We'll get an answer on that. Just - -
SPT Okay, another question on ED32. I noticed
that after innoculating the - each of the plates with the antigen
that after 5 or i0 minutes the auger had completely absorbed
all of the antigen that had been placed inside. Now I really
wasn't expecting that, but I expect that is normal also, and
I just wanted to check with one of the experimenters associated
with that to make sure that that wasn't an expected event.
CC Okay, we'll check that one.
CC And SPT, Houston. We have indications
here of end of tape on the VTR and apparently that's what
turned it off.
SPT Okay, I had thought there was 30 minutes
available, and so I'm not certain how much of the ED32 got on
there. I hope the major part of it. I only recorded about
20 minutes. So there must have been a good deal less or
something less than 30 available when I started.
CC We're a little puzzled about that one then,
Owen. Because we had indications of beginning of tape this morning,
so there should have been 30 minutes available.
SPT Okay, well I don't know the answer to it
right now. When you dump the tape, you might let me know
what got on there and if ED32 was covered satisfactorily.
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The Prep.
SPT And you'll all also need to know a time,
ah, at which the innoculation was fade and that is 17:00 zulu
because I need to get rescheduled for photography 24 hours
plus or minus a bit from now.
CC Okay, we copy 17:00 zulu.
CC And CDR, Houston. In regard to your question
on 82B a while ago. That was a little ambiguous and, uh, I
guess that - if that comes up again, th - the message is to
repoint the 82B per uniform emission.
CDR Okay. Well, we figured it out. I went
down to talk to 0 - Owen and he said, uh, go back to the, uh,
pointing on H-Alfa 2, 55 off set. That'll put you back up
where you were for step one and then make sure that 82B is
in the, uh, uniform emisslonof that area, which has
nothing to do with the bright stuff, but, uh, make sure that's
uniform for being off, uh, the bright plage area. So that's
what I did.
CC We copy.
CDR And we finished that, uh, Jop with no sweat,
but right now I'm - finishing that step. We're now on step one.
CC We copy.
CDR And the fellows in the ATM back
room there, Science Room I noticed what I started writing
earlier on, uh, building block 5, that it was again counting
up everytime the raster went through zero, which meant you
had - you got about 30 for each mirror autoraster ... flopped at '
both ends. But now it's doing okay. So I assume that the ground
must have refit something in it more tahn it had.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. COM seems to be going in
and out here about 2 minutes from nominal LOS. If they lose
COM, we'll be coming up on Hawaii at 34.
CC That's about an hour from now.
PLT Houston,uh, you still there Hank?
CC Roger.
PLT How about having the ATM fellows come
up with a pad for,uh, running the ATM. I guess it would be
93 mSnutes after 000 - uh, 0040. That would be 140 and then
add 30, and that'd he, uh, 210, I believe. Have 'em come
up with a pad for, uh, the pass after the 0040 pass, if
you would. Adn we'll run it up here.
CC Roger we copy.
SC I guess you may notice that our photo-
multiplied exposure count is running up around 600 which is
a little bit higher than it has been. I've been kind of
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looking around without moving because

I don't want to stop this, uh, particular JOP. But it looks
like we've got something going on. A little bit higher than
ambient.
CC Roger.
time 17 hours 36 minutes. Science Pilot, Owen Garriot, re-
ported to the ground that he had concluded the work with
educational experiment ED32. The experiment of sixteen-year -
old Todd Meidster of Jackson Heights, New York. This is the
In-vitro immunology experiment, which is designed to determine
the effects of zero G on representative llfe processes. This was
put on the VTR video tape recorder downlink at a later point in
the mission. The evening pass of the, uh, Earth Resources,
pass number 8, will follow a track along - ground track number
13 and a descending mode starting in Thialand and running
across Austrailia and ending up on the New Zealand South Island.
This pass is designed primarily to gather data on natural
resources and Thialand, Malaysia, and Austrailia. Next
acquisition will be over Hawsii in approximately 56 minutes
from now, at 17 hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time. This
is Skylab Control.
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Time: 13:33 CDT, 15/18:33 GMT
8/11/73

time 18 hours 33 minutes. Anticipate acquisition over the
Hawaii track - tracking station momentarily. We expect
to have further discussions with the crew of Skylab-3
concerning the problems with - concerning the Z-2 right rate
gyro which has been giving flight controllers concern today.
We'll hold the line open for possible discussions on this
subject.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii _r
7-1/2 minutes. And Skylab - -
CDR Hank, on the request for that extra
ATM pad, forget it. I reslized that after looking at the
schedule more closely that we can't make it when we do
EREP. We'll be stowing EREP, no way.
CC Roger, I was going to ask you if you
knew something we didn't. That's fine. And if we could
have the DAS we're going tG bring Z2 back on the line along
with Z3 and enable redundancy management.
CDR You got them.
CC And SPT, Houston. We are configured
for TV at Hawaii here if yo_1 can downlink us some XUV
monitor.
SPT Okay, I'ii give you a little bit of
everything I got showing.
CC And you'll have to change your video
select over there from TV over to monitor.
SPT Sure appreciate those reminders. You
must have a telemetry disc - telemetry disc that tells you
where the position of that switch is. Is that correct?
CC That's a[firmative.
CC And CDR, in reference to your comment
last pass in regard to S055, we don't understand that
30 count either and it doesn't - it doesn't ring up
withus at all. So if this o_curs again we'd sure llke
for you to report it; any of the crew members that notice
that happening again.
CC You - you made a statement that you
thought we commanded something that cleared it all up, but
we did not command anything. Whatever it was cleared it-
self up.
CC And for SPT, no need to acknowledge,
in regard to your comment on the Agar, it is normal
for it to absrob antigens.
SPT Okay, and I also didn't notice on
plate A in the top row, in other words the first pair of
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holes innoculated, the plastic had separated from the

Agar a little bit and provided a possible path for
some of the antigens to flow under. I don't know whether
it did or not but there was a little air gap underneath
the plastic cover and the Agar. So, on plate A-
Todd meister who's ths assistant investigator and ought to
be thinking about that and keeping it in mind in terms of his
interpretation and we'll see what the pictures look llke tomorrow.
CC We copy.
CDR For the science room hack there. This lookes
like it ought to be an outstanding place for this jop Charlie.
Ought be a very interesting structure I'll have to do the
chromoshpere and (garble).
CC We copy.
CDR And you were just asking - talking
with A1 about that raster cRn counter, we're in a reauto
raster rlght now. And my raster counter is passing
43 at this point. So, it's apparently still misbehaving.
CC Roger, we copy.
time 18 hours 42 minutes. The - here's a review of the
present status of the rate gyro situation. Earlier today
ground control has noted a difference in the scale factor
between the output of the Z2 rate gyro and the Z3 rate gyro.
And as a result the Z2 outputs were omitted from the
computer system onboard. There are 3 rate gyros in each of
the 3 axis, the X, Y, and Z, which sense the rates of the
orbital assembly. The gyro outputs feed into the ATM_DC,
the Apollo Telescope Mount Digital Computer, which in turn
maintains the proper attitude reference through the thruster
attitude control system, the TACs. Earlier today there
8 failures of the Z2 rate gyro within a 4-hour period. Has
just mentioned on the - the pass just over Hawaii Z2 rate
gyro was brought back on line and further analysis will
be made of the rate sensing capability of this Z2 rate gyro.
There has been no problem with the Z3 rate gyro. The Z1
gyro has been off line since day 184 of the mission. The
Y3 rate gyro, which developed oscilations on day 173 of
the mission has since been powered down and now can be
considered marginally useable. The Y2 and the Y1 rate gyros
are performing nominally. The gyros in the X-axls, i, 2,
and 3 present no concern at this time. We've had AOS - LOS
at Hawaii. Next station pass will be Vanguard, acquisition
18 minutes 25 seconds. At 18 hours 45 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time : 14:02 CDT 15/19:02 GMT
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time 19 hours 2 minutes with acquisition coming up on the
Vanguard tracking station as Skylab III concludes it's
one-thousand two-hundered and eighty-six revolution. I'll
leave the llne up now for CAPP COMM, Hank Hartsfleld and the
crew of Skylab III.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.
And Skylab, we'll dumping the data recorder at this site.
CDR Okay. I have just one question about
the, uh, ATM schedule that was called up Hank. I noticed by
mirror - extra mirror auto raster called for a dectector number 5.
Now I still have that taped. I was wondering if the back room
wanted me to go ahead and activate the detector 5 and if we should
inter-pret dectectors all to - I mean including number 5. Over.
CC Stand by on that. I'll get an answer
right quick.
CC SPT, Houston. Uh, we would like for you
to go ahead and try to use dectector 5 where it's called for
on the pad. I guess that means you have to get your tape
off of there.
SPT Okay. I' ii take the tape off and we' ii
also interpret dectectors all to now include dectector
number 5 and we'll see if it_will stay in.
CC That's affrlmatlve.
SPT I presume the back room uh, is able to
record my pointing coordlnance so, uh, I don't need to voice
them down.
CC Uh, we got them, SPT.
SPT And my raster scan counter is working properly
after the last uh, reset. I don't know what made it behave
much better.
CC Roger, SPT. And if you'll let us use the
DAS a bit we will update the Y-2 Drift.
SPT All yours _
SC (garble)
CC SPT, Houston. Uh, could you reconflgure
the dectectors per the pad, please. We're afraid we
might zap one here.
SPT Thank you very much.
from LOS. Hawaii is coming up in i0.
CDR Hey, Hank. This is the CDR. See if
you can set me up a phone call to my wife tonight, would
you?
CC Roger. We're work on it.
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CC CDR, Houston. Do you want that before

or after the EREP pass this evening?
CDR Before is probably best, but if it's
afterwards, that's okay too.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 19 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time with loss of signal over the Vanguard
tracking station. Uh, limited to conversations between Skylab
III crew and the ground on this pass, however, mentlon was
made. The ground requested to give control to the ground
of the DAS. This is the digital - uh, the ATM digital
computer system which maintains the attitude and maneuver
references for the entire Skylab cluster. This is in
reference to the problem that's been worked on here on the
ground today, concerning the Z-2 rate gyro, which has been
acting out of line and the _round continues to analyze
this situation. At Greenwi_:h mean time 19 hours 14 minutes,
this is Skylah Control.
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minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is about a
half a minute away from acquisition at the Hawaii tracking
site. We' ii stand by for communication with Skylab III and
the ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 9 minutes.
PLT Aloha, Hank.
CC Aloha.
PLT Say, dld you break up the card game in
the back room have the ATM boys take a look at the panel?
CC Wilco.
CC Skylab, Houston. Your panel looks good.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to the
Raster scan counter that was cutting up on us a little
while ago. We think there might be a possibility that in
the low light levels, the O-order detector is causing that
thing to count, so this did happen, as I understand it in
some ground testing, so the next time you see the anomalus
raster scan count, which would be at the ATM pass coming up
at 00:40, we'll get a = use that instrument - we would llke
for you to check the 0-order talkback and see what it's doing.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've had some pretty
poor VHF comm in the last couple of tries with our phone
calls, etc. And so to check it out here before this evening,
we'd you to go up and bring up a couple of panels - switches,
in the CSM so for Vanguard that we'll be set up to go
SIMO, and we'll try to sort out the problem here in the
MOCR. That way if we do have bad VHF comm, we can immediately
go back to S-band.
CDR Okay.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. is This the PLT?
PLT Yep.
CC Are you in the command module now?
PLT I'm at the ATM.
CC Okay, well we got something for you to
do there. We'd like to see the - We show detector 37 and
357 not up. We'd llke you to bring all the detectors down
and bring them up in the proper sequence to see if we can
get them up.
PLT They just now kicked off and I reset
them by reset detector 5. They all looked up now?
CC Okay. They all look good now.
PLT Just about 30 seconds ago I restarted
on grating 200 and that's when they kicked off.
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CC We copy.
CDR Okay, Hank. This is the CDR, I'm over
at the command module. What can I do for you?
CC Okay, we'd like to on panel 9, we'd
like to verify that the S-band is in TR, and we'd also like
to bring the VHF AM up to TR.
CDR Okay, I Just put it there. Both of them
are in TR.
CC And on panel 3, we'd llke to bring up
VHF AMB to duplex. And when we're LOS you can adjust your
squelch for noise plus i.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. We're setting
tight in that mode right now.
CC And AI, we're working on which antenna
is going to be the best and we should have that for you.
hopefully, before LOS, if not, we'll get to you at Vanguard.
CDR Sounds good. And, you want me to stay
in the command module for awhile? Why don't Just tell this
to Jack? He can zip over and change it.
CC Okay. We' ii do that.
SPT Okay, there's only a 50-50 chance he'll
have to change it anyway. 1_ight now, it's on left.
CC PLT, Houston, Just a little reminder, we see
it's time now for the i minute and 20 second exposure on
82A, long wavelength.
PLT Okay, I already took that. That was
the first one I did. I already got the 520. This will
make the last.
CC Okay, that'll be okay, Jack.
PLT I'ii give you another one if you want
it, many as you want. You name it, and I'ii do it.
CC Roger. Give us another one.
PLT Okay. One more i minute and 20 second
exposure coming up.
PLT I presume you want this long wavelength
again. Is that
right?
CC That's afflrmatlve.
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 42. Want a
data recorder dump.
CDR Okey-doke.
PAO We have had loss of signal with the
Skylab III crew. Next station contact will be Vanguard in
about 21 minutes. At 20 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean
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PAO This is Skylab Control; at 20 hours 40

minutes Greenwich mean time, space station is approximately
a minute away from acquisition at the Vanguard tracking site.
On this the end of revolution 1287, we'll stand by for
communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Hank. Are you there?
CC Hello there, how do you read?
CDR Okay, I'm reading you now. I was reading
you very weakly teh last time. How do you read me now?
CC Okay, read you loud and clear.
CDR Oh, I'm reading you real weakly again, and
then I been reading you for awhile. It's kind of intermittent.
Sounds like you must be on VHF.
CC That's affirmative, we're VHF only now.
CDR Okay, now your loud and clear and it
be Just because of more background noise that you don't have
on S-band.
CC That's affirmative. And we would like
to have the DAS to do the Y-2 drift update.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've been discussing
the $191 door, (garble) a little slower, for our EREP pass
this evening, what we would llke for you to do, if you think
of it is time both the opening and the closing of that door.
So we can see what's happening to it.
CDR Okay, we'll time the opening and closing
we need you to time the closing and the opening but we'll see
if we can watch it as it goes open with the view finder.
CC Okay.
LOS, we have a low angle pass Ascension at 5:08.
CDR Okay, Han_ the ATM pass went as
advertised on that rev. And just make a comment on the voice
recorder, that about 20 - 30 amp, I noticed that - that the pro-
minence above active region 85 is missing. And it had disappeared
in the last 5 or i0 minutes prior to that because I had been -
CC Roger, we copy.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. We had a rather
quiet pass as far as the actual comment was concerned_ but
a rather noisy pass with background interference. An
announcement for those press that are in the Houston area,
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8/11/73
(CONT'D) there will be a change-of-shift briefing

at about 4:30 p.m. Central daylight time involving Flight
Director Charles Lewis, and with him will be the EREP officer
Earl Thompson and the ASCO Officer, Pat O'Neil. ASCO is the
software control officer in connection with the Apollo telescope
mount work. That's 4:30 p.m. Central dayllght time,
building i briefing room, that's the newsCenter building
briefing room. We have a low angle pass at the Ascension
tracking site next acquisition. We don't anticipate any
comm through Ascension. Next acquisition is in about an
hour and a half with the Guam tracking station, at 20 hours
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SL III MC-645/I
TIME: 17:18 CDT 15/22:18 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. 22 hours 18

minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away f_nm
acquisition at the Vanguard tracking ship. At this time
we anticipate that the crew will be thoroughly involved
in it's presleep activities, even though at about 8:00
Houston time there is a scheduled EREP pass. We'll stand
by for 30 seconds or so to hear alr-to-ground over through
Vanguard.
CC Skylah, AOS through the Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
CC Skylab_ we've got two more stations
here to cheek out that VHF. We missed you entirely over
Ascension. Could one of you talk to us?
CDR How's life on Earth down there, Story?
CC Say again.
CDR I said, "How's life down there?" You
want someone to talk to you,
CC Okay. It's great.
CDR We haven't had rain up here in weeks.
You know that? It's getting to be pretty dry, a pretty
dry spell.
CC That's true down here in Houston.
CC Could you hear us call over Ascension
last pass?
CDR I don't _emember. I was riding the
bike. When you're on the bike, you don't hear too much.
CC Okay.
CDR You on VHF or S-band.
CC We're on VRF through Vanguard here, and
we'll also be VHF on through Ascension.
CDR Okay, yeah, you don't have the - doesn't have
to be tone and quality that the S-band has.
CC That's true.
CDR I was looking over the shopping llst.
We got some spare time right Zhis minute, But it turns
out that if I'd have had the spare time yesterday we could
have got these 487s out of the way. And there's Just about
nothing we can do on the shopping llst today except the
487-2B group discussion as near as I can figure it out.
(garble) something needed.
CC Okay, we'll work on that.
CDR Now, you got the word - I hope the
Flight Planners got the word that we did all the housework
for tomorrow and so they ought to fill up the day
in fact, maybe they ought to start doing that for two or
three days in a row here, because we're getting ahead on
this housework.
r _
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CC Copy.
CC While I've got you AI, whots doing the
are you doing the maneuver on EREP tonight?
CDR Jack's going to do the maneuver and
I'm going to do the C&D.
CC Okay. I've got a change in the maneuver
time on line 9.
CDR Okay. I think he's listening up there
right now. You might give him a call.
PLT Okay. Just a mlnute, Story.
CC Okay. On your maneuver pad there that's
1630A line 9. You might get that out.
PLT Okay. I got it Story, go ahead.
CC Okay. We're estimating we're going to
save 6 minutes by changing that maneuver time from 25 to
15 minutes and it's 52030, 50017.
PLT Okay. I got that. Looks llke a 15
minute maneuver, Huh?
CC That's the (garble) It's a 15 minutes
maneuver with the (garble) 50017.
PLT All right. That's what I copy. 17 for
15 minutes.
CC Okay.
CC And nothing else is changed on that pad,
Jack. Use the ZLV maneuver time. The time to initiate
that hasn' t changed.
CC And A1, no need to acknowledge, there
is a T002 you can do on that shopping llst as well as the
M487.
CDR Only Jack can do those T002s I'm afraid
and he's already did a bun__h of them this morning.
CC Okay.
CDR - TO03, a couple of those.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm going to go work on day after
tomorrow's housekeeping.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay Story, I've got the ATM powered
down for unattended. How about having somebody have a
look at it to make sure it's okay.
CC Okay. Thanks, Jack.
CDR And (garble) when I picked up those
shopping list items are were 82B then when I took those
volume exposures 54 at number 16, I think it was, that was
12 minutes and short wavelength.
CC Okay.
CC And Jack, your panel looks good except
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the S056 door is closed and per the checklist change yesterday
for unattended - we'll leave that open for unattended ops.
PLT Right. I didn't touch it when I went
down through there.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see
you over Ascension in 3 minutes.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved
out of range of the Vanguard tracking site. We'll keep
the line up for communications with the Ascension station,
which is next up in about 2 minutes. We'll stand by for
comm through the Ascension tracking station.
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CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for i0 minutes

and we're on VHF.
CC CDR, Houston.
CT Station COM TECH, Houston COM TECH NET 1.
CT Ascension COM TECH, go ahead.
CT Roger, read you loud and clear. We're
not copying the crews voice.
CC Skylab, we've got a downlink problem
we're not copying you downlink.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got 7 minutes
left over Ascension and we did have a down llnk problem, we
ought to be with you now.
PLT Hello, Story. How are you reading?
CC Yes, sir, we're back up on S-band reading
you loud and clear.
PLT Okay, I went and opened the S056 door.
I don't know how it got closed must be when the sun went down.
I want to answer your question about T002. I took some
sightings in -I- I recorded them later on a tape recorder
I don't think there's any requirement for a real fine marks
on sight of the star for T002, is that affirm?
CC I'Ii get pou an answer.
CC Is CDR right there Jack?
PLT Yeah, he's here. Go ahead CDR is listening.
CC Okay, we're thinking it's a guarantee
some good family comm tonight, we would like to put the
family comm on S-band and us on simultaneious VHF and we can
uplink your procedure for getting that done.
CDR We sure are infavor of that, because you
can see how that S-band comm is yourself.
PLT Uplink the old procedure, we'll be
ready.
CC Okay, and one other thing,now we did
see the condensate Delta-P fall off very rapidly and then
start creeping back up, have you been doing anything with
that system over the last hour?
CDR Haven't been close to the tank. Want
me to go check it?
CC No, we were just curious as to why it
was doing that.
CDR Well, I hope we haven't got a separator
water plate break through, I'ii go up and look over the lines
nobody's been near that tank I don't think in the last
hour or so, let me go check.
CC Okay.
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8/11/73
CDR Story, everything looks nice and tidy,

I notice that the pressure on the small tank is down llke
you said, all I can guess is the leak opened up for a little
while and then restopped up.
CC Okay.
CDR Want me to dump the condensate tank right
at the starting right now, because otherwise your not going
to have any pressure. According to this thing it's down
to about a half a psi.
CC Yeah, AI. The condensate tank dump
is scheduled right about now, you might as well get ahead
with it.
CDR Okay, I'Ii go work on it right now. And
how about mention it in the flight plan. Lets try stopping
for about three or four days and see if it works out. Lets a -
Lets do one of two things, which ever they think is the
better, lets leave all of the housekeeping off of the
flight plan and just put it down at the bottom of the plan
and call it housekeeping and llst and not the letters and
we'll get them done somehow or go ahead and put that in
and take the flight planning time that I have after supper
and do away with that and put experiments from ATM and all
of that other business in there so that we are sort of running
a full day. We're - We've got this housekeeping ship shape
up here and we're kind of ready to crank them out.
CC Okay, we think that's an excellent idea.
Put the housekeeping off and the bottom of the page and
number them and flight plan your little little tighter on that
and we'll see how you've well your getting ahead or falling
behind in the housekeeping and at present were not favor
your not getting to far ahead on that since some of those
are periodic things.
CDR That's what I notice two days from now,
with the CO2 sensor change so I didn't do it. But your right
just let us know what we should that day shopping llst and
lets see how it works. And I can use my planning time at
the end of the day if that's the way they want to do it and
I'll try to get those things done then along with anybody
else can get them done.
CC Okay, we think that's a good plan.
CDR Okeydoky.
CC Yea, while we're on the subject your
flight plans for tomorrow are on board.
PAO Skylab III has moved out of range of the
Ascension station. We'll next hear from them in about an
half an hour when they pass over Guam. At 23 hours 43 minutes
GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-647/I
Time: 18:15 CDT; 15/23:15 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 23 hours 15 min-

utes Greenwich mean time; about a minute away from acquisi-
tion at the Guam tracking site. The crew is in its presleep
activities at this particular time. And among other things,
we expect to hear the evening status report. We'll stand by
for about 27 - 28 more seconds, expecting-to hear from the
crew at that time.
SC (Garblc)
CC Skylab. We're AOS Guam for i0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story, SPT.
CC Hello.
SPT Let me get that other speaker, just a minute.
SPT Story, I've just finished running the ED63,
cytoplasmic streaming experiment. That's the one for (garble)
student investigator a Miss Cheryl Peltz out in Littleton,
Colorado. And when I opened the three vials that have been
placed up by our wardroom light the - there was a - an odor
of some sort of sulfuric compound. And it wasn't distinctly
hydrogen sulfide, but it did smell - did smell a little sul-
furous at any rate. And so I wasn't as hopeful as I might
have been. Then I - after extracting several of the elodea
leaves it was clear that there was very little resistence to
the extraction. Now it this had been a healthy plant there
should have been, as I understand it, a pretty good tug re-
quired to pull the leaf from the plant. I tried it on all
three vials and in each case there was little resistence to
separating the leaf from the stem. And all three vials didn't
have this rather faint sulfurous odor. So it was not too
encouraging and I then prepared one slide, put it under the
1000-power microscope, and looked for these streaming effects.
The microscope was in good focus. The details of the plants
could be seen, but there was no streaming observed. And I
have recorded that on the DAC camera and with the motion
picture time frames. I then prepared a second slide from
the same plant and examined that also and was unable to find
any streaming. I've looked in a number of places on both
leaves and have a number of - oh, probably 5 or i0 minutes
of DAC at recordings of the (garble) of the leaf, although
by eye I was unable to see any of the cytoplasmic streaming.
I don't know whether you have any other questions or any
of the other people associated with the experiment there
that might also have some questions for me, but the time
of the experiment performance was within the last hour and
a half, between about 22 and 23:00 Zulu. Over.
CC Okay, we copied all that, Owen.
CC And we'll be looking for the evening status
report over this pass or- the next pass is Vanguard, your
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8/11/73
medical conference will be then. We could get the EV status

report at Ascensio, at 00:13.
CC And Owen, Just as a reminder. According
to the update we sent you, preserve that experiment gear
for SL-IV and clean it off with a blocide wipe and stow
it in W733.
SPT 733. Okay, I'm in the process of doing that
now. And I notice your message 1427 starts out when spider
is observed spinning a new web. I think that may be a bit
optimistic. There has been no observation of that as yet,
and - unless you want us to stay up into the wee hours, I
think we may not.
CC Okay; copy.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. Your
medical conference will be coming up over the Vanguard in
30 minutes at 23:56. And if possible, we'd like a star
tracker lock on.
CC And we'd llke the evening status report.
Ascension at 00:13 will be fine.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out of
range of the Guam tracking site. Next acquisition at Van-
guard in about a half an hour. Twenty-three hours 26 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-648/I
TIME: 18:56 CDT 15/23:56 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2S hours

56 minutes. We're in contact with the Skylab III crew
through the Vanguard tracking site. It's medical con-
ference time, and we expect a little talk. Standing by.
CC Skylab. We're a minute to LOS here.
We'll see you over Ascension in 7 minutes, and let me
look at the evening status report there.
CDR We got it. We'll be up in a minute
with it there, Story.
CC Okay. Thanks.
PAO We've had loss of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station. We'll be back up in about
5-1/2 minutes. At 7 minutes into the new day, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III mc-649/i
Time: 19:12 CDT; 16/00:12 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes

into the new day. That would be day 224 in the year 1973.
Expect to acquire the space station in about a half a
minute through Ascension and wet11 have the station in
communication through Ascension, Canaries and Madrid.
Standing by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through -
2 more minutes through Ascension, and CDR.
PLT Hers listening.
CC Okay, his private comm is coming up
here in about 3 minutes. I need to get him a procedure
for his talking on S-band.
CDR Okay. We're standing by to do that
or do the nightly report. Whichever you llke.
CC No. We want to get your private
comm squared away here. Would you like _ talk on a
head set or on a speaker, AI?
CDR I'll talk on the headset.
CC Okay. here we go. We are going to
teleprinter this up to you so you'll have it. Panel-3,
PHF AM-B to duplex. VHF antenna, seclect the best. Ittll
be the left for your pass. Panel i0. S-band to TR. Inter-
comm OFF. Connect the headset, (garble) power ON. Panel
9, S-band OFF. VHF AM to TR. And on panel 98 speaker
headset to HEADSET.
CDR Only one part I didn't understand.
You want both VHF A and B to duplex or you Just want the
VHF B to duplex?
CC Just VHF AM B to duplex. And I've
got the thing here for you to get out of that.
CDR Okay. Well, I can put it back llke
it is. You want it back like it is now? Or back like
the normal Comm S-band?
CC Just back to normal comm.
CDR Okay, I'll put it back llke it was
yesterday and like it is right at the moment. And I'm
going to give the VHF duplex A and then duplex B also.
If that's what you want.
CC Okay. No need to acknowledge, AI,
but you can press on and as soon as you get that set up,
you'll have your private comm.
CC And in the reconfiguration, we want
duplex Bravo.
PLT He's on his way.
CC Okay.
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SPT Hello this is Owen here. Al's tried

to get the comm figure - to reconflgured up in the command
module so he can do the talking up there.
SPT Hello Comm Tech, how do you read me.
This is the SPT, Owen here.
CC Owen• Story is reading you down here.
CDR Okay. I've got the command module set
up for the situation and I guess you _st don't hear me.
I hear you great on the private loop, but you can't hear
me.
CC And AI, this is Story, we're reading

you down here.
CDR Okay. I think you're reading me Just
on the standard S-band. Arentt you?
CDR Let me run back over to the command
module and look at it again. I'm sure itts configured right.
CC Okay.
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CDR Okay, how do you read on VHF?

CC Houston is reading you loud and clear,
A1.
CDR And I know it's good. Looks like we
some how got it all hooked up together, because he reads
me great on S-band when I throw the VHF switch on. So that
doesn't quite make sense. Ah.
CDR Okay your with me now (garble).
CDR Hello, Sue.
CC A1, we're going to add S-band and VHF
to you for 5 more minutes of private comm.
PAO We have an indication that the Skylab
space station has moved out of range of the Madrid tracking
slte and we have wlth us the mission surgeon daily medical
report which he says and I quote. "The crew of Skylab Ill,
remains in good health. At the end of their second week
of their mission, we continue optimistic about their completion
of the 59 day mission." end of quote. At 31 minute Greenwich
mean time, thls is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-651/I
Time: 19:54 CDT; 16/00:54 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 54 minutes Green-
wich mean time, about a half a minute away from acquisition
at the Cuam tracking site. At this time the Skylab-lll crew
should be about ready to begin its preparation for EREP pass,
Earth's resources pass number eight, over track 13. Now
that actual run on that pass is scheduled to begin at 9:24
p.m. Houston time and to run through 9:51 p.m. Central day-
light time. We'll stand by for alr-to-ground through the
Guam tracking site.
CC Skylab, we're AOS, Guam for 7 minutes.
CDR Read you loud and clear Story. How me?
CC I'm reading you 5 square, AI. And we need
the DAS here for a nzv update and possibly a new NU 2 update.
CDR Surely
CDR Okay, l'm not sure what came off on that
private comm comm. We set it up like you said and it - we
just never could get it. We got it for the last 3 minutes
or SO .
CC Roger. We're going to get your procedure

up on the - on the teleprinter pad, AI. We were probably
rushing things a little going the procedures at Canaries -
I mean at Ascension and then expecting you to be all set up
at Canaries.
CDR I'm not sure whether I should have done all
that stuff on panel 9 which I did in my instructlons or done
it up on 6 since we're reversed. All I know is - the thing
that changed the ball game was he said that - I heard this
voice say go to VHF on i0, so I went to VHF on lO; it worked,
I said are you hearing me VHF and he says: Yeah, I'm hear-
ing you S-band 2. Now, I don't know why, but that's - that
was the key thing. So then I turned the VHF off and it still
worked.
CC Yeah, I had the COMM TECH have you go to
VHF TR OFF on panel I0.
CDR Okay, he told me to go it to on and I went
on and it all worked. So, it beats me. We can give it a
checkout. That's much better comm, that's the way to go.
CC We'll look at that and we'll get your tele-
printer pad onboard for setting things up.
CDR Okay, and when we do, let's set it up one
time Just for practice Just to see if it works.
CC Good idea,
SPT Okay, for the ATM room - I started it
at the roll of minus 5400 instead of 10800, so I'm doing
chip B first instead of chip A. And I'ii debrief the thing
on channel A so you'll have all the details of it.
CC Okay, Owen.
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CC And AI, if you're ready on the evening status

report, we're ready.
CDR Okay. I'm in the command module. It'll
take me just a second to get back down there.
CC Okay.
SPT I Just sort of checked around building block I
and I think it's going to take care of everybody's desires
on it. The only exception being I've given 82A already
their two exposures and that was at 5400 which is not the
optimum roll for them. And it's my fault on that and every-
body else is going to get what they wanted on it. They have
done their two exposures but that 93 difference is what they
had intended on building block i.
CC Okay, thanks, Owen.
CDR Okay, here comes the nightly report, iii,
165, 160; 4,881, 8,074, 5,701; 6,256, 6,255, 6,253; 5,975, 5,977,
5,974; 6,972, 6,963, 6,977. And a note to be added is: CDR
is now weighing himself in T-shlrts and shorts instead of
just shorts. That should be added to - handed to the
experimenters. Okay. We're on exercise now: 2/30/4270;
3, mark i, 15 minutes, 50A 20B 20C 20D. SPT: 2/33/5000, A, 60
reps; B, 60 reps; C, 30 raps. Pilot: 2/35/7366, 2/05/0533.
Those were arm exercises. And 3/20, mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D,
20 back bends. No medication. Sleep as follows: CDR 7/G,
SPT 6-1/2 G, PLT 6-1/2 G. Here comes the food report: CDR
ate salt packs. That's not right. CDR had I0 salt packs.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Here we go, i0 salt packs and
nothing - no other change. SPT had three salt packe and added
one apple drink. PLT had eight salt packs and one extra apple
juice. Photo log next. ET - 16 - millimeter: ETC prep, Mlbl,
CE41, 87, CI16; EREP 6D, CL02, 85, and not applicable. 35-mil-
limeter: CXI2, frame count 43. It should be added here that
we're a little puzzled about the frame counts ourselves. We
think maybe that the counter that counts backwards with the
electric feature, the one that we're supposed to use may has
broken. Because we know it got down to a small number and then
it all of a sudden showed up at 40. So, we're not sure ourselves
exactly what the story is on that camera. But we'll keep using it
until we feel the 35 millimeter feed such that we know it's
run out. Okay, 70-milllmeter: CXlI, 121. ETC: CT04, 087.
Here comes the EREP: It's of course we're loading it up
again. Set T 7705, 7042, 7917, 7912, 1455, 8773. Drawer A
configuration: 02, CI42, 00,C124; 03, C143, 100, CI18; 06,
C139, 00, CI13; 05, C141,8 (garble)
CC We're going LOS. We'll see you at Honeysuckle
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in 5 minutes.
CDR Okay. I think I was finished. How long
have we got in this pass?
CC We're going LOS right now and we'll have
4 minutes at Honeysuckle.
CDR (Garble) 4. Did you Eet all that photo?
CC Yep.
PAO With about 4 minutes until acquisition at
Honeysuckle, we'll Just keep the llne up.
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CC Skylab, we're AOS Honeysuckle for

4 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, here's the rest of the report, Story.
CC Say again, AI.
CDR I'm going to give you the rest of the
nightly report.
CDR Here it comes. Shopping llst items
accomplished. Housekeeping 60-E. T003, two samples, TO02,
two sets of pan observations. Window defoE, we defoEged the
window unit and got a little streak of fogging on it. Sort
of eminating like a Jet on the place where we put the
vacuum on it and where we put in theoretically the dry air from
the SAL airlock. It apparently wasn't completely dry and
the question I have in my mind is we'd like to evacuate
that space and shut it off and leave it just as a vacuum
if we could. I'm not sure we can do it, though. But,
would you check and see?
CC Okay.
CDR I've removed the restraints, those knee
restraints from dome locker 430 and 424, the blue ones on
the outside and put them in 454. I've scheduled stowage
item locatlon changes from F-548 to WPM to E-2 orange Juice.
One box of wet wipes from W-735 to wardroom and one bundle
of fecal bags from F-571 to H-833. That should do it.
CC Okay, and how about transporter 5 and
transporter 7? We didn't get those, AI.
CDR Transporter 7 has had no change. Let
me check 5.
CC Okay.
CDR I had to go get the book again. It was in
A-4. It's 05, C141, 87, CI16.
CC Copy.
CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard at 01:36.
CC Skylab. That'll be Canaries at 01:54.
PA0 The space station has moved out of
range of the Honeysuckle tracking station. Next contact
will be through the Canary Island station. The EREP data
collected on this evening's pass over Thialand will be
utilized for several application programs being developed
over in that country. These programs include inventorying
natural resources, agriculture, forrestry, land use patterns,
hydrology and geology studies. The data - photographic data
collected over Malaysia is planned to be used to study
drainage systems, water resources and also for updatln E the -
this countries standard map series. In Australia, Ellls
Springs, over which this run also will take place is an
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example of an area currently being developed for land use

plannlng. Prevlously acquired research and field work
data will be correlated with the Skylab photographic and
multispectral scanning information to help develop patterns
and to show new changes and trends. The EREP pass starts
at - the actual run starts at 9:24 p.m. centra_ time and
is terminated at 9:51 p.m. At 1 hour 13 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-653/I
Time: 20:53 CDT, 16/01:53 GMT
8111173
PAO This is Skylab Control; 1 hour 53 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The space station is about a minute
away from acquisition at the Canary Island tracking site.
We'll have it in communication through the Canaries and
through Madrid. We expect the crew at this time is in
preperation for the Earth Resources Pass identified at
EREP pass number 8 and the run is scheduled to start at
9:24 p.m. over Southeast Asia, Thialand, Malaysia and Australia.
We'll stand by for communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, we've got you AOS Canaries and
Madrid for 12 minutes and we need the DAS.
PLT Okay, you got the DAS, we developed
a minor problem with the VTS we're unable to - in trying to
make an VTS align drive the - drive the gimbals over to 12 laps.
We can't get them off from O0 with the door closed and switch
and align.
CC Copy, Jack.
CDR Hello, Story. How do you hear?
CC Loud and clear, AI.
CDR Okay, we've got a record here it's time
D2 we've got to go 192 mode check and voice record D6. D6 is
a mere 56 percent. Which is well within limits. So that's
it.
CC The DAS is yours Skylab.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, we see the roll switch on the
ATM channel enabled and we would like that inhibited prior
to the maneuver.
CDR What (garble) do you have us making the
maneuver, Story?
CC Is that the time you wanted, AI?
CDR What time do you have us starting the
maneuvers?
CC 02:07:00.
CDR That's what we got too.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Now we're working the MALF down here,
Jack have you done any of the MALF?
PLT Yeah. I got to the MALF were says we
got to open a door to decide.
CC Okay. Which MALF was that?
PLT I can't remember the number but that's -
as I respond to hand controller input is the one I went down.
CC Okay.
PLT And it looks like we either got a door
circuit failure, display failure or a gimbal failure. So we're
going to wait until we get the door open.
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CC Okay.
PLT Can I have the DAS now, Story?
CC Yes, sir. It's all yours.
PLT Okay.
PLT Are you going to work the star tracker
for this, Story?
CC Say, again, Jack.
PLT Belay my last (garble) star tracker, no stars.
CC And Jack, we've got two - DAS entries for you
after the maneuver has started.
PLT Okay, shoot.
CC At the 52015, 50034 that'll get you
running on both Z-2 and Z-3.
PLT Okay that's the 52015 and a 50034. And
that's after the maneuver goes right?
CC That's affirm.
CC Jack, regarding the S191, MAL I'ii go
ahead and open the door may continue with the MAL and try
to observe the door for Jerky - Jerky opening and also
time it if possible.
PLT Wilco.
PLT How do like all of the entries in the
DAS?
CC It looks good, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
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CDR Story, on the DELTA-P on that holding

tank seems to be working okay now.
CC We've been looking at it.
SPT (Whistling) It's a perfect pass coming up?
PLT Get them between the eyes, with our
friendly 191 for shoo -
CDR Okay, where are we, install rear shut
(Garble). Record to (garble) momentarily record. No we
got 5 more minutes to wait a few.
CDR We've started our maneuvers, Story.
CDR Got a (garble) are you going to do
it like I did. Humm - hard way huh, the easy way. What's the
matter, no confidence in the skill. At 3 high B, B 3 high a little
bit high out, limit to 5383 and it's running at 887. Houston
I was just running through the monitor and I notice 3 C
which is in high at the moment and it's reading about 87
or 88 and the limits are 5383. Understand that's detector 7
page AC.
CC Okay, we copy that, AI. We're going
LOS in 20 seconds, see you over Carnarvon in 23 minutes at
02:35. You know the latter portion of the ZLV you'll
probably get a CMG SAT. It's no problem.
CDR Okay.
PAO The VTS refered to in the last air-to-
ground is a view finder tracking system, part of the S191
infrared spectrometer equipment. Apparently the door was
stuck, pilot was instructed to impliment a malfunction
procedure to open the door. The door of the - the door
opening obviously is necessary for a successful pass. In
the absence of any words from the pilot, the ground assumes
that he implimented the malfunction procedure properly
and the door did open. On this pass we will have the
EREP run starting at 9:24 central daylight time and continuin_
through about 9:50 or 9:51 p.m. At 2 hours i0 minutes
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'rIME: 21:34 CDT 16/02:34 CMT
8/11/73

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approximately 30 seconds
or so away from acquisition at the Carnarvon station. And
we should be at this time into the EREP or Earth Resources
8 pass. We'll stand by to listen to air-to-ground.
PLT That leaves Java off to the right at
the moment and just about 2 or 3 minutes from the east
coast of Australia.
SPT Okay, I'm with you. Thank you.
PLT We' re right over Barneo, I guess.
CDR Looks like we already crossed Barneo.
PLT Must to be coming up on - What's that
long island there?
CDR Java.
PLT Java.
CDR Cotton Java.
SPT Mark 3513 MODE ON
PLT Too bad we don't have some sites on
Java.
SPT 37 40.
CDR (garble) Java.
PLT See the island of Sumba coming up.
CDR I think Java is the most heavily densely
populated part of the world.
CC And Skylab, we're reading loud and
clear through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 14 minutes.
CDR Okay. Everythings going along okay.
Jack made an instantaneous almost, camera change, whistled
down to the locker and got a new one and put it in. And panel
- And the DAC ran out so he got another one.
He got 02, I believe.
PLT Right.
PLT Hey, that weather we're tailing wasn't much
good. I found a couple of small holes in a - just zoomed
in and took some Beta and the DAC was on. I hope you can
find them. I couldn' t distinguish whether or not they're
crop land the weather was so bad, but we did our bemt.
CC Okay, Jack.
CDR We (garble) random altimeter on lock
light on 193, but altimeter on light is off at the
mome n t.
PLT And it took 3 minutes and 13 seconds
for the door to go out of the field of view, when it was
coming open with the gimbals at the max upper stop, 54 or
something like that. 3 minutes and 13 seconds.
CC Okay.
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PLT That's about twice as long as it ought

to be.
CDR I wonder if you want us to close them
at the end of this run or Just leave them open?
PLT I'm not closing the doors til you give
me the word to close them, and by the way, it was jerky coming
out •
CC Copy, Jack.
PLT Okay. We're going to do a couple of
tracking checks here.
CDR 37 40 we're waiting for, Jack. When
the ready light goes out at 190.
PLT Coming up on the coast of Australia.
PLT (Garble)
CDR 37:40 READY light where are you?
CDR 8, 9, 40. READY OUT. Right on time.
STAND BY. Range 25, Innervelometer i0. And shutter speed
fast. Standing by for 39.
PLT MARK. 39:08.
CDR Okay.
PLT MARK. 237.
PLT (Garble) of view so fast we can't
watch it.
CDR STAND BY. 3 seconds. 2, i, MARK.
93A STAND BY. MODE 5. RANGE 74. Standing by for 40:43.
192 is on READY.
PLT In ii, 39 in ii. MARK. Field of view 19.
CDR MARK. 40:43.
PLT MARK 45
CDR 43 is red. 192 (garble) left and 53 190 goes
MARK. 190 is in AUTO. Standing by for 41:32.
CDR 41?
PLT And we're making our little IMC test here,
Story. The target goes out on the field of view at ii -
11:30 and takes 8 seconds. (Garble)
PLT 4, same darn thing, 8 seconds.
CDR MARK. Shutter speed to MEDIUM on 190.
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CDR 550, MARK, ii kilometers.

