Skylab 1/2 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription Vol I of 2

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SKYLAB 1/2
TECHNICAL AIR= TO- GROUND VOIC E TRANSCRIPTION
Prepared by
Test Division
Program Operations Office
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INTRODUCTION
This document is the transcription of the technical air-to-ground

(TAG) voice communications of the Skylab 1/2 mission. The transcript is
divided into three col1_mns -- time, speaker, and text. The time coDn, n
consists of three two-digit pairs for hours, minutes, and seconds (e.g.,
22 h5 12). All times are expressed in Greenwich mean time (GMT) for the
Julian dates shown as the first three numbers of the TAG tape identifi-
cation. The speaker columu indicates the source of a transmission; the
text column contains the verbatim transcript of the communications.
A series of three dots (...) is used to designate those portions of

the text that could not be transcribed because of garbling. One dash (-)
is used to indicate a speaker's pause or a self-interruption and subse-
quent completion of a thought. Two dashes (- -) are used to indicate an
interruption by another speaker or the point at which a recording was
abruptly terminated. Words given unusual emphasis by the speaker are
underlined.
The Skylab 1 mission began with lift-off of the orbital workshop at

17:30:00 GMT (12:B0:00 c.d.t.) on May 14. Because of damage to the solar
array system of the workshop during max q-alpha, the lift-off of Skylab 2
was delayed until 13:00:00 GMT (08:00:00 c.d.t.) on May 25. The Skylab 2
crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 1B:49:48 GMT (08:49:48 c.d.t.)
on June 29, 1973.
Speakers in the transcript may be identified as follows.
Spacecraft:
CDR Commander Charles (Pete) Conrad, Jr.
PLT Pilot Paul J. Weitz
SPT Scientist pilot Joseph P. (J.P.) Kerwin
CREW Unidentified crewmember
MS Multiple speakers
Mission Control Centers:
CC Capsulecommunicator
(CAPC0_4)
MCC Unidentifiedspeaker, other than

CC, in the Mission Operations
_ Control Roomor a StaffSupport
Room
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PRESUS PresidentNixon
F Flightdirector
S Surgeon
Remote sites:
AA Unidentified
station
CT Communications
technician
(CO_ _CH)
ELS Earth LandingSystemteam
REC Recoveryhelicopter
TICO USS TICONDEROGA
When any crewman is engaged in extravehicular activity (EVA), his

speaker designation is suffixed by EVA to indicate his status (e.g.,
CDR-EVA).
Transcription of these tapes was managed by William A. Kelley, Test

Division, Program Operations Office, to who inquires regarding this docu-
ment should be referred.
THIS IS THE EDITED VERSION OF THE C[[ANNEL 8 COMMI.N[CATIONS. RAW
MEDICAL DATA HAS BEE': DELETED.
NASA has never pubh ly released raw medical data from manned spac_
fligfits, Medical d_ta obtaine_ on Sk-ylab missions is proprier_ory to the principal
investigators involved in the p_r_cular experiments involved. Fragments of raw
medical data have no intrinsic ,tiagnostic value until compared and collated with
preflight and posfflighr medical irfformation,
The medical experimen_ PI's will meet weekly to discuss their data and
briefings to-the press v,i[1 be scheduled after these meetings,
NASA will continue to regularly report on the general health and well-
being of the Skylab fti_ht crew,

TAG Tape 145-03
145:13:00 to
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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
13 O0 04 CDR LIFT-OFF. And the clock is running.
13 00 ii CDH Clear the tower. And,_Houston; Skylab 2. We fix

anything. Got a pitch and a roll program.
CC Roger, Skylab 2. The thrust is GO on all engines.
SPT Boy, is that a smooth ridel
CC Roger.
• 13 00 55 CDR And roll is complete, Houston.
CC Roger. Standby for Mode I Bravo.
13 01 01 CC MARK. Mode I Bravo.
CDR Roger. PROPELLANT DUMP is RCS COMMAND.
P_ CC Roger.
13 01 ll CC Skylab, Houston; you are feet wet.
CDR Roger. Feet wet.
CDR Okay. EDS AUTO 2 ENGINE OUT. LAUNCH VEHICLE RATES

are all OFF.
CC Roger. Stand by for Mode I Charlie.
13 01 50 CC MARK. You're Mode I Charlie.
CDR I Charlie.
CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO for staging. You're

looking good.
13 02 28 CDR I got an SIVB light, Houston, and a nice staging.
CC Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. The thrust looks good on SIVB.

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IB 02 5_ CDR Tower Jett, Hous - on time.
CC Roger. Tower Jettison. You're Mode II.
CDR Okay, Houston. The computer looks good here.
CC Roger. We concur. The CMC is GO.
CC Skylab, Houston. Looking good. GO at 4 minutes.
CDR And we're GO here, Houston.
1B 05 59 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at 5 minutes. The

traJectory's right on the nominal.
CDR And we're GO here, Houston. Looks good in here.
CC Roger.
1B 06 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at 6 minutes.
PLT Roger. We're GO up here.
CC Roger.
CDR Omni Charlie for you, Houston. Stand by for the

gimbal motors at 7.
CC Roger.
1B 07 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO at 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. Four good gimbal motors. And we're

GO at 7.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Hey, did we Just have - did we Just have PU shift,

Houston?
IB 08 06 CC Roger. We concur, and you're GO at 8 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We predict shutdown at 9 plus h9.

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CDR 9 plus _9. Understand.
CC That 's affirm.
13 09 01 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at R minutes.
CDR Okay. We're GO here.
CC Stand by for Mode III Alfa.
13 09 23 CC MARK. You're Mode III Alfa.
CDR III Alfa.
CC Stand by for Mode IV capability.
13 09 32 CC MARK. You're Mode IV.
CDR Mode IV.
13 09 50 CDR Got a perfect shutdown, Houston; 25, 825.
CC Roger.Copy.
CDR And there's a 189.1 by 83.5.
CC Roger. Looks good. Stand by.
13 l0 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we confirm you're GO for - you're

in a nominal orbit and you're cleared for a nominal
sep - separation sequence.
CDR Roger, Houston. Thank you.
13 16 37 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we don't have ARIA data,

and could you give us an idea of how the separation
went?
13 17 00 CDR Also, Houston, it - it read about 2.3 feet per second

on separation and - and 3._ on the CMC.
CC Roger; copy. 2.3 feet per second on the EMS; CMC

read 3.4.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. In event you quit - said

anything prior to giving me those two numbers, I
did not get it.
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CDR Okay, Houston ....
13 18 17 CDR Hello, Houston. How do you read?
CC CDR, Houston. I read you now. How me?
CDR Read you loud and clear. We've got a good look at
the booster, and you've got four perfectly deployed
SLA panels. No sweat.
13 18 31 CC Roger. Thank you much.
13 19 53 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We've got you AOS in Madrid

now. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
13 20 58 PLT Hello, Houston. You read the PLT?
CC PLT, Houston. I read you loud and clear. How me?
PLT Roger. We've been reading you loud and clear.

Apparently you are not reading the CDR.
CC Okay, I'm reading you loud and clear and be advised

that the NC1 pad, the T-align pad, and the backup -
correction, the backup GDC align pad, the launch
rendezvous realign pad, and the NC1 pad are all good.
No update required.
PLT Okay; all good. Did you get the dope on the separa-
tion from the SIV?
CC Paul, what I got was - was the two numbers: the 3 -

the 2.3 and the 3.4 feet per second. I copied that
the SLA panels are all deployed okay, and I didn't
get anything else.
13 21 39 PLT ... we're Just watching it opening slowly here.

You got a very stable SIV.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, Houston. How - how do you read me, Houston?

You read the CDR?
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CC CDR, Houston. I read - that transmission loud

and clear.
13 21 5_ CDR Okay. I guess we're coming up over Europe here.

I never seen so m_uy contrails in my life down there.
CC I trust you're higher than all of them.
CDR I hope so.
IB 22 B9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS

and Madrid, and we'll see you at the ARIA at 52.
1B 22 46 CDR Okay, Houston. And be advised we're Just climbing

slowly above the SIVB, out in front of him, and he's
very stable. And it's no sweat on those SLA panels.
1B 22 58 CC Roger; copy. Thank you.
CDR And do you read, Houston?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
1B 2B 12 CDR Okay, we're Just dumping the cabin to 4 now.
CC Roger; copy.
13 51 B8 CC Skylab, Houston; through the ARIA. How do you read?
13 52 1B CC Skylab, Houston; through the ARIA for 9 minutes.

How do you read?
CDR Okay, Houston. Are you talking through ARIA or

Carnarvon?
CC We're up-linking through ARIA, Pete.
CDR You're breaking up, Houston.
CC Roger, CDR. I hear a lot of static, also, and

we are up-linking through ARIA.
CDR We read you loud and clear. We're on the time

llne; we'll give you all the data at Carnarvon.
1B 52 46 CC Roger, Pete. I can hear you transmitting, but

I Just can't make it out. We're kind of garbled.
Stand by.
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CDR Okay, Houston. I said I read you now, we're on

the time line, I'ii give you all the data at
Carnarvon.
CC Rog - Roger. We concur and I'm standing by.
13 54 44 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?
13 55 20 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR Houston, we read you loud and clear. How me?
CC Roger. Loud and clear now, Pete. And I'm standing

by for the data.
CDR Okay. Our first P52 was with star 25 and 33.
The Doctor did a magnificent Job with a nominal 5
of five balls. The torquing ang - the - the
torques were minus 00.010, plus 00.071,
plus 00.056. The time 50:00. We have Just completed
P52, option 2. The stars were 25 and 3B. Again,
the Doctor did his usual magnificent job, and he
has the five balls again. And the NOUN 93's were
plus 000.60, plus 000.75, plus 00.059. The time
54:30. And it looks like we're right on the
time line.
13 56 23 CC Hey, very good, Pete. Sounds good. Incidentally,

we think the little comm problem we had with you
back there at Madrid was a ground problem; so we
think your systems are all okay.
CDR Okay, and the PLT has a few words for you ...
CC Roger. Go ahead, PLT.
PLT Okay, Dick. The only thing was we pumped the

primary glycol accumulator up to about 50 percent.
When we put the radiators back on the line,
apparently one of them needed some fluid, because
the glycol .....
CC PLT, Houston. You dropped out, right after you

said, "after you put the radiator back on the
line." What happened?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through the ARIA?

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CC Skylab, Houston. We're through the ARIA. How do

you read?
CDR We read you through the ARIA, Houston. Once we ...

comm ... too good today.
CC CDR, Houston. That transmission I copied that you

read me - you were very garbled. Would you try
again once more, please.
CDR Okay, Houston. How do you read? l, 2, 3, h, 5, 4,

3, 2, i.
CC Roger, CDR. That time I copied you weak but clear.

This - this comm through this pass though is very
bad. Be advised we expect AOS at Texas at about 1
plus 34.
CDR Okay. We' ii see you then.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. One little comment we had on

the waste water dump checklist that you may be in
now. In the event, any time that you do happen to
dump through zero - down to zero - if you do, we'd
like you to deactivate the evaporator for about
30 minutes.
CDR Okay. Understand.
CC Okay. Goo d.
14 O0 18 PLT Go ahead. Go ahead.
END OF TAPE
TAGTape 145-0h
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14 33 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Texas for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Texas for 5 minutes.
CC Slylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Houston, we read you loud and clear. How us?
CC Loud and clear, Pete. Be advised, we do not need the

P52, and I've got a couple of pads, and before the pass
is over, we'd like for the PLT to amplify the remarks
on the primary glycol accumulator. We've still got
about 4 minutes left in this pass.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your pads.
CC Okay. Here's an NC1 preliminary pad, page 1-5.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 002, 23, 30.14; plus 207.4, plus all zeros, plus all
zeros; 180, 009, 002; 194.0, 00:09. The weight is
30,852; pitch trim, plus 107, plus 0.35. Go ahead.
And, Skylab; Houston. We'd like you to stop the cabin
repress, we're high enough.
CDR Okay, that's what - Joe was crawling all over me and I
was batting him away.
CC (Laughter) Okay. And I'm standing by for a readback.
CDR Okay. 002, 23, 30.14; plus 207.4, plus all balls,
plus all balls; plus 180, 009, 002; 19h.0, 00:09;
30,852; plus 107, plus 0.35.
CC That's affirm, and the burn attitude check is star 33.
CDR Star 33.
CC Roger. Shaft is 0740, trunnion, 258. This'll be a

dual bank SPS burn. And be advised, there's no plane
change required.
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CDR Whoopee !
CC And, I've got a star acquisition pad for you on

page l-Alfa.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Star 25; 228.3, 29.2; 33; 074.0, 25.8. Go

ahead.
CDR Star 25; 228.3, 29.2; star 33; 07h.0 and 25.8.
CC Roger. You got that right. We're about i minute from

LOS at Texas. We're going to have a short break and
then we'll see you at Newfoundland, VHF voice only.
CDR Okay.
SPT Also, be advised, Houston, we've read about your first

five calls, Dick, and you weren't reading us again for
some reason.
CC Roger ; understand.
SPT I'll ta]k to you about the ECS at Newfoundland. Just

two things of general interest. We're having a whole
lot of fun with a]] this brown cord up here; and, sec-
ondly, we can see the SIVB out ahead of us, and it
really makes a plume when it vents.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR I guess we're coming up on the Mississippi River right

now; I can still see a lot of flooding down there and
everything.
13 48 42 CDR Okay, look. We're on the time line, except for one
thing. We have not gotten to the waste water vent
because of the big blivet [sic] in front of the panel,
and that is what we are reconfiguring right now
(chuckle), and Dr. Kerwin is wrestling the big blivet
free and ...
14 43 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Newfoundland. How do you read? "

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CC Skylab, Houston through Newfoundland VHF. How do

you read?
CDR ... you.
CC I heard you Just a second, Pete. Try again, please.
CDR Okay, how do you read? i, 2, 3, h.
CC Roger. You're dropping down in strength, but I think

I can copy you. And we're looking for EMS DELTA-V
test results, if you've got them for us.
CDR Okay. I have a little note here to give them to you.

Our bias was plus 1.2 feet per second in 1 minute and
40 seconds. Just to keep me honest, it went from
minus 100 to minus 98.8. It passed the other check
Just fine. On the long burn, it looks like we'll bias
at 2-1/2 feet per second.
CC Roger, Pete. Would you say that last again, please.
CDR I say it looks like we need to bias our big burn ...,
but it won't make any difference. Break on that one.
We had a good BMAG-2 drift check. If you're ready
to copy the numbers, I'll give them to you.
CC Go ahead.
14 45 20 CDR Okay. NOUN 20 was 180.44, 213.63, 35999. The atti-

tude set thumbwheels were 181.5, 215.5, and 000.2,
and the length of time was 33 minutes.
CC Roger, Pete. On the EMS DELTA-B test results - at

that time, it was very weak. Let me read them back
to you real fast to make sure I got them right. It
was plus 1.2 feet per second and 1 minute and 40 sec-
onds and it went from minus i00 to minus 98.8 and the
rest of the check went okay.
14 45 50 CDR That's affirmative. And we have completed everything

on the time line. And we are in the process of dump-
ing the waste water at this time. We're well into ...
we've ... is Weitz. We're head over heels in all kinds
of packages.
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CC Roger; understand. And how is everybody up there

enjoying the zero g?
CDR Everybody up here is enjoying the zero g super, and

we're standing by for your up-link at Madrid.
CC Roger. Very good. We've still got about B minutes

left and, if the PLT has the time, he might amplify
on the glycol accumulator.
PLT Okay here's what it was, Dick. We serviced the -

brought the glycol accumulated quantity up to 50 per-
cent - 50 percent. When we put the radiators back on
the line we got - obviously at least one of the radi-
ators took a big slug of fluid. We dropped pressure.
We dropped quantity. We got a GLYCOL FLOW LOW light
momentarily. The quantity stabilized at about 40 per-
cent. We've been watching it since. On the night
side, apparently as the fluid cooled and got on down
to about 37 or B8 percent and is now back up to _l.
CC Roger. Thank you much. I copy that.
PLT The main thing is that it appears to not be a leak in

there; we Just didn't expect that big slug to go.
CC Roger. We copy, Paul.
CC And, PLT; Houston. Our initial thoughts are that we

think we're stabilized and have got a good system,
but we're continuing to think about it.
CDR Okay. Roger.
PLT Yes, we agree with you. But what we want to do is

get your concurrence on that before we service it
again to bring it up to 50 to 55 for the SEVA.
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. Real fine. We'll think about it.
CDR ... we're watching the SIVB out there in front of us

vent - at least I presume it's the SIVB out there in
front of us venting.
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CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to have LOS here at

Newfoundland. We'll have a short break and see you
at Madrid.
CDR Okay, sir. And be advised we're loading the DAP now
with your weight constraints.
14 49 37 CC Okay.
14 52 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 5-1/2 minutes.

How do you read?
CDR Hi, Houston. Read you loud and clear. Standing by

for your up-link.
CC Roger. Stand by.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger, Pete. Go ahead to ACCEPT. And as soon as we

have good data, we'll go ahead and up-link.
14 53 04 CDR You're in ACCEPT P20.
CC Okay, and I've got an NC1 final pad for you, page 1-5.
CDR I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay. 002, 23, 37.35; plus 206.3, plus four balls,

plus four balls; 180, 009, 002; 193.0, 00:09. All the
rest of the remarks are the same as the preliminary
pad. Go ahead.
CDR 002, 23, 37.B5; plus 206.3, plus all balls, plus all
balls, 180, 009, 002_ 193.0, 00:09, and it's dual bank,
and the rest of the remarks are the same.
14 54 14 CC Roger. That's correct.
14 55 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready to terminate the waste

water dump, and we believe that the second 02 purge
has been accomplished. Wonder if you could verify
that for us?
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CDR Yes, sir. It's been accomplished.
CC Roger. Thank you much.
CC CDR, Houston. Your vectors are in, and you can go

back to BLOCK.
14 56 51 CDR Roger. Back to BLOCK and standing by for the old NC1.
CC Very good.
! CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS here

at Madrid. We're going to see you at ARIA 2 plus 27.
you. You're GO for NC1.

The bird looks as good to us down here as it does to
CDR Roger. GO for NC1, and that's super.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We've taken a look; you have a

concurrence with us. You're GO to reservice a coolant
loop any time you want.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.
14 57 59 CC Roger.
15 27 56 CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA for the next - for the

next 9 minutes. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA. How do you read?
15 30 23 CDR Hello, Houston. Read you loud and clear. How me?
CC Roger. I read you kind of weak, and we've got a lot

of background static, Pete, but I can hear you. Go
ahead.
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CDR Okay, Houston. We had a nominal burn on time. DELTA-V C

read minus 15.1. The burn attitude was what we trimmed
at .... minus 0.2, 85 plus 0.2 reaching plus 0.1. Do
you read that?
CC Roger. I copied the DELTA-V C minus 15.1, and your

tr_ on attitude were minus 0.2, plus 0._, and
plus 0.1. Is that right?
CDR ... was plus three zeros.
CC Roger. I copied plus 0.2 on - on the first one.
CDR ... R, P, Y.
CC Okay. Let me see if I got them right this time, now,

Pete. Minus 0.2, plus 0.2, and plus 0.1.
CDR That's right. You're coming in a little better. We

Just completed a P52 option 2. Do you want that?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
CDR I have the option. How do you read, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston. I can hear you, but I've got a lot

of background static. But I can copy you. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, P52 option 3, star 25, star 33; 105 all balls;
plus four ba]ls 9, plus three balls 66, plus three
balls 50. The time 02:29:00.
CC CDR, Houston. I got everything but the time. Say

the time again, please.
CDR 02 plus 29 plus 00.
CC Roger. Copied it all. Thank you.
CC And, CDR; Houston.
CDR ..., Houston.

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CC Roger, Pete. You know a couple days ago, I told you

that we were going to be passing up sunrise-sunset
times for you for when - around the flyaround and SEVA
time. Be advised the sunrise-sunsets that you see in
the Launch Checklist in the Flight Plan are accurate
today. If you don't want them to the nearest second,
I'll Just let it go at that. Over.
CDR That's okay; Just let them go. We'll ask you if we
need them.
15 33 39 CC Okay; real fine. We've still got about 4 minutes

left in this pass, and I'm standing by.
15 37 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS at

ARIA. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 03:04.
CDR Okay, Houston. And be advised that we're on the time

line. It's because we do not have an NP6. We have
2 more hours to get organized and we're in very good
shape, and we are in the process of getting ready to
eat ...
15 37 48 CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
16 04 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Goldstone for the

next 9 minutes.
CDR (Laughter) Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CC I read you loud, Pete. There was a squeal in the

background. Now, try again, please.
CDR The squeal in the background is the PLT (laughter)

... and the SPT eating lunch (laughter). He tried
to eat his ... mike along with his sandwich, and it
was too hard for him to get down.
PLT I told him we were - -
CDR Okay, we got our fuel cell purge off on time, and
we are enjoying, in fact, a very nice meal.
CC Very good.
CDR Most of our stowage is reconfigured. We have a little

bit more to do, but I figure we have more than
adequate time, and we'll be in very good shape. I
guess we have not got the TV out, because we left
TV cameras - we had to do so much shuffling down below
to get into the lockers, that we just didn't get
that out. Is there another station later on where
you might get a peek at it, because that's the next
thing we're going to do is rig cameras and TV after
lunch.
, CC Okay, Pete. Why don't you Just let us know when

you get it set up, and we'll set up a later pass if
we have the time. And also, Pete, I've got an NC2
preliminary pad, page 1-9, if you have time to copy
sometime during this pass. We've still got 7 minutes.
SC I'm ready to copy; go ahead.
CC Okay. 004, 41, 19.27; plus 043.7, plus four balls,

180, 189, 009; 030.3. 00:02. And I'm told I read
NOUN 22 yaw incorrectly. It should be 001. Over.
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CDR Okay. 004, 41, 19.27; plus 043.7, all balls, 180,
189, 001; 030.3, 00:02.
CC That's affirm. The weight is 30,225; pitch trim,

plus 1.08; yaw trim, plus 026. And this will he a
single-bank burn.
CDR Okay. The weight, 30,225; plus 1.08 - that's for

the pitch trim, and the yaw trim, plus 026.
CC That's affirm.
CC And, CDR; Houston. When you're through with the

DAP work, would you get us - give us ACCEPT? We'd
like to update pipa bias.
16 08 19 CDR You've got ACCEPT.
CC Thank you.
CDR It's all yours at P20.
CC Thank you. And also, Pete, we've got about 5 more

minutes left in this pass. We'd like to - since
we've had so many changes the last few days, there
is a couple or three remarks we'd like to visit with
you about, about the upcoming remainder of the
rendezvous.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. First one. Right after NCC, we think there'll

be - you're in a good attitude to go ahead and try
to acquire VHF lock-on - that's at about 5 plus 30,
to get a VHF ranging system check; no marks. And
be advised you probably will lose the lock-on some-
time after 5 plus 40.
CDR Okay, Dick, I got that noted in here.
CC Okay. Good. The next one is, and I think you're

already aware of this, take sextant marks pre-NSR,
whenever the SWS is visible, and our trajectory
data predicts that it should be visible until at least
NCC plus 12 minutes.
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CDR Wait a minute. It'll be visible from the NCC burn

for 12 minutes afterwards? Is that what you're say-
ing for NSR?
CC That's affirm, Pete.
CDR Okay.
CC And, the last one, Pete, is - overnight we've done

some more thinking, and we've done some computer runs
about the VHF patterns on the SWS. And it turns out
that you're going to get better VHF during the
terminal phase if we Just leave the vehicle in EGIL
special attitude rather than going to solar inertial.
And since that helps us out so much up at the
SWS, that's what we intend to do. The SWS will be
in EG - will remain in EGIL special attitude, where
it is now, until about 7 plus 36, which is over Guam,
and then we'll roll left about 28 degrees to the fly-
around attitude, which will put both wing routes in
the Sun. And you will have VHF and sextant available
from TPI right on down to stationkeeping. Over.
CDR Okay. So for the fly-around, we'll be roll left 28

and pitch to whatever EGIL's pitch attitude is these
days. What, 50 degrees?
CC It's about 45 degrees today, Pete. And you can go

back to BLOCK.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. Do you still read me on the

VHF through Goldstone?
CDE That 's affirm.
CC Okay, we cut out for a second there. The current

EGIL special pitch attitude is about 45 degrees, and
you are correct. By the time you get there and for
the fly-around, it will be in the attitude we talked
about which is roll. So both wing routes are in the
Sun and pitched up about 45 degrees. Also, we need
a potable tank inlet valve closed.
16 ll 49 PLT Okay, it's going to CLOSE.
CC Thank you.
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CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Rusty down there?
CC He's listening right here.
CDR Tell him the butterscotch sure is good today on the

lunch.
CC Was it a hard swell on it?
CDR No, these are straight 5 psi cans.
CC Roger that.
16 16 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda for the next

9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, we're standing by.
CDR Say, Houston; Skylab.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Whereabouts are we right now? What did we just pass

over?
CC Well, you're just past - you're Just to the east of

the Great Lakes and above them. You're right at
about 50 degrees north latitude.
CDR Oh, I - we passed over something that had a lot of

ice in it, some snow on the ground. We were trying
to figure out where we were.
CC Roger. I think it's called Canada.
CDR Well, its a fair hop for me. I've never been this far
north before.
CC Roger.
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CC And, Skylab; Houston. We still have about 8 minutes

left in this pass. If you guys have the launch
checklist still out, I got two or three corrections
back on the Flight Plan pages that are L-Echo. Over.
CDR Okay, Houston. He's handing it to me right now.
CC Okay, standing by.
CDR Okay, Houston. How do you read Skylab now?
CC Read you loud and clear now.
CDR Okay. l'm at SEVA L-Echo.
CC Okay. Pete, you noticed in there where it says - it

lists perform class and panel configuration and has
a bunch of exceptions. I'd like to -
CDR Yes.
CC - I'd like to add two exceptionsto that list. First

is on panel 3-25, CABIN PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE, two
of them to CLOSE. We want - we do not want to
accomplish that. And the second one is all the items
listed for panel 3-75. Over.
CDR Okay. Perform the CSM systems check 3-1 through 3-9
except. And, add to that list 3-25 CABIN PRESS RELIEF
VALVES, CLOSED. Do not do that. And, do not recon-
figure panel 3-75.
CC That's affirm. And now, I have one last one that we

would like you to do. This is an additional check
we would like you to accomplish on panel 399. The
AUX/GLYCOL EVAP IN TEMPERATURE VALVE to MAX. And,
that's listed on page S/3-10 of the Systems Checklist.
CDR ... It is VENT, now, is that correct?
CC You cut out for a second. Say again, please.
CDR You want us to put the valve, when we get to it, to

MAX and it's now in VENT. Is that correct?
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CC It says, I think, in the checklist, Pete, "as re-

quired." And we want it in MAX. And also be advised
all these changes are for this presleep period Just
for this evening.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay, real fine. We have about 4 minutes left in

this pass. Standing by.
CC And, CDR; Houston. In the event you have time to

get the TV out prior to Honeysuckle at 4 plus 10,
that's where we think we'd like to stick it in the
Flight Plan.
CDR Stick what in the Flight Plan? TV?
16 20 40 CC That little TV check that we were - had set up in

there.
CDR ... we'll check it there.
CC 0kay, real fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Canary at - after a very short
break.
CDR Okay, Houston. Roger, Roger.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're A0S through Canary for the

next 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. And do you want ACCEPT?
CC Stand by 1.
CC Skylab, Houston. We request ACCEPT and we'll up-link

the 0WS vector, and we'll catch the CSM vector at
Honeysuckle.
16 26 50 CDR Okay. You've got ACCEPT.
CC And, CDR; Houston. The Honeysuckle pass is about

4 plus 10, and we'd like you either in P00 or
P-20 so we can get that up-link in.
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CDR Okay. We'll be in PO0 or P-20.
CC Roger.
CDR And we'll have some TV for you there.
CC Very good.
CC Skylab, Houston. You've got the up-link and you

can go back to BLOCK.
CDR Very good.
CC CDR, Houston. Be advised, looking at the data, we

expect that it's possible sometime in the next few
minutes, you might get a caution and warning on
HIGH 02 FLOW, due to the purge configuration, but,
there's no problem with it. We're about i minute
from LOS at Honeysuckle, and we'll be there at
4 plus i0.
CDR Okay.
16 31 05 CC And, you're presently starting a very long pass over

Africa.
SC Okay.
17 l0 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Honeysuckle for the

next 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle for the

next 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle for the

next 6-1/2 minutes.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We need ACCEPT.
17 13 08 CC Skylab, Houston at Honeysuckle for 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Skylab. We're in P20. I'm ready to go to

ACCEPT. And, I have P52 data for you.
CC Roger, Pete. We do need ACCEPT, but we already have

copiedthe NOUN 93s off our data. And, I've got
three pads for you.
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CDR Okay. I'm ready to copy.
CC Roger. First, is final pad for NC2 on page 1-9.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 004, 41, 19.24; plus 044.5, plus 4 balls, 180, 189,

001; 031.1, 00:02. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, 0h - 004, 41, 19.24; plus 0h4.5, plus all balls,
180, 189, 001; the next one didn't make sense, but I
think you meant 0B0.1, 00:02. Is that correct?
CC Roger. DELTA-V C should be 031.1.
CDR Roger, 31.1.
CC Roger, that's affirm. And the remarks are same as

the preliminary pad. The next one I've got is a
preliminary NCC pad which is on page 1-11.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. 005, 27, 26.10; plus 038.7, plus 007.3, plus

001.0; 180, 007, 012; 026.0. The weight, 30,090; and
the trims are plus 1.08; and plus 0.24. Go ahead.
CDR 005, 27, 26.10; plus 038.7, plus 007.3, plus 001.0;
180, 007, 012; 026.0. And, the weight, 30,090; pitch
trim plus 1.08; yaw trim, plus 0.24.
CC Roger. That's a good readback. I got a preliminary

NSR on 1-12.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 981, plus 016.7, plus 004.6, minus 004.2; 177, 239,

016; 005.1. Go ahead.
CDR Plus 016.7, plus 004.6, minus 004.2; 177, 239, 016;
005 .i.
CC That's affirm. The weight is 29,970.
CC And the trims are plus 108; and plus 022. In remarks
on this pad - in case of an SCS burn, the ignition
on the EMS would be at a DELTA-VC of I.i. And you _.
ought to trim to tail off of 12.7. Go ahead.
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CDR Give me the weight one more time.
CC Roger. 29,970.
CDR Okay, 29,970_ plus 1.08, plus 022. Start on an

SCS burn at plus i.i with a tail off of minus 12.7.
We got the camera TV ready to go if you want it.
17 18 i0 CC Roger. Roger. We have already checked it, Pete, and

it looks good. It's a good check out.
CDR Okay ...
CC And, you can go to BLOCK and we are going to co_nand

the electron-proton spectrometer, ON, now.
CDR Ri ckey-t ickey.
CC Roger that. We're about 30 seconds from LOS here;

we'll see you at Hawaii at 22 - _ plus 29.
SC h plus 29. Roger, Roger.
CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
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17 32 0_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next

6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next

6minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S in Hawaii through VHF voice

for the next 3-1/2 minutes.
CDR ... VHF, Houston.
CC I heard you answer me, Pete, but I didn't understand

it. Say again, please.
CDR I said you've got the VHF.
CC That's affirm. We got an S-band problem at the Hawaii

tracking station.
17 37 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS at

Hawaii. We have not seen S-band data here, but when we
saw you at Honeysuckle you were - looked read good.
You're GO for the burn, and we're going to see you at
Goldstone at 4 plus 41.
CDR Okay, that's Just about - burn time and - we're Just
standing by to make the burn.
CC Very good, Pete. And when you get squared away after
the burn, I've got a little note here that I want to
ta1_ to you about about something later on.
CDR Okay.
17 45 42 CC Skylab, Houston; through VHF at Goldstone. How do you

read?
CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone VHF. How do you

read?
CDR Read you loud and clear, Houston. How me?
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CC I can read you, Pete. We're having antenna problems

on the ground. How'd the burn go?
CDR Okay, Richard. I find that I goosed it a little bit -

... out of trouble .... I'd say at about a NOUN 85.
But the EMS read minus ll.0. And I called up NOUN 85
... and it read plus 1.6 feet per second, nothing an
out of plane minus 0.2. Did you read that, Houston?
CC Pete, I copied EMS minus ll.0 and NOUN 85 plus 1.6 and
and out-of-plane of minus 0.2 and that's all I copy.
CDR No, it wasn't an out-of-plane ... Joe probed a NOUN 85.

I didn't see him do it. I probed on top of that, so I
write down our residual. After I got to a flashing 37,
... in the window I called up 1685 and I read the fol-
lowing numbers, and I don't know whether they mean
anything or not: plus 1.6, nothing is out of plane
at minus 0.2.
CC Skylab, Houston; we copied that. And, if you read me,

we're going to have a Newfoundland AOS at about
4 plus 51.
17 53 01 CC Skylab; Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda for the next

7 minutes.
CDR ...
CC Skylab; Houston. How do you read through Bermuda?
CDR We read you loud and clear. How us?
CC Hey, loud and clear. That's good. We've been having

problems here. Getting back to the NC2 burn, Pete.
We didn't quite understand about whether you think
you underburned it, and if so, by how much?
CDR Yes, what happened was that something swung off the
instrument panel and there was burning and Joe went
and hit PROCEED and shutdo_m so that we were at a
1685. I did not see him do that, and I thought we
were wanderin_ for the burn attitude, so I reached.
up and probed myself without either one of us seeing
the residuals on the DSKY. And that _mediately stuck
us into a flashing 37 with P40 at the window. At that
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point, I called NOUN 1685 and looked at it. And it

said plus 1.6, nothing in Y, and I forget the other
number I gave you - a minus 0.2. So I think I under-
burned by 1.6 feet per second.
CC Roger, Pete. Now, we do have your vector on the ground

through Bermuda; and you did burn about 1.6 underburn,
and it 's no problem.
CDR Okay.
CDR It looks like shirt - short burn logic in the CMC [sic]
that wasn't supposed to be that way in the spacecraft
is that way in the spacecraft, huh?
CC Roger. Maybe so.
CDR Well, we'll find out on the next one because that's
an even quicker one.
CC Roger.
17 56 54 CDR Joe's got A marked. It's been swelling up since about

mark 4, so I think we're in real good shape.
CC And, Pete, we've still got you for about 3 minutes.

I've got a couple of things here I'd like to talk to
you about, if you have the time. If you don't, we're
coming up on a long Canary and Ascension pass.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, subject is the maneuver that we may or may not

need to do for the lighting on wing one when you get
to the flyaround. If possible, we'd like to know,
prior to you going LOS at Guam, if you are going to
need this maneuver. And, if you can't tell us at
Guam, tell us as soon as you get to Goldstone. If
the answer is yes, that you do want to roll the wing
more into the sunlight, we'd like to accomplish that
maneuver during the stateside AOS; this is while you're
flying around, and the maneuver time we propose to set
in is 5 minutes. The reason for this is that this
will result in a situation where no SWS maneuvering
be required while the CSM is soft docked to the SWS,
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which will make us feel better about the vehicle

dynamics during the SEVA prep. And we - Since there
are some double failure combinations which would make
a soft dock roll by the SWS band S. Over.
17 58 22 CDR I give up. You guys tell me what attitude you would
like to keep it in, and if I can't flirt my way around
it, I'll call you and tell you when I get there.
CC Wait a minute, Pete. The bird is going to be - When

you get to it, the bird is going to be in the attitude
we talked about, which has both wing routes in the
sunlight. The question is, is that good enough for
the SEVA? And we hope that it is. If it is not, then
we are going to roll it during the stateside pass.
Over.
CDR Well, it seems to me that I already said I didn't see

any reason why that wouldn't be all right for the
SEVA about a week ago. So if you want to leave her
roll 2820 and pitch to the EGIL special, whatever
that comes out to be, that's okay with me.
CC Roger. We're together, Pete. We intend to leave it

at 2820 unless you tell us that you - In after looking
at it, that that Just is not enough lighting. We've
got about 50 seconds left until LOS here in Bermuda,
and I'll see you at Canary.
CDR Yes, and I also understand your preference is if we

thought we had enough lighting, you'd like to go back
to the EGIL special: zero roll and 50 pitch, right?
CC No, sir. We'd Just soon stay with both wings in the
sunlight, and it'll - The vehicle would stay then as
you will initially see it when you start the fly -
around- you know, with both wing routes in the
sunlight.
CDR Okay.
CC Very good. And, we'll see you at Canary.
CDR Bye.
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18 03 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We're standing by for the final pad.
CC Roger. I'll have it in a minute, and I do have one

other thing I'd like to talk to you about, if you've
got time.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, Pete. This concerns your CSM control mode con-

figuration during the SEVA. We suggest, when Paul
is outside, that you inhibit thruster A-4, as well,
as thruster A-3 for the SEVA. The reason is, if we
don't, and had a failed thruster on of A-h, we'd end
up with a plus-X translation. The pitch control is
fine with only Charlie 3 and Charlie _ on. Jerry Carr
verified it this morning over in the CMS and that con-
trol works good. You might think about that one. To
snmmarize that, that's - We want to inhibit A-3 and
A-_.
CDR Understand.
CC And, one more thing, Pete. It's in the checklist and

on - in the SEVA section in back of the Launch Check-
list on page 1-1.
CDR Yes, we know where it is.
CC Roger.
CDR Hey, Houston; Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR How long do we have to keep running this 02 vent?
CC Stand by 1.
CC CDR, Houston. We want to leave the 02 vent going until

Just prior to the SEVA. And, one thing I forgot to
tell you, I had written down here, was we've turned
on the SWS tracking light.
CDR Okay. Could we try VHF now, or do you think we

wouldn't get it until after NCC?
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CC I think you might as well wait, Pete. Because of the

attitudes and the way they are, I don't think you'd
have any ... here, and you might as well wait until
right after NCC.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger.
18 ii 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got 6-1/2 minutes left.

I've got a NCC final pad for you on page i-ii.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 005, 27, 26.30; plus 036.3, plus 006.5, minus 015.0;

176, 031, 011; 026.4. Go ahead.
CDR 005, 27, 26.30; plus 036.3, plus 006.5, minus 015.0;
176, 031, 011; 026.4.
CC That's good readback, Pete, and now I've got an NSR

pad for you, is you're ready to copy.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Plus 021.0, plus 004.3, minus 017.5; 173, 265, 010;

and stand by on the DELTA-V counter, please.
CC The DELTA-Vc, Pete, is 014.2. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Plus 021.0, plus 004.3, minus 0175; 17.3, 265,
010; 014.2.
CC Roger, Pete; good readback. We've still got 4 minutes

left in the pass, and l'm standing by.
CDR Okay. We'll be doing a final count, here in about

2 minutes.
CC Okay.
18 16 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the bird. You're GO

for the NCC burn.
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CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, we've still got about 1-1/2 minute left

in this pass. We're going to have about a 3 minute
break and then we're going to see you through an ARIA
aircraft sitting on the ground at Cape Town.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay ... going out on six ... okay.
CC ARIA ... stand by, stand by.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay ...
CC Skylab, Houston, through ARIA; how do you read?
- CDR Inaudible.
18 44 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon.
CDR Hello, Houston. Be advised that we have VHF ranging.

We picked it up right after NCC at 117.08 miles. We
still have a lock, and the SPT is able to track the
tracking lights although they are quite dim; so I'd
suspect that's attitude. Is that correct?
CC Roger, that is affirm, Pete; and that's good news on

the VHF.
CDR The - We had a good NCC burn with a minus 12.9 on the
residuals, for DELTA-Vc, the burn was on time. The
burn was trimmed at the burn attitude. We had 0 in X,
minus 0.2 in Y, and 0 in Z. And be advised, it does
leave a large residual. It was again about 1.6 foot
plus that we had to take out.
CC Roger. Copy, Pete. Thank you.
18 45 49 CDR And our first cut through the P3h recycle show very
good agreement with the ground solution NSR.
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CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And be advised we did go with the on board which was

a little different from the ground. Let me read you
NOUN 81 .... CC is plus 037.5, plus 0060, minus 13.2.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy.
CDR And be advised that we have a match pair solution which

we will burn that is plus 20.9, of course I don't know
the out of plane yet, and minus 14.7.
CC Roger. Copy.
18 h7 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready to swap quad Charlie

to the PSM.
CDR Roger. Charlie to the PSM.
CC That's affirm.
18 51 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO for the next NSR burn.
CDR Roger, Houston; and we're GO here.
CC Very good.
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19 07 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - -
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there, CDR. We're in Hawaii. How do you read?
CDR Roger. Read you loud and clear. The burn was on time.
It was plus O.1, minus O.1, minus O.1. EMS read, by
this, 10.9 and I gave - let me read you the NOUN 81.
It was plus 20.9, plus 4.4, and minus lb.7.
CC Roger. Got that.
19 08 04 CDR Okay. We're in the process of maneuvering heads up.
CC Roger, Pete. Sounds real good.
CDR Say, Houston; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR There is just one whale of a lot of noise on VHF; do

you guys have any idea where that's all coming from?
CC Stand by l, Pete.
CDR I mean all around the world we've been getting it, not
Just over Hawaii or something like that. And, my other
question is, we should not have VHF ranging now, right?
CC To your second question, that's affirm - affirmative.

We should not have VHF ranging now. And, I guess we
don't have a quick answer for the noise on the VHF,
although our - you know, our past experience on
interference from control towers and so forth. But,
no - no better answer than that, Pete.
CDR Okay.
19 ll 55 CDR Okay. Houston, on our first recycle we're a little

bit more than - little bit less than 4 minutes early.
You agree with that?
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CC Roger. We are looking at it on the data. And, CDR;

Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS at Hawaii.
We're going to see you at Goldstone at 06:19.
CDR 06 :19.
CC Roger.
19 19 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Pete, we're going to have a TPI preliminary pad

for you at Bermuda, not at Goldstone. And, it's about
time to swat - swap quad Alfa to the PSM, and along
that line, we kind of think your onboard instrumenta-
tion reading for quad Alfa may be in error. We're
showing a transducer reading of about 97 percent on
board, and it should be reading about 83. Over.
CDR Yes, it's stuck high, I guess. It's reading well

over 100 percent. We can -we can now make out the
ATM solar wings, and the sextant, and the workshop
very clearly.
CC Roger.
CDR And I have got VHF range back; it appears to be about

63 miles.
CC Roger; copy. We're closing.
19 21 16 CDR Okay, have Houston, - I have A on the PSM now, and

quad ... propellant valves are both barber pole.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Did you get my - What do you all think about that
h-minutes slip? We got a couple of NOUN 49s and they
will prove our vector here, Houston.
CC Roger. At the moment, Pete, we 're showing you closer

to the nominal than a h-minute slip. But it can
change. We're Just going to have to press on and
look at some more data.
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CDR Okay.
19 24 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS at Goldstone.

We'll see you at Mila at 06:27.
CDR Say, Houston, could we secure this 02 purge at 6 hours

and 30 minutes, isn't it?
CC It was a - -
19 29 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Mila for 8 minutes.
CDR Hey, Houston. Do you read Skylab?
CC Roger, Pete. Loud and clear. Go ahead.
CDR One of the guides that's on there is Washington Center,

would you go for that?
- CC (Laughter) Roger. They clear you for anything?
CDR No, but they Just cleared 32 Quebec somebody for

something.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CDR And, be advised we got VHF ranging back. We lost it

for a while. We got it back Just in the nick of time
to keep Mr. Weitz at work on this charts.
CC Good, good. And we're - and, also, Pete, we're

working for an answer for you on the 02 purge and get
it back to you as soon as we can.
CDR Yes, we're getting - the MASTER ALARM light is tied

to the SPS burns, it's very convenient; comes on
right at the wrong time, when 02 flow goes HIGH.
CC And, one thing, Pete; on the C&W if you inhibit that

one - that one parameter it might help that situation
in event we don't get an answer, that we can knock
it out.
CDR Okay.
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CDR And, we do have you at Bermuda, is that right? Or

we have you at Newfoundland?
CC The situation is, Pete, we're in the middle of a

Bermuda pass and we do have telemetry shutoff right
now in order to get the TPI pads out.
CDR Oh, okay. We're standing by.
CC Roger that.
CC CDR, Houston. I've got a TPI preliminary pad for

you, page 1-14.
CDR Go ahead.
19 35 59 CC 007, 04, 46.00; plus 18.3, plus 00.7, minus 06.7;

plus 19.447, plus 00.602, plus 02.312. Go ahead.
CDR 007, 04, 46.00; plus 18.3, plus 00.7, minus 06.7;
plus 19.4h7, plus 00.602, plus 02.312.
19 37 O0 CC That's affirm. That's a good readback, Pete, and I've

got a docking attitude pad for you on page 1-17.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 185, 038, 009.
CDR 185, 038, 009.
CC And, CDR; Houston. You're GO to terminate the purge

whenever you like.
CDR Whoopee. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Be advised our recycle gave us 07:02:27.95 as a TPI

t ime.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC And, CDR; Houston. Also on TPI, the burn SCS. The

ignition is EMB counter 0.8. DELTA-V C 6.9. Trim to
tailoff of 12.6.
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CDR Okay. Set the counter at 69, light at 0.8 and trim
to minus 12.6. Is that right?
CC That's affirm, Pete, and we're going LOS. See you at

Ascension at 06:45.
CDR Okay. You got a CSM weight trim for me?
CC Negative.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you're still reading me, go with

what you've got on the weight and trims.
SC ...
19 46 45 CC Skylab, Houston; through Ascension. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through Ascension

for the next 8 minutes?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Ascension for the next

4 minutes.
CDR How do you read, Houston?
CC Read you loud and clear, Pete. I've got a final TPI
pad for you.
CDR Okay, I'm ready to copy.
19 51 O0 CC Okay. 007; 03; 50.00; plus 18.4; plus 01.3; minus 07.2;
plus 19.6/48; plus 01.2/05; plus 01.9/lO; 007.1. Go
ahead.
CDR 007; 03; 50.00; plus 18.4; plus 01.3; minus 07.2;
plus 19.6/48; plus 01.2/05; plus O1.9/10; 007.1, and our
time came out to be 73:47:63. How does that grab you?
CC Awful close. Nobody'sperfect.
CC And, CDR; Houston. On the potential SCS, the ignition

is at E_ counter reading of 1.O and a trim to
minus 12.6.
PLT Roger.
r
CC Skylab, Houston. We're looking at the spacecraft.
Looks real good. You're GO for the TPI burn.
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CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, we got about 1 minute and 30 seconds, Pete, until

LOS. We're going to see you at Carnarvon at 07:18.
CDR Okay.
20 19 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Carnarvon for the

next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We had a good TPI burn on time with

the following NOUN 81. Wait 1.
CC Okay.
CDR Page open. We burned, plus 18.1; plus 00.6; and

minus 0.78. The burn was on time; the DELTA-V C was
minus 12. The residuals that the burn added to
were all balls; minus 0.2; all balls. Since that
time, we have had TPM 1. The final comn for TPM 1
was 00.5; minus all balls; plus 00.3.
CC Roger, CDR. Copied all that.
CDR We've completed the TV Prep Checklist. And, we will

go into the - rest of this when we get there.
CC Very good.
CC And, Pete, we still have about 8 minutes left in

this pass, and we're standing by.
CDR Eight minutes. Now you get to watch our next burn.
CC Roger. We're watching.
CDR Houston, you're looking at the DSKY?
CC Affirm,Pete,we are. We got it. 1
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 25 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Guam at 07:31.
CDR Okay. ---.
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20 31 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Guam for the next

l0 minutes.
SC Tallyho the Skylab. We got her in daylight at

_.5 miles, 29 feet per second.
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CDR Okay, Houston. Ready ...
20 32 26 CC Roger.
CC GO GNC.
CDR Say, Houst0n;icould you tell me if the workshop is

firing TACS?
CC Stand by l; I'll check. Hang on.
CDR As a matter of fact, you don't have to tell me. I

thought I was flying through clouds up here, and
everytime it fires the TACS puffs I can see it,
and it's a big burst of gas out of it.
20 33 35 CC Roger. That's affirm. Pete, you're right. We are

firing.
CC And Skylab; Houston. We want quads Bravo and Delta

to the PSM when you can
20 34 04 CDR Just fired the TACS pulse.
CC Roger.
20 34 ll CDR Just fired another one. Man, does it shoot a big

cloud out when it does that.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy my request to Bravo

and Delta quads to the PSM?
CDR Everything's on PSM, Houston.

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CC Roger. Thank you much.
CDR Hey, Houston; how do you read now?
CC I read you loud and clear, Pete. How me?
CDR Okay, I'm on VOX. You'll hear it all.
CC Okay, good.
CC And CDR; Houston. We're going to be starting - -
CDR I need to start breaking right now.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, Houston; I can already see the partially

deployed solar panel. I'd say it's l, right?
20 35 50 CC Roger. That's what we think. And CDR, Houston; in

about i minute we'll be starting the SWS maneuver,
and I'ii let you know when we issue the command.
CDR Okay.
20 36 19 PLT Have GNC right now.
SC EECOM ... you're looking -
CDR Down to i0 feet a second. No, 1,000 feet.
CC Roger.
PLT You guys getting TV, Houston?
CC Roger, Paul, we do have TB, TV, and it's kind of

hard to see right now, but it's getting better as
you get closer.
20 37 07 CC And Skylab, Houston. We've issued a maneuver to

the SWS. You ought to see it move a little bit.
20 37 24 CDR Okay, I saw the TACS fire.

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PLT What it is, Dick, is a very high contrast target.

It's hard to get that sucker right on TV so you can
see anything.
CC Roger. Understand, Paul.
CC And PLT, Houston - -
CDR ... opening on it - on the pad.
CC And PLT, Houston. If you have a chance to answer,

we'd like to know what the light setting is on the
television. Maybe it'll help us tune ours up.
PLT I'm switching back and forth between peak and

average to try to get it, Dick.
CC Roger, Paul; copy.
PLT I'm getting the best picture on Pete, which is what

you got right now. And look at it; it's Just not
convenient for me to get my head around to read the
numbers to you.
CC No, that's okay.
CDR I got to get ..., man. I don't like what's going on.
CC And PLT, Houston. Just leave it at peak lighting,

and it's looking better and better to us.
PLT Yes. Man that TACS makes a mess, doesn't it?
20 39 50 SPT Okay, Houston, the meteoroid shield area is solid

gold.
CC Roger; copy.
SPT Looks rather smooth. SAS wing number l, you can see
it. It's, it looks like it's a good 15 degrees
deployed.
PLT Can't ... see it. I'm trying to handhold the darn
thing.
SC No?
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20 40 24 CC And, Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS at Guam.

We're going to see you at Goldstone at 7:57.
SPT Roger.
CC Give me a ... data.
PLT There it is, Dick. There is the wing.
CC Roger. We're looking at it, Paul.
SPT I don't see anything wrapped around it. See the

outboard - see right now that the outboard solar
panel is deployed partly.
CDR There's nothing left over on the other side. See

some tubes and wiring sticking out.
CC Roger, Pete.
PLT ... turn off the ranging. Jockey it around here.
20 41 17 SPT Oh! What's that? Oh, I've been working with that
dinkey little TV screen.
CC And Skylab; Houston. The lighting that you've got

set on the TV camera right now is super. We're
about - we're very close to LOS now, and you can go
ahead with your photography.
20 41 36 PLT Okay, be advised the meteroid shield is pushed up

in under the SAS panel for its whole length, right
under that big ferry.
CDR Yes, I can see the butterfly hinge under there.
CC Roger.
SPT One piece wrapped around the top on this side?
CDR ... let's - let's go around - -
PLT I got to get some photos now.
20 42 17 CDR How good are ...
SC What's
itfor?
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20 56 48 CDR Okay, Colonel. Let me rig your TV.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got you AOS at Goldstone.
20 56 56 CDR Hey, Joe. You have the Rendezvous Checklist? Dig

out and load VERB 23 NOUN 22 with the docking angle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Goldstone. We've got

you for the next 16 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston.
SPT How do you want these ...
CDR Let me - -
PLT Give me the TV.
CDR - - Let me give you a brief description. As you

suspected, solar wing 2 right?
SPT Yeah, we saw it.
20 58 02 CDR 2 is gone completely off the bird.
20 58 08 CDR ... Solar wing 1 is, in fact, partially deployed.

And the reason that you got different readings not sym-
metric between your three solar panels, is there's a
bulge of meteorite shield underneath it in the middle,
and it looks to be holding it down. I - I think that we
can take care of that with the SEVA. It looks, at first
inspection, like we ought to be able to get it out. The
gold foil has turned considerably black in the sun.
CC Roger; copy.
INC0 Say again, INCO.
CDR The solar SAL is clear.
SPT Hey, there's some - [?] Hey, Houston?
CC Go ahead.
SPT On the vent modules, all the covers are still intact.
CC Roger.
SPT The covers did not leave the vent modules on wing
number 1.
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CC Copy.
PLT Can't tell which way to point this son of a gun for
nothing.
CC Roger. (Laughter)
CDR Okay, Houston, are we too close or too far for you?
CC I think you're real good, Pete. We can - we can

see that whole wing.
CDR Okay. Be advised that we have all four service

modules QUA]3 lights on from overheat. They're read-
ing 200 degrees.
CC Roger.
PLT Why can't I find it? One thing, this TV set's too
big for in here.
PLT See that, Dick?
CC Roger, we're looking at it. I assume you're pointing

just about in the place where the meteoroid shield
is underneath the wings. Is that correct?
PLT Well, I'm trying to, but my picture has turned inside
out and backwards, and that camera hangs up in here
in the couch structure.
CDR Okay, Houston, it looks like the meteoroid shield,

at the upper SAG [?I panel on the SAS wing, has
wrapped around it Just slightly.
CC ... are we?
CDR Now, my guess is that our easiest thing to do is

Just go to the end and try and deploy it.
CC Roger. Pete, from which side of the SAS is the

meteoroid shield slightly wrapped around? Is it on
the side of the main tunnel, or the underside?
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CDR The underside, Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR Can you see a good TV picture, or not?
21 01 26 PLT No, I haven't been able to give them one. I Just

can't point it. The darn spacecraft keeps drifting.
I have a hard time getting the thing to - correlated.
CC Well, hang in there, Paul. It isn't real steady,

but every now and then we're getting some pretty
clear views and we can replay them. And one other
question - -
CDR Houston, what is under the gold foil next to the

tank? The gold foil looks like it has been cleaned
off under that meteoroid skin, too. Or no, I guess
it's the Teflon from the meteoroid skin's laying on
the gold - under the SAS wing.
PLT The worst possible place for me to try to point

this thing.
SPT ... like me to go?
PLT Almost anyplace else. I'd like to be looking more

out the window. There, that's good. There. Betterl
CC And, Skylab, Houston; we think that's green Teflon

on the underside of the meteoroid shield that you
were probably commenting on Just a minute ago.
PLT Yes, that's what it is. Now, right by the scientific

airlock, the aluminum - the gold foil has curled up
on - at the, oh, plus-X end of it. But I don't
think that'll hinder any kind of a deployment
attempt.
CC Roger. And Skylab, Houston; request you go to

P-collide on the TV so we can see a little bit better
down in the crevice.
PLT That's where I've been, babe.

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CC Okay. Fine.
CDR All right, I'm getting awful close to the discone

antenna, as about 5 feet sitting outside the window
there.
CC And, Pete, one question that I would like to ask you,

and that is: you said you could see the butterfly
hinge a while ago; could you tell us the condition
of it?
21 03 41 CDR Well, the butterfly hinge is underneath the SAS

wing all the way on the far side of it, and it's up.
CC Roger.
PLT I mean - I didn't even notice it, Pete.
PLT Oh. The meteoroid shield came loose and wrapped

around it from the other side.
PLT I can see it.
CDR Yes, and the one - the one thing that's bothering
me, though, is that - that if this was the wing that
was down and locked, and then they opened it, that it
pulled thatmeteoroid shield as far as it did. It
pulled it 18 ...
21 0h 30 SPT That's a hell of a good point.
CDR See, and that's where it - it - it's hanging up the

solar panel right at the upper vent plate. Does
that make sense to you, Houston, the upper of the
three vent plates, which is Just below where the
meteoroid shield starts, the top part of it starts,
and that part is wrapped onto the SAS beam by about
3 or 4 inches.
CC Roger, Pete. And I think you gave us a real good

picture of that piece of metal, just a second ago.
CDR Still with us, Houston?

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CC Affirmative; sure are. Still got about 9 minutes

left in this pass.
PLT What time is it?
SPT Tell me - tell me when daylight is -
CC Night, 08:2&.
CC CDR, Houston; you still got 21 minutes of daylight,

and it's at 08:26.
CDR Now where would you like to go, anybody?
CDR I got to - I got to get away from this. Shall I

get down? No, I think we've lost them.
PLT No, we got them.
SPT We - well -
CDR All right, let's get down. I got to get out of the
way of this discone. We're going to get down and
drop below it.
PLT Hey, this TV don't work very good as far as high

contrast.
CDR Look, Paul. I'll keep it cocked this way so that

you can get TV out your window. But you got to tell
me where I'm going over there. Well, I want to.
21 06 3_ CC CDR, Houston. We've seen enough television to let

us think a lot about this. You're cleared to turn
off the TV and complete any photography you haven't
gotten, and you're cleared for a soft dock.
21 06 58 CDR Getting ready for - Reckon I got a -
PLT Hey, Dick, are you there?
CC Affirm, Paul; go ahead.
PLT I can't understand you, but there's that little piece

that looks like a row of bolts that's wrapped up
over the edge of that beam fairing.
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CC Roger, we see that, Paul. And if you did not copy

my last - We think we have seen enough TV here.
You're cleared to turn off the TV, complete your
photography, if necessary, and you're cleared for
a soft dock.
PLT Well, the little - the little door's open.
SPT Just a little hinge door.
21 07 52 CC CDR, Houston; do you read?
21 07 55 CDR Look where it tore down the other tunnel, too. See
there? Other tunnel. That's clean.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you read?
21 08 i_ PLT We haven't seen it yet. You're almost too close,

Pete.
CDR Look out - look how it's scratched.
PLT I'll back away.
CDR Look how it's scratched the gold shielding down the
wardroom window. Think that whole thing tore off of
there?
CDR I think the key part is right where all those wires
are. See them hanging out that upper vent. If we
don't get it out there, we ain't gonna get it up.
Right?
SPT A row of bolts.
SPT That's our hinge line. You think that's what is

left of a hinge?
PLT Left a row of bolts.
SPT Is that far enough out to get a good view?
CDR If I look at the banjo hinge, I've gotta get down

lower. The banjo hinge on this side of the main
tunnel is Just clean wiped off. See it?
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PLT At the butterfly?
CDR Butterfly.
PLT TV camera is the worst - -
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you read?
SPT Hey, look, lookl It's - it's - ugh.
SPT Yaw.
PLT I don't know what I want you to do.
CDR How's that?
CREW ...
CDR There's Don Lind's experiment hanging on the side.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you read?
PLT How much fuel we using?
21 l0 13 CDR Now is that good TV for you, or not?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we are seeing the TV,

and how do you copy?
PLT A strong signal, yet. Houston, you still with us?
CC Skylab, Houston, affirmative; how do you read?
PLT Get a picture of the top end of that thing?
CDR ... look I'm scared to get underneath too far.

There's ATM panels down there. See.
CDR I'm going to start heading for the front end of the
vehicle.

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SC ... go.
CC Skylab, Houston.
21 ii 33 SC ... Ask!
SC ...
21 12 13 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Roger. Pete. We got a whole lot of good TV there.

And you're clear to secure the television and com-
plete any photography, if necessary, and you're
cleared for soft dock.
CDR Okay, Houston, and remind me again. Is sunset

at 08:25?
CC It's 08:26, Pete. It's 13 minutes from now. You're

about 1 minute from LOS at Goldstone. We're going
to see you at Carnarvon at 08:56.
CDR Okay. We're going to go ahead and soft dock at

this time.
21 12 57 CC Good show.
CDR Okay.
21 13 18 PLT I've got one more picture here. Yes. I Just -
CC And Skylab, Houston; we think we may have an ARIA

pass, although we had trouble the last time, it'll
be about 08:32.
21 13 51 CDR Okay, Houston.
21 35 35 CC Skylab. Houston through ARIA. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through ARIA?
CREW ...
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21 36 14 CC CDR, Houston. I think I cut you out.
21 45 57 ARIA ARIA. LOS ...
21 56 47 CC Skylab, Houston_ we're AOS at Carnarvon for the

next 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston; we had a good soft dock. We are

sitting here eating dinner at the moment, and every-
thing's Just fine. On the time line.
CC Real fine, Pete.
CDR We've been sitting here kicking around our plan of

attack for ..., and I think what we are going to try
to do is see how tight the metal is curled up along
the upper edge of it there. Just work our way down
toward the edge of the SAS panel and try and free
her up from down there where we can exert the most
pressure.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy. Why don't you guys finish your

dinner and keep talking about it, and we got some
folks talking about it on the ground, and we'll get
together when we can get a chance.
CDR Okay. Could you get anything out of the TV or not?
CC Yes, we could, Pete. And we also had some folks

taking Polaroids of it when we happened to get a
real good shot. And we - we've got some folks over
at Marshall taking a look at it also, and we think
we are in pretty good shape.
PLT Okay, that's good, Dick. I'm sorry about it. It

was the only way I could mount the monitor. It was
upside down and backwards from the way I was pointing
the thing. Plus that camera is almost too big to
maneuver around in this - windows number 2 and 4.
With the lens right up against the window, then, the
connectors actually protrude down into the couch, ...
and it was hanging up on th_ headbeam and the head-
rest and all that Jazz.
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CC Roger. Well, we think we got enough. And anyway,

it was fun listening to you trying to handle it.
PLT Yes, you'll handle all my letters, huh?
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're wondering if you get a

chance if you could give us a rough estimate of what
you think the CSM X-axis is between the X-axis and
the Sun.
CDR Well, I can do you a little bit better than that.

Can I tell you what my docking attitude is? How
does that do?
CC Okay, go ahead.
21 59 45 CDR Okay, we are rolled about 200 degrees, and we're

pitched about 32 degrees, and we're yaw at about
5 degrees.
21 59 58 CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.
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22 00 22 CDR Okay, Houston. Let me ask you a question. Nobody

seamed to get too excited about these service module
quads getting hot. Is that okay? All the lights
are out now.
CC Roger, Pete. We were hustling around thinking real

hard about that. We believe it was the heating
during - Just due to the usage you were giving them
right there, and we don't think anything's wrong.
And, we are taking a look now at the quantities that
we have and we w_re going to let you know what -
what they are and what the status is in Just a second.
CDR Yes, how much did we use?
CC Our best estimate right now, Pete, is about 100 pounds.
CDR You mean for the flyaround?
CC That's affirm, Pete. About 100 to ll0 pounds during

the drivearound. And, we're putting those numbers
together now, Pete, and I'll have a little better
status for you either here or one of the succeeding
stations.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Houston.
CC Roger.
CDR Now, we Just popped out in the sunlight, and I have

a good look out my window of three wire bundles
hanging - hanglng'off where that wing used to be.
Oh, I'm also guessing that" - that we should be able
to get a look at some portion of the parasol when
we stick it out. As I mentioned before, in the fly-
around, I see no reason to clear any deblis - bris
away from the SAL. There is some crinkled up pieces
of gold foil around it, but that's about it. There
are no hanging wires, or plates, or anything like
that that could damage it.
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PLT Yes, I see them, but I don't think they are going to
be in the way.
CC And, CDR; we've got about 40 seconds from LOS here.

We're going to see you at Guam at 09:10.
CDR Guam at 09:10. Roger.
CC Roger.
22 l0 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Guam for the next

12 minutes.
CDR Roger. Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. On VHF, request you select omni

Bravo.
CC Skylab, Houston. Request omni Bravo.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still have several minutes left

in Guam pass. I think we dropped out because of a
shading problem on the OWS. How do you read?
CDR Okay. We read you loud and clear, now. We wondered

what happened to you.
CC Well, we Just hid for a while, there.
CDR Boy, I've had some big things on my noses in space

before, but this is by far the biggest. They sure
beat the Agena or the LM.
CDR Dinner's going pretty good, except Paul found another

one of them tree trlmkS in the asparagus.
CDR Say, while we got you, we might comment a little bit

about some of the new stuff we've run into today,
like - like some of the food in the cans. I had
the stewed tomatoes for lunch. And, I'd be betting
they would be real hard to handle up here, and it
turned out that even as goopy as they are, they were
real simple to handle, and the same way with the _
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other less viscous materials that we've had on our

lunch today, like the turkey and gravy and the
chicken and gravy.
CC Roger, Pete. That sounds real good. We're about to

go LOS here at Guam in about 15 seconds. We'll see
you up at Goldstone at 09:3B, and I'll have some words
there on your RCS quantities.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Be advised we'll be standing

by at Goldstone, and we'll try to get the logic
sequence check out of the way.
CDR Okay, Houston.
22 B4 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for the next

l_ minutes.
CDR Okay. You're kind of breaking up, Houston. Maybe

it's our antenna pattern. I noticed we're kind of
on top of the SWS, looking down at the world.
CC Roger. Understand. While we take a look and make

sure we have good data before doing the sequential
logic checks, I have a couple of three things I'd
like to mention to you.
CDR You're breaking up badly, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Request duplex Bravo, duplex Bravo.
CDR Okay. Duplex Bravo.
CC And, be advised I'm reading you loud and clear.
CDR Okay. You're breaking up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO on the sequential logic

check. Stand byl.
CDR You're breaking up, Houston. Understand you want to

do the logic sequence check. Is that right?
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CC Negative. Stand by i.
CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We are ready for the

sequential logic check. Go ahead.
22 36 18 CDR Okay. The SEQs logic - two of them are OFF. The
SEQs PYRO ALARM, two of them are SAFE. And the SEQs
ZB6 logic, two of them gone CLOSED. They are CLOSED.
And, the SEQs ARM cbs gone CLOSED.
22 36 37 CC Roger. And we are ready for sequential logic, two

of them on UP.
CDR You got the logic one and two.
CC Roger.
22 36 58 CC Skylab, Houston. It looks good. You're GO for PYRO

ARM.
22 37 03 CDR Roger. Understand ... east of San Francisco?
CC And, Skylab; Houston. How do you read now?
CDR Roger. Read you loud and clear. What did we just
pass by, just east of San Francisco?
CC Yes, sir, sure did.
CC And, CDR; Houston. If you're reading me loud and

clear, I got a couple or three things I'd like to
pass up to you.
CC Read you loud and clear, Pete. How me now?
CDR Okay. What are we doing, passing down the California

coast?
CC Roger. Looks to me Just - probably Just left eastern

California and over Nevada now somewhere around there.
CDR Okay.
CC And, if you're reading me loud and clear, and I'm

not breaking up, I've got a couple of things for you. _
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CDR You're pretty good now. Go ahead.
CC Okay, after you get on dock you know we've got the
evaporator deactivated, and we'd Just as soon leave
it that way for contamination. But be advised if you
do start getting warm and need to activate it, that's
okay with us.
CDR Okay.
CC And here's a little rundown on the RCS situation.
CDR Breaking up again badly.
CC Okay. I'll wait until we have good comm.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the RCS situation, Pete. In the original

planning, Flight Plan - -
CC CDR, Houston. How do you read now?
CC Skylab, Houston. Request omni Charlie.
22 _2 28 CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, request select best

omni.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, request select

best omni.
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Roger, Pete. Read you loud and clear now. We've

been having our problems here on the ground. We've
still got about 3 minutes left in this pass.
CDR Okay. What is it you want to tell me?

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CC Okay. What I wanted to tell you was - is that orig-

inally we had allowed about 400 pounds for the SEVA,
RCS, and right now we're about 140 pounds down from
the Flight Plan; so that still leaves about 260 pounds,
which is well more than twice what you spent on that
whole drivearound before. And, that allowance still
protects both the red - the RCS deorbit redlines, and
so in essence you're on fat RCS, but I - you know,
just be advised those are the kind of numbers we're
looking at.
CDR Okay.
CC Incidentally, also, we believe that your onboard read-

ings of Bravo and Delta may be about 5 percent high
when we run it through the computers here on the
ground. And, the PSM reading is off-scale - high,
and actually you have about 70 percent - 70 percent
remaining.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Pete, while I've still got you here, our pre-
liminary recnmmendation is - I think goes along with
yours - and that is the first try should be Just
pulling at the bottom of the beam. And, I guess our
recommendation as far as tool configuration might be
one pull with the SAS hook, one with a cable cutter,
and one with a mushroom and tether.
CDR Okay. You want us to pull on the bottom first. We'll

give her a go.
CC Roger.
CC Roger,'Pete. That's affirmative, and that is a pre-

liminary recommendation, and we'll see you again at
Vanguard. We've got about a minute and 20 seconds
to LOS, and Vanguard is at 09:58 - about l0 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're on SEVA L-I - 2. We've all eaten and

we're right at the bottom of the page, and we're
reconfiguring the spacecraft and cleaning it up.
CC Very good. We'll - we'll see you at the Vanguard.

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23 01 12 CC Skylab, Houston at the Vanguard. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear, Houston.
CC Roger, Pete.
CDR We're about halfway down 1-3, Houston, doing helmets,

and I think we'll make it Just about on time.
CC Real good, Pete. We've talked about a lot of things

here on the ground, but I - I guess about the only
thing we feel like passing up is the fact that we
probably think if that piece of metal that's bent over
the wing is indeed a little piece of angle iron, that
you probably cannot cut it. And so, if you want to
get out of the way, you'll probably have to bend it
out of the way, but it'll be strictly your call when
you guys get out there.
CDR It - it's not bent up over the top of the SAS beam.
It's Just bent along to the side of it with Just a
curl over the top, and it didn't look like it had
any high beam structure in that part of it.
CC Roger. Sounds good, and we'll Just leave it to your

call as to how to get it done.
CDR Okay. Paul tells me it was some angle in there. I

didn't see that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the spacecraft data

on the ground. It all looks good to us. You're
cleared for a local flight. Have fun and fly safe.
And we'll see you at the next pass.
CDR Okay.

We'll see you at Goldstone at ll:10.
CDR Okay, Houston.
CDR Houston, be advised for some reason we seem to have

stabilized lower left corner in the docking target,
which says that we are lower - we're resting on about
the 7:]0-8:00 position of the docking ring or some-
thing, looks like. We're off to one side. And, we've
Just stayed put.
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23 08 05 CC Roger. Copy.
23 21 02 AA ARIA 5 ... What is status of S-Sand?
AA ARIA 5 ... What's your S-band status?
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00 ii 32 PLT Ah, there it is.
CDR It looks to me like it's clean underneath there

except that spot, huh?
PLT Yes.
CDR Is there a black piece that's curled up Just at the

lip, next to the green?
PLT I don't understand what you're talking about.
CDR Heck, I can't see it. The hatch is in mY way.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Goldstone for

l0 minutes. (Laughter)
PLT I don't think it's that green thing that's hanging

it up. I think it's up further to the right Just a
little bit, which I'm drifting towards.
SPT Don't go too much luther to the right - -
CC Roger.
SPT -- ... diffucult.
PLT Right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone.
CDR Now, it's down underneath there where it's hung up.
See that?
PLT Might be.
CDR Along that bolt hole - bolt edge.
CDR Maybe we ought to Just - -
00 12 30 PLT No, let me - let me trade tools, Joe. Okay, I'm

trying to get the ... - didn't think this through
too carefully. I got to get the T one.
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CDR I've got a cut-off point here in about 12 -

12 minutes.
PLT Then what?
CDR I got to get the heck back. We'll be in night.
00 12 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone.
CDR See where that piece is coming.
PLT ... my couch.
00 12 59 PLT B, I'm sure.
00 13 02 PLT Look, I see the piece folded up over the edge with
the wires coming out of it.
CDR That's the one I'm talking about.
PLT That's the one I was talking about. It's green.
CDR Yes....
CDR Now, there's another piece further back to the

right, isn't there?
PLT Gosh durn:
CDR I asked you what 's happening.
PLT Huh?
CDR Can I ask you what is happening?
PLT We're trading tools.
CDR ... trading for?
PLT Huh?
CDR What are you trading for? The pick?
PLT The prong thing.
CDR Yes. All right. That's going to have to be it,

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PLT Understand.
PLT They aren't maneuvering this son of a gun, are they?
CDR I don't know.
PLT How're you doing, Joe?
00 l_ ll SPT All right. Got the one off. Got the other one
coming.
CDR The Earth is going by. Hey, listen, we're running

into dark pretty fast.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone. How do

you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we are AOS at

Goldstone.
SPT Plunger pointed to your right.
PLT Okay. You going to hold my foot down there?
SPT Yes.
PLT Just hold the one foot. This one.
SPT I can't hold the foot, but I can hold the knee.
PLT All right. That's going to be Just as good for

you. Shoot. Okay.
CDR Tell me where to go.
PLT Head for that piece that's wrapped around.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we're AOS at

Goldstone.
PLT Hey, can you see that tool?
SPT Yes.
CDR Take a look at that window. Is that window clean?
00 15 38 PLT What window?

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00 15 39 CDR The wardroom window.
PLT Yes.
CDR You're sure?
PLT Yes.
CDR No cracks?
PLT No.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we're AOS Goldstone.
O0 16 16 PLT Better get down a little more, Pete.
PLT Whup, whup, whup! Not out - not out_
PLT Hey, that's what's doing it. That son of a gun is

poked in there like it's nailed in.
PLT Wait a minute - hold it - don't go in any closer.
CDR Okay.
PLT I can't get my gosh durned tool out. Oh, shoot.
PLT That's what's doing it, Pete. You ain't never

going to get - -
CDR Can you pry it? With a tool?
PLT Stick it in here and bend it up? That's what I was

Just doing.
CDR I mean pry, you know.
PLT Push up?
O0 17 05 PLT I don't have that much control over it, Pete.
PLT Oh, shoot.

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PLT Have you got a hold of my legs, Joe?
SPT Yes.
PLT One of them?
SPT One of them. Good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Goldstone AOS for

5 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. How soon to sunset? Quick.
CC Roger. We're 15 minutes from sunset right now.
oo 17 38 cc MARK.
CDR Okay, the little timy strap which goes up by the

top vent. It swung around so hard that the screws
in it Just riveted into the SAS panel. We pulled
as hard as we could on the end of the SAS panel.
-- We couldn't get it out right now. We're station-
keeping on the side of the SAS panel - and Paul's
trying to break it loose, but the little tiny
strip. Heck; it isn't a 1/2 an inch wide; but,
man, is it riveted on:
00 18 ll CC Roger, I understand, Pete. And, I'll keep you

advised about the time to sunset. Right now, we've
got about 4 minutes to LOS and about lh minutes
and 15 seconds to sunset.
00 18 2_ CDR Okay. I'm going to have to quit pretty quick.
PLT Pete?
CDR Yes.
PLT I hate to say it, but we ain't going to do it with

the tools we got.
PLT Okay. Don't worry about it ....
CDR Back off here, where I can start maneuvering

around him. Where's the ...?
PLT Nothingto your right.

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PLT Joe, if you could Just hold the end.
SPT Okay.
PLT I'll take the two heads apart.
SPT Okay.
PLT Where do they come apart? It must be that way.

Okay. It's all yours.
SPT Thank you.
O0 19 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 13 minutes to sunset.
CDR Got you; 13 minutes to sunset, Houston. You didn't

- Watch it. You're knocking thruster switches and
everything else. Get that pole down out of there.
Okay, Houston. The problem is, the tools wouldn't
do the Job. And, we're going to have to give up
on it; but, I really feel bad because it's Just one
little tiny old 1/2-inch strap. But, boy, did it
rivet itself to the side of this thing.
PLT Hey, Dick.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT What it is, it's a piece of angle where the sections

of the meteoroid shield are bolt - It runs right down
next to it. It's wrapped around it Just below the
uppermost vent module. And, it's wrapped around it,
over the rivet line, over a length of about
2-1/2 feet, and that beam does not bend, and I can't
budge that strap - darn little strap that's wrapped
around it.
CDR Hey, where's - - Watch it - watch it, Joe.
PLT Where's the ATM?
PLT To your right. You're clear to move directly to

the right.
CDR Right? Okay .... around here and get - -
00 20 53 PLT Let me get around and start the hatch in.

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00 20 57 PLT Can I move to my right, Joe?
SPT ... let see - -
CDR It is so frustrating to see such a little tiny thing

hold that baby on there.
SPT Yes.
PLT Darn.
PLT Hey, you got the cue card?
SPT Yes.
00 21 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about ll minutes and

15 seconds to sunset. We're going to see you at the
Vanguard.
SPT Instruction? Well, I sure don't see any.
SPT Unstow lanyard, pull and close the hatch.
PLT You're going to have to hang on to my bottom feet

there again.
SPT Shoo. Wait a minute.
PLT Or else Just let me hook them in - -
SPT All right. I've got one foot between two of my

legs. Now, let's see if that works.
PLT Oops, that hit me right in the head.
CDR ...
SPT No, wait a minute.
PLT There you go.
CDR Hey, Gosh darn it!
PLT Well, I'm sorry, Pete.
CDR No, I know you are. I realize that, but I can't -

It's very hard when you are trying to fly - -
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00 22 26 PLT Why can't I close this son of a gun?
00 36 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS at Vanguard.
00 36 42 CDR Hello, Houston. We got a problem. We're repressing

the cabin to 4. We're a little over & right now.
I've made two attempts to get a soft dock, and now
I can't get one, and we are just about to start
through the emergency procedures and stand by for
any of you suggestions.
CC Roger, Pete; copy.
PLT Okay, let me read you this, Pete. The second

docking attempt - withdraw to formation distance,
PROBE EXTEND/RELEASE to EXTEND/RELEASE for 5 seconds,
then to RETRACT.
CDR i, 2, 3, - 5, 6.
00 37 28 CDR RETRACT. Okay?
PLT Attempt redocking. At contact, go plus-X until

capture.
CDR All right. Here we go. I may not have held it

5 seconds.
PLT Yes. Hold plus-X until we get capture or a

reasonable time.
PLT Get it?
CDR No.
PLT The bugger stayed gray, huh?
CDR Yes. Now, we got a third and final docking attempt,

okay. And you've got positive indication and no
capture, right?
PLT Yes.
CDR Okay. This time ...
CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR ... Go ahead.

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CC Skylab, Houston. Just a reminder. You're configured

two Jet and you might need four Jet to get that
capture.
CDR Well, I didn't the last time. We'll recycle it again.

Let's see. EXTEND/RELEASE switch for 5 seconds,
then 2, through OFF to RETRACT, correct?
00 39 26 PLT I'm going off VOX.
CC Skylab, Houston. You might check panel 8, DOCKING

PROBE circuit breakers; and they should go EXTEND/
RELEASE and then RETRACT; and get barber poles in
all positions.
00 40 27 CDR Okay, now. The docking probe circuit breakers are

IN. You mean we get soft capture, we should get
barber poles?
00 40 35 CC That's affirmative.
00 h0 37 CDR Okay.
CDR Well, we'll go to four-Jet ullage, and we'll give it

a try. Would it be - we had the breakers out; now
shall I cycle the breakers and go through the whole
thing - cycle the breakers, EXTEND/RET_SE for
5 seconds, then to RETRACT, four-Jet ullage. Okay?
CC Roger, Pete. We concur with that procedure.
CC CDR, Houston. One more suggestion, on panel 229,

two breakers; EPS, GROUP 4 - panel 229.
CDR Okay, 229; EPS, GROUP 4. We're checking.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, Houston. That didn't do it.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Okay, we're down to the third procedure, Houston,

about hold the EXTEND/RELEASE switch, and then go to
RETRACT.
CC Roger, copy, Pete.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

at Vanguard. We have a potential ARIA pass after
a short break in Just a few minutes. And, if we
miss that one, we got Hawaii at 12:_4.
00 45 47 CDR 12:44, Okay. If we miss you at ARIA, we'll see you

in an hour. And, I guess we'll try this third one.
And, I guess the fourth one is another super-duper
EVA, right?
00 50 50 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through ARIA?
00 56 00 MCC ARIA 5, go ... USB.
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01 44 07 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through Hawaii?
CDR Hello, Houston; Skylab.
CC Roger, Pete. What's your status?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read? And what's your

status, please?
CDR Roger. We read you loud and clear. And the status
is that we worked our way through the three docking
methods, and none of them worked. Be advised that
on the third method, when we had the switch in
EXTEND/RETRACT and had the probe and the drogue
thrusting forward, we had barber poles, but when
we would go to RETRACT, I continued thrusting,
and they would go gray, and we would not get a
capture. So we are, at this point, stationkeeping.
Do you read?
01 45 22 CC SkYlab, Houston. We have got to maneuver the SWS

to get out of this attitude. Request you stand
off; we're going to have a mAueuver time of
l0 minutes. The maneuver is going to be a pitch
down of about 8 degrees and a roll of about
31 degrees. Over.
CDR Okay. I'd prefer to Just maneuver right with

it, so go ahead.
CC Roger. We'll let you know when we command it.
CDR Okay.
01 45 50 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're going to start the

command sequence now to do the maneuver.
CDR Okay. Have you got any thoughts on a docking?
CC Affirmative, CDR. What we'd like to do first,

though, is - We need aome more data at high bit
rate. Let me m-_e sure we've got it set up here,
and then I'd like you to go through a short
procedure.
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CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Pete, here's what we'd like you to do while

we're looking at the data. On panel 8, make sure
that the two circuit breakers, DOCKING PROBE,
MAIN Alpha and MAIN Bravo are CLOSED. We had some
static, Pete. Did you copy that?
CDR Hello.
CC Roger, Pete. Circuit breakers, two of them,

MAIN A, MAIN B on panel 8, CLOSED.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC SkYlab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Okay, what happened?
01 47 l0 CC Roger. We kept dropping out.
CC Okay, circuit breakers, two of them on panel 8,

DOCKING PROBE, MAIN A and MAIN B, make sure they
are OPEN.
01 47 19 CDR Okay, they're OPEN.
CC Okay. We want you to give us a cue and close

MAIN Alpha.
CDR Okay.
Ol 47 28 CDR MARK, MAIN Alpha.
CC Roger.
CDR Do you want HIGH BIT RATE?
CC We have it, Pete. And now, give us a mark and

close MAIN Bravo.
CDR Roger, 3, 2, 1 -
01 h7 50 CDR MARK. MAIN Bravo.
CC Roger. Okay. Let me tell you these next few

sequences, Pete. We're going to want a mark.
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We want you to go to EXTEND/Pk_._._SE on the

EXTEND/RELEASE switch for 5 seconds, then OFF
for 3 seconds, then back to EXTEND/RELEASE for
5 seconds, and repeat that procedure three times.
And we need a mark each time. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, coming up. Just a second.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Dick; Pete's mRneuvering. I understand

you want to go to EXTEND/RELEASE for 5 seconds and
then back to which for 3 seconds?
CC That's OFF for 3 seconds, and repeat that three

times, and be sure and give us a mark as you do it.
PLT Okay. It's in OFF now. I Just went from RETRACT

to OFF. Okay, .you ready?
CC Affirmative.
PLT Okay. Stand by.
Ol 48 56 PLT MARK.
01 49 02 PLT MARK, OFF.
CC Roger.
01 49 06 PLT MARK. EX_END/RELEASE.
CC Roger.
CC Roger.
Ol h9 15 PLT MARK, EXTEND/RETXA__qE.
CC Roger. Thank you very much, and stand by. One

quick note, we're going to stay on a PET time scale.
The next pass is Vanguard at 13 plus 12. And we've
f- still got 2-1/2 minutes in this pass.
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CDR Okay. You guys got any clue as to what might have
happened? We had a perfectly normal soft dock and
undock, and then Just nothing.
O1 49 52 CC Pete, we are chasing a theory, and we didn't have

real good data the time before, but when you went
to EXTEND/RELEASE before, and held it in the
EXTEND/Bk_.EASE position, we saw no increase in
current. And we think we should have seen an
increase. One possible cause of this
is that one of the extend motors has failed ON,
causing the capture latches to stick in the RELEASE
position. And based on this data here, we're
going to think about it some more. And we are
coming up with an alternate procedure.
CDR Okay.
01 51 3h CC Skylab, Houston. What we suggest you try is

attempt a docking with both circuit breakers
pulled. If you get a capture, close one of the
circuit breakers and attempt to retract. If
that does not work, try the same procedure and
use the other circuit breaker. Over.
CDR Okay, understand try a docking with both

breakers out. Is that correct? And then
capture, one breaker in.
CC That's affirmative. And then attempt to retract.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard.
O1 52 19 CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you are reading, we'd like

to delay until Vanguard.
01 52 33 CDR Roger.
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02 13 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - go - we're A0S at Vanguard.

How do you read?
CDR Okay. We're loud and clear here.
CC Okay, Pete. Let me read you this procedure. I

assume you did not try it after I - we went LOS last
time?
CDR No. You said not to.
CC And, Pete, we want to confirm you're a little bit

away from the SWS, because we are going to have to
be doing a little commanding.
CDR Well, it's night. And, what do you want to do?
CDR Now, what are you going to do, Dick?
CC CD - CDR, Houston. We do not expect any maneuver -

maneuvering. We are going to reconfigure the RATE
• GYROs, and I have a procedure I'd like to read to
you.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
02 14 20 CC Okay. Here's what we want you to try on Panel 8,

Circuit breakers dock and probe, two of them to OPEN.
With them both OPEN, attempt the docking, using
plus-X for 5 seconds after contact. If you get a
capture, on panel 8, the MAIN Alfa circuit breaker,
CLOSE. If no barber pole, try minus-X for 2 seconds.
If that confirms that you are captured, hard dock,
using system Alfa. You still with me so far?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. Then, if that releases - -
CDR Wait - wait. He wants to ask you a question.
CC Okay.
SPT Dick, this is Joe. When we open the circuit

breakers, what position should the EXTENDRELEASE
switch be in? I assume it should be in R_"I'HACT.
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CC I..
SPT I want to make sure that sequence is right.
CC Stand by. That -that's affirmative, Joe. RETRACT

is the proper position.
02 15 35 SPT Okay .... it's in RETRACT - no, wait. It - it was

in OFF; we Just put it to RETRACT, with the breakers
OPEN. Is that acceptable? Now, Pete says he Just
closed them and opened them again. So, okay, press
on.
02 15 49 CC Okay, we want it in RETRACT, and then follow that

procedure. Okay, if after that procedure, you
release from the workshop, we want you to go back
and open the MAIN Alfa circuit breaker. Now, we've
got both circuit breakers open, and try the same
procedure. Attempt docking plus-X 5 seconds after
contact. If you get a capture, close the MAIN
Bravo circuit breaker, no barber pole, minus-X
2 seconds. If captured, hard dock system Bravo.
Got that?
CDR Copy.
CC Okay.
CDR Is - was act - -
CC Go ahead.
CDR Is it all right for us to give it a go right now?
CC Negative, Pete. We've got a little more talking

we'd like to give - to do to you.
CDR Oh, okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. In the event that this procedure does not

work with all tries, we have really two choices. We
can go ahead into a final docking attempt, which
involves the EVA, or we can work up a procedure so
that you can stand off for the night and we'll re-
group in the morning. And, in the event you want to
try the final docking attempt, Rusty's sitting
here, and he wants to read up a few words about how
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that would be done. We have still 6 minutes left in

this pass. Over.
CDR Okay. Let him talk.
MCC Okay, Pete. I'm on Systems 2-1 at Final Docking

Attempt under Pyro Cover Removal.
CDR Okay, wait 1.
SPT Go ahead, Rusty.
MCC Okay. Just a word on what it is we're doing here.

You'll notice down there under "don helmet and gloves"
and "suit circuit integrity check," et cetera, that
it refers to systems checklist procedures. Those
procedures assume a rather basic command module
configuration. WHat we're going to do is redo - or
Just give you the reference here in the SEVA thing
that you Just did, which are the equivalent, and
will save you time.
SPT Go ahead.
MCC Okay. By the way, the word Just came up that you
are cleared to attempt your docking at this time, if
you want, and you let me know whether you want me to
read this - these next three or four lines to you
while you're trying that.
SPT Keep going, Rusty.
MCC Okay, Joe. Under "apply anti-fog." Okay? We want

to write in "systems prep" for "depress SEVA Ll-_."
02 18 42 MCC Okay, delete the "apply antifog," for that matter.

And have you removed helmets and gloves?
SPT Yes we have.
MCC Okay, fine. And place under "suit circuit integrity

check," scratch "Sl-ll," and put in "SEVA L1-6."
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, next line, scratch "systems 1-12" and, in place

-- of it, "SEVAL1-8."
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SPT Got you.
MCC Under "doff helmet and gloves" - "SEVA LI-13."
SPT Okay, now stand by.
SPT Houston, Skylab.
MCC Go ahead.
SPT We went in with both breakers pulled and contact

plus-X for 5 seconds. Got no capture, and we did
not close the - the MAIN A breaker. Should we close
the MAIN A breaker during thrusting?
MCC That's negative.
SPT I - I didn't think so; but, well, we just tried it,

and it didn't work.
MCC Roger. The answer is that that procedure is not

going to work. Stand by 1.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, Joe, the final line there. Let me give you
that. It says to "scratch the next line on 2-2."
In other words, scratch "con_nand mocule 02 supply
refill" entirely.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay. Houston, you're telling me that both breakers

OUT, no capture. That's it, huh?
MCC That's affirmative. I looks like final docking

attempt is next. That's your choice, Pete. We'll
have a man euver for you over Hawaii, if you want
to stand off tonight, which means you can wait for
about an hour with no activity, or you can attempt
final docking. Stand by 1. Okay, the maneuver will
not be accomplished until after next Vanguard. That's
an hour and a half, in other words. We'll get it to
you over Hawaii. Maneuver to be accomplished next
Vanguard.
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CDR Okay. Well, I guess maybe we might as well go ahead

and try the EVA. Because if we ain't docked after
that, I think you guys have run out of ideas, haven't
you?
MCC Stand by Just l, Pete.
02 22 38 CC CDR, Houston. We have one more attempt that you

might try. If you bring descent 2 on the line, you
get more voltage, and then go to EXTEND RET.W.&SE,
and then try a normal docking. Over.
02 22 59 SPT Does it matter whether you want it on MAIN A or

MAIN B, Dick?
CC Both of them.
SPT Okay. You want descent 2 on both buses.
CC That's affirmative. Be advised we are going to try

to have a Van - an ARIA pass in a few minutes, but
if we miss that one, we'll see you at Hawaii at 14:18.
Take the battery OFF if that procedure does not work.
CDR Wil co.
CC Okay.
MCC Can Paul check ..., please?
02 26 41 CC CDR, Houston. I think I got a response. How do you

read through ARIA? Over.
CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA VHF. How do you read?
CREW ...
PLT ... helmets and gloves, right?
PLT And, I bet you don't want your SEVA.
CDR Tell the . .. that I'll find my other glove in a

minute. I don't know where it is.
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CREW ...
PLT Here's you other glove, Pete.
CREW ... checklist ...
CREW That's fine.
SPT I can't stick it up in the tunnel ... trouble.
SPT Oh, yes.
SPT Uh huh.
PLT I figured SIM SUP would leave us alone.
SPT It's ... but, I don't think I do.
SPT Let me verify that. Just a second.
SPT The probe cover is right there at the bottom of the
CREW ...
SPT Yes ... two red ... Oh boy, well - -
SPT Here, that's kind of out of the way.
SPT ... put your feet down again.
CDR Houston, I read you 3 by 3. We were still unsuc-

cessful in the other attempts.
CC Roger, Pete. Understand.
CDR You were prompted to do the - the - move the back

end of the probe cover, now. We'll do a little EVA
here in a minute.
CC Roger, Pete; copy.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised comm is extremely

poor on this end. We still have about 5 or 6 minutes
left in the pass, and we're Just standing by. --_
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CDR Okay, Houston. We're going to try and have this

completed one way or another for a SEP maneuver in
about an hour and a half. Is that correct?
CDR Houston, do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, the SEP maneuver time

that we've figured out is at - at a time of 15 plus 20.
Over.
CDR 15 plus 20. Roger, Roger.
CC Roger.
CREW ...
SPT Oh, yes, I do get ...
SPT Now, how much - -?
SPT Yes.
SPT Yes, okay.

@
SPT Right. Everything ... l've got plenty of - really -

plenty of length on the hoses. I can't possibly - -
02 35 16 SPT All right.
SPT All right. I've got my tool ... and one right there.
And, that is the only thing I need while I'm - - ...
SPT ... Pete's got them.
SPT Right, Pete?
CREW ... checklist ...
SPT Probably best Paul has them. Yes.
SPT I'm on ... Yes. Okay .... put my gloves on ...

procedure now, Paul?
CREW ... one is in here.
CREW Right.
SPT Okay. There you are.

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CREW ...
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through ARIA now?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're still standing by in the

blind in - at ARIA.
CC ARIA 5, LOS.
SPT Okay. You want me to read while you connect this up?
03 19 19 CDR Wait a minute ... where the heek is it ...
CDR What did I do ...?
CREW _..
SPT Oh, no. I mean, if we get them, great, but we won't

get them.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii.
CDR Hello Houston. How are you? We've done our second
EVA, and we have gotten the - the probe ... the de-
ployed docking mechanism. We have removed the screw,
which unfortunately is now in orbit. But, we have the
probe cover off - Apoolo cover, and we are just
reviewing the procedures. For your information, it
is extremely hard - the COAS is not bright enough
for me to get a good alignment. So, unless you
want me to try this procedure over your station, I
was going to wait until night time when I have
excellent alignment.
CDR Panel 15 - -
CC Roger.
03 21 09 CDR ... power OFF. Verify.
CC We copy, Pete. Stand by.
CC And, CDR; Houston. We want you to be lined up as

well as you can for the procedures. So, you can
wait until nighttime to do that, if necessary.
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CDR Okay. And we are configuring the wiring for that

right at this moment.
CC Roger.
CDR And, then, what kind of a maneuver are you figuring

if we don't manage - -
CREW Okay.
CDR - - to get this thing docked?
CC Roger. CDR, I have two pads for you. Essentially

what they are is - are two maneuvers, 1 posigrade
about 5 feet per second, and then, 1 rev later, a
retrograde maneuver of about 5 feet per second. This
will give you plenty of separation for the night and
then a very small TPI burn tomorrow, which will end
up in a final phase rendezvous that's with lighting
and approach angles at nominal. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And, if you'd like to copy the pads down here at

Hawaii, in the event of an unsuccessful docking
attempt, I'll be glad to - -
PLT I'm doing these - -
CC - - read them.
PLT - - goobers again.
CDR Yes. And if I can - -
SPT ... ready for you to read.
CDR I - oh. Are - have you got a book, Joe?
SPT No, no, no.
03 23 13 CC Pete, it's G&C Checklist page 5-1.
CDR Okay. Just a second.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.

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CC Roger. First, I'Ii read you the posigrade maneuver.

NOUN 33, 015:20:00.00; plus 005.0, plus four balls,
plus four balls; 359, 240, 000; 005.0, 00:12, and
DELTA-V 70, NA. Go ahead.
CDR 015:20, four balls ; plus 005.0, all balls, all balls ;
359, 240, all balls; 005.0, 00:12.
CC That's affirm. The weight for this maneuver is

28,911, and it's four-Jet plus-X on the PSM.
CDR Four-jet PSM 28,911.
CC Roger. And, now, I have the second - the retrograde

maneuver, if you're ready to copy.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 016:53:18.00; minus 005.0, plus four balls, plus four

balls; 182, 060, 000; 005.0, 00:12. Go ahead.
CDR 16:53:18.00; minus 005.0, plus all balls, plus all

balls; 182, 060, 000, 005.0, 00:12.
CC Roger, Pete. The weight for this one is 28,894.

Again it's four-Jet plus-X PSM, and for your informa-
tion, tomorrow the TPI will be at approximately - a
time of approximately 28 plus 08. The DELTA-V will
be about 7 feet per second. This will allow transfer
angle of about 300 degrees which will be a long time
from TPI to the mid-courses. The braking DELTA-V's
will be about 7 feet per second, and the final phase
of the ren - rendezvous will be nominal. Over.
CDR Got it. 28 plus 08 DELTA-V, that's 7 feet 300 degree

transfer, 7 foot per second braking with a nominal
final phase.
CC Okay, real good, Pete. You've still got 4-1/2 minutes

before LOS at Hawaii. And be advised we're about
13 minutes until sunset.
CDR Okay. What's our next station?
CC Next station is Vanguard. And stand by for a time.

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03 26 52 CC Skylab, Houston. Request cabin REPRESS valve to OFF.

The cabin is nominal.
CDR You're 30 seconds late. We Just turned it off.
CC (Laughter) Roger. You're ahead.
03 27 45 CC And, CDR; Houston. The time at the Vanguard is

14 plus 52. We've looked at the bird and you are
GO when you get into darkness. So when you'd like
to attempt the docking, you've got about ii minutes
left to sunset.
CDR Okay. I can see a fine aline much better at night.

The COAS just is not bright enough against the MDA
to get at - good attitude. So, surprisingly enough
the spotlight is excellent, and we've had no problem
whatsoever with night stationkeeping.
03 28 20 CC Roger, Pete. Understand.
CDR And, are you maneuvering the bird, again, by any

chance?
CC Stand by i.
CC Negative. We're not.
CDR Okay, ...; Houston. Are you there?
CC Affirm, Pete. We're still here for 45 seconds,

and then we'll see you at Vanguard at 52. Go ahead.
CDR Which box is B-box? We - I believe it's - the

upper box or the lower box?
03 30 05 CC Stand by.
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03 30 i0 CDR The upper box or the lower box?
CC Standby.
CC Skylab, Houston. The lower box is system B box.
CDR Lower box is B box. Roger.
03 30 32 CC Roger.
03 52 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Skylab, Houston through the

Manguard. How do you read?
MS Yea!
03 52 20 CDR We got us a hard dock out of it.
MS (Shouting)
CC Hey, way to go!
CDR Really flipped me.
CDR We got all 12 latches, and we got a tunnel. Integrity

check in the works right now.
CC Hey, way to go. Good show.
CDR You - you can tell SIM SUP that we really sure like
to get some humble days out of this thing, after
awhile.
CC You can bet your life I will, Pete.
CDR We're starting our quiescent switch configuration with

the notes that you gave me somewhere back - day before
yesterd_, it seems like.
03 53 l0 CC Roger. Stand by for 1 on the quiescen% check, Pete.

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0B 53 59 CC CDR, Houston. We've got 6 minutes left in this pass.

We do have about an hour and a half, a whole rev,
before we get Vanguard back again. I do have Just a
few short notes that might help you go through the
checklist for the postdocking this evening. Over.
03 44 25 CDR Fire away.
CC Okay. The first, of course, is get through the

postdockingwork, and I'm not sure what of this
you've done on SEVA Checklist on page L Delta. Then
go to the helmet, gloves, and PGA docking and stowage,
and that's on pages L/I-I3, L/I-I_ and 15 in the SEVA
section. Finally - -
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, following that, Pete, to the pre-sleep activity

on SEVA section, page L-Foxtrot. And we want to add
one additional step in the pre-sleep activity;
we need to replace system Alfa LiOH canister, it's
in Alfa 4; and stow the used canister back in Alfa 4.
Over.
03 55 24 CDR Okay. System A's the top system, right?
CC That's affirmative, Pete.
03 55 34 CDR Okay, look, we've had our problems and you've had
your problems, so we'll probably press on to get this
thing completely configured according to the check-
list that you gave us. We have eaten dinner, so
whenever we get this thing done, we'll hit the pad
and press on first thing in the morning. I would,
because of the docking, like to go ahead, if we've
got a good tunnel and verify alllatches. It sounded
to me like we got at least 10. But I would like to
verify them and then we'll put the hatch back in and
P
go to bed. Do you concur with that?
03 56 22 CC Standby 1.
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CC Okay. EECOM, you got anything other than that you

want to do tonight? Roger. Well, he does that as
his part of that -
03 57 16 CC CDR, Houston. On your question, we do concur that if

you have a good hatch integrity check, to verify the
docking latches. Also, one thing we want to be sure
to catch is the FUEL CELL REACTANTS valve, to unlatch
in NORMAL. And be advised that we will be going back
to CMG control on the SWS. We expect you may get
a little bit of movement out of it, but we want to
get it out of TACS only.
03 57 43 CDR Okay, sir. It's all yours.
CC Roger that.
03 58 37 CC Skylab, Houston.
CC Okay, Pete. One thing that we - in the checklist

that we were going to read you and Just never had
time - we got in a hassle - is on - during the
quiescent panel check. On panel 201, we do not
INHIBIT items 9 Alfa, Charlie, and Delta. Over.
CDR Do no INHIBIT 9 Alfa, Charlie, and Delta.
CC That's right, Pete. And the way we're looking at our

timeline, we expect bedtime will be somewhere around
18 hours, or a little bit sooner. And we think
that ought to give us plenty of time to call you on
this next Vanguard pass next time around, which is
about an hour and a half from now. If you don't
have any objections, we're going to call you at that
pass, and that'll probably be the last AOS for the
day.
03 59 34 CDR Yes, sir. And we'll see how much we can get done in
the next hour and a half.
03 59 37 CC Okay. Real fine. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

now, and we'll see you at Vanguard next time around.
03 59 44 CDR Okay. I'm sure glad we practiced those procedures

on that probe.
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03 59 h9 CC Yes, sir. Looking good.
04 13 49 SC Hello there on SP ... Do you read Skylab?
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05 29 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for the

next ll minutes.
CC $kylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for the next

l0 minutes, for the next l0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for the next

9 minutes. How do you read?

8 minutes. Over.

7 minutes. How do you read? Over.
CDR ...
CC Roger, Pete. You were a little bit garbled there.

For your information, I've got a few messages for
you I'd like to give, if you can copy.
CDR Okay, Houston.
CC Roger. Fine job today, Pete. Number l, I guess - -
CDR Okay, go ahead. Paul is ready to copy.
05 33 13 CC Number one, I guess we'd like to get over for GMT so

your checklist tomorrow will give you some good A0S
times. We'd like you to, at 17:00 GET, or PET rather,
to set time at 06:00 GMT. Did you copy, Paul?
CC S_ylab, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Loud and clear, now.
CC Okeydoke. We lost you there for a while. Did you get

the time at 17:00 PET, time will be 06:00 GMT?
PLT No, we didn't get any of your messages at all, Bob.

As soon as you said you had messages for us, you quit.
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05 34 h5 CC Okay. Let's try it again. We would like to give

you a - set your timer so you can go back to GMT, and
at 17:00 elapsed time, the time will be 06:00 GMT.
PLT Okay.
CC Okeydokey. And we would also like, if you got time,

meal status for day 1.
CC Okay. We would also like to ensure that VHF A and B

are OFF before going to sleep.
PLT Okay, we had them OFF and then I noticed that I had
a barber pole in a power amplifier. And I'm still
not sure what games that those guys can play with it
down there so we left B DUPLEX up Just to make sure
he wouldn't be able to get a hold of it. That's why
it's on now.
CC Okay. Okay, we're taking care of that. You can turn

VHF A and B off.
CDR Okay, Bob, and for your information, the CDR ate
everything.
CC All right. Okeydoke, thank you.
PLT The PLT didn't - the first spoonful of his asparagus

was half wood, so I only ate about one-third of it,
mostly the nonwoody part.
CC Roger.
PLT The SPT said he ate everything. I'm going to have

eaten everything else, Bob.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you, Paul.
05 36 38 CDR Okay. We have the LiOH canister changed out. We've

done the Quiescent Switch Checklist. We got a couple
of questions for you. What mode would you like to
leave the computer in - you want to leave it in PO0
and ACCEPT?
CC That 's affirmative.

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CDR And while you're answering that one - let me - we

had one on whether we're supposed to use this max
power down. Do you want that or not?
CC Stand by 1. We do want the computer left in PO0 and

ACCEPT.
CDB Okay, the computer's in PO0 and ACCEPT - and on the

max power down we've stopped most of that, but there
are a couple of things that we have not done. Like,
do you want the E/P spectrometer off?
CC Okay, Pete. They really didn't want you to do the

max power down, but ...
05 37 _6 PLT RCS quad Bravo temperature indicates 0FF-SCALE HIGH,

associated caution. At first we didn't know if it
was real or not. We ... turned those heaters off on
Bravo, and I assume that it's safe to turn them back
on again.
CC Roger. I didn't get which C&W you had there, Paul.
PLT RCS quad Bravo.
CC Roger.
PLT See, the reason we got - the reason we got it was for
temperature, and it was HIGH at the time and now
it's OFF-SCALE HIGH.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC We would like to - -
PLT Yes. Go ahead.
05 38 33 CC Okay. We had not planned to give you a call over the

next ground station; however, there's several _essages
here that we probably ought to talk about. So we are
about - oh, minute and a half until LOS and we'll have
you again at Ascension at 16:43. I'll go ahead and
hit you with a couple of things here. They would
like you to back out of that MAX POWER DOWN if you
could and Just have the QUIESCENT POWER DOWN.
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CDR Okay. I think we can sort that out.
CC Okeydokey.
PLT Yes. Also, I got a popped circuit breaker I want to

talk about next time on panel 5. It's last one in
the second row, UTILITY. R/L station MAIN A.
CC Roger. Understand that one's popped.
CDR Well, we reset it, but that's the one that feeds the
backup way that we got docked, and we think it
probably popped when we docked.
CC Okay, but it did reset okay. Is that correct?
PLT Yes.
CC Can you tell us whether you used A or B system for

docking?
CDR Bravo.
CC Roger. Copy. Bravo.
CDR The bottom one in the panel, I believe.
05 39 50 CC Roger. Okay. We're just about to go LOS here. By

the way, wakeup tomorrow is going to be open ended.
You give us a call.
MS Yea!
CDR Okay, that's good, because look, we got about another

hour at least in here. Man, this place looks like
somebody blew through here with a tornado.
CC I think you guys earned a good night's sleep.
CDR We'll be around for at least another hour and a half,

I think.
CC Roger. We were going to end up doing a CMG reset at

the next station pass, and that's going to move your
vehicle around a little bit.
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CDR Well, we noticed waggling up here a little bit.
CC Okay, you have got a slight maneuver going on now,

but that's not a reset. We're trying to get back ...
05 43 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Ascension for the

next l0 minutes, for the next l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, we're backing out of this low power thing.
CC Roger. Understand. And I guess - if you got your

Flight Plan there with you, it did have exceptions
listed on the quiescent time line. That's in your
SEVA Checklist.
CDR ... too, but he also had the MAX POWER DOWN and I
wasn't sure which one you wanted, so I went into that
and we'll be out of it in a minute.
CC Roger. Understand.
CC Roger. The exceptions are listed in SEVA ...
CDR Right.
CC And we are going to be starting the CMG reset routine

very soon, and it's going to cause the vehicle to
move around, oh, a good little bit. This one is
going to be kind of small; it can be large. For your
information, we're probably going to have to do
another one of these tonight before you wake up.
We've been having to do them about every 4 to 8 hours.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, we would like you to select secondary

package heaters on quad Bravo.
CDR Okay, that's in work.
PLT Well, we've got the package heater and we've got the
quad heater, Crip. Do you want them both to go to
2 and secondary as appropriate?
05 45 44 CC Pete, that was a little bit garbled on - did you

understand that on quad Bravo we wanted the package
heatersto SECONDARY.
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CDR Okay, the package heaters to SECONDARY.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay, except that's what's confusing, Crip. We got

two sets of heaters. One for the package and one
for the quad.
CC Roger. It is the package - -
05 46 06 SPT Well, the backup - well, the backup one for the
package is two, and the _ackup one for the quad is
second. So you want the package heater to 2 and the
quad heater left in PRIMARY. Is that right?
CC That is affirmative.
SPT Okay. And by going to the caution and warning, it

was the package indication that was tripping it.
05 46 B2 CDR Say, Crip, we had - We did have to dump urine once

today, which I believe we reported. The time that
we did it, all three crewmembers; otherwise, we have
collected all the rest of it on hoard.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have - still have about 6 minutes

left in this pass. The next pass is going to be over
Guam at 17:27 elapsed time and that will be 06:27,
I guess our intent now is not to give you a call
there.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess tomorrow morning what you

can do is on your Activation Checklist, pick out a
site to give us a call when you're awake and want to
go to work.
CDR Okay.
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05 52 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS over

Ascension, and we'll see you manana. The - That
pass over Guam, in case you need us is at 06:27 GMT.
CDR 06:27. Okay; thank you.
06 29 36 GWM Skylab 2, this is the Guam tracking station. Do you

read? Over.
CDR Affirmative, Guam. Loud and clear.
06 29 h2 GWM Roger. We have a communications problem between the

tracking station and the network, and we'll be back
with you as soon as we reestablish.
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CDR Loud and clear.
CC Okay. Read you loud and clear.
CDR Hey, we finished chlorinating the water. P. J. Weitz

is sliding into his sleeping bag, along with Pete
Conrad, and Joe Kerwin. So, we're just about to bed
out.
CC Very good. Anything else we can do for you tonight?
CDR No. We did have a question. We have turned the

potable water tank on, not for any other reason that
it was down to 25 percent. We figure we might as
well fill it up.
06 30 30 CC Roger.
06 30 42 CC For your information, we got about 6 minutes left on

this pass.
CDR I ... right into that day 2 activation tomorrow, as

soon as we get up and eat.
CC Okay. No need to rush.
CC While I got you here, we talked about that reset

routine. I don't know whether that bugged you at all -
the motion. It could get up into as much as
three-tenths of a degree per second, if we - On some
of them, we have seen those kind of things.
CDR Yes. Is it maneuvering right now?
CC I don't believe so.
CDR Okay. Well, we got the window shades up. So we

don't know what you guys are doing.
CC Very good. And, Pete, that potable tank and that

valve is okay like you got it.
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CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you need us for any reason

tonight, if you'd give us a VERB 99, we'll come up
at - well, we'll have AOS.
CDR Okay.
06 35 _5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS; and,

we'll see you ma_ana. Nighty night.
CDR Nighty night, honey.
CDR Hey, Crip, you still with us?
CC Affirmative.
CDR Hey, I Just wanted to impress on everybody how - how

black or burnt looking that gold foil was getting on
the stormy side of the vehicle. I suspect that's the
reason your temperature is going up. That Mylar's
Just deteriorating, or whatever that gold stuff is.
CC Roger. I think they got that impression today during

the flyaround.
CDR Okay.
CC Just hope the parasol takes care of it.
CDR Yes. Now that we're docked, I'm not sure how we get
undocked.
06 37 16 CC We'll work on that.
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lh 08 00 PLT Hey, Henry, where are we?
CC ... you're over Madrid, now.
PLT We thank you.
CC And, Skylab, we got about 4 more minutes on this pass.
CDR You got any big changes for us, or are we going to ...
off on day 2 the way we got it figured?
CC Yes, Pete, we're working on it now. What we want to

do is get together a package for you; try to have it
either at Honeysuckle or stateside before we get going
here. And we got a few changes for the Activation
Checklist, and we're also going to have some questions
for you on probe removal. We'd like to check a few
things before we pull that thing out, to help us in
the troubleshooting. And the main thing is, we want
to just kind of relax here a bit and get organized
and start off on the right foot.
CDR Okay, very good. I was thinking about that probe, too.
You know, we did lose a little nut, but if you _ot
another one of those around anywhere in the spacecraft,
we could always rob it.
CC Roger. Copy.
14 ll 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to LOS. We'll

be picking you up at Honeysuckle at 50:00.
CDR Roger. Honeysuckle at 50:00.
14 50 ll CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for a minute and

a half.
CDR Well, you can't tell us much then, can you?
CC No, Pete. But I'll tell you what we've got here.
We've got all the checklist changes put together in
a little package. There's about eleven of them that
should bring the Activation Checklist up to date.
_- Rusty's working on the questions on the probe. And,
if you like, we'll hold that off to stateside. We're
also planning a - a private conference for Madrid,
which will be coming up at 40:00.
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CDR Okay. Who's the private with?
CC Okay. It'll be with the surgeon.
CDR All righty.
CDR And you could go ahead. Let me - let me get an

Activation Checklist and my pencil out. I have just
finished breakfast, and I'll copy some of this.
CC Okay. And the computer's yours, too.
CDR Okay. How about battery A? Has that got a good

enough charge on it yet?
CC Okay. We want to let it continue to charge. And

we've only got about 15 seconds left here, Pete.
I'd suggest we wait until Goldstone which is coming
up at 18:00.
CC I'll repeat. Goldstone at 18:00.
CDR Okay. Roger.
15 17 &0 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for about ll-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're ready to copy. We got the Activation

Checklist open. Be advised we've pressurized the
tunnel. And we had very little leakage on it last
night, maybe 0.1 psi. So we got a good ... and we're
standing by for your word.
CC Roger. Copy. The first item is on page A-3. That's

a little time line we put in the front of the check-
list.
CDR Up there that's mission day 2. Go ahead.
CC Okay. There is just a typo up there on the - where

M168 relocation. It gives you page 2-12; that really
should be 2-121.
CDR Okay. Whose - whose column's that in?
CC SPTcolumn.
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CDR Yes, and it should be 2 what?
CC 2-121.
CDR Okay. We got it.
CC Okay. The next one is on page A-5.
CDR Go ahead.
CC In the CDR column, all the way at the bottom of the

page, the quiescent configuration - We just want to
write a little note there, Pete, to the effect that
do not configure panel 275 until all battery charging
is complete.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay. The next one is on page A-10.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, step 6. The TV input station 320 should be 133.

The same thing applies to step 7; that should be
panel 133.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. After step 10, we want to add a step 10A that

says, "VTRPOWER switch ON."
CDR Okay.
CC And step 12, second line, that panel 320 should be

133. And in addition, after VTR standby, we want to
add VTR POWER switch OFF.
CDR We got it.
CC Okay. Next one's on A-13.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. The first two lines up there should be changed

to read, "Connect CWG electrical harness to CCA."
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15 21 36 CDR Okay.
CC Okay, A-15. On the stowage location for 16 millimeter

cassette takeup, it should be Fox 524 instead of 527.
CDR Okay. Got that one.
CC Okay. Now, if you'll Jump over in Activation

Checklist to page 2-18.
CDR All right, go ahead; E M_4ORY DUMP?
CC Roger. After the E M_MORY DUMP there, we want a note

to the effect that after guidance has given a GO on
the E M_MORY DUMP, perform P06 - program 06, CMC
POW_ DOWN. And that's on page 2-78.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. The next one is on page 2-29.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we want to delete the last line of step 2, which

reads, "Panel 311 PRESSURE EQUALIZATION VALVE - OPEN,"
we want to leave it CLOSED.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. The next one is on page 2-42; these are the

changes to your ATM panel configuration and command
changes.
CDR All right. Go ahead.
CC Okay. About halfway down the left-hand side where

it says, "MODE talkback - SOLAR INERTIAL," it should
be CMG.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay. Right-hand side, Status Word 2, COUNTER 1

indicator should be 0353.
CDR Okay.
CC Status Word 4, COUNTER 2 should read 1000.

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CDR You cut out, Hank. What was the - -
CC Okay, lO00.
CC Did you copy?
CDR No. Say the checks both once again, Hank.
CC One thousand. One thousand. 1000.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. On the RATE GYRO MONITOR, Y should be 3/1.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. The next one is on page 2-43. Right under the

last item that we've got pinned in there about the
hold for 25 seconds, we want to add EVA AUTO DOOR
switch to STOWAGE.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. The next one is on page 2-50.
15 25 15 CDR Hey, break, break, Hank. What have you got for us
on the probe? I'm scared we're going to get all this
stuff in and not get the probe stuff ... we can get
in there.
CC Okay. We've only got a couple items, Pete, and then

the - Ru_ty's got some words for you on the probe.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. On page 2-50, we - we - we don't want you to

close the hatch channel. We'd like for that to read,
"Don charcoal mask and then Just place the hatch over
the opening."
CDR Okay.
CC And, the l_st one is on page 2-60. On the circuit

breaker configuration, panel 614, on the right-hand
side on DUCT 3 FANS, we want to keep all those OPEN.
The four DUCT 3 FAN circuit breakers; we'll only use
eight fans.
CDR We got it.

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CC Okay. And Rusty's got some words for you on the

probe.
CC Okay. Skylab, we've got 3-1/2 minutes here left in

the pass, for your information, and let me tell you
what we want on the probe. There is a general caution
note - I don't know who is _oing to do it_ but when
you collapse the probe for removal, be aware of the
fact that it may come completely free of the drogue
right at that time.
CDR Okay. We are guessing that it will.
CC Right. That's what we're guessing, also. Okay,

when you get up in there, Pete, what we're interested
in finding out is what is the clocking of the center
shaft flat on the aft end of the probe relative to
the CSM axes. If you - What we're reco_nending is
just pressing on with a normal Probe Removal Checklist,
but before you do anything, look at the flats on the
center shaft and give us their orientation. And a
good reference, by the way, is Systems Checklist
page 2-10 gives you a look at the back end of that
whole probe, and you can reference the flats to that.
CDR Okay. Now you don't want us to put - you don't want
us to put the - the pyro cover back on with all the
handles, do you?
CC Pete, we don't want it to go back on permanently at

this time, but if that helps to determine the or-
ientation, go ahead and do it. Then take it off,
and then go through the rest of the probe collapsing
and removal.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Now -
PLT Rusty, the picture I'm looking at has the cover on,
and I'm not sure I know what flats you're talking
about?
CC Okay, Paul, the shaft - it's a circular shaft with

" a flat on each side. And what we're recommending,
in a way is, if you can draw a perpendicular through __
those flats and then give us the clocking of that
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llne with respect to the command module or that dia-

gram on 2-10, either one.
15 28 18 PLT All right.
CC Okay. Now the only other things we want, when you

vent the probe, that is, when you press the button to
bleed the nitrogen out, keep watching that shaft and
let us know if it rotates. There is a possibility
that it may rotate 30 to _0 degrees. We don't think
it will, but we would like to know if it does.
CDR Unfortunately, we vented it last night.
CC You vented the probe itself or the tunnel?
CDR No, we checked the docking latches, by the way, it

made all 12 of them; and in the process of doing that,
we went ahead and bled the probe. And I have the
feeling that you're right. Joe said the probe was quite
free in there after he bled it, and I have the feeling
that the whole probe is Just loose in there, and that
we do not have any capture latches.
CC Roger. If you read, then all we can get from you is

the clocking of the shaft before you remove it.
Okay, we're going to have LOS in about 15 seconds.
We'll pick you up at Bermuda in about 1 minute.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. We got about 5-1/2 more minutes now through

Bermuda, and for your info, the med conference over
Madrid has been scrubbed.
CDR Okay, we're all healthy. And let's hear from Rusty
some more on that probe. We didn't catch your last
remark.
CC Okay.
CC All right. It sounds as though, since you've already

vented the probe, that the thing we're looking for
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is the clocking on the center shaft, and other than

that - and the caution about the probe being free,
you're to press on with a normal probe removal as
per the Activation Checklist.
CDR All right. And, what's your opinion on if we had to

undock, how we'd go about doing it? Do you think we
could get the capture latches to cock?
15 31 19 CC Okay. We're thinking about that, Pete.
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15 32 21 CC Okay, we're thinking about that, Pete, and we

have a considerably longer procedure on verification
of the probe capability that'll come later in the
mission; that'll answer that question specifically.
One further comment _on the probe removal, and that
is: In your Judgment, you'll have to look at the
back end of the probe, and if you feel that it's
going to be safer removing it with the pyro
cover back on, that is, avoiding sharp edges,
feel free to do so and let us know.
SPT Okay. Stand by for the clocking. Pete's looking

at it.
CC Roger.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. The line perpendicular to the latch on

that rod is rotated 15 degrees counterclockwise
from the plus-Z-axis, as we view it.
SPT Or from the Z-axis, I should say.
CC Okay. Understand. If you stand by Just a moment;

15 degrees counterclockwise from the Z-axis. And
that's counterclockwise looking up at the probe
from down in the command module?
SPT That is correct.
SPT Okay, Houston - about the probe removal ...
CC Roger. If you have systems 2-1D, let me just

verify. In other words, you're saying that the -
that that line is essentially over the ratchet
handle. It's by the extension of the line you
Just talked about. It's over the ratchet handle.
SPT That's right, Rusty.

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15 34 25 CC Okay, fine. Thank you, we have it. And go

ahead and proceed with the removal then.
SPT Okay, but that now, Rusty, is the line perpendi-

cular to the flat.
CC Roger. We understand. That's the line perpendi-

cular to the flat. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from

LOS. We'll pick you up over Madrid at 40.
PLT Return at 40.
CDR Did you read comm check on that one?
CC Roger. We heard Houston's comm check. We read

you loud and clear. Thank you.
CC Copy.
15 42 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes.
PLT Okay. We've got the probe out and the capture
latches were not engaged.
15 43 23 CDR Okay, Houston. Here's a data plate for you. Two

capture latches are out and one capture latch
is stuck in.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Hey, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Another data plate on the probe. It turned out

that that one was flush, and the little ear,
when I ... it, it came up. It looks to me like
two of them had captured, and this one, for whatever
re - you can tell better ground than I can, it
just would not come up and allow the little lever
to trip and loek it. It looked like something
was out of sequence with the trigger on that
latch. -_\
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CC Roger. Copy.
15 _5 44 CDR Now, we've got all three capture latches latched,

and if I push on the end of the probe, it will re-
lease all three capture latches; they'll all fold
and then pull them all down. Now, let's ...
that up. Now, let it go, they should all lock.
CDR All down?
CDR Now, two of them are up and the third one is

stuck down, and I can't answer for you why,
and so is the little center button stuck down.
CC Pete, let me make sure I understand you. You

went through your little sequence, there. At
one point you had all three capture latches out,
and you then tripped it again. And they went in,
and one of them stayed in and the button is -
on the end of the probe is also staying depressed.
CDR With me, Rusty?
CC Pete,do youread?
CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC Yes. Did you read my summary there? Did it agree

with what had happened?
CDR No, I didn't read your summary. Let me give it

to you again. When we took the probe out, two
latches were out and they - they were out, but
apparently not locked. One was flush. Okay,
now, if we push the plunger in the end of the
probe - -
PLT Capture latch released - -
CDR - - capture latch released.
PLT - - but
CDR - - left side button. It sticks in now and the

one latch, capture latch, stays flush and the
other two pop up.
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15 h7 35 CC Okay, Pete. At one point you mentioned also that

the one that was flush, popped out when you ...
the trigger on it. Is that correct?
CDR Well, that's what I thought, but that's ... not

doing it now. Yes, it is, too.
CDR I take that back. It is. Paul just did it

and it came up.
CC Okay. I'll tell you what. We're going to digest

all that, Pete, and the boys in the backroom will
be working and we'll probably come back to you at
some later point. And I'd suggest just going
ahead with the time line.
CC And one further question. What's the status of

the pyro cover? Did you put it on, or do you
still have it off?
CDR It's off.
CC Okay, fine. W@'ll assume it'll stay off then, and

you're going to let us know where you stow it
temporarily?
CDR Yes. We'll put the pyro cover in with the probe
in the bag.
CC Okay, thanks.

LOS. We'll pick you up again at Honeysuckle
at 02:05.
CDR Okay.
16:25:22 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for about

9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. And be advised we had a MAIN A

undervolt, which sucked the voltage down to about
25 volts, and it turns out to be a heater cycle,
as best we can determine it. We must have had
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all the heaters on at one time. If you can look

at your low bit rate, if you'd add that on, maybe
you can come up with a better scheme for configu-
ring these heaters for use. We just spent lO min-
utes sorting that one out.
CC Roger.
CDR And we've got about 5 minutes to go on the TDI

sampling. We've gotten our sample, and we're
waiting the 15 minutes.
CC Roger. Copy. And we've got a couple of things for

you, too. It looks like we missed a couple of
checklist changes here we should have gotten.
CDR Okay. Hold it and let me bring you up. We've got
the secondary glycol evap dried out and the primary
evap is on its way. Would you like E-memory dumped?
CC Stand by.
CC While we're getting set down here, we're - just

for your information, we're going to do a CMG
reset at 16:33 at about 6 minutes from now.
Maximum excursion, we expect, is about 35 degrees
in roll and 5 degrees each in pitch and yaw.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your checklist changes.
CC Okay. On page A-9 we had a comment earlier

about whether you want to close the latch handle -
the hatch handle, and that same comment applies
there. On panel 312 we just want that to read
to close the hatch.
CDR Okay. Just close the hatch; don't lock it, is

what you're saying.
CC We don't - Well, we had you closing the hatch

handle, then laying the hatch over on the dogs.
We didn't want to do that. We Just want to strike
that out so it Just says "close the hatch."
CDR Oh, okay.
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CC But, don't - don't lock the hatch. And, we're

ready for the E-memory dump anytime.
CC And the only other checklist change we got

for you is on page 2-51.
16 28 52 CDR Who's it for?
CC That's for the PLT.
PLT He's ready.
16 29 01 CC Okay. There on panel 390 in the aft lock acti-

vation, we want to turn HEAT EXCHANGER FANS 1 ON.
And the reason we're doing that, Paul, is we want
to stir up the air in there prior to getting a
sniff sample there.
CDR The _ODs coming at you.
CC Roger.
16 21 25 PLT Okay Joe, you want the number 1 fan ON, or do

you want them all on?
CC Just the number 1.
PLT Okay.
CDR And we'd sure - like you to look at how we got

that great big load on MAIN A because, as we
remember it, it just sort of kind of took care
of itself there. We were turning heaters on
and off. But whatever heater cycle it was on -
or maybe you'll see something on the data - but
I'll tell [ou, we had one big load on that bus
for a minute.
CC Roger. We - we'll take a look at it.
CC And, for info, our attitude plan is, after we do

the CMG reset here at Honeysuckle - at Hawaii,
we're going to command a small pitch maneuver to
get a little more power in preparation for
activation.
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CDR Roger.
CC And, Pete, we got one more probe question for

you here in trying to psyche this one out.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. If the probe is not bagged yet, if you'll

look, minus-X along the probe, and using the - the
strut with the yellow end on it, as a 12 o'clock
reference, I wonder if you could give us the clocking
of the capture latch which is sticking in.
PLT Hey, Rusty, on page 2-11 is the one you can't see on
that picture.
CC Okay, l've got it. And let me ask you another

question. Have you rotated the head of the
probe? Or do you think it's the same as it
was for docking attempts?
CDR We haven't touched that, it's - l'm sure it's the

same. It's just the way we took it out of there.
CC Okay. Fine. So that's - looking in the direction,

I was saying, that's something like 7 or 8 o'clock.
CDR I don't know. It's in the bag now.
CC Okay, fine. We've got it. Thank you.
CDR Ready, Houston?
CC Go ahead.
16 B2 43 CDR Okay. We passed the TDI monitor check with flying

colors. It's pure white. Nothing that we can
see at all.
16 32 51 CC Roger. Copy. That's good news.
CDR And we're on our way to the MDA. I wish I had a

Polaroid picture to send down to you guys from
the inside of this command module with three suits,
all that gear, a drogue, a probe, and a hatch, Joe,
Paul, and Pete.
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CC Roger. I'd like to see that myself.
CDR (Laughter). It's unbelievable.
CC Okay. The CMG maneuver is coming up and we got the

E-memory dump; you're cleared to do the powerdown
now.
CDR Okay. Going to P06.
16 33 h8 CC And, Pete, if you have the docking index angles

available, we'd like to get those.
CDR It's minus 1.5.
CC Roger. Copy; minus 1.5.

LOS. Looking good going over the hill. We'll
see you at Hawaii at h5.
CDR Okay. We've done the EMOD, the - the ... circuit
deactivates and processed and MDA hatch openings.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And Paul just went in, and he said it's very cold
in there, which is good news.
CC Should be about 50 in there, I think.
CDR Yes, boy, and it looks great. He just turned on

the lights.
16 45 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. We're in the MDA and we're pretty

busy. I'm working on suit deact and we're
jumping around a little bit to try and clean up
the command module because we got so much stuff
in it. So we're moving the probe and drogue at
this point. Be advised that nobody has had any
trouble so far in the MDA. And be advised to
tell the doctors that we did not, in fact, try
our motion sickness pills this morning because
none of us felt like we needed them.
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CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Also we've got our window shades up. And the
command module is really beginning to pick up
water on the inside of it, I noticed. Our side
hatch has got quite a bit of moisture on it and
so do our windows. Just generally picking up
moisture all over. But now that we've got this
MDA dry air, why, I think maybe that will help a
little bit.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. The pitch maneuver's in work.

Should be about ll degrees.
CDR Okay, we -- (Laughter). We ... up here, so you

guys can maneuver away to your hearts' content.
CDR So far, we've collected one screw, one nut, and one
piece of red thread floating around in the MDA;
otherwise, it's clean as a whistle. Looks very
nice.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Whenever it's convenient we'd

like to get a reading on the CL sample.
16 50 35 CDR Okay, Houston. It was about five parts per million.
CC Roger. Copy.

We'll he picking up at Goldstone at 57.
16 5_ 54 CDR Okay, Houston. The MDA dock is in the command

module and the suit circuit is deactivated.
CC Copy.
16 57 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.

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CDR Roger, Houston. And, we may be off the air here.

We're going through umbilical connect stuff, and
so forth.
16 57 56 CC Roger.
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17 08 43 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. We're hooking up umbilicals. The

SPS TP configuration check's been made; those guys
are pressing on.
17 15 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute to LOS. Be

seeing you at Canaries at 01:07.
17 15 34 CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Okay, no need to acknowledge. And for your info,

we're playing back the data now on the MAIN A
undervolt. We don't think it's a big problem at
this point, but we are working on a plan. We'll
have them for you later this morning, and we may
want to change some switches and bus setups in the
command module.
17 15 57 CDR Yes, that's what we finally concluded, that it

wasn't just sure we got too many heaters or
some ...
17 17 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for about

15-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Houston.
17 26 22 CDR Hello, hello.
CC Hello.
CC Skylab, Houston; you called?
17 26 50 CC Skylab, Houston; did you call?
CDR Say, Houston, Paul wanted me to tell you he's

got a PRIMARY COOLANT TEMP low. Is that to be
expected?
CC Stand by i. Roger. That's expected. Temps

are running real low down there in the _A.
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17 28 53 CDR Okay, the other thing is, I've gone all the way
through the complete hookup including panel 230
CSMs SWS ... signal connect, and gotten a barber-
pole. And none of our SIAs seem to talk to one
another down there.
CC Roger. We copy. During one of those checkouts

we heard someone say "hello, hello" there on the
transmitter, I guess.
CDR That was me transmitting on V0X 98. That

doesn't count.
CC Okay.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, those SIAs aren't going to work until you

get down to page 2-33 there for the PLT where he
puts the eight audiocircuit breakers in; closes
those.
CDR Okay.
17 30 30 CDR We figured it was some place ...
17 30 37 CDR Hey, Brad, SPT is about to start ATM panel

activation.
CC Roger. And I assume that all the items previous

to that have been accomplished.
CDR That's affirmative.
17 32 40 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about a minute and a

half from LOS. Next contact is Carnarvon at
01:00. And at Carnarvon we plan to up-link a
test message to the teleprinter. And when you
get that, you can take a look at it and tell us
if it looks all right; and then we'll be all
set to send the pads and the rest of the up-links.
17 32 35 CDR Okay.
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17 32 _5 PLT How do you read from the MDA, Houston?
CC Okay, we're reading you, Paul. There's a little

squeal in the background. Looks like you're
getting same feedback from SIAs there.
PLT Yes, that was one of them. Okay.
CC Hey, you sounded real good then.
PLT Roger. We're getting there.
17 33 03 PLT PLT's on page 2-35.
CC Roger; copy.
17 33 13 CDR And CDR's finishing up PRIMARY GLY EVAP dryout,

and I'll ... glycol ... reads ...
CC Roger. Copy.
17 33 28 PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Never mind, we'll catch you later.
17 33 55 CC Okay. Well, I've got a few seconds to LOS.
18 00 _3 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for about l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CC Roger. Read you loud and clear.
PLT ... Okay, the CDR has completed the command module
configuration through CM 02 systems config, and I
just completed the caution and warning checkout on
the FIRE SENSORS, except for 392. And we're waiting
right now to go in the lock and the OWS; we're con-
figuring for that.
CC Roger. And we do have things we'd like for you to

set up in the command module. Are you up there now?
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18 01 29 CDR Yes, but what do you want to set up in the command

module?
CC Okay, we've looked at this heater problem. We think

you've already powered do_-n enough things that you're
probably not going to get that undervolt again. How-
ever, we would like to go ahead and reconfigure the
heaters. We were going to do it tonight, anyhow, but
we'll go ahead and do it and then we'll be doubly sure
that we probably won't get another undervolt, if you
want to do that now.
CDR Okay, if you'll wait 2 seconds, I'll take you

down into the command module, and you can tell
me what to do.
CC And, Skylab, for information, we're going to command

the FILL VALVES CLOSED according to Flight Plan.
CDR Okay, and I'm down in the command module now, and
you tell me what you want done?
CC Okay, panel 226_ circuit breaker 02 50 watt heaters,

MAIN A to - MAIN A, OPEN.
CDR Was that two breakers?
CC That is TANK 2, MAIN A.
18 02 25 PLT Are you with us, Houston?
CC Okay, we're in a hole right now between Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle. How do you read?
CDR You're all right. It was 2 50-watt, OPEN, right?

MAIN A?
CC Roger. TANK 2 MAIN A, OPEN. On 50-watt.
18 03 _2 CDR That's done.
18 03 5h CC Okay on panel 2.
CDR Yes.
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CC Okay. The H 2 HEATERS i, OFF; 02 HEATERS i, OFF; and
H 2 FANS i, OFF; and H 2 FANS 2, OFF.
18 04 59 CC Skylah, how do you read?
CDR Hello, Houston. Are you going to stay with us now?

Hello, hello.
18 05 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're in a keyhole now. If you'll

hang on a second or 2.
CDR Waiting.
18 05 36 CC Okay, I think we're pretty good now. Pete, how

do you read?
CDR Great.
CC Okay. On panel 2, that was H 2 HEATERS l, 02

HEATERS l, OFF. That was two switches.
18 05 53 CDR Okay, H2 HEATER 1 and 02 HEATER 1 are OFF.
CC Okay, and H 2 FANS 1 and 2, OFF.
CC CDR, did you copy that last on the H 2 FANS?
18 06 38 CDR Where'd you disappear to that time?
CC I don't know. Did you get the H 2 FANS, OFF?
18 06 47 CDR I got the H2 FANS, OFF, yes.
CC Okay. That 's it.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, on the panel activation, I suppose you know

but I want to be reassured that we have a POWER
SYSTEM ALERT light, a BAT CHARGER ALERT light,
the battery and charger lights on CBRM 15 are ON,
and the - charger - The BAT CHARGE, BAT VOLTS, and
__ REG VOLTS ta]kbacks are all barber poled. Does that
jive with the - with the power problems that you've
got ? _
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CC That's affirmative. That all jives, Joe. We've

lost that CBRM.
SPT Okay. And I did not connect the CBRM antenna

because my assumption is we aren't going to use
the - I don't mean CBRM - SRNBM, the noise burst
monitor. And I'm ready to do the DAS test if
you are.
18 07 53 CC Okay, stand by the DAS test. We agree with the

other things you said.
SPT Glad you can understand them.
CC SPT, Houston.
18 08 h6 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT_ loud and clear. Go ahead.
18 08 55 CC SPT, Houston; I'm reading you broken. We would

like for you to go ahead and configure for the
radio noise burst monitor. We are not going to
use it. You're correct there, but we would like
to get it connected up.
18 09 08 CDR Oh. Houston, are you there?
CC Roger. How do you read?
CDR Okay. Do you want the e-p SPECT on or off on the

panel 167
CC Roger. We want it ON. O, N ON.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Houston.
18 09 55 CC Joe, we'd like to make one last attempt on that

CBRM number 15. We'd like for you to hit the
ATJ,/ON switch.
18 l0 03 SPT You bet. Okay. We did it, Hank, and the lights
are out at the moment.
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CC Hey, looks like we may have it back.
SPT Whoopee!
CC We'll know when we get some sunlight.
SPT That'll be soon, right?
18 l0 31 CC We've got about 3 minutes to go. And we're about

l0 seconds from LOS. We'll be seeing you at Hawaii
at 23:00 and we plan to dump the data recorder there.
SPT Okay.
CC And, your teleprinter message should be up there now.
18 l0 53 SPT We'll take a look.
18 23 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Paul's down turning on the fans in

the OWS at this time. Joe is monitoring him. And
I'll have further word for you on that in just a min-
ute. I can see Paul; he's on his way back up now.
0
CC Roger; copy.
CDR Your teleprinter message came through. It's kind

of faded at the end. I hope they come through
better than that.
18 23 21 CC Do you mean that all the message wasn't there,

or it Just printed rather weakly at the end?
CDR It printed rather weakly at the end.
18 23 54 CDR Okay, Paul is back. He's closing the aft airlock

hatch at this time.
CC Copy.
18 26 58 CC Skylab, Houston. For information, we're going to

have to do another CMG reset here. Be coming up
in a couple of minutes.
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SPT Okay, Houston. What's the problem? We've had two

ACS malfs here in the last couple of minutes.
CC Well, the CMGs are saturated now, Joe.
SPT Okay, all right. Are you ready for the DAS test
yet?
CC Roger.
SPT Okay, here comes a ten thou - -
CC Skylab, Houston. We just went into TACS on the

control mode.
SPT Did you do that?
18 28 04 CC Negative. I think it went out 20 degrees in attitude

to cause it, and we'd like for you to stay off the
DAS while we conmand the system.
18 28 1B SPT Roger.
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18 31 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Goldstone coming up at 35.
CDR Roger. Do you still want us to stay off the DAS?
CC Okay, you can clear the caution on your ACS malf, and
we'll be standing by for Goldstone for the DAS
checks.
CDR Okay.
18 35 i0 CC Skylah, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
CDR Hello.
CDR Hello, Houston. We hear you.
CC Okay. Read you loud and clear.
PLT Hey, Houston; PLT.
CC PLT, go ahead.
PLT Okay, on our fairly quick inspection the OWS

appears to be in good shape. It feels a little
bit warm, as you might expect. From the 3 to 5
minutes I spent in there, I would say, subjectively,
it's about - it's a dry heat. I'd guess - It feels
like - like 90 to a 100 degrees in the desert.
Hank, I could feel heat radiating from all around
me, but in the short time I was in there, I never
felt uncomfortable. I had the soft shoes and the
gloves on, and nothing I touched even felt hot to me.
CC Roger; copy.
18 36 44 SPT SPT, are you ready for those DAS tests?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay, I'm going to give you 10,000. Please

acknowledge.
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18 37 07 CC SPT, you got a GO on the first one.
SPT Okay_ here comes 20,000.
CC And, Paul, did you notice the duct flows when

you turned the fans on downstairs?
PLT If you want numbers, I didn't notice numbers.

They came up to what I expected to be normal.
CC 0kay_ copy. And you have a GO on the second one, Joe.
PLT Okay, and did I get confused, Hank? I only turned

on eight fans down there.
PLT You did want only eight fans turned on for this, right?
CC And, SPT, you got a GO on the third one. We wanted

all twelve fans, but that's okay.
PLT All right.
CC You have a GO on number 4.
CC SPT, you got a GO on number i.
CC SPT, GO on number 2.
CC A GO on number 3.
18 39 05 CC And you have a GO on number _. All look good.
SPT Okay, thank you. And, Hank, it looks as if

CPRs 15 came off the line again. Is that right?
CC Roger_ we concur. I think we still got troubles

with it.
SPT Okay.
SPT And by the way, Houston, this is SPT. I take it

you didn't have any changes for me on page 2-38, or
additions ?
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CC That;s affirmative; no changes there. And if you

want to clear that BAT VOLTS light, I guess you can
turn the CHARGER and REG OFF.
SPT Okay.
CC That's on number 15 there.
SPT Okay, gang. Thank you.
CC And, Joe, while you're there, do you have any other

talkbacks on the fire system that look like they
might be out of kilter?
SPT CDR says the fire detection system checked out 40.
CC Roger; copy.
18 41 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about lO seconds from LOS;

we'll pick you up again over Bermuda at 45:00.
• 18 h5 23 CC Skylab, Houston, through MILA for 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. Houston, we're just pressing - logging along

through the checklist here.
CC I didn't copy that last. Would you say again?
CDR Roger; I said we're just logging along on the

checklist here, and we're going to get into this
TDI sampling in the OWS area after a while.
CC Roger, copy; and for - Joe, if you are still at the

ATM console, we would like for you to stay off the
DAS. We're going to - We think the reason that our
momentum is building up is we're a little bit out
of plane, so we're going to command a Z rotation.
SPT Okay, you got it.
18 59 04 CC Skylab to the CDR - -
18 49 05 SPT Houston, SPT.
18 49 06 CC - - Go ahead, SPT.
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SPT Roger. I'm not sure if it's okay for me to go ahead

with pages 2-42 and 2-43 or not with what you guys
are doing.
CC Stand by.
CC Okay, Joe, the DAS is yours, and also we got a little

message for the CDR.
SPT Go ahead and I'll relay.
CC Okay, we goofed up a while ago and didn't beat the

quiscent checklist against our power down on the
panel 226, so next time Pete goes up there, we'd
like for him to go to 226 and turn 02 HEATER
number 2, 100 WATT - turn - close the main B
circuit breaker.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, Houston that was i00 WATT 02 HEATER 2,

MAIN B. Right?
18 50 39 CDR It's on.
CC Thank you, sir.
18 55 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll be picking up Ascension at 02.
19 01 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for ll minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston; SPT. Over.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
SPT Okay. In rolling the canister to unlock the GSE

nitrogen purge fitting the initial roll position was
minus 1440 instead of 1350 per the checklist. I
thought about it and went ahead and did the
precedure, and it appeared to work very well.
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I then deployed the scan spec mirror to the unlock

position per the red line checklist. And looked at
the DAS counter 2 scan spec mirror postion; it
read 6901, which is garbage. I just thought I'd
pass that along for evaluation and reassurance.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT I think it's because I don't have the experiment

powered up yet.
CC That is affirmative. That's the reason, Joe.
$PT Okay, and I'm about to sample TDI through the aft
hatch.
CC Roger. Copy.
19 03 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be starting a

pitch maneuver here shortly to get you 6 degrees
more into the Sun for power, and we'd like you to
stay clear of the DAS.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy, reference the DAS?
CDR No. Say again.
CC Roger. We're going to be commanding a maneuver in

pitch, and we'd like to keep the DAS free.
CDR Okay, it is. Joe is in sampling the workshop air

right now.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR CDR is taking out the launch pins for the film
vault, and the PLT is in the midst of his - getting
ready for water separator plate wetting.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CDR Roger.
4 19 ii 40 CC Skylab, Houston.
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CC Skylab, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We would like some - one of you to

watch your momenturm until we get to Carnarvon.
We - a word about the ... reset. We want you to look
at it, and if it goes over 90 percent, do a reset.
The optimal time for the reset is 19:21. If you
go past 19:21 and it looks like you're GO over 90
percent, we'd like you to reset anyhow.
19 12 47 CC Skylab, Houston. Skylab, Houston in the blind.