PLT Mark, 19.
CDR MARK, inner velometer to 8.
PLT Yeah, she goes off the page at ii o'clock Story.
CC Okay, copy Jack.
PLT Off the page at Ii in 8 seconds.
CC Copy.
PLT Mark, 1938 is ON.
MS (Garble)
PLT I ought to have a good shot of New Zealand
here pretty soon.
CDR Yeah.
PLT We're going to leave the door open and
let you tell me to close it Story,
CC Okay, we -
PLT 691.
CC We'd like for you to close it for thermal
and contamination reasons.
PLT Okay. I'ii time it.
PLT I assume she all the way open at the
momen t.
CC And if you get to -
PLT An't ouch.
CDR Stand by shutter speed to SLOW.
CDR 4725 standing by, go ahead Story.
CC Did you get the VTS alignment done after
getting the door open, Jack.
CDR No way.
PLT The alignment mark on the door.
PLT Pick you out a number you can't move.
When the door opens.
CDR On the back of the door.
PLT I'ii close the door and I'ii try to do
an alignment and then right now our mall procedure (garble)
we had a door circuit failure I think.
CDR 4725 (garble)
PLT But we'll see, I've got a hunch that
maybe that door doesn't come up close it doesn't (garble) the
align circuitry but I'm not sure.
CDR 3, 4, 5, (garble) 4810 VTS auto tel.
One picture I took there persume with that again. (garble)
PLT Says here continue_¢peration degrade
photo alignment can not be performed if we have the same
trouble again, we'll see. Maybe the motor wasn't strong
enough to come up and hit the MICRO switch hard enough or
something.
CC Verify you have been able to point all right
Jack?
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PLT Yeah, point has been very good, Story.

Except on the drift. I've got to get back there in maneuver
AI.
CDR Get at it babe.
PLT 4830, I've got to go 190 mode signal,
ahh.
CDR Take another snappy shot. 4830, mode single.
What's that Jack?
PLT What's that Jack?
CDR The rate gyros _ bet. What was it?
What kind?
CDR We just got that SAT that you were talking
about, Houston.
PLT We got the - -
CDR (garble)
PLT Well I presume it was CMG SAT because
the rate gyros inbited.
CDR 50, 194 mode manual. 50.
PLT Okay, looks up maneuver - maneuver pad
there it is by golly right there.
CDR Have you any new dude. New time for
this -
PLT Do you like that 15 minute maneuver, Story?
CC Yes. That's afflrmatlve.
PLT Okay, 52030 is in. 52 balls 17 is in.
CC Okay, we're going LOS here, we'll see
you over Mila at 03:24. That was the CMG SAT you got we fired
one (garble)
PLT That's not to bad, Story. We'll pull it
in the other direction in just a second.
CDR Good calculation down there.
CC You also got a mol sieve CPC02 light.
PAO The space station has pass out of range
at the Honeysuckle station and we'll be back up in about
35 minutes, through Bermuda. At 2 hours 50 minutes Greenwich
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:_I_-II ! MC657/I
Time: 2225 CDT, 16/03:25 GMT
8/11/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Three hours 25 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Coming into range with the Bermuda tracking
station. We'll stand by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda for
7 minutes.
PLY How do you read, Story?
CC Read you loud and clear now.
PLT Okay. I'm closing the VTS door and 2 minutse
and 52 seconds everything went black in the (garble) there wasn't
any light coming up through the optics, and I don't know how long
it took after that for the door to close. But I do know that at
15 seconds later, we got flickering zeros on both left and right
sides, at the same time, on the gimbals. Can you (garble) flicker.
However, I went to align, was unable to slew the - the - flew
over it all and I didn't think that was very good indications
to see both sides flicker at once so was unable to relieve that
situation by slewing either left or right, but I turned
the thing off. When I turned the thing back on, I had zero
on the left and the numbers - both I didn't have it on the
right anymore. I was still unable to slew over to get out
of zero into align position. That's the story today.
CC Okay. I copied all that Jack and I got a
couple answers to the previous questions of yours here. On
the S019, you've taken 40 exposures and we took 7 on the
ground for calibration purposes and it's okay to retract
that as zero.
PLT Okay, it's okay to retract it atzer'o. We've
taken - we have 47 of them used up, as what you said and [
wondered how many there are all together?
CC Okay. I'ii get you an answer on that. And
with respect to TO02, now we would like the GHT in all modes,
and even i, even though the star angle difference isn't going
to change. Their interested in the distortion looking through
the wardroom window.
PLT Do I take this to mean that I'm suppose to
be on channel A recording all the while I'm doing that?
GMT - from beginning to end and then I don't think it has to
have a mark. I've taken three-fifths of data now. I've
recorded all the data so I could put it on channel A and I gave
it the approximate time. I think as though later,(garble) will
require that it'll be on channel A and getting some marks.
But I don't think (garble) are requireed, but I understand you
to say we'll want the approximate GMT.
CC We'd like it as close as possible, Jack
without interferring with the sightings.
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8/ii/73
PLT Okay. Well, I was doing it sometime duri,,_

the time when I couldn't use channel A, cause the other gux._
were using it and I didn't want to hold up the show for that.
So I went ahead and did it anyway. I wrote the numbers down
and recorded them on channel A and I'll give you approximate
time for those. And if possible, I'll put the whole (garble)
on channel A although it clobbers up alot of channel A time.
CC Okay and we suggest for mol sieve A, PBC02,
caution, we'd like you to inhibit that when you go to sleep.
PLT Okay.
CC It'll probably wake you up. And we're
showing the star tracker shutters closed at this time. We're
going to inhibit that and do not park it tonight.
PLT Okay. Your happy with it, just like it is?
CC Yes.
PLT Okay. I'm just going through this power down
for your unattended stuff and now I'll follow this checklist
here, or what you've got on my notes.
CC Okay. And no need to acknowledge Jack, but
there's a total of 162 frames in S019 and we'll use the
last 7 for calibration.
PLT Oh, good. That's more than I expected. Glad
to hear that.
SPT Hey, Story. I'm not sure how you want this
56 door (garbled). Now, it is closed at the moment and do you
want it opened back up again, or left just like it is?
CC We'd like it open, Owen.
SPT Now, in as much as I am, the auto door-
well let's see, I will have to inhibit here by the
time I get through I believe. Or rather I'ii have it in storage.
Now did that mean the 56 door will remain open until we take
it out of storage?
CC That's affirm, Owen.
SPT Thank you. I presume the purpose of the
(garble) is just to avoid extra cycling during the
unattended period. Am I correct?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Guess that we're up with you now at that point.
Thank you.
CC And we're going LOS. here in about i0 seconds.
See you over Madrid in 4 minutes.
PAO And we're out of communications through Bermuda,
but we'll stay up live for 3-1/2 or so minutes until we get
up again with Madrid.
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Time: 22:34 CDT, 16/03:34 GMT
8/11/73
CC Skylab, we're AOS Madrid for 8 minutes

and this will be
our last pass tonight.
SPT Okay, Story, I'm Just starting to leave
the ATM panel and I presume you're satisfied with the
stowage and the situation or else you would call me.
CC It looks good, Owen. Thanks.
CC And SPT, Houston.
SPT What did I forget.
CC You didn't forget anything, it's what
I forgot. What method did you use to try to detect motion
in the coronal changes that you picked up on mission day 14.
SPT Oh, that's a good one. There was no
need to detect the motion you could tell from the configuration
of the corona itself. That is was in a transient situation.
Mainly there was an enlarge loop as I called out on channel A
extending from about 45 degrees in the Beta around to
II0 degrees in Beta (garble) and looping out to about 2 to 2-1/2
radii I. And that's very different from any previous coronal
configuration and since it's - very much llke the pictures of
other transient events there was no doubt that a transient
was in progress Just by 15 second glimpse of the corona. Now
when I looked at it again after 15 minutes there wasn't much
change but after that night pass of about 30 minutes there was
obviously a very large change. I'm not sure whether that transient
was moving out of uniform velocity or not. I suppose that
it certainly wasn't accelerating although it did look -
my impression was that it was a greater change over that
30 minute night interval. But to answer your question there
was just a configuration.
CC Okay, and I've got a note here on
coronal transients from the back room. Coronal transients of - of
yesterday was slower than the one on June 10th. But more
spectacular - was the very wide loop structures. Your procedure
of interspersing fast for the time revolution in standard for
the Polaroid information is excellent. We followed up your
observations to look for magnatic restructuring. The TV
downlink for the next day shows restructioning of material above
the Limb.
SPT Very good, thank you and I wonder if it's
not about time for a little magnatic activity around the
earth's envlroment here. Perhaps another Aurora has there
been any forcast of that?
CC Well let you know.
SPT Okay, I didn't get that one very nice
Aurora back on mission day 6. Which we observed in the southern
hemisphere. I called that down on channel A also. But that
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SPT was (garble) very beautiful event.

It was also, we were diverted at that particular moment by
attention to QUAD-D. But we would llke very much to have another
chance to see one of those and get some pictures of it.
CC Okay, and as of tomorrow we are going
to have you chasing volcanoes.
SPT With which instruments? of the present
set, I presume?
CC Nilon or Hasselblad.
SPT Right.
SPT Well, after all, S052 doesn't look for transient
events and it is a white light instrument. Might let Dr.
MacQueen think about it a little flexible use of S052.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS, we'll
be giving you a call about 11:45 in the morning. All of
your systems are looking good. And as for the Aurora goes
Owen there are a couple windows only about a minute wide
and they occur early in the morning when you will be sleeping,
so we didn't bother to call them up to yon.
SPT Okay, thank you Story, I do have that transient
pad that came up a day or so ago. That gives me general
times of favorable viewing, I didn't know whether anything else in
addition to that general pad or not, thank you.
CC Okay.
PAO Well that's the end of a busy day for
the Skylab III crew, they Just got there good night through
the Madrid tracking station with a note that the systems
look good and 3 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-III MC 659/1
Time: 06:42 CDT 16:11:42 GMT
8/12/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston, saying good morning

on the morning of mission day 16.
CDR We heard you, Bill, how are you this morning?
CC Doing fine, thank you. How's everything up
in space?
CDR Working right along.
CC Great.
CDR 133 data to look okay last night?
CC Say again.
CDR 133 data look okay?
CC They say it looks good to us down here. And
Skylab, we've got i minute to LOS, we'll see you in about
6 minutes and we - be advised we will be dumping the recorders.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
ii hours 45 minutes. We've had a wake up call to the crew
of Skylab 3, on this the 16th day of mission of Skylab 3.
We'll have acquisition at Canary in approximately 5 minutes.
This is a fairly busy, active day for the crew. We have EREP
pass number 9. A pass from over southwest United States through
central America, ending in South America. There are several
medical experiments today. Lower body negative pressure
device and vectocardiogram experiment. The subject of these
experiments today will be Commander AI Bean. A total of
3 hours and 37 minutes is in the Flight Plan today for manned
observations on the Apollo telescope mount. This is the
90th day since the launch of Skylab i. The elapsed time clock
here at the Mission Control Center reads 90 days ii hours
46 minutes of orbit of the Skylab 1 orbital workshop. We
will have acquisition in Canary in 4 minutes and a half from
now. We'll take the line down at Greenwich mean time, ii hours
47 minutes.
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SL-III MC660/I
Time: 06:50 CDT, 16/11:50 GHT
8/12/73

time ii hours 50 minutes with acquisition coming up over the
Ascension tracking station on revolution 1,297 of the
Skylab workshop.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Ascension.
We'll be with you for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Carl.
CC You guys might be interested to know that
we had all three wives over to the house last night. We're
awful sorry that you couldn't have joined the party though.
PLT You ain't the only one.
CC Ha, ha, ha.
CDR Great idea Carl, so are we.
SPT Nice of you to do that, thank you.
CC Sorry to disturb you early in the morning
but with EREP coming up fairly soon there's a couple of
pad changes I need to bring up to you.
PLT Hold on a minute. We're just cutting up
this ticker tape parade and distributing it around.
CC Okay.
CDR By the way last night Carl I measured
the tape on the EREP after the run and it was 2-11/16
from the edge of the tape to the edge of the reel.
CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we have zero seconds to
LOS. We'll see you again over Carnarvon at about 12:23.
time 12 hours 2 minutes with loss of signal at Ascension.
Next acquisition will be at Carnarvon in approximately
22 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control 12 hours and
2 minutes.
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SL-III MC661/I
Time: 07:23 CDT, 16/12:23 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 12 hours 23 minutes

we will have acquisition over the Carnarvon tracking station
as Skylab is in the middle of it's 1,297th revolution of the
earth. We'll hold the line open for CAP COM, Dr. Carl Henlze
with conversation with the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll be standing
by for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to LOS.
We'll see you again over Guam in about 4 minutes.
Greenwich mean time, we have had loss of signal at Carnarvon.
We anticipate acquisition over the Guam tracking station in
2 minutes. We'll leave the line up for the pass over Guam.
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SL-III MC662/I
Time: 07:36 CDT, 16/12:36 GMT
8112173
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam

standing by for the next 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. AI we need to
amend EREP message 1614 when you have a minute. And you'll
find that there are two of them in the teleprinter - a long
one and a short one. The short one got cut off in transmission
and you can throw it away.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. AI, we need
to amend EREP message 1614 when you have a - have a moment
and you'll find that there are two of them in your teleprinter,
a short version and a long version. The short one got
cut off in transmission. You can throw that one away.
CDR Okay, we threw the short one away and
go on the corrections.
CC Okay, number 1: under ready verification
S193A, change the range from 74 to 69.
CDR Okay to go.
CC Okay, following the 4802 entry, delete
mode ITC ball i and angle theta. That's an angle O.
CDR Okay, in other words, 1402 I Just go to
standby, and the next event is 192 mode ready in 49.
CC That's affirmative. And number 3, following
the 5302 entry, delete S193 R off.
CDR Okay, got it.
CC And- and finally, note that tele-
printer message is 1637 and 1638 - about opening the ZTS door.
And we have about 20 seconds to LOB. And we'll pick you
up again over Goldstone at 13:03.
CDR Okay.
mean time 12 hours 48 minutes. We've had loss of signal
at the Guam tracking station. The crew will be asked to
observe visually today one of the once a year events, the
passage of the Perseid meteor shower, which will - the
crew will pass through several times today and tomorrow.
This a - this shower is believed to emanate from the
Perseus constellation. The crew will be asked to observe
this through the windows 3 and 4, $3 and $4 in the STS
structural translsslon section, of the multiple docking
adaptor. They'll be asked to look at the Earth and make
observations on the brightness, the angle of the meteor
trail to the horizon, and also note the duration of the
lingering luminescence, if any. They'll voice record these
observations on the onboard tape recorder for transmission
to the ground at a later time. This Perseld meteor shower
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Time: 07:36 CDT, 16/12:36 GMT
8/12/73
has an estimated 50 to 70 meteors in it. They're, according

to CAP COM Carl Henize, astronaut resident astronomer - he
described these as little fluffy ice crystals. The EREP
pass is scheduled to begin at 9:43 a.m. Central daylight
time today as Skylab crosses the northeast corner of
California at the Nevada Border. The data take will - will
run for 24 minutes, ending as the spacecraft crosses the
Southwest United States, into the Gulf of Mexico, over
Central America into South America, and the data will end
north of Asuncion, Paraguay. The data take in the United States
will acquire information over the Smoke Creek Desert, White
Sands Monument Chips and bed and Lava Flow. And information
on Padre Island in Texas for experimently evaluating
the radia - radiant effects of the atmosphere on spacecraft
gathered data. Cartographic investigations in Central
America will be using the SI90A and sIgOB images as the
spacecraft crosses over Latin American communities. Infor-
mation will be distributed to the countries of Honduras,
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Perdu - Peru, excuse me,
Western Amazon Basin in Brazil and Northeastern Bollva and
Northern Paraguay. This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean
time 12 hours 51 minutes.
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SL-III MC663/I
Time: 08:02 CDT, 16/13:02 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time.

13 hours, 2 minutes for the acquisition over the Goldstone
tracking station. We'll keep the llne llve for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, with you stateside for
17 minutes.
CDR Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
CC Skylab, if we could have the DAS a little bit,
we are going to inhibit the momentum dump, enable the ATMDC
control star tracker and reselect Z2 and Z3 and RM.
CDR Good.
CDR What's the latest thinking down there about
when we might make this rate gyro hook up or is it still up
in the air? Has there been lots of discussion about it or what's
the general status of it? We got a nice message about it
this morning.
CC Well let me nose around and see what I
can find out, AI.
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TIME: 08:08 CDT 16/13:08 GMT
8/12/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to - for someone

convenient - like someone to go up and bring up the startracker
on Canopus.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you copy regard the
startracker?
CDR No. We hadn't heard a thing from you.
CC Okay. We'd like someone to - if its
convenient to acquire Canopus for us, and then we're going
to do an Nu Z update, and then have you close the shutter.
CDR Got our number one startracker expert on the
way.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question
about the rate gyros, we're still in pretty good shape on
the ones we've got now. There are no immediate plans to try
to bring the 6 back in. In fact, we're going to try to
work in another set of scale factor maneuvers to get a
little more information on the gyros we're using now. The
main purpose in sending up the me_;sage was that we sent up was
just to take into account the new situation of the command
module.
CC Okay. We kind of suspected that and - but
just wanted to understand it so we can think about it
with you. thanks.
CDR We noticed there was nothing new about
rate gyros in our weekly anomaly report, so I assume even
though we've been shifting back an_ forth and had a bunch
of discompares that everyone was suill satisfied with the
performance.
CC Roger.
SPT We have Canopus.
CC Roger. Thank you, Owen. And while we're doing
the update here, I got a quicky for you on ED63. You mentioned
you used all three vials, I believe_ yesterday. Just so we
make sure we got it straight, did you prepare slides of the
samples from the second and third vials?
SPT No, I only prepared two slides from the
one vlai that seemed to offer the most resistance when
pulling the leaf off the stalk. The other two vials, I
pulled some leaves from, but the leaves both came with essen-
tially no resistance, and I assume that they were perhaps
even in worse shape than the one vial from which I took
several leaves to prepare two slides.
CC Roger. We copy.
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Time: 08:17 CDT, 16/13:17 GMT
8/12/73
CC SPT, Houston. We've done the nu-Z

update and you're clear to close the shutter.
SPT Are you in any hurry to get it closed,
Hank? I'm downstairs on the ETC again now.
CC At your convenience, Owen in the next
5 or i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute from
LOS. Our next contact is Carnarvon at 02 with a data recorder
dump.
time 13 hours 20 minutes with loss of signal at the Bermuda
tracking station. The previous conversation between Science
Pilot Owen Garriott and CAP COM Hank Hartsfield concerning
a leaf was reference to the educational experiment
63, a student experiment, one of 25 assigned to Skylab.
ED63 is a study of the effect weightlessness may have on
the Alodi, an aquarian plant. The experimenter for this
project is Sheryl A. Pelts, a 10th grader from Littleton,
Colorado. She hopes her experiment can show in weightlessness
determine the energy distribution and other cellular activity
of the water plant in a zero-G environment. The put - the
plan is for Sciene Pilot Garriot to take the leaves and
examine them under a microscope and again photograph these
leaves through the microscope onboard. During the next
stateside pass we'll have the 9th Earth Resources study
of the mission. This will be the last EREP pass until
September 3rd, 2nd or 3rd according to the EREP officer.
This is because the lighting conditions required for Skylab
will not be proper until that time. At Greenwich mean time
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SL-III MC666/I
Time: 09:01 CDT, 16/14:01 GMT
8/12/73

time, 14 hours 1 minute. We'll have acquisition at the
Carnarvon station in approximately i minute from now. We'll
hold the line up for air to ground conversation.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
7 minutes.
SPT Okay.
SPT Hank, just a word about the ETC magazine.
I 've used the spare magazine for the first time today and I
have that new vacuum seal installed on it. When I hooked up the
vacuum lines Just a few minutes ago, I not not hear any hissing
the way I believe Joe Kerwin reported last mission. However, I do
still hear a small amount of mechanical vibration which is presum-
ably caused by a breath of - small air leak or something like that.
It doesn't seem very much; I can hear no hissing, but there is
this very faint mechanical virbration that's produced when
I hook the vacuum hose up. Over.
CC Roger; we copy. And we'd llke for you
to go ahead and use it.
SPT Rog, seems fine to me also.
CC And Skylab, Houston. If you can give us
the DAS, we want to get in a Y2 drift update.
PLT How fast can you do it? I'm going to have
to maneuver here in 3 minutes.
CC We can do it in about 90 seconds.
PLT Don't forget to load the (garble)
PLT Say again.
CC We can do it in abut 90 seconds.
SPT All right, also, I got to load the rest
of the (garble) also.
CC Okay, we're working on it.
CDR Okay, Hank how about getting out that
rate gyro change that was sent to me this morning. I want to
see if I got it straight.
CC Okay, I've got it out.
CDR Okay, let's go over to the part where we
start doing the EVA.
CC Skylab, the DAS is yours.
CDR You ready7
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, it says replace RGP EVA op pages 6 and
7 with the following. You got that sentence?
PLT Hey, I can't get in the NOV Hank.
CC Stand by.
CC We don't see any problem here on the
ground, Jack.
PLT Oh, that's on.
CC Say again.
PLT Okay, we got it.
CDR Okay, let's go to EV - did you find the
place that says rate gyro EVA op?
CC Affirmative.
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CDR Okay, now let me just kind of skim along.

I want to make sure that I got all this in order. Do that
pretty - pretty straight forward. Go down then to where it
says EVA-I, it's about 5 inches down, EVA-I. tether box end
of EVA cable assembly to self and hook the trunnion end of
loop of EVA-2 left rear.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, is the next sentence: EVA-2 translate
along B2 handrail?
CDR Okay, now let's jump down about 8 inches
where it says - now doing EVA-2 - translate to WCIU area using
BI and dual handrail. Position self between dual handrails
and ATM by WCIU.
CC Okay.
CDR Is the next sentence: EV-3, DAS 52011 enter
enable?
CC That' s affirmative.
CDR Okay, now Jump down another 8 inches.
Does EV2 translate to FAS ingress AM.
CC Roger.
CDR What's the next sentence?
CC EV-3, panel 141_ gyro 5 and 6. cb's off.
CDR Okay, jump down to 8 inches, where it
says: coordinate with stayed end, or use out of-the-window (garble)
for monitored SI.
CC Roger.
CDR Is the next sentence: is C&M aft control
required? And from there?
CC That's affirmative and it's in a box.
CC Did you have some gaps in your message,
AI?
CDR No, when I was pesting them on I want to
make sure I got them in the right order.
PLT We' re on our way to Z-LV.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Okay, then 8 inches further down, it says:
go to EVA hatch closure post EVA 3, have EVA checklist.
CC Roger.
CDR After that it says, replace post RG
EVA checklist page 7 with the following?
CDR Okay, we got it right. Just wanted to
make s ure.
CC All righty.
CC PLT, Houston, would you go ahead and
enter your off sets.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 1 minute from
LOS, Guam at 01:06.
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8/12/73

time, 14 hours i0 minutes. The last pass over Carnarvon
prime topic of conversation was between Commander AI Bean
and CAP COM Hank Hartsfleld in reviewing a 9 page teleprinter
message which passed up to the crew this morning concerning
checklist and EVA procedures for deployment of the 6 pack
rate gyro system. At launch of Skylab 3, aboard the command
module was a replacement package of 6 rate gyros. We've
been having problems with the gyros over the last several
days and on this last pass another procedure was passed up
through the ATM computer system for making another trouble-
shooting on the Y2 rate gyro. We will have acquisition over
Guam in about 4 minutes. At 14 hours ii mimutes, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC667/I
Time: 09:15 CDT, 16/14:15 GMT
8/12/73

15 minutes. We'll have acquisition at Hawaii - at Guam
tracking station in approximately 45 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 5-1/2.
CDR By the way, Hank, Was that called
rate gyro checklist change number 2?
CC That's afflrmatlve.
CDR Okay, I may call yon back. And I got
it all pasted in there now. I think it's in the right order
but I may call you back and check on it later.
CC Okay, and SPT are you free?
SPT Roger, read you.
CC Okay, we need to get the purge going
again for M509. If it's convenient we'd like to get you to
turn the dump heater on - the water dump heater on panel
700 - and about 15 minutes later, on panel 706, open the
water dump valve and give us a time on that.
SPT Okay.
CC And, PLT, Houston. Because we were about
53 seconds late on getting the offset centered we're going to be
really tight on getting up to that first site, site 125. So
I just want to warn you, about the time you get into Z-LV,
it's going to be right there.
PLT Okay, we'll be ready.
CDR Okay, this is - How do you read, Hank?
CC Roger, read you loud and clear.
CDR Okay, good, I've got to record a little
item known here as D6. D6 is exactly 57 percent, 57 percent
which is within limits.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We sent you up
a message this morning concerning the S191 door and we thought
about that a little more and so at the completion of the
lunar CAL, we want to leave the door open, instead of closing
it as step 3 calls for there in the little pad we sent you.
CDR Outstanding idea, we're with you. Hope
it makes it open this time.
CDR Okay, Jack, let's get the window out of
there.
PLT This window coming off. That's it.
Let's even open the door this time. Big door coming open.
There's the big Moon right out there. Heck we can do the
lunar cal right now. It's a nice full Moon out there, Houston.
It's a beauty. Right in the window.
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8/12/73
CC I bet that looks pretty through that

big picture window there.
PLT It does. That's a beauty.
CDR Nice planet right next to it. I wonder
which one that is. Bright enough to be Ven_s or Mars. It's
a bright one. Maybe somebody knows down there. They'll
get some additional data when they shoot EREP on both of
these.
CDR I never had realized it, Hank, until I
got up here, but all night - since we're almost in solar
inertial - we're at dumping, which isn't much - end up with
the same stars out the window, so you have two or three
bright planets out there, and they're just always at the same
place at the window. They change slowly but not too slowly, I
mean not too fast. Okay, that's done, Jack. See what's
next. I think it's unlatch open 191 to cover, rotate 190 to
operate and position it and install the pin. Okay. Done.
LOS. Goldstone at 40.
CDR Okay, Hank.
PLT Everything looks good. Standing by for
preoptic safe check.
CDR Okay, we got everything in position
I believe. Window's open. 190's in position, this whole
thing is set up, and we're standing by for T minus i0,
which happens to be about 14:30, which is about 8 minutes -
7 minutes from now.
21 minutes Greenwich mean time with loss of signal over
the Guam tracking station. Next acquisition will be over
Goldstone as Skylab 3 crew begins the 9th Earth Resources
pass for this mission. They crew was adivsed they had
reached the Z-local vertical attitude for the EREP pass
55 seconds late which will give them a problem maybe in
aligning on the primary S190 site - site number 125, which
is the Smoke Creek Desert approximately 50 miles north
of Reno, Nevada. The 9th pass which begins at 9:43 this
morning, Central daylight time, crosses northeast corner
of California and Nevada. Passes over Nevada, New Mexico,
into Texas crossing the Texas coastline over Harlingen,
Texas, gathering data on Padre Island. This 24-minute
pass will cover a ground track of approximately 640 nautical
miles and will end in Central Paraguay. At Greenwich mean
time 14 hours and 25 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL [II MC-668/I
TIME: 09:38 CDT 16/ 14:38 GMT
8/12/73

time 14 hours 32 minutes. The Skylab 3 crew should be
on VOE as they're getting ready to begin the 9th pass in the
Earth Resources experiment area today. After the vehicle
crosses over the Texas coast, through the Gulf of Mexico,
it will cross the Yucatan peninsula, then over British
Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Equador, Brazil, Bolivia,
and the pass will end over Paraguay. We'll hold the line
open for conversation of this EREP pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll give us the
DAS, we need to reset the Z-2 and Z-3 in RM. We had another
failure.
CDR I don't see why that doesn't work.
PLT I don' t either.
CDR Hello, Hanl. How you doing?
PLT Okay. We're coming over the mountains.
CDR Okay.
PLT With the Goose Lake on the left. Hazy down
there today.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're reading you now. We'd
llke to get the DAS to put in a reset Z-2 and Z-3 and
re-enable RM.
CDR You've got it. How do you read?
CC Okay. Reading y_u loud and clear now.
CDR Okay, Jack, give him a try.
PLT How you read me, Hank?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay. You got your downlink box working
on one right now.
CC We copy.
CDR 254 is (garble). MODE to READY.
PLT And, for those of you down there that don't
know what we're doing, which may in_-lude some of us up here,
we're going to whistle across - near Salem, south of
Salem, and a little bit north of Clameth Falls, over Goose
Lake, down Just north of the Grand Canyon over Gallop, New
Mexico, Albequerque, near the Pecos River, down by Del Rio
and over through Kingsville.
PLT Okay, I got the first one, here - -
CDR (garble) We hope the weather's good. Jack,
got the first one., already. 4254 and 192 MODE to
READY. You got her already, Jack.
PLT Yesi reebob.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. 43. MARK. EREP
to START.
SPT Okay. We're taking a data on a uniform area
in Smoke Creek Desert.
PLT S on R ON. 94 MODE to MANUAL. Okay, that's
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TIME: 09:38 CDT 16/14:38 GMT
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complete. We're standing by for 43:33.

PLT We'll whistle over here to this other desert
and take some data on it - by the likely name of Black Rock
Creek desert. Okay. That's 1 point (garble) we'll - -
CDR MARK. (garble) ON.
PLT Move them out a little bit here. Take another
point in that same desert. Taking a light area this time.
PLT Okay, We got the first one. We'll have to
quit on that and go to the next one.
PLT Now, that is 45 up and right 4.9. And that's
going to come off at 45:37. Okay, we got our glmbal angle
set. 45:37. We went to Black Dike, White Sands and a
spot between them. I can get her.
CDR 44:42 down-link VOX is going to 3.
PLT 45:37 --
CDR MARK. At 3.
CDR 44:50 goes to 4.
CDR MARK. Position 4. 58, it goes to 6.. MARK.
In 6. 06, it goes to the 8. MARK. It goes to 8. And 14,
it goes to 9. Okay, it's in 9.
PLT Okay, there's the White Sands.
CDR 46 --
PLT There's the dike.
CDR 190, INTERVALOMETER (garble)
PLT There's the lava flow. We're locked down onto
the (garble), tank. We're going to zoom in on it and get them all.
There's a (garble) dike, too. That's exactly what you're looking
for. We're going to get some data on it. Right now. Tone
through 44. We got lots of time.
CDR Sure do, if you got it all ready. 3608
we're looking for, for one - -
PLT We're right on that black dike that's requested
for on the lava flow, Hank.
CC Hey, good show.
CDR Okay, intervalometer, i0. 46:14, 193, that's
for stand by. S to stand by. R to stand by. Mode to - -
CDR I hope the weather clears up down there in
the Brownsville area.
CDR (garble) ON. R ON. At 46:44 and check (garble)
PLT Okay, We're picking up (garble) between
those two things, and get a little data on that.
CDR MARK. 46:44. Shutter speed medium.
PLT And now we're going over the White Sands. Better
find that precise point that guy wants.
CDR MARK. 92 to CHECK. 46 15 190 to 20.
CDR 15. MARK. We're intervalometer 20 on 190.
CDR 47:21, S to stand by. MARK. STAND BY.
to STANDBY. And it's
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PLT Okay. We found the precise point on the

White Sands the guys want.
CDR S ON. R ON
PLT That's for 48:19 45 (garble) 53,
CDR Down-llnk VOX, Position i. It's position i.
PLT Okay, we got four of them so far, Hank.
CC That's good.
CDR 48, 193, S to Stand by. 48-
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SL-III MC669/I
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8112173
PLT 38:19. ()kay, _;tand by, stand by.

CDR 49, we're going to go 192 mode ready.
PLT 5 seconds on 380.
CDR Okay.
PLT i0 degrees on 385 and inside of 390.
(garble) looks good. (Garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. Info, we had another
RM failure in Z-axis, we're going to take care of it.
CDR All right, that's good.
PLT Want to be sure it's 7/lOths down there
Hank.
CC Okay, it should be 4 to 7/10ths. Probably
be a little cirrus will get in your way there.
PLT Hey, you know it.
CDR He can handle it.
PLT Looking right at Nelta Lake but I can't
see it for the clouds. See if I can get anything out on the
coast.
CDR 192 mode ready. 8 motion light on.
Everythlng's good.
PLT Everything on the Coast is clobber, too, Hank.
I can get 314 and I'ii give you a little data on that.
CC Okay.
CDR MARK. S ON and R ON. It was the down-
link box again.
PLT Try to give you a little on 307 here.
Give you a little on that.
PLT Okay, Hank, the S190 was clobbered by
clouds. Go on to the next one. I've got it. 5056, 45 up left
zero. Think you had me some good sitings - good pointing
there, Hank. That was real good.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Okay, 5056.
PLT (garble) Hank.
CDR The downllnk box. 5110 is going to 4.
MARK. It's at 4. 5118 is going to 6.
CDR MARK. It's gone to 6 and 8 is 26.
It went to 5 and then to 6, now it's 6. 26, it goes
to 8. Ends at 8, 34 goes to 9. Ends at 9 now. Had a little
holdup at 5. 44 check. 192 MODE to CHECK. 190 READY OUT
and gone to STAND BY. INTERVALOMETER, i0. Frame 65, that's
written backwards, somebody wrote that thing backwards. Hope
that's right. Would you check to make sure that that clearly
means intervalometer I0, frame 65, Hank?
CC Wilco.
CDR I'm a little suspicious.
PLT That tlme 5056 was going to be over land
so I shot short of the land, Hank.
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CC Okay p we copy and the pad's right. Inter-

valometer i0, frame 65.
CDR Okay, that's where we are. (garble)
53. Stand by.
SPT Nadir swath.
SPT Earth camera set for the nadir swath.
CDR MARK. S STAND BY, MARK. R STAND BY.
PLT Okay, I changed the camera to 1/250th.
CDR Wonder what Ron Wittenhagen's doing
today?
PLT Hello, say hello to old Ron Wittenhagen
will you?
CC All righty, I'Ii do that.
CDR Tell him his machine's working okay.
Bean to Roger Goodrum: It's working real nice. George
Laske is probably pretty happy about the way it's working
too. Tell him hello. 190 MODE AUTO.
PLT I guess, Hank, we're getting into the
Yucatan Pennisula there so I backed up and I - -
CDR i minute.
CDR MARK. 5413. - -
PLT I took three shots of the Gulf.
CDR (garble) on AUTO.
CDR A ON, 5430.
CC Roger, we copy. We're about i minute
to LOS. Vanguard at 05 and we' re going to reset your
ACS load light.
CDR 54:30 A is ON.
PLT Thank you.
CDR 54:32. 192, MODE READY. 192's running in
READY.
PLT Okay, 55:41.
CDR And, Hank, I notice there' s a slight
misprint. Does the mode check happen at 5520? Got 552
nothing.
CC Roger, it's 55:20.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Go to MODE CHECK then.
CC Skylab, we have another RM failure at
Z. We'll fix it at Vanguard.
CDR Okay, 5520 MODE CHECK.
mean time 14 hours 56 minutes with loss of signal over
the Mila tracking station as Skylab continues the 9th
EREP pass, crossing over the tip of Panama and into
Ecuador. Crew passed down thanks to Ron Wittenhagen,
one of the people in the Earth Resources program here at
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Johnson Space Center who prepares the S191 site map data
package which the crew uses as reference in sighting the
S191 view finder tracking system aboard the spacecraft.
At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 56 minutes the next
acquisition will be over the Vanguard tracking station
in approximately 8 minutes.
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SL-III MC670/1
Time: 10:03 CDT, 16/15:03 GMT
8/12/73

time 15 hours 3 minutes. The Skylab space station should
be towards the tail end of the 9th EREP pass for the mission.
With acquisition coming up shortly at the Vanguard tracking
station.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're just cruising along finishing
up the EREP.
PLT Hey, Hank wonder if you could do - have
somebody do one thing for me kind of quick. Call up over at
the Harris County Youth Village, talk to Dick Baker or
John Peters or one of thcse people. And have them tell my
boys Sunday school class that I'm thinking about them this
morning. Will you?
CC Okay, that was Dick Baker and what was
the other name?
PLT Or John Peters.
CC Okay, will do.
PLT Thank you.
CDR That's a good idea, Jack.
PLT Okay_ 15 :Ii.
CDR Standing by for 191. 6 minutes light ON.
CDR The READY is ON. Down(garble) switch
position to off.
PLT 15 :ii.
CDR Okay, downlink position is OFF.
CDR 18:07:12 is EREP stop.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going to re-enable
Z2, Z3 and RM and reset your ALERT light.
CDR Okay, Jack's over near the AGM DAS, but
I don't know whether he's using it or not.
PLT Not yet.
CC Okay, then before the pass we'd like
to give you some DAS codes so that you can take care this
if it occurs again. We're going to be almost an hour here
LOS after Vanguard.
PLT Okay, wonder how we'll know if it'll
occurs. On their talkback.
SC (Garble).
PLT Have to stop in a few seconds or so,
SPT EGG frame count at this point is 130
Hank.
CC Roger. Copy 130.
SPT And I'll copy those DAS codes.
CC We'll have them in Just a second, Owen.
SC (Sigh)
SPT Okay, you're not using the DAS, are you
Hank?
CC Negative, DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
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PLT (Garble) loads of maneuver time for SI

which is - -
CDR Okay, I'm reading C 7 and C 7 indicates - -
PLT Thank you for alerting us on entering
those back maneuvers, Hank.
SPT Say, Jack does your pad call for you to
return to S l now.
PLT Yes sir. 15:11.
SPT Okay, we'll be going in that hole a
little later.
CDR That's right. From SI though, hole.
SPT Okay, I thought about it from the ZLV.
PLT No sir.
PLT 52030.
CDR Jack, I'm going to open 190 rear shield in
a moment.
PLT 50015
CDR I gather Hank we don't power a signal
thing down for - from the interim period between where we are
right now and when we start the letter CAL.
SPT You should go right to page 63.
CDR That's right.
CC That's affirmative, and Owen, I got those
numbers now.
PLT (Garble) (15:11). Go ahead.
CC Okay, Audrey RM conflg is 52015.
Z23 RG, RM enable is 50034,
PLT Okay, I got notes cracking down there,
while you're bringing it up, huh?
CDR Talking to me?
SPT Yea, when you get it up leave it up.
I got to change some stuff.
CDR Okay, so do I.
SPT You do too?
CDR And I will assist.
CDR 8, that's it swinging it up and out of
the way.
PLT 0oo, it's bright down there.
CDR Let me change these filters, I mean these
apertures.
CDR Eight I'm going to turn off 190.
CDR 8 8 95.
PLT 4. 856 56.
SC 4.8 56.
CDR Okay now, what do you want to do about these
filters? If anything.
SPT I'II get to them on my checklist, AI.
We got time now.
CDR All right.
SPT Just let me get this manuever started.
CDR All right.
SPT I want to review what we need to do.
CDR That's disable the 190 FSC, so that's good.
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CDR D 27 we go to at HOLD.
CC Skylab, Houston, awhile ago when we said
there was no power change there aren't any changes other than
what's in your pad. There is one thing I think on the S190
SMC circuit breaker, that's in the pad.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, we got that and pulled it just a
second ago, so it's disabled at the moment.
CC And SPT, did you copy the numbers -
SPT Then _e go to Sl MARK.
SC (garble) .
PLT Takes care of that maneuver pad, O, you've
got the rest. Here's a little thing for you.
CDR And he wanted to know if you got the
numbers O?
PLT Huh?
SPT Hank, I copied 52015 and 50034 is that
what you mean.
CC That's affirmative and we reset your
alert light so that should be your cue that the thing is mal-
functioned again.
SPT Thank you.
SC (garble) one.
CDR Could he.
SC (Garble)
CDR Are we going to make two cal maneuvers
today, Houston, instead of one, we're trying to psych it out
here.
PLT That's news to the kid.
CDR That's what the Big O said.
CDR And he ain't wrong much.
PLT That's right.
SC (Garble) .
PLT Change 193 filters and apertures if
required by your ... kit and remarks.
CDR Nice window. Ought to put one in the
spacecraft sometime.
CDR Okay, can I unscrew any of them ... interest
to you, which ones are going to come off?
PLT Now let's see here.
PLT Let me read this.
PLT Looks like ... marks begin 190 filter change
with above sequence oops wait a minute. We don't (garble)
change them yet.
CDR We got the CCCD, EE, FF, DBAA.
PLT We don't change them according to this.
We change them after the - after I do my 7 point sequence.
CDR All right. In that case, thatIs when we'll
_'ha. ge them.
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CDR Know where the ones we want changed

here?
PLT Yea, they are all right in here.
SPT Are you still there, Hand?
CDR Which ones are you going to change and I'Ii
make sure they're loos_ here.
PLT Looks like they all are - all of them are going
to be changed, every one of them. You might not want to loosen
them, though, because you probably going to take some pictures with
them aren't you?
CDR I kno_ it, I Just wanted to make sure that they're
not jammed on there.
PLT Okay.
CDR They're all real loose ...
PLT Kind of sticky sometimes.
CDR That's what I wanted to (garble) last-
minute. Let's put it back down again if you're finished.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about i minute
from LOS. Goldstone will be coming up at 16:17 and also might
point out that there is a possibility of you requiring the contigency
maneuver and also a possi|,ility of a CMG . .. during the cal.
SPT Okay, Hank I want you to verify one
thing. It appears from my pad remarks here that we don't require
a S190 filter change at this point but we will after the 7 point
sequence. Is that right?
CDR Hank I also like to confirm that we are
actually doing two cal mane.uvers instead of one they showed
on page 6-2 of the EREP Ch-.cklist it's like it is in the
ATM Systems Checklist on page 2-14 with two cal maneuvers
plus a possible contlgency.
CC Stand by 1.
CDR Say agaiv, Hank? We didn't hear you.
CC I think _oth maneuvers are required to
do - in the checklist - to do the cal.
SPT Okay, ... two.
CC And they're called maneuvers i and 2.
time 15 hours 15 minutes with loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. Skylab 3 has concluded its Earth resources
pass and is now taking photographs of the Moon. This is
part of the calibration program of the Skylab EREP program
to aim the optical cameras at the Moon. The Moon has a known
source of reflectivity and therefore the purpose is to
align the equipment aboard the spacecraft during this previous
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pass the Pilot Jack Lousma asked CAP COM Hank Hartsfleld to
pass word down to the Harris County Youth Center the Sunday
School class to say he was thinking of them and we will
hsve acquisition at Goldstone i hour from now. This is
Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 15 hours 16 minutes.
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8/12/73

the Goldstone tracking station in approximately 3 minutes.
Today the crew arose a little late, arising at 6:45 this
morning to begin a day of Earth Resources and Apollo tele-
scope mount experiments. The Earth Resources pass began
at 9:43 on the previous stateside pass which covered
6240 nautical miles in which the 6 EREP sensors gathered
data on many disciplines in agriculture, water resources,
cartography, geology. The crew has 1 hour each assigned today
for physical training. They're allowed - permitted 1 hour
each day except those days which they ride the bicycle
ergometer. Then they're - they're permitted to 1 hour of
exercise per day. Later today Commander A1 Bean and Pilot
Jack Lousma will perform the MO92, MO93 experiments which
are designed to determine the cardiovascular status. The
crew will perform these experiments 17 times each, throughout
the remainder of the mission. Bean and Lousma have already
performed 2 runs on the MO92/MO93 experiment. Later today
the crew will recharge the M509 battery in preparation of
tomorrow's scheduled run of the M509 astronaut maneuvering
unit inside the domed area of the workshop. Later this afternoon
the crew will be asked to attempt to photograph a volcano off
the island of Nashlno-Shlma in the Pacific Ocean approximately
600 statute miles south of Tokyo, Japan. Witnesses, observers
in the area report that ashes and pumice are floating around
the volcano and have turned the ocean water yellow. Observers
also report water plumes several meters high can be seen
every 2 to 3 minutes. And have also seen smoke columns
towering i00 meters in the air. Today's 9th EREP pass will
be the final pass for the next several - 2 weeks. The flight
planners are now looking at a pass for either September 2
or September 3. This is due to the fact that lighting
conditions are not proper for Earth Resources activities.
There are Ii Earth Resources passes conducted during the
28-day mission of Skylab 2. Data during these ii passes
was gathered at 244 test sites throughout the United States,
Central and South America. We anticipate acquisition at the
Goldstone tracking station with CAP COM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 11-1/2
minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC SPT, did you ever get the (garble) purge
going?
SPT The what?
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CC The cabin purge.

SPT That's affirm.
CC What time did you start the dump?
SPT I forgot to log it, but it's 20 minutes
after you asked me.
CC Roger, copy.
SPT And another thing, I wanted to - mention,
I got straightened out ¢n that maneuver here. It was called a
CAL maneuver on my pad and OFFSET maneuver in the checklist
and I remember being confused by that on the training
schedule too. So I got It straightened out shortly after
I asked you and you were going over the hill.
CC Roger.
SPT All the manuvering came off exactly on
schedule and looked like a good run from all the way around.
PLT Hey, Hank on the VTS, we're setting here
with the power off and the door open at the moment.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR And we downloaded the tape recorder, put
the data in the command module. We're standing by in case
you got any other tape you want put in. We got time.
CC We're checking that now.
CC Skylab, Houston. If we could have DAS
for a moment we'd like to reset Z2, Z3, RM, clear the
alert light and enable momentum dump.
CDR Okay, you got it. We don't seem to
get an alert light because we got the rate gyro inhibited.
So we don't ever get an alert light. I guess that's why.
CDR It's on and we set it about two times
during the last hour and it keeps kicking off again. We
reset it and it kicked off after a little bit of maneuvering.
CC Roger.
CDR Hey, I got a big recommendation to tell
the flight data file people, Jerry Cart's mission. Tell them
not to put any of those little plastic covers over the rings
in the notebooks. The rings don't come off anyhow and we
got spare rings even if they did and moving that plastlc
around Just takes up time. It's a added inconvenience.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR They donlt put them on Earth and we don't
need them up here, looks to me llke, Hank. It just adds
a llttle time every - everybody would llke to save.
CC CDR, Houston. We won't load anymore
EREP tape since we're about 3 weeks away from our next
EREP we'll just leave it alone. And we'd also llke to get
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a rundown if we could on the - how the SS191 door acted

on this run when you opened her up.
CDR Okay, Jack will be here in a second. He's
busily working on the filters.
PLT I did time the door this morning, Hank
because I was in a hurry to get a few other things done at
the time and it appeared to me that it opened at about the
same rate as it did yesterday. It took longer than normal
but it did get open.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Was the motion Jerky on the door again?
PLT Hank, I didn't watch the motion very
long. I noticed a couple of little Jerks on it but that's
all the time I took to look at it since I had to do some
other things.
CC Roger.
CDR Hank, I've got an hour or two extra time
today somehow, ask the fllght planners if they can pick up
things that we need to do and send them up and I'll do them.
Preferably some sort of experiment.
CC Where will your time be at, AI?
CDR Well, I got a little time there between
the two ATM passes and it looks llke between 23:30. And
I got about 3 hours there and housekeeping 60T doesn't take
very long. And housekeeping 3-A and 3-M sure don't take very
long. I'm sure I got 2 hours of pad in there somewhere.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it.
CDR Yeah, tell to - they could try somewhere
around 01:00 if they got a SO19 or something llke that, something
better somewhere round in there. And between those 3 ATM
passes would be a posslbillty for something. We're - worked up
this place shipshape and we're ready to turn out the work.
SPT Hey, Hank how about asking the T002 folks
to search up that data that I voiced down on channel A and
ask if that's the way they like it presented so that I can
go ahead and do some more of it. I don't want to do it over
again if they don't like it that way.
CC Okay, will do.
SPT And Hank, I was wanting to find out if
that ED32 prep got down on the VTR last night. There was
some question about whether or not there was adequate tape
on the recorder for it.
CC Let us research that one, Owen, I'm not sure
we got the tape reviewed yet. We did get 30 minutes of tape,
though.
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SPT Hank, the desiccants on 190 are not

as (garble) as they were. They're getting a little pale
and I was wondering if you wanted some new desiccants
in for this long storage pad or if you'd rather wait and
put the new ones in after the storage period.
CC Okay, I'ii get an answer on that.
SPT Thank you.
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CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to go ahead and

put in some new desiccants for the storage barracks.
PLT Okay. I'll do it right now.
CC And, SPT, you asked a question earlier
about aurora. Our data shows that the probability is pretty
low for the next few days. However, we'll continue to look
at it for you. If the aurora does occur, then the best time
and window for the observation is the same as in your
permanent general message, number 8 for the noctilucent
cloud.
CC And SPT Houston. The ED32 TV was
real good. We got a full 30 minutes on it. That was 30
minutes of good VTR work there, and the ED32 was satisfactory.
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 41.
PAO This is $kylab Control, 16 hours 29 minutes
Greenwich mean time with loss of signal, stateside pass.
During this previous pass, Commander Conrad - Commander Bean
called attention to the crew - to the ground, CAP COMM Hank
Hartsfield, about the difficulty they're having with the
Flight Data File on board. He made some suggestions about
improving the - or removing the plastic binders on the rings
on the Data File. The Data File is the onboard checklist
for the crew to perform experiments and operations aboard the
Skylab work station. There are 120 pounds of Flight Data File
which was launched aboard the workshop. The unmanned workshop -
and then, on each subsequent flight, with each crew visit, an
additional 40 pounds is launched in the command and service
module. This is quite an additional weight as compared to
Apollo. In Apollo, a Flight Data File package consisted of
approximately 35 pounds. Commander Bean also asked the ground
to fill up 1 hour of free time he seems to have had himself
later today. And he suggested maybe he could do some more SO19
experiment. S019 is the ultraviolet stellar astronomy, and
fellow astronaut, Dr. Carl Henize, is principal investigator
for that experiment. The ground also advised the crew that
they had good video tape dump on ED experiment 32. This is the
invetro immunology experiment, that - one of the student
experiments of Todd Meister, 16-year-old 10th grader from
Jackson Heights, New York, Next acquisition will be over the
Vanguard tracking station in approximately 9-1/2 minutes. At
Greenwich mean time 16 hours 31 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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time 16 hours 39 minutes with acquisition over the Vanguard
tracking station in approximately i minute.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston if it's convenient I'd
like to read up a SAP update.
CDR Okay, Hank, should I got it fresh piece of paper
or just use the one we _ave now and sort of mark it up.
CC No, no it's just a voice update. You
needn't copy anything down, Just want to tell you a little
bit of what's been going on since we sent the SAP.
CDR Oh, okay, go ahead.
CC And whlle I'm doing that if someone
is free to bring up the star tracker we'd like to get some
data see we can find out what's happened with our Z integral
failures.
CDR Okay, yt,u want us to lock it on a star,
is that what you're sayln_?
CC That's affirmative sir.
CDR Okay, go ahead and talk and I'ii lock
it on a star while you're talking.
CC Okay, the photo activity has been
very low with no flares reported. Region 85 is gone over the
west limb and regions 86 and 83 show little change - no activity.
The new region 88 is very small and dim- come between 9 it seems
to become somewhat more fi]led in. Several small type 3
switch frequency burst have been reported in the past few
hours. Prominence is visible on both limbs they've been
quite. Now just a little awhile ago at 16:16 Zulu an
interrupted prominence occurred in 8-85, active region 85
on a limb. (Garble) reported the eruption to be out to .2
solar radii and ATM observations of this transient is that crew
option per SAP.
CC PLT, Houston if you haven't already done
so you might as well go ahead and start making out those
desiccants you took out of the S190.
PLT How about that, I'm right down here now
packing them in bags and putting them in the fecal dryer.
CC You're way ahead of us.
PLT No, we're thinking alon 8 the same line.
CDR I tried to lock on the star with the
technique of using the inners minus 708 and never would lock
on the star or something let it track itself now see if it will
give way.
CC CDR, Houston (garble) suggest that-
CDR (Garble).
CC Yea, we suggest that you try inner minus
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8112173
696.
CDR Not a bad suggestion, just got it. 695
for inner 1511 for outer.
CC Roger; copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, if you'll let us have
the DAS a minute we'd llke to enable a Nu Z update.
CDR You got it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we would like for you
to reselect Z2, Z3 and RM enable for the DAS commands we
gave you earlier.
CDR Nobody's up there right now, you want
us to go and do it or do you want to Just do it.
CC We don't think we can get it in AI, we're
about a minute from LOS.
CDR Okay, good show. We'll go and do it
right now, didn't know that.
CC We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 51 and
while you're up there AI, you might as well close the star
tracker shutter.
CDR Shutters closed. Both commands are in.
CC Thank you sir.
CDR Shutters closed. Both commands are in.
CC Roger.
16 hours 52 minutes with icss of signal with Skylab space
station as it crosses over the Vanguard tracking ship at the
start of its iSth hundredth revolution. 1,300 revolutions of
the Skylab workshop. Discussions in the last rev - pass was
concerning the star tracker - the star tracker - the ATM star
tracker is part of the attitude and pointing control system of
the vehicle. The star tracker provides a star position in
put to the Apollo Telescope Mount Digital Computer for
calculating the roll reference angle and the orbital plane
area of the Skylab workshop. Next acquisition will be over
the Hawaii tracking station in 58 minutes. At Greenwich mean
time 16 hours 53 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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8/12/73

time 17 hours 50 minutes with expected acquisition over
the Hawaii tracking station
CC He said during this pass more dump?
CUR Got a little more than this? We got a
CLUSTER ATT light and ACS malf light, and when we whistled
up here to see what was going on, X was on single 2, Y was
grey and Z was single 2. We checked the CAUTION AND
WARNING and 4 or 5 and by - a whole bunch of TACS was
firing all the time. We checked the CAUTION AND WARNING.
It was 4511. We checked the alert, it was 1411. About
this time, it went NO CONTROL in the Z axis, barberpole
in all positions. We then proceeded to reset the rate
gyros. We looked at them all to see how they compared -
each axes. And they looked okay. So we reset them back
to the configuration you see them in right now per
the pad. In the X axis, we got i and 2 on, with a 3
is redundancy management. And Y is 1/2 and Z is 2/3.And, by
the way, about 3 or 4 minutes ago_ Z went single again. So
that's where it sets.We hoped that would solve the problem.
It didn't appear to solve it too well. It continued to fire
alot of TACS, so we looked at the rates again, and we
decided that maybe we'd inhibit the TACS for a few minutes
until we could psyche this thing out. So we inhibited all
the TACS, took a look at the rates, and saw whether or
not our rates were proceeding in the direction to correct
the attitude error. In Y and Z - correction in X and Z,
they were, but in Y the one that had not failed, they were
not. So we thought about that a little while, and we decided
the thing to do, since we didn't have the command module
to stabilize it with, which we would have liked to have done,
we decided the thing to do was to go to CMG attitude hold.
So we checked the CMG's to make sure they were enabled.
With CMG attitude hold, and enabled TACS again. This solved
it somehwat. It fired a minimum number of TACS after that.
But it still didn't seem to want to stabilize. We took a
look at the momentum. It all looked good. We took a look
at the CMG position, and it looked to us like that the
outer gimbal on i was at i00 percent. The outer gimbal on
3 indicates at i00 percent, and it Jumps back to zero every
once in a while. But we think that's a SL-2 problem. We
then decided the best approach was to try to get the
gimbals off the stop, so we commanded a CMG to nominal
cage. After it caged, we released it and that's the situation
you find us in now, except we've gone back to SI. It's quit
firing TACS, it's - except for switching to single a few
moments ago, it's Just llke it was when we left you last
time.
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CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, while we're absorbing all this, we
need the DAS for the Z-2 drift update and we'll reconfigure
Z-2 , Z-3.
CDR Okay. And the thing that came quickly to
head was the fact when we took a look at it, we realized
that we were going to have to solve the problem with the
ATM control system itself. And we had an update pad that told
us which gyros were best. So we Just went to those gyros per
our pre-plan. But it didn't solve it completely, which
leads me to believe that maybe the procedure - the malfunction
procedure for this type of a failure, which we can probably
expect several more tlmes, at least. Hopefully not,
but possibly. That we're going to have to have an
update to that malfunction procedure that works, using just
the ATM itself. Or what's the best situation to put the
whole cluster in without using any TACS up until we can let
things settle down a little bit?
CC Roger. We' ii work that one out.
CDR Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We' re about i minute

from LOS. Vanguard's coming up at 19 with a data recorder
dump.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. If we had
that problem again we'll probably do it the same way.
time 17 hours 58 minutes. On the brief pass over Hawaii
Commander Bean described to CAM COM Hank Hartsfield and
flight controllers the problem the Skylab vehicle was ex-
periencing with extensive TACS firings. The crew reported
that they were having problems with the rate gyros and they
went to the control moment gyro to hold the attitude and the
TACS continued to fire. They inhibited the TACS and they
finally got the vehicle back on the proper attitude. They
asked the ground to confirm that the procedures that they
followed in this previous orbit were correct. The ground
is now assessing the data which came in on this pass and
will continue to look at the situation and advise the crew
probably on the next pass over Vanguard. To repeat, the
crew did report a series of TACS firings during the last
revolution since loss of signal at Vanguard more than an
hour ago. This situation has been corrected according to
Commander Bean and to data on the ground. And the @round
is looking at this data from the last pass and will advise
the crew if procedures they followed are correct. At 18 hours
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Time: 13:18 CDT, 16/18:18 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 18 hours 18 minutes

Greenwich mean time with acquisition coming up at the
Vanguard tracking station. We anticipate further discussions
with the crew of Skylab III on the problem they reported
on the last Hawaii pass of a whole lot of TACS, as
Commander Bean referred to it. A whole bunch of TACS firings
which they had - they solved the problem by changing rate
gyros around going - uskng the control momengryos and finally
stabilizing the situation. The ground is assessing data
from the last pass and we expect further conversations
on this - this topic on this pass.
9 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We're getting ready to run JOP 4C and
test 4 indicates that it wants me to go over to area 85.
Now, 85's no longer visible up here. It's gone around
the llmb as far as I can see. Soj I'll Just go to the
coordinate given on the pad and look in that area.
CC Okay, that's correct, AI. And CDR, we'd
like to bring up the star tracker so we can get squared
away. We may be wanting to command a maneuver here shortly
to take' out a Z or X out _f plane and try to get in the
situation such that we don Vt bomb out again on the next dump.
CDR Okay, have you got good angles or should
I use the (garble)?
CC Let's try the innergimbal minus 695 and
you may have to do a good bit of searching with the outer.
PLT How much TACS did we fire Hank?
CC We're still working that and I guess
we're going to have to wait until we can get the data back
in here before we can really figure out what really did
occur. Best we can tell you did the proper thing in
handling that.
CDR We still don't think the procedure is
good enough. It sort of leaves you hanging. Welre hoping
it's going to work instead of having a positive plan. The
- I've locked on a star. I dontt know if it's the right
one or not, but itts close. Outer 1709, inner 694, error
3.5.
CC CDR, Houston. If you_ll let us have
the DAS a little bit we'll enable the star tracker to
ATMDC.
CDR You got it.
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CC And we're going to reselect Z2, Z3 and

go through that little bit again. And when we're LOS you
might keep an eye on that ACS alert light and then you've
got the numbers onboard there to bring up Z2, Z3 in a recon-
figuration again.
CDR Well, we have the feeling that that
wasn't the one got to us. We think that along with some
sort of (garble) problem got to the system. Just couldn't
handle it.
CC Roger, we agree with you there, AI, and
we're going to try to get the data back and see if we can
find out exactly what did happen.
SPT Another one I don't understand is that
C and G SAS signal. Everytime we saw the C & G it was 50 -
60 percent or below.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Looks like we're within
two-tenths of a degree of nominal NUZ so we won't be needing
the maneuver.
CC CDR, Houston. Just a little reminder,
when you get into the auto raster there in the S055 you might
take a gander at the raster scan counter and check to see
that it - when it's doing it's (garble) to whether the talkback
there on the zero order is illlminated or not, if show or
not.
CDR Okay, I have it operated mechanical
because I'm off the llmb but I'ii check it mechanical.
CDR Hank, you might tell the ATM fellows
in the back room there's no way that I can finish (garble)
this particular building _lock because it's got a lot -
late start with the ACS problem. And I'Ii go ahead and
finish this particular (garble) A and then shut it
down for the night. For this night pass I could bring it
up and start on that tomorrow morning if they want, and'
probably still finish the other. If I could finish the
other pad and if I got any time at the end I'ii come back
and do this one, but it's up to them.
CC CDR, Houston. We concur with your
approach there to just press on and get as much of it as
you can,
CDR Okay then when we come up =o day period
tomorrow I'll start again right here, finish this, and then
press on.
CDR Hank, I might mention also, the technique
I used was to go to the pad coordinates and check the XUV
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MON to see if there were bright areas there which there

were, But that sighting is difficult cause you can't see
the little X. The pointer - then I rolled about that
point on the llmb so I could get the 82B slip changes
to the llmb and then I went out 30 arc seconds. And that's
where I take the data.
CC That sounds good to us, AI. Sound like
the right thing there and we're about 50 seconds from LOS.
Wetre also going to select Z3 alone and with RM enable
because Z2 and Z3 are zipping apart. We'll be coming up
on Hawaii at 26. And as a reminder there would you close
the star tracker shutter?
mean time 18 hours 30 minutes with loss of signal at the
Vanguard tracking staticn. CAP COM Hank Hartsfield advised
Commander AI Bean that the procedures they followed in
solving the continuous T&CS firing the vehicle recieved
during the last revoluti;_n were correct and that the vehicle
was within - -
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8/12/73
PAO The vehicle was within 0.2 of 1

degree of nominal attitude at this time the star tracker was
commanded on and then again taken off line at the close
of the Vanguard station the Z-3 rate gyro has been put hack
on line the crew report - the ground reported to the crew
that the rates between - the factor rates between rate gyro
2 and rate gyro 3 were growing further apart and they took
two off the llne and 3 is now cont - monitoring the attitude
in the Z-axis the Z-3 rate gyro is now controlling in the
Z-axis. The ground continues to evaluate the data received
over the Hawaii and Vanguard pass to assess the situation.
We'll have further word on the next pass over Hawaii in
54 minutes at Greenwich mean time 18 hours 32 minutes this
is Skylab Control.
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Time: 14:25 CDT, 16/19:25 GMT
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time 19 hours 25 minutes we expect acquisition over the
Hawaii tracking station in approximately 45 seconds. We'll
hold the llne open for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ha )all for I0 min-
utes with a data recorder dump.
CDR Okay. Hank, have at it.
CC And, Skylab, Houston, we'd like to know if you
got the MO92 vent on time?
CDR Say that again.
CC Roger. Was the M092 vent on time?
CDR Let me check.
PLT Hank, can you hear me there. We're Just
now getting ready to talk to 92.
CC Okay; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR, we're going
to force a contingency momentum sample by inhibiting and then
reenabllng C&G control if we could have the DAS.
CDR You've got it.
CC Okay, t¢ get a little run down here at
first cut at this thing what we suspect has happen there
before was we had a RM failure in Z-axls so it went over to
inner strap down and got another Z-axls RM failure which -
then the system forced us Into Z3 and hack up strap down
which put X1 - Z2 and Y2 in control which are the poorer of
X and Y gyros. And we think that this is what led the prohlem
so we got to improve on the situation we're also going to
select Z3 only with RM enahled and if anytime you get
the ACS alert light when we're LOS we can use a little pad
you got there to select Z3 only with RM enables.
CDR Okay, that's the 52015 and 50037?
CC It's the numbers on the rate gyro pad
you had in case your system went down when you're LOS.
It tells you how to select the best gyro and we're saying Z3 ought
to be the ones.
CDR Yea, l'm going to read and make sure that
we got the same pad. 52015, 50037.
CC Roger. That's the right numbers.
CC And CDR, sometime during this pass we'd
llke for you to glve us & little XUV monitor on the VTR?
CDR I think we can do that.
CC And your TV is - video switch is in TV
right now, so that - switch that to monitor.
CDR Okay, now we're not centered on the Sun.
we're on the llmb but I'ii give you what we got there.
CDR Okay. I gave you two each at 1/2, I, 2
and 4. I could give you some more if you would llke.
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CC That'll be enough, AI. You can press

on and try to a - get back on your schedule.
CC And CDR, no need to acknowledge but we
have several items that we could get you to do during the
next night pass and we' ii have these either for here in
Hawaii or Vanguard which is the next station whenever you
or- or the SPT can copy.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready to do it.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours with a
Z-3 enable with RM.
CDR Okay, I'm going to do this one about
15 seconds above the llmb.
CC CDR, Houston. What was your last comment
about doing something in 15 seconds?
CDR I did the last 36 - about 30 arc seconds
above the limb and I was doing this one at 15 arc seconds
ab o ve.
CC Oh. Okay, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS,
Vanguard in 58.
Greenwich mean time. During the Hawaii pass Just concluded,
the the crew was advised of - to put - the ground has put
the Z-3 rate gyro on llne to carry the load in the Z-axls,
which Commander Bean had reported earlier. They had lost
the Z-axis control completely which resulted in, as he had
dlscrlbed, a whole bunch of TACS firings by several work arounds
changing of the rate - rate gyro system. They were able to
inhibit the TACS firings and currently the vehicle is performing
normally, and at this time we have loss of signal at Hawaii.
Next pass over Vanguard in 20 minutes. At 19 hours 37 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-679/I
TIME: 14:57 CDT 16/19:57 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 19 hours

57 minutes Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Vanguard,
standing by for air-to-ground.
CC Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 9
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard 9 minutes.
SPT Hank, you ever figure out how much TACS
we expended?
CC Our first estimate at it is about 1200
pound seconds.
SPT Good, that's not as much as it might
have been.
SPT More than we like, but still not as
bad as it might have been.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, are you free to copy down a few
things that the CDR can a_:compllsh during the next night
cycle?
SPT Yeah, Jack's just finishing up his LBNP
here in the 5-minute recovery. I'ii copy stuff. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We've got indications that we
may have one of the OWS heat exchanger fans not putting out
or failed, so during this _erlod, if it's convenient, we'd
llke for him to just open _p the access door there in the
airlock and take a look at the heat exchanger fans and see
if he can determine if one of them is not running.
SPT Okay.
CC Another thing we'd llke to do is get the
tool sieve A back on a nominal configuration. And the way
we'll do that is on panel 2[)3, MOL SIEVE A TIMER switch OFF.
Panel 228, want to make sure both BEDS 1 and 2 are in
DESORB; have to use a T-handle there. One of them will be
ou.t of configuration, but get them both to DESORB, then go
back to panel 203 and turn the MOL SIEVE A TIMER switch to
PRIMARY. And the beds should cycle within 15 minutes and
mol sieve A will be in a nominal configuration then.
SPT Okay. Got it.
CC And another thing he could do if he has
time is, we would to get a VTR voice check. We'd like to
take the hand-held mike, and do four short test counts on
the VTR with the mike at a distance of 6, 12, 18, and 24
inches from the mouth. We're trying to determine where the
best distance to get the best voice on the tape.
SPT Okay. I understand that. Now do we have
a camera connected and video on, or just turn the VTR recorder
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to run and then make the voice check?

CC All we need - -
SPT Do we have to have a video signal as well
as audio or just audio.
CC We don't need the video signal on. All
we need is the VTR to run and use the mike.
CDR Okay. On this mol sieve A primary, I
turned sieve A off, put them both in DESORB and then turned
the timer to PRIMARY and it immediately shifted bed 1 to
ADSORB and bed 2 to DESORB.
CC Okay. That sounds good to us and when
you make those test counts on the tape recorder, if you'd
begin by saying how far the mike is from your mouth, that
would help us, too.
CDR Sounds Bood. Okay. Is that all you
want done on mol sieve A. Looks like it didn't do any-
thing but put it right back where it was.
CDR Hank, when I looked in there bed i
was in ADSORB, bed 2 was _n DESORB, so I put bed 1 to
ADSORB, correction DESORB, and when I went back to PRIMARY,
it went to ADSORB again.
CC Roger. EGIL's happy.
CDR And for the back room, I just went
ahead and put it on grating position 2999 mechanical
instead of 2897 optical, because I could set there quicker
and catch up better.
CC We copy CDR, and one more very im-
portant item for you here. When you close out your panel
there, we want you to be sure to go to solar inertial.
This is because we're going to go about and hour and a
half here without a station contact, and this will protect
us against any possible malfuntlon in the canister actuator
that would cause an overjam.
CDR Okay. Is that going to be normal or
just today we're doing that?
CC We'll have to do this, AI, any time
we have an LOS period that goes in the neighborhood of
an hour and a half.
CDR Sounds good. Let's see - How are our
rate gyros looking these days?
CC CDR, Houston. At the moment the
gyros look real good and in working through the buildlng
block there, if you do run _nto any problems, we suggest
you delete the two-llmb coa]ign and then later this evening
when PLT or SPT are running their passes, that'll be
number 1 on the shopping llst to pick up.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy my last
on deleting the two-llmb coallgn if necessary?
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CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Did you copy my last on deleting
the two-limb coalign if necessary.
CDR I sure did and it will be definitely
necessary. We're out of time right now.
CC Okay. Then maybe they can pick that
up a little later this _vening, if they have the extra
time on one of their pa_ses. And also in regards to that
mol sieve bed there, if Fou could check that in about
15 minutes and make sure it's cycled, that would help us
too. We'll be coming on Vanguard again at 21:36.
CDR Okay. You wanted me to make sure
that it's in (garble) position in 15 minutes. Will do.
PAO And we'_e lost signal out of Vanguard,
a normal procedure on =his the 1302 revolution. We'll
again reacquire the Skylab III in about an hour and a
half. At 20 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-680/1
Time: L6:17 CDT, 16/21:17 GMT
8/12/73

Greenwich mean time. With an announcement that there would
be a change of shift briefing at 4:45 p.m. central daylight
time in the News Center Briefing Room, Building one.
Participating in the briefing is the off-golng Flight Director
Charles Lewis. Repeating, a change of shift briefing,
4:45 p.m. central daylight time, News Center, Building one,
with the off-golng Flight Director Charles Lewis. At
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-681/I
Time: 16:34 CDT, 16/21:34 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 21 hours 34

minutes Greenwich mean time, approximately 45 seconds or
less away from acquisition at the Vanguard tracking site.
After a long pass of about an hour and a half where there
was no contact with the spacecraft. We'll stand by for
the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, we've got you AOS through the
Vanguard for 9 minutes.
SPT Oh a -- One other thing we need here
Story. AI noticed that we actually had enough time
to get in an extra ATM tun. So Jack is up on the ATM panel
right now and he's doing the ATM work for the next pass.
And that he's going to pick up those housekeeping items that
a - that Jack had on his schedule. And we'd appreciate a
voice up-llnk of some suggested ATM activities for the
next orbit and we'll get those too,
CC Okay, Owen. And we dropped out over
the Vanguard, did you say something prior to your ATM
comments ?
SPT Only that we probably got a lot of
stuff on your experiment tape recorder now, we're just
finishing up the 93 run on the CDR. And so it will be
finished here inside of a few more minutes. We're Just about
to finish the pedaling rigi_t now.
CC Okay. PI.T, Houston.
PLT Yeah, go ahead.
CC Jack, you're, running a little bit ahead
of the us here on the ATM but we got some things you could
run. And that's a 55 - And that's a 55 offset alignment and
a two-limb coalignment.
PLT Yeah, okay. And we're running out of
daylight now and the part that I got done on that rev was
to a - we got started a little bit late so I got the
JOP 2C 74 and I got two-thlzds of the 12B done. I didn't
get the middle part of that so we'll pick it up the next
time around. It's pointing for JOP 2C the prominence
above the limb over active region 85 was not visible
in H-alpha 2 and so I pointed H-alpha 1 85 arc seconds
above the prominence and . .. to the - the a- active
region in any H-alpha scope because it's too far around the
llmb. But I think the using H-alpha 1 and pointing at
85 arc seconds above the prominence probably did the JOP.
And next rev we' ii pick up the (garble) alignments and
we'll do the a - JOP 2C step 1 and finish off 12B.
CC Roger. And Jack I work for us the
contingency sample here, if you could stay off the DAS.
PLT Okay, it's yours.
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8/12/73
CC And Jack, the DAS is yours.

PLT Thank you. Oh, Story, how's your private
comm working? Is it going to work tonight? If it is, I would
like to talk to my wife.
CC Okay.
PLT That is if it's working, if it's going
to be hard making connections, I would Just as soon wait until
tomorrow night.
CC We're working that out, Jack.
CDR Story, do we have ATM pads for every
pass now on through the last one of the day?
CC Stand by i, AI.
CDR If we don't would have the make up a -
a official one and send it up. And we' ii Just use the
next one as we go along until we get the final one and then
we'll do it on the last pass of the day. Because we've
got a little time here and we want to make sure we use
it the best possible way, which means these pads that have been
thought through by the back room you know with some action between
one another. As opposed to just a quicky.
CC Okay, and we'll keep you scheduled for
the rest of the day, AI.
CDR By the way, I checked the mol sieve and in
15 minutes sure enough they cycled to the opposite position.
It's Just as you would suspect. Also checked the four heat
exchanger fans; they were all working very well, I turned them all
off and turned them on individually to make sure that they
in fact were working and weren't just free wheeling, and
all four of them were working. We have noticed that down
in the workshop on ducts 1 and 2 we have 500 feet per minute
flow and on duct 3, 550. We thought that perhaps 1 and 2
were a little low, too but couldn't remember what it was at
the beginning. At any rate those four heat exchanger fans
are running full speed.
CC Copy, AI.
CDR And we haven't had a chance to get
on that other one yet but we will; I'm on the bike at the
moment.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS, we'll
see over Ascension in 4 minutes.
PAO We have a 10-minute pass approximately
lO-minute pass coming up at Ascension in roughly 3 to 4 minutes.
However, we will take the llne down in preparation for the
change-of-shlft briefing which is upcoming momentarily in
building i. We'll record the pass and play it back after
the change-of-shift briefing is concluded. At 21 hours
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-682/I
Time: 17:15 CDT, 16/22:15 GMT
8112/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 22 hours

15 minutes Greenwich mean time, during the change of shift
press conference we accumulated about 4-1/2 minutes of
alr-to-ground through the Ascension tracking station and
are prepared to play that back to you at this time.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for I0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story, let me give you a brief
recapitulation of the EREP sites we got and the ones we didn't get
with M191. We got 125; we got 320; we got 325; we got 330.
We did not get 380, 385, or 390 due to weather. We had some
alternate sites, part of which we got, we got 307, which is
the north edge of Laguna Madre. We got site 314, the north part
of the area. The south part of both of those areas was
clobbered therefore we did not get site 305 or 308 because
they were covered with weather. And we are right now riding
with the 191 door open.
CC Okay, thank you Jack and I've got some
questions on T002 for you.
PLT Speak.
CC How many sltings do you have - 10, 20,
30?
PLT I've fiKured 3 sets of ten each. I took
the first 2 of the Fomalh_ut and Enlf and the third one
which I haven't put in the recorder yet was taken on
Fomalhaut and Diphda.
CC Okay, Just a reminder, we do need a mark
on every siting and the data is looking excellent.
PLT Okay, well I didn't give you a MARK in
every siting on those first three runs and I really
don't see why that's necessary to tie up the recorder for
a whole 35 minutes. And what's that's going to do is constrain
us to getting fewer runs in because other guys want to use
the recorders during that period of time for 487 and whatever
else. So if their going to tie us down to that, we going
to get less done. I'd prefer to take the sites as I did, tell
you what time spand the GMT were, the angles between the
stars aren't going to change because they never had for a
long long time therefore I don't see why it's necessary to
give you MARKS in real time for star to star. I can
see where it's necessary when you start to worry about the
Earth's horizon, we have used the stadlmeter yet. So I would
llke for you to get a relaxation on that requirement.
CC Okay, Jack an update on that for the
star's star sltings all we need is a GMT period on the
time that you did them.
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PLT Okay, and that's what I'm going to

give you. I guess when it goes - when it goes Moon Moon,
I can do the same thing but when we get star Moon then we
got to give you a MARK, right?
CC That's correct.
PLT Okay, that's the way we'll play it,
thanks a lot.
CC And I got one other thing for you Jack.
PLT Roger_ go ahead.
CC On the master anomaly list that we sent
up we said that the H2 and the 02 heaters in the command
module 1 and 2 were crisscrossed. That's not true of the
02 heaters only the H2 heaters.
PLT Okay, understand that the wires are
crossed on the H2 heaters but not on the 02, right.
CC That's right.
PLT Do you want any reconfiguration then
on the 02 heaters at this time?
CC Nope, fine the way they are.
PLT Okay, thank you, Story.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1 when you do that VTR voice check weld
also llke a simultaneous recording on channel A.
CDR Will do.
CC That' 11 help us isolate the problem and
there's a S019 pad up there in the teleprinter, as well as
the prep for it.
CDR Outstanding; thanks.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds tll LOS. We'll
PLT ...
PAO That concludes the tape recorded information
that we had accumulated. We're about 12-1/2 minutes away
from acquisition at the Guam site. Take the llne down at
22 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time, be back up Just
prior to acquisition at Guam. At 22:20 GMT, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-683/I
TIME: 17:32 CDT 16/22:32 GMT
8/12/73

32 minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away from
acquisition at the Guam tracking site. At this time we
expect some communication in connection with the photographic
exercise, that is the photographic of the active volcano,
which is approximately 670 statute miles south of Tokyo.
We'll stand by to pick up the air-to-ground through the
Guam tracking station.
CC Skylab, we're AOS for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story, Owen's up there looking
for the volcano. I don't know if he's found it or not.
Jack's on the ATM. I J_,st finished my test for the VTR.
We actually gave them two tests. We gave them a test at
l, 2, 5, and i0 inches. Then we gave them a test at 6, 12,
18, and 24 inches simultaneously recording on chan A. Is
that what you wanted?
CC That's affirm. And for Owen, the volcano
is in the window at this time.
SPT I'm looking out the wardroom window and
all I see is clouds and water.
CC That's too bad. Anyway, for Owen, it'll
be there 2 more minutes.
SPT Yeah, I'm going up there again. We took
out the ETC, it's stowed, and we got the friendly S019 in
the airlock now.
CC Great.
CDR I'm looking over the Flight Plan for
tomorrow. I might make some comments now instead of wait-
ing for the evening report. You think it would be possible
to give me an ATM. The on_ that's around 19:00 or so in
there and is not being used. And move my EREP take
to somewhere else, because I can certainly put it in some off
time and then there's a possibility after 23:00 for at least
one ATM pass that's not scheduled and perhaps it's just
scheduled and not on this llst and I Just don't know it.
CC Okay. We'll work on that, A1.
CDR Okay, and I Just moved the other stuff
around. We' ii be able to do it all and get that ATM in there.
We don't want to miss that ATM pass tomorrow if we can.
CC I think we're getting the message. PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Jack, we'd like a star tracker lock on
some time.
PLT Okay.
CC And when you get done JOP 2C-12D, your
S055 offset in two-limb coalign and the building block 7B,
you can go to the shopping llst and do items 16 and 3.
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CC And AI, we see the VTR is still on.

Would you llke us to turn it off?
CDR We headed that way and stopped to look
at the volcano, which we can't see, still.
CC Okay.
CDR We may have seen it, Story, we see a
sort of low, very low cloud that's lower than the rest
and it looks foamy and it may be water or clouds, but it's
got a long thin trail of vapor issuing from it. Now, it's
either a contrail or it's the volcano. We're not sure.
CC Okay. Sounds good.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yeah, go ahead.
CC Jack, we'd llke to do a VHF comm
check over the Vanguard _n preparation for your family
conversation. We'll be over the Vanguard at 23:12, if
you could configure for VHF via the VHF private comm,
change the cue card we sent you up yesterday. You can do
that in Just a couple of minutes prior to getting to
Vanguard.
PLT Okay. 1 had quite a lot of trouble
with Vanguard last night. How about the Ascension and Madrid
pass, is that available? Or the Canaries, Madrid.
CC We had trouble there too, yesterday.
And we're planning to have your family comm over Guam at
00:10.
PLT Okay, that's better and we'll check

up the VHF setup that we've had in the past o%_er
Vanguard at 23:12.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, are you- are you- having the family
comm at S-band or VHF tonlght?
CC We're going to try it on VHF.
PLT Okay. So we'll use the same old
VHF procedure we've been using. Since we've been here?
CC That's affrlm.
PLT Okay.
CC And your antenna will be right over
Vanguard. We're 30 seconds to LOS here. We'll see you
over at the Vanguard in about 40 minutes. And SPT,
Houston.
SPT Go.
CC Owen. Save those two ED 63 vials
for which slides are not prepared. On the ground we
have seen cytoplasmic streaming, even though the
material is dead. So save those and the slides.
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SPT I've already bioslided the ones I

prepared the other day. Of course I still have the vials.
I can do it again anytime we have free time.
CC Okay. We'll plan to schedule it.
PAO Next station contact is the Vanguard
in about 30 minutes. At 22 hours 43 minutes Greenwich
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SL-III MC-684/i
Time: 18:11 CDT; 16/23:11 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 23 hours ii minutes

Greenwich mean time. The space station is approaching the
Vanguard tracking site, Just beginning the 1304 revolution
of the Skylab space station. We'll be in contact at Van-
guard for about I0 minutes. A short period of time when
we will have no contact and then contact again through
Ascension, Canaries, and Madrid. We will stand by for the
air- to-ground.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Vanguard for 10 minutes.
l'm on S-band now.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Vanguard; 9 more minutes
on S-band.
SPT Okay, Story. I'm reading you down here in
the workshop now. Say again.
CC Okay, Owen. We're Just establishing a comm
check. 1'11 go back to VHF soon here. And on your ATM
pass I've got some things for you here.
SPT Okay. Is this going to be a voice up-llnk
for about 11:23:50. Is that right?
CC Yeah.
SPT Okay, let me get a piece of paper - I
ought to write this (garble) down ....
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. O1_ the shopping llst, do item one
first, and then 16 and or 3. And repeat those even if
Jack got some of them done. And I'm going back to VHF.
SPT Okay. Another comment there. He didn't
get the - the two- or four-limb alignment complete and
an 82B exposure that - two plus 40 exposure wasn't complete.
I'ii try to pick those up.
CC How do you read now?
SPT I'm reading you loud and clear, just the
way it ought to be.
CC Okay, good. We've got a little
background noise on you, but it's very readable.
PLT Okay. Do you have some way of knowing
when you come up, whether or not we're using our recorder
before you dump?
CC We'll get you an answer.
PLT Okay, the reason I ask is because I was
Just recording something and suddenly now the record light
is out and I can't record anymore and I guess I'ii Just
have to go back and repeat it all. Do you want me to stay
here, Story, or shove off?
CC As far as VHF goes?
PLT Yeah.
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CC Are you satisfied with the VHF, Jack?