Carnarvon at 35:00.
19 35 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you have anything to report

on the TDI sniff?
PLT It's cooking ... Houston, and so far it doesn't look

like anything, but we'll let it run its full length.
CC Roger; copy. And for the SPT, we just dug out

some info and learned that the canister was launched
with a roll of lh30. So the reading he got was
right on the money.
CDR Okay. He's nodding his head, and if you're looking

at the data, you may have just seen a note ... the
command module. We activated the water system
again so that we could get some chow.
CC Roge; copy. And to help our power situation, I

guess we'd like to get the OWS entry lights turned
off there in the aft lock here while we're eating
lunch - after you complete the sniff.
19 37 13 SPT Okay, we'll get that as soon as we're done testing

for TDI. I thought I turned them off when I came
out, Hank.
CC Okay, you may have.
CDR Yes, he did.
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SPT You think I'm not power conscious? Here I thought

I'd thought about it, and you guys caught me. And I
have something else for you on the condensate tank
dump system, especially the heaters, when you're
ready to listen.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT According to the procedure on page - Wait until I

find the page.
CC And we'd like for you to keep clear of the DAS

for the next few minutes.
SPT I'm within 3 feet of it. That won't hurt it, will it?
CC That'll be safe enough.
SPT On page ll9, Henry, he's preping for this - You

ready to listen to me? You were talking about
somethingelse to somebodyelse.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Anyway, apparently, on our condensate tank,

it appears that the secondary vent heater does not
work. I turned it on and the light came on, and
I came back and checked it about 20 minutes later.
The temperature was reading zero. I cycled the
circuit breaker. The light went out and came back
on. I went to PRIMARY, and after a while its
temperature came right on up. So I went ahead and
did that dump, using the primary system. You
might think about it, and see what other readings
you have on the ground, if any, and let us know.
CC Roger; we copy.
19 39 13 SPT Also, I don't know, but I turned that heater off

about i0 minutes ago, after having dumped through
it, and the temperature is still pegged high, in
excess of 150.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, the DAS is yours.

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19 43 09 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going to be sending

up via teleprint, hopefully prior to the stateside
pass, some mod's to the parasol deployment
checklist; so you'll have time to browse them over
before you have to do it.
CDR Okay.
19 44 41 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Guam at 49:00.
SPT Okay. Stand by for the TDI results.
CC Okay.
SPT TDI level's okay. There's no discernable change

in color.
CC Roger; copy. That's good news.
SPT Smells kind of funny in there, though. Smells

like hot metal for some reason.
CC Roger.
SPT Or like something that has been hot.
CC Smell anything like butterscotch pudding?
19 49 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
SPT Roger. We'll have some ... results for you in a

couple or 3 minutes.
CC Okay. Standing by.
19 53 41 PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. No detectable CO, according to our

tester in the workshop.
CC Roger. Copy.
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PLT We're going to close the hatch again, and eagerly

awaiting your GO for entry.
CC Roger.
PLT You want me to turn on those other three spare,

other four fans Hank, or just let her run on eight.
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay, Patul. We'd like to Just leave it like it

is now, and you can turn out the lights and to
on about your business.
PLT Okay. That's complete; the lights are out, and

Joe's securing the airlock aft hatch right now.
And we're going to leave the airlock forward
hatch open - consider the airlock as - the lock
compartment of the airlock as usable and livable.
CC Roger. We concur.
19 55 21 PLT Hey, Henry. I've got one more question for the
ECS guys.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. I don't want to waste going through one

of these water separator plate wetting deals. The
dewpoint right now is 36 degrees. Is it going to do
me any good to wet the plates now and put them in?
CC Stand by 1.
PLT Okay.
19 56 40 CC Skylab, Houston. For Paul A we'll go ahead and

delay doing that right now. Looks like it's going to
be quite a while before we need the things. If it
turns out that we do need them, it looks like the
SPTmay have some free time later this afternoon.
PLT Yes, okay. That's just a rather lengthly procedure,

and I didn't want to waste time doing it twice, that's
all, Hank.
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CC Okay, and we got about I minute to LOS, so we'll

be coming up at Goldstone at 14:00.
PLT Roger. I get all the cr_,,,,,y Jobs around here. Hey,
something else for them to think about is, since we
got a late start, we've got about 2 hours and 45
minutes left to go in the bake out of bed i. You
ought to have them think what they want to do about
bake out of bed 2.
CC Roger; copy.
PLT You know, why don't we do it tonight or wait it out

until tomorrow morning on that one?
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20 13 19 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for about 19 minutes.
CDR Roger; Houston. Are we coming in over the Pacific

Northwest?
CC That's affirmative. It looks like you ought to be

coming right up, or near, Seattle.
CDR Okay. Mr. Weitz just recognized the world?
CDR Oh, yes. And we'd like you to pass along to the
principal investigator of - -
CDR Pardon me, (chuckle) to Don Lends, that his experi-

ment is in super shape.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR We can see it out the window.
CC Skylab, Houston for info, if you notice any lights

changing down on your CBRMs, we're managing 5 and 6,
because of the attitude, we're having trouble get-
ring the batteries charged. So, we're just kind of
switching them around. So, that would explain any
lights that you see on those two.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CDR Say, Houston, you with us?
CDR We're getting ready to eat lunch. Waiting for your

GO to go on into the workshop, and as far as contami-
nation - contamination goes on any one of these four
STS windows, they are just as clean as a whistle.
They're as clean windows as l've even seen in a
spacecraft.
CC Roger; copy.
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20 19 18 CC CDE, Houston. You're GO for entering 0WS, and the

modifications of procedure should be coming up
shortly.
CDR 0kay. We're going to go eat. It's kind of hard to get

away from the windows, especially for the new boys.
CC Roger.
"CDR The Pacific Northwest is really something. Right

now, we're over what appears to be a fairly major
weather system with pretty good overcast clouds in
the Montana-Dakotas region.
CC Roger; copy.
CC And for info, we're also going to be doing another

CMG reset at 2:08, a nominal H-cage.
CDR Roger. We'll wait for all the clang, bang and the
bells to ring.
CDR Also, Hank, not having spent any great time at

237 nautical miles, why - we passed some familiar
lanams_ks like NAS Whidby and a couple of other
airfields. And we can see those runways pretty
good. So, hopefully we'll do pretty well with our
EREP.
20 20 47 CC Hey, sounds great.
CC Skylab, Houston. May we assume that all activities

other than separator plate servicing has been
accomplished, all activities prior to lunch?
CDR Yes, that's - that's affirmative. We elected not to

change the debris screen. We looked at them and
they're not that bad.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR Be advised now that we have a moment to chat.

Mobility around here is super. It's turned out that
work better than, I say, than we even hoped for.
Nobody has had any problem with any feeling of any
motion sickness or anything, so we're all squared
away on that. Everything that we've been supposed
to unfold or move or ... has been easier than we
could hope for.
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CC Roger. That's good news. Outstanding!
CDR So lets hope the parasol deploys.
SPT Pete, tell them about the one operation that wasn't
any easier.
20 23 22 CDR Yes, the doctor wanted me to remind you, though, that

the one operation that has not changed in the history
of manned space flight was just performed by the CDR.
And, as usual, it's backup ... it takes approximately
i rev a year.
CC (Laughter) Roger; copy.
CC Go ahead.
CDR ... and we just passed Florida, as I'm sure you know.
And that we were able to make out - we found the Cape
and from there we could all ... could not actually see
the buildings. We can see the cleared area around
the VAB. We could See the Crawlerway out to the pads,
both pads, and also make out quite distinctly the
skid strip.
CC Wow, must be pretty down there today.
CDR Plus, it looks like thay got some super big boomers
in Miami, and that's just right to the Cape, too.
CC Roger. In fact, one of them must have got us, be-

cause we are having a little trouble with our com-
mand lines. That teleprinter message on the procedure
change may be a little late getting up to you. How-
ever, there are no changes, at least up to step 5.
20 26 52 CDR Okay, good enough. Don, something's coming in now.
CC Okay, the step 5 was in the parasol deployment.
CDR That looks like black magic - that stuff coming out
of that teleprinter.
CC $kylab, Houston. For info, we'll be dumping the data

recorded over Bermuda, which is just a couple of
minutes from now.
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CDR Okay, and as I remember, the cue cards for the ...
deployment are in the back of the rendezvous book.
Is that right?
CC Standby.
CC That's a correct location. Back of the rendezvous

book.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CDR Hey, Hank, you with us?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, I rewound the video tape recorder. It took

about 3 minutes and 20 seconds for it to rewind.
That's all configured for you.
CC Roger. Thank you.
20 31 43 CC Skylab, Houston. Teleprinter load should be up to

you now, and you look those over. If you've got any
comments, you can give them back to us. We've got
about 1 minute left on this pass.
20 31 54 CDR Okay, Houston, I've got them in hand, and the tele-
printer does a very nice job, except it's awfully
faint. We don't know whether it's this particular
paper or whether that's the way it's going to be the
rest of the time. A little difficult to read.
CC You can read it all, can't you, Pete?
CDR I think so, Hank.
20 32 26 CC Okay, we're just short of LOS. And our next contact

is going to be Carnarvon at 13, which is a long time
from now, and we'll be dumping the recorder there
again.
CDR Okay, hopefully we'll have had lunch by then, and

we'll work these changes while we're doing lunch.
CC Okay.
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21 12 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 7minutes.
CC Carnarvon for 7 minutes, and we'll be dumping the

recorder.
SPT Roger.
21 13 27 CDR Okay. The CDR's headed into the workshop right now
with ... ahead trying to move the condensate tank.
CC Roger; copy. And the next guy through the airlock

there, we'd like to get him to turn OWS HEAT EXCHANGE
FANS, number l, OFF. We don't need that anymore,
and we'll conserve a little power.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you have any questions on the

mods we sent up by teleprinter?
CDR I just finished incorporating them in the cue cards,

Hank. We haven't really had the time to go over and
- reviewthem. We'll do that later.
CC Okay. And - For the SPT there, he's to set up the TV.
We'd like to give you some words on order of priority.
The number 1 priority is that he be able to observe
the deployment. If the TV camera's going to inter-
fere with his observation, then eyeballs come first.
SPT Roger. This morning is the first time I had an

inkling you guys wanted to see this and I just
haven't thought about it, yet.
CC Okay. It's called out there on our page A-4 in the

time line.
SPT Yes, which I saw this morning for the first time.
SPT I'll tell you, Hank. There's one whale of a lot of

stuff in that command module. And we'll see if we
can get it out.
CC Okay.
SPT Because in order to neaten it up to leave room for

three guys, among other things, we had to dismantle
the TV and restow it. In order to get it. out, we
are going to have to move a whole lot of other stuff.
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SPT We'll try to do it, but we're not promising anything,

is what I'm saying, I guess.
CC Okay. That's good, but before you try it, take a

look out the window and see if you think you're going
to still be able to see, if the TV camera is installed.
SPT Yes. Well - oh_ I see what you're saying - yes.
CC Well, the number 1 priority is being Able to see it

with your eyeballs, and if the camera interferes, we
don't want the camera.
21 17 01 SPT You cannot see out that window with the TV camera
in there.
SPT I tried that yesterday and I couldn't see and I didn't

get any TV by trying to do both.
CC Okay; copy.
CC I guess, if it's feasible, what we'd like to do is

have you eyeball the deployment, and after it's de-
ployed give us a TV picture of it.
SPT Understand you.
21 19 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Guam at 27:00.
SPT Roger; Houston.
SPT Roger; Houston. This is the SPT. The - the other

two guys are in the workshop getting ready for parasol
deployment.
CC Roger; copy. And, for your information, we'll be

switching the mission timer from B to A according
to the Flight Plan.
CC Skylab for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
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CC Okay. Are you up in the STS or ATM panel now?
SPT I'm moving ... right now, but I can get there in a
minute.
CC You're picking up a lot of feedback through the SIAs,

Joe. I'm having trouble reading you - loud squeal.
SPT I know. I had my hands full of ... I had to use the

wrong VOX. Go ahead.
CC Oh, okay. Sometime when you get a break there, we'd

like for you to take a look at the Calfax fasteners
on the teleprinter print cartridge, and see if they
are tied. I don't know whether that's - I can't
imagine them not being tied, but it's one thing we
could check.
SPT Stand by. They're all tied, Hank.
21 29 l0 CC Okay, thank you.
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21 30 17 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're initializing a

shutdown.
PLT Roger.
21 31 52 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CC Skylab, Houston. For information, we're commanding

a nominal H-cage.
PLT Roger.

Goldstone at 51:00.
21 51 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and stateside for

15 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston. We have had what we consider to be

three false alarms from bus 1 fire detectorin the
center sleep compartment. And in all instances,
they were transient, lasting less than 2 seconds.
However, the first time it does give you a start.
And for right now we got bus 1 powered OFF on that
detector.
CC Okay. Would you say again the locations?
PLT It's the detector in the center sleep compartment.

Sleep compartment number 2.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT Work is progressing. We've relocated the

condensate holding tank. That went like a
piece of cake, Just like 2001. We've got the
tripod moved. We got the foil off the SAL. It
is in good condition. We're in a process of
moving the T027 down now, while Joe hunts for
the ... bags.
CC Roger. Copy.
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21 53 lh CC Skylab, Houston. Paul, we're having to manage this

momentum and'do maneuvers here pretty often, as you
know; and we feel that we can't afford to have a
maneuver while you're pushing this thing out. Now
yon can work all the way up to step 22a, but we'd
kind of like to get a feel for later on in the
pass here. We got about 12 more minutes. About
when are you going to get to that, so we can
manage the momentum?
21 53 5h CDR Okay, Hank. Paul heard that and tells me that they
don't have a feel yet for when they are going to be
at that step. We'll let you know.
21 5h 02 CC Okay, I Just wanted to make you aware. I knew you

wouldn't know at this point. But as you start
working along, you maybe can get an idea about
when it will be.
CDR You bet.
21 54 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to verify that -

that you have read the procedure and don't have
any questions about it, because we're starting
to come up on the time of day when we don't have
msmy station contacts. In fact, after we drop
out stateside here, we'll pick you up at Vanguard
in about 20 minutes, and that's the last pass
before Goldstone.
CDR Okay, I'll pass that word to the workshop,

Hank. How many minutes left on this pass?
CC Okay, we got I0 minutes here.
21 55 09 CDR Okay.
21 56 50 CC Skylab, Houston. For information, we'll be

commanding the spectrometer on the CSM; no
action required.

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CC Roger. I'm reading you loud and clear, Pete.
CDR Okay. I got you on the speaker box - ouch! It's

hot down in here - ow - OWS. Yes. I got my hot
gloves back on again. The speaker box is about
130. We're taking the tape off the box, and we're
taking our time right now; and if we have any
questions on the procedures, we will wait to ask
yOU.
CC Roger. Copy.
21 57 46 CDR The certain question I had was, why did you re -

want to reverse the sleeves on the SAL tripod?
CC Say again, Pete?
CDR On the SAL tripod, why did you reverse the sleeves
on it? And I Just couldn't figure out why on the
tiedown.
CC That's the - that's the screws that - the way

! the thing is mounted, there for launch, Pete.
i You know, you turn those around,on the - where -
as part of activation.
22 00 04 CC SPT, Houston.
CDR He's down in the workshop.
CC Okay. SPT, just give us a call when you're free

for a minute.
CDR Can I relay you, Hank?
CC Negative. I Just got a little task I want him

to perform here sometime when he's free. And I
need to read it to him whenever he's got a chance
to listen.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For information; no action

required. We're going to do another nominal H-cage
in about 2 minutes.
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CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Is one of the guys near the

ATM console?
PLT No, we're all in the OWS.
22 04 49 CC Okay. We're Just trying to verify here. We saw

a change of status on the CBRMs. We're managing
5 and 6. And we're about i minute from LOS now.
We'll be picking you up at Vanguard at 17.
CDR Okay.
CC And the reset - or the nominal H-cage should be

starting now.
CDR How many minutes until sunset?
CC Okay, sunset's coming up in 13 minutes.
CDR Boy, sure gets hot down here during the dayside
pass, and the other thing is when that TACS goes
off, it sounds like somehody's beating on the
bottom of the lab with a h_mer.
22 05 28 CC Roger.
22 17 13 CDR Hello, Houston. Do you read?
CC Roger; read you loud and clear. We're through

Vanguard for about 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, here's step 7. Between steps 6 and 7 you

said verify bottom. Teflon flap is innermost,
and top is out. And, unfortunately, the forward
flaps run vertically. Now do you mean the flaps
that are inside the two vertical-running flaps?
There are four flaps there. If you hadn't sent
us the change, we'd have understood it.
CC Okay. The way that's supposed to be is the

bottom flaps should be folded upwards, then
the two side flaps folded across, and then the
last flap on top should be folded down.
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CDR Okay. That means we have to refold it. Do you

understand that?
CC Right. The - the purpose of that, Pete, is to

keep the SAL door, when it pushes in and down,
from pulling that flap down.
CDR Hey, I'm not arguing with you; I'm telling you,
we have to change it. Is that what you expected
us to have to do - change it? I understand what
you're talking about.
CC We want it changed, Pete. We want it so that the

SAL door will not drag the flap down. So that top
flap has to be on the outside, folded down.
CDR Top flap folded down. You will have.
CC That's a thing we uncovered last night, Pete, when

we were working in the trainer. They - When they
packed it, we didn't know about that problem with
the SAL door.
22 19 06 CDR Yes, I understand now. I Just wanted you to

understand that we were going to have to
rearrange those flaps, because it was not
packed the way you described it to start with.
22 19 17 CC Okay. We did that in the trainer, and it's easy

to do.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For you info, on the maneuver,

we're doing a pitch maneuver now to pick up the
power situation. We shouldn't have to do that
again while we're deploying. Our next nominal
H-cage is going to have to be done at 23:39 over
Texas, which is on the next contact after Vanguard.
So the only constraint we have on you is that
we cannot be maneuvering while you're doing steps 33
to 35, and that is when you actually deploy the
parasol. So, if you reach that point in the
checklist, and it looks like it's getting close
to the time we're going to have to do that
reset, we're going to have to hold up until we
get it completed.
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CDR We understand that. But we need the steps at the

time, so we can write it down. It was 34 - 35, and
when are we over Texas?
CC Okay. Over Texas at 23:39. That's when we have to

do a re - nominal H-cage. And the steps were 33,
34, _nd 35. That's when you do the last little
push to deploy the parasol.
CDR Okay.
22 24 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds until LOS.

We'll be picking you up at Goldstone at 28. And we
show you coming up close to termination of bed 1
bs_keout. We wanted to delay bed 2.
CDR Say again about bed 1 bakeout, Hank.
CC Roger. We - According to our time, it's just

about through, and we want to delay number 2.
22 25 12 CDR Okay.
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23 28 B3 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 12-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there.
23 28 47 CDR Hello, Hank. Be advised we have it vented. We have

-We are taking a little coolant break. It's pretty
warm down there, so we are progressing slow hut sure,
and everything so far is working.
CC Okay, Pete. We had a little dropout there; some

noise. Could you tell us what step you're on?
23 29 20 CDR We're about to put rod Delta on.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Okay. We had no trouble venting it down. It vented

in about 4 minutes and it held zero for i0 minutes
without any outgassing. Door opened very smoothly
and, so far, the rod extension has gone very easily.
And, as I say, we're Just taking a little heat
break.
CC Hey, that's a good lick.
23 29 55 CDR And Paul is terminating MOL SIEVE i BED bakeout

now. We noticed that the dewpoint has gotten up to
- to 44 and we want to know whether you want us to
go ahead a little later in the day or what's the ...
23 31 42 PLT Hello, Houston. Are you there?
CC Roger.
PLT You're breaking up, Hank. Did you copy m_ last

about the mol sieve?
CC Roger. Understand you are terminating the BED 1

bakeout.
PLT That's right. Also, did you get in on the onhoard

dewpoint ?
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CC Roger. We copy 44? Is that correct?
23 3218 CDR That's affirmative. If you want us to do it later

on, Just let us know and we'll do it. Now I have
something else on a PP CO2. We've got three active
sensors, and they are all reading differently, Just
for your information SIEVE B IN is reading 2 milli-
meters, SIEVE A IN is reading 3, and surprisingly
well. Now it's not so surprisingly because it's not
doing anything, but SIEVE A OUT is reading about 4-1/2.
23 32 47 CC Roger. We copy, and we have telemetry on those.
PLT Okay. Also, how about, Just for onboard information,

confirming or correcting our onboard indication
that showed that our panel 225, the 120 psi 02 regulator
is regulating to 140; and also - let me look a minute.
The N2 is regulating to about 165.
23 33 24 CC Okay. Those figures agree with what we got down
here, Paul, and they're acceptable. I
PLT Okay. So everything's working right that way, but

those are the right numbers.
PLT Okay, Henry, now let me verify about this parasol

extension stuff.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
2B 33 49 PLT We can do everything except steps 33, 34, and 35

while you're maneuvering the vehicle. Is that right?
CC Stand by 1 minute.
CC Slq#lab, Houston. We're coming up at in about 5 minutes

with the nominal H-cage, and we would like for you
not to do any more extensions until that maneuver
is complete. Once that maneuver is complete,
you're clear to press on through the deployment. The
thing we don't want to do is be deploying while - when
the maneuver is going on and thrust is firing.
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23 34 43 PLT Okay, I thought that might be the case, which wasn't

clear before. When's that maneuver going to be
over. You know?
CC Stand by. I'ii get an answer on that.
PLT Okay. Either a time or another AOS; just so we

know when we can pick up.
CC Okay. We are about 6 more minutes on this pass, and

then we'll be picking up Vanguard at 54.
23 35 i0 CDR You cut out, Henry. All I got was 4. Say again.
CC Okay. We have about 6 more minutes on this pass,

and then we'll pick up at Vanguard at 54.
CDR Okay. When can we continue the extension? You

want to wait until we pick up at Vanguard? You
give us the GO then?
23 35 31 CC Stand by.
23 35 47 CC Skylab, Houston. You're clear to proceed with

the deployment at 23:45.
PLT 23:45. Okay.
CC And we're getting a good picture down here.
23 36 00 PLT Okay. That's TV specialist, Dr. KeNgin.
SPT Hello, Henry. What you're looking at is the picture

out the right window. In the foreground you see the
see the MDA, the white painted ... behind that is
the ATM strutwork, and mostly the rest of it is blurred.
I don't think in this picture you can see the - the
thing deployed yet. If you like, I'll take it to
the left-handwindow now and give you a handheld shot
of it. And tell me, what are your - other TV
opportunities? Do you have any over Vanguard?
23 36 _i CC That's negative. And we got about 4 minutes left,

and if you can give us that other window, we'd
appreciate it.
CDR Let me hussle up then.

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PLT Okay, Henry - Let me - You did say we could resume

deployment at 23:45?
PLT Roger.
CC And, Joe, before we lose you, we would like to get

the TV on the VTR, in any event.
23 37 12 SPT Okay, I'll turn it on, and you guys can start it
whenever you want. How's that?
CC We're going to have to have you start it because

we probahly won't be in a station contact when
they get it deployed.
SPT Oh. Okay. You wanted - you wanted to get it

on the VTR; the deployment itself.
SPT Oh. Allright. !
23 39 01 SPT Okay, Henry. You're looking at a handheld view out

of the left window with the monitor between my
knees; and, unfortunately, I don't think you can
see the orange sail material, which is right in the
center line of that ATM strut ... because I have to
move my head to the very right-hand side of the
window to see it, and I can't get the TV camera in
over there. There isn't room.
23 39 32 CC I guess we're having trouble seeing it.
23 39 38 SPY If I try to move it to the right, the body of the

camera's too long, and I can't hack it.
23 40 20 CC Skylab, we're about 45 seL ds from LOS. Vanguard

at 54:00.
23 54 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes.
23 54 31 PLT Roger, Houston. The parasol is, I think, completely

deployed. I'm just going down to check on it.
CC Roger.
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PLT It's completely extended; it's not deployed.
CC Roger.
2B 54 46 PLT Correction, we're about to extend rod Echo, rod Echo.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger. Copy rod Echo.
23 56 56 PLT Hey, Henry?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. According the the procedures now, after we

get E out, it reads like we put F and G together
and push all the way out, but there's a broken mark
on F. I just want you to know that before.
2B 57 23 CDR Okay, I think rod G is the one you use to lock the
four rods. And then release the springs after the
... are locked out.
23 57 50 PLT Houston, we're not reading you. We're going to

move up to the MDA and talk to you.
CC Okay, we've been having a little trouble -_ith

Vanguard. Have we got good con_n now? How do you
read?
PLT Loud and clear. What's the story with the stripe
on F? The procedures don't say anything about it.
CC Okay, step 27 tells you about rod F.
CC After you put F on in 26, you move it out to the

mark, then clamp it.
PLT Okay, I got you. I read that. Over.
PLT Now the two marks on E are only about an inch and
one half apart. That's right, huh?
CC That's affirmative, and when you get to the first

mark, that should be the point where the telescoping
rods start locking. When you reach the second point,
you should be in a vicinity where all of them should
be locked.
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PLT Okay.
23 58 46 CC But if you have any doubts, we want to push it

further until you have no doubts that all the
telescoping rods are locked.
23 58 5_ PLT Okay....
PLT How important is TV, Hank? It's dark out now. You
want to wait for light?
CC Negative. We want to get it out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We would like for you to get a

visual verification on the deployment. Whether
we get TV or not is not important. We want you to
have a visual on it, though.
SPT No chance of a visual, Paul, until we go into sunrise.
00 00 08 PLT When did that start, Hank? We're at the first mark
on E now. How far can we progress before daylight?
!
CC Okay, you can progress all the way up to step 32. i

That's when you start the final deployment.
PLT Okay.
CC Thirty-two is releasing the brake. Go up to 32.

We have about 26 minutes to sunrise.
00 O0 40 CC And we're 1 minute from LOS. Our next contact is

Hawaii at 03:00.
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01 0fi 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston. Stand by 1. We're trying to get the

TV on the _TM, and Pete will have a chat with you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 4 minutes left on

this pass. Can you give us a report?
CDR Be right with you, Houston.
01 04 16 CDR Okay, Houston. We had a clean deployment as far as

rods clearing and everything, but it's not laid out
the way it's supposed to be. And we've got pictures
of it on the VTR for you. Now right at the moment,
we've operated the rod in and out a couple of inches
short strokewise rapidly, which has improved the de-
ployment. But the problem seems to be that the folds
in the material have taken too much of a set. And it
is more fully deployed in the front across the upper
skirts. But there are two folds emanating from the
set, 3 folds emanating from the center deployment
plate; one to each side and one towards the base
skirt. So, in effect, we have a trapezoid which is
the smallest dimension toward the base of the vehicle.
Now, that's as far as we've gone. We're open for sug-
gestions. I have the feeling that if we pulled it
all the way in close to the vehicle that it would
touch in the back and along the sides. It might pos-
sibly help the folds out of the material, and that
we then push her back out again and gently oscillate
it to improve it. But I think we've gotten about as
much out of it as we're going to get. My guess is
we've only got about 12 to 14 feet at the back end,
with perhaps 18 to 20 at the front end. And I don't
even know the dimensions of the sail.
01 06 05 CC Okay, the dimensions are supposed to be 22 by 24, Pete.
CDR Well, it's possible that we've got it completely

backwards, and we could turn it 180 degrees. That
would - which way do you want - which dimension
do you want the 24?
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01 06 30 CC Twenty-four is the length of it; 22 feet should be

the width.
CDR Okay. Then it is, in fact, a square - I mean a

rectangle.
CC Yes.
01 06 56 CDR Is that right, Houston? It's a rectangle?
CC Roger. It's rectangular, and the center of it - the

hub - is off center on the rectangle. There's to
be - the poles that are pointed back toward the ATM
should be the ones that have a length without
fabric on them.
CDR That's the wa_ it is.
O1 07 17 CC That's the way it should be.
CDR If you are able to dump our TV, we, I think, can
give you a pretty good TV of it. It just doesn't
look to me like the end down toward the aft skirt
has got three wrinkles, one coming between the aft
skirt llne and one on each side running along -
you know - running outboard to the side. And that
it's pinched the fabric, you know. It's taken a
permanent set. And the front end, which has the
strings on it, that's pretty well deployed.
01 08 04 CC Okay, we're about 15 seconds from LOS. We'll think

about it and we'll talk to you at Vanguard. We hope
to have a plan then. Vanguard is coming up at 30.
01 08 15 CDR Three zero, Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you can still read, we'd like

to terminate BAT A charge and get BAT B to charging.
And also, if anybody is free, we'd like to start
them on the water flight servicing.
CDR Okay, we were just going to ask you that.
01 30 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Go ahead.
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CC Roger. First off, we'd like to get Joe to tell us

what he saw out the window. We would like to know
if the rods are approximately in the same plane.
01 30 54 SPT Well, we don't think so, Houston. We can see the

ends of all the rods. It's completely free of
anything; there's nothing hanging it up. And if
you want to know what it looked like when it deployed,
I can see the thing sticking up, bunched in the
middle, billowed a little bit at the top and at the
bottom; and when they deployed it, all four legs
came up. The front legs, that is, the forward ones
closest to the command module, came up smartly. It
looks as if they actually went over center a
little bit, then bounced back. The back ones did
not come up, it looked like, all the way - didn't
come to 90 degrees. They went slowly, and they just
kind of drifted to a stop.
01 31 47 CC Okay. What kind of an angle do you think they made

with the plane of the first two rods?
SPT It's your guess, but I guess 30 degrees, something

like that.
CC Okay. We would like for the CDR and PLT to go

back in the workshop and pull her in, and we'd like
for you to pull as many rods in one whack. Undo
the rod brake and bring in about three at a time and
then remove them, and we want you to complete the
procedure down to step 43 so you've done a full
retraction and got the rod A configuration proper.
And we're going to be doing a nominal H-cage at the
end of this pass, and we want to get it in close.
SPT In work.
Ol 32 h8 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll give you the time for that

reset so that you can be sure and have the rod brake
on when we start it.
01 32 58 SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. The time for the reset is 01:36.

That will he the time for the nominal H-cage -
01:36, and we'll warn you again at - close to that
time.
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CDR Understmnd 01:36.
01 33 35 CDR That's 2 minutes from now, but we'll hustle.
CC Roger; and once we get the parasol retracted, we do

not plan to do anything more with it tonight. We,re
going to take a look at it, and we think we've
got almost a full deployment, and pulling in will
do the rest for us.
SPT I understand.
CC And for the CDR, we're not too concerned about

getting it all the way down before the reset. The
main thing we want is that you do have the rod brake
on when the reset starts or the nominal H-cage starts.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to give you a little

more time here. We're going to delay that reset
to h0.
SPT Okay. 40.
01 35 34 SPT Okay, we're pulling it in, Houston. Be advised the

rods we're pulling in are quite cool and feel very
nice to the touch.
CC Roger; copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Did the CDR and PLT take a rest

between the Hawaii and Vanguard?
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We'd like to know if the CDR and PLT took a

rest between Hawaii and Vanguard?
SPT They took a break, Houston.
CC Roger; copy.
Ol 38 38 SPT Okay, Houston, we got it in.
CC Okay, I understand you got a full retraction, and

you've followed - completed the checklist through
at least h2.
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SPT I didn't say that. We're presently double checking

that. We got it all the way into the mark on rod
Alpha, and we had the rod brake clamp thing tightened
down.
01 39 Oh CC Roger; sounds good. We're going to start the reset -

the nominal H-cage immediately. Now, for the rest
of the evening, we'd like for you guys to go back
and, if you haven't eaten already, eat, and we're
going to try to get on with the nominal flight plan.
SPT Okay, good enough. Also rod B is gathering frost

as it lays here in the fiery workshop.
CC And we'd like to ensure that you do complete step 41

there, Paul. We'd like to make sure we get the
push rod knob A on there and the set screw in.
01 39 50 PLT Yes, that didn't work, Hank. It's a little tough

getting these two sections separated. We'll get
on that as soon as we can.
CC Okay.
01 40 14 CC Okay, we're almost LOS now. We'll be picking you

up over at Hawaii at 37.
01 40 20 PLT Okay.
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02 37 09 CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii for i0 minutes.
CDR We're here.
CC Okay, we got a lot of things we want to talk

about on this pass. I guess I'll get on with it.
First off, we're planning a medical conference at
Vanguard, which is about 03:04. That will be the
next station contact after this one. The next item
is that we have a requirement that one of you
wear the 0BS tonight. Since we don't have any
scrubbing in the Command Module, and depending
upon the CSM fan, we're recommending the SPT.
CDR Okay.
CC And for the SPT; we'd like to get his opinion on -

we can only - we can't dump all of the VTR tape,
to get that pictures back of the parasol. And
we'd like to know whether it would be better to
lop off the first part or the last part. In other
words, about where in there was the pictures of
the deployed parasol? And - -
SPT Well, Hank, as you might guess, the pictures of

actual deployment are at the beginning, and the
pictures most accurately representative of the
configuration, in which we cinched it down are
at the end, and you can take you choice.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Hey, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I got to apologize profusely, but I inadvertently

opened the circuit breakers to - to the amp-hour
integrator number 8, and it's reset to zero on
board.
CC Roger. Copy.
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02 39 31 CC And our maneuver plan is here. We're going to take

a look at the temperatures; and we think they're
coming down. We're prepared to command a solar
inertial here over Hawaii. Just let you know,
and we're also prepared to back that up at
Vanguard as a - as a last choice.
SPT You say you think they're coming down, or if you

think they're coming down?
CC Well, we're looking at them now to see what, -

what they look like.
02 40 01 SPT We Just finished wetting all the mol sieve heat

exchanges. What do you do with them? Just stand
by until tomorrow.
02 40 13 CC Okay, while we're getting an answer on that, we'd

like to know how far you got in the - your checks,
Have you done the quiescent panel yet?
02 40 25 CDR Yes. I'm right at panel 351, which we're

leaving up so that we can have water. I was
going to do 352, 382, 378, 79, 76, 399, 377, 600,
602, 601, 603, 604 side hatch, and tunnel hatch;
and that's it. The rest of it's done. Bat B is
being charged. I Just did an 02 purge.
CC Okay, what we're getting at, Pete, we're - we were

wondering how you'd feel about trying to get the VCS
duct in tonight, and get some circulation going.
CDR Boy, you bet. We can do that.
CDR Hey, if you think those temps are coming down, and
that'll help any, that's no strain. We're in good
shape up here.
CC Okay, then, in that case, we'd like for you to do

step 1 and 2 on page 2-62. And following that,
on panel 390, I'd like to get all four OWS heat
exchanger fans ON. Just place all four of them to
ON. And tommorrow's Flight Plan, of course, we'll
delete, delete that part of it, and do steps 3 and 4.
CDR You say you wanted the OWS heat exchanger fans ON
or OFF?
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CC ON - O-N. After you install the duct according to

steps i and 2 on page 2-62, panel 390, in the lock
there, we want to get all four heat exchanger fans
on.
CDR Will do. How did the temps look?
CC Okay, it looks like to us the temps are coming

down, so we're going to put the solar inertial
in work.
CDR Very good. Very good.
02 _2 _2 CC Okay, and another thing, Pete. We're, - we're

looking at two flight plans tomorrow. We're -
we're - we're just taking a tentative look at
a flight plan that doesn't consider anything
in the workshop. And we have the - The other
alternative is going as planned with - what
we launched with. Now, we will try to get -
we'd like to get your opinion on this, how
you'd feel about working in the workshop tomorrow.
I 02 _3 l0 CDR Well, look, if you bring those temperatures down

i any at all, I - I'm guessing,but we spent the
better part of 2 or 3 hours down there; and
everytime we'd get hot, we'd come up and take
a rest. Now, if the temperatures are doming
down, and they've come down in - in - I don't
know. Maybe Paul's got a different idea, but
I'd say it was at least 120 in there today.
But you can work in there. It's dry. We
didn't get into any problems with heat. Whenever
we Just got too hot, we'd come up and cool off for
while, and go back and work. So if they come
down at all, I would like to stick with our
original flight plan, and we'll start activating
it down there.
02 43 56 CC Okay. Our best estimate, Pete, is we'll be below

lO0 degrees in there by tomorrow morning.
CDR Well, what do you think it was in there today?
CC We guess about 125.

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CDR Okay. Well, I think we're pretty well calibrated.

You bring it down plenty. We aren't going to be
riding any bicycles or anything, but we can get
down there, and at least start configuring things,
and we'll Just press along as best we can. If we
get hot, we can come out. As long as the temps
are coming down. I think that's great. I'd like
to press for the normal flight plan.
CC Okay, I guess we will concur with that then. We

up-linked you a contingency undock procedure in
regard to the probe. By hooking them together,
you probably got it now. That is Just a get-me-
home thing. Tomorrow, we'll have - we hope to
have a better analysis of the probe for you.
CDR Okay, very good.
FLT Hey, Henry, when we put it on the VCS ducts and

we turn on the - the - the - the - ubb - dub -
dubby - ub - OWS heat exchangers, what do you
want to do about the vent fan. Do you want to
unplug the vent, and go ahead and power up
that fan, or leave it like it is?
CC Stand by Just 1 - -
PLT That's the A - that's the AM duct fan. I'm sorry.
CC Roger; understand. Let me get an answer on that

right quick.
PLT Okay.
02 _5 26 CC Roger. We'd like to proceed with uncapping that

duct, and getting the fan going.
PLT Okay. I got this list of SEVA questions. Do we

have time for me to go over them with you now?
CC We've only got about 2 minutes left right now in

this pass. I guess we'd like to belay those.
PLT Okay.
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PLT How about if I record them on channel A for now and

you can listen to them, and if we get a chance, I'ii
give them to you. And otherwise, at least they're
on tape, and you can listen and see if you got any
further questions.
CC Okay. I was Just getting ready to come up to you

with that. That's real good. Press on with
that.
PLT Okay.
02 46 47 CC Skylab, Houston. You're on your way to solar

inertial now.
02 _6 48 CDR Roger.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS, Skylab. And, we'll

be coming up on Vanguard, as I said, at - it'll be
about 09:00 now. And we'd like to say you guys did
a tremendous Job down there. We've got everybody
smiling here, now that we've got that parasol out.
PLT Okay. Thank you. And - and tell those people that
I'm awful sorry about that breaker. I thrashed
around servicing that heat exchanger plate, and I
Just flipped it up with my toe.
CC And if you still read us, we'd like to get that

condensate system activated.
02 48 13 CDR Roger. You got a page number for that, Hank?
CC Okay, that's page 2-137.
03 12 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for another

_-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston. We've had a - well, we Just had

another one. We keep getting ACS malf's, CMG
SAT, and rate gyro problems. We have a single
talkback in the Y-axis rate gyro and gyro 1.
We're not in solar inertial. We are in ATT HOLD
CMG, off the solar attitude. And we'd like
you to share with us, if you have any knowledge,
what the heck is going on.
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CC Okay, what - what we've done is maneuvered back to

an attitude that should be approximately solar
inertial. We're in ATT HOLD. We're not in the
solar inertial mode. We have also seen the rate
gyro failure that - well, at least the redundancy
management has claimed that one of their rate
gyros in the Y-axis has failed. And that's about
the status as we see it now.
SPT Is the the same kind of failure that they're

been seeing for 2 days?
OB 14 15 SPT Okay, I'm going to inhibit it then ... it's going

about every 30 seconds. And our CMGs are remark-
ably close to saturation when they worked, Just a
short while ago. Is - is that because of the
rate gyro drift?
CC Okay, that_saturation is due to maneuver, Joe.
SPT Well, okay. It wasn't that bad earlier in the

maneuver, but I still believe you. And, what is
your - your ground figure for TACS percent re-
maining?
03 14 55 CC The last figure I saw was 51 percent. In fact,

we're showing 51.6 percent now, Joe. Okay, we
got a couple of other items for you. We recommend
that you leave all the hatches open tonight. No
need to close them up. And we'd also like to
inform you that there will not be a trim burn
tomorrow. We only have 5-foot-per-second
capability, and we're going to try to use it
at the optimum time.
OB 15 30 SPT Okay, no trim burn tomorrow. We will leave the

hatches open tonight. What's the 5-feet-per-
second above?
CC That's above the SMRCS redline.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We'd like you to select i and 3 in the

Y-axis. And you may get another failure alert there
until we .qan get the drift correction in.
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SPT Okay, you don't want me to do any DAS work, Just

select it on the panel, right?
CC We'd like for you to select it through the DAS.
CDR Oh, okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. As soon as you get the gyros

configured, we'd like for you to do a nominal
H-cage. We're about 20 seconds from LOS. We
hope you guys get a good night's rest, and we'll
see you in the morning.
SPT Gyros ... and then a nominal H-cage, okay.
03 17 31 CC And Skylab, if you get a chance, we'd like you

to put the evening status report on channel A.
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04 15 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about

the next 2 minutes. How do you read?
Oh 16 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about the

next 3 minutes. How do you read?
CDR Okay. Read you, Bob, loud and clear. How me?
CC Okay; same here. Sorry to bother you but we've got

a short pass, a couple of important items I'd like to
get up to you. We're going to be turning on your air-
lock module primary coolant loop. And that's going to
give you a pri cool flow of caution and warning.
04 16 51 CDR Okay. We're in the process of dumping the condensate

plate. As soon as we brought the thing on it, it
started the condensate tank to fill to the top with
water. We're working that problem right now.
CC Roger. Understand it filled with water. Okay, we

would like on panel 203 for you to take the MOL
Sieve B fan power to SECONDARY.
PLT It's in SECONDARY, Houston.
CC Roger. Thank you. We know you've been having some

problems still with the APCS, and we're going to be
trying to work those out for you a little bit later.
So, Just don't worryabout them right now. Oops,
we're trying to get back to solar inertial ... -
We'll be trying to get back to - -
PLT We're not in solar inertial, you know.
CC Roger. We assumed that we should be close to solar

inertial attitude. We're not solar inertial mode;
we'll be working that ourselves.
PLT Well, you're not even very close. You don't have ...
Do you know where to go?
CC (Laughter) Probably not.
CDR Well, I'm looking out the window, and it looks as if

you need a plus rotation about Y and a plus about X.
And I'm not sure of the magnitude, but about lO degrees
or more.
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CC I - I'm sorry. I couldn't copy there. Did you say

we were about i0 degrees off?
PLT We are more than l0 degrees off. It's hard to esti-

mate, but it's a plus-Y and a plus-X rotation. We're
not going to touch it this time. We're going to let
you guys fool with it. We'd like to get in solar
inertial once, so we'd know what it looked like ...
and, then if we get off we can get ourselves hack on.
Oh 18 h5 CC Okay, we'll, we'll try to work that.
CC Okay, we've got a pass probably in about, oh -

Vanguard coming up. We'll be trying to work that,
then, at around 4:46.
SPT Okay, what are the temperatures doing in the work-

shop, Houston?
CC I'll try to get a report for you on that. Meanwhile,

we'd like to find out if you did put the SEVA report
on channel A or B. We - we're dumping A right now.
We didn't see it there last dump.
SPT We're - we haven't gotten to the evening reports.

We're - still about the middle of the afternoon for
us. Pete and Paul are working pretty hard on the
condensate system, and I'm cleaning up the command
module ... and stuff like that.
CC Okay, understand. We Just want to make sure you did

know that we were recording channel A. And you will
be putting the medical status report on channel A for
us later. Is that correct?
SPT Yes, and we're going to have a couple of large ...

here, I think, because we have enough other problems
coming up. And we're going to stick with it. We're
in good shape and we've had our private medical talk.
And we don't have anything to report ...
CC Roger. I think all they were interested in there is

the food and, you know, whether you took any drugs
or not, and that kind of stuff.
SPT We're eating like hogs and drinking lots of water.

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CC Very good.
SPT - this Evening Status Report and we'll get as much of

that to you as we can.
CC Roger, Joe. Understand. If you could also put down

that we would like sort of a relative amount of time
spent between the airlock module, MDA, and the work-
shop today. I guess they're kind of interested in
what kind of temperatures you were experiencing. You
can put that on channel A.
SPT My off the cuff answer - they apparently can get that by
looking at my biomed tonight.
CC Okay, they were kind of interested in that for the

other guys too though, Joe. Okay. Okay, the skin
temps have dropped about 70 degrees. We're going to
have lOS here in about 1 minute. We're going to be
over Vanguard at 04:46. We were kind of hoping that
you guys were going to bed. Do you want us to give
a call there or not?
04 20 59 SPT Yes.
CC You want us to give you a call at Vanguard, understand.
SPT Thank you.
CC And I guess I still got somebody there. We would

like to verify that the - you did get the elephant
trunk installed in between the OWS and the MDA -
airlock module.
SPT Affirmative.
04 47 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Vanguard for about

the next l0 minutes.
04 47 22 CC This is Skylab, Houston. We're over Vanguard for

the next next 9 minutes.
CDR Hello there, Houston. You read?
CDR Hi, Houston. You there?
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CDR Loud and clear. How us?
CC Okay. We're a little bit garbled. I'd like to talk

about maneuvering here a little bit if I could, to
Joe.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We're prepared to put a maneuver to try. to

reacquire solar inertial, and there's some confusion
on our part about whether we should go plus or minus Y.
We understood you to say plus Y awhile ago. We think
it's minus. Will you confirm that?
SPT Okay, let's talk about it. Maybe I'm getting it wrong.
It would appear to take - to require a pitch above the
Y-axis. I was going to say toward the CSM, if that
makes any sense to you. As I stand facing the CSM
and look up the Z-axis, the Sun is forward of the
zenith. It's - in other words, it's between the
plus-Z axis and the plus-X axis.
CC Okay, that's a plus-Y. That - we got up there on the

top of the MDA - we got the plus-Y axis indicated
and that still sounds llke a plus Y rotation to us.
SPT Well, I thought it was. What have you got for X?
CC Okay, about plus 15 degrees.
SPT That sounds right.
CC Let's go back and review that again. You say the

Sun is between the CSM and the ATM?
SPT Yes. That 's right
CC That's a negative Y rotation.
CC You're - you're right, you're right. Okay, it is,

it is a plus Y rotation.
SPT Nyaaa nyaaa.

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CC Nyaa nyaa. Okay. Okay, what we're going to do is

put in a plus Y rotation of 40 degrees, and a plus X
rotation of 15 degrees. We got a maneuver time on
it of 15 minutes. If we don't hack it this time,
we'll probably suggest turning it over to you. And
before you would ever try to do it, you would need
to - before you ever select solar inertial mode, you
need to make sure that you put in a command to ini-
tialize your strapdowns, because they are - they're
way off right now.
SPT Understand.
04 50 59 CC And for Pete or Paul, I guess maybe we'd like to ask

a question. Is there any reason that DUCT 1 FLOW
would be down now? We've got a substantial drop in it.
SPT NDA. Oh, DUCT 1. No, not that I know of. I can go
check it if you want.
SPT Talking about DUCT i in the workshop, right?
04 51 29 CC That's affirm.
SPT We didn't do anything. I'll go check it and see.
Sl_f If you're ready, let me give you a status of our ECS,

all right?
CC Okeydoke, go ahead.
04 51 h3 SPT Okay, we presently are running both condensing heat

• exchangers A, and M0L sieve A and B. We Just finished
a condensate dump into the waste tank. We have two
ducts. Ducts 1 and 2 were running in the workshop.
We've got the airlock module DUCT FAN on HIGH with
all the M0L sieve air going to the workshop through
that diverter valve. We've got the MDA fans on LOW,
The CSM fans on LOW, and the three AM circ fans we
Just turned on about 5 minutes ago on LOW.
CC Okay, we copy. We got all four fans running in

ducts 1 and 2. Is that affirm?
SPT Well, I turned them on. I'ii go check.
CC Okay.
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SPT You still want to leave just ducts i and 2, leave

3 OFF, right?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay. You sam duct 2 is the low one?
CC Negative. Duct 1.
SPT Okay.
CC Roger, Joe. We have initiated a new one now. And

it might be - if you got time, it might be wise to
take a look out and see if it looks like we're going
the right direction.
SPT Roger.
CC And, CDR, Houston. If you got a chance, I guess

maybe we'd like to get an idea about how much longer
you guys are planning on working.
CDR I'm trying to make dinner. I don't think we're going

to work very much longer. I would like to go to bed,
but everytime we do, something comes up. Duct 1 for
the 600 plus CSM.
CC Roger. Understand. Duct l, 600 plus CSM.
CDR Duct 2 is running about 550, and duct 3, which isn't

that bad, is only about 75 CSM.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And, Crip; as soon as we get into sunshine, I'll give

you a hack on the maneuver. I guess you'll be gone
by then.
CC Roger. Also be advised that we're starting to get a

lot of feedback out of those SIAs. If you might
could do a little adjustment. I don't know whether
it's ringing there or not.
CDR Yes, it is.

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CDR Hey, Crip, about how much temperature skid drop are
you getting? Does it really look like the shield's
working?
04 55 04 CC That's affirm. It looks like it's really coming

down. Did you get my last call back when we were
over Guam? I gave you a call that we'd dropped
70 degrees.
CC In skin temp. I'll probably get a hack for you -

what the - what the workshop temperature inside - what
we think it is. Okay, the next pass is going to be
coming up at Ascension at 05:00. And would you like
us Just to forget that call?
CDR No. If you need anything - -
CDR We're eating. We're trying to get to bed. I think

that everybody shouldn't worry too much if we slipped
a day around here a little, sir. Let us sleep until
in the morning, and, and maybe we can get with it.
We're, we're kind of hanging in there; but we got a
lot of ... to come up today. You know it kind of held
us back.
CC Roger, Pete. I'm getting an awful lot of feedback

there still. We're going to have LOS in about 1 min-
ute. We will give you a call at Ascension, and I
understand that your recommendation is you'd like
to sleep in tomorrow.
CC And we concur.
CC And we would like to make sure that we have the VTR

MAIN POWER switch left ON because we want to dump it
and take a look at that parasol deployment - parasol
matter.
CDR Okay, Crip, and how's that on the squeal now? That
should be a little bit better. We've completed every-
thing today, but with all the rest of the little master
alarms and the few things that came up, we're running
a little behind. We'll sleep in, we'll press on with
day 4, Just like it is in the book, and hopefully we
can catch up. You know, somewhere along in there and
r then we'll screw our day back around to the right
time.
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CC Roger, Pete. You're doing a fantastic Job. Maybe

you can screw it in.
0_ 57 ll CDR And besides that ... completed ...
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05 00 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension for the

next l0 minutes.
PLT Roger. Ya'll found the Sun, yet?
CC We're waiting for you to tell us.
CDR Here I comes.
CDR Did you get my ... on the first Skylab record?
CC Negative. You faded out there. Which of the first

record.
05 00 50 PLT CDR has made it from the dreds_e.airlock , completing

a complete 360, going thro_-h the OWS dome hatch
without touching anything and not contacting till
in the middle of the airlock. That's as far as
we've made it so far in our world-bresl_ing-record #r_ k
attempt to go from the drre_g_?.airlock to locker A8
in the command module without touching anything -
seeing who can complete the most 360.
05 01 29 CC Roger. Sure like to see that on TV sometime.
PLT Well, we'll work it for you. Just let us get the
rest of the things squared away. We're just kind
of practicing in route going back and forth during
our busy pass.
05 07 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised that we didn't make

out very well on trying to find the Sun. And I
guess, if you guys would like to give it a go, we
would appreciate it.
CDR Okay. It looks like we're a good bit off at X.
CC How does Y look?
CDR Well_ we overshot.

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CC Okay, we got a couple more minutes left here. The

next pass is not going to be until Guam at 05:46 and
we don't plan on giving you a call for that one.
If you're still up and you need us for some reason,
well,, go ahead and give us one. It's 05:46.
CDR Forty-six. Okay, Crip. Quick meal status report

for the food people. The CDR ate everything today
except his asparagus for dinner. The SPT ate
everything. The PLT ate everything except the
white bread and the macaroni and cheese
at dinner time. We think we got all the drinks,
but to tell you the truth, we're really not
sure because the packing on these command module
meals is strange and it's hard to find everything.
CC Roger. We copy.
05 09 23 CC Okay, we are 1 minute to LOS.
CC And, Joe, we would like to remind you once more about

the strapdown initialization, because it will be
all fouled up when and if you do find it.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay, guys. I'll see you in a couple of days, here.
05 l0 16 CDR Okay.
05 50 28 CC Skylab Houston. Are you trying to call?
05 50 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're over Guam, and I understand

you're trying to call us.
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12 24 17 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
CDR Morning, Houston.
CC Okay. We see your code in the DAS, there. We also

see we've got an attitude problem, and we're working
on that.
PLT Oh, what's the attitude problem?
CC Okay. We - we think we're out a little bit in Z.

Right after you found the Sun for us last night the -
It - it appeared that we were having a few problems
in the Z. We can't get our drift nailed down. We've
taken out about 30 degrees with two maneuvers and a
couple of dumps, and we think we need to go another
30 degrees in Z plus. And we'll have a procedure for
_ you here at, at Honeysuckle. We're about, oh, 30 sec-
onds from LOS now. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle
at 29.
CDR Okay. Hey, what time would we've gotten up this

morning, if it was a normal wakeup?
12 25 20 CC Okay, we had you scheduled for about 15:00 Zulu.
CDR I meant - We should have gotten up at ii:00, right?

In normal Flight Plan?
CC Roger. That's the nominal time, Pete. But we were

going to let you sleep late, since you didn't get
to bed so - until late last night.
CDR Okay, well, we're - we're slowly trying to work our

way back to the normal schedule. That's what I was
trying to figure out, Hank. Say, what's your cooling
look like? We're, we just zapped down in the 0WS.
We were trying to figure out how well it was doing.
It appears to be working very well in some spots, but
not so well in the others. What's - what's your
temperature profile show over the night?
CC Stand by i.
y,
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12 27 40 CC Skylab, Houston. Looks like we been dropping about

a degree an hour. We've got a lot of our temperature
measurements back on scale now. We're showing some
duct temperatures around 95, 98 degrees, which is in
the workshop, which is down from what it was.
CDR Okay. How does skin temp look? You got any idea how
much percentage coverage you got with the sail now?
CC Okay, the guys are looking at that. We'll try to have

a better picture for you a little later.
CDR Okay, we're feeling walls around here. There's no

doubt about it, the temperature's come way down in
a lot of places. Of course, there's a lot of heat
inside here, but seems pretty good on the, oh, down
around the bedroom and everything. But over on the
right-hand side of the SAL, where the SAL looked a
little squeezed, the wall temperature's still a little
high. I don't know, we may have some local hotspots
up there. But by a margin seems to be coming down
quite a bit.
12 38 58 CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS now, Pete.

Texas will be coming up at 59.
CDR Okay. We're going to grap a quick breakfast and get

with it. We - We'd like to try and get to bed tonight
no later than an hour late. I - We're trying to get
back on your time line. I know everybody wants us
back on it. We're doing the best we can.
CC Okay, and we're - we're planning on having you do a

maneuver for us, if you will, over the States.
CDR Okay.
PLT Houston, try and get us a star tracker updater, if

you can.
CC Okay. Looks like we do have another minute or so on

this contact here.
PLT If you get us a star tracker pad, it would be awful

nice if we could acquire one.
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CC Our problem on the star tracker is, we're not really

sure where you are in Z. So, we're having a little
trouble computing an angle for you.
SPT Yes, I know. And that's our problem out the window,
also. If you guys could think about giving us a
visual gage, for instance, what our apparent yaw
angle thought to be at various parts of the orbit
sunrise, noon, and so on, that'll might give us a
hack on Z.
CC Roger. We think you need about a plus-30-degree

maneuver, but we'll have that worked out for you
stateside.
12 31 07 SPT Okay.
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12 59 21 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 17 minutes
CDR Hi there, Houston. What can we do you for?
CC Okay. Would you like to work on this maneuver?
CDR Yes, Henry. You are - We'll copy it down. I'll

tell you - You know it starts us out behind the
power curve, because unfortunately all this food
should have been in the wardroom by now, and we
Just - We've been down here for 15 minutes Just
trying to sort out breakfast, and we haven't even
started on it. And it really puts us behind the
power curve. Until we get that wardroom going,
every meal hour is just - it's juggle 87,000 cans
down here in the command module. And - Do you
want to give us something to copy down, or would
you like somebody to go start the maneuver?
CC I guess we'd like to get somebody, if it's con-

venient, Pete, get someone right away on this
maneuver, so we can try to get our attitude
sorted out.
13 O0 26 CDR Okay. We're going to send Joe up there while we

make his breakfast.
CC Okay. That sounds like a good plan.
CC And, Pete, while you're putting your breakfast

together there, we'd like to throw out something
for you to be thinking about. We're tentatively
looking at the possibility of a press conference
this afternoon shortly after 21:00.
CDR We're - we're what - what - You mean 21:00. What's

that local time?
CC Roger. That's a little after 4:00, local.
CDR Okay. Look, on a noninterference basis, fine.

We're doing the best we canto get back on a
normal schedule. And I sure hate to stop working,
_ especiallyif we're behind. And the way I look
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at it right now, we're still Just a tad behind,

mainly because of this meal prep and everything.
We're a little behind on our stowage transfers.
We've kept up pretty well with - with activation.
If you all want us to have a press conference,
fine. But, let's make it short, okay?
CC Roger. We concur with that whole heartedly, Pete.
SPT Houston.
CC You down at the ATM, Joe?
SPT Yes.
13 02 06 CC Okay. I'd like to give you the maneuver information

first, if you've got something to Jot it down on.
SPT Come ahead.
CC Okay. The first thing we'd like to get off is a

nominal H-cage. That's 52023. Then we want the
MODE switch to ATT HOLD CMO. Then we're going to
do a 30-degree plus-Z maneuver. And that's
52020, 50000, 50000, 50036, then a strapdown
initialization,, which is 52012, 50005. And
after that, MODE switch to SOLAR INERTIAL. And
you do not want to start the procedure until the
dump is complete.
SPT Okay. I understand all that, and I'll only

read back the maneuver, which is a 52020, 5000,
5000, 50036. And it's been suggested up here,
that if we could activate H-alpha in our monitor
and get a description of the Sun, we might c_me
as close to the right roll angle that way as
any other.
CC I guess we - we think your roll is not in too

bad a shape. The yaw is the problem.
SPT Okay. Spacecraft yaw solar roll, which is

directly related to Z.
CC Okay.We copy
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CDR Okay, Hank. For another - for another data point,

we're going to press right into day 4. I think
the workshop is quite workable right now. It's
probably 95 or 100 down there. It's very dry.
And we'll use the same technique we did yester-
day. When anybody gets too hot, we'll quit,
come up, and cool off.
CC Roger. Copy. Sounds like a good plan.
CDR Also, by the way, Hank. I make a handy-dandy hand

temperature wall survey just a little while ago.
And the - I - I believe the crinkle's out on one
side of the sail, but I think on the other side of
the sail, if I were facing the solar airlock, the
crinkle is on the right side over towards about
where M509 is mounted. That's still pretty hot
on the wall. But everything else seems pretty
good below that, and above that, and all the
way around on the other side of the vehicle,
90 degrees around from the airlock.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR I don't know what your skip gap data shows, but
that's what my handheld data shows.
PLT Hey, Henry.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Let me give you an update on the PLT's food

yesterday, all right.
CC Okay.
PLT I'll give you a list of items I did not eat.
CC Stand by 1.
13 06 49 PLT There'll be one thing I'm not going to eat. I've

got bread coming out of my ears, and I don't like
bread. Butterscotch pudding, apricots, and coffee
with sugar. The last three were snacks that I
just didn't even know that I had until I turned
in last night and then it was too late.
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CC Paul, we had a drop out in signal here. Could

you repeat everything prior to the butterscotch
pudding?
13 07 22 PLT Okay, ambrosia, macaroni, and bread. And there's

a lot of bread that I'm not going to eat.
CC Say again, your comment about the bread.
PLT It wasn't worth it. Forget it.
CDR Okay, Hank. I have one update.
CC Okay.
CDR I didn't eat my snack last night either. I couldn't

find it. We - I ate everything else except the
asparagus which was already reported, Ed. We'll
try aud do better for you but we're using the
menus out of the checklist now and finding the -
finding the food. But yesterday we were a
little behind the power curve. But until we
get this food down in the pantry and can get
organized in the wardroom, it's like three
guys eating at the rush hour at Times Square,
inside this command module.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. For information, we - we got

our tapes back last night and we had a carrier
but we didn't have any of the SEVA comments. So
I don't know whether you remember them or not
but perhaps some time today we could - if you
got a free moment you can answer those questions
again on a tape for us.
PLT Yes, you didn't miss anything, Hank. They didn't

do it because I forgot about it until I got into
bed. Now we can either do them real time if you
got a good long pass or I can put them on tape.
CC Okay, it's your choice, Paul.
PLT All right. I'll try to get around to it this

morning.
CC Okay. - -
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SC - - get the television back on the deployment?
CC Well, we looked at the TV pictures we got here, and

they're still studying those things. It did look
like it didn't quite go all the way out; but, well,
we'll take - we'll give you the results of what we
come up with.
CDR Okay.
SPT How was the biomed last night, Henry?
CC Roger. Look good down here, Joe.
CC And, Joe, when you get through with the maneuver -

when it's complete and then you'll do your strap-
down initialization the rest of that. We've got a
star tracker pad for you that goes on the acquisition
cue card for reduced power.
SPT Okay, wait until I get the maneuver going. And in-
cidentally_ you guys never recommended maneuver time?
Or shall I guess?
CC Roger. Go with what you have now.
13 09 01 SPT Well, what's that for information, Henry? I - -
CC Six minutes.
SPT I'd like to know what's in there.
CC Roger. Six minutes is in there now, Joe.
SPT Okay.
13 12 43 CC SPT, Houston. When you get a - break there at the

console, I got three switches I want you to hit.
SPT Okay, read them up.
13 12 53 CC Okay, we - on panel 207, now that we got the ATM

coolant loop up, we'd like to get you to ENABLE
on the caution and warning. The pump DELTA-P
coolant temp and heater tempunder ATM canister.
_ SPT Roger.
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SPT And, I'm ready to copy the star tracker pad.
CC Roger. The star is Canopus, and it will be avail-

able day, 28:00; night, 03:00. Inner gimbal,
minus 0660; outer gimbal, plus 1620; and up at the
top there I missed, that should be 5,000 and in the
box goes 1. Remarks: do not enable R-plane error
update until you get a GO from the ground. In
other words, do not do 52011, 50011 until advised.
SPT Okay, understand that and I'm - think I'll also do

this without computer control of the star tracker,
to let it go into wide search.
CC Okay, that's good.

We'll be coming up on Madrid at 20 and we plan to
dump the recorder there.
PLT Roger.
CDR Say, Hank. Tomorrow why don't you plan on giving

us reveille.
CC Roger, will do.
CDR Hi there.
13 20 29 SPT Okay, Houston. I Just now went back to SI. The

maneuver's complete, and I'll get the star now, if
I CBIq.
CC Okay.
CC Joe, we're looking at data now. We can't tell you

whether you're there or not, but it looks better
than anything we've seen all night.
SPT Okay.
CDR Give us another day, Hank baby, and we'll have this
baby perking along Just like it's supposed to be.
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CC That's what we like to hear.
CDR I'm feeling pretty spunky. Got a good night's

sleep, Just had a little sausage, a little scrambled
eggs, and I'm working on my Jam and bread, with a
little coffee goes pretty will this morning.
CC That's sound good to me. I haven't had my breakfast

yet.
CDR Sorry about that.
13 26 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 or 40 seconds from

LOS. Next contact is Honeysuckle at 07.
13 27 06 SPT Okay, Houston. I'm searching for the star now. The
tracker hasn't found it yet. We'll talk about it
at Honeysuckle.
13 27 l_ CC Okay.
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14 07 02 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for a minute

and a half.
14 07 08 SPT Houston, SPT. I've acquired a star, and the gimbal

angles are: INNER minus 06:18, and the OUTER is
plus 05:59, and the - I'd like to go to - to update
orbital plane here.
CC Roger. Stand by.
CC Joe, we'd like to look at this data for a little

while, and it'll probably be stateside before we give
you a GO there.
SPT Okay.
14 08 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone will be coming up at 36.
SPT Roger.
14 08 40 PLT Hey, Houston; PLT.
CC Go ahead.
PLT I'm personally activating the OWS TCS. Once I get

it powered up, do you want the aft - You want the
0WS HEAT EXCHANGER switches left ON, or do you
want me to switch them to OWS?
CC Roger. Switch them to OWE per checklist.
PLT Checklist is ...
CC If you're still reading, Paul. We want to get it

on OWE.
14 35 47 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. You configured to receive TV?
CC Stand by.
CDR Are you configured to receive television?

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CC Stand by a minute, Pete, and I'ii check.
CC We're checking on it, Pete. We might be able to set

it up. We're not sure yet.
CC Okay, Pete, we're set up to record TV at Goldstone.

We can't get it - real time into the MOCR.
CDR Okay, you go ahead and record it while we're working.

We got it on in the dome plank down into the 0WS be-
cause everybody's working down there.
CC Roger ; copy. We'll record.
CC PLT, Houston. We got chopped off right when we were

t_king about the activation of the 0WS heat exchanger
fan. We'd like to verify that you did complete steps 3
and 4 on page 2-62.
PLT You caught me in transit, Henry. What do you want?
CC Okay, we lost contact when we were tasking about the

VCS dnct installation. We'd like to verify that you
completed steps 3 and 4 on page 2-62.
PLT That's affirmative. But that was done last night

when we installed the duct. And I Just got to the
TCS activation this morning. So that's - Both those
steps are complete.
CC Okay, well last night we had the fans in the ON posi-

tion and today we wanted to configure them to run
through the workshop. We'd also like to get bed 2
bakeout initiated if you haven't already started that.
PLT Oh, I meant to do that and forgot. I'll go and do it

right now. You can consider it started in 5 minutes.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
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CDR We'll leave that _levlsion rigged to the dome and

as we work today, .e_ll leave it a few other places
and perhaps that'll replace the press _ _:erence or
something. You all get can get enough out of that
and we keep working.
lh 17 20 CC Roger.
CDR We Just put a couple of tripple flippers on there for

you and everything, so you ought to have some good
stuff.
CC Okay, good show.
CDR And the CDR's at wardroom activation.
CC Okay, Pete. Could you give us a quick rundown, if

it's convenient, on where you are time llne now?
CDR Roger. I'm at wardroom activation. The PLT Just

finished hooking up the water tank 7. We're Just
moving into the waste management compartment. Right
now, l'm starting day 2 backout initiate.
CC Roger; copy.
PLT Okay, the SPT is doing the waste management compart-

ment activation. Page 2-8, and, Hank, l'd like to
know how the star acquisition data look to ycu. And
also whether you guys are looking around for a - not
for us to put the cover - the pyro cover back on the
probe. What we'd like to do is, as soon as we get a
free hour or so, is to attempt to engage the probe in
the drogue in a _-ore or less normal way, so that we'll
have confidence we can do it when we deactivate.
CC Okay, now I'Ii let you know, know what's going on down
here. Rusty is working up a procedure with some of
the fellows on tr_leshooting that probe. And we
hope to get that up to you sometime today.
PLT Okay, tell them to remember the Kilo-lndio, Sierra-

Sierra mode.
CC Roger.
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14 44 i0 CC Joe, in answer to your question about the momentum.

We - we think we're in good shape, however, we're not
absolutely sure. We want to watch it awhile. We
have not enabled star tracker updates. We're going
to hold that awhile. You can expect those SAS fair-
ings for awhile, until we get squared away. We'd
like to look at it for, perhaps another rev here.
SPT Okay. It Just occurred to me you were going to lose

the star before too long, due to occulatlon.
CC Roger. We should acquire next time. Another little

bit of information for you, Joe, in regard to the ATM
experiments. We've reconfigured, you know, in going
through our ground checkout - the ATM - the canister
thermally, and ATMexperiments has been configured
according to pages Alfa i and Alfa 2 of your ATM Ex-
perimeI_ Checklist and Data Book. Except that S082B
main power has not been commanded on. And processor
rework in the checklist, we've boxed ourselves in such
that we can't command it on from the ground. So next
time you go by there, we're requesting that you con-
figure the XUV SLIT main power ON.
SPY 82B main power ON, okay.
14 44 43 CC And, for your info also, we have the S055 pressure

gage powered on, and we're going to command it OFF at
about - Well, it should be already commanded OFF.
SPT How does the pressure look?
CC Pressure looked good, Joe.
CC CDR, Houston. Is is convenient for you to answer a

couple of questions about the undervolt we had,
yesterday?
CDR Say again, H_k.
CC Roger. If you've got a minute, you might answer a

couple of questions about the undervolt we had yester-
day in the CSM?
14 50 03 CDR Yes, sir. Go ahead.

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CC Okay. It, it Ioo} _ very much like, afte r we looked

at the data, that the currents that we s-_, the loads
were very much like the radiator heater_, and we were
wondering if you could recall the position of the ECS
radiator heater switches, primary and secondary on
panel 2, at the time the problem occurred?
CDR Yes, sir. We checked those and they were both OFF.
CC Okay. And Just to rule out anything else, we'd like

to confirm that there were no switches or circuit
bres.kers being reconfigured at about the time the
problem occurred, other than norms.] checklist item.s.
CDR No, sir. The best, as I can remember, we put it

pretty well in the quiescent configuration. And -
we did - we were - I forget what we were doing. We
weren't doing any configuration at all except b_ho,
we got that MAY DAY undervolt, and - I'll tell you,
whatever - If it wasn't short, whatever it was, it
burned itself out without blowing a breaker; because
after a while, when we were turning heaters off, and
everything, it was Just went away.
CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.
CDR Hope it wasn't the ignition switch to the SPS.
CC Okay. Our data down here, Pete, showed that _he

condition for the undervolt, in other words, the high
currents lasted approximately 5 minutes.
CDR That's correct.

We'll be acquiring you at Madrid at 58. And we plan
to dump the data recorder, there.
14 52 _I CDR Okay. And we'll turn the TV off.
14 58 lO CC Coming through Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Henry, I got a note for you. If you look

on page 2-8B of the checklist.
CC Okay; go.
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PLT About two-thirds of the way down my column is a

recent change to where it says water dump pressure
indicator less than 0.2.
CC Roger.
PLT We can't get that. Now when I dump - when we dumped

the condensate tank into the waste tank last night,
the lowest we got within a reasonable amount of time
was 1.0, and I let it run _]_ost 5 minutes here and
got down to 0.75. So I'm pressing on. You might
post the water guys and see what they think of that.
CC Okay. Copy.
SPT Houston, SPY.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. When I was measuring the iodine in water

tank l, it read very close to zero. I would estimate
from the gage between a half and one part per million.
But as you know, it's very difficult to read when it's
that low. I gave it 40 units, which is the amount
required to bring it to the - to add four parts per
million to a whole tank. And remind us to sample it
again at some later time after it's had a chance to
mix, I don't know whether the heat May have affected
the iodine or the reagent or - or both. Over.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to clear the ACS alert

from the ground that you got there, so we can see a
CMG cage if it occurs again. No action required on
your part.
15 01 16 SPT Okay.
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SIC/LAB AIR-TO-GROUND v'TCE TRANSCRIPTION
15 42 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC CDR, are you in the co-_and module now?
CDR No, sir. I'm down in the wardroom.
CC Okay. - -
CDR What you need?
CC Well, we got a couple of things we'd like to get

done up there, if it's cenvenient for you to take
a break.
CDR Yes, I'm on my way. I'll be there in a flash.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Roger. In activating the fecal driers, the

checklist says to close the circuit breakers.
Now, it was my impression we weren't going to
use the heaters. Am I right or wrong?
CC That' s correct, Joe.
SPT I should leave the circuit breakers open. Right?
CC That's okay, Joe. Just leave them open.
SPT Okay.
15 44 40 CDR The CDR is in the command module, and I Just

turned on the SO 82B main power.
CC Roger. Thank you, sir.
CC Okay, we've been having a little command problem with

- in the command module. So over on panel 3, the COMW3hND
R_RET switch, we'd like for you to verify that it is
in NORMAL. Aud after that we'd like for you to - if
it is, take it to OFF for 3 seconds and then back to
FORMAL.
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CDR Okay, it was in NORMAL. I put it OFF for 3 seconds.

It's back in NORMAL.
15 45 21 CC Roger. Thank you, sir. And the next item is that

we think we've got a pretty good handle on what
the momentum is doing. We're -what we're trying
to watch, Pete, is to see if the computer is aware
of the out of plane and is taking it out. It looks
like it is, but we're not sure it's working abso-
lutely correctly yet. In order to verify, we would
like for you to bring up the optics and see if you
can find us a couple of stars. And give us the ID
and shaft and trunnion off the . .. pass, Just use
the telescope. And the time to the nearest minute.
And that way, we could make sure that the computer's
doing the right thing.
15 46 03 CDR Okay. I'ii see what I can do.
CC And you got 13 minutes of night left, Pete.
15 48 24 CC Skylab, Houston; for the SPT.
SPT I'm getting your stars right now, Hank.
CDR Hey, Hank, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR But some time today, we'll tag up on B charmel

or whatever we're suppose to be recording cn for
the medics. One of the things that we're going
to have to straighten out is how much water we
drank yesterday. And seeing that we were all
drinking out of the same gun and everything,
that - we've - I think we've sent you some
numbers on that, but I'd like to refine them.
If we didn't send you numbers, would you let
us know so that we go ahead and tag up on
that? I'm going to try and bring all that
stuff up to date tonight in the Evening Report
some time.
CC Okay. Copy. And we 're about LOS now. Hawaii

is coming up at 04:00.
15 49 28 CDR Okay. See you then.

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16 03 33 CC Skylab; Houston ÷hrough Hawaii for 7 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. Stand by for some stars.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, Atria: shaft, 205.3; t_nnion, 31.9; the

time, 15:5h. Nunki: shaft, 76.8; trunnion, 20.i;
the time, 15:56. And Peacock - I wasn't too sure
of this one because it was getting daytime. Shaft,
302.9; trunnion, 26.8; time, 15:58.
CC Good work, Joe. Thank you a lot.
CC And Joe, while we got you there, we would like -

Have you activated the f_]m vault yet?
SPT Negatire.
CC Okay. We'd like to get some temperatures there, if

we could, so we can get evaluation of the condition
of the film. We'd like for you to use a digital
thermometer, which is presently located in WTh9
Bravo and Alfa. Those two drawers - the probes
are in one drawer and the ... in the other.
And - like you to take some measurements in
film drawers Delta and Juliett, and on the walls
if you have time.
SPT Okay. Delta, Juliett.
CC And we would like for you also to record the times

that you take these measurements. There's also a
pad, either there or on the way, concerning taking
some temperature measurements around the food
lockers and we also need times that you read the
thermometer on that.
SPT Roger.
CDR Hey, Houston. The biggest thing I can notice is

the grid floor is beginning to cool compared to
yesterday. Some of those other bigger lockers are
bigger heat sources, but everything generally seems
cooler in there, although still reading i00 degrees
off-scale high on the OWS temp gage.
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CC Roger. Copy. And this agreed with our telemetry.

We stowed - All the things we had off-scale are
starting to come on-scale now, and we're showing
some of the grid work getting down to around 105
or so.
16 06 i0 PLT Henry, as Pete mentioned this morning, it's hot

over by water tank i on that side of the scientific
airlock. And, Just for information, there's a lot
of the metal-to-metal fittings don't fit too well
at iB0 degrees, like they did at 70. Had a pretty
tough time getting the wardroom hose on water tank i,
which is still hotter than a 2-dollar pistol, but
some of the snaps have been hard to work.
16 06 B_ CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Yes, I presume that those water tanks are going to

be about the longest thing in the spacecraft to
cool down, right?
CC Roger. We probably think so, but that may at

least keep us from cycling the heaters on for a
while.
CDR Yes. And the plus Z-SAL is almost cold.
CC Roger. Our telemeters show it's colder than the

minus Z.
CDR Well, at least you know it works right around

that area.
CC Roger.
PLT You may also be interested to know, Hank, that, I

don't think any of us have found a problem in
mobility or stability at any task we've had to
do yet.
CC Hey, that's beautiful. We never did get a report

yesterday. Did you see anything wrong with that
dome hatch? This is kind of going back a pace,
you know. We had a vent leak there or something.
Did you notice anything abnormal with it?
PLT No, nothing other than, I looked it over fairly

carefully. It looked completely normal. All
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force on opening it appeared to be normal. The only

thing was, there was some debris on the inside of the
screen. But it did appear to all be on the screens,
not on the valve.
CC Roger. Copy. Was the workshop fairly clean, or

was there a lot of things floating around in there
when you opened her up?
PLT We got a fairly good collection, but I think for a

vehicle - a total combined vehicle of this volume,
I think it's pretty darn clean.
SPT Tell them about your - -
PLT Yes. My biggest prize so far, is about a 6-inch

long drill bit. It's about 3/16, I guess - Found
that. There's a fair amount of stuff in that -
Oh, what's that one valve, that panel h03, that
h03 valve in the dome of the airlock had about an
inch and a half of stuff in the bottom of the
debris collector in it.
CC Roger. Copy.
16 09 3h SPT Still there, Henry?
CC That 's afflrmat ive.
SPT CDR has completed testing all the fire sensors

and the bad one we mentioned yesterday, we put
back on the line, just to see what would
happen.
SPT And presently in the process of bringing the

SOP/SOMAs to bring you up to date on them. The
PLT is about halfway down page 91.
16 l0 02 CC Roger. Copy.
16 l0 l0 CC Did the fire sensor appear to be normal now?
PLT Well, it hasn't gone off, yet. We'll let you

k/low.
CC PLT, Houston. If you do come around and want to

change the sensor out, how about trying to - changing
the sensitivity on it before you do that. See if •
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that'll do the trick. And also, as a reminder,

it looks like we re going to have live TV state-
side, and Goldstone will be coming up at 15:00.
CC If you want to adjust the sensitivity, the SWS

Systems Checklist, page 2-32, has the procedure.
PLT Okay. We'll try that first.
CC Okay. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS;

Goldstone at 15:00.
16 ll 32 PLT All right.
16 14 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes;

and we've got a picture.
CC We've got a good view of all the food lockers now,

looking straight down to the trash airlock.
SPT Okay, here comes the CDR Just coming through the
dome hatch, now on his way. I hope he doesn't
crash.
SPT You'll notice he blew that one, although we must

admit that he hasn tt been practicing with his
SOP/SOMA in one hand.
CC Roger.
CC Wow!
CDR If you can't be good, be colorful.
PLT We ain't had much problem adapting.
CC Roger.
CC Beautiful.
16 17 47 CDR Hey, I'll tell you, there is no problem adapting.

And you can go anywhere you want. You may get out
of control a little bit in route, but you don't
bang into anything hard. And if you Just take
your time pushing off, you can go anywhere you
want in the vehicle. Just superfast:
CC You make it look easy, Pete.

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CC Skylab, Houston We'd like to get a question

answered in regard to the condensate system. We
show the dewpoint still climbing up. _nd we want
to make sure that you did get that system activated.
CDR Hank, we showed it went down over the night. Let

me go back up there and take a quick peak. We
showed it went from 56 dewpoint down to 53. Let
me go look.
CC Okay. We Just want to make sure that you have

the two valves from the heat exchangers opened
up to the condensate tank. We show that it is
around 5_ now.
PLT Fifty-four is what we received.
CDR Okay, it is 5_. It was 48 this morning, Paul

tells me. And you want us to verify that we
got both heat exchanger A's open?
CC That's affirmative. Now we noticed it was down

this morning, too, and it started going up,
raising doubts in our minds as whether the
system was operating properly or not.
16 19 54 CDR Nell, it looks like it's taking water out, Hank.

It was DELTA-P on the condensate tank - was about
3 this morning. It's 2.8 now, indicating that it
is filling.
16 20 06 CC Roger. Thank you.
CDR Now say again which valves you wanted me to check.
CC Okay, on panel 230, the heat exchanger A, the

water valve going to the condensate tank. And if
it's the same on panel 232.

We'll be picking you up over Bermuda at 26.
CDR Okay, Hank. All those valves are in the proper

position. Maybe that - Just that we're up and
about. Do you suppose that's it?
CC That's probably it.

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CDR Well, keep an eye on it for us. Your measurement

obviously tagged up with ours, and we noticed this
morning it was 48, but you're right; it's back up.
SPT We may be putting out a little bit working down

there in the workshop, but it's still probably
105 or so. All three of us have been down there
all morning.
CC Roger. Copy.
16 22 02 SPT But it's not unpleasant.
16 25 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 7 minutes.
16 27 41 CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we've processed

the star data. And, it looks like the little ole
ATMDC is pretty smart. It knows what it's doing.
It all Jives and it's taken out 5 degrees of the
yaw error. It should adjust new Z on the next
time around with the dump; and we should have a
normal momentum dump-rev after next.
SPT Okay, can we inhibit star tracker outer gimbal

update?
CC That is inhibited now, Joe.
SPT I mean enable, but I said inhibit.
CC Negative. We'd like to leave it inhibited for

the time being.
SPT Okay.
CC We'd like to let it get in plane and get all

squared away before we enable, Joe.
16 28 39 SPY Roger.

We'll be coming up on Canaries at 35:00, and we
plan to dump the recorder there.
SPT Roger.
16 35 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 9 minutes.

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PLT Roger, Hank. We're going to be moving around quite

a bit now. We may not acknowledge you.
CC Okay. No problem.
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT. We're seeing the

pressure in the waste tank coming up, and it's
getting up above the triple point of water. We'd
like to terminate the water purge so we don't wind
up freezing up those probes down there.
PLT Did you call, Hank?
CC Roger. We're monitoring the pressure in the waste

tank coming up, Paul, and it's going up above the
triple point of water. We'd like to terminate the
water purge, if you're doing that now, so that we
don't take a chance of freezing the probes up.
16 38 18 CC Skylab, for the PLT.
PLT Yes.
CC We'd like to know which purge you were working on

then, and whether there was a water heater cr
chiller, and how long the purge had been going.
PLT You mean when the water dump pressure was slow
coming down? What are you talking about?
CC Roger. Are you doing a purge now? Or were you

doing a purge?
16 39 04 PLT Yes, l'm in the process of doing a dump through

the wardroom dump for the checklist right now,
and activating the trash box.
16 39 15 CC Roger. We'd lik_ to terminate that _mmediately, Paul.
PLT Okay.
PLT Why, Hank? What's it doing?
CC Okay. Apparently you didn't read me before. We see

the waste tank pressure coming up, and it's getting
above the triple point of water. If we continue
we're taking a chance of freezing up the probe. The
overboard - -
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SPT I can't understand, and you're right. We didn't

read you before. We heard a couple of very broken
transmissions, went back to you, and you never
answered. I guess we hit a bad spot again.
CC Roger. We're - we're taking a chance that the

screens might freeze up. We'd still like to know
which purge you were on when we stopped you there.
Was it the chiller or the water heater?
SPT Well, I'ii have to go back and hunt up. No -

it was the water heater, because I'd already
unplugged the dump line from the chiller.
CC Okay. Can you give us an estimate of how long

that purge had been going?
SPT Well, I tell you, I fouled up some place along

the line - bad. The dump valves been open for
about half an hour, I think.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT Because, I swear I got it checked off my checklist,

and I swore I did it after we - You know you purge
the line from water tanks 7 or whatever the heck
it was going on there. And I came back to it to
open it for the - for the heater dump, and it was
still open.
CC Roger. That - that explains, then, the rise in

pressure down there.
SPT Yes.
16 43 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We have a very low pass at Ascension at 46:00. If
we're unable to contact you there, we'll be seeing
you at Honeysuckle at 20:00. And if you can do it
real quickly here, we'd like to get an update on
where you are on the checklist.
PLT SPT is finishing SAL activation.
CC Copy.
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PLT CDR is finishing up the SOP/SOMAs.
16 4_ 21 CC Roger.
16 46 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 2 minutes.
16 46 32 PLT Roger, Houston.
16 47 59 CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds LOS. Honeysuckle

at 20 :O0.
16 48 08 CDR Okay.
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17 20 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CDR Say, Houston. l've got a question for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey, what kind of light configuration do you want in

the OWS? It's sort of - I'm not sure I understand
all of it on B-9o
CC Stand by 1.
PLT While you're working on that, Henry, how's the WASTE

TANK pressure look?
CC Okay. Let us check that, and while we've got you,

Paul, I'l like to find out exactly which valve it
was that you left on.
17 21 23 PLT The DUMP VALVE and the water in the wardroom table
pedestal.
CC Okay. And, we'd also like to know how far along with
the wardroom water heater dump had you gone, when we
caught it - or when we stopped you?
PLT It was essentially done, I guess, - I guess, i0 to

12 minutes into it.
CC Okay.
17 22 41 CC PLT, Houston. You have a GO to continue with the

dump. We show the waste pressure down to 0.05. You
can monitor if you'd like, I think, on panel 800;
0.09 is themax we want.
CDR Okay, Houston. We've got another question for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR After we complete that, how soon can we use the

trash airlock?
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CC Anytime you want to, Pete.
CDR Okay. Because we've got some stuff piling up here,

and we start - like to clean out.
17 23 _l CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question concerning

the light - and the idea there is to turn on all the
lights, and then use the individual lights on - indi-
vidual switches on each light to either turn it on
HIGH, LOW, or OFF.
CDR Well, what you're saying is you want us to find out

what the minumum light configuration is we can get
away with. And set them by turning on all of the
lighting switches on 616, and go around and adjust
the other lights, right?
CC That is affirmative. You've got it.
CDR Okay. We're happy with what we've got right now.
How about taking a look at how much that is, and see
if we're drawing too much for you.
• CC Okay. Will do.
17 24 39 CDR And, Hank, that brings me to condensate holding tank

relocation, which is, in fact, complete. So, I will
now step ahead to 15-10, condesate holding tank
evacuation.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR So that looks like I'm running about 2 hours and

20 minutes behind. However, things go so nice and
comfortably up here, we'll probably press on today
like we did yesterday.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR You all might think about that. We got good night's
sleep last night. We're rested. As long as we don't
get tired we'd like to flog through today. And, it
may he that we don't get screwed back around in the
right sleep cycle until we get to orbital operation.
We've got that time in there to regroup. We can
knock that out because we're sort of regrouping as
we go. And what I'm shooting for is to wind up,
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begin in orbital ... when we're suppose to be

getting them, as long as we don't run ourselves
into the ground; and I don't think we're running
ourselves into the ground. We're getting good
nights' sleep and everything. So how does that
sit with you?
CC Sounds pretty good, Pete. But we'll think about

it and we'll get back with you.
CDR Okay. We may start getting ahead here, eventually.
17 26 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We need to get somebody to the

ATM console and get this star tracker power, OFF.
CDR The SPT is on his way.
CC Okay. The reason for that is, it's wandering

about, and we need to stop it.
CDR Okay.
17 27 0B CC And, Skylab; Houston. When you get to doing the

quiescent panel Delta that we up-linked to you,
we'd like to leave the E-P SPECT, ON.
CDR E-P SPECT, ON. Okay. I haven't gotten that piece

of paper yet; maybe Joe has it.
CC Okay. That's general message 0BIB.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about B0 seconds from LOS.

We'll be picking up Hawaii at 41.
17 40 44 CDR Roger, Houston; and be advised we Just did your

general message B12 CBRM 15 troubleshooting, and
it did not work. So, we have the REG OFF and the
CHARGER OFF. Okay?
CC Roger. Copy. And we would like to - if you haven't

already done so, put message Bll-B into work. _ae
temperaturesin the food locker?
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CDR Okay. Did that come all the way through? I saw that
on the teleprinter, and it wasn't all the way out of
the teleprinter, and I wasn't sure whether you got
the whole message in or not before I pulled it out.
Is it all transmitted?
CC Roger. It should be, Pete.
17 42 01 CC We got - got that message up lately, just before

LOS, and we only got three sloves on it. So you
might have to slew it out a little.
CDR Okay.
17 47 06 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes, sir.
CC Got a little clarification on that message 313, if

you - is convenient to Jot it down.
CDR Okay. It came u_ split.
CC Say again?
CDR It was a split message. One line was out of phase

with the other in the middle. It was a little hard
to read.
CC You think it's all there, or do we need to send it

again or -
CDR Why don't you just send it again. Every time you
send one of those things and we get in them, we
get further behind. If it's not really importa1_ -
Do you want me to dump that switch configuration right
now, or can it wait for a while?
CC We wanted you to do it at lunch.
CDR Okay, why don't you send me the message again,

because that one's kind of garbled.
CC Okay, that's the best thing. We'll try it again, Pete.

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CDR Yes. It looked like all you wanted was that - 3-12
and leave the computer powered up. Was that right?
In STANDBY?
17 h8 18 CC That's Roger. Wanted to leave those two circuit

breakers CLOSED and leave the E-P SPECT ON.
CDR Okay, I can remember that. You don't have to send

a message. And I'll do page S 3-12 and leave those
out.
17 48 33 CC That's affirmative. And Just a reminder, BAT B

charge is due to be terminated at 20:00.
CDR Okay, 2 hours and l0 minutes from now, huh?
CC Roger.
17 49 00 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Be picking you

up at Goldstone at 52.
CDR Okay.
17 52 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 6 minutes.
17 53 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 5 minutes now.
CDR Okay.

We'll be picking you up at - Bermuda at 02. And
before we sign off here, I'd like to get an update
on the SPT and PLT.
CDR Okay, Houston. At this point, the emphasis in the

SPT's activities is on the second letter, and in
the PLT, on the first letter ... (laughter).
IT 58 02 CC Roger; we copy that. And we've got the live TV

scheduled for (laughter) - from Mila.
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CDR Well, you should have let us know. We would have

tried to hold back. The SPT is in the midst of
film vault activation, and the PLT, as you may have
guessed, hasn't quite made it through urine system
activation yet.
18 02 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for l0 minutes, and

we'll be dumping the data recorder here.
CDR Okay. We're taking our lunch break now, Hank.
CC Roger.
CC And we're set up to get about 3 minutes of TV

through Mila, which should start at about 04.
18 03 57 CC Hey, we're getting the picture now. Looks good.

Hey, we're getting the picture now. Looks good.
18 05 32 CC We're getting a great picture down here, guys. You

make it look easy.
CDR Shazam.
CDR Hey, Hank, how's the temperatures looking? Are

they still coming down on the outside of the
vehicle?
CC That's affirmative, Pete. And we just lost our

TV through Mila. It was a pretty short pass. That
was a good show. Looks like the bird's cooling
down real good.
CDR Okay, very good. If we've got time this afternoon,

we'll set the TV up at some other location down
below or something where we're working - and catch
that any time you want.
CC Okay.
18 ii 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on a real low pass at Carnarvon
at 16. If we don't get you there, we'll get you
at Ascension at 19.
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CDR Roger dodger!

18 19 06 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger.
18 20 30 CDR Hey, Hank; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR How nervous are you about getting that food temp
thing? You want us to put somebody on that right
after lunch?
CC Roger, Pete. We'd like to get that - we'd like to

get a hack at the cooldown on that food to see if we
can get an estimate of how hot it was, or at least
how fast it's cooling off.
CDR Okay. Well, we'll put the SPT on it after lunch.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. So he's in a hold on activating the film

vault right at the moment.
CDR Hank, one other thing. I think we're sort of bogging

down here, again, a little bit. I think wha_ we
want to accomplish today is to get the complete
water system activated, waste management system,
and as much of that sort of stuff as we can to get it
liveable down there. This eating in the command
module and everything really slows us down.
CC We concur with that, Pete.
18 22 B5 CC And, Skylab; Houston. So you can be thinking about

it, right now we're scheduling the EVA status report
for 01:50 and the medical conference for 02:20.
CDR All right.

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18 29 02 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS. Carnarvon at 52.
18 29 05 CDR Bye.
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18:52:12 PLT Tape recorder, this is the PLT answering the questions
that were sent up yesterday on the teleprinter re-
garding the SEVA. Question l, on trying to cut the
strap. No, I did not cut the strap because I felt
we did not have the right tools on board to do it
with. The strap was down very tight against the
beam fairing. Next question: can you get to the
strap under the beam fair - under the SAS or beam
fairing? Let me explain further to you what it is or
what is appears to be. There is a section of meteo-
roid shield which is directly under the beam fairing,
and this is then bolted through the - what we saw in
Huntsville as kind of a standard method on the meteo-
roid shield. The shield sheet being attached to an-
gle, and the angle's then bolted together. And this
is one of those Joint limes that ran longitudinally
the length of the meteoroid shield, parallel to and
Just out board of the beam fairing. So it doesn't go
under the SAS - or under the beam fairing. The next
question is, could I get the two-pronged tool under the
strap? Yes, sir, I could. As a m-tter of fact, we
a]most left it there - because that goes with the next
question. I did push in on the beam, got the two-
pronged tool between the beam and the strap and then
had one devil of a time trying to get it back out.
Question 5 is yes, sir,the strap is definitely dug
into the beam fairing. What it looks like to me is,
it is really wrapped tight right up against it and if
there are any protruding bolt heads or bolt threads,
they are right down into that beam fairing. It's al-
most like it was put on there. I really - I _]most
find it hard to believe it's on there so tight. Num-
ber 6 is the specific origin of the strap. We Just
talked about it, I think. Any more questions, give me
a call. Number 7, on observing deflection. I did not
observe any; however, the Commander, watching out his
window, said that the end of the beam fairing, when
I first pulled on it using the shepherd hook, he esti-
mates, deflected about a foot. When I _11ed it to-
ward me, it deflected. I also moved the whole work-
shop, surprisingly, at which point the TACS squirted at
us and started to move back. And, as a _tter of fact,
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the workshop was pulling the command module for a

short while there. Anyway, any deflection which was
put on has gone back out, and there is no permanent
deformation. Question number 8, there is no sheet
metal attached to this angle strap outboard of the
beam fairing. Of course there is underneath. The en-
tire section of meteoroid shield which lay under the
beam fairing at launch is still there. And question 9,
the last one on whether it was a single or double an-
gle. As best as I remember it, it was where there were
double angles back to back. The outer half of it, and
it was double for the first half of where it wrapped
around the beam fairing, at which point the - one of
the two angles tore away from the other and it's only
single from there on out. That's the end of the sum-
mary.
18 55 56 CC Hey, Paul. We caught the whole thing. You Just start-

ed recording over Carnarvon, and that was a pretty
good s_,,.ary.
PLT Well, you rascal. I was on tape also. Were the points
clear enough, Hank?
CC Roger. Very clear. In fact, Rusty had Just come in,

and he caught it all, too.
PLT Okay.
CDR Hey, Hank; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR If you and Rusty remember the long crowbar. It was

laying down there that somebody sent in that, of course,
we do not have with us. A man that had a crowbar like
that could go EVA either out of the command module or
down that beam fairing, stick that crowbar under that
thing so that he could pry with his feet against the
SAS beam and pry it right off of there. But it wrapped
around so hard that it's obviously, in effect, those
bolts have punctured the SAS skin and, in effect, it's
riveted that thing on there. And Paul got that claw
under it, but he couldn't provide enough leverage. The
claw is so short, and the pole was so whippy that he
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couldn't provide enough leverage to pry it off of

there. And it was extremely frustrating oecause a _n
with a crowbar could have driven right L there and
crowbared that thing right off of it and I'm sure
that panel would have flung out.
CC Roger. Copy. Do you think that you could have got-

ten the cutter around that strap down at the base, or
did you try to get it around the strap?
18 57 39 CDR No. I don't think that cutter would have done it.
18 57 43 PLT I don't either, Hank. I tell you, the tool that I

wish I'd have had would have been a circular power saw
of some kind and Just cut the strap away where it comes
off the meteoroid shield.
CC Okay, what we - -
CDR I'll tell you what's in the back - I'll tell you what's
in the back of my mind right now. We have a pry bar
.... in one of these tools, and I'm going to figure out
a way to tether an EVA so when we go out and do our
thing on day 26, it's worth our while to see if we
can't whinny around there. Because you can hand-
over-hand down the SAS beam; it's sticking out far
enough. And on one side where the butterfly hinge is,
it's clean; so you wouldn't cut your gloves. And I
think if you got down there with a pry bar, you could
pry it loose, and then the SAS beam would give you a
ride back because it's going to take off and go.
18 58 42 CC Roger, Pete. For your information, we're already work-

ing in the water tank trying to see what we can do
along those lines. We've looked at the pictures, and
what we're trying to - We have determined that the
tool we have on board will cut that strap. In fact,
they've cut a strap larger than that - out on the west
coast. And we're looking to see if - from the picture,
we're trying to determine if there is a place that you
can get at the strap with the cutting tool.
CDR Well, I'm - I'm not really sure that you can. If you
look at that picture, you'll find that that strap,
when it tore, it must have been traveling at high
velocity. Now maybe it's very soft aluminum because
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it's _lmost form-f_tted itself right around the right

angle of the SAS beam. You know, even though it's,
it 's - it 's not perpendicular to the corner, it 's lay-
ing diagonally across it, but it's awful flat.
CC Pete, this is Rusty. What's we're try -
CDR Go.
CC Yes. What we're talking about doing, Pete, is not

trying to get the strap off the beam, but cut it be-
low the beam, if you can get the cutter tool around
it. That is, get it internal to the tools - to the
Jaws of the cutter. We're looking at doing that from
up at the fast ring on the end of the pole. The ques-
tion is, do you think you can get - with the fully
open Jaws, can you get the angle inside the Jaws?
CDR Well, the answer to that is down low. I don't think

so because what it is, and you'll have to look at the
drawings, but is there running parallel to the hatch
section Just a little bit out forward of the SAS beam,
was there a seam where meteoroid shield bolted to-
gether running logitudinally?
19 O0 32 CC Yes, sir. And we've looked at all of those angles in

there, and all of them can be cut with the tool, at
least on the ground; as far as the mechanical advan-
tageis concerned. ,
19 O0 4B CDR Okay. Well, we're going to need a tank because I've

sure been thinking about how to get around there and
give her a go on day 26. Because I got - When he pull-
ed on the end of the beam, down at the bottom end - it
I - I couldn't see a strap, but that thing Just didn't
move, but the beam is free. It deflected a good foot.
I can see the solar panels accordioning in and out as
he was deflecting it. And he applied plenty of force.
I _Smost hauled him right out of the action, Red. We
had the TACS firing back at us, so we loaded it up
pretty good whenever you figure two Jet ... with him
Jerking on it and the TACS firing the other way.
CC One last question quickly. We're 40 seconds from LOS

Davy
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here. If the str_o is cut loose, do you believe that

there is anything else holding the beam down?
19 01 36 CDR Not from the outside, Rusty, but realize that whole
banjo hinge is deployed underneath the SAS on the
other side. I can see it clearly. And there is skin
all under there, but I believe all the skin tore
either cleanwhere it runs underneath it or tore it
off parallel to the SAS beam itself, except for that
one angle iron hanging over it.
19 02 04 CC Roger; 3 seconds to LOS.
19 02 07 PLT And I want to tell you something else next pass, Rusty.
19 02 ll CC Okay. We'll see you at Guam at 08:00.
PLT Okay. You reading us?
CC Roger. Readingyou loud and clear.
PLT One point I wanted to make, which you mayhave already

noticed from the photographs is it's kind of obvious
that as Pete said, that angle is really wrapped up
around there, and even though it m_kes an angle of
30 or 40 degrees with the axis of the beam fairing, it
is - does follow the contour of the beam. It has, in
fact, lifted the meteoroid shield up away from the
vehicle. That section of the meteoroid shield is still
attached top and bottom by the - by the deployment link
arm. And that, in fact, when the meteor - when the SAS
tried to deploy, where that piece goes up overtop, it
heaved that meteoroid shield on up and it's buckled
there.
CC Roger. Copy.
19 08 08 PLT I didn't mean buckle. I meant that it's bowed quite

distinctly by the - by the wing pulling on it. So I'm
convinced that there's still a load. I don't th_nk it
went far enough to permanently deform or put a dent in
the meteoroid shield. I still think the strap is hold-
ing it together and the forces in the system r_ght now
want to separate the two.
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CC Roger. Copy.
19 08 56 CC Paul, do you think you've put enough force on that

SAS wing to break the damper ...?
PLT Yes, sir. I sure did. However, none of it got trans-

mitted to the damper because it all got taken up by
the angle.
CC Roger.
PLT Now, your real concern, I assume, is whether it's

broken yet or not. And I have every confidence that
it is not.
19 09 30 CC Roger. We copy. We were just wondering if you cut

the strap. You know, if the damper was frozen, the
thing still might not go very far.
19 09 36 PLT No, no - no - Oh, I see. Righ_t. No, I think it's

there and anchored.
CC Skylab, Houston. I got a Checklist comment for the

CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
19 l0 35 CC Okay. On page 2-148, when you get down to the f_]m

dosimeter transfers, we want to delete the last item,
which is the ETC-5 film canister and bag. We shouldn't
transfer that until the film vault is down to 90 de-
grees.
19 ii 24 CDR Okay, Hous ...
PLT Hey, Henry. If we got enough time left in this pass,

I'm about to do a TRASH AIRLOCK dump, if you want to
watch it.
CC Roger. We got 2-1/2 minutes.
19 lh 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone will be coming up at 31:00.
19 31 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for about 6 minute_.

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CC I guess we'll probably have you about 19 minutes.

There may be a short dropout between Goldstone and
Texas.
19 33 04 CC Skylab, Houston; for whoever is available to go to

the ATM.
SPT I'll go.
CC Okay. We would like to get the STAR TRACKER enabled

and bring it up to the pad values we gave you this
morning. And we'd like to ENABLE - computer control
the star tracker. That's data command 50004, but do
not enable new Z.
19 34 19 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We think BED 2 BAKEOUT is proba-

bly complete, too.
CDR Okay. Just a minute.
19 35 05 CDR Hey, Hank, I think you've got a little mistake on page

3-12 in the Systems Book. Would you open it, please?
CC Okay, stand by.
19 35 41 SPT Houston, SPT. What do you need?
CC Okay, you at the ATM?
SPT I am now.
CC Okay, what we want to do is bring the star tracker up

to the pad angles we gave you this morning. And we
wanted you to enable - computer control to GIMBAL.
CC Star tracker control - -
SPT Come again, please, Hank, They were in another book.

We didn't have the books out.
CC You want the pad values again?
SPT Yes. I remembered the star. Give me the GIMK_L angle.

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CC Okay, INNER GIMBAL, minus 0660; OUTER GIMBAL,

plus 1620. And, we want you to enable STAR TRACK
control, and that's 50004, data co_m_nd.
SPT I already did that. I did that this morning.
CDR Hey, Hank. On the CSM system 3-12, the third step
down there, what power off on panels 9 and 6 are you
talking about?
19 36 59 CC Stand by 1. We'll get that.
CC Okay. That's - that's the AUDIO TONE power switch,

I think you're talking about there, Pete.
CDR Well, if I turn those off, I lose all comm throughout

the workshop except in the command module.
CC Let us take a look at that. You're probably right.
CC Flight ... nine. Then, disable channel Bravo for

recording.
CDR Hi there, Rusty, you're up Skylab ....
CC Okay, Pete. You're right there. Why don't you both

standby on that, and we'll take a look at it. I
think we got something wrong on the checklist here.
CDR I think you do, too. It got awful quiet in here.
SC Okay. Be advised that section 3-12 is complete with

the - except that ... SPECT is off. The G&N computer
is still on. All else is done except a hold on your
panel 9 and 6 stuff.
CC Roger. Copy. Good show.
CC And, you were right, Pete. We're going to need power

on all three of those panels.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
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CC Roger. Telemetry is showing that STAR TRACK control

is notENABLED.
SPT Okay. Maybe you guys inhibited it again. I'll check

it.
CDR How many watts is the co--and module drawing now,

Hank?
CC Stand by.
CDR Under this configuration.
CC It looks like about 700 watts.
CDR That's about 300 less than you figured, wasn't it?
19:42:59 SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR That's done now, Hank. Are you ready to - ENABLE

ORBITALPLANEERRORupdate?
CC Negative. We don't want to do that right now. We

want to look at it one more rev.
CC And, while you're up there, Joe, can you terminate the

B_D 2 bakeout?
SPT Okay.
CC Joe, for your information, the STAR TRACKER locked on

just like we thought it would. And, the computer has
brought the vehicle back in plane, and we should get
a good momentum dump this nighttime.
SPT Hope so.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we'll be dumping your data re-

corder now.
CC Skylab, PLT, no need to acknowledge when you did the

trash airlock dump a while ago. We did see a slight
rise in pressure in the waste tank.
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CC Skylab, Houston; i minute until LOS. Ascension at

05:09.
i
CREW Yes....
19 59 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, for the CDR, no need to acknowledge. EGIL re-

calculated the CSM power, and it's pulling about
900 watts.
CDR Roger. Do you know how many days that gives us?
Estimate.
SPT And, while you're thinking that one over, Houston,

this is the SPT. I'ii give you some food temperatures.
The temperature in locker 749 was 104. The air tem-
perature is 98. The temperature inside food locker
562 is 116 degrees. And the temperature on the sur-
face of food locker 555 is ii0. Over.
CC Roger. Copy. And, about what time did you take those_
Joe?
SPT I Just read the latter two a few minutes ago. The air
temperatures and locker temperatures were taken about
30-35 minutes ago.
CC Roger. Copy.
20:01:00 SPT Yes. The food lockers are as of right now.
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20 01 55 CC Joe, how are the temperatures in the film vault?
SPT Hank, between star - star tracking and vent systems,

I haven't got back to the'film vault yet. I'm about
to.
CC Okay.
SPT The temperature in W706, in the pill hocker is 106 de-

grees. So the crew is splitting all the pills in that
locker between them, and we're going to eat them today.
CC Roger.
SPT Be advised, our 0WS temp gage came off the peg and
it reads 97.5.
20 02 54 CC Roger. 97.5.
20 02 57 SPT And falling.
CC We've got about 1 minute to LOS. We come up on

Carnarvon at 30. Before we lose contact here, if its
convenient, we'd like to get a progress report.
20 03 36 SPT The PLT is still trying to get the urine system

activated, and the CDR is right now in the process
of activating the condensate holding tank.
20 29 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for l0 minutes.
SPT Houston, this is SPT. Do you want some - stand by 1.

How about some film vault temperatures?
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, this is with the digital thermometer.

Drawer Bravo was 106.8, Delta was 1070, Foxtrot
was 106.0, Hotel was 108.5, Juliett 107.5, and
drawer Kilo, on a S191 film container was 106.3. The
hottest part of the vault was the door, which was
io9-i/2.
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CC Very good report, Joe. Thank you.
20 38 07 CC Skylab; Houston. When convenient, we'd like to

terminate the bat B charge.
CREW ...
CC And, also, Skylab; Houston. If not already done so,

we'd like to terminate the bed 2 bakeout. And after
a 15-minute interval, you're clear to activate MOL
sleve A.
20 39 58 SPT Roger; Houston. We'll get the bat-B charge in a

minute and then the MOL sieve. It has been terminated
and we'll activate MOL sieve A in a minute. But keep
reminding us ; we're awful busy.
20 39 13 CC Roger. Will do. And we're about 30 seconds from

LOS. We should be coming up on Guam at 43, but
they've been having trouble with their USB. We may
not have eomm there. If not, we'll pick you up at
Goldstone at 08.
CREW ...
CDR Roger; Houston. Bat B charge is being terminated at

this time. MOL sieve A is coming on the line, and
the condensate holding tank Just takes a long time ...
doing some other things at the same time like working
food boxes and things like that. We'll have to bring
you up to date a little later on.
CC Roger, Pete. You were getting a lot of interference -

feedback through the speaker boxes. It's difficult
to understand you there.
20 44 47 PLT Battery charge is terminated.
CC Copy.
CDR Hank, give me a short count. We're trying to set

the volume on these things.
20 45 35 CC Okay. i, 2, 3, 4, 5 - 5, 4, 3, 2, i. Houston out.

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CDR Okay. I think I've got most of the feed out of it

now. How's that?
CC Hey, that sounds a lot better.
CDR Okay, it turns out that the wardroom box and the box
next to panel 611 feed very badly with the boxes under
each scientific airlock , which we've never seen before.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And you did say, Hank, you want us to go ahead and
put the MOL sieve A on the line, right?
CC Pete, how long have you been working evacuating

that holding tank?
20 46 43 CDR I've got the 9 minutes on the one side, and I am

20 minutes into the other side for a 30-minute pull.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Those times sound pretty close to nominal, Pete.
CDR Yes, that's pe r checklist, Hank.
20 49 l0 CC CDR, Houston. No need to acknowledge. We've been

looking at the Flight Plan here, and it looks to us
like that we should be concentrating on completing
the water system activation as you suggest. Try to
get one suit to drying. Get the fecal processing
going and activate the SMMDs. It seems to us that
those ought to be the priority items.
20 49 46 CDR Every one of those things is in work. The urine

drawers are in work, the fecal processing is in work,
the suit drying is in work. Joe has been activating
some of that. And I'm working the water system, and
so is Paul. I think that by tonight we'll have the
wardroom on the line and water system on the line,
one suit being dried, all the waste management being
run correctly; and with that, we'll probably give
it up.
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CC Roger. That sounds good, Pete. We concur.
PLT Are you there, Hot,ton?

i
CC Go ahead.
20 51 56 PLT Be advised that I had to use the secondary primer on

MOL sieve A. Primary didn't start it.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC We'll smoke that one over. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS. We should be picking up Goldstone at 08.
20 52 30 CDR The circuit breakers are closed.
21 07 42 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 14 minutes. And

we'll be getting live TV on this one.
CDR Okay, Houston. Unless you want us to turn the camera

on in the same location, we don't have anything to
give to you. We've been too busy.
CC You are turning it on, aren't you, Pete?
CDR I will; just a second.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to up-link drift

compensations for the X and Y gyros, and we need
you to be off the DAS.
CDR Roger.
21 09 50 CC Okay. We got a good picture.
21 ii 31 CDR Hey, Houston. We just had a momentary ... went

on, then went off.
CC Roger. Copy.
21 12 26 PLT Hey, Hank. We got a good switchover on the timers

on the MOL sieve. They're still on the secondary
timers.
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CC Roger. The sieve operation looks good to us down

here.
PLT Okay.
PLT I meant beds switchover.
CC We're still troubleshooting that primary timer, Paul.

We're not sure if you turn it on that it's suppose to
do an immediate cycle. We're trying to check that
out.
21 13 25 PLT Well, I'll tell you that - We Just had a Sieve A sieve
flow light on for about l0 - 15 seconds, went right
back out.
CC Roger. We recommend you inhibit that caution and '

warning there until the sieve stabilizes.
CDR Say we can expect that for a while?
CC That"s affirmative.
CDR Okay. How about if we inhibit it for now and, you

remind us later on today to enable it, all right?
CC Roger. We will do that.
CC Looks like you're dragging a body around there.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we'll be dumping the data

recorder over MILA, and that's coming up in about
another minute.
21 19 21 CDR Hey, Hank, you guys watching the TV?
CC That' S affirmative.
CDR Okay. I want to show you the data card kits. They
made them wrong, and none of them fit.
21 20 08 CC Okay, we're looking at the towel.
CC Okay, you got the bags right in the center of the

picture now.
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CDR The snaps on the end of the straps are too small.
CC Roger. We saw it.
21 24 04 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Vanguard _will be coming up at 34. That was a good show.
21 24 2B CDR Roger. We're getting there. Slow but sure.
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21 36 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for another 5 minutes

through Vanguard.
PLT Roger, Houston.
21 37 01 CC And Skylab, Houston. We need to get somebody up to

the comm_ud module for a couple of items. We're
expecting a caution and warning, if you haven't
already gotten it on the condensor exhaust temperature
for fuel cell. They are getting too cold. We need
to take the FUEL CELLS 1 and 3 RADIATOR switches to
EMERGENCY BYPASS.
PLT Okay.
f
CREW I'll get it.
CC And while you're up there, on panel 250 we'd like

to get the MAIN BUS INTERCONNECT circuit breakers,
MAIN A and MAIN B, CLOSED. We want to tie the buses
together.
PLT Okay.
CC The reason for that is load sharing. Fuel cell 3

is carrying three times the load of 1 because it is
carrying all the AC.
21 38 03 PLT We don't have to close any breakers to get those

RADIATORS in BYPASS, do we?
CC That's negative. Just throw the two switches on

panel 3.
PLT Okay.
CC We're checking that circuit breaker question.
21 39 13 CC Okay, you might check those circuit breakers on

f-_ panel 226. The RAD BAT RELAY circuit breakers
1 and 3. They verify that they're closed. If,
they're not, close them. _
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CDR Okay, Hank. Even before looking, I'm quite sure

they're not. I don't think they have been closed
the whole mission.
CC And after you close the circuit breakers and throw

the switches we would like for you to pull the cir-
cuit breakers again.
CC And before we lose COMM here, which is a pretty low

elevation pass, we would like to verify that some-
body has turned the TV off.
CDR Okay. We'll take care of it, and the RADIATORS are
in BYPASS.
21 40 51 CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
21 40 54 CDR Just had a fire alarm in the OWS heat exchanger com-
partment. We don't see anything. I turned off the
alarm and reset it again. And it must have been a
transient. We don't see anything. Anything you'd
like us to look at in there?
CC We're looking, and we're just about to lose you for

a long LOS. Keep an eye out. Everything looks okay
down here, at a cursory glance. We'll see you over
Goldstone at 22:45.
CDR Okay.
21 41 49 CC We're right in the middle of the South Atlantic

anomaly. I don't know whether they had to trip that
thing or not.
22 45 lh CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 9 minutes.
22 46 59 CC Skylab; Houston. We're clearing an ACS alert for

information.
CDR Okay.
CC And did you have any more of those fire alarms?
22 _7 23 CDR No, we didn't. I took that sensor clean out of there.

The one that looks into the back of the package, and
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. not looks at the fan. Took the sensorclear out of

there, shined my flashlight down in there_ and I
couldn't see anything. It's Just a blac_ hole down
there, so, don't ask me what hit it off. We put it
back in, retested the system tests okay, and haven't
heard from it since.
CC Roger. Copy. Andwe got some good news on your bags

there, at least we've found a replacement. In WV51
there's some utility bags, and I think those will make
a good substitute for your data card bags.
CDR Okay, where is that? 7517
CC That's affirmative. We did check those in the

trainer and they work okay.
CDR Okay, I don't know how heavy the small samples are
you got in there, but I was thinking of trying to
modify them later. 751? We'll loQk. Thank you.
CDR I _Testledmy way through that condensate, Hank.

That's all complete - it's all evacuated. That's
as far as the procedure goes. We had a few items
between there like which ones in the COmmAud module
and so forth. I'm just finishing up the flight data
file stowage right now. I'm on m_way to 742 while
passing ... 126 and so forth. So we're slowly getting
organized.
CC Roger. Copy.
22 48 42 CDR The other thing we just finished spending a little

time on was - we thought we had the urine system
all rigged up and it wouldn't work. I was the
test subject and I had a big failure. And we went
back and regrouped on it and we've concluded that
you have to have a fecal bag in the thing. You have
to have the fecal bag in a certain way or you Just
don't get enough vacuum through the urine system,
enough flow, to pull urine down the urine tube, but
the other two guys have been working on that down
for a while. They say it works okay.
CC Roger. Copy.
22 49 23 PLT Hello, Henry. Look at page i01, will you please.

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CC Go ahead.
PLT Under PLT, the first step there. Guess how far
the water tank ... is moved?
CC Okay, we give up.
PLT About an inch and a half, I'm notifying you.
CC Okay.
PLT Not only that, but I'm not continuing per the
checklist.
CC Okay, stand by a minute.
22 50 2! CC Paul, we'd like to verify that you completed the

water purge after we terminated that time.
PLT Okay, this is screwed up, doing this stuff in bits

and pieces, interrupted and that, that I don't know
what I've done, but I have accomplished everything
in the checklist up to this point. As spelled out
in section Bravo _,mmaryFlight Plan.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT As I remember, I had not finished a 15-minute ...

on the wardroom water heater, when you called me
and wanted it terminated. After that, then I think
I did a 5-minute purge on the chiller.
CC Okay, the message I get follows, to press ahead,

we think it's okay.
PLT I was hoping you'd say that.
22 52 O0 CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to get you to turn those

35 psi toggles on, one at a time so we can watch
them.
PLT Is that the nitrogen regs you wanted one at a time?
PLT Okay.
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22 53 58 CC And another thing we'll throw out for conside_tion

here. It looks like to us that the momentum ma_a4_-
ment is 81most perfect, _ we'd like to brizME the
star tracker U9 according to the pad we gave you.
Acquire and enable star trekker update, That's
52011, 50011. You csA_ do that anytime prior to
Vanguard, which is 23:10.
22 53 29 PLT Okay. Here comes reg A.
PLT Holler when you're ready for B.
CC We're still looking for reg A.
22 5_ 26 CC We're seeing it come up - number i is coming up

after one more thing about the star acquire, after
you get the star tracker on the line, we want to
make sure yo u inhibit the MPC.
22 5_ 53 PLT Do you see any ... increase at all, Henry, I'i!

tell you, that - when I opened the reg, I heard
some rattling noises in th e line, and the presst&re
on the portable water tank is coming up very very
slowly, if at all.
CC Roger. We think it will take a while because all

the lines have got to come up.
PLT Okay. Also, you know water tank 1 is right at what

is now about the hottest spot on the inside of the
vehicle. So I'm not sure that any reading of that
stuff is going to be any good. And in w_rdroom
2 is going to have to work it's little hear% out
to cool that stuff off.
PLT Actually, tank 1 ain't so bad, tank 2 is the one

that's really a heartbreak.
CC Okay, let's go ahead with the other reg now.
22 56 06 PLT Okay. They're both on, and I can hear the nitrogen
flowing a little faster but not much.
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CC Roger.
CQ, _An_, Skylab, EGIL says the sieve flow looks real
good now, verystable, and so you're clear to enable
the sieve flow cautien and warning at any time you
wish. :,
PLT Okay, thank you.
22 57 08 PLT Hank, can I open the pressure valve to tank 7 now,

or do you want me to wait until the pressure comes
up in the line a little more?
CC Okay, you can press ahead.
PLT Okay.
22 57 21 CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be picking

up Vanguard at about ii. And don't forget to inhibit
the MPC.
CDR Roger.
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CDR Hello.
23 12 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a dump maneuver starting

now. You're going to have to wait on that star
tracker. Wait until next daylight.
CDR Okay, Henry. Nobody was quite sure who was doing
it, so it didn't get done.
CC No sweat, don't worry about it. In the teleprinter

there, you're going to find a few messages. We'd
like for you to browse those over in preparation for
evening status report that will be over Hawaii at
01:50; just another reminder. And later on this
evening, we'll start our commanding in support of
• the - commandingto the APCS in support of the
unattended checkout of the ATM.
CDR Roger.
CC We should be sending the first commands up over this

site.
23 13 40 CC And SkYlab; Houston. If you have no objections, we

won't give you a running account of what we're doing
on this unattended checkout.
CDR That's Okay.
CDR ...
23 18 00 CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

And the next contact is Hawaii at 19:00.
23 19 29 CC Skylab, Houston through H_aii for three minutes.
CDR Hi there.
CC How goes it.
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CDR I'm up to my ears _n stowage transfers. I don't know

what the rest of the guys are doing.
PLT The PLT and the SPT are in the midst of moving
food boxes.
CC PLT, Houston. Are you finished with the water system,

now?
23 21 12 SPT Yes, he is, and the SPT has the SMMDs activated, and
the Command Module food transfer done, but not the
smhient food transfer.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR You guys better start ...
CC Okay, we'll work on it; and as a matter of

interest, too, Pete, we see that the condensate
tank Delta P is down to about 1.34. It probably
won't make the night, so some time this evening you
should plan on connecting the condensate dump
port up to the holding tank, as outlined on
page 137.
CDR I'll be in the midst of the stowage transfer on 2-146.
23 22 18 CC Roger. Copy. No rush on that condensate thing. I

Just wanted to make you aware of it. It's something
we'll probably have to do this evening. And we're
about 20 seconds from LOS. We'll he coming up on
Vanguard at 47, and we'll get a recorder dump there.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND /OICETRANSCRIPTION
00 47 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for l0 minutes.
PLT Roge:c.
CDR Hey, Hauk.
CC Go ahead.
O0 47 30 CDR I may have goofed there, if you see something funny

on your ATM. I didn't think we were supposed -
I didn't hear that one thing that you passed, and
I didn't think we were supposed to be experiments point-
ing, so I went to SI. Then Joe told me we were supposed
to be experiment pointing so I went back there again.
I hope I didn't goof anything up.
CC It looks okay now, Pete. That should be all right.
00 48 02 CDR And be advised we're on the big condensate tank.
CC Good show.
CDR Will you have the stowage people check and see if
there was a CX21 35-millimeter empty cassette on
board? It should have been empty if it's on board
at all.
CC We 'lJ check.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I've got a question about suit drying. I had

thought I'd heard preflight that we were not going to
use the suit dryer. However, the procedure said to
use it and I went ahead and started the first suit.
Is that right?
CC You're absolutely correct, Joe. We want to dry the

suits, simpler with the dryer.
SPT Okay.
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CC The change is we're not baking the ...
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and I have a star pad now for somebody, if

they want a copy, that you can use when you get
back into daylight.
CDR Go ahead.
00 49 50 CC Okay, the star's Canopus; 50001. It is available

day at 29:50 tonight, 04:48; OUTER GIMBAL, plus
1770; INNER GIMBAL, minus 0667. And this is valid
from 00:45 to 05:h5.
CDR Okay, you want us to get it going in ENABLE STAR

TRACKER update. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative and we need it prior to Hawaii,

and we need, after you do it, MPC INHIBIT.
CDR Okay.
CC We're going to be driving the wedges Pete, over -

, at Hawaii.
CDR Okay. When do we get to Hawaii?
CC Hawaii is coming up at 55.
CDR Okay, I'll go do it right now.
CC Not this 55, an hour - a little over an hour from now.
CDR Oh, okay.
OO 51 40 CDR Hey, Hank, did y'all decide the film vault was
cool enough for me to take the ETC magazine down
yet, or not?
CC We'd like to leave it in the command module overnight,

Pete.
CDR Okey dokey.
00 52 O0 CC I'm informed now that that's scheduled for a day-6

transfer.
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CDR Okay.
CC Pete, we've been looking at this star pad and, you

know, I gave you it was available with 29:50 of day
remaining. It turns out that's about 5 minutes prior
to Hawaii.
CDR Okay. Give me AOS Hawaii, exactly.
O0 54 Ii CC Okay. Hawaii AOS is at 01:55. So, as soon as it

becomes available, we'd like you to get right on it,
so we can be ready to start commanding as soon as
we get acquisition.
CDR All righty.
O0 56 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute from LOS.

We'd like to remind you we plan to do the Evening
Status Report in Hawaii in the pass cc_ing up. And
we'd like to be prepared there to discuss the
pad we've uplinked and our plans for tomorrow.
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CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Roger - -
CDR ... need status report.
CC We need the MPC inhibited, first off.
CDR Joe left it on and we're sorry.
CC Okay. Go ahead with status report.

t.
01 55 l0 CDR Okay, let us give you the - We have voice recorded

on channel A - wait a minute, let me verify that.
CDR Okay, on the food log, you will find the complete
_ food log for day 1 and 2 on A channelrecord. Okay?
Just to speed things up, the records will be marked
tomorrow on A channel. Today, day 3 - let me give
you the Alfa urine volume: CDR, 210; SPT, 160;
PLT, 200. Now we got a set of water-gun readings that
are initial water gun readings that we started out with
about 4 hours ago. Better write these down, and then
tomorrow, on the next Evening Status Report, you'll have
about 4 hours - you'll ave about 3 hours of today's
water and all of tomorrow on it. CDR's water gun initial
reading at activation was 3338, the SPT's was 6828. The
PLT's was 1892.
CC Copy.
CDR Today, we have no body mass to give you. We have no

exercise to give you. We'll cover item Echo on
the con_n tonight - although there isn't anything to
report. We're in good health. And let me read you
today's food log.
CC Let it go.
01 57 24 CDR Okay. the CDR ate everything today, except corn. The
reason for that was the bag failed when inflating with
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water, and I got corn all over everywhere. So I

couldn't eat it. Now, for yesterday, Joe calculated
that I should have taken - and I did take - two
magnesium, two calcium pills. Now, SPT didn't eat
his biscuits or Jam for breakfast. Drank coffee
and butter cookies for snacks, and his nominal pills
for the day beforeyesterday were one magnesium, one
calcium, which he took. And the PLT ate half his
bread. He did not drink his coffee with sugar for
breakfast. For lunch, he didn't eat his asparagus
or bread, and for a snack he did not have his coffee.
And he had one magnesium. And the H20 shots that
I'm going to give you are from the command module
guns, so they're half-ounce shots. CDR had'hO,
SPT had 6, PLT had 60. There were no DELTA H20s.
There were no salt pack usage. And tomorrow morning
I will take one calcium. Joe has none. Paul has none.
Plus anything you send up for us.
CC Roger, we'copy.
01 59 30 CDR Copy all that?
O1 59 32 CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay. Now, I'ii give you a film status tomorrow. The
only film we used was during rendezvous and I'll
itemize that out for you. Bring you up to dat tomorrow,
when we get going. We would like you to send us,
tonight again, the procedures for the probe. The
first eight steps were okay, then you transmitted a
second message. And it is split in half, garbled and
the linesare Jumped, and I'm not exactly sure what
it says. We request a retransmission on that.
CC Wilco.
CDR We are a little bit behind on day 4. However, with

regroup the next day, we will have it all made up
and we'll get back with it at noon, tomorrow. As
far as we could tell, all stowage is still as
specified, unless you find some changes as noted on
A record. That's it for the status report.
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02 00 43 CC Okay. We'd like to talk about the Flight Plan. We've

got about 4 minutes left, Pete. How we yaw things
was perhaps - the first thing tomorrow is to Just sort
of pick up where we left off and work on through, with
a couple of exceptions. There will be a press conference
tomorrow and we figure lunchtime is about the best
time to do it, at about 18:40, and there will be a trim
burn coming at about 01:07 - about a 29-second burn
time. Those, I think, are the only changes.
CDR Okay, the press conference is when?
CC Roger. It'll be about 18:40.
CDR You want TV?
CDR Where do you want the,TV?
i CC Okay, wait a minute. There's been a change on the

press conference time. It's 17:04.
CDR 17:04 in the wardroom, right?
CDR And the trim burn is when?
CC At 01:07. That'll be after dinner, in the e_tening.
CDR Okay, 29 seconds drive, roughly.
CDR I figured I pushed so hard trying to dock the other

night. I almost deorbited the thing.
CC (Laughter) It's still there. We checked on the

cassette you asked about. It is not onboard - that
container.
02 02 13 CDR Okay, I sure looked hard, but I'm glad it's not
onboard. Okay._
02 02 18 CC Okay. We would l_e - -
CDR l've located everything else.

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CC - - We would like to know where you plan to sleep

tonight?
CDR I think we'll sleep in the command module again. Our

initial temperature is 94 now. Our biggest source of
heat is the water tanks. Man, do they store heat, and
they're really putting it out -by tomorrow morning.
CC Okay. We dropped out there for about 20 seconds. Can

you repeat what you Just said, Pete.
CDR Yes, we're going to sleep in the command module

tonight. Our biggest source of heat, in the work-
shop, is that of the water tanks. It's Just going
to take them a long time to give up 5heir heat.
CC Okay, if you sleep in the command module tonight,

Pete, we need you to bring up one BMAG, and we'll
also need one of you to wear an OBS.
CDR Everybody Just decided to sleep in the MDA, Hank.
CC Okay, if you sleep out there, we'll need to bring

up an inverter. We've got to get some heat in the
command module.
CDR Okay, we'll be glad to bring up the heat.
CDR Which one do you want, BMAG or inverter?
CC Where you going to sleep?
CDR In the MDA.
CC Okay. How about bringing up inverter 2?
CDR Okay. We'll do it right now.
CC Okay, wait a minute. Inverter 2 is already on. I'd

bring up inverter 1 with it.
CDR Okay.
02 Oh 2h CC Okay. We're about 20 seconds until LOS - -
CDR ... inverte# 1.

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CC I didn't copy that. We're 20 seconds from LOS.

Vanguard's coming up at 47, and you'll have your
med conference there.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. In regard to the questions we

sent up, we'd likeyou to put those on the recorder.
02 0508 CDR Okay. We'll also put our comments - -
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II 02 hi CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 5 minutes, AOS.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS for 4 minutes.
ll 04 29 CREW Good morning, there, ...
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12 16 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside for

16-1/2 minutes. Good morning.
12 16 52 PLT Hi, there. Our hands are full of bloody medical

equipment, but we'll recover, I think.
CC Roger.
CDR Hey, Bill. Joe Just drew all three of us. That went
very smoothly.
CDR CDR just finished shaving. Breakfast is cooking,

and I think with a little luck at all, we might get
on to a good routine. This is our first real post-
sleep crack at the Checklist, so we'll get a good
chance to see how long it takes us.

We'll be pickingyou up at Madrid at 37:00.
12 32 58 CDR Roger.
PLT Hi, there.
CC Hello.
PLT l've got a question, Henry. According to my check-

list last night - if it is Hank.
CC Roger.
12 37 56 PLT I turned off the - opened the circuit breakers down

in the workshop to the waste tank vent heater. Now
we're going to dump some urine in that this morning -
urine bags. I turned them back on for now though.
Is that an OFF at night, ON in the morning kind of
thing?
CC Let me take a look at that, Paul.

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PLT Okay; it - it was, it was written in. It was a pen

and ink change to my Checklist. Anyway, as of right
now, they're ON. Also, we've got almost a full water
tank to the command module ; plus Pete wanted me to
ask you about - I guess somewhere in his procedure he
closed the water tank relief valve.
CC Roger. Copy. Let - let me look into that.
PLT Okay.
12 39 40 CC Skylab, Houston. Answer on the vent heaters first.

We plan to fly with the vent heaters OFF and the
circuit breakers OPEN. And we'll monitor the waste
tank pressure to tell how the screens are doing. And
I'd like to remind you, you also have panel 800 to
keep up _-ith that; 0.09 is the magic number.
PLT Okay.
12 40 19 SPT Henry, sometime today have the stowage guys look

something up for us. Will you, please? How many
wash cloths a day can we use, and how many towels
a day?
CC Okay; how many wash cloths and how many towels? I'll
get that for you.
SPT Yes, you can tell we're starting to live in here now.
12 41 56 PLT Houston, how do the temperatures look this morning?

Are they still coming down?
CC That's affirmative. It looks like they've dropped

another 5 or 6 degrees over night. Some of those
structure temperatures that were up around 120, like
the ceilings, are down to around 92 - 93 now.
12 42 20 PLT Have your thermal people plotted a trend? Do you

know where it's going to level off at?
12 42 30 CC Say again, Paul.
12 42 35 PLT Where is the temperature going to level off at,

Houston?
CC Oh, okay. Let me get an answer on that.

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12 43 00 CC We expect the temperatures to stabilize out somewhere

around 75 degrees.
PLT Thank you.
12 43 32 CDR Say, Hank, we're settling in pretty good. Of course,

we asked you a question on the towels. Most every-
body cleaned up today, shaved; and I wanted to advise
you on all the urine that we've collected so far.
It's been in the command module. And all those urine
samples are - I'm guessing - probably 70-percent air.
Starting today is the first good urine bag that we've
been able to install with a full vacuum pulled on
them, so I expected to see things improve on that with
tomorrow's sample. If it weren't for the fact that
we had such a spectacular view out of the wardroom
window, which we didn't open until yesterday evening,
late, I'd think we were back in Houston s_mm_ng.
12 4h 28 CC Roger. (Laughter) Copy.
CDR And right now we're over Italy, and the weather is
_- spectacularlyclear. We can see just about all of
Italy from cne end to the other. All clear across
the Mediterranean; going over some ground I've never
seen before.
CC Roger. Copy. And we're just about LOS now, Pete.

And we'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 16:00.
CDR Okay. Hopefully, we'll all be done breakfast by then,

and we got a few other questions for you, and we'll
try working the probe and whatever else we need to do.
12 45 03 CC Okay, I'll try to have an answer on the CSM water then.
13 14 h5 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 1 minute.
13 15 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds LOS

Carnarvon, and we've got some answers to your ques-
tions. We'll tag up again at Goldstone at 53:00.
13 17 27 CC Skylab, Houston. In the blind, about i0 seconds

from LOS. Goldstone coming up at 53:00.
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CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Sorry. I answered you three times on B channel.
13 17 46 CC (Laughter). Roger.
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13 53 22 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 17 minutes.
13 53 28 CDR Hi there, Houston. Say, I've got a mystery question

for you.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR I'm supposed to fill three transfer water bags to

put in the command module. They're originally stowed
at A-9, and I can't find them on any stowage list,
including A-9. A-9's kind of a rat's nest, so I
didn't bother to lo0k in there, but I'm not sure
they're aboard. Can you put a tracer on what hap-
pened to those?
CDR You know what I'm talking about?
CC Roger. We're Just talking about it. I think those

are in the workshop, F507 A-9.
CDR 5, what?
cc F507.
CC That's under the water purification rack, I think,

Pete.
CDR Oh, that A-9! Very good.
13 54 37 CDR Solved the mystery. Good thing I didn't look very

hard.
CC Hey, we've got a few things that we'd like to go

over right here, if we could now, Pete.
CDR Go ahead.
CC 0kay. I guess the first question is concerning

general message 0316 Charlie. We want to know
if you put those answers on the tape recorder last
night. That was the five questions from BIOMEI_.
13 55 23 CDR Well, we're going to have to trace the message down.

I - wait a minute.
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CDR Yes, we're going to have to trace it down.

Ever2body passed the buck. Joe said it was
for somebody else, but I didn't see it. Paul
hasn't seen it.
13 55 52 CC Okay. Just as we were signing off last night, we

got acknowledgment that you were going to put it
on the tape. We've been having trouble with the
tape, is the reason we're asking and want to make
sure it d{d get on there. In regard to the water
question you had, the relief valve should remain
off in the command module. We would like for you
to dump the water tonight after dinner. And that
dump should be in accordance with general message
314. We had sent an earlier message, 313, in regard
to that. But we've changed configurations. So
314 is the message you should use for the water
dump.
13 56 31 CDR Okay. Do we have that message on board now?
CC Roger. It should be on board.
CC We're also trying to track down our problem with

the tape recorder - I mean the teleprinter. Last
night you reported a problem with the docking probe
message. Was a portion of the message mission
[sic] - missing? Or was it split up?
CDR No. it printed about two-thirds of the way across

it. It ended the sentence. But then the last
third was really the beginning of the sentences.
Then it was about a half a line apart. Very
confusing.
13 57 28 CC Roger. Have the teleprinter messages been printed

evenly so far, or is it kind of alternating between
light and dark printing?
CDR It was pretty good this morning.
CC Roger. Copy. And in answer to the question on the

towels and washcloths. This information is on
page 5-2 of the Stowage Book. It says basically,
that you're allotted one towel per day and two
washcloths per day; per man.
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PLT Okay. Thank you. Pete's looking at the messages.

The PLT. I tried, but despite my promi:_e, I
couldn't get the apricots down last nignt. So if
you'll pass that down to the - well, whoever cares.
CC Roger. Copy. May we assume that you're drying the

second suit, now?
13 58 34 PLT Yes. That's in process. The drying has not yet

started.
CC Okay. And we'll get the third one tonight. And -

I guess we've got a general question here. We
didn't tag up last night. If it's possible, we'd
kind of like to get an idea of about where we are
in the Flight Plan.
CDR Okay, Hank. This is the CDR. Essentially all done

to regroup. Joe and Paul ought to tell you where
they are.
PLT Okay. If you'll look on page B-4, I'll pick you up

with what I've accomplished, Hank.
CC Okay. I'm looking.
13 59 14 PLT Okay. The PLT has done trash bags, fire hose,
condensate module, electric panel, wardroom window,
vacuum cleaner - and that's it. Everything else on
that page is subsequent or still open and are in
work.
CC Roger.
13 59 41 CDR Okay, Hank. On the command module appears a third

LiOH canister, today's fourth, which is used. I
presume you want us to throw that away?
14 O0 00 CC That's affirmative.
PLT Also, Hank, that circuit breaker you wanted me to

check on 202 for solenoid dump is CLOSED and was
CLOSED.

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CDR Hank, unfortunately I got every message but 313 and

314. And -l've got 315 - 413, 414-B - 411-A. Send
me 314 again, and then I think we'll be all right.
CC Okay. Would you like to have accounting of what

you should have up there?
14 O0 57 CDR No, don't confuse me. l'm confused enough now.

(Laughter) Starting tonight, we've got to get
organized on that. These message n11mbers don't
make sense _o me _, anyhow. And I always sit here
and scratch stuff in one spot.
CC Okay. We're - we're looking at that too_ Pete.

We think there"s got to be a better way here.
We're - we're also concerned that we don't have a
way to check to make sure the messages are getting
up. We send them, and we're not sure you're getting
them all, and especially since you've been having
a few problems with the teleprinter.
14 01 33 CC We will send you 314 again.
CDR Okay.
14 01 51 CDR Yes. It's taking us awhile to get the hang of things.

l'd say, this morning with the MII0 and everything,
it probably took us 45 minutes to an hour longer.
But we're finding out. things that are costing us
time. Number i, Rusty loses his bet to me. The
water system does, in fact, have gas in it. And
if you go to 7-1/2 ounces of water in a coffee
thing and it won't handle it, you've got to let
air out and mess around with it. So food handling,
I think, it is taking us a little longer than normal
right now than on the ground, and I don't think
that's to be unexpected. I think we're getting a
little bit better hang on it, as we get better
organized. We all had to refresh our memories
today as we went through all the waste management
stuff exchanging filters, I mean changing urine
bags and so forth. So, I think we've got some
learning curves to go yet, here in zeroTg. There
are places that not having restraint is kind of
bothering us a little bit. As an example, we're
all using triangle shoes and it doesn't work too-
well with those straps in the waste management
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compartment. Your feet don't tend to stay under

the straps, and we can't fasten the straps. They're
too stiff to make the Velcro work on them. So
you're going to work off the wall or the ceiling.
Just a little areas like that. As a rule, moving
the big stuff and everything is sup ... Just - not
like ...
14 03 58 CC Pete, we lost the last part of that transmission.