PLT Yeah, this - this is real good. It's coming
through very clearly.
CC Okay, stand by i.
PLT Okay.
CC Jack, you can leave that panel configured
just the way it is until we hit Guam for your family comm.
PLT Okay, Story. And what time will that be?
CC That's at 00:I0.
PLT Okay. 00:I0. Thank you.
SC Roger.
SC (Garble)
see you over Ascension in 5 minutes. And no need to
acknowledge, Jack, but in our present configuration we
cannot tell from down here if you're running the tape
recorders.
PAO Next station contact is the Ascension
Island tracking station in about 5 minutes. We'll keep
the line up inasmuch as this is a long pass. Ascension
coming up; the Canaries and Madrid. We'll stand by for
further comm.
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Time: 18:24 CDT; 16/23:24 GMT
8/12/73
CC Skylab, we're AOS for 14 minutes through

Ascension, Canaries and Madrid.
PLT Okay, here's a question for you, Story, on
this valometer. When you put in in a airstream do you put
it with the blunt nose facing the airstream or do you
put it sideways so that the opening faces the alrstream?
CC The latter is correct. I'Ii verify that
for you.
PLT In other words, you hold the probe perpen-
dlcular so the long axis is perpendicular to the airstream
with the opening facing the alrstream, right?
CC That's right, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
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Time: 18:37 CDT, 16/23:37 GMT
8/12/73
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Could you get a pencil and piece of
paper AI and copy our new ATCS philosphy?
CDR Go ahead.
CC I only got 2 minutes here AI, so we
won't have time to discuss the rational for it. But number
1 inhibit the TACS, leave them inhibited all the time.
2. Y-I redundanc_ management enable, that's if you have
a problem. 3. If you got a CMG SAT or a CM - due to a
rate gyro failure, try to tuff it out unltl the next AOS.
If the rates are building up to an unsatlsfactorily rate,
damp the rates with CMS using the OA emergency cue card.
That's the emergency rate control cue card.
CDR Okay, that's pretty straight forward,
I'm a little puzzled on Y-I enable, you mean you want me to
go in and select Y-I and make it single with redundancy manage-
ment enable?
CC It's just that we're going to leave that
enabled, AI.
CDR What's going on in the Y-axls right now?
What do you have?
CC We'll havre to catch that over the next
pass A1. The general philosophy here is that with rate
gyro problems the TACS can get us into a lot of trouble
early.
CDR That's a fact.
CC Yeah, we Just wanted to get this to you
for the next 40 minute LOS here and remind Jack that his
family comm is coming up here at Guam at 00:I0.
CDR Okay, he knows, he's ready.
CC And Jack will be on VHF and start off
on the left antenna and then go to the right antenna half
way through the pass.
CDR Thanks.
PAO We've had loss of slgnal from Madrid.
Next station contact is Guam in about 25 minutes. At
23 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 19:09 CDT 17/00:09 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

9 minutes Greenwich mean time into the new day. The 225th
day of the year, 1973. The space station is approaching
the Guam tracking site and we expect some kind of comm-
unication between ground and station in about 30 seconds,
so stand by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
CC And CDR, when you get a chance we'd
llke you to lock up a star tracker for SOl9 ops.
SPT I'm at the panel now, Story, go ahead.
What do you want, the same angles, I suppose.
CC That' a affirm.
CC And you could stay off the DAS here,
too. We're going to select Y-I redundancy management enabled.
SPT Okay.
CDR Why ar_ you thinking about Y-I so
much. Do you think that's what caused the problem while
ago?
CC Stand by i.
CC We think it was Y-2 that caused the
problem, so we got to get the tapes back and analyze all
the data and the rest of it.
CDR That' s interesting. We were hastling
around talking about it and we said it's liable to be that
one didn't shift. That's what really threw it into a
tizzy.
CC Okay, we didn't like shipping up that
procedure change with 2 minutes til LOS, but we felt it
was a good enough thing and we wanted you to have it in
that 25-minute period. And the reasoning behind it was
that the CMGs, if you have rate gyro problems, the CMGs
don't have enough control authority to get you that far
out in rates or attitude, especially on rates, and that's
why we wanted to inhibit the TATS.
CDR Okay. We kind of liked that idea. It
sounded good to us.
CC And the other thing it does, it gives
you plenty of time to go up to the panel and analyze the
situation.
CDR Right, and we have on our panel now
a llttle card we just made up. It _ells us what to do
with Y and it tells us what to do with X and Z per your
last message. So theoretically we Just look at all rate
gyros through the DAS and see if they agree or don't look
too bad, and then select the ones that you said.
CC Okay, and we think itts extremely
unlikely that with TACS inhibited that between AOS's that
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you could build up any unsatisfactory rates.

CDR That's good news.
SPT And the Y-axls was the one axis that
didn't fail redundancy management.
CC Okay.
CDR Houston, looks like we got to change
the NUZ, it's 0.9 and the pad shows 4.1. So I guess I'ii have
to make these corrections. What do you think?
CC We'll be right with you, Al.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS, we'll
see you over Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
CDR Do you agree we ought to so some
subtraction on these NUZ?
CC We haven't made the update yet, AI.
We'll hope to have that at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
CC We're checking now Al, it ought to be
close, and if so you can use that.
CDR Well, the pad says minus 4.1 and Owen's
panel up there says minus 0.9.
CDR Well, we may have made a mistake. Hold
on .
CC We've just updated it now.

SPT It's minus 2.5 now.
CDR Minus 2.5.
CC Go with that, AI.
CDR Okay, I'ii make corrections then.
PAO There's a span of about 5 or less
minutes of time when the Skylab space station will be out
of range between Guam and Honeysuckle. We'll keep the
line up however, for the pass through Honeysuckle, which
is now scheduled to begin in about 4 minutes and a half.
Standing by for alr-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
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CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story.
CC Jack, how did the VHF go?
PLT Came off without a hitch, Story. And
thank you for setting it up, the only difference I noticed
was that when I talked they had a lot of echoes, I heard
myself say over again several times in the background.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, for the AT}{ room I did complete
another two llmb co-allgnment and there's an - officially no
drift from the last check which was made let's see now,
back about 6 days ago. There's a possibility that line 9
might be a little bit better than line 8 but I think it's
awful close on the upper llmb. And I think we'll Just
leave it right where it is on 0832 as the coalign position.
CC Okay, thanks Owen.
CC Skylab. We're going LOS here, we'll see
you over the Vanguard at 00:51.
PAO A very short pass over Honeysuckle.
Very little communication and a very short sign off.
28 minutes GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-689/I
Time: 19:50 CDT; 17/00:50 GMT
8/12/73
PAO Skylab Control; Houston. At 50 minutes

Greenwich mean time, about a minute away from acquisition
at the Vanguard tracking ship on a very short pass, at the
beginning of revolution 1305 of the Skylab space station.
We'll stand by for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, we have you over the Vanguard for
6 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CDR Story, I've got a question. I'm doing
SO19 up here and I've been making the marks at the proper
time. I wondered if I had to leave the tape recorder going
between marks. It takes a lot of time on the tape recorder
and sometimes I've been doing it and sometimes I've been
turning it off and then bringing it back on for the mark.
Could you find out the answer on that one?
CC You can turn it off inbetween marks, AI.
CDR Sorry, I couldn't hear you.
CC You can turn the tape recorder off between
your marks.
CDR Okay, good. Thank you.
CC And on the TV down here we're seeing every-
body wearing jackets. Are you cold up there?
SPT It's a lot cooler.
SPT I slept under a double blanket - in other
words the one that fold up, for my feet last night for the
first time. I think Jack did too.
CC Okay.
SPT I've a couple of notes on this last ATM
pass. I did the shopping llst item one; the JOP 12D step 1
- a two limb and 55 alignment and a shopping llst 16 over
on the east llmb. I believe it was not a prominence -
Just a prominence associated with active region 85, however.
Now on this two-llmb alignment I've spent quite a bit of
time going between the north and south poles here - or up
and down the upper and lower limbs. And I believe that
0932 is a better aligned position than 0832. And I think
we'll switch over to that - coallgned slide if y'all are
in agreement on the ground.
CC We'll let you know, Owen.
SPT It turned out the H-alpha radius to the
inner llmb is just about 1 arc second larger than the
white light radius as seen by the XUV SLIT.
CC Pretty good instrument, huh?
SPT Well it's kind of hard to imagine, it's
Just very much different in diameter than the two tele-
scopes.
SPT And then ] heard you point that - Jack
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pointed out on the last rev and I've Just reconfirmed up

here. That in the prominences are distinctly more visible
in H-alpha 1 than they are in H-alpha 2. Even when you
zoom H-alpha 2 into MAX ZOOM so that it's in nearly the
same field of view and adjust the contrast and brightness
so that contrast is low and brightness is the best. And
it's still distinctly more visible in H-alpha I than it is
in the other instruments.
CC Copy, ()wen.
CC And, Owen, we're GO with you using align
932 .
SPT Ro ge r.
see you over Canaries at 01:i0 and we'll be dumping the
tape recorders over Canaries.
PAO And we've lost signal at the Vanguard track-
ing site. See them over the Canaries in about 12 minutes.
SPT Okay, I've given you several stops on that
one already and this is that - maybe that same difficulty
we had before when we tried the long exposure (garble)
turned the (garble) off.
PAO And now we believe we've really lost signal
from the Vanguard. See them at the Canaries in about ii
minutes. At 58 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-III MC-690/I
Time: 20:09 CDT, 17/01:09 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 1 hour

9 minutes Greenwlch mean time, about 40 seconds from
acqulsttlon at the Canary tracking site. On this the 1305
revolution of the space station. We'll stand by for
communication through Canaries with the Skylab III crew.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Canaries and Madrid
for 14 minutes.
CC And Skvlab, we'd llke to inhibit star
tracker control, if you ¢.an stay off the DAS awhile.
SPT Okay, there's nobody up there now anyway.
CC Okay..
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS, the
DAS is yours, we'll be looking for the Evening Status Report
over Honeysuckle in 34 minutes, 01:58.
PAO At i hour and 25 minutes Greenwich
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SL-III MC691/I
Time: 20:57 CDT, 17/01:57 GMT
8/12/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at i hour

57 minutes Greenwich mean time, the space station is
approaching the Honeysuckle tracking site and at that time
we expect to get a status report on today's activities, the
film usage, what they crew eat, what the crew ate or didn't
eat, at approximately i0 seconds from now we should have
acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.
CDR How about a nightly status report?
CC We are ready.
CDR Here comes a few numbers: 132; 155;
190. 4923; 8131; 5711. 6.246, 6.246, 6.245; 5.980, 5.980,
5.981; 6.964, 6.959, 6.959. 2/27/4147, 3/15/MARK 1;
40A, 20D, 20C, 20D, 30 situps; SPT, 2/17/2200; Pilot, 1/05/0524,
2/30/6603. No medications. Sleep: 7-g; 7-g; 7-g. Food
Log on the way: CDR, 1 salt and substituted pineapple for
strawberries; SPT, 4 salt, no deviations; PLT, 5 salt, add
one apple drink. Let me now read you the a - well at the
end I'ii give you the a - the a - spices we used, it was
requested that we give those to you. Okay here comes the
Photo Log: VTS track 3D,CL0100; VTS track 13B, CL0270;
VTS track 20B, CL0250. MlSl of M092/93, C14172, CI16.
35-milllmeters: C19934, CX1236; this 35-millimeter
business is a bit fouled up. Our counters we're trying
to figure out how they read. We think we also
got a failure in our CX our our - visible light Nikon in
the electric counter, too but we're not sure, we're working
on it. We'll work it out. 70-millimeters: CXII,133;
ETC: CW02,142; CT04,068. Now l've got to EREP 190 and
I'm going to give you the numbers first then apply right
now and then I'ii go back and give you the numbers after
first or after the last run last night, because we gave you
the status report before then. SET, T: 7888, 7225, 8100,
8095, 1638, 8956. Now comes the EREP from last night or
how was start this morning, T: 7768_ 7105, 7980, 7975, 1518,
8836. Here comes Drawer A: 02, C142, 03, C124; 03, C143,
99, CI18; 06, C139, 00, CI13; 05, CI41, 70, CI16; and the
backup, 07, C140, 95, CI09.
CC Okay.
CDR Flight Plan, we've already - Flight
Plan we've already talked about, we're hoping that there's
that we never skip ATM opportunity if there is any way
to shuffle the schedule. And we Just try to pick up some
these spare things in our spare time but we're hoping we
never miss one of them unless it's for something llke 509
where you can't do it or something .... three people
maybe they can think of something. (garble) get a new
Flight Plan of the 3 of us tommorrow. Shopping llst: we did
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CDR ETC stow, we did S019, PR-I, we did

S019, OP, S019, stow-i we did one set of T002 scans which are
i0 sitlngs and we did one extra ATM pass we're still standing
by for more information, the rate gyro malfunction techniques
you want us to use, we have Ehe voice up-llnk but we're hoping
for a little bit more explanation in a more formal teleprinter
message about it. Unschedule stowage item location changer
tissue from 931 to 802 and three full urine sample containers
from D426 to D826. Now there not full of urine obviously but
there the full urine sample containers. Let me now give you
the business about the spices. Okay, what I'm going to
do is first give you Bean's spices that he's using, and the
amount on each is Just exactly like we did it on the ground.
Here they come: eggs, I may repeat myself I'm Just glancing
over the menu so 1'11 be repeating things over and over
again but they can sort it out. Okay, here it comes:
spaghetti, pepper and garlic salt; filet, pepper and garlic
salt; chili, tabasco sauce and pepper; prime rib, pepper
and garlic salt; macarooni, pepper; chicken and rice,
tabasco sauce and pepper; Okay, those are the only ones
we're using, I'm using on my food. Let's - Owen Garriott
is not using any and if he begins using some he'll let you
know. Here comes Jack Lousma: on veal, he uses tabasco;
spaghetti, tabasco; shrimp, horseradish; and that's it for
the spices. Any questions?
CC Okay. Thanks, AI, we're 20 seconds til LOS
here your medical conference will be coming up over Bermuda
at 02:41. Where are you transmitting from now?
CDR I'm standing down in the wardroom, why
any particular noise or something?
CC There's a high frequency whine in the
background.
CDR We hear it too. We think we're feeding back to
the set in the head. I'm going to go and turn it off.
CC Okay, and thanks for your comments
on the Flight Plan real early llke that is, we can get that
incorporated when you give it to us early llke that.
CDR That comment about the ATM- We're hoping
that from now on out ...
PAO Space station has moved out of range
of the Honeysuckle tracking site. Next station up will
be Bermuda in about 34 minutes and at that time we'll have
a medical conference between the crew and the medics here
at the - here on the ground. At 2 hours 7 minutes Greenwich
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SL-III MC-692/I
Time: 21:40 CDT; I_/02:40 GMT
8/12/73

Greenwich mean time. About 45 seconds from acquisition
at the Canary - correction at the Bermuda tracking site.
During this pass we expect there will be the nightly medi-
cal conference involving the crew and the surgeon, so we
shouldn't have a great deal of communications. We'll stand
by however, to get the air-to-ground if there is any.
PAO We've moved out of range of the Bermuda
tracking station. Howe_ver, we'll keep the llne up since
we're approximately a mlnute and a half away from acquisi-
tion through the Canary Island station and then on through
Madrid.
CC Skylab, we're AOS, Canaries and Madrid for
i0 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders over Madrid
at 02:53.
CDR Okay. When are you going to send up our
flight plans for tomorrow? Or are they here?
CC They're there.
CDR We'll go get them.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. _e didn't plan to send up a new
summary or detailed flight plan, but on the ATM scheduled
pad we do have orbit sched111ed at 23:00, and we do have
a rate gyro maneuver, which interferes with the ATM that
he requested instead of the EREP tape. But we may be able
to work in a little bit of ATM when that maneuver is done.
SPT Okay, hold a second.
CDR Okay, I see your point there.
CDR Uh - -
CDR I guess I get a little worried when I see
- I see us doing three or four things and that's about it
for the day because I think we've got the ability and time
and energy and I know y'all do down there, to do a little
bit more. I don't know exactly how to flight plan it, but
today was a pretty good day. We got a lot done today.
And tomorrow looks a little lighter than today. Thatls
what I thought.
CC Okay. We're going to - we're going to
schedule you real heavy - -
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CDR - llttle lighter than today. That's

what I thought.
CC Okay. We're going to schedule you
real heavy in the future, AI.
CDR Yeah, I think you're going to have to.
Maybe we're going to have to extend the working hours
passed 23:00 or whatever they stop now. Let them run over
to about 01:00 or something llke that. I'm not really
sure how to do it. But I do know that all I've got tomorrow
is to fly 509 and to change the EREP tape. That takes
about 20 minutes, maybe, if that long. And observe a 92
171 and that's it. We're working less hard at the moment
than we were prior to flight. Now I know this is a change
of tone from when we were activating, I asked you for relief,
but we were way behind at that time, and we hadn't caught
on. Now we've sort of got the place shipshape and we've
kind of caught on how to handle two or three balls at once,
and we've only got another month and a half here.
CC Okay, A!. We get the message, AI, and
we're going to be schedul_ng a lot of stuff and you'll find
things, extra things to dc in the remarks column.
CDR Okay, I'm hoping, you know, these
experiment things. We need to do but that S019 was Just
tonight and (garble) we'll get the housekeeping done. We
need a full schedule other than that. We can get the
housekeeping done.
CC Okay. I will do it. And in reference
to permanent general messages, we have an idea here that
anything that applies to more than i day, we'll call a
permanent general message and we'll keep track of those and
when they no longer apply, I will call them up and cancel
them.
CDR Well, we sere hoping you would do it
the other way. Namely, we can do it that way and will be glad
to do it that way, but we were hoping that we only pasted
the ones in the book that were going to stay there, but suit
yourself; we can paste them all in there, I guess, it's a lot
of extra work with the permanent, because if we have to get one
and post it here where we are working and then put one in the
book. And when it was Just a general for three or four
days, we post it for where we work and when the three or
four days is up we throw it away, but we can do it either
w ay.
PLT Hey, Story could you add a couple of things
to the evening status report for me please.
CC Yes. There's a message I've got to get
to you. When we go over the hill this time, it'll be for
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the night. And that is to terminate the cabin purge. That's

on panel 706. Water dump valve to CLOSE. And on panel 700.
Water dump heater OFF.
PLT Okay. That's done already. I want
you to add to the evening status report an extra apple
drink besides the one that's on there and more exercise on the
mark i. 20 minutes, that'll be 50 As, 20 Bs, 20 dogs,
and 20 backbends.
PLT You gone.
CC No, we copy that. And on panel 207
we'd like you to ENABLE the rate gyro caution and warning
switch.
PLT Wilco. How long you on tonight, Story.
CC Be getting off around midnight. Got
the evening shift with the maroon team tonight.
PLT Okey doke. Thanks a lot.
PLT Keep you off the street.
CC Only til midnight. And tomorrow we'll
be doing a course gain patch in the computer tomorrow.
That's just for your information.
CC And nothing's required on your part
except to stay off the DAS while we're doing it.
PLT Well, we can do that.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see
you in the morning. We will not call you, but the next
station is Carnarvon at 03:26.
PLT Okay. Goodnight, maroon team.
CC Yes sir.
CDR We're going to activate the rate gyro,
but I assume you mean that we won't - You don't expect any
rate gyro problems tonight?
CC We don't anticipate any problems,
correct.
PAO Well, we've had loss of communication
with the Skylab III crew through the Madrid tracking site
and apparently it's goodnight for the night ending the
day's work for mission day number 16. All in all a fairly
busy day today involving an EREP pass, several hours of
Sun watching, some picture taking of an active volcano and
a series of medical experiments. We're standing by for
the surgeon's report and we'll come up when we have that
report. In the meantime, at 3 hours 3 minutes Greenwich
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SL-III MC694/I
Time: 22:13 CDT, 17:03:13 GMT
8/12/73

utes Greenwich mean time with the Surgeon's report on the
health status of the Skylab III crew. Except for the pre-
viously reported nasal congestion, which they claim is not
worrying them, the Skylab III crew remains in excellent
health. The Commander and Pilot, that is, A1 Bean and Jack
Lousma, were subjects of the M092 lower body negative pressure
test today. They reported that they finished that complete
protocol with no symptoms or other difficulties. The end of
the report. At 3 hours 14 minutes 36 seconds this is PAO
signing off ending transmission for mission day number 16.
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SL-III MC695/I
Time: 05:57 CDT, 17/10:57 GMT
8/13/73

I0 hours 57 minutes on the 17 day for Skylab 3 crew of AI
Bean, Dr. Owen Garroitt, and Jack Lousma, on schedule
for the crew today is the first operation of the M509,
astronaut maneuvering unit which will be operated by
Commander Bean with Pilot Lousma serving as the observer.
Also on schedule today is approximately 4 hours and
50 minutes of manned operation of the Apollo Telescope Mount
and a set of medical experiments for Science Pilot Owen
Garriott the M092; lower body pressure device. The MI71
Metabolic analyzer. We anticipate wakeup call momentarily
over Bermuda tracking station. We'll hold the line up for
wakeup call from CAP COM Bruce McCandlass, Flight Director
is Nell Hutchinson.
CC Reveille, reveille, all hands here out, trace up
and hit the deck.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda with
1 minute until LOS. Next station contact is over Ascension
at 11:07, Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
Sky, do you read? Over.
CDR Read you real good, Bruce.
SPT Too loud and too clear.
CC Roger out.
CC And for your information we'll be dumping the
voice data tape recorder over Ascension which is your next
contact.
CDR Thanks, Bruce.
CC I guess, the motto today could be rise
and shine with 509.
CDR Yea, we've been looking forward to it.
PAO We've had loss of signal at Bermuda next contact
will be Canary in approximately 5-1/2 minutes. We'll bring
the llne back up at contact with Canary.
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SL-III MC69611
Time: 06:06 CDT, 17/ii:06 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; ii hours 6 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We'll have acquisition over the Ascension
station as the Skylab crew, A1 Bean, Owen Garrlott, Jack Lousma
begin their 17th day in the Skylab space station.
for 10-1/2 minutes and we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder this contact. Over.
CC Make that an out.
SPT Hello, Bruce you still there?
CC We certainly are, Owen, for another 2-1/2 min-
utes. Over.
SPT That's great. Say I was Just looking at my
general message file and noted that I don't have general
messages 7, and 9 although I have all the rest including
8 and i0.
CC Okay, these are permanent general messages
7 and 9.
SPT Yea, could you read the title for those, I'ii
see where they might be?
CC Okay, that's inwork.
CC Okay, message number 9 had to do with the
S192 thermal alignment and we're looking for message number
7.
CC And, 7 is the SAA horn pad and I think you've
got 7 ALPHA is the latest one of those.
CC That's correct 007 ALPHA and it's 1412 is
the - 1412 B1 is the message number.
SPT Okay, could you send me an extra copy of
message number 9?
CC Message number 9 for S192 alignment?
SPT You bet.
CC Okay, we'll do that. We think you already
have two copies onboard but we'll ship up another one.
SPT Okay, we Just checked around and we don't
seem to have but one, Jack has it.
CC And we've got 4 minutes to LOS here at
Ascension next station contact is Carnarvon at 40 plus 39er
11 hours 18 minutes with loss of signal over Ascension next
contact will be Carnarvon in 22 minutes - 32 minutes from
now. At Greenwich mean time ii hours 18 minutes this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-697/I
Time: 06:40 CDT 17:11:40 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

39 minutes, with acquisition coming up on Carnarvon. The
crew is performing their post sleep activities for this their
17th day in orbit, a day which will have Allan Bean flying
the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit, with approximately
4 hours and 50 minutes to be spent at the Apollo telescope
mount, with Owen Garriott performing the M092, MI71 medlcal
experiments, which are designed to determine the condition
of his cardiovascular system in the zero g environment. We'll
hold the line open for further conversations with Capcom
Bruce McCandless and the crew of Skylab 3.
CDR Hello Houston.
CC Hello Skylab. Loud and clear here. We're
9 minutes through Carnarvon. Over.
CDR While we were LOS we had a command module
caution and warning. We wandered up there and found it to
be RCS quad B. We scanned quad B and found the temp at zero.
We fooled around with it a little while making sure that all
the propellant, helium and all that good stuff to quad B was
off which its supposed to be and _t is. About that time the
temp came up to about 130 where it sits at the moment. So
you might check it. There it goes again.
SC No, that's the flare alarm - -
CDR No, no that's the flare alarm. So you might
take a look at quad B from the ground.
CC Okay, I understaltd. Quad Bravo you found
a temp reading of 0 on it. And then while you were looking
at it, it came up to 130.
CDR That's affirm. Everything else seems to
be normal, but you might want to look at it real close. We
also opened the window and looked out to see if we could see
any sparklers going by and we saw none.
CC Okay, we will take a look at it probably
over Guam. Our computer is down at the present time, but I
get the impression from talking to you llke maybe you feel
that it's a transducer problem. Is that a fair call?
CDR I'd say it's a fair call.
CC Okay, when someone has a couple of minutes
here this morning we have a procedure for making a hand held
microphone test to try and psyche out some of the tom problems.
And we also have a few miscellaneous mission notes.
CDR What happened to the handheld mike test
we tried yesterday?
CC Okay, we got it on the tape recorder and
on the VTR. This one is aimed at real time air to ground act -
We found problems with both of those recordings, and we'd
like to keep on working it.
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CDR Sounds good to us. I'm ready to copy.

CC Okay, have you got the hand held mike
around?
CDR Sure, I can get it out right now.
CC Okay. Why dontt you get it out and locate
yourself in the vicinity of SIA 102 and 131 if you would please,
CDR Okay, will do.
CDR Bruce I'm on - now on hand-held mike coming
through 131.
CC Okay, what we'd llke you to do is insure
that SIA station 102 is in sleep A or B. And that the hand
held microphone is not connected to 102.
CDR Okay, I'ii try to insure that. Just a
second.
SPT Bruce, while he's looking for that, we're
looking for a med pad so we can check our supplements for
the morning, and we don't seem to find one. Has it been sent
up?
CC Yes sir, it has.
CDR Okay, I've insured that it's on. And it's
also in sleep.
CC Okay. And would you establish air to ground
comm with us on SIA 131 using the speaker box itself, that is
not the hand held microphone?
CDR Okay, how do you hear now? I'm talking
on the speaker box.
CC Boy, we read you loud and clear. Now if
you'd hook the hand held microphone to CCU channel B on SIA
131 and give us a call please.
CDR That's where the comm has been coming
from, channel B on SIA with hand held mike.
CC Okay. We're reading you loud and sort
of garbled, AI. I think that therets probably not much point
in continuing this. The isolation check out procedure here,
I think we're getting a bad audio off the hand held mike.
Would you disconnect the hand held mike now and give us a final
voice check through the box on 131?
CDR Say again.
CC You Just did it. You're beautiful, baby.
SPT Bruce, I still don't find that med pad.
Would you send another one up so we can get our supplements, please?
CC Okay, Owen. I can read the supplements
to you if you want to Just copy them and then we'll work
on getting the pad up to you.
SPT Give me i0 seconds, 5 seconds, do it.
CC Okay, while you're there A1 by the ATM,
during some unattended ops last night, the S055 modes were
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observed to continue running through orbital night indicating

the possibility that the night interlock switch is in OVERRIDE.
Would you check to verify and or reposltlon the S055 scan
spec night interlock switch to normal please?
CDR I Just reposltloned it to normal.
CC Thank you,
CDR Okay, I'm going to disconnect this hand
held mike and proceed back to my breakfast.
CC Roger. And sometime - -
SPT I'm ready for the numbers, Bruce.
CC Okay, Owen. For the CDR it's 00002,
SPT 00021, PLT 01000. Over.
SPT Got it, thank you.
CC And for remarks, we have mark spices and
quantity on the cue card report on channel A.
SPT Okay.
SPT That last step's complete alreadyt Bruce. We
read it down in real time, and it's already on the cue card.
CC Okay, thank you. And for Allan, wetd llke
you to put some red tape around that microphone and stow it
somewhere.
CDR Okay. You really think it's a microphone
failure, huh? And I'm not Just u_Ing it wrong?
CC Well, I don't kDow how you're holding it
when you're using it but the audio that's coming through is very
bad.
CDR I would recommend let Owen try it,
or Jack try it here on the next paris if we could.
CC We think we've tracked it down enough
to indicate that the microphone itself is bad. You've got
about 40 seconds to LOS here through Carnarvon. Next station
contact over Guam in 4 minutes.
CDR Okeydoke. I'ii put a little red tape on it.
Thanks.
CC And over Guam we've got a minor correction
to the maneuver pad for this afternoon's rate gyro cal for
Jack. We'll try and catch him there.
time ii hours 51 minutes. On this pass over Carnarvon
Commander Bean called attention to the ground that they had
a caution and warning alarm from the command module. When
they went up there, the RCS quad B showed a temperature of
0. And while they were looking at the system it came back
up to 130. This particular system has been isolated and the
engines inhibited since the first day of the mission on July
28 when problems developed in the quad B system. He also
reported that they looked out the window to see if they could
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see any sparklers, which they didn't. The sparklers would

indicate if the engines were firing. After this problem -
situation was apparently put to bed, Commander Bean returned
to the wardroom to continue his breakfast. Next acquisition
will be over Guam tracking station in approximately 2 minutes
from now. We'll leave the llne up for that pass.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 698/1
Time: 06:52 CDT, 17/11:52 GMT
8/13/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

9 minutes. Over.
SPT Bruce, we were wondering if you know the
microphones for our tape recorders sort of look the same
way on the outside. We didn't know if the inside was the
same and the only difference was the pigtail. If that's
true it's conceivable there might be a way to exchange the
speaker - [ mean the microphone in one of those for the one -
in the one that Just failed that has the proper pigtail to
interface with the CCU, we don't know.
CC All right let's take that under advisement
for right now it seems llke the best audio that we can get
for VTR and things like that's going to be with the COM carrier.
CC And, if you have a couple of minutes to
listen this pass here I've got a bit of spill to do with the
rate gyro situation you experienced yesterday afternoon. Over.
SPT We're ready to listen, Bruce.
CC Okay, I guess the number 1 message llke to
preface all this with as we start out is that - on thorough
examination of the situation it appears llke the gyros were
all functioning as we expected them to. And the sequence
as we go through it may well be enlightening here as you know
we've been seeing small off nominal accumulations of momentum
build up for quite some time here either as a result of some
sort of as yet undetected small vent or possibly due to
the performance of the Z-axls rate gyro. But anyway, yesterday
we started the day off with a slightly off nominal momentum
and by the time we had finished the GLV manuever associated
with EREP and the EREP lunar cal and we came into the dump manuever
at 17:03 we had about 40 percent momentum accumulated in the
X-axis which is much higher than we nominally expect to see.
The dump commenced 17:03 and about 40 seconds later the
Z-axls gyro spell were redundancy management which we have
been seeing happen fairly frequently recently due to a scale
factor problem between these two gyros. Incidentally we have
planned a manuever for this afternoon that will recallbrate
the Z and X rate gyros we hope will enable us to a load of
facts that will prevent this problem in the future. The
manuever that was called for due to the hlgh accumulation of
momentum in X was much larger than we normally see and
consequently the scale factor problem that we have in the X gyros
showed up and caused an X redundancy management fail about 6 minutes
later. The really significant feature of the whole situation
yesterday afternoon however, came from the fact that the
way that the momentum dump program is implemented it assumes
that the momentum accumulation about X is nominally small so
that while it's dumping Y and Z it is also programed to
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borrow momentum from X and to redistribute it between Y and Z. It

does this under the assumption that there is a lot there to
borrow and without directly monitoring vehicle rates about
the X-axls now due to the large momuntem you had acculumated about
X yesterday it in affect borrowed out to the limit and the vehicle
then became unable to control its rates about X. You drifted
about X for something less than a minute and at this point the
X attitude error the actual versus commanded exceeded 20 degrees
and the system went to course gain terminated the dump
manuever computer commanded a CMG nominal H cage TACS only
gave you the caution warning for stuck thzustex high rates
auto TACS CMG SAT. All these caution and warnings were in
fact valid and were to be expected for this situation. The
system then attempted to go through rather large manuevers
in all three axis to bring you back immediately and
simultaneously to solar inertial. And using the TACS only
mode of course to do this. You note here that when it
put you in tacs only and commanded CMG nominal H cage
you were removed from CMG control until very late in - the
procedure later on down here which I'ii try to get to. About
a minute and a half later, the system went to fine gain
with a rate still high you were within the TACs dead band at
that time for SI and were beginning to damp these rates out.
Fifteen seconds later you selected ATT HOLD CMG but since the
computer had commanded the TACS only even through you were in ATT
HOLD CMG, CMG control was not yet enabled and the TACS thrusters
continued firing since you were in TACS control damping
out the rates and damping you around the attitude that you selected
for ATT HOLD. About a minute after that since you continued
to get TACS firings under the assumption that you were in CMG
control you inhibited TACS. Now at this point in the game the
redundancy management scheme again was counting TACS firings
that is counting output signals from the computer that it
thought it should be firing TACS thrusters and equating each of
these to some small amount of momentum change and it therefore
failed the momentum interval test because the thrusters were not
actually firing although the computer was commanding thrusters to
file - to fire. This gave you an X and Z failures to the backup
strap down and finally Z to no control. Due to the fact that TACS
was inhibited and the computer thought it could still flreit you
then re-enable Z- axis rate gyro control, re-enable TACS
and commanded a nominal H cage. The nominal H cage really
had very lltte affect in the situation here since the CMGs were
already being caged in nominal momentum. At this point we would
llke to comment you mention that you checked the CMG gimbal
positions and found several of them on the stops. We believe
that you were perhaps erroneously reading the CMG wheel speed since
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in looking at the data we never found any CGM gimbals anywhere

near the stops. We do have - we do however know that CM_G
three, wheel speed transducer is erratic and has been known
to fall the zero and back to near a I00 percent so we think that
perhaps you were reading that position, l'm coming up 1 minute
to LOS here at Guam next station contact is Goldstone at
19 plus 40. We have a course galn patch which we'll be
loading in the computer at that time. Itll come back up
with some more words on course gain at Goldstone. Let me try
to finish up the rate gyro situation here, though in the
llttle bit of time that I have left. Maybe we can talk
about it some more at Goldstone. X-axls - excuse me
2 minutes later the X-axls rate gyro configuration you
selected out of backup strap down course gain we got a CMG
saturation. The problem here was that when you came out of
the backup strap down since you did this at night the
acquisition sun sensors had not had a chance to update the
backup strap down and a considerable error had built between
the backup and prime strap down so it threw you back into
course gain. I'm going to sign off here since I think
we're going over the hill. Over.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 699/1
Time: 07:04 CDT 17:12:04 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 12 hours 4 min-

utes Greenwich mean time with loss of signal over Guam.
During this previous 9-mlnute pass CAPCOM Bruce McCandless
presented to the crew a rather indepth review of the TACS
problem, which occurred yesterday following the Earth Resources
pass over the United States. CAPCOM McCandless went over the
various problems which developed, one upon the other developed
into the TACS firing. What it boils down to, as Flight
Director Nell Hutchinson has explained, is the software
system, the computer system on board was unable to cope with
the momentum rates the vehicle was experlencln E and this in
turn caused a problem in the rate gyro system. The rate gyro
system apparently did not cause the problem. It was in -
the software problem - computer problem in the Apollo telescope
mount, visual computer system which operates the guidance
and navigation system on board. His continual reference to
strap-down is the strap-down computations of the ATM digital
computer, which compute vehicle attitude relative to the
solar inertial attitude of the vehlcle. Further discussion
of yesterday's anomaly, which occurred about 12 o'clock in
the afternoon, are expected to continue over the Goldstone
tracking station in approximately 13 minutes from now. At
Greenwich mean time 12 hours 6 minutes, this is Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC- 700/i
Time: 07:18 CDT 17/12:18 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 12 hours 18 min-

utes, with acquisition coming up on the Goldstone tracking
station as Skylab 3 concludes its 1311th revolution of the
Earth. The Skylab 3 crew itself has only been up there since
July 28th, however the Skylab 1 vehicle is now in its 91st day
in orbit. Leave the line up for alr-to-ground with
Capcomm Bruce McCandless and his crew of Skylab 3.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
United States Complex, with you for 18 minutes and 30 seconds.
Ove r.
CDR Okay, go ahead on the information if you've

got any more, Bruce.
CC Okay. Before we get back into that, let
me take just a second to talk to you about this coarse gain
patch. We have the patch already onboard, and we're going to
execute it right now. What this will do is modify your present
flight program so that you are on the course rate on all three
axes on the rate gyros and inhibit any switching back to fine
scale. The basic reason for this is that we found in testing
down here on the ground that with the high temperatures in
some of the gyros due to the heater problems such as Y-2 they
are much more prone to oscillation in the fine gain mode. That is,
I guess it seems to strap it down tighter and you tend to get
these large oscillations. So for the time being and most
likely until you resume your EREP passes on about day 37,
we're going to command all three axes to the course mode and
leave them there. The only degradation that we'll experience
is uncertainty that is a possibility of error on the order
of 2 to maybe 3 degrees which would compromise your EREP operation
but should not affect ATM or any other operation in the
current time frame. Over.
CDR Okay, that sounds good.
CC I guess the whole theory is that we'll be able
to get Y-2 back to the point where we can really depend on it in
course mode at least and stop having these RM problems.
CDR We'd like that, I'll tell you.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Yeah, the TV is set up at .509 you just want
a little ad hoc TV of people drifting around getting ready for
things.
CC Okay, we'll look into that. We're over
Goldstone.
PLT Bruce, if we stay on course I presume

that will it preclude Jop 13.
CC I'll have to check into that Owen. I
suspect you may be right because you're talking about attitude
uncertainty here on the order of 1 to 3 degrees.
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SPT Yeah, it's far beyond anything we

could use for JOP 13 and also be required for stability. And
the other thing we talked about preflight was when we talked -
when - for example I'm on the panel 2 at nisht between 2 day time
ATM runs you took me up a llst of stars to attempt startracker
lock on wi£h Just to determine the startracker sensitivity.
If D. Bales or one of your astros down there has that llst, why
you might send it up on the teleprinter at the next convenient
time. And I'll run through it on one of my night passes between
two ATM.
CC Okay Owen, we'll look at that. Jop 13
has not yet even come into the 7 day forecast cycle down here
at the science planning meetings. When the targets are selected
and when it's planned, why we'll have to look at the rate gyro
situation and see what we can do on that. The patch can be
unloaded on very short notice.
SPT Roger.
CC And back on the rate gyro situation from
yesterday, I think I had Just mentioned you all commanded
nominal H cage which was sort of a nominal H cage on top
of the computer commanded nominal H cage so that it drove you down
to I guess 0 momentum and then commanded back up to nominal H cage.
You reconflgured the X axis rate gyros per the teleprinter
message I believe came out of the back up strap down and
since it was at night and the acquisition Sun sensor patch which
was put in to update the backup strap down has not been op-
eratlng there was considerable error between the prime and
back up strap down. This put the system in course gain
gave you CMG SAT lights, and you did a fast maneuver. But
you were still on TACS only at this time. About a minute later
you came down to fine gain, 6 minutes later at 17:26 you
released nominal H cage which terminated the nominal H cage
that the computer has started as well as your own there. And
this froze the CMG glmbal in one location, since CMG control
was still inhibited. At 17:29:20, it would be (garble) DAS
you commanded CMG control enable. This pretty well cured
the stuation back firing stopped, 9 minutes later you co-
manded SI and the vehicle made a relatlve]y small maneuver
at 2 SI and settled back down. In order to summarize, just - I guess
you could call it a thought for the day, is that the problem
arose basically from the combination of the fact that the
software was unable to cope with the momentum situation that
we had and the fact that the momentum budget was off nominal.
The rate gyro problems were really a result of this situation,
and we're not the underlying cause of it. Over.
CDR Okay, that's pretty complicated. It must
have taken them a few hours to figure that one out. But it sort of
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holds water too. It makes sense with what we saw. It also

makes sense with the sequence in which the warning the
numbers were on the caution and warning DAS call out. And
it may also make sense with what we saw. I think that it's
the best thing we could have done in that case was observe and
we talked about this afterwards, observe the position of the
CMG switch I mean the CMG talkback which I assume was probably
in cage when we got there and then go from there. We did not. We
felt our most important job was to try get it from (garble)
CC Roger. We confirm that the talkback was
in cage when you got up there.
CDR We turned off the DAS - -
CC We're handing over right now. Be back
with you in a second.
CDR - - the plan - the effort we made.
CC I'm sorry Allan. I missed the last couple
of sentences. We were handing over from Goldstone to Texas.
Could you repeat your last 2 or 3 sentences please.
CDR We read you okay right now. Apparently
we had a drop out.
CC Yeah. Could you repeat your last 2 or
3 sentences. We just handed over from Goldstone to Mils.
CDR At the risk of repeating some of it, I
think maybe our best move in the cage, llke - is let's assume that
we have another failure of some sort. But of course at the time
of the failure you don't know if it's the same one. You just know
you got a bunch of alarms. You wander up there and observe first
whether the TACS are firing or not. And if you - that's what we
did by the way. Then we looked to see if opposing TACS were
firing, which they were not. And that gave us a good feeling.
And then the next thing to look for which we did not, but
I think would be a good idea, is to take a look for the CMG
talkback to see if that thing is in cage which I suspect it
probably was. As you know when it goes to TACS only if I
remember correctly you don't see a little talkback that says
TACS. It's just doing that down inside the computer and you're
not really aware of it. Once you observe whether that little
cage switch is - check on this and see if the cage switch
turns cage whenever the computer commands what it did on
auto reset. And then go from there.
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Time: 07:28 CDT 17:12:28 GMT
8/13/73
CC Roger. We concur with your feelings

there, AI. And I guess my own from the simulator run
and stuff we made as part of the first back-up crew. You
gotta be careful - when you have something llke this,
you don't wind up with the CMGs inhibited in the computer.
Where it's not at all obvious that the computer has taken
them out of control. Cause even hitting the cage release
switch, up there if the CMGs are out of control won't put
them back in, you gotta use the DAS.
CDR Dropped out there, Bruce. Go again, where
you were saying the CMG's are out of control.
CC Okay, Allen. Sorry we Just had another
drop out there. In looking at the profile here, it looks llke
the only thing that you did, that could be considered an
error, was the inhibiting of the TACS because the system
was in fact trying to get you where you wanted to go. And
was zeroing in on the problem, and when you inhibited the
TACS, why it caused you to fall redundancy management in
action Z and threw you over to no control, in Z ultimately.
And I guess - as I was saying when we had the station handover,
From my own experience in the simulator. It's awful easy to get
in a situation, where CMG control has been inhibited, deep
down inside the computer somewhere. And it's certainly not
obvious cause even hitting the CMG cage release switch won't
put you back in control. You gotta use the DAS for that.
Over.
CDR Roger. Understand. Now the technique,
we used before we inhibited which I still think is a good
one. We observed the errors in the attitude, we looked
at the attitude, then we said which of the TACS are firing?
Are the one firing to correct that or not. In other words if we
have a positive error, or are we getting negative TACS? And at first
we were and then after it kept going on here for 30 or 40
seconds we decided that maybe it really wasn't, that it
couldn't handle the situation. It didn't have the logic within
itself. Because of ah - something we didn't. You know
looking back in hind sight we know the problem. We can see
what happened. Then you say, wonder if it really knows
itself, what its doing. It was firing plus X TACS from time
to time, when it had plus X errors in the ah - solar inertial.
So our feeling was say maybe we ought to just turn these off, and
let it think about it a little bit. We'll think about It a little
bit and then we'll turn it back on. So it seems to me what you
have to do is - If you know the failure when you get there,
you got it made you can fix it in a flash. When you go there
you don't know the failure you got, you don't know whether you got
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stuck thrusters, a computer that failed, or Just

doesn't know what it's doing. And that's exactly
what happened, we had a computer that couldn't figure out
what to do. Although we had warnings that never said
the computer can not figure out what to do. So you have to
sorta - it seems to me - look over the total situation
somehow. This is a tough a_ea because there's no, all these
CMG's rate gyros computers are interrelated, and it - I think
it's impossible to sort it out looking at it.
CC Okay, we're going to be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at this sight. And would you standby just
a second, please.
CC For the PLT, we see on televison we've
got a good picture. Looks like your working on the film
threading operation, for this morning. And back on the subject
of the gyros for AI. What caused the situation where you were
firing plus X thrusters, when you had a plus X attitude error.
Is when you hit att hold CMG, you had a plus X error from solar
inertial mode. Hitting the switch redefined the attitude you
wanted to hold. But the errors continued to be measured from
the solar inertial attitude. Therefore the zero attitude at
which it was driving you, really was not solar inertial. Over.
CDR Okay, we understood that. We still didn't
feel later on that it was really able to solve the problem itself.
We felt we gave it sorta adequate time to solve it, and it
just didn't seem to want to solve it.
CC Okay. And we certainly learned something here
looking at the momentum management situation, and the software and
I think we can say that we'll keep a sufficiently close eye on it
in the future. So that this problem should never arise again, but
we wanted to discuss it in detail with you so we didn't have any
open issues or any skeletons in the closet.
CDR No, I appreciate it. Seems to me we may
need to go back and think - the map model we got down there
of this whole dumping scheme, and to make sure that doesn't
do that again.
CC You're right. We shall do that, and a brief
note for the SPT, if he's anywhere in listening range.
CDR Right there.
CC Okay, this is your sleep period solar activity
update. Code Dura has reported three frequency type 24 events,
from 06:14 to 06:30. Suspected to be from departed active region
85. Smaller (garble) prominence as seen later at 0501.1 solar
radii possibly associated with that, otherwise the sun has
been very quiet. Over.
SPT Okay, has (garble) noticed any transience out
on the west llmb?
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CC We're inquiring about that now, Owen, that

wasn't on their prepared report.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda with
1 minute until LOS. Next station contact is Carnarvon at
13:18 in approximately 40 minutes and we'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder over Carnarvon again.
CC For the SPT, nothing seen on the west llmb
except some (garble) that we reported.
12 hours 38 minutes with loss of signal over Bermuda tracking
station during this long stateside pass. Again CAP COM,
Bruce McCandless discussed with the crew the work the ground
Flight Controllers did overnight in assessing the TACS problem
which occurred yesterday following the Earth Resources pass
boils down to be that the software Just could not handle the
problems apparently and this resulted in a rate gyro problem.
Rate gyros apparently were not the cause of yesterday's
problem but a problem in the software. Next pass will be
over Carnarvon in approximately 38 minutes from now. And
at that time Commander A1 Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma should
be well into their preparations for the flying of the M509
the astronaut manuevering unit. This is the first time
this instrument has been used aboard Skylab. Bean will be
making this first flight of the back mounted, hand controlled,
automatically stablilized, manuevering unit referred to as
ASMU sometimes referred to as the backpack while Jack Lousma
will serve as the observer using television camera and motion
picture camera to record Bean's efforts with the ASHU.
Purpose of this experiment is to determine man's maneuver-
ability in a zero gravity environment, obtain data and
evaluation of the unit's flying qualities and the pilot's
capability at using the equipment. The data and
experience gain will be related to ground base analysis
to further AMU design requirements and projected EVA
capabiliies for the future. The experiment consists of a
back pack, a hand handling manuevering device, a spare
rechargeable battery, a battery charger, telemetry receiver
three rechargeable cold gas, nitrogen gas, propellant bottles
and racks for stowing the back pack and gas pressure bottles.
The back pack weighs approximately 255 pounds and consists
of a welded aluminum frame 27 inches wide 14-1/2 thick, and
14-1/2 high. And it's covered with a sheet of aluminum.
The control arms extend forward llke armrests on each side of
the Pilot. And each side has separate controls. Bean
will be - not suited for this first test of the manuevering
unit, later tests however he will be in a pressure garment
assembly. The exercise of the manuevering unit will be
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performed in the forward dome area of the orbital workshop.

The dome area is about 22 feet in diameter, 19 feet from
top to bottom. Propulsion for the unit is provided by 14
fixed position thrusters supplied by gaseous nitrogen
from a pressure vessel capable of containing 3,000 pounds per
square inch. A volume of 1500 - 1500 cubic inches. Each
thruster is capable of producing from 1 to 4 pounds of
thrust. The hand controls and display system includes 2
hand controllers, power switches, mode selector switch,
voltage meter, a tank pressure meter and control moment
gyro status lights. The left hand translation - translate
forward, back - backward, up down and sideways. The right
hand controller much like an aircraft type handgrip controls
rotation in any direction. Again Lousma will operate the
cameras and will cue Bean on test operation procedures and
analyze and describe the test progress over the voice
communication system. Data from the manuevering unit will
be radioed to a pair of antennas mounted on the workshop
wall. The receive sandwiches the backpack data with elapsed
time signal of the workshop and converts the information
for the tape recorder. At least three experiment runs are
planned on Skylab 3 with 2 crewmen performing the operation
and i serving as pilot and the other as observer.
Major C. E. Witsett, Jr. assigned to the U. S. Air Force
Base transportation system office here at the Johnson Space
Center, is Principal Investigator for this astronaut
maneuvering unit M509 experiment. Next acquisition will
be over Carnarvon at 34 minutes from now. On the previous pass
Commander Bean did comment to CAP COM Bruce McCandlass,
following McCandless' description of the TACS problem yesterday.
He said that's quite difficult, it must have taken quite
a while to figure out the problem. And he said after
the explanation that it makes sense from what they saw
up there, the explanation matched what they saw in the spacecraft.
At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 44 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-703/I
Time: 08:17 CDT 17/13:17 GMT
8/13/73

time 13 hours 17 minutes with acquisition at Carnarvon.
Capcomm is Hank Hartsfleld, the new flight director Just
coming on is Chuck Lewis.
CC Skylabl Houston through Carnarvon for
9-1/2 minutes.
, CC PLT, Houston. I Just wanted to make you
aware that we do have a correction for your rate gyro maneuver
pad. We'll read it up to you later in the day.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute to LOS. Guam
at 32.
CC Skylab, Houston, i0 seconds to LOS. Guam
at 32.
time 13 hours 28 minutes with loss of signal over Carnarvon
tracking station. We will have acquisition at Guam in 3 min-
utes. We'll keep the llne up for that pass.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-704/I
Time: 08:31 CDT 17/13:31 GMT
8/13/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for

8-1/2 minutes.
CC Would you belleve Guam for 8-1/2 minutes?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to
LOS. Goldstone at 56, and we'll be set up for TV.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about LOS. Gold-
stone at 56.
time 13 hours 41 minutes. We've had loss of signal at the
Guam tracking station as Skylab crew Commander A1 Bean and
Pilot Jack Lousma are in the preparations of the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit which Commander A1 Bean will fly in the orbital
workshop, inside the orbital workshop dome area about the
time they come up on the next stateside pass. Greenwich mean
time 13 hours and 41 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-I II MC- 705/i
Time: 08:55 CDT 17/13:55 GHT
8/13/73

the Goldstone tracking station as Co_0mander A1 Bean continues
preparation for the unsuited flight of the M509, the astronaut
maneuvering unit which is a direct descendant of the maneuver-
ing units designed for, but never used in the Gemini program,
the 2 manned Gemini program.
CC Skylab, Houston stateside for 15 minutes.
PLT Loud and clear.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey Houston, we still have a little ad hoc
TV. M509 this time Just before we get going the thing
is cranked up if you want to see it.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Hey, that's a pretty neat looking cartoon.
CDR Houston, let me know when you want to do
this PESFSS calibration.
CC SPT, Houston. What we'd llke to do is
a normal TV data cycle for downlink and then we'll do the
calibration. And Just a reminder your video switch is in
TV.
SPT Yeah, I was going to leave it in TV so you could
see another SUB until you were ready to do the Cal. And then
when you're ready for that I'll switch it.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you copy what we'd
like to do is do the TP - TV data cycle first and then do the
PESFSS cal.
SPT Okay, I'llgo ahead and give you the normal TV
down-link now, then go immedlately into the (garble) cal.
CC Roger.
CDR Houston, I've noticed that active region 86 is
showing up pretty well on the XUV mon. You might take note of
that.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC SPT, Houston. That was very good. We'd
llke for you to press on now with the PSFSS cal.
SPT That's what I'm doing. I'm half way
down page 219.
SPT Okay, I've got all those readings of
the 5 positions, Houston, and I'm going to go on over to the next
page. I'Ii read them down to you a little bit later.
CC We copy.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC706/I
Time: 09: CDT, 17/14: GMT
8/13/73

13 hours.
SPT Okay, Houston that's my estimate of the best
position for minimizing the scattered light around the edge
of the (garble) disks, backroom I hope will agree if nothing
has come in now and I'ii give you the readout.
CC SPT, Houston, that looks good to us.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute to
LOS we'll be coming up on Vanguard at 22 and we'll get those
numbers then.
SPT Okay, I can give them to you right now, you
have another minute or so of the TV from down stairs
available to you. And those numbers on page 2-19 are almost
identical to what they were before. Zip plus 80, Zip plus 8,
plus 68 plus ii plus 72 plus 81 plus 35 plus 45 and to minimize
the scattered lights I get left plus 14 and right plus 78.
Ove r.
CC Roger; we copy. We'll - may want to verify
here the first three numbers.
SPT Zip plus 80 zip plus 8. Over.
CC Roger; copy.
14 hours 13 minutes with loss of signal from the Mila
tracking station next acquisition will be Vanguard in
approximately 8 minutes from now. The crew is still preparing
the M509 with Commander Bean actually seated in the
manuevering device at the present time and he is scheduled
to be under way with that device in about 20 minutes from
now after the LOS at Vanguard. Following the old adage
that one has to crawl before he can walk today's first
flight of the M509 astronaut manueverlng unit will be mainly
a fledgling start from the nest; most of the manuevers plan for
the device today are simple, single axis manurers that is
roll, pitch, yaw, up, down, for, aft, sideways, thrusting to
familiarize the crew with the handling characteristics of the
personal flying machine. Among the manuevers planned will be
simple transfers from the M509 dawning station to the so-
called banjo near the workshop dome hatch and return. Today's
flight plan has 3 hours and 15 minutes scheduled for this
first flight of the device which includes operation of the
hand held manuevering unit. Propellant for the manueverlng
unit is pressurized nitrogen gas fired from 14 fixed thrusters
controlled by a hand controller almost identical to the one
used in the Control attitude in the Apollo command module.
The unit is a developmental machine for either intravehlcular
operations or for EVAs outside future generations
of space stalons. Principle Investigator for M509 is Major
C. E. Whltsett of the U. S. Air Force Space and Missle Systems
Organization, Los Angeles. Major Whltsett is assigned to the
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Time: 09: CDT, 17/14: GMT
8113173
Johnson Space Center. We will have acquisition at the

Vanguard tracking station in approximately 6 minutes from
now at 14 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III HC707/1
Time: 09:21 CDT, 17/14:21 GMT
8/13/73
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 14 hours

21 minutes. Skylab 3 vehicle begin it's 1313th revolution
with acquisition at the Vanguard tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard 8-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston, we'd llke to get the H-Alpha
9 interlock switch to normal.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute from LOS
Goldstone at 15:33 with a recorder dump.
14 hours 31 minutes with loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. As Commander Bean perpares to fly the
astronaut manueverlng unit inside the domed area of the
workshop. During the fly around inside the workshop,
Commander Bean will be using the maneuvering unit at a speed
of approximately a half a foot per second. This averages
out to be about i/3 of a mile per hour and if he started from
the floor of the workshop to the dome it will take him
approximately i full minute to reach from the floor to the
dome. In addition to using the astronaut maneuvering unit
today, at the tall end of the today's exercise Commander Bean
will initiate the handheld manevering unit which is also
attached to the back pack he is wearing now. In the
Control Center now to observe the flying of the manueverlng
unit is Donald K. Slaton, Director of Flight Crew Operations
and Bruce McCandless and Bill Lenor back up crew members for
Skylab 3. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 32 minutes this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-708/I
Time: 09:34 CDT 17/14:34 GMT
8/13/73

time 14 hours 33 minutes. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson,
off going flight director, will he in the News Room Building 1
in about 5 to i0 minutes for a Change of Shift Briefing.
Off going Flight Director Nell Hutchinson will be in the
NASA News Room Building 1 in approximately 5 to i0 minutes
for a Change of Shift Briefing.
END OF TAPE
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SL-I II MC- 709/I

Time: 09:44 CDT 17/14:44 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 14 hours 44 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson
is in route to the Building 1 News Room to begin Change of
Shift Briefing momentarily. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson
is in route to the Building 1 News Room. The Change of Shift
Briefing should begin momentarily.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-710/I
Time: 10:32 CDT 17/15:32 GMT
8/13/73

time 15 hours 32 minutes. We will have acquisition over the
Goldstone tracking station as the Skylab concludes its 1313
revolution. And Commander A1 Bean should be well into flying
the astronaut maneuvering unit experiment 509. Science Pilot
Owen Garrlott meanwhile is still at the Apollo telescope
mount performing - operating the telescopes and cameras. Ap-
proximately 6 hours of ATM time is scheduled in the flight
plan today for the three astronauts. We'll have acquisition
over Goldstone momentarily.
CC Skylab, Houston. State side for
12 minutes.
SPT Hank, do you read me.
CC Skylab, Houston. You were dropping out
a minute. Say again.
SPT Okay, have you got me now?
CC Roger, loud and clear.
SPT Okay, on the last door (garble) has
planned except for one thing, on the end of that last ATM
pass there is a building block 7, Jop 2. It's necessary to start
S052 in particular on a precise time a minute and 25 before Sun
set which I did and ran it as per pad. However, I noticed that the
XUV detectors 1 and 3 did not drop off normally at about 40 seconds
time remaining, as they almost always do. In fact they continue
to nearly their normal count rates right up to time
remaining equals zero. I also notice that the Sun did
not disappear some i0 seconds after time remaining goes to
zero as it normally does. As a matter of fact the Sun was
still up for about 65 seconds after time remaining went to
zero. So it looks like we may need a map update on the timing
and that probably messed up the timing on building block 7 at
the end of the last orbit. And I'm now doing the network
studies for this orbit. And the network is changing pretty
rapidly. I'm a little inclined to think that I may not even be
able to follow one cell for the whole of this orbit much less
pick it up on the next few orbits. So, we'll have to see how
that goes. Over.
CC Roger, we copy, Owen.
SPT Jack and A1 are down in the dome area
flying around on M509 right now. And during the night pass
we got about 30 minutes on the VTR of 509 fly around.
CC Roger, sounds good.
CC SPT, Houston. ASCO says the NAV looks
good. And what has happened here is our dump co,,,,ense is now,
we're getting in a high Beta. The dump commense is now prior
to actual Sunset.
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Time: 10:32 CDT 17/15:32 GMT
8/13/73
SPT Okay, understand. And that means the

ATM planner didn't know about that because that would have
affected the times at which we begin S052 in particular,
and S056 to some extent. So that probably messed up
building block 7 on that account.
CC SPT, Houston. We think we built the pads
to take into account this dump commense. However,
we're going to go back and look at it and see if we did have
an error.
SPT Okay. The reason I didn't think so is
that we normally start S052 at i plus 25 time remaining equals 0.
That's the way it is on our JOP summary sheet. And that's
normally ranged to take the last photograph just about
as the first limb gets right into the edge of the field of view.
In other words down as low as we can go with S052. The limb is
still far out in field of S052 and we're not getting the pictures
as close to the Earth's horizon as we would like to get.
CC Roger, we copy, and we'll look into it.
CC SPT, Houston. ESCO advises that effective
Sunset is exactly 65 seconds after dump commense.
SPT Good. That's just about the way it looked
on my watch. So you might check with the ATM which I guess
you are already doing to make sure they do that.
CC Roger, we're checking.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCTII/I
Time: 10:43 CDT, 17/15:43 GMT
8/13/73
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute to LOS

Vanguard at 05:07.
SPT Roger.
PLT You know, you should have mentioned to Houston
we're in the middle of a 509 around here, about 45 minutes ago
now. We had another CSM master alarm which turned out to be the
FM package temp Quad B again, off scale low.
CC Roger; we copy.
time 15 hours 46 minutes with loss of signal over the
tracking station - Texas tracking station. Next acquisition
will be Vanguard in approximately 10 minutes. Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott was discussing with the ground some of
the problems he was having with the ATM on this pass and
advised the ground there was 30 minutes of video tape
on the video tape recorder taken of Commander A1 Bean
flying the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit. He also referred
again that there was another caution & warning light from
the command module. This was related to the RCS quad B,
which early this morning at about 6:40 they had an alarm they
went to the command module and the temperature in the quad
system was at zero but as they were looking at the temperature
it rose again to 130. Science Pilot Garrlott reported
they had a similar alarm during the last pas - during the
last revolution. At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 48 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 712/1
Time: 10:56 CDT 17:15:56 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

15 hours 56 minutes. We will have acquistion over the Vanguard
tracking station momentarily. CAPCOM is Hank Hartsfield,
flight director, Chuck Lewis.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard eleven
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll see in quad B temp
and the down low, did you get another C and W on that?
CDR That's what I called you about. Didn't
you get that call at the end of the last pass?
CC Roger. We read you to say that happened
45 minutes ago. Is that correct?
CDR That's correct, 45 minutes to an hour ago,
now.
CDR Of course I've got another one since then.

CC We're getting a nominal reading on it now.
We're beginning to suspect we have an erratic transducer on
that thing.
CDR Roger. It looks just like the one we had
earlier this morning.
CT Vanguard network, net i. Vanguard network
on GOS conference- -
CT Network Vanguard - Net i. Read you loud
and clear. Roger: Vanguard, would like to confirm that you
are concurrently receiving the DSE dumps and the M509 dump.
CT We have finished the DSE, we're still
receiving the M509. And we have an ASAP.
CT Roger; Vanguard.
CDR Are you still there Houston?
CC Skylab, go ahead.
CDR Just a note for your electronics experts on that
H-ALPHA 2 camera. When I let off the panel for the first time again,
this morning I noticed that same telescoping effect on H-ALPHA 2.
When we first turned it on, there was some sort of an oscillation
with about a i or 2 second period, when the whole image seemed
to telescope in and out. And this was remedied as before by zooming
in, and the that will stabilize it and it will never - it hasn't
shown up again since. And that has happened two or three times now,
and each of these was associated with the first turn on - - after a
long period off. And they might try to figure out why, and if it's
any potential danger to the H-ALPHA 2 vidlcom.
CC Roger. We copy, Owen.
CDR Detector number five has just kicked off
Just a couple times. So I've left it off now.
CC Roger. We've been watching that, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you inhibited the
caution and warning on the packet B?
0 r
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Time: 10:56 CDT 17:15:56 GMT
8/13/73
SPT Just a second, and I'ii go check and what

is the inhibit number for that?
CC We were Just questlonhad you done this.
We noticed that the transducer's still going up and down, but your
not report - - we don't see a master alarm locked up.
SPT Well, I don't recall. I've gotta go check
to see. I didn't do it - - and I have to go check the panel to
see whether or not it has been inhibited. I thought you might
the number handy, I'Ii check it otherwise.
CC Okay. It's 5-DELTA.
SPT Roger; thank you.
CC If it's not inhibited, you might as well go ahead
and do that, Owen.
SPT Roger. 5-DELTA was inhibited so I guess
Jack did it when he - - cleared the last alarm about an hour ago.
CC Okay. Thank you, Owen. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS, - Hawaii at 08.
SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-713/I
Time: 11:08 CDT, 17/16:08 GMT
8/13/73

16 hours 8 minutes with loss of signal from the Vanguard
tracking station. During this brief pass Science Pilot
Owen Garrlott discussed with the ground the second caution
& warning signal from the command module. This is related
to the QUAD B temperature package in the command module;
QUAD B of the RCS system, temperatures had gone - again been
reportly gone to the low mark of zero. Flight Controllers
here believe this is due to a faulty transducer and there
is apparently no problem in the RCS QUAD B system at this
time. QUAD B isolation valves were closed and the engines
inhibited on the first day of the flight due to a leak in
the system and since that time this QUAD B has given the
ground little concern. Garrlott was asked to make sure
that the caution & warning system on this QUAD B RCS system
was inhibited so these faulty signals don't dlstruh the crew
during their regular work day or possibly during their sleep
period. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 10 minutes this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC714/I
Time: 11:21 CDT, 17/16:21 GMT
8/13/73

16 hours 21 minutes. We will have acquisition at Hawaii
tracking station in approximately 45 minutes. At that time
Commander AI Bean should be finished with the astronaut
maneuvering unit run and 509. He has spent the last 3-1/2 hours
on this experiment. The schedule call for him acutally flying the
vehicle for about an hour and a half - actually there was 2
separate modes of operations: one with the astronaut maneuvering
unit itself and then the second operation with the handheld
maneuvering unit. One which is similar to what was used
during the Gemini EVA on Gemini 4 and again on Gemini i0.
We will have acquisition at Hawaii in approximately 45 minutes
at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 22 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-715/I
Time: 12:06 CDT 17/17:06 GMT
8/13/73

time 17 hours 5 minutes. We will have acquisition at the
Hawaii tracking station in approximately 2-1/2 minutes. One
of the items on tap this afternoon for Science Pilot Owen
Garrlott is the teleprinter repair. Skylab's teleprinter system
by which flight plan details and procedures are sent up to
the crew saves many hours of tedious read ups and read backs.
The teleprinter prints out messages on a continuous roll of
paper about 4 inches wide. Messages and time lines from
Mission Control Center are sent up by radio through tracking
stations throughout the world wide network. Several days
ago the mechanism that feeds paper through the teleprinter
much the same as a typewriter platinum began slipping. A
rubber sleeve on the metal shaft wore loose and the paper
roll stopped feeding. The Skylab crew replaced the teleprinter
with a spare carried aboard the space station, and the new
teleprinter has performed normally since the change out. But
in the event that the new teleprinter also begins slipping
at the rubber roller the crew today will repair the original
teleprinter paper feed mechanism. Applying masking tape
technology using materials at hand aboard Skylab Science
Pilot Garriott will fabricate a replacement sleeve on the
metal shaft by wrapping it with gray utility tape up to the
same diameter as the original rubber sleeve. The repair
teleprinter paper transport will be restowed for possible
future replacement of the teleprinter now in service. Garrlott
is scheduled to make this repair about 2:30 this afternoon.
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 6 minutes, we anticipate
acquisition at the Hawaii station with Capcom Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 5 min-
utes.
SPT You were cut out there, Hank Just got
the last couple of words. Say again.
CC Roger. We've got about 5 minutes left
here through Hawaii. And I've got a couple of things I need
to get up there to you here.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, this is for the PLT, a correction
to the maneuver pad.
SPT Just a minute and let me see if I can
find him.
PLT (garble) listening too.
CC Okay. There is an error in the fine
maneuver at GMT 18:50. About half way through your pad there
the X number should read 51144.
PLT Okay, I've got it. 51144.
PLT Hey, Hank, about an hour ago we had another master
alarm in the command module. I believe it was the service
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Time: 12:06 CDT 17/17:06 GMT
8/13/73
module RCMB package heater. That was the only thing I could
find wrong.
CDR I reported it - -
PLT The temperature went off scale
low. And then the last time I looked at it it was O. I'd llke
you to confirm that everything is working all right there.
And I inhibited that signal that was (garble) Delta
CC Roger, we copy. We've been looking at
that and we suspect we have an erratic transducer there.
And I have a some star tracker info for your RG scale factor
maneuvers. We would like for you to acquire Canopus at
18:40. And the gimbal angles there are inner minus 683,
and outer is plus 1643, and you may have to vary that around
a little bit.
PLT Okay, I've got it. Minus 683 and plus
1643 at 18:40 Canopus.
CC Roger. And I wonder in the next couple
of minutes here could you give us a little run down on the
M509?
PLT Yeah, Al's debriefing a tape now.
We just complete it around time. He flew all the maneuvers
on 509-i, in all the modes. He did (garble) stationary maneuvers
and he flew some HHMU and I flew the thing around a little
bit. And the thing is very easy to fly. It flies llke
most any spacecraft that - in the simulator or real spacecraft
very much like s - the simulator. It's not difficult at all - -
CC Skylab, Houston, break. We'd llke to
get XUV mon downlink and you need to go to monitor on the TV
video switch.
SPT As you see 86 is getting a little brighter.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston. We had to cut you out
there to get that call in to the SPT. Cut out the last part of your
description or summary on M509. Did you use 2 bottles
or 3?
PLT We used 2 bottles and low battery. It
flies very well. I helped with some of the HHMU and I got
quite a little bit. We got it on the VTR by the way, so you
might want to pick that up if possible. And (garble).
CC Sounds great. We're looking forward
to getting that TV.
pLT Yeah, we had a conflict with the ATM
TV during the time that we were doing the donning. So we
didn't really get TV 29. But we did get quite a bit of it
with AI flying it. Owen came down and took TV so all the flying
is on the VTR.
CC Real good. And we're about 40 seconds
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Time: 12:06 CDT 17/17:06 GMT
8/13/73

time 17 hours 13 minutes with loss of signal from the Hawaii
tracking station. During this 5 minute pass, Pilot Jack
Lousma gave a brief summary of the activities with the 509
which Commander Alan Bean and also Jack Lousma flew during
the last 2 hours. Lousma said I flew the thing around a little
bit myself and it was not difficult, much like the simulators. The
simulator he refers to is the simulator at the Martin Marietta
Company in Denver. It's a special simulator devised for
training with the 509. And each crew member has spent approx-
imately 15 hours in that 6 degree freedom simulator at Martin.
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 14 minutes, this is Skylab
Control, with acquisition next at Vanguard in approximately
20 minutes from now.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-716/I
Time: 12:34 CDT, 17/17:34 GMT
8/13/73

mean time, acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in 50 seconds.
Revolution 1314 ending as the space station crosses the
80th meridian, 80 west and obviously revolution 1315 starting
at that tlme.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 9-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, regarding the conflict that we got
with the scale factor maneuver in the orbit beginning at 18:54
we suggest that at 19:04 you do the ATM sunside prep and
then JOP i Alpha step 9 and the building block on NCI per
the existing pad, then steps i0 and ii of JOP i A we can pick
up later.
SPT Hey, Hank.
CC Roger.
SPT Hey, (garble) let's go back and slow down
a tittle bit here. 19:04 you wanted the sunslde prep and then what
else?
CC Okay, we'd like to do JOP i A step 9 per

the existing pads and steps i0 and ii we'll pick up sometime
later in the day when time permits.
SPT Okay, now I understand, so 1834 is apparently
the one that pick up conflict with the rate gyro. I hadn't
noticed that on my llst yet but I'ii - we'll do that.
CC Roger.
CC And also for whenever it's convenient because
we ran the cabin pressure up with the M509, we'd llke to do
our purge again - that's the dump heater ON on panel 700 water
dump heater 115 and then panel 706 to open the water dump valve.
That's after 15 minutes. Okay, I've got a couple of changes to
the Flight Plan - today's Flight Plan as a matter of fact. For
the CDR and PLT. And Skylab, Houston when you do start that
water dump would you note the time for us, please.
CDR Okay, we Just turned the heater on and 15 min-
utes from now, I'ii set my little timer, we'll start the
dump and go ahead with your flight plan change.
CC Okay, CDR, just to move it up to what we
already know here about that - putting in the ATM passes,
you had an EREP tape scheduled at 19:00. We'd like to move
that down to 01:00 and insert an ATM pass at 18:50.
CDR That's not a bad idea because I just finished
transferring the tapes anyhow.
CC And on your details we want to add the 18:50
ATM pass and put your transfer down at 01:00.
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Time: 12:34 CDT, 17/17:34 GMT
8/13/73
CDR Just forget the transfers. I did them a few

minutes ago.
CC Okay, and for the PLT, at 23:10 we want him
to insert an ATM pass and - and the same for his detail pass.
PLT I got it.
CDR Okay, and just one more second Hank, on this
one l've got, say again the time the ATM passes and one other
thing. We'll have regular pads up llke we have for all the
other passes, won' t we?
CC Roger. They're already onboard.
CDR Hey, that's great. Good thinking. Whatls the
time again?
CC 18:50.
CDR That's the time I should go there. What time
is - does the pass start, do you happen to recall?
CC Okay, Just a second.
CC CDR, Houston, that's the pass that- on the
pad is it 18: 34. We were Just talking about that it conflicts
with the rate gyro manuever - scale factor manuever so we
want to start the Sunside prep at 19:04 and then do the
step 9 of JOP A and then we'll pick up steps 10 and ii
later.
CDR Getting at a JOP I-A Just as soon as we can after
the manuevers, I get it.
CDR Where are we over the earth right now. I Just
looked out the window Just wondered.
CC You're over the South Atlantic you Just passed
across the Southern tip of South America.
CDE I'll be darn. There's a hie set of islands down
here, I was Just wondering what they were. Owen's looking at my
map.
CDR Falkland Islands, okay. will do.
CDR Anything else Hank?
CDR By the way, how much longer is this pass?
CC Okay, we got 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR If you haven't gotten anymore let me talk
a little hit about 509.
CC Okay, we did have one more thing, in - for
the rate gyro manuever we would like to enable TACS we don't
think we're going to need any but there's a possibility that
we may need a (garble) or two so we would like to enable TACS.
CDR Okay, we'll sure do it.
CDR Okay, I did 509 it came off real well we
started early and flew up both bottles interestingly enough
by the time both pressurization bottles were empty
we still had some battery voltage up around 27 volts we
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changed the battery anyway. We debriefed it completely

- we talked about it on channel A all the time and then we both
debriefed it so it's a lot of data there for anyone interested
Bruce, and Lou Ramon. Essentially it's very very easy to
fly - flies just like the simulator and maybe a little bit
easier the CMG mode as you might expected is the better
because it holds you just perfect attitude all the time
and all you do is translate and you can go to any attitude
you like. Certainly the rate gyro mode is okay it uses
more fuel - appears to use more fuel that the others the direct
was I was giving it good in fact if I was still manuevering
unit I'd Just build a simple one but direct and get rid all the
others. The ability to fly around in the workshop is quite
simple to do there's no problems there. When we finished
Jack would for about 3 or 4 minutes may make that i0 minutes
or so no strain. The one thing that we did notice was that
it might have an impact on the future flight. Is we've got
enough umbilical we're going to use for the UVA or EVA and
also going to use it for suited work at 509 and attached
it to the side of the backpack we tried to fly it around
unsuited and it cost all sorts of fuel Just way out
of portion to not having the umbilical it has momentum
of its own so that not only does it want to go any where
or he has a place he wants to go just the static (garble)
when you get in that motion you want to keep going
it takes a lot fuel to get it going in the direction and
it takes a lot of fuel to stop it. So unless we can come up
with some method to perhaps ask Jack to follow it around
and keep the strain off him which seems to me sort of a
phony thing and I don't know if that's going to work or not, we're
going to have to come up with a better idea than Just hooking up
the umbillcal getting in the suit and Just going to be difficult
to fly with.
CC Roger. And that's -
CDR - That's all I have time for now.
CC We' re Just about LOS and we' ii be coming up
on Hawaii at 43. 18:43.
CDR Okay, I think Ed Whltsett and Lou ought to be - -
Greenwich mean time with loss of signal at Vanguard.
During this previous pass Commander Alan Bean gave a detail
summary of his experience with the 509, astronuats
manueverlng unit which he and Pilot Jack Lousma have been
flying on and off for the last 2 hours. Next acquisition
will be over Hawaii in 56 minutes from now. Greenwich
mean time 17 hours 46 minutes. This is Skylab Control -
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Time: 13:13 CDT 17:18:13 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwhich mean

time 18 hours 13 minutes. There will be a briefing in the
newsroom in Building I at 1:30, with Major Ed Whitsett principal
investigator for the M509 Astronaut maneuvering unit, along
with astronaut Bruce McCandless, back up member of the Skylab III
crew. To repeat there will be a briefing in the news room
in Building i with Principal investigator Ed Whitsett of the
M509 astronaut maneuvering unit experiment, along with Bruce
McCandless - Astronaut Bruce McCandless, back up member of the
Skylab III crew.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-718/I
Time: 14:12 CDT, 17/10:12 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylah Control; Greenwich mean

time 19 hours 12 minutes, we anticlpaZe acqulstlon over
the Vanguard tracking station momentarily, there was
approximately 4 minutes of alr-to-ground over the Hawaii
station during the just completed press conference, we'll
run that tape at the close of the Vanguard pass. During
the Hawaii pass the crew discussed the maneuver they were
doing at 18:45 into the mission today, this was a maneuver
to a - to test out checkout the X and Z scale factor errors
in the X and Z rate gyro systems. This maneuver started at
18:45 GMT and the vehicle is back to normal operations now.
We anticipate acquisition at Vanguard, leave the llne up
for conversation with CAP COMM Hank Hartsfleld.
9 minutes with a data recorder dump.
CDR Okay, we' re running into problems finding
that O-cell boundry, Owen's working it now but it's not a
recognizable entity and so we're going to go back the the
old pointing coordinate and move 20 arc seconds to the right but
we do not have that cell in sight on the ATM.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Hey, Hank, I wonder if you get us some
camera settings and types of film or something to take pictures
of things like moonrise over the sunlit Earth and sunset,
sunrise, those kind of things.
CC Okay, we'll work at that and while I got
you Jack I got a little suggestion for you in regard to your
ATM pass at 20:07.
PLT Shoot.
CC Okay, what we would llke for you do there
instead of the JOP 4 Bravo step 1 building block 33 that's
called out there on Foxtrot 28 we would like for you
substitute in its place step ii building block 33 that's in
the 1834 pass that their working now.
PLT Okay, substitute step ii building
block 33 for 4 Bravo step i.
CC That's correct and if you're unable to
accomplish step i0 of the JOP IA then we'll delete it. That's
what they are on now. We don't think that you're going to
find time to do that step I0 so don't worry about it, Just
delete it and also got some updates for your effective sunrise
and sunset times on the fap. We were did have some bad times
because of the predicted dump commence time and the new times
are sunrise at 54 minutes remaining and sunset at 03:44.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, for info only for the
past few days we're been watching the primary glycol
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Time: 14:12 CDT, 17/10:12 GMT
8/12/73
CC accumulator in the CSM decreasing at a -

the quantity decreasing at about 3/4 of a percent per day,
it appears to have leveled off now. What we think is
happening here is that there are three valves in that system that
may not be fully seated and are allowing the fluid seep back
into the reservoir. We had a similar thing happen like that
on Apollo ii. There's no action required at this time but
probably in a couple of days we're going to have you perhaps
on your CM 7-day checks on day 20 we'll have you check
that a few valves are closed for us.
CDR We'll be glad to check it any time you
want.
CC Okay, we' 11 come up with a message on
in a day or two.
CC Skylab, Houston_ could you close the
star tracker shutter with a switch for us please.
from LOS, Hawaii at 20:24.
CDR Okay.
loss of signal at Vanguard, next acquisition will be Hawaii
in approximately 1 hour from now. At Greenwich mean time,
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SL-III MC-719/i
Time: 17:25 CDT; 17/19:25 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is 19 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean

time. We'll now roll the tape which was taken during the
Hawaii pass during the previous press conference. The
tape will roll now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 10
minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank, we're getting ready to run the
maneuvers.
SPT I got a couple of quick items for you
Hank.
CC Go ahead.
SPT At the end of last sunslde pass there's a
brief glimpse of active region 86 put on the S055 data
recorder and SO56. The 55 stuff you might take a look at
on the ground and see if it's of interest. On the - the
gravity gradient dumping now encroaching some on our
sunlit time. First thought comes to mind - now this should
alter the 400kilometer times and both sunrise and
sunset by about the same amount that gravity gradient
dumping is encroaching on the sunrise. So both of those
times should have become about 1 minute closer to the
actual sunset which they did not do. So those times
should be modified. The second point is, I wonder if
y'all have thought of - any more about reducing rode E
the aft dump angle a little bit. We talked about that
before launch and hoped that y'all would have a chance
to think through it and perhaps give us a little bit more
sunlit time by reducing that. And then the third thing
is, I've got a little bit more hemoglobin data I'll put
on channel A for you.
CC Roger, we copied that, Owen and we are
looking at changing (garble).
SPT Thank you and in the meantime why don't
forget to change our respective sunrise, sunset. In
other words the 400 kilometer time.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And SPT, Houston, in answer to your ques-
tion about the telescope, and we've taken a look at that
on your - you asked a question about the H-alpha 2
TV. We are pretty sure that's caused by an instability
in the AGC circuit right after it's turned on before the
thing gets warmed up very well. It shouldn't damage
the camera. It shouldn't be a problem at all and it
always goes away after the camera's warmed up. The pro-
blem can be avoided by either zooming in at least 3 seconds
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before turning H-alpha 2 number - or the TV on, or by
allowing the TV to warm up 15 minutes before exposing it
to the Sun. This caused no permanent damage to the Instru-
ment .
SPT Okay, that's the good news that we were
wanting to get. And we wont, bother gettln S up there 15
minutes earlier, we'll Just zoom in if it does happen to
us again. And we just wanted to make doubly sure that
we weren't endangering the Vidlcon any way.
CC Roger.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Hank, we began cabin purge at
18:05 and we had started the CO - two C02 filters at 18:45.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the SPT. Could you
give us a brief summary on what you ran on $O55 and 56 on
the active region 86?
SPT Roger. I Just had a couple of minutes
right at the end of the pass so I zipped down to 86 and
did 55 for mirror llne scan for a couple of minutes and
then the 56 got in the patrol short, but of course you
won_ t see that.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT And the reason for mentioning it it does
look on the XUV mon llke active 86 is giving hotter or
brighter all the time through the course of the morning.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, for info we have a new mad status
pad - pad on board for you. It's 1705 Alpha. If you do
find the original 1705 please discard it.
PLT Hey, Hank, how long do you want me to wait
to go on the next maneuver? I noticed that it's scheduled
at 18:50 but I'm not sure this thing's going to be settled
down by then. Well, it might be by now. We're at i0
degrees but it's still got some (garble) connections.
CC PLT, Houston. It looks pretty good to us.
We'll just follow the pad.
PLT Okay, I'll go on.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 14 with a
data recorder dump.
PAO That concludes the tape recorded information
that we took at the Hawaii site during the press conference.
Approxlmately 4 minutes and 43 seconds of recording. We'll
be live again in about 53 minutes. At 19 hours 30 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-720/I
TIME: 15:21 CDT 17/20:21 GMT
8/13/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control, 20 hours