We handed over sites right in the middle of it.
CDR Okay. Where was I?
CC Well, we got to the part where you said you were

having trouble with the shoes in the WMC.
CDR Yes. You can't use those foot restraints in the

waste management compartment when you have triangle
shoes on. The material's so stiff that even if you
hook them over to make them big enough to put your
feet in, the Velcro won't stay stuck and you Just -
you'd have to apply pressure to hold a little fric-
tion in there. They Just - They won't hold, so you
slip out of them. So we're ricocheting off the "
walls in there. We'll probably work something out
here a little bit later. I would say that big boxes
- all that big gear. It's no problem at all to
handle any of that. As a matter of fact, most of
the food boxes were done - one man. So big stuff
actually went quicker than expected. It's Just a
lot of this little stuff getting anchored, doing it,
collecting it, and figuring out where to go next.
And I think we'll pick up as we go along here.
14 05 lO CC Roger. That was a good rundown, Pete.
CC SPT, what are you doing for it - -
14 05 19 CDR We've done a lot of other things that are not re-
flected in the workload, I'm sure. If you can
imagine, it's always been said on every flight,
you really generate a lot of trash. And that
command module was a sight to behold. Now, Joe
spent the better part of a couple of hours yes-
terday just cleaning the command module up. And
it still needs some more, you know, Just
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a little bit more work. But the command module

is just about in the right configuration now. And
we did dispose of an awful lot of trash last night.
We got three large plenum bags. We haven't got
those below yet. But we're talking about waste
management. We almost thought we'd jammed the
trash airlock yesterday. The bag that had the
UCTAs in it really expanded. And we were just
flat lucky to get that one out of there.
14 06 19 CC Don't scare us like that.
CDR Listen, don't scare you. It scared us worse than

it scared anybody else. So, we're - we're taping
our plastic urine bags because they were not evac-
uated. Just as a rule, I think we're going to_
tape things, and we're only going to use about
half the volume of the trash airlock, just to be on
the safe side. We had a couple of other bags that
were pretty firm shoving them out, and that really
makes me nervous. So that may change the trash bag
usage a little bit.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, could you tell us what you're doing this

morning?
CDR The PLT is doing the potable water tank, his

favorite task.
CC Roger.
14 07 20 CDR And right now he's trying to figure out how to

catch all the parts out of the ratchet wrench, which
disassembled itself, and reassemble the ratchet
wrench.
CC Copy.
CC Pete, on a noninterference basis, I'm wondering if

you could put the TV somewhere, and turn it on like
you did yesterday. And we'll just record it as we
can.
14 07 57 CDR Okay, it's set up for the press conference. I'll go

- you want it now?
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CC Not now.
CDR Say again.
CC We don't want it exactly right now. We're not

prepared to get it now, but we'll try to get it
next time around.
CDR Okay, it might be a good thing because the ward-

room window is pretty bright, and I gather the press
conference will be at daytime, and we may have to
draw the shade on, so you can tell us what you think
when you see the graph picture next pass.
CC Okay.
14 08 30 CC Could you tell us where the SPT is, Pete?
CDR He - he's doing his urine drawer and, he has been

handling most of the Mll0.
CC Roger. Could you give us an idea of his status

__ on his portionof the activation?
CDR He's coming to give it to you right now.
14 09 35 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS, and we'll

be coming up on Madrid at 15:00.
14 09 46 CDR We lost the retainer ring off the ratchet handle

switch that makes it switch between tightening and
untightening. And we may have lost the ratchet
handle for good because we got all the parts but
the retainer ring and I suspect it broke.
14 lO 05 CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll be with you in a minute.
CC Okay. And for information only, it looks to us like

the coolant loops are settling down, and we're going
to be commanding back to single-loop operation. We'll
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be putting the PRIMARY LOOP on INVERTER i; turning

SECONDARY LOOP OFF; and we'll be using SWITCHOVER
LOGIC 2 and turning SWITCHOVER LOGIC 1 off. As you
recall, we had some trouble with primary loop in the
unmanned phase. It may switch over; if it does, you
shouldn't get a caution and warning. But "we'll keep
you advised.
lh 16 17 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, my status is that yesterday I completed through

ambient food transfer, which took about 3 hours to
accomplish. And, this morning after I clean up
Mll0 and finish my urine drawings and all that stuff,
I'm going to start on Body Mass Measuring Device
Activation and just try and work through it.
CC Roger. It sounds like a good plan. Thank you, Joe.
14 24 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i0 seconds from LOS;

Honeysuckle at 01:00.
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15 01 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Okay, we sent up a message this morning. Message 4015

regarding CBRM number 15. We'd like for you to dis-
regard that.
CDR Okay, that's one we happened to get.
CDR And we'll disregard it.
CC And for your information, we're going to have live

TV at Goldstone on this pass coming up here shortly
to take a look at our settings.
15 04 14 CDR Still with us, Hank?
CC Roger.
CDR As you can tell, we got the most important thing run-
ning now, the music. And that's speeding everything
up (music in background).
CC Hey, that sounds great.
CDR We're getting caught up, slowly but surely.
CDR Got a comment for you on the iodine tablets for the
CM water bags to pass on to the next flight. The
first one Just disintegrated into powder and disap-
peared into the atmosphere. They've apparently gotten
very, very dry. It may - may have been as a result of
the heat in the vehicle, but they have to be extremely
carefhll with them. We have to iodine our water be-
cause we only had 3.8 parts per million and we need-
ed 4 not to do it.
CC Roger. Copy.
15 05 30 CC Hey, Pete. After you all got your heads together, did
you ever decide whether you answered that message 316
f or not? On the tape recorder?
CDR On 316. Wait till I find it.
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CC That was the one we sent up last night with the five
questions from BIO_D.
CDR Is that the BIOMED?
CC Roger. There were five questions that came up on the

teleprinter last night that we didn't get to in the
Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay.
15 06 17 CDR Hey, Hank. I can answer the questions for myself, or

do you want me to put them on tape?
CC Well, got about 20 seconds to LOS, Pete. You could

put them on tape or we can get them over stateside.
We should be coming up on Hawaii at 21. There's a
possibility that we won't have voice at Hawaii. If
not, we'll get you at Goldstone at 29. And there we'll
get you cleared.
CDR Okay, we'll put it on B channel.
CC Okay.
15 06 h5 CDR Bye. See you at the states.
15 21 O1 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii; 7 minutes.
CDR Roger; Houston.
CC Skylab, for information, you'll be pleased to know that

ATM is three-fourths through with their ground command-
ing checkout, and they're on schedule, and so far, no
anomalies.
15 21 35 CDR That - that's super.
CC And also, since we've got this bird squared away in

solar inertial, we haven't used any TACS for the last
20 hours.
CDR We did a double cheer because I'll tell you there's

nothing that gives you a bigger fright to be standing
down here in the wardroom and have that TACS go off.
It sounds like somebody's banging on the bottom of the
thing with a sledge hs_er.
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CC Roger.
CDR Say, I don't know what kind - where your temperature

sensors are, but it's obvious that that _il does have
a wrinkle in it. We can - the walls have cooled off
enough that I can almost plot the shape of that sail
by running my hands along the wall. And right where
the iodine - you know, the water iodine - -
SPT 505.
CDR - - container 505 is mounted on the wall, that's a

pretty hot spot over there. It's slightly triangular
shape, as we indicated. And if you look at the tele-
vision pictures, I think you can see where the sail
didn't quite unfold there. The three front water tanks
are still holding heat right above the airlock. But
the back water tanks have noticeably cooled down.
They're still hot, but that temp is coming down pretty
rapidly.
CC Roger. Copy. _md we saw that triangle shape in the

- at the rear of the sail in the TV.
CDR I think we're going to have to live with that. But

if the temperatures keep coming down the way you say
they are, why it's going to get real pleasant in here.
It's not really bad now. I - I wouldn't want to be
riding the bicycle or anything, but it's - it's not
bad just whistling around doing the work we're doing.
15 23 44 CC Roger.
15 24 23 PLT Say, Henry. Were you still - I guess the schedule

still shows a 92/171 this afternoon?
PLT Well, Dr. Kerwin's suggestion, - it is pretty warm

down here, yet. And he's proposing that the 92 be
a one-step only, at 30 millimeters, and the 171 be
baselined for 5 minutes the first step, with an
optional 5 minutes of the second step. And let it
go at that and see what kind of results we get.
CC Okay. We'll work that.
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PLT All right.
15 25 31 CC That's what he said. Sorry about that.
15 27 _4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 30 for a data
recorder dump and live TV.
15 30 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 8 minutes; and

we've got a picture.
CDR Roger.
CC Pete, looks like there's a bright light over your left

• shoulder that's washing out the picture a good bit.
CC Yes, right there. It's a bright spot, looks right up

in the top center.
CDR Did that do it?
CC Okay, it's looking a little better. It's still pretty

bright at the top left of your picture, which is over
the left, top left of the wardroom window.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
15 33 09 SPT The BMMD is activated. No problems, and ask Bill or

whoever is there to look up the weight corresponding to
the following time: 6.82289. I gave it a one whiz
to see how much I weighed. I haven't got the CAL card
out yet.
CDR I got it right down here.
SPT And tell them that - preliminary guess looks as if

we're going to need the shoulder straps. And we're
going to need to fix them down pretty good.
CC Roger, understand; 0.82289.
' SPT The first digit was a 6, Hank.

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CC Roger; 6.82289.
SPT That's right.
CC Okay, you moved the camera a little bit, and the

lighting is a lot better.
15 34 50 CDR I Just got the card out, Hank, and that gives him 178.
He's got his triangle shoes on and his pockets full of
watches and all that, and his clothes. I think that's
probably pretty close.
CC Roger.
15 35 33 CC Go _ead.
CC Skylab, Houston. Are you - do you want to take a

look at it with the wardroom window open and see what
happens?
15 36 13 CDR It's pretty bad, Hank.
CC Wow! Thatwipedit out.
CDR Give it a chance.
15 36 44 CC 0kay, it's still pretty much - stops it down to all

you can see is a bright light and darkens up the ward-
room. So I guess we're going to have to leave that
shut_
15 37 58 CDR Say, who are we press conferencing with and what's the
general nature of it for? It's kind of early, isn't
it?
CC Okay, it's going to be pretty much like Apollo, Pete.

We'll have a list of questions we'll run up at you.
PLT All right.

We'll be picking you up at Bermuda at 43.

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PLT Roger, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, if you haven't already done so, we'd llke

to get the TV camera OFF until Just prior to Goldstone.
15 43 54 CDR It's OFF.
15 46 02 CDR Hey, Hank. You still with us?
CC Roger.
CDR I gave you the answers to 316 on B channel.
CC Roger. Thank you, sir.
CDR You're welcome.
CDR What are we over now? It sure is cold down there.

It's got snow on the ground and a lot of ice in the
water.
CC Looks like you ought to be coming up over Labrador.
15 46 42 CDR It's very interesting. Let me give you a little ob-

servation now. Out to sea, I can see icebergs that are
big enough to see from here. They're sticking out like
a sore thumb.
15 47 23 CDR Could you copy that, Hank?
CC Roger.
15 47 53 CDR Yes. And I'm at the Sun angle's right also. I can
see a lot of ship wakes, and, if I catch them just
right in the Sun, I can see the ship itself for a
second and then it's gone again.
CC That's a keen eye.
CDR The PLT and the SPT Just said they wish they had time
to gawk out the window. I think I'd better go back to
work. I'm getting a message.
15 48 27 CC (Laughter) Roger. We're - we're about a minute from

LOS now. We'll be coming up on Canaries at 52.
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15 52 O0 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for i0 r_nutes.
PLT Roger.
15 52 47 PLT Hey, Henry. We're passing over a bunch of medium-small

islands. Do you know what they are?
CC I will guess that to be the Azores.
PLT It's a cloudy day there then. Henry, you sure see the
contrails from up there. They stand out like a sore
thumb. Also, for information, we'll probably take
a picture of it, maybe show it to you on TV. Right
smack dab in the middle of the wardroom window, we've
got a piece of ice. It appears to be on the inside
of the outer pane, slightly smaller than a dime, and
it's got the typical frosted finger edges to it,
which waxes and wanes as we go in and out of daylight.
CC Roger. Copy.
15 53 51 PLT And it was there when we went ahead and put the window
cover on. I think it's been there since the thing got
in orbit.
Y
CC Roger.
PLT Let me make another observation, Hank, speaking for

myself, is that having trainers of as high fidelity as
we did sure helps when you get up here. I'll tell you,
it's worth all the time, and, I think, the money that
we put into it because it's sure making this thing go.
It's not going too fast anyway, but it'd go a whole
lot slower if we hadn't had the gear to work with it
we did.
CC Roger. Copy.
15 55 O0 PLT Okay. I can see the point of Spain here and the Straits
of Gibraltar. And now that I gave the F-CDR a ration
about gawking out the window, it worked. He moved and
now I'm at th_ window. And it also appears that for
several hundred miles along the west coast of Africa,
there's a lot of stuff in the air. It looks like they
may have had some pretty good sand storms out there
recently.
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PLT You hear it, Hank?
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, also these group of islands off the west coast
of Africa that we're coming uo on. The wind is _re-
vailing now out of the north. And the Sirocco behind
them are really something. They stretch out for what
must be two to three hundred miles down the window.
15 59 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We've been talking about the ice in

the window, and, you know, as part of our power sav-
ings, we didn't turn the wardroom window heater on
during activation. But we think that if we open the
vent now and try to drive it out, we may wind up in a
worse situation such that we'd have to keep that heater
on all the time. So as long as it stays small, about
the size of a dime, we're recommending that we just
leave it as is.
CDR Okay.
16 01 07 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute from LOS Honeysuckle at 37.
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16 37 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle; 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Sky!ab, Houston for info. No response required.

We've got our gyro drifts squared away in the
X- and Y- axes; and we're turning off the third
gyros on both those axes. Our configuration will
be XI, X2; end YI, Y3. And your panel configura-
tion is okay.
SPT That's very interesting, Houston. What - what

seems to _have been the problem? What solved it?
CC There never was a problem, Joe. The problem -

we, we - You know. We were out of solar inertia!,
so we never could get any good drift rate infor-
mation on the gyros. Now that we've been in the
solar inertial, we've really got the drift nailed
down and got them corrected - compensated.
SPT Okay.
MCC Stowage workshop activation. Go ahead, workshop.
16 45 13 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 57. And if it's
convenient, we'd like to get a count on how many
lights you have on in the workshop.
PLT I'ii try and have it for you by Hawaii.
CC Okay.
PLT Houston; 17. Over°
CC Understand; 17.
CC PLT, Houston. Are most of them on low?
PLT Without looking, I'm not sure, Houston.
_ 16 h6 3h CC Okay, don't bother now.

16 57 i0 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii; 9 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
@
CC Okay, Pete. Just want to give you a rundown on

what we are going to be doing at Goldstone. We
have a list of questions that have been submitted
by the newsmen here at Johnson, and when we strike
up at Goldstone there, I will just Jump right in
and start reading the questions verbatim and let
you guys have at answering them.
CDR Okay.
0
17 03 38 CC Skylab, Houston. Since it's lunch time now, and

you guys are starting to take a break here, we'd
like to get a tag up on the activation.
SPT Okay, Houston. The PLT is struggling with the

portable fans, and he's not finished but he's
getting there. The SPT finished camera acti-
vation. Still threading, and I had some diffi-
culties, which I will document on channel B.
CC Roger.
SPT And the CDR is on the time line.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT As always.
SPT It will he after lunch, Hank, right after ...

plenum bag stowage. And I think we will be
pretty well on the time line.
CC Roger ; copy. Good show.
SPT The film thing is very weird. The first couple of

transporters would thread in various forms and then
jam, and we had a heck of a time getting it going.
I'm not sure that it wasn't that the film was hot
or been very hot. And that film vault is still
one of the warmer things up there for some reason.
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CC Roger. Copy.
SPT We'll give you more specific details on B channel.
CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be

picking you up at Goldstone at 09 with TV.
17 06 0h SPT Okay.
17 08 56 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes,

and we have a picture.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. They - We'll leap right into it. Here are

the questions prepared by the newmmen in the order
submitted. For Commander Conrad. What EVA plans
are you considering now for freeing the stuck
solar panel and when?
CDR Well. Of course, I can't do anything without

consultation with the ground. And myunderstanding
is, that - that they're looking at some possible
things that we can do. And/or if we can't, why
l'm sure that the other flight, with the proper
tools, now that we know exactly what's hanging
it up, can get that solar panel out, even if we
don't. And seeing we're only 28 days, our fuel
cells will last 18 or 19 days and we can go on
reduced power after EVA, which is day 26 for
deactivation, which is day 27, 28 and 29. So,
we really wouldn't lose too much without it.
However, I thlnkthat we could get it out with
the right tools. And, we've talked to - to
the ground and they are looking at - at the
various ways of getting it out down in the
tank right now.
CC Roger. For Dr. Kerwin. Would you please compare

moving around in the workshop with the way you
were able to do it in the simulator? And do you
have any sense of up and down?
SPT Okay. Time and again, in the last 2 days, we've

told each other that, except for the view out
windows, it's Just like the one-g trainer. And
in many ways, that's true. The training was
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excellent. You do have a sense of up and down.

And you can change it in 2 seconds whenever it's
convenient to you. If you go from one module into
the other, and you're upside down, you say to your
brain, 'brain, I want that way to be up." And your
brain says, "Okay," then that way is up. And, if
you want to rotate 90 degrees and work that way,
your brain will follow you. I don't think it's
vestibular at all.. I think it's strictly eyeballs
and brain. And it's remarkably efficient.
CC Roger. For Paul Weitz. You seem to be having

trouble with some of the food, like the asparagus
and apricots. Would you explain why?
PLT I don't have any trouble with it. The menu is

Just more than I'm used to eating.
CC Roger. For Commander Conrad. Based on an early

assessment, do you now feel you can complete a fUll
28-day mission, and carry out most of your experi-
ments?
CDR You betcha!
17 ll 55 CC Okay. If, if you think it's a good idea, or can

do it, we'd like to get the TV out the window. If
not we would like for you to explain some of the
things in the wardroom to us.
17 12 16 CC While you're doing that, for Dr. Kerwin. Is the

parasol smoothing out as expected in the sunlight?
SPT You can't see it from in here. I'm sorry.
SPT Hey, this is really pretty out the window. I 'm

glad you asked about that. We're Just passing over
Puget Sound. It's a very clear day today. We can
see Vancouver Island. I can see good old Whidbey
Island and Mt. Rainier.
CC Okay. We see the Pacific Coast, there.
CC For Paul Weitz. You have been working on the probe

and drogue today. Have you found anything that
might cause you a problem with undocking?
PLT We have not had a chance to get to the probe and

drogue, yet.
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CC For Dr. Kerwin. _ly were you the only crewmember

who didn't swear _hen the first docking ttempt
failed?
SPT I was too stupid to realize the serious implications

of our problem.
CC This one's for anyone. Have you had any trouble

with the toilet facilities?
.qPT No. We - took us a while to figure out how

you've really got to work out a super-dooper
system in the workshop. But that was a little
mechanical problem. We got that squsred away and
we've had no problem.
CC For Commander Conrad. For listeners around the

world, could you tell us some benefits that
Sky]ab will bring to mankind?
CDR Well, the first thing that's obvious to me, is

that man can work up here. And, surprisingly
enough, in the workshop, we are doing what I con-
sider a lot more physical task - that is exercising
our muscles than I thought we would. Which has
been one of the problems that I thought we might
have. And, as you might expect, I think, all of
us are a little stiff from using muscles that we
didn't expect to use, and that we don't use on
the ground to hold ourselves in a proper way to
use the tools and everything. There's no doubt
in my mind that all the Earth resources type
things that we've talked about are going to work.
I've just been eyeballing out the window here at
237 nautical miles, and we do pretty good with the
Mark-i eyeball. I think with our sensors, that we'll
be able to do the tasks that we set out to do,
especially the visual tracking and - Of course,
we haven't been able to fire up the solar tele-
scope yet, but I have understanding from the ground
checkout, that it all appears to be in good order.
And I'm sure that we're going to bring good data
back from that. So, I, - l'm looking forward to a
successful flight of Skylab of 28 days. I think we
overcame our problems, and I think we will improve
on what we have if we get that other solar panel
out. Right now, we're in good shape, I think, to
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stay 28 days and complete the flight. I think the

biggest thing, though, is the fact that we've adapted
so rapidly in this big tank. None of us have had
any motion sickness, and we've remarked to each
other on many occasions how much it seems to be
llke the simulators, except with the absence of
gravity.
17 15 h9 CC Roger. Very good show, Pete. We're Just about to

LOS. If you've got any last few things you want to
say here, before we lose comm.
CDR Well, one nice thing I'd like to say, is we sure

appreciate all the hard work everybody put into
this thing. Because the vehicle is in excellent
shape. It's clean as a whistle inside. Everything,
so far, is working to what we expect. And as far
as the flight control team, and the people that put
it together, they did an outstanding job. So, I
guess the rest of it is up to us.
17 16 25 CC On behalf of them, then, we thank you.
17 19 h7 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Copy.
CC Pete, have you had a chance to look over the probe

procedures yet? And do you have any questions on
it?
CDR No. We haven't had a chance yet, Hank. Are you

guys in a big hurry for that?
CC Negative. In fact, Rusty's right here. I'd like

to let him say a few words about the procedure.
CDR Okay.
MCC CDR, if you can hear, let me Just say a couple of

words. That procedure is a guideline - We'd like
you to use it as a guideline. It's an Alfa to
Zulu procedure, it covers the whole works. But
the first 16 steps are more or less nominal checks
on the probe. We expect to see positive results
picking up at about step 17. That's where you'll
be taking off the - the cap off the head of the
probe there, or beginning to loosen it, and we feel
that it's a mechanical bind on that one capture
latch. And I've done this over in build_ g 5.
It's a relatively simple thing. There's a couple
of tricks, though. One of them, the cap is
, clocked uniquely on the probe head. So when
you go to take it off, you want to make sure
you mark the clocking on the cap with one of
the capture latches, so that you can put it
back on the same way. Over.
CDR Okay. I suspicion that you're right, Rusty -

Because our first cursory examination indicated
two capture latches would make it, and the third
one wouldn't.
MCC Right. Because the third one is being held in

there with amechanical bind. It keeps the spider
from coming out and locking the other two out also.
And we expect that when you begin to loose - loosen
the cap, or if you go inside under the cap - and
by the way, that's no sweat; you're not going to
lose any parts there. You'll _mmediately be able
to see all the potential surfaces. And once you
free up that third capture latch, we feel that
the probe will function absolutely normal.
CDR Okay. Do you have any idea why it happened? Or,

let me give my idea again on why it happened. I
noticed that when we docked, that it was a very
gentle docking. I used the four-tenths of a
foot per second. And I believe I was very close
to that, maybe half a foot per second. On our
first soft dock, and it was quite nominal, it
was right down - fairly well down the slot. There
was very little spacecraft oscillation. However,
during the night and the succeeding day, I noticed
that from mywindow the spacecraft bent down, and
to my left. It parked in an extremely asymmetric
attitude and stayed there. Now, I'm not exactly
sure why it did that. I don't know whether you
maneuvered the vehicle and that's where it wound
up, or what. But when we first docked and went
into the night side, we were pretty well lined
up. But when we came out on the day side, my
vehicle had moved down and left, with respect
to the docking target. And it stayed there, an_
I remarked a couple of times to the guys - if we
had to be absolutely in the limit, because it was
so far over. Now th_±t may have had something to
do with it, I don't know.
17 23 24 MCC Okay, Pete. We've got people taking a look at

that. We noted that comment when you made it.
I think we're going to need your - your obser-
vations on the probe before we can carry much
further on it. Just off hand, it doesn't seem
as though there are any forces that could be
generated; if you drift over to the edge, that
would cause a problem. But we're also looking
at that.
CDR We didn't feel any. And the other thing, of course,

is I couldn't have been more surprised after having
gotten a perfectly normal soft dock the first time.
CDR Now I - we have examined the pro - Are you there?
MCC Yes.
CDR We have examined the probe externally and - and we

can see very few marks on - on the head itself,
more on the capture latches for that matter. But
we'll take your procedure, hopefully this afternoon,
if I get throug h - get ahead here a little bit.
I'll go tear into the probe.
MCC Okay. We -we are in no hurry and, again, step 17

is about where we expect you see things. And use the
rest of it loosely as a guideline. Pete, one
further question, how about observations on the
drogue? Are there any tmique marks on the drogue?
CDR Well, there's one great big dent in the side of it

where, in one of the final attempts, I was really
motoring in there to make sure I had enough velocity.
But around where the center of the drogue is - no.
CDR Other than the normal scratches that you see - little
scratches from the different capture latches?
MCC Roger. Understand.

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I CDR And Joe says there's darn few of those.
MCC Okay. When you take the plunger out of the middle,
if you're going to take the cap all the way off, be
aware that that's a little mushroom cap with a
spring underneath it. And it'll - it'll pop out
a little bit, so you want to hold it. It's not
very much. It's only about 3 pounds; it's no
sweat.
CDR Yes. I - I know the one you're talking about.
17 25 32 MCC Okay.
17 26 39 CC Skylab, Houston; for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We concur with your recommendations on the

protocol for M092. On M171, however, we would
prefer to stick to the flight protocol. However,
of course, if you're -In your judgment, you start
exceeding some of the limits on - on the spot, then
you're clear to stop.
SPT Okay. And we will. I - I didn't expect that the

heart rates and so forth are going to be biased to the
heat storage side, because of the hot walls we've
got here; we're really not able to radiate heat
very effectively. And I don't know what's going
to happen when we raise the metabolic rate. But
we'll give it a go.
CC And also, in conjunction with the biomed activation,

we would like to get a live TV pass at 18:h8. And
if you get a chance there, we'd like for you to set
up a camera on TV setup number 8 Charlie. That's
page 1-8 of the TV Ops Book. And turn on the
camera just before the 18:h8 pass over Goldstone.
SPT Houston. Is it okay if I Just point the camera

in the general direction and turn it on? I don't
want to get further behind on this day. I'd like
to get this first run in. And things take a lot
longer the first time you do them.
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CC Roger. That's perfectly acceptable to us.
17 28 _4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about _0 seconds from LOS;

Canaries at 31.
17 31 08 CC Skylab, Houston; through Canary and Ascension for

about 16 minutes, and we'll be dumping the tape
recorder over Ascension at about 37.
17 31 19 PLT Okay .... here in the MDA. We haven't been back

there since reveille. Guess what I thought? How's
the command module doing? It's still there, isn't it?
17 31 31 CC Roger. Still there and looking good.
17 _l O1 CC Skylab, Houston. In reference to the M151 that goes

with the biomed, we're recommending that you have
seven lights in the high position over the experi-
ment subject area. However, if feasible, we would
like to keep the total number of lights you have on
in the workshop constant or near about constant due
to power considerations. You can turn some of them
off in the upper areas or other areas. Might
recommend - to make it easier - you use the
switches on panel 613 for that. Then all you have
to do is throw them back on, and you'd be back to
original configuration.
PLT Got you, babe.
PLT What number are you looking for? Total number of

lights. And you're right. It's inconvenient to go
around from light to light, so we have been controlling
from 613. Now assuming they're all on high, how
many lights would you like to see on? We've been
running l0 to lB. I think once we've finished
activation, we'll get by with about lO.
CC Okay. I guess what we're considering is about what

you have now, Paul. We were not - the point we were
trying to make was that if it was possible - when
you turn on these lights _-ith the M151, we didn't
want to increase the electrical load appreciably.
PLT Oh, yes. We understand that. We Just wondered if

maybe we've been having too many lights on, more
than you'd like, or what. That's all.
CDR Hey, Hank ; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR How about sometime getting somebody to give me a

status report on what you're thinking about that
SAS panel. And, I been doing a little thinking
myself, so I'd like to get together sometime when
somebody has got some plans about what they're
going to _o with it.
17 43 07 CC Okay, we'll keep that in mind, Pete. Soon as we

get something, we'll get with you.
17 43 ii CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Going back to our light situation.

What we been using as our baseline down here to sort
of program our power is 15 lights in the workshop
on low. If you're comfortable with some other
configuration, you say you got about 12 on now, in
high, we'd like to - to know so we can, you know,
update our baseline.
PLT Okay, that's a pretty good number, Hank. Why

don't you base go on - 12 on HIGH.
CC Okay, we'll work from that basis then.
17 46 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to LOS.

You're looking good going over the hill. Carnarvon
at i0.
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18 _9 5_'= CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 8-1/2 minutes.
CREW ...
18 ]_Z..h2 CC _:2. _kyleb, Houston. One minute to LOS. Guam at 25.
....... CDR, ..... _ay, Hank, did I remember you saY we're going to have
a trim burn today?
% _iAh : ' , ,v, _ -_ , : , ;
CO -. _.T/%at's affirmative. It'll come after dinner tonight,

Pete. A little after 01:00.
CDR A little after 01:O0. Okay.
;._,,_ CDR Commander Weitz has just entered the waste management
compartment to see if our new equipment is work - I
mean, that's the most serious test to date.
CC Roger. Copy.
18 2h 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam, 6 minutes.

'!
CDR Hi, Houston through Guam. As soon as we come out in

the day side, can I inhibit momentum dump for this
BMF decal?
; _ _. CC OkaY _ stand by. I'ii get an answer on that.
• CDR Okay. Give me a time to do it.

$ "
, _: SPT Houston, SPT.
: CC Go ahead.
18 26 09 SPT Rate of the temperature in the food locker 562 is

99-1/2 degrees. And what stations do you want this -
the TV turned on over? Or shall I Just leave it run?
CC We'd like to get it turned on at about 18 - or Just

prior to 18 :h8. Say about 18 :45. That 's about
20 minutes from now.
SPT I'll try and remember. If I don't, holler.

P_ _9 _ D_" ]_
CC Okay. You can turn it on now, if you'd like.
SPT No, it is on now.
18 27 20 CC SPT, Houston. Telemetry is showing the camera is

@erring pretty hot now. I guess it'd be best to turn
it off now and turn it back on, and we'll give you a
call to remind you.
SPT Okay.
18 29 30 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, in answer to your

question on the momentum dump. You can inhibit from
now until 19:20. That's. about an hour from now.
SPT Okay, Houston. The CDR says he'll leave it R_ABL_)

and will avoid cg dump when he's doing his cal.
CC Roger. Copy.
18 31 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Going LOS. Gu,m at - cheek

correction - Hawaii at 39. Make it Goldstone at hS.
We gave up H_all.
18 _8 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger; Houston.
CC And I'd like to remind you to get the TV on if you

haven't got it on already.
SPT It's on.
18 _8 55 PLT Hey, H,nk. The specimen mass measuring device in the

head doesn't work. Now we don't have time to pursue
it, but -you turn it on and none of the lights come
on and you push your reset button on and nothing
happens in either the temp or the mass modes. How
about having somebody research it and see if we got
any spare parts onboard or suggest a troubleshooti_
routine, if you would, please.
CC Okay. Will do.
PLT It checked out all right yesterday.

18 51 59 SPT Skylab, Houston; for the CDR.
SPT Go ahead, Houston. He's listening.
CC Okay. Thought he might be interested to know that

the Indy race is in a hold for rain. However, the
Sun has come out and it looks like they might get a
race off at about 15 past the hour. We show you'll
be going pretty close to Indy at about 57. Why don't
you take a look at the clouds? If it looks good,
drop the flag on them.
18 52 35 CDR Very good, Henry. Thank you for the information.

If I don't get a chance to see it, then you all psas
my word up there that I wish them all the best of
luck in the world in the race - to all my friends
that are driving.
CC Roger. Will do.

We'll be picking up at Texas at 55.
18 53 28 SPT Roger.
18 55 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you for a 12 minute

stateside, and we'll be dumping the recorder at
Bermuda. That'll be coming up at about 56, 57.
CDR Fine.
CDR There a few holes down there, Henry. I'm not sure I
can see it or not. It looks like we're a little
north of the track.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR I've got us right over the middle of Lake Michigan

and we just passed the tip of Superior.
CC Our part down here is a little gross; it looks like

you might go pretty close to it.
18 59 28 CDR I'll tell you, this 237 nautical is great. We're

right over the mouth of the Delaware River, and we
can see clear past the Keys.
CC Roger.
CDR You might Just try tomorrow or the next day, Hank.
You want to have the weather man whip us up some good
weather. It was kind of cloudy there from Chicago
on down. And we'll get some pictures up this way.
We've never had any up this way before.
CC Roger. We're going to get the EREP cranked up here

in a few days.
CDR What's our elevation angle at Bermuda?
CC Bermuda maximum elevation is 65.8.
19 O0 31 CDR And where's it going to be? Oh, never mind. I see it.
CC Okay. You're 30 degrees from Bermuda now - 30 degrees

elevat ion.
CDR Yes, I know. I got it loud and clear.
CC Paul, we'd like to verify your comments on the SMMD

Just to make sure we got it straight. As I under-
stand it, the circuit breaker was in. You could not
get any lights at any position of the switch and the
reset would not work. It acts Just like it has no
power to it. Is that correct?
19 01 45 SPT That's right, Hank. This is SPT. I activated it

last night. It was fine. Paul remarked when he
went in Just now that the MASS, OFF, T_P switch was
in MASS, which indicates I may have left it in MASS,
although I don't remember doing so. The one in the
wardroom is still okay, and that's all the informa-
tion we've got.
CC Roger ; copy. Thank you.
19 06 42 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Ascension at 16.
CDR Roger, Hank. And let me know if they get the race
off, and keep me posted, will you?
CC Okay. Will do.
19 16 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension, 6 minutes.

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SPT Roger; Houston.
SPT Hello, Henry. You _ead?
CC Roger. How - how's it going?
SPT Okay. Slow. Wetre getting there, though. Hey, I

got something. To me_ on 8149 box, which I'm in the
process of moving now, it's got two distinctly dif-
ferent types of tiedowns. One - two of them are on
opposite corners - diagonal corners - are just bolted
into the grid; the other two are somekind of clip-
shaped tiedown restraints. Those clipped - those
clipped-shaped things show, what to me appear to be
evidence of a pretty good upward load on the box,
which means an aft moving load on the stage. Now,
I - I'm saving those in case you wanted us to take
pictures of them, to show them to you on TV or throw
them away - whatever you want.
CC Okay. Stand by and I'll get an answer on that.
SPT Okay, no rush. I just keep them warm in my pocket.
CC And I'd also like to verify we got the TV off.
19 17 52 SPT Verified.
19 19 05 CDR Say, Houston; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR On this calibration, I am not able to use the correet

procedures because we don't have an S020 film con-
tainer with us. Do we?
CC Roger. Standby.
19 21 35 CC CDR, Houston. The word is to omit the S020 film con-

tainer and press on.
CDR Okay, Hank. That's what I figured. We'll press on

without it.
19 21 50 CC Okay, and we're about lO seconds from LOS. We'll be

coming up on Carnarvon at hT.
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19 h6 34 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, lO minutes.
CDR Hi, Henry. Is Mister BMMD around there?
CC He sure is. And he's listening.
CDR Okay, well, tell - tell him I win my bet. There isn't
any way that those shoulder straps will hold those two
509 batteries and that PO03 in there without them
rattlingall over the place. I been screwing with it
for an hour and without wedging it with some Mosite
blocks and the straps, I'm not going to get it done.
Now, he's got two choices; he can - I can bring home
the Mosite blocks and the straps and go ahead with the
two batteries or I can skip the whole thing. Now, I've
already invested an hour tryingto get this one data
point.
19 47 40 CC He would prefer you go ahead and put the Mosites in and

bring them home.
CDR Okay. Have somebody write it down on the stowage list.

We'll get a bag and we'll tell you what we used and
where we put it so you can remind us at the end of this
thing. And I don't think it's worth the effort. The
rest of them worked slicker than glass and was very
repeatable, but that one data was miserable.
CC Okay, and whatever you use, you want to be sure you use
it on the subsequent cals.
CDR Understand.
CC Skylab, for info, the ATM ground checkout is complete.

All was okay. We're going to command the EPC down and
go back to solar inertial to conserve power.
PLT Roger.
CC And for Paul, in regard to those straps, why don't you

hang on to them and the next time we got some TV you
can give us a closeup of them.
CDR Say again, Hank. We didn't hear_ou.

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CC Roger. Paul reported that a couple of the straps on

the S149 showed signs of severe strain, and we'd like
to have him hang on to those; the next time we have
some TV he can give us a closeup of them.
CDR Okay, when's the next TV?
CC I'm not sure at this point. Probably will be some-

time tomorrow, I think.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, for the CDR. We just got the word that they're
rolling the cars out to the starting line now.
CDR Okay. Do we come anywheres near there on the next

pass?
CC Looks like you're going right over the center of the

U.S. on this next pass, Pete. Looks like you might
be about 6 to 800 miles southwest at closest approach.
CDR Okay.
19 51 B9 CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to the SMMD problem, we're

going to let you have your druthers on that. I guess
if we had a preference down here, we would say weigh
everything in the wardroom. I guess we'd be a little
reluctant since we got it working to take a chance on
damaging the electronics if we change that out over to
the WMC.
CDR Okay.
CDR We don't have any spare electronics onboard then.

Is that right?
CC That's affirmative; no spares.
19 59 59 CC Skylab, Houston, through Guam for 10.minutes.
20 O1 51 PLT Hey, Hank, this is the PLT. I got a question on the

sail tripod.
CC Go ahead.
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PLT Okay. The one we're doing - Just for experiment of

course - is the one we brought up in the c¢._ud
module. Now on the - this big bolt that holds the leg
to the floor - as it's now configured, there's a gap
between _he sleeve and the shank of the bolt. Is that
the correct way for installation or should it be
turned over? I forgot.
CC Okay. That sleeve - that little thing there should be

turned over such that you make the minimum number of
turns putting them into the floor.
PLT So you make less turns screwing it in. Okay, so I

guess it's configured for Houston. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. I Just got the word that the pace lap
has started ... in the pace car. And they're going to
run a short race. The winner will be the leader at
the end of 100 laps.
CDR All right. Okay, Hank. Thank you.
CDR What - what are they running in the drive ...? I've
no idea what kind it is.
CC Okay, I Just got the word the race has started.
CDR Okay.
20 09 50 CC Skylab, Houston; about 30 seconds from LOS. Goldstone

at 25.
20 25 21 CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone and stateside for

about 17 minutes.
CREW Roger.
20 32 52 CDR Hey, we got a visual on you, Hank.
CC Is it clear outside?
CDR It looks like it.
20 34 32 CC CDR, you ought to have Little Rock Just north of you

there.
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CDR We got Houston loud and clear. Man, you can really
see it today.
CDR Watched the Mississippi and all the flooding along it.
CDR We got a good shot of the Cape from here, too. Can
see all the pads.
CC Roger .. Can you tell whether they brought your LUT

back out to the VAB yet?
CDR Not quite. Need to put on my binocs.
20:38:31 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 4 minutes left on

this pass. We'd appreciate a progress report sometime
between now and LOS.
CDR The CDR is Just finishing up the BMMD. The SPT is on

page 3-57.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT The PLT is in the midst of PCU ullage config. I'm al-
most done with yesterday's work.
CC Roger. Copy, and have the plenum bags been stowed yet?
CDR The plenum bags are stowed; yes.
CC Good show.
CDR Very neatly down in the bottom where they belong.

Three of them were still - we'll hold this one - one
for a little while. It's only about two-thirds full
and we're coming up with some more gear out of the
medical stuff and everything to get rid of. We'll whip
that down there a little later.
CC Okay.
20:42:19 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 15 seconds to LOS. Be

picking you up at Vanguard for a short pass at 53.
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20 53 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 3-1/2 minutes.
20 56 53 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone at 02.
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Day 148
22 02 13 CC Skylab, Houston stateside 14-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. It's been a little over an hour since

our last contact. If it's convenient, l'd like
to get a progress report.
CDR Roger, Houston. (Music) The CDR has finished T003

and l'm about to head to the ATMand accomplish all
those tasks. The SPT and PLT are in the process
of putting on the biomed now for the 92/171. The
MA is activated, the M092 LBNP is activated, and
they'll be in experiment operations here very shortly.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Had a progress report on the Indy race for me?
CC Roger. They - they got off to a bad start, and

while they were trying to get sorted out to start
again, it started raining. So, they scrubbed
until 09:00 tomorrow morning.
CDR 09:00 tomorrow morning. Okay. Thank you.
CDR Do you hear that good music in the background? (Music) _
CC We hear that music in the background. (Music)
PLT Hey, help. He's driving us crazy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about l minute from LOS.

We'll he coming up on Vanguard at 27 and we plan
to dump the data recorder there.
CDR Okay.
CDR And I found out what happened on that 13 message. I

got the message last night and I did the quiescent
configuration, and it also was kind of ... bunch
of sentences down at the bottom of it, and I got
down there, and I didn't understand them.
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And when I went back after getting your other

message Just now and reconstructed what I had,
why it was there. All the messages to date - today
have been good.
CC Okay. I'll send a message'that today's are good.

We Just sent one up on tomorrow's Flight Plan. And
we got a reject and invalid character, So, we'd
like for you to disregard that one. And we're
going toship you another one.
22 28 57 CDR Well, I have one in my hand. And then there was

another Flight Plan Just behind it which I didn't
mess with. Are you saying the one that I have
in my hand is no good_
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22 29 33 CDR I'll give you the message n_nber, 0501A-I, 068

Flight Plan for 05/ih9.
CC Okay, that - that one is good. The one that might

be bad is the second page which is 0501A-2.
CDR Oks_, it's still in the teleprinter.
CDR All right. Houston, are you there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR Just talking to Paul. In answer to your question

on message Ohl6A about the mol sieve bakeout
heaters, guess Just before or Just after he
turned the time on, he turned on the heater
_ quickly to take a look at the mol sieve temp-
erature which was only ... So, what you saw
was him turning on the mol sieve heaters to
read the mol sieve temperature.
CC Roger. Copy.
22 34 08 CC EGIL is breathing easier now.
CDR Okay.
CC I guess we're convinced, now, that the time, A

is okay. We Just hit it at a place when it
wasn't ready to cycle. But we want to stay
in the configurationwe're in now.
CDR Yes, I vaguely remember where they changed the

wiring or did something. NormA11y, when you
brought on the primary timer, it always cycled,
but now the random thing in ...
CC Roger. That's affirmative.
22 35 32 SPT Hello, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
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SPT Just for your information, we're about to start

M092. And the subject is not isolated from the
lower body negative pressure device unless he
really sucks in every inch of skin, legs, arms,
belly, and everything else. His impedences are
good, and we have no choice but to press on. It's
an old problem. I Just thought I'd document it.
22 36 O1 CC Roger. Copy. We're about 30 seconds from L_)S.

We'll be having a very low angle pass at Hawaii
at 37. If we miss that one, we'll get you at
Goldstone at 22.
23 36 42 CC Hello, Skylab; Houston. We've got you at Hawaii

for 1 minute.
CDR What did you say, Hawaii for i minute, Dick?
CDR What"s our next station?
CC It's Goldstone, and it's Just following this pass

at 23:22, about 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, I need to talk to you about a couple of

things there.
CC Okay.
CC And, CDR; Houston. The only note that I had for

you guys was later on. We're going to be doing a
tri_%,burn this evening, and we're going to have a
pad up for you at Goldstone. Be advised we intend
to comm-nd the burn into EXPERIMENT POINTING MODE
at this upcoming Goldstone pass. And so for the
unattended ops, after the trim burn, Just a
reminder to go back to EXPERIMENT POINTING MODE.
CDR Okay.
CC And we'll see you at Goldstone.
CDR All right.
23 42 Ol CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for the

next 4 minutes, and go ahead, Pete.
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CDR Okay, Dick. I was changing out the ATM coolant

loop filter and the outlet QD stuck on when I
took off - (chuckle) when I was changing the
filter. So I lost 4 or 5 ounces of fluid out
of it. Before I could get it back on the
connector again, the QD stuck open. But I
finally did get it changed out. And then
in checking it, I noticed that it took a
long time for the PUMP DELTA-P light to go
out or I guess maybe there was pressure in
the line, and we Just lost the pressure. And
I presume it took a while for the accumulator
to get it on there. But I ran 60 Uncle and
completed 60 Tango, so they're both done.
23 43 O0 CC Okay, understand. We copy.
CDR I'm about to eat. I - I've caught up, and my

dinner is cooked. Joe and Paul are a little bit
behind. Paul is Just in the middle of riding the
bicycle right now. And why don't you go ahead
and pass me the trim burn information.
CC It's - Pete, it's coming up on the teleprinter

this pass.
CDR Okay.
CC And in the event we don't get it out - up or

something though, I'll have the numbers for you
here shortly.
CDR Okay.
CDR Do you want to do it out of the page ... activation

...?
CC Sorry, Pete, so much squeal on that speaker box,

I couldn't copy. Say again.
CDR Roger. Do you want to reference the page in the

Activation Checklist?
CC Roger. The trim burn, if you look on page 3-62,

and the T. time is day ih9:01:07:36. And the
Ig
burn time is 63 seconds, 1 minute plus 3 seconds.
It's going to he a two-Jet burn, quads Alfa and
Charlie, plus X, using the Tephe m. And the

DELTA-V is 2.1 feet per second.
Psge
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CDR Okay, I'm sorry I was looking up ...
23 45 05 CC Roger, Pete. We've got about a minute to LOS,

and I think - I think the information is in the
teleprinter now. If not, I can give it to you
at Vanguard. We're going to be at the Vanguard
right on the hour. And be advised, we are going
to do an airlock module, I'm sorry, a data tape
recorder dump at Vanguard.
23 45 25 CDR Okay.
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00 04 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Pete, I'm assuming you got the information on

the trim burn on the pad.
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. I have one thing for you. When you go up to

the con_mand module, the G&C has four switches - four
or five switches that he'd like for you to verify
that are turned off after the trim burn, as you leave,
for power tonight.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. First, the service module - they're all on

panel 5 - SERVICE MODULE RCS HEATERS, quads Alfa and
Delta to OFF; then the SM RCS HEATERS ENGINE PACKAGE
Alfa and Delta to OFF; and then, SM RCS PSM i HEATERS
to OFF. Over.
CDR I believe it's in that configuration now.
CC Roger. We just want to make sure when you - you can

verify that and, when you leave, Just make sure they
8/_e.
CDR Yes. Well, that was that - the low-power Jobberdo

[sic], I think.
CDR I'm pretty sure it is.
00 05 55 CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I - we've just finished the major medical run,

and I have a few co_nents I want to make. You got
the right people ready to listen?
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CC Yes, sir. Go ahead, Joe.
SPT Okay. M092 was interesting. The cabin temp was

reading 88 on the workshop panel, 93 on the ESS.
The chamber temp was 97 degrees. We ran the whole
run, 30, 40, 50, because the numbers looked okay as
we went. Two medical comments: the right volume
was much higher than _'ve ever seen it on the PLT
before. At least twice, the Delta - or change in leg
volume that l've ever seen before, and his initial
calf circumferences were both about a half an inch
less than they've been on the ground. He was per-
spiring by the end of the run, but his figures, which
you guys will see in all their glory and detail,
were - were normal. Then we went to M171 and, as a
lot of us had suspected, we've got a significant
mechanical efficiency problem in riding the bike,
which is going to take us, I think, a few days to
solve. The harness is not efficient enough. Paul
will describe this in more detail later, but, essen-
tially, he winds up doing a great deal of work with
his hands and not being as efficient with his legs
and his big muscles, and he can't get to the high work
loads nearly as well. We terminated that run with
a little under 3 minutes to go - both for that reason
and because of an obvious thermal problem. It's just
too darn hot in here to go 200 watts on the bicycle.
And while we will run Ml71's, pending solution - or
resolution of the thermal problem, I'm going to
strongly recommend against running at the top step.
00 08 54 CC Roger, Joe. We copied all of that.
SPT Okay. Essentially, the MI71 people have to realize

that their data is being biased by the thermal and
the mechanical problems and is, I don't think, rep-
resentative at all of deconditioning. And it's not
going to be representative of deconditioning until
we get the environment squared away and learn how to
ride the bike.
CC Roger, Joe.
00 09 51 CC And_ Skylab_ Houston. I only have one question that

I was going to pass up tonight, but we still have
about 5 minutes left in this pass if - and it con-
cerns the problems that you all had apparently on the
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trash airlock dump this morning. And we were won-

dering if you used a - if the disposal bag that you
used that you had the UCTAs in - Was that a urine
disposal bag or one of the regular kind?
CDR It was a urine bag.

We're going to see you at Hawaii at 01:12.
00 14 01 CDR Okay, Houston; 01:12. We'll have the burn in. And
could you tell me -What did you find out about the
vents in the 0WS today?
00 14 29 CC CDR, Houston. If you're asking about the solenoid

vent port - did you all get that capped? We haven't
run that test yet, I think.
CDR Yes, they're capped.
CC Roger. We will be running it and we will let you

know.
00 14 45 CDR Okay.
01 ll 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Yes. Say, when's that burn?
CDR Before you get upset, it went off on time.
CC (Chuckle) I was already upset. You waited too late.

Roger that. How'd it go?
CDR It went okay, but as soon as the TACS started firing,

it sure makes that sail bang in the breeze out there.
CC Roger. Incidentally, Pete - -
CDR I can just see the front of the sail from the command
module window.
CC Roger; understand. Let's don't knock it off.

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CDR Yes.
CC Incidentally, Pete, we're going to be commanding un-

attended ATM ops starting this pass and that will be
continuing, and I won't bother to keep you completely
up to speed.Over. I
CDR Okay. But - Now the EMS only shows 1.2 feet per
second and I thought you were supposed - I thought
... were supposed to get 2.1.
CC Roger, Pete; copy. And we'll be checking the bird

and keep with it. What kind of burn time did you have,
Pete?
CDR One minute and 3 seconds on two quads, A and C.
CC Roger; we'll - we'll be checking the bird and keep

up with it and let you know.
01 13 21 PLT Hey, Dick, I also got a question on our cryo config-

uration. Nobody here really remembers if it's sup-
posed to be this way or not. We have got H 2 HEATERS
in AUTO in TANK 2, also 02 HEATERS in AUTO in TANK 2.
Is that what the way we want it?
CC Stand by i.
PLT Okay. No rush. Whenever you find out let us know.

If you want something changed, we'll change it. And
the heater configuration on the RCS is what you
wanted?
CC Okay, real good. And while - while you guys are still
by the phone, l've got two or three questions that I
wondered - we were wondering if we could ask of you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the Flight Plan - the - our activation

checklist people were wondering about three or four
items to see if you've got done today. One was the
wardroom SMMD cal; another was the launch restraint
removal from the fecal collector and - from the fecal
collector filter; and the third was the transfer of
the food overage. Over.
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SPT Okay, the first thing, it didn't get done. I guess

I haven't CALed the SMMDyet, and I think the other
two items are both complete.
PLT That's affirmative, Dick. The other two are done.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you. And one more question.

For flight planning purposes, did you all do a fuel
cell purge on mission day 3?
CDR Yes, I did systems housekeeping h, which was Just

hydrogen - which was scheduled yesterday.
CC Roger.
CDR And on day 2, I got oxygen as I remember.
01 15 24 SPT Houston, SPT. There's a - there's a thing I don't

understand on page 2-21 of the ATM Systems Checklist
concerning enabling a contingency momentum sample.
I didn't think that was required. I guess l'd like
to know whether you want me to do it or not.
CC Okay, Joe, we'll get you an answer on that.
SPT Thank you.
CC Okay; one more question that we had that goes back to

the rendezvous day. Prior to launch, we had put a
procedure in the - in your checklist that had to do
with a - a good visual inspection through the - of the
minus-Z SAL. But based on your flyaround the other
day, it was our understanding that there was no debris
of any kind that would possibly block the minus-Z SAL.
And if you can confirm that, we're going to delete
that from the Flight Plan tomorrow.
SPT What's that, the flyaround? (Laughter)
CC (Chuckle) You guys have - -
CDR There was no damage to the minus-Z SAL. I reported

the plus-Z SAL had some gold foil flaked off and
standing up around it, but the minus-Z SAL was clean.
CC Very good.
t
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CDR The other thing I reported was that - that, obviously,

the meteoroid shield had - had scraped across that
area and specifically by the wardroom window.
I
CC Roger; copy. And--
CDR Say, while you're making your temperature studies down

there, it doesn't appear to us like the workshop is
cooling off anymore. What - what do your thermal
guys have to say?
CC Let us get a quick answer for you on that, Pete, and

an answer for Joe on the contingency momentum sample.
Yes, we would like to go ahead and take that momen-
tum sample and then go back to experiment pointing
mode.
SPT Say, we're back in experiment pointing mode, Dick.

The - the procedure I referred to is the business
of, through the DAS, inhibiting CMG control and then
re-enabling it. That just doesn't ring a bell with
me at all.
01 18 00 CDR And while you're thinking of that, Dick, one other

thing. We've been running pretty full blower, and
I'd like to keep tomorrow strictly to the Flight
Plan to let us see how we do that day. And all these
little extra goodies that have been coming up in
front of this bagging ..., I'm going have a late
night tonight dumping this water. I haven't yet had
a chance to read the probe stuff. So we need to do
some catching up, and I - I'd like to see tomorrow
and the next day that they'd be normal days - If
anything, it backs off Just slightly so that we could
get some stuff squared away here. Because we're
eating food so fast that the wardroom is getting
dirty. We're dumping trash, but we've had a few food
bag failures. And it looks like, one of these days,
we are going to have to halt for about a couple of
hours anyhow to GI the place if we're going to keep
it clean.
CC Roger, Pete. We get the message.
O1 19 34 CDR Up there at that duct, you can tell the real airflow
pattern works great.
If Day149 Page319
CC Roger, Pete. We dropped out there for a second,

but we certainly got your message on the Flight
Plan. And I did - we did get a request from G&S -
a request to inhibit and then re-enable the CMG
control so that we can get that contingency momentum
sample.
SPT In other words, we wouldn't get it if we didn't do

that ?
01 20 02 CC That's affirmative.

We're going to see you at Vanguard at - The Vanguard
pass will be at 01:42, and we'll have the evening
status report there. And also, Pete, I'm not sure
we understood which of the purges that you did on
mission day 3, which was either yesterday or the
day before, so we need a little bit of a clarifica-
tion of whether it was H 2 or 02 or both.
CDR Okay, Dick. I think if you look at the checklist -

flight plan for activation, I did what was ever
called for. It seems to me, on day 2, I did an 02
purge. It seems to me, last night, I did an H 2 purge,

which is systems housekeeping CM4.
01 21 49 CC Okay. Roger, Pete; copy. And I'ii get back with

you at the Vanguard.
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01 43 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for the next

9 minutes and, before your evening status report,
I have one small note for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We have looked at the temps, Pete, and they

do appear to be leveling off. And we think we may
make a little money this evening while you guys sleep
by enabling the secondary coolant loops. So we in-
tend, at this pass, to command in ON, and you should
get a momentary SECONDARY COOLANT FLOW of CAUTION
and WARNING, so don't be surprised at that, but -
In answer to your questions, the temps do appear to
be leveling off some. We're not sure whether on -
on - what effect your increased BTU output today has
been, but we're going to turn on the secondary coolant
loop up.
CDR Okay. Roger.
CC And, with that, I'm ready for you to start on the

evening status report or whatever you have.
01 44 04 CDR Okay. First thing is, I Just put the B_94D cal and
the transcribed portion of the evening status report
on B channel for you.
CC Okay.
CDR I got so many books in my hands, I got to lock into

the floor. While I'm getting organized - We're try-
ing to set the alarm; just a second.
CDR Okay. While we're getting organized, I believe,

through the binoculars, we sighted our S-II here,
Just a little while ago.
CC Roger.
01 45 09 CDR Okay, the evening status report. Let me give you

Foxtrot first.
CC Okay, go ahead.
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CDR CDR ate everything.
CC Good.
CDR And he used no salt.
CC Roger.
CDR The SPT didn't eat his bread or jam for breakfast,
nor his bread and ambrosia for dinner, nor his coffee
and one butter cookie. He used no salt, and that's
it.
CC Roger; got that.
CDR The PLT did not drink his coffee with breakfast, nor
did he eat his bread with dinner, and he did not
eat his peanuts or coffee for snacks. And he had
two optional salt packages.
CC Okay; got it.
01 46 24 CDR Photo log, day 148, 16 millimeter, M151-M092/171,

CI02, 00, MT02. The CI02 is back at B-3, and that's
it.
CC Okay, got that.
CDR Took i00 percent of the film, Joe says because they
were a lot slower getting it done.
CC Roger.
CDR Flight Plan deviations: none. Times: we're running

a little longer. I don't see any constraints other
than we still got a lot to do today with your extra
goodies. No stowage items changes except as reported
on B channel and no inoperable equipment except as
reported on B channel. And the only flight plan item
not accomplished today that was supposed to be was
SMMD cal, and let me get a reading on that.
CC Okay.
CDR And Joe is going to do that tonight.

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CC Roger. That's correct.
CC Incidentally, guys, we're about a minute and 20 sec-

onds away for LOS. We'll see - you'll have Vanguard
pass, a medical conference at 03:21, and we've been
watching TV today, and it sure looks like fun the
way you guys have been moving around up there.
CDR It's a real blast, let me tell you.
CC Well, Hank's been kind of hogging the mike for the

last couple of days, but everybody's been watching
you, and we all wish we were there.
01 51 07 CDR Well, once we figured out we weren't going to get

sick, it's been Katy bar the door, and we've done
a little ricocheting off the walls, but I still hold
the record for some spectacular didos. I won't call
them controls, but she sure has been getting around
in here.
01 51 24 CC Roger that.
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01 47 36 CC Okay; we'll do that tonight. Very good. And be

advised we're going to reset a TACS ATTITUDE C&W
light that was inhibited _during the trim maneuver
awhile ago. And you got anything else on the status
report?
CDR No, sir. It's been another long day and I think
we look forward to the orbital ops tomorrow. I hope
we can speed up our own time line. I can't really
put my finger on why we're so slow, but part of it
is being absolutely sure that we're doing it right.
01 48 14 CC Roger. Understand, Pete, and we're quite satisfied.

The one - the last note that I have here - getting
back to the command module fuel cell purges is - In
a checklist - in the Systems Checklist, page 4-1, on
the 4-day checks - CM-_ - HKCM 4 - The very last line
under thatsays "Perform 2-day systems checks," and
it is a little bit confusing. But on the h-day checks,
we want you to purge both 02 and H2. So, if you did
miss that, we need to get an H2 purge this evening -
I'm sorry, an 02 purge this evening.
01 &8 53 CDR Okay, I got tDat pretty late last night, and I was
pretty foggy, so I guess I missed the 02 part of it.
I'll give her an 02 purge tonight, and then we under-

stand that from now on.
01 49 06 CC Okay, good. We'll be back on schedule. Stand by 1.
01 49 3_ CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're going to - We're doing

a momentum dump now, and it appears the way it's going
that we probably will lose - that we probably will
lose track on the star tracker of the star, so I
_-" wanted togive you the star and gimbal angles so that
you can reacquire the star tracker for us when you get
out into daylight. Over.
01 50 00 CDR Fire away.
CC Okay. It's Canopus; INNER GIMBAL, minus 0680; OUTER

GIMBAL, plus 1670.
CDR Okay. Canopus; INNER, minus 0680; OUTER, plus 1670.

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03 24 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard. We've got

you for about another 5 minutes, and Chuck said that
you might want to have something to say to us.
CDR Yes. We had a failure on your secondary loop that you

turned on. We've taken command of it. The - I
believe you had - I don't which pump you had on, but
you had it - the number 1 inverter on. It blew the
breaker.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Okay, let me give you the configuration we're in

right now, and you can command it up if you want,
and we'll give it back to you, and then you can
play with it.
CC Okay, fine. We did notice that we were on pump

Bravo. We were going to ask you a question about that
in the morning. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, we're on 2 VC pump Bravo, and let me know when

you've got it commanded, and I'll go put her back
to command for you.
CC Roger that. Stand by.
CDR Also, we have not reset the circuit breaker. And

we'll stand by on your word.
CC Okay. _
SPT Hey, Houston; SPT. Got time for a couple of comments?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, in catching up on some pads. I note that your

CMG number 3 wheel speed is erratic on the ground.
It's not erratic up here, it is Just flat zero. So
it's obviously in transducer.
CC Roger, and after we transmitted that message, PLT, it

went to flat zero down here, too.
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PLT Okay. The - I'm copying changes for the ATM Check-
list and Cue Cards. And you have one for the dark-
side prep that says after you power up the
pointing-loop gyros, wait 90 seconds. And I won- i
dered, you know, for what? Because all you're doing
is configuring other experiments, which - so I just
made it a note - 90 seconds spin-up.
CC Roger. Standby.
03 26 55 CDR Okay, Houston, the other thing is, the waste tank's
been dumped to 15 percent.
03 27 02 CC Roger. Thank you.
CC And a quick answer on the APC rate gyros. That

was just in the event that we had not got them
on the line, that was 90 seconds for spin-up time.
And also on that, be advised we were - There is
another checklist change, it's going to be coming
up tonight on the EREP Checklist. And it goes in
about two or three places in the checklist. So
we're going to transmit this one message three times
tonight. And so in the morning when you get it -
just so that you can cut and paste instead of write.
CDR Okay.
CC We just figured - -
CDR l've got one other thing for you.
CC Okay, go ahead.
- _ CDR Some time tomorrow, at their convenience, I would
Director, Mr. Kraft, and Mr. Slayton. It's not

..... _ anything
like to schedule a private comm with the to
other than I just want to talk them.
Flight
It's no emergency or and thing like that.
CC Roger. Understand, Pete, and will do.
CDR Just any time tomorrow.
PLT Hey, Richard.

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CC Go ahead.
CC Before you - -
PLT I haven't - had a chance - I haven't had a chance to

look it up yet. I see one thing I got tomorrow is
EREP mag. Is that loading up the magazines of the
new cassettes we brought up?
CC That's affirmative, Paul. And if you - and we are ready

to do our commanding. So if you'll go off and then
command, we'll go ahead and do our commanding on the
coolant loop.
PLT You get that, Pete?
CDR Yes
CC And we do not want to reset the circuit breaker now.
CDR Roger.
03 29 39 CC And we're about 50 seconds from LOS here at Vanguard.

We'll see y'all in the morning. Our first voice comm
pass is about 25 or 30 minutes after you wake up.
CDR Okay, we look real good for going to bed in about

15 minutes. I think we're slowly cranking it
around to the right schedule.
CC Hey, sounds real good. See you tomorrow.
CDR Bye bye, have a good night.
03 30 03 CC Same to you. Good night.
04 22 38 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call? ---_
SPT Yes. This is SPT. I was tape recording this ...

noticed that my record light was out. Did you
guys dump the recorder?
CC Stand by for Just 1 second.
CC SPT, Houston. Negative. We're not dumping the data

tape recorder.
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SPT Okay. Maybe I knocked it off with my elbow or

something.
CC Okay, Joe. See you. Good night.
0h 23 18 SPT Good night.
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ii 03 13 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 2 minutes. Gentlemen, start

your engines.
ll 03 23 PLT Turn to; commence ... switch.
ll 34 35 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 15 minutes.
PLT Fifteen minutes?
CC That's affirm.
CC If the SPT is listening, we have a message for him.
PLT He's strapping his foots into the body mass measuring
device right now, and he's therefore listening. So
go ahead.
CC Oh. I wouldn't dare disturb a thing like that.

But I'll read the message anyway.
PLT Hey, Bill.
CC Yes. Go.
PLT We've got a question for the camera people. We've

got some 35-millimeter film in the Nikon we launched
with. Whatever roll it was. And we apparently do
not have the empty cassette. Now if we start swapping
cassettes, I think everybody's going to get all fouled
up. I'd like to propose, with their concurrence, that
we take that - when we change that film out, that we
wrap it with several layers of this heavy silver foil
tape we've got here, and kind of make a ... bowed
cassette.
CC Copy that. And I'll confirm that's agreeable down

here.
PLT Okay.
CC Paul, can you take an ATMmessage at this time?
PLT Say again, Houston.

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CC Can you take an ATM message at this time?
PLT Not right now, Bill. We'll give you a call in a

mi nut e.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, Bill, why don't you go ahead with the ATM message.
I'll copy it down for Joe.
CC Okay. Prior to ATM checkout on panel 203, ATM C&D,

coolant loop activation: ATM COOLANT PUMP A switch,
ON; run the loop continuously until further advised.
ll 42 55 CDH Okay. And I ran that loop yesterday and changed the
filter out ... stored ... A-2.
CC Okay. On the ATM schedule pad for 05149, change

"RL 0000, D 00, L h00," change that to "EL 10800,
U plus 400, R plus 400."
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT What's the GMT associated with that change on the

ATM schedule pad.
CC Stand by for that.
ii _6 31 CC SPT, that's 14:43.
SPT Thank you.
CC PLT, wrap the film as you described, and we'll get

you a stowage location for it later.
PLT Okay. Bill, did you get to look at the data on your
• .. decal?
CC Yes. We're going to have to repeat some of that.
SPT Some of the logging or some of the do it?
CC Say again.
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SPT Repeat the logging or the operation?
CC Repeat the operation.
SPT Okay. It looks pretty good to me except for one data

point which started at a momentum dump. I read you
those numbers anyway. And then the 900 gram point,
which I don't understand, under 1 into 1 of waste
management compartment, I have no idea of what happened.
Doyou?
CC No. It's Just a catastrophic failure. One of those

things. Listen, we never did get the data down on
the M07h. I was referring to M172.
SPT Oh. Yes, okay. M07h I put on the tape late last
night.
CC Oh, okay. Thank you. Listen, we have one more -

before LOS - we have one more for you here. It's
on the - involves the S054 high voltage. Do not
ENABLE IMAGE DISSECTOR or HIGH VOLTAGES. Hence, the
IMAGE DISSECTOR switch remains OFF.
SPT Hold it, Bill.
CC Ok%v.
SPT Okay, now go ahead. I have the copy these things.
CC Roger. This is S054 high voltage. We do not want the

IMAGE DISSECTOR or the HIGH VOLTAGES ENABLED. Hence,
the IMAGE DISSECTOR switch is OFF - remains OFF.
PHOTO MULTIPLIER ENABLE switch remains OFF. And the
pressure in the canister is too high for safe operation
at this time. We're going LOS here in about 30 seconds.
We'll - "
SPT Are you still there?
CC That's affirm.
SPT 0kay, I Just wanted to tell you that because of the

failure in the waste management SMMD, we're not weigh-
ing feces at the moment.
CC You're not. We copy that. Also, we'll have you at

Madrid at 11:54.
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ii 54 42 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're preparing to dump the voice recorder at

this time.
SPT Roger.
12 02 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in about 30 seconds.

We'll see you at Carnarvon. And the urine chiller
number i temp, it increased about 56 degrees during
the night. But we note that this has been dropping
for the last few minutes.
CDR The what had increased, Bill?
CC The urine chiller number i temperature.
CDR Okay. I believe that was my fault, Bill. When I got

up this morning, I found the blower running.
CC We copy.
CDR And I think I left it on in the night - middle of the

night last night ...
12 02 47 CC Thank you.
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12 30 55 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S 3 minutes.
12 3B 38 CC LOS in 1 minute. A0S at 12:41 Honeysuckle.
12 41 18 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle 1 minute.
SC ... finally worked the call.
CDR We seem to be pretty well on the time line, and we're

Just listening to a little good country music this
morning.
CC Well, didn't hear that. There's a lot of music in

the background. But, in any event, we're about 15
seconds from LOS; Texas at ii:00.
CDR I said we were on the time line, and we were Just

listening to a little country music.
12 42 l0 CC Roger. It sounds great.
iB i0 56 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 16 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston. We've got bushy clumps on H-alpha.
CC Roger ; copy.
1B ii 08 SPT Just started the checkout, Houston, and I've advised

H-alpha TV turn ON, page A-2.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR You'll be happy to know that you got good EREP tapes.
"l through h are perfect. Could you tell me the
reason why you think 7 is bad? I haven't looked
at it, but I marked it as bad - per pad.
_- CC Okay, let me get an answer on that, Pete.
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CDR Okay. Because the i through 4 are perfect. They

look Just as good as anything I've seen, and they
have nothing like the pictures that were shown of
heated tapes.
PLT Hey, Houston; PLT.
CC Go ahead.
13 12 58 PLT I'm starting off behind. Henry, I'm still in the

midst of this film-threading Jazz. It is comple-
tely screwed up. When I get done, I'll either
tell you or put on tape what our configuration is
and where we stand. And, also, I think it's un-
reasonable to exp= t that the pass that we're late
on today - threading the camerasand activating all
the others - to be done during the normal postsleep
period.
CC Roger; copy.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
13 12 38 SPT Okay, it's a beautiful picture. H-alpha 1 is very

good, too. It's got excellent detail. However, in
the ZOOMIN, you notice a continuous Jiggling.
That's - I'll time quantitate it for you later,
but it's several ... seconds on about a 1-second cycle;
it's moving.
CC Roger; copy.
CC Yes. Yes, he said he was having problems.
1B l_ O0 CC I got FLIGHT.
CC Go ahead, EXPRO.
13 14 l& CC Yes, it's to get him a time. There's not enough

time there to do it right. Yes. Yes. Go ahead.
You'll have to speak up. I can't read you at all.
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13 l& 56 CC Skylah, Houston. No need to acknowledge. We did

send up an odds and ends pad up there, which I'm
sure you read. We gave you the rate _3rro configu-
ration, and there was an error in that. The config-
uration on the Y-axis is 1/3, and we had in there
that 3 was powered down, and obviously it should
have been a 2 powerdown.
SPT Okay.
CC Go ahead.
13 17 12 SPT Okay, the FINE SUN SENSOR wedge angles required to

drive the coronagraph cross hairs to zero are up,
26; right, 28.
CC Roger. We copy.
13 18 53 CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT, a little reminder on

panel 203. ATM COOLANT PUMP A ON.
SPT Oh, thank you, Henry.
13 22 34 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR. No response required.

Your answer to that tape number 7. The problem
there, Pete, is not related to the thermal problem.
In ground test and verification of the tapes on the
ground, similar tapes, we had four failures, and
three of them were all from the same lot. And we
determined that they had a - all came from the
same web, and they gum up the heads.
13 23 05 SC We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about l0 seconds from LOS.

Madrid coming up at 32, and we'll dump the data
recorded there.
13 26 57 SC Okay.
13 32 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid, 9 minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston.

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CDR Hi, Houston. CDR. Both tape recorders are loaded;

Just about to check them out.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT Hank, do you want me to tell you now in real time

what our 16-millimeter configuration is, or put it
on tape?
CC That's your choice, Paul; whichever is easiest.
PLT Okay, if you'll get out the film thread pad and let
me go find those ...
CC Go shead.
SPT The XUV monitor in GAIN position number 7, you Just

barely began detect ... tracing and normal back-
ground features the - one feels that one needs
about four more gain positions to do the Job
properly. When can I show you these?
13 33 27 CC We'll have to schedule that up, Joe; we'll let you

know.
SPT Okay.
CC And PLT, we've got the film thread pad.
PLT Okay. Here's what it is right now. The first line

on transporter 02 is as advertised on the pad. The
second line: now transporter A1 is bad and was
reported as such by Doctor - by PS what's-his-
name, - yesterday as is takeup cassette MT01;
therefore, the second line now reads transporter 03
and the takeup reel is MTIO. That's MT10. And the
third line, everything is as advertised except the
MTll, that's ll. The reason I got l0 and ll was
because the straps aren't marked, Hank, and I
figured it didn't make any difference - I took the
first two empty reels I came to.
CC Roger. Copy.
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PLT And also for information, ... they all threaded

beautifully this morning. I don't know if that
procedure of pulling the film out made the
difference or what, - but no sweat.
CC Okay. That's good news.
13 35 28 SPT Houston, the CDR wants to know if you're going to

send him an S009 pad?
13 35 36 SPT ... delay that, Houston.
13 36 44 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, your private comm

request is set up for Honeysuckle next pass at 18.
13 36 52 CDR Roger. 18:00.
13 39 29 CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT. On the XUV M0N did

INTEGRATE help any at all?
SPT Yes. INTEGRATE helps a lot except that the view

you get is so brief that I really can't make out
detail, such as small bright areas that we hoped we
were going to be able to see. The larger features do
come in better. My optimum integration looks to me
to be about 3 seconds, but I sure would like to
give this stuff down, and let the experts look at
it also.
CC Roger. We're trying to schedule that.
SPT Okay.
CDR Ss_,, Hank. I put a message on B channel about the

ERFAD tape recorder checkout - It was Just a little
funny. That doesn't mean anything. It's Just
something for them to note and TAPE RECORDER 1
checks out okay.
CC Roger; copy. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Honeysuckle is coming up at 18.
13 40 38 SC Roger.
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lh 38 45 CC Skylab, Houston; through Hawaii for _-i/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Hank, if you've done it, we can't find

it any place. What DAC do you want put on the EREP
VTS?
CC Stand by 1.
CC Skylab, Houston. So that we can manage the VTR, we

need to know if you're using it now.
PLT Negative, Houston.
CC Okay. Did you get TV 1 accomplished?
PLT I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
CC Roger. Was TV 1 accomplished?
SPT Negative.
PLT Houston, the CDR's having _ problem with the launch

lock on S009. That's why he's behind.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT Hey, Henry. Also, the ground - you guys owe us an

answer from last night on the cryo heater. Do you
want it on in the command module? The configuration
right now is 02 tank 2 and H2 tank 2 have the heaters
in AUTO. And consequently they are pumping out of
those. Is that the way you want it? We Just want to
verify it.
CC That's affirmative, Paul. That's a good configuration.
PLT Oh, okay. We asked last night and never got an answer.
i_ _2 06 CC Skylab, for the SPT. For planning purposes, we're

going to look at your XUV monitor at the Mila pass,
occurring at about 18:12 Zulu.
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SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC Correction. That's Goldstone at 18:05.
SPT All right.
14 46 33 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 9-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC An answer on the DAC for the VTS; it should be DAC 5.
CC Skylab, for the CDR. How are - how are you coming
with that S009?
CDR I can't work the ... with ..., and TV i doesn't work.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Let me make sure I understand the status of the X-ray

experiment. On S054, is the X-ray image also not to
he enabled? I had a specific note on photomultiplier
image dissector and no note on X-ray image. I have
not enabled it.
14 50 00 CC That's negative. The X-ray image should not he

enabled, either.
SPT Okay. What's the problem and the prospect?
CC Okay. It's just that the canister pressure hasn't
met the guidelines of being down below i x 10 -5 for

48 hours.
SPT Is it down there yet? I'm kind of surprised because

we were planning to do this on day 4.
CC Everybody is a little surprised at that, Joe. It's

still not quite down there - apparently, we're still
getting some outgassing in the canister.
SPT They think we'll make it though, huh?

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CC Roger. We think it'll get there.
CC And SPT, for information. Since the TV 1 is Just now

getting on there - getting in work, we didn't dump
the recorder; so whatever is coming down from XUV
monitor 1 now, we'll be getting on tape at Goldstone.
SPT I'm not sure I understood that. I was not recording

anything on the VTR.
CDR I'm supposed to be.
lh 51 hl SPT Houston, SPT. Did you want me to record that XUV

monitor data?
CC That 's negative.
SPT Okay.
CC What -what's happening, is we're recording your TV

at Goldstone. We're recording what's on monitor 1.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS;

Bermuda at 59.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CREW Good.
CDR Hey, Hank; CDR. TV 1 is complete, and it's on the

VTR.
CC Roger. Thank you. Skylab, for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
15 O1 07 CC Roger, Joe. We've got a priority thing for you here

in accordance with your detail pad. We need to get the
CMC up and get P00 and ACCEPT, so we can get some up-
links in prior to the P50, P51. And we've got to get
to them before AOS at Canaries.
SPT Okay.
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CC And Canaries is coming up at 15:08.
PLT Houston, you still there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
15 03 59 PLT Okay. S009 is activated now. For information, I had

a very difficult time getting the package in, Hank.
It probably won't mean anything to you, but if any of
the 009 guys are around, the distance between the
two bearings on the actuators that gage the latches
was absolute minimum. I don't really know how I
finally got it in, but it's very close tolerance on
the package dimensions and the dimension on the latches
on the bearings of the actuating mechanism.
CC Roger. Copy. You think - Well now, that's up in the

MDA, so it wouldn't be a temperature problem.
CDR That's right. It appears to be functioning normally

now. I closed the package and it went all right.
That's just for information.
PLT No, Hank. The package that goes in S009 has been in
the film vault.
CC Okay. That may be it, then.
15 09 06 CC Skylab, Houston; through Canaries for 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, One minute to LOS; Honeysuckle

at 54. And we got our up-links in, and computer's
yours.
15 18 01 PLT Roger. Houston. The CDR's Just putting on his biomed

instrumentation and we're getting ready to start 92.
CC Roger. Copy.
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15 54 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Honeysuckle for the

next 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. This is the SPT. I'm starting the

P51. The field of view is quite small. Could you
guys tell me what constellation I'm centered in?
CC Roger. Wait l, Joe.
CC Roger. Joe, have you tried to use the star tracker

sensors to get started?
SPT Say again.
CC Roger. Joe, have you used the star tracker option or

not? To get st_ted?
SPT No. Your pad said to use two stars, so I assumed that
was the CSM option.
PLT Full status report - we're running farther behind on

the M092. Part of it, in this case, we had to change
one of the leg bands. We couldn't get it ...
CC Roger; Paul. Copy. You're running behind on 92,

you had to change out a leg band.
PLT You're right. We're Just about ... now.
CC Roger.
CC For the SPT on stars; Nunki, Peacock, and Atria

should still be pretty good stars. We're having -
since you're in a dump, we can't really give you a
good hack on it.
SPT All right.
16 02 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

have you again at Hawaii at 16:lb.
SPT Roger.
CC And, Joe, before I lose you here, the earliest you

can start PSO is 16:15, 16:15.
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SPT Say again, Crip.
CC Roger. The earliest you can start P50 is at 16:15,

16:15.
SPT I've got you.
CC We've got to get some momentum dump completed.
]6 13 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, lO minutes.
CDR Roger.
SPT Hello, Houston. I'm about to start the P50.
SPT And, Houston, which option would you like me to take?
CC Roger. Option 2.
SPT Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT. Are you looking at the - at the DSKY

or not?
CC Roger. We got them.
SPT Okay. If they look good to you, I'll PRO.
CC Those NOUN 23's look very good, Joe.
SPT You ready for me to pOWer down the IMU in the

computer?
CC Say again, Joe.
SPT Are you ready for me to power down the IMU in the
CMC? Over.
CC That's fine. You can go ahead and power down.
SPT Okay.
16 22 _h CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute to LOS. We'll

be back with you shortly at Goldstone, 25.
SPT Okay. Roger.

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16 25 O1 CC Skylah, Houston through Goldstone, 7-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; for SPT_
SPT Go ahead.
CC Yes, sir. For our info, did you get the J0P 12 Delta
accomplished on the checkout?
SPT No, sir. When I finished the coalignment, I only had

9 minutes remaining, so I chose not to do any of those
options. I Just didn't have time.
CC Roger. Thank you. And I wonder if you'd be available

to get a couple of switches for us?
SPT Well, I'm in the waste management compartment. How

important is it?
CC Okay. No, no big rush. And whenever you're free,

Just give us a call.
SPT Okay. That'll be a couple of passes.
16 32 25 CC Skylab, Houston. Twenty seconds from LOS; Bermuda

at 37.
CC Skylab, Houston. The info only; no action required.

We're going to command a reset of the S054 filter -
our telemetry shows it in transit.
16 45 17 CC Skylab, Houston. Thirty seconds from LOS. Canaries

at h7.
16 h6 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 16-1/2 minutes.
PLT Hello.
16 51 29 CC Skylah, Houston. Are you free, SPT?
SPT No. I'll call you in 1 minute, Hank.
CC Okay.
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SPT Okay, Houston.
CC Okay, Joe. Just wanted to clear up a little thing,

here. You know, you reported this morning you were
having the oscillations in the canister, and we'd like
to know if you noticed any abnormal canister motion
during the four-limb coalign?
SPT No, I didn't, Hank. As a matter of fact, the deflec-

tion of the limb was remarkably steady, considering
the oscillations that I noticed while playing it
front center. I can't account for this. I guess I'll
have to go back and look some more to pin it down.
SPT But, when I was setting up the H-alpha reticles, that

was very easy to do. The limb was quite steady.
CC Roger. Copy. Were you operating the zoom when you

were getting that oscillation this morning?
SPT Well, Hank, the oscillation was noticeable only in -

in zoom in. The farther out you zoom, the less
noticeable it became. In a full zoom out, it was
undetectable. In full zoom in on either H-alpha
instrument, it was noticeable. It wouldn't affect
seeing, because it's too slow a period and not big
enough to affect ...
CC Joe, we had a little drop out there.
SPT Did you not hear any of it?
CC Roger. We understand that the problem was most

noticeable at a - when you zoomed all the way in.
SPT That's right. It was undetectable when we were zoomed

out. And I said that it doesn't interfere with the
operator's seeing, but I think it might blurr some of
the long exposures if it is really a canister jerk,
which is what it appears to be to me.
CC Can you say what axis it is in?
SPT Kind of random, it seemed like. Just a few odd

seconds. Incidentally, the resolution of both the
H-alphas is terrific. They're very good pictures.
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CC Outstanding.
CC Okay, Joe. I guess we've got a few switches we'd

like for you to get at your convenience. We'd like
to increase the circulation a little bit and make it
a little more comfortable for you guys. On the
panel 614 down in the workshop there, we'd like you
to get the DUCT B FANs on. CLOSE those four circuit
breakers. And up on panel 203, our AM CIRCULATION
FANs, we'd llke to take those to HIGH.
16 55 20 SPT Okay. You guys must have power to burn. That's good.
While we're at it, did I ever ask you what the problem
was with CBRM 15 - what you think about it?
SPT You're gone, aren't you?
CC The problem on that one is that the contacter's stuck

open. This has happened before in testing. And -
the procedure we sent up to you, tonight to try,
cured it up in the ground test. And beyond that we
don't know anymore. It's Just a contact, and we
can't get it to close.
SPT Okay. Which contact is that?
CC It's the SAS contacter. The one that connects the

solar panel to the CBRM.
SPT Okay. Thank you. And is there any way I can get the
power system alert light out?
CC Stand by.
CC Okay. You could turn it off by going to the switches

and commanding the REG and CHARGER, OFF. But we've
been keeping that REG, 0N, to keep the temperatures
up. You should also be able to clear it by selecting
the CBRM 15 with the rotary switch.
SPT I can't make it go off. No way.
SPT I haven't tried turning OFF the REG. And I take it

you don't want me to. Selecting the CBRM doesn't
work.
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SPT Roger.
CC And I've got a couple of more items for you, Joe.

One, no rush on this, the next time you're up in the
command module, want to get the optics power off. And
the other thing is the solenoid vent plug that we had
you to install. We did a little more soul searching
about that, and decided since the bird was good and
tight, we wouldn't cycle those valves. And I guess,
we want you to take it off now so we can have our
ground command dump capability.
16 58 27 SPT Okay.
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17 02 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up at Carnarvon at 29. One other
item here, I've got a few little news items you
might be interested in. I thought maybe when all
three of you were having lunch and relax there
sometime, I could pop them up to them, if you're
interested. I'll wait on your call for that.
PLT Okay. We are interested. We'll let you know when

we're having lunch. We're just about half way
through CDR's M171.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT He's doing better than I did yesterday, Hank. But

he's required some gross adjustments in the seat
position on that bicycle.
CC Roger. We copy.
17 27 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 8-1/2 minutes.
SC Okay. We're all congregated in the head, all for

different reasons. Why don't you Just go ahead and
flip us the news.
CC Okay. I'll Just run through a few items here.

Former prisoners of war Joined other Americans in
honoring the nation's war dead Monday, in the first
Memorial Day since the Vietnam cease fire. The
former POWs spoke at several observances throughout
the country, most of them in their hometowns.
President Nixon spent the holiday at Key Eiscayne
preparing for his meeting with French President
George Pompidou at Iceland this week. And this one,
I thought Joe might be interested. Sculptor Jacque
Vitschitz, who died Saturday at 81, will be buried
in Jerusalem, Tuesday. Born in Lithuania, the
world-renowned artist immigrated to the United States
after World War II. We had a rash of bad weather here.
Several states in the southeast and lower midwest
suffered damage and loss of life during a series of
tornadoes over the weekend. Alabamahad 12 tornadoes
in various locations, including one that struck Brent,
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only about 20 miles south of Huntsville. Russia

also suffered natural _Am_ge when floods inundated
more than lO0 settlements and towns in central Siberia.
No one was killed, but great d,mAge to farms, factories,
and mills was reported. The U.S. and Russia have
signed a pact aimed at cleaning up the oceans of the
world. Scientists from both countries met in Los
Angeles for preliminary agreements that will be re-
viewed and are expected to be approved next fall.
Got a bunch of ball scores here, in case you're
interested in some of them. The big news over the
weekend was Jack Nicklaus won his _8th victory when
he won the Atlanta Golf Classic Sunday, and he took
home with him about $30,000 for his efforts. He had
a 272 total, 16 strokes under par, and was 2 strokes
ahead of his closest opponent, Tom Weiskopf. The
57th Indianapolis 500 Auto Race was cancelled Monday
after a nine-car accident in the first lap. The
33-car field had Just moved into the first turn when
the accident occurred. The race had already been
delayed because of rain. It was rescheduled for
9:00 this morning, and, at this point, it still isn't
running because it's raining. Salt Walther was
hospitalized in serious condition. Mike Hiss and
John Martin suffered minor burns, but are expected
to race today. Nine spectators were also injured
in the crash. Other drivers involved, but not
seriously hurt, were Wally Dallenbach, Mike M6sely_
David Hobbs, Lee Kunzman, Dick Simon, and Jim
McElreath. And that's about all I had for you this
morning or afternoon.
CDR Tha_ you. How did the Cubs make out?
CC Okay. Stand by 1. Okay, this is - Sunday's score.
PLT ... score request for the Pirates.
17 30 38 CC This is Sunday's score. The Dodgers took the Mets

2 to l, and the Cubs beat Cincinnati 6 to 0.
SPT How about that. What's Houston in?
CC Well, Houston - I think they won Sunday and lost

yesterday. And they're about a game out of first.
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SPT Okay.
CDR Hey, Hank, "you still there?
CDR Okay, I'm going to put a little old message on

B channel for M171 guys to tell them what I did to
get through the run, okay?
CC Okay. Good show.

We'll be coming up on Guam at 43. I've got a
quick question for you. From time to time we're
getting little small corrections for pads that
you're using during the day. Would you rather
we try to catch you in a free moment and give
those to you, or try to catch you at the last AOS
prior to the activities of the corrections to?
CDR We would like to ... you if you didn't have to send

us the corrections. In the meantime, why don't
you Just try and catch us when we're free. I tell
you, now, we got behind this morning because of that
leg band carrier on the M092 and a couple of things
like that, we're going to really be rippling here,
but I think we'll be back on schedule in about an
hour or so. What have you got for the rest of the
afternoon? What changes have you got? What
experiment s?
CC Okay. There is nothing coming up soon, and we're

about LOS. We'll catch you at Guam.
CC Okay. No sweat.
17 43 16 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 2-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we can see those

M092 vents very plainly in our momentum profile.
And the dump this time looks like we need a 5-degree
yaw correction, which should cause the star tracker
not to acquire, and I think you Just got that alert.
And we're getting a pad for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you copy?

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SPT Yes. Sorry, Hank. I had to have it explained to

me because the music was on too loud, and then I
had to drag out my pad and put down m_ macaroni, and
now I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay. We're working on the pad, Joe. I'll give you

a buzz when we get it.
CC We'll get the pad to you in Hawaii, Joe. Really sorry

about your macaroni. We'll be coming _p on Hawaii
at 53.
CDR He says he's not going to put his macaroni down

again to answer you.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Copy.
17 53 22 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for h-l/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. Hank, say, we have been having a l_ttle

discussion here, and let me pose a question to you.
CC Okay.
CDR We got that 300-millimeter Nikon lens, which we

hadn't originally planned on having. Will you
check _rith the photo people and, if possible, send
us a pad to use the other Nikon camera, and if there
is any extra color exterior, we would like to
rig that to use in the wardroom window along with
the Hasselblad. We haven't done any photography,
to speak of, out the window, because we flat haven't
had any chance. But _ sure are passing over a lot
of places we haven't before, and I'd like to pick up
some 70 and some 300-millimeter of the good stuff
that we're seeing. I missed Italy the other day when
the weather was absolutely perfect. We Just didn't
have the camera ready, but we thought we might use
that 300. Plus, we were going to try and photograph
some of the fellows that are following us around that
belong to what came off the vehicle. I think the
SII has been hanging around here and we get a pretty
good look at something every evening.
CC Roger. We'll put that in work.
CDR Thank you, sir.

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CC And the kind of thing I was talking about a while

ago - those pads, Pete, we've got a - we sent you
up a stowage pad last night with a whole new stowage
list to update it because we didn't have time to do it
before launch. And we find that we needed to add a
little comment in there. And the other kind of thing
is we made a _nail error in the 190 heater pad that
was part of the EREP pad.
CDR Okay. I'll - Just a second - let me get my book so

that I can copy. What's our next station?
CC Okay, we'll be coming up stateside here at 05.
CDR Okay, we'll copy both of those then. Unfortunately,

we had done a little hustling, and we had moved a lot
of the gear that you had on the pad this morning,
already out of the PF, so I'm going to - I'm going
to have to modify that. What I'm going to have to do
is chase it down from where we got it, and put it where
you want it.
CC Okay, It's not _ - it's not a movement thing, it was

Just an addition where we said to move the ... We
wanted to make sure you vent - remove the cover.
CDR I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.
17 56 20 CC And we got a little reminder for the SPT. This is

our - this Goldstone pass coming up is our TV pass
for the ATM. We'd like to - we'd like for him to
go through the normal TV operations, and the XUV
MON at the end. And I also have the star tracker
gimbal angles now.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay, the star's Achernar, and outer is minus 0536;

inner, minus 0211.
SPT Roger.
CC And this pass at Goldstone will be live, and all

the PI's are chomping at the bit to get a look at it.
SPT Okay. Well, Hank, I've got a couple of JOPS layed

on for this pass. I'll Just rely on you to call me
up and tell me what you want on the monitor and when
you want it.
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CC Roger.
17 58 O1 CC And we got about lO seonds to LOS. Goldstone is

coming up at 05.
CDR Still with us, Hank?
CC Roger.
CDR We m_y miss TV, too, to give you the Goldstone

stuff and stay on schedule. I'm not sure how it's
going to work. We'll try and squeeze it together.
CC Okay.
18 04 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC And, SPT, we'd like for you to fly the scheduled ATM
pass there, and the TV, and at the end of it, you can
give us some extra XUV MON•
SPT Okay. I'm behind, H_nk, because I was pointing to

• .. 14 when suddenly the ... glitched me clean off
the Sun. It looked like it ran forward and Just
stopped. No. I'm back on the Sun now and pressing
on. I really don't know why it happened.
CC Roger. Did you zero the wedges before you started,

Joe ?
SPT Oh, yes. They were doing fine now - they need to
be rezeroed down, but I'm not going to do it until
after I get the picture.
CC Okay.
SI_ And if you guys are getting live TV, I have my

monitor 2 now, the XUV monitor, and it's the best
brightness and contrast and intensity that I can get.
CC We don't have our picture yet. We're checking.
18 06 30 CC Okay, we're getting it now.

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SPT Okay, that H-alpha 2. It kind of did it to me again

the other way. Won't take but a minute.
SPT Now my left-right is okay. My up-down is stuck at

lO1. I'd like to change up their gyros, with your
concurrence.
CC Stand by.
SPT Meanwhile, there is the XUV monitor for you.
CC Roger.
SPT Is our gain 7? Brightness 7, contrast 9-
CC And you're cleared to change gyros.
SPT Thank you.
CC And would you integrate for us.
SPT Stand by. It's leaning away again.
SPT See what's happenihg?
CC Zipped right out of there.
SPT There is a cycling max rate up and down. I've

changed back to the primary gyro.
SPT And what you're looking at now is a funny on

H-alpha 2 that I can't explain. H-alpha 1 doesn't
do it. I'll give you a couple of seconds of that,
then I'll go back to ... and integrate.
18 09 55 CC Are you doing integration now, Joe?
SPT I'm integrating now. I'm going to go back to ...

and do it again.
CC Okay. And we've got about 15 seconds left, and we'll

pick up at Texas at 12.
SPT Is that live TV over Texas?
CC That's negative.
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SPT Okay. Maybe you got some of the integration. I

hope so.
CC Roger. We did.
18 12 09 CC Skylab, Houston, - Texas for 12 minutes.
PLT I can understand why they're not going to have a

race in Indianapoli s ; we can see the weather.
PLT I think we're over Lake Superior here, and see all
the clouds.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT The ... on H-alpha only occurs when you've zoomed

all the way out. And it's - I can cure it by zooming
in part way. The up-down gyro problem is something I
haven't solved yet. When I go to the backup gyro
it begins its oscillation up-down. It goes divergent.
I think what I'm going to do is go to solar inertial
and then switch to - the gyros to secondary and in
a couple of minutes - that experiment for you.
CC We think that maybe the reason the - you oscillated

there was that we didn't give enough time for that
gyro to spin out.
CC SPT, Houston. I guess when we're switching these

gyros, we ought to go to solar inertial, power up
the other gyro, and then after it spins up, go back
to EPC.
CC SPT, we don't see a power discrete on that gyro yet.

We want you to hold up on going hack to EPC.
CC Okay. Gyro looks good to us now, Joe. You can

switch back.
SPT 0kay.
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CDR Now we've got our first, really good, look at Long
Island, and New York, and Cape Cod, Delaware Bay and
all that.
SPT Okay, Houston. I have an up-down oscillation now

of about _ or 5 arc minutes. I can point with the
manual pointing controller; that does not damp the
oscillation in the ... wedge readout does not change.
CC Roger. Copy.
18 18 02 CC SPT, Houston. We don't fully understand why the

canister is doing what it's doing there. We'd like
you to go back to solar inertial and let us mull it
over awhile.
SPT Okay.
SPT Houston, you still there?
SPT May I run through the ... procedure ii Bravo?
CC Stand by.
CDR Hank, you still With us?
CC Sure are, Pete.
CDR Did you get any of the VTR this morning yet?
CC That's affirmative, Pete. We got it.
CDR Okay. You got it. Very good. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. We're going to give you a mile a

minute. We're debating on what it should be,
ll Alfa or ll Bravo.
SPT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. You free?
CC SPT, Houston. We want you to run APCS ll Bravo.

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SPT ii Bravo in work.
SPT And to do that I'm going to go hack to the primary

of that gyro, right now.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Have you put the new SO19 film in?
CDR Who you talking to?
CC CDR.
CDR No.
CDR Not yet, it says not to.
18 23 57 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Ascension at 33.
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18 33 01 CC Skylab, Houston; through Ascension, 5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston; SPT.
CC Joe, we've got a question for you. Did you zero

the wedges after you turned on the fine Sun sensor
for this daylight pass?
SPT Negative. I came up using the darkside prep/sunside

prep. We should close them up ... waiting 90 seconds
and proceeding on. I did not zero the fine Sun sensor.
However, they were operating perfectly normally, and
then suddenly I was down at activation lh ... point-
ing in on it and suddenly took off. Now I've been
through malf llB and I came out at step 6. Namely,
when I switched the point search system from primary
to secondary, the problem went sway. The vertical
wedge did zero nicely. It's behaving normally. I
still have the Jitter in the canister - it's too big.
So I'm performing building block 4. I'm on hA, and
I think i may get 4B in before we quit for the day.
CC Roger. We copy, and in regard to that zeroing the

wedges, we think that's the source of our problem.
What we're going to have to do is zero the wedges
every time after we turn this fine Sun sensor off
and bring it up again.
18 3h 38 SPT Okay. You guys are going to lose a lot of data with
all this Mickey Mouse. That darkside prep and all
that takes a long time.
CC And the problem we had with the secondary rate gyro

there, we think was - it's taken a lot longer than
90 seconds for that @yro to warm up. Your checklist
says 30 minutes, although we allow 90 seconds in
emergency situations, and the reason you got the
up-down oscillation, we think, is because it Just flat
didn't get up the speed and wasn't ready to go.
SPT Yes, it would seem to me we probably ought to m-ke a

rule to leave those things on all day once we
start ...
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CC Okay. We're considering that, Joe. We're discussing

it now, where we Just might want to leave the EPC up
all the time. The reason we were turning it down was
power considerations.
SPT I understand that it's a hard trade-off to make,

Hank, but it sure did behave ...
CC Roger; understand.
SPT Say, Henry, we've got something else we'd like you
to think about.
CC Go ahead.
18 36 30 SPT In an attempt - Now that we've got the airlock

heaters - the airlock fans going full bore, that makes
it nice and cold in the airlock - in the MDA, and
it's still kind of warm down here. I'd like you to
consider if we'd put up a portable fan in the airlock,
either blowing warm air into the MDA or blowing cold
air into the workshop.
CC You know, it's kind of funny you mentioned that, be-

cause we've been tasking about that for the last
hour.
SPT Ha.
CC We've got a procedure in work right now, and we'll

be getting it up to you shortly.
PLT That's what we were afraid of. We don't need a pro-

cedure. Just tell us if you want a fan in the airlock
and which way you want it to suck/blow.
CC Okay. What we want then, Paul, is we want it in the

0WS hatch, right at the hatch entrance and pulling
out the hot air and throwing it up towards the
airlock - toward the MDA.
18 38 01 CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming

up on Carnarvon at 03:00, and we'll get a data re-
corder dump there.
SPT Okay. And you got TV-2 on VTR.

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cc Roger_ copy. We're looking at TV-I now. It looks

real good.
SPT You still there, Houston?
CC Roger. Still here, hut we're about to fade out.
SPT Okay. I forgot to check this telemetry on S082A_

it's still operating.
CC What was the question again, Joe?
18 39 53 SPT S082A still has an operate light on ... cycle should

have ... long ago. And I think probably it did, but
the operate light stayed on.
CC Roger ; copy.
19 03 lO CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, 10-1/2 minutes

and we'll be dt_nping your recorder here.
SPT Roger.
CC SPT, are you free now?
SPT Since 18:65.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
19 Oh 09 CDR What was the change in the stowage thing you wanted
to give me?
CC Okay, Pete, down on the stowage list - on the - that

big long page that we had you to change out completely
and replace - down where it said SO19 film canister
and cover. We left out some remarks on moving the
old film. We should have told you to vent, and re-
move the cover, and move the old film to f/S10 Golf.
CDR I haven't found it yet.
CC It's message - -
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SPT ..., Houston. Did you want the SPT?
CC Stand by, SPT. That message number is 515 Bravo 2,

Pete. And it's actually - -
CDR Yes, I got it but I think you - you don't mean S019,
do you. You mean S1837
CC Make it -make that page 3, Bravo 3.
19 05 B5 CDR I don't have a Bravo B. I've got everything on that

S183 and 300-millimeter lens ; it goes down to the
TDI detectors and so forth. Is it down past that?
CC Roger. Should go on talking about charcoal mass, and

then $019 film canister, TDI detector bags, entertain-
ment tape cassettes.
CDR Yes, I've got that much, but I don't see any S019
anywhere.
CC Right under the charcoal masks.
CDR Hurrah! I found it, I'm in a dim light. Okay. Now

what do you wa_it to do, move old film to F510 O.
CC Right. And Just prior to that move, we want you to

vent and remove the cover. That was the part we
left out. You've got to vent that can there, and
remove the cover.
CDR Okay. Also, I'm working on the front part of it right

now, and there's no way all that sail stuff will fit
in the ... bag, so I h_ve all the sail stuff in the
sleeping bag that part of it was stowed in. I'm
going to leave it that way, if everybody is happy
with it.
CC Roger. That 's good. And SPT.
SPT Go.
19 07 09 CC Okay, we goofed up when we commanded that filter 2 a

while ago to remove the trs/_sit indication. We forgot
to send a reset, so before you crank up the ATM at
19:22, we need you to DAS in a 40075. That's a
filter 123 reset.
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SPT 40075.
CC Roger. If you don't do that your filter wheel will

cycle.
SPT Our filter wheel, Henry.
CC Okay. And the story on this EPC is, we decided that

we won't pilot the fine Sun sensor down any more.
It's just every night when you're through with the
experiment pointing mode we'll Just gO to solar
inertial, and leave everything powered up. And in
regard to the fine Sun sensor, we'd like for you to
go back to the primary, zero the wedges, and see
how that works out on this next pass. If you again
have a problem, then go on back to secondary.
SPT Sounds good. And Just to be on the safe side, I'd

like you guys to send me up maybe on the teleprinter
a short change list to the - when to turn it on to
darkside prep so I don't do something arbitrary.
CC Okay. You - Say that again. You want to change the

list to the darkside prep?
SPT Right. To eliminate those steps which power down and

power up the fine Sun sensor and the gyros.
CC Okay. We'll see what we can do.
SPT Okay.
CC And Just as a reminder, Joe, if you do have to go

to the secondary fine Sun sensor, don't forget to
zero the wedges before you do anything.
SPT Okay.
19 09 39 CC And for the CDR, we reviewed TV-2 and it looked real

good. However, the silver team missed your T-shirt.
That was TV-I.
CDR Say again, Hank.

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CC Roger. We reviewed TV-I and the silver team missed

your T-shirt.
CDR Oh, I didn't bring it this trip.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about _0 seconds from LOS;

be coming up on Guam at 17:00.
19 17 08 CC Skylah, Houston through Guam for lO minutes.
PLT Roger.
PLT Hey, Henry. I need a - Just a verification from the

EREP boys in the backroom there.
CC GO ahead.
PLT Want to make sure it's drawer K for S190, drawer K,

which is film set November. Is the whole set to be
replaced? And T'II load the mmgazines now with
set Quebec. Is that correct?
CC That's correct, Paul
PLT Okay. Also, I Just put it on tape, hut to make sure,

the pad said to put the empty cassette bags in F521.
That's chuck full to the gills, yet, so I put them
in F520.
CC Roger. Copy.
19 19 40 CDR Say, Hank, are we going to have to ... for anymore

waste water or do we have enough room in the service
module tank when that waste tank is full this time?
CC I'll get your answer on that, Pete.
CDR S_v again.
CC I'll be getting an answer for you.
CDR Thank you.

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CC CDR, Houston. Looks like we'll have to make one

more dump a couple days from now.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hello, Houston ; SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I came up in experiment pointing with the primary

light ... selected, and I went to zero the wedges,
and their up ... wedge won't zero.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT Now. I can move the canister, hut the wedge will not
zero. It's stuck in 51 ... primary ...
19 21 39 CC Okay. Why don't you go ahead to secondary and zero

those.
SPT Will do.
CC SPT, Houston. Our computers are gone down here in

the MOCR, and we haven't got any data this whole
pass. And were wondering how it's going. We'll be
able to play the data back later.
SPT Okay. I'll work _r own.
19 25 lO CC SPT, Houston. We got data now. We see you sitting

at 20 and 51 on the wedges.
SPT Okay. Those must be the unbiased n_mbers. I've got

bias in, and I'm sitting at 1 and h and I'm getting
ready to do a JOP 6, building block 1.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS, Goldstone

at 42:00.
19 _2 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside 17 minutes.
CDR Roger.
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PLT Houston - Houston, the CDR has surrendered. Where

is E6997
CC Stand by.
PLT I'm glad you didn't snap hack with the answer right
away.
CC What goes there, Pete?
CDR All this stuff you want me to collect down in the

command module.
CC Somebody said that was a trash airlock, but we're

not sure that's right.
PLT No, the trash airloek is 63h. That thought occurred

to me too, and if you say 63h, I'm, happy.
SPT Houston, SPT.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
19 45 04 SPT Hello. Just a report. The white light coronagraraph

looks very nice. However, it doesn't appear to be
quite I00 percent centered. There's a region of
brightening. We're not seeing ... it's not that bad.
But it's bright. On the 730 to 830 position of the
display, and I can eliminate that by manipulating the
visual pointing control; and that's for information.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, we're still looking at this problem we had a

while ago. When you said that the can was moving,
hut the counter there on your wedge wasn't moving,
did the can - canister move the same way you had the
MPC moved - or the little control stick?
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SPT The canisters moved appropriately.
CC Okay. We were Just chasing a possibility of finding

where you can get on the wrong side of the wedge, and
the things are going opposite directions.
SPT No, that doesn't appear to be the case. I was moving

it back and forth across Sun-center, and it was work-
ing all right.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes.
19 49 26 CC Okay, we got the auswer. It's the s_une old thing -

been there several times before - stowage location
versus panel number. E699 is the trash airlock;
63h is the p_nel on it. That's where you control it.
CDR Okay, everybody wins. Thank you.
19 51 31 SPT Hello, Henry?
CC Go shead.
SPT I got a couple of words of interest to the EREP

training boys that may be in the backroom. I just
finished loading that one set of magazines. It went
well, per the procedure. For information for Jack
Louse and the other guys, I did not put the magazine
in the little clip for the holder. I Just hand-held
it, and everything went hotsy-totsy.
CC Roger ; copy.
CC And PLT; Houston. We sent you a message this morning,

number 521; had something to do with the S19O heater,
and there was a change to your checklist. Do you
recall that one?
PLT Who are you talking to?
CC PLT.
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PLT No, sir. It's finished just about breakfast time.

I think we haven't checked the teleprinter messages.
I'm about to start S009. I'll call you back when
I'm done, if I can.
CC Okay.
PLT You still there, Hank?
PLT I have 009. I want to confirm that the pot setting

is 097 and not 970.
19 53 58 PLT Okay. I Just went to INITIATE; it's in the process

of opening. Let me go look and see on the EREP pad -
or do you want to tell me about it right now? I'm
right here.
CC Okay, it's not the EREP pad. It was a little message

that concerned changing the S190 heater. You took
S190 window heater on and off - and it went in your
checklist, and you probably will catch that it's
wrong anyhow, but what the pad said was if the DELTA
TEMP light comes on, push to test. And what we
really meant to say was if it goes off, push to test.
PLT Okay. What's the upshot? Are we going to use the

heater now or not?
CC Not today, but it goes in the checklist for OPS.
PLT Oh, another one of those.
19 58 49 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. We'll be seeing

you at Carnarvon at 43:00.
PLT Okay, Henry. Also, I see the - the change here. Are
we going to run the heater or not? Can you just tell
me briefly? Are we going to run it while we're
operating or what? On S190 window.
CC Stand by.
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19 59 21 PLT Okay. You can give me the answer at Carnarvon. It's

no sweat. Also, you had a question on the solenoid
vent vslve. We have not cleared the debris yet. We
have not had a chance to clear any debris yet, and
it really needs it.
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20 20 37 CC Okay; copy. And to answer your question, we do plan

to run the heater during ops.
CDR Okay.
20 42 48 CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you done anything with the

portable fan yet?
SPT Yes. We've got it set up. It's been running.
CC Roger. We were Just going to suggest a location for

you, but you beat us to it. I guess the only thing - -
SPT Houston put it in the dome hatch before, and that's

where we got it.
CC Okay, I guess the thing we were concerned about - we

didn't want it too close to the intakes to the OWS
heat exchanger - we kind of wanted it sort of opposite
from that.
SPT Well, we hadn't thought about that. We thought about

the inlet skin of the OWS. The CDR will check that
out on his way back down to the workshop.
CC All righty. And in regard to the plan for the

S190 window heater, what we want to do on that is
when we start regular operations is turn it on some-
where, hour or hour and a half prior to each pass,
and then turn it off afterwards. And a little change
we sent you goes to the prep checklist; so that
should take care of it.
SPT Okay, the hour or hour and a half will fit in with
the way I Just inserted that last change, right?
CC I've been told it will.

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SPT Okay. And the inspection of the S190 window shows

it to he in good shape. So I sprung this one on you
in a SIM once, but this time it's for real. It
surprised me very much in that on the S190 camera,
all the dessicants are white, and I'm in the process
of changing them right now.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT Also, there is a very large scratch on the inside of

the S190 outer cover. I wish I'd have known it was
there, because it gave me quite a start, when I looked
at it and saw it; I thought it was in the glass.
CC Roger.
20 48 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i0 seconds LOS; Guam

at 57.
20 57 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 3-1/2 minutes.
21 O0 18 PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS; Goldstone at 19.
PLT I'm still in the midst of S190 checkout. And the

other guys are running M092/171.
CC Roger. And we're scheduled for a recorder dump at

Goldstone. We'll see how it goes.
PLT Okay.
21 18 53 CC Skylah, Houston. Stateside for 15 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. On the S190 filter - filter Alfa Alfa

on the film - what appear to he water spots - you
know little brown spots like a water drop had dried
there around the edge for a short distance. Do you
want me to try to clean it or Just leave it be?
CC Standby on that a little bit, Paul. Let us check

the preflight map into that thing and see if it was
there.
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PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For whoever is free to answer we'd

like to verify that you do have the portable fan set
up such that you are pulling the warm air from the
workshop and pushing it up toward the MDA.
CDR You bet you.
CDR It's pulling so hard it's trying to suck the SPT

right out of the LBNP.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Copy.
PLT Henry, we're not starting off too good here. Are you
ready for a little ms] function on the EREP gear?
CC Say again, Paul.
PLT I say we got on S190 - when I go to operate on it,

you get all six malfunction lights on.
CC Okay. You've got the film loaded. Is that correct?
PLT That's affirmative and going through malfunction pro-

cedure number 2 for S190 leads to the box labeled
"camera monitor lodging carrier."
CC You're sure - I guess I had a look at that now but

that rules out that film takeup thing we had before.
PLT See if they go out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We Just had a voice dropout for

about the last 15 seconds, could you say again.
PLT I say it done it twice on single, and the frame count

has advanced all right. I could make a mark on the
film. I don't have to. Let me go ahead and pull the
hO frames or whatever the checklist calls for. We'll
see if they go out.
CC Okay.
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21 29 Ol CC PLT, Houston. We've got a suggestion here. Would

you try cycling the S190 power off, and then back on
again and see if the lights reset?
PLT I just did that, Hank, and they are reset. So I'll
give her a single pulse now.
CC Okay.
PLT When I thought we were home free I went ahead and

gave it a single pulse. I heard it go. The malf
lights did not come on. While I was over verifying
the film count - I looked back and all six are on
again.
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21 29 47 PLT ... I don't think - We're on again.
CC Roger. Copy.
21 31 06 PLT Hank, do you think I ought to Just go ahead and start

this 40 frame sequence with all the malf lights on,
or go ahead and recycle the power and reset it and see
what happens?
CC Stand by l, and let me see if I can get an answer.

In answer to your filter question those - that was
previously mapped prior to flight, Paul, so we do not
want you to clean it. There's a coating on that filter.
PLT Okay.
PLT Henry, you got a minute for another cogent?
CC Roger, go ahead.
21 32 58 PLT Okay, also we're going to have to move those spare

hot water heaters some time tonight, because they're
in the way. I have to stow one of the rear shields in
the S190 there before we run in the EREP. So, could
somebody do a little research and Just give us a
page number for the procedure for that, Just so we
don't have to mess with it?
CC Roger. Will do. And the word is to cycle your S190

POWER switch and go ahead with your 40 frames.
PLT Okay.

We'll try to have a - have an answer for your ques-
tions at Vanguard, and that comes up at 44.
PLT Okay, Hank. It's into AUTO SEQUENCE now. I can

hear it running. All six malf lights came on on the
second pulse. It almost appears to be more time de-
pendent on when it gets the first operating pulse
than anything else.
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21 33 24 CC Roger. Copy. We'll take that data.
21 h4 16 CC Skylab, Houston through Van£n_ard for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC PLT, could you give us an estimate of how many frames

you've run through the 190?
PLT Be right with you.
21 h5 42 PLT What was it you wanted to know, Hank?
CC Roger. EREP would like to know how many frames you

estimate you ran through the 190.
PLT How many I have run through, so far?
21 45 57 PLT ... That's affirmative and in a sequence of h0.

And the sequence time now is right on the money at a
minute 2h.
CC Roger. Copy. Did those MALF lights stay on all the

way there, Paul?
PLT Yes, sir, until I turned the switch to STANDBY.
PLT CODE switch, that is.
CC Roger.
21 46 22 CDR We could give it the "Conrad fix." We'll put tape

over the MALF lights and go with it. How's that?
CC That sounds like a good plan. Hey, on the heater

stowage, we've got that set up for a day 6 transfer,
which you haven't gotten to yet. But if you want to
do it, it's on page 2-22 Bravo in the day 6 transfer.
PLT Well, do we do that before our first EREP pass?
CC That's affirmative. I think that's scheduled this

evening. The day 6 transfer should have been accom-
plished by the CDR.
21 47 00 CDR ...gotthereyet.
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PLT Okay.
CDR Hey, I, I - guess I misunderstood that, Hank. That

great big long-winded list of stuff you gave me to
transfer from the command module, I took it that -
So i have to pick up the rest of that out of the
Stowage Book.
CC Roger. That's correct, Pete.
21 53 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to LOS. We'll

be picking up Goldstone at 59.
22 58 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 5 minutes.
22 58 39 PLT Roger, Houston. Some more for the EREP guys. S191
has been on for 45 minutes. I do not yet have a
READY light. If they're ready back in the back room,
I'll give them a couple of readings that are out of
tolerance.
CC Okay, go ahead.
22 59 00 PLT Okay. Alfa 7, which is CAL SOURCE temperature reads

lower limit. It's OFF. It acts in such a way, that
I can't really tell if that's what it's reading, or
if it's a bad meter. The CAL/RAD current is reading
right at zero. B-7, I forgot what that was. Proper
limit on that decal is 80. It's reading at
83 percent.
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22 59 30 CC Was that B - Bravo 7?
PLT Yes, Bravo 7. Let me move up to C&D.
22 59 35 CDR Hey, real quickly, Hank, when you have a chance,

you have to explain to me what you want me to do
with the back cover in the new SO19 film. It
wasn't clear to me.
PLT Are you there, Hank?
CC Roger.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there, go _lead.
PLT Okay, did you hear Pete's question?
CC Roger, I guess we're sitting here trying to figure

out exactly what he wanted. On the old film he
was to vent - vent the container, and remove
the cover, and then stow the old film.
CDR And then stow the old film?
CC Stand by a minute, Pete. I'll get someone to get

an answer on that.
CDR Yes, your message was garbled, and the pad was
garbled to start with, so I'm not exactly sure
what you want me to do ....
PLT Okay, Henry. Bravo 7 on S191 is ... thermal ...

It's 80 percent now, it was 83 awhile ago,
apparently it's coming down. The cooler is
running. I can hear it running.
CC I can hear it running, too. It aJmost blocked

the transmission.
PLT Yes, it's noisy up here with all this stuff going.
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23 Olll PLT We're pressing on with S192 alignment, and I tell

you, that focus is a heck of a thing to try to
work with. I can get a whole lot more out of
that focus by deflecting it than I can focusing
it. Once I get it close, I'm never going to
touch that darn thing again. I'm sorry I did now.
CC Roger. I understand. It's always been a little

touchy.
PLT Here's a couple of other items of interest - S192

coolers shifted speed after 17 minutes of operation.
And the 193 checkout. I got a funny I wanted to
look into. We were in cross track, yes CROSS-
TRACK configurant, and - -
23 03 26 CC Okay, Pete, the message on that stowage is, you

vent the old S019 film canister, remove the
old film, and store in F510 Golf, and then stow
the canister, the old canister in beside it. You
can't store it with the film in the canister. And
we're l0 seconds from LOS, and Vanguard's coming
up at 21.
CDR I guess what you're saying is, we're going to

bring the old canister home?
CC Affirmative.
23 21 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, l0 minutes.
CDR Go ahead.
PLT Okay, Henry, put a few more co_nents on the tape

recorder for EREP quickly. What it amounts to
is I can't align the thermal channel of S192.
Regardless of what I do with either the align-
ment knob or the focus, it sits there at 12 percent.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Pete, I think I finally understand this S019 thing.

The canister cannot be stowed with it all put
together. It won't fit in there, so you have
to vent it and remove the lid and then it'll go
in the F510.
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CDR Take the old one and vent it and take the back cover
off? Is that what you want me to do?
CC Roger. Take the old one and remove the cover, vent
it, remove the cover, and then it'll fit in the
stowage location.
CDR The only trouble is we got 89 million things ...

We'll have to look at that in a moment, and see
what happens. I understand what you're saying,
though.
CC Okay, and SPT?
SPT Hello.
2B 22 h3 CC Hey, I got a little change for you tonight on your

0026 pass. The purpose of our first day activities,
of course, is see a variety of solar activity. Well,
during last night, AR-15, which is your scheduled
target, declined in intensity, while AR-17 increased
drAm,tically and has been emitting one small flare
every hour or so. So we kind of think that AR-17
represents a much better target than 15. So we're
asking you to look at AR-17 on building block I0
and that 0026 pass. That's a change of target
only. Not operations or time.
SPT Okay, I was Just writing it down. What's in it

for me?
CC Ought to he a little more fun on it.
SPT True, okay.
CDR Henry, are you with me for a minute, this is the

CDR?
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR I don't understand the very last line in my stowage

thing where it says page 20 - page 2-22 ... "and
TV, return to position ($4 182 from 'side of A-9' "
that's what ... Maybe I'Ii tell you that later on.
But if you can comeup with a ...
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23 25 25 CC CDR, while we're looking on - looking at that, we

just want to clarify once again that we do not want
to touch the new SO19 canisters. It's just the old
one that we are going to take the cover off of.
CDR Very good. I understand that, Hank.
CC Hey, we got some words to lay on you about the

thermal situation. Do you want to hear that now?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. The average internal temperature has

shown a 5-degree drop in the last 24 hours. As
predicted, the magnitude of the drop per day is
slowing down. The temperatures will be doing most
of their decreasing during the night, when you're
sleeping. And we expect to Just hold our own during
the crew-awake period. It appears that the models
we're using were not quite as accurate as we thought.
Thus we may have - they had led us to believe would
he lower at this point in time. There may be a
mmall portion less than lO percent of the parasol that
is not doing its Job as a radiator. These last two
items plus the observed performance to date has led
us to conclude that we will probably stabilize out
in the neighborhood of 80 degrees rather than the
earlier predicted 70 degrees.
23 26 49 CDR Okay. I know where that l0 percent is. You can

run your hands around the wall and you can find it
real easy.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT Hello, Houston?
CC Go ahead.
PLT You through with the teleprinter? Can I advance

it and take out the message?
CC Affirmative. And we've got a question for you,

PLT. I think we must have had a voice dropout here
previously when you were talking about the S193
cross-track contiguous. Can you give some more
words on that?
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PLT Yes, I expected it - the meter to indicate between

i0 and 90 percent, which is full sweep on roll on
that thing. According to all the information we
got onboard, including the checklist, then all I
did was oscillate between hO to 60, which means
that it's not rolling as much as it's supposed to.
CC Roger. Copy.
23 28 h3 CC PLT, EREP says that's a normal value there, a normal

range.
PLT Then why did the checklist say i0 to 90 on every-

thing else including the Check Data Section? I'm
sorry, I thought it was supposed to go from
l0 to 90 and back and forth.
CC We'll look at it some more, Paul.
PLT By the way, Hank, I terminated EREP checkout

without doing the S191 portion, standing by for
words of yaw. The EREP's power down now and
its READY light never did come on and I never
progressed on 191.
CC Roger, copy.
CC PLT, Houston. What was your final reading there

on B-77 Bravo 7?
PLT I was in transit - the final reading I don't -

I didn't really look at. The last one I gave
you was that - the last time I looked at was
that 80 percent I gave you.
23 30 51 CC Roger, copy. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Hawaii will be coming up at 30.
CC CDR, we'll give you an answer on that stowage at

Hawaii.
00 29 29 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next

8 minutes.
CDR Hi there, Richard!
CC Hello, there! How're you all doing?

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CDR Great!
CC Hey, I only got a couple of things. One's for

the SPT if he's at the ATM panel. We've got the
TV recording set up at Hawaii for this pass and
if he has time to turn on the XUV monitor tele-
vision to down-link it we'd sure appreciate it.
SPT ... is that right now or when?
00 30 02 CC Roger. Right now, during this pass, Joe.
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00 30 17 SPT Okay. Here we need to go - We've got a real-

time of active region 17 which I'll get in 30 sec-
onds ...
CC Joe, the squeal on that speaker box is so loud

that I couldn't read you. Sorry, say again,
please.
SPT Stand by.
SPT We get a lot feedback from the EREP guys. I

say you've got the active regions 17 and H-alpha.
Now I'm going to switch to XUV monitor.
CC Okay, thank you much.
CC And the only other thing that I had to hear was,

if the CDR still is confused about that Stowage
Book message that we sent on page 2-22B, I think
I understand at least what we intended by that
change. If he - if he'll pass that point in
the checklist I won't worry about it.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I've got a couple of items for you. One, I

reported a jiggle this morning in both the
H-alpha displays, and I think I talked myself
into something that's not as bad as it sounds,
because while it's true that the display Jiggles,
the mechanical crosshair is jiggling right along
with it, and they do not move relative to the
Sun. To me, that means that the canister isn't
Jiggling - that something is jiggling my TV
image. And the pictures are probably going
to he great. Over.
CC Hey, that's - that's a good hint and we'll take

that into consideration and think about it. Thank
you.
SPT Okay, now the other thing i want to ask is about

the power down for tmattended ops. Do you want
us to INHIBIT CMG AUTO RESET or not? It's on the
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cue card. There was a late change and we've been

doing pretty good without it. I want to know your
ideas on that.
CC Okay, we'll get back with you.
OO 32 31 CDR Say, Dick. What stage you want the Evening Status
Report at tonight? Is that on my card or is it reed
conference, because I can never remember which ones
are they?
CC Stand by, Pete. It's two stations from now and

I'll get you a time.
CC It's the - the Hawaii pass at 02:05. So that's

the next time we come around here at Hawaii is
the Evening Status Report. And then following
that, we've got the medical conference pass,
and then we'll have one more pass at Ascension
before you go to bed.
CDR Okay, fine.
CC Okay.
CDR How are things down there on the ground tonight

there, Richard?
CC Well, we're Just hanging on. It's kind of warm

in Houston, but it's been real pretty the last
few days. It's been a meritorious day, Pete.
CDR Well, I'm having fun up here. Got my good

country music going (music).
CDR Hey, did they get the 500 off today or not?
O0 3h 08 CC Pete, I - I understand that it got delayed

again because of rain, and so it's going to
be start - they're going to try again in
the morning.
CDR Okay. I've got to find out whether we've got a

pass overtheretomorrow.
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CC Roger. Hang on and we'll - I'ii let you know

about that - next pass.
CDR Thank you, sir.
CC Roger.
00 37 12 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 50 seconds from

LOS. We're going to see you at the Vanguard
at just about on the hour, and, Joe, in answer
to your question, we would Just as soon leave
the CMG AUTO RESET, _ABLED. Over. If that 's
okay with you.
SPT That's good. We would too.
CC Okay, let's - let's go that way.
SPT Okay.
CDR See you at the Vanguard.
CC Okay. See you there.
00 59 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard for the

next 9 minutes.
PLT Roger; Houston. We're all sitting around the

table eating.
CC Very good. _joy your dinner. And we're standing

by.
PLT Okay.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. No response required,

but this evening we're going to be, one by one,
sending up a series of commands to reset all the
power system alert lights ; and we're able to do
that for all the CBRMs except for number 15. And
we have a little three-switch sequence for the
next guy at the ATM, and I'll be telling him if
we have a pass while he's at the ATM panel tonight.
If not, we'll put it on a message and you guys
can do that in the morning. Out.
SPT Okay. It's a good time for any boloney you want
to pass up too because we're all sitting around -
Just nothing to do but listening to young Richard Truly.
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CC Just to listen to our boloney, huh? Roger. Well,

we have - we are checking tomorrow's groundtrack,
and we're going to be getting some words for you
as to when you are going to be coming closer to
Indianapolis.
PLT Okay. Pete says if that weather keeps like it is,

he may get back in time to see the race.
CC (Laughter) That's true. I think you're going

to have to hurry. I think they're planning on
running it tomorrow.
CC And one more note of an official nature. Be

advised that this evening we are going to be
doing some commandings while you guys are
asleep to - on fine Sun sensor malfunction, a
command procedure we have. And for the last
guy that leaves the ATM this evening, be sure
and leave the MPC INHIBITED, powerwise.
CDR Yes, I think we'll be on the checklist by then

and we have that on the checklist. Dick, say I
wanted to comment that I thought today went real
well. And from our point of view, we got behind
a couple of times, but we had a little opportunity
to catch up, and most of the getting behind was
honest m_] functions - The one we had on the leg
measurement device. We've had a little trouble
with the biomed sensors. It's warm enough down
here that everybody is - still their body is a
little sticky. And even though you've dried
out pretty good, they don't stick as well
as they did on the ground, so we've had quite a
few of those fall off. But looking at tomorrow's
schedule that looks real good too, and I think
we ought to be able to do that one ... in.
01 03 20 CC Okay, sounds real good. Also, I forgot to tell

you, we are going to be sending up a teleprinter
message this pass that has a series of six or
seven questions for you guys that you might
smoke over before the next pass, which is the
Evening Status Report pass.
SPT Will do.
CC Okay.
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CC And, Skylabb, Houston; for the CDR. One of the

questions that's not going to be on the - the
evening questions pad that I thought I would
read to you, and you can either reply to it here
or we'd be glad to take it at the evening - at
the next pass on evening status - and that
involves the amplitude, the frequency, and the
time duration of the parasol oscillations that you
saw last evening when you did the RCS trim burn.
And we're also wondering at what point in the burn
did the oscillations start? Were they at the
beginning, middle, or near the end? And were they
caused by - did they appear to be caused by TACS
firings or vehicle motion? Over.
CDR That ... When the TACS fires, one of the radial
firing thrusters or if you're outside - any
thruster - you can see it fire. The cold gas seems
to have - I don't know a touch of moisture or
something in it but it definitely puts out
sort of a puff. And the sail was very definitely
just oscillating when a TACS thruster was fired
during the trim burn. I - there's no doubt in
my mind that it was the TACS thrusters that
were making the sail oscillate. And it was
probably thruster number 1.
CC Roger. Copy. What - what kind of amplitude

did the sail - was the sail going through, Pete?
And how fast - what kind of frequency - Could
you estimate that or just give us a ballpark
idea?
CDR Yes. What - It was Just a flap once a ... for

each TACS firing. That - it really didn't flap,
you know, and then dynamically die out. I think
that material is relatively stiff right now and
it's sure to take one shot when the TACS thrusters
go off, and then that would be it.
CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.
CDR Let me say that after it was all over, the

sail - the part of the sail that I could see
was still wound up in the same place it was
before we started that. So I don't know - I
can't tell you what it did on the back end
which is obviously where it was all coming from.
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CC Roger. But you think that after all was said

and done the sail ended up in the same place,
as far as .you can tell?
CDR Yes, at least the front end -the part that I

could see is still right where it was before.
Ol 07 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds frc_

LOS. The next pass is Hawaii at 02:05 and we'll
be getting the Evening Status Report from you
there and we'll see you then.
01 08 09 CDR See you, Dick.
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02 05 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii. We've got you

for the next i0 minutes. Go ahead.
02 05 51 CDR Rather - Roger, Houston. I have the Evening Status

Report for you. But first, to settle one of those
great questions that have come up during the course
of the design of Skylab over the last 5 years. We
have put to bed, once and for all, the question of,
"Can you run around the water ring lockers or can you
not run around the water ring lockers?" I have just
made ten trips around the water ring lockers, and
the SPT has made five; which means he owes Ed Gibson
a steak dinner, and Dr. Faget was right. You can
generate enough g's to run around there as long as
you want to.
PLT And the PLT has been doing his bit for science while
they been ...
CC (Laughter) Roger. I copied that. And did you - did

you trip on those blivets on those lockers underneath
the - the tank over there?
CDR No, you - you - you can either jump over them, or
you can run just below them. And actually you got
a great deal of control. And the tendency is to
start running too fast, which gets you completely
disoriented. But if you start out at a relatively
slow pace, and gently putting your feet between the
- the cracks in the locker to push off, you can
gradually work you way to an upright position,
where you are, in fact, truly running. And we
will document that for you on TV. I think it's
rather spectacular.
02 07 18 CC That's just what I was going to request. I guess we

ought to get on with the evening report, but I cer-
tainly would like to see that documented myself. And
l'm standing by.
CDR Okay, the CDH was a good boy again and polished off
everything plus add, one set extra butter cookies
tonight. The SPT did not eat his bread or catsup,
which he has marked down as spoiled, at lunch time.
Nor did he eat item 62, his coffee, snacks, nor 07,
his apricots. He had no additional salt, and his
mineral tablets were 3, 2, 0, 0, 0.
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CC Okay.
CDR The PLT ate all three meals. The snack items that
he skipped: 62, coffee; 12, mints. He had four
optional salts, and his mineral pills were
3, i, O, i, O.
CC Roger. Got that.
02 08 41 CDR The photo log is as follows: 16 millimeter, ...

PS x ..., BH01, 95, NA. Next line: M151, M092-171,
CI03, 20 percent.
02 09 08 CC Roger. Got that.
02 09 ll CDR Okay. On EREP: S190A, set K, 7201, 9400, 6919,

6309, 8076, 6977.
CC Roger.
CDR And malfunction: CI01, X-PORTER 02. CI02 failed

to start. Hundred percent remaining on CI01. We
will clear the Jams tomorrow during the film thread,
and start over again with that one. So, if you'll
just put it up on the film thread pad to reload
CI01 on 02, with CI02 as takeup, we'll fix it.
Whatever's the matter with it.
CC Okay.
02 l0 07 CDR Flight Plan deviations: there were none. Any

stellar guidance changes have been reported on
B channel, and there weren't very many, as I
remember. Any inoperable equipment has been
reported on B channel. And that's it for
today. Oh, hold it, I got the answer to a
couple of questions.
CC Okay.
02 i0 29 CDR On message 0517 Bravo. On the food procedures, we

see no problem with one, two, three, or four, and,
as a matter of fact, we'd already been doing that.
There's - enough time for a little late eating, so
the heaters have been running a little longer; but
otherwise we agree with those procedures. And in
general message 0518D, we have not cleaned the debris
out of the solenoid vents; they are capped. We can't
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clean them by removing the screens, which are deep,

and vacuuming, and we request that you schedule
that on the Flight Plan, and we will do same for
you.
CC Okay, we'll do that. One thing on that solenoid

vent valve, is that - you say it was capped, is
that plug in or out?
CDR It's - I believe you asked us to plus it, and

therefore it's plugged.
CC Stand by i. Well, we'll get back to that, Pete.

Continue if you got any more.
CDR Hold it. Apparently you sent word up today to

take it back off, and Joe did do that.
CC Yes. Okay. We agree. Okay, continue, if you have

any more.
02 ii 43 CDR No. That's it.
CC Okay. Is the - is the PLT listening up at the ATM?

I have this procedure to clear that CBRM light if
he has a chance to throw three switches for me.
PLT Dick, go ahead with it.
02 12 i0 CC Okay. First, down in the lower right hand corner

of the ATM panel, POWER SYSTEM CBRM SELECT switch
to 13-18. In the ROTARY switch, put that to 3/15.
And then the REG switch, momentary ON, up.
02 12 36 PLT Going there now.
•CC Okay.
02 12 42 PLT That's complete.
CC Okay. One question. We sent up some questions

this evening on message 0615. Do you have the
answers to those? If not, would you put them
on the tape recorder when you get a chance, please?
F CDR Okay. I haven't seen that message. Maybe it's in

the teleprinter. Did it come up late?
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CC Yes, that was the one that came up at that last pass
that we - that I told you about, about an hour and a
half ago - an hour or so ago, but don't - don't
sweat it. You can get to it. I do have one comment
for tomorrow morning's blood drawing. We - We've
found on the tape recorder, I think. I - I believe
Bill Thornton did, a problem that you had with the
air in the blood samples, and I'm advised that during
SMEAT and also during some of the free-flight Mll0,
series blood drawings, they did have some problems
with air leaking into the sample through the syringe
needle interface. And about the only suggestion we
have there is making - checking real sure that you've
got a - that the needle is placed as firmly as
possible on the syringe.
02 13 58 SI_2 Dick, our problem apparently was that the ASPs,

although evacuated by the ASPER, would partially
leak back down before we had a chance to put the
blood in them. So my plan for tomorrow is to
evacuate i_nediately before using that particular
ASP.
CC Okay, Story says that's a good approach. He agrees.

Another question for you, and we don't have to get
an answer on this now, but we would appreciate it
if you can remember. What is - What's the status
of the film that was taken on mission day l, the
rendezvous in each of the 35-millimeter, the
70-millimeter, and the 16-millimeter cameras?
We want to know how many ... - -
02 14 42 CDR Okay. Let me - let me give you a status. On the

16-millimeter camera, I used one whole magazine that
started at about stationkeeping distance and has the
whole flyaround on it at one - one frame a second.
And then, on the same magazine, I had plenty remaining,
so we had the whole SEVA on - on that one magazine.
And the other magazine is i00 percent full, and I
don't remember the number of it. The 70 millimeter,
we are using that as general photography. That has
those pictures on it. And the 35-millimeter film is
still in the camera, and I forget, maybe Paul
remembers how many pictures he took of the ...
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02 15 24 PLT No, it's not still in the camera. It was taken

out this morning for the photo pad. In the ...
CDR ... take it out for the photo pad.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. Roger. I got all that.

We're very close to LOS. The medical conference
is the next pass at Vanguard at 02:37, and we
will have one more pass at Ascension at 02:53.
See you later.
CDR Okay. I'ii get those questions to you at 02:53.
02 15 49 CC Okay.
02 44 24 CC Skylab, Houston. I understand we have air to

ground back. We are about 30 seconds from the
end of this pass. We're going to be at - at
Ascension at 02:53 about 7 or 8 minutes from now.
02 44 42 SPT Okay, we're answering your questions on B channel,

Houston.
CC Very good, and I'ii have a couple of things to say

to you there. Be advised - Indianapolis - you guys
are going to be overhead at 12:36 Zulu, almost
right overhead. That's 07:36 in the morning local,
so if the weather's clear, you ought to be able to
look straight down and watch the cars warming up.
02 45 03 SPT 12:36 Z. Thank you, sir.
CC Roger.
02 53 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for the

next h minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there, Joe. I've got a couple of things that

I'd like to mention to you guys here at this last
pass, if you don't have anything pressing for me.
SPT No. Go ahead.

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CC Okay, first of all - and is this portable fan that

we - that you guys set up - up pointing some of the
0WS warm air forward. It turns out that we've looked
at the data, and the present location that it's in is
actually hurting us a little bit in our total cooling
capability. And we'd like to request, for this
evening, that you do one of two things. Either move
the fan to the same wall as the OWS heat exchanger
fans and blowing forward - and our purpose is to get
warm OWS air right over the - or near the heat
exchanger inlets. If you don't have time to actually
move the fan or you can't find a good place for it
tonight, request you turn that fan OFF, and then
also turn the AM HEAT EXCHANGER FANS, three of them,
to LOW. Over.
SPT Okay, if we do move the fan, do we leave the HEAT

EXCHANGER FANS on HIGH?
02 54 h2 CC That's affirmative. And the next thing I have is -

we're not real sure whether or not you're completely
- have finished setting up the ATM for unattended
ops, but if not, we show S054 FILTER in 1 vice 2.
And also, we should be in the SOLAR INERTIAL MODE
vice EXPERI_NT POINTING.
02 52 01 CC Another note is that we went through the voice

record tapes, and the -where you recorded a voice
for the wardroom S_4D calibration - somehow or
another that got garbled, and we just couldn't
read the tape well enough, and if you get a
chance we'd like for you to re-record a ward-
room S_4D cal data on channel B. While I'm
on that - -
SPT All of it?
CC That's affirm. All of it.
SPT Oh boy! How about if I bring the logs back in

so that - okay. Let's see. On this business of
going to SI for unattended ops, we decided
earlier today not to power down the experi-
ment pointing loop. I asked then the changes
to the other unattended ops pad be sent up.
And, meanwhile, we made up our own unattended
ops pad by deleting all those steps which
powered down the EPC loop, one of which was
going to SI.
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02 56 12 CC Roger; Joe. I'm told we're not asking you to

power down the EPC loop, but by going to solar
inertial it takes the power off. It's a power
consideration and does remove power from a bunch
of things that we don't want to power up during
the evening.
02 56 26 SPT Okay, we'll undelete that stuff, and I guess the

filter 2 Was per - per the pad. Is that right?
CC That - that's affirm.
SPT Okay.
SPT Now, one other ATM comment. We've noticed when

sunset comes around, that we can see the sunset
on each - on H-alpha. We thought the doors
ought to close sooner than that, so we make that
comment. You can tell us if it's right.
CC Okay. Copy that,, Joe; and I made a mistake. I

think that S054 FILTER is on the cue - cue card
not the pad, but at either rate - for this evening
- put in one, please. Also - -
SPT Note that the - the cue card/pad or rather the

cue card says "STORAGE" and also says "l"
which is very confusing, so we picked STORAGE.
SPT Now you tell us what you really want.
CC Okay, we want it in FILTER 1 tonight.
SPT Can we - all right. Tell us tomorrow sometime

what the cue card ought to say forever.
02 57 35 CC Okay, Joe, I'm being educated here. We want you

to put it in FILTER i, confirm it's there, and
then go to STORAGE. And we've got about 30 seconds
left in this pass, guys. One other comment on
this voice record data, some of it has been
garbled because of the - the classical music
in the background in the wardroom, and we sure
don't want to - you know to get in the way of
that, but you might ts_ke that into consideration
when you voice record on channel B. And the
first pass in the morning will be about 5 or
i0 minutes after 6 o'clock local down here, and
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on board that's right after crew wake up. So

have a very nice evening sleep, and we'll see
you tomorrow morning.
02 58 21 SPT Good night all.
02 58 23 CC Roger.
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ii 01 33 CC Good morning, Skylab. This is Houston. We're AOS

over Bermuda for about the next 6 minutes.
PLT Good morning. And we're with you.
PLT Hey, Houston, Skylab.
CC Go, Skylab.
PLT This is - data point for you last night. All

three of us did sleep in the sleep compartment
rather than any place else in the vehicle, so we
should cool it down. And - it could be a little
cooler, but I think everybody go a reasonable night's
- sleepdownhere.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT I have a comment for you on M133; you ready?
CC Go.
SPT Okay. I Just got - I noticed this morning - testing

the electrodes after the sleep period - that all
of them indicated poor contact. They were all okay
last night. However, all the electrodes, when
I inspected them and cut them open, were dryer than
they'd been packed. They obviously had dried out.
So it looks as if they may have dried out more
during the night. I'd like the guys down below to
check their real-time data and see whether they go
solid data through the night. If they didn't,
whether they cantthink of a fix to get additional
moisture in the electrodes.
CC Roger. Joe. No, we indicated state zero throughout

the night, which indicated no data. That was about
1 hour at - we got one data for good for 1 hour, and
then it went to state zero.
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SPT Okay. Well, I had good contact when I went to sleep.

And nothing this morning. So I believe the electrodes
are drying out on us.
ll 04 41 CC Roger. We copy. And we'll look into it.
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ii 06 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS. We'll

have you again at Madrid at ll:ll - ll:ll.
ll ll 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Madrid for the

next 7minutes.
ll 18 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute untik LOS. We'll

see you again over Carnarvon at 11:46.
PLT Hey, Crip, we didn't get a Flight Plan for the SPT
last night. We got 18 feet of other stuff, but the
SPT doesn't have a Flight Plan - Summary Flight Plan.
CC That's beautiful. We'll look into it. Ms,be we're

going to let him loaf today. I tmderstaud it was not
the s_nmary he did - he didn't get the s1_,_ary_
right?
PLT He did not get the Summary Flight Plan last night.
CC Roger; copy.
CC That was Just a test to see if you're still reading it.
ll 19 26 PLT Yes.
ll h6 lO CC Skylab, Houston. We are - have about 30 seconds

worth of voice over here at Carnarvon, and we'll have
you again at Honeysuckle at 11:56. Correction, we've
got about 5 minutes here. That clock is all fouled up.
PLT ...
CC Roger. We're going to try to correct Joe's problem,

and give him up a Summary Flight Plan.
PLT Yes, that includes his detsils, too. And you passed
the PLT details twice and the CDR details twice. We
have checked it no further than Just cross-checking
the message numbers, and the message numbers are the
same on those duplicate messages.
CC Roger. I guess we didn't understand about the details

awhile ago for the SPT, so we'll have to work on that.
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PLT Crip. That's m_ fault, Crip. I specified S,,,m,_ry

Flight Plan.
CC No sweat, Paul.
CDR Crip, are you there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I found the SFT's Flight Plan in detail ...
CC Roger. Understand; you do have the SPT's Flight Plan.
CC Skylab, Houston. That last was a little .garbled.