21 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is
approaching the Hawaii tracking site, in fact we're
starting to receive telemetry at this time, and we'll
stand by for the alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 4 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd llke to get the
TACS ENABLED, the MO92 vent, put a little more momentum in
there than we had anticipated.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you copy?
PLT Yeah, we got them enabled, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 52.
PLT Roger.
PAO Well, the space station crew set little
or no record for communication on that pass due principally
to the fact that two of them are involved in an M092 lower
body metabolic activity medical experiment at this time.
And according to the Flight Plan, the third astronaut,
Jack Lousma is at the ATM console. So at 20 hours 27 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-721/I
Time: 15:51 CDT, 17/20:51 GMT
8113173
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 20 hours

51 minutes Greenwich mean time, the space station is about
a minute or less away from the tracking ship Vanguard and
we' ii stand by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard i0 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, if we can have the
DAS a little bit, we're going to force a momentum sample.
CDR Sure.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to do
a data recorder dump here at Vanguard.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, the DAS is yours.
CC CDR, Houston if it's convenient for you
to answer now could you repeat your comment just at LOS last
time, something about gyros 1 and 3. We didn't copy all
that.
CDR If you look at the glmbal angles on
gyros 1 and 3 at that point the outer glmbal angle on both
was indicating i00 percent. Now 3 is the one I reported
yesterday as indicating i00 percent but suspicioning that it
was of gage failure. And this morning they mention that
they thought that wouldn't matter it was wheel speed but
I didn't want to argue the point and it still reads i00 percent
on 3 and was reading i00 percent on I. I don't know what
it's reading now, l'm down here working 171, 192 but Jack can
give you a look at it.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT What (garble) do you want to know, Hank?
CC Roger, could you give us your glmbal
angle, outer gimbal angle on CMG's i and 3?
PLT Number i is 31 and number 3 is off scale
low.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston, on gyro 3 there the off
scale low do you mean minus i00 percent?
PLT That's affirmative.
PLT About a minus 105 percent.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute tll LOS,
Ascension at 06.
CDR Okay.
PAO The Skylab has moved out of range of
the Vanguard tracking ship. It'll be back in contact through
Ascension in about 3 minutes. The mean - and we'll keep
the line up. And in the meantime this anouncement for the
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Time: 15:51 CDT, 17/20:51 GMT
8/13/73
PAO benefit of the News Media. There will

be a Change of Shift briefing at approximately 5 p.m. this
evening, that's 5 p.m. central daylight time involving
the offgolng Fllght Director Charles Lewis. The press
conference will be in the News Center briefing room in
building I, repeating on change of shift briefing at 5 p.m.
with Charles Lewis, offgoing flight director. We'll keep
the line up for the pass through Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-722/I
TIME: 16:04 CDT 17/20:04 GMT
8113173
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension,

9 minutes.
from LOS. Guam at 52.
of range of Ascension. Next station contact is Guam in
about 35 minutes. At 21 hours 16 minutes Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-723/1
Time: 16:50 CDT, 17/21:50 GMT
8/13/73

We're in contact with the space station over the Guam tracking
site, probably have some communication in matter of
30 or so seconds, alr-to-ground communication that is,
so we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS over Guam for
6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip. I'm working ATM and
working on a filament that 09 and I noticed pretty
good prominence here at the llmb looks llke it's over active
region 85 (garble) 54 but the guys in the backroom think
it's significant well I'ii do some work on it.
CC Okay, Jack, if your talking about the
filament number 29 at active region 83, we copied that
we've got a flare which was opitical I-F we haven't got any
x-ray information it started about 21:31, we're looking
at your current ATM procedure requires any modification
we'd like for you to carry on - I guess you're in building
block 2 right?
PLT I Just finished up building block 2. I'm
going to JOP 4B now and that prominence that I see is more I
guess over active region 85, it looks llke it's narrow 80 one
solar radius Which is active region 85 here.
CC Okay, copy that.
PLT Ah, however I guess active region 83 is
the i00 ones so it's I guess it's probably is that one.
On the absence of any other word, l'm going to press on with
normal routine.
CC That's that's affirm, Jack, press on.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting to go
over the hill in about 30 seconds and Jack if there's any
confusion we would just llke for you to go ahead and press on
with your normal ATM schedule as we previously told you.
That flare looks fairly small and we'll have you again
at Vanguard at 22:29, 22:29.
PLT Okay, Crip, thank you.
of range of the Guam tracking site. An anouncement again
that there is a change of shift briefing imminent in
building i the News Center briefing room involving the
offgolng Flight Director Charles Lewis. At 21 hours 59 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-724/I
TIME: 17:28 CDT 17/22:28 GMT
8/13/73

28 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab III station is
about 45 seconds acquisition through the Vanguard tracking
islte. We'll stand by for the alr-to-ground.
for ii minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And Jack, if you're still there at the
ATM panel and you've got time, we'd llke you to place the
slx-pack switches to INHIBIT, please.
SPT He's pretty busy right now, Robert. Did
you mean OFF, not INHIBIT?
CC The switches - it doesn't say OFF or ON,
it's INHIBIT on all the switches.
SPT Oh, I'm sorry. You said TACS. I thought
you said six-pack, and those are all ready OFF.
CC TACS. Roger. Not slx-packs. Sir.
8PT Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We need to pull
the data voice record dump here a little early, so we're going
to be dumping here at Vanguard.
SPT Okay.
SPT Bob, does the back room say that S052
should still be started at 1 plus 25, with the (garble)
remaining clock.
CC We'll check that for you, Owen.
CC Owen, that's affirmative on your last.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll have you again in about 3 minutes over Ascension
at 22:43. 2243. And for your information, your Flight
Plan is on hoard and the information that Jack asked for
earlier about Moon photography is also on board.
PLT Thank you, Crlp.
PAO This pass, identified as revolution
1318 is taking Skylab over Ascension Island tracking station next,
the Canaries following that and Madrid, so we'll keep the llne up
for the 2 or so minutes that we're out of contact. And we'll
stand by for additional alr-to-ground.
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SL-III MC-725/i
Time: 17:41 CDT; 17/22:41 GMT
8/13/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension

for about 6-1/2 minutes and can probably expect comm to be
a little bit poor this pass.
from dropping out over Ascension. We'll have you in about
2 minutes over Canary.
from dropping out for a minute over Ascension. We'll have
you again over Canary for about i minute.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-726/I
Time: 17:51 CDT, 17/22:51 GMT
8/13/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS over Canary for

9 minutes.
LOS, we'll see you again over Guam at 23:27 in about 26 minutes
from now.
PLT Okay, Crip.
PAO Okay, the Skylab space station is whizzing
over the historically fabled country of Greece, next
Bulgaria and then the Black Seaj havln E past out of range
of the Madrid tracking station. Among the items of
incidental data not designed to be earth shaking is the
fact that about an hour ago the 10 foot by 20 foot idafor (?)
screen that is the center screen in mission control on
which the map of the world and ground stations and the track
of Skylab Ill appear, well that screen is projected has
projected a different set of colors. The new colors are
blue on black for the world map and ground stations and
a lovely shade of soft red for the track of Skylab. The
Skylab space station color still is pea green changing
to a color of fresh cream when the station is in contact
with the ground. Next Skylab space station color change
is at Guam in approximately 23 minutes. And at 23 hours
4 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Conrol.
END OF TAPE
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SL III HC-727/1
TIHE: 18:25 CDT 17/23:25 GMT
8/13/73

26 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We're about 40 seconds
away from acquisition through the tracking site at Guam,
on this the 1,318th revolution of the Skylab space station.
Standing by for the air-to-ground between Houston and the
station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Guam for
i0 minutes. I0 minutes.
CDR Okay. Crlp.
LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard in about 31
minutes at 00:07. 00:07.
PAO At 23 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
CL III MC-728/1
TIME: 19:06 CDT 18/00:06 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 6 minutes 25

seconds into the new day. That's day 226 in the year 1973.
About 42 seconds away from the Skylab space station through
Vanguard. We'll stand by for air-to-ground.
for 8 minutes and we'll be needing the DAS here for a
couple of minutes. We're going to put 7-1 and Y-3 - turn
them back on to do a check while we got this course scale
factor enabled in the computer and this should in no way affect
your other gyros.
SP T Okay.
LOS. We'll see you again over Canary at 00:27. 00:27, and
that's about 12 minutes from now.
PAO Next station contact, the Canary Islands
in ii minutes. At 15 minutes 55 seconds Greenwich mean
time in the new day. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-729/1
Time: 19:25 CDT; 18/00:25 GMT
8/13/73
PAO Skylab Control; 25 minutes 55 seconds Green-

wich mean time. Space station is approaching the Canary
Island tracking site. And we expect to have air-to-ground
in about half a minute or so. We've had little communication
with the crew inasmuch as they are involved at this time
in their scheduled presleep activities. One other item
will be up for viewing tonight and that'll be about an
hour or so of ATM time spent by the science pilot. We'll
stand by for communication through Canaries.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary
for 14 minutes.
aPT We're not ignoring you, Crip. We heard you.
CC Roger. You guys sure are quiet up there
today. Y'all working that hard?
SPT We haven't been near a microphone all day
we've been working so hard.
CC Well, that's good. That's good. Let's see
we've been loafing down here but we just came back to work.
PLT I got the other two guys suspended up there
in mid-air in the workshop. They Just can't get loose.
CC Roger. I heard y'all tried to spin it up
yesterday.
SPT I didn't feel a thing. I was sitting down
here in the wardroom. Heard the TACS go up; sounds like
someSody's banging on the water pipes down in the basement
when the TACS fires.
CC Pretty loud - Pete used to claim that it was
pretty loud also.
CC SPT, Houston. You got a moment, please, sir.
CT Madrid comm tech, Houston comm tech, net
1 voice check.
CT Madrid comm tech, net i, reading you loud
and clear.
CC Okay, Owen - -
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger, Owen. You got a minute?
SPT I have a minute. I didn't think you did
though, the way you walked away.
CC No, okay. I might have missed you coming
down. But we've got something that the solar people tell
me is called coronal rain going on and we'd llke you
to add an item to your shopping llst on this next pass you've
got coming up.
SPT Coronal what?
CC Something to do with solar snow - I don't
know. It's coronal rain.
SPT Oh, okay. Yeah. I know what you're talking
about.
J
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Time: 19:25 CDT, 18/00:25 GMT
8/13/73
CC l'm glad you do. What they'd like you to

do is - you've got an item 13 that's scheduled in the shop-
ping list at the end of your next pass.
SPT Okay. AI was going to catch that, but we'll
catch it together. What's up?
CC Okay. What we'd like you to do is add an
extended sc - extended standard mode for S052 still pointed
at sun center and if you put the roll at minus 5400 for us.
SPT Minus 5400 with another extended standard.
CC That's affirmative. And what they're saying
is they've got some enhanced coronal activity above active
region 83. And it's a matter, I guess, falling back in the
sun, which you're familiar with. And if you'd catch that for
them, they'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay. We'll be happy to do that.
CC Okey doke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to go LOS.
Have you again at Honeysuckle at 01:15.
PLT Roger.
PAO We've had loss of signal through the Canary
Island and Madrid stations and we'll reacquire the space
station again over Honeysuckle in about 32 minutes. At
42 minutes 32 seconds Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-730/I
Time: 20:14 CDT, 18/01:04 GMT
8/13/73
PAO Skylab Control; i hour 14 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is about 45 seconds
from acquisition at Honeysuckle. And the crew is in there
pre-sleep activities again. We don't expect much comm
from them, we will however stand by for the alr-to-ground
through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 8 minutes. And Skylab, do we happen to have anybody
at the ATM-C&D please?
CDR You bet, CDR is here.
CC Rog, AI. We're trying to troubleshoot
this problem you were having on the CMT glmbal readout a
little bit earller, we would appreciate if you would go through
and select C&G-I and 2 and 3 and give us the inner and
outer glmbal readings.
CDR Okay, C&G-1 minus 25 and off scale low
that would be minus i00 percent.
CC And copy i.
CDR Okay on 2 it's about minus 2 and plus 2.
CC Roger.
CDR I'm reading you the inner and then outer.
CC Roger, that's what we want.
CDR Minus 25 and plus 28 on 3 but I betcha
if we watched it long enough it'll be minus i00.
CC Roger, earlier today when you commented
that 1 and 3's outer gimbals were on the stops, can you recall
if they were on the bottom and off scale low.
CDR That's affirmative. That's where they
were the other day when we had the problem only we thought
it was real. I seem to remember that they had a problem
with the outer glmbal on SL-II of C&G-3, couldn't remember
for sure and when I saw those outer glmbal on one on the
stop 2 I knew we had a problem but it may have been Just that
maybe Just a problem we're seeing now.
CC Okay, we'll look into that, I don't belleve
we did have a problem with the - the glmbal angle readings
on 3, it seems llke we might have had C&G-3 will be problem.
CDR Maybe that was it, I've forgotton. So
apparently we now have 2 outer gimbals that aren't reading
correctly. They're reading full scale lower every once in
awhile.
CC Roger, and it appears that it's not
contlnuious either because awhile ago we got one reading and it
was reading approximately correct on the outer glmble and
now it's back off-scale low and awhile ago 3 was reading
off-scale low and back on now. Okay, we'll take a look at it.
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CDR And so far l've finished - almost finished

the JOP 6, I'm going to the shopping llst 13 in Just a few
minutes. And it looks llke we're going to get a good long
exposure time on both 56 and we ought to get a good long
run and extended standard for WLC - 52.
CC Okay, sounds good AI.
CDR In fact the second half of this JOP-6
as you know is (garble) extanded standard that's what's
going on right now matter of fact.
CC Roger, I think the intent was to Just
get as much of what we could of this coronal rains.
CDR And for also it's minus 5400 you might
ask them if they want me to restart anything in standard
or Just let it keep runnlng_ which would they prefer. I
don't have to do anything now Just go ahead and start up
the experiments 56 - I can either do 52 run and start it up
again.
CC Okay, AI, when you finish up building
block 1 we'd like for you restart the extended standard
on 52.
CDR Okay.
CDR We're going to give 56 a 15 minute
exposure. I think they'll llke that.
CC Copy. A 15 minute exposure.
CC And Skylab, I neglected to tell you
but we are doing a data voice recorder dump up over Honeysuckle
here.
CDR Okay, we started (garble)
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, wetre 1 minute from LOS,
we'll have you again at about 36 minutes over Bermuda at
01:59, 01:59. And we'll be standing by for the evening
status report there.
CDR Okeydoke.
PAO Loss of signal through the Honeysuckle
tracking station, next station contact Bermuda in about
35 minutes at 1 hour 23 minutes 52 seconds Greenwich
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SL-III MC-731/1
Time: 20:58 CDT, 18/01:58 GMT
8/13/73
PAO This is Skylab Control in Houston;

1 hour 58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station is
about a half minute away from the Bermuda tracking station
were we will have control for the next 6 or so minutes.
When we have comm from Bermuda, we expect the Evening Status
Report and we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS through Bermuda
for 6 minutes, standing by for the Evening Status Report.
CDR I was coming your way, Crlp, so watch out.
CC Shoot it at me.
CDR 142; 185; 170. 4963; 8196; 5719. 6.241,
6.239, 6.241; 5.980, 5.976, 5.975; 6.959, 6.958, 6.959.
2/30/4445, 3/15/MARK 1, 50A, 25B, 25C, 25D; 20 correction
I didn't say that right. 3/10/MARK 2, 20B, 20A, 10-G. Okay
now for the SPT, 2/45/6000, 3/MARK 2, 50A, 60B, 40D and
there was 5 minutes for that, that guy works hard for 5 minutes.
Okay, here comes the PLT, 1/05/0 - 1/05 I'm starting over
again on the pilot. 1/05/0513, then 3/20/MARK 1, 50A, 20B,
20D, and 20 backbends.
PLT Okay, I've got one more, I got 2/30/6306.
CDR Okay, medication: none. Sleep: 6 good;
7 good; 6 good. Here comes the food log: CDR, i0 salts, no
deviations; SPT, 5 salts, no deviations; PLT, zero salts, and
one apple drink extra. Here comes the photo log: M509, CI41,
zero, CI16; MSO9-M151, CI43, zero CII8; 35-mi1Ilmeters: CX12, 22;
CX10,038. 70-milllmeters: CX11, 141. Drawer A configuration:
07, CI40, 99, CI09; 05, CI41, 9 correction 00, CI16; 06, CI45,
99, CI39; 03, CI43, 00, CI18. And in back of the drawer 1
as the same as it's always been. Let's go back to anything
else here. Flight Plan deviatlons-task, time, constalnts,
everything's okay on tomorrow's Flight Plan we llke the way
the ATM schedule came out. That was good scheduling on
that ATM tomorrow. Shopping list accompllsed: HKI4H, HKTOU,
HK60G, four sets, i0 slghtlngs each, Moon to Moon of TO02.
Unscheduled stowage item location change: one sample bag from
562 front to the wardroom, we're going to eat them. Okay another
thing that we did was get - Owen got an extra hemoglobin,
hemoglobin measurement. Now this morning or yesterday, I can't
remember which, you sent up a repair procedure for the teleprinter.
We did not execute that for three reasons: i, we suspect that
the teleprinter we got is going to keep working and if it
doesn't we hope that the roller is the part that doesn't - that
doesn't fall and we will replace rollers, okay. Second,
if it does last through the end of the mission, Jerry Cart's
crew can bring up 2 or 3 extra rollers. And 3, most important
one was since we were repairing it with tape we thought it would
be wise to hold off until we needed it that way the tape would
be fresh and sticky and probably last longer, if we repair it
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CDR now and use it a month from now it

probably isn't going to last. So we got the procedure on
board, we read it, understand it and if our teleprinter goes,
and if the rollers goes on the other one, the one that's
in there now, where we can't Just simply change the roller
we will then execute the tape repair. Is that okay?
CC Okay, we copy that A1 and take it under
advisement, we're going to drop out here in about 30 seconds
and have you again in about i minute over Canary and we'll
finish the Evening star.
CDR That was it, as far as I know.
CC Okay, we have few questions that we would
llke to ask you when we get there.
CDR Okay.
PAO We'll reacquire through the Canary Island
tracking site in about a minute. So we'll Just keep the line
up for the pass through the Canaries and Madrid, stand by
for more comm through the Carnarles.
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TIME: 21:06 CDT 18/02:06 GMT
8/13/73
CC Okay, Skylab. We're AOS once more

through Canary, and I think I've got you here for about
5 minutes, and then we're going to turn you over for the
med conference. Like to ask you a question on the 191 door
opening characteristics.
CDR Okay, Jack will be answering that one.
Go ahead, Jack.
CC Okay, Jack, apparently on that pass you
had over Australia, number 08, I guess that was day before
yesterday, you had some door Jerkings and I'd llke to ask
you, was the jerking motion continuous over the whole cycle,
if not, was it present in the beginnin E or the end, approx-
imately where, and what was the frequency of the Jerky
motion, or was it constant.
PLT No, it was an intermittent Jerky motion.
Some of the jerks were bigger than others. In fact, I
noticed it most about the time the trailing edge of the
door came into view. As it opened further, of course, I
got lots of an angle on it and you can't see the Jerking
quite as well. I noticed that Just as the edge of the
door was clearing the ground below mostly.
CC Okey-doke. And can you tell us if you
saw it yesterday on pass 09?
PLT I didn't look for it very closely,
because I had other things that I had to get done in a
hurry. I recall it took longer than it should nominally
and I guess I got no reason to suspect that it did Jerk,
but on the other hand, I don't remember specifically look-
ing for that yesterday.
CC Okey-doke. I guess we'll have to find
out more about it when we do the next EREP pass which is
quite a ways off. Okay. We'd llke to ask the question, I
guess of A1, on the fogging of the wardroom window. Which
side is it the fog coming from, and we're assuming it is
kind of running left to right.
CDR You assume exactly right. It appears
to be coming in the place where the vent vented it out. Now,
I've vented it down once. Well, I actually vented it down
twice, and it took out most of the water, but when I try to,
you know, put that air back through the desiccant, foul
desiccant llke it replaned, I suspect it's Just moist air
there and the desiccant isn't pulling it out. Now, what
worries me a little bit more than the window, is that
desiccant is supposed to be keeping these experiments dry,
and I suspect it is not, because it isn't even keeping the
window dry.
CC Okay, copy that. Understand it seems
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TIME: 21:06 CDT 18/02:06 GMT
8/13/73
like it's coming in from left, AI. Is that right?

CDR That's affirm. About midway up on the
left hand side and it even forms a sort of a cone with the
end of it right near the left hand edge of the wlndowm then
it expands out and covers about one third of the window.
CC Okay. I copied that. And a question
in general for you. Have you used the auto-flash for the
Nikon camera? If so, what condition was the SL II battery
when first used?
CDR SL II bbattery was good. We're still
using SL II battery. We shot a bunch of them today of 509,
and we've shot a number of flashes, and maybe Owen or Jack
would know. I still think it's the SL II BAT. Any comments
Jack or Owen?
PLT I didn't change it.
SPT No, I've got the same battery in there
and it seems to give you a READY light pretty quick.
PLT Yeah. I think it's a pretty hot BAT.
CC Okay. Very good. And for Jack, can
you tell us when you are planning on setting up for that
TV 1 tonight? You've got it tomorrow morning.
PLT Haven't looked at it yet.
CC Okay. Well, the reason I mentioned it,
we have a particular TV camera that we wanted you to use.
Do you think you're going to do it tonight, I can give it
to you, if not, I'll wait until tomorrow.
PLT No, I'm not going to set it up tonight,
but you can tell me what it is.
CC Okay. We'd like you to use serial
number 3002 vice 3006. 3006 is the one that you've
been using for the past several days.
PLT Okay. You wanted 3002.
CC That's affirm.
CC Okay, you guys. I'm going to turn you
over to med conference. We do need 56 door switch plates
open to us for unattended ops, please.
CDR Okay. We're not finished with the
panel. We're going to do it when it gets sunrise, live
got to put the grating back in zero and I figured it would
be good shape for unattended.
CC Okay. Copy that and I'm going to turn
you over to the doc now.
of range of the Madrid tracking site. We'll reacqulre
again over Carnarvon in about 24 minutes. At 2 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-733/1
Time: 21:42 CDT; 18/02:42 GMT
8/23/73
PAO Thls is Skylab Control at 2 hours 42 minutes

Greenwich mean time, approaching the Carnarvon tracking
site on what wlll probably be the final pass of the night,
prior to crew sleep. We're about 18- 17 seconds from
acquisition of signal. In fact, we're getting a little
telemetry data in at this time and we'll stand by for the
air- to- ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, weIre AOS over Carnarvon
for 10 minutes.
CDR Gotcha_ Crlp.
CC Hey, and if we got anybody near the ATM
panel it seems llke wetve got a problem with 56's shutter,
and it seems to have risen again with running item 13.
What we need to do is to make sure that the door is open.
You got a READY light to hit START, then STOP, and then
close the - close the door.
CDR Okay, 56 - I'll get up there and you can
tell me that again, and I'm not sure you really want me
to close the door but ,ill go on up there.
CC Rog. I meant to say alrlock door_ not the
56 door.
CC And, Owen, if you've got a - if you're
available for a minute while Al's going up to the panel,
we have your 133 data here. However_ what they've done
is average three days together and I'd llke you - to know
if that's the way you want it or do you want it by indlvl-
dual days or how?
SPT That's satisfactory if that's the way It
is. I was Just interested in round numbers and wanted to
make sure that it all looked the way they expected.
CC Okay, how would you like it in the future?
SPT Why don't around once a week Just send me
up a little note that tells me that'll be two runs per
week probably, about that and just send me up a little note
on the pads that tells me the separation stages for that
week.
CC Okay, and do you want us to go ahead and
average them together then for those runs?
SPT That' Ii be fine.
CC Okay, we'll send that up co you tonight.
SPT Thank you Robert.
CDR Okay, Robert, what do you want me to do?
CC Yes slr_ I'd llke you to take the alrlock
door switch to OPEN.
CDR Okay, it's open.
CC And do you have a ready llght?
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Time: 21:42 CDT; 18/02:42 GMT
8/13/73
CDR Yes I do.

CC Okay, hit your switch - START/STOP switch
to START and then to STOP.
CDR Okay, did that.
CC Okay, now you should be able to close the
alrlock door.
CDR It's closed.
CC Okay, and that closed the shutter and I -
apparently we're running into some kind of funny where we're
closing out item 13 about getting that - getting that shutter
closed.
CDR I sure hope it doesn't foul up the exposures
we took on 13. We went through the procedure and let me
read it to you to make sure we know what we're doing.
CC Uh, no - your procedure is correct. If
you're hlttin E - right at the end of it it calls for you
to hit start and then stop. If you're doin E that that
should be shutting the shutter.
CDR It did that and the ready light came on.
It worked Just like advertised.
CC Okay, so noted. If - I'd llke to ask you
a question about ED-32 on the film report tonight we didn't
notice any interior color taken and we had anticipated some
being taken with ED-32. Can you update us on that?
PLT Uh, yes, I have Just not had a chance to
enter those apparently - they should have been on there
though. I corrected that AI, so there were a number of
color photos taken on ED-32 and I don't know what was read
down to you but I thought it was entered in correctly. At
any rate I took some - oh, 12 to 18 exposures on ED-32 today.
And I ran a total of five sequences now and I was going to
report on it tomorrow morning.
CC And AI, are you still up at the ATM panel?
CDR I'm not but it sure isn't far away.
CC Well, apparently there's some problem with
the H-alpha closeout per the pad tonight. Stand by i.
CDR We closed that baby precisely llke the pad.
But we'll go up there and work on it some more.
CDR Okay, we found out the problem on the color
interior. I read you CXI2, 22, then I read you CXIO, 0,
38. I should have read you CI 100 38.
CC Ah so. Okay, we've got that.
CDR I'm head - - I'm headed up to the ATM panel
and for - any sort of things you've got on your mind.
CC Okay, apparently we need the (garble)
innerlock switch on H-alpha in override and the
H-alpha door switch open.
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SL-III MC-734/I
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8113173
CC Okay.
CDR I did not close it out precisely like
the plan. I only thought I did.
CC Okay, AI and you can verify that you
are in auto on H-alpha I, right?
CDR That's a fact.
CC Okay, very good and for your information
we're going to be upping your PT02 Just so we won't get
into a caution and warning problem here. Also llke you
to comment whether you're liking the cooler temperatures
aboard Skylab.
CDR Hey, we love it. It's real nice and it's
only - It's much better sleeping, everybody's sleeping longer
now, it's cooler when you work, the only time we notice that
it's up here at all is when you use the hlgh-lntensity lights,
llke we did for 509 today, other than that it's very very
pleasant here, it's much better when your riding the ergometer,
the only time that it isn't super pleasant is when you give
yourself sort of a sponge bath, then you get to cool off,
cause it's cool and dry so you evaporate pretty - pretty rapidly
but that's a small problem compared with all the nice little
advantages of it.
CC Okay, we copy that. For your information
tonight we're having a problem with one of our alr-to-ground
lines to Madrid, so in case any problems - Belay that; we
got them all back in.
CDR Okay, that's good news and how do you
think our rate gyros are going to do tonight?
CC Okay, rate gyros are hanging in good
tonight and hope they continue that way and we're going to
go ahead start ATM unattended ops. Like to ask you a question
about the star tracker about one rev ago after we'd already
taken away or inhibited control of the star tracker by
the computer we noted that it had been locked on a star and
then I guess last pass we noticed that the shutter was closed
again. Have you all been playing with the star tracker?
CDR Yes, I did, I locked it on a star to
see how it was doing and it locked on real well and then
later on when it told me to shut it off, I closed the shutter
and that was it.
CC Okay, very good and on that TV camera
that I told Jack about awhile ago, we'd llke for you to
continue with using the new camera that is 3002. We'll
continue with that one until further notice.
CDR Why, the other was bad or something?
CC A1, we noticed that the color picture doesn't
seem to be as good with the other one.
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Time: 21:49 CDT, 18/02:49 GMT
8/13/73
CDR 3002, okey doke.

CDR Let me tell you what we got inhibited
on 207 and make sure we're all playlng the same game. Sieve A
PPC02, sieve B PPCO2 condensate tank DELTA-P, that's it and if
there's any that we should or shouldn't have inhibited on
those three please let us know, would you?
CC AI, we're going to drop out here for
about 30 seconds and we'll have you again in about a minute
over Honeysuckle and I'ii talk to you about those caution and
warnings.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab. We've got you about
for about 4-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle and A1 if you
don't mind we'd appreciate if you would repeat that caution
and warning inhibit status.
CDR Condensate tank DELTA-P, PPC02 A and B,
there's three of them inhibited.
CC Okay, we copy that, that's very good.
And I finally ran out of items here_ I could give you a little
bit of evening news if you would care for it before bedtime.
CDR You bet, nobody's given us news in 3
or 4 days.
CC We're back, I haven't been I haven't
been on console. Well if you're interested in what the
newspaper's saying about you. It says a - the afternoon paper
says that astronauts gather data on southwest and ask for
more work. Says Skylab astronauts explore the American
southwest with space cameras and said they've gotten the hang
of things enough to do more work. Bean said they were able
to do their chores more rapidly now and had time to tackle
more Jobs. They got everything shipshape and we're ready
to do more work, he says. So it sounds like - sounds like
you guys are really trying to work hard.
CDR We are, how about giving that to the
flight planners, there's about a thousand people, I0 thousand
people been hard for this mission we want to make sure that
we pull it off right for the next month and a half.
CC Yeah, but we're getting to take a few
days off every now and then, it doesn't sound llke you guys
are getting to do that.
CDR I don't know, we seem to be having all
of the fun, we were talking about it tonight. Jack says
when does the hard work start. I don't know Just seem fun
all day long.
CC Well, that's good. Let you know a little
about the less colorful side of what's going on down here.
The U.S. shifted into phase 4 today and prices on many products
could start going up; however_ cost of living council officials
would not speculate on how fast or how high prices might climb.
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Time: 21:49 CDT, 18:02:49 GMT
8/13/73
CC If you're interested in a little bit of

the sports: Houston Astros handed the Chicago Cubs their
8th defeat in a row Sunday. The score was 3 - 2. Jack
is probably interested that Jack Nicklaus was the PGA by
4 shots Sunday to become the leader of major golf tltles
with 14 wins. The win bettered by 1 the record of 13
previously held by Bobby Jones. Nicklaus' titles include
3 PGA's, 3 U. S. Opens, 2 U. S. Amateurs, 4 Masters and
2 British Opens. That's quite a record. I'm also informed
that some of the late evening news highlighted your M509
run today and that sounded llke fun, I'm looking forward
to hearing you do CL20. Now we're getting pretty close
to LOS so ,harts we probably ought to conclude what news
there was right now. And Owen you had requested earlier
today apparently some stars so you could do that test on
the star tracker to find out the threshold of where it locks
on unfortunately we don't have any stars readily available
tonight because of occulting and wet re setting that up for
date 230 if that's satisfactory with you. Also we're getting
ready to dump the VTR so that's not going to be available
to you for the rest of the evening.
SPT That sounds llke a fine date there, Bob.
And I would think if you could send it up for to be done
some time when I've - say got a double ATM run and I'll do
it on night pass intervening.
CC Okay, that sounds good to us. We'll
go ahead and wish you a goodnlght, here. And if you need
to talk to us again, the next pass is going to be over
Mile at 03:31, 03:31.
SPT Thank you, Bob.
CC Goodnight guys.
PAO We have had loss of signal through
Honeysuckle on this pass crew got a goodnlght from the
ground and before we wrap it up here, we have the friendly
surgeon's daily health report. Quoting Dr. Paul Buchanan,
"Alan Bean, Dr. Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma, the crew
of Skylab III continue to enjoy vigorous good health. They
are eating their full menus and all of the important
medical parameters seem to be either holdlng or improving
slightly." That is the end of the daily medlcal status report
from the good doctor. At 3 hours Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control, signing off on mission day 17.
END OF TAPE
SLIII MC735/1
TIME: 05:00 CDT, 18/i0:00 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control at 6 a.m.

eastern daylight time, August 14. We're preparing for the
roll out of the Skylab 4 space vehicle from the Vehicle
Assembly Building which is scheduled to begin promptly at
7 a.m. eastern dayllght time. Preparations during the night
have gone smoothly. The weather forecast is favorable,
scattered clouds, fair, and no showers until this afternoon.
This is Skylab launch control.
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SL-III MC-736/I
Time: 05:05 CDT 18:10:05 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. In preparation

for today's roll out, the spacecraft was transferred Saturday
from the manned spacecraft operations building at Kennedy
Space Center to the vehicle assembly building. While in the
spacecraft building it underwent altitude chamber tests with
both the prime and backup astronaut crews. The spacecraft was
placed atop the launch vehicle and made ready for installation
of the launch escape system. Over the weekend the launch
team completed preparations for installing the ordnance charges,
Cleared the high bay of the vehicle assembly building. The
ordnance charge operatlons commenced at 7 p.m. Sunday. By
midnight the protective covers had been emplaced on the command
module. The movable platform suspended from the walls of
High Bay 1 which enclosed the rocket were retracted. Swing
arm 9 and its environmental chamber, the so-called white room
which mates with the command module, were secured. Earlier
this morning, air, water, and electrical connections between
the vehicle and the VAB systems were broken. The crawler
transporter entered the high bay at 4 a.m. to mate with the
mobile launcher supporting the rocket. K. D. Kelly of the Bendix
Corporation will be operating the transporter during today's
move. At 5:30 a.m. the mobile launcher was connected to the
electrical systems of the transporter, and at 6 o'clock test
supervisor William Schick received observer reports confirming
that the equipment is clear. We expect the mobile launcher
to Jack clearance height at 6:30. This is Skylab Launch
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC 737/1
TIME: 05:15 CDT, 18/10:15 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. The

Skylab IV space vehicle, which will be transferred this
morning from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad B at
Complex 39 of the Kennedy Space Center is the eighth
Saturn IB to be assembled for launch by NASA. This will
also be the 15th space vehicle prepared at the Vehicle
Assembly Building. Twelve of those were Saturn V's employed
in NASA's lunar exploration program. Skylab, the 100-ton
space station now in Earth orbit was prepared and launched
here on May 14. The first astronaut crew was launched with
a Saturn IB on May 25, splashing down June 22 after a 28 day
stay. The crew now occupying Skylab was launched from the
Kennedy Space Center July 27 and may stay in Earth orbit
until late September. The 2-stage vehicle which will be seen
shortly when the assembly moves through the door of the
Vehicle Building will be resting on a 127-foot tall pedestal
constructed on the Mobile Launcher which was previously used
during the Apollo program. The pedestal made it possible
to use the same launcher and umbilical tower and other
facilities for the more powerful Saturn V vehicles. This
rocket stands 224 feet tall and welghs about 1,300,000
pounds at llft-off. This first stage was built by Chrysler
at a government owned plant in Michoud, Louisiana. It has
eight rockedyne engines which burn kerosine and liquid oxygen
to produce 1,600,000 pounds thrust. The stage is 80 feet tall
21-1/2 feet in diameter. The second stage built by McDonnell
Douglas in California has a single engine, generating a
thrust of about 200,000 pounds as it burns liquid hydrogen and
oxygen. It is 58 feet tall and has a diameter of 21-I/2 feet
the same dimensions incidentally of the Skylab workshop.
Above the second stage is the instrument unit built by IBM
which carries the computer and Buidance systems. It is 3 feet
tall and weighs 4,300 pounds. The command and service modules
top off the vehicle, both were built by Rockwell International
in California. The command module is 11-1/2 feet tall with a
diameter of 12 feet and weighs 13,500 pounds. The service
module is 24.8 feet tall has a diameter of 12.8 feet and
weighs 17,500 pounds. It contains the reaction control
system and service propulsion system for Earth return. Topping
off the assembly is the launch escape rocket which is 33 feet
tall, weighs 8,000 pounds and can develop a thrust of 147,000
pounds. The preparations for the roll out continue without
interruption. We expect the transfer to begin promptly at
7 a.m. This is Skylab Launch Control.
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Time: 05:24 CDT 18:10:24 GMT
8114173
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. Preparations

continue for the transfer of the Skylab IV space vehicle which
should begin at 7 a.m. The crawler transporter which will
move the mobile launcher and the rocket to the launch pad
weighs 6 mi11ion pounds, and will be supporting a load of
about 12 million pounds. The transporter is 131 feet in
length, 114 feet in width and moves on four double track
crawlers, each 10 feet high and 41 feet long. Each shoe in
the track weighs i ton. During the operation the crawler
will travel at about 1 mile per hour. It will require about
4 hours to reach the summit of pad B at complex 39. It is
equipped with a levelling system which constrains the top
of the space vehicle within i0 minutes of arc. In other words,
it can move only about the dimensions of a basketball. The
top deck of the crawler is the size of a baseball diamond,
that is, it's about 90 feet square. It moves on a crawler
way, 130 feet wide, about the size of the New Jersey turnpike.
The transfer to the pad was originally scheduled to have
occurred on August 20. We've accelerated the preparations
since August 2, when the launch team began working 7 days a
week 24 hours a day to expedite the preparations. This is
Skylab Launch Control at 33 minutes prior to roll out.
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Time: 05:35 CDT 18:10:35 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. Today's roll

out operation is being directed and controlled from firing
room 3 of the Launch Control Center, which performed the same
functions during the roll out and launch of the first and second
Skylab manned missions. Dr. Honnel Grunney of Launch Vehicle Opera-
tions, Isam Richell, the chief enBineer , Peter Linderman,
Director of Technical Support, have arrived in the firing room
with Bill Schlck, the chief test supervisor and Walter Kapryan,
the Director of Launch Operations. The mobile launcher sup-
porting the Skylab IV space vehicle was also used for Skylabs
II and III. It is a movable launch base and umbilical power
which weighs 12-1/2 million pounds. The launcher base is a
two-story steel structure, 25 feet high, 160 feet long, 135 feet
wide. The vehicle rests on a pedestal built over a 45-foot
square opening in the launcher, which permits engine exhausts
to pass through in the flame trench at the firing site. We
are waiting word that the crawler transporter has jacked the
mobile launcher to clearance heighth. And we're 23 minutes
from the planned first motion. This is Skylab Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 05:44 CDT 18:10:44 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. We're about

15 minutes from the first motion of the crawler transporter.
The spacecraft topping off the Saturn IB vehicle being moved
to pad B this morning is prepared for the next full duration
manned mission of Skylab 4, which wlll be flown by Gerald
Cart, Dr. Edward Gibson, and Wi11Iam Pogue. The first Skylab
crew consisted of Charles Conrad, Dr. Joseph Kerwln and Paul
Weltz. They were launched here May 25 and returned to Earth
June 22 breaking all records by remaining in space 28 days.
That crew will return to the Kennedy Space Center September 6
for a reunion with the launch team. The second team, now
occupying Skylab, includes Alan Bean, Jack Lousma and Owen
Garriott. They were launched July 28 for a 59-day mission
assuming their physlcal condltlon remains satisfactory after
the 28-day interval, from there on physicians wlll review the
situation weekly. If the mission extends to its full duration,
they will return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific off
San Diego, September 25. After launch and while approaching
Skylab in Earth orbit the crew reported defective operation
of one of the thruster units of their spacecraft, by which
they controlled its position in space. On August 2, another
thruster unit indicated defective operation. Immediately the
program director, William Schneider, instructed the Kennedy
Space Center to accelerate preparations for the next launch.
Since then the launch team has worked 7 days a week, 24 hours
a day. A rescue spacecraft is avallable at KSC which could
be flown by astronauts Vance Brand and Dr. Don Lind of the
Skylab 3 backup crew. It contains 3 more couches that could
support the Bean crew if an emergency required. However,
the preparations today looked towards the Skylab for normal
mission which wlll be like later this fall. This is Skylab
Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 05:55 CDT, 18/10:55 GMT
8/14/73