Understand you do have the SPT's detail and s,,-..Ary?
PLT That's _ffirmative, Crlp.
CC Roger. Than_ you.
ll 50 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS. We'll

see you again at Honeysuckle at i1:57, 11:57.
ll 50 h2 PLT See you. •
ll 57 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Honeysuckle for Just

about i minute.
CDR Roger, Houston. The SPT got two sets of details also.
And I don't quite understand, it because on one of
them is buried in the middle of the ATM pad. Details
that - You might look into that. It seems like when
you're sending them alI out in any old random, order
that same time - His details didn't have a header on
it. It's gust right smack in the middle of the ATM
stuff with an end-of-message header, but no
beginning-of-message header.
CC Roger. COpy, Pete. And we're about 30 seconds until

LOS. We'll see you again over Texas at 12:27, 12:27.
ll 58 56 CI)R Roger; Roger.
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12 30 41 CC Skylab, Houston." We're AOS over the states for

the next 13 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Roger and if you guys have finished picking one

another and you're interested I can give you the -
the morning news.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. The morning news as follows. Russia launched

a meteorological satellite Tuesday, designed to
help forecast the weather. Tass news agency
announced that the craft is orbiting the Earth every
102.5 - 5 minutes with parameters ranging from
565 to 539 statute miles. The satellite will
photograph clouds and both day and night sides of the
Earth and will measure heat reflected from Earth.
And the Texas Legislature has voted to restore the
death penalty in certain cases. Governor Dolph
Briscoe is backing the bill which is expected to
face tests of its constitutionality. The feud over
fishing rights continues between tiny Iceland and
Great Britain. - British fishing trawlers
operate within 50 miles of Iceland shores and
Iceland doesn't like it. And the controversy
threatens to upset the stability of NATO.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers just returned
from a 17-day, 8-country visit to Latin America;
he says that anti-American feelings are not strong
despite staunch nationalism in Latin countries.
Rogers calls his visit a success that would lead
to more cooperation between the United States and
its southern neighbors. The engagement of Princess
Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, was announced
today in England. The Princess will marry a
commoner, cavalry officer Lieutenant Martin Phillips,
son of a manufacturer and country squire. A little
science fictionnews: People in hereby Dallas
are concerned with a mysterious ooze dubbed "the
blob" which first appeared about 2 weeks ago
oiling it's way up through a suburban back yard.
The blob, as described by those brave enough to go
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near it, is brackish - blackish mucus inside, and

reddish with pink bubbles on top. It is thought to
multiply and is said to be a combination of various
bacteria. To date, samples collected have died
before they could be analyzed. And for the sports
news. Again the Indianapolis 500 was postponed
until hopefully this morning. Rain is again
expected, however; so race officials are cautious
about whether the race will make its third starting
date. And the Houston Astros lost to Pittsburg,
4 to 2 on Monday. And they lost last night to the
Cubs, 7 to 1. The White Sox beat Cleveland twice
Monday, 6 to 3 in 21 innings of the suspended game
and 4 to nothing in the regular scheduled game.
And that's all we have for this morning on the
morning's news.
12 33 56 PLT Roger, Houston. It looks like a beautiful morning

down there.
CC Great. I think you can probably see it better

than we can in here. Flight Director tells me that
it is magnificent out this morning. It looks like
a good day for an EREP.
PLT We sure hope so. We can see from Matagorda all the
the way on up to coast. How about scheduling
another EREP pass to get the blob?
CC We'll work on it.
CDH Hey, Crip. I've got something for you.
CC Go.
CDR Our cold Water drink dispenser is beginning to -

leak Just a little bit, so - in the systems handbook
on page h-81 has the procedures. There's no rush
but obviously it's going to need to be changed out
here on of these days, so how about noting it down
to schedule it because it looks like it's a fairly
lengthy procedure. I really don't want to take the
time to look and see, but I remember doing it a
long time ago and it's oozing just a little bit
but it obviously has go a bad O-ring in it.
CC Roger. Could you say where its leaking at, Pete?

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CDR Yes, it's coming up right around the stem - the

black stem and the - the brown knob that goes from
fill to - discharge brown knob, to the - you know,
it's just, just oozing up between there a little bit.
12 35 39 CC Roger.
CC Hkylab, Houston. We're 1 minute til LOS. We'll have

you again over Madrid at 12:48 - 12 48.
PLT Roger, Crip.
12 48 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Madrid for the

next 9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston. Hey, Crip, verify something for us

sometime, will you please? That the proper nominal
high Sun-angle setting for the Hasselblad, out the
window is f/8 at a 250th.
CC Paul, I didn't get the f-stop that you gave on there

f/8 and 250th?
PLT Yes. That's what sticks in our minds. But Pete

thinks if ought to be f/ll. So, if you could verify
that for us. As I say, that's for out the window,
nominal air scenes with high Sun-angle.
CC Roger.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. I have been informed that on the back of your

70-ram photo log, it gives a setting for that. And
it's listed for f/ll for general scenes.
PLT Yes. There it is. I see it now. We had to

stick the photo log and all that with tape -
because the Velcro pattern wasn't right on the
Hasselblad we brought up with us in the conm_and
module.
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PLT You're right. We knew that dope was some place.
CC If you keep up with where they're all at, you're lucky.
PLT Well, I thought maybe the FA0 was dozing on you, so I

give him something to do.
CC Roger. They were just loafing.
PLT Right. We really knew it all the time.
CC By the way. Before I leave the scene here, I wanted

to congratulate Joe the other day for finding the
Sun for us. We never did get a chancy to talk again.
CDR We now have the spot - the spot exactly marked_ so

any time you need any help, just give us a call.
CC Very good.
PLT Hello, Houston. You still there?
CC Affirm.
PLT Hey, how about giving us the coordinates of the

pyramids so we can plot them on our orbital map?
We want to see if we can find them.
CC Roger. It's in work.
12 56 h2 CC We're 1 minute until LOS; see you again at

Honeysuckle at 13:3h, 13 34.
12 56 45 PLT Roger.
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13 34 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle. We've got about

1 minute to LOS now. And we'll be seeing you at
Goldstone at 03:00. And we'll dump the recorder.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hey, Hank. I've got a question on S019.
CC Go ahead.
PLT According to the prep that Pete was instructed to

do yesterday, we don't have the optical canister on
it yet. Shouldn't I - I've got to put that thing
on before I put the film on, right?
PLT Well, something dropped down the crack then. All

right. I'll pick up with that.
CC Roger.
PLT I'm going to be behind again now, and it's all your
fault.
13 37 09 CC Well, that's all right. We'll take our lumps.
lh 02 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone llminutes.
CDH Roger, Houston. And I'ii be getting ready to send

you your downlink in just a second.
CDR Hank_ you want to sing out when you've got enough,
or you Just want me to run through this downlink
per the card?
CC We'd like for you to run it per the card.
CDR Okay.
14 07 O0 CC Okay. We had your H-alpha, Pete. But we're not

getting anything now.
CDR Okay. The white-light coronsgraph power is Just

coming up.
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CC Roger. Copy.
CDR I was doing a little cleanup, and I Just barely made

it to the panel in time.
CDR Just to bring you up to date on our - -
CC Okay. We're getting your WLC now, Pete.
CD}_ - - our fourth plenum bag was stowed; so we have four

full plenum down in the stowage place. And the third
suit was finished drying, and that's put away.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And, also, I made an addition to stowage, which is

on B channel. You might alert the stowage guys to
listen to it.
CC Roger. We'll take a listen to it.
14 08 03 CDR And there's your white-light coronagraph.
CC Got a beautiful picture down here.
14 08 44 CDR Hey, did you see that thing go through the scope?
CC What was that going through there?
CDR I don't know. It looks like another satellite to me,

or something.
CC Yes. We saw two or three things, zinging through

there.
14 09 07 CDR Oh. Paul says he thinks it's stuff outside the

spacecraft. Here comes another one.
CC We're seeing your integration now, Pete.
CDR I wish we could get the picture like integration

shows.
CDR I think 3-second ones are a little bit too long. I

like the first ones I gave you, which were about a
second. I don't know, you might give me a com_ent
back.
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CC Wilco.
SPT You know, we might verify that with Houston, while

we're - in - in contact. Houston, we've not been
using the event timer as the power-saving measure.
Is that correct?
CC Stand by.
CC Roger. That's correct.
SPT Okay.

be coming up on Bermuda at 16:00. And we went back
and looked at this S019 thing. I guess we want to
give a few of the lumps back. Our pad did call for
going through the steps that install the optical
canister. However, when we said, "Do not install
film can," I guess it could have been confusing.
CDR All I had yesterday was step 1-6; is it somewhere in

there?
CDR Okay. I'll take the lump. I'll have to go back and
look.
CC No seat. Don't worry about it.
PLT Listen now, I'm mad. And I want to know who to be

mad at, you or Pete?
CC I think it's - was on Pete's pad to cover. Why don't

we call it even?
lh lh 09 PLT You won't say it's CDR, huh? I'd like to have a
reason to pick on him today.
14 16 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Say, Houston. Are you with us?
CC That's affirmative. We've got about 3 more minutes.

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CDR Okay. Did you get the message about 82A on B channel
last night? If not, let me run it by real quick.
When you get to the end of a sequence and you hit the
STOP, the OPERATE light stays on, and we can't tell
whether it's stopping or not; so we're either hitting
a door switch or main power or something Just to get
it to stop. How about looking at that?
CC Okay, will do. Okay. They did get the message last
night, Pete, and they have been looking at it and try-
ing to figure it out.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Hank.
CDR Henry, the main thing is that if we've got to use

that door switch to terminate the exposure - Well,
so far, it's been reaction time plus X seconds for the
door to close that they've been overexposed, if that's
really happening.
CC Roger; copy.
14 21 04 CC Skylab, Houston. About 30 seconds LOS; Canaries

at 26:00.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston. If you're still with us, we think you

ought to be rolled to l0 80.
CDR Say again.
CC Roger. We think your roll ought to be l0 80 - 10,800.
14 22 33 CDR ...
14 25 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And we've taken a look at the S082. I guess we've

looked at all the telemetry, and it shows that we're
getting correct framing and normal shutter operation s .
In fact, we don't see anything _rrong with telemetry. _-_
And we think you've probably got a READY/OPERATE light
f -
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problem on board, and the relay is sticking to keep

the light on, and we feel that there is no action
required on your part to terminate the experiment.
CDR Okay, Hank, thank you.
SPT Houston, are you still there?
CC Roger, 5-1/2 more minutes.
SPT Okay. Paul and I are starting the M131 ... We're
30 minutes late ... for this experiment ... experiment.
CC Joe, you are unreadable. You're getting a lot of

squeal and feedback there.
SPT ...
CC There is still too much feedback.
SPT I know it. Whenever anybody uses the SAL, that fouls
up everything in the experiment deck until we turn them
off again. Okay, you have given us 1 hour to do an
OGI ... MS, and I can tell you right now that isn't
going to cut it. And we're going to be later on the
time line today. Our PT will probably go away. And
we'll call you after we're done to tell you how much
time to give us next time.
14 30 42 CC Okay. Good show. Why don't you do that? Then we

can kind of get a hack at what this is really going
to take.
lh 33 39 CC CDR, Houston. We copied you down here in the AUTO 2

MODE on SO82A, and I think the building block called
for a TIME MODE. We're going to have to watch that
to keep within our film budget.
CDR That's my favorite mistake. I've been making it for

a year.
CC Roger. It's easy to do.
CDR Hey, Hank, that's a function of the powerdown. Why

do we have to go to those screwy darn sw1_cn positions
on those two experiments anyway?
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14 34 40 CC We'll look into that one. And we're about 30 seconds

from LOS. Be coming up on Honeysuckle at ii:00.
14 34 48 CDR Okay. Sorry about that. I do that every time. I

read the block that says time, and I assume it means
the amount of time of the exposure, and I've been
doing that for a year, and I can't get it out of my
head.
14 35 03 CC (Laughter) Roger.
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15 i0 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle 9 minutes.
CDR Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT For your time hack, we're Just now finishing the OGI
mode on the PLT. If we go into the MS mode, we're
going to wipe out another hour.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR Yes, look, I got a suggestion on that. It's going to

blow the rest of today's flight plan with a screw-up
like that. We ain't gonna get ED76 done, nor are we
gonna get TV-22. So I'd make a decision down there to
knock it off right now and try to get back on the time-
line, or finish what you got going. One of the two.
CC Okay, I'll get right back to you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We concur with the deletion of TV-22

and ED76; we'd like to press on with M131.
CREW Okay. Very good. Thank you.
CDR Yes, I don't know where you came up with an hour for
that one. And granted, it took an hour and a half on
the ground under the most ideal conditions for the
pass.
CC Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR. Are you there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
15 15 33 CDR Okay, I finally figured out what happened on SO19 yes-

terday. My pad said go through step 6 on page 1-2.
And I think it should have said go through step 6 on
page 1-3, and t_en do step 7 on page 1-4. Try that one
on it and see if I win.
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CC You win. It should have said page 1-3.
CDR Thank you. That's okay. We're even. You got me this
morning on the ATM.
CDR While you're there, and if you haven't got anything to

do, let me tell you of a couple of changes we've made
here, and we haven't finally made the final one. But
it turned out stowing the suits on the radial hatch was
very poor. Even if you'd squashed the suit as hard as
you can, you can't get all the air out of them, and in
zero-g they really form the shape of a full-sized body.
So we have restowed one suit on top of - Let me get the
lockers straight - ll6 and lhl. Then the other suit is
down with its feet toward the drogue in the front end and
its head towards the S190 window heater control panel.
And right at the moment, the third one is in back of the
MDA hatch; so that we could close the hatch in a hurry
if we had to. But that, to me, is not a satisfactory
location. We'll look around for another one, because
it's sort of blocking some of the air vents back there.
And I Just moved that suit up here this morning. But
we'll find another place for it, and let you know
where it is in case you want to pass that along to the
other guys, you know.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And, CDR, Houston. SO19 is going to require a star

tracker, and we need the dump. It'll be over in about
another 5 minutes. And we need you to bring the star
tracker back up, using the pad that's on board.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We are a little concerned that the tele-

printer didn't print what we sent up there. Our pads
definitely said page 1.3 - or 1-3. And if you re-
ceived a 2 up there, maybe we're not getting out what
we're putting in.
CDR Well, did you have two pads, perchance, and the wrong
one come up, because mine very definitely says page 1-2
and 1-h.
CC Roger. Would you verify your message number.
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CDR Unfortunately, it's in the circular file.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR But it confused me yesterday only putting half of it

on. And that's why I remembered specifically that it
did say page 1-2, because I read it two or three
times as to why I got about half of this tape together,
and that's not going right. But the pad says 1-2;
so I'll do it.
15 19 h9 CC Okay, we'll look into it. We may send you a test

message here again. We're coming up on LOS, and we'll
be coming to Hawaii at 30:00.
CDR Okay.
15 29 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
SC Roger. Houston. We have the star.
CC Good show. Thank you.
CDR And Houston, CDR. Is it okay to do a ... momentum

dump 3 minutes early?
CC Stand by.
CC That's affirmative, CDR. Go ahead.
15 38 55 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Goldstone at

42:00, and is M131 still in progress?
CDR I think so, Hank, they're probably on B channel.
CC Roger. Copy.
15 hl 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. We finished the M131 MS test except for manual-

ly logging all the data which I will have to do on
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B channel, because we didn't get a PROGRAM START light

at zero RPM. So I went ahead and took the data manual-
ly, and I'll put it on channel B. The system does
work okay at positive RPM's. I checked that out.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT And let's see, that was a total elapsed time of about
an hour and 25 minutes for both the 0GI and the MS mode.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, Han_, would you guys look at 82A. I haven't

noticed any frame counters counting or anything. I'm
still on frame 182.
CC Roger. We'll take a look.
CDR Hank, you know, that's the one with the operating light
that stays on, but the frame counter is also not count-
ing, so I'm getting suspicious.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Okay, verygood. Were there - You know, like you say

when you sit down here, you're not sure what happened
at the meeting. Did you c_ne up with any complete
Sl]Yf_ry list of safety problem foods - you know,
problem foods ... ?
SPT Houston, SPT; you still there?
CC Roger. We've got about a minute left, Joe.
SPT Okay. Just wanted to ask you to add l0 minutes to

that time estimate for the 0GI MS for voice recording
and cleaning up the cards.
CC Roger. Will do.
SPT ... be done.
15 53 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.

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SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hey, remember Rusty saying that he had arranged to

have stowed on board more different kinds of mush-
rooms for the triangle shoes, besides the ones that
were stowed on the ATM chair? I don't know where
those are. Could you research that for me, please?
CC Will do.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Houston - -
CC S1°T, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. We've got the answer on that. Other than the

ones that are screwed to the ATM chair, there are two
more sets in D416.
SPT Dhl6. Thank you very much.
16 01 0h CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Canaries at 03,

with a recorder dump.
16 03 08 CC Skylab, Houston through the Canaries, at Ascension

for 16-1/2 minutes.
CC And, SPT, I'd like to ask you a question, if it's

convenient.
SPT Okay. Wait i.
SPT Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay. Want to Jog your memory a little bit, Joe.

Yesterday, we had you look at filament 62 - JOP h,
building block 3. That was at 00:26. And today's pad
calls for observation of the exact same point in the
filament, building block 3, at 17:13. And we asked you
to Jot down the pointing, and it wasn't in the MDRS,
and we need that information to calculate our pointing
for today. Do you have that?
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16 05 07 SPT (Chuckle) I didn't write down the up/down, left/right,

Hank. If that was in the Slrmmary sheet, I missed it.
However, I can point to the exact same orientation in
the filament from visual memory, if that'll do.
CC Okay, Joe. Thank you.
16 05 31 SPT I guess it won't do, huh?
16 08 07 CC SPT, Houston. I guess we don't need that information

as long as you remember and can point to the same place.
That's good.
SPT Okay. Did the J0P Snmmary Sheet have blanks for me to
write down that stuff?
CC I don't think it did. I think that's our error.
SPT Okay. If you want to, you know, up-link the correc-
tion for the sheet, we'll put it in.
CC CDR, Houston. No response required. We've looked at

that S082A data again. And it appears to us that all
the internal workings of the instrument are proper.
And we think that perhaps your panel displays are in-
correct.
CDR Okay, Houston. Fine. I've been operating this Just

like it's supposed to run, normally.
CC Roger. And we want you to Just to continue to use the

instrument and disregard the OPS light.
CDR Okay. Will do.
16 18 34 CC And, Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll be

coming up on Carnarvon at 46.
16 18 52 CDR Roger.
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16 44 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
16 _h 31 SPT We've had some problems with S019. Briefly, we're

eating right now and reading the malf procedures -
about to read the malf procedures ... is doing the
TV stuff and all this stuff, but what it did, Hank,
is it extended all right the left-hand knob, I figure,
which I believe, is very, very rough, stiff and
Jerky. I did not take it more than a degree and a
half out of zero, because I didn't want to get it
Jammed out there. The right-hand knob, which I think
is rotation, doesn't work at all. It feels like the
clutch is slipping. We're going to read the mall
procedures, and if we don't hear any different from
you, what we're going to do is pull it in and try to
extend it inside the workshop, and see if we can see
what's hanging up on it.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, the CDR has an unscheduled housekeeping at

about 18:12. Our CSM waste water is getting up to
the limit now, and we'd like for him to utilize that
period to do the CSM waste water dump of the 0_S.
And it's on page 1-18 of the CSM Systems Checklist,
and it's one that we had previously X-ed out. But
we're in a configuration, and we need to use that
method.
PLT I understand that. We already did that th'e other

night.
CC Okay, and we need to do it again here at this time.

And a little reminder for him, too, that we've got
this CBRM malf we want to run at 18:36 over G,IA_.
PLT Okay. He'll try. That's pushing it awful close,

Hank.
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16 h7 23 CC Okay. That water dump should take about 15 minutes.
PLT No, it doesn't. It takes more than that if you moni-

tor the water - the waste water tank, unless you
guys have confidence that we can either time it or
that you can monitor it.
CC I guess we'd prefer for you to monitor it.
16 47 hl PLT The last time we did it, it took about 45 minutes.
CC Are the hoses still hooked up?
PLT Negative.
CC I see. We were assuming everything was all hooked

up still.
SPT Well, there are two reasons. First off, we like to

keep a neat ship_ and secondly, based on conversa-
tions prior to launch, we were under the assumption -
all three of us - that we were only going to have to
average it that one time.
CC Roger. We told - I forget who it was - we told one of

you guys the other day that we were going to have to
do it again today. We thought it would be tonight,
but looks like it's going to have to come earlier.
SPT Roger. That was after we cleaned up.
16 49 53 CC Skylab, Houston. If you're running TV-3, would you

verify the video switch om the ATM?
SPT Yes, you caught it.
SPT You didn't miss much anyway, Hank.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR Sorry about that, but it's not in any of the check-
lists and it ain't in the TV book, and I guess I'm
going to have to sit down and write it in every page.
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CC Roger. We're talking about that down here, Pete,

now. It seems there is going to be a problem of
coordinating between the ATM console and the other
TV requirements.
PLT (Laughter) One of m_trash bags came open, and

unfortunately you can't see on the TV, but your CDR
is in the corner chasing bits and pieces all over.
CC I wish we could see that.
16 5B 20 PLT I had crackers with my hot dogs tods_y, and I don't

know if you've noticed what I've been reaching at
or not, but there's little crumbs, because the
crackers are - tend to break, as you may have guessed,
and the bits are crumby.
CC Roger. We copy. Crumby crackers.
PLT I guess, in all fairness, crumbly is a better word.
CC Roger. Crumbly.
16 5B 56 CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to the S019, I'm sure

you've already done this, but we would want you to
verify that the brake is off on the rotation; and
if you do retract, we want you to go very slow and
easy because the mirror, I gather, is out of detent.
16 54 I_ PLT No, I don't think it is, Hank. And we have - as a

matter of fact I retracted it - I once extended it
again. And we tried to do it again, and it does
function all right. But I did want to go far out.
Yes, we did have the brakes off, and we'll pull it
back in. When I get a chance, I'll look at the malf
procedures. And we'll at least drag it out one time
while we've got it in there, and see what we can
see.
CC Okay, good show. And we're about 30 seconds to LOS;

we'll be coming up on Hawaii at 09:00.
PLT You there, Hsnk?
CC Roger.
f PLT You guys getting live TV?

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CC That's negative.
PLT Oh, okay. I thought you weren't getting it_ that's

how you rem_,bered to switch. But l'm glad somebody
thought of it anyway.
CC Roger. INC0 can monitor that switch position.
CDR Going there from now on ...
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I take it from our previous talk that the Pl's want
me to use precisely the same pointing and roll on ...
62 that I used yesterday. That's not on the pad, is
that correct?
CC That's what we want you to do, Joe. Just get as close

as you can to what you had yesterday.
SPT Okay, but l'd like th_ to put that kind of stuff on
the pad if they do this in the future, because it's
not in the s1-,m_ry sheet. In fact, my interpreta-
tion would have been the opposite. If they asked
for advice from the ground, I would have told them
it had a different part of it, ordinarily.
CC Roger. That's a good point.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For information, we've been

experiencing some sub-co-,,probl_m_ on our ATM data,
and we're going to be trying to cure this by switching
some equipment around the PCM system via comands.
17 i0 06 SPT Okay, we got the F power off.
CC And I have one other thing l'd like to throw out for
you. This afternoon, after we get the _EP going,
all of you are going to be top-side. And we were
wondering how you felt about maybe turning all the
lights off down in the workshop, at least minimizing
the lights, to help with the power problem, because
we're going to be _mn_ug the batteries down on the
EREP.
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CDR Yes. Okay, Hank. We've been doing that. We're

running with - we try and keep all the lights out
down here as we possibly can. So we've been running
low power, and we_rill turn them all out down here.
CC Okay. Good shcw, Pete.
17 12 04 CDR And say, Hank, when do you plan to dump the VTR?
The reason I say that is I'm a little ahead right
now, and I think I can stay ahead on the water dump
and everything. And, if I can help Paul on 19, we
may pick up some of this TV-22, which only takes
Just a couple - few minutes, and we can fake it -
him doing it again ; he's already deployed it.
CC Okay. Let me get an answer on that.
SPT Hank, a little clarification on S019.
CC Go ahead.
17 12 46 SPT Okay, Just to make sure that you understand what I'm
talking about, because I think I had the knobs back-
wards. It's the rotation that is very stiff and
Jerky and difficult to turn. And it's the tilt knob
which is free-wheel. That's Just clarification.
CDR And, Houston; CDR. We got you about 20 minutes on

that tape - TV-3. Five of it of a blank ATM and
15 per TV-3, which I think is what you need. It
looked pretty good to me.
CC Roger; copy.
17 14 15 CC Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll be

coming up on Goldstone at 21:00, and we'll have an
answer for you on the VrR there - when we're going
to get it dumped.
CDR Okay. If you're either going to get it dumped real

fast, fine. We can do it later tonight, or if you
can hold it, why, you know, it doesn't make any dif-
ference to us. We can pick up that 22 anytime.
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CC Roger; copy.
iy 17 13 PLT Hey, Hank, you still there?
CC Roger.
PLT In re-reading the checklist, it se_m_ the one step

I overlooked in S019 was opening the film hatch.
That's in no w_y related to the problem is it?
CC We'll check it.
PLT I don't see how it could be, but you might as well
check it before I bring it in out of the airlock.
17 20 B6 CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT. You are absolutely

correct ; there is no relation between the film hatch
and the problem you've got.
PLT Yes, I was reasonably certain of that, especially

since we run the same gear at 18B and don't even have
that on. I Just wanted to verify it though.
17 22 25 CC CDR, Houston. It's going to take us another EEV and

a half to get the VTR dumped, and we'll give you a
GO when you're clear to use it again.
17 25 49 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS; Bermuda

at B0:00.
17 BO 20 CC Bermuda for ii minutes.
CDR Good.
17 39 18 CDR Calling Houston, CDR.
CC Roger.
17 B9 22 CDR Okay. I Just commenced the water t_nk dump.
CC Roger.
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Be coming up on Ascension at 48:00 with a data
recorder dump.
CDR Okay.
17 47 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. If it's convenient, I'd like to get a

question answered. Could you get the full 13 turns
on extending before you hit the stop?
PLT That's affirmative. As a matter of fact, it went

out 13-1/2.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT I got it in now. I've got the business end off and
I'm Just about to go ahead and extend it in the
cabin.
PLT And, I've got a question for you, something we've been
mulling over. These EBEP passes are going to mainly
be over the states, where you're going to have pretty
good coverage. What do you think of - if we switch
the voice recorder to channel A and run - essentially
a hot mike on channel A during the EREP pass. Is
that a good idea or not so good idea?
CC We would love that.
PLT Okay. Because we all have to be on the same channel

anyway.
17 49 08 PLT Well, we'll set that up SOP then. We'll go ahead;

and a few minutes before, switch the voice recorder
to channel A, and then Just go ahead and press that
hot mike channel A.
CC Roger. Very good. We concur.

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PLT Well, I haven't looked at the EREP operating status.

It's my assumption we will operate all experiments
today even though they may subsequently turn out to
be in a degraded mode.
CDR Say, Hank. Can you find out whether we're going to
dump the waste t=-_ any more or not.
17 50 20 CC CDR, Houston. EGIL assures us that this should be

the last dump.
CDR 0kay.
CDR Well, I knew we were going to have to dump them one

more time. I didn't think it'd come quite that fast.
CC Roger.
17 51 26 CC CDR, Houston. The reason we're - We've filled up a

little faster than we expected. As you recall, we had
to put that other inverter on the line. So, we're
pulling a few more amps than we had anticipated. And
we need that inverter to keep the water glycol up
right at i0.
CDR Okay. No sweat.
17 56 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS;

Carnarvon at 20:00.
17 57 02 PLT Roger.
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18 20 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
PLT Hank, I've got a few words on SO19.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Houston, SPT. You're going to tell me when you're

ready, right?
CC Talking about the S054 powerup, Joe?
SPT Yes.
CC Okay. We're looking at it. We'll give you a GO,

when we're ready.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Hank, you want a few words on SO19?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. We pulled it in; extended it inside. We

got the rotation freed up. It runs fairly free.
It hangs up as though there is a burr or something,
and I tell you, we're suspicious that it may be the
degrees counter, because it does it every degree, not
full degrees - between - the 0.5 and 0.6 part, but it
does it once every degree indicated there. The ROT
is - apDears to be comDletelv frozen. We can't get
it to turn regardless of where we get ahold of that
drive mechanism.
CC Okay. Understand the rotation won't turn at all.

And say again about the tilt.
PLT I'm thinking. Wait a minute. Now the rotation -

now the rotation knob works. It's freed up, and
it works. And that's the one that hangs up every
degree, once a degree. The tilt knob is the one
that we cannot get to move at all. The crank handle
turns, but, as I remember, there is a foot clutch in
those handles, and we think that it's Just - that's
what we're t_._ing. And in regard to where we get ahold
of that drive mechanism ins_d_ the box, we can't get it
to turn. It is really frozen solid at tilt.
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18 23 29 CC Okay, we got one sitting right here, and we almost

duplicated this thing, I think, by J_mm_ng up the drive
somewhere.
PLT Well, we can try anything.
CDR Hank, that's exactly what I think happened. I think

there was a burr or something like that, and in zero
g it floated into that little tilt gear chain somewhere,
but the question is where?
CC Well, that may be a problem. We J_mmed it with a pen-

cil, and we got about the same thing that you had
described.
CDR Well, I'm convinced that that's what it is. I'm also
convinced that's what's in the tilt mechanism. There's
probably a little burr up in the gear drive that goes
to the number of degrees counter, and we're Just click-
ing over that one about - is it stuck on some gear, you
know, and it comes up in a nice ratio. But the other
one - there's got to be a burr or a piece of dirt or
grit in one of those five gears that drives that thing
in tilt. Also be advised that I'm standing by to do
your CRBM thing any time.
CC Okay, we're ready any time, Pete.
CC Paul, we ran the mirror assembly out all the way,

and if you're looking forward along the device and
on the left side, there is a little drive gear exposed.
And when we J_,med that, we got these bindups. When
it would finally break loose, it would act about every
degree, Just like you described.
PLT That sounds very much like it. It was very tough.
We decided we had nothing to lose, and now it's working
fairly freely now. I get confident that it could work;
however, the binding in the tilt - we can't move that
at all. I think the rotation is quite usable new.
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CC Okay.
18 27 43 CC PLT, Houston. Did you take off the optical canister

and take a look into the gear box there in the AMS?
PLT That's affirm. Sure did.
PLT Hey, Hank. I'm on the bicycle right now and a little
unscheduled PT, trying to make up for what I missed
this morning. Do we get a ... today sometime when I
can be - maybe we can both be looking at this thing
and talking at the same time, or I can get off the
bike now and look at it, if you want.
CC Oh, no. Go ahead, and then we'll think about it a

little more and get with you later.
18 28 26 PLT Okay.
18 28 45 CC CDH, Houston. We gave you a bad call on that CBRM.

We've got to wait for the daylight before we can
check that out.
SPT Roger. He had Just noticed that and secured doing the
operation for that reason. And are you ready for
S05h yet?
CC Joe, we're still having this same data problem.

We'd like to delay now until Guam and - so we can get
some good data.
SPT Okay.
18 29 29 CC And we're about a minute from LOS now. Guam will be

coming up in 33.
18 33 56 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 minutes. And,

SPT, we're GO for S054 powerup.
SPT Okay, be with you in a minute.
18 3h 39 SPT Okay, Houston. The three switches are on.
CC Roger. Copy.
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SPT Houston, SPT. About the only thing we see that's the
least bit off nominal is that the PMEC count is - tends
to go over 200. Its - cycle is as high as 400 or so.
It averages around 100 or a little less.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC SPT, the 54 high voltage looks good to us.
SPT Okay, thank you.
SPT Houston. When is S056 going to follow suit?
CC Okay, we're standing by now, Joe.
SPT Okay.
18 37 50 CC You are standing by - you are indicating the X-REA,

weren't you, Joe?
SPT Yes, sir, I was.
CC Okay, we're still waiting on that pressure thing, and

we don't know when that's going to happen, and every-
body 's happy with it.
SPT All right.
SPT And Pete's ready to do the CBRM stuff, if you're

ready for him.
CC Okay, we're ready.
18 39 53 CDR Okay, if you saw it, Houston, no draw on any of

them.
18 _l 58 CC CDR, Houston. Because of the way our telemetry up-

dates down here, we'd Just like to verify that you
did cycle this thing five times.
CDR Yes, sir. I did.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.

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We'll be coming up at Goldstone at 59-
18 43 29 SPT Roger.
18 58 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for 17 minutes.
18 59 15 CC And, Skylab; for info, we'll be dumping the data record-

er on the latter part of this pass over Bermuda at
about 08.
PLT Roger.
19 08 06 CC Skylab, Houston. For the PLT, info only, no response

required. We've got an update on the weather for a
couple of your sites. Site 125, Smoke Creek, is now
0.8 cloud coverage. And 320, White Sands, is up to
0.4 now. And for the CDR, looks like we may get a run
at Indy; they've started the engines. I think the
weather is finally starting to cooperate.
CDR Thank you, Hank, and be advised, we're on A RECORD

now.
CC Roger. Copy •
19 15 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a little over i0 seconds

on LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 59. At
the end of the first lap, Mark Donahue is in the lead.
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19 58 i0 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger. How do you read, Houston?
CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear.
19 58 18 CDR Okay. This is VOX from the EREP station. We Just want
to check the con. That would be 7 minutes of daylight
left to go. We got a flare. The PMEC 960. The SPT
did an outstanding Job of running 7 minutes worth of
flare. And, of course, our next pass is EREP. Couldn't
have come at a worse time, right?
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
19 58 51 SPT Okay. I had a possible malfunction on S055, I want

to pass on to you. When in MIRROR LINE SCAN, grating
all zeros, all detectors, it tripped out with the SCAN
SPECT light. One of the detectors tripped it out about
three or four times. I'm not dead sure which one it was,
but when I ran it with detectors 5 and 6 off the line,
it stayed put. It was okay. Maybe your people can
look at their data on that. On the flare, the flare
appeared to be in active region lh, which was where I
was headed at the moment. And so, we did get a
couple of minutes of flare arise. The PMEC count on
board, peaked at about 960, or Just about saturated,
and was well into flare fall by the time sunset came.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT ... lights. They're all hot.
CC Do you have a time for that, SPT?
20 00 08 SPT We got the alarm at about 7 minutes and 30 seconds

daytime remaining. I didn't notice the GMT, but you
can figure it out.
CC Roger. We'll - we'll do it from that.

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CC And, Skylab; for the CDR. In lap 43, Gordy Johncock

was in the lead, and Billy Vukovich second. Bobby
Unser is in the pits for gas. A.J. is out of the race.
His car is being rolled by hand into the pits.
CDR What happened to Mark Donohue?
20 01 20 CC I didn't get the word on him, yet.
20 01 45 CDR Want to do this alignment ...?
PLT Hello, Houston. How do you read the PLT VOX?
CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear.
PLT Okay. Same.
PLT Did you tell them about those 190 malf lights real time
or on tape?
CDR No, I didn't. On the tape on A RECORD I did - We had

a different thing with S190. When I did the four-
frame advance, I only had three malf lights, 3, 5, and
6. However, a couple of magazines, not necessarily 3,
5, and 6, indicated five-frames advance rather than
four; and we think that's Just because you can get
half-frame setup on that counter. We only heard the
camera go four times. So that's a little different
status on the S190. I don't think the five-frame
thing is significant.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see that you forgot to enable the

momentlml dump before this last dark, so you can expect
some TACS firings here.
CC And you might want to inhibit the CMG SATS to avoid a

master alarm during the EREP.
CDR Roger.
CDR Getting too excited about your flare. (Laughter)
PLT Say, Hank. Give me that report you had on cloud cover
over the sites again, will you, please?
CC Roger. We had an update on those. Site 125, Smoke

Creek, is up to 0.8 now, and White Sands, site 320, is ._
up to 0.4 cloud coverage.
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PLT Yippee: How about 125; the primary descending site is

Black Rock Desert. I assume that if I can find them,
you'll take either one, right?
CC That's affirmative, and we're about 30 seconds from

LOS. Guam will be coming up at 13:00.
PLT Well, that was m_ fault. We had all remembered to, you
know, remind each other ... Why don't we Just leave it
unannotated and - -
CDR Okay.
PLT We don't have to get on these headsets quite this fast,

you know it?
CDR Yes. I just want to check out - -
PLT Yes.
20 06 04 CDR - - that we had the con_n configuration right.
20 12 38 CDR Three percent. Charlie 5 reads 84 percent. Charlie 6

reads 46 percent. Delta 4 reads 73 percent. Delta 5
reads 14 percent.
20 13 12 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm reading you through Guam for about

5 minutes. And SPT, we suggest you could go ahead
and enable the momentum dump.
SPT Okay, Houston.
CDR In 5 minutes we're - we'll be T minus l0 there.
PLT That's - that's yours, though, right? I sat over on

my side (laughter).
20 14 25 CDR And, Houston, I've gotten all our readings, and they're
on A RECORD.
CC Copy.
CDR On time at 19:50.
SPT You there, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston. Were you calling?

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SPT Yes, Hank. Hey, when - when is the earliest I can do

the S192 alignment? Pete turned the S192 power on time
at 19 :50.
CC Stand by 1.
SPT Okay.
CDR Look in the - in the System Checklist. It's got the

configuration.
CDR Have we started to maneuver, Joe?
CDR (Laughter) 30, 34.
CC Skylab, Houston. You're - you're GO on the 190 check -

192 check.
PLT Okay, I thought I should have really waited a 30-minute

period on the eooldown on that. I'll go ahead and do
it. How about some time later on today, give me a
reading on that, will you, Hank - when I can do it?
And that.
CC Okay. The word we got was 17 minutes after a warmup

start or cooldown, I guess.
CDR Hank, also I have the door switch open, and I have
yet to get a ready light on 192, but I think he -
Paul had that problem yesterday, right?
CDR I --
CDH - - ...
CC Okay. We're Just about LOS. Goldstone - -
CDR Okay.
CC - - at 36:00.
CDR Never mind. I understand.
20 19 h3 CDH Yes, I see. I got it. I didn't read the checklist.
20 35 07 CDR 4, 3, 2, i -
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20 35 l0 CDR MARK, auto cal.
PLT ... have to assume it took - I got no READY light to

go by.
CC Houston, monitoring.
PLT Okay.
20 35 23 CDR 9h to MANUAL.
PLT It hasn't come up. It hasn't found nadir, Pete.

I think that you ought to reject it.
20 35 31 CDR Okay. Going to STANDBY.
PLT Yes. They're there.
20 35 37 CDR And going back ON. And READY out.
PLT Houston, we're on single gyro in Y. You might want to

look at that.
CDR Hey, you goofed me up again. Dob it!
PLT Did I do that?
CDR Yes. The decision point was 36:_h. I blew it.
PLT That's not here yet.
CDR I know, but I went to standby because you said reject

it. That started it all over again. Right?
PLT No, I just - Yes, I guess it's at the decision point.

I'm sorry. It's ...
CDR No, it's - it went back to it's preset l, and it's

doing fine.
PLT ...
CDR It's 90 percent. C1 is reading 90.
PLT Well, ... leave it there then. I don't understand.
CDR I don't either.

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CDR A-I is 45 percent, and B-I is 45 percent.
PLT A minute and a half from the coast. There's the coast
at 37:00. Okay.
CDR Yes, I - I - you goofed up something here on the

altimeter, though.
PLT Okay.
CDE I don't know what it meant to go to STANDBY when you

told me to.
PLT I didn't tell - Okay.
CDR Well, you know - reject.
PLT So you think there's only 0.8 coverage around Smoke

Creek Desert, huh, Hank?
CC That's what they tell me.
20 37 41 CDR Okay. MODE 13745 is ...
20 37 56 CDR Haven't gotten a READY on that.
20 38 05 CDR READY - 808 A; do MODE AUTO on 90.
PLT I found it. How about that? Looking through a little

hole in the clouds.
CDR What did you find?
PLT I found the site.
PLT Okay. On it and tracking.
CDR Very good.
PLT This thing tracks very nicely. It's smoother than

the simulator.
20 38 52 CDR Okay, 52; there's MODE AUTO on 90 and in-track contiguous

- in-track non-contiguous ... on 193 A at 41:26.
Getting an intermittent ALTIMET_ UNLOCK light. I have
malf lights on 3, 5, and 6 on S190.
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PLT Going through nadir.
CDR I have - still have an intermittent ALTIMETER UNLOCK

light on 190.
PLT Okay. I got -
20 39 57 CDR Okay. I noticed when switching 92 on, I had a

flashing RECORDER MALF light as it shifted into high
gear, but I think that's normal.
CDR Still have an intermittent ALTIMET_LR UNLOCK light on

S190.
PLT And the one I got there was of the southern end of
Smoke Creek Desert on that, Hank.
CC Roger.
CDR And I'm standing by for 41:26 or a 193 READY out and
then 41:13.
20 41 28 CDR The READY light still didn't go out. Stand by. SCAT
on and 38 RAD on.
20 41 47 CDR 236 is the next one. And I do not have a READY light
on SCAT and SCAT X-MITTER light.
CDR Did that turn her off_
PLT No. No, only the yellow ones.
PLT Okay.
20 42 27 CDR Okay. We got a SCAT X-MITTER light.
PLT Okay. On the White Sands and tracking.
20 42 40 CDR Got the STANDBY on 36; IRADto STANDBY at 38.
20 43 12 CDR Okay. Standing by for 43:36.
20 43 36 CDR MARK. SCAT, off. RAD_ on. MODE 2 on the altimeter.
PLT Okay. Nadir at 47:00.
CC Paul, your special target is water.
CDR I get a - -
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PLT Okay.
CDR - - RAD/SCAT gimbal light occasionally. I still have

a SCAT X-MI_'I'EHwarning light ON. And the next thing
I'm waiting for is 46:03 here.
CDR 190 ...
PLT ... ahead. It's too late now. We should have shot
those Corpus Christi sites, gang. I was going to look
for them, hut they snuck up.
PLT Dag nab it.
20 46 09 CDR 94 - the light went out on time, 46:09. SCAT's in

STANDBY. Add S193, 36. 93A ON, 91 power OFF.
PLT Wait a minute. Why is - Okay. You going to turn -

Never mind•
CDR Stand by.
PLT 191 has to be back on in about I0 seconds.
CDR Five - yes - -
PLT Okay.
CDR - - that's right ...
20 46 55 CDR MARK. It's ON.
PLT Okay.
CDR ...
PLT Hey, ... its starting the nadir swath. It's pretty
much in the clear, Houston. When you get your data
back, you'll see a puffy cumb that we're tracking
over now.
CC Roger.
PLT Well, you made it. That 10-second burst was ... four
•.. of puffy cumb A ... was in pretty good shape.
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CC Copy.
PLT Dag nab it, we should have tried for those Corpus
sites, though.
CDR 35 - check - S190 ... ON.
CDR Power operation ON.
PLT For information, Houston, the farthest forward I can

gimbal from here is 53 degrees, at which point I can
see just a little bit of the upper left quadrant.
PLT We'll go on tape, anyway.
PLT Okay, that's it.
CDR What, what, what; that's not it for me, man. I gotta
go until 03-752.
CC Skylab, while you got a break here, I want to point

out that the housekeeping that's called out for the
CDR and SPT, coming up here shortly, is that pole
procedure, which we up-linked. And Rusty'll be
standing by at Vanbar - Vanguard for any questions you
may have on that.
CDR Okay.
20 48 49 CC And, in case you get to doing something here again, I'ii

tell you now that we're about 2-1/2 minutes from
LOS. And Vanguard will be coming up at 01:00, and
we're scheduled for a recorder dump.
20 49 01 CDR Okay.
SPT Roger, Hank. Did you get my call about the rate gyro?
CC That's affirmative and ASCO's looking at it.
SPT Okay. And we have a BATTERY CHARGE light on CBEM

number 5.
CC CDR, Houston. Could you give us a ready-lights status?
CDR You want the ready-lights status.
CC Affirmative.
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20 50 03 CDE Tape recorder READY light is on, and 192 READY light
is out. The 191 READY light is out. The 190 READY
light is out. The _ READY light is out. The SCAT
BEADY light is out. The OUT READY light is out, and
the 194 READY light is on.
CC Copy.
PLT Did you guys copy? We didn't get a nadir align.
CC Understand. No nadir align.
PLT That's right. It searched all the way around the box.
All the way around the edges, and AGC came off the peg.
It was sitting at about 35. Never budged.
CDR But I don't think we timed out right. I - I think we

were a little premature, so I'd like to run it again.
I shut it off too soon.
PLT Well, maybe so, but I still think you've been all the
way around once.
CDR You may have.
PLT When I went to close the door, we ... - -
CC SPT, we're coming up LOS. We'd like to enable 1

and 3 gyros and go back to RATE GYRO ... - enable.
SPT Roger ....
PLT Not that one, this one.
SPT Okay to do that during the maneuver?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Okay.
PLT Do you hear this thing? You can tell ... - -
CC SPT, we'd like that now, before we start back to solar

inertial.
20 51 49 SPT Okay. He's working on it.
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CDR Roger, Houston. I have a question. Oh, no I don't

either. We verified that. The tape recorder usage
shows about only 56 percent. It shows 56 percent
remaining, and we checked the tape recorder visually,
and there's only about an inch left to fill on the
spool. So, we're going to measure it and give you
the exact amount, and we'll run it out to depletion.
CC Roger. Good show.
CC And SPT, the HAT CHARGE light you had was expected.
All 17 CBRMs should be ... that.
SPT Okay, when it first came up - That was number 6 -

that's probably the first one - was the first one to
show up.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. We believe that the flare you had

earlier was a South Atlantic Anomaly, and if you
need to disable the tone light - -
PLT (Laughter) The laughter is going out hot.
CC CDR, Houston. The 190 malf light you reported on

3, 5, and 6 - were they on on the last sequence?
CDR No, and I put it on tape. I think we were out of

contact. I only Had malf light number 5 on when I
restarted it this last time, and so we lost 3 and 6.
So everything now is normal - i, 2, 3, 4, and 6.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR And we'll give you the depth of tape. One and a
quarter inch is left on the takeup reel_ and we'll
go ahead and run her now.
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CC Okay, copy. One and one-quarter inches.
CDR Yes, I don't have that anywhere.
CDR Yes. I'Ii do that in Just a second.
SPT Oh, heavens. I've got to do an S191 auto cal. I

turned that off.
CC SPT, Houston. We believe that we see the same Y-axis

gyro problem we had earlier, and we would like for
you to re-enable after you get back to solar inertial.
CDR It's right here.
SPT Okay, are you gonna change the drift compensation of

one or more of those gyros?
SPT I Just don't know how long it takes you to figure that
out.
21 06 23 CC We'll have to get back to solar inertial, Joe, so we

can get some more drift checks.
SPT I got you.
SPT That flare thing was a good lesson, Houston. The

anomaly was on the pad and I ignored it because we
had X-REA event analyzer powered down. And gol-darned
if we didn't see the flare in XUV. (Laughter)
CC Roger.
SPT We did not see anything in X-ray, however.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay, Friendly tape recorder on the AUTO CAL, A-7

reads 80 percent. And A-8 reads 85 percent.
CC SPT and CDR, this is Houston. When you go into the

probe procedure here, we've fot about 8 minutes of VTR
available for you if you find something very interest-
ing to put on it. Over.
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CDR Okay. Yes, Rusty, I haven't had a chance to even read

that procedure at all. Period. So, I'm going to be
starting from PO0 with that.
CC Okay, unfortunately you're going to be through P99

before we pick you up again at Goldstone.
CDR Well, that's okay. We need a chance to cool it.

We've been hustling all day.
CC Roger.
CDH Yes, but I guess we really ought to verify this malf 5

here - make sure we took all the frames that we were
supposed to have taken, huh?
SPT Yes.
CDH Well, I don't know how many frames it was. Let me

get rid of the tape recorder first; fast before it
reels off.
21 l0 09 CC SPT, Houston. We're coming up on LOS, about one

minute, and we'll be along LOS picking up Vanguard -
or Goldstone at 13:00. And we're not getting the ATM
panel closed out for unattended ops properly, and we
would like for you to do that in accordance with
pages Charlie 3, Charlie _, Charlie 5, of the ATM
Checklist and Data Book. And we will get something
up to you shortly to get your cue card corrected.
21 i0 46 SPT Okay. Thank you.
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22 13 53 CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone for ll minutes.
SPT Hi there. We Just - Pete's ready to talk to you about

the probe.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CC Before we talk probe, I got one message for the SPT.

We'll swap him one checklist boo-boo for an SAA flare.
The poop we gave him a while ago was incorrect. The
checklist and the cue card are totally in agreement.
So, we don't know what happened there.
SPT Roger. Henry, I went through the checklist and noted

that it still had all the things about shutting off
rate-gyros and fine Sun sensors; so I just arbitrarily
crossed them out. Is that okay?
CC That's okay. And, for the CDR, quick update on the

Indy. At the end of lap 94, the sky was getting very
dark; Johncock was in th_ I_ _1_nvich second.
Bobby Unser third. Johncock was turning the track at
a rate of 182.9.
CDR Very good. Did you ever find out what happened to
Mark Donohue?
CC I still don't have that, Pete.
CDR Okay, let me tell you about the probe. Let - let me
get down into the - to the wardroom where I can read.
I'll be right with you.
CDR Okay. Let me go back to the way we found the probe

when - when we took it out the very first time in the
command module.
CC Okay. We're listening, Pete.
CDR Yes, I'm trying to get a speaker shut off where it's
squealing.
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CDR Okay. The status of the probe - and we kind of put

it back together again after reading your thing over -
was: two latches made and one trigger not made, with
the capture latch button tilted slightly, but not all
the way extended, to give latch. Okay. Now, we ran
through all your procedures all the way through to
step 14. And we could find nothing wrong. And, at
14A, we did it l0 times to verify it. Except, as we
were doing 9, one time with our hands, we got the
same hangup that we noted when we brought the probe
in the first time. However, using the probe and
going through step 14A10 times we could not get the
problem to repeat itself. And so we have stopped
there, assuming that we could get off all right, and
also ass_mJng that you have enough information to go
on. Because whatever is hanging it up, when it does
it on occasion, is nonrepeatable, and there is no
notable outside discrepancies in dimensions or any-
thing like that. Now, does that m_ke sense with any
kind of failure hangup that you could think of?
22 17 57 CC Okay, Pete. Let me understand for sure what you said.

Under - understand you went through the normal pro-
cedures for capture in the drogue, and it worked
essentially nine times out of 10. And on the - on
the one time, it did hang up the way you reported
before; but other than that, it locked in all by
itself.
CDR That's not quite true, Rusty. On step 9 of your

procedure, you have us doing the capture latches
simultaneously with our fingers or whatever we can.
And we got the hangup one time then. Now, realize
that when you do it with your fingers, if you do them
simultaneously, they all go easy. If you get a little
out of sync, the last one will go very hard. But,
this was different than that. It very definitely -
The trigger was free, but the button was caught and
stuck somewhere between set and fully 'extend, if you
follow me. Now,wlth the probe and the drogue, we
never could get it to repeat. Okay? But doing it
with our hands that one time in your step 9, that
came up with exactly the same configuration we found
the probe in when we took it out of the drogue - the
real time.
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CC Okay. I guess we're going to have to digest this,

Pete. And I think for the present time what you're
saying is that you feel that when you cock it and
put it into the drogue, that you can get it reliably
to lock, at least reliable enough to press on from
there and free-load it and do a normal on dock. Is
that correct?
CDR Yes. Let me say that it looks like one trigger,

possibly, can go all the way in and not trip its
portion of that locking mechanism. And - and when
the thing is feeding completely in the probe, that
one latch is not made, and it won't make because
the button is now hung up or - or the - the slider
rod that's on the - that the button's on the end of -
the capture latch button. Now, does that make sense
to you? Because I - I hope I'm explaining it right,
hut that appears to me to be what the trouble is.
As far as us getting off - -
CC Pete, you still there?
CC Skylab, Houston. You still there?
CDR Yes, do you read?
CC Okay, fine. We dropped out there on a handover

between Goldstone and Texas. We have a good picture
of what you said, Pete. I think we have a good mental
image of it. Let me just say one thing. When you
cock it for installation in the drogue, you get more
force to pull the spider forward to the lock position
if you use the capture-latch release button on the
front end of the probe rather that the handle - the
cocking handle on the back end. You have a slightly
greater spring force pulling it forward. You might
want to just try that l0 times, using the probe end.
That is, cock the latches from the front, leaving
the handle in the back in the lock position. And
try that one.
22 21 45 CDR Yes, that's the way we did it, Rusty. That's accord-
ing to your procedures. We were setting the
capture-latch lock mechanism by the - using the front
button.
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CC Okay. If you go on then to use the - to put the

handle on the back, you might want to check it there
because it is a little weaker. I would suggest that
if you have to undock, you use the capture-latch
release button on the front to cock it, leaving the
handle on the back in the lock position. And it looks
like that'll work fine, and we'll get back to you,
Pete.
22 22 l_ CDR Understand that, Rusty, and we can do that real easy.

The one thing that I - threw your other message away
when I got this one. Tell me where a nut is to hold
the pyro cover on and which - which Stowage locker
box has it got them in.
22 22 26 CC Okay, that's in A-7. And the - the bolt and nut that
hold the D-rings on the side of A-7, - you can take
that off, and the nut will fit the pyro cover.
CDR Very good. Okay. I don't think we wish to screw

with it anymore. We're - we're happy with - through
lh-A, and I'm s'ore we can get off quite safely. And
rather than tear into it any luther, unless you want
us to, I've - I already put it away, because we've got
to get on with the rest Of the day.
CC Okay. Just remember, when you do go to get off, don't

take that handle in the back and rotate it to cock
after you've got the probe in, because that will
undo that extra spring force.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay.
CDR Leave it in LOCK.
CC Okay.
CDR Do remind us, though. Twenty-eight days from now or

21 days, or whenever it is.
CC Okay.
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CDR Okay. One last thing, if you're still with us. We

did take pictures of both the drogue and the probe;
and there is a mark on the drogue, and there's a msmk
on the probe head. But they - I put on there, on
one of my middle docking attempts when I really fired
her up to about 1.2 feet per second, and - and I hit
a little bit off-center.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're showing 1 minute to LOS.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 39:00 with a data
recorder dump.
CDR Okay. These guys are starting the MI31 and I am going
to do some systems housekeeping. I may not get any
PT. I'll do it later tonight.
CC Okay. One quick question. Did you put anything on

the VTR with the probe?
CDR No, sir. There wasn't anything to put on there that

was really worth seeing.
CC Okay; copy.
CC And, CDR; one quicky. Mark Donohue is having engine

troubles, and he's been in and out of the pits all
afternoon.
CDR Okay. Thank you. How about Andretti? You know where
he is?
CC Try to have it for you at Vanguard.
CDR Thank you_ sir. Yes, hey_ give me a rundown on Lloyd

Ruby, and Andretti, AI Unser, Bobby Unwell, just give
me about the first ten.
22 25 07 CC Okay.
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22 38 2h CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC CDH, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Could you do a little chore for us? We'd

like to get regs 6, 7, 8, and 16 off. The reason
for this, they went AUTO/0FF during t_e EREP run
we're in the dark now and didn't get enough charge
on them. They're Just going to do it again. So,
we'd like to go ahead and turn them off.
CDR Okay, wait a minute. Reg what?
CC Six, 7, 8, and 16.
22 39 36 CDR Okay, REGs 6, 7, 8, and 16, off.
CDR Hey, Hank, I can't get ... At least I don't get

a light on 6. I got 7, 8, and 16 off, by the lights.
But I don't have a light on 6.
CC Roger. Copy. We'll take a look at it. And also, for

information, we're going to be powering down the EPC
to conserve power.
CDR Okay.
CC And we'll also be turning down the airlock module's

secondary coolant loop.
CDR Okay. What'd we do, run lots more than you thought?
CC Negative. I think we went Just about where we ex-

pected to. But a few of their bats went down, sort
of border line there on the auto cutoff.
CDR Okay, ...
CDR Now I see ... on.

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CC Pete, would you say your last again? We had a drop-

out in voice there over Vanguard.
CDR I saw a reg 6 light come on, and then it went off
again, all by itself. Did you guys command that from
the ground?
CC Okay. EGIL's trying to turn it off, but it looks like

it won't stay off. EGIL's going to command now, Pete.
CDR Okay. I have the light on now.
CC Pete, the Indy's over now. It got rainstopped by rain

somewhere in 130 something laps, and Gordy Johncoek
was the winner.
CDR Very good.
CC He averaged some 159 plus, I think - was the average

for the race.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. It looks like that reg went back ON again by

itself.
22 44 18 CC EGIL's watching it, Pete.
CDR Okay. Other guys are at the - out doing 131. I'm
going into the command module and re-stow a couple of
things, unless you need me.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylah; info, no response required. We also

turned the star tracker off.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to hold up on the MI31

run until we get back into daylight. And that's
about 30 minutes from now.
PLT What for, Hank? We're halfway through the OGI mode
now.
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CC Well, we've got - - we got a power problem here, we're

- we're working now, and I guess they want to get the
loads down and take a look at it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like for you to power down the

131, and we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Hawaii is
coming up at 47:00.
PLT It's all powered down, Houston.
CC Roger. Thank you. And we'll - we'll try to have some

words for you at Hawaii here on what!s going on.
PLT Thank you.
23 46 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next

minutes.
SPT Hey there, Richard. It's nice to hear your voice

again, babe.
CC Hello, there. Y'all doing okay?
SPT I don't know, you tell us.
CC Okay. I'll tell you what we'd like. If somebody is -

is not already at the ATM panel, we'd like him to start
proceeding there. And I have a few words here that I
think we can explain generally what our - what we
understand to be our power problems now. And we do
have a couple of things on one of the - on a little
bit of configuration we'd like you - to ask you to
do after we look at the data this pass.
CDR Okay, Dick. Paul's on his way up there now. We're

eating dinner but he - he's on his way up.
CC Okay. Well if -Why don't y'all Just listen up

then, and - and if the other guys here will keep me
honest, I'll try to explain what we think has been
a problem. In today's Flight Planning - -
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PLT I'm here, Dick. You want me to do anything while I'm

here?
CC Stand by.
23 _7 49 CC PLT, Houston. What we'd like you to try on -

regulator number 3 is to cycle it ON and then OFF
about 5 times, and if you get it to the ON position
of the ON configuration, stop there. We want it on
if possible. Okay. And I'm going to start into this
and tell you a little bit about what we think the
problem is; and we'll get back to you, Paul. When
we planned today's Flight Plan we ex - we expected to
get down to a state-of-charge minimum of about 45 per-
cent when we did the EREP maneuver. And sure
enough, we predicted it fairly accurately, and we
did get down to about 45 percent. However, it appears
that we have some sort of an anomaly in the CBRMs in
that we have an automatic low voltage trip - tripoff
circuit - that is designed, and we expect it to trip
off at about 20 percent. Actually, what happened, and
the anomaly, apparently, is that - that it - some of
the CBRMs, at least 4 of them, actually tripped off
at about 45 percent. So that, although we did follow
a fairly nominal power profile, we tripped several CBRMs
off the line. And it turns out that before your guys'
mission, while we were unmanned for a few days - now
using some hindsight - it appears that one of our
problems during that period possibly was tied to the
same thing, and our Marshall people and here - and
also here in Houston are taking a look at that. I
don't think I'm going to try to go through the entire
sequence of events; but essentially what happened later
was that after your Z-LV pass in daylight, we went
into darkness after that pass. We hit - during that
pass - during that dark pass we hit the 45 percent, and
four bats tripped - tripped off the line, which left
only 12 bats carrying the load during that night pass.
And then at sunrise we then - when those four CBRMs
initially saw sunlight, they got enough of a voltage
spike to trip the four regulators off. So, essentially,
the situation sort of - kind of went from bad to
worse. And we have ended up with a situation where
we have a low state-of-charge. And as of right now
for the rest of the evening, we are going to continue,
for the moment anyway, planning to do the rest of
the flight plan. The only big item that we're talking
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about that we may not be able to do is the PLT's ATM

attended pass after supper. And I think I'ii go over
to you now, if you can - have any specific questions
about this, maybe I can get a straight answer for
you. Over.
SPT To start with - specific answer on the procedure that

you asked Paul to do. Out - our light status in-
dicated that reg 3 was already on the line.
I'LT Got our lights on, but the meters don't - Now each
time I put the switch to OFF the appropriate light
on the panel came on, indicating it was off. But it
still showed that - Of course, the meter showed it
was off the line. I put it back to ON. The light
would go out, hut the meters would indicate that it
wasn't on the line.
CC Would you please hit the CBRM ALL ON switch?
PLT I'm kind of glad that we got that, I think.
PLT Okay. Reg 3 now shows, here, announcement of

22-1/2 volts. It was what - it was pegged low before.
It shows 5 am@s out.
CC Paul, we show on 94 that reg 3 is not outputting.
PLT Well, I Just told you what we show, Dick. It -

before we had CBRM ALL ON our onboard meters showed
both pegged low, current zero. When we hit ALL ON,
it jumped up to volt 22-1/2, current plus 5-
CC Roger, copy.
CC Stand by, SPT. We would like on CBRM number 15 to

get - that reg ON. And go ahead, SPT.
SPT Stand by i; I'ii do it.
CC Okay. We're about a minute from -
SPT l'm taking PLT's place.
CC Oh, okay. We're about a minute from LOS. We're going

to see you at the Vanguard at zero - correction, at
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15 minutes past the hour. We are going to dump the

data tape recorder there. And go ahead; we've got
about 25 more seconds.
SPT I was Just going to say that I went around the horn
on all the CBRMs; and 15, which is off the line, also
showed 22-1/2 volts rather than pegged low.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. As we go over the hill here, it

looks like the electrical power system is at least
stable now. The batteries are coming up. So we'll
see you at the Vanguard.
SPT Okay, Dick. I don't think I got REG 15 on, but we'll
see you then.
CC Okay.
23 54 36 SPT ... Dick, I'll go ahead ...
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00 16 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for the next

9 m_nutes, and I've got a couple of notes I'd like
to get to you before I get the Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Pete, for the rest of the Flight Plan this

evening, we are going - because of the importance
of the - (cough) excuse me - because of the impor-
tance of the ATM operation this evening, we are
going to support Paul's ATM synoptic operation that's
scheduled on his Flight Plan this evening. There
are a couple of things we'd like to remind him about
that pass. One is, since we've had the fine Sthn
sensor off, he'll have to zero the fine-Sun-sensor
wedges. And secondly, because we're still analyzing
the problems with the S055 high voltage, we would
like him to leave the S055 HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF, during
that pass tonight.
CDR Okay.
CC And one other note for Paul. We'd like to delete out
of his Flight Plan the S009 setup that he has in his
details pad this evening. And a note for you in gen-
eral - it looks like this elec - stand by. And be
advised we are conmlanding the EPC back on now, in
order for it to get squared away for the later ATM
operation. One note for you, Pete. On the Flight
Plan this evening for - that we were to send up to-
morrow; essentially, the situation we find ourself in
now is that the electrical power situation has thrown
us into a little bit of a flight - reflight planning -
stand by i. We are also - be advised, we are about
to turn the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP back ON, and you can
expect to get a C&W from the pump Delta-P there. And,
to get back to Flight Plan, we probably will not be
able to - -
CDR ...
CC Go ahead.
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CDR You mean SECONDARY - or you - or did you turn OFF the
PRIMARY also?
00 18 h8 CC CDR, Houston. We reversed ourselves and failed to

get the word up to you. We turned the PRIMARY COOL-
ANT LOOP off ... the SECONDARY, as we informed you.
We're now turning the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP back ON.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Okay, back to the Flight Plan - we probably

will not get a message up to you tonight, Pete, de-
scribing the Flight Plan; however, basically what
we're going to do is we are going to delete the pre-
viously planned EREP pass tomorrow. We're looking at
several power options, but basically we're going to
raise our limits on the state-of-charge redline.
We're going - we're looking at some limitations on
EREP data t_ke of angles around solar noon, and all
that's being evaluated. So, we will not do EREP to-
morrow, and before we say goodnight this evening, we w
definitely will have a Flight Plan in front of me
that I can at least describe to you, so that you can
have an idea of what's in store for you tomorrow. And
that's all I have. I'll turn it over to you.
CDH Okay, the - let me give you the food - the CDR was a
good guy again and ate everything. The - wait 1.
CC Okay.
00 20 17 CDR Okay. The SPT didn't drink item 62, coffee, with
breakfast, nor did he drink item 62, coffee, with his
snack. He took all his pills that he was supposed to
that was on the pad today and so did the CDR, for that
matter. And that's about it for the SPT.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR The PLT ate everything except one coffee, item 62, of
the snack. He had seven optional salts, and he took
all the pills he was supposed to take today to keep
up on the pad. And, excuse me, I had - the CDR had
8 optional salts tonight.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
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00 21 14 CDR Okay. On the photo log day 150, 16-millimeter activ-

ities: EREP pass 1BH0190 not applicable, no other
16-millimeter; EREP set Q, 1 was 7294; 2 was 9494;
3, 701h; 6 - excuse me - 4 was 6402; 8 - darn it -
5 was 8165 (laughter); 6 was 7071.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. No malfunctions. Also, on our 35-millimeter,

we took - let me get the log on that.
CC Okay.
CC Incidentally, while you're looking for it, Pete, the

coolant loops are squared away again. They are both
running. We are back in a nominal configuration.
CDR Okay. On the 35-millimeter C126 tod%y, we took 22

flash pictures; six of those were drogue photographs,
and seven through 22 were some pictures we took of the
dirt that's accumulating on our screens because we
want to clean them here pretty soon. And the other
pictures in that group were of our suit stowage loca-
tions for the other crews when we get back and some
other configurations of equipment in the MDA.
CC Roger, Pete.
CDR Okay. The Flight Plan deviations today: the CDR

missed the RAD 1 through 4 because he also missed his
PT and PH because he was fiddling with the probe. And
otherwise, I think everybody else got everything done
that - that - -
CREW No ...
CDR Well - they - you cut off MI31; so I assume you know
about that. But the RAD stuff you didn't know about.
I think anything else we've missed you know about.
CC Roger. Understand, Pete. Yes, and we're talking on -

about the 131 run this evening, and I'll get with you
later on that. We still have about 2 minutes left in
the pass. Over.
CDR Okay.
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CC Is that Y - is that all you have?
CDR Yes, that 's it. B - you know about anything that 's
inoperable. SO19. I'm going to - if I have some
time tonight, I'm going to go mess with that some
more. I'm pretty sure that we've got some dirt in
both those gear trains. The one of them I don't
think makes any difference, but the gear train that's
inoperable - if we can locate that without tearing it
apart, we're going to do that. I think I understand
the gears, and I won't disassemble anything; so you
don't have to get nervous about it down there. But
we're just going to smoke it over some more.
O0 24 22 CC Roger, Pete. We'll do that. Be advised that one of

the things on tomorrow's Flight Plan very probably
will be a period of time to schedule - to take a
look at S019, and we're working up a suggested pro-
cedure, I think, for you this evening. We've got
about 1 minute left in this pass. We're going to
have the next pass at Hawaii at 01:22, about an hour
from now. And that will be a medical conference.
And if you guys get through talking up there, we'll
reconfigure and possibly h_ve a short pass with me
later on in - in that pass. So, I'll see you later.
CDR Okay. We don't have very much for the Doctor; as a

matter of fact, we don't have anything for him. We're
in good health, but we'll talk to him. And if you
can - if you want to get back at us, why don't you tell
him to make it short.
CC Okay, real fine. We'll see you later.
00 25 20 CDR Roger.
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01 23 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A - AOS at Hawaii for about

l0 minutes. How do you read?
SPT Loud and clear, Richard. How do you read us here?
CC You read loud and clear. Y'all must be awfully

healthy this evening.
CDR We are. The CDR and the PLT logged l0 laps each
around the water rings tonight .... are getting
pretty sporty. Pretty soon we can run and do a
front flip.
CC Roger that. I'd like you - to advise you that there's

been a - ... of people incredible at that feat - and
particularly all the guys over in your office. And
one of the things that we were wondering is if you've
learned to ride on the portable f - fan yet?
CDR No, that's next. We've got to master the front and
back flip while running on the water ring lockers.
Actually, if you stop and think about it for a second,
I'll tell you how we get started. You put your feet
in a grooves and push off very slowly and gently along
the water rings, and then Just start pumping your toes
in each one of the locker grooves, and then slowly
stand up. And the tendency is to go too fast, and you
crash face first; but if you move slow, sure enough,
after awhile you get your body straight up, so that
you're absolutely running along the radius sector out-
board, andyou can run around there all day long.
Ol 24 31 CC Man, that sounds like fun. Hey, if you guys will give
me about 30 more seconds to - to put together some
words to tell you about tomorrow's Flight Plan. And
if you'll grab a blank piece of paper I think, in real
general terms, I can tell you what to expect. So I'ii
be getting back to you Just here in a second.
CDR Go ahead.
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CC And also, for the PLT. At the ATM, if you have a

chance, we're configured at Hawaii for XUV monitor
TV downlink, if you couldthrow the switch for us.
PLT Okay.
CC Thank you.
PLT Try to get started. I just started on this JOP, Dick.

Let me get started, and then I'll do it.
CC Okay, fine.
CDR And, while you're waiting, Dick, I Just finished the

fuel cell purge, both H2 and 02 on the command module,
and I'm ... turn off the purge line meter.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Okay. Pete, if you're ready to Jot this down, I can

tell you very briefly what we're going to do.
CDR Go ahead.
01 25 48 CC Okay. In the morning, of course, we'll have our normal

post-sleep activities. Then after breakfast, for the
CDR, you'll get the first ATM pass, and then there's
a period of time in there to do a couple of little
housekeeping things and also to do EREP tape, and this
is - and then you'll have your lunchtime. And I think
I'll go ahead and tell you what the other two guys will
be doing, and get us all up to lunch. For the SPT,
he will be doing an M172 calibration right after
breakfast. And - and also, during the time that he's
doing that, we'll have a message up for Paul to be
doing S019 malfunction chasing. Then, after those two
guys are through with the calibration and the malfunc-
tion procedures, the two of them will be doing an
M131-2. And then they'll have lunch. Over.
01 26 55 CDR I've got all of it. Everybody is ... copy. Go

ahead.
CC Okay. Then, after lunch, Pete, you'll have one ATM

pass, and then you'll have a break and do some other -
some M487 stuff and then another ATM pass - or two,
I think it is. And the n ass1_m_ug - making the
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assumption that we get S019 fixed - we will have an

$019 ops period, and then it will be - that's the
end of the day. You'll be having dinner then. For
the SPT, after lunch, he'll have an ATM pass after
lunch for the one where you're going to be doing a
couple of other things. Then, following that ATM
pass, we're going to repeat the M131-1 that we missed
this afternoon. S0 again, the SPT and the PL - and
the PLT will do a MI31-1, and the SPT will be the
subject. Following that run, th - those two guys
will do an M092/171-I series, with the PLT the sub-
ject and Joe as the observer. And that brings every-
body up to dinnertime. Over.
CDR I got it all.
CC Okay. Then right after dinner, Pete, we've got a -

scheduled in a few minutes for you guys to conduct
a fire and rapid DELTA-P drill. And then, you and -
you and Joe I thimk - let's see - you and Joe have
the rest of the evening off, and Paul gets the ATM
pass after supper. Over.
CDR Okay. I'ii tell you, those first couple of few fire
alrams we had up here, especially that one in the -
in the heat exchanger - we got it drilled out pretty
good on that, but l'd go along with that. We - we
can think some other things out, and I think that's
a good idea. And do you want me to read this back?
l've got it all.
Ol 29 I0 CC No, sir. If you're satisfied, I am. We - l'm sorry

we couldn't have it in your hand this evening, but
we will - be advised, we will have the Flight Plans
on board when you wake up in the morning and also the
detailed pads to support them. So, I think we can
let it go at that.
Ol 29 28 CDR Okay. That's no problem. How serious does it look

on the - on the EREP? Is it Just a matter of Juggling,
or are you going to really have to go scratch your
heads to work out the power, or does it look like
we're - just don't have enough?
CC Oh, I think we'll - what we're - stand by I. Let me

give you a straight answer.
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CC Pete, I guess we're still scratching our heads about

it, but the things we're thinking about are Just a
little - a slightly more restrictive time than we'll
spend in Z-LV, and we're possibly considering
restricting - coming into sunrise and going into
sunset in solar inertial. However, I'd - I'd put
that as - right now as speculation. We - we just
really haven't thought it out. But, we will be doing
more EREP, and we'll plan it so we get the most out
of it.
CDR Okay. Understand. That's - that's fine. I guess it

gives us a little more impedence whether we do it or
somebody else does it to get that other SAS panel
out, which is a shame. That thing is sitting there,
and I think that once equipped with the right tools,
it's - it's just a matter of applying a few pounds
on that strap, and that baby'd be out and running.
CC Roger. Stand by Just 1 second, please.
CC CDR, Houston. We still have about 2 minutes left in

the pass. For your information, and - and quite
frankly, I'm not sure what you've been briefed about
on air-to-ground, but we are very actively working
several alternatives that are in people's minds about
solving the SAS problem on this mission. We are -
and Rusty left this evening. He's gone over to
Marshall to work on a tiger team, you know, with some
good thoughts along that line. And we'll be getting
back to you, and let you know the progress. But,
we're sure still working on that one. We haven't
given up yet.
CDR How - how good was the TV you got of - of that

thing? Was it fairly good resolution? Do you really
understand what it is that's holding it? Like we
see it?
01 31 56 CC Well, I'll tell you, Pete, we did get some individual

frames that looked pretty clear to us, but we have
a plan that we're working on to stick the television
out of the minus-Z SAL on the pole that we - you
know, on a pole, so that we can point it back and
look at that SAS wing. And that way, we think if -
and we are working on that, and we're hoping to do
that the day after tomorrow at the latest. And that
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ought to give us Just super-good resolution at that

SAS wing, so I think then we'll have some real good
information. Before I get caught short here, I'm
about 40 seconds from LOs. And the last pass of the
day is the next one, and that's at Vanguard at 01:54.
Go ahead.
01 32 43 CDR Okay. See you there. Hey, that sounds great. I

didn't think of that, but it makes a lot of sense.
I'm going to have to think about which side the
strap's on that's holding it, but I presume it's on
the right side that you'd be looking at. But, I'll
have to think about that.
0] 54 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the Vanguard for the

next 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Yes, wait until I get this ... off.
CC That squeal really is bad, Pete. I can barely hear

you. And be advised I forgot to tell you at the last
LOS we are going to be dumping the DATA tape recorder
this pass. Go ahead.
CC Pete, while you're getting that - those volumes

squared away, let me pass up one note for the SPT.
I'm assuming that he's listening. On the M133 tonight
on the sleep -the problem with the electrode moisture
on the sleep cap, we think he might have better luck
by using a sleep cap this evening from ring locker
D412, which has been a little bit eooler_ And we'd
like him to do that, if possible, and please to report
the pre- and post-sleep wetness conditions of the
electrodes after he does that. And also this evening,
be advised on the C02-2 DTO that we have scheduled,
it is not necessary to close the - to reconfigure the
ventilators in the sleep compartments due to the warm
conditions down there. Over, and go ahead.
CDR Okay, Jack, and we're - we're getting this squared

away. Can you read me?
CC I can read you, but I still hear the squeal. Why

don't you go ahead and try it?
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CDR Okay. I think we got it now. The downlink portion

of the Evening Status Report is not on B channel yet,
because the PLT and the CDR haven't finished their
exercise. We are - I'm on the bike right now just
getting ready to start. And PLT is going to exercise
also. So, that'll be a little late coming down.
CC Roger. Understand. And one thing, Pete. Have you

had a chance yet to look at S019 any?
CDR No, I didn't - I didn't get to it. And we'll just

wait until we get your instructions tomorrow.
CC Roger that, Pete.
01 56 56 CDR What - what we've been doing, Dick, is the SPT has
been trying to work out better geometry for his ...
on the bike. And I think we're all trying to do that.
We're - we're Juggling arotmd with this thing, trying
to find the best way to ride it up here. And it's
not at all appearing that - that each gUY is going to
come up with the same basic way of fixing whatever
the problem is.
01 57 25 CC Okay. Understand. And stand by 1.
01 58 2h CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're taking a good look at

the ATM configuration, since we're going to be doing
unattended ops all evening. And we notice that
both H-alpha doors, our TM indicates thatthey're
open, and also the S054 exposure setting is 64 ... 256.
So we would like to make sure that we go real care-
fully down unattended ops cue card on the ATM this
evening. Also, be advised that during the evening,
we will be putting together e - evening questions -
a set of questions from today's operation. So some-
time tomorrow, if you get a chance, you might go
through them and put them on the tape recorder.
We've still got about 3 minutes left in this pass, and
I'm standing by.
01 59 12 CDR Okay, we'll - we'll recheck the H-alpha 1 and

2 doors ... check on ... 5h.
CC Okay. Thank you much.
PLT That's already ... That's my fault.

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CC No problem.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We still have about a minute

and a half. I have one quick question about the
status of S019. If you can remember from this
afternoon, Paul, it might help us out this evening.
Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. We - we think - we suspect that - that there

is a potential that the problem is in the gearing
between the TILT knob and the gear that's on the
inside of the AMS on the right side - and Just inside
the TILT knob. And it potentially might be some
little bits of glue that were put - put in there
just prior to flight. What we were wondering was,
did you attempt to rotate the gear on the inside of
the AMS - on the inside of the TILT knob - and if
you did, was that gear free or - and did it spring
back and forth, or was it jammed hard tight? Over.
PLT Pete and I both attacked that thing. We tried to

move the gear train from every place we could reach
it, and the whole system, end to end, is frozen up
tighter than a drum.
CC Okay, fine. We'll take that input for sure, and

we'll be getting back in the - when you wake up,
we'll have some kind of a message on board to describe
how you ought to do that. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS. Your first pass in the morning is going
to be about 45 or 50 minutes after you wake up, and
there will be a stateside pass; so y'all have a good
night's sleep, and see you tomorrow.
PLT Same here, Richard. Good night.
CREW Good night.
CREW ... night.
02 02 O1 CREW Say good night, Dick.
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ii 02 39 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're A0S over Carnarvon for

the next 5 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Crip. Roger.
CC Roger. You sound awful cheerful this morning.
CDR Yes, we got a good night's sleep last night, and I

think we're Just getting more used to sleeping up
here.
CC Very good.
CDR Everybody else has crumped out. l've got to see

where they are.
CDE Everybody is awake, and Joe is just angling himself

from hiswhite bunny cap.
CC Roger. You might be interested to know that we

managed to get data from the mol last night
CDR Very good.
SPT Yes, very good, Crip.
SPT You with me?
CC Roger.
ii 03 39 SPT Okay. I woke up about 3 hours into the sleep period.

Checked the bunny cap, and I had good contact on the
front two and the back two electrodes; on the middle
two, I didn't have any lights. I just snuck into
bed again and went back to sleep. The sleep cap
looked completely normal last night when I broke it
out of the dome locker; so apparently that bunch in
the dome locker didn't get heat stressed at all.
CC Roger. Were those two lights still out this morning?

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SPT No, they're on now.
CC Okay.
CDR What he really did was wake up 3 hours into the sleep
period and go slip it on Paul's head.
CC I'm sure Paul would appreciate that.
CDR You guys come up with anything new over the night
working on the power profile?
CC No, I'm afraid not. We're still looking at it.

There is some concern about - we may have to eliminate
some activities today, but we still haven't fully
evaluated that.
CDR Okay.
SPT Back to bed.
CC You don't get your day off until tomorrow.
SPT Okay.
CDR Is tomorrow really the day off?
CC That's affirm. Don't you think you've earned it?
ll 06 04 CDR Yes, we were Just waiting for you to tell us.
CC Sorry. I thought you had that word already.
CDR Well, we weren't really sure, but we'd been discus-

sing the fact that we took the opportunity, I think,
to get some fairly good photography with the Hasselblad
and everything, and I hope we have some good weather
tomorrow. I noticed that the weather seemed to _et
worse, generally, around the world for the last three or
four days, as opposed to when we first took off.
CC Roger. We'll take that as the morning weather forecast.

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ii 06 55 CC Pete, I guess on the power thing - are you aware that

we're not planning on doing EREP today?
CDH Yes, Crip. We have a - we got an outline of the

Flight Plan last night rather than y'all sending us
one up, but I think it's - was the MI31, then Paul
doing some troubleshooting, and me doing a lot of
ATM, while those guys catch up on the Ml31. That's
basically it, isn't it?
ii 07 22 CC Roger. That's affirm. Just wasn't sure whether you

had gotten hold of it or not. We're going to have
LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll pic9 you up again
at Honeysuckle at ll:lh, at ii:14.
ll 14 36 CC Skylab, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Honeysuckle for the

next - oh, about 5 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC My correction on that. It's going to be a short one.

It's about 1 minute.
CDR Okay.
ll 15 08 CC Okay, Skylah, we'll pick you up again at Texas at

ll:4_ - 11:44. And we're short two teleprinter pads -
sort of innocuous - in no big hurry. We'll probably
be sending those up over the States in case you're
running up to grab them. And if you thought you had
lots of paper yesterday, wait until you see today.
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Ii 59 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll have

you again over Madrid at 12:05, 12:05. We have up-
linked all the teleprinter pads at this time. And
we will be doing data recorder dump over Madrid.
CDR Roger. Roger, Houston.
PLT Roger. Crip, there's a message on the tape recorder

concerning a CO 2 measurement this morning which didn't
appear to work too well. Also, I've Just briefed
myself. I notice you got me scheduled for water sys-
tem maintenance. It fixed itself, and we're going
to let sleeping dogs lie for now.
CC Okay. Understand. It fixed itself. What was that

measurement that didn't work quite right?
PLT The CO 2 thing. You know that little black box?
CC Okay. Roger.
PLT I get the same readings all over, and they're high.
12 05 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Madrid for the next

9 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And, Paul, if you get a chance, we'd like to verify

if you deployed ED76 yesterday.
PLT That's verified.
CC Okay. Roger. And if Pete's listening - we - he

probably noticed that we sent him a CBRM trouble-
shooting procedure. That was message number 0731,
which looked almost like the one that he did - that
somebody performed yesterday. We'd like you to run
through that one again today at the scheduled time,
and just wanted to reverify that we'd like to make
sure that it is done in the daylight.
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PLT Okay, I'ii tell him.
CDR I got it.
CDR I'll tell you, Crip, when I get back and leap out of
the bed in the morning, straight towards the ceiling,
and grab my pants and dive back into them before I
hit the overhead, and I really find myself lying
flat on the floor, and then I'm going to know I'm
back.
CC Roger. You're going to have a hard time explaining

that one to Jane.
CC And, Skylab, I was still waiting to get the morning

news for you, which I haven't received yet. You
might be interested to know that Gordon Johncock won
the Indy yesterday, and it only went 132 laps, that
they had to call it after rain.
CDR Understand. And, Crip, I understand that there are

a few guys over in our office that don't believe
that we can run around the water wing lockers; so
we're willing to take a small wager from any of them
that really don't believe that. Furthermore, to
sweeten the pot, last night in our training session
done after 03:00, I might add not on company time,
we also added a little fling to it, where we now
can run around the water ring lockers into front
flip and back flip. So, if they want to sweeten the
pot before we show you this publicly on TV, we're
willing to take any wagers.
CC I'll see how many takers you have.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got some sad news in this

morning's paper that the blob is dead. I'm sure
that Joe will be glad to hear that. And they killed
it with nicotine.
MS (Laughter)
SPT I'd like to be the blob.

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CC Getting to feel it now, huh?
CC Flight just informed me that they picked up some

residual blob out of Lake Houston that a lady has in
her aquarium with a shark .... will be overgrown
with it by the time you guys get back.
12 ll 35 SPT You guys are all going nuts down there.
PLT That's what I was thinking.
PLT We're going nuts up here, too; the CDR thinks he can
fly.
CC I have been getting that impression. Hey, you might

be happy to note that the Astros won a ball game
yesterday, 4 to 1.
SPT Hurray! Are the Cubs in first place?
CC Stand by 1.
CC Roger, Paul, if that question was, were the Cubs in

first place, they still are.
SPT Super!
PLT That wasn't for me. That was for Joe.
CC Ohl Sorry about that.
CDR Hey, Crip, I had a problem with our Hassleblad -

HDC 02. It's blown 2 fuses now. You got any rem-
edy down there before I Just start replacing fuses?
12 13 36 CC Roger. You got me. That's a new one on me; I

hadn't heard about the problem. Got - HDC 02 has
blown 2 fuses, huh? Okay, we'll look into it.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS; we'll have you again
at Honeysuckle at 12:51.
CDR Okay.
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12 52 09 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Honeysuckle for the

next l-l/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Roger. And Pete, if possible, we would like to get

a reading off of the frames remaining counters off
the ATMthis morning.
CDR Okay, I'm going to put them on B channel.
CDR You with me, Crip?
CC Affirm.
12 53 Oh CC We're going to have LOS here in about 30 seconds,

and we'll have you again at Goldstone at 13:20.
CDR Okay. R-alpha was 14839; 82A, 182; 82B, 1455; 52

was 7h61; and 54 was 4995.
CC Thank you.
13 19 55 CDR Hello, Houston. Are you with us?
13 20 02 CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for ll minutes.
CDR ...
CDR Hello, Houston. Are you there?
CC Yes, you were Just cut out by a lot of noise. You'll

have to say again anything you said.
CDR Okay, Houston. This TV down-link and TV 13 are in

conflict with one another. I'm ready to give you
TV down-link. Are you ready to receive?
CC We got it. We - we have a good TV picture, Pete,

and we're ready - -
CDR Yes, I know; but you want ATM TV, isn't that right?
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CDR Okay, coming at you.
CC SPT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Wanted the MOMENTUM DUMP INHIBITED at 12:00 and RE-

ENABLED at 14:21.
CDR Yes, I know. It was in the middle of the postsleep.

I didn't catch it. Joe's not doing the one - As
soon as he's ready to go, I'll inhibit.
CC Copy.
SPT We don't need an answer right away, is that a new

streamer on the east limb there, Houston?
CC Say again.
SPT Okay. When the coronagraph people have a chance, it

- looks like, as best we remember, that's a new coronal
streamer on the east limb. Is it or is it not?
CC Stand by.
13 23 22 SPT It's at your convenience, Bill, there is no rush on

it.
SPT Houston, are you getting live TV now?
CC That's affirmative. Good.
SPT And you're also keeping the VTR running, huh?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Hello, Houston; Skylab.
CC Go, Skylab.
PLT ... Previously, when I run - the PLT has run JOP 6,
I've noticed that the S052 operate light will, on
occasion, just go out and stay out for a few seconds
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on the order of 5 to i0 and then come back on. I

have not caught it enough to give you a good time
hack on it nor have I been able to keep track to see
if it is associated with the end of a frame expo-
sure. One of you guys look at it this pass and see
if it does it again, would you, please?
CC Copy. Wilco.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
13 29 29 CDR Roger. Is the STAR TRACKER ... Are we going to use

the STAR TRACKER today or not?
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13 33 12 CC CDE, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Don't ENABLE the - - Do not ENABLE the star tracker

until we have had the S019 results. Also , Pete, if
you get _ moment, we did not get the frames remaining
on S056. At your convenience.
13 33 50 CDR It's reading 5377 right now, and I Just ran a PATROL
NORMAL so subtract the PATROL NORMAL from that.
13 34 00 CC Copy.
13 37 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. We'll have you - -
CDR Say again, Houston.
CC LOS in 1 minute. We'll have you at Madrid at 13:42.
13 37 2h CDR Okay.
13 h2 38 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 8 minutes.
_. CDR Roger,Houston.
PLT Houston, how about giving us the words on that

Hasselblad, please. I just made some pretty nice
pictures of the St. Lawrence - of the St. Lawrence
and Nova Scotia. What do you want us to do? Change
the ..., change the magazine, or change camera plotting?
CC Yes. We're fixing to bring - give you a procedure on

that. Also, that is a new streamer that's coming up.
13 h3 36 PLT Okay. Thank you.
13 43 57 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
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CDR On the last 82 Alfa exposure , WAVE LENGTH LONG, 3 min-

utes and 20 seconds. My Mickey Mouse watch - I misread
it and it's a h minute and 20 second exposure.
CC Copy.
13 44 21 CDR And I'd really like t_em to look at using the event
timer. You could - we have to bring it up and down,,
because I think we're goofing a lot of pictures that
way. Because we have trained touse that event timer
and we'll eventually get it right the other way, but
ye're going to keep doing things like I Just did using
my little wrist watch. And if we can use the event
timer for auto shutdown, we'll he in a lot better shape.
I don't know how much power it costs, but how about
having them look at that.
13 h4 5h CC We copy and are working it, Pete.
13 hh 59 CDR Thank you.
13 45 52 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC On the cameras. We want you to obtain 01 from F523,

install batteries - -
PLT Wait a minute, Bill. Wait a minute.
CC Copy.
13 46 19 CC CDR, Houston. We need the dump inhibit.
CDR Okay.
13 46 31 PLT What are you ... concerned about, Dr. Thornton?
CC Say again. Didn't copy that one.
CDR The PLT said he's surprised that you're concerned

with that one, Dr. Thornton.
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CC (Laughter) As a matter of fact, someone Jogged memory.
13 46 52 CDR Okay. Listen, did you understand what I told you about
what happened to the cal? It's not on the bottom of
the thing which I had tightened down with m_ fingers
as tight as I could. It backed off at zero-g, and I
think that plate was sloshing a little bit.
13 47 04 CC Yes. We copied that, Pete.
PLT Okay. Go ahead with the dope on the camera, Bill.
CC Okay. Obtain 01 from F523. Install batteries, remove

the mag from 02, verify that the film is not jammed by
manually advancing. If it's sticky, or you have any
problem advancing, obtain a new mag from F510 Charlie.
Install the new mag on 01. Ensure mag signal is white,
and cycle the camera to verify operation.
13 48 34 PLT Okay. I got that. NOW, you said install the new mag-
azine on 01, but if the old one appears to not be Jammed
and can be advanced manually, you want to put it on 01.
Right?
CC That's affirmative. Also, switch lenses if you have

to change the magazine. And the final configuration,
then, on camera 2 would be 100 millimeters, and
camera 1 would be 80 millimeters. That's only in the
event that you swap magazines.
! 13 49 20 PLT Wait. I was under the impression that we're going to

swap the camera 01, anyway.
CC We want you to swap the lenses anyway.
13 49 31 PLT Those were given up by - wait - given up by camera 2?

I'll go look. If I have any more questions, I'll
call you.
CC We copy.
13 50 07 CC PLT, we've got some power conservation changes we'd

like you to make here when possible, if you can copy
before we go LOS.
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PLT Wait I.
13 50 30 PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. On first item. AM fans, circulation fans;

i goes OFF, that's panel AM 203.
PLT Yes, I know where they are. Go ahead.
CC Okay. i, 2, and 3 OFF on 203. On the thermal control

system: duct i fans on BUS i, circuit breakers on
OWS panel 61h, i, 2, 3, and 4 OPEN, the circuit
breakers.
PLT You said you want to power down duct i?
CC That's affirm.
PLT 0kay.
CC And we'll be LOS in about 20 minutes. We'll have you

Honeysuckle at 14:27.
13 51 15 PLT Okay. I'm going to turn off the AM 1 fans and the
duet 1 fans.
lh 27 03 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 9 minutes.
14 27 51 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.
14 28 O0 PLT Roger.
lh 33 4h CC PLT, Houston.
lh B3 56 PLT Go ahead.
CC How is your S019 malfunction procedure going, Paul?
lh 3h Oh PLT For about four different reasons, I'm Just now starting
it.
CC Copy.
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Okay. Now I'm down to the point where I - I've got

it extended out. All those gears are locked up solid.
There's - you absolutely cannot move any of them ...
There - Also in the process of looking at it and
checking out yesterday, we're sorry to say that we
touched the mirror in one place. Let me tell you
where it is. As I look at the mirror extended, it's
out beyond the tilt pivot point, and it's about an
inch to an inch and a half in from the edge. Do
you want us to try to clean it, or Just leave it go?
CC Just leave it go, Paul. There's no problem there.
PLT Okay.
lh 35 56 CC LOS in one minute. Hawaii at 14:47.
14 46 49 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.
14 47 09 PLT Okay, Houston. On SO19.
CC Go.
14 47 14 PLT Just got the outer cover off. It says "Note the posi-
tion of the white spacer." It looked normal to me,
it was concentric about the axis of rotation of the
handle, and was laying immediately underneath the knob.
As far as I couldtell, it was normal. Now if this
!i doesn'twork yet, as a last resort, the inner gear -
the gear that attaches to the knob on the inside of
the case - has a shaft, you know, that sticks up above
the gear itself. How about laying on that with a
pair of pliers, and trying to torque it to break it
loose? Is that a good idea or not so good idea?
14 47 51 CC Stand by half.
PLT Okay.
14 48 12 CC Hey, Paul. They don't want you to torque that with

pliers unless you - unless there's some - If you can
find something loose to manually do it, why, don't
torque it with pliers.
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PLT All right.
lh 52 50 CC CDR, Houston.
14 53 Ol CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC Pete, there are about three items here, if you could

copy.
CDR Wait 1.
14 53 28 CDR Go ahead.
CC Pete, we can do the ground comm,_d on EXPERIMENT

POINTING mode, if you'd like for us to do that.
CDR I'm not following you. You understand the Checklist

says "Go to SI." You want it in EXPERIMENT POINTING?
CC We want it in EXPERIMENT POINTING for unattended

operations, Pete.
14 5h 03 CDR Okay. I'm looking at my sequence on panel - My check-

list say s MODE SOLAR INERTIAL, and I'ii put it to
EXPERIMENT POINTING. We're either going to change the
checklist or Just put it on the pad when you come up.
14 54 19 CC Copy and concur, Pete.
CDR Go ahead with the next one.
CC Okay. On the recorder, AUDIO on the 20h panel - I want

that in the B position, Baker position. We want you
to power down the VTR, turn if OFF. We'll give you a
call to power it up prior to S052 this afternoon.
We' ll dump that tomorrow.
14 54 _9 CDR The VTR is powered down at this time, and did we have
something else scheduled for it?
lh 55 03 CDR Go ahead.
CC Wait a minute.
CDR And also the voice recorder has been in B channel all
this time since yesterday after EREP.
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14 55 29 CC Pete, we copy that last. If your main power is still

on, we want it off. That is, if it's in standby, be-
cause, that's using some power.
SC Okay. I'm with you now. All right.
14 56 l0 CC We'll be LOS in about 30 seconds here. Goldstone

at 14:59.
14 56 21 CDR Roger.
14 56 43 CDR And then at 14:59, they want me to come back here and
do this darn panel crap on - -
14 58 54 CC Skylba, Houston; A0S for 7 minutes.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR I'm ready to do your CBRM thing. Be advised to sup-

port scheduling, though. You realize that I'm hold-
ing l0 EREP tape cleaning swabs in my hand and a few
other things, and I'd appreciate it if you guys would
look at that and the scheduling a little bit closer.
About two or three times now you got us doing things
where er got 89 pieces of gear out, and you got us
running all over the spacecraft. I think you got
a little bit better than you're doing. Now I'll go

i enough guys
ahead and do down
this there to think
procedure out the FLight Plan
for you.
14 59 58 CC Pete, go ahead and do your EREP at this time, if that

is the problem, and we copy andunderstand.
CDR It's not a problem now. I had my little clock buzzer

in my pocket, but I Just wanted you to know where I
was - what I was in the middle of doing.
15 00 14 CC We copy, Pete.
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CDR You can't lay swabs, checklists, and stuff down. We

wind up holding six or eight things in our hands and
running all around, see. You got to think about that
a little.
15 O0 30 CC Copy, Pete. And we'll try to do better.
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15 01 30 PLT Are you there, Houston?
CC Go.
PLT Hello, Houston. You there?
CC That's affirmative. Go, Paul.
PLT S019 is fixed. I ain't got it back together yet, but

at least it's free.
15 02 02 CC Copy; it's fixed, and you're putting it back together.

Congratulations, you just made him happy.
PLT And the problem was a little flange, referred to in

step 9, was bearing down on that - that - top-most
gear, that kind of little one. It di_1't seem to be
bearing down hard. I don't really see how it froze
it up so solid. But I've mashed that flange down
flat on the inside, and I'll start trying to put it
back together. And surprisingly, I think I haven't
lost a screw yet.
15 02 17 CC We copy. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Houston. How's the CBRM 15 look to you?
CC Stand by half, Pete.
15 02 37 CC Pete, we see no SAS or charge current. Go ahead and

complete the five cycles, however, Pete.
CDR Okay. Going into the five cycles.
15 03 39 PLT Houston, you care if I have another short word

on SOl9?
15 03 50 CC Sorry, Paul. What about the cover?
PLT Can I tell you one more short word? I think that
maybe when it was binding up with that topmost little
gear in that outside train there, there's a collar
underneath it which is held in place with a Phillips
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screw. Now I think that that little metal fairing,

or whatever it is that goes around the inside of
that cavity, was bent in, such that that Phillips
serew head, which projects out beyond the edge of 1
the gear itself, was wedged solid right up against
that metal plate.
15 04 27 CC Yes, we copy, Paul.
CDR Looks like no joy on CBRM 15.
CC We copy, Pete. And we agree.
15 04 52 CDR Say bow's CRBM [sic] 3 now?
CC Stand by half.
15 05 12 CC Pete, the REG is still off on that because we plan

to do some more troubleshooting on it.
15 05 20 CDR Roger.
15 06 ii CC We're going to LOS here in about 20 seconds. We'll

have you again in about 3 minutes.
15 l0 12 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 8 minutes.
15 l0 20 PLT Roger, Houston. Give m5_ congratulations to whoever

wrote those S019 procedures, will you, please? They
were clear, explicit, and easy to follow.
CC Will do.
15 ll 25 PLT Hey, just for my information, how about when you

find out, Bill, let me know who gets that well done.
Will you, please?
CC Copy.
15 14 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised that we are going to

dump the recorder over Canary at 15:19.
SPT We're advised.

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15 17 18 CC Skylab. LOS in i minute. We'll have you at

Canary at 15:19.
15 17 24 CDR Roger, Houston. The SPT, for your good time-lining

information, has Just now completed the M172 cal.
And it's about an hour and 15 minutes behind.
CC We copy, Pete.
CREW ...
15 18 23 CC If you read us, we didn't copy that.
15 19 58 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 15 minutes, and we did not

copy your last transmission.
SPT Somebody, namely me, inadvertently pushed the trans-

mit button. Houston, forget it.
CC Copy.
15 20 16 SPT Okay. And let me say about the M172. It's obvious
how long it took. I hope we don't have to do it
again for 3 weeks or so. I used a lot of gray tape,
which I'll be returning to you so you can weigh it
because it's in many small pieces. And with the aid
of the gray tape, I hope to secure the batteries in
the T003 and the food tray lifts, which rattle a lot.
And the whole thing still shakes and rattles a little
bit at the high weights. But most of the data points
look good.
CC Okay, Joe. Appreciate that. Joe, is there any

possibility that you could, as time allows, weigh
that gray tape on the M074 on the SMMD and send that
down? That would allow us to start getting you some
172 data back up.
15 21 ll SPT Well, Bill, I don't know. They're awfully small

pieces. That's why I proposed taking them home. Also
I'm only - I'm an hour and a half down on the time
line right now. I just don't know when I'll get to it.
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CC We copy that, Joe. If it - if it were possible

to where - to weigh any of the items or either get
an estimate of what they might weigh, because there's
a good bit of pressure to try to get a 172 CAL down
here.
15 21 24 PLT Houston, I haven't really looked at my schedule

lately. I assume that when I've done reassembling
SO19, you want me to go ahead and reinstall it in
the airlock, right?
15 22 Oh CC Paul, we'd like for you to do that in the - at

approximately 17:50, when you're doing the water
maintenance.
PLT Okay. Is that on my Flight Plan?
15 22 17 PLT Oh, okay. I hadn't read that far ahead. I'm

still trying to catch up. Sorry.
CC Copy.
15 22 34 CDR Houston, CDR. The S009 was initiated at 15:22:03.
15 22 42 CC We copy.
15 27 21 PLT Hi there, Houston; Skylab. Are you still there?
CC We're still here. Go.
PLT Okay. The maximum readings, they - they - Two

extremes on the tilt arm now are 358.3 and 33.7.
15 27 40 CC Copy.
PLT Just as I was putting in the last screw with this

little spring under it, patting myself on the back
for not losing a single one of those, I slipped off,
and I'm missing a screw and a spring now. But I
think they'll eventually show up on that great
collector in the dome, our point of entering screen.
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CC (Laughter) we copy, Paul.
15 3_ 35 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Carnarvon at 16:02.
16 02 29 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS here for about l0 minutes with

a keyhole.
16 03 16 CDR You call, Houston?
CC Go, Skylab.
CDR I said did you call, Houston?
16 03 27 CC Just called an AOS. And, CDH, on the timer, go

ahead and use the EVENT TIMER as you suggested.
CC Pete, your cue card was correct. You leave it in

SOLAR INERTIAL, and we'll command it if we go
into unattended ops. And we accept responsibility
for that one.
16 Oh hl CDR Okay, Houston. Roger. Listen when I have time, and

I don't right now because we're behind the power
curve. Tonight sometime on B channel - I'm going
to send down to the flight directors why it is we
run into these problems when you schedule the way
we do. I'm not sure you really understand what
our problem.
CC Yes, Pete. We copy that. We'll be interested in

hearing the comments and -
16 05 17 CC Easily - and I'm going to try to explain by using

today as a good example of how not to schedule. Okay?
CC We copy.
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16 05 17 CDR And I think I can do it in a constructive manner

that will make more sense than us getting - snapping
which we don't mean to do, but we Just get our hands
so full. And it's always the times we get them the
fullest is when you call. So let me send that down
tonight on B channel so you get a little _mder-
standing of what some of the problems are. And the
other guys are doing Ml31 right now. And I'm ...
through lunch so I can get back to the ATM on time.
They're down some and I'm holding m_ own, but just
barely.
16 07 h4 CC CDR, we copied your last transmission before the

keyhole. We'll be interested in hearing what you
have to say, and we also hang our heads for the day.
16 12 07 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll

have you down in Hawaiiat 16:25.
16 2h 40 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.
16 24 44 CDR Roger.
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16 33 24 Skylab, we'll be LOS in about 45 seconds. Goldstone

at 16:37.
CDR Roger.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, you'll be LOS in a minute, for approximately

5 minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston. You there?
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
PLT This is the PLT. Now what am I missing or not

understanding. I don't see anywhere where it tells me
to install S019 in the airlock.
CC That's right, Paul. We wanted you to do that in the

water service period this afternoon.
PLT Oh, I thought you were saying that's where it was

already indicated on the Flight Plan.
CC Negative. We wanted you to do that during that period.
PLT Okay. I thought I didn't understand something. Good

enough. Thank you. Did you find out who wrote those
procedures, yet?
CC Yes, stand by a half.
16 43 33 PLT Hey, and you'll he glad to know I found the spring.

I'm now waiting until the screw loses sufficient energ_
such that the airflow sucks it on up against the intake
screen.
CC We copy that. And listen, the people - There were

several people who worked on that procedure. For
example, there was Fernando Ramos, Karl Henize; there
was Fred 0tallahan and Chuck Ruby all worked on that
one, and we passed your thanks along.
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PLT Okay, thank you, Bill.
16 47 09 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately Ii minutes.
PLT Roger.
16 52 5h CC Skylab, Houston. The tape recorder will be dumped

over Ascension at 17:03.
CDR Roger.
16 57 12 CC Skylab, you'll be LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll

have you at Ascention at 17:30.
CDR Roger.
17 04 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. ADS for i0 minutes.
PLT Roger.
17 13 26 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in a minute. Carnarvon at 17:36.
PLT Roger, Houston.
17 37 00 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for l0 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CREW (Music)
17 44 51 CC What's that? "Requiem for Flight Control?"
PLT Say again.
PLT That's PJ's bagpipes.
CC (Laughter) Thought that was "Requiem for Flight Control."
PLT No, we give you a little bit of selected pieces every

now and then.
CC We appreciate it.
PLT That's the tempo for the CDR to do M471A - Whatever

he 's got.
CC No, you need another music for that one.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC GO, SPT.
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SPT Got a stupid ques ion here. I have a feeling I ought

to already know the answer to this, but I'm about to
do the second sunside pass out of JOP 23, and I want
to verify that the X-ray experiments do not want to
repeat on this orbit; that I should not run 56 and 54?
CC Stand by half, Joe.
17 47 25 CC Joe, repeat both experiments. Repeat both experiments,

Joe.
SPT Okay, we'll run the whole building block over again.
CC That's affirm.
17 50 37 CC Skylab, Houston. ASO for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in about 45 seconds. We'll see

you at Goldstone at 18:15.
17 59 38 CDR Roger.
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18 15 44 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS.
CDR Roger, Houston. Got a question for you. Are you going
to get a S019 pad up for me? I don't have one yet
for the 21, 28, or whatever-it-is operations that are
scheduled.
CC Pete, that's on its way. It'll be up this site.
CDR Okay. Can you tell us, is the prism in or out?
CC Prism is in, Pete.
CDR Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Okay. We'll get these water tank tempmeasurements

for you, reference your message of 07:32. The answer
to question 2, 'Was the waste management compartment
SN_MD electronic module changed out?" The answer is,
"No, nobodytold us to." Three - -
PLT Told us not to.
CDR Oh, you told us not to. Excuse me. Three, "Please
provide leg and leg bands [?] for pilot, M092, day 148."
Question 4, same _hing for day 149 for the CDR. And
my question is, what happened to the data? Did you
not get B channel? Because I know it was put on.
/
CC Stand by half a minute on that last one, Pete.
CDR Okay. Well, we'll sort it out for you, but we're not
writing that stuff down, as you well know. And
\ it does go on B channel. Now, maybe we had (music)
, on B channel,or something,but we'll dig that up
for you.
CC Pete, we'll probably have a later word on you on that

last question.
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18 17 51 CDR Okay. Question number 6_ "Did the power systems alert

light ever go out subsequent to data cycling CBRS 4,
6, 7, 8, ll, 12 and 17?" As far as I know, the power
system alert light has been on ever since we've been
in the vehicle.
CC Copy.
CDR And I'm in route to do number 7 right now.
CC Copy.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Bill, the first thing I asked them, when the SMMD
went on the fritz, was, "Is there a spare electronics
module on board?" They said no.
CC Yes. What happened there was that we intended to give

the option of either changing out the electronics and
putting it in the head, or else doing the fecal
measurements in the wardroom. And possibly we weren't
specific enough.
SPT Well, we'd, - we'd be inclined to take a toss up the

feces into the wardroom, that makes it between you
and Dr. Weisner [?] to - which SMMD you'd rather have
up. Just let us know.
CC Okay. We understand the status now. And we'll get

you an answer on it.
SPT Okay.
18 19 45 CDR Say, Houston. The PLT figured out your - I won't

use his exact words - but he says he gathers that
you're working your way around to the fact that we're
either going to weigh food in the head, or waste
material in the wardroom.
CC All right, I think I can supply the missing words_ Pete.
CDR And the secondary coolant loop and the Frigge [?] i
circuit breaker is reset, and it's set. I mean, it's
low again, I think.
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CC We copy.
18 20 19 CDR And the other thing is on question l, which says, "Water

tank temp measurements performed during free house-
keeping." Where you write those housekeeping blivits in
there, you can now consider those no longer as free
housekeeping there. The only place that we get a chance
to catch up from where we're behind. And that's one of
the reasons things snowball on us in the evening, because
it's not working the way it's suppose to. We're using
those housekeeping times to catch up.
CC Pete, we surmised that was happening and understand.

Do the temps whenever you can.
CDR Yes, okay. I Just wanted to explain that to you. And

the other thing is that one of these days, one of these
pieces of gear is going to work right the first time
we take it out. _md, unfortunately, up until this
point, it hasn't. And my latest one that I Just
spent a little time on, although I know it wasn't a
big deal, was the h871-A. Because I was going to try
and get ahead and do that first before I did my PT. And
it did not calibrate correctly. You can tell them
that to get minus 0.9 dB. I had to use full adjustment.
And it is now against the stop, but it Just barely
made 0.9; it's closer to minus 0.7 dB. Now I was
in the process of making my first measurement, and
I noticed, I - I guess this thing doesn't measure
under 60 dB - and I can't get it to register in the
wardroom. The vehicle is pretty quiet, but I -
don't quote me on that one. I was Just starting to
do it when you all called.
CC Okay, Pete. We copy.
SPT Hey, Bill. Where are we?
18 22 l0 CC Oh, sorry. Over Goldstone.
CREW No, I mean what part of the country are we over

right now?
CC You should be Just north of Puget Sound there, above

Oregon, coming across the border, or flying along
the border.
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SPT Oh, okay, I got it. Yes, we're just east, ending
south of the Great Lakes. All right.
CDR We just - we keep the MDA windows closed. And unless

you're in the wardroom, you might was well be in the
Yellow Submarine, as far as figuring out where we are.
CC (Laughter) Copy.
1:1,!'i28 CC CDR, Houston. On questions 3 and _. That requirement's

gone away. We've found the material.
PLT Very good.
PLT Hey, Bill, I have something else.
CC Go.
PLT We recovered the spring for that S019 knob, but the
bolt or screw hasn't showed up yet. Could somebody
do a little research? If 3 is fine we'll Just go
with it. If they'd rather have h, somebody's going to
have to find a substitute some place in the workshop.
CC Okay. We copy that, Paul.
CDR There's a screw loose in the forward compartment.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Don't worry about either the spring or that missing

screw. You're in good shape without them.
CDR Hey, Bill, also I'm scheduled for a C02. Did you want
to do that in view of - what we found in the instrument,
or are you going to have some procedures up to
troubleshoot it?
CC Stand by, here.
CC Pete, prior to the C02 measurement, we'll get you some

words up on that. There may be some changes.
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Day151 Page507
18 28 35 CDR Yes, Paul tells me that he put that information on

B channel. We had some problems with it this moring;
so if you haven't gotten - -
CC We've got it. And we'll reach a decision on - on that.
CDR Okay.
18 28 58 CDR Well, I'ii tell you. I've spent a lot of time in

space before at 150 nautical miles, but this 237 is
just unbelievable over the United States. We Just came
across Sandy Hook [?], and you can see all the way
to the tip of Florida. And you can see the whole
Bahama chain, and you can see all the shallow water
and all the deep water all in one big picture. And
really fantastic. Tomorrow, on our day off, if we
get th_ camera squared away, well, I hope we can
get some good Hasselblad shots of this, because they
are pictures like - I know we would never see that
much in one picture before.
CC By the way, did you get the Hasselblad squared away,

Pete, or do you need any further help on that?
CDR No, we haven't had a chance to do that yet, Bill. We'll

work it tonight, or we'll get it tomorrow - one of the
two.
CC Okay, and we'll he looking forward to pictures from it.
CDR Yes, if that one front that's been up there by Indiana-

polis dissipates, we ought to be able to get some pic-
tures tomorrow ir_ our stateside passes.
CC We copy that. Thank you.
18 3h 44 CC Skylab, LOS. And we:ll see you in approximately 40 min-

utes at Carnarvon.
CDR Roger.
19 15 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. And I got a few words with you about
the sound meter.
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CC Go, Pete.
19 15 41 CDR Okay, with the ... on this pickup gear, I adjusted it

on the wrong scale. And I have it adjusted correctly
now, and it's taking readings. I get like 22 d3 for
ambient noise level. Does that _a_e sense?
CC Pete, if it's veryqulet, it does. 22 dB is pretty

quiet, but, yes, that's not unreasonable.
19 16"06 CDR Okay. Well, l've been taking the_mostly downin the -
l've got most of the 0WS. I haven't come up here in
the MDA yet. And l was curious to - I th_IgBt that was
kind of low, myself. '
CC Yes, 22 is very quiet, but that's like being in the

middle of a desert. _
CDR Yes, well, some of the filtered stuff - it's a different

frequency rate. Gets up around 28-1/2. So maybe it's
okay.
CC Goodo, Pete.
19 16 49 CDR You can cb=1_ up one on me for that cal. I Just read
the checklist; wrong and did it on the wrong scale.
19 28 41 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S 6minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Pete, this is Just for information only. On the S052

operate light anomaly, they th4nk this msyhave so_e-
thing to do or be in s_eway related to a discrepancy
that they note between the nlw-_er of frame counts that
you a_e getting and the number that ground's getting.
Ground is showing302more frames used thanyou have
shown; and as you're aware, the S052 takes 12 frames
during a standard patrol.
19 29 27 CDR Okay, understand. Let me - the light is ccmlng on, and

we'll take a couple of more frames before the light
cc_es on.
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19 29 37 CC Pete, you're unreadable on that one.
CDR ..o
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19 34 46 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll

see you at Goldstone at 19:52.
CDR Okay.
i9 52 20 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS.
CDR Roger, Houston.
20 04 [)3 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be dumping the tape

recorder over Vanguard at 20:18.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be dumping the tape

recorder over Vanguard. That'll he at 20:18.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Houston, CDH.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR I'm having a hard time finding any hot spots in

this active region they want me to work on.
I'm sorry I couldn't ... up a little bit I
guess - Just ... out.
CC Pete, I'm sorry. You weren't readable on that

one. Would you say again?
CDR I was Just s<-:ug that - tell the ATMers that

this isn't a very active active region, and I
was having a hard time getting anything out of
it for them.
CC Okay. We copy that, Pete. It's a very quiet

Sun.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. We'll see you at

Vanguard at 20:18.
CDR Roger.
20 18 hl CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.

Page 512 Day 151
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. Goldstone AOS 21:29.
NOTE: TAG Tape 151-10 was erroneously numbered 151-11; thus, no

transcript for 151-10 will be forthcoming. This note is
issued in lieu of a filler page.
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21 31 08 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 21 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston; Skylab. Say, I've been wrestling with

that sound meter all afternoon. And I finally got it
to read right. It's reading around 15 dot decibels,
but is doesn't - to do that - it doesn't work according
to the checklist. And I guess my question is, is
the checklist wrong, or is there something wrong
with the sound meter_
CO Okay. Could you tell us what you had to do to make

it work, Pete? Quickly.
CDR Okay. I don't have the checklist in front of me,

but when you shut it off directly both the inner
and outer black and clear dials are both clockwise,
so that the clear dial has 70 underneath it to start
with. And if it's reading minus dBs, you use the
clear dial going counter-clockwise to lower dB set-
tings. And if it's plus dBs, you run the black dial
counterclockwise to get higher dB readings, so you
can read it on the ... scale. So, when I do that - it
started out that way - I need to take the clear dlal
and move it to lower dB, and lo and behold, I get all
the way down to 20. That's when it starts to read.
Except it reads 22 dB, and you can light off a bomb
up here, and nothing will happen. Now, it says in
the book, don't rotate both dials simultaneously.
And I gather it also means that one should stay over
against the stop one way while the other one is
being adjusted. And if I mix them up, I can come up
with 15 - in the 50 dB range - and it reads fine.
But it's not per checklist.
CC Okay. We copy that. And we're looking at it, now,

Pete.
CDR Thank you.
CO And, Pete, there are two messages for you, if you're

free to copy them.
CDR Yes, sir.

Page514 Day151
21 33 3h CC Okay. The first one has to do with a revised star

tracker pad for SO19 ops. And the inner gimbal is
minus 0142; outer gimbal is plus 0422; and the valid
time on this 151:21 to 23:00.
CDR Okay. Did the same ... on the ... act ... ?
CC That is affirmative. And did you get the S019 pad?
21 34 37 CDR Yes, we did. And are you going to command the star
tracker on?
CC Stand by.
CC Now, Pete. We could do it, hut we were going to

leave that to you.
CDR Okay. I understand. Yes. That's okay, fine.

Very good. Thank you.
CC Okay. The other thing is that we want the S05h frames

remaining counter to be reset after the 21:07 pass.
CDR Okay. What do you want it reset to?
CC Goes to zero.
CDR Go to zero?
CC Stand by i, Pete. That's full scale, 6000.
21 35 h7 CDR That's 6000?
CC Yes, Just select the reset, and it's suppose to go

there.
21 40 57 CDH Houston. CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR The - While we're ... sidestraeking this enable do

I have to do any of that - it's already ... isn't it?
CC Pete, we show you locked on a star, here.
CDR Well, I know I've got it locked on, but is the up-
date enabled and all that, or do I have to command
that, also?
m
Day 151 Pige 515
21 41 43 CC Stand by half. You're all ready to go, Pete.
CC Skylab, you're going to be LOS in a minute. Vanguard at

21:55. And Pete, as we said, you're already enabled
and ready to go.
CDR Roger. Roger.
21 _2 54 CDR And I feel like Mr_ Solar Physicist today, after

all that time on the ATM panel.
21 56 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 30 seconds. Hawaii at 23:04.
CDR Roger. And be advised SO19 is right on the money.

And its in operation.
22 03 25 CC We copy, Pete.
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SKYLAB TECHNICAL AIR-TO-GHOLFND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
23 02 04 CC Skylab, Houston. ADS for about 5 minutes, CDR.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 5 minutes, CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Pete, we have a number of messages here for you.

The first one is that a procedure has been worked
up for looking via TV out the airlock at the
SAS wing, and the value of this is cttrrently
being determined in test here. How would you
feel like doing about 3 hours of this on your
day off tomorrow?
CDR Yes, I guess we'llhave to. Let's do it.
23 03 30 CC Okay, we're going to hold the Flight Plan under

these circumstances, and we'll get the Flight
Plan up later. Also, we - on the panel 203,
the MDA fan CSM switch to OFF. However, before
entering the CSM, turn this fan back ON.
CDR Okay, we understand.
23 0h 02 CC Okay. On the VTR for today at 152:00, turn the

VTR MAIN POWER switch ON. CAP CO, will cue you
on this one. We will disable this after the
last ATM pass.
CDR Say again the times, though I came up garbled.
CC Okay. That time is 152:00:_0, and the CAP CO_@_

will cue you.
CDR Okay. That_'s for VTR power. We got it.
CC Roger. And the ground will position the recorder

to the proper location of the tape. We haven't
dumped any data today, and we'll accomplish this
tomorrow.
CDR Okay. What else you got?

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23 05 l& CC Okay. We've got one on the C06here. The little

Bechman [71 CO 2 monitor. And _his is reference
COA-1
2 at 24:15 today. SELECT system B. Also
change the procedure during temperature measure-
ments to pump during the temperature until the
temperature stabilizes, or for a maximum of
2 minutes. Now if the CO readings are not
2
considered adequate, on thls attempted usage,
then we will terminate the experiment - terminate
the experiment.
CDR Okay. Was this the B that we used this morning -

because it was system A that had all the goofy
stuff coming out of it. Do you still want to go
ahead with B - as I understand it. We'll give
her a whirl.
CC That's affirmative, Pete. Also, we want you to

run a primary Sun-sensor checkout on the last ATM
Sun pass of the day. This is for the PLT. And
the procedure on this is to select the primary
fine Sun sensor, drive the wedges in a direction
opposite to the displayed values. And, CDR, do
this after the data take is over.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, you still there, Bill?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay, standing by to 60 Golf.
23 08 13 CDR Also be advised mc_entum is enabled. I enabled

it early.
CC We copied both of those, Pete.
CC CDR, we're going to be LOS in about 1 minute.

We' ll have you at Vanguard at O1: lO, and that 'll
be the medical report.
CDR You're going to have us between 23:00 and 01:i0.

Is that right?
CC Stand
by.
Day 151 Page 519
CC That's incorrect, Pete. I gave you the wrong one.

That's 23:31. That should have been 23:31.
CDR Okay, 23:31 and we'll standby then for house-

keeping 60 Golf.
CC Copy, Pete.
2B B2 h5 CC Skyla_, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii at -

excuse me - at the Vanguard. We got you for
9 minutes.
CDR Good.
CC And be advised last pass, we forgot to tell you

we're going to be dumping the data tape recorder
here. And I assume you guys are having supper,
I hope.
CDR No, we haven't gotten there yet, but we're close.

Go ahead.
CC Okay. Pete, we're prepared to do this house-

keeping 60 Golf; however, if - we'll be glad
to reschedule it later if you guys are not
prepared to support it.
CDH We're prepared. We were waiting for you, last

pass.
CC Roger. I know. Standby.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're starting the ... for

the procedure.
CDR Okay, Houston. It all worked. You can go

ahead and send 2.
CC Roger. We will. Standby.
23 3& 28 CC MARK - It's up there now.
CDR Okay. We got it on 2. All VOXs [?] are

working.
CC Very good. Thank you.

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CDR And, Dick, sometime later tonight, we - we are

going to - we're working up all these little
things that are - are causing us to get behind
in Y. And we'll have them all on B channel
for you, for the flight directors and the
FA0s to look at. Okay? And I want to make
sure they get that stuff tonight when it
comes down. It'll. probably be 2 - 3 more hours
before we get on there.
23 35 18 CC Roger, Pete. We certainly will, and it

might help us to let us know when you -
approximately when you are going to put
it on the B channel a little bit later on.
And we'll be sure to find it and we'll
see that it gets passed around. And
also, if there are any items that you
would care to this evening - to s1_arize
for us on the air-to-ground, we'll be
glad to. Otherwise, we'll be waiting
for Channel B.
CDR Nell, I could s_,Tm_ize my problems today,

because I Just took the last time you're
suppose to, 60 Golf, and sat down and wrote
them out. Just a second.
CC Roger. We're Standing by, and still got about

6 more minutes this pass. While you're looking
for that, I have - I have one note here for the
friendly SPT. Our M133 data from last evening
was very much imporved. And so, we're
ass,lm_ug that those caps that got out of
that dome locker probably helped the situation
and probably ought to continue going'that way.
SPT What did they find out about me, Dick?
CC Found out you're still up there. I didn't

really - -
SPT Am I crazy or not?
CDR Okay, Dick. I got the stuff for you.
CC Goahead.
Day151 Page521
23 36 42 CDR Okay. One of the first things is that Y - I

think we should have cr=n_ed in earlier, but,
we didn't have a chance. It takes about 5 minutes
to depress and repress the SAL; they are very, very
slow, And if you add on the minute check and
everything, it takes about 7 or 8 minutes to do
that. And when you got a pass where you're suppose
to depress, run the SAL, and then repress, and go
back again like a night pass, if you take a guy
off the ATM to do that, it doesn't work. That's
number 1. Number 2, you guys are slipping things
into the PSAs both in the morning and the evening,
without adding the time. Example of that, this
morning, was it had to be TV-13 set up on the
PLT's part that came into his PSA, or he wouldn't
have made the right time when it was supposed to
be taken. We didn't have a Flight Plan. We were
scurrying around. I missed a momentum dump inhibit
at 12:00, and you're cutting the corner pretty
close when you do that. We're still scurrying
around down below. We're already gave up shaving
in the mornings, and we do it at night after 03:00.
Just be advised that we're having a tight time
making the PSAs. And your time estimates for
small activation initial tasks have turned out
to be completely wrong. We've had trouble with
every piece of gear. As examples, today, was
the CO^ monitor which turned up to be bad. The
audlo meter - I still haven't gotten that
straightened out. The first one was a g0of
on my part because I was hurrying, and - but
now, I sat down later, some more information
appears to me either the checklist is wrong
or something's goofed up, and that I - I shot
a good hour and a half on that baby. But, the
most important thing that I want to get around
to is what I consider some violations of the
ground rules we sort of set up in the SIM. As
an example today, again on my part, was FAO, I
feel, violated two criteria today on my Flight
Plan turning over, repeating J0P to another
crewman. I set up a limb scan mode, and then
had to turn it over to Joe, and you know that
takes extra time to do that. Joe was _mning
behind so, you know, we did a lot of scurrying,
but we got it done.
Page 522 Day 151
23 39 06 CC Roger. We're still listening, Pete. And we've

got about 2-1/2 more minutes left.
23 39 lh CDR Okay. Further, I - I was hacked by 23:00 tonight

because it's 19:00 until 23:0_, to finish every-
thing on time, including inhibits. I had alarm
clocks going off in my pocket, and, if you'll
look back over my Plan, I've been whistling all
over this spacecraft today. And I got it all
done only to get up here at 23:00 and get a
bunch of bologna you could have sent On the
teleprinter. And you guys missed the house-
keeping Golf which I had been shooting for all
day Just because I said, "I'm going to get it
all done. I'm going to get it all done and I'll
beat those _s ontime." Now, part of that
problem with 8019. Part of it was the SAL.
Part of it was that first pass was w_ too long.
I got it all done, but I got it done poorly
by only doing two of the reference stars and
running the four photographs. And it turns out
that, when I did the last reference star, which
was in daylight, by the way, that it - to check
the reference, the reference was off when the
first one had been on; and, therefore, I don't
know what the other two are. So I suggest that,
to do S019 correctly, that we take one whole night
pass, and do nothing but send up four references
to check, to check the four quadrants so we can
do a very precise, very accurate Job on that and
get the data back to Carl so that his experiment
gets done right. Are you still there?
23 40 46 CC Affirmative, Pete. We've still got about a minute

to go this pass. Tell you what, Pete, why don't
we - why don't we secure listening to your or -
your s_-,ary here. We'll be more than happy to
keep listening here at the Evening Status
Report. But, I hate to cut you off in the
middle. We've got about 50 seconds left.
The next pass is Hawaii at about 00:40. And
one of the things that I think we really - don't
have a good feel for here on the ground, and we'd
llke to know is - is has the accumulation of the
last week put in a requirement for - for us to
give you any time Just to get squared away in the
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way of stowage, trash, and that kind of thing.

We got about 20 seconds left, and I'ii see you
at Hawaii.
23 41 37 CDR Yes, we're barely hanging in on that, Dick. But,

I think we Just got to ease the load Just a little
better by scheduling us a little more efficiently.
CC Roger.
CDR Bye.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We still show power on

MI71. We're asst_ming that you're still going.
If you're not, if you're still - if you're over
with it, it should be off.
CDR Okay, Houston.
23 _2 07 CC Roger.
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00 39 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Hawaii for the

next i0 minutes.
SPT Go ahead, Richard.
00 39 17 CC And one thing real quickly, be adv_%, we're

going to be - you guys did a power down earlier
today and we're going to be doing - cc_mencing
here at this pass powering up a few things by
co,and. One of them is going to be primary
coolant loop and so you expect a caution and
warning primary coolant flow. And the next
thing for the guy at the ATM, which I think
is the SPT -
SPT It's me.
CC Hello, there. We're configured at Hawaii, Joe,

to get a XUV monitor TV downlink, if you could
give it to us this pass. And, with that, go
ahead.
00 39 58 SPT Okay, anything to please, and I would monitor the

caution light. Dick, the star tracker shutter
started - rather the shutter talkback started to
oscillate rapidly, here, awhile ago. And I tried
everything I could to stop it. Finally, I Just
shut the power off on the thing. Why don't you
guys look at it?
CC What was it - say again what it was doing rapidly?
00 40 21 SPT The talkback was oscillating, rapidly between

barberpole and star, I guess. It was Just click,
click, clicking and I Just couldn't stop it. By
going to manual, it wouldn't stop; closing the
door didn't stop it.
CC Roger, Joe. Copy. We will look at that.
SPT Thank you.
00 40 49 CC And, CDR, Houston. Not sure whether you guys are

eating dinner or whether you have time this pass
f for the evening status report. If - Before you
give us that, I'd bike to ask you one question
about this TV for tomorrow if you're listening.
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00 _i 06 CDR Go ahead.
00 41 08 CC Okay, Pete. We've got some guys over in Building 5

that are pursuing how we would implement this TV
out the minus-Z SAL to look at the SAS beam and
the further along they go the - in some cases the
more difficult the procedure gets, and it's basic-
ally a problem, because in order to get it we were
going to put the little 90-degree mirror on the
front end of the TV camera and that doesn't leave
enough room in order to deploy it prGperly. How-
ever, we can continue to work on this, and I guess
the question that we're interested in is - the way
I briefed it to you yesterday or the day before
was that we were interested in getting the high -
the high-fidelity TV but the procedure's getting
a little hairy. And I guess we were wondering, in
your opinion, whether or not the procedure would
be worth going to or do you think you had enough
information the other day on the flyaround to - in
looking at it to answer specific questions, in your
own mind, and ones we might come up with?
CDR Dick, Just a second.
CC Okay.
00 42 3_ CDR Okay, Dick. I was Just talking to Paul, and the

obvious thing that is holding it, and the obvious
thing we couldn't get off was the piece of metal
that we described as wrapped clear around it. But
it's entirely possible there was enough meteorite
shield left to - Just off the other side of that
something could be hung up underneath. However,
neither we would - neither would we see it nor
neither Would you see it with the television, I
don't believe. I don't think you'd have the
resolution to tell, even with the television, if
something was hung underneath. Now if you need to
know anymore about the strap, I think we could
probably describe that to you or answer your
questions as adequately as you would get off
by resolution of the TV. And the question that
nobody can answer, I don't believe, TV or us, is
whether there is anything underneath holding it.
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00 43 33 CC Okay, stand by just i, please. CDR, Houston. One

question that we'd like to ask now, and l'm not sure
whether you've been asked this or not, but I think
it's worth talking about. And that is, we're con-
sidering using the bone saw as a method of cutting
through the strap, and one of the things we were
interested in knowing, at least, was whether or
not the bone saw could be - whether or not the
strap that is causing the SAS beam to he held
down, can be gotten to with the bone saw. We
have already verified that the bone saw itself,
is auite adequate, when handled properly in cutting
through angle iron. And if possible, I understa3a,
we want to slip the bone saw underneath the strap,
in other words, between the strap and the SAS beam.
Over.
00 44 37 PLT Yes, you're talking about the giggly [sic] saw,

Dick?
CC Say again, please, Paul.
PLT ... - -
CDR We're talking about the dental saw?
PIT - - survival-type giggly saw with a ring in each

end, right?
CC Yes, the one with the ring in each end and like a
little bitty barbed wire in the middle.
00 h4 58 PLT Yes. I think you'd be hard pressed - well wait a

minute. Let me talk to Pete.
CDR No, I don't think that would do it, Dick - -
PLT I don't either.
00 45 ll CDR - - The only chance we would have, right now, of

getting that thing off is taking something like
the pry bar in the MDA tool kit or, up at the
hatch end, some of those hatch tools, which I
haven't looked at recently and prying it off
because what it's done is it's got - - it
whipped around so hard that it's got a couple
of screwheads, or something, through that
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all,minum skin and that's what holding that

strap on there and that's why we Just couldn't
pull it off. And I have the feeling, though I
was wrong the last time, that if you could get
something underneath it, to pry with, EVA, you
could have one hand on the panel, right next to
it, and put something underneath it to pry, I
believe you could work that strap off of there,
rather than cutting it, because I don't think
it's hung up around the lower side. There's
nothing on the lower side to hold it up - to
hold up the panel.
CC Okay, Pete. Frankly I think that helps us out

and I'll be sure and get that input in and,
either way, we can take - it's real easy to
take the tools required out there, when we
get to that. We've still got about 3 minutes
in th_s pass. Are you prepared on the evening
status report, here for this pass, or should
we wait for lhter?
CDR Let's wait for later.
CC Okay. Do you have time? I've got a couple more

questions I would like to ask you. One of them
is about power and kind of important to us.
CDR Yes, go ahead.
00 46 47 CC Okay, earlier today, when you guys powered down,

before the powerdown, we were averaging about
_300 watts and the way we planned the powerdown
we expected this to decrease at about 300 watts ;
however, after you finished the powerdown, we
ended up about 3700, which is a delta of 600.
So the question is, it looks like that an extra
300 watts came off the line some@here around in
there and do you have any explanation about what
caused the power level to be lower than expected.
Over.
CDR Well - -
SPT Someone's
watchingout for us.
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00 47 25 CDR We been running _bsolutely minimum light, which is

one thing. I don't know how much you've been
figuring on lights, but we leave the lights off.
We only run two up on the MDA, while we run the
ATM panel, and we leave all the lights off in
the experiments compartment, if we're not down
there. And we leave them all off up in the
dome area, and we'leave them off the bedroom.
We leave them off everywhere we can leave them
off. That's one place I know. I can't think of
anything else, though, specifically that you wouldn't
know about.
00 47 56 CC Okay, thank you, Pete. One more question, and this

is - the other day when you did the EREP pass, we
have a question on the S192 ready light. It turns
out when we - well, let me ask you the question
real simply, did the S192 READY light come on at
anytime during the pass?
CDR Yes, 192 operated Properly the whole pass.
CC Okay.
00"_ 2_ CDR READY light came on when it was supposed to.
CC Okay, real good. It Just turned out that twice

we got a status from you, and both times they
were off. But at those times, they were supposed
to be off, and we were Just wondering about the
middle. Stand by 1 on the next pass, please.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about B0 seconds from LOS.

The primary coolant loop, be advised, looks good.
We're going to be seeing you the next pass down
at the Vanguard, and that's going to be at about
D1 after the hour. We'd like to go ahead and
have the evening status report there, and delay
the medical conference one pass, if that's okay
with you.
00 h9 12 CDR That's fine. We'll have it for you then and be

advised our high water tank was 92 and the low was
- what was it, 85. 85. And the informations's
on B channel.
CC Thanks, sir. See you at Vanguard.

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01 ii 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at the Vanguard for

8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. The SPThas a problem for you - to

talk to you about. We're on I-Z _TO.
CC Roger, understand, and I'm standing by to listen.
SPT How's that. Pete?
SPT Okay. Hey, Houston, about 5 minutes ago we had

X MALF and a cluster attitude light, which went on
and then off. The X MALF is still on, we have a i
single notation in theL Z-gyro, with the switch in
the 13 position, indication that it's operating on
gyro i only. The CDR reported si_4_icant TACS firings,
which I missed. The rates are low, the CMGs look
good, and we wish you'd fix it for us. Over.
01 12 15 CC Well, we'll sure be looking at it.
SPT Okay.
CDR All right. Here's the Evening Status Report for

you. You ready?
CDR Okay. The - wait i . everything went blank. Okay,

the CDR ate everything today, except for dinner he
couldn't quite hack the green beans, so I dumped
them. Otherwise, everythlng else was taken.
CC Roger.
CDR The SPT ate all his breakfast, item 25, salmon, he
substituQed for peanut and Jem - peanut butter and
Jam, he substituted for salmon. And he ate all
his dinner, except the catsup, which was spoiled,
and he will eat all his snacks except apricots.
CC Roger.
01 13 2_ CDR The PLT ate everything up to dinner. He did not eat

his bread and his snack, item 62, he only dran_ half
his coffee.
CC Roger.
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CDR And the photo log, day 161. 16-millimeter M-_87_

Alfa, CI 01 07, CI 02. Hext line, _87_ Bravo, we
will shoot up that magazine on it tonight. CI 01,
00, CI 02. On 35-millimeter, CI 26, the frame count
is now 27. The Huselblad status, n,_8. we'll have
to get same more information to y_._ on the number,
I don't have it right nOV. But CXOh ma6azine was
no good. It has a red indicator, and we couldn't
ma_e it run in the other omeera, and so we took the
_f_e out of the other esuera, and put it in HDC02
;which now has CX05 on it. And I have a question.
DO we have any s_re Hasslehlad ihasesT I know we have
DAC fuses, and we could find no Hasselblad fuses -
j looking in the stowage book.

CC We'll get you an answer on that, Pete. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I don't think we had any Flight Plan dewiations

that you don't know about. Stowage item changes, none
that Lren't on B channel. Inoperable equipumt, none
that you don't know about. And the one thing that we
have yet to he able to find is the purported changes
in salt for our menus and we've look around and
looked around in the CS_' stuff and we can't find it
anywhere, "and we'd appreciate it - if you up-link
our salt requirements for our six menus, please.
CC Roger, understand. You're unalbe to "find you salt

requirements for the menus 3rou have on board, and
we will plan on up-linking that. And in answer to
your uuestion on the Hasselhad fus. es, that's negative.
There are no spare fUses for the Hasselhlad on board.
CDR Okay, well, ve can make a slug if we need one.
CC Roger.
CDR That's it from us, over to you.
CC Stand by, please.
01 15 57 CC Skylah, Houston. Be advised, ye're powering up

rate _ 3 by eo_mand. We're going to let it spin
up, and we will not he emahling that gYro until
Hawaii, and to let it warm up. And I did not get
the last transmission, it was very short, if it was
important.
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CDR I Just said, that was it over to you.
CC Okay.
CDR I - I would like to add one thing, Dick. I think

tomorrow, rather than be a day off, it's going to be
a field day. We've got an awful lot of cleaning up
to do in here. Yoti can't help but get food around,
and a few things like that, and we really feel the
need to clean house tomorrow.
CC Roger, CDR, be advlsed based on the problems we're

having over in Building 5, and on your conversation
we had with you the last site, _e will not, repeat,
not schedule the TV for tomorrow. We - I'm looking
at the Flight Plan now that we'll he up-linking to
you, and it's got an awful lot of, what we say is
off-duty time, and like you sa_, l'm sure it'll be
a field day up there, hut that's the way we'll plan
to go tomorrow.
Ol 17 15 CDR Okay, very good. You got any word for us on our
power? Are we going to be able to go back to doing
_EPs? Have you guys got any story on that yet?
CC Pete, we're still analysing the data. We believe

we certainly will be able to go back and get some
_EP passes, but we - they probably will be restricted,
and we're - they're a lot of guys in the backroom
arguing about the proper angles of the _EP data pass,
but we will be doing some more EREP.
CDR ...
Ol 18 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS at

Vanguard. Be advised that the next pass is a Hawaii
pass at 02:21. It is a very short pass, and that will
be your medical conference pass, and in the event you
don't get it done there, we have one more pass this
evening, and we'll get it there, but Dr. Ross will be
talking to you at Hawaii at 02:21.
Ol 18 3b CDR Roger, Dick.
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02 50 0h CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at the Vanguard for the

next 8 minutes.
02 50 49 CC Sky lab? Houston. We're A0S at the Vanguard for the

next 7-1/2 minutes, and I'd like to speak to some-
one about the attitude control situation, please.
02 50 59 PLT Okay. Go ahead. Shoot.
02 51 02 CC Roger, Paul. At the last Hawaii pass, we reset the

ACS MALF light and also rate - enabled RATE GYR0 3;
so we're going to be keeping a good eye on nt_nber 3
as compared to 1 and 2. We de have a star tracker
pad that we'd very much like to get up to you - And
- so that we can get the star tracker locked on, in
order to get a Z-axis reference. That's the good
news. The bad news is that the star is not avail-
able until 03:45 Zulu, which is about 45 minutes
or an hour from now. And we're wondering if you
guys are still going to be up because we made you
stay up late, anyway. And we'd like to read you
this star tracker pad. Over.
02 51 51 SPT We'll stay up. We'd love to stay uD late. It'll

give us a chance to be mad at you tnmnrrow.
02 51 57 CC Hey, okay. Okay, can I give you some numbers then?
02 52 01 SPT Come on.
02 52 02 CC Okay. The star is Achernar. Inner gimbal is

minus 01h4; outer gimbal, plus 0500. And I have
a note about that, Joe. If you fail to acquire
there, we'd llke You to then try an outer glmhal
of plus 0800. And if you still fm_l to acc_uire_
we'd like you to bracket it on the other side and
try an outer gimbal of plus0200. And the first
acquisition we think you can have possible is
03:45 Zulu.
02 52 h3 SPT 03:45, and that gives us a warm feeling. We'll get

her.
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02 52 49 CC Outstanding. Okay. We're wondering if you have had

a chance to try that fine San sensor little malf
procedure we read up a little while ago, and what
the status was on that.
02 53 04 SPT Yes, Dick. We powered it up; went ahead 8rid drove

it. The - the left/right was used only - We had to
re-zero it. It re-zeroed. It was all right. How-
ever, in both directions the thing drove backwards.
If you'd co,,,and it to point to the left, it would
point to the right, and up/down were also reversed.
And that's why - The left/right persisted even
after it re-zeroed. Now, the up/down - it would
hang up at minus 48 as we co,,,anded down, and it
then - as ... moved up, it would get out a Couple
three hundeed arc seconds. And that would,
apparently, be counting - -
02 53 51 PLT Oddly or wrong si_?
02 53 52 SPT I didn't notice sign because I can't see - but

suddenly it Jumped up to 2300 or something.
02 53 57 PLT Well, whatever. Anyway, it wasn't working right.
02 54 03 CC Roger. Copy. Stand by 1.
02 54 06 SPT Okay, if that sounds confusing, it really was. The

thing would stick at 48 until you were Just about
driving off the limb, and then it would whap up to
2300 and something, and start counting down. You'd
say, "Hey, I got itl" And you'd go hack towards the
center of the Sun and at 48 she'd freeze again.
02 5_ 28 CC Roger. We copied that. Also, one more official note

for this pass. We're - As I told you a while ago,
we're - we did our commanding up from the ground to
power up a couple of things, and there are some
switches that we - we would like pou to power up,
now that the last ATM-attended pass is over. One
is on panel 614, four circuit breakers for the
DUCT 1 FANS. we'd like them closed. And a]Rn
_panel 203_ AIRLOCE MODULE FANS, cir - c_
i, 2, and 3 switches, three of them, _o HIGH. And
they'll stay that way overnight.
02 55 07 SPT Okay. We got that, Dick. --

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02 55 09 CC Okay.
02 55 16 PLT Yes, here's - Wait.
02 55 20 CC Say again, please.
02 55 30 PLT Yes, I think the old heat is very gradually cooling

off. It's getting more comfortable. Joe and I were
down here this morning when you turned down that -
when we turned the duct 1 fans off. I don't know
whether it's our heads or not, but we thought it
got a little stuffy for awhile. But we soon accli-
mated to that. Now, if you got all the circ fans
and the duct fans running tonight, I'd bet we'd make
another degree or 2 tonight.
02 55 5h CC Well, let's sure hope so.
02 56 09 PLT Say, Dick, awhile ago we asked for the coordinates

of the pyramids, which we haven't got yet, which
didn't really matter, but tomorrow's our day off.
And also, how about -without looking here if it's
not too much trouble, I'm sure we got the information
somwwhere - I'd also like the coordinates of
Mount KilimanJaro, if you could find them.
02 57 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS at Vanguard. As long as y'All are going
to stay up, it's your choice. We are going to have
a pass coming up very shortly at Ascension at 3:02
and I'll call you there, if you'd like. Otherwise,
we'll see you in the morning. You might - one note
of interest that I've - Day before yesterday, it -
Let's see, at South Bay Memorial Hospital in
Los Angeles, Jerry T. Morton III, was born and
his mama's doing real fine and Jerry's very
proud.
02 57 34 PLT That's good. I wonder if he's a turtle.
02 57 37 CC I'm sure he's a future one and a fighter pilot.
02 57 41 PLT That's good. Yes, we'll be looking forward to hearing

your sweet voice at 3:02, Dick. Besides, the CDR's
peddlingthe bicycle. Nobody else can get to sleep
anyway.
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02 57 52 CC (Laughter) Roger that.
03 01 56 CC Hello, Skylab; Houston. We're at Ascension for the

next i0 minutes.
03 02 01 PLT Nice to hear from you again.
03 02 03 CC Hello, there. The only note I have is between passes,

the ASC0 told me that the exact time on that star
tracker when the computer will let you lock on is
about 3:48, so Just be patient right around that
time. We ought to get a good lock-in, and you all
can go to bed, and we'll be All set for the night.
03 02 22 PLT Okay, good enough. Wait.
03 02 35 PLT Say, Dick. Maybe you gt_ys down there expected it -

and we've been forgetting to tell you for a couple
or 3 days. The - On the ATM, it's discolored on
one side. We notice that, if we look out the STS
window towards the Y side of the vehicle, I think i
it - toward - yes, "toward the minus-Y side of the
vehicle - that side of the ATM is kind of yellowed
and darkened a little bit, and, if you look out the
other side, out the plus-Y side, it looks like it
Just came out of the factory. It's nice and
span1_ng-clean white.
03 ii i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds frc_ LOS

here at Ascension. Last pass for the day; so you
guys have a Very good night's sleep. And everybody
say, "Good night, Dick."
03 ii 21 PLT Okay, you say it to you all down there.
03 ii 24 CC Roger.
03 Ii 25 CDR Hey, Dickie, Dickie. Add 1500 watts to the old

daily. I Just finished on the bike.
03 ii 33 SPT Good night, Dick.
03 Ii 36 CC Roger 811 that. Good night.
03 Ii 39 PLT Hev. also for the PLT. And I forgot 7-UP, so phone
back and tell Dr. Whedon|
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03 ll 46 CC (Laughter) Roger.
03 ll 49 CDR Yes, we're all shaved and we're leaving for the
party, so don't be surprised if you see a lobo in
_he command module.
03 ll 5h PLT (Laughter) ...
03 ll 55 CC (Laughter) Okay. Me, too, as a matter of fact.
03 12 00 PLT Meritorious idea, there, old buddy.
03 12 03 CC (Laughter) Thank you.
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SPT Good morning, Houston.
13 h5 26 CO Good morning, Skylab. We have one message here

for you. And we'd like for you to I_HIBIT the
MPC at the ATM panel so that ground can do un-
attended ops.
SPT Okay.
CC Also, on the - unless you desire them today, we

were going to hold the AOS/LOS calls.
SPT Okay.
CDR Say, Houston, we got a questionfor you.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR How much of that VTR tape can we have today?
CDR We don't need the answer right away.
CC CDR, we've dumpe_ 13 m_-utes of that tape. And,

should you want to use it, you can rewind and
use that portion and we plan to dump virtually
the entire remainder on this stateside pass.
CDR Oh, okay. What - what we'd like i2 you're _o_ng

to dump it - to go ahead sad dump it - we would
like to - to have a full tape to _ive you some
TV. We've §ot to wiu our bet on the water tin _
lockers and a few other things.
CC Copy, Pete.
CC And we'll give you a call when we've completed

the dump. And we'll be most interested in seeing
the new gains.
CDR Find. No hurry.
CC Also, we need the DAS clear now, please.

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CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 30 seconds. We'll have

you at Hawaii at lh:05. We'll dump the tape
recorder at that point. Also, did the CDR
record any more time line comments after the
evening report last night? We couldn't find
it on the recorder.
SPT Negative, Houston'. But, sometime today he may

lay a few more specifics out.
CC Copy.
14 21 52 SPT Hello, Houston. You there?
CC That's affirmative, Skylab.
SPT The SPT has a - a question for you. l'm confused

about half urine samples. (Music) We've been
stOwing our urine samples and logging them in
the slot whose number is the day they were
collected. That is, yesterday rather than today.
Now today we - we're - we're in day 8 and it says
"day 8 half urine samples," but we still haven't
opened day 7 slot in the freezer with nothing in
it. My question is, should we leave the day 7
slot empty and go ahead and take half urine
samples? Or should we do full urine samples
today and half urine samples tomorrow?
CC Stand by half on that, Joe.
SPT Say again.
CC Be back in Just a second.
SPT Okay.
lh hi 55 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Joe, it appears that the people would like to

have you follow the protocol, and that you put
the samples in the number drawer on the day that
it's sampled. Nc_if we have the story correct
here, that would leave _ 7 bl_-_.
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SPT I don't believe that s_ory, Bill. If you noticed,

we started out in - in slot l, with A-1 samples
for th2 NBPAs.
CREW Right.
SPT I think we ought to take full samples today and

half samples tomorrow. And consider the day on
which the sample is collected, rather than that
on which it is produced - if I said that right,
CC Stand by a half. That occasions some discussion.
CDR And, while you're smoking that over, I went up

about 3 minutes early to catch S009, and it was
already open. So, ... to go up - and con -
consider that one already, and I'll go up and
catch it the second time early enough to give
you the exact time then.
CC Copy, Pete.
CDR ..., Houston ; CDR. "
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Why don't you all Just forget the urine. We

were going along great until you put that on
the pad. Our onboard information Jives with
the tray, and everything's ticky-boo; we'll
bring you back what you need, and y'all Just
forget it. Okay?
lh h4 18 CC Okay, Pete. Thank you.
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15 22 36 CDR Well, Houston. You with us?
CC That 's affirmative, CDE.
CDR Okay. Would you give us A0S and LOS times from now
on? We've had some questions, and we figured we better
know when you were there.
CC Okay. Will do.
CDR Thank you.
CC And we've got you for about another 6 minutes here5

CDR.
CDR Okay.
15 23 04 CDR Well, I tell you what we're commencing doing right now,
is we're cleaning up a lot of the stowage stuff. And
for the rest of the day we have things like the T027
poles that have never been taken apart and put away.
And we've got a whole btmch of stuff llke that to do.
So we'll he busy most of the morning doing stowage,
re Juggling, and stuff like that.
CC Yes. We sort of surmised that, Pete.
15 23 33 PLT Bill, I have PLT with a couple of requests, sir.
CC Go ahead, PLT.
PLT Our EREP slider thing up here has 8 revs depicted on it.
We only have one node 8_nd one time a day. Would you
ask them if they'd be kind enough in the future to
send us up, say, two or three equally spaced periods,
Just so we don't have to go to all the trouble of fig-
uring it out ourselves?
CC We copy that. We'll get it up.
PLT Okay. Now, I've got one other question; it does not
require an immediate answer. At the end of the day,
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I've got this housekeeping 60 Romeo scheduled. The

approach is different, depending on whether that tank
is going to be used by the next crew in activation or
not. I would like to know if that applies to any or
all of the tan1_s that I'm suppose to sample today?
CC We'll get you an answer.
15 24 31 PLT You understand, it goes to six parts per million, I

think, if we're using it, or if the next crew's going
to use it right away; otherwise it goes to 12 or some
such number, and I Just have to know which of those are
going to be used by SL-3.
CC Copy, PLT.
CC And there are a couple of messages here.
PLT Go ahead.
15 25 02 CC On the change on the teleprinter paper tonight, there

was a callout for a housekeeping 60 Hotel in the CDR
details.
PLT Okay, wait 1.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC And that, by the book, would mean a change out of the

head, which is obviously an error. What is intended is
simply a teleprinter paper changeout.
PLT Okay, understand.
CC Also for the CDH on TV.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We're still dumping the VTR we had - -
SC Go ahead.
CC We're still dumping the VTR.
15 25 58 CDR Okay. We wouldn't get to i't this afternoon, and I know

you've got TV p1_nned so Jw_t let us know how much we
could use, if any, today. 1_e don't want to take up
tomorrow or whatever you've got planned.
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CC Okay, Pete. We were broken up there. We plan to

finish over Hawaii amd Goldstone on this pass, and
you can have the VTR empty at 152:15:59.
CDR Okay. I won't get to it before then, and I'ii

tell you - what I need is another number - you'd
better give me a'number that we've got to be
finished with it by, so you can dump it and get
back to your schedule.
15 26 43 CC Okay, we'll get that back to you. Also, if you

want it, we can bring you back real time be-
tween 17:33 and 17:50, or 19:10 an_ 19:27.
19.10, 19:27 would be best for us, if you should
desire that.
CDR Oka_ , 19:10 to 19:27. Let's see, that looks like

a fairly good time. We'll wee what we can do, and
we'll keep you posted.
CC Okay, we copy.
15 28 39 CC Skylab, you'll be LOS in 1 minute. AOS at Hawaii

at 15:41.
15 28 46 CDR Thank you. _oger.
15 41 l0 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go, Skylab.
CDR With respect to that ... 487 1-Alfa, the sound

meter. Two of us smoked over this thing yesterday
per the checklist, and we Just concluded that
there is, in fact, something wrong with either the
checklist or t_e sound meter. But by picky
gorking [sic] around with it, I think we can get
... reading; so we're in the process of gathering
those now, and I'll put them on B channel for
you later. And y'ali can forget your procedures
list, because I don't ...
CC Pete, your feedback makes you unreadable.

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15 42 51 CDR Okay, how's that, Houston?
CC Very much better.
CDR Okay, you might note the problem that we have with
feedback, which we never saw before, is other than
wardroom, and anytime we have an SIA on either - in
either SAL, in the -'or the head, for that matter, we
get feedback. And we never got that before. So that
has been one of our problems, is making sure when you
come up, that we've got the right configuration on
these VOXes to prevent feedback. I was talking about
the audiometer. Did you get that portion of it?
CC We got Just bits of it - that you had, by fiddling

around, thought that you had it operational was what
I copied, Pete.
15 43 33 CDR Well. Two of us went through the checklist Just to

make sure that I hadn't made a mistake in doing the
procedures. And it, in fact, does not run the way the
checklist says. But I Can get meaningful readings in
the order of 50 to 60 dB, depending on where we are in
the spacecraft , and I think that those are reasonable
levels. The 22 levels that I wan talking to you about
yesterday right after lunch - I mean, that is really
super quiet. Sol think that we got it running correct-
ly, but to do that, we couldn't use the procedures on
the checklist. And so we'll go ahead and gather the
data based on the way we found how to get these read-
ings, and put them on a tape for you, and We can dis-
cuss after the flight what our problem was with this
thing.
CC We copy that, Pete.
CDR Okay, that's at work right now. We're still reJuggling

stowage and so forth.
15 h9 35 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in i minute. Goldstone AOS

at 15:53.
SPT Okay, Houston. Tba-_ you. We may not acknowledge all

these calls, but it's good to have them.
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CC No problem.
15 54 42 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for approximately i0 minutes.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Say, I Just happened to catch the S009 package opened

at 15 :5_, approximately 50.
CC We copy that.
CDR Maybe that 'll give you a little better hack on where
it stands right at the moment.
15 59 07 CDR Yes, m_ next timing check was 16:12:44, so it sounds

like it's way off.
CC We copy, Pete.
16 04 20 CC CDR_ Houston.
CDR Yes.
16 04 32 CC The VTR dump has been completed, and it's all yours
now. Paul?
PLT What we - we were Just tasking over the plans and

we'll - we're pretty sure we'll beat you at the 19:10
line.
CC Copy.
CC Also, you might be interested - there is an official

release that Skylab 3 is going to be launched on
July 27th.
CDR Roger. You're coming up early, huh?
CC That 's affirm.
16 05 09 CDR Well, one of the things that i want to do today you

might pass on to A1, is I'll try - to try to get on
B channel to give thee some words of wisdom about
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waste management and some other things that we're

found out about the experiments in the time line. You
know, Just where to place some of the trading [?].
CC We'll be looking for that.
CDR Yes. I got this sound meter working. Don't ask me

how. It doesn't mRk.e sense, but it's working right.
CC We copy that, Pete. And Just to be sure that we get

your B message, it would help if you'd give us an
approximate time that you put it on after you've com-
pleted it.
PLT Okay, I sure will. What day of the week is it down

there, Bill?
CC It's Friday, all day.
PLT Say again_
CC Hey, Paul, that's Friday, if you didn't catch it.
PLT Oh, okay. You lose track of calendar time. What is

this? Today the first of June?
CC Yeah, that's affirm. Haven't lost you yet.
PLT Okay.
16 06 h8 PLT I assume - how much more time have we got?
CC Got about 7 more minutes before LOS.
16 06 53 PLT Oh, crazy. Okay. Instead of putting it on B channel

then - for the EREP training people in the back room and
also for their follow-on crews, loading EREP tapes is
a piece of cake. That tape kind of tends to stick to
itself, which makes it very handy. Pete loaded two -
I loaded one. I took his Job away from him yesterday
Just to see what it was like. It's no sweat. The VTS
focus is good, I think there are no adjustments made to
that. And outside of those mA]f lights and the lack of
some ready lights, everything has been going good in
EREP.
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16 07 31 CC Copy that, Paul. Thank you.
16 13 26 CC LOS in approximately _5 seconds. We'll have you again

at Ascension at 16:20.
PLT Roger.
16 13 35 CC Also, we would like for you to put the potable water

heater to OFF, verify that it's OFF on panel 2.
16 13 47 PLT Okay. That's the potable water heaters OFF - OFF.
16 13 55 CC That's when you're in the CSM. That's affirmative.

No rush on that.
16 20 33 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for lO minutes.
16 30 19 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. AOS Carnarvon 16:53.
16 30 27 PLT Okay...
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16 30 26 PLT Okay, Walt. Hey, pass on to the people - whoever's

interested - is that we sure are glad we came with
this big Earth flyer [?] we got. If we'd have come
with that little map we were originally going to,
you wouldn't be able to see anything. It's been the
most used single piece of gear on board.
CC We copy that.
CREW Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. Guam AOS at 17:08. The

tape - audio tape will be dumped at Guam at 17:09.
PLT Roger, Bill.
PLT You still there, Houston?
CC That 's affirm. Go.
PLT We'd like to know what the lens is that we presently

have on Nikon 03. If you're ready to copy, I'll give
you the part n11mher.
CC Go ahead.
PLT SEB 331, 00, 009-301.
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer.
PLT Okay. The reason we're asking, it's not marked.

And we're trying to figure what we've got where here,
and it doesn't say anywhere on it what kinds of lens,
or focal length.
CC Okay. Copy.
CC Bkylab, Houston; AOS for 6 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
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PLT Go ahead.
CC Paul, were you able to get that Hasselblad fixed

yesterday?
PLT Well, we gave a status. I forget where, whether

it was live or on tape. There's nothing wrong
with the camera. The magazine is malfunctioning.
The indicator is red. We tried it one time on the
other camera and it would not advance; therefore,
we have stowed that magazine. The configuration
now is we have got magazines ...
PLT That's Pete repressurizing the trash airlock in

the backgrovmd. We've got magazine -Wait a
minute. VXS05 on Hasselblad 02.
CC Copy. Thank you.
PLT Yes, also on the Hasselblad, since that magazine

caused us to blow two fuses in the - in this
camera, we're down to two cameras and two fuses
now.
17 ll 47 CC Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in 4 or 5 seconds.

ADs Goldstone 17:32.
CDR Roger.
CC Paul, we're about to go LOS, but we think that

that lens you asked about is a 55-millimeter,
55-millimet er.
PLT Nineteen minutes. Holy cats!
CC And, when you have time to copy, we have one

message for the S009 package.
CC On a - on S009, the set time should be 20:52:15.

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PLT Okay. Got it.
CC Theta adjust, minus 2; period adjust, 300. And

be advised that this is a maximum capability. It's
coming up 52 seconds early per rev, and this will
only adjust - allow us to adJ_st 17 seconds out of it,
but will allow us to see what we're doing.
PLT Okay.
CC We'd like a MARK when the package is initiated.

And, when you set the time at some time tomorrow,
we'll do another check on it to see how much this
affects it.
PLT Okay. You can assume it'll be initiated within

1 second of on time unless we tell you otherwise.
CC Copy.
PLT Bill, I want to ask you something more about

those lenses. Let me get them and I'll be
right back.
CC Okay.
PLT The reason we asked you about that one lens, Bill,
is because even though it doesn't look very much
like a 55-millimeter, it's got a different part
number. The 55-millimeter, which is so marked,
which I pulled out this morning, a Nikon 01,
has the same part number except - well, where
the other one was 009, the 55-millimeter has 773.
We Just wanted to make sure that some way we don't
have a UV lens or,this cmmera_ that's the main concern.
CC Okay. We copy that.
PLT If it will help any, Bill, that lens we're

questioning is the one that was launched with
us in the command module.
CC Yes, that's part of the problem.
PLT Oh.
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CDR That's what we figured because it showed the lens

was deleted in ours, at least the UV lens was, and
we're not sure what this is because it's not marked,
and every other lens we've seen before hss had
markings on it.
CC Copy, Pete.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC That is a 55-millimeter, and it apparently differs

only slightly in configuration and part number, but
nevertheless is a 55-millimeter - A standard, by the
way, not a UV.
17 50 55 CC LOS in h5 seconds. Ascension at 15 - correction:

Ascension at 18:00.
SPT Roger, Houston. I'ii put the results of the

CO2 monitor test on Channel B.
17 51 21 CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROuND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
PLT It's a heck of a day off; I'm washing windows.
CC Should be some way around that.
PLT Well, I'll tell you, when we do get a chance to look

out the window, we're all there, and consequently,
they get a little c_mmy.
CC You seeing much, Paul?
PLT Yes, _-hen we have the time, you - you can really see.
It's am_ing from this altitude. It surprises me how
much you can really see the curvature of the Earth.
We've got - Well, as we've mentioned before, we can
see from - as we come over about - in the northern
.part of the east coast of the United States, from
clear up into Canada clear down to the Keys.
CDR We should've got some good pictures of Montana through

into about Chicago on that last pass.
CC Good-o.
CDR I have a question for you, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
18 03 28 CDR There's been nary a mention of the high intensity

lights, and I prest_ne that we - we either - for power
reasons - and we haven't been up there. But, we're
wondering what your thoughts are on using them for a
little bit maybe on this TV. We - we do have a
lighting problem trying to shine the TV up into the
dome, and any help would help. Do you think you could
give us an answer to that in a little while?
CC That's affirm. We'll get right back, Pete.
• CDR Thankyou.
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18 Oh _7 CC Pete, it's perfectly acceptable to use those lights.

And we're going LOS here in about a minute. We'll
see you at Carnarvon at 18:31.
18 05 Ol CDR Roger.
18 31 13 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to ask you a couple of

questions about that SAS beam, at your convenience
during this pass.
SPT Okay, Houston. Pete'll be right with you.
CC Okay.
CDR Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Pete, this is Deke, I'm sort of the playing

midd/_-_n between you and Rusty. He's over at Marshall
trying to work some procedures on this thing, and he
has a couple of questions. And.then we'd also like
to get some counts from you about anything that
you've been thinking about on the subject or something
you'd like to have him try.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. As a starter, we'd like to know if there's any

daylight anywhere between that strap and the beam.
We understand that it's pretty solidly attached at the
end, but how about hack down the side towards the
surface of the station?
CDR Oh, no. That's - that's not true. It's not that
tightly wrapped around it, Deke. It is at the - at
the end, but out at the end, Paul got the little tool
that had the two hook points, and which we changed
out from being sharp hook points to dull hook points.
He got that tool underneath the strap and tried to
pull it off.
MCC Roger.
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CDR And it was by doing that that we determined that

the strap had, in fact, somewhere along there punc-
tured into the SAS beam skin. So, I know that you
could get a pry bar of reasonable thickness under-
neath it anywhere along the top part of the SAS beam
to pry it off. Now, out at the side - along the side
of the SAS beam, it's bowed out.
MCC Roger. Understand. Rusty wanted to know how close

would you guess to the beam. How much gap has he
got there?
CDR Oh, he had at least a half an inch down at the far

end, which is what we were trying to get at. He got
the whole thing hooked under there.
MCC Roger. Okay. We - -
18 33 49 CDR I'd say a half to three-quarters of an inch.
18 33 51 MCC Okay, good enough. And secondly, is there any - Can

you tell whether the strap is pulling the micrometeor-
old shield itself up against the bottom of the beam?
In other words, is it kind of acting as a gap to the
bottom of the beam? Is that apparent?
18 34 09 CDR Yes, that - that is apparent. And that probably is

one of the reasons you're getting the funny readings
on the SAS - on the l, 2, 3 SAS panel angles because
it is holding the middle one, I think, up in the beam
rather than letting it out against the side of the
vehicle.
MCC Roger.
PLT Deke, an indication of how much space there is be-

tween that strap and the top of the beam fairing is
that that two-prong tool we flew - I'd estimate I
could stick it in under about a quarter of the length
of the prong - a fifth to a quarter of the length.
CDR Still there, Houston?
MCC Okay, one more question. Guess on the distance where

it's bowed out between the bow and the beam itself -
along the side we're talking about.
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CDR We're discussing it. Just a second.
CDR I'm going to guess 2 to 3' inches, Deke, at the widest

point.
18 35 55 MCC Roger. Copy.
CDR Deke, see, I had a little better - different angle

view on it than Paul today. Now, he doesn't think
that there's much along the side. I think there's
2 to 3 inches because there's a lot of - of - It's
being ripped off the - parallel to the SAS wing, the
strap or angle iron, whatever it is, was ripped off
longitudinally. And then, it's wrapped around the
thing. And so, there's some Jagged stuff around the
base pulling - pulling the meteoroid shield up around
the side of the SAS panel along with the - The strap
is the thing that's pulling it.
MCC Roger. Copy. And also, how far down the beam do
you have to go from the strap before there is any
clearance between the beam and the meteoroid shield
itself?.
18 36 _3 CDR The beam and the meteoroid shield? Well now, the -
down at the bottom end, that solar panel is completely
free. It's out resting along the side of the vehicle.
So, you've got to go somewhere down, but to no further
than the edge of that. Somewhere along SAS panel 2
is where that meteoroid shield ends. And it's also - -
PLT No, that's only - -
CDR Isn't that what you're asking? How far down the
meteoroid shield runs underneath the beam?
CC Yes, I think that's what he wants to know. That's

my interpretation. Stand by a second.
PLT I think what he wants, Deke, is where does the

meteoroid shield start coming away from the beam
fairing where it's held up by the strap. Is that
right?
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18 37 29 MCC That's affirmative. We're trying to figure out where

you could get a handhol@ in that area, primarily.
MCC Did you copy that?
CDR Yes, we're talking about it.
MCC Okay.
CDR Well, we're saying no more than 3 feet either side

of the strap.
CC Okay, got you. And we've got about 2 minutes to go

here. Do you have any suggestions or things you'd
like to have us try?
CDR Well, if you can look at the meteoroid shield itself,

and figure out if there is anything - I - I couldn't
see any jagged metal underneath the SAS beam. But,
the only thing that bothers me is we work on this
strap, which we weren't expecting to find, and we
pull that off, and we find out something else is hold-
it underneath. However, if something is holding it
underneath, you've got a chance of flying the vehicle
around down to the end and _oing the same thing we
did, which is pulling from the - from the long end.
MCC Roger. And I think we've got some techniques being

worked to probably pull that thing up anyway, once
that strap is loose. We can put, by Rusty's guess
a6 1 remember now, 300 pounds load on that thing.
So, if that's the case, we should be able to fix that.
CDR Okay. Paul's got something for you.
MCC Okay. We'll keep working the problem down here and
keep you advised. You guys are doing great work.
Hope you're having a nice day.
CDR Well, we're taking _t easy and - and Just really

cleaning house, which we needed to do. And clean
stowage, and get cameras squared away. We really
hadn't had a chance to do much of that. I thin_ we -
we can show you the running around the water rings.
We worked out the TV so it's pretty - should be pretty
fair TV. And I have this link in m_ hand, which I
haven't broken out yet. So, I don't know what's going
to happen with it.
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18 39 52 MCC Sounds exciting. When you have another spare minute

you might pull out that wire bone saw that - that's
Rusty's favorite tool. And try it on something around
there; you'd be surprised how well that beauty works.
And I guess that's still his favorite choice to solve
your problem.
CDR Okay. We - we'll do that. We - we also talked about

the possibility of us putting the suit on inside the
vehicle and seeing how much purchase we can get on -
find something around here like a food box, you know,
that was about the same width and everything, and see
how well we could hang on and m_euver it.
MCC Okay. Okay. Thanks a lot, guys. See you at next

station
CDR Roger.
CC Get Guam at 4_.
CDR Okay.
18 44 _6 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Roger. We'll be with you on the TV 19:10, right?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay. We're all set.
CC Good-o.
CC Roger that. I'm going to be off.
PLT Houston, you there?
PLT I got a question for you. What are the thermal effects
of leaving the STS window covers open? Either all of
them, or just the shady side, or just the sunny side?
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CC Okay. We'll try to get you an answer.
PLT Okay.
PLT And how does our thermal versus electrical picture in

the workshop look? Which is a very complicated way
to ask, do you still want us to leave that portable
fan in the dome h_tch blowing workshop air toward the
OWS heat exchangers?
CC Okay. I'll find that one out, too.
PLT Thank you.
18 52 l0 SPT And, Bill, you still owe me an answer on which water

tank Skylah 3 is going to start up on, right?
CC That's affirmative. We're going to get this one up

to you.
18 52 20 SPT Okay. Good enough I Just wanted to make afire it hadn't

gone down the crack someplace.
CC Pete, SkYlab 3 is going tostart using water tank 10,

and today calls only for sampling. Sampling only of
i, 3, 6, and i0.
SPT Oh, okay. You want sampling only, then. I read -

I'll go read it again. The reason I ask was - is as
I read the procedure, it ca]Is for sampling and, if
required, addition of iodine. But I'll sample it only
and report. In which case, I don't care which tank
Skylab 3 starts on.
CC That's Just sampling only, Pete.
18 53 42 CC And we're going LOS in about 20 seconds, and we'll be

looking for you at Goldstone at 19:09.
19 09 O1 CC Skylah, Houston. AOS for about 15 minutes.
SPT Okay. Let us know when you get the picture.
CC We got a picture. It's a little snowy at the moment,

but we're waiting for the Peter, Paul, and Joe show.
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SPT Are you looking down into the dome, or looking up -

looking down toward the experiment compartment, or
looking up toward the dome?
CC Looking down on the experiments.
SPT Okay.
CC It 's good now.
CREW (Music) (Laughter)
PLT Okay. We're going to - Joe is going to give you a

little demonstration of I don't know what - it's scme-
thing extemporsiaeous. You'll notice, however, that
we've been asked in the past, "Aren't you afraid of
getting stuck in the middle of the workshop?" Well,
as you can see from what Pete and Joe are doing - one
of the most difficult things to do is to get yourself
stable without any rates, either pitch or translation,
in the middle of the workshop. He is allegedly demon-
strating conservation of everything, in that he's a
closed system, and whatever he does, he winds up back
where he started. Now he's a little conservation of
angular momentum, by a - Just by swinging your limbs
around, you can change your attitude.
CC You've Just advanced physics teaching by 20 years.
SPT I'm trying to look up through the - I'm in the wrong

place - I should have been someplace else. I was
trying to look up through the wardroom grid. Okay,
Houston. For the climax of our show, we're going to
settle some old bets. If we're going to have the - the
Skylab 500, that'll be 500 feet around the dome lock-
ers. Have you got a pretty good picture of the dome
now? Do you see about half the lockers?
CC That's affirm. We've got them.
SPT Okay. We're ready to roll.
SPT Okay. Pete's got a couple of free style maneuvers

here. The difficulty of that one was a 1.6. It's
a 2.2 (Laughter) He didn't get many points for that
one.
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He'll try it one more time, I think. He doesn't

know what that one was. That was a new one even on
us. That's it. Anything in the forward or dome area
that you guys wanted to see? Can we show you
anything?
19 14 43 CC Story's wondering if you've gotten around to a hand-

ball game yet.
19 14 47 SPT No, not yet. We haven't taken to throwing balls

around. We've been doing this while we're waiting
for one guy to finish shaving in the evening. We
haven't had time to try the balls, the darts, or any
of that other stuff.
CC Hey, that's beyond belief. We've Just had offers

from Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and Kubric
both, if you can bring that show down to Earth and do
it.
SPT We wish we could, I'ii tell you.
CDR No, I'll tell you one thing, it's that we do get
around very well, but our serious problem is when
you're handling a lot of little pieces of gear. It's
Just sitting there thinking about what you're going
to do with them. And Joe is showing you a couple of
other little things, but we can handle our body real
well. Everybody's adapted super well. We - we all
got to talking about what's going to happen to us
when we get back to Earth, because the first thing
we're going to do is dive out of our bed in the morn-
ing and crash on the floor.
CC (Laughter) We copy.
CREW (Music)
CC Hey, Pete, Deke was sitting here saying he thinks he's

going to include crash helmets on Skylab 3.
CDR No sweat.
CC How about handling heavy objects? Boxes, and that

sort of thing? Does that give you much problem?
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PLT Z, Well, you naturally use - Well, go ahead.
SPT Well, we'll show you - -
PLT ...
CDR - - ... in ... boxes.
PLT What you lose most is having both hands free. But
well, we'll see what we can find.
CDR Yes, it's - it's not hard to handle a heavy box. It's
the little pieces that - that - when you got a lot
of little pieces is where you get in trouble.
CC That's what I surmised.
19 17 33 CDR Okay. We're coming out with the S183 gear. We're
on the upper camera.
CC Okay. We - yes, we got you back now.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. Here they are with it.
PLT As long as you recognize your limitations, it's like

flying or driving, or anything else, Bill. You get
in trouble as long as you don't exceed them. And,
as long as you take it easy, it's reallyno sweat.
CC We're suitably impressed.
CDR Also, with the little items, we keep losing things,

but they keep showing up on our air ddcts. They - if
we lose them down in the workshop, they eventually
bang around and get free. And slowly - it may take
a day or two, but they wind up on the air screen after
a while.
19 19 13 CC That's what we gathered from Paul yesterday.
CDR Anything else you'd like to see?

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CC No, we're Just sitting here goggle-eyed, the whole

lot. Just leave it on. I think that's show enough,
just watching you move.
CC Pete, have you gotten a 4-1/2 forward gainer yet?
CDR Joe's the only guy you've got to watch. He moves at

the speed of lightl
19 20 03 CC Copy.
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SKYLAB AIR-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
19 21 02 PLT Sorry about that. The - (laughter) - the Doctor

took off, but unfortunately he had his - the
TV Power cable wrapped around his ankle.
CC (Laughter) Okay. Hey, the people on the ground

can see some variation in the vehicle axis when
you push off.
PLT They really can? Is that right?
CC That's affirm. Bet you never thought you'd really

fly without wlngs, did you?
PLT We have - we have one -"three responses here. One

of them was incredible. The other two I'll have
to let you figure out.
CC (Laughter) %_nat was about 0.2 of a degree in X when

you were running that foot race.
CC Hey, Joe. Did it turn out that you needed the straps
in the chair Or not?
SPT Yes, we did, Bill.
CC Copy. Does - do they hold you pretty firmly?
SPT Well, of course they only hold you well if you push
up against them real hard. But so far, we haven't
had any difficulty. One wishes, in retrospect, that
those straps and also the straps on the M131 chair,
and also the strap in the fecal compartment had
positive buc - buckles on them, like the ATM chair,
but yours are wor&ing.
CC That's the way they were originally designed.
SPT Yes.
SPT Ineidently, I don't know whether we said this before,

f
but we - we owe our thanks, appreciation, and awe
to the - the people who designed the waste manage-
ment system. And it's worked much better than
anticipated; and it'c been essentially trouble
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SPT free and not terribly time consuming.
CC That is incredible.
19 24 09 CDR I think the other thing is we're all amazed at how

rapidly we adapted. Nobody had the least glimmer
of being motion sit,or anything else. And, as
you can see, we're spinning up the world up here;
It doesn't bother us any, and we Just have a blast
as far as moving around.
CC That is the thing that we've been pretty amazed

at. We gathered that that was what had happened.
Musgrave is down here absolutely green with envy.
CDR Well, I'll tell you one thing, the four Conrad
boys would sure have a blast up here, along with
every kid in the United SZates if they could ever
get inside it. It beats Disneyland and everything
else.
CC Hey, how many times have you used the IMSS, Joe?
CDR He's _ust setting it up today. He was breaking

out all the gear this morning. As a matter of
fact, he stopped in the middle of it to do this.
CC (Laughter) Copy.
CDR Well, I think we'll knock it off now. We're

going to go eat and go back to work.
CC Hey, thank you very much, Pete. That ought to be

good for at least an _,,,,,,y.
CDR (Laughter) Okay. We enjoyed it.
CC And we'll see you at Vanguard at about 19:35.
CDR Roger. Say, Houston, where were we at 19:307

Over Brazil?
CC Yes. That is affirmative.

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CDR Okay. I - I,ve been over there a few times in

Gemini and - and the -you never could see anything
because of the cloud cover_ and the Jungle. But
today, we had about 0._ down there, and I think we
got some - I was pretty sure it was Brazil - I
think we got some pretty good pictures of the
Amazon and the Jungle down there, which I know they
wanted.
CC Very good. That was a fantistic show that you Just

put on. And, in answer to the window questions,
when you're not using the window they want you to
keep the shady side closed. They also want you
to keep that portable fan running.
CDR Okay. Fine. That's no problem. We were Just

also trying to think what we could do to conserve
power.
CDR (Music) Mess call_ Mess call!
CC Hey, I thought youpeople marched to a boatswain's

pipe.
PLT Oh, just wait.
PLT You still there, Houston?
PLT Okay. Joe and I were - and - and Pete and I

were just talking this morning about a couple of
discussions we had years ago when Skylab first
came up. One was the so-called compression walking
that you would do in this area in here, which you
don't do. You Just pus h...Qffwhen you translate
from place to place, as you probably have guessed" i'ight
now. And we also had some discussions about the
size and shape of the oDenings in t_he wall, if,
they're door-shaped primaril_v for one-g work and
fabrication. But, well, - -
CC Go ahead, Paul. We lost you.
19 hl 30 CC Skylab will go A0S in ahout a minute and 30 seconds.

GoldstoneAOS at 20:h6. And we'd be interested
in hearing your comments that were broken off there.
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CDR Okay. We Just had a - a fire alarm. It's the

first one we've had since the first day we got
on board. And it was the OWS heat exchanger,
the one that went off before. And we Just looked
in there, and it's nothing; it's Just the sensor
itself.
CC Copy, J - Pete.
CDR But, I'ii tell you, if you'd had that on TV,

you'd have seen three guys leave the wardroom
like cannon shot.
CC Yes, that was a pretty abrupt break.
20 46 20 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 16minutes.
SPT Roger.
CDR Say, Houston. On that fire sensor, we'd like your

permission to cut the gain down on it a little
bit. Th_ _s the second time it has _one off.
and m_, thought on _t'is that it happens to be the
one that's facing out into the heat exchanger tank
which ia outside the vehicle. Do you suppose there's
something that could light that thing off?
SPT We thought it might be the South Atlantic Anomaly,

Houston.
CC I was Just about to pass that up to you. And, of

course, you're GO to crank the gain down on it.
CDR Ok_7. Very good.
CC And we have a couple of other messages here. We'll

get the Flight Plan up within the next rev. And
we have one apology. If you can do message 0733B
on the - its general message 151 powerdown for
tonight, if you can work that into the presleep
activities.
SPT No sweat.
CC And we would appreciate very much any feedback

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CC on this Flight Plan, any comments as to what you

think of it, and such.
CDR Okay.
SPT Houston, how much do you think we ought to crank

that sensor down? It's at 4 now.
20 48 27 CC Standby a - half.
CDR No, it's just that we will work over the Flight
Plan. The problem has been, in the past, not
being able to give you any comments. Since it's
usually the first time we've done something.
And, of course, we're learning from that. And
we'll take a look at this one.
CC Copy. We suggest setting the sensor at 3, - 3.

And suggest taking it down a step at a time.
CDR Copy.
CC And, CDR, when you set the gain down on that

sensor, would you confirm for us that it is sensor
i, sensor 1.
CDR Yes, sir. It is sensor l; 392, I believe, is

the panel, dash 1.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR It's the one that looks out into the package, not
the one that looks into the fan.
CC Copy.
20 52 41 SPT Okay, Houston; the S019 was Just initiated.
20 52 46 CC Copy.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GBOLUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC Say again, Skylab. •

m ,
CDR Roger, Houston.. This is CDR. And I was doing the

T-day checks in the co-,,,nd module. And about lO lines
down on page $4-2 of the Systems Checklist, it says:
"CR BAT BUS A and B - BAT A and B, two, CLOSe'.''
And I don't believe that's right. Right now they're
OPEN, and I think_they should r_-in that way.
/
CC We'll check it.
CDR Oh, Okay, Houston. I got called away, and I see what
you're doing is Just checking the BATS and then
pulling the breakers again. Forget it.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in about h or 5 seconds. We'll

have Vanguard AOS at 21:12.
20 58 39 CDR Roger.
PLT Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC When you're in the CSM, we want the PRESSURE RELIEF

selector on panel 352 placed OFF.
CDR It's been OFF since we've been up here, Houston. That
was the valve that I quizzed you about a long time
ago because it said "OFF" in the checklist, back when
we arrived here on day 1 or something - day 2, and
itls been OFF ever since. And it is, in fact, still
OFF.
CC We copy that, Pete. Also the MAIN POWER switch on

the VTR should be OFF at your convenience.
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CDR Okay.
21 17 21 CDR Hey, Houston, are you still there?
CC That 's affirmative. Go.
CDR Okay. The - We had two questions u, S009. It was the

first star and the fourth star that I pulled calibra-
tions on. The first star was on and the last star
was off and and the amoumt that it was off, I reported
on B channel.
CC We copy that.
CDR Okay.
CC Pete, that was on - we found on B channel, but it was

garbled. And we couldn't get it off.
CDR Un - Unfortunately, I don't have it written down

anywhere.
CC Copy.
CDR Was that garbled through some fault of ours? Are

you having problems with B channel for any reasons
ISther than the music that was screwing it up? And
we've been trying to keep that off it.
CC Pete, there's been some problems, but not from your

end.
CDR Okay.
CDR How about- Are we identifying the stuff well enough?

I - I think we've been trying to do that also.
CC Pete, as I say, there's no problems from the crew

point. We're getting good data from the crew. There
have been another glitch or two.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll see

you again Hawaii at 22:20.
21 20 37 CDR Okay.
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22 21 08 CC Skylab, Houston. %0S for 2 minutes.
SPT Roger. And the CDR has finished commang module 7-day
housekeeping stuff.
CC We copy.
CC Skylah, Houston. We have a question on scme medical

data.
SPT Okay, Bill; go ahead.
CC On the evening report there's a urine water and BMMD

measurement space, and how vould - how much would it
impact you to record that as soon as possible after
you do it in the morning. The reason for asking is
that by the time it gets turned around here and worked
it's impossible to get it on the report that goes
back up to you the following day.
SPT Understand; hut that's okay, Bill, because we've got

that data in the raw on board. I think the impact
would be more than the - the information would be
worth to us.
CC Joe, I'm sorry. I didn't quite follow that.
22 23 59 SPT I said we'd rather not do it because we have the

information on board in a raw form. You know, we've
got out weight to 6._342, which is okay. We can
look it up on your cu_-ve. So let's not.
SPT Are you still there, Bill.
CC Yes, I'm sorry. We've got a confusion factor going.

I guess our request was, could you put that on in the
morning, rather than waiting and putting it on
B channel later in the day? Could you put in on
B channel earlier in the day? That's the question.
SPT Yes, and your reason was so that you could get it
back to us in the next day's report. And I'm saying,
it's okay, we don't need it in the nest day's report.
And we'd rather do it as part of the evening _eport,
like we're - like we're doing it.
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CC Copy.
SPT Have you got some other reason for wanting it sooner?
22 2_ 08 CC Yes. Getting it back was one thing. It's pretty

impossible to _et it back. The other thing, of course,
everybody wants to see it as soon as possible.
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SKIqJ_ AIR-T0-GROURD VOI_ TRANSCRIPT
22 26 09 CC Skylah, LOS in a few seeonds. We'll see you at

Van_nL-d at 2Z:&8.
SPY Roger.
22 h8 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 10 minutes.
CDR Ro_er, Houston.
CC And Sk71ab, be advised we are updsttng sane rate

_ro drift ecMpensations. Also the world is
waiting with bated l_reath to know how Saturds_
night on Skylab is.
22 _'7 28 CC Skylab, 1,08 in 1 minute; A08 23:56.
PLT Well, good_.
23 5_ 36 CC SkTlab, Houston. We're AOS at Hswail for the

next 9 minutes.
PLY Hi, Rteha_. How was your party last night?
CC Hey, it was Just ,uper. It sounds like you guys

have had a good day up there. I say the replay
of the YV show. YOU really es_ run _od.
PLY Well, it takes a llttle practice. We mmage.
CC Hey, Paul, while I've got you on the llne, there

ls one question we need answered. We're up-
llnklng the evening questlons on thSs pass so
you can take a look at than. But there is one
of them we need an answer cm in order that we
can _ sane _REP flight pl--e4ng for thls
evening. And it is that, did you have a_V better
luck an the SI_ ali_ment on that _ pass
you did than 7uu did the day before when we
were doing _EP checkout? Over.
23 56 27 PLY Negatlve. I got a couple of more percent on

visible all_ment but the thermal was Just
the seas. It Just sat there hlah at 12 pereent;
I ersnked the knobs in and out. I didn't
Pa_e
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touch that focus. I'm not - I'm very lear2r

about touching the visible foeus again but
essentially no i__.
CC Roger, _mderstand. _ha,_ you much.
CC And Skylab; Houston. I wonder if one of you gays

eould confirm that in the comaand module the potable
rater heater is off, O-F-F.
PLT Yes, I turned that off about 3 hour8 ago, IPlek.

It surprised me that it has been on.
PLT If _ou will look into your cm_°nts even on our

day off, ye're been hustling pretty good on our
d_ off, _ut we're behind. So ve Just turned on
the rater heater - oh, I _ese, about a ha3f hour
or 8o ago if - if you're looking at that ... of
the vorkeho_.
23 _8 08 CC Ro_er; understand. Th,,k you much.
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00 05 26 CC SI%yI_, Houston. We got about 30 seconds to LOS.

We're going to see you at the Vanguard at 00:27.
That's the pass w@'ve got set aside for the Evening
Status Report, if you have time. Also, we'll be
dumping the data recorder at that pass. And we've
up-linked tomorrow's Flight Plans to you. So, if you
have any positive comments against tomorrow's Flight
Plan, we'd be glad to entertain them there at
Vanguard. So see you there.
00 05 52 CDR Okay. We've been smoking it over; it looks pretty

good so far. We like the changes - -
O0 27 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next

8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Just a second and we'll give you the
Evening Status Report.
CC Okay, good.
CDR The other guys are Juggling. The CDR ate everything.
CC Okay.
CDR Got the PLT next. The PLT didn't eat the biscuits for
lunch, macaroni for dinner, and only half the bread,
and did not drink the coffee with sugar for snackie.
CDR And only half of his coffee for breakfast.
CC Roger.
O0 28 59 CDR And he ate - took all my salt.
CC Roger.
CDR The SPT didn't have his coffee with sugar with break-
fast, nor his second tea with dinner, nor his coffee
with sugar for his snackie.
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CC Roger.
PLT Coffee isn't going over too big in the subtropical

climate, you can see.
CC You know, I noticed that.
CDR We took no 35-millimeter pictures today. And we

took - wait 1 - wetook (laughter) 42 Hasselblad
pictures today.
CC Roger.
CDR And we didn't (l_ighter) deviate from the Flight Plan

today, but we're a little behind.
I
CC Roger. Copy.
J
CDR And we did - we did do some stowage today that you

might be interested in. We took down the T027 rods,
which were only in two pieces, and they are neatly
stashed by the locker that holds the firem_n's pole,
all back in their little bags, in case anybody needs
them.
CC Okay.
00 30 17 CDR And I sent you on B channel the sound meter information

for today, and I have stashed that piece of equipment
alongside of locker E-623. And then we did the
CO 2 indicator, and all that report of what happened
to it is on B channel, and I'll turn it Over to the
Doctor who worked on his IMSS all day today.
00 30 h7 CC Okay.
SPT Good evening.
CC Good evening, Doctor.
SPT John, I have some stowage changes for the IMBS. Tell
the medical people that I threw out all the - all the
bad drugs except for samples, which I piled into a
bag to take home. They,my not get exactly their
l0 pills, but it'll be close. And - Okay, I moved
the intravenous infusion assembly and 1 liter of fluid
Day 153 Page 587
to W706. I moved the blood pressure cuff and the

stethoscope to the E610 shelf. And I moved the
ophthalmoscope, the otoscope, the hammer and the
tongue - bla - the tongue retractor to E610 Bravo.
And you will find the laryngoscope, the tracheotom_
kit, the airway and the new adrenalin in wardroom
locker 700. That's for easy access. And that's it.
CC Okay, Joe. Copy that. We still got 4 minutes. Go

ahead.
SPT I ain't got _ minutes worth of talk.
CC (Laughter) Okay.
CDR When am I clear to change out the teleprinter paper?

What - Can I do it this next pass? How long do we
have between passes?
CC INCO says you can change it out anytime, Pete.
00 B2 18 CDR Okay, very good. We'll do that, We have fuel cell

purge to go in the cow,hand module, and I've been
trying all day to get to B channel to talk about the
flight planning. But the basic s,,-,_aryis going to
be is the big tasks like, either moving big gear or
running ATM or EREP, where you get yourself bolted
down somewhere and go through a checklist, a relatively
easier go on the timeline. It's where you get lots
of loose pieces of equipment and lots of little odds
and ends that weren't necessarily obvious to us. As
I said, one example was when I had the task of
cleaning the tape recorder plug and do an 009 at the
sa-_ time, you know, you have to figure out where to
put all these little goodies. And, I'll tell you
something else that's going to take a little bit
longer, these transfers. Working in these lockers,
especially the co-,,and module lockers, takes a
reasonably longer _mount of time than it did in
1 g Just because of all the snags and little blocks,
bits, pieces there, you got to sort of think it all
out in advance and move slow. And the basic thing
is, is any of these little tasks that are - or tasks
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that have a lot of parts to them, if you start to

hustle, you Just wipe yourself out because you knock
things loose and you Just start losing them and then
you get frustrated, and you know, you Just - It's
going to take us a little while to timeline these
things, especially new items. The ones we've done,
I think we have a reasonable handle on them. And
I'd like to Just _ind of review those sort of things
on B, that I think are on time and those sort of
things that are going to take a little bit longer
or they have a different learning curve.
00 34 05 CC Roger. Understand, Pete. And on the flight plan that

we sent you for tomorrow, we're pressing on with
detailing that Flight Plan that you have on board.
Do you have any specific comments against it?
CDR No, that - that looked real good, and what we'll do,
say that's our first S183 operation, I haven't
got time to go up tonight, smoke it over and see if
I can't find some pitfalls in advance, if there are
any. And otherwise, the rest of the stuff, ATM goes
very smoothly. I - I think our first EREP went very
smoothly as far as staying on the timeline, and
getting all the tasks done. It's the little things
that have - that have hung us up for some reason,
I - I just have to specificA1]y sit down and - and
piece it together, and then you can see where we got
behind on the timeline and where we were trying to
make up.
00 35 01 CC Roger; understand. Well, we certainly tried to take

your comments last night and today to heart, and so
if this Flight Plan tomorrow or the next day doesn't
seem to be workable for one reason or another, please
don't hesitate to let us know. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS at Vangnard. We're going to he back at
Hawaii at - in about an hour at 01:34. That'll be
your medical conference. Over.
O0 35 26 CDR Okay, very good. I think also, that the next go-around
coming up now that we've been through a lot of gear.
We had trouble with this, moving a lot of gear, so
I - I think we're in better shape now for the next
6-day run.
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02 05 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for about

l0 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Houston. And I have one thing to add to the

photo report for tonight. Are you ready to copy?
CC Yes, sir; go ahead. •
CDR The item _87 4-Charlie, I think this morning - Any-

how, I was getting out of bed - if you can add that
on to what was left of the magazine that we did
4 Bravo with last night. I got them both in on the
one magazine.
CC Roger, Pete. Thank you very much.
CDR Okay, that's it. We - we've had one through the

shower, one in the shower, and one waiting for the
shower.
CC Sounds fine. What does the one that went through

it think of that shower?
02 06 27 CDR He's clean and sweet and smelling good right now.
That's CommAnder Weitz, tested out the first shower.
He took a fair amount longer than timelined, as you
might expect again. Although there was a learning
curve there. And we've got Joe in there right now,
and - and we're timing himto see how long it takes.
It takes quite awhile to flop the water back up
again. (Music)
02 06 53 CC Roger; understand. Say, Pete, I have one more

comment that I was asked to pass up to you. And
that is on the S183. As a matter of fact, we're
watching a replay of you guys picking it off the
floor this afternoon during the demonstration. And
we were wondering after you did take it up, did you
vent it to vacuum? And, if you didn't, we'd appre-
ciate it before you go to bed if you would. It's
the SAL Checklist, page h-15, We need it to - to
vent it to vacuum for about 15 minutes and then se-
cure the vacuum hose.
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CDR You're very clever. It was started right after we

picked it up.
CC Very good.
CDR And I was smoking over the - the Flight Plan. And
the kind of traps that I told you that I - that I -,
I'm not complaining about this because we haven't
done it before, but M151 with S183 is going to re-
quire the high intensity lights. And they haven't
been rigged yet. So I'm going to do that tonight.
But that's - those are the kind of things that we've
run into here that have sort of slowed us down and
kept us behind the power curve. And it - In generally
talking again today and looking at this Flight
Plan, and being able to talk about it very carefully,
in the last 6 days that we worked during activation
and a couple of orbital days, we were really going
from hand to mouth. And we really didn't have time
to sit down and really think out the next day's ...
Now I think tomorrow, because I've been Just sitting
here now doing that waiting for the shower - you
know, if there's any other pitfm-lls in there, I'll
have time to find them. We really haven't had a
chance to do that with any of those other ones. And
other than putting the waste m_uagement stuff on
B channel, we probably won't discuss the Flight Plan
anymore. I think we're all on the same frequency.
02 08 53 CC Roger, Pete; understand. As a matter of fact, we've

been looking very carefully at tomorrow's also. And
I have a couple of little minor numerical changes
that I'd like to mnke. And we found one potential
pitfall. We've still got about 6 minutes left in
this pass. I think I'm going to take a minute a_d
get squared away for it. Talk to you again. But
I am going to ask you to make a couple of pencil
corrections. And they will be to the details pads,
with regard to momentum inhibit times, and also one
change to the su,-,_y. So I'll be off the air here
for a few minutes and looking at this piece of paper.
CDR Okay.
02 l0 40 CDR While you're doing that, Dick, I know that this gets
recorded. So I - I was going to make another comment
for you to consider later on.
CC Okay.
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CDR We're keeping crew_-_ position i, 2, and 3 right now

for postsleep. It - it seems the easiest ... to keep-
ing the record that we're sort of sticking to that
right now. And you might as well go ahead and flight-
plan it that way. The evenings, we've been pretty
well sticking to i, 2, and 3 also, other than swapping
around the ATM according to your schedule. But I
think we'll keep to your schedule in the evening.
But you can Just plan CDR i, SPT 2, and PLT 3 on
these postsleep checklists.
CC Roger; copy.
CC CDR, Houston. l'm ready to tell you these changes.

And one of them is in the assignment. We've made
a goof on one of the pads in your tomorrow's presleep
checklist. And let me give you what we intended.
Over.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. On the flight plans, Pete, the slm,_A_y numbers

should read: for the SPT, 32; and the PLT, 23. They
are reversed. And if you'll take a look at the ATM
on-times for presleep, you'll notice the detail pad
supports that. The correct designations are SPT 32,
PLT 23.
CDR Okay. Well I tell you what we - Stand by i.
02 13 35 CC CDR, Houston. We have one more pass here, and I

promise you I'll get the thing straight, • and we
can talk about it there. The EGIL has a question
for you. He's - we're showing an increase in power
consumption of about 300 watts over last evening. And
we think we've accounted for the water heaters you're
using and the shower. Is there anything different
about the configuration that you have up there tonight
as it was last night?
CDR No, really I'm snowed, because we've got all the lights
out completely in the MDA, and they've been out all
day. We're running Just about five or six lights down
here; and other than the hot water heater that we put
on, that's about it. I don't - I can't think of
anything that we're using.
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CC Okay, Pete; thank you much. We'll see you at

Ascension at 02:20; that's about 6 minutes from now.
02 lh 35 CDR Right, we'll have the water beater off. We'll turn
the water heater off right after we heat the next
load of water.
CC Okay.
02 19 58 PLT Hello, are you there, Houston?
CC Go ahead, Paul.
PLT Loud aud clear.
CC Okay, I do have your pad changes here. They are -

and I've researched them. There's one change to the
Flight Plan, and then there's one change each to
each of the detailed flight plans - detailed pads.
PLT Okay, Pete and I are ready. And we Just remembered

- And one thing you may - the EGIL may be seeing is
we've got one well on in each of the three food
heaters, Dick.
CC Roger; understand. And that helps him out in figuring

out what we're up to. And you ready - -
CDR Okay.
CC Okay.
CDR Go ahead with your changes.
02 21 00 CC Okay, first is on the S_m,,ary Flight Plan. And it's

up at the top of where the pre- and post-sleep desig-
nations - These are the correct numbers: SP - the
CDR's are correct, ll; SPY should read 32; the PLT
should read 23. Now, I copied the CDR's comment on
the postsleep; and if you all want to do that l, 2,
3. The major change to this is the post - the presleep
where the ATM runs. And so what we're suggesting is
32 for SPT; PLT, 23; and that will make your detail
pads correct with regard to ATM on times. I do have
a change for each of the detailed pads; however, on
momentum-inhibit times.
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PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all on the - And, incidentally, the reason

we have a mom - these change on momentum inhibits was
a machine problem today. We - Those first were made
on an initial estimate, and we were late in getting
the run done on the machine. On the SPT's details,
you - where it says, "16:35 momentum inhibit - inhibit,"
that time should read "16:37." Next is PLT's.
PLT Go.
CC Okay, on the PLT's down there at the bottom, where it

says "20:32 momentmm enable," that should read , "19:32."
02 22 50 PLT Okay. That coinsldes with onstatlon. You go ahead

and enable momentum then?
CC Sorry, didn't copy the question.
PLT That's all right. The new time for momentum enable
for me tomorrow night is 19:32..
CC That's affirm. And on the CDR's pad, up there toward

the top where it says, "18:30 momentum enable," that
should read "lS:ll."
CDR Okay, 18:ll, Dick. Is that it?
CC Yes, sir, that's it. We still got - -
CDR Okay, I got the other comment where I changed out the
teleprinter paper. And there seemed to me to be a
great deal of paper remaining. I measured it and the
diameter - the diameter remaining 1-3/8 inches.
CC Okay; we copied.
02 24 03 CC And, Skylab, Houston. One more comment on the Flight

Plan, and then I guess we've about talked it to death.
On tomorrow's Flight Plan, one thing that we noticed
that apparently was a mistake on our part is under
CDR's column. After the M092/93 run, you should have
a PH period scheduled in there. It is not in there,
and we're passing that on to the slrmmAry team. Inciden-
tally, I have a brief description of the EREP pass
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tomorrow. And I thought you might be interested in it

since it is a little bit different due to the power.
And I'd like to describe it to you, if you'd like to
hear it.
PLT Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all, we're giving some extra time to the

friendly PLT in order to accomplish some - some procedures
that we're going to be up-linking tonight, that are
slightly different in aligning S192. And I can't
describe them to you in detail right now, Paul, because
I don't have them here in front of me. But we're
going to give you about an extra 30 minutes there
during the prep to try to help us out on that alignment.
The data-take time for this pass will be about l0 min-
utes. And the pass is restricted to a 40-degree
central angle of travel that is centered around
local noon tomorrow. The pass will commence up around
San Francisco and go down the California coast. About
a 10-minute data-take. Over.
PLT Okay. Now, this 30 minutes to do a 192 alignment. I

assume there's going to be some indication in there to
go ahead and power up 192, 30 minutes earlier. Or
how are you going to work it to make sure that it's
at operating temperature before I start this procedure?
02 25 52 CC We are going to power it up early, Paul, and we are

taking that into consideration for - in the procedure.
Another thing, also, in that 30 minutes that - we're
going to do an S190 film advance; and S191 coolant
problems have also - going to be incorporated into
that prep. And that will all be on your EREP prep
pad coming up tonight.
PLT Okay, good enough. Pete and I were Just talking, and
we really hadn't taken the time to do the 191 malf
procedure yet. We were talking about doing that
tomorrow also.
02 26 hi CDR You still there, Houston?
CC Affirmative, Pete. We got about a minute and 20 seconds.
CDR Okay, one other stowage item which went down the crack,
which we caught - caught today, was the AM tape recorders
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are stowed in the proper dome locker now. They've been

left in the airlock dome all this time and we're - l'm
sure we're going to stumble over a few more of these
things like high intensity lights and stuff as we go
along. But we're getting there.
CC Skylab, Houston. One last quick question. We're about

B0 seconds from goodnight. We assume that on that Mh87
this morning, you used the film transporters that were
in the pad that we sent up to you last night. Over.
02 27 47 CDR I used the ones for the M487-4 Bravo. There was still
enough left on that. That shot it all up.
PLT Yes. It was in the same location, Dick, but Just about
5 percent on it, which was what was spelled out for
getting in and out of the sleeping bags, so we Just
shot it up on that. Not on the one that was spelled
out.
CC Okay. We copy. And you guys have a very good night's

sleep, and we'll see you tomorrow.
02 28 12 CDR Okay. Goodnight, Dick.
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03 07 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're looking at a i0,000 do not

ENTER on the DAS, and we've got you for & minutes.
Go ahead.
PLT Okay, Dick. When I turned the waste management

compartment WATER HEATER, OFF, we got two BUS LOW
lights: OWS BUS 1 LOW, OWS BUS 2 LOW. The buses
did not go low. They're still not low, but the
lights are still sitting there - for what that's
worth. Plus I noticed - now, I don't know if it's -
if it opened tonight, if it's been open, or if we
kicked it open - in the - Just a minute. In the
STS, the OWS BUS 1 _'_DER number 2 circuit breaker
is OPEN. It is closed down here in the workshop.
I've not reset that yet. I didn't try, I Just
thought I'd let you take a look before you - before
I reset it.
CC Okay, Paul. Say again. In the STS which one is

open, please - or was open?
03 08 03 PLT OWS BUS 1 FEEDER number 2.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We noticed you've reconfigured

the DAS, and we are going to be starting our normal
period of unattended ops tonight. We've still got
about 2 minutes and 20 seconds standby on this pass.
So I'll stand by.
PLT Okay, when is your next pass?
CC Hang on 1 second.
CC Roger. The next pass is down at Vanguard in 3 hours

and 42 minutes.
PLT Okay. Well, look, then what we'll do is just inhibit

the caution and warning on those and turn in for the
night, and you can look at them later, huh?
03 09 ii PLT That is in 3 more hours, or at 3 hours and 40 min-

utes, Dick?
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CC That's - no that's at 3 hours plus 42 - at 42 past

the hour - at this hour. And we concur with that,
and we are looking at the data on the buses.
PLT Okay, we'll probably still be up. Once again, even

on our own time we run behind. So give us a call at
Vanguard, will you, please?
03 09 3h CC Okay, we certainly will.
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SIC/LAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
03 42 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the Vanguard for

ii minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. What did you find, anything?
CC Well, here's what we are going to do. We're going to

dump the data tape recorder this pass, because that
in - the data that we're looking for is presently
on board. I can say that we rea]_y understand
the problem particularly, because the WMC water
heater is only on BUS 2. And - we don't also, we
don't see any correlation - immediate correlation
between the FEEDER circuit breaker being popped and
the CAUTION & WARNING. So our suggestion to you is
that, since we do not particularly need that FEEDER
circuit breaker closed, that we leave it open until
we've looked at the data. And secondly, we also
don't see any particular reason to inhibit the
CAUTION & WARNING, and our suggestion would be to
just reset the lights and leave the OWS BUS 1 and BUS 2
LOW CAUTION & WARNING enabled. Over.
PLT But the signal's still there, Dick. That's why we

can't do it. We got no CAUTION & WARNING, anyway.
The lights are lit right now if I enable it.
03 43 30 CC Ah, so.
CREW Yes, it wasn't a transient. That signal came, and it's

still there.
CC It's possible that it's a caution and warning problem

that was triggered by the turning off the heater.
But haven't bothered to troubleshoot it; we just
thought we'd let you think about it for awhile.
CC Roger; copy. And we've still got i0 minutes this

pass; so we're thinking about it.
PLT Okay, now let me tell you. I know that when I turned
that water heater on I watched the amps come up about
5 amps - the current cazle up about 5 amps on BUS 2.
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Now, I closed the breakers to watch the currents again,

when I opened the water heater circuit breaker, and
much to my surprise, also, when I opened that breaker,
the current dropped on both BUSES. And within half
a second to a second after that, that both the BUS LOW
lights came on simultaneously.
03 44 25 CDR Hey, Dick I got another one for you while you're
thinking about that.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Look. During our normal activation is when we would

have gotten a high intensity light and the right DAC
and so forth, out - rigged up in the dome area. Now,
we don't have anything rigged up there right now. I
don't even know what DAC is supposed to be up there.
So could you scurry real fast and give me a DAC
number to use up there, so that everybody's happy,
or can I jlst go go grab any old DAC?
CC We'll scurry. And, Paul; Houston. When you turned

the WMC water heater off and you were looking at the
two bus current indications, what was the magnitude
of the drop on the two buses?
PLT I'd say it was about 2 to 3 amps on each bus.
CC Understand.
PLT You know, that's pretty hard to read on that meber.

But that's what I'd guess.
03 45 34 PLT Joe Kerwin said that's exactly the answer you were
afraid I was going to give you, and I'm afraid he's
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. A couple of circuit breakers

we would like checked on panel 613, the CAUTION &
WARNINGLOW VOLTAGE SENSE 1 and 2. Over.
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PLT In works.
CC Okay.
PLT Both those circuit breakers are OPEN, Houston.
CC Understand.
03 47 39 CC CDR, Houston. The answer on the DAC, we reco_end,

is DAC 01.
CDR Okay. Well I was going to make a suggestion here.

I think the DAC that originally was supposed to be
there is on page 3-5 of the Activation Checklist
under M16 [sic] photo prep. I Just found it, and,
now, I can use 01 or I can use 03.
CC Let me turn to that page and I'm doing that now.
CDR Yes, this is stuff that's all been scratched out,

but that's - that's how much this stuff went down
the crack, see. And we're not really ready for you
- to shoot us with a straightday, yet.
03 _8 26 CC Understand. And as long as we still got 5 minutes

left in this pass, we're assuming you guys have
gotten together, and you can't think of anything
else that could possibly have been going on in the
electrical system other than that WMC water heater at
the time you got the C&W.
CDR I was in the shower; so I wasn't doing anything. Let

me make a suggestion Dick, on this DAC business.
Let's skip M151 tomorrow and just proceed with 183.
We're going to run that again. And you guys scurry
around tomorrow and block out on the Flight Plan - and -
and - why don't you comb the whole checklist, because I
can't think of these things. But I suggest that if
you Just go through the red outlined things you may
find a bunch of other stuff in there that's not done
that would have normally been done. And - and - and
you can throw it all in that Flight Plan the day after
tomorrow or something, and we'll get it all done.
And - and then we could really get into normal ops.
How does that grab you?
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03 49 3h CC Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. We concur. Let's drop the MISI for

tomorrow's run only, on S183.
CDR Right, and Just smoke over the checklist tonight and
tomorrow and find out about high-intensity lights and
the DAC stations. And give us the - the right pages
and an hour in the next day or something and we'll
rig all that stuff, end then we'll be roaring.
CC Roger. Will do.
CC Skylab, Houston. We recommlend the following on your

configuration for this evening. Leave all three
circuit breakers that you found open, the two on
the C&W on panel 613 and the FEEDER breaker. Until
further notice, do not attempt to try the WMC water
heater. And inhibit the CAUTION & WARNING for those
two items for the OWS buses. And we will dump the
data, or I assume we probably already have dumped
the data, here at Vanguard. We're going to be
- we're going to be taking it through the computers
this evening. And hopefully, by the time you wake
up in the morning, as soon as we can analyze the data,
maybe we will have a good story for you. Over.
PLT Okay, and that's per the configuration.
CC Very good.
03 52 l0 CC Skylsb, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS at

Vanguard. We'll see you in the morning. Incident-
ally, this team that's on now has been making up
your detailed pads that have been available for you
each morning, and we've sure enjoyed it. We're going
to take about a day or so off, and next week we're
going to be preparing your S,,mmary Flight Plan; so we'll
see you then.
PLT Just when you get good, they switch you, huh?
CC Roger.
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PLT Okay, We've enjoyed it, too. And we'll see you.
Don_t take too mR_y days off.
CC We won't.
CDR Have a meritorious good time for me, there, Richard,

and the rest of the team. We enjoyed it.
03 52 49 CC Yes, sir. See you later.
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Day 153 Page 605
ii 15 55 CC Good morning, Skylab; this is Houston. We've got

you AOS for about a minute over Carnarvon. And
happy birthday, Pete.
PLT Oh, you remembered.
CC Aren't we sweet.
PLT He's a bouncing 43 year old this morning.
CC We're getting so much feedback through that SIA,

I can't really read you right now. We'll have
you again at Goldstone at 11:54. And I got
about 30 seconds more here.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're indicating that your

CAUTION & WARNING number 1 system and EMERGENCY
SYSTEM number 1 is powered OFF right now. Did
you guys power it off?
PLT That's affirm. That's the housekeeping 70-Bravo

or whatever it is.
CC Man, you guys are really up early and going at it.
PLT Well, we passed over western Europe this morning ...
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead I've still got you for about 15 more

seconds.
PLT Okay. We finally eliminated the feedback. It's all

the way between the wardroom and the dome speaker
boxes, would you believe.
ll 18 32 CC Roger. That sounds much better.
ll 54 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the States for

the next 17 minutes - the next 17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. And, Houston; CDR.

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CC Go, CDR.
CDR Okay. Last night I said that I wasn't sure I

asked them to drop MI_I off of S183 because we
hadn't configured it. We got up a little early
this morning, and I've been working that problem.
I won't guarantee that I'ii get it done, but I
got it in work. I. got it half done.
CC Roger. I imagine you'll make some 151 people very

happy if you did.
ii 56 29 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR I th_nk you for passing on the birthday greetings.

I dodidn't respond. I was working a problem in
waste m-nagement compartment at the time.
CC Roger. Still trying to work up somebody that

sing "Happy Birthday" to you.
CDR No need. I've gotten to the point where I should

be 39 and holding and forgetting it.
CC Roger. By the way, we had an opportunity to review

the TV tape of you guys running around the dome
lockers last night. That's quite a show you
put on.
CDR You catch on pretty fast up here.
PLT Hey, Crip.
CC Go, Paul.
PLT What's the status on our OWS BUS i LOW indication?

They still working it?
CC Yes, they're still looking at it. They haven't

come up with any bright ideas here, yet. Let me see
if I can come up with something local with you.
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PLT Okay. I got another request for them.
CC Go.
PLT That thing that was sent up yesterday on the new

housekeeping 70 series, send it again, will you,
please? I want to cut it out and paste it up on
the STS panel.
CC Roger. You'd like the entire 70-Alpha and

Bravo again?
PLT Yes, I don't need the correlation matrix on the

front of that. Just the things that - Yes, but ...
that when you do.
CC Roger.
PLT And I don't have a message number, Crip. When I

put it in the book, I trimmed it as neatly as I
could so that - -
CC Yes, we have it here. No sweat.
12 00 15 CC PLT; Houston. Regarding the power problem you had

last night, we're still looking at it; and we'd
like to keep the circuit breakers in their current
configuration.
PLT Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT I'm looking at my M07h electronic module procedures,

and it tells me all about how to change it out, and
it doesn't tell me which one to change. I guess
what you want me to do is take the one in the ward-
room and put it in the head. Is that right?
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CC That's affirm. SPT, what - what they're trying

to do is - On one place there, they have you dis-
connect it and connect it back up. And that's Just
to check out the one in the head.
SPT Okay.
12 03 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We were a little bit late sending

up the odds and ends message this morning. It came
up about half an hour ago. I'd like to verify
that you did get it. And we will probably be
having to send you a setup for the M151, if you
are planning on doing it today. And we're getting
that ready.
CDR Say again, Crip.
12 04 57 CC I'd like to verify that you did get the odds and
ends message. It c_m_ up with the last one to
come up. It came up about a half an hour ago.
It's a little bit later than the rest. And in
addition to that, if you are going to be doing the
M151 associated with :lB3 today, we're going to be -
have to up-link you another pad for that, and
we're getting it ready now.
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CDR No, you don't. That's what got me going early

this morning. I got an M151 - S183 message after
I asked the ground last night to cancel it. And
seeing we were up early, it told me what DAC to
use, which is what the - which is per the
Activation Checklist, which we didn't do because
we were told not to do it - blah, blah, blah.
Anyhow, I got it in work; you don't need to
send me anything.
12 04 _3 CC (Laughter) Okay. (Laughter)
12 l0 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS.

We'll see you again over Madrid at 12:16, 12:16.
12 16 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Madrid for the

next 9 minutes.
CDR Hey, Houston. CDR on that odds and ends message.

That heater circuit breaker is, in fact, OPEN.
CC I understand. The circuit breaker is OPEN.
CDR That's right.
CC Thank you.
12 16 h8 PLT You know, Crip, we're not sure. Any of these

switches - any of these switch breakers on the
STS panel, there's always a potential for inad-
vertently opening those darn things. And I was
thinking about that last night; and we probably
ought to pass on to the _87 people. I guess
I'll put it on B channel. But then if you got
exposed breaker panels with the switch breakers
on, you got to cover them. The guard is not
enough. You got to flat cover them with
something.
CC Roger. Do you think there's a chance that you

might accidentally pop that one open?
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PLT That's what - that's my message really. Any

breaker on panel 200, 201 or 202 always has
the potential for having been inadvertently
opened by one of three or four people up
here.
CC Okay, Paul. We copy. Thank you.
12 17 37 CDR May I add: We've been running with the lights out
up there a lot, an4[ I made a lot of trips to the
command module yesterds_,, plus change out the tape
recorder paper. And around there it's Just very
easy - You get to hanging on with one hand; you
get floating around; and it's easy for your feet
to get in there and knock something off and you'd
never know it.
CC Okay. We copy.
12 18 05 PLT Yes, ask EGIL. I already reset the AMP-HOUR

INTEGRATORS to ZERO for them that way.
12 19 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We Just sent you one more pad; _

and it was one concerning that Ml51 and 183 we
were talking about earlier. And what it is, it's
a changing of the lighting slightly, to handle re-
duced lighting power due to the powerdown consi-
derations we got.
12 2h 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

see you again over Honeysuckle at 13:02, 13:02.
12 24 22 CDR Roger.
13 01 41 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 6 minutes. And, Skylab,

we'll be dumping the tape recorder on this pass;
also at Hswaii.
PLT Okay, Houston.
13 04 12 PLT Are you there, Houston?
CC GO, Skylab.
PLT Hey, Just for information, i Just looked in the

food chiller in preparation for systems housekeeping
3 Bravo-l. And much to my surprise, there is nary a
speck of moisture visible in there.
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CC We copy. That makes everyone happy.
PLT Yes. Unfortunately, the freezers aren't doing as

well. We got a fairly good frost buildup around
the seal line on the freezer doors ; frost and ice.
CC Copy that.
13 05 15 PLT Hey, also, Bill, I see on that teleprinter they wanted

to finish the conversation I was having with you yes-
terday when the fire alarm went off. What I was
saying about the doors is we always had discussions
before I mentioned compression walking and about
access panels and walls, as it were. And some people
opted for large round holes because you would be
moving about head first. Well, it's not so_ and
I don't know, I still feel there's a fair amount
of the - the carryover of one-g training in your
attitude in here. But we finally translate from
place to place essentially in an erect position;
erect or semisitting. These doors are - are really
Just what you want, even in zero g.
CC Copy that. The one-g carryover works pretty well

in zero g.
13 06 05 PLT Yes. Yes, you don't go head first. You push off,
and if it's convenient, you go head first_ if it's
convenient, you go feet first ; but most of the
time we Just move forward or laterally.
CC Copy that. Thank you, Paul.
l_ 06 30 CDR Houston -
13 06 34 CDR Houston, be advised that I got M151 set up including

the high intensity light so we'll have that on 183
today.
13 06 _2 CC Copy that, Pete.
CDR You all owe me one. I got up l0 minutes early.
CC (Laughter) Copy again, Pete.
13 06 56 PLT Okay, Bill. On message 0809 Foxtrot from yesterday

were some questions ; and question number 3 referred
to S052, which I'll answer if everybody's ready.
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CC We're standing by, Paul. Go.
PLT Okay. The answer to subquestion 1 is "no." To 2 is

"a short period"; it'd go out for a short period.
The only mode I noticed it in, I never noticed it in
continuous. I noticed it a couple of times in
standard. And I would have to guess that it went
out maybe two times - in each sequence. As I
mentioned before, I. did not correlate it going
out with frsme counter detrimentlng. I ,1_o
watched - I ran another ATM JOP 6 the other
night. And I watched over Pete's shoulder while
he did sc_nething c_ the coronagraph. And I have
not observed this operate light going out since I
reported it about 3 days ago.
13 07 57 CC We copy that, Paul. And we're going LOS here.

And we will see you at Hm_aii at 13:22.
13 22 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. And everybody is about on their

time llne.
CC Copy.
13 28 08 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS in 1 minute. Correction:

LOS in 1 minute. AOS, Goldstone, 13:30. We
appreciate very much your helping out on the
power management with turning out lights and
such the other day. And if possible, we'd llke
to keep. that up through the day. At the moment,
if today is l_e the last operational day, we'll
be in acceptable shape at the end of it with
not much to spare.
CDR Roger that. Houston, we're probably going to use

more today. You know we're x,mn_ng M151, and
we've got all the other experiment lights on,
plus the high intensity light.
13 28 57 CC We copy that, Pete.
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13 30 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 14 minutes with ...
SPT Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, Houston.
SPT We have a couple questions/comments for you.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Number i: we are generating, as we go through

the days, a number of cans of unused food and unopened
food. We'd like - and there's no hurry on _his -
we'd like to know whether we should throw away this
food, or whether we should can it up, put it in a
convenient location - for the follow-on crews to use
as overage?
CC We copy, Joe. I assume that food is not bulged or

any way abnormal?
SPT It's normal food that we Just haven't eaten.
CC Copy. We'll get you an answer.
SPT Okay. The second - this is a comment that I put on

Channel B a couple of days ago, and apparently it
didn't get through. We'd like to propose that we
don't do any more voice record on channel B: M131
results, spatical localization testing, M074, M172
cals; but, rather, that - since we have to log that
data by hand anyway, that we bring the logs back.
Logging on voice is time consuming, and it's been
quite unsatisfactory. And that's the principal reason
for this recommendation.
CC We copy that, Joe.
13 32 52 SPT Okay. The last thing I'd like to ask: on the two
maneuver pads today, particularly the Y rate gyro
maneuver, whether I should inhibit star tracker update
of orbital plane error before I go to those special
stars, which I don't know what they are?
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CC Okay. We ill get you an answer.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Joe, thank you very much for the work on 172.
That looks as if we finally got a good cal on that.
Certainly appreciate that.
SPT MM pleasure.
CC We've - there's still questions on clothes and such

before we can get usable data.
SPT Roger. We noticed that our weights, as they were

sent up by the medical pads this morning, were quite
a bit higher than our onboard cal curve indicated to
us. Are you guys using a fudge factor?
13 33 48 CC Joe, I've had nothing to do with that weight. I don't

know where it's coming from, or anything else.
SPT Okay. I would be interested in the next few days, if

the medical people could give me a correction to our
cal curve or tell us whether it's any good or not -
our onbo_rd curve.
CC Joe, since I have you, could you tell me what you're

wearing in the morning? Are you wearing the triangle
shoes? We - this is the last big thing we need.
SPT Okay. Weitz is wearing the triangle shoes, and he's

doing it every morning as a standard thing. Conrad
and I are not wearing the triangle shoes. We're
wearing our soft shirts and our trousers and socks.
CC Okay. I assume also underwear, and is this with the

long pants or short pants, Joe?
SPT It's with - it's with pants. This morning it was with
long pants for me; the previous h days was with short
pants. Sorry about that, but it's taking me that long
to acclimatize.
CC We copy that, and thank you very much, Joe. And we'll
get you some good data up.
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SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Just a comment, l'm observing the white light

coronagraph on TV, and I noticed a stream of particles
go by Just as the mol sieve cycled. I suspect that
you can see mol sieve outgassing on that, and the PI
might want to know that.
13 37 00 CC Thank you, Joe. Also be advised that we're powering

up the Y-2 gyro prepatory to the Y rate gyro scale
factor maneuver.
SPT Roger.
CC SIT, the computer inhibits that star tracker; so you

don't have to bother.
SPT Okay; my mistake.
CDR Hey, Bill. Unless it's escaped me, I can't find, in

either the S183 pad, or the film pads for S183,
what DAC they wanted used on the S183 itself. I've
got the magazine that they want used, but not the
DAC. Unless I hear from you, l'm just going to grab
one out of the drawer.
13 39 08 CC Okay, Pete. We'll try and get you a quick one.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT I have a comment and a question_regarding S052. We

may have reported this to you before because Paul
has seen it. When you're in the TV position and you
close the doors on S052, it looks terrible. It looks
as if you're looking at burning celluloid film. I
don't know whether this is reflections into the cam-
era what the problem is, but that's what it looks
like, as if a lot of white light was getting around
the occulting disc at the moment of door closing.
_l"nat'sthe corm_ent. The question is this: When you
are - when you have the 52 doors open and then you
roll, even though you are circ-eentered, you never
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stay within 20-odd seconds of the center, and you

always lose your ready lights. My question is,
"would the PI like us to close the doors whenever we
roll and then reopen them?"
CDR Hey, ..., and while you're thinking that over, I made
a rapid-like decision on using DAC Oh because I'm
getting behind in this stuff.
CC Okay, Pete. We're slow on that. It was on pad 907,

DAC 03 at f/3 but - -
CDR That's MISI. I said specifically the DAC that goes

on the S183. I got the 151 DAC 03 stuff done. There's
two DACs involved: one on the experiment and one on
the M151 photo.
CC We copy, Fete.
CC SPT, Houston.
14 15 24 SPT Go ahead.
CC If you could give us a time mark when S009 opens?

This should be approximately 13:57:05.
SPT Okay. If I hear it, I'll give you a hack.
CC Right, no big deal. And if it's already open, let us

know. And if you should miss it, don't go to a lot
of trouble. But if you should miss it, we'll try it
again on a later pass.
SPT Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. We'd like for you to leave the door

open when you are rolling, even though the light comes
on. And apparently they expected this phenomena that
you see with the light from the doors.
13 47 25 SPT Okay. Thank you.
PLT Boy, I sure wish they had told us that. It scared the
bejabbers out of me the other day. And if it makes
any difference to them, the PLT has been closing that
S052 doors prior to rolling, but I won't do that
anymore.
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CC We copy that, PLT. And, PLT, there's no problem in

that.
PLT Yes, that's Just for information.
CC We'll be LOS in 1 minute; AOS Canary at 13:52.
13 49 25 CREW Roger.
13 50 18 MCC (Music: Assembly-bugle solo)
13 58 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be dumping tape recorders at

Huneysuckle, 14:38.
!
14 Oh 04 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Honeysuckle AOS 14:37.
15 38 28 PLT Hello, Houston. You there?
CC We're standing by.
PLT Okay, the SPT is doing his Y-axis thing, and I'm
ready to do the CBRM malf thing, if you're ready.
CC We're ready.
i-.
PLT Okay.
15 40 06 SPT Houston, mark the beginning of the first maneuver.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay. On the CBRM - I had to do it twice, because I

forgot to power up the status light the first time.
What happens, when you turn the REG, OFF is the light
comes on. When you turn it back on, the light goes
off. However, the meter indications do not change.
And the REG VOLT talkback stays barber pole. The
voltage stays at 22.5, and the current stays at plus 5-
CC We copy.
PLT I'm going to finish up now by turning that charger

off.
CC Copy.
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SPT Houston, SPT. Did you want TV at this time?
CC Stand by half.
CC That is affirmative, SPT.
SPT I'm a little confused by it. Apparently you want the

SUV on with the doors closed. Well, that's what you've
got.
CC That 's affirmative, Joe.
SPT Are you happy with it?
CC Joe, we can't see it from this point. We'll be seeing

it shortly.
SPT Okay. I can't see a thing, myself.
CC Copy
lh 41 44 PLT Okay. When the CHARGER is turned OFF, the charger

lights - CHARGER number 3 light "- comes ON. All other
indications remain the same.
CC We copy.
PLT I'm going to turn the CHARGER back ON, and that's the
end of my procedure.
CC PLT, Houston. Which voltage was that that you gave us?
CDR He's en route. He'll be with you in a minute.
14 43 16 FLT That's the voltage on the meter. I had REGS selected;

so therefore - and I read off the volt scale; so it
must have been BEG volts.
CC Copy.
CC Paul, the procedure called for BEG BUS and BATTERY

voltage.
SPT Okay, Houston. We're completing the first maneuver,

and I'm about to start the second one.
CC Copy that.
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SC Do we have time to do that CBRM procedure over again?

When I read it, I assumed you meant because the meter
was time sheared that's what you were calling it. I'll
do it again and give you all three values.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Okay, Houston; CDR.
CC Go, CDR."
14 44 55 CDR I've been meaning to make this comment for a long

time for the other crews. When you're down in the
wardroom sleep station-experiments area and the TACS
is firing, as it's doing now - depending on which one
it is, it sounds like shotguns going off outside.
The closer ones to you of course, are louder, but it's
a very distinct whomp, whomp, whomp, every time one
of them goes off.
CC We copied that, Pete, and we're passing it on. We've

also passed it on previously.
f
SPT And, Houston, SPT. On my VTR recording last sunside

pass, I gave you some shots of the coronagraph with
the door closing, for the training people.
CC Thank you, SPT.
PLT Okay. I've got it, Bill. Are you ready to copy the
numbers?
CC That's affirm, Paul.
14 46 14 PLT Okay. The status light indications are as I reported

before. Now, what I didn't notice the first time I
did it was that when I turned the REG off - well, that
figures, I guess - when I turned the REG off, the REG
VOLTS talkback went gray. When I turned the REG back
on the talkback went barber pole. The voltage is -
the regulator was 22.5, the bus was 28.2, the battery
was 34. Regulator current was plus 5, battery was
minus 1.
CC We copy that thank you, Paul.

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PLT Okay. l'm sorry I misread that the first time.
CC No problem.
SPT Houston, SPT - if you could - Have we got time left

to do the high-voltage aluminum and beryllium powerup?
CC Due 14:58 over Hawaii, if you read.
14 47 21 CREW Okay.
14 57 07 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS.
SPT Roger, Houston. Are you ready for the X-REA and the
analyzer powerup?
CC That's affirm, Joe. And - -
SPT Okay. X-REA POWER going (_ now.
CC Copy.
SPT Both my talkbacks are in i.
CC Copy.
SPT Beryllium count is 4960. The aluminum count is 4850.

And HIGH VOLTAGE POWER A1 coming ON now.
CC Copy.
SPT It's not within 200 counts, Houston. l'm going to

shut it off unless you tell me otherwise.
CC After 20 seconds, Joe, turn it off. We're also turning

off the rate gyro at this time.
14 58 37 SPT Roger. HIGH VOLTAGE AL is OFF. It looked llke it

does in the trainer. It was cycling between about
_00 or i000 or ii00.
CC Copy.
SPT Okay. HIGH VOLTAGE POWER BERYLLIUM is coming ON -
145850 SPT How.

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CC Leave beryllium power off, Joe. That's BERYLLIUM

HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF.
SPT Roger. It's back OFF. And do they want X-REA POWER,
OFF?
lh 59 16 CC Stand by, Joe.
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14 59 50 CC Joe, it looked good on the ground. So go ahead

and turn your ALUMINUM HIGH VOLTAGE back ON.
Proceed with the beryllium, and leave X-REA on.
SPT Okay, aluminum's back on; beryllium is coming on -
15 00 06 SPT Now.
CC Looking good on the ground, Joe.
SPT Roger. It looks good here, too; although it's

not within the plus or minus 200, I don't think.
Shall I leave it on?
CC That's affirm, Joe.
SPT Okay. I'll take the red tape oTf the switches.
CC Copy. fund, Joe, you're GO to use that.
SPT Thank you.
CC Also, Joe, you may he getting double sequences

on S054; it appears you might have stopped that.
Don't be concerned about this is you see this.
We see it on unattended ops, also.
SPT I forgot to tell you; I did see it right at the

end of the day. It almost made me miss my last
building block until I realized what was happening.
15 01 12 CC Okay. Don't be concerned about it. Just let it go.
SPT Yes, well, it's okay to cut it off in the middle

if you have to move on, isn't it?
CC Joe, you can turn it off if you have to for

expediency. Otherwise, Just leave it on.
SPT Okay.
SC (Music)
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CC From that music, what are you doing, trying to con-

vert Pete on his birthday?
i
SPT Right, that's a little country and western, SPT

style.
CC Think you'll make it, Pete?
SPT He's grimacing from the M092. We got him trapped

in the LBNPD.
CC (Laughter) Copy.
CC The medics have noted unexplained rises in

blood pressures.
PLT Hey, Houston.
CC Go, Pete [sic].
PLT Hey, I think we never answered a question the

other day about the pri,_ Sun sensor being on
the back side of the wedges -the primary one,
and we think it is. Now Pete and I remember
having looked at this phenomenon in the sim-
ulator, but Joe doesn't. And Joe's the ex-
pert, which kind of makes us cautious. As I
remember from the simulator, the procedure, if
it drove the wrong way, you Just drove it off
the Sun until it finally got to the point where
it reached minus infinity in an imaginary plane
or something, turned around and came back and
was operating properly then; but it doesn't.
As I say, it appears to me like what I remember
would be on the back side of the wedges.
CC We concur with that, and the procedure you Just

read is correct.
PLT Okay. When we get a chance we'll try it then.

All right?
CC Copy. Roger that.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS here in about 30 seconds.

We'll see you at Goldstone in about 4 minutes.
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15 07 01 SPT Roger.
CC Also, SPT; on the S009 opening, the nominal time

should be 15:30:15. It may open as much as
15 minutes early or as much as 3 minutes late.
15 13 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for about 3 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC SPT, Houston. We're not seeing time mode on 82A.

If you haven't started it, we would iike for you
to start it at this time.
SPT I'm doing JOP 9, Houston, and it says omit 82A,

which I did.
CC Copy, SPT.
CC SPT, look opposite 15:05. Is it possible you're

confusing that with the 16:39?
CC We're going LOS in 45 seconds. We'll have you

again at 15:20 at Bermuda.
SPT Roger, Bill. I copied that time on S009; and at

the last cycle I didn't hear it opening, but it
closed at lh:19:30.
CC Copy, Joe. And did you get my transmission on the

ATM schedule times?
SPT No.
CC Okay. Look opposite line 15:02 time. Is it pos-

sible you were looking at 16:377
15 16 hh SPT Yes, you're right.
CC Skylab, LOS in a minute. We're - we'll have you

at Canary at 15:31.
15 29 _3 PLT Roger.
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SPY ...
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Oo, SPY.
SPT Okay. Just for the PI's information on 82A, we

have to run his experiment strictly on time, even
in the auto mode because we have no frame counter
and no operate light - ready light cycle. It goes
from READY to OPERATE and then stays there the rest
of the pass. And I'm trying not to cut off any
frames.
CC We copy, Joe. Joe, they think that it should stop

automatical]y; so you don't have to worry about it
stopping.
SPY I'm sure it will stop automatically, but I don't

know that. That's the point. So I have to Just
estimate when I think it's timed out and then move
on.
SPY And Houston, SPT. On active range at 18, have the

PIs seen sunspots in white lights? Because on the
XUV SLIT display, I don't see any; it didn't 2 days
ago, either.
CC We copy that. And we'll query.
SPT Thank you.
15 35 19 CC Joe, for information, the ground say only one

sunspot yesterday in white light.
SPY Okay. I know it's hard to describe these things,

but I'd be interested to know where it is. There's
a filament running right through the middle of
this active region. There's new bright plage at
the northern or northwest end of that filament.
I wonder if that's what they're calling active
region 22, and I wonder if that's where the
sunspot is?
CC We 'll ask.
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CC Joe, ground confirms that that was the area that

they saw the sunspot in; the northwest end. Also,
active region 22 is no longer visible from the
ground.
15 37 h2 SPT The middle of that was cut out, Bill. Would

you say again?
CC Yes. The ground confirms your location of where

they saw the sunspot yesterday. And active
region 22 is no longer visible from the ground.
SPT Roger. Understand. There's plage there that

wasn't there 2 days ago. And there's another
little area of bright plage about 2/10 farther
out on about the 180 radial axis. I haven't had
a chance to look at it closely yet. I don't know
whether it's an emerging flux region or not.
CC Copy.
SPT This is all on H-alpha so they can see it, too.
15 42 55 SC (Music: Up With People)
CC I see you've brought Pete's blood pressure back to

normal.
PLT (Laughter) I have that song in 12 languages - de-

pending what country we're passing over.
CC My problem is I can't inderstand any of them.
PLT ...
SC (Music)
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC It's Just a reminder_ we're coming up on the SAA

here for the S056.
SPT Roger. Thank you.

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CC - - here. Carnarvon at 16:10.
15 46 34 SPT Roger.
16 ii hl CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
16 19 01 CC Skylab, we'll be EOS in about a minute. Guam at

16:25.
16 19 09 CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, it appears we will not get you on Guam.

Goldstone at 16:49 is the next AOS.
16 19 33 CDR Okay.
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SKYLAB-AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
16 h9 32 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 19 minutes.
16 5h 17 CC CDR, Houston.
16 59 26 SPT Go ahead, Houston.
CC Two notes here: on panel 202, the ILCA NEAT_ 1

circuit breaker, OPEN.
SPT Okay. What's the other one?
CC S052: we need the frames remaining.
SPT S052 frames remaining: 6527.
CC Copy.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Wait 1. We're taking pictures.
CDR Yes, go ahead, Houston.
CC This is a request that the S009 period adjust be changed

from 300 to 120. We'd like for you to give us a time
mark, if you do not initiate S009 on time.
CDR Yes, Houston, when do you want me to do it? I'm - ...

in about an hour?
CC We were simply asking you to modify the details, Pete;

the CDR pad details.
CC If you like, we can give you an advisory in an hour.
CDR I'm eating with one hand to stay on schedule and

shooting some pictures with the other. Houston, that's
why I shut you off there pretty quick.
CC Copy.
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CDR I Just got some good pictures of Bermuda with the

300-millimeter for the guys in the tracking stations
down there.
CC We copy, Pete.
17 03 28 CDR And it's a lovely day down there. And with the 300-
millimeter, the girls look very nice on the beach.
CC Come on, Pete, you haven't been up that long. Your

eyes aren't that sharp yet.
SPT He even thinks Weitz looks good.
CC He's probably looking with his mind's eye.
CDR You know what happens when you get to _e 43; you get
farsighted.
17 04 09 CC Speak for yourself, Pete. l've passed that mark.
CDR Well, now that l've caught up, let me give you a time
line i on S183. Let's change that operation to a one-
man operation. And I can say that without the 151,
you can lop 15 minutes off that tlme line for a 192 -
S183-3 type operation. It's a very simple one-man
Job, and that'll give you plenty of time.
CC Thank you, Pete.
CDR ... I want to say, that up until lunch time, this

schedule has worked very, very well. We've had an
opportunity to stay right on it and take enough time
to do, I think, all the Jobs right. And we go along
here we may, as I say, 183 obviously became a one-man
operation. We'll pick up some more flight planning
time for you along the line.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Ascension at 17:17.
17 08 08 CDR Roger.
CDR Roger.
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CC CDR, Houston.
CC We want you to reenable the star tracker: the inner

gimble, minus 90; outer gimble, plus 463. Also, we're
sending up a message for ATM powerdown. However, we
do not exPect any difficulties.
CDR Okay. Okay, Houston, and what's the star?
CC Achernar.
CC CDR, the star is Achernar.
CDH Okay.
17 23 59 CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. AOS Carnarvon, 17:h7.
17 23 07 CDR See you.
17 47 18 CC Skylab, Houston_ AOS i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston; and this is the CDR. Why don't you go
ahead with - with your S009 information.
CC Be right with you.
CDR Okay. And S183 is off and running on time; looks

normal.
CC Pete, on your CDR detail pad at 18:31, change 300 to

120 for the period adjust.
CDH Okay, 18:31 period adjust from 300 to 120.
CC That's affirm. Also, Just as a reminder, after field

303, exposures are complete, the SEQUENCE switch must
be placed to STANDBY prior to setting in the exposure
times for field 223.
CDR Roger. Understand.
17 49 42 CDR And, Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
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CDR I don't know how much it affects 183, seeing they're

such long exposures, but since I've had the long ones
running, we've had two TACS firing. And I'll note
that to you rather than on B channel - the people
may want to think about that. I really don't know
why we keep getting TACS firlngs. They've been
firing all day and all last night.
CC Pete, we're looking at the TACS firing here, and except

during the Y m-neuver, the record shows no TACS firings.
CDR Roger. I - I hear what you're saying there, Houston.

But I've been standing in here, and it's fired twice
since 17:32. Or we have a little man sitting out
somewhere around the base shooting skeet every once
and awhile.
CC Copy that you hear the TACS firing louder than what
we're saying.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute. We are not

receivin_ from Guam; so we will see you at Goldstone,
18:26.
PLT What happened to Guam?
CC Copy. Antenna problems.
17 57 17 PLT Oh, okay. See you at Goldstone.
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CDR Hi there, Houston.' We got a hack on S009 closure.

We have closed at 18:1h:16. The PERIOD adjust
has been set to 120, and I'm standing by to start
it on time.
CC Okay, Pete. And we have one here we would like you

to do as soon as possible.
CDR That figures. Go ahead.
CC Okay, we want you to load TA to 3 minute_ command 52030.

That's 52030 and 5000B; that's 5 triple balls 3.
CDR Hey, is that it? Load down in 3 minutes 52030 - 50003?
CC That's affirmative. This is to minimize TACS firing.

We've - on the Y-axis MOMEN_N_ INHIBIT and also
venting, this has disturbed the situation. We then
want you to go to the alt - ALT _ mode. I'm sorry.
That's attitude - ATTITUDE CMG MODE.
CDR Right now?
_/ 18 28 33 CC As soon as practical. Want to maneuver minus 6 degrees

in Z. Commands are 52020; 5 four _alls; another 5 four
balls; 51 two balls 6.
18 29 09 CDR Okay, want to maneuver 6 degrees in Z; 52020; 50000;

50000; and 51006.
CC That's affirm. Okay, strapdown initiallzation_

52012 and 5 triple balls 5.
18 29 h3 CDR After the maneuver, right?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Got anymore?

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CC Yes. Go to SI mode. Then after 3 minutes, reposition

STARTRACKER to INNERGIMBAL minus 0090; OUTERGIMBAL,
plus 0810.
CDR Okay.
CC And your star is still Achernar.
CDR Got any more?
CC That's it for the moment, Pete.
CDR Okay. Standby_ it's in work.
18 30 34 CDR I better explain it, why we're doing all that, while
we're doing it.
18 31 09 CC Pete, we've had a momentum buildup from several

factors here. The momentum was inhibited. Also, the
Y-axis maneuver caused the buildup_ there was venting
from M092. All of these have caused a large buildup.
CDR Okay.
CDR I know.
CC Say again, Skylab.
18 32 18 PLT Ready for some words on the EREP test, Houston?
CC Standing by.
PLT First off, is I cannot get the S190 camera to runoff

BUS 2 power only. I had to have both buses powered
up. And the test came out and showed everything
functiom_ng normally. The frame counters advanced
one count, and .11 thefilmma_moved approximately
2.6 inches.
CC Copy.
18 35 26 CDR Hey, Houston. Are you there?
CC Go ahead, Pete.
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CDR For some silly reason the S009 started in RESET all
by itself Just now. And - because I had turned
the power off after closing it and had turned the
power on 5 minutes in advance after setting the
PERIOD ADJUST. And I was sitting there in RESET,
and all of a sudden it Just took off by itself. And
we've reclosed it so it restarted at 18:36:35. But
we Just thought we'-d pass that little word to you.
CC Thank you, Pete.
CC PLT, Houston.
18 36 35 PLT MARK.
CDR MARK. S009 is off and running again.
CC We copy, Pete.
CDR Okay. It looks to me like the maneuver has settled

down. I'm going to go ahead and reinitialize, if you
" agreeto that.
cC That's affirmative, Pete. Go ahead.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR Who are you calling?
CC The pilot - calling Paul.
PLT Go ahead.
CC During the EREP checkout, did the S190 malfunction 5

light remain ON?
PLT It didn't come on because I did not turn the DISPLAY

POWER ON. I assume that the intent of the BUS 2 - I
did not have DISPLAY POWER ON; so I don't know.
PLT Houston, PLT.
CC Go, PLT.
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18 39 06 PLT Okay. I Just turned S192 power on per the pad.

Correction: S191 power ON, but not the cooler yet.
Do you want me to turn the cooler on?
CC Stand by. Shouldn't have it yet, Paul.
PLT Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes.
18 42 20 CC We're trying to get a JOP 9 into unattended operation,

if you can go to EXPERIMERT POINTING MODE for us at
this time. We're also LOS in a minute, and we'll have
you Vanguard, 18:53.
PLT 18: 53. Roger.
18 54 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 4 minutes.
CDR Hi, Houston. Are youthere? Hello, Houston.
CC Standing by, Pete. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. We've been getting CMG ... and also on EREP, the
tape recorder on checkout came up with a malf light.
We've chased it down. It says, "Clean recorder," which
has already been done. We are cleaning it in the
specific place that I found that was so dirty, to see
if that will solve the problem. If it does not, we'll
switch to recorder 2.
CC We copy that, Pete. We also would like to continue

unattended comauds on JOP 9. If you are through with
the DAS?
18 55 09 PLT It's all yours.
PLT Houston, the situation is that on the tape recorder

all indications are normal at the slow speed. How-
ever, when we go to high speed, we get both a malf
light and a tape motion light. Now we Just finished
cleaning it again. We got quite a bit more, a fair
amount, I'd say quite a bit comparatively speaking.
Some dirt off the rollers, and we're talking about
switching to nmnber 2 recorder.
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CC We copy, Paul.
CDR Okay, Houston; CDR. For your information, this is

within a couple of seconds. S009 Just closed at
18:56:25, give or take a couple of seconds.
CC We copy. And, PLT, we agree Wi_h going to the

second tape recorder if you cannot get that one going.
18 57-45 CC Skylab, LOS in I minute; Goldstone at 20:03.
PLT Roger. Houston, if you,re there. On the EREP, it's

reading C-7, Charlie 7 is 24, 24.
CC We copy, Pete.
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20 02 43 PLT That one.
20 03 59 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for lh minutes.
PLT Hi there, Houston. Loud and clear. How do you read?
CC You're loud and clear also.
PLT Okay.
CC And be advised that the San Francisco area is clear

except over the water. And the Salton Sea area is
also supposed to be clear.
PLT Are we in attitude, Joe?
.f 20 03 3h PLT Okay, we're starting the data-take, Houston. SPT

says we're not quite in attitude, yet.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, Houston. For a status, right now, we've got

tape recorders function mobility. We have an S192
READY light. We do not have an S191 READY light.
Bravo 7 reads 85, Charlie 7 reads 40. S190 READY light
is okay, the only malfunction light we've got on S190
today is the COVER CLOSED light. However, I can see
that the cover is not closed, that's an easy one to
take care of. S193 altimeter is operating, the READY
light is not ON. S194 READY light is ON.
CC Copy.
20 05 03 PLT While we got a break here, Houston, I want to make

sure that you understand that during the EREP pass,
two or three days ago, whenever it was, we did not get
a satisfactory data alignment. So, we are going today
with the prelaunch pad data line.
CC We copy that.
PLT How's the weather down there, Pete?

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PLT Okay. Be 8_Ivised, Houston, this - this run is not

starting off to be the best one. We got a little
behind. We had some big problems with the 192 align-
ment, that we'll discuss in detail with you later.
And Jumping back and forth between checklist and pads,
I started S190 early, I guess it started when we
started the EREP system and, also, S192 was in ready
when we started EREP system. So we've been pulling
more tape than we thought and we will have used more
film.
CC No problem.
PLT We're getting an intermittent altimeter on lock on 8193

altimeter.
20 07 37 PLT I've never had the READY light on the altimeter since
turning it on.
PLT Okay. In the mode 2, the altimeter seems to be func-

tioning normally - I've got a READY light. At the
beginning of the sequence, I had an IRTZ144ITTENT
ALTIM_I'EE UNLOCK light; however, I have not had it for
the last minute or so.
PLT Okay.
PLT Stand by to give me an AUTO CAL, Pete; 5 seconds.
20 09 32 PLT Okay, PUNCH it. Give me an AUTO CAL, please.
PLT That's right, it's not been working.
PLT You still there, Houston, or did we lose you?
CC We're still with you.
PLT Oh, okay. The ETS operation says he got both lights
all right. This altimeter mode appears to be function-
ing (laughter) Just as I said that I got a one quick
flash - the altimeter on LOCK. It's ON right now; OFF
and ON. I think it's been a pretty good mode though.
CC Paul, that unlock occurs over rough terrain sometimes.
PLT Yes, I understand, I was Just letting you know, Bill. --

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20 ll 31 PLT Okay, the READY went out right on time. Now to do one.
PLT Okay, I Just happened to notice, I had meter Alfa 8

called up. CAL amp current Just dropped to zero. I
guess that's all right. Maybe the things are working.
Woops. Missed 192.
PLT BAD/SCAT appears to be functioning all right.
PLT You maneuver it?
20 14 14 PLT Okay, Houston. You still up?
CC We're still with you.
PLT Okay.
PLT What I saw on Alfa 8 out of the corner of my eye. I don't

know what that indicates, but it indicates that at least
the AUTO CAL sequence was initiated for me. We seemed
to have gotten rid of the _ lights on S190. A loose
knot on the end of the stick there, caused us to use
some extra tape and a few extra frames. I did reinitiate
S190, so that we covered the end of the swath, and then
I stopped it manually at the time advertised on the pad.
Other than that, the pass seemed to go pretty good.
CC We copy.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Look, the - Let me ask you to review this for the next
pass. On the tape recorder 1 business, I had turned off
the S192 circuit breakers the other day when I was clean-
ing the tape recorder number i. So, would that cause a
MALF light when checking the tape recorder in the 192
mode? If so, that may he our problem.
CC Stand by half.
CC Skylab, we'll he LOS in about a minute and a half.

Vanguard A0S is 20:27.
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PLT Okay.
CC Pete, they think your analysis is correct. However,

they're checking further on this.
SC Okay. We'll go ahead and check it out when we get done

here. We can do that real quick. We'll switch back
the 1 and give her a go.
20 16.27 CC Copy.
20 28 16 CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. We gave tape recorder 1 a fast checkout.

It's okay, so you can scratch one up for the ole' CDR.
I left the breakers OFF, not the - well I left the 192
breakers OFF. And Paul was checking it out. So we
had - It was my fault ... on the stick on that. I've
reconfigured the tape recorder too because I assume
you'd like to run that roll out.
CC We concur with that, Pete. And CDR, we have a change in -

Flight Plan for you here.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
20 28 57 CC To avoid preventing a dump - a m_nentum dump this even-

ing, we want you not to INHIBIT at 21:15. Correction.
Correction. We want you not to INHIBIT at 21:29, which
means that you will not have to ENABLE at 22:h8. At the
same time, we want you to START your PT and PH at 21:15.
We also want to START the M074 CAL at 21:15. However,
don't start this until the dump is over, which should be
21:10. And then follow both of these with the M131.
This is to avoid a reset routine, Commander.
CDR Okay. (Laughter) Anything you guys say Just because

you Just lost all three of us. (Laughter) Great.
We'll do it.
CC Look - yes, let's try again. Just mirror image - the

PT]H and the MiB1, also, the M07_ and M131.
CDR We got it.
SPT Houston, this -

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CC You're squealing, Skylab.
SPT Houston, this is your squealing, SPT. I did a manful

Job of getting the eight EREP television out of the way,
hand holding it. We had a TV camera failure, we'll check
that out some more and report to you on it later, but it
looks like one of our cameras went belly up. The stow-
age did not permit doing the TV the way it was supposed
to be done. But I think we got you some good TV, also
some blank tape.
PLT And if you've got no more messages, I'd like to say a

couple of words about the attempted 192 alignment, Bill.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, this time we let a new operator in. I won't

tell you which one. Just to keep things evened up.
The - - (Laughter)
CC Hey, you fellows aren't celebrating Pete's birthday

already are you?
PLT There's some things that - we're laughing to keep

from crying is what it is if you really want to know
down there.
CC We copy.
20 32 l0 PLT Okay, anyway we started out pretty good, and this other
operator tweaked it out of the focus a little bit and
overshot and said he would come back and get it even
better, at which case, both indicators plumeted to zero,
after which we went through - he must have done five
square searches to little if any avail. (Laughter)
And he gave up on that and went to try the pad (laughter)
He went to try the up-link thermal alignment procedure -
that was an absolute zero - the meter - he went over the
whole scan available - the meter stayed sitting right
squat at 12 percent. However, in the process of doing
that we looked over, and lo and behold the visible
indicator was showing 60 percent so - and while we
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watched, it crept up to 70, so then we tweaked it

up again, and I took my heart in my hand and focused
it a little bit. And we got it back to about what we -
what we - we - about what we started wlth. So we
put in approximately 2-1/2 man-hours to keep from
losing ground.
PLT I had another one. And throughout the whole procedure,

we never had an ALIGN READY l_ght.
CC Copy.
SPT While he's reading his notes, let the SPT give you one
because I was hand holding the television - I failed
to get the ZLV star for which I apologize. And on that
TV, I hope we don't have to do it again, I - I think
we've got enough, I mean for EREP. I was - I was
scheduled to he down in the basement doing MALF procedures
and calibrations and stuff, but no way, even with three
of us up here it was tough going.
CC We copy.
SPT Incidentally, however, I did get the M074 electronics

changed to the head. The one in the head now works
fine, the one in the wardroom doesn't.
20 34 32 CC We copy, and thank yon, Joe. And on that CAL, if it's

at all possible for you to get that one CAL down to us
by voice, we'd he grateful. We are aware of your com-
ments this morning on bringing the rest of it back, hut
we haven't seen that.
SPT A fifth of good wine for me after the flight?
CDR Houston, you still there?
CC Yes, we're still here, Pete.
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CDR Let me tell you what the problem was on this - we

got behind curve on the TV because when they did the
setup work, which they did a very excellent Job on, the
ATM panel didn't have a chair or the three work boards
at it. So the first thing that happened was PJ took the
first board away to mount the camera and then found out
the camera and was looking at two more boards and the
chair, and rather than tear up Dr. Kerwin's library spread
out in front it (laughter) - the - we - decided we
elected to hand hold it. And then we started getting
in other troubles with the alignments, and so we
started behind the curve and slowly faded further be-
hind the curve, and I'm not sure we've caught up yet,
but we're getting there.
CC Okay, Pete. We copy.
20 35 54 CDR So, for TVll SL-3, why, they got to find another location
or think about the fact that there are other things in the
way.
CC We copy.
CC Pete. Could you give us a quick call on which circuit

breakers and when? For example, there are two on panel
192 and one on 202.
CDR The ones on panel 137. 137, Houston.
CC We copy.
CC Pete, could you tell us when you closed those?
CDR About 18:15, Houston.
CC Thank you very much.
CDR The breakers were CLOSED at approximately 18:15 Zulu.
CC We copy that, thank you.
SPT Houston, SPT. Are you monitoring our EPS along with
me here?
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20 38 09 SPT Okay.
SPT I've got a BEGs volt talkhack.
CC We copy. We got 16 completes that times.
SPT Okay.
20 38 25 SPT Do you have time for that other ... on 192, Houston?
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21 36 54 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for about a minute.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for about a minute.
PLT Okay, Houston. If you get a chance, look at S054,

will you please. I have a white talkback on the door.
I cannot get it either way.
CC We copy, Paul. We're looking. Also, on your previous

voice transmission on the CBRMs, we had 16 complete
down here, but you mentioned there was an anomaly.
Can you say another word about it?
SPT That was the SPT, and I was Just asking you to look
at them with me. We had a barber pole rate talkback,
but it was for number 3 and we had 16 good ones.
CC Copy.
CC We show the same indication here and we'll get you

a malf procedure.
PLT Okay. On the door, you mean?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay. Reading through the book it leads me - the

block that says the door has failed, which then leads
yo u on to - "inhibit the primary motor and power up
the - enable the secondary." And I'll wait for word
from you guys.
CC Copy and approve.
PLT Okay. Do you want me to go ahead and do that?
CC Stand by.
I
21 39 lO CC We'll be LOS here in about a minute or less and we'll
see you in Hawaii - at G01dstone at 21:42.
CC Paul, go to page 14-3 malf and proceed from there.

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21 42 55 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for about a minute.
CC PLT, Houston.
21 43 34 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for about 3 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go.
CC We want you to proceed on normal ATM ops, and when

you have time, on page 14-3 on your malf procedures
on ATM, if you would do that at that time, when -
on your - when you have time.
CC And, Skylab, we'll be dumping the tape recorder at

Vanguard.
21 47 01 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in approximately 1 minute. AOS

Vanguard at 22:04. We're coming up - you should be
seeing a tropical depression in approximately 3 minutes
that you might want to take a look at.
PLT Okay. We will if we get time. The status is the

secondary door did not open the motor - vice versa - -
CDR Vice versa.
PLT And we're going to put them both on the line now.
CC We copy.
22 05 17 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS l0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. We got the 54 door open.
SPT • Pete worked the procedure while I ran the JOP. What
he wound up doing was keep putting both motors on to
get the door open. Now according to the malfunction
procedure, when you do that, it opened the other
experiment, which shares those motors and leave them
both open. However, as I'm sure you are even more
aware of than I was, is that that other experiment for
54 is S052. So the plan right now - I've got the
AUTO DOOR switch to storage and was going to close
all the doors manually at Sunset except S054. And
I'll go on that until you tell me something different.
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CC We copy.
PLT Also, Bill, while the ATMguys are smoking that one
over, I've got a con_nent for the EREP guys on the S192.
CC We're standing by, Paul.
PLT Okay, gang. What happend was Of course with those

breakers being open, we started to warm up early, late
I mean. But I was listening for the coolant motor
to shift gears. When it shifted down and ran at low
speed for about half a minute I guess and then it ...
to cycle and it sounded to me like it was cycling
between high and low for 2 or 3 minutes, and about a -
once a second or once every 2 seconds frequency and
then finally settled in on low speed, and - for whatever
that's worth.
CC We copy.
PLT Houston, I got the AUTO DOOR switch in STORAGE rather

than INHIBIT. I assume either position will hold that
door open.
CC We copy, Paul.
22 09 lh CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC We want you to perform block 22 of the Malfunction

Procedure.
CDR ...
PLT I guess maybe Pete and I didn't understand the procedure

then. You saying if we do block 22 which inhibits
both those motors, that'll do it for 5h but won't
affect 52. Is that right?
CC It will leave 52 open, also, Paul, but that is what

they want to do.
CC So - -
PLT Okay. So next pass then, you saying when I go Sun

center I'll get it Sun centered, open the 52 doors,
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and - and then to perform block 22, and leave them -

those two doors open, and we'll have to stay Sun
centers for a while then, huh?
CC Paul, they want you to continue on through the mal-

function procedure, 19 through 22, and 22 has a warning
block, and this leads you on into block 25.
PLT Okay. How about Just answering a couple of questions

for me? If I perform block 22 for $95h, does that
also disable the doors to S052?
PLT Okay. So we want to leave them both open and do that,

and then by merely going to TV with the main power in
STANDBY, but you say we have to go to TV before we go
to STANDBY, and then that'll flip the mirror up and
protect S052.
CC That 's affirmative, Paul.
PLT Okay, got it. Tban_ you. Well,_ I'll stay in my present
configuration until next d_ytime pass, which happens
to be a Sun center JOP, anyway.
CC Roger that.
22 15 06 CC Skylab, LOS in about 30 seconds. Hawaii AOS 23:13.
22 15 l_ CDR Okay. See you in an hour.
END OF TAPE
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SPT Roger, Houston. This is the SPT. The PLT has the
S052 doo_, OPEN; and the S05h door, OPEN; and the
S052 configured MIRROR position to TV; MAIN POWER,
STANDBY_ and he has both the primary and the sec-
ondary door motors inhibited. And so we're in a
good configuration, but we are nervous as cats about
it because any time we use S052, we're in a position
to blow it sky high if we don't remember our proce-
dures. Are you, by any chs.nce, planning to try
closing the S05h door again on one motor?
CC Stand by a half, Joe.
SPT It seems to me it would be worth risking because if

you drive it in on one motor, you can always use
two to get it open again. And it would stay in
S052 from this risk that we are subjecting it to.
23 13 h7 CC They're looking at it, Joe. Joe, while we're on the

subject, on the daily ATM schedule pad, do you want
this warning in block 22 relative to S052 sent up?
SPT Well, I don't think it would hurt to have it on the

top of every dayside pass. We have constructed a
cue card, and rigged it with red tape_ and put it
on the console near the MPC. And I Just hope we
remember. If something happens like a flare alarm
or so, then you might, you know, go hurrying off
and then it's too late.
CC Okay, Joe. We copy. And Joe, save the food that

you asked about this morning, and we're sending up
a storage procedure shortly.
SPT Okay.
PLT Also, Houston, leaving those doors - door motors

inhibited has an operational implication in that
you have to deduce when the experiments have fin-
ished operating by keeping track of the darn frame
counters. That - I wasn't aware that inhibiting the
motors also does away with the door position talk-
back and the ready operate indications through the
operator.
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CC Copy.
CC Is the CDR busy at the moment?
SFT Say again, Houston.
CC Is the CDR busy at the moment?
23 15 54 PLT Roger. He's recording the daily evening report on

channel B. I'll have him give you a call soon as
he 's done.
CC Okay.
CC Pete, some people will be talking to you over

Vanguard on this coming pass on the open loop.
CDR Okay.
2B 17 0T CC And while about it, Pete, a very happy birthday.
CDR Thank you, sir. I was thinking about that when I

Was in the LBNP. It was a heck of a day to be in
a can - in a can on my birthday.
CC Yes.
CDR Especially seeing it's a Saturday, isn't it?

Today is Saturday, isn't it?
CC Yes, today is Saturday. I've got to buy my wife

a birthday dinner, as a matter of fact, and I'll
be thinking about you eating your gourmet Skylab
food while we struggle through something.
CDR Very good. Is today her birthday? If so, wish

her a happy birthday for me.
23 21 50 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard at 23:43.
PLT Roger.
23 43 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston; standing by for the

next 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, there Houston. Skylab, here.

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CC Skylab, was that you answering?
CDR That's affirmative. How do you read?
CC Hello, Pete. We have a special crew of CAP COMS

taking over this pass. Go ahead.
JANE Hi, Dearie. Do you know who this is? What?
MCC You have to let the button off.
JANE Dearie?
CDR Hello there? How do you read?
23 hh ll JANE Okay, Just fine. I Just got the button right.

Well, the boys and I wanted to call you up and
say "Happy Birthday."
CDR Thank - Thank you. The - the boys ought to be

up here. They'd really enjoy this big tank.
JANE I know it. We watched the movie yesterday and

we were Just going crazy.
CDR That's what Thomas said he wanted to do.
TO_4Y Dad?
CDR Yes, sir.
TOMMY When can I catch the next flight up there?
CDR Oh, about the time you finish college, I guess.
T0_94Y Because I want to try floating around.
JANE Here's Andy. He wants to say something.
ANDY Say, Dad.
CDR Hello, Andrew. How's it going?
ANDY Fine.
CDR You boys been out on the bikes?

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ANDY What?
CDR Have you boys been out on the bikes?
ANDY No, Not any - not hardly any.
JANE Here's Chrissy.
CHRIS Hi, Dad.
CDR Hello, Christopher ; how' s everything - oh what 's

tomorrow? Tomorrow's Sunday? You all going to
run the bikes tomorrow?
CHRIS Yes, I think Thomas is; but I don't really want to.
CDR Okay. Been running the bikes at all?
JANE Here's Peter.
PETER How are you doing, Dad?
CDR Good, you all finished?
PETEE Yes, sir. I think I passed.
CDR How'd it go?
PETER All right. I think I passed this year.
CDR Very good.
23 45 4S JANE That movie was so terrific. We don't wish you

were here; we wish we were there.
CDR It's - it's pretty good. We had a good day today.

The schedule worked well and I think we're learning
our Way around. We certainly haven't done every-
thing there is to do, so I'm not worried about the
rest of the time passing.
JANE Well, we're going to stay here until the EVA and
then we'll probably go to the ranch.
CDR Okay, very good. Well that's what? I don't

know I've lost track of time.
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JANE Well, I don't know. The EVA's supposed to be

either Tuesday or Wednesday, I think if they
get it all worked out. Do you know when it is?
CDH No, I - oh, yes. Okay.
JANE Anybody else want to say hello? Beth's here. Do

you want to say hi to her?
CDE Certainly. Hi, Beth, How's everybody in Uvalde?
JANE Wait a minute. Beth isn't - doesn't have a headset

yet. Peter's Just getting ready to hand it to her.
CDR Okay.
BETH Hi.
CDR Hi, Beth. How's everybody in Uvalde?
_- BETH Just fine.
CDR That's - that's good - You all (Laughter) you all

have a good time down at the ranch.
23 47 03 JANE Dearie, all the neighbors wanted me to wish you

"Happy Birthday," and your mother did, too.
CDE Well, thank you, for them - for their thanks

and birthday wishes - also how - how are the
Allens?
JANE They're doing Just fine. And they said, "Happy

Birthday," too.
CDR Good. Okay. Thank you.
JANE Somebody's saying ask him something. What?
TO_94Y Dad?
JANE Oh, what are you having for dinner tonight?
CDR Green beans. And I ate them all.
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CDR I think I'm gaining weight.
JANE Don't you have a way to oscillate yourself and see?
23 47 46 CDR Yes, well, the ground weight says that we weigh

more than we took off, and the scale conversion
that we have up here says all of us have lost about
a pound or two, so I don't know. But I think we're
holding our own.
JANE Do you feel good?
CDR I also had spaghetti and I'm holding two extra

butter cookies tonight to eat with my ice cream
to celebrate my birthday.
JANE Good. Do you feel good?
CDR Feel Just fine.
JANE Great. Okay. Chris, you want to say something else?
CHRIS Dad, Grannie wants to know your- the size shirt

you want because she's going to get you it for
your birthday.
CDR Well, I haven't changed any on that. It's

14-1/2 and 32.
CHRIS Okay. She Just wanted to know that. She called

me up the other night and said to ask you when
we talked to you.
CDR Okay; very good.
CHRIS Okay. See you in a month.
ANDY Dad?
CDR It won't be that long now.
ANDY Dad?
CDR Yes.
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CDR Yes, I know who it is.
ANDY I got my cam and I had to adjust it.
CDR You did? Is it running all right?
ANDY No, I don't know how to tune it.
CDR Oh, can't Thomas tune it for you?
ANDY Uh uh. Here 's Thomas.
TO_@_Y Dad?
CDH Yes.
23 h9 01 TO_@4Y I was trying to tune it, but I don't know it -

besides, the cam doesn't seem like too much
extra.
CDR Well, I'll have to look at it when I get back.

I'll have to tweak up on my tuning again.
THOMAS Okay, I think Peter wants to talk to you.
CDH All right.
PETER Dad?
CDH Yes. You doing any flying?
PETER Yes, well that's what I need to talk to you about.

Can I go make a cross country next week, because
I haven't flown cross country in a year, since
last s1_mmer?
CDR Okay, very good. Where you going to go out of

Uvalde?
PETER I'm going to go to Laredo for the night.
CDR Okay, very good. Have a good time.
PETER All right.
CDH ... thunder btunpers.

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23 49 49 PA','_H An right.
JANE Dearie, say hi to your buddies and congratulate

them on their summersaults.
CDR I sure will. They're sitting here listening.
JANE What did you say?
CDR I said they're sitting here listening. Say hello

to them yourself.
JANE Okay.
PLT Hi, Jane.
JANE Hi, is this Paul?
PLT Yes.
JANE Hello. Who are we talking now?
JANE Hello.
SPT Hello, Hello.
JANE Hi. Is this Joe?
SPT Yes. I haven't figured out how this darn thing

w_ks yet, you know.
JANE Well, you have - you have about 500 peoPle

trying to talk to you at on e. Maybe that's
why.
SPT (Laughter) ...
JANE We all watched the movies last night. Everybody

gathered up in Kenny Kleinknecht 's office, and we
saw the best acrobatics we've ever seen in our
lives. We were so Jealous we couldn't stand it.
SPT Great. Were the Kerwins there?
JANE They certainly were,
SPT Give them a11 my love, Jane.

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JANE Okay, I sure will. Good to talk to you.
SPT See you.
CDR Well, you all be good. This ought to be about

: the end of the pass,huh?
23 51 14 JANE We have a minute and 35 seconds. Chrissy wants to

say something else.
CDR Okay. You sound llke a good CAP COM.
CHRISSY Happy birthday, Dad. I Just wanted to tell

you that.
CDR Okay, Chrissy. Thank you.
CHRIS Okay.
JANE I guess we'll let the CAP COMM have a minute and
20 seconds in case he has something important to
f
tell you.
CDR Ok ay.
JANE But happy birthday. And bye bye.
CDR Thank you.
JANE I'ii talk to you again.
CDR All righty.
23 51 45 CC Pete, Carl down here. I'll be with you for the

rest of the evening, and we've got 1 minute to
LOS. We'll see you over Hs_aii at 00:50.
CDR Roger, Carl. Now that we got you up at

CAP COMM, I expect to see lots of S019s - I
mean I won't be surprised if I see lots of
them.
CC Man, I sure hope so. And hay, thanks to you

guys for getting that fixed, especially to
Paul, that was a great Job.
CDR No sweat.
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PLT Not only - not only that but I found the

fourth screw tods_ and put it back.
CC Hurrah! That's a - that's a great - _;ow,

now we're really going.
CDR Somehow it missed - it missed going into the

big OWS screen and it faded by there, which
is very difficult to do. And we found it in
the OWS heat exchanger.
23 52 35 CC Amazing.
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O0 50 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll be with you for the

next 8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CC And H_aii is configured for down-link TV on the XUV

monitor; and we're sorry to say the evening questions
are late, but they will be up shortly.
SPT Okay, you want the TV now?
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT I think I have a padproblem on ATM lift pad with 20

minutes remaining. The JOP-1A, building block 3, they
ask for a roll of plus six thousand, and I don't think
I can get there from here.
CC Stand by - -
SPT I don't think I can get it to stop.
CC Okay, Joe. We're looking for an answer. Be up in a

minute.
SPT Okay. I know I can't roll through zero. I'm not sure
if I can get there the other way or not.
CC SPT, this is Houston. The word down here is that we

probably are not going to be able to get a good answer
to that in the next _ minutes, before LOS. And the
thing to do is to roll as far as you can in that
direction, and we'll take the roll where you hit the
stop.
SPT Okay. Another thing you might pass to the ATM planning
room is that with us flying partial panel up here, I
think it's going to take 5 or 6 minutes longer each
sunside pass, and they're likely to not get some of
their'things done.
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CC Okay. We copy that.
00 57 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We have i minute to LOS. We'll see

you over Vanguard at 01:21. We will schedule a recorder
dump over Vanguard, and we will be standing by
for a status report there.
CDR Okay, Houston.
01 21 34 CC Skylab, Houston; standing by for l0 minutes.
CC And Skylab, be advised we are dumping tape recorders

this pass, and we'll be standing by for an evening
status report.
CDR Okay, coming up right away.
CDR Okay, food for the CDR. He ate everything plus two
butter cookies - -
CREW Whoo !
CDR - - three optional salt.
CC Roger.
CDR The SPT: he ate all his breakfast. He did not eat
his catsup for lunch because it spoiled; nor did he eat
his bread. He ate everything else. He had a Delta
H20 of plus 1.O. And that was it.
CC We copy.
CDR Okay. I have to read all this (chuckle). The PLT

ate half bread for breakfast, and did not drink his
coffee with sugar. Okay. For lunch corn, 65; he only
ate some of it. And - he had two tissues in the box,
but he weighed it, and the weights were 2.20189, 2.20150,
2.20135. He bad optional calories 22 - -
PLT No, no, no (laughter); tbats more food than I ate. (Laughter)
CDH Ohl He didn't eat all his food. He's really confused
me tonight. Okay. Let's go on to dinner, and then let's
put that - He ate all his dinner and then let's look - -
PLT No. I didn't eat all my dinner.

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CDR Well, why did you scratch it out?
PLT Well, I ... bring it up to date.
CDR Okay. Didn't eat item 22 for dinner and he got no

tissues in the can and weighed out at 2.06920, 2.06947,
2.06936. He also didn't eat all of item 32. He had
no tissues in that can and that weighed - 2.11297,
2.11259, 2.11357. Then we get to his snack. He didn't
drink his coffee, but he ate everything else.
CC Skylab, we're still copying.
01 25 05 CDR (Laughter) Oh, my!
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01 25 l0 CDR Okay. Let me give you the photo status report for day
153. In the 16 millimeter column, you have M151/S183
CI-0480 Mr-01. The next column, S183 2803 90, not
applicable; the next 16 millimeter col_nn, EREP 2
HB-01 80 percent, not applicable; 35 millimeter, CI-26,
frame count is 29; CX-22, frame count is 31; 70
millimeters, CX-05, frame count is 105. On the EREP
today, the set was 0. One was 7373;.2 was 9573, 3 was
7093, 4 was 6481, 5 was 8248, 6 was 7151. The drawer
A configuration is A1 02 CI-0583 CI-01; A2 is 0_ CI-0319
MT10. A3 is 04 CI-0480 MTOL. Floating is 05. Now,
I've got a couple of malfunctions. We have also lost
the counter, although the film is moving on 35
millimeter with CX-P_ in it, and we're working from
memory.
r CC Pete, Houston. We've had some glitch in the gyros on

the G- on the Z-Axis - and we want to let you know
that we're bringing up the thiTd gyro on the Z-axis.
CDR Yes, we got the alarm here awhile ago, and it had
gone into redundancy management.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR There were no Flight Plan deviations today. And we

thought today's Flight Plan was excellent. There are
no stowage changes. And let's talk about TV. We
did have one problem that came up with the TV during
EREP, which we discussed earlier. And we have done
some troubleshooting onthe TV camera that went out,
and I'm afraid we've lost it for good. We shifted
to POWER CABLE, and nothing runs in the camera; nor
does the monitor get any power. And the color wheel
is not stuck. So, I think, unless you come up with
something else that we can do, we have researched the
subject, other than tearing into the camera. @md it
sounds to me like the main power supply has gone out.
Or, possibly, it's fused in there, and the fuse is
blown. Over to you, Houston.
_ CC Roger,Pete. We copy that.

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CDR That's it for the Evening Status Report. And, Houston,

we don't have a Flight Plan yet; is that correct?
Hello, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. l'm hearing unofficial words that

there should be a Flight Plan up there now.
CDR Well, I guess it csme in this pass - well, we didn't

have it up. Okay. We'll go look.
01 29 28 CC Roger, Pete. They say that they sent it up on the inst

rev. And we have i, well we have about a minute and
a half to LOS. And we'll see you over Ascension
shortly at about 01:37. That's right. That is going
to be a med conference over Ascension.
CDR Roger, Carl. A couple of things for you, Carl, you

might pass on to the other crews. The S183 is very
sensitive on the focus to bring in the star field.
But once you get them, they are very good.
CC Very good; glad to hear it. I take it that the

stars were centering fairly well?
CDR They just set a field, Carl, and there was nothing
in the center of it. I presume they were happy with
the pointings. They gave no - -
CC Righto.
Ol 30 29 CDR - - I ss_ they gave no reference, Carl.
CC Skylab, Houston. An urgent question on the TV. When

you used the second camera, did you use the smme
input stations?
CDR No, we - yes. Yes, there is only one in the MDA, and
we came down and tested it on another one, which we
used the first camera on swap cables. We've swapped
everything.
CC Okay. We copy that. We're sorry about that csmera.
01 h3 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We have LOS in about h0 seconds,

and we'd like to send up a message. We'd like the
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CDR Say again, Houston.
CC We'd like to have Z2 for control, with RM enabled.
CDR You want rate gyro Z2 for control?
CC Roger. With i_4enabled.
CDR With redundancy management enabled. Okay.
CC And, Pete, we're on the backup strapdown, and it looks

like we had a hardover on the number 1 Z-axis gyro.
And we have a few seconds to AOS. We'll see you over
Guam at 02:21.
CDR Say, Houston. You want 2 and 3 or 2 only?
CC Two only.
CDR Roger. Two only.
PLT In other words we're single gyro. Is that right,

Houston?
CC That's right. Affirmative.
CC Z3 is spinning up, but we'll hold it with Z2 until then.
02 21 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll be standing by for about

5 minutes over Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for 5 minutes over

Guam.
SPT Oh, you got Guam working again, huh?
CC Yes. Seems to be working okay. I've got a couple of

messages for you. First of all, on those Z-axis gyros,
we're turning on the third gyro over Guam here, and
we'll select 2/3, probably over Vanguard. In the
meantime, we'd like for you to turn on the star tracker
to help evaluate the problem, and we need it on by
02:50. And I have a pad for the star tracker when
you can copy.
SPT Okay. Go ahead, Carl.

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CC Star tracker pad: Achernar, and we have a zero after

the 5000; d8_ 30:00; ds_ 52:00; inner gimbal, minus
0078; outer gimbal, plus 0840. It's valid 154:01:00
to i0:00.
SPT Stand by.
SPT Okay. I tmderstand it's Achernar, which is 50,000.

Good from day - 30 minutes to dsy 52. Was that it,
Carl?
CC Day 30 to day 52. Roger.
SPT Okay. Inner gimbal, minus 0078, outer is plus 0840,

and valid from 01:00 todsy to 10:00.
CC That's correct.
CC Roger. And note that we need that turned on and

acquisitioned by 02: 50.
SPT I understand. We'll get right on it.
CDR Don't worry, Carl. _onight's the first night all

three of us are going to bed as scheduled on time.
CC Very good.
CC And, Pilot, on your way back down through the air-

lock module, we'd llke for you to crank down both REG
ADJUST pots to full counter-clockwise. We're hoping
that this will help us charge up batteries 5, 6, and
7. And we have evening questions on the teleprinter
for you as you come by.
02 24 55 PLT Okay. _G ADJUST goes full counter-clockwise now.
CC Roger.
CC We' re putting on the primary collant loop, and you' ii

get a C&W.
PLT I understand.
CC Pete, we'd like to update you on our thinking down

here about the power panel EVA. We've got about
40 seconds before LOS.
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CDR Go _ead.
02 25 29 CC There's a big m_ement_meeting scheduled on Mond_

to evaluate all the work that Rusty's been doing down
in the tank and to formulate several options. And
we'll send up the results to you for your evaluations.
Then we'll mutually settle on an EVAplan and go from
there. There is no EVA planned for Tuesday.
CDR Okay.
02 25 56 CC Roger. We have LOS in a few seconds, and we will

pick you up over Vanguard Just before you go to
sleep at about 02:59.
02 26 04 CDR Okay, see you then.
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02 58 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for l0 minutes
CDR Roger. And Houston, we've got your questions and I

have the answers for you. Are you ready to copy?
CC Roger. We're standing by.
CDR Question number 1 on the teleprinter paper, there

was no difference. Question number 2, as usual, we
probably hit one of those switches. Bravo panel 200,
both the antenna breakers were closed, but on
panel 204, the right one was in DISC rather than
COMMAND. So I put it back to COMMAND. I presume
that is what you wanted.
CC We're copying. Go ahead.
CDR Okay 3, the first time we cleaned the tape recorder,

we used the ones that were in the MDA. Today we used
•the new ones. And this evening after your question,
we opened up one each and gave them a sniff test and
a squeeze test, and we concluded that there is no
difference.
CC Okay.
CDR Question number h, Paul says he can't verify 3-1/2 min-

utes; he doesn't really know. Question number 5,
we went to the S054 dashed ... malf procedures and
went block 1 - block 2 to block 12 to the doors 1.
In the doors l, we went right down it l, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ll, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, then to
19, then to 22, then to 25.
CC Very good.
CDR The answer - the answer to question number 6 is no.

The question to answer number, (Laughter) I got it
backwards. The question number 7, (Laughter) the
answer is no.
CC Fine. Everybody sounds happy with those answers at

the moment, and I have no i_mediate comments.
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CDR Okay, we're pleased to announce that everything was

done on time today, and we're even going to bed on
time today, which makes us feel especially good.
We're looking forward to tomorrow.
CC Beautiful, glad to hear you guys are so happy up

there. I 're got a couple of last minute conm_ents
for you. First of all, we're going to reset that
ACS m_li%mction light that's on up the're so that
we can monitor - monitor it through the night. And
also we've had a small debate down here how we should
give youthat caution on the S052 power problem. The
question is: In every pad, should we give you the
three switch commands required to safe S052. Or
should we simply say B052, and then later, enable
SO527 What would you like?
03 01 57 SPT The latter would be fine, Carl. We've invented a

cue card with the three switch commands, and we've
got it on the console. Paul's suggestion is that
every time S052 is used in a building block, that
before another building block calling for offset
pointing, you put in the caution, worded such as
you suggested.
CC Right-o. From now on it will be safe S052 and

enable S052.
SPT Very good. And it is going to come up in red ink,

right?
CC Yes, sir. We've got all sorts of fancy resources

down here to do that sort of thing.
PLT Hey, Carl, a little word of clarification on starting

the 93 altimeter today. I cannot verify that it had
3-1/2 minutes of warmup. I don't know how close it
was played on the pass since I already threw it out.
What I can verify is that it went to standby late.
CC Okay, Paul. I think that answers their question

very well. Thank you.
CDR Okay, what do you plan to do about troubleshooting the

S05_ door? Are you going to have something come up
tomorrow? And I'd kind of like to see us try and work
that one out so we can get back to a normal operation.
That one bothers me more than - It couldn't have been a
worse one to go wrong.
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CC The best we can say is that we are worried about it,

too; and we are thinking about what might bedone.
We'll probably come back to you tomorrow for further
discussion.
CDR We can always do a third EVA (Laughter) and go fix

the door.
CC Jack Schmitt was down here listening in and said -

suggested the same thing.
CDR (Laughter) Great J
CC You guys are so great at fixing things, why not go

out there and do the Job?
CDR I tell you. We just started to do a little

experiment. We broke out the first ball tonight
about 20 minutes ago. We had a little pitch game
going, the three of us; and then we turned it into
a kind of a football game off - ricocheting off
the walls and throwing a few passes. So, we're
working up a few dynamics and orbital mechanics
for the ball.
03 04 16 CC Hey, I've got a - I can't say I've really got a little

bet going , but there has been a discussion going as to
whether you can really throw the ball straight the
first time. Did you?
CDR Yes, it goes straight as an arrow.
CC Amazing. We always thought you'd throw it high

without the gravity there.
CDR No.
CDR We Just had a little discussion about that, and

over the last 9 days, we've been discussing the
fact that - how we've kind of acclimatized to where
we are so rapidly that none of us gave that a second
thought tonight. I mean we weren't even thinking
about that when we threw the ball.
CC Beautiful. I've been watching the TV pictures of you

guys climbing around and sailing around up there, and
I think the whole world is sort of thinking that they
would like to be Jonathan Livingston Seagull, also.
Looks like that's what you guys are doing.
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03 05 30 CDR Well, I think the MI51 movies will show a lot more
where they show us not goofing off but Just working.
And the working is very interesting and also the way
everybody whistles around the vehicle. And we still
get disoriented, occasionally, when popping through
the MDA - through the airlock into the MDA. But
after a while, if you start thinking about it, you
actually roll your flight path when you leave the
bottom of the workshop and head for the MDA, and
you wind up being in the right direction when you
go by the ATM panel, if that's where you're headed,
that sort of thing. But we still have to think
about that one a little bit.
CC Right. That's been one of the things I've been

interested in. You - sometimes you don't land feet
first and land on your head or your back. Doesn't
that bruise you a little?
CDR No, we really haven't done too badly on that. We've

had a few bttmps, scratches, but really very few.
We're laughing about some of the more spectacular
ones that we've had.
CC I bet. Sure would be like - sure would like to be

up there having fun with you.
CDR Joe says that TV was live, not canned.
CC Good.
CDR Yes, don't let it out that it was done in the

studios before we left.
CC ( Laughter )
CDR Well, we hope to do better on the EREP tomorrow.

I tell you, we had enough things goofing up today
that Paul and I felt we didn't do a very good Job
on that. We're looking to doing a better Job on
it tomorrow.
PLT Do they have any ideas on 191 and 192 yet, Carl?
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03 08 06 CC So far as the malfunctions are concerned, somebody's

come up with a eoment there, but the people down
here, even before I came on, were sort of feeling
very pleased. I heard the comments about how many
sites you got today andFLIGHT says to say, "Don't
feel bad at all." Everybody here is very pleased.
PLT Well, but how about the hardware? I went through

the 191 malf procedures today and kind of - from
what I remember of some of the numbers, wind up
with th_ fact that it's on the READY light logic.
Is anybody else thinking the same way?
PLT Hey, I don't expect an answer tonight, right now,

I guess, Carl. But we Just kind of like to be kept
abreast of how work is progressing on our problems,
such as - which we haven't heard a peep out of
anybody for 2_ hours - on our false OWS BUS LOW
problem.
03 09 05 CC That one's in work, and we haven't figured that one

out. And on these others, we're thinking; but if
and when we come up with some firm conclusions, we
usually send them up to you. But I think the lack
of information means that we haven't figured them
out yet. We've got ,35 seconds to LOS, and I guess
you guys are going to tuck in now. Have a good
night'ssleep.
CDR Good night, Houston.
CC Good night, Skylab. Sleep well.
CDR Say, what's our first station in the morning? Do we

need to set the alarm or are we going to hear your
melodious voice?
CC I hear that the first station is Guam.
CDR At what time, please.
CDR They're quizzing the computer to find Guam.
CC Roger. I have no answer on that one, Pete.

Good night.
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03 12 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston over Ascension.
PLT Oh, good morning, Houston! It is ii:00 already?
CC Roger. Your question about alarm clocks and all

made us do some work here, and we thought we'd
disturb you with one more comment so you could
rest easy. We'll be in contact with you over
Texas, it appears, at ii:ii. And if you want
to sleep until then, you will hear our melodious
voices waking you up.
PLT Oh, thank you! Thank you for the extra ii minutes.
And good night.
03 13 08 CC Good night, all.
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ii 13 17 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over the states

for the next 15 minutes, for the next 15 minutes.
ii 24 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Do we happen to have anybody in

the area of the STS panel?
SPT Don't be coy, Houston. What do you need?
CC Well, we were - had noticed that Paul was going

up and shutting down the CAUTION & WARNING, like
in his morning checklist, but apparently we got a
CAUTION & WARNING, sensor, CAUTION & WARNING 1 on
AM 202 turned OFF - or rather OPEN, and we'd like
to verify that it is CLOSED.
ii 24 47 PLT Which one, Crip?
CC Roger. It's on 202, CAUTION & WARNING SYSTEM

SENSORS, CAUTION & WARNING i. That should be
CLOSED, and it looks like it's OPEN.
ii 25 00 PLT No, sir. Sensors CAUTION & WARNING are CLOSED.

The only ones open are as per the housekeeping
70, which is converter 1 and tone amp i.
CC Roger. I understand you say it is CLOSED and

that the TONE AMP is OPEN.
PLT That's right. Do you want me to cycle it for you

to see if it changes your status?
ii 25 26 CC If it's not too much trouble, we would like a

verification of it.
PLT Okay. You want me to cycle the OFF ones ON? Or

the one you think is OFF - OFF, then back ON?
CC Negative.
PLT Negative what?
CC Do not cycle them.
PLT Oh, okay.