I0 hours 55 minutes at the start of the 18th day for the
crew of Skylab 3. Skylab 1 the orbital workshop has now
been in orbit 92 days. Today's activities will have
the crew spending 7 hours at the Apollo Telescope Mount
aiming the battery of cameras and telescopes at the Sun
gathering scientific data also on tap is the MI31, Human
Vestibular experiment with Science Pilot Owen Garrlott and
Pilot Jack Lousma, conducting this experiment which is
designed to assess their vulnerability to motion sickness.
Wetll have a M509 playback the television - 30 minutes of
television from yesterday during the run of the M509
astronaut maneuvering unit. At 9 a.m. Flight Director is
Nell Hutchinson, CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless we expect
a wake-up call at Carnarvon in approximately 40 - 50 seconds
from now. We'll leave the llne up for that pass.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through
Carnarvon, good morning Skylab. Over.
PLT You sure it's morning already, Bruce?
CC I can't rightly say Jack I haven't been
outside myself, but the clock tells me it's morning and
the map shows it's time to get up for you guys.
SPT Hello, Bruce Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT Hello, Bruce we wanted to make some special
note of a few people who had made some special extra contribution
to Skylab in giving us an opportunity to get up there and
do this interesting work and one of those people is Tom
McElmurry. So we'd appreciate it if you'd give Tom a
call this morning and let him know that the crew of mission
2 is acknowledging his special contribution this morning
and wake him up if you can, if you can catch him early enough and
let him know that on this day we're making a special extra
note of his contribution to the mission and we very much
appreciate it. If you can let him know that's true from
the crew of mission 2 we'd appreciate it.
CC Okay, we'll record this as Tom McElmurry
day and actually I think I'll Just Wait a llttle while and
catch him when he comes into work if you don't mind.
SPT Well, soon as you can catch him at home the
better, we'd appreciate it if you'd give him a call.
CC Okay, you've got about a minute and 40 seconds
until LOS here at Carnarvon. Next station contact is Guam
at 11:12. Over.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
time ii hours 7 minutes on the 18th day of the mission for
Skylab 3. The mention by Science Pilot Owen Garrlott of
making a comment about Tom McElmurry, special contribution
o, .L .
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that he personally has made to the Skylab program , Mission

2 especially Sky - Tom McElmurry is Technical A _istant
for Skylab and Advance Planning and the Director - in the
Flight Crew operations, Director here at the Johnson Space
Center. CAP COMM Bruce McCandless said fine we'll make this
Tom McElmurry day. We will have acquisition at Guam in
approximately 3-1/2 minutes from now. We'll hold - we'll
take the line down and come back up for that pass.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-742/I
Time: 06:10 CDT 18/ii:i0 GMT
8/14/73

time ii hours 14 minutes. We will have acquisition over
the Guam tracking station in approximately 50 seconds. We'll
hold the llne up for that pass.
the next 6-1}2 minutes. Over.
the next 6 minutes. Is the SPT there? Over.
SPT He's up weighing himself first.
CC Okay, we've got someone here that we thought
might llke say a few words to hlm.
MCC Go ahead, sir.
CC Go ahead, Tom.
MCC Hi - -
SPT Okay, go ahead Bruce.
MCC Hi, are you there Scientist Pilot?
CC Hey Owen, we've got Tom on the llne. Are
you reading him?
SPT No, no, I'm not reading him yet. Go ahead
Tom.
MCC Owen it has to be my telephone here. Can
you hear that now?
SPT Now we've got you, and very pleased to talk
to you for a minute there, Tom. Well, we wanted to make a special
note of all the work you've done to get not only ourselves
but all of Skylab off the ground and working as well as it
is.
MCC I can't think of anyone that has done as
nice thing for me in all my life here. When you say working
as well as it is, I'm not sure that is a compliment though.
You gents have done nothing but maintain in grand style up
there, although -
SPT Well, we thank you. We knew we couldn't call
early enough to get you out of bed Tom. We knew you were already
at it and working away, but we're pleased to have (garble) to
help you on mission 2.
MCC Well, I sure appreciate it and we're
down here watching you come through in grand style. And I
want to commend you for all your fine efforts.
SPT I'ii be thinking about you today, Tom.
MCC Well, that's mighty nice. We look forward
to having you back here on the 22nd.
PLT Hey Tom, this is Jack. I want to make
a special note of all of your work too, and thank you a whole
lot. I appreciate your friendship.
MCC Thank you Jack, very much. From all the
reports here, if you keep eating the way you're eating we'll
probably have to bring you down early.
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PLT Well, I notice I'm losing weight. This

morning for example I weighed 109, and I've been feeling a
little puny lately. I guess I lost 81 pounds in the night.
MCC What you need is a large piece of apple
pie and ice cream for breakfast.
PLT How about shooting a couple of ducks for
me?
MCC If I could manage that I would. Listen
I don't want to use up your time. I surely do appreciate
the kind thoughts gents. Keep up the good work.
SPT See you in about 6 or 7 weeks Tom.
MCC Thank you. See you back.
SPT So long.
CDR Hey, thanks Bruce. That was a good idea.
CC Roger. We've got about 3 minutes left
in this pass. When you have all your thoughts gathered together I
have got 5 or 6 messages and mission notes to pass up to you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact is Goldstone at ii plus 36 in 17-1/2 min-
utes. Out.
time ii hours 21 minutes. During the past acquisition over
Guam, Tom McElmurry Special Assistant to Deke Slayton for
Skylab Activities and the Flight Crew Operations Director
here at the Johnson Space Center. He was the subject of
conversation, in fact he was in on the conversation as Bruce
McCandless made a special phone patch through the Mission
Control Center to Mr. McElmurry at his home. He thanked
the crew for their thoughts. And he said that I can't think of
anyone else whose done as nice a thin E in my life. Commander
Bean thanked Bruce for putting in that phone call. And as
the crew begins their 18th day in orbit, with next acquisition
over Goldstone in approximately 14 minutes from now. At Greenwich
mean time ii hours 22 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 06:25 CDT, 18/II:25 GMT
8/14/73
PAO Skylab Launch Control - The crawler

transporter has Jacked to clearance height, that is it has
assumed the full load of the mobile launcher and the Skylab IV
space vehicle. Test supervisor William Shlck reports that
the load being transported this morning weights 13,236,800
pounds. Repeating 13,236,800 pounds. We expect to have a
report of first motion precisely at 7 a.m. eastern dayllght
time. For the beneflt of our guests this morningD we estimate
well over 1,000 persons, or - at the VAB. The gray structure
vlslble halfway to the launch pad is a mobile service structure
410 feet tall, weighing 10-1/2 million pounds which provides
360 degree access to the spacecraft and vehicle when positioned
on the pad. It has 5 platforms which open and close around
the vehlcle and they are movable. The crawler transporter
will move the mobile service structure into position along-
side the space vehicle after SL-IV is emplaced on pad B.
Pad B is the second of the two large concrete mounds vlslble
to the east. It is north of Pad A, it covers about 1/4 square
mile and is 48 feet above sea level. We are 3-1/2 minutes
from roll out. This is Skylab Launch Control.
MCC Okay, this is it. .. I've got it yet.
PAO Skylab launch control , reporting first
motion of the crawler transporter as it begins the move to
pad B of the Skylab 4 space vehicle, tumbled on its mobile
laucher. The transporter will be visible to the guests
assembled outside the vehicle assembly building shortly.
It will propel the launcher clear of the mount mechanisms
and slowly emerge from the high bay door. The test plan calls
for launcher and vehicle to be locked in at Pad B by 2 PM
today Eastern Daylight Time, however the transporter will
actually be on the pad summit with its cargo shortly after
noon. This is Skylab Launch control.
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. The frame
work of the red umbilical tower which is integral to the mobile
launcher can now plainly be seen as it emerges from High
Bay 1 of the vehicle assembly building. After the crawler
transporter has cleared the building it will pause briefly
to Jack down to travel height and during that time the light-
ning mast atop the tower will be raised to the vertical
postlon. The roll out continues Without incident. This is
Skylab Launch Control.
MCC (Garble) All right.
PAO The crawler transporter has cleared the
bay door of the Vehicle Assembly building revealing to the
spectators gathered at the site the full scale of the
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PAO SL4 space vehicle. 220 feet

tall, standing on top of the pedestal 127 feet in height,
the same pedestal which was used for the launch of the
first and second Skylab crews. In the light of early morning
against the cloudless sky, this is again the greatest show
on earth. This is Skylab Lauch Control.
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control. The
crawler transporter has Jacked down to travel helghth and
resumed its Journey to Pad B at Complex 39. The lightenlng
mast is being erected into the vertical position. We now
want to introduce test supervisor, William Schick.
MCC Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I
want to thank you all for your time and effort to come out and
see our roll out this morning. This roll out is coming off right
on time, after many man hours of around-the-clock work
by the test team in preparing this mobile launcher and
this vehicle for transfer to the pad. We anticipate the
mobile launcher will be out at Pad B and sitting on the
6 mounts out there at approximately 1:30 PM this afternoon.
At that time we continue with our 24 hour a day, 7 day a week
work in preparation of this vehicle for a nominal Skylab 4
mission or a rescue mission if called upon. Everything has
been very smooth up to this point. All our rescue planning
that we had prepared well in advance has paid off, the
operations are going very efficiently and we anticipate no
problem in having this vehicle ready for either a rescue
mission if called upon or the nominal Skylab 4 mission as
programed. Thank you very much.
PAO This is Skylab Launch Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-744/1
Time: 06:35 CDT 18/11:55 GMT
8/14/73

time Ii hours 35 minutes. The crew of Skylab 3 Alan Bean,
Dr. Owen Garrlott, and Jack Lousma should be well into their
breakfast meal this morning as they conclude their post sleep
activities on this their 18th day in orbit. The first activity
on tap for Commander Bean this morning is a - approximately
3 hour schedule at the Apollo telescope mount console for
which he will aim the battery of telescopes and cameras at
the Sun. We expect acquisition at Goldstone momentarily. We'll
hold the llne up for Capcomm Bruce McCandless.
and United States passes for the next 6 minutes. Goldstone
and then (garble).
CC Skylab this is Houston, 1 minute to hand
over from Goldstone to Texas. We will be dumping a data voice
tape recorder over Bermuda commencing at 11 plus 44. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Back with you
for 11-1/2 minutes through Texas, Mile, and Bermuda. You
may be interested in knowing that at ll:O0 Zulu this morning
the roll out of the Skylab 4 launch vehicle CSM commenced
leaving the VAB at that time it's expected to arrive at
good old 39 Bravo at about 15:00 Z.
CC For the PLT, are you there?
CC Skylab Pilot, this is Houston. Over.
CT Mila comm tech, Houston comm tech off net 1
voice check. How do you copy?
CT Houston comm tech, Mile comm tech I read you
5 by.
CT Roger, same here.
CC Skylab Pilot, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay Jack, on the flight plan for today
you are scheduled for TV 1 shortly. We'd Just like to comment
that the TV I that you are doing today will be edited and
chopped up together with TV 2 and T_ 3 which are scheduled for
the next 2 days.
PLT Say you cut out there, Bruce. I Just got your
last sentence. Could you start over again please?
CC Okay. You are scheduled for a TV i today
coming up shortly, and we'd llke to note that the TV 1 will
be edited together with TV 2 and TV 3 which are coming up in
the next 2 days. And in order to make the edited pictures
come out right and look like a single sequence we need to
have you wear the same clothing in each of the 3 telecasts,
something llke a Jacket. Over.
PLT Okay, well I've been wearing the same
clothes for 2 weeks any way, so that will be fine.
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CC Okay. I'll refrain from the appropriate

Marine Corps comment on that. But in the same llne, while
in the wardroom or around the wardroom we'd llke
to get you to terminate the atmosphere purge that has been
going on in preparation for the M509 ops tomorrow. And speaking
of M509, we've got the TV and data back down here, and it's
looking real good. And we appreciate the detailed commentary.
PLT Well, we wanted to make sure that we were
saying the things you were interested in. So if you've got
something you can - suggestions for doln E a better Job we'd
llke to know.
CC No indeed. It looks beautiful to us.
And also systems housekeeping llnes over on panel 614, we'd
like you to verify the 4 circuit breakers for the habitability
support system waste tank vent heaters. That's panel 614
HSS waste tank vent heaters 4 closed. Over.
PLT Okay, we'll get them and we've taken care of the
dump, the purge.
CC Okay, understand purge terminated.
PLT And the uniform is brown side out today,
Bruce.
CC Roger Jack.
PLT All 4 heaters on.
CC Roger, thank you.
CDR Hey Bruce, we can run up and do that CBRM
check that we got later this morning right now if the fellows
on the ground want to watch it.
CC Okay, Alan. We're ready, we're coming
to you through Bermuda. We're going to be dumping the data
voice tape recorder. And for your information we're recon-
sidering and regrouping our position on the use of the APCS
versus command module for attitude control problems. A new
cue card has been developed, and we're in the process of
verifying the thing today. The basic plan is to use the APCS
for all attitude control problems except emergency OA rate
control. Basically we're going back to the same posture as
before except that we will provide you with a positive recovery
method using the APCS that minimizes TACS usage. Over.
CDR Say, thatts great. Thatts been a long
needed item. Good change, Bruce.
CC Roger. Glad we thought of it.
CDR Glad you did too. And did you say you
want me to do this CBRM procedure now or wait? It's up to
you.
CC We're standing by. If you want to do
it now, that will be fine.
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CC And for the SPT, when he has a minute free

I've got a couple of quick ones for him.
SPT I can listen to you now, Bruce.
CC Okay. To update and clarify the general
messages you've got for taking pictures of the Galapagos Islands
and the typhoon today we'd llke you to use the base
filters for both cameras and the ]4DA window that's called
out in the message regarding the Galapagos refers to the $190
window up in the MDA not the STS windows and not the wardroom
windows. If you prefer to you may also use the S190 window
for the typhoon photos but thatts your option. With reference to
the S056 active 1 long mode which Jack reported took 18
instead of the nominal 15 frames a couple of days ago on day
223. We've checked back and pre-mlsslon testing shows that
an>- active mode of S056 can be off by plus or minus 3 frames.
Update on the solar activities, P29 - prominence 29 is less
active since last night. And the filament near active region 86
is "slightly active". The rest of the Sun is quiet. Over.
SPT Okay, I think we've got all that. Thank
yOU •
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce l've completed down through
step 9, and upon completion of steps i through 9, it can't
go from (garble) to pTocedure step i0. So I'm standing by at
step i0.
CC Okay, Alan, you're GO to go ahead and go
on to step i0.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, that's completes procedure. Works
exactly llke it should have - that is the light did not come
off when I cycled through it without attempting, and lights
did not come on. No component came off the line as I cycled
through. When I attempted to take red 7 off the llne it
worked. St came off. The light eliminated. I put it back on.
The light extinguished and that's where we stand right now.
The check is completed as far as this procedure you sent
up is concerned.
CC Roger, we verify all add on telemetry.
It looks good to us down here and we're GO for the battery
verification test.
CDR Okay, now do you want me to remove the tape
from CBRM selector and start using it or what?
CC Roger, Alan you can go ahead and take the
tape off, resume normal operations in the CBRH rotary select
switch and while you' re up there we' d like you to select
CBRM 17 and see if the light and the flag go away.
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CC We got one minute until LOS here at Bermuda

next station contact, Ascension at 12:03 in about 9 minutes
and I think I said that wrong, Just the llght should go out
and I presume you' ii - out.
CDR Yea, the flag doesn't go away and we didn't
have a light so we're on 17 but nothlng's new.
CDR I'm goln E back to breakfast_ see you later.
CC Roger, out.
CDR Hey, Bruce some of us (garble) llght
crewman up here still don't understand why everything is
working on that ATM panel now. Just the change of the GB
bus has made everything else work properly.
CC We're losing you over the hill here, we'll
pick you up at Ascension in Just a minute.
ii hours 55 minutes. During the lengthy stateside pass the
CAP COMM, Bruce McCandless discussed with Pilot Jack Lousma
the scheduled television this morning to be made aboard the
spacecraft in later passed down. These three television
sequences are: meal preparations in the orbital workshop
wardroom. Bruce McCandless also told the crew that the TV which
they sent down yesterday on the M509 activities was very good.
Bruce McCandless has a particular interest in this program
since he is the Co-Investigator of the M509 astronaut maneuverln E
unit. Crew was also advised of their attempts this - later
this morning at approximately 10:05 to photograph a natural
phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Equador these are
photographs of an active volcano of the Galapagos Islands.
The Skylab space station will pass over these islands - almost
directly over these islands that is - on it's 1327 revolution.
The Galapagos is the home of the long lived Galapagos turtles.
Photographs of the islands will be made through the STS
windows - that's the structural transition section of the alrlock
module. The crew will be using the 35-millimeter Nikon
camera with a 300 millimeter lens and also use the 70 mill-
meter Hasselblad camera with a 400 milllmeter lens on it.
At Greenwich mean time ii hours 57 minutes next acquisition
over Ascension in approximately 6-1/2 minutes. This is
Skylab Control.
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Time: 07:02 CDT, 18/12:02 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab control Greenwlch Mean

time 12 hours 2 minutes. The pass over Assension will be a
low level pass. The spacecraft will be parting -
passing over the outer limits of the Ascension tracking
station. We'll leave the line up for possible air to ground
communication.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. through Ascension
for 5 minutes.
CDR The question we were wondering, Bruce is
why is - are the CBRM selector working now? What made it start
working right?
CC Well, we're Just been preparing a little
dissertation for you down here regarding the status of the
ATM panel. Unfortunately we're carting the explanation
of why CBRM 16 and 17 tripped off a few days ago, and did
not trip off today as an unresolved item at the present
time. Ah, we haven't - we've been troubleshooting the
system but we haven't actually fixed anything for you.
We did want to get the CBRM rotary select switch verification
out of the way today so we could move on to the battery
capacity test which has to be done prior to resumption of
EREP and especially we need to verify CBRM 7 since
that's the one we are using for the battery capacity test.
With respect to TV buss, course we are avoiding TV
bus 2 by procedural techniques and on the AC bus one
situation, we verified that all that you'd lost on that is the
variable feature of the intergal and numeric lighting.
So that in fact you have the same capabilities now on AC
buss one as were designed into AC buss two. The (garble) heater you
may recall we're running on the number 2 heater because the
number 1 heater which has been disabled by a circut
breaker is still failed to the full on position, should it
be reactived. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you Bruce.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston. One minute to
LOS at Ascension. Next station contact is through Carnarvon
at 12:34 in 25 minutes. Out.
CC This is Skylab Control Greenwich Mean
Time 12 hours 10 minutes with loss of siena1 over Ascension
next acqulslon with be Carnarvon in 24 minutes from now.
That previous pass Cap Com Bruce McCandless was discussing
with the crew the ATM TV Buss number 2. This Buss number 2,
is taken off llne i0 days ago on day 216. When the buss
read low, scale low, low scale with a short in the system and
was taken off the line at that time, and ATM buss number 1 has
been carrying the load in the ATM TV system. At Greenwich Mean
Time 12 hours, i0 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 07:33 CDT 18/12:33 GMT
8/14/73

time 12 hours 33 minutes. We will have acquisition with
the Carnarvon tracking station in approximately 50 seconds
from now. At about 10:05 this mornlnE, the crew has been
asked to attempt to photograph active volcanoes in the Galapagos
Islands off the coast of Equador in the Pacific Ocean. The
spacecraft will pass almost directly over these islands as the
Skylab orbiting space station concludes its 1327 revolution
of the Earth. We'll hold the llne open now for conversation
with Capcomm Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for the next 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Bruce, would you clarify for me again which
of these different photos you want the haze filter attached for?
CC Okay Owen, we'd llke the haze filter attached
for the Galapagos photography. That's message 18-26A. And
for 18-27 Bravo, the typhoon photography and I belleve as a
general item alr-to-ground photographs showing terrain and
things of this sort would probably be better rendered with
the haze filter on. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you sir. I understand now.
I wanted to make sure that it is not related to any of the
S063 photography.
CC That's correct. There is no relation
to the S063 photography. And while we've got you at the
squawk box, Owen, we've been doing a little research on the
dump angle parameter row. And we've found that the maximum
beta angle, which will be reached during your mission is
approxlmately 62 degrees, which is coming up in a few days
here. For this range of beta angles the ATM viewing time
using a 400 kilometer atmosphere will remain relatively con-
stant at 54 minutes. The momentum dumps never start before
400 kilometers, coming closest on day 235 with 400 kilometers,
leading dump commence by 1 minute at that time. Therefore
changing row D or inhibiting momentum dumps will not increase ATM
usable viewing time. However, for execution of JOP 7, the
atmospheric extinction JOP where it is desirable to run
during high beta angles, we propose inhibiting momentum
dumps. This will preclude canister movement while the doors
are open, thereby preventing damage to the instruments. And
we invite your comments. Over.
SPT Okay, that sounds very good. I don't
know how often you'd want to inhibit dump. I presume that
it is impossible for us to go ahead and work all the way to
UV extinction and still get a dump in that night. That's
implied by your statement, and I guess that must be true. So
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we will want to not do it too often, but whenever we do inhibit

momentum dump be all prepared to run Jop 7. So that sounds
fine. And I would expext that our 400 kilometer times would
start changing more than they have. For example yesterday
there was a 55 second chunk taken off sunrise and sunset for
dump. But yet our 400 kilometer times only changed by
10 or 15 seconds. So Z would have expected our 400
kilometer times to come down approximately in the same Delta
T that our row D time goes up. In other words the infringement
into solar time. And your procedure sounds fine, and
we'll Just have to work out the best passes, the most convenient
passes on which to run Jop 7. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. We are in fact working out
the flight plan to include jop 7 at the appropriate intervals.
It doesn't look like there is any requirement for consecutive
revs or anything llke this so we should be able to inhibit
the momentum. And we will manage the momentum and run the
scheduling of Jop 7 for you. The Sunrise Sunset time Deltas
are being computed down here on the ground. And they handed
me a nice little crew chart with the comment that I could read
the chart up to you if I wanted but it is sort of hard to get
graphical stuff up. About all I can say about that is that
we've looked over our procedures again, and they are correct.
So we'll keep on feeding the data up to you. If you run into
any problems, why let us know and we'll work them. Over.
SPT That sounds real fine, and I appreciate
your extra efforts on this point. Thank the controllers
down there please. Thank you.
CC Will do.
SPT Are you still there, Bruce?
CC I'm right here.
CDR I was looking at the first pad. I've
got the first ATM run this morning and it shows me cranking
up the ATM at 13:36. Since we've already run that CBRM check
it's probable that I'll crank it up about 30 minutes from now,
which will be 13:10. So it's concelvable that somebody might
want to send up some 26 more minutes of work for the first
pass here.
CC Okay Owen. We appreciate your enthusiasm
and eagerness to get going on the ATM here. However, our
coordination response loop is such that we can't get anything
up to you in fluid form in time. We suggest you go the
ATM shopping list and run items from there in accordance with
your desires. Over.
SPT You may not be able to get anything up
in 25 minutes. Well let's see 25 minutes on daytime. And
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that JOP takes another 25 minutes, so that's 50 minutes. I

can use something from my own imagination, but I can't
imagine that the back room hasn't got a better imagination
than mine with the background and experience they've
got compared to mine looking at the Sun they would come up
with some sort of voice pad. And I'll go ahead and run this
JOP 6, step 1, A and B, chips A and B and then maybe by the
end of that they will have come up something they like and
they can send it up. If they can't make it in 50 minutes,
well 1'11 invent something of my own.
CC Wilco. Out.
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SL-III MC748/I
Time: 07:43 CDT, 18/12:43 GNT
8/14/73
PAO This is Greenwich mean time 12 hours 45 min-

utes with loss of signal over Carnarvon, Guam acquisition
will be coming up in approximately 2 miuutes. Previous pass
AI Bean discussed with the ground some more free time he
had and would like to schedule some other activities at the ATM.
The crew was already logged approximately 28 hours on the ATM
to date. Today's activities of 7 hours - approximately 7 hours
and i0 minutes is the longest period any Skylab crew has
spent at the Apollo Telescope Mount. They're approximately
200 - 206 hours planned viewing-manned viewing of the Apollo
Telescope Mount for this mission Skylab 3. A total
of 88 hours was accumulated during the mission of Skylab 2.
We anticipate acquisition at Guam we'll hold the line up for
that pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the
next 9 minutes. We'll be dumping your data voice tape recorder
at Mila at the end of stateside pass.
CDR Say, Bruce could you find out if there's
any safety pins on board and where they are? Secondly, I'm
doing housekeeping and 7B2 which is (garble) clean the waste
management seat. Is there a - or how (garble) where you (garble)
side clean the trash area not the trash area but the cans disposal
area in the wardroom?
CC Understand that you're looking for a - or
you're wondering if there's a housekeeping task that cleans
the 6 can well in the wardroom, is that correct?
CDR Roger.
CC We'll find out about that for you.
CC Alan, I'm advised that the cleaning of the
well area in the wardroom is not a housekeeping task but it
is your option anytime you feel that it's required. Over.
CDR Okay, one of the things they asked us to do
when we got up here for housekeeping was take a look at what
we were doing and let them know the frequency. That one
ought to be done every 2 days and it takes about i0 minutes
and they can write it up the same way as they by side the
toilet seat which ought to be done about every 4 or 5 days
and then the trash airlock ought to be done about maybe once every
3 weeks. It stays clean all the time cause everything is in
bags. So they might take that one that's now called I don't know
what it's called- 7 something for trash airlock and
change the name and send us a little card and we'll change
it in our checklist and call it clean up the 6 can area
cause that's probably the germiest place in the whole space-
craft; yet we never get anything up to clean it.
CC Okay, we copy that, Alan. Is there some sort of
a problem there because my recollection is that we take the
empty over cans and stick them down in the well there and then they
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- the food cans or the plastic bag as they're used you just
stuff down into the empty overcans. Where does the dirt seem to
be accumulating? Over.
CDR Well, (garble) it accumulates right on the
top not down in - behind the door but on the top where the 6 little
llds are. Because when you take your food and stick it
in there there's always a little waste matter on the - you know
you eat soup, pea soup and then when you get ready
to stick the remainder of the pea soup in there; a little
bit gets on the door little bit geEs right on the edge there,
you know right where the top of the can would be. So that
little area has always loose food in it from everybody's
- what everybody's been eating. So it always stays dirty.
Now down beneath it you know where the can tops are
and where you see the barrels of the can that's nice and clean.
It's Just that area where you open the llds and stick things
in because they don't always fit so good.
CC Okay' we copy that Alan, and we're trying to
track down the safety pins right now. Be back to you in a
minute on that and from the ATM backroom is the request
to perform as many ATM shopping llst number 9 items in a
row as possible centering them up on prominance number 29
with the pointing coordinance as called out in the SAP.
The exposure length for 82B is 6 minutes, that's 6 plus 00. Over.
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CDR Roger, let me see if I got this right.

Shopping llst 9 and I didn't have my pencil out, I have the
(garble) side ways in my hand. Owen's got it.
CC Okay, shopping list 9, prominance 29 and
6 minutes even for the 82B exposure and as many of
the items repeated one after the other as you can work in.
And for all hands we have a request that when the canister
roll is not being performed to place the empty C roll switch to
INHIBIT. This is to keep the roll actuators from heating
up - from being left on. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll try to do that Bruce. Now
how many experiments are running on that particular shopping
llst item?
CC Three of em.
CDR Bruce you said the MPC - to inhibit it.
You mean the canister rolls are inhibited or did you say
what you meant?
CC Okay. The, proper terminology I'm informed
down here is the MPC Roll switch to inhibit.
CDR Okay, that's fine, now I understand. And would
you confirm for me the best window for the SO63 photography,
twilight air glow?
CC Okay, Owen. The best one will be STS
window number 3. Over.
CDR Okay, STS window 3. And my pad shows
filter for 39 14 angstroms. I don't believe I have a
filter with that label. I I have a visible filter and a UV
filter. I assume that means the UV filter. Or when your
opposite shows filters getting visible.
CC Okay, Owen. That's the one that's labeled
single vis - s-l-n-g v-l-s. Over.
CDR That's what it says on the pad. I'm
wondering which filter out of my S063 box. I have two of
them there, one labeled visible and one labeled UV. And
39 14 is sort of right on the borderllne.
CC Visible
CDR . .. filter label 39 14.
CC Visible one, please Owen.
CDR Okay, thank you. How are we going to get
39 14 filter with that visible filter on the front of the
camera?
CC Okay, 30 seconds to LOS here at Guam. Next
station contact is Goldstone, commencing a stateside run in
16 minutes, at 13 plus 1 3, over.
CDR Bruce, not Joking (garble) about that filter,
I noticed that there was a bad vis visible, so what does 39 14
angstrom have to do with them cause we're not going to get a
filter on 39 14 or that visible filter on the front.
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CC Okay
we are going over the hill at Guam,
we're going to have put to you off to Goldstone I think.
CDR Okay,
Bruce.
PAO isThisSkylab Control Greenwich mean time
12 hours 58 minutes. With loss of signal over the Guam
tracking station. The big question which went unanswered
during this pass the question of Commander A1 Bean, to
Cap Comm Hank - Cap Comm Bruce McCandless, is there a
safety pin on board? The ground was unable to answer this
question during this pass. The ground will search it
out and advise the crew on the next Goldstone pass whether
or not there is in fact a safety pin on board. Further
discussion concern the SO63 experiment, this is the
twilight air glow photography which will be performed later
on today by science pilot Owen Garriott. Today's performance
of the S063 experiment is the second of eight planned during
the Skylab III mission. The experiment is designed to
photograph the upper atmosphere at twilight against the dark
sky of space. The air glow occurs in the upper atmosphere
as a result of chemical reactions in the ozone, oxygen and
other gases when they are stimulated by the sun's radiation.
The twilight air glow camera will be attached to the solar
scientific air lock and will photograph the air glow, together
with the earth llmb and background starfields. Principle
investigator for the S063 is Dr. Donald M. Parker of the
Naval Research Laboratory of Washington, D.C. Currently at
the Mission Control Center, Flight Director Chuck Lewis Is
being briefed by overnight Flight Director Nell Hutchinson.
Flight Director Lewis heads up the bronze team which is
coming on at this time. Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
time 13 hours.
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time 13 hours 12 minutes as Skylab approaches the range of
the Goldstone tracking station, with the Skylab 3 crew con-
cluding their 246th revolution of the Earth since their launch
from Cape Kennedy on July 28th. We'll have acquisition of
siena1 in approximately 30 seconds, We'll hold the line up
for that pass.
and stateside passes for 17 minutes. For the Commander's
information, we've tracked down the safety pins. They are
located in the workshop PGA maintenance kit, whi=h is stowed
on the wall up in the upper compartment there right where
the door would be in the trainer. If you find a door though
don't open it. And for the SPT on S063, the filters that
are available can be broken down into 2 groups. There are
some single filters and there are some twin filters. We want
you to use the single filter that is labeled visible. Single
filters are haze, visible in UV. The visible one 3914 angstroms
is correct. If you hold it up to the light it appears bluish
violet. Over.
SPT Okay, that makes it clear. It was Just
not clear to me that visible and 3914 were synonomous. So
I got it from you now, Goldstein.
CC roger. And did A1 get the location of
the safety pins okay?
CDR Okay, PGA maintenance kit hanging on the
wall.
CC Right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've replaced Goldstein
here in the MOCR. I'd llke to get someone on panel 202 to do
a circuit breaker for me.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, the Delta heater 1 circuit breaker,
we'd like to close it and then we're going to watch it on this
stateside pass. And give us a mark when you do that please.
CDR MARK. Three seconds ago.
CC We copy.
SPT Hank, we're Just coming over the west
coast, and it's quite a very pretty sight. And Sun's Just
coming up down there. We can see (garble) dessert down there
where we had the EREP site the other day. But the prettiest
thing is the Sun is Just starting to shine on the side of
(garble). And the rest of the area around it is still in the
twilight.
CC Sounds like a beautiful sight.
CT Texas comm tech, Houston comm tech net i.
CT Loud and clear. How me?
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CT I read you loud and clear.

CT That's affirmative.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?
CDR Yes, we noticed that our H-Alpha 1 camera
is not working nor can we make it work in manual. We were
Just wondering when you were operating it last night if you
left it in some slightly different configuration that prevented
the normal switches from working. We can go in and command
it, but we decided to ask you first.
CC Okay, we'll check it.
CDR How long do we have contact here, Houston?
CC Sky, Houston. We've got 9 more minutes.
CDR Well, something else is bothering me
a little bit, Hank. You might pass it to the backroom, the
ATM fellas. We worked long and hard coming up with all these
JOPs. They did I should say, Owen and A1 Holt and everybody
else that worked on them. And any time I've noticed that
we have any spare time llke this morning we got something llke
25 minutes of spare time in the ATM. And with 50 minute notice
and we don't come up with those sorts of things that fill
in that spare time. We come up with the shopping list items.
And the shopping llst items are okay, and were invented I
thought for periods of, you know 5 to 10 minutes at
the end of a orbit when we didn't have time to plan something
if some extra time came in. And they only 1 or 2 or
3 experiments that accomplish, you know worth while goals
but certainly not the same type of goals that are accomplished
with the JOPS themselves that were thought out by all experimenters
together. And I was Just wondering apparently the reaction
time is long enough so that we can't fill in on a 50 minute
notice some of these more comprehensive JOPs as opposed to a less
comprehensive shopping llst item. Maybe we ought to have
each day, or ask them to plan each day a 3 or 4 Jops complete
with all the needed data in them so that if we do get
some extra time in more than Just the shopping llst item
would fulfill they will have it ready to go, because 30 minutes
of ATM viewing time must be worth 3 million dollars. I don't
know what it's worth. But to hop to a shopping llst item
may be okay, but I Just wonder if we're optimizing what
we're getting out of the time. I don't know up here, but maybe
you and the flight director and the ATM (garble) can get together
and give us some sort of answer on that. We noticed when
the planning time is long that most of the time they give
us not shopping llst items but JOPs.
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CDR Maybe you and the Flight Director and the

ATM guard can get together and give us some sort of answer
on that. We've noticed when the planning time is long that
most of the time they give us not shopping list items but JOP.
Yt when the planning time is short that's not true and
there may be a way to optimize the short planning time.
CC Okay, AI we'll sure take a look at that.
CC CDR, Houston, in regard to your question on
H-ALPHA i we think that the camera will operate okay on the
next pass. It operates on computer command. We suspect what
happened was that we took it out of override during the
daylight and the computer did down the computer (garble)
for a signal to get going and it had - the signal had already
been issued so we think it will be okay on the next rev.
Now on S052 we'd like to go to standard on that.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're one minute from LOS
Vanguard at 39.
13 hours 30 minutes with loss of signal at the Mila tracking
station. Conversations between Commander A1 Bean and the
ground concerned operations of the Apollo Telescope Mount.
He discussed the various JOPS, Joint observation programs
and the name he referred to, Alan Holt, at the Johnson Space
Center, Alan Holt is the gentleman who is involved in the
training coordination of the Skylab crews with the Apollo
Telescope Mount. Seven hours of ATM observation is in the
flight plan for today. This is the greatest amount in the
Skylab program. With a 3 week break in EREP experimenatlon
the crew now has more time to give to other pursuits and the
ATM is the chief beneficiary of this activity. For the next
several days the astronauts are expected to spend an average
of 6 or some more hours operating the cluster of telescope
and other instruments which are making man's most thorough
scientific study of the Sun. The crew today will operate
the ATM the full time available on each orbit except one
from post-sleep activity into pre-sleep activity. During this
one orbit that is expected part-tlme operation will be done.
Through yesterday, Bean, Garrlott, and Lousma crew had manned
the ATM console for a total of 31-1/2 hours. The first
Skylab crew accumulated 88 hours at the ATM console. Most of
today's ATM activity will be devoted to joint observations JOP -
Joint observations program number 5 which primarily a continuing
scan of the solar llmb with the SO82B instrument. Next
acquisition will be over Vanguard in approximately 6-1/2 min-
utes at Greenwich mean time 13 hours 32 minutes. This is
Skylab Control.
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SL-I II MC752/I
Time: 08:38 CDT, 18/13:38 GMT
8/14/73

13 hours 38 minutes as Skylab begins it's 1,327th revolution
of the earth. Commander AI Bean is at the Apollo Telescope
now while Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is operating the SO63
ultra-violet air glow photography putting the cameras at the
STS windows and Pilot Jack Lousma at this time is doing a
little bit of housekeeping aboard the i00 ton scientific
laboratory. We anticipate acquisition at the Vanguard
tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 7 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston, we see you are still in building
block I. We got a change to - a request for your next work
in the free tlme.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC What we'd like for you to do is JOP 4A, step 4,
building block ii and if you can work it in for 2 times
through that'd be real good. And you use the teleprinter
fall jop C.
CC And we want you to do that on prominence
29.
CDR Okay; good I was just talking with Owen about
the comment that we - that I made to you about the shopping
llst and he doesn't agree completely. He thinks the shopping
list fulfills this 30 minute period. So you're going to
have to weigh my thoughts and his thoughts too, whenever you
make the decision on this.
CDR Hank, did you have any feelings for what's
going on on that H-ALPHA 1 camera?
CC Roger, we think we pretty much understand
it and we've got a few more words and we're working it up
now so we can get it exactly straight to you.
CDR Okay.
SPT How much longer is this AOS, Hank?
CC Roger we have 3 minutes.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Hello, Hank are you still there.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, we've completed the performance now of
ED32 which was the student experiment entitled In-Vitro Immunology.
This was the experiment that was proposed and prepared by
Todd Meister from Bronx in New York and his experiment
involved the injection of antigen into some little anger plates
and I think you have the TV down llnk of the performance
of that. And then we took photographs at 5 different intervals
some 24 to 48 hours after this injection had been made and
the reaction within the plate had been observed and we
hopefully have that on photograph now the reaction between
the antigen and the antibodies in the anger and very clearly
L
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little rings were visible which grew as time increased

and we're very hopeful of these photographs will show those
and allow Todd to properly analyze the rate of this reaction
and the response mechanism that is in operation. And
I think you have the TV down llnk of the setup of that
already and we're looking forward to a very sucessfully
completion of this experiment when our photographs get back
on the ground 6 weeks or so from now. Over.
CC Thank you very much, Owen. Sounds good.
And CDR, got a few words on the H-ALPHA. The configuration
from manned operations we had mistakenly scheduled that
in daylight for our upllnk pad. Now the reason the H-
ALPHA 1 didn't take the automatic exposures was that it was
re-configured to (garble) OPS after the momentary start signal
from the ATMDC is issued. What we do is we blank off the door
open signal at sunrise to get our start for the automatic
sequence and since it was already pass sunrise when we
configured the switch the sequence didn't start so we're
going to take a look at our pads and perhaps the cue card to see
if we can't see if we can't get the H-ALPHA re-conflguratlon
a little earlier in the panel config. And we're Just about
to LOS and we'll be coming up on Goldstone at 50.
13 hours 46 minutes with loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott passed word
down for Todd Meister that his experiment is performing as
expected. Todd Melster is the 16 year-old, Jackson Heights,
New York student whose experiment ED32 the In-Vitro Immunology
experiment has been performed by Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
over the past several days. This is a study to determine
the effect weightless environment will have on the
antigen-antlbody relationship reaction. The antigen is a group
substances all are which are thought to be proteins which
stimulates the production of antibodies when introduced
into the human body. This experiment has been photographed
by Dr. 0wen Garriott, and these photographs will be returned
with the Skylab 3 crew and compared with photographs that
young Todd Melster has made of a similar ground control units
of his experiment. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours 48 minutes
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SL-III MC-753/I
Time: 09:02 CDT 18/14:02 GMT
8/14/73

time 14 hours 2 minutes. We have an announcement from the
office of the Program Director for Skylab. Skylab Program
Director, William C. Schneider today has directed the Kennedy
Space Center to prepare the next Skylah vehicle, Skylab 4,
for launch no earlier than September 25. Previous plans had
called for the vehicle to be ready for launch as early as
September i0 in the event of a Skylab rescue mission was
necessary. A decision concerning when to load hypergollc
propellants in the spacecraft will be made before September 9.
The SL 4 space vehicle is being transferred from the vehlcle
assembly building at Kennedy Space Center to launch pad 39B
today. Mr. Schneider will hold a press conference at 3:00 p.m.
in the News Room in Building 1 at the Johnson Space Center
at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. This concludes the report from
the Mission Control Center. Greenwich mean time 14 hours
3 minutes.
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SL-III MC-754/I
Time: 09:45 CDT 18/14:45 GMT
8/14/73

time 14 hours 45 minutes, with acquisition coming up on the
Goldstone tracking station in approximately 4 minutes. Weather
permitting Skylab Science Pilot Owen Garriott will aim two
still cameras Earthward at the Galapagos Island group in the
eastern Pacific near the equator in a few minutes during
this stateside pass. Of major interest on the Islands the
home of the long lived Galapagos tortoise are smoke and
ash clouds above the islands as well as general weather patterns
in the area. Garriott will also look for and photograph
land features and water discolorations in the sea around the
islands. FoE camera bugs Garriott is using a Nikon F with
a 300 milimeter lens high speed color film and an exposure
of 1/500 of a second at F stop 5.6. And the Hasselblad with
e 100 milimeter lens high speed color film, 1/250 of a second
at F stop 8. Garriott will shoot the Galapagos pictures
through a window in the multiple docking adaptor. His op-
portunity for seeing the islands throu&h his view finder will
begin at 10:05 a.m. central daylight time, and 2 minutes
later it will end at 10:07. The Galapagos group is about
690 miles due west off the coast of Equador. Underlying
today's photo assignment for Garriott is the desire to gather
data on a unique biological and geological system. Scientists
and many disciplines are studying the island in an international
effort. Garriott's photography and eyeball observations are
expected to contribute to the understanding of local ocean
currents and meteorology, as well as the (garble) view
of ash clouds from major volcanic craters on the island and
discoloration in adjacent waters. Scientists are especially
interested in getting photos of Fernandina and Isabella
Islands in the Galapagos group. These western most islands
are about i00 miles west of the Skylab ground track on the
space station's 1327 revolution around the Earth. This is
the second natural phenomena the crew has been asked to take
photographs of. Two days ago they took photographs of the
volcano Nashinoshima off the coast of Japan. Later today_
they will be asked to photograph Typhoon Iris also off the
coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. We anticipate acquisition
at the Goldstone tracking station. We'll hold the llne up
foe that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
12-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd llke to get you to
close the star tracker shutter, please sir.
CDR Just closed it before you asked. It was
blinking up here.
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CC You read our minds.