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PLT Is that all you wanted?
CC Suppose so, right now.
PLT Once I leave, that's it.. You're not going to call

me backnow, are you?
CC We wouldn't do that.
ll 26 07 PLT Okay.
ll 26 09 PLT Where - What station are you talking to us through?
CC We're over the states now. We're Just about to go

LOS. We're right over - right over Bermuda.
11 27 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see

you again over Madrid. 11:32, 11:32.
ll 32 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Madrid for the

next 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Crip.
CC PLT, Houston.
SPT He's in the B_@_D, Crip.
CC Oh, okay.
cDR What do you need?
CC Okay. The - _ fibbed to you awhile ago_ There is

another switch set that we'd like you to check up
in the STS, but it can be done at your - at your
convenience.
CDR I'm on my way.
CC Well, okay. It's on 203, AIRLOCK MODULE FANS. We'd

like to verify that all three CIRCULATION FANS l, 2,
and 3 are OFF, and that DUCT is in HIGH. It looks
like to us that the DUCT got turned OFF.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
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SPT You can read the odds and ends message, and I don't
understand what you're telling us on the star tracker.
CC Sorry about that.
SPT ... switch ATMDC using backup 0G angle UP.
ll 3h 30 CC What we're saying, Joe, is that we turned off the

star tracker last night, so we Just wanted to get
your switch in the correct configuration. As a
result Of the star tracker being off, that the
computer is now using the backup outer gimbal
8ngle.
SPT Ah, there's a period in there. Okay.
CDR Okay, Crip, say it again.
CC Roger. Did you want me to say the switch check again?
CDR Yes, I was Just looking for it.
CC Oh, okay. On panel 203, AIRLOCK MODULE FANS. We'd

like to verify that the CIRCULATION FANS l, 2, and
3, are OFF and that the DUCT fan is HIGH.
CDR Okay, now we've got that configuration of the

fans; l, 2, OFF; 3, HIGH; and DUCT, OFF.
CC Okay. We want DUCT FAN to HIGH and the

CIRCULATION FANS should be OFF.
ll 35 30 CDR Okay, the three duct fans are OFF and the DUCT, HIGH.
CC Thank you, sir.
ll 35 34 CDR You're welcome.
ll 35 37 SPT Okay, Houston. SPT once again. How come we

changed our mind about M0937 Got any word on
that?
CC No, I don't have any good word on that. I think

it was a political thing.
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SPT Okay, we thought it was a good decision, but let's

let it pass. In the S082A door business, your first
note I'd like to request that, as has been done most
of the time, when 82A wants its door open, whether
they're going to observe that rev or whether they
simply want to be on the alert for a flare - that the
little statement, "82A door open, FLARE _ABLE" to
be put at the top of the - top of the pass.
CC Roger. I believe that's the normal way of doing

it, hut that will be done.
ll 36 30 SPT Yes. Well, you see, your note 1 implies that

there's a Judgment factor on the part of the
crew, and there really isn't. You look there,
and if it's there, you open it, and - otherwise,
you don't.
CC Yes, Joe, we were aware of that when we sent it,

but I guess we Just wanted to emphasize it.
SPT Okay.
ll 38 57 CC And, SPT; Houston. No requirement for an answer

right now, but for your information, we didn't
receive data on M133 all last night, and the
people were wondering if you had any information
as to why that might have been so.
PLT You caught him in the scale.
CC That's good timing. Has Pete already been there, or

can I wait a few minutes and catch him?
PLT Well, he's watching Joe and taking his reading.

Also, he's holding his breath while he's being
weighed very hard to converse with the guy when
he's on the - in the scale.
CC Yes, I'm aware of that. So I just thought it

was good that I'd managed to catch two out of
three guys there.
ll 39 53 PLT Well, we - nobody has apparently remembered seeing

it on the Flight Plan yesterday, so the doctor didn't
have his little hat on, although he did notice in
today's Flight Plan, it said "post-M133." He figured
you might mention it.
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CC Roger. Understand he didn't wear it.
PLT Hight. I'm glad you didn't get data.
CC Never can tell with some of these electrons.
ll hl 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again at Honeysuckle at 12:19, at
12:19. For your information, we had requested
on - I think on the odds and ends message, a
repeat of the sound level meter readings and we
- through a little bit of more research have
found them, so that is unnecessary now.
ll 41 27 PLT That's very nice, Crip, because there is nothing

more tedious than standing at a speaker box
reading a hundred numbers.
CC I agree.
PLT Okay. See you later.
ii 41 h3 CC Roger.
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12 19 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Honeysuckle for

the next 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And I have a couple of pad updates that

I'd like to give you if you've got time to copy.
One's for the PLT and the other one goes on
the ATM schedule pad and the SAP.
CDR Okay. Wait'll I put my cornflakes down. Just

a second.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. I hate to interrupt breakfast. For the

PLT, on the bottom of his EREP prep pad, there
" is a remark that deals with installation of the
primary 192 attenuator installation, and we
want to delete that.
PLT Okay, we got it.
CC Okay. Now, on the ATM schedule pad, on the last

part of it under the - It's for the last pass at
5 minutes left in daylight, they have for unattended
ops to point at P, Papa 62. We want to change that
to Sun center_ and that's also applicable right
below it where it says GMT of 7 minutes, 70:07.
Change that P62 target to Sun center.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay. And new information for your SAP. We have

an emerging active region, AR 23, located at 2_/0.5.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. And also the surges at east limb near

Sierra 20 may herald new active region.
PLT Say the coordinates again.
CC We're Just getting surges at the east limb near $20.

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PLT Roger.
CC And for the CDR, l'm informed that you now hold
the record for more time in space than any other
man around, namely Shakey.
CDR Holy Christmas! You mean i finally passed

Captain Shakey, I can't believe it.
CC I think you've got him beat by a long way before

this thing's over.
CDR Send him my regards while he's off on his tugboat.
CC (Laughter) Okay. I'll see if that can't be done.

And also, CDR, there's sc_aething we're contemplating
down here that I'd like you to ponder. We're con-
sidering inhibiting TACS at _11 times that it's not
required, like for maneuvers and so forth; namely,
to preclude any inadvertent malfunction, emptying
out what we've got left. I guess we'd kind of like
an opinion from you out of that - about that.
12 23 29 CDR Oh, - -
CC You can think about it for a while - -
CDR I presume you want to go to CMGs only at night

then, huh?
CC We're talking about Just leaving it that way all

the time, except for when you're doing the Z-LV
m-neuver or sumething like that. But why don't
you Just think about that for a while and we can
talk about it later.
CDR Okay. I guess there's a difference of opinion

between your telemetry and us up here as to how
much that TACS has been fired. It seems to me
that it fires a reasonable amount of time at
night - night passes during the maneuvers that
apparently you guys don't seem to think so. And
I'm curious as to what your normal consumption
has been versus what you think it should be.
That's number I and number 2. I want to think
about it in view of the way the rate gyros have
been acting, a/though I'm not sure that it makes
much difference. What do you think?
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12 24 34 CC We're Just about to go LOS here, and I'ii see you

again at Goldstone at 12:48; we can talk about it
there.
CDR Okay.
12 40 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over H_aii for about

the next 4 minutes. Sorry about that, I gave you
a wrong call on our next pass.
PLT Roger.
CC And the correction on - or - we can't keep our

numbering systems going around here. That new
active region I told you about awhile ago ntnn-
ber is 24 vice 23.
CDR Hey, Crip ; CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR We've talked it over up here and why don't you

go ahead and _implement your TACS dealy [sic].
And we'd like to see everybody concerned there that
we've considered pros and cons and I don't see any-
thing wrong with it.
CC Okay. I think we'll be typing you up a message to

send up either later today or tonight to implement
that. And regarding your concern over the number
of TACS firings, I guess that there is a feeling
here that you're hearing things that aren't really
TACS, in some instances. And I guess that the
next time you hear something fire, we'd appreciate
maybe if you'd give us a call so we can check it
with our telemetry.
CDR Okay, it's pretty nearly always during the night

passes. And I have not displayed the possibility
of it being some thermal phenomena as the vehicle
cools down at night. But both of us agreed that it -
We get - oh, two to four firings - single firings -
relatively - Two of them are relatively close to-
gether to each other, normally about the maneuver
times during the momentu_ dump; but that could be
not true, also. You're - You're showing none. Is
that right?
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CC That's affirm.
CDR It's very interesting, because something's out

here in the evenings that very much resembles
the real TACS firing because there has been
occasions where we've been at the window and
the TACS has fired, and you could see the TACS
fire. It sends out a nice big white cloud.
CC Roger. Hope is isn't somebody knocking wanting in.
CDR Well, I'm sure on the docking movies as we came up

to the vehicle, it was doing a lot of TACS firing;
and I'm sure you'll be able to see that very
clearly what it looks like. I 'm kind of surprised
the Agena never gave out anything that you could
see. So I was quite su__prised - It was a cold
gas system - and I was quite surprised to see that
the TACS could - was visible when it fires, but
it is.
CC Roger. That was obvious to us on the TV when you

came in for the docking.
CDR Oh, you could see it on TV, huh?
CC That's affirm.
12 43 37 CC We're about 1 minute until LOS. And this next pass

will be the Goldstone one at 12:48.
CDR Oh, let me ask you another question. Not last

night but the night before last about - oh, 04 or
05:00 in the morning sometime, we had a decided
change in frequency in one of the pumps. And it
took us a while to sort it out because it woke
both Joe and I up. And we went on a little search
party around the vehicle and we wound up concluding
that it was in the refrigeration package. And my
question is, did you guys switch a plmrp the day
before yesterday in the evening or have we switched
any pumps in that package or have you heard
anything different?
CC Stand by. Pete, I'm told that we have not seen any-
thing different. And I guess we really can't corre-
late anything to that particular time. We can have
them go back and take a look at it. I understand it
was like 04:00 or 05:00 yesterday?
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CDR Yes.
CC Okay. I guess I also lled to you about m_ LOS. We've

still got it going here for a while.
CDR Okay. It's no big deal, but we forgot to report it

to you. I'd llke on it and the change of pitch to
the kind of noise we used to get from the glycol
pump in the LM, except that was oscillatory. This
one Just flat changed frequency and stayed at the
higher frequency, and now we don't notice it anymore.
CC Roger.
12 49 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the States for the

next 7 minutes.
CDR Okay.
12 55 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

lose you for a little while and pick you up again over
Bermuda at 13:00, 13:00.
CDR Roger.
13 O0 BB CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Bermuda for the

next 6 minutes - for the next 6 minutes.
PLT Houston, got a question about the computer slider

dope you sent up. I can't really make it work out.
If I put the - Wait. If I put the ascending node
where you say, which as I remember was 135.7, at the
time you said, which was an hour and 15 minutes ago,
then we ain't supposed to be over the U.S. now.
CC Okay. I'll get somebody to look at that for you,

Paul. I don't have that map with me.
PLT Okay.
CDR If we're not - -
PLT At this point_ I'm not sure of anything. If you

come back and tell me how to do it, I'll do it
right.
CC Okay. Stand by 1.
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13 05 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in about 30 seconds.

We'll have yoU again over Canary at 13:10. And at
that time, we will be doing a recorder dump. And
also, Paul, we'll try to have an answer for you
on your ascending node time and get that straight-
ened out for your map.
PLT Okay.
13 Ii 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.
PLT Hello. Well, good morning, Bill.
CC How are you?

PLT Terrible! I rode the stinking bike before breakfast.
CC I thought I heard something grinding in the

background. It's good for you.
PLT Not when it's me that's grinding.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Got some corrections on those nodes on rev 286.
PLT Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay, scme corrections on the modes at rev 286.

At 12:38- -
PLT Hold it a minute, Bill. Hold it.
CC Okay.
PLT My friends are busy, and I Just soaped up. Let me

finish drying, and I'll be with you in a half a
minute.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, go ahead.

DaM 154 Page 689
CC At 12:38:31, it is 154.7 west. At 14:11:41, it is

178.3 west. And the 18:51 is correct. The figure
at 18:51 is correct.
PLT Okay, thank you. S_y, we've really used this slider.
I Just can't say how glad we are to have the thing
along.
CC Copy.
13 18 15 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Honeysuckle, 13:54; and

PLT, if you would put the momentum inhibit in at
13:35 for the S183 experiment.
13 18 36 PLT Roger.
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15_:13:30 to
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Day 15_ Page 691
13 5h h3 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for i0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
SC (Music)
SPT Little church call for you, Houston.
CC What happened? Somebody let Joe slip a bugle

aboard?
SPT We run everything in top military fashion on this

ship.
13 55 56 CC Copy.
lh 03 02 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Hawaii at 14:1_.
lh 03 09 SC Roger.
l_ 13 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, lO minutes.
PLT Hi there; l0 minutes. The results of the CO check

show, as near as I can interpret - interpolate the
color chart, l0 to 15 parts per million.
CC Copy ; 15 parts per million.
PLT lO to 15.
CC Copy; i0 to 15.
CC SPT, Houston.
lh lh 23 SPT Go ahead.
CC We would llke for you to look out for S009 opening

one more time. The approximate time is Ih:22:08.
SPT God bless you. Hey, what's the leak rate of the
cluster, Houston? Have you guys had a - had time
to get a hack on it in pounds per dsy? I'd be
curious to whether it's below spec or what?
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CC We're checking on that, Joe, and we'll get back

with you.
14 15 06 PLT I guess Ali you can give us, Houston, is total

usage and if that looks normal or not, because,
Joe, - they don't really know how many times
we used the trash airlock, Pete Just pointed out.
CC Okay.
CC Go, SPT.
14 16 34 SPT I'd like to mske a recommendation regarding the

south Atlantic anomaly, and now we have the
horns. As a - a reason or requirement for
turning off the S056 high voltages, what this
is boiling down to, it looks like, is two or
three times per pass. You may see something
in there, turn it off, turn it on. As you know,
we missed it in the pass. And I'd like to make
the following recommendation : that on the
ground, based on the Amount of radiation
expected and the expected degradation of
the high voltage detectors, that the - You
people make a determination whether or not
the high voltages ought to be on for that
stateside pass. And put it at the top of
the pass, much as you put the 82A doors
so on. We have added to our powerdown
operate/fix pass and our Sunside Prep
Checklist, the words "high voltage,
beryllium, and al_*m_num - OFF at the
end of the day and ON at the beginning
of the day," which will take care of any
passes that occur during the night hours.
In other words, we will repeatedly power
those things down and such that it will
power them up again at sunrise, if the
ground recommends. Now, if we have some-
thing powered up and we get a flare alarm, I
think we've learned our lesson on that; I really
do. We will look to see if we're in the anomaly
before we take action. 0ver.
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14 18 16 CC We copy that, Joe; and we'll have a look at it.
SPT Thank you.
14 19 04 CC Skylab, Houston. So far_as we can tell, the gas

leakage is not detectable by the mass studies
that are being done here.
SPT Okay, thank you. Well, what it was, we were

discussing how carbon monoxide, you know, how
we get rid of it. We decided it was essentially
a function of the leak rate, and as long as the
leak rate was low, we were going to have some.
CC That sounds reasonable. And the leak rate is

apparently very low.
i_ 19 35 SPT Roger.
i_ 20 29 CDR This is the CDR.
CC Go, CDR. We're standing by, CDR.
CDR Roger. I was taking care of a squeaky SIA there.

S183 star field 252, I think itwas, 301_ this
pad's completed on time.
CC Copy. And , Pete, when you have the time, we'd like
for you to bring up the star tracker.
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay. It will be a few minutes, Houston. I'm

Just getting starting on this pass.
CDR All right, Houston; CDR. Go ahead and give me

the star tracker pad and I will - -
SPT We've got the pad.
CDR I understand we have the pad. I'ii bring it up

for you.
lh 22 12 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Did you Just figure out the same thing I Just did?
It's not available.
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CC CDR, could you tell us if the film was returning

to the carrousel in the 18B?
CDR If the film was what?
CC Was returning to the carrousel. There is supposed

to be an audible click when it does. There is
some indication down here.
CDR Oh, it's doing its thing Just fine. As a matter

of fact, now that you mention it, I forgot to
turn on the TAPE RECORDER 1.
PLT ...
CDR But it did its thing okay.
CC Copy.
CDR Yes, I show on this star tracker pad that the star
is available from day 33 to day 55, instead of for
day 52, 56. Why we won't have the stars until 33.
1423 33 CC Copy.
14 24 09 CC CDR, we think the star tracker lJadis valid, and

we're going LOS in about a minute. We'll see you
at Goldstone at 14:25.
14 24 24 SC Okay.
14 25 46 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Goldstone for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
14 26 34 SPT Houston, I've got some data on the coronagraph

I 'd like you to copy.
CC Go ahead, Joe.
SPT Okay, in trying to visually center the occulting

disk using the TV display, I approx - and these
- these numbers are approximately - down 63, and
left, 75 - appears to center the disk satisfactorily.
CC We copy.
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14 27 3h SPT And, Houston, the figures I gave you were fine

sun sensor wedge angles. Let me now give you
the crosspointer readings. Over.
CC Go ahead.
SPT With the scale in times 10, the vertical

crosspointer is right, 75; the horizontal
crosspointer is up, 13.
CC Copy.
l_ 29 09 CC SPT, we're standing by for your TV.
SPT Okay.
14 29 2h SPT Are you getting this live, Houston?
CC That's affirm.
SPT 0ksy. I still have the coronagraph on the

monitor, and I'll leave it there for a minute.
CC Copy.
SPT You can see contamination balls crossing the

field of view.
CC Copy.
14 29 50 SPT Either that or I've discovered a new planet.
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Day 154 Page 697
lh 30 09 SPT That's H-alpha i.
CC And, Skylab, we're about to perform a nay update.
SPT Roger.
SPT And, Houston, turn the XUVmonitor.
CC Go ahead.
14 32 18 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Bermuda at 14:37.
SPT Roger, Houston. What answer I guess we're going to

need, eventually, is whether the S052 PI wants us to
twesk up the coronagraph manually before we use it -
continue to center the needles as we have in past.
CC Try to get you an answer, Joe.
lh 37 19 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.
SPT Houston, sPT.
CC Go, SPT.
sPT Okay. Having a little problem right now determining

whether S072 is operating or not. Of course, we
have - you know - no DOOR talkback and no READY light,
no OPERATE light, and I don't see the frame remaining
counter decreasing. Ask your guys to check on it, if
they have any telemetry on it. And, secondly, I won-
der whether we are going to leave the doors the way
they are forever, or are the PIs and people still t83_k-
ing that one over?
CC Joe, it's not centered, and the out-of-limit discrim-

inator is inhibiting; so it is not operating. And
the doors question is being worked at this time.
SPT Okay. I guess that answers my previous question that

we cannot operate this thing with the disk manually
centered, can we? Because the discriminator won't
let it.
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CC That's affirmative. And proceed on operations as you

have in the past on that, Joe.
SPT Okay.
CC Joe, there is some question on the procedure that's

being worked up here, and we'd appreciate your comment.
And the procedure that's being considered is placing
the EVA AUTO door switch in INHIBIT and then operating
the doors manually, except for 52 - correction, 5h - 5h.
SPT EVA Ab_O door to INHIBIT and doors manually, except

for 54, which would remain open all the time I guess.
Right?
CC That's affirm. Any comment you have would be

appreciated.
SPT Let me think that one over for a bit, Bill.
CC Okay.
CC Joe, your query on manually tweaking the coronagraph

disk, they simply want you to operate as you have in
the past on that one.
SPT Aye, aye.
lh h5 hi CC Skylab, LOS in i minute; AOS Canary, 14:h7.
SPT Roger.
PLT Hey, Houston; the PLT. I Just tried to - maybe plate 8

did not retract into the carrousel on 183. I'm Just
trying to advance it. It will not advance.
CC Copy.
SPT I'ii be standing by for some good words next AOS.

When was that?
CC Two minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC Still scratching.
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SPT I figured that.
14 47 _6 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 17 minutes.
CREW Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR The S009 package isn't supposed to do anything when

it's in RESET, right? Other than be closed?
CC Stand by half. CDR, the word here is that if 009 is

open when you go to RESET, it will close.
CDR Well, Houston, that's the second tim_ that thing's

done that to me. It was in HEBET, CLOSE, and I turned
the power off and turned it back on 5 minutes before
initiate, and my little buzzer went off. And I went
up there to initiate it and Just as I was waiting for
the time to time out, .the package opened all by itself
to the switch configuration POWER, ON, and INITIATE
RESET switch is RESET. So it's running by itself.
It's got a mind of its own.
CC Copy.
SPT If anybody wants to research that, Bill, I believe that

the trainer had exhibited that tendency in the past,
also.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
$PT Go ahead.
CC You sh_lld be able to - to acquire - Achernar with the

pad that you have on board at this time.
SPT Okay.
PLT Hello, Houston ; PLT.
CC Go, PLT.
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PLT A completely now and different and --_elated item,

Bill• These fan screens are picking up quite a hit
of trash and dirt. I guess - we'd like to schedule
that fan cleaning housekeeping operation next time
you can fit it in, and I think we're going to have
to do that about every 3 ds_vs.
CC Copy.
14 53 Ol CC PLT, .that is scheduled - Housekeeping is scheduled

for tembrrow at 14":35.
PLT Go - go ahead, Houston•
FLT Hey, Houston. You there?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Did you call the PLT?
CC The squeal cut you out. Say again.
PLT Did you call the PLT?
CC Yes, PLT. Housekeeping is being scheduled for temorrow.
PLT Okay, good. And ss I say, We'll need it about every

3 days, I think, Bill.
CC We copy that•
14 54 16 SPT Houston, SPT. Did you power dcwn the star tracker
by DCS?
CC Stand by• That's affirmative. That was accomplished

last evening.
SPT Ho ho• So I've got to give it a star tracker

align 30 136. Is that right?
CC You should only have to hit the power switch, Joe.
SPT Okay, I may have to ...
SPT Okay•
CDR Houston, you there?
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Day15h Page701
CDR I'm wondering if maybe I turned the power off prema-

turely prior to the sequence finishing after going to
STANDBY on the S183 on the last pass. I've been sit-
ting here smoking over the malf procedures. Would it
hurt to turn the power back on? Of course it is look-
ing at the back of.the airlock door right now - It's
pitch black in there - and set up a shread exposure
and let it cycle on frame 08 to see if it completes
the cycle?
CC Pete, what we'd like for you to do is to turn the

power ON - go to STANDBY and then cycle the power to
see if that does it.
CDR Need to cycle STANDBY to - START and then back to

STANDBY?
CDR It's a quick cycle?
CC Pete, at this time we want you to bring the power OFF

and then back ON, leaving it in STANI_Y.
CC That's the SEQUENCE switch in STANDBY.
CDR Okay. I need ... did your other thing, and nothing
happened.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR I'm looking at block 7 on nage 7-5. Should - we

should give that a whirl?
CC Stand by half, Pete. They're trying to come up with

one.
CC Pete, go ahead on step 7 on your malf procedure. That's

block 7- block 7.
CDR Roger.
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15 02 14 CC Pete, if you don't get this fixed, we want you to

enable momentum. We're about to go LOS here.
CDR Okay.
15 03 ii CC And if you cancel on this experiment, go ahead and

clean any screens that need it, and we'll adjust
tomorrow's Flight Plan accordingly. We're going LOS
in 1 minute. We'll see you in Carnarvon at 15:29.
15 03 26 CDR Roger, Houston. IT we cancel, we'll enable - momentum.
CC Copy.
15 27 31 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. And be advised S183 - that malf proce-

dure, step 7, did not work; so we enabled momentum
_imp, and we're standing by.
CDR PLT is cleaning screens.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Yes, sir.
CC We have a note for you to the ops for S5_ - S054 door
failure.
SPT 0kay.
CC One : place the EVA AUTO door switch to INHIBIT and

operate all doors mAnu_11y, except S054. Second step:
tape over the S054 door switch. Avoid DAS close com-
mands for the S05_ door. That command is for 01:42.
Third step: enable motor power for S054, S052. DAS
command on that is 4 two balls 55.
CC SPT, Houston. We have another note for you.
CC SPT, Houston.
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15 37 28 CDR Hello, again, Bill. At 15:35:10 S009 went to OPEN.
CC Copy.
SPT Whatever S009 is. Okay, and you were cut out just as
you were about to tell me the co,and it was that I'm
never supposed to use; so you can skip that and tell
my anymore you got.
CC Did you get to the third step: enable motor power

for S054/S052?
SPT No, you didn't. And I expect we are to enable the

primary motor. Is that correct?
15 38 26 CC And the DAS number for that one is 4 double balls 55.
That's 4 double balls 55. And we're going LOS here.
We'll see you at Guam at 15:43.
15 43 07 CC Skylah, Houston. AOS 3 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Okay. I think I got your _hole procedure. Let me

question what effect, if any, this is going to have
on the fine Sun sensor door? I think I remember cor-
rectly that that door will open and close on its own
provided we're in EXPERIMENT POINTING. Is that right?
CC Joe, to prevent contamination, we want that door man-

ually cycled, and you are going to have to manually
cycle that door.
SPT Is that right? I didn't think that door was through

the enable switch? Our schematic doesn't seem to show
it that way.
CDR Yes, double check that, Bill, because we don't under-

stand it to be this way.
CC Yes, there's a question. Stand by half.

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CC The eoncensus here, Joe, is that it's on - the switch

is common to that fine Sun sensor door, so that it
will be disabled when you flip the switch.
CDR That's not right.
SPT That would mean that we would be in EXPERIMENTS POINTING

with the fine Stm sensor off, and that's not very good
medicine.
CC Okay.
CDR The eoncensus up here says that we already have a data

point from last night that's not right, that there's
nine doors that go through that, and the fine sensor
is separate from signal.
CC We copy, Pete. Joe.
CDR What's the story? Do you want us to go to inhibit? Is

it different in inhibit? That being the case, we'd be
better off in storage, if there's a difference between
storage and inhibit.
CC There - -
CC There is a difference in the doors, fine Sun sensor

doors and storage and in inhibit, Pete.
CDR Then why don't we use storage? That way it protects

the fine Sun sensor, and everybody's happy.
CC If we go to storage, it will close the 54 door when we

enable S052 power.
CDR Okay. I'm beginning to see what you're saying.
CC And, SPT, if you still copy, I have an answer here

on your quest about the horns in SAS.
SPT Go abead.
CC They want you to leave the S056 high voltage o_ all day
so that they can look at scheduling for it.
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15 47 29 SPT Okay. All day today we'll leave it on, and I'll bring
it on again right now.
CC Okay. Now the tone andlight on the flare alarm has

been tripping, and so we want you to continue to dis-
able that per pad.
SPT Okay. Well, we'll work that up here. We'll probably

disable it at night.
CC Copy, Joe.
SPT And on this other one, I'm still not - you know, these
doors are kind of complicated circuitry, and it's easy
to close them all at the end of a pass; but if we stay
in EXPERIMENT POINTING mode and come out on the Sun
side with the fine Sun sensor doors closed, I want to
know if we're going to get into any malfunction trouble
ca those switches. I want to know if it's required to
go to solar inertial first ... Matter of fact, I'd
like you guys to teleprinter up ... power down ...
15 48 3_ CC Joe, we're LOS. We'll see you at Hawaii at 54.
15 5_ l_ CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, 3 minutes.
CREW Roger.
SPT Bill, Just to be super safe, let me confirm semething.

If I go into night with the S052 experiment safed, then
I'll come out with it safed, as long as I don't touch
the main power switch. Confirm, please.
CC That is affirmative, Joe.
SPT Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Have an observation to make for the training people,

primarily. We're doing a building block on promi-
nence 62 today, Just now. And it's completely invisible
as a prominence on H-alpha unless I get the disk com-
pletely off the screen. And at that instant, it blossoms
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into view. It's a beautiful large prr,,_nence about

1 minute of are in length, sticking up_ from the disk
there like a great big sore thmab. But I can't see it
at all unless All of the disk is out of the monitor.
Gives it a chance to open up.
CC We copy that, Joe.
SPT That conflicts with something I said on tape the other

night.
CC Ok_.
15 59 28 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll see you at

Goldstone at 16:05.
SC Okay.
16 O_ 46 CC Skylab, houston. AOS for 13 minutes.
CREW Roger •
CDR And, Houston. Where do you have us right now?
CC Sorry, Pete. Say again.
CDR "Where are we; Goldstone?
CC That's affirm.
16 05 05 CDR Okay. If you Want to check the TV, it's on.
16 05 07 CC Than_ you.
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16 06 51 CDR Ss_,,Houston. Are you getting the TV?
CC Stand by half, Pete. We're working that one.
CDR Okay, because it's - the best thing (laughter)

that the TV is showing so far is the contamination
on the window.
CC Copy.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go. Houston standing by.
SPT Okay, a note for the ATM PIs, a JOP 4, step 2 and
step 3. I'm going to use the same positioning in
pointing because there's only one orientation in
which I can fill the slit, even though this is a
bad orientation for 82A. On step 3B, I will roll
and give 82A a good dispersion.
CC We copy that, Joe. Thank you.
CC Pete, you caught us 1 early on the TV. We were

expecting it the next rev. However, Goldstone is
receiving it nicely and if you would give us two
revs of it as you come over the States, we would
appreciate it.
CDR Oh, yes, no - I was setting it up for next pass,

but I Just wanted you to know it was on if you
wanted to check it.
CC I see. Okay, Pete, you - -
CDR As you're seeing in the middle lower third, lower

fourth of the picture is our wardroom window ice
crystals.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
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CC ATM would like for you to check the grating on

S055 and proceed normally.
SPT Yes. I'm proceeding abnormally a little bit. In

the first place, the pad is confusing at a glance
because it s_s mechanical reference and then
underneath it, it gives you a grating position,
which is off mechanical reference. The other
thing is that when you start - when you start
out a path in optical references, which we're
customarily in, you either have to go once
completely around to set the thing to mechanical
zero, or you have to use it on setting reference
to optical zero, which will give the the
mechanical setting they want. And that's what
I've been in the process of figuring out. They
are about to get a rsster in optical 762, which
ought to be equivalent to mechanical 864, which
is what they wanted, or 8T4.
16 ll 21 CC Copy, Joe.
SPT I think they'll understand.
CC ... they're too heavy_
CC Yes, the medic -
16 25 13 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS; Ascension at 16:33.
16 35 05 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension for about 5 minutes.
SC P_ger.
PLT Houston, $kylab. Sometime at your leisure, would

you remind us how many exposures are on a roll of
Nikon color exterior.
CC Wilco.
PLT While you're at it, how about the color interior?
CC The color what?
PLT Interior film.
CC PLT, Houston.
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PLT Go.
CC Can you take a change in the maneuver pad?
SPT Houston, SPT. How long is this pass?
CC It's - less than a minute. Are you ready?
SPT No.
CC Okay.
SPT All right. Go ahead, Houston. I'll copy it in

blank verse.
CC All right. After a moment_n analysis, they want

to make sc_e changes in the starting time of the
Z-LV mode. That's on line 3. The G$1T, make that
19:16 visual - vise 19:17. That will change your
maneuver times. On line 4, the second time be-
comes 50006, vise 50005.
SPT Eoger.
CC Okay.
CC And the second correction, the third time becomes

06, vises 05. On line 9, change that 50005 to
50006; and change the time from 06 - correction,
from 05 to 06. And line 15, change 42 to 45 degrees.
We're going LOS now. I'll see you at Carnarvon.
SPT Okay. I got the pad and I'm 2 minutes further

behind on each end.
CC And we're sending up a new drift compensation on Y1.
17 03 55 CC Skylab, Houston_ AOS for ll minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC GO, SPT.
SPT Hey, Bill, I'm sorry I snapped at you on that

last pass ° Just that I thought the pad was
going to be shorter than it was. And so I
said to Pau/, I'll copy it. I've got it up
here. And I was behind through _ own fault.
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CC Hey, Joe. I didn't even notice the snap. You

must be - -
SC Oh, I take back everything I Just said then. Well -

tell the Pls I got it _II done, except that one
good exposure on 82A and I 'ii get that at the
beginning of the next pass.
CC We' re copy.
CC Hey, Paul; Houston.
PLT Yes.
CC The auswer on your Nikon frames is 60. That's

60 on both types of film.
PLT OkeM. Thank you, Bill.
SC Also, Houston; SPT repaired that nutty gyro problem

during LOS. Are you guys looking at it?
CC We are.
CC SPT, Houston. We indicate that the XUV doors are

still open here. That's the XUV monitor door.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, We'll be LOS in about I minute;

Guam at 17:17. And, PIT; Houston. Correction -
SPT ; Houston.
17 lh 45 CC Skylab, we're going LOS, and we will see you at

Guam at 17:17; in the blind.
17 17 37 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for i0 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go aheM.
CC We have an indication that 82A was missed the last

time. Just continue on normal ops on the next pass
and there's no problem on it. Also be - -
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SPT Well, Houston, as I told you last AOS, I would

like very much to get that one exposure; namely,
building block 6 Bravo. I left the canister
pointed at the prominence and I'd like to snap
that one off before I go Sun center.
CC That's acceptable, Joe. Also, be advised that

the X3 gyro is spinning up. It's not on the
line. It's Just coming up.
SPT Is that X37
CC That's affirmative - X3, and it's Just being

warmed up.
SPT Okay, understand. We wondered - I was Just

looking at the gyro rates and I wondered why
a gyro that wasn't powered up should have a
rather high negative rate like that.
CC Copy - -
SPT I think minus 0992.
CC Copy.
CC We trledto reach you, but a couple of minutes

before the last pass was over, we lost cc_m
with you.
sPT Roger.
17 26 40 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. A0S Goldstone, 17:43.
17 26 50 PLT Roger.
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17 42 48 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 17 minutes at Goldstone.

And we have TV down here.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Roger. Let me ask the white light coronagraph guys

a question. When I'm Sun center and I cycle the
MAIN POWER STANDBY back to 0N, does the MIRROR
go to the CAMERA position? Over.
CC Stand by 1.
CDR How's your picture, Houston?
CC It's solid.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Joe, it's the CAMERA position only if you select a

mode and are running.
SPT Okay. Well, what happened to me was I came up Sun

center, turned the MAIN POWER to ON, and went ahead
and issued a START command, thinking that either it
would already be in CAMERA or it would go there
after the first frame. It took 12 pictures, and
then I selected TV MONITOR to the WHITE LIGHT
COHONOGRAPH position and there was the Sun sitting
there looking at me, which - which shouldn't be.
So I am assuming that I did not take any exposures,
and I'm repeating the STANDARD MODE. And I can't
explain it.
CC Copy.
17 51 54 CDR Boy, you sure can see where the floods have been.
CC We copy, Pete. Looked as if you were getting a pic-

ture or two of your own there.
CDR Yes, this is the first good weather we've had along
all this route.
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CC What was your river there, the Missouri of the Miss-

issippi, that you came across?
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Could you verify for us that you've put the EVA

AUTO DOOR switch in INHIBIT. And the second item:
we would like you to perform the DAS h0055, which
powers up the motor.
SPT But I haven't done that yet. I wanted to observe

the behavior of the doors with the switch in IN-
HIBIT. I'ii do that next dark side. Meanwhile,
l'm straightening S052 before I move.
iT 54 15 CC Without the motor power on, without that DAS com-

mand, you're not going to be able to take pictures
on S052.
SPT Don't understand that. That's what we've been doing

for the last day. Houston, the S052 door is OPEN.
It's been open since - since yesterday.
CC We're copying you, Joe.
17 57 16 SPT Houston, SPT. Is that not right, what I surmised,

that we have been taking pictures with S0527
CC Joe, better say that one again.
SPT I said, "Is it not correct that we have been taking

pictures with S0527" You said something about we
haven't been or couldn't.
CC Joe, our information is that you have not been taking

pictures on S052 in that mode.
SPT I don't understand why. That was the mode you put
us in yesterday. The door is open, and when we go
MIRROR position to CAMERA and ACTIVATE, heck, we've
shot lO0 frames since then, doing our normal build-
ing blocks. Tell me what the problem is.
CC Stand by, Joe. We're trying to get together here.

Joe, it's Just since you've put the EVA AUTO DOOR
switch to INHIBIT that you haven't been taking
pictures.
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SPT Well, it's been cycling film through the camera.

The frame count has been decreasing. The door is
OPEN, and we're Sun centered. Now, why have we not
been taking pictures?
CC Stand by, Joe. They say that the MIRROR is in TV

position, Joe.
SPT Well, I manually moved the mirror to the CAMERA

position - the second time around the TV image
disappeared. Are they saying it went right back
to CAMERA the minute I gave it a START command,
or what?
CC No, they say you're okay if you did the manual

movement.
SPT Oh, okay; okay.
CC We're going LOS here in about 1 minute.
SPT Fine, take it then that we got all the pictures

we were supposed to on S052, but I wasted one
group of frames.
CC That's affirmative, Joe. And we'll see you at

Carnarvon at 18:43.
17 59 51 SPT Okay.
CDR Roger.
18 47 57 CC Skylab, in 1 minute; Guam at 18:58. And like

to remind you about the decrease in the lights as
much as possible before the EREP pass. @
PLT Roger.
CC And we have you configured for rate gyros X-1 and

S-2 in control.
PLT Okay. Total configuration on X-1 and 2; understand.
18 48 46 CC Copy. Roger that.

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18 58 i0 CC Skylab, Houston: AOS, 3 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Skylab; gyro Y-1 isbeing compensated. You'll

be in nominal configuration for EREP with Y-1 and
Y-3. And at this time, EREP is GO.
CDR You bet your boots it is. Got a quick question

for the EREP guys. Every time 194 comes up, we
get a MALF light because - before it really gets up
to speed, the cold cycle, the cold cal, and all that
Jazz. And I've been turning it OFF and back ON to
reset the MALF light. Is that okay?
18 59 08 CC Stand by, Pete.
18 59 h6 CC CDR, the Malf light is function of temperature.

You can either leave it or cycle it as you will.
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18 59 55 PLT Okay. Thank you. Also we need a little more

warm up time on S191. It wasnJt up to temperature
by warm up time. I let it run l0 minutes longer,
just turned it on.
CC We copy.
19 01 25 CC Skylab, LOS in about 30 seconds. Goldstone at 19:19.
19 19 22 PLT Okay .... meter reading Bravo 7, on S191 is

reading about 87 percent, the best I can make
it for you, tape recorder.
19 19 48 PLT Hey, Joe, you can lock that antenna out there, again.
It's going to do all kinds of crazy things this time
- No, not so crazy. On this one, Just back and forth.
19 19 59 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 15 minu%es.
PLT Okay. We're in the maneuver.
CC Copy.
PLT If you've got nothing else to say, Bill, for the EREP
guys, for information, I put this on tape. Right now,
Charlie 7 ... temp is reading is 41 percent. Bravo 7
thermal detector temp is reading 87. That's
87 percent.
CC Copy.
PLT Here. You want this light on?
PLT It's not on
PLT We there yet, Joe?
19 21 46 PLT No. Our attitude, I mean. Okay. SCAT's on ....

On; two ready lights.
19 22 01 PLT 192 is on. We've got a ready light and we're not
• in attitudeyet.
_J_t
19 22 08 PLT S190 is running. The re_dy light.

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19 23 24 PLT Okay. Status of the EREP C&D panel for right now -
everything is normal, except no S191 ready lights and
the S190 cover clothesline is on.
PLT S191 thermal detector temp. I can make it 86, if I

tried hard.
19 24 29 PLT Okay. SCAT's gone STANDBY, ... is gone STANDBY. In

track contiguous, 0. SCAT's ON, RAD's ON.
19 24 49 PLT Okay. l'm now, for" some reason, getting a flickering

gimbal light on S193.
CC Copy.
PLT Yes. That's the pitch glmbal.
19 25 35 PLT SCAT's STANDBY, RAD,s STANDBY.
19 25 40 PLT CAL on 19_ and the altimeter is going on. Got a

READY LIGHT.
PLT The other person reports that he got ali three of

his EPS lights this time.
19 27 06 PLT The altimeter looks good, though I haven't seen a

flicker of the unlock light this time.
19 27 20 PLT Okay. 192 is checked now. Stand by for an AUTO CAL

on that, Pete, in 5 seconds. Now, give me an AUTO CAL,
please. ThAnE you.
CDR Yes.
19 28 39 PLT Okay. I Just got an altimeter imlock light, and

it was on for about 3 seconds and it went out. It
flickered a couple of times, and it's staying out
now. Probably was the end of the mode, I would
guess.
19 29 I0 PLT Okay. ALTIM_','_ is STANDBY; 9_, OFF; 93 RAD, OFF;

SCAN, OFF; ALTIMA_I'ZHOFF.
PLT Should be the gulf coast.
PLT Again?
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PLT Can you see that cut in Padre Island?
PLT Okay, gang. On the status report on the 191 ... it's
struggling, but it sure isn't coming down. I can call
it, it's on the heavy side of 85 percent now.
19 30 37 PLT Okay. 192 to READY. And we got a kind of a ... tape

motion light, but it finally came on. For information,
it took almost l0 seconds for that tape motion light
to come back on ... switching 192 to READY.
19 31 21 PLT The tape motion light is flickering, ground. It's

on, and then it starts flickering, getting di_ner.
It'll go out and then comes back in. It's been
on steady since I started telling you that.
19 31 h6 PLT 192 to STANDBY - CHECK. Should go to STANDBY and

the tape motion light blinked off and came right
back on.
PLT We're waiting for that to tell you about.
PLT Also for information, EREP gang, ... Charlie 8 tape

recorder keeps remaining in oscillating between 20
and 40 percent, about 1 cycle per second.
PLT Time you start the maneuver, Joe. Give me a

mark when you start it. Will you, please?
PLT Whee!
PLT EREP stopped. You guys - you guys really had that
S190 figured out. It stopped exactly on the pad
time.
PLT Okay, we're going off on ... Houston.
19 33 18 CC We copy. Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in 1 minute.

Vanguard at 19:44. We would llke for you to delay
housekeeping 70A, that's the mol sieve fan, until
presleep activities today.
SPT Okay.
19 45 01 CC Skylah, Houston; AOS i0 minutes.

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CDR Roger, Houston. And be advised we have Just a new

one for you. We got a master alarm CSM and we have
an STS PRESS LOW. The oxidizer is read/ng 160. When
I went into there to answer the alarm I reset the
master alarm and it came back on again before I quite
got over to the gages, but I did notice that the ops
pressure was operating but it appears to have stabi-
lized at 160.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC Pete, we're looking at that pressure and we're

reading 162, and it's been holding relatively
constant in that region for some time.
CDR Okay, well - That's well out of the green for us

up here, and ours has been showing in the green up
until - or at least it has this morning when P. J.
looked at it, so hew long you been looking at that?
Could it be a thermal problem or we got a CAb"_ION
and WARNING that's very close to that that the
power's built up or s_ething.
CC We're looking at it, Pete.
CDR 0kay.
CDR We're not going anywhere, so We'll wait for you.
CC Copy.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go 8head.
CC We've been tracking this since day 147 and there's a

good correlation between the temperature, which has
been f-11ing from 66 - it's now shOwing 44 degrees,
and the pressure has fallen in that time from 174 to
16B. Bo we think it's the thermal effect.
CDR Okay. Shall we go inhibit the STS PRESS light on

the inhibit panel?
CC We recr_maend that, Pete.
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CDR Solved another one for today. Thank you.
CC That thing trips at 162, Pete, so it takes very

little to do it.
CDR Yes, I wish you guys could have given us a clue.
19 52 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in about a minute

and a half here. Goldstone, AOS at 20:59.
CDR Roger, Roger.
CC If you still read, Pete, we have 15 completes,

15 completes.
CDR Fifteen completes on what?
CC That's on the CBRMs on the batteries.
19 54 30 CDR Oh, okay, very good. I'm completing EREP and

wasn't thinking about that.
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CDR ...
CC Skylab, squeal blocked you.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC There is a request to look at the parasol, especially

the color of it, and report at your first opportunity.
CDR Okay, do you want that right now? We can go look at

it right now, if you want.
CC No, no, Just whenever it's convenient.
CDR Okay, we'll get you a report later on today on that.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC We're sending up an S183 malfunction and checkout

procedure. And we show you have not inhibited
momentum bump, and we would like for you to accomplish
this.
PLT You want momentum dump inhibited now?
CC Negative, negative. That was the wrong call.
PLT Okay.
CC We - Do not, repeat, do not INHIBIT MOMENTUM DUMP.
PLT Okay, I didn't inhibit it.
CC And be advised that on PCG number 7, we are going to

enable the amp hour meter to observe it.
PLT Okay.
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CC That's the secondary amp hour meter.
PLT Roger.
21 05 02 CC And Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard

21:21.
21 21 35 CC Skylab, Houston_ A0S i0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.

(Music)
CC We didn't want Joe going to sleep in the tank, so that

was a courtesy of the Flight Director.
SPT Did you hear that, Bill?
CC Go ahead.
SPT I'm on M093, but thank you.
CC Should have done something to the VCG then.
SPT There you go. Who's FLIGHT today?
CC Yes, that was Dr. Puddy.
21 24 14 SPT Thought so.
PLT Go.
CC PLT, please leave the S056 high voltage power on, that's
the HIGH VOLTAGE POWER ON on S056.
PLT Okay. You want the beryllium and alt_minumhigh voltage

power left ON.
CC Also, PLT, at you opportunity, would you identify the

screens which were vacuumed today?
PLT Okay, in a minute, l'm shut down.
CC No rush. And skylah, LOS in one minute; A0S Hawaii 22:30. _

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PLT Whee, an hour from now. Okay, the screens that were
cleaned: the wardroom screen, the portable fan, the
OWS mixing chamber inlet screen, the MDA fans 1 and 2,
and the CSM. Also, the mol sieve inlet screens and the
airlock circ fans inlet screens.
CC We copy that.
CC And you have an S183 malfunction procedure pad on

boardnow.
21 32 00 PLT Let's see. Okay.
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22 29 56 CC Skylah, Houston; A0S 8 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston; CDR. How do you read?
CC Go, Skylab. You've got a squeal.
CC Skylab, Houston standing by.
CDR Okay, Houston, I was getting rid of the squeal. Checked

the sail - or the parasol, and the orange is getting
a little faded. I would say that it looks like that
orange survival material, but it's back gold. It's
tending to look a little more yellowish than orange, not
brown. But not bad.
CC Does everything else look in place and stable and

f
unchanged, Pete?
CDR Yes it does. It looks exactly the same.
,_ CC Thank you.
CDR ... with regard to S183, I followed your procedures,

and there was a plate that was half way in and half
way out. However, there was no way to withdraw the
plate. I successfully got the magazine out and it
closed, according to the procedures; and put it
away. And I had the plate half way in and half way
out. So I put the SAL power cable back On, turned
the power on and then went through the rest of the
cycle, and took the plate out. I couldn't get it out
manually. And flopped over to 09. Now my question
is, is the canister exact at 08, or is the canister
exact at 09, or is it somewhere in between? And what
would you like for me to do now that I've got this
plate in my hand and the S183 sitting at 09?
CC We copy that, Pete. And we'll get you an answer back.

While we're waiting for that, Pete, a number of up-
dates and such: the flight plans are going to be coming
up and are coming up, and we're leaving 45 minutes in
/
the Flight Plan tomorrow for that. Also be advised that
Hawaii's configured for XUV monitoring on TV.
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CDR Okay. Okay, go ahead, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC They want you to put the blank door on the 183 and to
store and evacuate the canister. That's on the - -
CDR That is in work. The 183 is going down right now, and
as soon as I get a vac,,,m on it, I'll evacuate the
film canister.
22 3h 29 CC We copy that.
CDR What would you like me to do with the plate? Bring

it back or get rid of it?
CC Pete, we would like for you to bring that plate back

if possible.
CDR Okay.
CC PLT, place the VIDEO switch into ATM-2.
SPT Houston, the PLT is in the middle of changing building

blocks at the moment, and he'll get to the TV if he can.
CC We copy that.
SPT I think he had another double mode on S056, which

always slows things down.
CC We copy.
SPT We've got another little message for you, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
CDR In case the Flight Director is uneducated, that's

"Victory at Sea."
CC The - We may see Dr. Puddy cry today yet.
SPY Eat your heart out, earthlings.
PLT What do you want on the XUV, Bill?

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CC Thank you, sir.
PLT Houston, what do you want on the XUV?
CC Stand by half.
CC PLT, we wanted - that is the video ATM switch in mode 2.
PLT Af firmat ive.
CC Skylab, LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll see you at

Vanguard at 22:59.
23 00 14 CREW (Music: Anchors Away)
CC Skylah, Houston; AOS 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
SPT Houston, got a couple of questions for you.

f
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Okay, number one. Would the Pl's like the S056 high
voltages left on tonight, or have they got it updated?
CC Stand by half.
CC While we're waiting for that, Joe, would it be possible

for you to run 133 tonight using one of the caps from
412? This was suppossed to have gotten up last night,
but it didn't make it.
SPT You bet you.
CC Thank you, sir.
SPT Okay. Okay, I have a confession to make, Houston. I

was late making m_ radiation DT0, and I didn't get all
the measurements, so would you resehedule that for me,
please?
CC I missed part of that one.

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SPT Okay, I had radiation i, 2, 3, and h this afternoon,

and I was late, and didn't get the readings in the
anomaly like I'm supposed to, so would you please
reschedule that?
CC We will reschedule that one.
SPT Okay, and last thing for the moment, Houston. We've
looked in the stowage book in attempting to follow
your - instruction at the end of your last pass. We
cannot find the anchor. Where is it please?
CC We've never known the Navy yet to launch a ship

without an anchor. We couldn't imagine you not having
a couple aboard.
SPT We're going to have to use the G&C sails. (Laughter)
CC We copy.
CC And we want to have S056 high voltage off. We'll turn

it on again tomorrow, Joe.
SPT Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
23 03 18 CC We'd like for you to turn the VTR power off at your
convenienc e.
PLT Okay.
23 05 3h CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Pete had a question on the 183 carrousel. We'll send

up a procedure to verify its postion before its used
again, if, in fact, it's ever used again. We will - -
SPT Roger.
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CC We will run tomorrow with the DAC on the 183, so we

won't be using it all tomorrow.
SPT Okay.
CDR It will run with Just the DAC, and not stick the film
carrousel back in, huh?
CC That's what they're planning for tomorrow, Pete.
CDR Well look, are you sure that I didn't hang it up? I
don't think I did, but it is entirely possible I could
have shut if off at mid sequence. But, if I did, I
guess it should have started it again, huh?
CC Pete, when you remove that thing in the removal procedure,

there is a half turn or some such there that is supposed
to advance it, and they think it is in the 09 position.
CDR Oh, ]'etme tell you what happened now. It's in - I

couldn't get the film slider out because it was only
about half way, and it was all locked up in there.
And so I put the SA1 power cable back on Just like
you guys said to do, and it went "chuck, chuck, chuck,"
through the rest of the step, and spit the film slider
out by itself, and flipped over to 09. That's exactly
where it is. It's in 09 ready to go, and I guess the
film carrousel is too.
CC That's what we ass_med Pete; we understand that. I

was talking - referring to the film carrousel being
advanced to 09.
CDR Okay, is there some way we can check that?
CC Pete, they will send up a procedure on the carrousel

if they ever use the carrousel again.
CDR Okay. Now, of course, we've got the other carrousel

up here you know. Don't forget that. It may be bad
film, but it can't be that bad, can it? Or is it wiped
out?
CC Pete, because of maneuver constraints, tomorrow probably

is the last time 183 will be run. And in the future,
we'll consider that other canister.
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CDR Okay.
23 08 57 CC And we're going LOS here in about 30 seconds. We'll

see you at Hawaii at 00:06.
CDR Okay. Bill. If you see or give my wife a call, tell

her that I miss her. I will not be home for dinner,
but I will mow the lawn as soon as I come home. And
that I hope the kids said a special prayer at church
today for all the sky troops.
23 09 23 CC We'll call her, Pete, and tell her.
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O0 06 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for i0 minutes.
CDR Hi there, Houston. Skylab, here.
00 06 45 CC Skylab, if you have a minute to discuss the M131 data,

we'd like to strike a compromise with you there. We
would like to have complete first-run data on all
three crew members recorded on channelB, and this
means that we would like to have all the first-run data
on the CDR, and we'd also like to have the page 4-20
data on the PLT, which hasn't been reported yet. Then
we promise that we won't ask for more.
00 07 17 CDR Okay.
00 08 57 CDR Say, Carl, where do we give you the Evening Status Re-
porttonight?
CC Evening Status Report is going to be over Vanguard.

That's the next AOS.
O0 09 07 CDR Okay.
00 12 h5 CC CDR, Hcuston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We're rlanning on an EVA this coming week to deploy

SAS panel number 1 and possibly also to lock open S054
door. Next evening we'll send up on the teleprinter
some procedures for you and also talk them over with
you real time to a limited extent tomorrow. The day
after tomorrow, that evening, Tuesday evening, we'll
have maybe two or three revs discussing the procedures
with you, including probably a TV conference for that
EVA.
00 13 26 CDR A TV conference. Okay. You guys happy you worked

something out over there, huh, Story?
CC Yes, it's looking pretty good. I haven't been through

it myself because I've been right here, but from the
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sounds of it, it looks pretty good. It's basically a

five-pole extension with a cutting tool on the end of
it and grabbing hold of the strip at the SAS wing, ty-
ing down the near end to the fixed airlock shroud. And
this will give you an EVA trail going out there.
O0 14 04 CDR Very good.
O0 14 ii CDR We aim to please. We're more than happy to do any-

thing we can.
00 15 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We have 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Vanguard at 00:38. We will be dumping record-
ers there, and we'll be standing by for an Evening
Status Report.
00 16 02 CDR Okay.
00 38 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston, standing by over Vanguard for

the next 7 minutes. We will be dumping recorders on
thi s pass.
r
PLT Okay, Houston. Roger.
CC And a couple of other notes. The evening questions

will be on hoard shortly. And whoever is going up
that way might be reminded to turn the Sieve B FAN
ON for the night. Another reminder is that we will
want the AM CIRC FANS OFF tonight.
O0 38 53 PLT ... they're OFF forever.
CC Okay. One other note is that we will be turning OFF

the PRIMARY AM COOLANT LOOP. And you can expect a
flow light on the CAUTION WARNING.
CDR Okay.
CC Pardon me.
CDR The CDR.
00 39 10 CC Pardon me, they tell me we're turning it ON instead

of OFF.
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00 39 15 CDR Okay.
00 39 20 CDR Okay, for the meals, the CDR ate everything except the
snack, coffee with sugar.
CC We copy.
00 40 15 CDR Okay. The SPT ate everything today except his snack,
lemonade. And he had 4.5 optiona& salts; excuse me
the CDR had 7.0 optional salts.
CC Roger.
O0 40 40 CDR PLT did not drink his coffee with sugar for breakfast.
Didn't eat all of his lunch, and the corn he did not
eat with dinner, and he had half of his bread, 2.5
optional salts, 1.0 Delta H20 , that was plus 1.0
Delta H20. And he says he's given up on the corn, and

he does not intend to eat it anymore, and he would
like the people to look around for a substitute, if
possible; if not, he'll take pills for it. I think
all tlhreeof us have kind of given up on the corn, al-
though the other two of us are still eating it to some
degree, because it just doesn't' reconstitute very well.
I can't put my finger on it.. Maybe it's because it is
not hotJ The other thing that the PLT did today was
he dran_ a grape drink, which he says he is sorry about
because he thought it was free. It turns out it is
not, so you'll have to add one grape drink to the rest
of his stuff. Maybe it'll make him give up a pill.
CC (Laughter) Okay.
00 42 03 CDR Okay, the Photo Log status report for day 154 is:
16 millimeter in the EREP free, [?] BHO176. Take up
is not applicable. M151, M092; C104, 30, MT01; S183
is a UA03, 85, take up is not applicable. 35 milli-
meter: CI26, frame count 31. CX22 frame count 60, and
film 7. 70 millimeter: CX05, 128; EREP S190A: set Q
came back 17462; 2 is 9662; 3 is 7183; 4 is 6570; 5is
8337; 6 is 7220. The drawer A configuration stands as
follows: Alfa i is 02; Charlie India 0585; Charlie
Indian 01. Alfa 2 is 03; Charlie Indian, 0319; Mike
Pa_e
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Tango i0. Alfa 3 is 04; Charlie India 0430; Mike Tango

01; floating [?] is 05; Charlie India 25, i00 percent;
Mike Tango ii.
00 h3 h5 CC We copy.
CDR There were no Flight Plan deviations other than RAD

i, 2, 3, and h, which the SPT didn't have enough time
to get off. So we'd like to reschedule that one. He'd
like $o know if he could do it next pass while we're
in the anomaly? The stowage items were accomplished
per checklist. Transfer day i0, in the comm-ud module,
work alone takes, at least, 1 full hour. It should
he scheduled that way in the future for future flights.
I don't think there is any thing else in the Evening
Status Report. It was another good day as far as
scheduling went. We got all the work accomplished.
We had time to do some troubleshooting. And we liked
the Flight Plan. It took - We got it all done.
00 hh _8 CC Roger, Pete. Thank you for the - for the good report.
And Flight says our apologies for not having a Flight
Plan on board yet, but we'll have it up there before
you go to bed.
O0 h5 O0 CDR Yes, you guys go out and balls up [?] in the air.
CC (Laughter) Roger. We've got about _0 minutes [sic] to

LOS. We'll see you in about 8 minutes from now and you
might ask the PLT to stand by for a startracker pad at
that time.
CDR Okay.
CC And we would confirm that we'd like the RAD survey over
the anomaly on the next pass. Thank you.
O0 h5 26 CDR Roger. It will be done.
00 h5 31 PLT Give me a starting time for that, Carl, if you can?
CC Stand by.
CC 02 :i_, 02 :i_.
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PLT Thank you.
CC We'll be in the anomaly 12 minutes on that pass.
00 45 51 PLT Okay.
00 54 15 CC Skylao, Houston standing by for 5 minutes over Ascension.
PLT Roger.
CC And I have the sta/_tracker pad for the PLT at his

convenience.
PLT Okay, the PLT Just happens to have a pad format out of
the SWS Updates Book, so go ahead.
CC Roger. The star is Achernar. After 5000 we have a

zero; day, 34:00; day, 55:00; imner gimbal, minus 0052;
outer gimbal, plus 1160; valid 155:00:00; 21 a 000.
No remarks.
PLT Got it, Carl. Thank you.
00 55 20 CC Okay.
00 56 23 CC Pete, we have a possible discrepancy down here on the

EREP frame reading. We'd like for you to confirm the
frame reading on EREP MAG 5.
SC Houston - -
00 56 57 CC And, Paul. That star's not available until about

orbital noon, and it's - we can't really acquire it at
the present time.
PLT Then I guess I don't understand the pad.
PLT Houston, the CDR says the EREP tape five, frames re-
maining is 8337.
CC We copy; 8337. Thank you.
00 58 03 PLT Carl, explain to me why the star isn't available.
CC Roger.
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PLT Let me tell you how I'm interpreting this task.

Day 3h to day 55 to me means that when this clock says
"35, 3h minutes of daylight re_aining," which in-
eludes that and goes all through the nighttime and
until it says "55 minutes of daylight remaining"
means the star's available.
CC Stand by on that. We've got lh seconds to LOS, and

we will have a - we'll see you over Vanguard about an
hour from now, 02:15. We will have a recorder dump
at that time, and that will be the medical conference.
PLT Okay.
CC Paul, your main problem at the present time is there

is a MOMENTUM DUMP in. progress. Your interpretation
was correct otherwise.
SPT Did you hear, Paul?
CC Your interpretation of that pad was correct, but at

the present time there is a MOMENTUM DUMP in progress.
PLT Oh, and it's obscured by the vehicle. Okay, good.

That explains it.
00 59 hl CC Great.
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02 29 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for ii minutes

over Ascension.
CDR Roger, Houston. We were doing our normal race

around the upper end there before going to bed and
I have the answers to the questions. Are you ready?
CC Okay. We're standing by.
CDR Question number 1 is - The only time we get a response

with the SLIT -Where are we at? I think it was
either active region 17 or l& - I don't remember
which one it was, but they would remember. It had
the large sunspot on; we could see that. We
haven't seen any since then. Okay, answer to
question number 2 on the TR cleaning. We used the
standard package of l0 and that's been sufficient.
Three, the deposits sort of look like graphite or -
they're dark dirt, black, fine, and they show up on
the pitch roller on the tape CP-5. And the threading
is normal. We haven't seen anything that's not
normal on that. Number 5, the take-up reel tape
pack appears normal. And that is yes, it does
seem perfectly normal. The small fuzz that you
saw on the TV pictures today, question number 6,
is our friendly wardroom window ice crystal. Still
with me?
CC Roger_ we copy.
CDR Okay, question number 7, "When was S191 cooler

turned on?" At 18:58 Zulu. Did you notice
excessive drag when mainly advancing EREP tape after
pass? The answer is no. And which vent do you
think we will ask when - we will have to vacuum
every three days? And that's all vents. And all
three.
CC Okay, Pete, we copy.
CDR And tha_ takes care of all the questions.

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CC Okay. Thank you very much. We have one small

point of information for you. We will be setting
up the rate gyro configuration tonight for - so that
the redundancy management is operating. And this
makes it less likely that we would be waking you
up in ease one of the gyros failed.
CDR Say, when we are going on CMG's only?
CC Say again.
CDR When are we going to the CMG only configuration we

were talking about this morning?
CC Stand by.
CC Pete, the word on that is we'll probably try that

tomorrow night.
CDR Okay, Carl; very good. We'll see you in the

morning. What's our first station pass this time?
Do we have to wake up?
CC Stand by.
02 33 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Our passes tomorrow morningsare

as follows. We can wake you at Madrid at 10:50, or
you can set your alarm clock. The next pass after
Madrid would be Honeysuckle at ll:30.
cDR Okay, we'll set our alarm for ll:00.
CC Okay, we expect that you will set your alarm.
CDR Okay, and the last thing is that the add to the
CDR's food tonight a can of butter cookies, and
add to the PLT's food tonight a can of butter
cookies.
02 33 49 CC Okay, we copy.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROIYflD VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
02 38 31 CC Skylab Houston. i minute to LOS. See you in the

morning. Good night, sleep tight.
PLT Okay, goodni_ht, Carl.
PLT Houston, if you are still there, the rol_7 polly CDR
said add another can of butter cookies to his chow
tod_v.
CC Hey, you guys are going to be getting fat up there, be

careful.
CDR You _Ays are working us so hard, we need all this

energy.
02 39 06 CC Roger.
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ii 35 58 CC Good morning. Skylab; Houston. We're Honeysuckle;

got you for 2 minutes. Standing by.
CDR Good morning. We're all up and operating. Nice to

hear you back well and rested, Richard.
CC Yes, sir. Glad to be back.
ll 37 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Goldstone at 12:03. We're
going to be dumping the airloek mod1_e data recorder
at C<_ldstone. Also, the last two messages we have
for you, which are the S192 alignment procedures
for Paul, are going to be up-linked there. And the
third thing is, we're going to be commanding a pro-
gram patch at Goldstone which will update the rate
gyro Y-3 scale factor, and this data is based on
what we received when you did the Y-axis maneuver
for us the other day. So we'l_ see you at Goldstone.
ll 37 50 PLT Okay.
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12 04 00 CC Hello again, Skylab; Houston, We're stateside now

for ll minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And about the only thing I got for you guys this pass
is we are going to be starting a few commands to power
down some electrical power things so that once - now
that you guys are awakened, can take care of them.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're eolmnanding the burn

into solar inertial mode, and we're going to close
the fine Sun sensor door.
CDR Roger.
PLT Permission granted, Mr. Truly.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised very shortly we're going

to be commanding the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP OFF, and
you'll get a caution and warning on that.
PLT Roger .... now, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to drop out here in

about 30 seconds, and have about a 2-minute break,
and see you in Bermuda.
12 17 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - got you at Bermuda for about

the next 5 minutes. And we are going to have a key-
hole in this pass, lasting about 1 minute. It's going
to be about 2 minutes from now.
PLT How can you say Bermuda? I can look out and see it's
the Great Lakes.
CC By gosh, you're looking backwards, because you just

passed it.
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PLT Well, it's the last thing I can see besides clouds.
CC Roger that.
PLT You're r_ght. In the morning this window does look

backwards. We get a heck of a good look at where
weIve been.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, what is it?
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Will you ask FA0 how much money the SPT, and the PLT
paid him to give the CDR the cleaning duty today,
rather than J0P 127
CC (Laughter) Stand by, I'ii ask him. He's right here.
PLT You there, Houston?
CC Affirm, PLT. Go ahead.
PLT Sometime today, Dick, could You find out for us how
we make sure when we get to the end of the roll of
film on the Hasselblad? Because I don't know if you
remember that the frame - the - (cough) the frame
counter stopped reading early in the game. And we've
been trying to keep track Just by keeping good logs,
but we're not too sure of that. So, what are the
indications when it comes to the end of the film,
please?
CC Roger. We'll get you an answer.

We're going to see you at Canary at 26, and next time
you guys are up in the airlock module, on panel 201,
we'd like. to make sure that the ampere-hour integrate
for the - the AMP-HOUR INTEGRATOR for PCG 8 circuit
breaker is CLOSED, panel 201.
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PLT Okay. It's a bad morning, isn't it?
CC Roger.
12 27 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary for the next 7

minutes.
SPT Okay.
PLT Hey, Dick.
CC Go ahead.
PLT That amp-hour integrator circuit breaker is closed.

Why did you ask if it was open?
CC Stand by I.
PLT Well, i assume that maybe - maybe your values went to

zero or that - but ours are reading good up here.
All the amp-hour meters except number 8, which I reset
for you, but 7 looks good on board.
CC Roger. Number 8 was the only one that we saw reset to

zero, and we just wanted you to check it for us.
PLT I thought you just wanted me to check number 7.
CC Negative. Maybe I said it wrong. It was 8 we wanted.
PLT Yes. Well, it's closed now. You remember, I reported

that the first day or so that I inadvertently opened
that circuit breaker.
CC Roger. Understand. It's in the configuration we

wanted now, Paul.
PLT Okay. Looks like you guys got a pretty good charge
on number 7 yesterday,
CC Yes, sir; lO0 percent.
PLT I saw that. You want to believe the secondary instead

of primary.
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CC That's affirmative. That's what we did.
SPT Houston, SPT. I've got a couple of medical questions

for you.
CC Go ahead,
SPTO Okay. Number l: you - you sent me a pad for an M133

temp check tonight. Now, I have two questions about
that: one, in general, I'd like to be reminded how
many total repetitions of M133 are on this flight.
The spacing is a little bit heavier here than I thought
it was going to be. Number 2: the temp check looks
as if it's the same thing I did the first night out.
And it's - here's a temp from the sleep compartment,
report on its condition and find out that it didn't
hack it. I wonder if we're really interested in doing
that over again and losing another night of data.
CC Roger, Joe. Standby.
SPT Okay. And, while you're working on that one, we also

received a message to reduce the top workloads in our
Ml71. And I realize that I made a speech several days
ago about the heat and the inefficiency up here. The
temperature has since dropped to essentially normal.
And we've acclimatized to it perfectly. We're grad-
ually learning how to ride the bike, and although we
haven't seen any of the M171 corrected numbers, nothing's
come back up to us yet from the ground. And I'd like
to see it. Our raw data on board indicates that the
decreases might be too much, especially in the case of
the SPT and the CDR. The PLT is probably okay because
the higher the workload, the greater the zero-g factor
becomes. But, we'd like to counter recomnend our MI71
PI friends that - that Pete go to lhO instead of 125.
And that I go to 170 instead of 155. We can finish
the protocol there, and I think they'll get more data
if we're a little above our 75 percent work rate than
if we're definitely below it. Over.
12 32 i0 CC Roger, Joe. Understand. Why don't you let us con-

sider that one, and we'll get back to you.
SPT Okay.
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12 3h 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS

here at Canary. We're going to see you at Honeysuckle
at 13:ll.
13 Ii 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Honeysuckle for the

next 9 minutes.
PLT Roger.
PLT Hey, Dick. Ask the EREP guys if - if I have to

turn the EREP COOLANT to FLOW for this 192 checkout.
Will you, please?
CC Affirmative. I will.
CC And, Skylab; while we're getting that answer, I've

got a couple of answers on a couple of questions for -
that Joe asked. First of all, on the M133 scheduling
for this mission, we've already accomplished four runs
of it. We've got nine more to go, for a total of 13.
And originally, prior to flying this flight, we had
scheduled 15. So after this run that's coming up this
evening, I think we will start going to alternate days.
And the total for the mission will be 13. Also, on
the question of the sleep cap, whit we're Just trying
to ascertain is whether or not those sleep caps that
were launched down in $913 - or that sleep compart-
•ment locker, are any good or not; because if they are
not, we probably are going to have to fly up another
package on the command module. And the - about the
only difference in this particular procedure is - is
that we would like to go through the caps and get a
very good check on them before using them, and so we
will not lose the night's data. Out.
SPT Okay, Houston. What happened the first night was that
I extracted the cap from 913 and its appearance wasn't
right. The electrode sponges were soft, and as if
they had some gas in them. I put the cap on, the
sponges were a little drier than normal, but I did
get a good checkout; I got six green lights. And by
morning the six green lights had disappeared enough
to apparently destroy much of that night's data. And
it's Just that - I was Just questioning whether the
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PI wants to - to run that risk again, because that's

probably what'll happen. And I have an alternate
suggestion which is that I'd try and doctor the
sponges before I put them on by inserting KY Jelly
or Vaseline or something from the IMSS, and to try
and make them last.
CC Roger, Joe. No, we don't particularly want you to

have to use Jelly or doctor them up. We'd - we'd
prefer to go ahead and use the Skylab III caps before
having to do that.
SPT Okay. There is a definite difference in appearance

and moisture content between the - the two groups of
caps. And we already know that.
SPT Okay. And I'll go it one more night and see what
happens.
13 lh 58 CC Okay. Thank you, sir. And in answer to the PLT's

question, affirmative. We would like to go to FLOW
on EREP COOLANT in order to do that S192 alignment
check.
PLT Okay.
PLT Oh no. For their information, Dick - for their in-

formation, the four large tbllmhserews I did check
during verification. They were all tight. The four
small thumbscrews that hold the heat exchanger plate
on, I could get, you know, Just a little bit of a
turn - less than an eighth of a turn. They were not
really tight like the big ones were though.
CC Understand.
PLT And that stinking EREP COOLANT VALVE is everything I

expected it to be as far as difficulty in moving it.
PLT And the comment, it doesn't require a reply, Houston.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. One more comment about the

EREP today. During the EREP prep, we'd appreciate
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it if you'd check the - measure the tape remaining

on tape recorder number 2. And assuming that you
have - you have at least 1-1/8 inch tape remaining,
tape recorder 2 is GO for EREP data take today. In
the event, you have less than 1-1/8 inches remaining,
switch over to tape recorder number i, and it's al-
ready loaded. And use that for the data take.
CDR Okay. We'll take a look right now.
CC Okay.
CDR I_'s going to be close. I'm not sure, but I think

we may have enough .... tape ... and we Just might
do it.
CC Okay. We - we think you should too, Pete. But we

Just want to make sure.
CDR And the S183 is off and running on time.
CC Roger.
PLT Houston, how would you go for an inch and a quarter?
13 19 59 CC Roger. We're at GO with that. Thank you much. And,

Skylab, Houston; we're about _5 seconds from LOS.
We're going to see you at Hawaii at 13:31. And be
advised we are going to dump the data tape recorder
at Hawaii.
END OF TAPE
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13 30 _5 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 9 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead
CC We have a onetime message here on the caution and

warning." We're going to turn down the canister fluid
loop for power conservation. Prior to this, we want
you, on panel 207, to - PUMP DELTA-P, off; COOLANT
TEMPERATURE, OFF; HEATER TEMPERATURE, OFF.
SPT On 207 you want to inhibit PUMP DELTA-P, fluid temp

and KEATER TEMP. Is that right?
CC That's it; on caution and warning, AM 207, panel.
SPT Rcger, Houston. And will this affect ATM operations

at all this morning?
CC Negative.
SPT How long are you going to leave the loop down?
IB 33 01 CC That'll be down approximately 2 hours. SPT, your

message was delivered and appreciated and
acknowledged.
SPT Okay.
PLT Houston, how much time you got?
CC About7 minutes.
PLT Okay. I Just want to make clear that I'm in the

process of doing the - for the EBEP guys - in the
process of doing their 192 alignment. This is the
third time we have done all these procedures. And I
Just _ant us to be sure that they _alize that mess-
ing with that stinking visible focus ring may cau_u
us to lose the whole ball of wax. We'll go ahead,
and we'll try it as prescribed here. I got another
question. Sometime today we'd llke -maybe a little
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discussion on nadir align. Pete and I have noticed

that we haven't done a nadir align yet, and we were
Just wondering what's the rationale behind not trying
another one.
CC We copy that.
CC Paul, this was really chewed over yesterday on the

ground and it was felt that this alignment was abso-
lutely necessary on both therma] and visible.
PLT Well, I assumed that it was. I'm not complaining about

doing it, I'm Just saying that there's nothing different
in this procedure that we haven't tried already. But
we'll - we'll give her another whack.
13 34 h5 CC We copied that last one, Paul.
CC PLT, reference your question on the Hasselblad film

drive, the motor drive simply stops. In other words,
you can't get any advance. When you reach the end of
the film, the signal may be either red or white.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Rill.
CC And, Paul_ they were curious as to whether you were

having any difficulty with the counter on the
Hasselblad.
PLT Yes, it stopped counting at about 22, which we reported

at the time.
13 41 Ol CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll have you at Goldstone

at 13:42.
13 h3 12 CC AOS Goldstone, 8 minutes.
PLT Roger.
13 50 12 CC Skylab, Houston; a LOS - LOS in approximately 30 sec-

onds; Bermuda, 13:5h.
13 56 II CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 8 minutes.
PLT Houston, some nnmhers for the EREP guys, if they're

ready to copy.
CC We're standing by, Paul. Go.

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PLT Okay. The meter readings after the 30-minute warmup:

Bravo B was 8B, Charlie B was 88, Delta 3 was 85.
Charlie 5, according to our dope, is in the middle of
- out of tolerance at h0; Delta 5 is 13; Delta 6 is h0.
CC Copy.
13 56 55 PLT Ok%v, now another thing. I came back, turned theALIGN

switch on. The ALIGN READY light did not come on. I
went back to the panel , opened the door, got a READY
light, closed the door, got the DOOR CLOSSED light,
came back here and the ALIGN READY light was on.
CC Copy.
lh 01 57 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Canary, 14:03.
14 03 5h CC Skylab, Houston; ADS, 16 minutes.
PLT Well, I found it, Houston. I got to hand it to you.

What's - I'm still working on it. What were the pre-
flight values of the thermal alignment, please?
CC Stand by.
PLT Just sing them out. I'll be back down on it; I won't
answer you.
CC Copy.
14 07 32 CC PLT, Houston. The preflight thermal was 65,

65 percent.
PLT Okay. The best I can get out of this one is 45. Now
we got the same problem with the focus. Let me read
some knob settings to you. I'll be back in half a
minu_e_
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, Houston. The settings are X 0.530; Z 0.510.

And the focus is back all the way out until it begins
to stop. The meter indications, when I adjust X and
Z, indicate a good focus. And as soon as I move it
very far at all, I'm talking about 0.002, for instance,
the value does start to drop. Now I got the same
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problem in focusing it. As soon as I turn the focus

ring back in toward the detector, I almost lost it a
couple of times there, and it's Just flat deflection.
I can get a higher reading on it by pushing down;
that is, into the case on that focus ring, but it
Just won't stay.
CC We copy that, Paul.
PLT Okay, I'm going to press on then and try the visible
alignment again, as prescribed here.
CC Copy.
14 09 49 PLT Can I get a couple of words? I Just happened to notice

that switch when I caught it. Because you can see
where the focus is now. It was quite a bit out of
focus with that ring only backed out three-quarters
of a turn. And we could very well - Easily, what we
obviously did was miss it before in our searches.
CC Copy.
14 19 46 CC Skylab, LOS 1 minute; Carnarvon," 14:46.
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lh 47 02 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.
14 50 03 CC Skylab, Houston. The power load has been less than

expected this morning, and because of that, we have
not powered down the coolant loop and do not presently
plan to do that. If this status changes, we will
notify you.
14 56 07 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 30 seconds. We will

see you at Hawaii at 15:09. Also, we will be dumping
the tape recorder at that time.
SPT Okay, Houston.
SPT Okay, Houston; be advised in the process of attempting

to tweak up the visible ali_ment of S192, which there
is no way you can do without putting loads on that
whole assembly; I've lost the thermal alignment. I've
gone back and starting this procedure over again to
see if I can find it.
lh 56 h7 CC We _opy that.
15 l0 00 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS 6 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston.
SPT Okay, this is the SPT. Are y'all ready for me to

inhibit the TACS this morning?
CC That's affirmative, Joe.
SPT Okay. That'll be in work momentarily. Meanwhile, I'd

like to tell you about some progress we've made in
riding the bicycle, so you can pass it along to the
M171 PIs.
CC Okay.
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SPT For their consideration in determining our protocol,

we have discovered - we have made an _zing break-
through, that the - stand by 1. That if you run the
bicycle with no restraints at all, you can almost
achieve your groundwork protocol. And we'd very much
like to let the PIs get - for the PIs to let us run
one more MITI protocol at our nominal rate to see
what happens. Over.
CC We copy that, Joe. How far are you haveing to lean

forward? Can you s.ay a bit about your technique?
SPT Okay. Well, there's three things to do with your

hands. Obviously they're going to take up part of
the strain. One is to put them on the pedals - I
mean on the handlebars.
CC Okay.
SPT Ideally, the handlebars would be longer than they are

now and would kind of sweep down around you, so you
could grab them in the right place. Another is to
grab the center adJustmen_ strap between your legs
and hold on to that. And a third way is to put your
hands on the overhead and push. And if you alternate
those three, you use different arm and shoulder
muscles, and it's really pretty good.
CDR Hey, Bill?
CC Go ahead.
CDR I Just ran my flight protocol block 5 minutes of 175

for a total of 20 minutes, and at the end of
run, I had a 151 heart rate. And it's m_ch closer
to riding the bike on the ground. It's - it's Just
so much better, it's unbelievable. That restraint
really is Just a hindrance to you, and we've had to
use different buckles in riding it. When you're
riding holding on to the handlebars, you're more
closely approximating running rather than riding the
bicycle. When you ride holding on to the strap with
the strap pulled down, it's sort of like - sort of
like - you see a cowboy get on a bronc. That's the
f
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way you're holding yourself on there. Ah - bareback

bronc. And when you ride it that way, that uses the
muscles in your legs, the absolute closest to the
way it is to riding a bike in 1 g on the ground.
And when you put your hands over your head, you can
adjust your body back and forth to achieve something
in between running and riding on the ground.
15 13 13 CC Thank you very much.
CC Hold off on the TACS inhibit until after the EREP

pass, Skylab.
SPT Okay; will do. And another little note on the bicycle,
Bill. We did a little inflight maintenance this morn-
ing. With the onboard lubricant, we lubricated the
squeaky pedals.
CC Copy that, also. How do you feel that a restraint -

an over-the-shoulder restraint would work? Do you
think this would be more effective - a relatively
fixed one that was well padded? Not straps.
SPT Oh, it'd be worth a try, Bill.. But based on the

shoulder restraint we have, the big problem with it
is that it interferes with respiration. And the
waist restraint interferes With leg motion and
circulation.
CC We copy that, Joe; and thank you very much.
SPT Aye aye.
CDR Hey, I think Joe hit the right ticket there when he
said a set of handlebars that sweep further back
around you, sort of out and around your sides, where
you can pull your arms along the vector that you're
riding the bike and pedaling it at, which means that
your doing - We're obviously expending work through
our arms that's showing up in the data, and that's
why they're cutting our data back down, in my mind,
besides the restraint harness being a hindrance, be-
cause you've got to hold yourself down somewhere. So
you are expending energy through your arms which is
shcwing up - not showing up in the bike work.
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CC Copy that, Pete.
CDR But you sure expend the least doing it the way Joe _,
Just described.
CC And we'li pass this on and get you a word back. And i
we're going LOS here in about i minute. We'll see
you at Goldstone at 15:22.
CREW Roger.
PLT Roger.
PLT Houston, you got nothing else right now. Let me give
the _ guys a couple words on this alignment Jazz.
CC They're pretty interested. Go ahead, Paul.
PLT Apparently, as you try to make these adjustments, which

are tight, the visible aud align adjustments you cannot
make without deflecting the cooler in the optical ...
But apparently what happens over. a period of 5 to
l0 minutes, that with the vibration of the pump in,
is the thing settles back. Now, I'd lost the thermal,
I started the search procedure on the pad over again,
found it again; I got 42 of the h5 percent back. That's
where it's going to stay. I'm trying to get a nice
focus on the visible. I'd blown the whole stinking
visible, and it was down to nothing on the right, and
30 on the left. And while I was finding the thermal
again, I looked back to visible, and it was back up
to 80 on the left. So it's all kind of a mystery.
The machine seems to run itself; it gives you an
alignment if it wants to. Right now, I'm using the
drink-it-up-and-go-away-for-B-minutes routine ; and,
hopefully, •we'll have some fairly good readings for
this run today.
15 22 54 CC Copy that.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
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SPT I haven't got a READY light this morning on the white

light coronagraph. And l'm not sure why. Would you
ask your people to look at it, please?
CC Wilco.
CC ATM says your discriminator is still firing, and you

need to go a bit more Sun center, Joe.
SPT Ah, okay.
SPT Is the scale -
15 26 08 SPT You there, Houston?
CC We're standing by.
SPT Okay. It's SPT with another ATM question. On the

unattended operations, when we power down, do you
guys want the EVA AUTO DOOR switch in STORAGE or in
INHIBIT? I'm not clear on that point.
15 26 31 CC Joe, want to leave that in INHIBIT.
15 26 36 SPT Okay. We'll change the cue card.
SC (Music)
CC I take it that's Conrad and his wardroom ensemble?
15 27 h0 PLT Boo, Bill. You can do better than that. This is

"Identify the Music" contest. We'll give a steak
dinner to the first person who identify that
composition.
CC Stop the music.
SPT Let me ask you one more ATM question, Houston, on

H-Alpha 1 - -
CC We're going LOS here, Joe. I'll pick you up again

in a few minutes.
SC - - ... INTERLOCK switch in OVERRIDE, momentarily.

Over.
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SPT Go ahead.
CC Joe, you were going over the hill on that last trans-
mission. If that was about the H-Alpha NIGHT INTER-
LOCK switch, leave it on OVERRIDE.
SPT It was, and thank you very much.
PLT Hello, Houston. I got an alignment back that's

decent. I refuse to try to tweak it anymore. I don't
want another 45 minutes of mental agony.
CC We copy that, Paul, and we're in complete agreement

down here.
PLT Okay. Let me give you the numbers on this now.

Stand by.
15 31 41 PLT The therma] reads about 45, and let me give you the
micrometer settings, which are different. The
micrometer settings are now 515X - correction, 515Z
and 5BOX.
CC Copy.
PLT The visible readings are 90 percent on the left scale;

52 percent on the right.
CC Copy.
CDR Can't you guys do something about arranging better

weather on the east coast? We haven't gotten a good
shot of that yet.
CC We're working on that one, Pete. As you know, Texas

sends most of its clouds over there.
CDR We Just saw an interesting weather phenomena up here

- air traffic control phenomena. Right over Lake
Superior there must be a climb corridor out of one
of the major cities there. There were six parallel
clouds all strung out side by side that obviously
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come up on some departure route, and the clouds were

such that the clouds remained, and you could tell
by the - went through the cloud how old it was with
relation to the next one. You could probably know
the airplane spacing and figure out how fast the
clouds spread.
CC Yes. We copy, Pete.
15 34 26 CC Pete_ did you ever happen to see anything of that

tropical depression that we pointed out off Mexico,
a day or so ago?
CDR Yes, we did; but it didn't look like it amounted to

too much at the time.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
15 36 07 CC We have an update to the CALROC on the pass at 18:24.
SPT Stand by 1.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Put the XUV SLIT BIAS switch, IN; and point to the
following coordinates: roll, minus 10800; down,
minus 135; right, plus 150. This will probably
position the HCO raster and other grating scans for
the first three orbits of CALROC observations. And
this change is because of a shift in the area of
observations of the plages regions.
SPT Roger. Okay. How is the CALBOC getting along? Is

it on schedule?
CC It's on schedule for 17:00 Z lift-off, Joe.
SPT Okay.
15 39 32 CC Slq_lab, LOS in 1 minute, Ascension at 15:48.
SC Bye.
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15 48 29 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 9 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And, Skylab; we'll be dumplng the tape recorder over

Carnarvon, your next pass.
PLT Okay.
15 57 28 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Carnarvon, 16:20.
PLT Roger.
CC And have you had any luck on the primary fine Sun
sensor so far?
PLT Haven't tried it yet, Bill.
15 57 47 cc Copy.
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16 20 49 CC Skylah, Houston; AOS Carnarvon, I0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
PLT Hey, Bill.
CC Go ahead.
PLT I was going to put this on B channel, but they Just

started dumping a recorder. Pass to the follow-on
crews, will you, that I'm - the slip - the soft boots,
the sllp-ons, with the zippers up the sides, I've
worn mine about 3 or 4 days; and you tend to try to
poke your toes in things and under things and that -
that I've about torn the toe off. The whole toe is
worn o_t. So, if they think they want to wear them,
they'll probably have to bring some extra ones up.
CC We copy that.
16 24 01 CDR Hey, Houston; CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Think something was going down the crack here. Check
something out for me. No, that's not right either.
Oh, never mind I found it. Forget it. (Laughter)
CC Okay, Pete.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Yes, sir.
CC Your H-alpha 1 camera appears to be still running.
SPT Oh, yes. Okay.
SPT Did that do it, Houston?
CC We'll be with you in Just a second, Joe. We're

looking.
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SPT Okay. It looks like we have to turn the AUTO switch

OFF every darkside. I 'm going to have "to sit down
and write a new sunslde prep and powerdown cue card.
CC We concur with that, Pete - Joe.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; GI_-_ 16:3h.
CDR Houston, CDR. "'
CC GO, CDR.
16 31 2h CDR Okay. During sensitometry advance, we had malf lights

on cameras 3 and 4. And they did advance, in fact,
40 frame counts. But to doublecheck, we took them
off, marked the film backs, put them hack on, ad-
vanced one; the film, in fact, does advance. Put
them back on, we only had one ...
16 3_ 20 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for lO minutes. And, CDR, we

lost you as you were talking over the hill that time.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Are you calling, Skylah?
CDR Roger, Houston. How do you read the CDR?
CC You're loud and clear now, Pete. Go ahead.
CDR Okay; C7 is only 28. Do you want me to turn the

COOLER, ON or not?
CC Stand by half.
16 36 l0 CC Pete, they want you to turn the COOLER, ON. Turn

the COOLER, ON.
CDR Roger.
16 h3 19 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Goldstone at 16:59.
16 59 19 CDR I need an AUTO CAL at 01:40. Huh?
CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for approximately 16 minutes.

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CDR Roger, Houston. How do you read CDE?
CC You're loud and clear, sir.
CDR Okay, we're on VOX as EREP operator.
17 01 O0 CDR Hey, Paul. We're standing by for 17:01.
CDR Okay, SCAT to STANDBY, ALTIMETER to STANDBY. I give

it to you 01:hO; I need an AUTO CAL.
17 01.30 CDR 01:30, EREP SYSTEM, START. Stand by for AUTO CAL.
17 01 41 CDR MARK. AUTO, CAL.
PLT We'll be passing by two-colored lake in about 30 sec-

onds on the right.
PLT De finitely.
CDR Yes.
CDR Okay.
17 Oh 30 CDR MARK. $92 MODE, READY .... is'mode, AUTO. RAD's,

ON. SCAT's, ON.
CDR I've had camera 3 MALF light, and I get an intermittent

BAD/SCAT GIMBAL light.
CDR Six minutes.
17 07 02 CDR MARK. 193, POLARIZATION, 4.
17 07 47 CDE MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.
17 07 48 CDR MABK. BAD, STANDBY. CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.

X-CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
17 08 Ol CDR MARK. RAD, ON. SCAT, ON.
17 09 01 CDR MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.
17 09 03 CDR MARK. RAD, STANDBY. IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
17 09 21 CDR MABK. RAD, ON.
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17 09 23 CDR MARK, SCAT, ON.
17 09 41 CDR MARK. S192, CHECK. 94-MODE, MANUAL. MONITORS el,

it's reading 17 - and 20; I'll read it.
17 i0 20 CDR MARK. 10:20. C1 to read 17.
17 i0 40 CDR MARK. SCAT, STANDBY, at 10-40.
17 i0 42 CDR MARK. RAD, STANDBY 10:42.
17 ii 01 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, "ON. ii :i0, C1 reads 91.
17 ii 55 CDR MARK. 11:55, CI reads 88. Getting it? Anything?
CDR All right. Next lab [?].
17 14 05 CDR 14:05, the C1 went off-scale high 100 percent. It's

coming hack on at 9995.
17 14 16 CDR S194 to C_L_CK - or MODE, MANUAL, excuse me, 14:15.

We're standing by for ALTIMETER, STANDBY.
CDR Go over anyhow, Paul. Getting an intermittent blink-

ing MALF light on 194.
17 15 06 CDR 192 MODE, ready.
17 15 13 CDR ALTIMETEH is on. And, Joe, you're standing by 16:30

to go SI.
CDR Why would I get a blinking TAPE MOTION light? Yes.

It don't -no -yes. Sorry. Yes, I got a blinking
TAPE MOTION light. In high speed, 192 is running.
The interval is about - oh, 3 or 4 seconds off; on
for about nadir 20.
CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute_ Carnarvon at 17:58.
CDR Okay.
17 16 31 CDR 192 MODE, STANDBY. 16:36, S190, READY light's out.

Altimeter to STANDBY. AUTO, CAL. I got 93 RAD, OFF;
SCAT, OFF; 193A, OFF; 194, OFF.
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17 59 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC SPT, Houston..
SPT Go ahead.
CC They lost the CALROC, and so you need to go to the

no CALROC pads; that's 11:29, and begin time on the - -
SPT Okay. I've got it. I'm sorry.
CC Okay. And they'll hold for the next four passes.

There were problems - -
SPT Roger.
CC - - There apparently were steering problems in the

rocket. It was destroyed.
SPT Okay, Bill.
CC By the way, the ATM data has looked very good today.
SPT Good.
CC Skylab, that was not Just for today. It's a quick

look at S055/52 XUVmonitor. Says they're all
obtaining flrst-rate solar data and will make a
si_ificant improvement on solar physics.
SPT Good deal. We'll do the best we can from here

on out.
SPT Okay. Now getting to your message, what are you

leading up to?
CC They say they like what you're doing. Just keep it

up. You couldn't possibly be getting a little
paranoid after this morning's procedure, could you?
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CDR You're not talking about that Schwartz guy that

wanders in out of the 191 alignment box, are you?
CC What do you call him, Pete?
CDR The other two guys are convinced I'm off my

trolley. They say I even like the bicycle now.
CC Sounds dangerous. _ the way, Paul, and anyone

else who was involved in that 192 this morning,
the work was greatly appreciated here and also
at - from a first look, it appears to have been
worth the effort.
PLT Okay. Well, I must say, I was - as you probably

guessed, I was convinced we weren't going to make
any money, but we sure did.
18 03 18 CDR Also, Bill, tell the EREP guys that on the - right
after the A record, on B record, there's a very
important message for them.
CC Copy.
CDR It's my way of saying I screwed up. And I'm

embarrassed to tell you over the open loop.
CC Copy.
CDR Hey, also, got to put another message on B channel

for - to make some changes to the - the EREP pads
for us that'll preclude any more happenings such
as what happened, and - Because this checklist is
Just about unusable up here. It's got lines
through it. It's got latest updates crossed out
for the latest updates. And we - we're going to
give up on the checklist. Paul and I are going
to sit down and write a card in about an hour, and
we'll make some rec_mnendations through some things
on the - on the pads that are good last-minute
cheeks to make sure that we've got everything done.
Okay?
CC We copy, Pete. Bruce says there's some blank cue

cards in the data file.
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CDR Yes, we've already dug them out.
CC Apropos your statement about Pete liking the

bicycle more. All of you finding any increased
interest in the bicycle?
PLT That's a negative.
CC (Laughter) Copy.
CDE I'm going to race'old Paul. Six weeks after he's

back, they'll call him butterball again.
18 06 18 CC Copy. We'll be LOS in a minute. We'll have you

again at Guam at 18:13.
18 [3 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 5 minutes.
SPT Roger.
18 19 33 CC We're going LOS. We'll see you at Goldstone at

L8:36.
SPT Roger, Houston. Good-bye.
18 36 32 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately 20 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CC And, PLT, we have a message for you.
PLT Go ahead.
18 36 57 CC The ergometer restraints raised some questions

this morning among the biomedical people. And
they would like, this afternoon, for you to run
the PLT's M093 with ESS. That's panel 623,
EXPERIMENT ACTIVATE switch in the M171 position.
PLT Okay. You want the regular M093 protocol and

checklist, but Just run the ESS in 171?
18 37 36 CC They also want the blood pressure cuff left on through

M093. And place the CUFF INFLATE switch to START
at the beginning of the 93 run, and leave it there.
Use the - your method of restraint, the one that you
found optimum. They're looking at the effects on the
VCG and B_4S data.
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PLT Well, I figured that. I haven't tried this no

restraints bit yet, but I'll try it this after-
noon.
CC We copy, Paul. Don't hurt yourself.
PLT I'll try not to. All right, you want the full
93 protocol and checklist; Just put the ESS in 171.
CC That's right. And leave the blood pressure cuff on

during that time, _nd have the switch activated
for it.
PLT Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
18 39 25 CDR Housekeeping 7 Bray - 7 Bravo-B, 7 Bravo-h. Yuk.

Ccm_plete.
CC We copy. Complete. (Laughter)
CC Pete, there was guessing down here the last time

you had Zo pull that duty.
CDR On my day off.
CDR Hello, Houston; CDR.
CC We're still here. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Standingby for your EGIL stuff.
18 47 00 CC We're standing by.
CDR Okay. I'll go at it.
18 h7 5_ CDR Hey, Houston. MDA/OW_ here is CONTROL 2 CB, CLOSED,

smd its staying CLOSED.
CC We copy. CLOSED and staying closed.

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18 48 12 CDR Now I noticed right next to it, that OWS

RADIANT HEATERS i, 2, - 1 through 5 CB are
OPEN. Did you know that?
CC We'll check, Pete.
CC They're aware of it, Pete. That's okay.
CC SPT_ Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC It appears that you're in active region 18. They'd

like this pass run in quiet region 3.
SPT Stand by.
SPT Okay. Tell them I'll move I - I initially went to

the R theta they asked for. And in looking for
good cells, I moved back down - across the Sun's
center.
CC We copy. No problem.
18 50 5i CDR Houston, CDR. The N 2 bottle press decay portion
has been activated, and we now have - the 4 BOTTLE

VALVE is OPEN, and the BOTTLE valve is OPEN.
CC Copy.
18 51 29 CC Pete, we're ready for you on your pad. On Panel

200, the MDA/OWS HEATERS CONTROL 2, circuit
breaker, OPEN. We're ready for you to perform that.
18 51 59 CDE Okay. It's open.
18 52 01 CC And we're going LOS here in about a minute. We'll

have you Vanguard at 19:02.
18 52 ll CDR Okay.
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19 02 l0 CC Skylab_ Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR I'm about ready to go ahead with GIL 4.
CC Copy. We're standing by.
CDR Okay, Houston. The OWS block 2 breakers stayed closed.
CC We copy that, and ground agrees.
CDH Okay. That was from panel 613.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We'd like for you to inhibit TACS, per procedure,

at your convenience.
SPT Aye aye.
19 05 22 CDR Okay, Houston; BUS - CW BUS 1 LOW volt ... CB closed,

and it stayed closed. Gone ahead - going ahead and
close 2.
CC Copy_
19 06 O0 CDR Okay. It stayed closed, also. Going to 614 for the

H - I think it's H20, not HSS BUS 2 waste management
H20 - No, heater's. You're right. H20 HEATER, CLOSED,

then OPENED.
19 06 15 CC Copy.
19 06 h8 CDR Okay. We closed it, Houston. It stayed closed, and

nothing happened to C&W BUS l, LOW VOLTS or C&W BUS 2,
LOW VOLTS They both stayed CLOSED, also. And 614
HSS bus 2, WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPARTMENT, H20 HEATER
CLOSED, is now OPENED.
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CC We copy that.
CDR And while EGIL is looking at that, Houston, I'd like

you to verify the configuration that I left the circuit
breaker panel in the COmmand module in ; panel 226.
Are you ready to copy?
CC We're standing by. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. " The eRY0 H2.HEAT_/_; l, MAIN A; 2, MAIN B.

Circuit breakers, both of them are CLOSED. The
H2 SIC HEATERS, 100 WATT: l, MAIN A; 2, MAIN B; both
are closed. H20 HEATER, 50 WATT: l, MAIN B; 2,
MAIN A; are both open. I mean 02 HEATER 50 WATT.
CC That's the desired configuratlon, Pete.
CDR Okay, very good. I Just wanted to make sure because

it said, "H2 HEATER; l, MAIN A, CLOSED," and that
one was already closed. The rest of them were in
the right configuration.
CC Copy.
CDR And I 'm standing by for your GO on panel 207.
19 09 06 CC You're GO on that, Pete.
CDR 0kay.
19 l0 08 CDR Okay, Houston, they're both _ABLE and that took

care of the light.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC We're going LOS here in about a minute. We'll - -
CC We'll have you again at Vanguard at 21: 48.
CDR 21:48, huh? Bye, bye for a while.
19 II 17 CC Belay that.
20 14 25 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 7 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 7 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR When you got somebody in the LBNP, can you ride the
bike - in the bike - in the exercise mode?
CC Stand by half.
CDR Say again.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
20 17 09 CC Skylab, we're - Goldstone is configured to receive

XUV - monitor TV for the next 7 minutes.
20 19 55 CC SPT, Houston. We notice you're still in the

portable TV position. You have 2-1/2 more minutes
coverage.
20 23 57 CC Skylab, we're going to LOS in 1 minute; Vanguard

at 20 :40.
20 40 18 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR You watching the biomed data? We've got Paul Just
about ready to start his run on a 93.
20 40 46 CC We're watching it, Pete.
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20 47 08 SPT Houston, are you there?
CC We're still here. Go ahead.
SPT This is SPT. We're back on the PRIMARY FINE S_

SENSOR.
CC Copy, SPT.
SPT Just drove the thing straight up, about a ra - a

half a radius up to edge of the limb, and she turned
around and started coming back in.
20 47 30 CC Copy. And, Skylab; we will be LOS in about a minute.

We will see you in Hawaii at 21:48, yet. And a
couple of questions. Did you have any problems
cleaning the solonoid vents screens? Also, the
tape recorder will be dumped over Hawaii on this
next pass.
SPT The answer is negative.
CC Copy.
21 _6 h4 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 6 minutes.
PLT Hello.
PLT Hey, Houston, this is PLT.
CC Co, PLT.
21 46 55 PLT Okay. For whatever it's worth, after we finished

the M093, and out new free-form style of riding the
bicycle, I rode ray standard preflight protocol at
the end of the second step, that is after i0 minutes,
my heart rate was 130, 130. At the end of the
third step, after 15 minutes, my heart rate was 153.
CC We copy that, Paul. Thank you.
CC Paul, whi_e we're on that subject, the biomeds here

want you to go in the unrestrained mode in the
future on 171. That's all, crew.
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PLT Yes, I really think - today's the first day I tried

it out, Bill. And during the 93 part, I was really,
you know, trying different positions, so I - I probably
got my heart rate up a little higher. I don't even
know what - what I've been running on that. But
surprisingly, it's a revelation. It really is to
me, this being my first time, that it's so much
easier than strapping yourself down. You're fighting
the straps as much as you're working the bicycle I
think, with - with all those - that paraphernalia
we had on.
CC Okay. We copy, Paul. Was there anything in particu-

lar about the straps that was giving you trouble?
PLT Well, I'd say yes. In forcing myself down on the

seat, I felt that I really had to pull down on that
front restraint, the one that's got the parachute
cone on it. And in so doing, the - the bottom
edge of that weight belt dug into - into my leg
Just about the femoral artery there, and I felt
that it was interfering with good circulation to
the leg. Plus, the shoulder straps down tight
interferes with respiration.
CC Copy, Paul. Thank you.
CDR Hey, Houston. I got a mystery for you.
CC Go ahead, CDR_
CDR I was Just cruising through the middle of the OWS

and I came across a DAC, that's a Delta, Alfa,
Charlie fuse floating. And so, I Just got a search
throughout the vehicle - all four cameras that are
out, rest of the cameras that are stowed, and the
DAC fuse supply, and they're all accounted for. So,
my question is, and it may have been reported, it
may be not reported, I think somebody must have
dropped one in the vehicle during tests, and it's
Just fin_11y made its way out. At least I hope so,
or we've got a pregnant DAC fuse around here that's
not fessingup.
CC Hey, Pete, is that the only loose item you found?

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CDR Well, we've found lots of loose items, but this is

the only one I can't account for where it came from.
21 49 44 CC We copy. Hey, Pete; we're changing the - blood

drawing has been changed from 156 to 157. Now, we
have a Stowage message ready if you want it, but
if you like, you Just go ahead and handle the stowage
yourself. If you need the message, give us a call.
CDR Stowage message for blood drawing?
CC This is for Jo - for stowage of the blood in the

urine sample return container.
CDR Oh, no, we're in good shape on that. We don't need it.
CC Okay. Are there any specific Nikon problems?
CDR The counter failed to work on the Nikon. Wait a

minute, I got it right here.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We're configured at Hawaii for XUV TV monitoring.
SPT Hawaii. Is that where we are now?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay.
CDR The - on Nikon 01, the upper film counter failed at

22 on the last roll of film. And so far it's working
on the new roll of film, but we're only up to five
pictures on it. By the way, that is CI3h - well,
you'll get it out on the film report tonight. And
we're using it out the window and 160.
CC We copy, Pete.
CDR But, that's the only Nikon problem I know of. We

had the base problems, but that was very briefly on
the Hasselblad.
CC Yes, we copied that - -

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CDR It was recycled and it - -
CDR Go ahead.
CC - - We copied the Hasselblad - the Hasselblad copy.

We copied a Hasselblad problem earlier.
CDR Roger. Now we've got a new magazine on there, and

again it's started to count over again. And we'll
see what happens.
CC We copy, Pete.
21 53 35 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in l minute. We'll see you at

Vanguard 22:16. - and, SPT, if you would close the
S052 door at the end of your ATM activities since
you're a bit off Sun center.
21 53 53 SPT All right.
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22 16 54 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for l0 minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC And we will be dt_.ping a tape recorder over Hawaii

on this upcoming pass.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC At your convenience, we'd like the _0L SIEVE B FAN,

ON.
22 21 07 CDR Okay. It's ON.
CC Copy.
22 25 i0 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for i minute. Correction: LOS

in 1 minute. Hawaii at 23:23.
SPT Roger dodger, Houston.
PLT Henry, you old rascal. How was leave?
CC Hello, there. How's it been?
PLT We missed you.
CDR Hey, Henry. I've got a question for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Are we going EVA?
CC Well, I've got a little word you you, too. They had
a big old meeting here today, and the outcome was
that we're going to do one, and it will come no
earlier than Thursday.
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23 23 36 CDR Okay that's good. We've got a proposal for you for
than then. We've been having a great deal of discus-
sion up here about our workload. And the workload
that you have us at right now is an extremely satis-
factory one. And as a matter of fact, it's quite
relaxed and it is what we like. It's what we would
recommend for the 56-day mission. And it is, I think
on our flight, essential enough to get data done and
some of these experiments done, and seeing we're going
to lose another day going EVA, we would like to pro-
pose that you continue our work schedule as is on our
2 days off. In that we don't want the days off now,
we have enough time to ourselves in the evening that
we can relax. We're m_naging to stay on top of
everything and occasionally get ahead. And so we
would like to run EREP on those days off and ATM or
however the schedule works or any other things that
you have. Just run this particular type workload
you've got us on now right on through the end of the
mission. How does that go?
CC Okay, guys. We'll feed that in the hopper and see

how it comes out.
23 25 03 CDR Okay, I want y'a.ll to understand that I'm not proposing

this in the m_nner that it applies to the 56-day
flight, I think the timeline that we're on right
now is great for 56 days, but you have got to give
those guys a day off every once in a while. Now
we've had 1 day off. We've been on this light -
relatively light load that we can stay ahead of our
problems and everything. And we think that breaking
the monotony with an extra EVA is good for us. We
would like to give our remaining 2 days off to the
experiments.
23 25 38 CC I know they're rooting for you there. We'll feed

that in and get you an answer back, Pete.
CDR Very good, thank you.
CC And for info, on this pass we're going to be bringing

up secondary coolant loop, and primary coolant loop,
and you'll probably get a CAUTION and WARNING. And
also we'll be bringing the third gyro on each axis
for redundancy management so we can monitor the drift.
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CDR Good.
23 26 14 CC And, Pete; for info, Rusty is going to be in at about

02:30 over Guam for a little chat about the EVA.
CDR Good.
CDR We got it.
23 27 07 CC Roger.
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We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 55 and it looks
like M092 vent shoved us out of plane again, and
in all likelihood, the star tracker will not acquire
again, and we'll be wanting you to bring it up.
SPT Okay.
23 5h 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston. We'll be with you in a minute.
CC Okay. For the SPT, we're taking a look at this new

Z thing, and we decided that it'd probably be better
not to chase it, so don't bring in the star tracker,
_nd we' ll let the momentum settle out, and let Paul
do it when he goes up for his shift.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hey, Hank. Are you there?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. The answer to your questions. Number l: due

to the increase in cabin air O_ percent during M171
protocol, request you verify makeup 02 N2 as being

inhibited during M171 run, and that is a fact. We've
been turning off the cabin regs every time.
CC Roger. Copy.
23 58 35 CDH Okay. Advise that the monitor was receiving power and
if the brightness and contrast were turned up during
the TV camera problem. The camera was operating per-
fectly normally, was being set up - when I say being
set up, its location was being determined at the time,
and it was running - showing a good picture and it
just quit running. Now the monitor that was on that
camera has been tested on the good camera, and the
monitor is fine. The cables are fine. There are no
bent pins; it Just doesn't run. How did I determine
the color wheel was not turning when the power was
on? I took the lens off and looked in there, and
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secondly, you can also hear it. We have examined

the bad camera's connectors for bent pins or pushed-
back pins, and there are none.
23 59 46 CDR And the answer to question number 6 was: yes, the

contamination flowed over the OWS window - yes, it
does have the ice crystal in it.
SPT Oh, but it's okay , and we'll catch up on some of the
other questions.
SPT I'm trying to find my place.
00 00 16 SPT Okay. Are you able to use the XUV monitor? To

determine roll, yes, by integrating not exactly as
accurately as we were in training, but we are using
it that way. To locate bright spots? No. Because
you can't point to one and, you know, go there
continuously integrating it, and the basic picture
is much too faint. So coronal holds, same thing,
you really can't see them - and a flare, we've
decided that to use the XUV MON as a flare detection
tool, the flare has to be bright enough to show
without requiring integration. Since we haven't had
any flares, we don't know whether that's true yet
or not. We hope it is. Okay, question number 8.
What it looks like? Looking in H-Alpha 1 as we
come around the terminator is that, first of all,
the image of the Sun moves up and to the left about
1 solar radius or maybe a little more, and then it
kind of flashes and goes out as you disappear behind
the dark side.
CC We copy.
SPT And that's all I got.
PLT Okay, on ntmber 9. Henry was - they want to know

the estimate for rolling it around by hand to make
sure it doesn't have too much set also? Well, you
probably don't know that, either. I would say - I
would estimate that amount was l0 frames plus the
40 frames for sensitometry advance plus one frame
to make sUre that, in fact, it was pulling film
plus four frames normal, whatever that adds up to.
CC Roger; copy.
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PLT Number i0; negative.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT We'd like you to verify the number of pills. You

can Just read the - the five-digit numbers is FAO
can fine them, or somebody. Of mineral supplements
that we were supposed to take this morning, we'd
like to verify that we had it right.
O0 02 43 CC Okay. We're about l0 seconds from LOS. We'll have

that for you at the next pass which will be over
Vanguard again about an hour and a half at 01:33.
O0 02 50 SPT Okay.
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01 32 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes. And

we'll be dumping the data recorder.
CDR Roger, Houston. You ready for the Evening Status

Reports?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR While you're taking that, I'd like you to work one
for us. We were looking at the M151-1 meal prep
photo requirement that's on the shopping list and
wondered if you wanted that done. We have time to
do that this evening, and we have a film magazine
that we could use for it. So how about checking
that for us. Seeing it's the meal prep, and we don't
do much prepping these days, but - So I had the ques-
tion as to whether you wanted us to do that or not.
CC Okay. We'll work it.
CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything plus two butter cookies.
CREW Whool
CDR The SPT ate everything. And the PLT ate everything
except his coffee with sugar, snack item 62, and he
had five optional salts. The CDR had his two optional
salts. The PL - the SPT, none.
CDR And the Photo Log, day 155; 16-millimeter S183,

UA0383 takeup is not applicable; M151 f/183 stow one.
CIO-5, 76; CIO1; EREPVHO-1, and Paul put that away
today. He says the magazine has 80 percent on it,
although I reported 76 percent yesterday. And he
wins; can't read it right. Thirty-five millimeter:
CI34 frame counts 05; CI26, the frame counted 31;
CX05 is completely taken, and in its place. CX06 has
six frames taken and is on the Hasselblad. EREP set
0: 1 is 6610; 2 is 5946; 3 is 6820; 4 is 6817;
5 is 0358; 6 is 7677. The drawer A configuration
A-1 is X-PORTER 02, CI05, 76, CIO1. A-2 is X-PORTER 03,
CI03 19, MT10. A-3 is transporter 04, CI04, 30 per-
cent. _O1 floating is 05; CI25, 100 percent, MTll.
We recommend if you want M-5, M151-1 that we use A-2
transporter 03 with 19 percent There were no
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deviations to the Flight Plan today that you don't

know about, nor were there any changes to stowage
that you don't know about, and no equipment that you
don't know about, inoperative. And on tomorrow's
Flight Plan, I have one recommended minor change to
tomorrow's Flight Plan. Are you ready for that?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Just a second, let me get it. For the SPT
at 19:h5 to 20:00, or whenever he starts his TV-19
setup, ma_e that PH and PT. And down at the bottom
22 to 23:50, make that the M151 cal completely.
I also believe you left a piece out of mine, that
21:45. I think you have an S019 cleanup for me. I
found it buried in the details. I assume that's cor-
rect. If not, could you straighten it out on tomor-
row's Flight Plan. And that's about it.
01 37 52 CDR Now, I got one other thing. One small bit on the
EREP tape TV-12. It happans to be tape recorder 2.
So, instead of the TV-12 book, fortunately we looked
at it tonight, and we have taken our own setup into
consideration to give you tape 2. And I passed that
little bit on. The guys on the ground Should have
recognized that one and given us a little more time,
because the setup would have worked. Fortunately,
we foun@ it tonight.
CDR And then the other thing is - Are you still there?
CC Roger.
CDR The SPT says he doesn't want to be working ATMwhile

he's listening to the EVA review tomorrow night.
CC That seems reasonable.
CDR Yes.
01 39 24 CC CDR, Houston. The film for the MI51 will be A-3

TRANSPORTEE 04.
CDR Okay; A-3, Oh. You want the 30 percent - okay. I

see it calls for 29 percent, but I doubt very seriously
if we'll take that much. See, we don't do that much
food prep these days.
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CC Roger and I have - -
CDR Will do.
CC - - I have the mineral supplements that Joe requested

awhile ago.
SPT Okay. Fire away.
CC Okay. CDR is all balls. SPT is i0,000. And PLT

is three balls 20.
CDR Okay.
CC I have a general question. Is the ice spot on the

wardroom window still the same size, about the size
of a dime?
CDR Yes, it's a little bit bigger than a dime, about the
size of a nickel.
CC Roger. It seems to be growing?
CDR Well, we got into a discussion about that. It may

have grown a little bit from its original state, but
I think it is pretty stable.
01 40 45 CC And one more item for you. When Rusty talks to you
tonight at 02:30, he would like for you to have the
flyaround cue card available so that he can reference
locations on the workshop.
CDR Okay. We're - we're going to have to look for that

one. We think we can find it.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT The PLT says he's got an ATM pass coming up, but the
no CALROC - his ATM schedule didn't have a 01:55 pass.
So we don't have the pad.
01 42 24 CC That's the same CALROC or not so - so go ahead and

do the one that's called for there. And we're about
25 seconds from LOS. Ascension will be coming up at
46. And I think you got your med conference there.
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SPT Okay. We will if I can find it.
01 42 54 CC That's the 02:09 pass.
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02 30 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through @,Am 9-1/2 minutes.
PLT Hi, Houston.
CC Okay. I got a few quickies here before Rusty talks

with you. We concur with swapping the M171 cal with
the PT and PH for the SPT, but let's caution you on
Q
your PT. No running around the ring lockers or dis_
turbing the vehicle while S019 is in progress. And on
the SPT pad, his Detail Pad, then if he want to he
can change the - where it - M171 MA cal to 22:00. And
we're going to give him a little more time on the ATM.
Instead of starting at 01:05 on his last pass there,
we'll start that at 01:37. And that'll be on the ATM
pad when it comes up.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Since the TV-12 is set .up to do tape recorder l,

and the lighting is not proper for tape recorder 2,
scrub TV-12.
CDR No, wait a minute, Hank. It's - it's the other way
around. It was for TV - for tape l, and it's all set
up to do tape 2.
CC Okay. While that one's being discussed, I got your

pass times for in the morning. We have Honeysuckle
from 10:52 to 54, and the next pass is Goldstone
ll:20 to ll:30.
CDR Okay. We'll wake ourselves up.
SPT Skylab, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I left a message for Dr. Ross on B channel at 02:10.
CC Roger. Copy.
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CDR Also, Hank. I understand that they're not getting

the Evening Status Report that's on B channel. Can
you confirm that? If that is the case, then I've
wasted every evening putting it on B channel. I'd
Just as soon give it tQ you over the air on A channel
with the rest of the Evening Status Report.
CC We'll check that one out. And, Pete, did I under-

stand you to say that you're all set up to do TV-12
on tape recorder 2 changeout?
02 32 41 CDR That's right. That's right. It was - the book is

for tape recorder l, and we set it up for 2 because 2
is the one that'll be changed out.
CC Okay. We'll Just press ahead as planned, then.
CDR Yes. I was Just saying that it's a good thing we

went up early because we discovered, you know, one,
that we had different tape recorders to change out,
that was number l, and that we had the time to set
it up tonight.
CC Okay. We have 6-1/2 minutes left, and Rusty wants

to speak with you a bit.
SPT Okay. Hank. The only thing on that TV is I'd like

at least to go ahead and start a little early if I
get a chance. So, I'll make sure to be done with it
before my ATM pass.
CC Roger.
MCC Hello, there.
CDR Go.
02 33 25 MCC It's EVA arm-wave time tonight. What I'd like to do

is give you kind of an introduction of what we've got
coming up in the next few days and get your co_ents
on it. And what we'd like to do is let you know
the sequence of events. Tonight, on the teleprinter,
we got coming up to you three different messages.
One of them is an inventory of the parts that we're
recommending for the EVA. Second set is assembly
instructions, sort of _ Health Kit ki - kind of put-it-
together thing. And the third thing that's coming up
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is the - the sort of EVA procedures, - EV-1, do this;

EV-2, do that. And that'll be coming up tonight while
you're sleeping. So you can review that tomorrow
whenever you get a chance. And tomorrow evening we've
got a Q&A session and some more detailed information
scheduled on about a 1-hour pass or a 1-hour section
of time, two passes tomorrow evening. So we'll be
ready for your questions and that kind of thing when
you get a chance to review the stuff that's coming up
tonight. Okay, that's Tuesday. Then on Wednesday
morning, right now we're tentatively planning to give
you about - something on the order of 3 hours for
getting all the stuff together and trying it out there
inside the workshop. You have a pretty good zero-g
simulator up there, and we figured it'd probably be -
be nice to try it all out. And distances are Just
about the inside of the - the dome, as you can imagine.
So that we figure a lot of this stuff you can put
together and play with. And if we got it scheduled
in the morning, we got a chance on TV. You can hold
it up and say, "Is this what you meant?", or "we
think this is better," or whatever.
CDR Okay.
02 35 19 MCC Okay. Then - then Wednesday evening we - we want to

try and perform the EVA on Thursday fairly early, so
that we got good coverage over the range. And so, in
light of that, we're - we're trying to work it out so
we can give you about an hour and a half, or so,
Wednesday evening to do as much of the EVA prep that
night, so as to shorten the prep time on Thursday
morning. Now, in - -
CDR Okay.
MCC - - Okay. Now if - if any time in between now and

then you guys feel, for whatever reason, you think
you need more time, Just let us know and Friday's
okay, too. There no big ... on getting of on
Thursday.
02 35 59 CDR Okay.
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MCC Okay. Here, let me give you now - This is sort of,
as I say, an arm-wave reason of the kind of thing
we're looking at. And you can review the stuff coming
up tonight in light of this, and then let's go into
it in detail tomorrow. So here we go _nat we -
what we've got basically, Pete, after working a lot
of stuff in the water t,,_ here - with the gear you've
got on board there, and looking at all the good photos
that you took - is we'll kind of break it into three
parts. One is setting up an EV trail to get down
there and do the Job. The second part is cutting the
strap Or getting "rid of the strap. And the third
part is raising the beam, If PJ got out the SAS,
the SWS and SAS map there, I can talk a little hit from
that. Did you get a hold of that thing?
CDR Yes, we did.
02 36 52 MCC Okay. The coord - let's - let's get our coordinate

system straight so that you guys can refer to it in
the future and we'll know where you're talking about.
The upper left-hand corner, I figure, starts at 1.0
and A-0. So then we can bring it down in tenths from
there. So the upper right-hand corner then is i0.0
and A-0. Okay. What we plan .on doing is getting EV-2
up by the discone antenna with five poles, with the
cable cutters on one end and the mushroom on the other
end. And that means you've got to lengthen the rope.
And we L we've got the details coming up to you o_ 5
that. The discone antenna is located at about _._
and B-0. In other words, 45 degrees between minus-Y
and minus-Z up there, right on the edge of the SAS.
So you're reaching down and grabbing the hold of the
debris with the cable cutters and you clamp onto some
of the debris, preferably onto the strap that you want
to cut. And you clamp it that way, and that becomes
an EV trail. You don't go ahead and cut it_ you Just
clamp it. That then forms a trail down there. EV-I
goes down the trail and hooks up a line, which we're
eslling the beam erection thether, to the bottom end
of the number 1 vent module. We'll talk a little
more details about that tomorrow, but yon hook
a line onto the bottom end of the vent module and
that runs straight back up the beam and hooks onto the
DA truss. There is a discone antenna A-frame cross-
member up there that's right in line with it. And you
take the tension up on that and you've got a tether
all the way hack to the A-frame. Okay, the preferred
method of cutting that we can see now after working
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with all the tools, is since you've got it hooked

onto the strap to go ahead and pull with the cable
cutters and cut through the strap. If, for whatever
reason, you guys don't like that, we've got the pry
bar out there with you. You can either pry it off
or you can use the bone saw, either one. Okay. After
you get the beam cut, the idea is for EV-1 to move
back Just aft of the beam hinge and stand up. You've
got that tether now, with all the slack out of it,
that runs right back along the beam. You stand up
Just aft of the beam hinge and you become a gin pole.
You Just stand up and lift up on the rope and you can
get a devil of a lot of tension in it. You put a good
hinge moment around the beam and you're up on top of
it. And the beam comes - you break the - the bracket
on the actuator damper and up comes the beam. That's
a general thing, and we'll hope to see you a little
later. We got 14 second to LOS.
02 39 30 CDR Okay. I hope it don't pull too hard, or you're going

to get squatted like a swy - fly swatter.
MCC No, we - we've done it a lot, Pete, and it's kind of

fun as a matter of fact. You'll enjoy watching it
come up.
CDR Okay.
MCC Adios.
CDR Adios.
MCC See you in the morning.
02 39 _7 CDR Roger.
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ii 20 46 CC Good morning, Skylah; Houston. We got you state-

side for 12 minutes.
SFT Very great.
CC And be advised that sometime during this pass we're

going to be dumping the data recorder.
SPT Okay.
ii 22 33 CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised we're going to

command the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP, OFF; part of our
normal morning powerdown procedures.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a short break

and catch you again at Bermuda.
SPT Okay.
ii 33 34 CC Skylab_ Houston. We're AOS again at Bermuda for the

next 5 minutes.
SPT Good work!
CC How about that.
ll 37 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to Los. We're going

to see you at Madrid at 11:43.
CDR Roger, Houston.
ll 43 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Madrid for the next

9 minutes. And be advised about 1 minute or a min-
ute and a half into the pass, we will have a keyhole
about 45 seconds long.
PLT Okay.
SPT Hey, Richard. You got any news down there this morn-
ing? We don't know what's going on.
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CC Let me see if I can drum up what's going on in the

world for you all.
Ii 47 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole at Madrid.

We've still got about 5 minutes left in the pass.
And one thing, Just like every day since you guys
have taken off, you're on the front page. And to-
day is a - an article on the front page of the
morning paper, that. your spacew_ik has been given
an okay, and a pretty long col,_n. And you might
be interested to know that over on our bulletin
board is a con - is a congratulatory message from
some members of Congress to NASA about the way
we've handled'this mission so far. Also, I got a
couple of notes for the (DR this morning. First
one is in reference to the conversation, I guess,
you had, Pete, last evening Just before bed about
the fact that some of the comments that you've
been putting on channel B on medical status data
hadn't been getting to the right people. Please be
advised that this was a mixup. The data is indeed
in the MOCR, and we had a breakdown in communication,
which we have rectified. Your recorded data has been
excellent. And we'd appreciate it if you'd keep
recording the data on channel B. We have got it to
the rightpeople, and we'll continue to do so.
PLT Way to go, Dick,
CC And one more item for the CDR on his Flight Plan
today; it's very minor. On the S009 item on the
Flight Plan, it says, "S009 SET." It should say,
"S009 INITIATE," which'll send you to the proper
page in the checklist for what we want to accom-
plish this morning.
CDR Roger. Copied that, Dick.
CC 0kay.
ll 51 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you down at Honeysuckle at 12:28.
ll 51 26 PLT Roger. 12:28.
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12 28 19 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S at Honeysuckle for

9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. What I'd like to do if I get a chance,

is start this TV-12 a little early today. I Just
want a verification - the VTR is ready for it.
CC Roger. Stand by 1.
CC Skylab, Houston. We concur. If you're ready to go

ahead with the TV-12, it's okay with us.
PLT Okay. It'll be awhile, but I Just wanted to make

sure. Thank you.
CC Understand. Any time you get to it.
PLT Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. One update on your solar

activity pad that we've already sent up, filament
number 70 has dissipated; and the second point is
- is that new region prominence 73 at 280 degrees
and 1.0 has been moderately active
SPT Okay, Dick. I think that's the prominence we channel

B'ed you last night.
CC Roger.
PLT Yes. We were fooling around the Sun last night.

(Laughter)
SPT We weren't fooling around. We were observing.
PLT And ... noticed the prominence and we noticed the

brightening in XUV M0N in that area and wondered
if there was an active region due to return at
that point.
CC Roger. Understand. And sometime prior to getting to

EREP, I've got one minor correction to the _EP operate
pad that belongs to the CDR this morning. But we got
awhile so any one of these passes where you got it in
your hand, I'll be glad to read it up to you.
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PLT Go ahead and read it, Dick. I'ii - I'll copy it in

the interlude.
CC Okay. It's about - it's over in operate column, oh,

a little more th an halfway down and at a time - Just
below the time of 18:01 plus 17. And over there in
the right where it says, "mode ITNC," I want to de-
lete "L/R." That's the only change.
12 33 33 PLT Got it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised that here at Honeysuckle

we're going to start a series of commands to configure
the ... 2 rate gyros per axis for the day.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PLT And, Houston, I don't need an answer this pass, but

sometime - I notice you're forecasting 4/i0 cloud
cover in the Houston area today, for the E_EP site.
And I can't see one of the advertised ones. Is there
any reason I shouldn't go after another one?
PLT Hello, Houston; Skylab.
CC Go ahead, PLT;
PLT Did you get my last on the VTS site?
CC Affirm, Paul. And I've got an answer for you. Inci-

dentally, the cloud coverage predicted, a little bit
worse than what we read up to you. Right now it's
quite possible that it might be in places, 7/10 up
to an overcast. However, the answer to your question
is: Certainly, if you - asstnning that you've taken
into consideration upcoming sites ahead of you, and
you get a chance to go to an alternate, go ahead.
PLT Okay.
12 36 3h CC And be advised we're about h5 seconds from LOS. We're

going to see you at Hawaii at 12:_8.
PLT Righty,
dighty
o
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12 _7 _4 CC Hello, Skylab; Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for

9 minutes.
PLT Hello.
CDR Hey, Dick. There was one message in the odds and
ends about any items that appear to be deteriorating
and should be returned on SL-2 or be resupplied on
SL-3. We don't have anything that's deteriorating
that!s worth returning. We mentioned the shoes,
which - PJ's are beginning to come apart - because
you don't wear your triangle shoes all the time,
you tend to stick the other ones in the floor for a
hold. It kind of wears them out in a hurry. But
the only other item that I know of that we've had
some trouble with is we - we had trouble wxth one
astro pin, and in the process of trying to replace
it with another one from another place, we destroyed
the second one. And - so we have two handles up
here that have astro pins missing out of them. In
the event that A-1 and those guys want them, they
should bring two spare astro pins to fit handles
along. However, we've found very little use for
the handles. We haven't used them at all.
CC Roger, Pete. Understand. I think the purpose of that

was Just a - you know, get you to king of thinking
about i% so if there are some things that you run
into that you think we ought to think about flying
up, _hat we hear about them as soon as possible, so
we can, you know, do our planning.
CDR Yes. We'll sure tell you about it. But right now
I can't think of any.
CC Okay.
CDR Hank, there is one thing that P. J. Just mentioned.

We're - I think our usage of grey tape is probably
higher than they expected. And I would suspect,
somehwere along the line, somebody would want to
bring some more grey tape.
CC Roger. That doesn't surprise me.
CDR Yes. We use it for virtually anything you can think

of. And we're using it at a pretty high rate.
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CC Okay. Thank you much. We'll pass these on and

anymore you think of as you go along.
CDR Right now, Joe and I - This is our first chance to

study this EVA stuff. We're here looking at it.
CC Roger. Okay. Well, we thought we'd pass it up to

you and let you brouse over it today. And then you
can think about it a little bit, and we can tA1_ about
it this evening; or, for that matter, any time you
get a chance. But I'm - I'm sure that Rusty will
plan on being herethis evening, when we got it
scheduled for a couple of passes to talk about.
12 51 04 CC And, Skylab; Houston. One note from the GNS on

rate gyro number Y3 in some observations we made
last evening. He noticed that the output of gyro
Y3 oscillates at about 3 cycles per second when the
wheel is inhibited. But the output looks good as
long as the wheel is enabled, and so we've elected
to leave it POWERED and_ABT.RI_. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And we'll keep you posted if that changes.
12 56 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're l minute to LOS. We got a

real short break and see you in Goldstone on the hour.
12 56 _l PLT Okay_
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13 12 41 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 6 minutes. We had lost comm

over Goldst one.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Sk3'lab, the tape recorder will be dumped at the next

pass over Canary coming up.
SPT ... Houston.
CC Go ahead, Sky'lab.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Okay. In this morning's department of odds and ends,

we've got two new medical breakthroughs to report.
Both mouth sounds and snoring are Just as loud in
zero g as they are in 1.
CC We copy that, Joe. And did you hear any TACS firings
last night?
SPT Well. We hear TACS firing Just after passing into

sunset and Just after coming out again into day, and
they're curiously metallic sounds, as though something
were expanding and contracting outside.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CDR Yes, Houston. There's one spot that's obviously

gotten one piece of metal that does some popping, and
shortly after going into darkness, it lets go and
sounds an awful lot like a TACS, but it isn't. And
when we have the TACS inhibited, sure enough, it
continues to make it's voice - it does it like Joe
says, "once in and once out" - does fire twice.

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CC Pete, do you think that the sounds that you reported

the other evening could possibly have been the same
sounds?
CDR Yes, sir; I do. It's very similar to a TACS fiting,

and that's what was confusing you and me both, because
it sounds an awful lot like a TACS, which sounds like
a muffled shotgun shell going off is what it sound like
when the TACS fire. So do ... a little different,
but it's in a d/ff@rent location, and depending on
where the TACS - which TACS fired - you get a different
sound also, but I think I was confusing this obvious
thermal expansion and contraction of something as a
TACS firing. ,
13 18 59 CC Okay. And we're going LOS here. We'll have you at

Carnary at 13:EO. Apropos Joe's first transmission,
there are other sounds that you have to watch out
for that in SMEAT we could have confused with TACS.
SPT Hold steady.
13 20 16 CC And, Skylab, we're AOS again for 9 minutes
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Dance, Houston; S009 is off on time.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC Skylab, if you called, we're standing by.
PLT Yes, I can't get any power on the VTR. Have you got
any ideas?
CC Stand by half.
PLT Hello, Houston; Skylab. You there?
CC We're still here.
PLT I say I cannot get power to the video tape recorder.

Have you got any ideas - quickly?
CC Stand by half.
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CC To get power to that, you have to have the POWER

OUTLET, ON. That's the ACCESSORY HIGH POWER which
is 115. Also the circuit breaker on panel 202 ON
and MAIN VTR POWER, ON.
13 31 _5 CC And we're showing your MAIN VTR POWER, OFF at the

moment.
PLT Okay, we got it. Sloppy housekeeping - We had used

the vacuum cleaner up forward yesterday in that outlet
and I have to take one for that, because I did not
plug the VTH back in.
CC We copy.
PLT So I guess you didn't try to dump it last night, huh?
CC We didn't get a dump last night.
PLT Is there enough tape on here to do this TV this morning,

Bill?
CC Supposed to be, but stand by half. You've got

30 minutes.
PLT Well, that's the story. So I'll go ahead and run it.
We'll either reach the end of the tape or we'll
get it on. I may have to - I'll be glad to run it
again for you, because I boo-booed.
CC Paul, you're supposed to have enough. You have 30 min-

utes.
CC And be advised we have completed unattended and are

closing the fine Sun-sensor door.
CREW Roger.
13 35 17 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute; Goldstone -

Correction : Carnarvon, l_ :03.
PLT All right.
i_ 02 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 4 minutes.
CREW Okay.
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14 06 59 SPT Houston, Skylab. You've got a key down.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab, if you're calling, Houston, standing by.
SPT Negative.
lh 12 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in i minute; Hawaii at ih:25.

And, PLT, we would like you to go AUTO on the star
tracker.
PLT Okay. You want AUTO right now, huh?
CC That 's affirm.
PLT You guys do good work.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston. We may have a ground problem here, but

if you would verify that on panel 617 INSTRUMENTATION I
MODE SRLWCT is at B.
SPT Go ahead.
CC SPT, verify 617 INSTRUM_mT MODE SELECT B.
SPT ... LOS ...
CC That's affirm.
l_ 25 33 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 9 minutes.
CC Go, Skylab.
CREW Okay. Those two tape recorder switches looked like

they were at Bravo, but they were at Charlie. You
have to approach them from A, or else they don't read
right. The knobs are loose.
lh 26 14 CC We copy that.
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14 33 2h SC - Okay, Houston.
14 33 25 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about a minute. We'll

have you at Goldstone at 14:38, And, SPT, since the
instrumentation reeorder switch was off there at the
beginning, they lost CAL; so if you'd do at least a
25-second cal before shutting down the recorder on
this one - per the checklist, please, sir.
SPT I started-the' whole procedure over again, Houston.
CC Copy that.
lh 3_ Oh PLT Hello, Houston; Skylab. You there?
CC We 're still here. Go, Paul.
_- PLT Okay. For information, the prominence is 2801. As -

compared to last night, is departing the surface of
the Sun. It no longer appears to be attached and is -
oh, I'd say, 0.05 solar radii above the Y - the H-alpha
left.
CC We copy that.
14 38 02 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay. You getting the TV?
PLT Okay. If you'll look at H-alpha i, you'll notice

where you can see the tip is a little piece of prom-
inence still attached to the Sun, then directly above
it is this piece that appears to be departing the Sun.
I'll move the disE ,.. off the tube a little bit so
that you can see a little better.
CC Copy.
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14 38 41 CC PLT, the TV is being received on the ground at the

site, but it isn't coming real time to Houston. •And
we appreciate your comments, though.
14 38 58 PLT Okay. If that's enough, I'll get on with regular

down-link.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Paul. U_derstand that we'd still be interested

in your c....-..ents
because we'll be seeing it a short
time later.
PLT Yes, sir. Understand.
l_ 43 16 CC Skylab, 1 minute LOS; Bermuda at 14:_7. Also, we will

be dumping the tape recorder at Carnarvon.
PLT Okay. Be advised that TV-12 on there is about l0 to

12 minutes, Bill.
CC We copy, Paul.
14 _7 _9 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for approximately "ll minutes.
PLT Oh, it's•a long one, huh?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Bill, for the ATM people, I couldn't m_e ou a_

libration clouds. I think our picture is a little
too poor in quality to be able to see them, although
we'll sure keep trying.
CC We copy.
14 52 4B PLT Hello, Houston. You there?
CC Yes. We're standing by.
PLT Okay. I've got a quick question on this first JOP

I 'm doing - the pad says "82A Ab_O 1 LONG" which I
assumed meant both places in the pad in the building
block. I Just looked it up. I see it takes 28 minutes.
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Do you want me to enter up the one that's running

now, go ahead and do my roll, and pick it up again?
CC Stand by half.
14 54 17 CC PLT, Houston. That's a LONG WA_GTH of a 7.l-minute

i exposure.
PLT (_ay.
14 55 O0 CC PLT, ground saw tei_nination on time here.
CC SPT, Houston._
CC CDR ,Light be advised that the Cubs haven't been doing

very well recently.
SPT Roger, Bill. Understand.
CDR We figured as much.
14 57 33 CC We'll be LOS in about a minute. We'll be coming up

on Ascension in about 8 minutes. And we want you to
delay the M171 run until reaching Ascension.
CDR You're throwing our whole time line off.
SPT Houston, we've got other things scheduled. I'm afraid

we're going to have to press on but - well, listen.
Tell me what time Ascension is.
CC Ascension is 15:04.
14 58 18 SPT Oh, well. Heck, that's only 5 minutes from now.
15 04 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger.

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CC Go, CDR.
CDR At their convenience, sometime I'd like to ta]_ to

Dr. Kraft, private. I
CC Wilco.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Stand by.
CC They want yo_ to proceed per the pad - repeat, per

the pad on M171.
15 08 33 SPT Roger.
SPT Understand that means we are to use the lh0 workload

for _he CDR.
15 09 lh CC Joe, you can use either the 125 or the 155. It's
your option.
CC That's on the third level.
SPT Oh, it's our option. Okay. Thank you.
15 13 hO CC Skylah, we're going LOS in about 1-1/2 minutes. We'll

see you at Carnarvon at 15:37.
SPT Roger, how does your data look?
CC It's looking good.
SPT 0kay.
15 lh h3 PLT Hello, Houston. You still there?
CC We still have you.
PLT That figures. Quit plugging the coronagraph, will

you? I was running in CONTINUOUS and all of a sudden
I have a HEADY light.
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CC Copy.
PLT And I only got about a minute to look; I've got to

get on with this align.
CC Copy.
PLT Roger.
SPT Go shead.
CC The power situation has improved here. It looks as

if we can get some better data by longer warmup times,
so at 16:00 we want C&D POWER, ON; and S191 POWER, ON.
That last one is per EREP procedure 6-1.
SPT All right. The PLT copies that.
CC Okay.
15 47 O0 CC Skylab; LOS in one minute. Guam 15:51 AOS. CDR, your

request will be honored during the Guam pass.
15 47 20 SPT Roger.
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16 16 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. This is a reminder to power down

C&D panel power while doing the tape recorder
switchover. I
CC SPT, this is a reminder that the H-alpha camera has

to be turned on manually.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, _DR.
CDR Okay. The _EP prep pad - y'all asked for K5 film
reading, which has Q5 magazine on it, and it reads
8337. Oyer.
CC Copy.
16 28 2_ SPT Houston, SPT. You there?
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Okay. I'm observing s_nething interesting we haven't

seen before, and I'd like you guys to look at it.
My experiment roll indication is decreasing at about
a - you know, normal ... rate roll. Now the canister
is not rolling. The canister roll isn't changing,
and out the window the canister isn't moving, and
the TV display is steady. Like you guys to look
and advise on that.
CC Joe, the star tracker has apparently locked up on

something odd, and we'll have to go manually here.
We're coming up with some numbers for you.
SPT Ho, ho.
SPT Very good. Our orbital ... is now 36 degrees.

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CC Copy. And we'll be dumping the tape recorder at

MILA at 16: 24.
SPT Roger.
SPT My startrackerpad stillgood? b
CC Negative, Joe. Your pad's no good. We're trying to

work up some numbers.
SPT It strikes me I'd rather have something fairly simple

before the computer tries to dump all that false
momentum, or something.
cc okay. ,
CC SPT, Houston. The m_,hers are for the inner gimbal,

minus 8; outer gimbal, plus 1084. Inner gimbal,
minus 8; and outer, plus 1084. That's minus 8 for
the inner.
SPT Got it. Is that our friend, the astronaut?
CC That 's affirm.
16 BB _0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in about B0 seconds,

and we'll have you again at 17:15.
SPT Roger.
CC That 's Carnarvon, 17 :15 •
SPT Okay, and we got the star, Houston.
CC Copy.
17 14 59 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S 9 minutes.
SPT Hello.
CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 9 minutes, and we have

some EREP messages here.
SPT Oks_v. Stand by for i minute, please, Houston, on

that.
CC Wilco.
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CC On S194 you may get a momentary malfunction light

while calibrating. If the cal source is not within
limits, it may stay on. No action's required.
l
CDR Roger.
CC On SI9A [sic], malfunction light may come on any

camer6 during the run and no action's required on
that. You also may have malfunction light on the tape
recorder for 5 seconds as it comes up to speed, and
again no action is required.
CDR Okay. We understand all those.
CDR On the S190 film ... this morning, we had no malf

light.
CC Copy.
PLT Hello, Houston. We've got a configuration question

for you.
CC Go, Skylab.
PLT Notice on panel 225; on the 5 psi REG, to the ATM

and the LPG reservoirs. We got One REG OPEN and
one CLOSED. We're pretty sure it's not right. What
configuration do you want on that?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Both REGs should be OPEN on panel 225.
PLT Thank you.
17 24 i0 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about h or 5 seconds. We'll

see you at Gn,m at 17:29.
SC Roger.
17 29 16 CC Skyl_b, Houston. AOS for 6 minutes.

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CDR Roger, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT. i
17 29 31 SPT Okay. We're going to re-enable TACS for this Z-LV

maneuver, and I was wondering about re-enabling CMG
AUTO RESET. That was not in any of the checklist
updates that you sent us. Is it desirable or not?
Over.
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17 29 54 CC Do not reenable the CMG RESET. Joe, do not reenable

the CMG RESET.
SPT Okay.
CC And we do agree with reenabling the TACS, of course.
SPT Okay.
SPT Houston, I'v_ got one other word for planning on

future passes. I'd appreciate more time for that
operator number 2 - between getting the star tracker
locked on and getting over to the VTS. Today, there's
only a minute and a half - a minute and hO seconds
from star tracker w-1_-on to first sight acquisition.
I'd. appreciate it if that would - could be a little
longer in the future.
CC We copy, and we'll take care of it.
SPT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We want to put the S054 filter to i and then STORAGE.
SPT Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT My power down for unattended checklist said that

S052 - to put the alined scales - to push the times
ahead. We would prefer to leave it at times 1. Is
that okay with them?
CC Stand by, Joe.
CDR Houston, CDR.