CDR Okay, we got JOP 5 running along real
nice. On the last JOP, we ended up having to turn off
detector 5 of 55 because it kept kicking off. So far
this time it has not kicked off at all, so we got detector 5
running with 3 rafter - 3 scan.
CC Roger; we copy.
SPT Hank I noticed on my schedule flight plan
at 21:30 we have an M133 recorder. Is that the head cleaning
Job?
SPT That was on my schedule yesterday and
was accomplished yesterday, so you can chalk it off.
CC Okay, we'll do. And while I've got you
here, on your details is an entry at 17:57 regarding TV 60
video select TV.
CDR I see it.
CC We'd llke to delete the non,line critical
after that. In fact in the future we're not going to
put non,line critical by any of our TV entries because it
does affect our dump schedule.
SPT Okay. And you want that then in real
time, not on the VTR?
SPT No, no, no. I see, yeah, it would still be
on the VTR.
CC Right it's VTR, we just wanted to say
that we'd like to do it pretty much on time.
SPT Yeah, I understand now. Okay, will do.
Quote the time. How much time are you looking for on the VTR?
CC About 15-1/2 minutes.
SPT 15-1/2 minutes, okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy our explanation
on the H-alpha Just prior to LOS last pass?
CDR That's affirm. We had spiked out that
as a reason. But we thought there was some way that we could
start it up again. But apparently there is no way once the
daylight signal comes to start H-alpha 1 again. Is that
correct?
CC Stand by and we'll work that one. And
we've got a news release in here that you might be interested.
in. The Program Director Bill Schneider has directed the
Kennedy Space Center to plan for SL 4 launch no earlier
than September 25. And the - incidentally the vehlcle is ro11in 8
out to the pad today. And the decision on the hypergol load
won't be made before September 9.
CDR Okay, ,harts good. It looks like they've
got a renewed burst of confidence down there.
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CC Roger.
CDR We feel that way up here.
SPT I got the S063 photos on schedule, Hank.
And debriefed that stuff on channel A.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC CDR, Houston, a little further word on
the H-alpha i. Had you left it in the night interlock, H-alpha
night interlock switch in override, it would have run, or had
you returned it to interlock to overlde it would have cranked
up.
CDR Okay, thanks for the dope. That's what
I should have done.
CC And we're going to take a look at the
pass, A1 and see if we can't and the cur card to see if we
can't avoid getting into this situation again. We may make a
change to them.
CDR Yeah, it looks to me llke the change could
very simply - where it says H-alpha i interlock switch
normal, could be put down there right at the bottom of the first
pass instead of the beginning.
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CC We copy. And PLT?

PLT Go ahead.
CC We'd like to make a change to 2002,
since you've been getting a lot of these things picked up
in your spare time. The 2002 dash -i, 2, and 3 that you have
scheduled at 15:40 we'd like to change to dash 6 Bravo
using stars 2 and 4.
PLT Okay.
CC And the dash 4 at 16:25 we would like
to make that a dash 6 alpha.
PLT PLT, Houston. We had a hand over there
just like to verify that on the 2002's at 15:40 we'd like
to change to 6 Bravo and at 16:25 a 6 Alpha.
PLT Okay, that's at 15 40 you want 6 Bravo
and 16 25 6 Alpha?
CC That's affirmative, thank you and SPT in regard
to your photosof the Galapagos Islands, the weather report now is
probably going to be about seven tenths coverage, you
can take the photos at your discreslon.
SPT Okay, I'm all set up, Just looking at
BaJa pass - beneath - these direct windows so I might as well
go ahead and take them in a few more minutes.
CC Roger.
SPT Too bad we didn't know about it about a week
ago we had a couple of very pretty views of Galapagos we could
have taken some.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are one minute from
LOS, we'll be coming up on Vanguard at 14 and we plan
to dump the data voice recorder there.
CDR Okay.
time 15 hours 3 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garriott should
be acquiring the Galapagos Islands in approximately I minute
from now and weather permitting he should be able to take
pictures of mountain tops, if nothing else of those two
islands that scientists are concerned about, where an active
volcano is currently in progress. Next acquisition over the
Vanguard tracking station in 9 minutes and 40 seconds from
now. At 15 hours 4 minutes Greenwhich time this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC756/I
Time: 10:13 CDT, 18/15:13 GMT
8/14/73

15 hours 12 minutes acquisition coming up from the Vanguard
tracking station with CAP COHM Hank Hartsfield. We'll know
what - this pass whether or not Science Pilot Owen Garriott
had any luck taking photographs of the active volcano in
the Galapagos Island chains, We'll leave the line open for
air to ground communication.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard ii minutes.
CC And Skylab, will - a reminder we'll be
dumping the recorder here.
SPT How long did you say we had here, Hank?
CC We've got about 10-1/2 minutes left now.
SPT Okay. Had some very good photographs of the
Galapogos. It was the best view by far that we've had and the
islands are very clear all the volcanos Calderas were quite
distinct there was no smoke or haze. Now, there were
clouds around the island as a matter of fact - -
SPT Except for the vicinity of the island there
probably was seven tenths coverage. It appears that the wind
is from the south there were large eddies in the clouds
extending for hundreds of miles to the north of the islands.
There were convection cells visible in these clouds, either
stratus or strato-cumulus clouds. And these eddies were visible
far to the north and I do have a number wide angle shots with
the Hasselblad to try to show the cloud coverage as well as
the Nikon shots showing the individual islands and
Calderas. Over.
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT Hank could you let me know when you're done
on the recorder because I'm in the process of putting
some TO02 stuff on it.
CC Okay, we'll let you know, Jack.
PLT There was one other question we had about
the recorder. We have some sequences like in S019 where
we give a MARK at the beginning of a photoBraph and a HARK
at the end. And some of those photographs are like 4 minutes
long or so; so we've been in the habit of turning off the
tape recorder for those long ones and we're wondering if
that destroys the time hack or does the time pick up again
where ever you start the recorder.
CC It's okay to do that Jack. The spacecraft
time goes right on a recorder anytime it's running.
PLT So if you mark at the start of an exposure you
turn the recorder off and then mark the end why you still
got the times down even though you don't have the full DELTA
on tape, huh.
PLT Thank you.
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8/4/73
CC CDR, Houston on your last rev there it looked

clear to us that you weren't going to be able to get in two
building block 11 there on that JOP 4, did you only get one
of those in or just what did you do there?
CDR I only got one in. The one I did was - I
took a 5 minute exposure on 82B in addition to that. There
Just wasn't enough time and by then we were in - at sunset so
I had to shut off the auto exposure a little bit short.
Everything else came off Just perfect.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Oh, yea, and I gave them a mirror - of -
a mirror auto raster as we went into the Sunset. I knew it
didn't make any - part of it was not good but that
prominence turned out to have so much energy in it up near
the top of the (garble) the part that's invisible on H-ALPHA
it had energy levels indicated on our gage of around
2,000. Where down in the visible area it was in the to 2 to
300 range. So I thought they might llke that. Apparently there is
some pretty good UV higher up in that arch.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC PLT, Houston the recorder is yours.
PLT Okay, thanks for letting me know, Hank.
CDR He's had his nose pressed to that wardroom
window for 3 days.
CC Roger. (Laughter).
CDR Even though he's a Marine he makes a pretty
good Scientist.
CC Say again, A1.
CDR I said even though hels a Marine he makes
a pretty good Scientist.
CC Maybe there's a little hope for him yet,
there.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS.
Hawaii at 16:24.
SPT What do you suppose he meant when he said
even though he's a Marine, you know Ifm tired of getting along
with sometimes a Navy Captain and an undlscipllne Civilian.
CC I image you have a problem now and then,
huh.
CDR He's learning.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-757/1
Time: 10:25 CDT 18/15:25 GMT
8/14/73

time 15 hours 25 minutes with loss of signal from the Vanguard
tracking station. Next acquisition will be Hawaii tracking
station in 58 minutes. Apparently the crew is in hlgh spirits
today, ood natured kidding among all three crew members.
Commander A1 Bean commenting that referring to Jack Lousma's
ability as a scientist, even though he is a Marine, he makes
a pretty good scientist. Jack Lousma a Major in the U. S.
Marine Corps responded he is having a difficult time getting
along with a Navy Captain and an undlcipllned clvillan referlng
to Science Pilot, Dr. Owen Garrlott. Next acquisition at
Hawaii in 58 minutes. This is Skylab Control. Greenwich
mean time 15 hours 26 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC- 758/i
Time: 11:21 CDT 18/16:21 GMT
8/14/73

time 16 hours 21 minutes with acquisition coming up over
the Hawaii tracking station in approximately 2 minutes.
Pilot Jack Lousma should be engaged in using the T002 navi-
gation instrument today. He is scheduled to devote about
2 hours today to making navigation measurements thzouEh the
spacecraft window using a hand held sextant. The experiment
is labeled TO02 and its purpose is to investigate the effects
of the space flight environment on navigator's ability to take
space navigation measurements. The intent of this experiment
is to determine whether long mission duration appreciably
affects the capability of man to obtain accurate measurements.
Pilot Lousma is using a sextant similar to a navigator's sex-
tant and will measure the angles between two stars and between
single stars and the edge of the Moon. We anticipate acquisi-
tion from Hawaii in less than a minute. We'll hold the llne
up for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 2-1/2
minutes.
SPT Okay Hank. Do you fellas want this battery
number 7 information now?
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I took the charger off during the
last night cycle. And here is some voltage readings to the
function of time. At 50:50 Zulu 32 volts minus 7.5 amperes
and the temperature has been steady at 49 degrees Fahrenheit.
At 16:11 Zulu prior to Sunrise 30.0 volts, still minus
7.5 amperes. At 16:23 Zulu after Sunrise the load was llfted
up to 31. 1 volt minus 1 ampere.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC What do you read right now, Owen?
SPT 31.1.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston a few more words on this
H-alpha i. We've looked at this situation a llttle more
and we've also - there is another thing that would have started
up the H-alpha and your power from unattended OPS there, the
last remark says that the power performed after sunrise
cycle the mode to SI wait i0 seconds, and then to experiment
pointing. And when you go through that sequence it also
reissues the start command and that should have done it also.
CDR (garble) but I think he got the word.
CC Okay, and we are considering putting
that night innerlock, overlock switch into the checklist
for power up power down. And it looks llke we're going
to be wanting to do that daily. And we're about 30 seconds
i" J"
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8/14173

CDR Okay. I guess I'm clear to proceed on
to step 5 on the procedure. Step 4 I guess.
CC That's affirmative. Go ahead.
CDR Thank you.
time 16 hours 27 minutes with loss of signal over Hawaii.
Next acquisition will he Vanguard in approximately 23 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-759/I
Time: 11:48 CDT 18/16:48 GMT
8/14/73

time 16 hours 48 minutes. The TO02 manual navigation exper-
iment presently underway with Pilot Jack Lousma is being
conducted to measure included angles between navigation stars
or between single stars and the edge of the Moon. This same
basic principles of spherical trigonometry are used to compute
spacecraft position that have been used be mariners since
the sextant's ancestor, the astrolobe was invented some 4 cen-
turies ago. Similar navigation experiments were flown in
the Gemini program back in the 60s and the navigation sextant
served as a back up navigation system for the Apollo Moon
landing spacecraft. Apollo's onboard computer had a stored
memory of star siting equations that saved the crew the tedious
task of searching through tables in Nathaniel Boutage's
Classic American Practical Navigator or through Naval almanacs
and then having to compute positions by hand. The navigation's
sltlngs experiment today the principle investigators are
Robert J. Randall of the NASA Ames Research Center, and U. S.
Air Force Major Stanley Powers. We expect acquisition over
the Vanguard tracking station. We'll hold the llne up for
that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard I0 minutes.
PLT Hey Hank, I'm using the tape recorder.
Let me know if you are going to dump it, okay.
CC We don't have a dump scheduled at this
pass, Jack.
CDR Hank, let me take a couple of minutes
here to explain for the ATM science room what our onboard
photography with this time exposure camera looks llke.
CC Go ahead.
CDR With the SUV mon we're getting pretty
good pictures now with the - using the integration feature of the
XUV mod. At the moment by far the brightest thing on the
whole disk is the active region associated - plage associated
with active region 86. It's much brighter than anything
else on the Sun. It might be a little bit brighter than it
was yesterday as a matter of fact. There is a dark belt through
the equator that is dark. There is a band of longitude - about
45 degrees of longitude from the west llmb extending - That
ought to be from the east llmb, extending from the equa-
tor up to the pole. Both the caps of both the polar regions
are dark. And another interesting fact is we can see a number
of bright spots still with the XUV mod. I think although
I've been unable to associate any of these with an H-alpha
feature, I think that given a little bit of time, llke 3 or
4 minutes to go find one of these points, we could locate it
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8/14/73
reasonably well within say 20 or 30 yard/seconds from the XUV

rood picture and then try to peak up detector 1 and 3 on
S055. And I think you have a reasonable chance in 3 or 4 min-
utes of picking up one of these bright points. Now the H-alpha
pictures, H-alpha 1 covers because a little bit of the instability
we've mentioned in the monitor. That's Jiggling back and
forth about 5 arc seconds with a period of about a second
and that's to smear these time exposures. H-alpha 2, when we
zoom into max zoom so we can see the H-alpha detail also has
the same sort of Jitter. Although the amplitude is a little
bit smaller and it is not precisely correlated with the Jitter
or wobbling on H-alpha i. They are the same sort of thing
that we can see on H-alph 2 at max zoom. So it suffers a little
bit also, but we can see reasonable detail. And some of
the network wlth the 2 H-alpha time exposure. And I guess
that sort of suggests the XUV mon information suggests
two things. Active region 86 may look interesting if we have
any extra time. And we ought to be thinking about trying to
pick up some of these bright spots by looking at the XUV mon
and then going over to maximize the detector. That's the
end of this, Hank.
CC Roger, thank you Owen.
END OF TAPE
SL Ill MC 76011
Time: II:55CDT, 18/16:55GMT
8/14/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute

from LOS Hawaii, at 1800. With a data voice dump.
CDR Okay, Hank.
mean time 17 hours 2 minutes with loss of signal over the
Vanguard tracking station. The Skylab III crew, Alan
Bean, Dr. Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma will be settling
down to an afternoon meal shortly. Science Pilot Garroitt
is still operating the Apollo Telescope Mount. He Just
had a previous - on the previous pass he discussed with
the ground some of the operations of the battery of
cameras and telescopes on board designed to gather scientific
data of the Sun. The crew has already spent more than 30
hours at the ATM since their launch on July 28th. They began
their observations of the Sun on August 7th, the first day of the
ATM manned operations and are scheduled to run up a total
of more than 200 hours of observations, manned observations
of the sun by the end of the 59 day mission. At Greenwich
mean time 17 hours 3 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC761/I
Time: 12:57 CDT, 18/17:57 GMT
8/14/73

17 hours 57 minutes. We will have acquisition over the
Hawaii tracking station in approximately 2 minutes from
now and at this time the three crewmembers should be concluding
their lunch. And the Commander A1 Bean will be going to
the Apollo Telescope Mount, where he will spend approximately
3 hours operating the telescopes and cameras of the Sun
sensoring equipment on board. Science Pilot Garrlott will be
starting up the ED63 the Water Plant study, a student experiment,
the experiment of Cheryl A. Peltz, alOth grader from
Littleton, Colorado. She hopes to determine the energy
distribution in a cellular activity of the elodea plant, a
water plant in zero g. Hopefully this student experiment
may provide a basic insight into cellular functions. Later
this afternoon, Science Pilot Owen Garrlott will perform
the M131 human vestlbular function experiment. He'll
perform motion sensitivity test while riding the rotating
litter chair in a rotating mode to measure a semi-circular
canal response thresholds by conducting ocular gyro illuslon
threshold test. Pilot Jack Lousma is also scheduled to per-
form thls experiment today. We'll hold the llne open for conver-
sation between CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield and Skylab 3.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR (Garble), Houston.
CC SPT, Houston some of the work we've done
on ED63 with our ground control plants they were dead, have
shown some streaming. We'd like to be sure that you prepare
slldes for all three vlals that you have there, including
the vlal of course that you had prepared slides from
previously.
CC SPT, Houston dld you copy?
SPT Oh that - excuse me I had you on intercom
instead of transmit, Hank, but yes I'll prepare slides from
all three plants but then after that is completed then bioslde
the samples and clean the slides and throw the remainder
away, is that correct?
CC Okay, Owen what we'd like for you to do is
throw them away only if you do not observe streaming, if you
do observe streaming we'd llke to save them for further
observation.
SPT Okay, that's fine. Now I didn't notice a
pad that gave me the appropriate DAC and transporter.l was
planning to use the spare. Did you send me up a pad with
that on it?
CC Stand by i.
CC SPT, Houston we did send up a message number
1808, that gave you the camera to use there. It's DAC 02.
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Time: 12:57 CDT, 18/17:57 GMT
8/14/73
SPT What transporter?

CC Transporter 7.
SPT Okay, I missed that one I guess. Was there
any other significant information on there?
CC Nothing more than 12 percent required, transport
7 is in AI and W708 for DAC 02.
SPT Thank you very much, Hank.
CDR Let me ask you a question about the ATM
run at next pass that's the 1929 pass. I noticed that it
gives me a roll left 5400, then it gives me an up down zero
and a right 600. Now what I assume they want me to do is
use the zero degrees up down if it satisfies either
the - as it says on here verify latitudes suggested meets
target criteria, quiet, enhance, or depress. Now it doesn't
say what kind of an area they want so I don't know how -
know whether to meet the criteria. Secondly they want me to
point to - point LSI, and LSI is a hundred and thirty arc/
second then from the limb the pad shows roughly right
600 but I assume what they want me to do is go out and find
the limb, record the numbers and then come in 130 arc
seconds. Is that correct?
CC Okay, we're checking.
CDR Now, I think I've found the problem here.
LS2 is 130 arc/seconds in from llmb. LSI would be up at
the latitude they're interested in on the central meridian,
however, since we're operating on the equator it looks like
then they arbitrarily pick this point 600 arc/seconds out along
the equator as Just a point. It's Just a different place now.
If you'll check I think maybe that's the answer.
CC Will do.
CC While they're checking that for the SPT
and PLT would give you a little reminder to be sure and
voice record the M2 pressure after your OGI run on the
MI31. Somehow we've been missing this data.
CDR And another thing, Hank- -
CC CDR, Houston. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I think I've got it figured out myself.
Everything's going along okay.
CDR Oh, yeah, I wanted to tell you that detector
5 keeps kicking off in these rear auto rasters so I've tooken -
taken the liberty of turning off detector
5, otherwise they miss a lot of data in their rasters
because when 5 goes it kicks off all the rest and it's maybe
30 seconds or so before I happen to look up there and notice
that the blue light is on again, and we've missed all
of that rasterlng so if that's acceptable then that's
the way I'Ii run for a while. We'll try it again later on
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8/14/73
and see if it can - if it's a different line and detector 5

will stay out and maybe it's Just this gradient position.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Owen Just squared me away. In oOverride it
only Just kicks off that one so I'ii Just keep resetting it.
CC Okay, AI, I was beginning to wonder about
that cause I thought we were in override.
CDR We were.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-762/i
Time: 13:08 CDT 18/18:08 GMT
8/14/73
CC And SPT, Houston. In regard to the CBRM 7

bat capacity check you've been running, we would llke for you at
step 5_ whenever you get to that, to record for us the reg
volts and amps after switching the reg off. Now the reason
we're doing this is we suspect that the current will not read
zero, that there may be a bias in this thing, probably high.
SPT Hank, I've been recording them every
now and then while I was up at the ATM panel, and we sort
of turned that job over to who ever is sitting on the panel
at the time because it's going to take a number of orbits
for that battery to drop down to 27 volts fortunately. It
seems to have a pretty good charge on it. But it will take
a little while to do that.
CC Okay, we understand that and I guess what
we're really asking is somebody just to add a little note
right there at step 5, and when you do get to step 5 we'd
like to record the volts and amps.
SPT We've been recording volts and amps every
half hour or so.
CC The reading we're interested in is after
the reg has been turned off. And we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll be comin S up on Vanguard at 30.
SPT Roger. I'm still trying to get this
VTR recorded. I've got a short segment on there. When are
you going to dump the VTR?
CC We'll be dumping it during the sleep
period.
SPT Okay, I'm not sure what is time critical
about it if you are not going to dump until then, but we're
working away at it.
time 18 hours 9 minutes. During the pass over Hawaii Science
Pilot Owen Garriott discussed the elodea plant experiment, ED63.
This is one where he prepares a microscope slide of the elodea
leaf. That's an aquarium plant. And he puts this up to
a light source and photographs it with the onboard DAC camera,
the data acquisition camera by use of the microscope and
microscope adaptor from the infllght medical support system
onboard the spacecraft. This exercise is also being recorded
on a video tape recorder and will be dumped at a later pass
over the states tomorrow morning possibly. At Greenwich
mean time 18 hours i0 minutes, next acquisition is Vanguard
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-763/I
Time: 13:29 CDT 18/18:29 GMT
8/14/73

time 18 hours 29 minutes, as the crew of Skylab 3 completes
their 4th revolution of the Earth since their wake up this
morning at 6:00 a.m. We have acquisition at Vanguard. We'll
hold the line open for this pass.
9 minutes.
CDR Okay, things are going well on the ATM
panel. 82B has finished its auto step mode, it's quiet.
I'm still finishing up with 56 on (garble) maneuvers, and
also 55. That's where we stand.
CC Roger. And if we can have the DAS for
a minute we're going to do a drift update on Y-2, Z-I and
Z-2. They are not in control at this time, but we want
to do a drift check on them.
CDR You got it.
CC And Skylab Houston. I Just llke to clarify Just
make sure we understand each other straight on this step 5 of the
bat capacity check. The readings we want - you have been mon-
itoring the bat volts and amps what we really want. And when
you get to step 5 and the bat is down to 27 volts or you've
got a barber pole, when you turn the reg off we want to read
the reg volts and amps and record it.
CDR Okay, as I understand then you want us
to watch the bat now until it gets to be 27 volts or
kicks off. When that happens then we select reg off if it hasn't
gone off and then read you the reg volts. Is that correct?
CC Roger. We want the reg volts and amps
at the completion of step 5 there.
CDR Okay, we'll get it for you, Hank.
It looks like it will be a while though.
PLT Hey Hank, before I put much more data
on channel A on TO02 I wanted to make sure that what I've
been doing is coming down okay and is intelligible, and that
you get all the numbers. How is it on channel A? Is it
coming out pretty well, pretty clear? Are we talking too loud
or too softly or just what?
CC Skylab, Houston. There are no complaints
on the VTR or channel A. Both of them have been very good.
PLT Okay, I used the light weight head set
on channel A and I'm not sure how it came out. So before
I do any more T002 I'd llke you to have some guys listen
to that tape that I made this morning and tell me it's all
rlght. Okay?
PLT Okay. Thank you_ Hank.
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8/14/73
SPT Hank, did you all turn off the VTR or

did it fill up?
CC SPT, we can handle the VTR from here.
We've got a full tape looks like ready to go.
SPT Okay, that's all I'Ii put on the VTR
then as far as (garble) and 63 is concerned.
CC SPT, Houston. I'd like to give you a
few more words on that ETC we had you remove from from the
details. I guess we need to get our knuckles rapped a little
bit there. The reason we did that is that normally when we have
day side passes where you are recording on the VTR over the
Continental U.S. we do have a dump problem because we only
dump over the U.S. Now the particular orbit we're in now
we're dumping at night because that's when we're over the
states and it really isn't critical as we implied to you
that it was.
SPT Okay, understand. So it looks like - well why
did you leave NTC on when it really is. And when we get back
over US in the daytime start taking it off and we'll Just
follow your direction there.
CDR Probably, Hank is the reason we hadn't
been doing S019 lately is because of the full moon or some-
thing?
CC That's affirmative. CDR - -
CDR (garble) about right now. Huh?
CC CDR, Houston. The DAS is yours. And
I've got a couple of more comments on the question you had
on the next ATM pass. What we intend for you to do is ignore
I guess the third and fourth bullets in that step I, and follow
the paths for point. And what we're doin E is a scan up to
the North Pole.
CDR Okay then I'ii Just use these pads coor-
dinates on those LS i, 2, 3 and not do the technique we
learned in training which is go to the limb and then move back
in a certain amount. Is that what you want, Hank?
END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:36CDT, 18:I8:36GMT
8/14/73
SC Well, this ...

CDR The reason I wondered is that day earlier
on the pad they had me go to the ... and they gave me a
number which I've forgotten but the llmb was not there, the
llmb was in a different spot from where I already went to
the limb itself, but that was why I wondered.
CC SPT, Houston. We got a couple of minutes here.
You asked a question the other day about this Ashlno Shlma
volcanic eruption. We've got a few words on that.
The activity began around the last of May and it's still
continuing and there is active bubbling under the surface
of the sea. The water around it - of the site is discolored
by ash and floating pumice, and white smoke has been seen
rising as high as 100 meters and water plumes several meters
high have been seen at intervals of two to three minutes.
And also about i0 reefs in a 30 minute - 30 meter area were
observed. And there has been no historical record of
eruption on the island or submarine eruption before.
SPT I see. Well, I wasn't - hadn't been familar
with it, so I guess its all submarine activity and aside from
that one long trail which looks something llke a con trail, must
have extended for 50 to I00 miles, I don't think there
was much chance of us having seen it.
CDR Except that the con trail seemed to
orglnate in sort of a circular area that looked foamy. And it's
conceivable that was the pumice or the bubbling up of the
water. It was right on it; it didn't look llke earth, yet it
didn't look like a cloud, either. It might have - we might have
actually - actually got the ...
CC Okay, we hope so. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up at Hawaii at 19:38 with a
data voice dump.
time 18 hours 40 minutes. During that pass over Vanguard,
Commander A1 Bean reported that everything was going well
with the S056 - S055 experiments, part of the Apollo Tele-
scope Mount series of experiments. The crew also reported
on their activity from Sunday night of taking photographs of
the Ashino Shima volcano south of Japan in the Pacific
Ocean. The ground advised the crew that the volcano has
been active since the last of May, and the crew reported
seeing a con trail which may have orglnated from that area
of the volcano. Another one of Mother Nature's powers as
a weather maker will be observed later today from the
safety of 270 miles in space by the Skylab crewmen at
about 5:45 this afternoon. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott will
focus a still camera on the giant vortex of the Typhoon
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8/14/73
Iris some 500 miles south of the Japanese island of

Kyushu. Winds gusting up 115 miles per hour have been
reported in the typhoon. Irls has an eye estimated to be
70 mlles in diameter. For those who llke to stick pins in
hurricane and typhoon tracking maps, Irls was located at 25
degrees 6 minutes north latitude by 113 degrees 5 minutes
east longtitud, mMoving north at 3 a.m. today. She is predicted
to be at 27 degrees 3 degrees - 27 degrees 3 minutes north
latitude by 131.2 east longtltude when Garrlott takes
her portrait, starting at 5:43 central daylight time this
afternoon. Garrlott will use a Hasselblad with a 100
mlllimeter lens hiEh speed color fllm at 100 - 1/250
of a second at f/ll for the photos. Scientists
are interested in getting orbital pictures of sea surface
conditions and cloud patterns in and around Miss Irls. At
Greenwich mean time 18 hours 42 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC765/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 18/18:48 GMT
8/14/73

18 hours 49 minutes a reminder there will be a briefing
at 3 p.m. in the News Room Building i at the Johnson Space
Center, with Skylab Program Director William C. Schneider
to discuss Skylab planning status. At 3 p.m. in News Room
in Building 1 at the Johnson Space Center, William C.
Schneider Program Director for Skylab will give a report on
Skylab planning status. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours
49 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-766/I
Time: 14:36 CDT, 18119:36 GMT
8114173

36 minutes Greenwich mean time. 43- 43 seconds away
from acquisition through the Hawaii tracking site. With
a reminder to the news media, that there is a scheduled
Skylab Planning Conference Status Report, involving Program
Director William Schneider at 3:00 p.m., today, in building
number i, the news center briefing room. We'll stand by for
air-to-ground through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
6-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get a
readout on reg 7 of volts and amps.
CDR Okay. Just a second. I'ii give you
reg 7 (garble).
CDR Plus 4 and 22.5.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And as you can see, 7 is not connected.
CC CDR, Houston. Did that AUTO disconnect?
CDR Sure did. But, according to my opinion,
it should not have occurred yet. But, maybe it does.
CC Well we don't think so either. That's
why we' re questioning here what's going on.
CDR No. I didn't see it when it disconnected.
But, it's certainly that way now. All three lights are on
and nobody's attempted to disconnect it. It's done it
itself.
PLT Hello, Hank. I'm just fixing to secure from
ED-6S right now. I've spent almost the better of 2 hours
on it. And there's no ... visible, there is a very slight
amount of motion perhaps in some of the dark
structure, although, I'm not certain that that's there.
And I'm going to biocide all the slides at this time. I'm
a little behind on 131 as you can tell by my Flight Plan,
I'm going to have to get ahold of that now.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We're- Hawaii's
configured for XUV MON down-link and you'll have to switch
your video switch.
CDR Okay.
CDR I'll get the minute rates in just a
second, l'm setting up this (garble).
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, for info, we're going to attempt
to command reg 7 back on llne.
CDR Okay, Hank. I'ii give you this series
of ah - of a h revs, one-half, i, 2, and 4 seconds. Two each.
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CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
from LOS. Vanguard at 08.
CDR Okay. I gave you those series, I'ii
give them again.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. That's two sets ... series.
CC Roger. Thank you, AI.
PAO The Skylab space station has passed out
of range of the Hawaii tracking station. We are 15 minutes
away from a Skylab Program Status Report, involvlng William
Schneider, who is the Skylab Program Director. Scheduled
to start at 3:00 p.m. central daylight time, in the news
center briefing room, building I. Next station contact
in approximately 22 minutes at Vanguard. At 19 hours
46 minutes, GMT this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-767/I
Time: 15:34 CDT; 18/20:34 GMT
8/14/73

utes Greenwich mean time. During the last press conference
we were in contact with the Skylab-III crew through the
Vanguard tracking site and through Ascension Island tracking
site. Those conversations were recorded, approximately
7-1/2 minutes of communication with the crew. We'll roll
that tape for you at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for i0
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We looked at the data
a little bit and we do think that the auto/disconnect was
about due at that time. We're going to complete the
battery capacity check by commands. We'll command the
REG/OFF to CHARGE/ON, REG/OFF and we - you don't have
to worry about it anymore. And we'll get the data back
and the (garble) will let you know how it comes out.
CDR Okay, I'm doing the shopping llst items,
here on active region 86, trying to get a little UV data
for us.
CC Okay, and for the SPT. The ATM Pls really
appreciated the comments on the XUV MON Polaroid pictures.
And in response to that, we're scheduling JOP 17 for
XUV bright points tomorrow. And we're going to give the
SPT observing time in his first ATM orbit to observe and
locate a likely XUV bright point. And we'd llke for those
coordinates to be voiced to the ground that day-nlght cycle
and we're going to coordinate with ground observatories to
follow in two orbits. And those two orbits for the SPT are
then scheduled for JOP 17.
SPT Sounds real good, Hank. I think that'll be
an interesting program.
SPT Say, Hank, I checked the iodine concentra-
tion in water tanks 3 and 4 and iodine concentration in
number 3 is 4 parts per million and that in water tank 4
is 7 parts per million.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Because of site problems
we're going to have to dump this voice data recorder here
at the Vanguard.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got a report from ground
observatories that the activity in prominence 29 is sticking
up quite a bit. I was wondering if you were observing any-
thing there?
CDR Hank, I haven't been over there looking at
it, I've been working on that one JOP and then I've been thinking
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about 86 here, so I'm working on it. I'll look at it next

orbit if I have agood position to do so.
CC Roger, we copy. And for the SPT, in this
little hole that we had there for the M133 recorder clean -
tape head clean that you already accomplished, we're going
to do the SO19 again and we're - SO63, l'm sorry, and
we're sending you up a pad now and we'll try to get that
up to you at Ascension.
SPT Hank, I'ii tell you- we're just now start-
ing on the 131 with Jack because I used essentially all
that time up doing ED-63, and I'm not going to have time
to finish both Jack's run and my run on 131. I'm going
to have to go photograph those - whatever that sixth photo
was.
CDR I'ii tell you what, Hank. I'll get him to
show me how to do it with the handheld thing and I'ii do it
for you. So send up the pad.
CC Okay, we'll send the pad on up and then
you can work it out the best way that you can. If you don't
get to it that's okay, too.
CDR What I did, Hank, was go down to 86 and
peak up the UV detector, which peaked out at about -
detector 3 on the 55 to - peaked out a little over
5,000. The background was somewhere around a couple of
hundred. And the technique- I'm doing ...
(garble) selection - shopping llst number 5. I'm doing
active i long on 56, grating off on scanner 55A and I may
go give them a - it's almost through•
CC Roger.
CDR And we'll give them also a mirror auto
raster if we can get to it. We think time may run out,
so we're doing 82B with the - all these times i, l0
seconds - the M40 and 240.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And I'm looking at prominence 49. I
• .. out quite a bit. It does look quite a bit
different than yesterday. It doesn't seem to have such
an arch shape to it. And the (garble) that I'm looking
at has - is much more diffused and much more filament-like.
By that I mean it has holes within it and it's not a uniform
cloud resting about the limb but rather it's - it's a
mult - I think clouds with several holes in it. That's
not a good description, hut the best I can come up with.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And we got the - we're Just getting the
last exposure in for 82B. We got the i second, the 2, the I0,
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the 40. The 240 we weren't able to get in before . ..

here. And the active ] long has turned out. And every-
thing else is working okay.
CC Roger, we copy. The data voice dump is
complete. The recorder's yours. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll be over Ascension at 24.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. It sounds llke somebody's
got an open mike.
CC Okay, now.
PLT I'ii go check, but we've been using squawk
boxes so they don't stay open. We'll go twiddle them.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR How's it sound now, Hank?
CC Okay, sounds good now, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS,
Guam at 08.
CC And Skylab, Houston. You're S063 pad should
be on board now.
PAO Well that completes the recorded portion
of the air-to-ground with the Skylab-lll crew through those
two tracking sites. We will come up live in about 24 min-
utes through the tracking site at Guam. At 20 hours 43
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-768/I
TIME: 16:06 CDT 18/21:06 GMT
8/14/73

6 minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away from
Guam tracking site on this the 1331st revolution of the
orbital workshop. We'll stand by for communication with
the crew through the Guam station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for 6 minutes.
CDR EL Crippo, how are you doing?
CC Pretty good. I heard you gentlemen
have been working pretty hard today. Getting in lots of
good sites.
CDR We're working as hard as they'll let
US.
CC Well, we'll keep feeding it to you as

long as you' re doing it.
CDR No, I was doing some thinking this morning.
And I'm not sure that - the problem is, we don't have any-
thing we can stick out of the airlock to work. We got an
awful long night period here where the ATM operator just
stands around and looks at the wall. He is able to get
all the housekeeping done. We've done all our housekeeping
for today. We had that done 3 hours ago. And so you're
kind of in a quandary to try to fill that night period with
something useful.
CC Okay. We'll note that and I'm sure
that the timellne people will try to take advantage of it.
CDR I'm not sure they can.
CC You may be right.
LOS. We'll see you over Vanguard in about 33 minutes at
21:46. 21:46.
CDR Okay, Crip. Thanks.
PAO Here in the Mission Control Center,
we've had a handover from the day shift Flight Controllers
to the middle watch Flight Control team headed tonight by
Don Puddy. And the spacecraft communicator is Bob Crlppen.
Next station contact Vanguard in about a half an hour. At
Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-769/1
Time: 16:21 CDT, 18/21:21 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

21 hours 21 minutes 21 seconds Greenwich mean time with
an advisory to the press. There will be no change of
shift briefing this p.m. Repeating, no change of shift
briefing this afternoon. At 21 hours 22 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-770/I
Time: 16:44 CDT, 18/21:44 GMT
8/14173

44 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about 45 _conds
from acquiring the space station at Vanguard, on _is, which
is the start of the 1332 pass, revolution. We'll_
contact with Vanguard, Ascension, a portion of the Canaries,
and a portion of Madrid on this pass. So, we'll keep the
air-to-ground up live for the total pass. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through _e
Vanguard for Ii minutes.
CC Skylab, for info, only, we now have a bat
charge complete on battery 7 and we're putting the reg
back on CBRM 7. And when we get the story put together,
we'll give you a briefing on it.
CDR Okay. Thank you. I've finished the
JOP 9, and as I was setting on the filament, I looked at
the shopping list and noticed that the shopping list requested
that we have a long exposure 82B on it. So, I gave it
a 5-minute exposure on 82B on the filament we're on.
I'm presently over on prominence 29. And I'm going to give
it - I'm giving it now, a patrol normal, because that's
what's called out for prominences. I didn't _t a good
alignment for 82B, so I didn't have enough time, so I
skipped that and I'm doing a mirror auto raster for 65.
I wasn't able to peak up the detector 3 in the time I had
left, so I would run a grating auto scan. I just decided
to give a mirror auto raster, and they_ght _nd something
interesting in there. It's becoming more tenuous now than
it was several hours ago, in my opinion. I believe that's
29, I've got kind of a cock-eyed angle on it.
CC Okay, AI. We appreciate that update
on it. Thank you.
CDR I think that's prominence _, but I'm
not sure, because I've got a roll of 29 - 2898, and it
doesn't seem to have the energy that prominence 29 had before,
so we may be giving you another prominence, and not know it.
CC Roger. Was that plus 2898?
CDR We've got minus 2898 and up/down is
9/ i0 and left/right is 375. Minus 9/10 and plus 375.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR I believe it's in the neighborhood, but
I'm not positive. There it may be another prominence or two
over there, I just don't know about.
CC Okey doke.
CC And of course, we're running out of
time now, so we're below the 400 kilometer level, but I don't
this bothers a 55, 56 may bedegraded somewhat.
CC Okay. We copy that, AI.
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Time: 16:44 CDT, 18/21:44 GMT
8/14/73
CC And, AI. It is our conclusion that

you are still on prominence number 29.
CDR That's good.
CDR Funny. I couldn't find the energy in
it this time. Maybe I had the detectors flipped center and
I had H-alpha i pointed at it, but it's conceivable that
I just wasn't picking the right spot.
LOS. We'll see you again at Ascension in about 3 minutes,
at about 22:00. And we'll be doing a data _ice recorder
dump over Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-771/I
TIME: 16:58 CDT 18/21:58 GMT
8/14/73
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension i0

minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip. We executed that pass for
the twilight airglow. On the last two pictures, I was
about 3 seconds late, but I'ii debrief it all on channel A.
CC Okay AI, we appreciate you getting
that in.
CDR You must be dumping. I'ii wait (garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We're going to drop out for about a minute and
we'll have you again over the Canary in a couple of minutes.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE

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Time: 07:40 CDT, 09/12:40 GMT

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

checklists and bring them up to speed. We got a lot of

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of

CC Skylab, we're AOS Bermuda for 9 minutes.

CC Skylab, we're AOS, Canaries and Ascension

CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll see

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours

PLT In :my what.

PAO . .. two Earth Resources runs today

PLT 286, 385, 4 is 72, 5 is 30, 6 is 56,

PAO This is kylab Control. Hawaii has

SC Is your door open Owen, babe?

PLT Okay, in a few minutes I'll pick up a nadir

a little more because we overlap the clouds yet. It

CDR 258 okay, stand by and go to range 75. It's

|' I,T Huh ?

CDR The fellas that figure that all out seem to

CDR 190 mag depletion no.

PAO Thin is Skylab Control at 15 hours

CC Skylab, we' re got you through Ascension

when the three sets of information are compared, scientists

I",ND (}F TAPE

PAO This is Skylah Control at 15 hours

CDR Okay. We were looking over the EVA

PLT Okay, how about lettlng me know when we

CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

PLT Okay, we're coming down over the mountains

CDR That's the one to watch.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

PLT MODE to AUTO.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

SPT Okay. Well I've got ACS counters on

CC Yeah, sorry Owen. That's TV bus 2.

CC Okay, we copy that AI. We'll try to stay

CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. e'll

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

SPT I'ii do it right now.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 19:45 Greenwich

SPT Ah, now Story, you first wanted me to do achange

PAO This is Skylab Control 20:08 Greenwich

SPT Okay, canister roll a plus 7200.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 21:16 Greenwich

and are you interested in all of the frames remaining -

Vanguard LOS, off-going Flight Director, Milt Windler will

PAO This is Skylab Control; 21:46 Greenwich

CDR And we ended up with two PSM on, mainly

CDR We - we finished the pre-prep, the

PAO This is Skylab Control; 22:26 Greenwich

PAO Time 19 minutes away from acquisition at

CDR And while they are thinking about that,

CDR Okay, and what you might do is over Vanguard

PAO This is Skylab Control; 23:25 Greenwich

CC Okay, right below that you should have

SPT Okay, thank you good point.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 23:40 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control; 24 minutes after

CC Okay, that was put in there pre some dis-

PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:02 Greenwich

CDR That's the one I've been using.