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CC Go. CDR.
CDR Roger. Do you know when the teleprinter gets another

line, or does one ...
CC CDR, you're sguealing. We can't read you.
CDR Okay, ... teleprinter ...
CC CDR, you are unreadable.
CDR Do you know when the teleprinter ...
CC Tell him all we ...
CC Pete, we're unable to copy anything except something

about a teleprinter.
CDR Roger, Houston. How's this?
CC You're loud and clear on that, Pete. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Can you -
17 36 21 CDR Can you tell when the teleprinter has sent the same
line twice?
CC Stand by, CDR.
CC And, SFT, your question - the answer to you_ question

is affirmative.
SPT Thank you.
CC CDR, we cannot tell if it sent two lines.
CDR Okay; that's Just a note of interest, when it does

this on a ... operate ...
CDR My line ... S190 ...
17 37 _0 CC • Pete, it's virtually impossible to copy you. We're

going LOS here, and we'll have you at Goldstone at
17:53. We understand you're having difficulties with
double printing on the teleprinter.
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17 52 57 CC Skylab, Houston, AOS approximately 15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. How do you read CDR on VOX?
CC You're loud and clear, sir.
l CDR Okay. We're standingby to start the pass.
CC Copy.
CDR And, Houston, we have verified that we are in the

PREOPERATE configuration. The S192 door OPEN;
S191 door is open; S190 window OPEN. The tape re-
corder power is on in accordance with the Commander
and PLT's ... EREP cue card.
CC We copy, CDR.
17 53 51 CDR MARK ... 54, I need an AUTO CAL. MARK. 54 AUTO CAL.
CDH For your information, Houston, Bravo 7 is 75 percent

and dropping.
CC Copy.
17 54 51 CDR MARK SCAT to STANDBY.
PLT You read me?
CDR Yes, loud and clear.
17 55 46 CDR MARK. S194 MODE MANUAL.
PLT Oooh .... wide open today.
CDR No - no READY light on S191.
17 57 02 CDR MARK. S192 MODE READY. MARK 190 to AUTO. ETC, AUTO.
17 57 ll PLT 190B AUTO. And she's running.
17 57 18 CDR ... SCAT's ON.
CDR I got green lights on everything but S191.
PLT Even you could have found - -

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17 58 16 CDR STANDBY. RAD STANDBY. INTRACK CONTIGUOUS. RAD's

on; SCAT's on. Getting occasional RAD SCAT gimbal
light, which is normal.
18 O0 Ol PLT SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; CROSSTRACK, CONTIGU- L

OUS, 50, 30.
18 00 07 CDR RAD's ON; SCAT's ON.
18 01 16 PLT SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; MODE, INTRACK CONTIGUOUS;

POLARIZATION, 5 •••
CC Pete, that MODE should ne NON-CONTIGUOUS.

NON-CONTIGUOUS.
CDR It's in the right place. I said it wrong - RAD, ON;

SCAT, ON. It's INTRACK, NON-CONTIGUOUS. I had the
switch right, but said it wrong. I can't pronounce
big words.
CC Copy.
18 03 31 CDR MARK. S192 STANDBY; Bravo 7 reads 72 percent.

Standing by for 8, plus 50.
18 03 44 PLT Hey, S190B shows feet is now at lO0.
CDR Burn across Florida?
PLT No, Texas - Houston.
SPT ... ascending?
CDR No.
SPT Okay.
SPT There it is, right here.
PLT Oh, yes.
PLT Okay, Houston. Only got one of the Houston sites.

That was out in the water at 0h:h5 - I meant 0h:15
and 0h:20.
CC We copy, Paul.
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18 05 06 PLT Kind of got started on the nadir track a little late,

about 04:10. At 05:20 we started crossing land. At
05:53 we're back over the water.
18 06 45 PLT And your 191 information on this one, Houston, we'll

try and connect. We're passing over some fair
weather cumb over the water on this slot.
18 07 25 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about _ or 5 seconds.

Vanguard at 18:19_
18 07 31 PLT Roger. Tape recorder. At 07:28, we passed over

land; at 07:35, we're back over water.
18 08 51 CDR MARK. SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; ETC to STANDBY.
18 08 57 CDR MARK.
PLT Roger.
18 09 08 CDR VT_, AUTO CAL, please.
PLT Yes.
SPT On the ETC, the frame count is ll9.
CDR Frame count is ll9. Okay.
CDR That also, Joe - it goes in the photo log, I think.
SPT Yes. Thank you.
CDR ... 906 MODE MANUAL 090 ...
CDH ll 40. Yes, go ahead.
CDR C -C7 is in this - I mean, D7 is in this ...
PLT Roger.
SPT Hey, Houston, we Just got a S191 READY light.
CC Copy. Can we get an approximate time on that light?

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18 20 01 SPT Yes, it was about a minute ago.
18 20 0h PLT About 18:19, at which time Bravo 7 was reading 43.

We left it on a little longer to see if we'd get a
light. And what happened was once it got below
about 70 percent - ... Once the detector tip got
down about 65, you could actually see the needle move.
That pointer was really on - really moving on down.
As I say, once it got to 43 at the time indicated,
then we got a READY light.
CC Copy.
CDR Houston, you still there?
CC We're still _Ith you, Pete. Go.
CDR Okay, also be advised we hedged a little more on

191 cooler. We turned it on about - about 2 minutes
earlier than the pad called for. You - you want to -
We're trying to figure something out - take that into
account too.
CC We copy.
18 26 34 CC Skylab. You're going LOS in a minute. Goldstone

at 19:3Q.
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19 31 00 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for i0 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CC CDR_ Houston.
19 34 49 CC Skylab, we'll be dumping the tape recorder in a few

minutes over Texas.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Okay. Would you look at the status of CBRM 5?
CC Wilco.
CDR Never mind. I took care of it, I guess. I came up

here _aud tried the BAT CHARGE l_ght on. No, never
mind; the battery is - it is on and it - I'm not
exactly sure what's going on. Looks all right.
CC Okay. And, CDR, we have some information for star

tracker reacquire after solar inertial.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Inner gimbal is minus 8; outer gimbal is plus 1324.
CDR That's right. You were cut out. Was that first one
minus 0008?
CC That's _ffirmative.
CDR And plus 132_.
CC And, CDR, CBRM 5 looks good to us. It Just hasn't

tripped back Just before it went into night.
CDR 0kay.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
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CDR That star is still good from - I've got two pads,
here; I don't know which one's which - day 35 to
night 07.
CC Pete, apparently we d/dn't ge t all your message.

Would you say again?
CDR I was Just verifying that that star - good time was
still asthe original pad this morning, in - with
respect to when it _s available.
19 42 h0 CC Pete, that pad is good, and we're going LOS he.re in

1 minute. Vanguard at 19:56.
CDR Roger, Houston.
19 56 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, 6 minutes.
CREW Roger.
CC CDR ,'Houston.
CDR Go 8head.
CC After a great deal of digging here in the history

of the teleprinter, it appears that line 21 on the
EREP pad was repeated. And it appears that it can
be repeated up to three times, aud they s_y th t a
line will never be deleted. And it's pretty dixTieult,
though, to get the history of Just what has happened.
CDR Okay. I think it's more Just that you have thoughts
of the other crews ; and that they go through those
pads very carefully for double and triple some entries,
because if you haven't gone through it and you're
running on the time line, it's real easy to trip up
over that and say, "Gee, I Just did that. Why?" In
l0 seconds it's going to ...
CC We copy, Joe - Pete.
CC And Just for information, Pete, we've got a complete

on CBI_M 5.
CDR Roger.
CC PLT, Houston.
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CC Just a reminder before we begin SO19 ops. We need a

lockon on the star.
PLT Okay. I'll see if I can find it for you.
CC Copy.
20 03 22 CC Skylab, LOS in i minute; Hawaii at 21:04.
20 03 34 CREW Roger.
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21 Oh 14 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, 6-minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder over

Vanguard.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Do you have the TV, Houston?
CC Stand by.
CDR What' you guys sending up in the teleprinter? It's

swashing and dancing at my feet.
CC Pete, that's okay. As long as it's only the

teleprinter.
CDR Okay. I've got a question for you on the ATM. I

didn't get any S054 filter information for building
block 13; so I assume you just want to run filter 1
twice. Is that correct?
CC Stand by.
CC Pete, we think you should be in building block 23,

which has the information.
CC If you should be in 13 - in 13, why, then alternate

between filters 1 and 3.
CDR I think you're right. I read it wrong. I'm in 13;

it should be 23.
CC We copy.
21 l0 5h CC We're going LOS, and we'll see you at the Vanguard.
CDR Roger.
21 32 57 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, l0 minutes.

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CDR Roger.
CC Pete, we'd like for you to confirm for us that the

teleprinter is still legible and behaving normal ly.
CDR ...
CDR Looks good to me, Bill.
CC Say again.
CC PLT, we're not receiving TV at Vanguard.
PLT Say, you're getting it now. Seems the TV-19 is OGI

only, and we were done with that ; so here comes a
little MS.
CC Yes, we're getting it now.
PLT Which, by the way, we Just tripped out the chair.

We'r_ waiting for a FAULT light to reset.
CC Copy.
PLT For information, Houston, he's on his eleventh set

of head movements with that interruption in the
middle, with no symptoms, which is quite a bit more
than he's done on the ground.
CC We copy that.
21 hi 42 CC We will be LOS in i minute. Hawaii at 22:39.
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22 B9 25 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, i0 minutes.
CDR Hi, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston. We have a change on the ATM schedule

pad for you,
CDR Go ahead.
22 39 h3 CC At 22:22, lines 15, 16, and 17 left, delete. Those

lines are "GO to AUTO SEQUENCE, hold PRI to ESS ."
CDR I'm not sure I understand you, Houston. I don't

see that on my pad.
CC Pete6 that's at the bottom of the pad you're on

now. And simply delete, "Go to AUTO SEQUENCE,
hold PRI to ES$."
CDE Oh, okay. I'm with you. I thought you were up at

the top.
CDR And let me know when you have the XUVMON.
CC Copy. And we have TV now, Pete.
CDE Okay, coming at you ...
CDR Say, Bill, I have a request for Houston.
CC Go ahead, Pete.
CDR We don't normally look at the teleprinter after

we pick up themessa6es in the morning unless you
tell us that there's a message there. And we mis-
sed message 1226 Alfa, 033 general message M171
today on account of that, because we had picked up
our messages and because we had such a busy morn-
ing nobody was paying any attention to the tele-
printer. Unless you're thinking about it, you
don't even hear it ru_1. And it's my request that
any time you send a message up during the day,
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would you please tell us about it by voice at the

first opportunity. Otherwise, we're liable to
miss it.
CC Wilco, Pete.
CDR Yes, it wasn't until you asked me on the tele-

printer, what's on the last pass, that I bothered
even looking at that teleprinter, nor did any-
body else today.
.
22 h8h3 CC Skylab, Houston. The tape recorder will be dumped
over Vandenherg on your next pass. And, also, we
want the VTR POWER, OFF, at your convenience. We'll
be going LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard at 23:11.
CDR Roger, Houston. And the VTR POWER is OFF.
CC - - - voice control, by the way.
23 ll 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello there, Henry. How are you tonight?
CC Okay. How about yourself?
CDR Super good.
CDR What's going on in the world? We haven't got any

news to speak of.
CC Well, it's the same old thing as when you left.
CDR That 's good.

We'll have a real short pass at Hawaii at 23. If
we miSS that one, we'll be back here at Vanguard again
at hg.
23 19 07 CDR Okay.
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00 19 41 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for a minute or so.
CDR Roger, Houston.
00 22 18 CC Skylab, Houston. The clock shows us about l0 seconds

from LOS. Vanguardwill be next 49 for a data re-
cor_er dump.
CDR Roger. Roger.
CC And we'll have some EVA words there, too.
CDR Okay. We've got a whole bunch of gear lald out here
already.
00 49 09 CC Skylab, Houston at Vanguard. How do you read?
CDR Okay.
CDR Well, Rusty, we've assembled all the bits and pieces
and we do have a few questions. Have you got anything
for us first?
MCC Okay. We're ready for your questions and we've got
some additional data for you. Let me Just say that
Ed Gibson has been honchoing most of the hardware
assembly and that kind of stuff, so he's here pre-
pared to answer those questions.
CDR Okay, we - we finally figured out the brass rod trick.

And our question is : "How far from the mushroom down
the pole do you rig it?"
MCC Okay. Just above the - the locking nut, Pete. You
need it right down near the end, and that way you've
got enough slack in the line to put it over your head
if you want to, that is, run the line over your hel-
met behind you, and you can still cinch it down to
the line, to the - to the end of the pole.
CDR Boy, you lost me there.

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CC Yes. Pete. I think your question was : How far do

you put that double-prong tool from the mushroom. Is
that your question?
CDR That's the question.
O0 50 33 CC Yes. That you can put right down next to the mush-
room, as long as you've got the - on the rod and you
need the double prongs away from the mushroom so that
you can put the rope underneath it and use that as a -
wedge your rope underneath it and use it as a cleat.
The whole objective there is Just to find a way of
securing that rope taut Once you're out there.
CDR Okay. The rope is attached to the clippers.
CC That's right, Pete. You're going to take and tape one

rope, the one coming down from the cutters so you know
which one to puS1 on. Once you get out there and
hook it over the strap - and pull it taut, then you
want'to have it stay tight while - while EV-1 goes
down the five poles. So the objective there is to
have something right close to the mushroom which you
can wrap the rope around and have a little friction
looking device for the rope, Just like a cleat.
CDR Okay. Now we took the hose clamp off the thing and -
and it's barely going to make it. Ours may not be
quitethe s=,_ as yours, and it didn't have uough
serrations in it to screw it, I don't think, All the
way tight. We'll get it as tight as we can. And
then you'be got the two prongs are perpendicular to
the pole with the attached ends pointed towards the
mushroom. Is that correct?
CC That's right. The attached end towards the mushroom.

And you've got several options there to make it tight-
er. You can wrap a little tape around it or some of
that safety wire. Probably tape would do it - give
you a little extra circ,_ference there and then Just
tighten down on the clamp.
CDR Okay.
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MCC And, also, if that does not look as though it's tight
enough, Pete, if you look on the regulator on the M092,
right - the big bla2k hose coming off the back of the
regulator, there's a smaller hose clamp there and you
might want to look at using that one.
CDR Okay. Joe's got one for you.
SPT Well, yes. When you add the 24 feet to the - to the
clipper rope, are we running an endless rope down to
the crewman end of the pole, or Just one rope?
00 52 45 CC No, you're running an endless rope, but your option

is to where you want to cut it. All you really need
though is something which will reach down to the mush-
room, and it's your choice as to whether, once you're
out there, you want to loop the rope over you and in
behind you, or whether you Just want to keep it right
out - all out in front of you. We gave you an extra
feet there from what you'd really need if you Just
added l0 foot with the pole. I think you may want to
assemble that gear and figure out exactly how you're
going to use it, and make those lengths fit what you
want. We gave you what we felt was the maximum you
could ever use.
8PT I'd like _o hear a very brief description of your

technique: EVA and assembling the pole and handling
the rope and a little curious what after the work site.
CC Okay, I'll tell you what. We got some things here

which we'd like to amplify. Our description - Rusty's
Eot a whole host of things here to give you a general
idea of some of the things not included in the pad,
and I'd like to Just start at A, B - A and B and am-
plify some of those items rather quickly, and then
Rusty will hit the details of the EVA procedures
himself.
SPT Go.
00 5_ 03 CC Okay. First, to let you know what the schedule is,

as you see on the pad you got, we got a EVA sim to-
morrow morning. The main objective of that is to
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assemble the parts, cut, and tie the ropes. After

you get a11 of that done and assembled, you can ma-
neuver them around in there, hook it to the floor
grid from the aft compartment of the airlock, you
know, to simulate grabbing something 25 feet away.
And we've got two real time TV capabilities there
plus the _TR, and if you got a pencil, I'll give you
the AOS on the real time TV. Those - -
SPT Go ahead.
00 5_ _0 CC 0kay. 15:33 to 15:49, and on the next rev you got

17:10 to 17:26. At that time, you could - we're pick-
ing up real time TV and you can show us anything you
got a question on or uncertainty about, or show us a
better idea you came up with or whatever. In any case,
you can show us what you got, and we'll be glad to
answer any questions.
CDR Okay. We've got all the gear assembled in - in the

experiment upper area right now. And we were Just in
the process of putting it together and ta1_ing it over.
Go ahead.
00 55 14 CC Okay. On Wednesday evening, then, you got, as I say,

you got 3 hours tomorrow morning for fooling around.
Then Wednesday evening we're doing most of the EVA
prep that we can do in order to Shorten the prep on
Thursday morning.
CDR Wait.
MCC Okay. Also, of course, tomorrow morning after you get

a look at the use of this stuff, we would like your
evaluation on it. And if there's any reason that you
feel you'd like to have longer time, 11ke run it on
Friday or something, Just let us know and that's within
the scheme of things.
CDR Okay.
MCC The nominal plan, however, on Wednesday evening you'd

be prepping for the EVA and stowing the airlock, po-
sitioning the suits and the ALSA and all that. On
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Thursday morning, we'd have a normal wakeup time. We

got about 2 hours and 50 minutes for final prep. And
then we've got schedules b-locked out 4 hours for the
EVA. The plan is to open the hatch at sunset, which
then gives you on the order of 30 minutes to do the
initial work in the lighted area, in the SAS and
around the S_ and around the discone antenna. This
then would give us a maximum capability for going down
the side of the workshop and getting the SAS beam up
during the full dayllght pass. So the nominal hatch
open on the EVA will be Thursday morning, 15:37 Zulu.
Okay, we also have some additional EVA tasks, which we
have not talked about yet, but which I know you're aware
of. They number four. The first one is to pin open
the S05h door so that we can go back to a nominal opera-
tion on the auto door. A second one is to retrieve
and replace the S082A film. That will be low priority;
that is, we will do that only if everything else goes
okay and you feel that you're in good enough shape to
go on out and do that. But we do have plans to go
ahead 'and stow the S082A film in the aft compartments
so that you can go on down to the Sun end and take
care of that.
SPT What's wrong with the S - 82A film?
O0 57 h4 CC Okay. This is the 82A which has some indication of

the camera not working at this time, and they would
like to replace the 82A magazine.
SPT Oh, well. That's the first we heard of it, Rusty.

Okay.
CC Okay - Okay, this is related to your continuous oper-

ate light. The third - and the frame counter - The
third item is to observe and do some television of
the parasol geometry and condition and also the SAS
panels after the beam is up_ We'll - We will, there-
fore, be planning to include the television camera
and a 30-foot cable in the lock compartment. And
again, following the successful SAS beam deployment,
we'll go down and take a look at the good Job you did.
Okay, and the fourth one, which is a relatively minor
one, is to get a good look at the CSM quad A and, Pete,
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we're working out the geometry, but it looks as though

you can do that from the SAS foot restraints, Just
looking right through the trusses.
CDR What's the matter with quad A?
O0 58 5h MCC The temperatures appear to be running anomalously high

on it. And we're, at this moment, 18 seconds from
LOS at Vanguard, and we'll see you again at Ascension
here. Stand by. I'll give you the time. Okay. It'll
be 03 at Ascension.
CDR 03 at Ascension. Okay. One of the questions I want

asswered is where this pin is on the antenna?
MCC Okay, fine. We'll give you the description of that.
CDR Okay.
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01 03 03 CC Skylab, Houston at Ascension.
SPT Okay, Houston. Rusty, are you ready for your 30 sec-
onds? I want to pass on that Paul has had an apparent
failure of his urine separator to perform properly.
It does not develop any suction in the receiver, and
in the absence of further clues, he plans to change
out the separator. Now, go ahead.
MCC Okay. We got that, and before we start on the EVA,

let me give you a star tracker pad. Okay, the star
is - -
SPT ...
MCC Okay. You ready to copy the star tracker pad?
SPT Yes.
MCC Okay. The star is Achernar. And it's 52012, 50000.

It's available day _0 plus 00 to night 09:00, outer
gimbal is plus lh22, inner gimbal plus 0007, and that's
valid day 157:00:00 to 10:00.
SPT Press on.
MCC Okay. You got it?
MCC Okay. - -
SPT Press on.
MCC Okay. Here we go. If you - let me - let me Just

tell you what's coming up quickly tonight. We're
sending up additional data related to the prep and
post, related to the ATM configuration and reconfigu-
ration'afterward. You recognize that we are now not
on day 26 where we configured Just to a powerdown,
but we will be reconfiguring after the EVA to a normal
operation. So that means a change in the checklist
there. We'll be drying the LCGs instead of trashing
them. We are planning to use the aft airlock compart-
ment - that is, using the OWS hatch and therefore,
the things that were struck from the checklist which
re - relegated us only to the lock compartment will
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be rescinded and you'll see that. And we'll also have

some additional procedures for Paul to read - for EV-3
to read to perform the S054 door opening, the 82A
changeout, and the television that I mentioned. And
Ed would like to go ahead with some of the assembly
details here on the equipment.
MCC Okay. Just a - a note before We - we start on this.

You may have noticed that all throughout the proce-
dures there's a - not a consistent level of detail.
And what we've done is specify the detail when we feel
it'd save you time and effort outside. Important on
the ... Jvag_ents such as umbilical management, avoid-
ance of sharp edges, or avoidance of S-IVB skin damage,
we've not attempted to detail. We'd like your feelings
also, afterwards, on what level of detail you'd like
for the extra four tasks which we've specified. We
can give you a good level of detail on the teleprint-
ers, if you feel you need it.
01 06 30 CDR Ed, have you worked this whole thing from one end
to the other, or have you done it in bits and pieces?
MCC Yes, we've worked it from one end to the other. I've
worked it twice in the water and Rusty's gone through
it three times.
CDR No, I'm t_lklng about doing SO82B and looking at the
quad and so forth and so on, and put all of the TV
and all of the rest of the stuff in the airlock. It
sounds to me like we're getting Fibber McGee and
Molly's closet in there, but that's a ...
MCC No, we'll have a - Scott's been working that end of

it and says it can be done if you open up the aft
airlock.
SPT Go ahead with your procedural notes, Ed.
MCC Okay, on item A. The - the length of those ropes.

We've allowed some time for knot - some extra space
in there for knot-tying, and I suggest what you do is
figure out functionally what each one of those ropes
is going to do and run yourself a little C-square,
S-square to fit it to how you really want to operate
it. Down there on item 5, we call off six 5-foot EVA
sail rods. That's five rods we'll actually use.
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We've got one backup. We have three SEVA rods left

and two extra sail rods. So we're not digging into
the double pole sunshade rods. However, we're going
to bring all five of those back in, so we'll still
have them left. Item 17, SEVA shepherd hook. That's
not mentioned anywhere from here on out and the EVA;
it's strictly as a backup to the cutters, In case
we have problems hooking the cutters over a strap and
securing a good translation path down to the strap,
we can use the shepherd hook, and you have to retract
the five rods, get down to the airlock, get the shep-
herd hook, put it on, and then run it along the -
underneath the beam and you'll pick up about once
every foot and a half, a location that'll hold. How-
ever, you'd have to keep tension on the pole at that
point because otherwise you'd lost it.
SPT How wo - how would you get tension on the pole?
01 08 37 MCC Weli, EV-2 has to hold tension on the pole all the
way. We don't recommend that, but it is a backup
method in case you have problems with the cutter
method.
01 08 48 SPT How does EV-_ secure the near end of the pole, under
the normal circumstances?
MCC We've got a waist tether put on there which has got
the large Apollo hook between the mushroom and the
double-prong tool, and the other end with the small
Apollo hook fits down into that same pin at the base
of the discone antenna. That pin was used as a - to
hold a - to hold the top part of the discone antenna
during launch. When you approach that area, you will
notice the pin down on your lower right if you have
the discone antenna going up straight from your foot
to your head. In other words, if your head is up -
no, your axis is along the discone antenna and your
head pointed towards the end of it, you'll notice
right in the SAS reef ring, about a foot and a half
down, a small pin. It's about one of the only things
you've got around that we can tether on.
SPT Okay. Can we use the discone antenna as a handhold?

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MCC You can - you cam put something like - 4 foot up -

about _0 pounds or so.
MCC That's with a factor of safety too, at that point.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay; other straps or restraints. You may want to

com_e up with other ways of bundling loose rope for
ingress. We've not tried to call that out. You can
either use bungees or straps or even take out tape
if you desire. Spares, it's your choice as to whether
you want to take out more than one extra rod, an
extra pinch bar, or extra tape.
_PT Okay.
01 I0 B3 MCC Okay_ in the assembly of the gear, there's two major

pieces of hardware: the cutter, which - and five
poles_ and a HET. Item i: We put the tape on the Jaw
in order to protect the skin of the S-IVB as you're
sliding that down there. Item 2: The two-prong pole,
the tool, I think we've discussed using that as a
cinching tool. Item 3: It's your choice as to how
you put those sail rods together. Rusty and I used
it like you use tape and put it together like a hamel
belt. However, seeing that you folks will be putting
that back into the airlock and then having to go back
out again, we recommend that you use bungees or
springs or seme other method which will allow you to
repack it on ingress and keep it _ I tied down tight.
SPT Are you talking about the rope that's on the cutter?
MCC We're t_l_ing about the EVA sail rods at that point,
and hoW you bundle those and keep them secured in a -
in the bundle i_ the airloek before you go out. It
looks as though - -
SPT Okay. Press on.
Ol ii 43 MCC Okay. Item 4: The assembly of the SET. You'll have

to - that 6-foot rope - you should allow it to slide
through the 32-foot rope so that the load is distrib-
uted equally on the 6-foot rope. You may want to tie
knots around 6 inches or so on each side of the center
of the 6-foot rope. That gives you an ease of handling,
that is, it won't - the 6-foot rope won't slide through
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one way or the other all the way. And it also pre-
vents large changes of length if a small hook slips
out while you are putting tension on the BET. That's
your own discretion.
SPT Okay. We understand all that.
01 12 18 MCC Okay. We're coming up to 20 minutes - 20 seconds to

LOS. Do you have any questions before we go over
the hill?
SPT I'm curious what - what position the two of you took
when you - when you put the rod together?
MCC Okay, Joe. We're going to have to hit that tomorrow

during the B-hour period. You've got @?_m at 49 coming
up with the Evening Status Report. We'll see you
tomorrow morning.
SPT Okay.
SPT Hello.
CDR Hello, Henry. We're up to urineseparators EVA gear,

here. Just a second and I'll give you the Evening
Status Report.
CC Okay.
O1 47 53 CDR Okay, Hank. The CDR ate everything plustwo butter

cookies plus eight optional salts.
CC Skylab, for info, we're going to be commanding or

swapping the mission timers in the ATMDC so we can
update timer B. It seems to be drifting.
CDR Okay.
CDR The SPT didn't eat his catsup with bres2fast because
it's spoiled, and he ate everything else except
item 60. On the snack, orange drink. He had a total
Delta H20 of plus one and no optional salts. The PLT
ate everything today except item 62 under snacks;
coffee with sugar. He had seven optional salts.
Okay. The Photo Log for day 156. We had an M151-1
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with CIOH - excuse me - ClOh, 23, MT01. Now, trans-

porter 04 J_med during the MI51-1, and we finished
that on transporter 02. And transporter 02 for the
MISI-I is CI05 with now 60 remaining, CI01. _EP
we had a BH01, 80; and the MI31-1 SPT was a CI03 and
we ran her out SP10 and it's empty. Thirty-five mil-
limeter we had a CI3405, a CI2631; 70-millimeter
ZX06 i0; the h-TO 119; EREP set Oscar 6707, 6043, 6918,
6914, 0455, 7774; and our configuration of drawer A
is 02 CI0560, CI01; A-2 is an 03, CI0300 MTI0; A-3 is
an 04, CI0425, Mike Tango 01. And Mike Tango 01
transporter 04 is the one that's J_mmed. Floating is
transporter 05, C125 i00 percent, MTII. We had no
deviations from the Flight Plan. The stowage is
changed considerably in that we have all that EVA
gear spread out on topside, and we're in a fixed
state of flux at the moment. And the inoperable
piece of equipment, which we are working on, is the
PLT urine separator, and we're in the process of
changing the filter at this time.
CC Roger. Did you _ the malf procedure on that?
CDR What malf procedure?
CC Roger. That 's waste, number 6.
CDR Say again.
CC Waste, 6.
01 52 24 CC Okay. We've got a few other things for you. Just

so you're not surprised, we're going to be up-linking
tonight, a powerdown procedure for the EVA to minimize
the power consumption during the EVA. And we'd like
to apologize for the S082A thing we hit you with to-
night. That's sort of been working behind the lines
here, and I guess we were kind of waiting until we had
a full storage. It seems that the combination of the
frames remaining not working and the OPERATE light on
all the time - We thought that the camera was working.
All the indications were good, but somebody tracked
down a single point failure where you'd have all those
indications and the camera wouldn't be working. So
we thought that the safest thing to do would he to
change it out while we're out on the EVA. Also, Just
so we can kind of update you here, we've got a system
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status in work. And what we're going to do is up-

link, as soon as possible, a complete picture of all
the systems in here. Things we think you ought to
know. And, also, one more item, the AM coolant loop.
You know we've been bringing up the primary loop every
night. Well, it seems that we've reached a point
where this is not doing any good so we're going to
operate on the secondary loop tonight and with auto-
matic switchover enable. And that will be to con-
serve power.
CDR Okay. I gathered because we're at zero beta that

we've gotten to our lowest thermal conditions. Is
that correct?
CC We don't think that's it. I think we've Just about

reached thermal equilibrium, Pete, is what the story
is there on the coolant loop.
CDR Gee,.you wouldn't think it'd take it this long for

the vehicle to stabilize.
CDH Okay. Now, as beta angle goes back up, you think
it's going to stay at this temperature?
CDR Pay us no mind. Let us know later.
CDR Still there, Houston?
01 55 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 1 minute to LOS.

Vanguard's coming up at 26:00 for your medical
conference.
CDR Okay.
CC Pete, before we lose out here, the general concensus

here is that we're going to get a little cooler as
the beta goes up because it looks like you'll be
radiating more to space rather than to the Earth with
a high albedo.
CDR Caught me in midstream. I thought you'd left and I

was halfway between here and there. Roger. Thank
you.
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CDR Are you still there, Houston?
01 56 17 CDE Okay. Systems housekeeping CM-4 is complete.
CDR Fuel cells did purge.
CC Roger, copy.
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02 31 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We got 5 more minutes with you.
PLT Okay, Henry. We got the urine drawer fixed. After

we fixed it, we read the mA1f procedures and decided
we pretty much did the right thing. And we fixed it
by changing the filter. So, it's back in operation,
and I put it on B channel; but the stowage people
should scratch one urine filter from dome hhS, I
think it was.
CC Roger; copy.
CC Paul, which filter was that you replace? Was that the
fecal filter there, or was that the one that's in the
separator cell?
PLT No, that's the urine separator filter, Hank.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got a - a quickie for you. I

was wondering if you'd consider doing a solar inertial
EREP pass tomorrow over the hurricane that's off the
west coast of Mexico now. We could - what we'd do
is use the SPT and PLT with S193 only, and the Nikon
with a 300-milllmeter lens. And this would take
about 5 minutes at 18:57 tomorrow. The S193, of
course, would have to be warmed up for 15 minutes
before this time.
CDR Sure. Be glad to.
CC Roger. We'll crank that into the Flight Plan then,

as a small DELTA.
CDR Okay.

be coming up on Ascension at 40.
SPT Okay. See you there.

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02 40 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Our apologies for the evening

questions. We've been busy working the EVA stuff
that's got to go up tcmorrow, and we haven't got them
ready yet. We'll get them up as soon as we can, and
you can put them on channel B at your leisure.
PLT Okay, no sweat. As a matter of fact, Henry, we're

probably going to sleep in tomorrow, because what
Pete wants to do is make sure we get this gear
together, that we understadd how it operates, and
talk over the procedures a little bit. So, rather
than tackle that first thing in the morning, we're
going to make sure we got it squared away tonight.
And if that means go to bed late, we'll get up late.
CC Roger.
PLT How about giving the station pass times from about
ll:30 to 13:00 tomorrow, will you, please?
CC Okay, I'll - -
PLT Have you got those?
CC - - I can get them shortly.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're mulling over whatyou Just

said there. You know, we've got a pretty good block
of time set up tomorrow morning to go through this
thing with all the EVA guys. A lot of those guys
have already gone home now, and wouldn't be able to
support tonight. We'd like to do as much of it as
possible during the block of 3 hours we've got
tc_orrow morning.
PLT 0h, we're going to do it then, Hank. We Just want

to make sure that we have straight in our minds what's
going on, so that we can ask more meaningful questions
in the morning, and we didn't want to talk to anybody
else any more tonight.
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CC Oh, okay. Copy. And those - Okay, and those times

tomorrow. We have a pass at Madrid right at - Madrid
and Canar - Canaries right at ll:00. And Honeysuckle
is the n_xt one at 11:45.
PLT Yes, okay. If we get up after that Just look for a

l0 thou [sic] on the DAS.
CC Wilco.
MCC Skylab, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
MCC Yes. If - are you guys going to cut some rope

tonight?
PLT That's what we're doing right now.
02 46 05 MCC Okay_ Let me give you a clue on that. You may have
already discovered, when you cut that TBI, it begins
to fray very, very rapidly on the end. The people
in crew systems discovered that if you wrap where you
want to cut with tape and then cut through the tape,
it stays .very nice and neat; and that'll help you a
great deal.
PLT I'm getting all kinds of help, pats on the back from
these other guys, but we got - figured it out. Thank
you, anyway.
MCC Okay.
PLT I thought you left.
MCC They lied.
MCC If you got anything else you want to know, Just ask
the question. We got a few minutes.
PLT • Okay.
SPT Hey, Rusty, I'd still like to hear you describe

briefly, in what direction, and in what manner you
put the pole together.
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MCC Okay. EV-I gets out into the FAS, and you begin to
assemble the pole, starting with the mushroc_ end
first. You've already got the mushroom on one of the
poles and you start that one out. You put four poles,
or all five poles together, and then you put the
cutter on the end of the fifth pole. And EV-1 passes
it in exactly the same direction we do erecting the -
the M_C sail. That is, you pass it right down parallel
to the double handrail. You have to be a little bit
careful in that you don't have EV-2 out there. But,
once you get it put together, you put it on the
temporary stowage hook they used to - the scissor
mechanism on the cutter on the temporary stowage hook.
And it stays in place very nicely, and it can't hurt
anything out there.
SPT Okay. Does he pay line as he goes then?
MCC That's negative. When EV-2 moves up to the A-frame

by the diseone antenna and EV-1 passes it back up to
him, you - he then begins to pay out line.
MCC Okay. I probably dropped out there, Skylab. Where

did we leave you?
SPT You left me on m_way up to the A-frame.
MCC Okay. After you get to the A-frame, EV-1 then begins
to pass it cutter-end first up through the trusses to
you. And as he_ starts to put - put it up through the
trusses, he begins to deploy the clothesline around
it at that point. So that when it comes up past you,
Joe, you'll have the pole and the two lines running
down. And when it - when EV-1 gets to the first pole,
he cinches the line around the two-pronged tool, so
that when it gets up to you, it's all one piece.
02 49 44 SPT Okay, thank you. Very good. And I don't have any
more questions right at the moment, Rusty.
MCC Okay.
SPT We've got thatpole rigged here in the OWS and we're
custom-tying the knots to it right now.
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MCC Okay, fine. Let me say one other thing, since you're
tying knots. When you t%e the 32-foot TBI rope onto
the 6-foot rope, the bridle, we're suggesting you use
a bow in there to allow it to slip through rather
than a slip knot. And we suggest that you make a
loop in the bow quite small so that, in case one of
the hooks lets go at the bottom of the - of the vent
module, that it can't slip through that knot and
release all that energy.
02 50 34 SPT Roger. Pete understands.
MCC Okay. And, if you got time to listen, Joe, let me

tell you the technique about - about cutting with
those cutters on the end of that long pole.
SPT Please go ahead.
MCC Okay, When you get to cutting the strap , and we'll
talk' a little more about the detailed procedures
tomorrow, but when you get to cutting the strap, we
found that once you've got the cutters cinched around
what you want to cut_ that you really don't need to
cc_press the pole. That is, you don't need to pull
the rope and push the pole. You can simply hold on
to the rope and pull it, so that you are actually
pulling on what you are cutting. If you understand
what I mean.
SPT Yes, we understand that. And - the - on - there is

another question. Have you tried this technique of
partly biting into something and have them form a
stable end point for our EVA trail?
MCC Yes, sir, and it works very, very well. And until
we devel - until we decided to try that, we were
really flailing around very badly out there. Dick
Gordon came to mind more than once.
SPT Okay.

We'll be here if you need us. We'll say good night
now. Just a couple of seconds ago we picked up what
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looks like maybe some problems with CBRM 17. We're

going to keep an eye on it. We hope we won't have
to wske you up for it. We'll be looking for a 10,O00
on the DAS in the morning, and we will not call you.
02 58 27 SPT Roger that, Houston. And good night, all.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GHOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
12 16 32 CDR Houston, Skylab. i
12 18 14 CC Skylah, Houston; we see the/'10,000 do not enter."

Go ahead.
CDR Good morning.
CC Good morning. How y'all doing this morning?
CDH Well, I'm the first one up. The rest of the guys are
still in the sack a little bit. I wanted to give
you a status report on what we got done last night
also I have a SCAN SPECT light here. I wonder ...
CC Roger. Stand by Just a second, Pete.
12 19 31 CC CDR, Houston. For about the last hour or so we've

been having some problems with S055 high voltage, and
we're - the ATM officer is checking now to see if
that's what caused the light. If you want to go
ahead with other stuff, go ahead.
CDR Okay. Give you a status of where we got last night.

We went to bed about an hour and a half late. But we
completely built the EVA pole and we've completely
built the BET. And, I have one question on the BET
when we get to it this morning but I Just wanted to
let you know where we were. And then what we're
going to work on the rest of the morning during the
EVA stuff here is attsrBiug and constructing things
to - that have to be deployable. That's the test
for one area that bothers me a little bit because
most of what we have to work with is eigher gray tape
which I think ... Well, we have a fair a_ount of bags,
such as some of the bags off the JSC sail and every-
thing. I think we're going to have a little surveying
with ourselves this morning to find out which way we
might go.
CC Roger, CDR. Be advised there is a lot of background

noise and l'm not sure I copied all that. Also,
Rusty and the EVA people are going to he in a little
bit later this morning to prepare for y'all's SIM.
So rather than repeat that now you might Just hold it
until they can hear it directly and try to help you
answer the questions.
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CDR Okay, very good. We're up and about now and we hope
to stay on the original schedule and we're getting
ready to do Mll0.
CC Roger, Pete. While I've got you on the phone there's

a couple of changes that I'd like to make to the PLT
and SPT Details Pads, please.
CDR Okay, you caught me "in my pajamas and I don't have

anything to write with. Let me go down below and
I'll be right back.
CC Well, I'll tell you what, one thing real quickly

there's a bunch of stuff on the PL - on the SPT de-
tails that has to do with doing the Mll0 photography,
the TV-_ real time and we'd like to put that all on
the VTR.
CDR Okay. You want to put it on the VTR. We have the

TV set up. And we were expecting to do it on the
so we'll - -
CC Roger, due to y'all sleeping in a little bit late, it

just turns out to be a little bit better squared
away to let you go ahead andput it on VTR and we'll
dump it later.
CDR Okay, what time were the passes?
12 22 32 CC Well, actually we're in one of them right now so - so

we thought it'd Just be easier to Just go ahead and
let you - when you get to it Just use the VTR and
then we wouldn't have to coord/nate.
CDR Okay, we'll put it on the VTR to dump.
CC Okay.
SPT What else you got, Dick?
12 22 53 CC Okay, on the PLT details. I guess last night before

y'all went to bed they talked about this hurricane,
and taking a look in solar inertial at a little bit
of EREP. We've up-linked two general messages. One
for the PLT on the EREP, S193, so we'd like to add to
the PLT's Detail Pads at 18:40 EREP SI OPERATE per a
pad. And for the friendly SPT, we'd like to add - at
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18:43 that's now in his Details Pad, Just delete the item
that says PCU removal and change that to read EREP
photos which is also supported by a pad we up-linked
during the evening. And Just a reminder to you guys,
you know, that to get that PCU out of locker D422 is
something that takes a little bit of time and we fig-
ured y'all could do that during the EVA preprep of
this afternoon, and that's on the Flight Plan.
SPT Okay.
12 28 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda for the next

7 minutes. Be advised we're not going to do any
more unattended ops this daylight cycle, so we're
putting the bird back in solar inertial mode. We're
also closing the fine sensor - Sun sensor doors
these norm_1 operations. Also, be advised that
SCAN SPECT light was caused hy some high voltage
trip-offsin SO55. We've been working that problem
Just 'for about the last hour or so, and we'd like to
look at the data before we work it - before we turn
it on again. So on any ATM operations from here,
do not operate S055 until further notice, and we'll
let you know how our data looking goes.
CDR Okay.
12 33 5h CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be LOS in about

1 minute. We're going to see you at Canary at 12:36,
Just a couple of minutes dropout.
CDR Okay.
12 37 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back at Canary; got you for

9 minutes.
PLT Read you, ....
12 37 53 CC And Skylab, Houston. A couple of more things; the

INCO Just reported a few seconds - a few minutes ago,
that he's got a low paper indication on the tele-
printer. So sometimes today, if one of you guys
get a chance, we'd appreciate if you'd change the roll
of paper. Also, I've got a - a solar activity update
that I ought to pass on to the CDR sometime before he
doeshis ATMpass this morning, _ssuming that you do
get squared away up there in time for him to do that
pass.
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PLT Okay. Give it tome, then.
CC Stand by, Just a second.
12 B8 41 CC Roger. I'll give you the solar activity in Just a

second, Joe. Be advised also we're now configuring
the rate gyros in our normal two gyros up per axis,
and this is normal.commanding at the start of the
day. On the solar activity, we've got active surge
regions in SE 13 and NE 16, and those active surge
regions continue. Old active region 08 is due back
at SE 13 at about 20:00 Zulu today. An eruptive
prominence on the limb to about 0.08 solar radii
occurred at NE 16 at about 07:35 this morning. And
we have a possihly new developing region at 13/0.2,
and that was also 8 few hotlrs ago at about 07:00.
One more advisory: active regions 2_, 27, and 28 now
have spots in them.
PLT Looks like an epidemic of measles is coming on. Stand

by.
SPT Dick, apparently you're not using arc meters on these

things, and we were - we were agreed we were going to
use arc meter coordinates for all solar features.
Would you ask the guys to translate those into arc
meters for us, please?
CC Go ahead.
SPT Try ... 13's and the NE 16is and so forth.
CC Roger. I certainlywill, Joe. Stand by.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. I've got the corrections to

that goof up we made on readiD_ up the coordinates on
the solar activity update.
SPT Okay. Let's go.
12 4_ 22 CC Okay. The active surge regions that are still con-

tinuing are the 260 at a radius of 1.O and at 28.0,
also on the limb at 1.0. The old active region that's
due back is on the limb 260 at 1.0. And the errup-
tive prominence that occurred out to the 0.08 solar
radii was at 280 at 1.0.
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SPT Thank you very much.
CC Roger.
12 _5 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds to LOS.

We're going to drop out for a couple of minutes and
then have a short 2 or 3 minute pass at Ascension.
SPT Okay.
12 h8 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for the next

3 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
12 50 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Honeysuckle at 13:22.
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13 22 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Honeysuckle for the

next 8 minutes.
SPT Roger. "
CC And we didn't get our gyro reconfiguration complete.

We were still doing X-axis; so we'll need you to
stay off the DAS for a minute or so. And you might
want to put your X-axis rate gyro monitor in 1 and 2,
because that will be the configuration.
SPT Okay. We will when we go up there, Houston. We're

eating breakfast right now.
CC Roger.
SPT Mll0 is on the VTR, whenever they can strip it, Crip.
CC Roger. Understand. You've got it on the VTR.
SPT Hey, what"s going on in the world down there? Any-

body got a morning paper around?
CC I'll see if I can get some news for you. It's

kind of dull down - -
SPT We'd appreciate it. We haven't heard much in the

last week.
CC You're the guys that have got all the news going.
CC Houston had its annual rain storm last night.

have you again at Hawaii at 13:h3, 13:h3. No Joy
on the news. Everybody's getting up so early, there
isn't anybody seeing the newspaper. Tell you what.
We'll try to find one such that we can read you
some news with your dinner tonight.
SPT Okay. How about passing it on too, Crip. We'd kind

of like to hear some morning news, each morning
around breaking ... time.
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CC Roger. We tried that for a while, but the news

has been so bad, or so boring, that there hasn't
been anything worthwhile passing up to you. I guess
about the only thing going on is still Watergate
and you guys.
SPT Well, keep us posted on how we're doing, will you?
13 30 04 CC Okay.
13 41 56 CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over Hawaii for the next

l0 minutes.
PLT Okay. We have a - well, wait a minute.
PLT Disregard.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Crip, disregard the disregard.
CC Roger.
PLT On general message 2, one of the questions, "Do

we" - I guess question 2 on the general message.
Do we agree with the leading lines ll, 12, and 1B,
of the ZLV m_neuver pad? I assume that that is the
fine maneuver tweak to the - back FI ... Is that
right?
CC Let me clarify that for you. Stand by 1.
13 45 08 PLT Hey, Crip. If nobody's got anything else, we'll

give you the real time answers to the questions.
CC Okay. That first question you did have, that was

correct. All they were talking about was the fine
tweaks for the solar inertial mode.
PLT Yeah, okay. Are you ready for some answers? You
got the questions?
CC Roger. Why don't you go ahead?
13 45 31 PLT Okay, number l, tape recorder 2, (A) about the tape

motion light. Yes, to me it did seem characteristic
of speed ... They kind of, as I mentioned when it
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happened, flickered on and off then would go off

for a while, come back on and then stay on for a
while. And then - off flickered which gradually
turned to on flickers, if you understand what I
mean, and it would light back on again.
CC Okay.
PLT It was intermittent through the 60 ... operation,

as a matter of fact, did not occur during the - the
speed up part of the tape.
CC Did not occur when you speeded it up?
PLT That's right, During the speed change the light

went out and it came right back on and stayed on
for a while. It was after it had been running for
a while that I noticed the light flickered.
CC Okay.
PLT When I changed the tape yesterday, I did not notice

any difference between the areas for the two passes.
Ntmber 2 on the D0P maneuver pads if that's what
lines ll, 12, and 13 are. Yes, I agree with deleting
them.
CC Okay.
13 46 37 PLT If they're going to be zero forever. Well even if

they're not, as long as they're at zero, I think
you can leave them off.
CC Okay.
PLT Ntnnber 3, that was the one time in occurrence; they

never came on again.
CC Roger.
PLT I don't understand the second part of the question.

It says, '_id the light appear during OFF?" I
assume that running a continous mode is considered
OFF, and that's when it came on. I don't really
understand it. You got a quick clarification on
that part of the question, Crip?
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CC Let me see if I can get ERE? to clarify - correction -

Adam to clarify that.
PLT Okay, and I only noticed it in the end of the third

part to that question. It was when I was changing
building blocks. So I don't know if that mode
stopped or not. I don't recall - I didn't consciously
look at the sequence complete talkback and l'm afraid
I can'_ tell you what its status was.
CC Okay, but it was one time only AA and it did occur

when you were in the continuous mode?
PLT Yes, sir.
CC Okay.
PLT Number 4. The strange thing about centering that

white light coronagraph on the TV is that it changes
with roll. So for that roll, yes, up 0 and right 24
was a good number but as soon as you r011 off they
change.
SPT I used right 20 and up i0 in a couple of rolls.
PLT Yes, youuse a different thing. If we're going to

use this technique I think the operator, Crip, is
Just going to have to go and he's going to have to
tweak it up on _he TV, switch back see if he's still
got a ready light. I think we'll soon determine the
boundaries of the ready light which are at about 25
on the times i scale.
CC Okay, understand it changes with roll and the

boundary is about 25.
PLT Yes, that's where you can't get the READY light
anymore.
CC Understand.
13 48 h6 PLT Number 5 is - I guess we haven't been placing a

coalignment data on channel B. I ran one yesterday
or the day before, whenever, and nothlng's changed
since the first coalignment. All it amounts to is
a check. At least Pete and I. Let me check with
Joe.
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13 49 ii PLT Okay, the only changes that have occurred is when

the friendly expert SPT has run them and he has
recorded that data on channel B. The ones that
the CDR and PLT have run are - there have been no
changes, they have Just been checks.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, the last question. They're pretty simple

I'll tell you what the cue cards mean is is nothing
but - and what we've done is we have left the EREP
checklist and are using the m-,_ary time line, as I
mentioned on channel B on page i-i. There is a
couble check after we do it fast, for in the middle
of it we go back and check the checklist. But you
can not follow the flow of what you're doing in
that checklist, so we're using a s1,-,,arytimeline.
And our cue card is basically the T minus i0 item
under operator i on that s1-,ma_y.
13 50 14 CDR And Crip, I have mounted a DS card on the center of

the panel which has four items on it : S192 door
open, S191 door open, S190 door open, and tape
recorder power ON, because these were the ones
that are buried throughout the cutup checklist
as it is now. And as you know, we missed one of
those the other day, and I have that mounted right
in the middle of the C&D console.
CC Roger, understand. Power ON on 92, 91, and 193,

and the tape recorder power ON.
CDR No, no. Door, door open - -
CC l'm sorry.
CDR - - 192 door, 191 door, 190 door and tape recorder
power ON. Where are you?
13 51 01 CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds to LOS, and

we'll see you again at Goldstone at 13:54.
CDR Okay, and on the other general message on question

number 1 we'll try and tighten both switches on
panel 617. We haven't gotten to that yet. And we
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have done question number - n,_er 4. We have done

for you ... we've opened the TCF logic CB's on
panel 614. Okay?
CC Okay, and we were happy with Paul's answer on ques-

tion 3 on the evening questions.
SPT Okay.
13 54 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you again over Goldstone

now for the next 6 minutes.
PLT Hey, Crip, I'm going to power down the teleprinter

to change the paper.
CC Roger. Copy.
13 56 00 CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know whether you're aware

of it or not, but we've been having some problems
with CBRM 17. And there's not really anything
physically for you guys to do, but I was going to
give you an update on its status if you'd like to
listen.
SPT Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay, the - on 17 the REG output is no more than

two-thirds of its normal output during the day,
but it reaches full output about 12 minutes after
sunset. The _0attery's reaching charge complete in
normal time. We think the problem is possibly a
shorted REG output transistor. We had the same
problem on day 1_4, and it disappeared in about
l0 hours. This problem began on day 157 at about
2:55 this morning. I guess that really what this
means is that we're going to be down some more
power for your EVA tomorrow.
SPT Roger, understand.
13 57 16 CDR Hey, Crip, question number i: "Have you attempted

to tighten the loop and instrumentation system
mode switch saddle 6177" We tried, and they've
got some kind of lock nut on them. We don't want to
force them; so we'll leave them the way they are.
CC Roger.
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CDR Go out and tighten that lock nut.
CC Okay.
13 59 14 CC We're getting a chance to look at that TV you recorded

for us this morning. Pete,s got his arm out right
now ready to get the needle stuck in.
SPT Yeah, watch the eyes.
CC (Laughter) Did they go white?
CDR And, Crip, you don't want us to operate in 55 at all

this morning, right?
14 00 20 CC That's affirm. Not until we give you a GO on it.

We're going to lose you for Just a few seconds
here, and I guess we'll get you at Mila at 14:03.
CDR Okay.
14 04 35 CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over MILA for the next

i0 minutes - for the next i0 minutes. And, Pete,
if you've got a chance to listen, l've got a little
more details on some of that SAS information we
gave you this morning.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. We have given that one region coming over

the limb at 28 - at 1.0 n,,mber active region 31
and a leader Sun spot is in view, with a smut1
surge in progress.
CDR Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT I'm not going to do M487-_80 this morning. I don't

have time. Could we reschedule that later in the
flight?
CC Roger, understand negate 487-_80.

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SPT Okay, Houston, teleprinter paper is changed out,

for information the di_._ter of this paper remaining
was 7/8 inch.
CC Roger, understand 7/8 inch and it is changed out,

thank you.
SPT Righ_.
14 ll 06 CDR There, Houston?
CC Go.
CDR I've got to see someone to operate 55. My pad is

no good for J0P 7, paragraph I, is that correct?
You don't want to run that?
CC Stand by, l'm pretty sure that's correct.
CC Pete, they checked out that high voltage and they'd

like you to go ahead and use 55 as called for right
after the roll in buildingblock i.
CDR Okay.
14 14 09 CC Skylab, Houston we're going to be LOS in about

30 seconds. We'll have you again at Ascension at
14:21 - 14:21 and we'll be doing a data dtmp at that
pass.
CDR Okay.
lh 21 32 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Ascension for the

next l0 minutes and we'll be doing the recorder dump.
CDR Okay.
14 26 05 PLT Houston, you there?
CC Affirmative, go ahead, Paul.
PLT Hey, we rea1_zed last night that we're not sure

_hat the status of the fire sensor control panel
is supposed to be. They've all been on button 2 -
most all of them - the last 4 or 5 days, whenever
that message was sent up. Is that the intent or
is the intent to swap the fire sensor control panel --
to bus 2 when a CAUTION and WARNING is powered down
during the day, CAUTION and WARNING i?
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CC Our intent is to leave them on bus 2 all the time

so you won't have to be running back and forth
changing them.
14 28 33 PLT (Music) I love you, Alice B Crippen.
CC Pete, that sounds mighty sweet. We've got an

indication right now that we do not have 82A in
AUTO 1 NORMAL and-we would like it that way, please,
sir.
CDR Ah ha. 82A up here is in that AUTO i NORMAL,

WAVELENGTH, ON.
CC Okay.
CDR Now, let me give it a - I gave it a start, maybe it

didn't start. How's that look?
CC That looks good to us now.
CDR Maybe I gave it a start - maybe I didn't.
CC Understand you had an operate light?
CDR 82A has an operate light all the time and the frame
counter is stuck at 182 which has been that way for
the last - -
CC Yes, okay. Sorry about that. Forgot about it.
CDR Well, I did too because I haven't had that much

time on the ATM here.

see you again over CRO at 14:54 - i_:54.
CDR Roger, Roger.
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lh 5h 32 MCC Skylab, Houston. Over Carnarvon for next i0 minutes.
i_ 5h 51 MCC Skylab, Houston. Over Carnarvon for about

9-1/2minutes.
CDR Roger. Hello, there, Rusty. I got a question for

you. Why - Is there any reason we can't use the
one-way reefing block on the BET, also, next to the
big hook?
MCC We've looked at that, Pete, and it does not look as

though that would take the load. You're talking
about the - the thing that was originally designed
for the SEVA sail deployment?
CDR Yes_
MCC Okay. It does not appear that that will take the
kind of load that we need to put into that line_
therefore we wanted to Just tie it on to the apex
hook.
CDR Okay, understand. I thought that that was probably

the reason.
MCC Okay, what we'd like to do here in the next few

hours is to handle any questions you have, and,
with the total EVA, we've got a lot of information
that we plan on passing up to you. However, we'd
like first to handle any questions which you might
have on the assembly of the gear, the hardware itself.
CDR Well, we have assembled the pole. As a matter of

fact, it's Still all put together in here. We have
lengthened the rope, we've assembled the pole, we
have the horns on it - the brass horns - and I've
made the BET. The only thing I'm going to have to
do is take the reefing block off it. I Just left
that there to see whether it could be used or not.
And I think that what we're going to spend the
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next couple of hours doing is making up these

packages. I guess if I have any questions at all,
it's mainly concerned wlth the general statement
package for EVA deploy, and that leaves a lot to
the imagination. And I think we're going to look
around in there and think that over for a while.
We've been talking about it, but we haven't done
any packaging yet.
14 56 54 MCC Okay, you're entire3_7 right. That does leave a lot

to the imagination, and we figure you guys got a
lot of that. What we meant, of course, is to
essentially package the ropes in such a way that
you - you do the equivalent of what Mike Bennett
does over there with the clothesline packages. But
obviously, you're going to have to S the lines
back and forth and put tape, probably, around
each end, or maybe Just around the middle in such
a way that as you string out - the thing is going
down the EV trail, that it'll deploy nicely.
CDR Yes. I wish they'd put more of my rubber bands

in here than we have because rubber bands would have
been ideal; but I don_t think we have enough rubber
bands.
MCC We did it, Pete, in the water tank using the gray
tape and put a strip of tape around each end of
an S - as we S the thing back and forth and put
a piece of tape around each end, and it tended
to deploy quite nicely. We really did not end up
with any problems with it in the water.
MCC Pete, you want to make sure, also, that when you
put those ears on the tape - when you fold the
tape back over on itself - you m_e those ears
plenty large. What looks good witout a glove on
looks pretty small with the glove.
CDR Yes. I understand that.
MCC Okay, and if you're ready, Pete, we can start on

some of the detail information regarding the EVA
operation itself.
14 58 30 CDR Okay, I'm ready to copy.

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MCC Okay. First, there's one piece of teleprinter up-

date that hasn't come up yet, and this is the ad-
ditional EVA procedures which will cover you for
the remove and re - retrieve and replace on the
S082A, the - other - the ATM operations on the Sun-end,
the TV operation, and that kindof thing. That will
be coming up to you as soon as we can get it all
verified a_ud checked out here. It should be up
sometime within the next few hours.
14 59 03 CDR Okay.
14 59 05 MCC Okay. To give you an idea of what you're going to

see, or what we think you're going to see, when you
get down there next to the beam, I'd like to Just
refresh your memory on what that longitudinal splice
looks like. The splice itself is made up of - aside
from the meteoroid skin - is made up of two pieces
of metal. One of them is a - an angle which is made
of 7075 T6 aluminum. And that's a 1-1/4 by 3/4 by
063 angle. The long leg of that angle, the l-l/4
is against the meteoroid skin, with the angle - that
is, the long leg - pointing toward the meteoroid -
or rather toward the beam. The - -
14 59 59 PLT Okay, Rusty. Rusty, was the long leg attached to

the meteoroid shield, or was it attached to the
angle next to i_?
MCC The long leg is attached to the meteoroid shield

itself and points toward the beam. The 3/4-inch
leg then comes perpendicular to the meteoroid shield.
The skin comes up against that, and then there's a
doubler plate, which is 3/4-inch by 0.125. And
that's6061 T6 aluminum. And those two 3/4 inch
legs are then bolted together. Now -
15 O0 40 CDR Okay, we understand.
MCC Okay. Now, the bolts that go through those - that

3/4-inch flange - are pointed away from the beam.
That is, the bolt heads are towards the beam, and
the thread sticks through, and they protrude a
considerable amount up to a half an inch beyond the
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nuts on the - that go up against the doubler plate

there. And we think that what happened was that
that angle, as it ripped off - as the meteoroid
shield ripped off, was rotated 270 degrees, and
that the threads are stic]hing into the side of the
beam, right up at the top.
CDR Yes, something is mA_ing it stick to the beam, and

that 's probably it.
MCC Okay. Now the reason we wanted to describe that is

because from your verbal description and also the
photo interpretation we've done from the enhanced
TV, it looks as though the 7075 aluminum bracket may
be missing as that angle comes up across the - the
beam. And then right at the end, it looks as though
you've got both pieces of metal there. What we
mainly want to let you know is that the doubler plate,
the 3/4 by 0.125 6061, is soft al,lm_uum and is easier
to cut than is the 7075.
15 02 Ol CDR Understand.
MCC Okay, we also - I don't know if you had a chance to

practice with the bone saw, but we've got identified
for you a piece of 7075 aluminum inside, and that
was the Yaunch support bracket. It's referred to
in the SWS Activation Checklist, page 3-29. It's
the bracket that held up the panel 612 for launch
vibration. That's a 1-1/8 by 1-1/8 7075 T6 bracket,
and feel free to cut through it. The only precaution
is - you want to have a vacuum cleaner sitting right
on top of it so you don't end up with aluminum chips.
15 02 43 CDR Okay.
PLT Hey, Rusty, I got one question on this doubler.
MCC Speak.
PLT Is the doubler on the back side of the meteoroid

shield from the angle?
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MCC That's negative. Paul, if you'll lay the meteoroid

shield right up against the skin of the vehicle,
both - the seam is on top of it - that is, on the
outside of the meteoroid shield. Well, I think you
got the picture, right?
PLT Yes, I got that. But is the doubler on the other

side of the meteoroid - or between the shield and
the angle?
15 03 17 MCC Okay. Starting from the left, you have the - the
7075 angle. The skin coming from the left, if
you're looking plus-X up, the skin comes over and
stops at the edge of the 7075 angle. The skin com-
ing from the right comes over to it and raises
toward you 90 degrees, up against the 3/4-inch leg.
The doubler is i_nediately on the right side of that,
and both of those, then, are on the upper side of
the - that is, the outside surface of the meteoroid
shield. By the way, we got 25 seconds to LOS here,
and we pick up Guam at 15:09.
15 03 52 PLT Okay. I got a question, then, about the - about the

vent module.
15 Oh 02 MCC Okay, right. I got a description of that for you.

You can keep right on talking here. We can listen
to you, at any rate, and know what your questions
are, and we'll be ready for you over Guam.
PLT Okay, my only concern is what hole is he supposed to

hook these hooks in. I was briefed before we left
and was told that those rectangular plates were sup-
posed to be blown off at lift-off, and that then
there would be two round vent holes in the module.
Is that so or not?
15 04 27 MCC That's not so; but we don't really need to worry

about that because we don't use that part of it
to hook on the - the BET.
PLT That's all I wanted to make sure.
MCC Okay.
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SPT Okay, I've got a couple of questions for you to

consider on their restraint. Nt_nber i, how does
EV-2 restrain himself so he can find the pole
initially? And ntmber 2, how does EV-2 restrain
himself while he is either repositioning the arm ... ?
15 09 32 MCC Skylab, Houston at Gn,m.
PLT Hey, Rusty. We don't understand what we can practice

on with the bone saw. That support under that
electrical panel is nothing but sheet, which is
corrugated and then curled up at the ends. We thought
you said something about l-l/8 by l-l/8 angle.
MCC okay, Paul. I haven't been able to physically check

this. My understanding is, page 3-29 of the "Activa-
tion Checklist, you remove an aluminum support bracket
- that's a launch support bracket. And I don't know
whether you put it in the launch pin bag, or whether
you threw it down the plenum, or what. I've never
done that, Paul, in activations ; so I'm not familar
with it. But that's what I was told. We'll get
somebody to chase that down, and let me press on here.
Actually, if you find any nice aiuminum bracket that --
doesn't seem as though it's terribly important, feel
free. Just make sure that it isn't carbon steel or
somethingyou're trying on it.
15 ll 03 CDR Go ahead.
MCC Okay. Let me try and work in Joe's question as we

get to that point. Pete, let me continue on the
strap. What we expect to happen here when you cut
through that. First of all, our first choice on the
cutting is to go ahead and use the cutters with - on
the long pole, with Joe pulling on the rope and you
out there on the end of the beam, tethered to the BET
at that time and having your left hand - That is,
your head is toward minus-X, and your left hand would
be holding the cutter scissors. That helps to sta-
bilize the cutters; and, also, when it breaks through,
it keeps the cutters from flying up. New, what we
• expect to happen - and we want to make sure you keep
your hands away from the strap at the time it cuts
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through, because there is a chance that the torsion

lengths are still putting considerable tension on the
meteoroid shield. And we expect that when the strap
is cut through, it may sl_ring out and then back under-
neath the beam to the extent of about 6 inches. Okay,
the - -
15 ii 54 CDR ...
MCC Okay. That is a particualr trap, Pete, if you decide,

for whatever reason, instead ocutting it to pry it
off. If you are going to pry the strap off, it
tends - we've done it a couple of times in the water
tank, and it tends to be very natural to hold on to
the - on to the strap with your left hand as you
pry with your right hand. We feel that holding the
strap is your choice for positioning, but when you
go to pry, make sure you put your left hand on the
beam and not on the strap. Okay. After you cut the
strap, we expect, because of the frozen damper sit-
uation, that the beam may rise, Just due to - the spring
actuator, - may rise about h degrees after the strap
is cut and before you really put any tension in the
BET. So you want to be aware that it may start to
come up there right after the strap is cut. Also,
a recommendation after cutting the strap and when
you get back down there to play the human gym pole
game, getting under the BET to push up on it: we
kind of reco_end facing the end of the beam rather
than back toward the FAS, so that you can get a good
view as the beam moves. And you can get a little bit
better sensing when the actuator damper bracket
begins to crack through. And it's quite important,
- I'll give you a little more history, later, on the
beam, - but it's quite important that when the
bracket - when the beam first starts to give, and you
can feel it in the BET, you want to slack off, so as
not to put any additional energy into the beam coming
up. Pete, to give you a report on the test results
here, we've broken quite a few brackets now. All of
them tend to break at about the same point. The
cold ones break with a slightly greater force; they
tend to be a little bit stronger. But we're running
on the order of 160 to 190 pounds tension in the BET
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when the bracket breaks through. That gives you an

equivalent of about 90 to i00 pounds of compression in
your legs. That is, that's about what you're going
to end up pushing up with for compression in your legs
when you get that kind of tension in the BET and when
the bracket begins to give. Now, the bracket, as was
reported by Don Dowdin earlier, does break in two dif-
ferent - You break off one side of the bracket first
and then the other, and the first one is the one that
takes mo.qt of the eTfort. It breaks with the equiv-
alent of about 19 pounds at the end of the beam.
That's about 170 pounds of tension in the BET. And
then, the second one breaks with the equivalent of
about 12 pounds on the end of the beam, and that's
down - I don't know what the number is, but it's
considerably below what it takes to break the first
one. So you can expect a sort of two-stage
release of tension as you're raising the beam. Now
the only caution - -
CDR Okay '.
MCC - - Okay, the only caution on it, Pete, is that when

you feel the first breakage there, we expect it to
be the bracket. However, there is still a possibil-
ity that the 1132 screw may go; and in that case,
you want to give it time to come up by iteslf,
because in that case, the spring would be pushing
it all the way up, and you do end up with a rela-
tively healthy tip speed. The tip speed at latch at
that point gets up to about 2.7 feet per second,
and that's no problem as far as safety is concerned.
The latch will take up 3.4.
15 15 54 CDR Okay.
15 15 55 MCC But Just for safety reasons, it's a good idea, when
you feel something break, to Just stand back and
let it go. Okay. We've got LOS coming up in about
55 seconds. We're going to pick up Goldstone at 33,
and we'll be having real time TV available there.
So anything you'd like to show us in the way of your
assembled gear and point to it and ask questions,
or, you know, a show-and-tell kind of game here, go-
ing over the States, picking up at 33 at Goldstone.
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15 16 24 CDR Okay. 33 at Goldstone. We have got - we've got the

TV up l-tuning now up above, and we' ii show you what
we've got.
MCC Okay. Now let me say that the VTR has been rewound.
You have about 15 minutes available to you. If you
want to put something on between now and Goldstone,
it's available. I think it would be most desirable,
unless w_ have a lot of TV, that we Just do it real
time. And it avoid_ confusion on the VTR. But that
is your choice, and Just let us know, coming up at
Goldstone, whether we're going to go real time or
whether we should replay VTR.
15 16 56 CDR Rusty, we'll go real time, because we have every-

thing assembled. And the only next thing is, by
17:00 we might have some stuff packaged. And that
would be the other thing we'd want you to look at.
We'll show you what we've got assembled, and that's
about it for now. We've got the major pieces
assembled.
MCC Okay. Good. That's what we were hoping. And I'ii

have more reports, especially for Paul, on that
detail of what the vent module looks like and where
we hook the BET on the end down there.
15 17 30 PLT Okay .... this morning's film thread ...
15 32 46 MCC Okay, Skylab; we've got you here at Goldstone for

a nice long pass: Goldstone, Texas, Mila.
SPT Roger.
15 32 59 MCC Okay. We've got some TV. It's a little bit noisy,
yet, but we've got it now. So feel free to show us
anything you want, and hold it up in front of the
camera for us.
15 33 44 CDR How do you read, Rusty?
MCC Okay. Read you now, Pete.

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CDR All right. I didn't like the idea of changing

wires in the side bar. So I made a ring out of one
of the pieces of wire that held ...
PLT You're tmreadable, Pete.
15 34 06 MCC Yeah, that was a bit soft, Pete, on it. You may
have to stick that thing down your throat to talk
to us. "
MCC Okay. We could read that you didn't like the wire
on the pinch bar, and you're rigged up tape. The
only thing that I can say is that we used only tape
and no wire around the pinch bar. We did pi]I the
tape loose; so you want to make sure you've got the
- the wire loop you've got there secured very tightly
and not Just the tape.
15 3_ 43 MCC Yes, Pete. That tape may get kind of warm out there,
in which case it's going to lose its strength and
slide around a lot. Hey, Pete, on that pinch bar,
also. Not included in the procedures is for you to
- or EV-1 - to take that off of the BET before you
start pulling up on it, even if you don't use it.
We'd liketo have that done, Just so you don't
have that extra mass sitting out there on the BET.
CC We see the doctor getting into his suit. We wonder

if he's going to try to go out today?
15 35 27 SPT No. I want to get a halfway feel for the difficulties

of handling that 25-foot - Never mind.
MCC Okay. We think that's a good idea, Joe.
CC Okay, Pete. We can see the - that you've got the

bridle rope there, with the small Apollo hooks on
the end. Okay, we can see your safety knots and
your bowline there. That looks Just right.
MCC That looks good, Pete.

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15 36 08 MCC Okay. And since you had that, let me Just at this
time give you a couple of words on where that goes
when you get down to the vent module. The vent mod-
ule itself, - and Paul, you may have out that same SWS
map diagram. When you look at that, the vent modules
that are shown on SAS beam l, are actually upside
down. They should look like the ones on SAS beam 2.
Now, that's not terribly important, but the diagram
is a l_t$1e bit wrong there.
15 36 40 PLT We noticed that last night.
MCC Okay. The trailing edge, and, Pete, - let me see -

yes, we got your look at the apex hook, and that's
exactly what we're talking about. Let me only say
that the crew systems people have looked at the rope
and the limiting strength on that, and they have come
to the conclusion that when the rope breaks - when
they break it around 400 pounds or so of tension, and
it's- it gives at the notch, us_A11ywhere the
rope goes around an edge. Okay. That looks real
good, Pete.
MCC Okay, Pete. Now, also on that, you do need some

way of retaining that stop on the apex hook, so it
won't open up on you. We recommended tape.
MCC Okay. When you get down to the vent module, Pete, and
go to hook on the bridle, the training edge of the
vent module has a slight fairing - a triangular fair-
ing - which brings it down smoothly to the beam.
That fairing is about B inches high, the same height
as the vent module, and it's about 6 inches long.
At the point wherethe lower corners of that fairing
come down to the surface of the beam, there are
stress release cut-outs right down there, and you
can hook the s_llApollo hooks into those small
cutouts. They go in relatively easily; however,
the Apollo hook will not lock; that is, the Jaws on
the hook will not close. So what you need to do is
to coordinate that with Joe, so that when you put
the bridle into the aft portion of the vent module,
you maintain a slight tension yourself until Joe
cinches down with the apex hook on the other end -
takes out the tension. Okay, we see you headed for
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a speaker box there, and we're about 35 seconds from

an LOS, and we'll have about a 1-minute drop out
until we pick you up at Texas.
J5 39 0B CDR Okay, Rusty. I need to have you tell me about that

- I understood that they weren't going to hold, but
I want you to describe the end of the box again for
me.
r5 39 13 MCC Okay, fine. I'ii do that, Pete. While we've got

Just a few seconds here, we may go LOS while I'm
telling you this, but Just for your information.
The damper - the actuator damper for the beam is
still at minus 60 - minus 60 degrees, so that we
do expect that you will break the bracket. The
dampers in the SAS panels are all reading minus
40 degrees. And I'll have a few words about the
SAS panel deployment itself, because we do have a
relatively critical operation on that. And we're
going LOS, now.
15 40 16 MCC Okay, we've got you again here at Texas, Pete. If

Paul has got that SWS map out, he can sort of sketch
this in, also. The BET runs vertically down - it
runs almost down the middle of the beam. So if he
wants to draw a vertical line on that thing that
goes Almost down at 8.0, the bridle - the intersection
of the BET - of the long part of the BET with the
bridle occurs Just about at the top of where the
louvers would be in the middle of the vent module.
And the bridle then goes down to the two lower
corners, to the left and right lower corners of the
vent module. Now, what you've got there, Pete, is
essentially a single piece of aluminum that makes
up that aft fairing. And right down on the surface
of the beam, the extreme lower corners of the vent
module have a small cut-out there, Just rounding,
so that there are no sharp - there aren't any high
stress points on that piece of aluminum. And I'd
say you've got an opening which is about 1/2-inch tc
3/4-inch high- and probably 1/h-inch wide. And the
hook of the sm-lIApollo hooks there - the hook
portion of it will slip right into those. You have
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to sort of hold the hooks horizontal, if you're

looking at that map, and slide it in. And then
when you take up tension, the hooks will stay in
those slots.
15 42 01 CDR Yes. That's - Now I did not use tether hooks. I

used the two tether hooks off the other end of the
Apollo sail. That was all right, wasn't it?
MCC Okay, those are als0 the small Apollo tether hooks,
right?
CDR Right, as best as I can tell. I'ii go compare them.
MCC Okay, that's fine. They'll take the stress, l'm

sure that they're the same Apollo hooks, and under-
stand you Just wanted to save the wrist tethers.
That's Just fine.
CDR Yes ..
MCC Okay. One thing that will help you with those hooks,
Pete, is to make sure that they'- the springs are
functional, so that they are spring-loaded closed,
because they'll help hold it into the holes before
you drawup tight on the BET.
CDR I understand that. Tell me another thing. Just

how do you get yourself under the BET?
15 h2 _8 MCC Okay. After you - first of all, when you go down -

we're going to talk a little about the details of
going down there. But what you do, Pete, once you're
ready to cut through the strap, you take your - the
Apollo waist tether that's going to be hooked to your
right wrist, and you take the big end of it and hook
it to the •32-foot section of the BET rope that is
above the intersection with the bridle.
15 43 18 CDR Roger.
15 43 12 MCC And after the beam is free, what you do is, using that
rope as a trail, you Just move back above the hinge
line and Just work your way underneath the line.
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It's not that tight. There's really no problem.

And as soon as you get underneath it, as you begin to
raise up, you put compression on yourself. And so it's
quite natural to be able to stand up, and the rope
holds you down nicely against the beam fairing.
CDR Okay.
CDR Now tlle pin by the .discone antenna. If you are look-
ing aft minus-X facing, the discone antenna is on
the right about 9 inches away, sitting in an angled
channel, isn't it?
MCC That's very good, Pete. It is about 9 inches to the

right, and it's oriented parallel to the FAS sepa-
ration plane there. Now - -
CDR Okay, we can see it from the window - the STS window.
15 h4 15 MCC Ah, that's great. We never even thought about that.

There is one caution that we want to give to Joe, amd
that is that he wants to tether his long tether that's
hooked to his chest at that point, and then the dis-
cone antenna itself becomes one of the things he can
use for his stabilization as he tries to lay the
cutters down alongside the beam. Now, Just for your
information, you can put 40 pounds of force h feet
up from the bott_n of the discone antenna, and it's
okay. That'll give you a factor of safety of 2 on
that. A precaution, though, is that at the base of
the discone antenna, there are two COAX connectors
which provide the signal path down inside, and
he - Joe wants to be careful not to mash those
connectors.
CDR I understand. Now the A frame that you're referring

to is the 2 DA members that the discone antenna tray
is mounted on, is it not?
MCC That's exactly right. The discone antenna tray is

mounted at the minus-X end on a cross member that
goes between two of the DA trusses, and that's what
the apex hook goes over. And the end of that - the
end of that cross member is directly in line with the
SAS beam, so it causes the BET to lay right down on
the center line of the beam. It's Just right.
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15 45 4_ CDR Now, wait a minute. Say that again. Where it goes.
MCC Okay, if Paul's got his diagram out, and he draws in

the DA trusses - okay, you've got the diagram right
in front of you. Okay. The two DA trusses - one of
them comes out of the FAS ring at about 7.6 in B zero,
and the other one comes out at •about 9.2 in B zero.
And they go respectively up to 8.0 and A zero and
8.8 and A zero, yoget a trapezoid up there with
those two DA trusses.
15 46 26 CDR okay, now th t's the one that's got the discone antenna
tray, and that's also the one we could see from the
window.
MCC Okay, right. The cross member goes between those

two trusses, and it's located 6 feet off the FAS
ring. That would be on the diagram horizontal line
at about A2.
CDR Okay.
SPT Rusty, where do I put my feet?
MCC Stand by Just a second, Joe. Pete, the left hand end,
looking at the diagram with plus-X up - the left hand
end of that cross member then, is directly in line
with the SAS beam, and that is where you hook the
apex hook.
CDR Okay. That makes sense. We can see all that out
the STS window.
MCC Yes, that's great. We never even thought about that,

and that's better than any diagram we've got. Now,
Joe, what you do is when you first get up there on
the A-frame, you'll tether the long - your 6-foot
tether that's hooked to your chest to that pin at the
base of the discone antenna, and that becomes your
prime tether point. You can get from the SAS beam,
rather from the FAS, then the discone antenna, all
the way back to the A-frame without ever disconnec-
ting that tether. It allows you good freedom for
getting back and forth. Now; what you do when
you're trying to lay the cutters down the side, is
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you tend to use the edge of the FAS ring, watching

out for those COAX connectors, for your feet. And
you can wrap your left arm around the discone antenna
itself. And of course it's a lot easier - should be
a lot easier than in the water tank where you're
fighting all the drag and buoyancy. And you should
be able to place the cutters right down alongside
the beam.
CDR Are you guys standing up along the radial axis?
MCC That's affirmative when you're hooking on the cutters.
CDR Okay.
15 48 20 MCC When Joe goes - after you get the bridle hooked up,
the BET hooked up, and you're ready to actually
cut, what Joe wants to do there - we found a cutting
technique where what Joe does is lay doom along the
rod, face down to the workshop, and hooks his toes
over 'the FAS and he's laying down along the outside
of the FAS. And all he does is pull on the rope that
causes the cutters to cut. He doesn't have to worry
about putting compression in the rod, in other words;
Just pull on the cutter side of the rope.
15 48 59 SPT Okay, about those connectors. It's obvious that

there's a risk that they'll be damaged or broken off,
and that's sc_ething we're Just going to have to
accept.
MCC Right. We recognize that, and all we're asking for

is reasonable prudence on your part Mr. $PT.
SPT Right. And in that evolution and also in the evolu-

tion of repositioning the scissors and so forth, we'll
Just have to wait and see when we get out there
whether we have adequate restraints to do the Job.
For pulling on that clothesline, it sounds like you
need to be a little negatively buoyant, and I'm
not sure we can manage.
MCC Negative. When your toe is hooked over the FAS ring
there, Joe, and you're holding on to the rope, it
Just pulls you out straight, right along it, and
you should be able to put quite a bit of tension on
thatrope. An_ Pete will be holding the other end
of it - he'll he holding the scissors on the cutter,
and that'll stabilize it when it cuts throughthe
aluminum.
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15 49 54 SPT It's not so much a matter of getting into position

as it is maintaining it while you're exerting forces.
MCC Joe, I think you can do that quite easily, if you

Just make a slight V out of your body. If you've
got your toes down and your head on the vehicle, and
you make a slight V, and when you pull on that rope,
that's going to cinch you right down tight - right
next to the vehicle.
SPT Okay.
CDR What else you got?
15 50 26 MCC Okay. Let me Just - while we're at that point, let

me Just mention the techinque for hooking it over the -
that we've found works best for hooking it over the
aluminum strap. And that is when Joe lays the cutters
down the beam, to have the body of - the cutting edge
up against the beam and Just sort of slide it
down the side of the beam until you hit the strap.
And then bring it out and over the strap so that the
cutters are Just on the other side. And then you
pull back, and as the cutters ram up over with the
Jaws open, - first of all you want to make sure the
Jaws are all the way open. But then as you come
back toward you, the cutters will fall right over
the strap, and then you can sort of give it a slight
push and pull and male sure that it is there. And
then clamp down on the Jaws.
CDR Rusty, you're still maintaining that he's going to

find the best place to get a bite on the strap on
the side of the beam fairing, right? Rather than
on the top?
15 51 24 MCC Yes, that' s what it appears from our photo analysis,

Pete, but you know you'll have to make a Judgment on
that when you get out there. But we think that you
probably should cut it, without any question, below
the point at which the bolt heads are dug into the
beam. And we think that the side where you reported
that it was bowed out 2 to 3 inches should probably
be the best place to put the cutters over it.
15 51 46 CDR Yes, because it's darn near flat across the top. I
- you know, Paul could barely get the little pointed
f_ prongsunderit.
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MCC Right. We've been doing all our work down on the side
of the beam, Just about the middle there, halfway up
to the top of the beam. "And it tends to hook on
relatively easy. And once you've got it clamped, it
makes a very nice pole going down there. By the way,
we've got l0 seconds to LOS here at Bermuda, and
.we'll be picking you up over Ascension at O1.
CDR Okay. We've got some more work to do.
15 52 2_ MCC Okay. And at that point, Pete, I want to t_Sk about

some timing here - the day/night cycles and that
kind of thing, and a few constraints regarding
lighting.
15 52 3B CDR Okay.
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16 01 29 SPT Are you there?
CC Hello there, sky troops. We're back again at

Ascension.
SPT Go ahead.
CC OkaY. Just a couple of things on my list here that

I'm looking at that I missed. For Pete, as I sa_.,
the expected happening is that the bracket Will break
when you raise up under the BET, there. And the
studies all show that the expected tlp-speed of the
beam coming up is going to be something less that
1 foot per second. If you work all that out, that
says'that isn't going to get up and latched until
about 1 minute after you break it, so the thing
doesn't really snap right up at you. So, don't want
to be too anxious. You Just pull it and watch it come
up slowly, and you may, in fact, have to help it up,
if the friction is higher than the good troops here
on the ground have computed,
MCC One point for you there, Joe. Is that it does give
you a fair _nount of time for umbilical management
of EV-I.
SPT Copy.
16 02 56 MCC Okay. Pete, the other - the other thing that I

wanted to mention to you was that after the SAS beam
cc_es up and latched, the actuator dampers on the
SAS panels themselves are about 40 degrees, and that's
minus h0 degrees. We expect that they Will come
down - all of them Will begin to come down and lock.
The deployment of those panels is expected to take
about l0 minutes, until they get - until they get
fully down. Now, the important factor in all of
that, is that if the beam comes up, but the panels do
not came down, we need to make a maneuver fairly soon
in order to get sunlight on the - on the be-m_ so that
the actuator dampers Will heat up. Conversely, if we
_- do not m,neuver, if the beam comes up and the panels
do not deploy, the actuator dampers Will begin to
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cool off rather rapidly which means that it will take

even longer to heat them up. So, we have a maneuver
planned, and standing by for about, oh, l'd have to
get the detailed timing, it's about a rev after you
pull the beam up, maybe a little less. And let us
know if they do not come down within i0 minutes, or
if they're not on their way down, and we will probably
maneuver about 45-degrees plus-X toward the Sun, to
get sunlight on the top of that beam.
16 04 28 SPT Okay. I suspect that we might not get the - the beam
deployed, assuming that we do, until the second day
period.
16 04 37 MCC Hight. We'll - I - I'ii talk to you about timing on

that. Let's see. We've got a minute and 45. Let me
Just start on that and say that the - all of the
planning here is to - to get you at a point, about
15:37, tomorrow morning, Just a little less than
24 hours from now, where you open up the EVA hatch to
star% the EVA at sunset. This gives you about -
SPT Okay. We understand that, Rusty. I've got another

question.
MCC Go ahead_
SPT When the pole is deployed, how tight was it possible

for a human hand to cinch it up - at mY end? And
after the strap is cut, does the pole then become
useless as a - as a handhold for Pete?
MCC Okay. I would guess, Ed didn't say it, but I guess

he put probably 20 to 25 or 30 pounds of tension in
the line Just to cinch it up to make it a handhold at
the beginning. After the strap is cut, that's affirm-
ative. What we recem,end on that is to swing the - the
cutter back up Almost 180 degrees, and lay it toward
plus-X to get it out of the way when the beam comes
up. So, there's no question that it might snag on
anything. Pete has his way to get back up there
using the BET. He's going to be directly under it,
and as soon as he snaps the thing, you Just slowly
make your way back up to the SAS.
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CC You'll be coming to the _ET at that point, Joe.
SPT Yes. I understand that. I - I foresee him having

a little trouble getting up under the rope. And I
also foresee him having a little trouble reposition-
ing the - the Jaws, if he has to. But we'll Just
have to work it.
16 06 25 MCC Okay, Joe. We'll talk about that at Carnarvon at 31.

We're now essentially LOS.
SPT Bye-bye.
16 31 34 CC Okay, sky troops. We've got you over Carnarvon for

i0 minutes. And Ed's got some cutting techniques for
Joe.
SPT All right. Tell the deft surgeon's fingers how to

proceed.
MCC Okay, Joe. The easiest - quickest way to get through

the metal, even though it seems a little frustrating
as you do it, is to give a steady pull on the line
for around 2 to 3 seconds. It takes a little while
for the - the rope and the linkage to all respond
and for the Jutter - the cutter Jaw to creep through
the metal. Then, Just relax. And then, have another
go at it in another 5 or 6 seconds; hold it for 2 or
B seconds. And if Pete's down there at the other end,
he might even want to move those - move the cutter
around a little bit so it can work its way through.
You really don't have any feeling when you're pulling
that rope that it's going through; you have no sensa-
tion whatsoever, so it seems a little frustrating.
Pete might be able to see the progress of the Jaws
through the metal down there and - and tell you what's
going on. But, all you've got to do is Just have
patience and - and keep pulling for 2 or B seconds,
back off, and then Just keep it up. And that's the
easiest way, and all of a sudden you'll snap you
right through. We've gone - I've gone through it
twice in the water. And I tried one time standing up
with my axis of my body parallel to the discone
antenna. And that's a pretty inefficient way because
you really can't apply much force for a period of
time before you Just pull yourself right on down the -
towards the beam. The best way, as we pointed out,
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was to put - hook your toes over, and you can get a
whale of a lot of force like that. It's kind of like
chinning yourself on a rope.
16 33 22 SPT Could you use a lot of force?
MCC With m_ toes over, I could use a whale of a lot of

force. Yes, I - I was estimating I was putting in
maybe a 100 to maybe 120 pounds, or so. And I might
have been able to put more on it if I'd really made
a little larger V out of m_ body in order to keep my
toes underneath the SAS.
SPT Okay. About how many pulls did it take?
MCC Okay. Using the technique of putting my feet under-

neath the - the SAS, I never went end to end on that
one. I finished off a cut which I had started with
the old technique, and it took around two pulls once
I got my feet - my toes by the SAS. One word on when
you first hook it on, you don't want to try to go
through it there. And it only takes maybe 30 -
40 pounds of pull for - Just to cinch it up and make
it snug. If for sc_e reason you do cut through, or
even if you can't go down that - on the strap at all,
Just find another piece of debris and hook it on there.
All we need is to secure that other ending any - any
way you can.
16 34 30 SPT Yes, well, that's why I ssked how many pulls it took
to cut it. I wanted to have a feel for how hard I
can dig in that first time.
MCC 0 - Okay. I'd be surprised if you went through in

2 or 3 seconds pulling with maybe 50 to 60 pounds.
I suspect you're going to have to do that a half
dozen to a dozen times.
SPT Okay. Fair enough. Let me ask you this. Based on

your most accurate knowledge, how much e - extra
length is there in that pole? How much am I going to
have over my shoulder?
16 35 08 MCC Joe, you're asking how much rope you're going to have
left over from the mushroom on. Is that correct?
oay
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SPT No. That's - that's a matter of how I rig it. I'm

asking how much pole I'm - I've got left - let's
say from the edge of the SAS on. In other words, - -
MCC Yes.
SPT - - how much more pole do we have than we need?
MCC Oks_'. You've got Jpst about a foot or so. It extends

Just a little bit over the ring of the SAS.
CC Joe, let me point out that you can control that to a

certain extent because the strap angles up across
the beam. If you hook on to the bott_n edge of it,
it's closer to you, you'll have more hanging over
the SAS. If you hook on near - nearer the top, you'll
have more. Right about the middle of it, from the
photos, you've got about a foot back of the SAS ring
there.
SPT Oksyl
16 35 56 MCC If you're thinking of using the ,mushroom, Joe, I tried

that and found it a little bit hard because you only
find yourself torquing yourbody right around the
mushroom itself, end never really being able to get
a good secure hold on it. There is no way you can
keep from torquing your body about the center of the
mushroom when you're - when you're pulling.
SPT I believe that. I was thinking about where that little

cleat was going to be in reference to my precious
little head.
CC Yes, that's - in fact that'll be back down there by

your feet, or so, at that point.
SPT Okay.
16 36 34 CC Okay. And for Pete, let me say a couple more words

about the timing here. We - we are planning at the
present time to have not Just the EVA lights on but
also the docking lights. And we see that there is
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a docking light about plus-Y and - let me look at

it. At minus-Z and minus-Y on the SAS ring, and we
feel that those should light the area out there near
the A-frame. So, what that'll do is enable you to
get to the point where Joe is ready to lay the pole
down alongside the beam. And at that point we're
saying why don't you hal - halt there and wait for
sunrise. Now, if the docking lights are either unnec-
essary and we can t.urn them off to save power, or
you're ready - you're already in position, and it's
still prior to sunrise, we'd like to go ahead and -
and turn off the docking lights. Also, if for whatever
reason, it takes longer than the day pass to cut
through the strap and get the beam raised, we would
like you to return to the lit area, that is, back
toward the SAS, normal EVA work pass - during the
night pass. Now, since we have some activities down
at the S_-end pinning the 54 door open and changing
out the 82A film, you may Just want to - in case of
that.situation, you may Just want to do that during
that night pass rather than Just cooling it. But
that's your choice. We do have 4 hours and there's
plentyof timeto do it ail.
16 38 ii SPT Roger. Understand. I guess there will be s_ne de-

tails about SPA on the - on the teleprinter. That's
- that's pretty low on our priority list. The 54
thing, I take it, is Just a matter of unpinning, opening
and m_ing sure that it locks open. Is that right?
MCC That's correct. The - the 54 door will already be

open. It's a matter of unpinning and opening it an-
other lO degrees up against the stop, and then lifting
that little latch that - that holds the door open,
Joe •
SPT Okay. Are you going to teleprint a proper roll for

that ?
MCC Right. What we're doing - that is going to be on

the pad, and all we do is go to minus 120 degrees on
the canister roll during the preps. That's essen-
tially the normal attitude for the SPA replacement,
Joe. You should see essentially a normal Sm_-end
when you get down there.
SPT Okay, that's nice. Okay, we understand about the

lighting.
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16 39 09 MCC Okay, let me Just tell you what our WIF experience
has been over in the neutral buoyancy tank. We
ran the whole exercise end to end - took an hour
and 37 minutes frcm hatch open to hatch closed.
That included perhaps l0 to 15 minutes in the mid-
dle of the run taken out for buoyancy problems,
re-welghting and that kind of thing. And also
we lost scme time because we cut through the straps
three different ways rather than Just using the
first way that worked. So we feel that you will be
able to do the preps and get in position to lay the
beam down with plenty of time before sunrise, and
then we feel you'll be able to do the strap cut-
ting and the beam raising well before the next sun-
rise or the sunset rather. But as I say we do have
four hours so there's lots of time, and the main
thing is remember Dick Gordon and keep it cool.
16 40 08 SPT Yes,' you might find that our attitude differs a

little bit from yours in the water tank. We're
going to have to take care at every step to watch
where the unbilicals are, and w_ere the tethers are
and to keep our options open. I rather expect, and
I'd like to be pleasantly surprised, that it may
take us two day periods to get all this done.
MCC Right, we haveprepared for that, Joe. And we don't

expect that it will, but you guys are the Judge;
and the best thing in the world is to go slow and
do Just what you said.
SPT That's right. I guess we'll know better when we

see it, but our initial impression is that we've
got a 50-50 chance of pulling it off. And then
even is we don't, we'll have a fine reconnaissance
for you and some real good words on techniques and
possibilities for another try later on.
MCC Right, that's Just the way we figure it except we'll

give you a higher probability. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS. We've got G11,m coming up at 45
and we would like to talk to you sometime about
techniques on handling the - where to put the un-
bilicals and the tethers and that kind of thing.
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16 hl 28 SPT Okay, we'll be here.
16 41 32 CC Okay, Pete, now I have one word for you on maybe

the best location to put those vise grips on the
PCU.
16 45 21 CC Okay, Skylab, Houston back again over Guam for some-

thing like 10minutes.
SPT Okay. Talk umbilicals.
16 45 35 CC Okay. Joe, after - when you gays first get out

EV-1 in the foot restraints and you take the BET
out and stow it there on $7 handrail, assemble the
tethers and a11 that, your EV pass wfll be - we have
passed this up but you can remember it - F9 and Fll,
the two short handholds up in front of the hatch
that we've never used. And from there you go along
that - the silver taped mol sieve vent duct that goes
- that runs right along the _)A there, and you Just
hand-over-hand there underneath the DA trusses, you
know, right along the MDA, until you get to the area
of the A-frame and you Just push yourself up. It's
about a 5 foot reach, and you Just go from there
directly to the A-frame. SO in other words, your
umbilical comes along the MDA through the trusses
and then up to the A-frame. EV-1 will take the
same path. Ana also when you pass the poles from
the SAS; when EV-1 passes the cutter up to you, he
also does that through the trusses - that is up under-
neath the trusses. And when you get hold of it
there you'll run it out - you'll receive it and run
it out to the mushroom almost parallel to the disc-
one a_te_a.
16 46 5_ SPT First ....
MCC Okay, Joe, one point on that. When you do first

get out there, you do want to tether yourself as
opposed to mounting the A-fra-_. You can stand on
that A-fr_m_ once you've got the tether in place.
And one thing we sure learned from the water is that
we've got real luxury in the way we've designed the
ATM film retrieval with all the good foot restraints.
Once you don't have those things you've really got
to tie yourself down well and do it early, and do
it religiously.
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16 h7 22 SPT Okay.
16 h7 26 MCC Okay, when EV-I comes %rpwith the BET, he brings

the BET tethered to his right wrist which is where
he's got the Skylab wrist tether. And the first
thing you've got to do - when he gets the A-frame
up there is to go ahead _nd - and hook the apex
hook over the truss, and then tape the keeper so
that ft stays - you mske sure that it stays on that
truss.
16 47 54 SPT Does he put the tape on the - on the hook somewhere?
MCC Yes. What we were thinking, Joe, was for - in the

prep, all you do is take a piece of tape that's 2
or 3 inches long and stick it to the side of it -
of the apex hook. And then when you hook it over
the truss out there, you Just pull off that tape and
wrap it around the keeper so that it stays in the
closed position.
SPT Okay.
16 h8 18 MCC Okay, and then after EV-2 has got the cutters lald
down there and hooked on to - on to the debris,
you then_want to - you know, on the mushroom end
you've got the adjustable waist tether - there the
old Apollo waist tether - and after you've got the
far end hooked up, you cinch down all the way on
that waist tether, and that m_es the handrail
going down, which is quite close to the skis. And
it makes it very nice for transporting down there.
SPT Understand.
MCC Okay, when EV-1 swings over, to position himself

on the - on the handrail going down, what we're
recommendlngis that you end up with your belly -
EV-1 would put himself on that handrail with his
belly toward - toward the workshop and his legs
away from the beam; that is, further around toward
minus-Z. And that way you go down with your left
shoulder toward minus-X and the BET is hooked to your
right wrist and trails out behind you. And EV-2
guides the tmbilical and the BET behind him.
SPT Understand.
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MCC Okay, so in other words, you go sideways, moving

to your left down - the EV-I will go sideways,
moving to his left, down the handrail. And as he
gets down into the area of the beam, he's got a very
nice view there - A1_ost parallel to the tmderside
of the beam, and you can take a pretty good look at
the situation there with the meteoroid shield.
16 49 55 SPT Okay. .
MCC Okay, now when EV-1 - Oh, by the way, I forgot an

important point. Before you start down the beam,
as soon as you got - as soon as you got hold of the
handrail, what we're rec,'_,_ending is hooking up
the large hook that's on the waist tether on the
left wrist of EV-1, hook the large hook over the
cutter rods and Just push it down ahead of you.
That is, it slips over the rods and it'll go past
the Join_, and that way, you're tethered to the
rod all the way down.
16 50 28 SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, now when you get down to the end, in order
to get you all the way downto the good working
area, what we're recommending is when you get to
the end of the rod is to take the waist tether off
the rod and hook it on to the cutter/scissor mech-
anism. That'll allow you to get all the way down as
far as you want to go to look at the area, and also
to help you hook on the BEt to the aft end of the
vent module.
SPT Okay.
16 50 58 MCC Okay. Then the next thing is after you've got the
BET hooked on to the vent module, and, Joe, after
you've taken up the slack out of the BET, then what
Pete wants to do is to take that tether and hook it
to the BET itself. Then your - that's sort of your
final tethering point down there, once you've taken
the slack out of the BET.
16 51 20 SPT Yes, I tmderstand. Does - he's geing to be using

the BEt as his handhold to go back up, too. Right?
MCC That's correct, Joe.

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SPT Isn't he going to have s_me trouble with roll control?

You can't really exert any torque on a rope.
MCC That's right. The way I found, Joe, is Just go

down hand-over-hand; when you get to the point you
want on the rope, don't worry about attitude control.
When you get to the point you want - and by the way,
you'll be _111ng his umbilical in to keep the
slack out of it when he does that, you'll - you
get yourself belly down to the beam up at that end,
and you don't - there isn't any real debris or any-
thing up there to worry that much about, at least
that we can see. And all you do then is start
lifting up on the rope, and it'll force you right
down against - against the top of the beam, and
it's really not too difficult at all. I was actually
positively buoyant at that time, and, nevertheless,
hadvery little difficulty in getting under the BET.
SPT Okay.
MCC That SI3G white paint they've got out there has
got a pretty high coefficient of friction, and it's
pretty easy to work with. When we were in the water,
we were working on slick al,_num and still pulled
it off.
SPT Okay.
16 53 00 MCC Then after the beam breaks free, we have one caution
there. As the beam rotates up, the mechanism
does form an opening there between the moving part
of the besm and the fixed part of the beam - the
fairing up at the top. It sort of opens up and
then closes again as it comes up to the full latch,
sort of llke a clam shell opening and closing. And
so after you break it loose and it starts to come up,
you'll probably want to retreat back up to the SAS
ring and watch it co_e the rest of the way up from
there. If it needs some help, you're in a fine
place to go ahead and - mounting the A-frame - just
go ahead and pull in on the BET to help it lock up.
16 53 27 SPT Okay. We won't put our finger in there.

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MCC That's probably a good idea, too.
PLT Okay, Rusty, is that little hinge door - is that

on the high side Or the low side of the hinge line?
MCC Okay, the door that's open, Paul, is on the moving

side. It's on the low side; the latch itself is on
the high side - Just the little thing that the hook
hooks over. .
PLT Now. The hinge is angled from - it moves in the

plus-X direction as a component. Is it on the
more plus-X end of the hinge line or the more
minus-X end of the hinge line?
MCC Yes, it's on the low side. The Sun side over there.
PLT Okay.
16 54 Ii MCC Okay, we've got 35 seconds to LOS here at Gl_mm, and

we'll be picking up Goldstone with TV again at l0 -
17:10. And we'd like to - we do have s_ne stuff on
the video tape recorder from thfs morning's MIIO;
and depending on what you'd like to show us, we
would like to see your stowage and stuff, but when
you're not going to show us something on TV, why
don't you let us know and we'll dtmzp it. We can
interrupt the dump any time to come back to real
time.
CDR Rusty, we don't have any stowage to show you. We're

starting to work that now, and I don't think we'll
have a lot of TV to show you on the next pass either,
so go ahead and dump the darn thing.
MCC Okay, I'll tell you wh_. We'll come up dumping it.
Just let us know when you want you want to switch
to real time.
16 5h 55 CDR Okay, well, when you're done dumping, switch to

real time, we'll have the camera ... Hey I Just
• made it - a deployment of the BET, and I think I have
that worked out. I'm using the little bag off the
side of the JSC sail that contained the whole thing.
And I'll put the cassette inside, et cetera. You
know what I'm ta1_ing about.
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16 55 13 MCC Okay_ sounds fine.
17 l0 38 CC Okay, hello, sky troops." We've got you through

Goldstone for 16 minutes.
17 l0 49 CC Screwing up your courage, Pete?
17 ll O1 SPT We're here, guys. We're Just scurrying around,

getting fixed up.
CDR So if you have any good words, speak.
CC You want to listen while you do scurry around

there?
CDR Yes, sir.
CC Okay, Pete. There are 2 other things which we'll

be mentioning, reminding you of tomorrow - Just
two things while you're out there we want you to
take a look at, not be going anywhere, but Just
look over at them. One, I've already mentioned,
which is quad A on the CSM, and 'that's because the
temperatures are rlmning a little bit high and we
Just want your co_ents on whether there is any dis-
coloration or anything of that kind around it.
The other one, you might, want - P. J. knows where
it is, but you might want to look at it on that
SWS map, and that is while you're down there _n
the region of the SAS beam, we'd llke to have you
look over at the forward t_nbilical connection
point, which is Just above the aux tunnel. What
we're doing there, is Just looking at it to see
whether or not there's any debris in that _nbdlical
connection point. If we have to do anything on
Skylab 3 or 4 in a way of plugging in any auxiliary
electrical stuff, the guys are looking at using
that forward umbilical point to do so. So, it's
Just a matter of looking at it - taking a look at it
and say it does or doesn't have any debris around it.
CDR Okay.
CC And as I say, we'll remind you of that tomorrow,

we Just didn't want to surprise you with it.
CDR Roger.
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17 12 51 CC And I think that we've Just about comploted the -

everything we wanted t_ m_e sure and task %-ith you
here on _he data. I guess Ed's got one more, but
I think we can sort of sit back and use the rest of
the pass here, aside from your scurrying around, we
can use the air-to-ground Just to answer any questions
either on technique or hardware or whatever that
you've got rem-_ning.
17 13 15 MCC One thing for you, Pete. The folks down here have
looked at the optimum place to put vice grips on a
flange for the PC"G, and reco_end right above the
REG 1 LOW FLOW. That gives you no obstruction on
the controls and also from our standpoint, gives you
no obstruction while you are moving around EVA.
17 13 36 CDR Joe and I figured we'd put them on the blue hose.
CC 0kay. We really didn't have any use for the those

vice grips out there, Pete. We figured they were
Just a pretty generally useful tool, and that's the
only reason that we included them on the list.
CDR Yes. We agree.
17 14 02 CC Okay, we got you on live TVnow, Pete. The VTR

dump is done and - so we'rewatching you.
PLT He says to tell you that's his tether bag.
17 lh 29 CC I'll tell you what. I spoke Just a bit _oo early,

INC0 is back on the dump VTR, so hold on if you want
to show us something.
PLT Okay.
SPT How long did it take you to put all this stuff
together on the ground?
CC We - we were sort of putting on a dog and pony show

at the time we were putting it together, so the
t_ming wasn't very good on that. I really couldn't
give you too good a guess. To give you a guess -
we'd say something between an hour, an hour and a
half, but we don't have very good numbers for you.
17 15 21 PLT You talking about - doing _11 that?

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CC You cut out in the middle of that one. Say again.
CC P.J., we had a C0_ handover there and I'm afraid

we missed your last request. Would you go ahead
again?
17 16 39 CC Okay. As part of the prep here, one other thing

we've got is mounting the TV. Say again.
17 19 03 CC Okay, Skylab. We're back in contact now through

MILA. The Texas s_utenna had a little runln with
a thunderstorm las_ night and isn't tracking too
well today. Paul, you were asking some question
there right at the end. Would you go ahead?
PLT Been so long ago, I forgot.
SPT Hi, down there. It looks like a nice day.
CC Yes. It got kind of bad last night, though. Any-

body up by the ATM C&D?
PLT Negative.
CC Okay. We're in no rush for this, but when somebody

gets a chance up there, we'd like to read out during
a daylight side, that's when we get the Sun up, REG
VOLTS and AMPS, BAT VOLTS and AMPS, and BAT T_4P on
CBRM 17. You can call down for a reminder on that,
if you'd like_ later.
17 19 57 PLT Okay. I'll get it for you in a - in a few minutes.
CC Okay. There's no big rush on that. One other coment

on the preps. We've looked at the TV - setting up
the TV down here for the EVA. And what we're re-
commending is mounting the monitor on the top of
the TV camera with the screen facing the lens.
That is, so you'll be looking at the screen and
the lens. That way, I think the screen will be out
of the sunlight when you're facing the back toward
the parasol. And it looks to us as though you can
mount the universal bracket on either left or right
shoe, whichever seems to be the most convenient
for you. And on X, Y, Z settings, we don't have any.
It looks like you guys are going to be the best
Judge of where to point it. And for your information,
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we are back on real time TV, and we've got Joe

working on his suit there. And Pete, I've got
your bag in view there. As a matter of fact, that's
very - that's a lot more clever than we were in the
water ta, k.
17 21 08 PLT Oh, I remember what I was talking about. Prep time;

and what do you count it? What we put in on this
last night from starting - essentially in gathering
stuff up until we'_pretty much got it together,
not counting the refinements that were made today,
we've got about l0 man-hours in it, we figured.
CC Okay.
17 21 43 PLT Where's the hurricane?
CC Stand by, Paul. We'll get that for you.
PLT Oh, it's no_ important now, Rusty. Never mind.
CC It's still in the Pacific.
PLT You call them hurricemes in the Pacific now?
17 22 ll CC A rose, by any other name.
PLT Yes.
CC Okay, Pete. We're seeing your vice grips; they're

hooked on. Can you tip it down Just a little bit?
Okay, good. That's Just exactly where we were
reco=mending; right. And you can sort of lay it
back right up against your chest, Pete and it keeps
it from snagging.
CC Paul, it looks like it's about 12 north and about

llO west, Just a little bit east of that. Maybe
108 west.
17 23 ii PLT Okay. What do you want on CBRM 177
17 23 14 CC Okay. We'd like to have the REG VOLTs and AMPs,

BAT VOLTs and AMPs, and BAT TEMP.
17 23 28 PLT Okay. BEG VOLTs is what apparently is our standard

no-Eood values of 22-1/2 volts, plus 5 amps.
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CC Okay.
17 23 h2 PLT BAT VOLTs is 36, 36; BAT AMPs is plus 7; BAT temp
is 52, 5P.
CC Okay, we got it. Thanks, P. J.
CC Okay, and Pete, one thing we'd like you to do is

think over what your situation is here and basically
what the task is, a_d we'd like a recommendation
from you sometime, Say within the next 2 hours, on -
on what your status is and what you're reco_Inending
as far as going ahead with it for tomorrow or
Friday.
CDR Well, listen, Rusty. There's no doubt in my mind

that the sooner we get it done the better off we
are because it's going to take us two or three days to
recoup. We've Just about had the place cleaned up
and in shape and a nice routine going, and we've
Just wipea that out and demolished the place again.
Unstowed everything and - So I know we're going to
be tired when we get done, and I know we're going
to have to put the vehicle back in some semblance
of shape. And, of course, you all will want to
play with it a litte bit if we - if we are successful.
So we'll _hoot for going tomorrow.
CC Okay. Understand that you feel that you're GO for

tomorrow. We do h_e EVA prep for tonight, so if
there is any difficulty in setting that up, Just
let us know.
17 25 13 CDR No, Joe. Just not - getting into the suit, that's
a piece of cake. We're - Paul's putting the
changes in right now in a manner that we can recover
from the changes fox the next EVA. And I'm Just
finished working that tether bag, and I'm going to
go start - continuing to work toward EVA until otu-
time period ends. (Clearing of throat). On EVA,
we'll go back to it tonight.
CC Okay, fine. The one pad we got to get up to you,

aside from the unavoia_hle changes between now and
then, but the one we know we're going to send up
to you is the procedures for the 82A, the 5h, and
the TV. And that'll be coming up on a pad and you
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can take a look at them. Those are the kind of

thing where Paul would be reading EV-I do this,
EV-2 do that.
17 9_ 09 C|)R Yes, well, let me just caution you. There is no

doubt in my mind, as you mentioned, that we could
get involved like we did in Gemini ll. And if we
do a lot of flailing around out there, I'm sure
that we can run out of gas pretty easy. So I think
you'd better figure if we're unsuccessful in the
first hour and a half, we're probably not going to
get the Job done, and I hope we haven't worn our _
selves out to the point where we can't go ahead
and do 82 with all other good things. But recognize
that they are, in my mind, the low priority. The
difficult task is to do this beam, snd I'm afraid I -
I'm probably not quite as optimistic about it as
you guys are. Of course, you've done a lot more
work on it than we have, but we'll give her a
go tomorrow. I - I'm pretty sure we understand
everything - we do have a good look at these various
stations out the window. We're going back and smoke
them over again and talk about it some more. And I
think the biggest thing depends on Joe being able
to get the pole hooked on to something. There's
number one, and two - either cutting it or me
cutting it or however that works. And let's hope
there isn't something else holding it besides that
strap.
17 27 19 CC Yes, sir. Those are all - those other things _re

all low priority; we recognize that. We're now in
LOS arid be picking you up at 36.
17 27 32 CDR Hey, let's talk - -
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17 36 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Vanguard for the next

7 minutes. Did you have another question for Rusty?
PLT No, not_right now. I got a coupl e of questions about

the changes to the EVA Checklist.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay. On page 1.2-7.
17 37 16 CC Go ahead.
PLT I assume that the things in the pink brackets that are
crossed out, we now do, except the things that are not
crossed oat, which we cross out and don't do. Is that
right?
CC The things that are crossed out in the pink brackets,

you will do. Say again the last.
PLT Never mind. I know what I said - what I mean.
CC (Chuckle) I hope you did.
PLT On page 1.2-1, could - -
CC Stand by, Paul. On 1.2-7, the one that you do not do

is the one in the middle pink bracket: "Remove cap
fr_n ECS return dnct and stow."
PLT That's what I said. That was my last second part.
CC Good. Thank you. Go ahead with the next page, What

was it?
17 38 Ol PLT That's what I say. We do the ones that are crossed

out, except for the ones that aren't crossed out, but
we cross them out and then don't do th_n.
CC Yes. We got you. Go ahead. What's the next pa_e?
PLT 1.2-I_
CC 1.2-1. Go abead.
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PLT I assume I go to SI and then add those other switches,

the rate gyro, the fine Sun sensor, to that block.
Is that right? Under C_D panel config?
PLT Okay. That brings me up to date. If I have any more

questions, I'll ask you later. •
CC Okay. We probably will have some odds ourselves coming

up that we know of now, but we're trying to get them
organized before we let you know.
PLT Okay. And I would like sc_eone to keep track of all

these changes, so that we can go back through and
take them out. Because I assume that after this EVA,
and before the nor_-I film retrieval EVA, we're going
to delete all the changes. Right?
17 39 06 CC Not all of them, because we probably, if this works

out, will be using the aft compartment. In fact, let
me say a word about that. You Just reminded me of
something I did miss. We are planning to use the aft
compartment here. However, we do anticipate that we
will still have same leakage' through it. We are setting
limits on that, and Just for your information, in case
we see the workshop pressure coming down significantly,
we may have to ask for you to get back in and close
the aft compartment hatch. Now we do not anticipate
that, but I Just want to let you know that we are
looking at the OWS pressure during the EVA.
PLT Okay, now a counter proposal for that is •- how about

if we make a little flapper to go over the equalization
valve inlet that - so that the pressure going up against
the hatch from the inside will seal it, but that they
ought •to lift off, say, one little piece of gray tape
from coming the other way.
CC Standby Just 1.
PLT And we can make that out of cardboard or a piece of

• flat mosite out of the ESS or aSmost anything.
CC Standby Just 1.
PLT Okay.
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CC Okay. I asstune, Paul, that you are talking about the

- the check valves - not the equalization valve in
the aft hatch.
PLT Yes, I think so. I 'm talking about the only two that
we got access to from the inside.
CC Right. Stand by Just 1 then.
CC Okay. If you can mak_ them a flapper rather than put

tape directly across them, that sounds pretty good.
The problem is that we will he raising the lock and
forward - and aft compartment pressure after the crew
gets in there, due to the PCUs flowing. And we did
not want to put tape across it for fear we would end
up locking those check valves from their normal relief
function.
17 41 09 PLT Yes. What I mean is a piece of cardboard or mosite

on there_ taped loosely with tape so that it'll be
seatedwith pressure - bigger pressure on the inside.
But anything coming in on it ought to unseat it -
you know, a couple of inches of water, or something
like that.
CC Everybody here has got their thumb up. Sounds good.

Go ahead.
17 _l 30 PLT Okay.
17 42 22 MCC Okay, Paul. If you still read, we would like J_tst to

let you know that we are not sure that it is, iu fact,
leakage through the check valves. We think that's
probably the case, but it could be leakage elsewhere.
And this will give us - if your little scheme works,
it would give us a good check to see whether it is.
PLT Okay.
17 _2 _2 CDR Hey, Rusty. We're going to keep working - We'll try

8nd get everything - the important things done on the
Flight Plan today. But we may drop some of these in-
cidentals. I haven't really had a chance to look at
it, but as you well know, you may he able to do it in
an hour on the ground, but you've thrown a lot of
changes at us, and we got a lot of reconfiguring _o
do here. And we're trying to think our way throu_h
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it as we go and be a little bit slow, so we don't back

ourselves into a corner. Okay?
MCC Yes; no sweat.
17 43 12 CC And, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We won't

have you again until Goldstone at 18:47 - until an
hour.
PLT Oksy.
17 43 38 CC And for your information we will be doing a data dt,np

on that Goldstone pass.
18 _7 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS over the States for the

next 13 minutes. For the next 13 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CDR Is - Houston, CDR housekeeping; I0 Alfa's in work.
CC Roger.
18 49 29 CC And, by the way, guys. We are doing a data dump on

the recorders at this time.
PLT Oksy.
PLT Hey, Houston. We Just want to verify you do want the

Hasselblad pictures out the wardroom window and not
the 190 window. Is that right?
PLT Okay.
PLT Very well. I'm going to take two and try and get stereo.
Is that Catalina?
CC Skylab, Houston. I missed your last. Say again.
PLT Sorry, Houston. I was t-l_ing to the rest of the crew.
CC Oh, sorry about that.
18 55 l0 PLT It's an enormous spiral, Houston. It fills the whole

window. We won't be able to get it a]S on ... picture.
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CC I understand the spiral covers the whole window.
PLT And it has as mall, very well-defined ... eye. It's

like an artist's conception of a hurricane.
CC Roger. I tmderstand; a well-defined eye .... Houston,

your readings. Alfa 9 is oscillating between 5 percent
and 45 percent. Bravo 9 is ha-ging in there at about
58. Then Charlie 9 is oscillating between 50 and 90.
Now Alfa 9, even though it's oscillating, stays at the
lower end most of the time, and Charlie 9 stays at the
upper end.
CC Roger. Copy, Paul.
18 57 51 PLT Houston, we're not getting any of the clouds associated

with a hurricane on the RAD/SCAT. I think we're over
open water right now at nadir, Just on the very edge
of it.
CC Okay. v copy.
- CDR The eye in that thing is fantastic to look at - it's

completely - Almost open in the middle of it.
CC Roger.
CDR And you dan see blue water in the center of it, and
it must have a straight wall of clouds that goes clear
up to 35,000 or 30,000 feet right on the sides of it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We won't

have you again until 19:13; 19:lB.
18 59 05 PLT Roger.
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19 ii 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for the next

16 minutes.
CDR Roger. We must be going -
CC Sorry about that. Wrong time on it - It's for the

next 7 minutes - 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Houston, we were hoping to get a good shot of Buenos

Aires, but that - unfortunately it is Just barely under
the edge of the clouds.
CC Roger.
19 19 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute until LOS, and we

won't see you again for about an hour at Hawaii at
20:21 - 20:21.
CDR Alohoa.
CC Roger.
20 21 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Hawaii for the

next 3 minutes.
CREW Roger, Houston.
CC And, CDE; Houston. If you got a moment, want to tell

you something about 55.
CDH Go ahead.
CC Okay. To preclude some of the problems we've been

having with the thing tripping off because of the
detectors - At the conclusion of this pass, we would
like you put the S055 MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE switch to
OVERRIDE; and then if we ever get any - things trip-
ping out, well, you will get the light but the other
detectores will keep r-nning.
CDR Okay. MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE from FABLE to OVERRIDE, in

the pad. Is that what you want?
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20 22 50 CC And, Pete. I've got a telegram here for you I might

as well read right now. It reads: "Congratulations
on heating my record. If you need assistance, I'ii
send you a tug boat." Signed, Jim Lovell.
20 23 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. We'll have

you again at Van6_ard at 20:49; 20: 49.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And Skylab. We will be doing a data dump for the

recorders over Vanguard.
CDR Okay, Houston; and we Just lost a Z gyro.
CC Understand. Lost a Z gyro.
CDR I redundancy management now.
CC Okay.
CDR Yes
20 24 52 CC ...
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SKXIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
20 50 19 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Vanguard for the next - -
CDR Hi there, Houston. Are you there?
CC Roger. We're here for about the next 9 minutes, Pete.
CDR Okay. What did Z gyro do? Change its mind again?
CC Apparently. We're taking - we're taking a look at

it right now.
CDR Okay.
20 51 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Skylab, Houston. We had an

indicated problem with Z-1. We're going to put -
but it apparently is gone now, and we're going to
put 1 and 2 back in control_ and we're going to go
ahead and turn on 3, so we can have it as a backup.
MCC Gosh darn it.
PLT (Laughter) You having a few problems down there?
MCC Look who's talking. Roger.
PLT Houston, you there?
CC Say again.
20 5h 58 PLT I Just wondered if you were there. How about -

they'r e dumping the tape recorder. Take three numbers
for me, Bob; will you?
CC Go ahead.
20 55 05 PLT Okay. On the M171 and on the SPT, the percent 02

• is 72.10, 72.10; percent water is 5.19, 5.19; per-
cent CO2 is 1.92, 1.92.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC And, _PLT, Houston. If - if you've got a minute _o_,

you can_ well, - Cancel my last.
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CC And, Skylab; Houston. We have sent you some addi-

tional teleprinter pads regarding EVA. There are
two - Charlie two pages on it. The first is bad;
disregard.
PLT Okay.

see you again at Hawaii at 21:57; 21:57. We have
reconfigured the rate gyros.
20 59 14 CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know if you heard my LOS

call, but we're going LOS now, and we'll have you
again at Hawaii at 21:57; 21:57. And we have recon-
figured the rate gyros with 1 and 2, and we haven't
got 3 up to speed yet. We'll get that over Hawaii.
20 59 30 PLT Okay. Fine.
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22 01 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for the next

5 minutes.
CDR Crip ;.I looked atthose TV sketchy procedures and

I don't like them. I have the feeling that I would
prefer right now not even to mess with the TV, and
if we try and do anything at all, it's get a camera
outside. Maybe the 16 DAC or something we're used
to handling out there.
CC We've got Rusty standing by here. Maybe I can let

him comment on that.
CDR Okay.
MCC That's what you call passing the buck.
CDR Well, I got to be honest with you, Rusty. I don't

like them. You're asking u_ to go back in and hook
up the camera with the wires not hooked up and then
you want to send the thing out on the boom and tend
the wire and that wire is Just terrible. We have a
hard time messing around grabbing that stuff in here.
And I Just think we're asking for trouble. We're
liable to lose the one TV camera we got left.
MCC Okay, Pete. Let me tell you one reason why that was
requested by management. Hold on Just a second.
CDR I know it gets the data to you the fastest but - -
MCC Stand by, Pete. We'll get with you in a minute.
CDR - - I really don't like it.
CC CDR, Houston. Apparently we've - the star's drifted

off and we'd like to see if we could reacquire that.
Let me see if I can get them to give you some good
gimbal angles for right now.
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22 03 12 CC And, Skylab, Houston. I did have some comments. We

are sending up your Flight Plan for tomorrow. You'll
notice - well it's not obvious in this one, but we
are planning on a couple of ATM passes in the pre-
sleep. In fact, the plan is there now. Now those
ATM passes are going to be kind of at your option.
If you can't - don't feel like you can do them, well,
we'll go ahead and do unattended ops.
CDR What's this? Tomorrow night?
CDR Okay.
CC Also, I guess I'd like to - if you can copy down.

I had a couple of it_m_ here for pad modifications
that we have sent you today.
CDR Go ahead_
CC Okay. Pad number 1317Alfa deals with setting up the

ATM, the C&D for unattended operations post-EVA. We
would like you to add to that _o set canister roll
to plus 5400; that's plus 5_00.
22 04 27 CDR Okay.
CC Okay. And, also, Just as a verbal reminder, in the

C&D setup for EVA prep, it has you m_e sure that
all the doors are closed. We do not want tc close
the S05h door, which is probably obvious to you.
CDR Yes.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT Hey, Crip?
00 Go.
SPT That plus 5400 roll was in the post-EVA panel reeon-
figuration for unattended ops. Is that right?
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SPT Okay.
SPT Go ahead with the star tracker pad.
CC Okay. The star tracker gimbal angles we'd like you

to put in are inner gimbal angle of plus 0029 and
outer of plus 148_.
SPT Is that still friendly Achernar?
MCC And, Pete. Let me say Just onething on the ration-

ale here, and there's no question. If it looks like
when you get to do it that that cord is too hard to
handle or whatever, we - use your own Judgment on it.
Th_ rationale behind it rather than a DAC is that
with the TV down-link we can get an assessment with
the color quality of the what the sail is doing and
thereby make a better decision of whether to put out
another sail before you all come back. Whereas, with
the DAC we'd have to bring it back with us.
CDR How much of it do you have to see, Rusty? I can give

you color TV of the sail from the command module win-
dow - of the _rch.
MCC Okay. Let me pass that on up, Pete. That's all I

can tell you right now. I'll have to take that high-
er and find out what the recommendation is.
22 06 33 CDR Okay. Man, oh ma_! I can tell we've been -

we're slowly drifting behind the curve on tomorrow
because we're trying to rig the airlock now; and,
boy, try to stick a TV camera in here with all that
wiring and we got gray tape all over everywhere, and
I'm not convinced half of it is going to work, but
we'll give her a go.
MCC Okay. Look, as far as I'm concerned, if there's

any question whether it's going to work, that's
low priority. Forgetit.
22 06 57 CC We're Just about to go LOS and I'll have you at

28, 28.
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22 28 _7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the Vanguard for

the next 8 minutes and we will be doing a recorder
dump.
CREW Roger, Bob.
CC And, Joe, if you're listening, some good news for

today. The medics have decided to ensure that you
get a good nights sleep - that you can scrub M133
for tonight.
SPT He says, "Yeaaa.'" Thank you.
CC He's trading that for some water gun readings we're

going to ask you for later.
SPT Okay.
MCC CDR, this is Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We wa_t to - we've discussed it here - I want

to make clear the position on this TV thing so that
you don't have anything hanging over your head. We'd
like to make sure you understand that that's extremely
low priority on that EVA; that the whole Job is to
get that SAS wing up and if for whatever reason you
decide not to take that thing out there to look at the
parasol or anything else, that's Just great. Forget
it. On the other hand, if it's back there in the
aft compartment and you get done in time and you feel
like trying it, that'd be swinging. If on the other
hand, tonight in setting the lock compartment, air-
lock stowage, you decide it's too - too big a mess to
stow, forget it tonight and it's gone. We got - we
want rfo pressure on you on it.
22 30 27 CDR Well, Rusty, my feeling is that the - it's gone now

because I don't want to mess with it for the follow-
ing reasons: We decided not to handle the TV during
the EVA because it was such a mess to handle. Now
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you're asking us to handle the thing when we've never

tried it before. And I feel we'll lose the camera,
screw it up, or do something wrong.
CC Okay. It's gone.
CDR That a boy. Now you're talking. Because I Just -

I - I don't even want to mess with it. We're con-
figuring the MDA right now, and we've only got one
camera. We've never messed with it. That cable's
a bear, and I Just'thinkwe're a lot better off not
messing with it at all. I'll give you some TV at
the comm_nd module window of the orange and hopefully
fully zoomed in you can get a good color comparison.
CC Okay, fine. Quit talking about it, it's gone.
22 31 25 CDR ... I'll go back t O work.
CC We Just want to let you know, we probably will not

send up a revised pad. As you're going through them,
Jus_ delete all references to it unless you want us
to send up another pad with all that stuff deleted
to make it clean. Your choice.
SPT We'll leave her go like she is.
CC This is Skylab, Houston. We Just sent you up another

teleprinter pad, which is a slight mod to your EVA
Checklist.
22 32 29 PLT I got it.

see you again at Hawaii at 23:35; 23:35.
SPT Okay, Crip. I got a question on this last change to

the EVA Checklist that was sent up. For example,
we've Just added opening the I/LCA heaters and turn-
ing the ATM coolant pumps off. I don't remember -
How we're going to take care of closing those break-
ers and turning the pumps back on?
CC Okay. We've got the coolant pump covered to turn it

back on, as you'll see, and I guess we're going to
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give you a GO on that I/LCA heater, depending on

what our power status is.
22 36 39 SPT Oh, yes. I should have seen that. I didn't read

far enough. Okay. All righty.
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Day157 Page 927
23 34 49 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello there, Hank. How are you tonight?
CC Oh, pretty good. How did it go today?
CDE Well, we've got it all done so far, and we're going
to make the ATM pass. And Joe and I are doing as
much EV prep for tomorrow as we can do tonight,
right now.
CC Okay. I guess sometime before the evening's over,

we'd like to tag up on Just how far you got, and
whereyou think you're going to pick uptomorrow
morning.
CDR Little hard to say right now, Sanm. We've got the
suits to the donning _tage; the PC_'s are down,
because that was gear that was basically moved
around with some other stuff and it was easy to do
today while we were doing some ofthe other things.
We're Just picking up the cue card now, and I think
that we'll be im a good position at about 1 - 02:00
or so to tell you where we are on our cue cards.
CC Okay. Good show.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're co_anding the gyros

into the sleep [?] configuration.
CDR What happened to that Z-gyro today? Compensation go

off again?
CC It was a momentary hard-over.
CDR That's interesting. We Just give the cluster ...

a couple of good healthy firings out of the TACS.
CC Roger.
23 36 41 CC Our data showed we got three firings.
CDR Yes, that's what they got down here. The guys were
running M092, 171. Any explanation for a momentary
hard-over?
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CC I guess we can't answer that, Pete. Everybody down

here is baffled by it. It's the second time it's
happened. And the gyro seems perfectly normal now.
We got it back on the line.
CDR Same gyro.
PLT Hey, Hank, I got a question for you about general

messag_ 1326, which is the EVA procedures, tail end.
cc Go ahead.
PLT We have two Charlie 2's and two Charlie 3's. Crip
mentioned this before, but I didn't have the message
to look at then. The second Charlie 2 and the second
Charlie 3 replace the first ones, respectively.
Is that right?
23 38 24 MCC Hey, we're going over that right now. We'll get
back with you.
PLT Oh, you mean I shouldn't do too much cutting and

pasting yet, huh?
MCC Okay, the last Charlie 2 and the last Charlie 3, the
last two messages you got are valid. You may press
on with cutting and pasting.
PLT Okay. Thank you, sir.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Info: your evening questions

are in the teleprinter.
CDR Roger.
23 41 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute until LOS.

We'll be coming up Vanguard at 06.
00 05 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, l0 minutes.
PLT Roger. Are you ready for the Evening Status Report?
CC Stand by, and let's see if they are ready to copy.

We had it scheduled for the next Vanguard, but let's
see if we're ready.
PLT Okay. If you're not, no sweat. We'll give it to

you then. If you're ready, we got her.
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CC Okay. We're ready to copy now.
PLT Stand by.
CC While we're standing by, you might be interested to

know that Ava's got winds up to 130 knots now.
PLT Phew!
00 07 21 PLT Okay, let's kind of _ick up here, Henry. How about -

I'll start with the food. The SPT ate everything.
He's only had one extra can of butter cookies. CDR
ate everything. The PLT ate everything except one
item - 75, bread, and a DELTA water of minus l,
optional salt of 1.5. Okay, the only pictures we
took today were some Hasselbladpictures and that
frame counter now is 30. No deviations to the Flight
Plan that you don't know about and no stowage changes.
PLT Is that everything you wanted?
CC Stand by.
CC Okay, I guess that about does'it for the status report.

The only other open item now is the questions which
we sent up. to you awhile ago.
CC And, PLT, I've got some gimbal alignments for you for
the star tracker.
O0 l0 29 PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. OUTER is plus 1442, INNER, plus 0032.
PLT Okay, I understand the INNER is plus 0032, the OUTER

is plus 1442.
CC Affirmative.
PLT When's that good, Henry? Is that the same as on the

original pad, day 38, it starts?
O0 ll 12 CC Same as original pad, and I guess you can bring it

up at sunrise. We're in a dump now.
PLT Yes.
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00 13 24 CDR Have we still got you, Hank?
CC That's affirmative. A couple of minutes.
CDE I'ii give you day 156 stuff you asked for. Ready to
copy?
CC Go ahead.
CREW Hello.
CDR Okay. Alfa: CDR, 200; SPT, 130; PLT, 340. Bravo:
CDH, 3886; SPT, 7182; PLT, 3261. Charlie: CDR, 6.106,
6.103, 6.10T; SPT, 6.656, 6.654, 6.647; £LT, 6.829,
6.831, 6.828. Delta: CDR, 2/15/1500; SPT, 2/15/2250;
PLT, 2/16/2600, 1/04/0200. Echo: CDR, none; SFT,
none; PLT, none. That's it.
CC Roger, thank you. And we're about 35 seconds from

LOS. We'll be coming up at Ascension at 21 for the
recorder dump.
00 14 51 CDE Bye.
O0 21 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascen'sion, 7-i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension, 7 minutes.
PLT Are you ready for the questions?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Number 2 is yes. Number 3 we'll have to give you

later. Number 4, the 22-volt, REG - 22-volt reading
on REG 17 is the - that's what I was reading when we
looked at it last - a week or so ago. I guess I
confused them with the ... The answer to 5 is yes.
CC We win a bet on number 2.
CDR Who won?
O0 22 37 CC The friendly CAP CO_ and Fli@ht Director won, and

FAO lost.
O0 24 36 CC PLT, Houston?
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00 24 h4 SPT What do you want?
CC Roger. The PLT, before he leaves the ATM tonight,

we'd like for him to get the REG VOLTS and the REG
CURRENT on CBRM 1. The reason we want this is Just
to make sure that your onboard meters are giving you
the right readings.
PLT All right. Stand by and I'll give it to you now.
00 26 56 PLT Okay, Henry. CBRM 17 regulator is reading 30 volts

now. Hello, Houston, you there?
CC Roger. We're Just talking about that. That - that

thing seems to work all right. After l0 or 15 minutes
of nighttime, it seems to come up to speed and do
its Job. And in the daytime, it Just flat puts out
a couple - you knowabout half of what it's supposed
to onto the BUS.
PLT Okay; I'll try to remember to look during the day

pass and see how it looks then. Yes, it's right up.
All of them are reading - all but 15 are reading
30 now.
CC Roger.
O0 27 53 CC And Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS. Guam

will be coming up at 05.
CDR Hey, Henry. I want you to think about us not inhibit-

ing TACS tonight. Like that Z-gyro - what would
happen had that happened with the TACS ofT. Okay?
Think about it.
O0 28 24 CC Okay, we'll have a story for that. I think we have

it all planned out; we'll tell you next.
O0 28 32 CDR Make it a good one.
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Day 158 Page 933
01 05 02 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam 6 minutes.
CDH Roger.
CDR Hey, Hank, I got a little confusion here. Where did

you want me to get the S082A film from?
CC Stand by.
CDR And then what do you want us to do? Load it in

our cans ?
CC While we're smoking that over, Pete, I'll give you

sm answer on that TACS thing. To fill you in, we
had two previous hard-overs on Z-I. One was on day
154 a_d one was dsy 157, which is today, I guess.
And we - The reason we want TACS inhibited is that,
if the thing does its hard-over, then the ATMDC puts
it in CO_4AND, and it'll flre.the TACS right off
the hat and start moving the vehicle out. Then we
•.. bringing up the Z-3. And when it gets it on
the line! it'll decide that one is the b,-_mer, and
then it'll fire or do whatever it is to get it hack.
Now if we have it inhibited, the vehicle stays where
it is or if the CMGs start moving. But we think
that - we're pretty sure that it will recognize
the failure and everything will he under control
before we get into C_G SAT, and we won't 1_e
wasting any TACS.
CDR 0kay, I'll bt_ it.
SPT Hey, Hank, this is the SPT. How is rate gyro 3

in Z? Is it good? Because if it is, why don't we
go 2/3 or 3/17
Ol 07 12 CC Stand by a minute.
SPT Yes, hut if we went 3/1, andwe got a discumpare,

it 'd go 3.
CC Okay, and in ease you started there, Joe, they tell

me that it will pick the lowest ntgnber gyro, so it
would go to i.
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SPT No, I don't think that's true. But they're smarter

than I sin. Then, of cour_se, if we went 2/3, we
could stay s_ay from 1 completely.
CDR Hey, Hank. Where are we right now?
CC Okay, you're over Guam.
CDR Okay.
CC Our plan is to go 2/B, but we're - I guess, trying

to get some data on 3.
SPT Okay.
CC That's the reason we want to get the star tracker

up tonight so we can calibrate 3, and then
t_norrow, I guess, we plan to go 2/3.
MCC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
MCC Yes, Pete, message 1316 Alfa calls out load nt_nber 2
out of film vault lhl, M141.
CDR Okay, very good, Paul put a]1 our checklist changes
in, and I didn't want to have to go back through all
of the messages.
MCC Okay.
CDR Well, we've passed page i of the EVA prep card except
for doing the wetting of the visors. And we're
configuring LSUs and that sort of stuff now.
M_C Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we got a general

message 141_ on hoard. It's a systems reconfigur-
ation that has to be accr,,plished prior to the EVA.
I suggest, if you get time, you might hit it tonight
and save a little time tomorrow.
01 l0 05 SPT Okay, we sure hope this is the last reconfiguration

we get before tomorrow morning.
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CC Okay, it's Just a short one. It's doing something

with the REG ADJUST pots and on the recharge station.
CDR This is Pete, man - -
PLT They' re all short.
CDH - - You got 500 guys down there keeping three of us

busy.

Since we've already got the evening status report
out of the way, we got some news, if you want to hear
it at Vanguard, which is coming up at 43. And also,
we're showing that the TACS is still enabled,
PLT Okay, we were waiting on discussion Before we inhibited

it. See if the CDR liked that or not.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT How is that?
01 ii 17 CC That's the only way.
01 h2 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for ii minutes.
SPT Hi there.
CC Okay, so you don't get confused, we goofed up and

sent you page i of the Flight Plem twice.
SPT Ssy again what you did?

4
CC Okay, we sent page 1 of the Flight Plan twice.
SPT Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
CC Belay that. We didn't send it twice. We Just put

it in the wrong order.
SPT You're forgiven.
SPT Okay, Houston, if you want a status report on where

we are, we're about to open the hatch. We figured
to have the EVA wrapped up in about an hour and a
half.
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CC A few people got up on that one.
SPT (Laughter)
MCC I 'm glad I stayed awake.
SPT Well, seriously, we are at the place on page 3 in

the cue card where it says "0BS and LOG donning,"
We're going to pretty much wind it up there. We're
going to smoke thromgh the rest of it, and see if
there's any little details we could catch up on.
And go through the EVA plan one more time, and eat
our icecream and strawberries.
_CC Sounds like preflight.
PLT Hey, Rusty, I can't find that message. I remember

seeing it that the S082 dope on it. Is there any-
thing else of any interest on that one?
01 4_ 48 MCC Stand by.
MCC Yes, P. J. it does have some other things on it.

Stand by Just 1.
PLT 0kay.
CDR You know me, Rusty. I like to get things done

early and not work late.
CDR It's like the night before Christmas up here. The

suits are su - hung by the fireplace with their
LSUs in place, Just waiting to go.
MCC Okay, Skylab, I'll tell you what. It's - it's not
too long a message, but it does have some other
things on it that deal with the prep. And what we
think we'll do here is Just retransmit it to you
here over Ascension, which is coming up at about
15 minutes.
01 46 15 CDR What - what's the message n_bers, Rusty?
MCC Yes, it's 1316 Alfa. And aside from what we already
talked about, Pete, most of it deals with post. And
I think the only thing in prep was getting the right
film magazine out of l_l there.
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Ol 46 B3 CDB Well, I got it; it's mounted, and it's rea_ to go.
01 49 50 CC Skylab, Houston_ we need a few things cleaned up on

the ATM panel.
PLT Shoot.
CC Oka_r, we need to get the H-alpha csmera off. And

close th 9 doors on H-alpha i 8zi_ 2. And the 8056
door closed, and MPC inhibit.
PLT Okay, I was seeing how many of those you'd pick up.
You did pretty good.
CC And star track - -
PLT How come I got a BAT CHARGE _ght?
CC Roger. Our star traeker's kicked off again, and

we're getting some angles for you now we need to
re acquire.
PLT How come I have a BAT CHARGE light, Houston?
CC Okay, star tracker angles are OD'r_R, 1500; INNER

is 0035. And the BAT CHARGE light on CBRM 13 is
no sweat ; we Just had the heaters on during the
dark period there.
CDR Hey, how come the heaters on the night side made
the BAT CHARGE light come on there?
CC I'll get an answer.
MS eB •
CC Okay, what happened there was the heaters were on

during the daylight, so the bat didn't get completely
charged.
CDR Okay. How much of a sweat is it for power tomorrow

on EVA? Or to put it another way, lid like a briefing.
I don't want to be hanging halfway out the hatch and
have P. J. start talking about battery chargers and
PCGs and this that and the other thing without
understanding what's going on. Okay?
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CC Oks_. The EVA powerdown we sent you up there and

the things we're going to cc_.-nd off, total about
1106 watts. And we calculate, for the EVA, you'll
need 1012 watts, and then that includes the VTR, which
we're scrubbing. So we think we've got a real good
margin.
CDR Okay. I wouldn't scrub the _rl_, you know. You'd

be surprised how much of this you can see from the
inside. And I think we'll put the camera up here,
and P. J., can at least give you a good shot of
Joe standing out there because that's from wide open
from this STS window.
CC Okay, we - That's a good idea. We got the - VTR

scheduled in that 1012 watts; and we're about LOS
now, Pete. Vanguard will be coming up - Correction:
Ascension coming up at 56 and that willbe your
med conference.
O1 54 00 CDR Okay; see you later.
02 01 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 15 minutes left.
SPT Fifteen minutes?
CC Roger. We're picking up Canary and Madrid here

contiguous.
SPT Woo, wool Okay, let's have the late show.
CC Hey, I could give you a little rundown on the power

here you asked about Just before LOS awhile ago.
The actions that you're taking there are essentially
cutting all the fans off and getting a11 the lights
in the OWS; getting the wardrocm water heaters off
and the ATM C&D coolant loop off, and one of the
... powered down. And that total, out about 415
watts. Now Just prior to the EVA, what we're going
to do is command off the ATMexperiment power aud
get HEGe 3 and 15 off, which are not outputting any-
how. Get the bat heaters off, powerdown experiment
pointing. And the real biggy there is switch the
ATM thermal control system over to SURVIVAL, which
saves us 466 watts. And all this comes up to 1,100.
And then the things that are required for you EVA,
all your lights, SUS pumps, tape recorder, and and
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converter, the primary coolant loop, and LSU power

comes out to about 887, and then VTR is another 125
for a total of 1012.
SPT Okay. We noticed that little note not to use the

food heaters for lunch tcmorrow. I'Ii have you know
that we've only been using the food heaters for one
food each day and that's the evening frozen meal.
CC Roger. Copy.
02 23 06 PLT Now, Henry, let me make sure that the way we're
figuring on going tomorrow. And I don't know what
happened to that message I told Rusty I'm missing.
We're going to basically work from three books/pieces
of paper, One of them being the EVA cue cards, an
other being the EVA Checklist, and the third being
that EVA procedure that was sent up here today and
yesterday; part of it was in that stuff yesterday.
So I .assume that everything you're talking about is
included in either checklist changes, cue card
changes, or in that procedure. Is that right?
SPT And I remember seeing that message, Rusty. I don't

know how it fell down the crack.
CDB Hey, by the way, what are you p_Anner types planning
for the day after tomorrow so that we could get this
spacecraft put back in the right shape. Don't forget
we got tools and, you know, all that other Mickey
Mouse sails are hanging around and, man, there'S
Junk all over everywhere, so it's not Just the
regular EVA post operation. You copy that?
CC Roger. We've got people looking at that, Pete, and

they're - We hope to have a plan.
CDR Okay, it is definitely going to take us - I think

we ought to have a 12 man-hour, 3 hour each - no,
excuse me, 9 man-hour, 3 hour each period in addition
to the norm_1 post-EVA ops to put this spacecraft
back in shape, because we've done torn it apart
for the last 2 days.
02 44 57 CC Roger. We concur.
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PLT Henry?
MCC Hey, CDR or troops up there. We'd like to say Just

a word about the lighting "related to power here.
If you get out there, especiA11_V if Joe gets up
around the discone atenua in the evening there when
it's dark and decides he does not need the docking
lights, P. J. could pull the Breakers. There are
two breakers. They knock out the two different
lights that apply to that area. And we could save
power and would al_reclate it, if you don't need
those lights, Joe, to let P. J. turn them off.
PLT Are the breakers labeled what? Docking light?
MCC Stand by, I'll get the specific label on the panel
for you.
PLT m I got another question while you're doing that.

Remember, you said semething about a reconfiguration
of the STS panel tonight. I see it on tomorrow
night's, but I don't see anything to do tonight, yet.
MCC Okay, we got that one. The circuit breakers to

the docking lights are on panel 202 _and the docking
lights 1 and 2.
02 06 h8 PLT Hello, Houston; you still there?
MCC Roger.
PLT Maybe I'm confused. I have here a message - for

a change, I got a message number for you - lhlh.
Now is that to be performed tonight or tomorrow
night ?
MCC Roger. That has .to be done prior to the EVA. That's
the one I was ta]klag about earlier, that if you
could do, it's a real short one, you might do tonight.
PLT Oh, okay. It came after tomorrow's Flight Plan, and

I thought I locked in right away on presleep being
tomorrow night. Ha, ha.
MCC Paul, the - We have two ways to turn off the docking
lights. There's a switch on 207, which turns them
all off; or on 202 we got the circuit breakers, which
turn off half the lights, each of them. And I'll tell
you right now which one turns off which light.
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SPT He's en route to the MDA, Rusty. He'll call you in

a minute.
PLT Okay, Rusty, I - I see the switch - the DOCKING

light switch above the CAUTION & WARNING. Where are
the bres_ers, on what panel?
MCC 202.
PLT Okay, which ones?
MCC Okay, it's next to the bottom row, and it's docking
lights 1 and 2.
PLT Oh, yes; okay. I'm doing that powerdown - whatever

it is - The reeonfiguratlons now, Hank.
PLT Okay, that m_de the AM batteries 6 and 7 start

discharging. The rest, though, stayed where they
were.
CC Roger. We're going to take those two bats off the

llne tonight to keep them up..
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. To fill you in a little more on

the power thing, the reason that we're doing this
REG adjust tonight is - The plan is that, if we get
into a bind and have to do the pltehup to 45 degrees
for thermal reasons, that - to handle the loads,
we're going to bring the AM bats on the line; and so
we're all set up to do that and command it from the
ground.
02 i0 57 SPT Okay.
MCC And, Skylab; Houston here. We, as I mentioned earlier,

had not thought about the view out the STS window,
and if you can get a TV view out there, that would
be appreciated. We can pick up the real-time over
the states, which will be shortly after sunrise.
And we'll give you a GO for use of a VTR, if you
want to try that also.
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CDR I have not physically put the camera there, Rusty,

but there's nothing behind your head, and you can
see the whole dipole antenna to the base, below the
base, and the A-frame, all from that window. And
I think you'll have excellent TV of Joe.
MCC Yes, I think that that would be very educational

here, and I think everyone would look forward to
seeing it_, if it's _o sweat.
CDR Okay, I went back up to look at the sail again.

Now there is no doubt about it that the orange is
beginning to fade. I would say that it's a nice
ora_gy-frost-gold now, if that is a good description.
And I think I can get the TV up there to where I can
show you about a 6-inch strip, about 3 inches wide
of it. In full zoom, you might think about what
that would do for color resolution. And we can
work that one later.
MCC Okay, fine. It Just so happens I have in my very --

hand at the moment a couple of samples of the sail
material here, which have been exposed to various
therm-1 cycling. And let me ask you, with your
description, if you might take a gander at the
stationary end of the LBNP for a color comparison
with what you Just described to me.
CDR No, no, no. It's still much more oranger than that,
Rusty. That's a flat gold, and this has still got
a lot of orange left in it. But it's - it looks
faded. That's what it looks like.
MCC Okay, fine. Well, it's between two of them that we

got here in our hands right now. So that does give
us some hack on it. TbRn_s.
CDR Okay, give us a little more advance wa_ning, if

we're going to do a sail deployment, will you?
02 13 18 MCC I keep trying to get some, but I'm not having much
luck.
02 15 34 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Be coming up on GuAm at 40, and I do have some news,
if you've got time to listen to it there. If not,
we'll get it in the morning.
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02 40 28 HCC Skylab, Houston through @I._ for i0 minutes.
PLT Hi.
HCC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes?
MCC Yes. Hey, P. J., let me tell you about one thing
here that's come in late and Just a warning for
tc_orrow. If you've got message 1326 around, which
is the second part of the EVA prooedures; that is,
the portion where you're changing out the S082A film?
PLT Well, we Just happen to be there, talking it over.

Let me - these message numbers don't really do any-
thing for us, Rusty. We don't file them by message
number. We got to have a subject. Yes, I see how I
missed that other card, I missed'the - well, anyway,
I made what I thought was most of the changes and
threw that other message away. I missed changing
the stowage compartment number though.
MCC Okay. Well, the one l'm talking about now, then,
Paul, is general message EVA additional.
PLT l'm looking at it, Rusty_ go ahead.
MCC Okay. Down there where - after the magazine is all

replaced and you're up at panel 130 doing the film
checks there, the verifications?
PLT Yes.
CC Okay, we've found out late here, unfortunately, that

there may be a relay race logic problem, which means
that when you - okay, you go down about three lines
there and your step - and it says, "MAIN POWER switch
ON?"
PLT I'm looking; wait a minute.
02 _2 _0 MCC Okay, it's right after it says, "EV-3" and you got -
you reset the film counter and then it says, "XUV
SPECT MAIN POWER switch ON ," and then it tasks
about the power doors.
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PLT Yes. Okay, I got it. Let me - are you guys handling
these things? You know, I got a 16-foot message here
l'm trying to read from. It's hard to find things
sometimes. But l've found that place; go ahead.
MCC Okay, the - the problem here is that the door is

open - the outer door is open when you start this
thing, and if you Just turn the main power on there -
it's possible that the logic race will be such that
you will not get a "film decrement even though every-
thing is okay. And the way to fix that up is, Just
before main power switch on, go ahead and put the power
door switch off, and wait for the doors to close. In
other words, wait about 20 seconds and then go right
ahead with that main power switch on, et cetera.
PLT You're saying then that the power doors - power to

the doors is independent of the main power switch
position.
MCC Yes, "the main power - the main power position will
affect both doors, both the outer door, the thermal
shield door, and the inner door., If you have the
main power switch off, the inner door will remain
closed, but the thermal shield door will still open
and close when you hit the power door switch.
PLT Okay. So Just ahead of, "MAIN POW]_R switch ON" you
want me to say_ "POWER DOORS OFF."
MCC Right, and then wait 20 seconds and then press on

with it Just as written.
PLT Okay.
MCC And I hope - I'd like to promise you that that's the
last change on anything we got here. And let me try
that Just before we go to bed here.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a few news items here.

Are you too busy to listen or rather wait?
PLT No, take them up.

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02 45 19 CC Okay, I'ii start off by smylng on this day in history,

194_, we landed in Normandy. President Nixon's made
several new appointments _his week. Former Defense
SecretaryMelvin Laird has been made Presidential
•Counselor for Domestic Affair s. Laird said that
he will form close ties with the heads of all Federal
departments and agencies, with members of Congress,
and with the President. He will have cabinet status
and will he a member, of the National Security Council.
General Alexander Haig will retire from the Army to
become Nixon's assistant in charge of the White
House staff. Haig, as you recall, was former
assistant to Henry Kissinger and has been acting as
the White House Chief of Staff about i month. Kansas
City Police Chief, C.M. Kelley, is expected to become
permanent Director of the FBI. Kelley's been in his
present Job since '61 and is considered an innovator
of new police methods and techniques. Kelley was
an FBI agent for more than 20 years. Ronald Zeigler,
White. House Press Secretary, will become a presi-
dential assistant for communications in addition to
keeping his present duties.
02 46 29 MCC Okay, President Nixon will be' near the - near the
Cape Kennedy area Friday when he delivers a commence-
ment address at Florida Technological University.
The new school was founded in 1968 and will be
graduating about 700 students. Vice President Spiro
Agnew spoke to U.S. Governors at the National
Governors ' Conference Wednesday at Stateline, Nevada.
Agnew told the audience that he is "available for
consultation, available for counseling."
CC In Paris, Henry Kissinger resumed secret talks with

Le Duc Tho, Politburo member from Hanoi. The two
representatives are seeking ways to halt continued
violations •of the cease fire in Viet Nam. Congress
was told by Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements
that the Pentagon will not order any more F-ill fighter
bombers when the current production run ends late next
year. The Air Force will have 5_3 of the aircraft by
•that time.
MCC The Senate Watergate hearings continue to be televised

during the daytime hours. Wednesday's hearings
featured Hugh Sloan, Jr., former Republican Campaign
Treasurer. Sloan discussed the intricate business
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of receiving and handling huge sums of money during

the election campaign. He also expressed his concern
that the C,_,_ttee to Re-elect the President might
be involved in the Watergate affair, but said he
was ignored by other officials. A bill has passed
the House of Representatives to raise the minimum
wage from a $1.60 an hour to $2.20 an hour next
year. Theywill also extend coverage to 6 million
more American workers, including household domestic
workers. The bill now goes to the Senate.
CC I guess my wife's going to get a raise. Wet weather

in the Midwest caused by this spring's heavy flooding
has delayed spring crop planting. Farmers and
Federal agricultural officials can't agree, however,
whether delay will mean hi_her prices for conslnners.
Brldgette Bardot announced that she will retire
from film making. "I have had enongh," she was quoted
as saying. Sc_e basehail scores from yesterday,
National League: Philadelphia 4, Houston nothing;
Dodgers i0, Chicago i; Montreal 7, Atlanta 6; San
Francisco 3, Pittsburg 2; Cincinmati 6, New York 5;
St. Louis 5 and San Diego 3." In the American League,
the scores were 7 to h, 9 to 2, 8 to 6, 5 to 4, and
5 to 2.
MCC Good night, Henry.
PLT Good sense of proportion.
CC Good night, Rusty.
MCC Good night, Henry.
PLT Good night, you all.
CDR ... all gone - -
PLT We appreciated that.
02 50 ll CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you in the morning.
CDR Okay, Hank you might make sure you give us a holler
that we're up by ll:00. What are the station passages
[sic]-, if you got them?
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CC You say you want a wakeup call in the morning, Pete?
CDR Well, if you got one around ll, give us a holler.

Real good. We appreciate the good ... even if we
have been needling you. We'll give them heck
tomorrow.
02 50 _l CC And _ Just need to - one - one last message here

we need to inhibit the momentum dump on the next
rev. We messed up.the new Z.
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ll 02 h9 CC Good morning, Skylab; this is Houston. We got you

at Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
PLT Hi there, Houston.
CC Hi there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're starting our morning chores

on commanding. We're going back to solar inertial
mode and closing Sun sensors to doors.
SPT How did the inertial go last night? I mean ....
CC Sorry, Joe. Didn't copy the question.
SPT I'll catch you later, I'm at a bad VOX.
ll 07 Oh CC Okay, we're about l minute fromLOS here. We're

going to see you at Hawaii at ll:_3.
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SKYLAB AIR-'TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
ii 23 16 CC Hi there, Skylab; Houston. We got you at Hawaii

for 7 minutes.
ll 25 15 PLT Okay.
ii 23 29 SPT I say, Houston, how did the momentum go last night?

We did not inhibit. We found a star instead that
looked like we had a good NUz; so I'm interested

how things came out.
CC Joe, that work you did on the star tracker fixed us

up real fine, and we had no problems with momentum
throughout the evening.
SPT Okay.
11 24 25 PLT Say, Dick. There was a general message sent up

during the night or morning sometime, and one of
them was on the tool sieve.
CC Roger.
SPY The answer is yes.
PLT And you might pass on to the ECS guys that I inad-
vertently turned that thing off yesterday, and that's
what brought to mind the whole business about check-
ing out the PRIMARY TIMER. We need all kinds of
word on what's supposed to happen when you initially
activate a timer. Well, I got to playing with the
secondary one yesterday, in the course of putting
St back on, and the secondary timer on M0L SIEVE A
worked like we always thought it would work. That
is, regardless of BED position, as soon as you turn
on that timer, it immediately vents A to ADSORB and
B to DESORB.
CC Roger; copy.
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PLT And we heard they weren't supposed to work like

that; but that one does. Even if it's already
there, it _ll send a squirt of nitorgen through there
and Just dump it right away. But it works like we
thought it didn't any more.
CC Hey, Paul. Are you in SECONDARY now?
ll 25 h6 PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay.
CC Well, PLT. That's all kind of interesting. The

EGIL says that it can happen the way you describe.
It w_11 not - He thinks, though_ it will not neces-
sarily happen that way every time. So possibly it's
been Just coincidence so far. At any rate, we are
going to schedule a - a good timer checkout when
we ge_ to it.
ll 26 29 PLT Okay. Darn it. Let's say that my data, or what I'm
basing my remark on isthe faCt that I turned the
MOL SIEVE - I inadvertently turned it OFF, turned it
back ON, and heard it dump the gas but not cycle.
You know you can hear - That thing gives you a big
sigh in your face when it cycles; and I didn't hear
it do that. So I opened up the cover and looked, and
A was in ADSORB, B was in DESORB. And I thought -
I said, "Well, I wonder if I'm double stroking that
BED? So I'll hit it one time and see if it cycles."
So I turned the timer OFF, back ON, and gave it a shot
of air and dumped it, and nothing happened to the BED
indicators; they stayed where they were. So I watched
it, thinking about what EGIL is going to say, for a
minute or two. And then I turned it OFF and back ON,
and the same thing happened. It gave it another
shot of nltorgen, dumped it, and the beds stayed
where they were.
ll 29 29 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS,

We're going to have a short break. See you at
Goldstone at ll:31.
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ll 29 37 PLT Roger, Dick.
ll 32 12 CC Hello again, Skylab. This is Houston, and we've got

you for about the next 8 minutes.
ll 32 19 PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to have a short break,

and see you at Bermuda.
ll 40 48 CDR Roger, Richard.
ll 4h 31 CC Hello again, Skylab. We're at Bermuda for the next

6 minutes.
ll 44 42 PLT Okay, Houston.
ll 49 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We're go-

ing to see you at the Canary Islands at 11:53.
ll 50 08 PLT Roger, Dick.
ll 53 30 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Canary for lO minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. And we Just passed over an area that's

almost like "Meteorology for Naval Aviators" text-
book; pictures of developing cyclonic depressions.
They got a tropical depression out here about, oh,
a couple of 100 miles behind us now?
CC Let me check with the weather m_, Paul.
ii 54 29 CC Skylah, Houston. There is a very large low pressure

center that you Just passed over, and it's about
43 degrees north, so it can hardly be a tropical
depression; but it is - it is a large low area. And
that's probably what you saw.
ii 54 47 PLT Yes, it's loud and clear out there.
12 02 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS at

Canaries. You guys are still on a long descending
pass down the African continent. And we're going
to see you at Honeysuckle at 12:38.
12 02 55 PLT Roger, Dick.
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SMYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
12 38 48 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you over Honeysuckle

for about 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston. l'm ready to E0 ahead with ATM C&D

panel configuration, Rusty. Is that okay?
CC Stand by.
PLT And another thine I want you to verify on that check-

list on page 1.2-3 in the right hand co1,-_r, it was
X'ed out before - do you want me to close the OWS N 2
valve or not?
CC We're EettinE a reading on that, Paul. Hold on.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. That's an affirmative "P. J.
PLT On which one? On the N2 valve?
CC Yes, sir. Affirmative on the N_, What was the other

one ?
PLT I'm ready to go a "preps" with ATM C&D panel con-

flguration soon --you guys say it's okay.
12 39 55 CC Okay. You've got a GO on that, Paul.
PLT You're easy to get alon E with this morning. Thank

yOU •
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Oh my gosh, is this Rusty?
CDR You better Eive us - What's the earliest time we can

start, Rusty?
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CC Okay. You've got a sunset at right around 14:10.

Hold on, I'Ii get an exact time.
CDR Okay. I'm not sure thatwe'll make that hut there's
- we're kind of got a leg up on things and Just de-
pends how fast it goes. Otherwise, we'll cool it to
the right time.
CC Okay. We understand. And we're sort of semiprepared

for that. Let me give you an exact time here, Pete.
Okay. The prior sunset time is about 14:03.
CC And, Pete, for positive ID purposes we'd like Just a

word of confirmation that you'll be playing the role
of EV-1 today and that Dr. Kerwin will be playing
the role of EV-2.
CDR Say again, Rusty. I was top side.
12 hl 58 CC Roger. Since we don't have amy red stripes around

the arm, we're Just interested in being positive that
the 'player for EV-1 will be the commander and that
the player for EV-2 will be the SPT. Is that correct?
CDR That's Charlie.
OC Charlie Pete Conrad.
12 42 24 CDR Okay. Let me tell you where we are. I'm doing the
visors right now which is out of step, and we're
right at "strip off the clothes, put on the biomed
LCG's GO."
CC Okay. We're right with you on our checklist here.

Th_nk you.
PLT Houston. PLT.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. I Just want to doublecheck, verify here, sir,

on S054. I can go ahead and turn the MAIN POWER
switch, OFF. The door will stay open, right?
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PLT 0kay.
12 47 02 CC Okay. Skylab we've got about 30 seconds left here at

Honeysuckle; going to pick up Hs_sii at 58.
PLT Say again, Rusty.
CC Right, we've got about i0 seconds here and we're going

to pick up Hawaii at 58.
PLT See you then.
12 58 09 CC Okay, Skylab. We got you again at Hawaii for about

I0 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, Paul. You might want to expect the PRIMARY

COOLANT FLOW CAUTION AND WARNING here. EGIL's going
to be powering down the primary system. I beg your
par_gn. He'll be powering it up, which will give you
a C&W there on PRIMARY COOLANT FLOW.
PLT Okay.
CC And also, P. J., for you up in your area, we're going

to be doing some commandlnghere. Specifically, we're
going to enable AUTO RESET, au_ We'd like you to stay
clear of the DAS. I don't think you have any opera-
tions there, but we'd let you know that.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, give a call when you got a second.
PLT Calling Rus_y.
CC Yes, okay. We got an indication here, P. J., that

the S054 MAIN POWER and 'A'M_MMALPOWER are still ON.
Is that the case up there? We're looking at page
1.2-3, where it calls for them both to be off.
PLT Yes, and I finished that page. Let me go doublecheck.

All right?
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CC Okay. Appreciate it.
PLT No, both the switches are in the OFF position.
CC Okay. Stand by Just i.
CC Okay. We may have a pulsar problem there or sc_ething,

Paul. What we'd like you to do is go ahead and cycle
them both to ON and then both back OFF again.
13 02 08 PLT Okay. Task complete.
CC Okay, Paul. Stand by on that. It looks like we may

have a problem with the switch; we'll get back with
you.
PLT Right. l'm going in the workshop.
CC Okay, PLT. We're going to go ahead and co-,,and it from

the ground here and see whether that gives us positive
indication of OFF.
PLT All right.
13 07 22 CC Okay, Skylab. We're about _0 seconds from LOS here at

Hs_aii. We'll be picking _ou up at Goldstone at 13:10.
And_ Pet_ the number you can stick in your bonnet for
sunset there acceptable for exiting the airlock, will
be i_:0_. And if you want to get out a little earlier
than that5 you can_ but we'd expect you'd probably
cool your heels waiting for sunrise, or you can get
out up to about i0 minutes after that time. And we
think you'll still have plenty of time to get every-
thing done waiting for sunrise.
CDR Okay, Rusty. l'm not sure we're going to make that
one, but I think we're probably going to cool our heels
an hour _r so.
CC Okay. The schedule is up to you guys. We're ready

to support any wayyou want.
CDR Thank you.

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13 ii 42 CC Okay, Skylab. We've got you again over Goldstone

this time for about 5-1/2 minutes.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab. We got _bout 26 seconds here to LOS,

and we'll be picking you up at about 21 at Bermuda.
SC Roger.
13 21 19 CC Skylab, we've got you now over Bermuda. We'll have

you for about the next i0 minutes here.
PLT Roger, Rusty. I want to confirm that I - Another cir-

cuit breaker, which is left open, it turns out, - cir-
cuit breaker AUDIO CCUA, - Is that- I want to verify
that it should be left open.
CC Okay. Standby.
PLT What I'm doing, I'm configuring the co_ in here, and
I'm hooked into that add-on connector in here. I'm
on page 1.2-8.
CC Okay. Understand you're 1.2-8, snd we - that's affirm-

ative on 5hat circuit breaker. We do want it left open.
And since you're up in that area, P. J., let me ask
you whether there's a possibility you've still got the
POWER SYSTEM STATUS LIGHTS, ON, on 206.
PLT I didn't know what you meant for aminute. No, I Just
looked at that once last night and turnedthem back
off. They've been off since.
CC Okay. Understand you've got the POWER SYSTEM STATUS

LIGHTS_ OFF. And be advised that cb will stay OPEN,
Paul, until after you've got yourself plugged into the
suit and everything hooked up, and then it goes CLOSED.
PLT Okay. Does that affect everybody's PCU? I guess it

does, huh?
PLT Well, let me tell you why. Because if I'm going to

bounce around up here takingpictures and handling
the TV, and the co_mlandmodule window's a fairly good
place, I've been thinking of Just going on a headset.
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It's chilly, it's 58 in the _A, and as I remember,

the only reason I'm on the umbilical is for cooling.
I think I can hack it in the suit, without cooling,
and therefore I don't need the PCU in the umbilical,
and I was going to go around on the lightweight.
CC Okay. Stand by, P. J. ; we'll take a look at that and

advise yon on any configuration Change you might need.
PLT Okay. Meanwhile, I'm going to prep.
CC Okay.
PLT Hello, Houston. You still there?
PLT Okay. We Just lost a DELTA-P in our condensate tank.

I 11nbooked from the holding tank about lO or 15 min-
utes ego. You got any eiuick good words?
CC Stand by.
CC Okay. We've got that in work. We'll get back with

you, P. J.
PLT Okay. I Just got the CAUTI(_ AND WARNING, and it's
sitting on O. It's 5 or 4-1/2, when I unplugged.
CC Okay. We'll put that in the mill.
PLT Okay, Houston. The status on that tank: the WA'I'_H

VALVE is in FILL, the PRESS VALVE is in CLOSED, and
the tank is empty.
CC Okay. Thanks. We got that.
13 B0 48 CC 0ksy, P. J. We're going to be losing you here in

about i0 seconds at Bermuda. We'll pick you up again
at Canaries at 32. And we'll have some word for you
• ca the comm and also the condensate tank.
13 33 15 CC Okay, Skylab. We've got you_here at Canaries for about

the next - Well, we got a long one here at Canaries
and Ascension for about 15 minutes.
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CC Skylab, how do you read, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston in the blind here. It looks like

Canary's had a little trouble with their tracking an-
tenna. We're not reading you. We should be picking
up on Ascension in about another 3 or _ minutes. We'll
give you a call there.
CDR We readyou, Rusty. How about that?
CC Okay, yes. The signal sync came in Just that time.

P. J., are you around? I've got some words for you.
SPT He's donning his LCG. Have you got something for him
to do? Should he stop what he's doing or what?
CC Let me - If he's listening, I can tell him about the

com_thing, and thenwe've got a condensate tank pro-
cedure for him to run through. We think we got a
leaky QD on that line.
PLT He's listening; go ahead.
PLT Go, Rusty.
CC Okay, P. J. I'll tell you what we got - it appears

we've got _ leaky QD on that panel 393 condensate line.
And what we'd like you to do is to go ahead and re-
mate the QDs and disconnect them again. And mALe sure
that we've got the cap on the line there coming out of
393.
PLT Houston, yes, I'ii try that. I'ii go check it, and
the cap is on.
CC Okay. Understand the cap is on. I guess we would

like you to recycle the QDthere to try and seat it
and reaffirm that - put the cap hack on after you're
done. On the co-w, latchup, P. J., go ahead and use
your long cable coming out of 102 and hook the light-
weight right into that. And after you hook it in, you
can close the audio breaker on 200.
PLT Okay. The audio breaker's already been closed.

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CC Okay.
PLT You menu the CCU breaker?
CC That's affirmative. After you get the lightweight

hooked up, go ahead a.ucl close the CCU breaker.
PLT Okay. Well, I've got them all hooked up. We've got
three of them rigged up there; so I'll close that
thing next time I go up there.
CC Okay. Aud from what we can see, your corm checks and
all that should be completely norm_1 in that config-
uration.
PLT Okay.
CDR ..., Rusty, ...
CC Pete, l'm sorry; we vere not able to read any of that

because of a squeal.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
13 39 04 CC Okay. We've got you at Ascension now. We had a hand-

over from Canary to Ascension. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. We have a PRIMARY COOLANT LOW, CAUTION.
CC Roger. That's the one we called up before. That was

expected from - stand by.
SC Okay. That's a low temp, not a low flow.
CC Roger. Understand. We're checking. Hold on.
CC Okay. If any one is around panel 217 up there, we

would like you to go SUS 1 to BYPASS on panel 217.
SPT C_ay, SUS i to BYPASS on 217. That'll be a couple of

minutes. We've got to get P. J. loose.
CC Okay; fine.
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SC And if you foresee any other configuration changes,

have them do them now, because we're =11 going to be
in or getting in suits and our LSUs in a minute.
CC Okay. Be advised as part of that condensate tank

problem, we are, as well as recycling the QDs, - we
are going to have to dump the condensate tank there
prior to EVA. So why don't you figure on doing that,
and we'll let you know if we need to do it immediately.
.
CC Okay, Joe. If you haven't already gotten up there,
why don't you go ahead and disregard that bypass on
SUS 1. We'll Just turn the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP off
and handle it from here.
SPT Wait a minute. Is that what you Just did? We Just

had a warning light.
13 41 28 PLT No, I got it up here. Now what happened - when I went

to BYPASS, there's something that started making a lot
of noise around the ... packages, and we Just got an
EVA 1 warning light.
CC Okay. We read. Standby.
PLT And you want me to go back to EV- NORMAL or EVA on

SUS i, right?
CC That's correct.
PLT Okay. I went back to NORMAL. That bypass sure makes

a lot of noise. It squeals - it sounds like a high
slow squeal, you know, when it's going around, I guess.
I checked the QD. I reseated it. There was no evi-
dence of any water around the condensate tank QD. It's
been reseated, and that cap's hack on.
CC Okay, Paul_ I understand, audwe'll get with you here

in Just a second on whether we need to dump the con-
densate tank. Hold on.
PLT Well, it's empty now, Rusty.
CC Okay. Understand you're saying that it is empty at

this time.
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PLT It's empty, but there's no IELTA-P in it.
CC 0ksy, tb_nk_. Stand by i.
CC PLT, whe_ you say it's empty, you're looking at the

bladder. But could it have -.be flill of air? That's
what we suspect down here and that we would still have
to dump into the holding tank.
PLT It's not going to pick up the condensates during the

EVA though as long as it's disconnected, right?
CC Stand by.
CC Go ahead.
SPT The PLT reports that the bladder is at the empty end
of the t_. It ain't full of air.
CC Okay.' Understand that the bladder is on the empty end,

and therefore it is not full of air.
SPT That's correct.
CC Okay. We're putting that into the grist mill. Stand

by.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay. Here's the status. I did not look at the blad-
der before I disconnected the holding tank. Shortly
after - about l0 - 15 minutes after unhooking the
holding tank, we got the DELTA-P. I looked up. It
was rapidly approaching 0 at the time. I looked at
the tank bladder. The bladder is all the way at the
empty end, and the I_LTA-P reads O.
CC Okay. We read.
SPT Houston, SPT. We want to know whether to get the PLT

into his suit or not. Are you going to have action
for him in a few minutes do you think?
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13 46 19 CC Okay. I'll tell you what. We've got about 2 minutes

to LOS at Ascension here, and we'll advise before
that 2 minutes is up, okay?
SPT Good show.
13 h7 55 CC Okay, here's the word. We got 330 - about 40 seconds

to LOS. And P. J., before you get into the suit, we
would like you to do, on page 2-40 of the SWS Systems
Book, AM condensate tank dump. You'll be dumping
overboard rather than into the holding tank. We do
need to get a vacuum on the condensate removal system.
We need to do that and as step 1 we want you to use
primary vent heaters rather than the secondary that's
called out there. And after completing that procedure,
press on with the suiting and the rest of the work.
PLT Okay.
CC That's page 2-h0, AM condensate tank dump.
13 48 42 PLT Roger.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRARSCRIPTION
14 ii 51 CC Okay, Skylab. Houston here over Carnarvon for about

8-1/2 minutes. We see DELTA-P on the condensate
tank, so that looks good. And, for your information,
we're dumping the recorder here.
14 12 28 CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you're reading, we're

seeing DELTA-P on the condensate. For your informa-
tion, we're dumping the recorder here.
14 12 42 CDR Okay. We got a problem with SUS i, Rusty. It's not

running smoothly.
CC Pete, I'm sorry. I did not read that. Understood

you had a problem with SUS 1. We have some good
words on what we' d recommend you do on that.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. First we'd like to have P'. J. verify that even

though he does not plan to use cooling; that he did
perform the steps on 1.2-7 of the EVA Checklist.
That is, hooking up the Jumpers and that kind of
thing up there on panel 217.
CDR He took the Jumpers off.
CC I beg your pardon. Yes, that he took them off.

Okay. But he did complete the steps on 2. - 1.2-7
as listed there.
CDR If his LSU is plugged into a PCU, which is plugged

into 217.
14 13 45 CC Okay, fine. Then what we recommend is down on

panel 317 and 323 in the lock compartment, that we
turn both SUS 1 and SUS 2 pumps to OFF; that on
panel 317 the Co_,,ander switch his - in his water
inputs from SUS 1 to SUS 2. In other words, from the
left side to the right side of the panel. And then
on 323, turn the pumps back to PRIMARY. Another - -
14 14 19 CDR Okay, You want to run both EVAs off of SUS 2.

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CDR Oka_.
CC And since SUS 2 is working with no problems, we feel

that that's perfectly acceptable. And P. J. expressed
the opinion he did not need Cooling. If for whatever
reason he feels he needs cooling during the EVA
there in the _A, we reeom_aend he go ahead and plug
in to SUS l; try it out. If he gets cooling, fine.
We expected that s_me heat on the loop will solve
the problem, but we're not sure. But he can try it
and if he doesn't get cooling, he may be Just a lit-
tle warm.
14 15 36 CC And, Skylab, we're looking at the condensate here,

and you have a GO for the EVA based on the condensate.
There's no problem with that.
14 16 21 CC Okay, Skylab, and we Just went around the room a lit-

tle bit here, and it looks to us as though, with the
reconnection you're doing now, that we're GO here for
the EVA. One advisory: We do still have power on on
S054. That's no problem. We Just wanted to let you
know, and we'll be handling it from the ground. We
see no constraints on - on your operation, none
associated with it.
14 26 16 CC Okay, Skylab; we're with you again over G11Rm for the
next 5 or 6 minutes.
14 26 40 PLT Okay, Rusty. Semething you might be thinking about

is, I had that condensate tank to VACUUM for a long
time while I was getting into the suit. And the max
DELTA-P I ever got on it was 1 psi. You might be
thinking of that.
CC Okay. Understand. The max you ever got there during

that procedure was 1 psi ; and the only consequence of
that is that the dewpoint may be raising slightly
during the EVA there in the _OA. And we see it as no
sweat. No pan intended either.
PLT Yes. Understand. But it must be something wrong,

if I didn't get 5 psi, instead of - If I got 1 in-
stead of 5, seems to me.
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CC That's correct. And we figure on going into

troubleshooting after the EVA to psych it out.
PLT I 'll buy that.
SPT The PLT is in the middle of checking out his PCU.

Can I take the message?
14 31 57 CC Okay. Yes, Joe. I better go ahead and get it up to

you. We've got about 45 seconds here before LOS,
and we'll be picking up Goldstone at about 50. And
we've got a final configuration here on this condensate
system. The problem is that the h_ dity may be going
up fairly fast if we don't do something about it.
So what we decided to do is Just leave it in a
VACUUM mode and open it up to VACUL_. So what we'd
like to do on 216 is take the PRESSURE valve and
go to VACUUM on it. We'd like to take the H20

valve and go to FILL. And we'd like to have the
VENT VALVE in PRIMARY, and the VENT HEA'I'_I_S
on
PRIMARY. And that'll Just keep a vacuum on the back
of the separators the whole EVA.
14 32 47 SPT PRESSURE to VACUUM, H20 to FILL, VENT HEATERS to

PRIMARY, and the VENT VALVES to PRI.
CC You get an A on that one, sir.
SPT That's your final word, right?
CC That is guaranteed final word.
SPT Until Goldstone.
14 33 03 CC Right. And, by the way, we're set up for TV. If

you get a chance, you'll probably want to switch
your input switch from the ATM over to TV for us.
14 33 15 SPT Okay.
14 49 06 SPT - - psig. Paul, can you time us for i minute? Okay,

Pete. It's going to be FLOW, OFF; and then on my
mark, PRESS, OFF; and that starts the 1 minute. You
ready?
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CDR Wait. No, No. Gosh darn ....
SPT What's the matter?
CDR Well, Just a second.
SPT Oh, you lost that thing, huh?
CDR Well, I had to take it off. I couldn't get to REG 2.
SPT Oh, for Pete's sake. ".I'm not sure this is -
CDR I want to take this with me.
SPT Oh, ...
14 49 35 CC Hous - Skylab, this is Houston. We've got you

for a long pass here over the States.
SPT Okay. Let's go to - let's go FLOW to OFF now.
14 49 50 CDR Okay.' FLOW is OFF.
SPT Let's go PRESS to 0FF, and start your 1 minute count,

Paul.
SPT Houston, are you reading EV-I and 2?
CC Yes, sir; we are. We've got you loud and clear, and
we see you're in" the integrity checks.
SPT That 's correct.
14 50 08 CDR Well, I topped out at 3.9.
SPT Okay. Mark it from there. I didn't go over for

3.75. So I punch in TONE OFF.
SPY Okay. We're holding good. Least I am.
SPY One minute, it's PRESS to BOTH and then FLOW to IVA.
cc Okay.
14 50 57 SPT Okay, I had no decay. PRESS to BOTH.
SPT Darn! I'll be a - I've got FLOW. You, Pete?

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14 51 08 CDR Yes. Okay.
SPT All right. How was your decay?
CDR At about a half.
SPT About a half. Okay. We're in spec. All right the

cuff gage is stable at 3.6 to 3.9. MODE SELECT to
ABSOLUTE. Let's depressurize. And, Rusty, this
diverter "Klotz gubern" is kindof a pain in the neck
during checkout. I have to partially tear it off
to get at the valve.
14 51 &6 CC Okay. You should be able to move it right through

the EDD there.
SPT You should, but you can't.
CC Yes, okay.
CDR The other thing that gets in my way, Rusty, is I

can't get into REG 2 with those pliers on there.
CC Okay. We'd recommend either a quicky other place or

Just forget them, Pete.
CDR I think I'd like to forget them ....
SPT How about on here? Let me try them on one spot on

mine.
CDR They hang up.
SPT Since mine were originally selected, let me see if

it's -
14 52 27 PLT Rusty, are you reading PLT on the lightweight?
CC That's affirmative. You're coming through five

square,
P. J.
PLT Okay.
CDR Hey, I was - -
SPT If I lose them, I lose them; they're not in the way.
CDR Okay. Say, P. J.

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SPT Okay.
PLT Yes.
CDE After you get the umbilical stOwed, you're going to

have to get S082-B or A and bring it hack there on
that short strap and Just tether it in the aft lock.
Okay? You'll have to crawl over it.
14 52 58 SPT I'll get up into the MDA for you while you do that.
And, Paul, we're ready to go on your checklist. Our
cue card is all done.
PLT Okay.
CDR ... go.
SPT Okay.
14 54 54 CDR How t_ick are those there?
SPT I don't know.
CDR Thirteen. Is mine the one you stow first?
PLT 0h, Yes.
CDR Okay.
SPT Because you go up first. Think you might move up

while he stows.
CDE Yes.
14 55 32 CDR That's DELTA-P you've got on that condensate tank

nOW.
CC Okay. We're showing about 0.87 on the DELTA-P, and

we figure you're GO either way. We think that it'll
probably take a little moisture out, but it may not
be too efficient, and we'll get with it after the
EVA.
14 56 O0 SPT Okay.
14 56 15 SPT I've got to do it. A 180.
14 56 27 SPY Okay. That's not right.
a
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14 56 29 CDR Do a 180 one more time. There you go. Very good.
14 56 39 CDR Okay. Start working, Joe. Good.
14 57 29 SPT ... I'm waiting for your GO to come in and close the
hatch. Here I am.
CDR Okay.
SPT In the aft lock, Pete; not behind you.
CDR Yes.
SPT Keep it in here. It's okay. We've already got it

handled, Paul.
14 57 59 SPT Well, let me see which way I can roll here.
CDR Here, let me get another handle on your umbilical.
SPT Okay.
CDR All right. Let's SYNC umbilicalS.
14 58 09 SPT Okay. That's clean.
CDR The other thing is that we've got to make sure that
aft lock door iS loggered down good and turn out
the lights.
SPT Oh, yes. Oh, let me close the hatch first.
14 58 26 SPT I did.
14 58 35 SPT Wait a minute. I've - The hatch handle is open.

All right. Yes.
14 58 52 SPT On LOCK.
14 58 54 SPT CLOSE. It didn't, but I put it to LOCK. Now. It is

in LOCK now, and the handle is locked down. Okay?
In work.
14 59 13 SPT OFF. All right. We'll work that right now.

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CDR Now. Got it!
SPT I will - I'ii - He's trying. That's - That's good.
CDE Let me get this hatch right here.
SPT That 's good.
CDR Right here.
14 59 31 SPT Super. Okay, all my usnbilicals in the aft lock now,

I think. What are you doing, Pete?
CDR Well, this hatch is - The aft airlock hatch came

loose, so I'm Just making sure the straps have got
it strapped down. Hope you don'tneed that floating
around.
SPT Yes.
CDR
SPT Under my right arm. All right. •
15 00 05 CDR What'd I do? Another 360 again? I mean 1807
SPT Awful. (Laughter)
CDR Is that what I need to do?
SPT Yes. You' re in good shape now. That 's - that 's
exactly right, Pete.
CDR One thing that's got to go back there is 82B -

keep _etting it screwed up.
15 00 26 CREW (Laughter)
15 00 36 CDR Okay .... squash that. Looks fine, but it is fine.
SPT All right, P. J. Can you squeak by us here with 82A?
SPT Think you can?
PLT Let me try this right here. That's about as close to

the floor as I can get.
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SPT Yes, that's plenty. I'm half behind you, and he's
got a good half of the hatch open.
15 01 09 PLT Okay. Houston, do you read?
SPT Yes, sure.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Tie it fairly close .to the thing though. Don't want
to move it around too much. Guess, Houston, how
many minutes to sunset?
15 01 36 CC Okay, Pete. We're about 35-1/2 minutes from sunset.

We see some power - rather high power usage down in
the OWS, Can you verify that you turned all the
lights off down there?
SPT Yes, all the switches were off on panel 617 or what-
ever it is. And the entry lights are off.
15 01 59 CC Okay, and do - -
SPT Actually, I can't verify that visually right now,

Rusty.
MCC Okay, andcan you verify having turned off the VCS
duct fans?
15 02 12 SPT No. Paul says he did not turn off the VCS duct fans.
Do you want them off?
PLT Yes.
CDR You can - -
CC Stand By Just 1.
CDR You going to have to go down there and get them.
PLT That's all right, we've got time.
SPT I'll hang on to that, Paul; I've got it.
CC Okay. Disregard that. Do not go back down into the

OWS. We're GO the way we are.
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SPT Paul is standing by to do so, if you want him to.
PLT We've got time, Houston.
CC Okay, if Paul can get past you there, and get the
aft hatch open and get down and shut off the fans
and verify the lights, we ... appreciate it.
15 03 07 SPT Verify the lights. Okay. He's on his way.
CC Okay. Fine. "
15 03 17 PLT Like the pressure in here now?
SC No.
15 03 23 CC Okay, Paul. If you read down there, we're - -
SPT Paul doesn't read you yet. He's waiting for pres-
sure to equalize across that hatch.
CC Okay, fine. Perhaps you can relay to him when he

gets down there that we want the panel 61h circuit
breaker TCS DUCT 2 and 3 FANs, eight of them OPEN.
15 04 01 SPT Paul says that the pressure is higher in the workshop

side of the hatch. That's kind of screwy, Rusty.
Why is that?
CC Stead by. That does sound- -
SPT Or is it a discrepancy in our gages?
MCC Who knows?
CC Joe, does Paul have the EVA Checklist in his hands?
SPT No.
15 04 26 CC Okay. When he gets down there, I'm prepared to read

the particular steps that we think were omitted
here. So will he be able to hear me on a SIA down
there?
CDR Yes ...
SPT I expect so.

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CDR Still equalizing.
SPT He still hears the pressure equalizing through the

valve.
CDR Still equalizing? Still equsiizing?
PLT Yes ...
CC Okay. We're reading 0.2 of a psi DELTA-P with the

lock slightly higher. He's probably hearing it go
the other way.
CDR The lock is higher.
SPT ... Go this way.
MCC Yes, we're -
CDR They say the lock is higher:
i SPT Well, he can find out in a hurry when he opens the

hatch.
MCC Open it up. Find out.
SPT Which he is about to do.
15 05 17 SPT (Laughter) We got a little RAPID DELTA-P there.
15 05 23 CC Okay. Understand you got the hatch open.
SPT Yes, the hatch is open. He's going to go shut off

the warning gong.
15 05 28 CC Did he run a Navy catapult down into the experiment

compartment?
15 05 34 SPT He is still in the airlock, Rusty.
SPT No, the hatch did not blow open. You'll have to ask
him which way the DELTA-P was. I couldn't tell by
looking.
CC Okay. We were Just worried about a slingshot there.

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SPT Yes.
CDR No, it Just popped about a half an inch.
CC Okay. Let me know when he gets down there, and I'll

read these steps to him.
15 06 ll PLT Rusty, I'm not going to hear you down there. What
do you Want me to do?
CC Okay, here you go, Paul. On 614, circuit breakers

TCS DUCT 2 and 3 FANs, eight of them OPEN.
PLT Okay.
CC And also' the cb HSS BUS 1 WARDROOM WATER HEATEH,

OPEN
PLT Okay.
CC And t_en on 613, cb LIGHTING; 42 of them OPEN.
PLT Holy mackerel! All right.
CC Okay.
PLT When I drop down in the crack in the checklist,

you'd better research in it.
CC Okay.
15 06 48 CDR No, I remember them talking about it last night,

and what they were going to power down, but I
don't - -
SPT - - It never came up on paper.
PLT I didn't read that part in the paper.
PLT Not that it wasn't there.
15 07 07 SPT Paul said you were right ; it was slightly higher

in the airlock. The pressure that is.
CC Okay.
15 07 19 CC Okay, and for your information, we still have

30 minutes to sunset, so there's no sweat.
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CDR Yeah.
15 07 25 SPT Okay.
15 07 26 CDR We're -,we're taking our tim_. We got all day.
CC How's the cooling feel, by the way?
CDR Fine, two of us on - -
SC Rusty, we're smart enough to on SUS 2 as far as -

(laughter) .
CDR What do you think happened to l? Did it freeze up?
CC We're not really sure. We think it probably needs

a little bit of heat in the 10op before we turn it
on, but we've got m little procedure here for P. J.
in case he wants some cooling.
SPT He might want some cooling. It's pretty warm with

that suit on.
15 07 52 CC Right. And we've got a procedure for him. And

we'll read that to him - in fact, let us kmow -
probably we'll do it over Ascension. Everything
should b'e pretty well organized by that time. We're
i minute until LOS at this point, and we're going
to pick up Ascension at 17:00.
CDR Okay. He's turning everything out down there right

now. I can see down there.
CC Okay, fine.
15 08 15 PLT Okay. I got DUCT 2, DUCT 3, the WARDROOM WATER

HEA'f_, and I didn't count them, but I got all the
light circuit breakers I could see.
15 08 26 CC Okay. Can't ask for more than that. ThAn_s a lot.
SPT Of course, now that they're all open he can't see.
CDR No. No. The emergency light is still on. Get that
up here.
CC That's affirm.
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15 08 _5 SPT Up here and down there, Pete. It looks like over

to me.
CDR Right now it looks to me like I'm looking down.

(Laughter) That's cause P. J. is looking over - -
SPT With a little imagination, it suddenly becomes up.
CDR Besides that, he's climbing - ... ascending.
CC We got some people at Pensacola very interested in

that, Pete.
15 09 l0 CDR Well, up and down is strictly a matter of how you

want to do it. Every night the world goes by so
that you lay in the wardroom ceiling to get the
world right side up, and when you come back in from
looking at the world right side up, - -
15 09 27 SPT You get a wardroom table growing - -
CDR You've got a wardroom table growing out of the

ceiling ... 4 or 5 seconds to -
15 09 39 CC We'll pick up the continuing _aga of and up - of up

and down at Ascension here in a few minutes.
15 17 53 CDR All right. Now I depress how far? All the - Okay.
15 18 03 CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about

5-1/2 minutes here over Ascension.
CDR Okay, Houston. The lock's on the way down; 4.2 and
dropping.
CDR Okay. My suit's hanging right in there at 3.85.
SPT It's - 3.75's what I've got.
15 18 27 SPT Little piece of debris [?] there.
CDR Yes.
PLT Houston, PLT. You might take a reading on the _DA

pressure Just for information for the future crews.
It indicated it got up to about 5.3 to 5.4 here
before we went DEPRESS.
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CC Okay. We got it.
CDR There's 2.0 in the lock, 3.85 on my suit.
SPT Okay.
15 18 59 CC Okay. And Houston here. You're GO for a hatch open

any time you get it down there. Systems are all
looking good.
CDR - - the beck did all this Junk come from?
SPT Okay.
PLT l've got the TV on. You got TV, Houston?
15 19 14 CDR Houston, you may be interestedin knowing that on the

LOCK DUMP valve, a large block of ice is growing,
on the screen.
SPT Is that what that is?
CDR Yeah.
SPT I couldn't figure out what i_ was.
CC That on the inside, Pete, or on the outside?
CDR On the inside.
CDR Must have been enough moisture in the air, Rusty,

that as it hit the screen, why - must have been
super cooled; it froze. And it's a rather weird
looking fellow. That's what's making the lock
take so long to dump down. l'd say it cuts the - -
SPT Can you scrape at it with your finger?
CDR No, it's a solid block. I guess I can. Well, I

don't want to.
SPT l'm sure that helped ...
15 19 58 CDR All - all - all - All I did was block it more. I

better leave well enough alone.
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15 20 02 CC How about breathim_ on it?
CDR Well, I thought about that, but - -
CDR Yes, l'm showing 0,8 also. It's - It's blocked about
two-thirds of the screen .
CC Okay. You've got a nice tool in there called a pry

bar. You might want to poke at it with if it does
block it co_pletely..
CDR It's star - it's started making ice - -
SPT It's in the pores of the screen, Rusty. We'd have

to break the screen in order to get it off.
CDR I don't want to do that. There's debris there and

everything.
PLT Leave well enough alone.
SPT Okay.
CC And, P. J., if you've got a minut'e there, while they're

going down, sometime on panel 203, we'd like to turn
the ATM coolant loops - loop pumps - all three of
them OFF. Like to have you verif_ that.
PLT You know what's .happened here. Our FLOW is equal

to what it'll take out now. It's holding about 1/2 psi.
15 21 16 CC Okay. We're reading that - -
SPT We dass - -
CC - - Pete.
SPT You think we dass open the hatch at 1/2 psi?
CDR No.
CDR I hate to tear into my pry bar, Rusty. I'm looking

around for something else I might use. My pry bar
is neatly packaged.
SPT The only thing I can give you is the vice grip - -
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CDR I got - I got something here. _wrist tether -
SPT You want to tickle it with the handle? Oh, all right.
SPT Something skinny to stick down in between the mesh.
CDR Okay, that's -
SPT Getting something?
CDR I got some of it.
15 22 18 CDR What?
SPT Okay. Yeah.
CDR Are we over Houston?
SPT Yes, go ahead, Pete.
CDR Did you read that, Houston?
15 22 40 CC What's your last?
15 22 44 CDR Paul - Paul left the procedures, not that we need

them, down in the wardroom, neatly in his locker.
How about up-linking your TV procedures next station?
CC Okay. We'll do that.
PLT You can waive most of it. We've got it pretty well
committed to memory.
CC Okay. We'll get the two messages up.
CDR All right. Now we look like we're about 0.2. What
do you read, P. J.?
CC Okay. 0.3 is okay for opening the hatch, Pete.
15 23 15 CDR All right. Go.
15 23 16 SPT Well, well done!
CDR There goes the hatch. I'm going to - Go ahead on

the procedures, P. J.
15 23 22 CC Okay. We've got 20 seconds to LOS, and we'll pick

you up over Carnarvon at 47.
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CDR Okay.
CDR Okay.
CDR-EVA I'm there.
CDR-EVA I'm reading about 3.5.
SPT-EVA I'm Just going. T have to take that silly thing off
and put is on again .every time I move that. It's
okay, and I'm reading 3.h5.
SPT-E_A It's in BOTH.
SPT-E_A E"_A norm on the FLOW.
CDR-EVA I got good pressure ... off. It is? The lock is

unlocked?
SPT-EVA It missed - -
SPT-EVA I hope it doesn't - -
15 24 49 CDR-EVA No.
15 25 08 SPT-EVA - - right.
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15 _7 55 CDR-EVA Out here, you can see it, it's got that discone tray
on it still.
SPT-EVA He way up over. Yes, I see it.
CDR-EVA How far around can you see?
SPT-EVA I can see most of the discone tray. I can't see the
surface. And I can't see the discone itself, it's
too dark.
CDR-EVA I'm looking for the other discone. I wonder where the
heck that is. It's down here.
SPT-EVA Where the heck's the world anyway?
CC Houston, we're right here. We're listening loud

and clear, j
SPT-EVA Oh, I didn't mean the world world, I meant the clouds
and Earth, and sea world underneath.
CDR-EVA Okay, would you like a little status.
CC Yes, sir, we would like a status.
15 h8 h2 CDR-EVA We have five poles rigged swinging on the hook. And

we're Just intrepidly peering around out here deciding
how far around Joe can get, in the dark. We have not
pulled umbilicals out. We're Just cooling it. Now,
the pole assembly went super slick. We had a little -
I had a little Juggling problem getting the last
longie with the tool on because I did it, surprisingly
enough, by having Joe hold on it in the airlock. We
had it all the way in the airlock and I found a way to
snuggle the pole out next to the solar panel over to
the ATM sunend side and Just line her up that way and
pop her on. And as would be in zero g, you know, those
nuts do _mny things. Most of them - we had checked
them last night. We had backed off most of the locking
nuts, but as you can guess ... that's what we did with
them is back them off. They went and unbacked and
/ tightened, so we had to mess with those a little bit,
but she's all rigged and ready to go hanging on the
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hook here. Also, let me tell you the status of the

outside. I have pnlled the boom launch locks on both
booms, VT and VS. I have installed the VS hook and
we have loaded 8082A into" the first station receptacle
and we're Just standing by right now.
CC Okay. Is that the receptacle in the FAS, Peter, or

the one in the lock compartment?
CDR-EVA It's no -the recept.acle in the FAS. It's stowed

in the FAS right now.
CC Okay, you got a lot of time.
CDR-EVA We're all configured to - to load it.
CC Okay.
SPT-EVA I wanted to go load it and Pete wouldn't let me.
CDR-EVA Yes, Joe Wanted to go load it, but I decided we'd

get off the checklist and we'd get all wrapped
around the axle doing that, and the pr_mR_y thing
is to get this SAS panel out. So we're resting, --
hanging outside. I'm enjoying a lovely look at the
Moon.
CC Yes, that was the other program.
CDR-EVA Yes - -
PLT Hey, Pete?
CDR-EVA Go ahead, Paul.
PLT Yes, I'm ready to start working on getting some cooling

water, if you think you got a way.
CC 0kay, P. J., we do have a way to do that for you. Are

you ready to copy?
PLT No, I'm not. Can you Just tell me?
CC Yes, okay, forget that. Are you ready to listen?
PLT Yes.
cc 0kay.
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PLT I want to tell you something. First off, I can't get

the SUS 2. If this includes SUS 2, I can't reach them.
15 51 30 CC Okay, we are not interested in having you get the SIS 2.

We'll be using SUS 1. What we'd llke to do is confirm
that what you're going to be doing. You've got the
composite disconnect hooked up to your PCU and that
you'll be plugging in and out of the PCU with the suit.
That is, you'll break that connection rather than the
composlte.
PLT That's affirmative. That's what I've been doing so

far this morning. And I've - And let me tell you I've
been running the secondary pump for about 20 or 30 min-
utes, and I been plugged into it for about l0 minutes
so far, and that's the status.
15 _20l CC Okay, so I understand you are flowing right now on

secondary pump in SUm 1. Is that correct?
PLT I don't know if it's flowing or not. If it's flowing,

it'snot cold.
SPT-EVA Hey, P. J.
CC Okay. P. J._ are you in BYPASS or EVA on the Flow?
PLT I left it in EVA per your last instruction.
15 52 20 CC Okay, fine. And if you are - If you feel that the

flow is warm now, the next thing we recommend is going
over to panel 203. Going PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP to
INVERTER l, and PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP to PUMP A.
PLT Okay. Can you tell if the pumps are running down there?
CC Yes, sir, we can confirm that when you turn them on.
PLT No, I'm talking about the SUS pump. Can you confirm
if SUS 1 secondary pump is running?
CC Stand by.
CDR-EVA Hey, P. J.?
PLT Yes.
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CDR-EVA Why don't you kill sere of the lights to save power.
We're all done working. Oh, that's okay. Turn them
all out. 1
1.
15 5B 20 CC Okay, P. J., we C_lnnot, because of the possible

instrumentation problem, we cannot confirm flow or
DELTA-P on secondary pump. What we recommend is
going ahmad and switching SUS 1 pump to primR_y and
- and see if you sense any difference there. And
when you get the primary running, or if - if you
feel the secondary pump is r_mning, then go ahead
and activate the coolant loop when the flow gets
warm for you.
15 53 52 PLT Okay. Watch prim_y then, I'mlgolng to switch it now.
CC Okay.
CDR-EVA Oh, there's the Earth. How about that?
SPT-EVA Did you find the Earth?
CDR-EVA Yes, with the lights-out, it;s lovely. What part of

the world are we over?
CC You're over western Australia, sir.
CDR-EVA Western Australia. I see some large lights out to

my left, and if we're actually over western Australia
and l'm looking eastward. No.
15 54 27 PLT Okay, primary SUS i pump is ON. Can you see it?
The thing that bothers me, Rusty, is when I turn that
primp on I don't get a caution and warning.
CDR-EVA Want to lo0k out, Joe?
SPT-EVA Yes, l'm looking out behind you. It's okay.
CDR-EVA Look, there's a half a Moon - -
SPT-EVA You can see the lights, you Can see the moonlight
on the clouds.
CDR-EVA Oh, I can see the cities, yes.
SPT-EVA Horizon to horizon.
CC Hey, can you guys stop lollie gagging for Just a

minute so we can get a word to Paul?.
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CDR-EVA Yes.
PLT Go ahead.
15 54 57 CC Okay, Paul, we would like you to go to BYPASS on the

flow there on the heat exchanger first, if you have
not already done that, before you activate the coolant
loop.
PLT Okay, will do, when I get the pr_m-_y pump on. Did
you copy my thing about no caution and warning?
CC Understand you got no caution and warning on it.
PLT Yes, either one. When I turned - on SUS l, when you

turn on either the primary pump or the secondary pump
we don't get the EVA 1 warning. And I want primary
pump now, I've not activated the primary loop, and
I'm going to BYPASS now.
CC Okay, and let us know about the noise and also let us
know whether you feel any sensation of cooling.
CC And, Pete, for you, let me ask whether the docking

lights appear to light up the discone so you can go
on up there or not?
CDR-EVA Well, I never got around that far. I -'I can't really
tell.
CREW ...
CDR-EVA Oh, who turned on the flood - th e tracking light?

Turn that off.
SPT-EVA You want to go up take another look?
CDR-EVA Well, I can skinny around here and see if I can see
any other dipole. Just a second.
15 56 27 CC Pete, as _ reminder here, on your next step. You

going to want to pull 55 feet of EV-1 umbilical out
and put it behind you in the FAS. And then before
Joe comes out he wants to pull out inZo the air -
into the lock compartment 35 feet of his umbilical.
CDR-EVA Yes, we understand.

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SPTIEVA I can see the - I can see the discone from here
perfectly.
CDR-EVA Which one?
SPT-EVA Mine, the one of interest.
• CDR-EVA The one - Where are you?
SPT-EVA I'm up here - -
CDR-EVA Oh, How did you get out there?
SPT-EVA - - around the corner_
CDR-EVA I see.
SPT-EVA And the green - the green docking light illuminates

the area fairly well. I think we can get started.
OR-EVA Okay.
CC Okay. If the - -
CDR-EVA Back in- -
CC If the - -
CDR-EVA ...
CC - - green docking light lights it up well, you can

turn - P. J. can turn off the other docking light and
that'll save us some power.
PLT-EVA I don't understand.
15 57 18 CC Okay, P. J., you got two circuit breakers over on

panel 202, the left-hand end next to bottom row, and
I'm not sure which one turns off the green and which
one turns off the red. So you can try them - -
CREW ...
CC - - and Joe can give you the answer.
PLT Okay. A]] right, give me a holler, Joe. I'll turn

them off one at a time. Tell me when you want.
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SPT-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA That's okay, leave the other one on. No. That one.
No, no, that's right. (Laughter). Okay.
SPT-EVA Pete, I guess I'll get your _bilical out.
•CDR-EVA All right.
15 58 57 CC Okay, and troops, %re got about _5 seconds to LOS at

Carnarvon. We're going to be picking up G11_m at
16:01 here, which is Just a couple of minutes. And
I take it you're going to press on up to the discone
at this time. And P, J., how's the cooling?
PLT There is none, Rusty, yet. And when is the first

station with TV?
15 59 19 CC 0kay, that's going to be Goldstone. And it'll be

coming up at 16:27, so we'll let you know that at Guam.
PLT All right.
CDH-EVA Tell me where it's going.
SPT-EVA It 's going behind you.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Here comes the big snake, man.
CC And Pete, you got about lh minutes before sunrise, so

you got lots of time there.
CDR-EVA How far have you got to now?
SPT-EVA 40.
CDR-EVA Okay. But ...
SPT-EVA (Laughter)
CDH-EVA Holy Christmas.
SPT-EVA hS.
CDR-EVA Where 's it all going?

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SPT-EVA 50.
CDR-EVA Gee, I wonder if there's anything it can hang up on

do_rn there?
SPT-EVA Yes. Weil, we'll write a letter for you, if there is.
CDR-EVA Clamp the 55 ...
16 01 38 SPT-EVA Now I just hope that by screwing around, we haven't

made a loop where there was none before.
CDR-EVA Oh ... - -
SPT-EVA I bet there was an apparent loop.
CDR-EVA Huh?
CDR-EVA Is this mine?
SPT-EVA Yes. •
CDR-EVA Trying to figure out where it goes.
SPT-EVA It goes right over - right s/_ound your back and

into your PCU.
CDR-EVA Oh.
CDR-EVA Here.
SPT-EVA Yes. That's the next end of it.
CDR-EVA Well, here. Let me get it down.
CDR-EVA Get it?
16 02 53 CC Okay, Skylab. This is Houston again. Over G11,m for

about 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Roger.
CDR-EVA I tell you, you're going to get worn out doing the
things that require you to ge there. Do it. Well,
that's a big snarl down there. I hope it all comes
out right.
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SPT-EVA Now I suggest you take that loop in your hand and
put it up over your head.
CDR-EVA No. How did we do that?
SPT-EVAWell- •
CDR-EVA Huh?
SPT-EVA I'm Just checking i_.
CDR-EVA Okay. That all right?
SPT-EVA Yes. And it all goes behind you.
CDR-EVA You got yours?
SP-EVA Mine is in reasonable shape, I think. It's all behind

me.
CDR-EVA Okay. I'll - -
SPT-EVA See how it strings out right now.
16 03 50 CC Pete, Just for information, we do have you for about

8 minutes here. And we've got the procedures in case
you want anything on them.
CDR-EVA Okay. Aren't you going to up-link them?
CC Yes, sir, we are. And I'll give you an estimate on

when they're going to be up there.
SC Okay.
PLT Okay, Busty. No Joy on the cooling yet.
CDR-EVA Okay, Joe. - -
CC Okay, Paul. The question is have you activated the

PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP on panel 203?
SPT-EVA ... man.
CDR-EVA Hey, Joe. I think you want to go to your left.
SPT-EVA Okay. I'm deciding where the best handles are right
now.
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PLT You want inverter i, pump Alfa, right?
16 04 23 CC Right. We want PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP to INVERTER l,

and we want PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP PUMPs-A ON.
PLT All right.
SPT-EVA All right, yes ... Circumferential handholds, here

they're beautiful. Rusty must have know about them.
He didn't tell us.
16 04 47 CDR-EVA I hear a caution and warning, Paul?
CC Joe, are you going throiJgh the trusses or up over the

top? You should be going through them.
SPT-EVA Through, through. I'm right on the MDA surface.
CC Okay.
SPT-EVA I 'm looking at Paul through the window right now.

The other window, Paul. Hi there.
CDR-EVA That's correct, isn't it, Rusty?
CC Yes. We should be right down and - the nicest path

we found was right along the tool sieve vent duct.
That's about 6 inches of diameter with the silver
tape on it.
SPT-EVA Told you, I'm hanging onto a blue handrail that's

Just forward to that.
CC Okay. Fine. We didn't have that in - -
SPT-EVA I've got one hand on the handrail, one hand on the
vent duct, and I'm looking at the discone antenna.
CDR-EVA Did you see the pin?
SPT-EVA I'ii tell you - you. No, it's too dark at the base.
The base of the antenna is pretty dark.
CC Okay, Joe - -
CDR-EVA Paul?
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16 05 36 CC The next thing - -
CDR-EVA Paul?
CC You'll be doing when you get enough light is to

go up and hook yOur chest te_Sher into the pin at the
base. And then retreat back where - behind you there,
to the A-frame.
SPT-EVA Understand. And, PEte, I think i'ii delay that until

sunrise - so I can - -
CDR-EVA All right. Just a minute.
SPT-EVA - - surely see what I'm doing.
CDR-EVA Just a minute.
CC Okay. And for your information you've got 7 minutes

to sunrise.
16 05 51 CDR-EVA Just a minute. Paul, why don't you shine your flashlight
out the window? You can illumi_ate the pin in the lower
end of the discone. You should have a pinlight in your
suit, I put it in.
SPT-EVA Our friend, Scorpio, is right smauk on top of us. And

a big bowl of milk. Go ahead and try it. I'm afraid
- It's shining at the base of the antenna, but - -
CDR-EVA Move to the right Just a little.
SPT-EVA It's not good enough, Pete.
CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA If I try to go out there, I'll block his light.
CDR-EVA Understand. Just cool it.
CC Pete, how' s the rest of the lighting down there in

• the SAS and down the EV trail?
CDR-EVA Oh, we've got all the rest of the lights out, and all
- Oh, that's fine out there. Yes, you can - it's like
broad daylight. I've - we've got all the lights out
except the lock. Lights are on in the lock, and that's
f it. And that one docking light.
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CC Okay.
SPT-EVA ... do you have us over now? G1,sm?
CDR-EVA ... Flying over some really well lit island. Must
be Guam.
CC Right, you're almost directly over G1,,m_
CDR-EVA Yes. Hi there, G118m'.
CC Hi there.
SPT-EVA Hf, G,1-m. I'm looking the other way.
CDR-EVA Getting wild. Don't get diddled up trying to ...
SPT-EVA Oh, hey, Houston - -
CC Go ahead.
SPT-EVA ...
CDR-EVA Sight see?
CC Say again.,Paul.
PLT I say for your information ...
SPT-EVA All right, I'll close mF ayes, Pete.
CDR-EVA No, I said don't get diddled up, that's all.
SPT-EVA I'm Just laying here sight-seeing.
PLT I can see your feet.
CDR-EVA Yes.
16 07 45 PLT For information, I'm getting counts on the PMEC, if

that helps your insight for the problem any. Oh,
•that's funny. I don't think so, but I'm not sure.
It has its own high voltage power supply.
PLT Hello, Houston. Did you copy?
CC Go ahead; say it again.

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PLT I say on the X-ray SPECT PMEC, I'm getting counts on

it, for what that's worth. If you're tracking down
your indications of main power still being on.
CDR-EVA I'm looking at the ground.
16 08 34 CC Okay, fine. Thank you very much. Hey, P. J. We're

recommending - Which pump are you on? Whichever one
you're on, we'd recommend you to try to switch to the
other one. See if that gives yoU any cooling.
16 08 _5 PLT Okay. I'm on the primary. I'll go back and try the
secondary. I don't have any confidence that either
pump is running.
CC Okay. We'd like you to check the circuit breakers.

And stand by; I believe it's panel 202.
PLT We've already found them, Rusty. They're all closed.
CC Okay.. Understand. All the breakers are closed.
PLT Yes. All the SUS pump breakers are closed.
CDR-EVA Hey, that's the story of thi_ bird. Half of every

piece of normal gear doesn't run right.
PLT A pretty wonderful machine for all that.
CDR,EVA You betcha. That,s what we're here to find out.
16 09 3_ CC Okay, Pete, you've got about 3-1/2 minutes here of

night remaining. And at that point, you should be
able to press on, and Paul can turn out the other
docking light to save us that before sunrise.
CDR-EVA Can probably turn it out now. Care to ..., Joe?
SPT-EVA No, no, I like it out. It'll make the sunrise better.
PLT Look at that sky.
16 lO 03 CC And, Paul, if you're able, since you're not getting

any cooling, we would like to have you turn off the
PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP again. And I think we'd like
to have you go back to C0_IND.
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PLT You want me to go OFF and then COrtLaND. Is that right?
PLT Okay. Let me give it a couple of minutes now.
SC Hi, Joe. Here comes the sunrise.
SPT-EVA That's the blackest black in the universe up there.
CDR-EVA Huh?
16 i0 28 CC Okay. We'dalso like to check to make sure that you've

got your visors down for that.
CDR-EVA Got the visors down, man. We're ready. Standing in

the FAS, I'm going to see sunrise upside down.
SPT-EVA I can see it right side up where I _n.
16 l0 42 CC Okay.. We've got about a minute to LOShere at G,,_m.

And we'll be picking up Goldstone, and we wanted the
TV ready at 27.
SPT-EVA I can see the limb breaking'in a big, big crescent,

about 180 degrees.
CDR-EVA Fantsstic, isn't it?
SPT-EVA That star's blinking through the bottom of it, like

you've noticed before.
CC And for your - -
16 ii 21 CC And for your information, we will have the pads going

up as soon as we get Goldstone A0S at 16:27.
SPT-EVA Roger that.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR-EVA Still there, Rusty?
CC Yes, we are.
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CDR-EVA S082 went in there Just out of sight. It's so much

simpler than the water tank, it's unbelievable.
CC Roger. That's good news.
CDR-EVA This whole FAS station works Just fine. And I will
probably configure it for our next EVA before I come
back in.
CC Okay, that sounds swinging.
CDR-EVA I 'm going to check out all the bonm_ and everything
else. I figured you guys might have scaething else
up your sleeve; so l'm trying to stay in front of you.
CC Sometimes that's hard to go, since we don't know which

direction we're moving.
CDR-EVA That's all right. We're covering that ...
16 26 26 CDR-EVA Yes,.it's sticking out, isn't it?
SPT-EVA Isn't it, though.
PLT I can see it, too.
SPT-EVA Let me k_nd of stand back here and see if I can work
that way. Yes, there is clearance.
CDR-EVA That's the way l remembered it. Gosh darn, there's

a lot of solar panels fUrther down though, isn't
the re ?
SPT-EVA Oh, yes.
CDR-EVA You're in good shape there, Joe. Can you put your -
pull your feet down?
SPT-EVA Hard to tell. No, I don't want to pull m_ feet down

right now.
CDR-EVA 0kay.
16 26 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about 17 minutes

coming over the States.
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SPT-EVA Tell him what's going on.
CDR-EVA Let me direct you, Joe. You can pull the pole back.
SPT-EVA I can't pull it back some. . .. over, you know.
CDR-EVA We 're out there.
SPT-EVA Wait a minute.
CDR-EVA Hey, that's a beautiful place to cut it. Right?

See?
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Yes, you' re in the right area if you could get through
those wires. Just take your time. Okay, Houston.
We're out there. We have the debris in sight. There
looks like enough room to get the cutter, and I'm try-
ing.to help Joe stabilize. And, Joe, you're way past
it, it looks like.
SPT-EVA I don't think I am.
CDR-EVA Yes, you are. Come - come towards me.
SPT-EVA I 'm not past it.
CDR-EVA No, you've got - if you're going to hook it down

there, you are.
SPT-EVA Well, you know what I'm going to have to do, then.
Wait a minute. I might get enough out of it there.
See, I've got it tethered, and that prevents me from
pulling it back too darn far.
CDR-EVA All right, you need to move the tether up.
CDR-EVA You're still in front of it. I mean it's down minus-X.
SPT-EVA Yes, you're right.

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CDR-EVA I'ii tell you when you're on it.
16 28 06 PLT Houston, I'm going to try_to get to the command mod-

ule with the TV and - so you can look at the sail.
CDR-EVA All right. Now wait - -
CC Okay. Now we've got a way to get you some come here,
P.J. I mean ...
CDR-EVA Joe ?
SPT-EVA Yes ?
CDR-EVA You're battling the tether.
PLT No, let's let that go.
SPT-EVA I know I sm. I'm going to have to untether.
CDR-EVA Let's come back in here. Let's come back in here.

Just take it easy, and let me help you.
SPT-EVA I 'm going to have to untether it, Pete.
CDR-EVA Now that's my - tethered around my feet. Right?
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Let me turn around.
SPT-EVA Okay, now it's loose.
CDR-EVA Where's my tether?
SPT-EVA Cripe. It's all right. It goes in front of your feet,

but it goes straight back into the airlock. You're
all right.
CDR-EVA Yes. Let me see if I can help you. Now. You should
Just - ease it over towards me. All right, wait.
SPT-EVA Don't - -
i
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CDR-EVA No, the trouble is, I have to get it a different way.

All right. I got it off. It's this whole thing
holding the pole. Now Just send it back towards me.
Can you do that?
SPT-EVA What, the pole?
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA No, I don't want ta do that, I don't want to do that,

I don't think. Let's - Why don't you help me ...
while I have it on?
CDR-EVA Joe, you've got to have it tethered, and I'll let

it slide out - it can slide out. Let's not lose - -
SPT-EVA Tethered to what?
CDR-EVA The pole. Let me get it in front of the rope.
SPT-EVA What are you going to tether the pole to? Oh,
yourself, hub?
C_R-_A No. Now you - -
SPT-EVA Oh, the BET.
CDR-EVA I Just - no, darn it. I'll tell you what I want to
do. Back - -
SPT-EVA What is that tether you've got on there?
CDR-EVA That's the pole tether. Now, you should Just stay
with me a minute. Come back with the pole. I'll
tell you what we're going to do. We're going to get
in the right configuration - -
SPT-EVA We were in the right configuration.
CDR-EVA No, we weren't. We were too short. You couldn't

slide your pole back. See? Now the tether will go
as far up the pole as you want it to. Did you
retether it? You follow me?
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SPT-EVA Whew !
CDR-EVA I'ii tether it for you. Hold still. If I can coord

- Can you hold the pole?
SPT-EVA I've got the pole.
CDR-EVA Okay. I'm going to hold on to the pole and trauslate

to the tether point. There. Okay.
SPT-EVA Be sure and lock it. It'll come apart in a second and
then out. Okay, it's locked.
CDR-EVA It's locked. Let me get back to my - I need to get

back. Push me back Just so I can get ...
CDR-EVA I'm on my way. That's a boy.
SPT-EVA 0kay.
CDR-EVA Got it. Now you're in business. ' Okay?
SPT-EVA Okay. That might even help, if I reluctantly have to

confess.
CDR-EVA All right. Now Just turn the pole nice, freeze, and
let her ...
SPT-EVA I'll tell you, holding that on there is going to be

a chore. Goldang it. Wait a minute.
16 31 01 PLT Do you see the corner of the sail, Houston?
CC Say again, P. J.
PLT Can you see the corner of the sail, the orange corner?
MCC Stand by. I think we can psych it out. We do have

a good picture.
CDR-EVA All rlght, let me - Ccme back a little. Now we got

to go forward.
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SPT-EVA Oh, that's it. Now come up.
SPT-EVA Just take your time.
16 32 38 MCC Okay, we've got it, P. J.
CDR-EVA Could you hold one foot -
SPT-EVA Yes, you try it. You that stable? If you could hold
one foot, man, I could use both hands on this.
CDR-EVA Wait.
SPT-EVA Oh'
CDR-EVA Let me hang on. All right. How's that?
SPT-EVA That's pretty good. Now to get up under the rubble

there. Wait a minute. Make this come foward.
16 33 35 PLT Tell me when you've got enough of the sail, Houston.

I'll go back into the MDA.
MCC We've got enough. Thank you very much.
PLT Okay.
CDR-EVA Tired?
SPT-EVA I'm not tired. I'm a little frustrated because I have

no place to secure m_self here.
SPT-EVA Houston, I've got a suggestion.
MCC Okay_ we're reading you. Understand you're having

trouble in malntaining your position in order to hook
it on the strap. Can you give us a little more de-
tail? We're hearing a lot of the conversation but we
haven't got a very good picture of it.
CDR-EVA Well, let's Just cool it until we get done. We're

working the probl_n. Bunch of wires in the way.
Gosh, that prevented you from getting it that time.
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SPT-EVA Uh-huh?
CDR-EVA Trying to let it go, you know.
CDR-EVA That's it. You've got it right there. Pull back.
SPT-EVA Can you by any possible means - -
CDR-EVA Oh, it came off.
SPT-EVA I know it, hut can you get hold of that gray rope?
CDR-EVA Gray rope?
SPT-EVA The rope we marked.
CDR-EVA Oh.
CDR-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA I'm going to have to - Well., unfortunately, I've got

myself tethered to the BET - to the deal right at the
moment. Take a rest. Okay_ I've got the - -
SPT-EVA You're pulling me around.
cDR-EvA I've got the pole.
CDR-EVA Take it easy.
SPT-EVA Okay, now. Yes the thing is - Listen, help in unhook-

ing that rope back there.
CDR-EVA Hey, how about - Could you - -
SPT-EVA Unhook it from the cleat. I want you in a position

to p1111 on the right rope while I'm holding it in
place. Because I can't do both.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay.
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CDR-EVA Just a second.
SPT-EVA That would be the deal. •
CDR-EVA Okay, I've got the right rope.
SPT-EVA That 's the one.
16 36 16 MCC Joe, just for your. information, we operated on the

opposite side of the discone from the one you're
operating on. That is, we operated from the right
hand side of the discone. That may help you if you
need more pole.
CDR-EVA It's not a question of ... pole -
SPT-EVA It's not a question - I've got more than enough pole,
Rusty. It's a question of keeping my feet from flying
away so that I can not only reach the thing, but hold
it there.
MCC Okay, the only thing I can say that in the water tank
we stood up -Imost parallel with the discone with our
feet down by the base, and _sed the discone as a hand-
hold. That helped us. You might want to try that.
SPT-EVA Yes, I'm doing that. It's not a handhold I need, Rusty.
It 's a foothold.
MCC Right. We put our feet right at the base of the dis-
cone and you only have to - -
SPT-EVA That's where they are, Rusty.
MCC Okay.
SPT-EVA It's easy to get it in touch, but it's impossible to

get it to stay there. Not impossible. Just take it
easy.
SPT-EVA Just takes a little longer.
CDR-EVA I may speed things up.

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SPT-EVA See what l'm doing, l'm trying to ...
CDR-EVA Holding on to this rope "right at the moment.
SPT-EVA No, no, I don't think so. Now. Woops!
CDR-EVA I'm giving you as much as I can give you.
SPT-EVA Yes. .
CDR-EVA All right. You're in good shape.
CDR-EVA None of it, Just a little bit. Come back.
SPT-EVA I think I'm on it.
CDR-EVA No. I can tell you're in front of it. You're still

in front of it. You've got to come towards me. Now
you're behind it at an angle. See.
SPT-EVA Yes. Pull.
CDR-EVA No, you're in front of it. Nowyour behind it. You're

still behind it. Got an excellent place to work, but
you're still behind it. If you could Just come over it
right there; behind it. Now you're in front of it
again ....
CDR-EVA You're still in front of it. Yes. Got to go back

behind it again.
SPT-EVA How's that?
16 38 35 CDR-EVA No, pull towards me. No, you're not on it. Are you?
SPT-EVA No, ...
CDR-EVA I'Ii tell you, when you think you're on, pull towards
me, and that ought to pull it right to the base.
SPT-EVA Uh, uh.
CDR-EVA NO, you're not on it yet.
SPT-EVA It's pretty thick, Rusty.
CDR-EVA That's the trouble. That's the trouble right there.

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MCC Okay. Understand that. Is there any other debris

you can grab out there that's not as thick?
SPT-EVA That's the very thing he's working on.
CDR-EVA That's the trouble. The darn Jaws aren't far enough
open.
SPT-EVA Try closing it, Rusty. Right now.
SPT-EVA Wait a minute. Hold it.
CDR-EVA That do it ?
SPT-EVA No. Mostly because it p_11ed off while we were clos-

ing it.
CDR-EVA Okay.
16 39 29 MCC The only other thing we can think of, Joe, is to

m_e sure that they're fully opened before you try to
got it over. That'll give you a maximum chance.
SPT-EVA Thank you.
CDR-EVA We'll reset - - We're going to take it back right now

and reset it. Well, we may not have to take it backe.
Let me pull on it and see if it will reset.
CDR-EVA You got a piece of wire that time, anyhow. You were
on it.
SPT-EVA Yes I know it. Oh, yes. I'm sure I am.
CDR-EVA Let's - I wonder if we could - Can we tell if it's

fully open?
SPT-EVA It looks fully open.
CDR-EVA 0kay.
SPT-EVA It sure does. Now.
CDE-EVA I've still got the pull rope.
SPT-EVA Okay. Okay, let's go back to work.

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158 PagelOll
CDR-EVA Yes, take your time.
SPT-EVA Oh. Oh. Okay. Mostly,because I'm in position and

I don't want to - I'll tell you, I'll try it. From
the ... now. Let me see. •
16 41 02 CDR-EVA You know the best chance you have is as close to the
base Of the SAS panel.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA That's where it's the narrowest.
SPT-EVA is that right?
CDR-EVA But there's a wire bundle there. Yes, I got the

pole.
SPT-EVA Okay. Am I all right now?
CDR-EVA Yes. The pole is over your arm.
SPT-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA The way they said we were doing it.
16 41 33 MCC Okay, Pete, Just for your information, you still got
plenty of time here until sunset. You've got 29
minutes left.
CDR-EVA Yes, we're not sweating anything. I tell you, Rusty,

the strap is oriented in the worst - Joy- Wait a
minute. Drop ... Let me get the pull line together.
CDR-EVA Okay, the strap happens to be oriented in such a

manner, even though it's not wide, it's presenting
its widest side to the cutters.
MCC Okay.
CDR-EVA I can't see, Joe. Although I'll try.
SPT-EVA Uh huh.
CDR-EVA Now that you changed positions.
SPT-EVA Wait a minute. If I can bear against this thing, I'd

be all right.
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CDR-EVA I'm not in too bad a shape to steer this pole myself.
Keep - Here. Now I got a hand on that son of a gun,
•myself, to steady it. How's that? I can steady it -
SPT-EVA ...
CDR-EVA - - left/right. Now tell me Where you want to go

with it. First, you do the fore/aft and let me do
the left/right. Got to steer me because I can't see.
SPT-EVA Yes, wait a minute. " I got a little torque on my body

that's holding that from coming the way it wants to.
CDR-EVA Well, that may be me.
SPT-EVA No, it isn't you.
16 43 15 CDR-EVA I tell you, Rusty, it looks like if we ever get it on

the strap, we got it made. Because I can see the
rest of the meteorite panel, and most of it's %mder-
neath and looks relatively clear.
MCC Okay. If you can hook on anything at all out there --
SPT-EVA I uederstand --
CDR-EVA Yes, yes, it's not oriented to do that. We understand.
16 43 3_ MCC Okay, and for your information, we're about 30 seconds

frc_ LOS. And you got 26-1/2 minutes of day left.
And we're going to pick you up at Vanguard at 54;
that'll be after dark.
CDR-EVA Where you going, Joe?
SPT-EVA I can't stabilize myself on this side. I Just can't

do it.
CDR-EVA Yes. Rest. I'll tell you what, Joe. Where's your
umbilical with respect to mine? I see it.
CDR ... Wait.
SPT-EVA Let me try straddling it like this.
CDR-EVA Wait. We're getting _mbilicals and everything else

all twisted up here.
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SPT-EVA Wait a minute; this may do it. Right here.
CDR-EVA Okay. You want the pole?
SPT-EVA I got the pole.
CDR-EVA Okay. You want me to still pull? With full strength?
SPT-EVA Uh huh.
CDR-EVA All right, let me get in a position where I can do

that. I don't know.
16 53 48 SPT-EVA That okay. There. Now.
CDR-EVA Now where are you?
SPT-EVA ... what I've done.
CDR Huh?
SPT-EVA Okay. Well, our unbilicals are free of each other.
CDR-EVA Look, now - now - I want you to get back. If I go

out, where's my t_bilical with reapect to yours?
SPT-EVA Inside of it; right where it ought to be.
CDR-EVA All right. So I can go under, right?
SPT-EVA Yes, sir.
CDR-EVA Right now?
SPT-EVA Yes, Paul. [sic]
16 54 17 MCC Skylab, Houston; we've got you through Vanguard here.

Sounds like you got it hooked on somewhere.
CDR-EVA Yes we do, and now all we're trying to do is straighten

• out the umbilical mess before I go out.
MCC Great.
CDR-EVA I don't believe we'll have to move the cutter. We

got it in about the thinnest spot. All right, you
ready?
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SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA All right, nOW. I've got to go - let me get oriented

on this pole right. I got to go --
SPT-EVA Now you want to go with your feet out that way,
don't you?
CDR-EVA Yes, and I want you to grab a hold of the pole nov to
stabilize it.
SPT-EVA All right.
CDR-EVA Got it? On my way.
SPT-EVA You bet.
CDR-EVA Bye.
SPT-EVA Good bye.
16 54 56 MCC And, Paul, the messages are in the teleprinter if you

want to give them guidance.
CDR-EVA Okay, you may have to feed some of my umbilical out.

You may have to tip my - -
SPT-EVA Oh, boy.
CDR-EVA ... Rusty.
SPT-EVA Wait a minute. However you fastened this rope, it

sure is in there tight.
CDR-EVA It's all right ; Just let it come out.
SPT-EVA Okay, it's co,ruingout now.
CDR-EVA Let it come over the end first. Let it come over the
end. Don't pull it all loose; over the end. That's
it, mushroom. That a boy. Bye.
SPT-EVA Take your time; I want to feed this rope behind you.
CDR-EVA Yes. And - -
SPT-EVA 0kay.
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16 55 29 CDR-EVA - - I'm going to tighten the nuts on these poles on

the way up. Every single - -
SPT-EVA Are they coming loose again already?
CDR-EVA - - Every single one of them has backed off.
SPT-EVA Isn't that incredible?

Q
CDR-EVA Yes. Okay.
SPT-EVA Hey, Pete.
CDR-EVA Yes ?
SPT-EVA You're starting out with your _nbilical under the

pole.
CDR-EVA All right
SPT-EVA Yes ,'you are. Stay where you are, Pete.
CDR-EVA I got it. Here, Her_. Stay where you are. Joe - -
PLT ... your tlnbilical ... that tether under his tlnbilical
CDR-EVA Gosh darn.
SPT-EVA Say again.
CDR-EVA Well, I wish you hadn't pulled that rope out of the
bag. Holy Christmas.
16 56 06 SPT-EVA Listen, I gave it one tug and it all came.
CDR-EVA Well.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA What I don't - -
SPT-EVA How's that? Oh, I'll have to untether.
CDR-EVA Here.
SPT-EVA Rete
f_
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CDR-EVA No. Un - Okay.
SPT-EVA Now which is which?
CDR-EVA This is %he pole. It's the inside --
SPT-EVA All right.
CDR-EVA That's the one. But this one comes with no practice,
man. Now let it -'-
SPT-EVA That's right.
CDR-EVA Let it come out got to come out of the whole darn
thing. Hope it goes under.
SPT-EVA It's got to. (Laughter)
CDR-EVA H_?
SPT-EVA It n_st go in there.
CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA Or we never could have gotten in that box in the

first place. Right?
CDR-EVA Yes. All right. Now, am I free?
sPT-EVA All right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
CDR-EVA It' s under the pole.
SPT-EVA Yes. Okay. Now go.
CDR-EVA All right, bye.
16 57 09 PLT Hello, Houston, you there?
MCC Yes, sir. We got you for another 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR-EVA Where is - where is the BET, Joe?
SPT-EVA Ah -
CDR-EVA It's caught on - Ho, ho! That's what I was afraid of.
It 'sail right though.
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SPT-EVA Oh, that's the whole BET there, isn't it?
CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Stay put.
16 57 33 MCC Okay, we got you fo_" 2 minutes, end then we're going
to have about an hour dropout before we pick you up
again at Goldstone. That'll be at 18:03.
PLT 0kay.
16 57 46 MCC And you have about 13 minutes of daylight left. And

no big sweat.
PLT Understand. Yes I - I'm watching it on the DAS - on

the day/night thing, Rusty.
MCC Okay, fine. And, Paul, if you want cooling, we

recee,mend you Just disconnect from the clnge [?]
box ,and put your water in SUS 2.
CDR-EVA Joe?
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Umbilical is holding me up.
SPT-EVA It is, huh?
CDR-EVA I don't have any _bilical.
SPT-EVA All right. Stand by.
CDR-EVA I got it. Never mind.
PLT It won't reach, Rusty. His umbilical is flat not

long enough to reach.
16 58 18 MCC Okay, we're saying disconnect your COI@I from the

box if you're in ...
SPT-EVA No, it's still comm_ug.
SPT-EVA At the end of it already. Good music.

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CDR-EVA Darn it.
MCC Which side of the discone have you got your mnbilical?
16 59 03 PLT On - the right side facing aft the side closest to

the - to the SAS panel.
MCC Okay, your umbilical is long enough, it's probably

snagging somewhere. Joe, you might waut to take a
look at that back d_wn in ...
PLT I think it's all right, Rusty. He's down there.
MCC Okay.
PLT It hung up, but it's all right.
MCC Great. Thanks.
SPT-EVA I Just cut it with m_ trusty Boy Scout knife.
MCC We're going to disregard that one.
SPT-EVA Yes, please do. Pete, are you going to attach the
other thing first?
CDR-EVA Oh, for Gosh sake. Well, the trouble is - I don't

know how I did it, but I got - -
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA - - the darn thing in the wrong place. I've got to

get this BET thing under m_, tunbilical.
PLT Under your umbilical?
CDR-EVA Heck, yes.
PLT Oh, all right. I guess I better come out and help
you.
16 59 55 CDR-EVA No, no, don't you move. Two of us out here is plenty.
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18 03 24 SPT-EVA You are now free and Clear?
CDR-EVA Right. They're all accordioned.
SPT-EVA Except for the . ..
CDR-EVA you see them?
SPT-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA They're all accordion about evenly, too.
CDR-EVA Well, the two outboard ones are further out than the
ver_ inboard one.
SPT-EVA Let's tell Houston to fix our gyro before we go - -
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA , - tallying about stuff.
MCC Hello, there. We're listening to you. You're coming

in loud and clear. And we see SAS amps.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Well, let's take care of our Z-gyro. We ain't got

any of them.
MCC Okay. We're looking at it.
18 03 54 CDR-EVA All right. I'll tell you where we are. We've got
the wing out and locked, the outboard panel and the
middle panel are about out the same amount, and the
third one is not quite. Now, Joe, I think before you
come in, you better take a look up there and make sure
that third one is clear and all the debris.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA That's been bugging me.

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CDR-EVA All right. I can do that myself from right here,

if I can get there from here.
MCC Okay, Pete. We don't understand. That the outboard

two were almost all the way out last time you looked
and the inboard ones - -
CDR-EVA No, no; no, no, no, no. They are further out than
the inboard ones, but -
SPT-EVA None of them are out very far. All of them are
accordioned evenly and the angles between the panels
look to me like about 20 degrees, Rusty. So they've
got a good long way to go.
MCC Okay. Are they still moving? And how long ago did
you get them out?
SPT-EVA Got them out about 5 or 8 minutes ago. And they're

not still moving.
CDR-EVA Doesn't look to me like they're moving at all. If

they are, it's really superslow.
SPT-EVA I don't think they're moving. No doubt in my mind.

They're staying right where they are, for the moment.
You guys are going to bake them out, right?
MCC That 's the plan.
SPT-EVA Okay. I think you're going to have to do that, is

what I'm saying.
CDR-EVA I'm trying to - -
18 05 24 SPT-EVA Go on down to the SAS, Pete. And let's get going.
CDR-EVA No, I want - Okay.
CDR-EVA Excuse me.
SPT-EVA (Laughter)
MCC Okay. Pete, can you tell uswhere you are? Are you
still out near the SAS wing? What's your status
there?
y_
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18 05 $8 CDR-EVA I'm out - down - going headed for the SAS. Right
this instant, l'm almost - I'm in the SAS. And l'm
getting ready to pull in" all my umbilical. Joe,
can you see my umbilical?
SFT-EVA Just a second. I was doing a 360 to get my entourage

in.
CDR-EVA Yes. •Well, I'm trying to - let me get in here with

my umbilical in the right place.
SPT-EVA I think I want to do it that way, right? ...
MCC Okay. When you get a chance, give us a status of the

BET. Where is it and how tight have you got it,
et cetera?
SPT-EVA The BET is between the panel and it's rigged, Rusty.
And it's as tight as I can get it, which isn't terribly
tight because of the characteristics of the cleat.
MCC Okay. We - -
SPT-EVA And it's also not terribly _ecure. Because I don't

have anything to secure it with. But it'll stay
there as' long as nothing hits it, I guess.
MCC Okay. Would you describe it as having no slack in

it, but not very much tension?
SPT-EVA That's correct.
MCC Okay. That's exactly what we wanted. Thank you.
SPT-EVA Oh, I knew that all the time.
18 06 39 PLT Hey, Rusty - Houston - -
SPT-EVA All right - -
PLT - - do you think we've got another CONDENSATE TANK

DELTA-P light. I'm going to go through the dump
procedures again.
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MCC Okay. And we would like for you to leave it in the

dump procedure, that is. We'd like you to leave it
in a vacuum - -
SPT-EVA Whoops.
MCC - - on that side.
PLT That'show it was when the light came on.
MCC Okay. Thank you.
CDR-EVA Yes. Joe, hold it Just a minute.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA While I get these. I don't know whose umbilical is

whose, here.
SPT-EVA I'm trying to get down and help you. And I'm hung
by the fact that I'm still tethered (laughter) to
the pin.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA So I think I'd like to get this - -
CDR-EVA All right, now I'm going.
sPT-EvA - - like to get this pole going in some direction or

other.
CDR-EVA All right. Now, I've got mine all down here, and
putting it away. Okay, with that. Now, where is it?
SPT-EVA What ?
CDR-EVA Oh, I'm Just looking for my umbilical.
SPT-EVA Oh. Easier to track another guy's umbilical than it

is your own, you know it?
CDR-EVA Yes. But unfortunately, I've got yours down here,

too. And I don't know why.
SPT-EVA Just come along with -

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CDR-EVA Huh?
SPT-EVA It must have come along with you when you went down.
CDR-EVA Well, it's hooked in me somehow; it's behind my PCU,

or something.
CDR-EVA Oh, no, it isn't. Wait a minute. I see it.
18 08 35 CDR-EVA All right, that's yours. Now all I need to do is come

over my head with it. I can't believe it. We've got
them in, without being tangled.
SPT-EVA (Laughter).
SPT-EVA It's due to 100-percent skill, and zero percent luck,

right?
CDR-EVA Yes. Okay. Now. l'm ready for you. All right - -
SPT-EVA l'm coming.
CDR-EVA - - hand me the pole.
SPT-EVA I'ii get it a more favorable location momentarily.

l'm trying to manage - -
CDR-EVA You're flailing around with it.
sPT-EvA I know it. Ah, yes.
18 09 21 MCC Joe, this is Houston, If you've got a 10ok at it, was

the inboard panel clear of debris? Or is - -
CDR-EVA Yes - -
MCC - - it hanging up on it?
CDR-EVA - - yes.
MCC Okay. Thank you.
CDR-EVA Best I can tell.
SPT-EVA It's been that way - -
CDR-EVA Alw_ys been that way.

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MCC Say again.
CDR-EVA Oh, we're tslking to ourselves, Houston.
SPT-EVA Wait a minute - yes. I need _o stop right here, un-

tether from the pin, and get myself toward it.
CDR-EVA All right ; take your time.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Got the main Job done.
18 i0 Oh MCC And, Joe, if you get a chance before you leave the
area, did you look at the connector on the top of the
AUX tunnel to see if there is any obvious debris around
it?
CDR-EVA No, it's clean- -
SPT-EVA ... connector.
CDR-EVA It 's clean.
SPT-EVA On top - -
MCC Thank you.
SPT-EVA - - of the AUX tunnel, I cannot see from where I am

right here.
CDR-EVA There - there isn't anything out there but that old
piece of meteoroid shield that was underneath the wing.
SPT-EVA That sure is what it looks like.
CDR-EVA Ed, you got - -
SPT-EVA From an angle I can get on it, it's completely clean.

You're right, Pete.
CDR-EVA You guys called it pretty well. It's - When I cut the
strap it was under tension and it went about 2 feet.
And it stopped; and then I had to break the - the - -
SPT-EVA Oh, look at that.

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CDR-EVA - - whatchacallit. Look at what?
SPT-EVA Oh, my foolish 6-foot tether here. It's more of a

hindrance than a help, all of a sudden. As a matter
of fact, it you'll, well - I'd like to stuff it away
some place. Not quite sure what to do with it.
18 ll 34 SPT All right.
CDR-EVA What youdoing? I'za holding onto the pole.
SPT-EVA You're holding on to it?
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Oh. Is it in a good position for you?
CDR-EVA Yes. Want me to get rid of it for you?
SPT-EVA Well, let's - let's bring it on down.
CDR-EVA Okay. Keep coming.
SPT-EVA I have to roll it here.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA To get the blades in the right configuration to get

by this pole.
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Okay. Coming?
CDR-EVA It 's coming.
SPT-EVA Keep her coming. You've got it now. It's out of my

hands.
CDR-EVA I got it.
18 12 07 MCC Okay, EV-1 and 2. We're seeing a fairly high DELTA-T

on the gas temperatures going through. We'd like you
to, if you can, to go ahead and increase your water
cooling.
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SPT-EVA Increase or decrease?
MCC Well, w_'d like to see you taking more out with the
water, and less out with the gas.
SPT-EVA Okay. Fine. I'll tell you what. I powered down for
the night, Rusty. And Just haven't gotten around to
powering up again.
MCC 0kay. Fine, thanks.
18 12 29 SPT-EVA I Just pushed it up.
CDR-EVA I was rather comfortable, myself.
SPT-EVA And I'm getting cooling and it feels very nice.
SPT-EVA That's good. They obviously commanded it back on.

Took care of the problem for us.
18 12 _9 CDR-EVA Okay. The pole is tethered and you're clear of - -
SPT-EVA All right. I am coming bac_.
CDR-EVA All right. Let me tend your umbilical, wait, wait,

wait, wait.
SPT-EVA All right, I'm waiting. I have to get hold of this

handrail.
CDR-EVA This thing is hung up, up there.
SPT-EVA No, it's not.
CDR-EVA Okay. I got it.
SPT-EVA It's under my foot, however. Wait a minute.
CDR-EVA Let me get it here. You can stick it in here.
SPT-EVA Now, where's - yours?
CDR-EVA Mine's in the - SAS - back in the bac k .
18 13 14 SPT-EVA You want me to go in and stow yours right now, before

we do anything else? That might not be a bad idea,
Pete. We won't need it again. _
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CDR-EVA All right.
SPT-EVA Get it out of our way.
CDR-EVA All right with me.
SPT-EVA Let me make it a little ... - -
CDR-EVA - - while you're doing that?
SPT-EVA There we go.
CDR-EVA Watch the tool. Watch the tool.
CDR-EVA All right. That a boy. Now you're all right. Hold
it, hold it. Darn tool's in the way. Let me get it
out of your way.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA I don't want you to cut yourself on it. Okay. Now.

Go on in.
SPT-EVA As a matter of fact, I'll come in here stow your um-

bilical, and then stow that tool.
18 13 52 CDR-EVA I'll take it apart.
SPT-EVA Get it ...
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA We'll take it apart and put it away.
CDR-EVA Yes, we got all day to do 82A.
SPT-EVA We could probably do that at night.
CDR-EVA No sweat.
j_
SPT-EVA Now, - Just keep working.
CDR-EVA Just keep working.
SPT-EVA - - the umbilical - umbilical?

w
CDR-EVA You've got your hand on it.

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SPT-EVA Holy mackeral! It's all the way out. Clean out of
the sphere.
CDR-EVA Okay, ready?
SPT-EVA Oh! Undo it, yes.
CDR-EVA All righ t .
SPT-EVA I wondered why it was coming so hard.
CDR-EVA Just take your time.
SPT-EVA Okay. That's the first time I've ever seen one clean
out of the sphere.
CDR-EVA Houston, are you still there?
18 14 28 MCC Yes, sir. We are. We've got the Z gyros back on

and w_'re going back to SI.
SPT-EVA Rusty, we did that Job with about 3 feet of umbilical

to spare, andPete.
MCC Okay. And I understand you've not gone out to the

ATMyet?
CDR-EVA No.
SPT-EVA That's affirmative.
CDR-EVA No, we Just spent the night out there on the solar
panel.
18 14 50 MCC Okay, - -
CDR-EVA Rusty - -
MCC - - before you go out there we would like to ask Paul

to turn OFF the IMAGE DISSECTOR and turn OFF the
PHOTO MULTIPLIER on 5_ to prevent any corona problems
when you're putting outgas out that end.
CDR-EVA You guy will make changes right to the bloody end.
(Laughter)
MCC Right.
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SPT-EVA ...
CDR-EVA While you have a moment, I can't guarautee you that

that third panel does not have solar shield under-
neath it, because I don't know where the solar shield
went to. You were correct. It did have force in it
from the 1 torsion rods. And it's possible it could
have flapped out there and hung up the inboard solar
panel.
MCC Okay. Did Joe get a look down the side Just before
he left the discone antenna?
18 15 45 SPT-EVA Yes; I did, sir. I saw no hangups whatsoever. I say

nothing above the level of the meteoroid shield - -
CDR-EVA Okay - -
SPT-EVA - - to - hanging up that sail. It - that blanket

should come out.
CDR-EVA Okay. And I suspect that, seeing that that's the

coldest wing, right? Isn't that the coldest one?
SPT-EVA I don' t know.
18 16 1B MCC They were all about the same temperature, Pete. But
that may be a slightly colder. Okay, Pete, Just out
of curioslt, did you cut through the strap or pry
it, or what did you do with it?
CDR-EVA Cut through it. And I'll tell you what - -
MCC Okay. - -
CDR-EVA Let me tell you what it was. It - it was where the

meteoroid shield had torn off of both sides of the
angles, so that we had two angles and a doubler with
the bolts in it. We had no flanges. Okay?
18 16 56 CC Okay; understand. You had both flanges of the 7075

angle.
CDR-EVA No. Yes - well, we had half of one flange, half the
other flange, and doubler in the mlddle wlth the bolt.
And the bolt, in fact, the long end, in fact, there
was one little, lousy, single bolt in the bitter end.
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It had driven far enough three - through to hold the

strap. Everything else - -
MCC Okay.
CDR-EVA was free.
18 17 2h MCC Okay, we got i minute to LOS here at Texas, and we'll

be picking up Vanguard at 28; that's about l0 minutes
from now.
CDR-EVA You're down to - Hold it, hold it. Don't go any

further.
SPT-EVA 0kay.
CDR-EVA Lock it in.
SPT-EVA That's the most work in the EVA.
CDR-EVA When you rest, rest.
SPT-EVA Stowing that goldurn umbilical. '
CDR-EVA Rest while I take the pole part.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Now, have you got some place to strap all that Junk?
SPT-EVA I've got one long strap. That'll have to do.
CDR-EVA All right. Well, let me see here. Oh hum! Goiug

to pull the same stunt. I'll take it apart and put
it in there. Hand that to me. Okay?
SPT-EVA I'm going to divest myself of my 6-foot tether.
CDR-EVA Okay. Here comes the tool.
SPT-EVA Just a minute. I ain't ready for it.
CDR-EVA Say, why don't I take the to01 head off?
SPT-EVA Yes, that's a good idea at this point, Rusty. I'd

rather have it off.
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CDR-EVA My name is Pete.
SPT-EVA (Laughter) Sure. I've really done it.
CDR-EVA What did you do?
18 18 38 SPT-EVA I called you Rusty.
18 28 35 MCC Okay, Skylab; Houston here. We've got you for the
next 9 minutes, and at your convenience, we'd like a
GO on the maneuver.
SPT-EVA Roger. You can GO for the maneuver. And, Rusty, did
you copy my description of the sail?
MCC Negative, sir. We Just picked you up right new, so

go ahead.
SPT-EVA All right, let me repeat that.
PLT It's' on B channel, Joe. It's recorded if they can get

it later.
SPT-EVA All right. Let's press on then. Good.
CDR-EVA Yes. Coming out to you right now, old Buddy.
SPT-EVA Stop it before it gets there - -
cDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA - - because I'm - -
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA - - involved in getting back into my shoes, huh?
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Okay, I'm in the boots. Bring it on out.
CDR-EVA Okay, it's clear. Your umbilical - -
SPT-EVA Yes, it's nice and clear.
CDR-EVA Yes, it's on its way.

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SPT-EVA Was a bit of problem at first, leaning back (laugher)

toward the Earth.
CDR-EVA Say when.
SPT-EVA Keep it coming. Ready, when.
CDR-EVA Let me tell you something, Joe.
SPT-EVA Yes. "
18 29 43 CDR-EVA That handle, it's very stiff; and it's a very tight
fit.
18 29 46 SPT-EVA This one?
CDR-EVA Yes, sir.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA So hang on.
SPT-EVA Okay.
18 29 51 CDR-EVA And you may have to really wr]'ngle [sic] to get it

out.
SPT-EVA I got it.
18 29 5h CDR-EVA Okay. Going to RETRACT.
18 29 55 SPT-EVA Okay.
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18 30 30 SPT-EVA Bright out here. And the doors are marked on the real
ATM.
MCC Yes sir.
CDR-EVA Need any more umbilical?
SPT-EVA No, I don't.
CDE-EVA Okay.
MCC PLT, Just a reminder. We did have one pen and ink
change there that didn't come up on the teleprinter - -
SPT-EVA Oh boy, oh boy.
-" MCC - - pads there for you.
SPT-EVA What a gorgeous view. Go ahead, Paul.
PLT What was it?
MCC Okay. That was - remember we wanted to close the door

and wait 20 seconds before you turn the main power on
there on the checkout.
PLT Okay. You're going to have to tell me as we come to

it, I think.
MCC Okay; Just let me know.
CDR-EVA Hey, Rusty. What quads do you want me to look at?

The quads that I can see from here - and I'm not
exactly sure where I _n. I'm trying to figure that out
right now, what I'm looking at. What am I looking at?
PLT Let me get on with Joe then, Pete.
SPT-EVA Paul, Rusty, the S054 door is CLOSED* which surprises

me. I thought it was OPEN.
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MCC So did we.
CDR-EVA We did, too.
SPT-EVA Well, it'ain't.
18 Bl 44 MCC Joe, go ahead and OPEN it and pin it OPEN.
SPT-EVA 0kay. Paul - .
PLT What?
Sl°T-EVA Go ahead with your checklist.
PLT Okay.
18 31 57" PLT Okay, you got the lid open?
SPT-EVA On 82A? No.
PLT Yes. Well, open the lid.
SPT-EVA All right. Unlocked. Open. Codked.
PLT Okay. Take the new one out, and put it in a temporary
stowage container.
SPT-EVA Work - complete°
PLT Okay. Open the S082A door, and release the launch
lock, and move the - move the logging handle to re-
lease the magazine.
SPT-EVA Okay. Once again, I have a problem with the film

door because the aperture door is closed.
MCC Understand; the 82A aperture door is closed, Joe?
SPT-EVA Yes, sir. Every aperture door in the place is closed.
MCC Okay. We do need to get that one open, and we don't -

and we do not want you to unpin that one.
SPT-EVA All right. 1%_derstand that, hut I would like it

open so I can get at the film.
MCC Okay. That should be - P. J. should Just be able to

hit POWER DOORS to OPEN. Stand by Just i.
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SPT-EVA I'm clear, Paul.
PLT Yes. Now we do it, Rusty?
MCC Beg your pardon; say again.
PLT Do you want me to do it?
18 33 25 MCC Negative. Stand by Just 1 second. Okay, the answer

is GO. POWER DOORS to OPEN.
18 33 30 PLT Okay. POWER DOORS going OFF.
18 33 33 MCC Negative, sir. POWER DOORS ON.
SPT-EVA Okay, it's opening. Yes, it's opening. That's fine,

it's clear. Okay. I got the door open.
18 3B 53 SPT-EVA It interferes with S05 h a little more .than the

trafner. And the LAUNCH LOCK is to UNLOCK. Go
ahead, Paul.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay. That's fine. Whoops. Umm, that's got it, I

think. Pesky thing.
PLT Okay.
SPT-EVA It's in the can. The can is closed and locked, and
I'm going for the new film.
18 35 07 SPT-EVA All right. Arrow to arrow. And I'll stick it in

far enough to get it somewhat secured. Now I will
extend the handle. Okay, the handle's out and locked.
Here we go. It didn't go very - you know, real
firmly, positively, but it - it appears to be in all
the way. The white flag is fully over and I'm going
to move the lock handle down. And it came in with a
nice firm clunk. The flag's there. Okay. Go ahead.
Take some frames. Do whatever you need to do.
CDR-EVA Wait. Wait - wait a minute. }{ave you pulled the pin
on the 5h door and done that? Okay. All right, go
ahead.
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CDR-EVA Listen, everything they do on the ATM is chopped up,

and I'm going to give them a little dissertation
after we get inside.
MCC Okay. Standby on that, Pete. P. J., we're ready to

give you that little mod there, if you want it now.
PLT Okay, let's have it.
MCC Okay. You see where it says "EV-3 panel 130."
18 36 28 PLT No. Why don't you tell me what to do?
MCC Okay. On panel 130, you want to go FILM RESET,

SELECT XUV SPEC.
PLT Go ahead.
18 36 38 MCC Okay. RESET switch to RESET.
PLT Okay_ ... 201.
18 36 46 MCC Okay. That's Just - right. Okay. Now you want to

go POWER DOORS to OFF; and w_it 20 seconds. And Joe
should see the door close.
SPT-EVA It's closing.
18 37 02 SPT-EVA It's fully closed.
MCC Okay. P. J., you can now pick up. And the checklist
you've got there, that's your normal message, with
MAIN POWER switch ON, power do - doors tA1kback
white, then barber pole - on down the - the regular
thing.
PLT The page I Just left was out of sequence, Rusty. I

got to pick up where I am.
SPT-EVA Here comes the terminator.
18 37 32 MCC Okay. Be advisedwe will not be doing the maneuver

imtil Goldstone, next rev. We're going LOS here.
We're picking up Goldstone at 19:h3.
PLT Okay.
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PLT Okay.
CDR-EVA You guys get that ATM stuff squared away. I can't
see having two guys hanging out a hatch, and they've
got - procedures are all screwed up.
18 38 01 MCC Roger.
CDR-EVA EVA procedures were in good shape, Rusty; you guys

did a good Job. But I'm a little hacked at this ATM
Mickey Mouse.
18 38 16 MCC Okay. Just as we're going over the hill, P. J., we

do need you to go to SI here, to get us back in
configuration.
CDR-EVA You get his last, P. J.?
PLT Yes, I did.
CDR-EVA Okay.
18 38 _2 SPT-EVA Say again.
19 38 00 CC Skylab, Houston at Hawaii for Just about 30 seconds.
19 38 25 CDR Okay, Houston. Be advised that we had another de -

deactive gyro do something on us. And we reconfigured
the gryo 2, and now having a tool sieve flow problem.
l'm not exactly sure of what it is. We also got a
secondary coolant flow - coolant loop temp low. We
shut that off and turned on the primary loop.
MCC Okay. We got that. Stand by Just i.
MCC Do you have a redundancy management enabled or

disabled on the Z-axis?
19 39 12 SPT We are in RATE GYRO 2 only, with i_ ENABLED. It was

a 50036, Rusty.
MCC Okay. Stand by Just i.
SPT We called up the gyro displays, and GYRO i was

cycling frc_ plus-mlni to mlnus-mini.
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MCC Roger. We - we llke gyro 2, but stand by on the RM.
SPT Okay.
19 39 35 CDR Okay. Now the mol sieve heat exchanger aft

temperature is reading 5 degrees. And the thing is
-_ing some really weird noises in here with the fans
on.
MCC Okay. Excuse me. On the rate gyro configuration,

we're going to commanding that from the ground, so
we'll take care of the redundancy management.
SPT What are you going to leave us in?
MCC Okay. All we're going to do is INHIBIT redundancy

management. We like gyro 2, and we' re going to use
it as a bsseline and c_npensate 3 to it. And stand
by. I'll give you some information about the maneuver.
PLT Okay. And anybody that knows anything about the

mol sieve, on MOL SIEVE A, the fan - we powered up -
the secondary fan, and a_ter.about 3 minutes operation
it started m_ing a - an in and out -a]most as if
a flapper valve is flapping back and forth, opening
and closing. It does it on both the primary and the
secondary fans.
MCC Okay. We read. Stand by.
MCC All right. We'll think of - It looks like what we're

going to plan to do here is maneuver at Goldstone,
We're going to try to get that maneuver in at that
time. Just stand by with the - the gyros as they
are.
19 43 28 MCC Okay, Skylab. How do you read?
PLT Loud and clear.
19 _3 32 MCC Okay. First thing - order of business here. We need

you to get this - the primary coolant loop off, we'd
like you to go to SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP, INVERTER 2,
Pump Bravo. Over.
CDR That 's complete.

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MCC Roger. Understand, that's complete. And standby,

and I'ii give you some information on the maneuver
here.
MCC Okay. The information on the gyro status in the

maneuver is that we are running on Z-2, and we're
going to use that as a baseline. We're going to
compensate Z-3 to it after about a rev of data. And
at that time, we plan to switch to 2 and 3 RM,
_ABLE. Now that'li take us about a rev before w_
get there, so we'll run on single gyro up until
that time. We will be starting man - the maneuver
about now, and you can expect TACS firings because
we are saturated in that axis.
CDR Roger.
MCC And, we're working the problem on the mol sieve here,
and we should have some information for you shortly.
MCC Okay_ Just for information, we do think that Z-3 is

okay, but its cc_pensation is bad. And so, after we
get the compensation Sn, we think we'll have a
2-gyro situation about one rev from now or so.
PLT Okay. Also, what's the nominal configuration for

the - for the valves on the condensate tAn_ when
we're hooked up to the holding tank?
MCC Stand by 1.
MCC And for your information, we're working out a message

where we can get you - where we can get you a single
pad which will modlfy your post-EVA that'll take
care of the total configuration. And that should be
coming up here probably by Vanguard. In the meantime
Pete, we got the good news part of this whole thing,
and that is that today for lunch you mayhave hot dogs
instead of cold dogs.
CDR Roger.
19 46 18 MCC Okay. And the configuration on condensate tank is

FILL and CLOSE.
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CDR We're in that. We've got 4.2 ... to hook back up to

a ... So that one's okay for the moment. It looks to
me like we've got something blocking mol sieve A.
Can you hear it? It - the fan is ...
19 46 41 MCC As a matter of fact, we can hear it. Okay. What

we're recommending for right now is MOL SIEVE A and
B FANS, OFF. We got about 30 seconds to LOS at
Goldstone. We'll pick you up Vanguard at 20:05.
19 47 01 CDR Okay.
MCC And, if we haven't lost you here yet, quite, then

we'd like to use your head on lights. We'd like to
have you minimize it here, until we get back in
solar inertial after a few revs, and Just keep them
to a minimum, but whatever you want there.
CDR Okay.
19 47 48 MCC Okay. And if you still read us, we would like to

have the OWS heat exchanger fans in the aft compart- -
merit on.
PLT We will, Dave, as soon as I pick up the checklist.
19 48 00 MUC Okay, dandy.
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20 05 41 MCC Skylab, Houston; we got you over the Vanguard for

about l0 minutes.
CDR Whoopy!
MCC Okay, I got some good news for you. First of all,
everybody down here is shaking hands, and we wish
we could reach up there and shake yours. That was
a dandy Job and everybody was very pleased. And
secondly, if you haven't alreadygotten there, we're
saying press on with the normal Post EVA Checklist
down to page 3.1-8 where it says, "Eat." Go ahead
and have a nice one and Just cool it. We'll - we'll
take care of it from there on and get back up to you
if we want you to go past there, That is, we do not
want you to go into the ATM reconfiguration.
MCC ...
CDR Okay, we- we - What have you go t for us? Another

EVA tomorrow?
MCC Well, we're considering all kinds of things; you know,

people are expecting great things. You do a good
Job - -
PLT Hey, Rusty, I got - I got a couple words. One is, in

order to get the heat - OWS HEAT EXCHANGER FANS to
start up when in the OWS position, I had to come
CLOSE those LOGIC breakers. Now they'll continue to
run with the breakers OPEN, but I had to CLOSE the
breakers to get them started.
MCC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
20 06 57 PLT Okay, now the other thing is a recommended change

to the EVA Checklist is far as the EVA, have somebody
turn off the fire sensors in the aft lock compartment,
or it gives the PLT pitter-pat when both fire sensors
go off when the Sun shines in the lock compartment
during the EVA.
MCC Thank you. That - that - ... is subtle. We appreciate

that one.
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CDR Just one sensor, 2392-2, the one that is sticking out
and not looking back into the heat exchanger gets re-
flected UV, I guess. Because it sure went off right
after we popped into daylight. Joe was halfway over
the hill and I was halfway out of the air ... It
alarmed down there ...
MCC Okay, thanks.
PLT Also, indications are we may have frozen up the mol

seive, if such a thing is possible. With the fan off_
the out temperature - temperature out indication is
gradually coming up. And that's - the fans, both
primary and secondary run. They both make the same
strange noise, and they don't suck. As Pete says,
"It's like they're blowing into a plucked pipe," which
they may very well be. Now we got a question. Did
we freeze the plates or did we dry them out, and will
we have to rewet them? I don't expect the answers now,
but those are things you guys ought to be thinking about.
MCC Okay,we got that. Thankyou. 4
20 08 27 CDR We changed something else. When it first came off and

I got to looking at it, the dewpoint was 32, and it
has slowly crawled up to _. Now we have the original
air flow configuration back in that we've-hooked up
the big duct between the 0WS. And we have our fan
running, blowing hot air on the heat exchanger, and
we're trying to move some hot air up into the MDA be-
cause it's pretty darned cold up there now.
MCC Okay. The only thing we may have to do there is do

some powerdown. So we'll let you know, though, if we
need topower any of that stuff off. We got - we're
in a bind here between getting things warm and keeping
the power down.
CDR Understand. And what's the matter with CBRM number 3.

I noticed it's all shut up. Did y'all do that?
MCC Okay, we did that down here.
CDR How about telling us?
MCC Okay, that's to keep the heaters off the battery problem
there; we shut it down from here. There's no sweat with _
that.
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CDR Okay.
20 09 41 MCC _md, Pete, I wonder if we can have some positive

feedback, probably from Joe and Paul. Did the frames
decrement on S082A, and was the 54 door, in fact,
pinned open after you got done?
CDR Everything came out Just the way as advertised. We took

one picture, and it decremented to 200. It went to
an OPERATE light an_ back to a green. So, y'all had
the problem figured out.
MCC Fantastic.
CDR And Joe pinned the door. No sweat; it's pinned open.
MCC Okay, we suggest you have a very nice lunch and maybe
even a little siesta, there. And we'll get back to
you.
CDR 0kay_ Well, we've got a lot of cleaning up to do. I

think we'll start on that.
20 13 01 MCC Okay, Skylab; Houston. We do have one thing that

does look mandatory here to get our momentum back
in shape. We need a nominal H cage of 52023 at
20:25, and that is moderately time critical.
PLT Okay, nominal momentum H-cage at 20:25.
MCC That's affirmative, 52023.
20 14 56 MCC Okay, Skylab, we've got about 1 minute to LOS here

at the Vanguard. We're going to pick up Hawaii at
21:14. And Just for general information, we've got
something like 66 minutes of real-time data on
that EVA. And the average metabolic for you, Pete,
was 1080, and for Joe it was 1700. And Pete, I'd
say we designed the EVA the right way.
CDR Yes, right.
CDR Yes, Roger. When we have time this afternoon, we'll

debrief the EVA. I can tell you where the differences
are between the water tank and up here. That's why
it took us longer.
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MCC You got the Job done. We don't care.
CDR Well, we got the Job done only for one reason, and
that's because Joe asked for the end of the double
and long tether up to get himself anchored. If
he hadn't been able to anchor himself, we wouldn't
have been able to do it. And I think the difference
is that the ... in the water between the pole and
you, in hanging on, made the difference. Because I
bet you he splashed'around and splashed around ...
21 15 30 CC Skylab, Houston_ we're AOS Hawaii for the next 9 min-

utes, and we should be dumping a data recorder at
this pass.
CDR Hello, Crip. Roger.
CC Rusty gave it back to me.
CDR Hurray! Maybe we won't get so many changes.
PLT Hey, Crip, I'd like to do s_nething about these mol

sieves soon. I mean the status right now is that our
outlet temperature 's come up: Apparently it was
frozen. We did have the line blocked in there due
to freezing. I Just went up and ran both the primary
and secondary fans on mol seive A, and it runs all
right. However, the present configuration is, as you
probably know, - is that most tool selves are shut
down right now. Both fans are off.
CC You got both - both fans off?
PLT Fans are off and both tool selves.
CC Roger. But you did try the one and A?
PLT That's right. And the seive flow light does not
come on anymore, and it doesn't make that noise any-
more. As Pete said, I think it was the fan stalling
out as they were flowing into the - into a blocked
pipe.
CC Stand by 1 on that, Paul.

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21 16 34 CDR (Music) You can see we're settling down to a rather

norman operation again.
CC Roger. Sounds like we're right at home.
CDR Say, Crip, I would like to have you pass on - (Music)

Rusty and those guys - those procedures, as far as
getting that SAS panel up, Just works super, includ-
ing the directions r make all the gear and every-
thing. I was a little disturbed at all the late ATM
changes, and I wish those guys - research their sub-
Ject matter a little more thoroughly before they send
it up to us. Because when you send up those split-up
pads, there's no way we can keep them by message num-
ber. We got them going to the guy that they belong
to, and - and message numbers to us are meaningless.
And, gee, things were such a Jumble, I was getting
all nervous that something was going to get goofed
up. So if we do it again, I guess my feeling is that
if we say we're ready to go EVA the next day, and
the ground says okay, - and then I assume they're
ready to go the next day, and that means everybody.
_- And I think the ATM guys need to dust up those
procedures.
CC Roger. We copied. Also, I guess you probably realize

that on that last one we sent you up there in a hurry,
we got the pages scrambled around a little bit, so
it probably was confusing.
CDR And I tell you another thing that would really help
the next time we do something like that. If you ever
decide that you've got to make changes, I'd rather
have you send us one great big, super-long tele-
printer message that's in the proper order, than what
happened to us. Because, man, we had pages cut out
and pieced together, and we got lost ; and there was
no way we could handle that. Now it's my thinking
this morning - Would have been - First thing is to
put it all together, send it up in one, big, long
string. So when we get in that situation, bits and
pieces of stuff, forget it. I'd rather have you
hold them; and send us one great, big, long message.
We'll understand it quicker than the way it came to
us the last couple of days.
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21 18 59 CC Roger, we copy, Pete. While I've got you here, we

did have a question on the way the SAS panels came
out. We'd like to know whether they Jumped out to
about where they ended up or did they Jump out and
then ease on out?
CDR (Laughter) I'm sorry you asked that question. I was

facing away from it, heaving with all my might. And
Joe was also heavinE with all his might when it let
go. And both of us took off. And by the time we
got ourselves under control and back down and around
the spacecraft some place again, lo and behold, the
SAS panel was slready out and locked. So I can't
answer that question for you. By the time we got
settled down and looked at it, those panels were out
as far as they were going to go at the time. Now
the cords are out a lot further than they were when
it was folded; I want you to understand that. But
they did come out; all three of them came out some
degree more than where they were folded along side
the vehicle.
CC Okay, we copied that. Can ypu give us an idea of a

time estimate before you got a chance to look at them
after you pulled it?
CDR Oh, not too long, I guess 15, 20 seconds; and they'd
come down to the extent that they were going to come
at that point, I guess.
CC Okay. Copy that. Thank you.
CDR Do you have any - any indication of - of percent

extension on the ground? Or you don't get that kind
of telemetry.
CC About 30 percent on, I believe, on the inner one and

about h0 percent on the other two.
CDR Okay, there is no indication that they are moving at

all slowly or anything like that?
CC Negative. It doesn't appear to be maneuvering right -

moving out right now. We anticipate that they're
frozen up, of course. And that's why we're setting
up in this attitude, trying to - trying to thaw them
out a little bit.
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CDR Well, we got another 14 days. You can send Rusty

back to Huntsville, and we'll be glad to go out and
pull those out for you.
CC I think we'd like to sit with the way it is for a

while, and see what happens.
CDR Okay, we'll go along with that.
21 21 55 CC And, P. J., regarding your mol sieve fans, we'd like

to go ahead and leave them off until our Vanguard
pass - we got coming up at 21:44.
21 22 21 CC Skylab, Houston; we'd like to leave the mol sieve

fans turned off until our next pass at Vanguard. And
we'll take a look at it then ahd make a decision about
turning them on, if it still appears that that loop's
pretty cold. Also, we're going to initiate a small
maneuver here which makes up for - ... correction;
scrub my last. We will not be doing the maneuver.
And we're about B0 seconds to go LOS, and we'll see
you again at Vanguard at 21:44, 21:_4.
PLT Okay, I understand. Crip, you want to leave the

fans off for a while, yet, huh? What did you say looks
pretty cold?
CC Roger. It's the secondary coolant loop "that looks

pretty cold on it, Paul.
PLT Well, it seems to me if we power up the heat exchangers

in the mol sieve, it might help though, huh? Well,
you guys know that. Okay, we'll wait for you at
Vanguard.
CC Okay, we'll Just hold it where it is right now, and

we'll take a look at it at Vanguard.
21 2B 22 PLT Yes, I noticed that we got roll ... and mol lights
on ° o.
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21 44 20 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard about the

next 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. We .have the CDR's suit on suit

drying, and we assume that l0 hours is still a rea-
sonable time. And I guess at the end of that time,
we plan to put the same desiccants back in, too,
unless we hear different.
CC Joe, I missed your last there. Would you say again,

please?
SPT Right. At the end of the drying time, we plan to

put the same desiccants back in unless we hear
different from you.
CC Okay, we copy. And I've got the PLT available -

_ I'd like to give him Some words on his mol sieve.
SPT He's coming, he's ccm_ing.
PLT Go. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. We'd like you to go to panel 203 and turn the

SIEVE A TIMER, OFF. Then we'd like you to use the
T-handle, panel 228; place the ADSORB DESORB. We
want them both on DESORB. And we want you to go
panel 203 SIEVE A, FAN POWER switch to PRI_ and after
1 hour, panel 203 take the TIMER back to SECONDARY.
PLT 0kay, so yo u want to leave - you want to run the

FANS and leave the beds both in DESORB for 1 hour.
CC That 's affirm.
PLT Okay.
SPT Hey, Crip, do you want us to put the desiccants in

the vacuum dryers while we're drying the suits?
21 46 19 CC Joe, we don't want you to power anything up on that

suit drying until we give you a GO, because of the
attitude that we're holding. We don't have the
power for it.
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SPT Understand that, and we will hold the blower; however,

we're not going to heat the vacuum ovens, so I
wondered if it would do any good Just to put the
desiccants in and treat them the way we do the feces?
SPT We could leave them in 24 hours each, I guess.
CC Okay, I'm trying to get the work on that for you, Joe.
SPT Okay.
21 47 07 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're going to be doing a

small attitude maneuver here to get things squared
away for momentum and power, and we'd like you to
stay off the DAS for us for a while.
SPT You bet.
21 47 59 CC Joe, on putting the desiccants in drawers 5 and 6,

I guess we don't really see any problem with it.
You c'an go ahead and put them in there without the
power on and it might help. And also, we would
like to verify that we did get the EVA and docking _
lights out.
SPT Roger. We're pretty sure we did. And Paul is going

to doublecheck the docking lights.
CC Okay.
SPT Did we do any good on temperatures?
CC Say again about temperatures?
SPT Did we do any good on panel temperatures?
CC They came up slightly.
CC Okay, Roger. Panel number l, the outermost, is

out to about 80 percent right now.
SPT Ho, Ho.
CC Feel like you're flapping your wings?
SPT Yes.
PLT We must be at a pretty good angle then, huh, because r_

the array amps don't show it. We are only feeding •
batteries that are already charged with - right now.
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CC Yes, we've got you cocked up about h5 degrees so they

aren't getting the normal Sun anyhow.
PLT Yes, okay.
21 50 05 PLT Hey, Crip. You say youwanted both beds in DESORB

or both beds in STORAGE? You said DESORB, right?
CC DESORB, affirmative.
PLT When the hour's up, how about letting me play with the
primary timer, and see whether it's working or not?
CC Okay, I think we'd probably like to save that for

awhile.
PLT You don't trust me?'
CC And is CDR available for a question, Please?
CDR At your service.

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CC Roger. Standby i, Pete; but I _ess this is for

whoever needs to monitor. But we passed you up some
procedures for post-Z-LV regarding monitoring the
ATM batteries. And we would like you to use those
for us.
CDR You're talking about the ones - if we get six batteries

off the line, throw the AM bats ON, and if we get
five bat chargers or bat volts do so and so, and
. so and so.
CC Yes, sir, that's it.
CDR Okay, We have that prominently displayed on the ArM

console, and if they start f_11ing off the line, we'll
holler for help and do something.
CC Oh -
CDR The way I read that, that was after we went into
nighttime. Is that correct? After you've been out
the day time?
CDR Hello.
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CC Stand by i, please, Pete.
21 52 40 CC I'll get an answer on that one for you shortly, Pete.

We are going to go LOS here in about 1 minute, and
we'll see you again at Hawaii at 22:51. And that
monitor _s during the nighttime.
CDR Right. Right after we go into night, we'll pick her

up.
CC Roger. And for P. J., if you're listening still,

please, on panel 207, we'd like to get REG 1 and 2,
POT ADJUST, Surned clockwise 15 degrees.
PLT Clockwise 15 degrees. You want to put them more on

the line, huh?
CC We're going to try to pick some of the load with the

OWSwings.
21 53 38 SPT Hey, we got PCG current. How about that? First

time in 15 days.
21 53 49 CC That work paid off. And, Skylab_ we need a nominal

cage at 22:22.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy my last?
22 51 51 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S over Hawaii for the next

7 minutes.
CDR Hello, how are we doing?
CC Pretty good. Looks like you did get that • nominal

H-cage in. I called Just as we're going over the
hill. I was worried about it.
PLT Yes, we got it.
CC Very good. You guys do good work. I've got some

word on your primary coolant loops that I'd like to
feed up to you.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. It appears to us that TCV Bravo has failed in

the full cold position. And we do not want you to
activate the prim_y coolant loop. If the secondary
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coolant loop caution and warning occurs, what we'd

like you to do is go SEC COOL _ LOW, if that's
the light you get to go to press on secondary.
PLT Wait a minute, Bob, I didn't follow that last. Say

your last two sentences again.
PLT What do we do if we get a SECONDARY COOLANT

LOW light?
CC Just stay on the secondary loop.
PLT Okay.
22 53 09 CC Okay. If you go to get a SEC COOL FLOW light, we

want you to go to _T_ 3, PUMP Charlie.
PLT Okay. Now we got control of both loops on board.

Do you want to leave it that way?
CC Roger. We'll leave it that way for right now.

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PLT Okay.
22 53 35 CC You might be interested to know that section i of

the SAS wing is out i00 percent now.
PLT Yes, we got a visual verification on that.
CC And section 3 has started to move.
PLT Yea! Let's hear it for section 3.
CDR Super.
CDR Crip, there is a possibility that that meteoroid

panel could have damaged part of section 2. Because
that's pretty well underneath where it tore off and
passed underneath the panel.
22 54 08 CC Roger. We copy. And it has not moved since we

first observed it.
CDR Okay. I've been looking st it, and I keep thinking

I see it oscillate Just a "entsiest" bit; like it's
trying, but it's not moving. I can see number 3
completely, and it's flat as a pancake out there. I
can see about the first three rows of number 2.
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CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Bob, number 2, the middle section, is the one

that's split up and feeds all eight PCGs, right?
CC Standby i on that, Paul.
PLT Okay. I think - correct me if I'm wrong, the in-

board section feeds i through 4; the outboard feeds
5 through8; and the. middle one is split up to feed
all eight.
CC We don't have-a ready answer for you on that. We're

checking it.
PLT Okay. No rush.
22 55 12 CDR Tell me about the coolant loop problem. I didn't

quite hear that, Bob.
CC Well,.we think we've got m valve failed in the FULL

COLD position. That's TCV Bravo failed in the FULL
COLD.
CDR Is there anything we can do about it?
CC We're working on a procedure rightnow. There's

nothing you can do now.
CDR Okay, very good."
22 55 37 CC And, Paul, regarding your question on which PCGs the

SAS section feeds, you are correct.
PLT Okay. Tb_n_ you.
CDR Hey, also be advised that we did get a ppCO 2 HIGH

light here a little while ago with the sieves off -
not taking any out. And it's reading about 55 OUT.
CC About 55 OUT on C027
CDR Yes.
PLT Yes. But A's been reading higher than B the whole
flight.
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CC Okay, we copy. And, Pete, I've got a timeline question

I'd like to ask you here, if you've got a minute.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Not tamorrow but the day following that, day 160,
we'd like to know whether you would consider getting
up 1 hour early so that we can swap out _073 to put
in the ETC for an _EP pass?
CDR Sure. Is that Just me get up early, or everybody?
CC It would be everybody.
CDR Now if it's everybody, sure.
PLT Why ETC?
CDR That's provided you let us go to bed an hour early

the Night before. S009 is at 22:4 - 02:M1 or what-
ever it is.
/-
CC Well, we got a s_T"_v_ timeline that we should be

shipping you this pass that doesn't reflect that.
It calls for you to stay up as late as you normally
do, so I guess we'll take a look at it.
CDR No, I'm putting on - I'm pulling your leg, Crip.

(Laughter) Send it up; we'll do it.
CC You guys are - you guys are too enthusiastic.
CDR That's all right. We figure SL-3 and SL-4 is going

to owe us a few more.
CC I think they owe - they owe you quite a big right

now.
22 57 52 PLT Hay, Crip, the CDR mentioning S009 Jogged m_ memory.

Guess what I missed?
CC You forgot - -
PLT SO09.
CC We'll let it (cough) - we'll let it go this time,

_-" Paul.
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PLT No, go ahead and ship it up. I'ii get it. As soon
as you get a new one figured out, ship it up.
CC Okay. By the way, you can go ahead and go back to

TIMER SECONDARY on MOL SIEVE A at this time.
PLT I was Just on my way up. Don't do it yet, Pete.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I won't. Listen, Crip, the other thing is, can
you give me an idea of how many revs you're going to
run this way?
22 58 29 CC I'll see if we can get a hack for you on that, Pete.

We're going to go AOS here in Just a few seconds.
Then we'll see you again at Vanguard at 23:23.
CDR 23:23. Okay ...
22 58 hl CC Affirm.
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Day
SKYLAB AIR-TO,GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
23 23 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Guam - through Va guard

for 8 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there. You guys did a great Job today.
SPT Well, we had a good time. Just been monitoring

the EPS up here, Nan,, and from our onboard displays,
we got 12 charge-completes during the niEht, but ,11
the battery voltages appear to be okay. Do you guys
agree?
CC Roger.. We Concur and we notice also, that those

sections of the SAS are still creeping out.
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SPT Good. What are your latest percentage?
CDR Do you show any movement on section 2 now, in the

middle section, Hank?
CC That's affirmative. We're showing it about halfway

out now, and section 3 about 34 percent.
CDR How about that.
CC It looks like we're going to want to stay in this

attitude for at least one more rev.
PLT Good shbw.
CDR Yes, we got a i_111 state of charge on the - looks

like on the 4 - batteries 5, 6, 7, and 8 on the AM ...
CC Skylab, Houston. Have we got somebody in the STS?
CDR No, but we can get somebody up there.
23 26 16 CC Okay. What we'd like to do is get the REG 2 ADJUST

clockwise 15 degrees, and for info, our power
does look good enough to stay here one more rev.
CDR We going to stay there one more rev?
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23 26 30 CC That's affirmative, at least one more rev. And

we want REG 2 ADJUST clockwise 15 degrees.
CDR That's fine with us, H,nk. As long as those panels

keep coming out, we'll start here as long as you want.
CC Roger.
CDR What kind of a flight plan you got for us tomorrow?
CC It should be in the teieprinter now, Pete.
CDR Okay, I didn't get enough exercise today, so l'm

t_]king to you while riding the bicycle.
CC You're kidding.
CDR No, I'm not kidding.
CDR 0nlymy arms and hands got a workout out there. MY legs
didn't get any.
CC While you're on the subject there, what did you cut

the bolt with?
CDR We cut it •with the cutter.
CDR See, what happened was - is we hauled in.on the

cutter as hard as we could and nothing happened.
So I said, 'Well, let me go out the pole and look
and see what happened." And I got about 2/3 of the
way out the pole and bango! It decided to let go
all by itself. And whango! The thing flew up -
along with me, the pole, and the BET.
CC Roger.
CDR We had quite a wild ride when we broke the strap,

too - or broke the - the damper. Both Joe and I
were heaving on the BET when it let go. By the time
we came down from our - whipperdills, both of us -
why the wing was all ... and deployed.
CC That must have been a good ride.
CDR Yes, I'm sorry we didn't have movies of it.

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CDR You guys have a feeling we'll get off free, fully
extended?
CC Roger. It looks like they're going to go all the

• way out, Pete. We're confident they will.
CDR Hey, that's the best news I've had all day. I thought
really maybe that n11mber 2 got dam-ged because that's
the one that had some stuff piled up underneath it.
PLT Number 1 on the popularity pole for extra power is the

head water heater.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Yes, the head water heater and more lights. So we

can stop living like The Mole in Dick Tracy.
CC Roger. We'll work on it.
SPT Also, how about having somebody think about - if we

f can use the wardroom window heater - - (squelch) to
get rid of our friendly ice spots? .
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 Seconds from LOS.

Ascension will be coming up at 38. And at this time,
wing - or section 2 is 60 percent, and section 3
is 47 percent.
23 31 36 CDR Hey, that's great!
23 38 46 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Ascension 5-1/2 minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger. And for info, we're going to do a Z-axis ma,-

euver of about minus l0 degrees to square away the
momentum.
PLT Permission granted.
CC Thank you, sir; and I also have a S009 pad for Paul.
• PLT Come ahead with it.

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CC Okay, the new reset time is 00:23:06, and period

and the Beta are the same: Period 120; Beta plus i.
PLT Okay. 00:23:06.
SPY Hey, Henry, I got a question on the condensate tank

dump heater.
CC Okay, shoot.
sPY If the temperature gage reads OPERATE for one heater,

is it going to read to OPERATE for the other one? Or
do you switch detectors when you switch heaters?
SPT ... I don't need an answer now, I'm Just wondering.

The reason that was reported as fiJ_ledwas because
it was left on 20 minutes and the temperature reading
never cR-_ off the peg. I noticed on the list of
anomalies that if the sectors of that heater are
still good, and I wonder if there isn't a way that
we can determine whether it's still good or not.
Such as going up and turning it on for a while.
CC Okay. Let's see if we can get an answer on that.
SPY Okay.
CC Okay. I guess we think we can do that. .But, would

like to wait a little later to try it. Also I have -
There was an o-,,_sion in the Comm_uder's details for
this evening and in presleep, we would like for him
to do housekeeping CM-2. That's the fuel cell purge.
SPY Okay, CM-2. That's both hydrogen and oxygen ....
CC We had a momentary dropout on voice. That's Just

oxygen.
23 _l 46 CC Skylab, Houston. I have a couple of messages here

for you. Is everybody listening up?
SPY You still there, Houston?
CC Roger. How do you read? We had a loss of voice there

I think.
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SPT Yes, Just for a minute. Well, the PLT is shaving

and the CDR went by and said, "You've been a good
boy this week, Paul; you can have the command module
tonight."
CC Roger. Copy. Everybody listening up?
PLT Yes.
23 43 28 CC Okay, I got a message" I'd like to read up to you.

It's to Skylab Co-..ander Conrad: "On behalf of the
American people, I congratulate and co-.._nd you and
your crew on the successful effort to repair the
world's first true spac e station. In the two weeks
since you left the Earth, you have more than fulfilled
the prophecy of your parting words, 'We can fix any-
thing.' All of us have a new courage now that mA.
can work in space to control his envlronm_nt, improve
his circumstances, and exert his will, even as he
does on Earth." Signed, Richard Nixon.
CDR And, I'll thank you from A11 of us.
CC I have another one that's to S_ylab Co-..ander Conrad:

"MY warmest personal congratulations to you and your
crew. We're all proud of your team, the NASA team,
and the whole aerospace team. I know I can speak
for citizens everywher e when I offer you our heart-
felt best wishes _for the rest of your mission."
Signed, Spiro T. Agnew.
CDR Well, thanks again.
CC And we're Just about LOS. Sllam will be coming up

at 22.
CDR Roger.
23 44 45 CC And, reminder. G1,am is your medical conference.
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TECHNICAL AIR= TO- GROUND VOIC E TRANSCRIPTION

M,t_¢t6_ PkY_ ! -la

• National Aeronaullcs and Space Adm_

This document is the transcription of the technical air-to-ground

A series of three dots (...) is used to designate those portions of

The Skylab 1 mission began with lift-off of the orbital workshop at

Speakers in the transcript may be identified as follows.

CDR Commander Charles (Pete) Conrad, Jr.

PLT Pilot Paul J. Weitz

SPT Scientist pilot Joseph P. (J.P.) Kerwin

CREW Unidentified crewmember

Mission Control Centers:

MCC Unidentifiedspeaker, other than

ELS Earth LandingSystemteam

TICO USS TICONDEROGA

When any crewman is engaged in extravehicular activity (EVA), his

Transcription of these tapes was managed by William A. Kelley, Test

MEDICAL DATA HAS BEE': DELETED.

fligfits, Medical d_ta obtaine_ on Sk-ylab missions is proprier_ory to the principal

investigators involved in the p_r_cular experiments involved. Fragments of raw

preflight and posfflighr medical irfformation,

briefings to-the press v,i[1 be scheduled after these meetings,

being of the Skylab fti_ht crew,

SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

13 O0 04 CDR LIFT-OFF. And the clock is running.

13 00 ii CDH Clear the tower. And,_Houston; Skylab 2. We fix

CC Roger, Skylab 2. The thrust is GO on all engines.

SPT Boy, is that a smooth ridel

• 13 00 55 CDR And roll is complete, Houston.

CC Roger. Standby for Mode I Bravo.

13 01 01 CC MARK. Mode I Bravo.

CDR Roger. PROPELLANT DUMP is RCS COMMAND.

13 01 ll CC Skylab, Houston; you are feet wet.

CDR Roger. Feet wet.

CDR Okay. EDS AUTO 2 ENGINE OUT. LAUNCH VEHICLE RATES

CC Roger. Stand by for Mode I Charlie.

13 01 50 CC MARK. You're Mode I Charlie.

CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO for staging. You're

13 02 28 CDR I got an SIVB light, Houston, and a nice staging.

CC Skylab, Houston. The thrust looks good on SIVB.

IB 02 5_ CDR Tower Jett, Hous - on time.

CC Roger. Tower Jettison. You're Mode II.

CDR Okay, Houston. The computer looks good here.

CC Roger. We concur. The CMC is GO.

CC Skylab, Houston. Looking good. GO at 4 minutes.

CDR And we're GO here, Houston.

1B 05 59 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at 5 minutes. The

CDR And we're GO here, Houston. Looks good in here.

1B 06 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at 6 minutes.

PLT Roger. We're GO up here.

CDR Omni Charlie for you, Houston. Stand by for the

1B 07 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO at 7 minutes.

CDR Okay, Houston. Four good gimbal motors. And we're

CDR Hey, did we Just have - did we Just have PU shift,

IB 08 06 CC Roger. We concur, and you're GO at 8 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We predict shutdown at 9 plus h9.

CDR 9 plus _9. Understand.

CC That 's affirm.

13 09 01 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO at R minutes.

CDR Okay. We're GO here.

CC Stand by for Mode III Alfa.

13 09 23 CC MARK. You're Mode III Alfa.